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Topic Started: Jan 21 2013, 07:03 PM (4,194 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:

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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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I fail to see why this differs so much from other instances that you cannot offer aid.
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The fact that my aid is reserved for characters that actually sounded original when I first hear about them.
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As opposed to my Hilda or your Snakebite
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I basically had you alter her until you went and trashed her.

Snakebite was written and imagined on the spot.
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The new concept was straying too far from my original idea for my liking, and I realized that I didn't know how I was going to characterize her in game. Changing it was the right choice in my opinion.

Take a good look at Snakebite and tell me that it doesn’t sound like Spiderman with a snake.
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He was bitten by a genetically engineered venomous animal, and that makes him similar to Spiderman?
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Spiderman was bitten by a radioactive venomous animal. You see where I'm coming from here?
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... They dumped the radioactive thing a while ago.


Anyhow, the point is, there is more to a man than the origin of his powers. Several people get their powers in similar ways. The Fantasic Four and Hulk got theirs from radiation. Batman and Green Arrow are rich do-gooders.

See, Spiderman is a Lawful Good. Snakebite is a Neutral Good. Spiderman will help you because with great power comes great responsibility. Snakebite will help you because it's just the smart thing to do. Spiderman will web your mouth shut and crack jokes about it. Snakebite will crack your jaw with his mechanical tail for making jokes. Spiderman is angsty. Snakebite just doesn't give a shit.
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I still maintain that BJACK's character is distant enough to be usable, but we should probably let him explain for himself.
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Hello, I read that dragons were allowed as characters, but I wasn't sure if half-dragons would be allowed. How does this character look?


Character Name/Secret Identity: Alexander Draigoran Dragonne a.k.a. Lex

Character Description: He is an orange-haired half dragon, with blue-green eyes and slightly pointed ears. He’s about 5’10”, semi-muscular and about 170lbs. He has scars all over his body, mostly on his legs and back, and though he once had wings and a tail, they had been cut off when he was sixteen; his tail has grown back, though it’s only about four inches long, but his wings won’t grow back until he’s twenty five years old. He is currently twenty years old.

Character Alignment: True Neutral

Character Bio: Lex is the son of the former Dragon Prince of Austria and a human woman from Wales, seen as a half-breed abomination by both sides of his extended family. He didn’t let that get to him, though, and retained a pleasant and cheerful attitude until the age of twelve years old, when his mother died. His father became violent as the years passed, and by the time he turned fifteen he couldn’t stand living with the verbal abuse he’d suffered from each day. He ran away from home with a backpack filled with some clothes and a few of his most prized possessions, along with all of the money he’d saved up over the past three years, and he wandered around for a little over a year before he found the Neon Forest Circus where he was given a job and a place to stay. About two weeks into his employment he unknowingly attracted the attention of the Ringmaster, Rick Daimon, who sexually assaulted him and forced him to become a performer. When Lex resisted Rick began to torture him, cutting off his wings and tail and giving him most of his scars; the assault and torture lasted for over two years, and the only reason why it had ended was because he had finally managed to escape. Now twenty years old, he’s still incredibly afraid that the Ringmaster will find him and bring him back someday, which causes him to travel around the United States without staying in any one place for more than a month or two.

Powers: He can breathe fire, absorb the energy from any sort of flames through his skin (Except when he has any sort of flammable liquid on his skin), can lift twice his body weight, and he has minor healing powers(he uses his fire to seal his wounds, which heals him but leaves scars if the injuries are deep enough).

Weaknesses: Staying out in overly cold temperatures for extended periods of time, any sort of overly-flammable liquid(mentioned above), having beautiful women flirt with him(shyness), men between the ages of 25 and 35, but only those who could/would try to take advantage of him(fear), and he cannot feel anything in his arms, legs, or back.

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Alrighty. Never thought I would be the reason for a new member.

Time to pick this apart.

While I said the dragon prince thing as a way of saying fantasy elements would be allowed, I didn't exactly mean it like that.

That being said, Austria is ruled by humans in this world, the same as ours. It's still ruled by a president and a parliament.

While I like the concept, in this world, most magical powers are gained from already magical sources. However, having dragon's blood isn't too far fetched, in a world where a man can get superpowers from a snake bite.

I will allow him having dragon heritage, but none of the prince thing.

Overly flammable liquid seems more like it'd help him, due to the fact that his power is control and resistance to fire. I'd also add lack of feeling in his arms, legs and lower back to weaknesses, as lack of feeling implies heavy damage to the nervous system. Inability to feel pain can be a bad thing.

I'd also add the ability to heal lost limbs in he's able to heal wings and tails back.

Tweak it a bit with those things in mind and then come back. I do like the idea of a circus performer.
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Alrighty. Never thought I would be the reason for a new member.

Time to pick this apart.

While I said the dragon prince thing as a way of saying fantasy elements would be allowed, I didn't exactly mean it like that.

That being said, Austria is ruled by humans in this world, the same as ours. It's still ruled by a president and a parliament.

While I like the concept, in this world, most magical powers are gained from already magical sources. However, having dragon's blood isn't too far fetched, in a world where a man can get superpowers from a snake bite.

I will allow him having dragon heritage, but none of the prince thing.

Overly flammable liquid seems more like it'd help him, due to the fact that his power is control and resistance to fire. I'd also add lack of feeling in his arms, legs and lower back to weaknesses, as lack of feeling implies heavy damage to the nervous system. Inability to feel pain can be a bad thing.

I'd also add the ability to heal lost limbs in he's able to heal wings and tails back.

Tweak it a bit with those things in mind and then come back. I do like the idea of a circus performer.
Well, by Dragon Prince I meant "Prince of the Dragons", not necessarily the prince of the entire country. Also, he's still half human, so his skin isn't as flame-resistant as a normal dragon's; logically, he could be burned if there would be any sort of substance that would intensify the fire. I agree with the lack of feeling being a weakness, and I suppose that I could add healing abilities like that, but for the whole aspect of regrowing his tail I was thinking in terms of some lizards whose tails can detach and grow back or something like that. And for the wings I thought it would be sort of like losing teeth; those wings would've fallen off(or something similar to that) and been replaced with larger ones later on, but Rick had sped up the process by cutting them off.

I appreciate the critique, but I simply wanted to show you my rationale for those particular choices.


*Also, if anybody needs/wants to see a pic of my character, I've drawn a few so I could post the link here*
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Watcher, I think Lucas would make a very good employee of Nick, I imagine them to have a very businesslike relationship. Nick the clean cut and charismatic bastard, Lucas the horrific and twisted enforcer. Quite a team if you want to later on in the RP? Perhaps Nick could also be the one to sort out those pesky legal issues?
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A picture would be much appreciated. It makes it much easier when I inevitably begin drawing all of the characters.
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Okay, here's the link: http://fav.me/d5bohlg

I didn't get to color in his eyes since I messed up on one of them, but as I mentioned in the character description his eyes are a sort of blue-green.
And BTW, can I keep any of the aforementioned points, given my rationale? I'll change them if I need to, but I'd rather like to keep some of them...

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