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Ultimate SSU: History, Info, and Sign-up
Topic Started: Jan 21 2013, 07:03 PM (4,196 Views)
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I am the Clocksmith. I have traversed the entirety of time and space. I have seen the beginning of things, and I have seen the end. I have seen all of the universe and its splendor. I have seen other universes as well. All of them. I know every detail about them, in and out. I am the Clocksmith. Guardian of Time. Protector of Space. I am history repeating.

I am here to offer you an opportunity. An opportunity unlike any other. I have the desire to see a new universe. But I wish to be surprised. I will not interfere, but I will give you a basic structure from which you can build the ultimate universe.


You shall begin life on Earth. It's history is relatively the same, with minor differences. This Earth is incredibly similar to yours, to the point where you could spend an entire lifetime without finding one. This is where you come in. I want you to fill the planet with changes and alterations. Nothing too drastic. I want differences that, with time, will give rise to a drastically different future.

I want you to make superheroes. Supervillains. Anti-heroes. Anti-villains. Everything in between.

There is a section labelled 'character allignment'. Basically, there is a grid on which you allign your character. There is Good and Evil scale, and there is the Lawful and Chaotic scale.

Here's a sample, with several recognizable people from other universes, along with flavor text.

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I shall provide a template with which you can build a life.

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Character Name/Secret Identity:

Character Description:

Character Allignment:

Character Bio:

Powers:

Weaknesses:

Character Music:
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I shall provide a filled out template with a character to help you get started.

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Character Name/Secret Identity: Snakebite / Sean Penn

Character Description: A tall, thin man. His cheekbones are high, his eyes sharp. His skin is pale, and his mouth is wide. Thin lips, a long, split tongue, and long canines. Piercings and tatoos all over his body. The mere sight of this man brings to mind the primal fear of serpents. This man is a snake.

Character Allignment: Neutral Good; Snakes don't care about Chaos or Order. They just bite anything that's big enough for them to eat and has a pulse.

Character Bio: Born into a family known for their conformist demeanor, Sean is the black sheep of the family. Rather than get tanned skin, bleached hair, and do what's popular, Sean bleached his skin, darkened his hair, and did things he found good. He listened to what he wanted, modified his body as he wished, and worked out not to look good, but for strength.

He also took an interest in the sciences of herpetology and genetics. While on a lab tour in a famous college, Sean broke away from the group to use the restroom. Unbeknownst to him, an genetically modified snake had escaped earlier that day. As Sean emptied his bladder, the snake bit him from it's hiding place in the corner.

Venom coursed through his veins. Rather than kill him, the bite hospitallized him. While in intense care, his body changed. His jaw gained another hinge. Another row of teeth grew into his mouth, hidden between his cheeks and his normal teeth. He became part snake. Now with the ability to fully defy his family, Sean escaped the hospital and vanished into the night.


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Mouth of a snake: He can eat things much larger than his head, due to hinges, and the second set of teeth in his mouth. Among these teeth are a set of gigantic fangs capable of delivering a venomous bite. He's capable of digesting everything but solid metal and plastic, so he is perfectly capable of smuggling things and erasing evidence.

Enhanced senses: His senses of smell and taste are enhanced to the point that a single flick of the tongue can let him track a target for miles. He can sense heat, like a viper. He also has a 'tremor' sense. He can sense vibrations in the ground, which makes it hard to sneak past him without flying.

Enhanced strength: He is much stronger than the average human, capable of tossing a VW Beetle across a two-lane street with ease.

Tech: Due to his own connection with the scientists of the lab, he's managed to procure a mechanical tail complete with a rattlesnake rattle. He's also got a special set of boots and gloves that allow him to scale vertical surfaces without footholds, called 'Gecko Gloves'.


Weaknesses:

Antivenom: Due to the fact that his venom is the same as that of the Eastern Diamondback Rattler, his venom can be counteracted by shooting him in the salivary glands with the antivenom.

EMP: His tail is purely mechanical in nature and can be shut down foricbly with an EMP. It is also possible to shut it down via hacking, cutting off the power source, or by knocking Snakebite unconsious.

Fear: He has a crippling fear of animals that feed on snakes, such as arachnids, eagles, coati, and mongooses. Things that resemble those four are enough to scare him.

Heat: He is naturally drawn to sources of heat, so he can be drawn in to traps involving fire and lava.



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Remember, I want to see a brand new universe. Create something original and break the mold!
Edited by Kamidio, Jan 21 2013, 08:53 PM.
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Accepted. I would like to note that he isn't a one of a kind assassin though. Snakebite kills and consumes other people. Granted he is a body-guard for hire, not an assassin in the traditional sense.
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Yaay.
Maybe I should add more powers, I'm not underpowered am I?
"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!"



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Not exactly under-powered, but there is a lack of explanation as to how he consumes an entire body in one night without sleeping off the meal. I also think he'd have STDs(Gotta catch 'em all!) galore, considering his main food source is hookers.
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His first kill was iffy. About a week after he got dumped he followed her when she was with a group of friends out drinking in the local forest. She went to take a piss in the river at around half 9pm, and he snuck up on her, stabbed her about 30 times in the back then proceeded to eat her chest, after which he got sick. He then cooked the body, ate her arm and cremated the rest, then dug up the ashes and dumped them in the river. He returned home at around 2am.

His diet consists more of MacDonalds than grilled prostitute, as it is more of a fetish and happens actually rather rarely. If it happened to often he would be found out, and not even the best of his clients lawyers could save him from the various body parts stashed in his make-shift freezer.
"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!"



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Ah. Well I would probably include eating their heart to get their courage. Their delicious courage.
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It's there rich tasty courage. Oh yes.

Anyway, my characters are good now, right?
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Do they have themes yet?
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Ya, go look.
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Okay... Let me see what I can come up with...

Character Name/Secret Identity: John Gray/ Shade

Character Description: Average build, above average speed and strength for his size, 21 years old, dark hair, pale skin, gray ripped t-shirt, dark jeans, black high tops, sometimes a long dark coat.

Character Allignment: Neutral, just neutral

Character Bio: Not remembering the last three years of his life, let alone his own name, Shade wanders the country in search of his past. Clearly, an explanation is in order, Shade, or John Gray, came from a middle class family, his father missing and his mother caring for him and his brother. John had an average childhood, okay grades, didn't cause too much trouble. I high school, that changed a little, on the first day of Ninth grade, some guys were giving him a hard time. A girl tried to stand up for him (not that he needed it), and the thugs turned to the girl. John had enough, he beat up the head goon and his underlings fled. Wait... too much? Moving on, by his eighteenth birthday, John's family had fallen into had times, so he signed up for testing to get money. Turns out that testing wasn't what he signed up for... The scientist was experimenting on innocent volunteers in a quest for the ultimate energy based powers. The Experiment was a complete success... Again, too much? John destroys the scientist's work, and the scientist gets back at John almost killing his girlfriend. John kills the scientist with his new, uncontrollable powers, but also kills his girlfriend in the process. Realizing what he has done, he forces himself to forget, not being able to live with the fact that he murdered his true love. When and if John finds the truth, he won't be too pleased with himself...

Powers: Energy Based, His powers are extremely versatile, being able to do almost anything with them. Heal himself, shoot a beam of energy, fly, move at superhuman speeds, teleport, create explosions around him, you name, he most likely has it. Now just listen before you instantly think 'Nope, denied!' just wait for the weaknesses!

Weaknesses: His powers take energy, even the most basic abilities take a good amount of energy to preform, and his most complex take unimaginable amounts. He can drain most forms of energy to fuel his powers, but most of his abilities will use that energy in no time. He also eats a lot, the experimentation left him with a fast metabolism, and if he expends his reserves, he could be feeling extreme hunger pain. Speaking of reserves, He can use the energy in his body when he has expended all other forms, which can leave him utterly exhausted. He can undo his restraints to unlock his emergency reserves and a major energy boost, but at a price, he will drain his own life force if he goes crazy without his restraints on, resulting in his death.
Oh, and he's pretty much human when he doesn't have energy, so knifes and guns can kill him if he is left sapped.

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Sorry for the wall of text, and if you ask 'Why the song?', It's kinda stuck in my head
Oh! And this is not in any way a final 'I-will-not-change-this-ever' state, I am open to suggestions on how I could tune this character.
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All I'm seeing is a humanized Shadow the Hedgehog.

See, I know the angsty backstory. I've done research on the games out of curiosity. Nothing gets past me.

To quote another speedster;

DE-NIED!
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I'm definitely going to sign up for this. I have a really good idea for my character, but I don't have all of the details ready. Expect a superhero to appear tonight or tomorrow.
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Hey, their right to get freaky ends when it goes up my nose.


I think this describes what dinosaurs are like now

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Preferably, tonight.
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Alright, I'll write most of it down now.

Name/alter ego: Cross/Lucas Agterop

Description: Deeply Christian, sees powers as a gift from God

Alignment: Definitely Lawful good, bordering on Lawful Neutral

{if Cross is accepted, I'll make a sketch of him)

Bio: Born in a broken home in downtown Toronto, Lucas had it rough. His father was desperately alcoholic, and severely beat him and his siblings at the slightest provocation. As soon as he was able, he got into heroin. He managed to hide it well, but he was eventually caught; and when that happened, he was kicked out onto the street immediately. Lucas failed miserably at eking out a living on the streets, and incurred the wrath of many gangs by his mere existence would have froze to death in the middle of winter were it not for a scientist from FreiGen. This woman took Lucas in with the rest of her family, gave him food and shelter, cured his addiction, and introduced him to Christianity. He took to it immediately, and became arguably one of the most religious people around. What he didn't know was that each night, he was being injected with a chemical that was meant to cure his addiction. It worked incredibly well, but it had some... side effects. His reflexes sped up exponentially, and he found himself able to run faster than he was before (but nothing like the flash). To pass the time, Lucas had been learning how to wield swords, using the swords that one of the womans sons had collected and made over the past few years. He spent hours every day using them, bordering on an unhealthy obsession.Lucas caught her as she was about to inject another dose of the chemical into his arm. He was told that it was curing his addiction to heroin; he believed her, but that didn't stop him from packing his things and leaving. He had one last request from her; he asked for her to commission a pair of titanium swords for him. Once they were done, he went back on the streets... as a vigilante. He felt he had no future, so he may as well take out the gangs that nearly killed him... and every other evil in the world at the same time.

Powers: Cross has insanely fast reflexes, which, combined with his titanium swords, allow him to cut almost anyone to ribbons in seconds.

Weaknesses: Lucas refuses to accept help from anyone, and has often clashed with other superheroes over a wide range of disputes. It has also caused him to become a wanted criminal in several countries, because he's killed more than a few police officers.

Character music: [was pumped up kicks by foster the people, but I had to change it)


What do you think?
Edited by Dragon, Jan 25 2013, 12:00 PM.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life," John 3:16

A neat pixel animation of a future cowboy


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Hey, their right to get freaky ends when it goes up my nose.


I think this describes what dinosaurs are like now

Click for something good. Click this too.
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Fakey seemed a bit protective of his FreiGen when I asked him about it. He might want you to change that.
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