Marvel AU (Me, Gunther, JDizzle, & Jessie Shadowhold

Indomitable Monolith · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 4:52 pm

Okey dokey! So this be the AU Marvel official OOC for myself, Gunther, JDiz, & Jessie Shadowhold as per this interest check. Drawing from that, I now have a completed character app in my Character Tome, which is linked in the spoiler in my sig (it's the last character on the list, one Cheryl Blaine). This will be a place to discuss characters, plots, settings, and the like. As stated in the interest check, the history of Carol Danvers can be a timeline guide if you like but this will most likely focus on the second- or third-gen heroes/heroines/villains/villainesses/etc; for example, I referenced Iron Woman (the daughter of Tony Stark and his wife in this AU, Pepper Stark - and yes, she was formerly Pepper Potts) in Cheryl's history. May Parker, Peter and Mary Jane Parker's daughter, would be another example of the generation. We could also go to the next generation as well if we want, as I didn't specify how old either Iron Woman or her parents were; I also didn't specify Iron Woman's name, if you'll notice, so anyone wanting to play her - do eet.

Aside from that, I have no real agenda here yet. We can either pull something from Carol Danvers' history to use as a basis for the RP or we can come up with something on our own. This doesn't have to be set in NYC but it can be, as that's a nice fall-back due to it being the centre pointe for so many Marvel stories. But we can do something in Madripoor, we can do something in Latveria, we can do something pretty much anywhere in the Marvelverse or with Marvel as a backdrop for a real-world location. I'm not too picky; I'll just have to come up with a reason for Cheryl to be wherever we decide upon - but that's what plotting is all about!

So yes, let's plot and see what comes out. I personally like the Marvel Civil War idea as well as a standard LET'S GET THE BAD GUY plot or whatever. We just gotta make sure it's a great RP.

The Avengers Initiative is also a great starter but that's just a suggestion; it's basically an "easy in" that way.

Oh, and by the way - I've always been a fan of the original Nick Fury. It has nothing to do with the new Nick Fury being black, though. Marvel had the new Nick Fury drawn the way he was specifically to rope Samuel L. Jackson into playing him in the films they were planning; it was underhanded and a huge risk but he went with it. I prefer the original Nick Fury, who was drawn specifically not to resemble anyone in particular - fictional or real. However, I'd be willing to go with the new Nick Fury if everyone else wants to bring him into the story or the old one if people wanna bring him in and don't mind the original. But if the new one comes in, one idea I had is that he altered his LMDs (Life Model Decoys) when he disappeared during the Civil War as an added layer of protection.

So...without further ado, let's plot!

Gunther · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:21 pm

Full Name: Jackson Steel
Nickname(s)/Alias(es): Master Sergeant Steel, Agent Steel, "Absorbing Man" or simply, "Steel"
Sex/Gender: Male
Species: Human
Age: 39
Birthday: 4 October
Comes From: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Skills:
- Can change into any substance that he touches.
- Trained in four different Martial Arts disciplines. Holds 4th degree black belt.
- Trained and has practical experience in Small Unit Tactics as a US Army Ranger.
- Trained in Counter Terrorist techniques as a US Army Special Operator.
- Agent Steel can speak English (Fluent), Mandarin Chinese (80%) and Farsi (60%)
- He is skilled in the use of all S.H.I.E.L.D weapons including all US Army Firearms.
- Can operate every ground vehicle S.H.I.E.L.D. has in their inventory.
- Parachutist qualified
- Scuba qualified

Personality:
Sergeant Steel is laid back, difficult to get a rise out of. He is calm, cool and collected. What he perceives as his primary duty, the preservation of human life; this is paramount for Agent Steel. Nothing is more important for him and he will not allow anyone or anything to stand in his way.

History:
Jackson Steel is a former US Army Ranger and the US Army Special Operator. His martial Arts experience is in Krav Maga, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Tae Kwondo. The Krav Maga is trained to all American Special Operations units to include Rangers, SF, SEALs, and MARSOC. He reached the rank of Master Sergeant before leaving the Military to work for S.H.I.E.L.D. He received the title of Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. as well as being known as a Super due to his body altering super power.

After he became the Absorbing Man when he drank a liquid which Loki laced with a magic potion, Sergeant Steel was recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D. and then Nick Fury recruited him to head up the newly resurrected Howlin' Commandos. Nick Fury saw something in Steel that reminded him of himself.

Agent Steel's powers allow him to absorb the properties of anything he touches. Although he is mortal, Steel's fantastic abilities make him comparable for the supers in the Avengers Initiative.

Agent Steel's primary responsibility is to the leadership and care for the members of the newly resurrected Howlin' Commandos. He has four other members including:

CPO Ning Zheng "Lotus", Chinese-American Female, former US Navy SEAL and Universal Pilot.
SGT Javed Khalid "Spitfire", Pakistani-British Male, former British SAS and gentleman, extraordinaire.
SSG Max Mendoza "La Cucaracha", Mexican American Male, former US Army Special Operations Combat Medic.
SGT Emily Louden "Dingo", Australian Female, former Australian Special Operations Engineer, Demolitions expert.

Current Occupation:
Leader of the recently resurrected Howlin' Commandos

Genre(s): Marvel AU

Members of the Howlin' Commandos:
Full Name: Ning Zheng
Nickname(s)/Alias(es): Lotus, Chief Petty Officer Zheng, Agent Zheng
Sex/Gender: Female
Species: Human
Age: 37
Birthday: 17 April
Comes From: San Francisco, California

Skills:
- Can operate every air vehicle S.H.I.E.L.D. has in their inventory. She is a universal pilot.
- Trained in four different Martial Arts disciplines. Holds 4th degree black belt.
- Trained and has practical experience in Small Unit Tactics as a US Navy Special Operator.
- Trained in Counter Terrorist techniques as a US Navy Special Operator.
- Agent Zheng can speak English (Fluent), Mandarin Chinese (90%), Vietnamese (80%) and Japanese (75%)
- She is skilled in the use of all S.H.I.E.L.D weapons including all US Army Firearms.
- Parachutist qualified
- Scuba qualified

Personality::
Chief Zheng is meticulous in her approach, paying attention to the tiniest detail. Sometimes she gets bogged down in the details; allowing them to slow her down. She is very anal retentive in her behavior and difficult to get to know on a personal level. She appears hostile or angered to friends, but that is just a ruse she employs because she does not want to be "friends".

History:
Chief Petty Officer Zheng is a former US Navy Special Operating and member of SEAL Team one and SEAL Team Six. She has trained in Krav Maga, Karate, Shohei-Ryu and Muay Thai. Zheng holds a 4th degree black belt. She has spent extensive time in the Far East with several contacts in China, North Korea, Vietnam and Japan.

Chief Zheng's father was a pilot and he trained her how to fly a Beechcraft King Air 350i when she was a teenager. She took those skills and was fortunate to apply them to learning to fly other larger and faster aircraft. There isn't any aircraft she cannot fly. If she has never flown it before, she can figure it out.

Current Occupation
Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. & Member of Howlin' Commandos

Full Name: Javed Khalid
Nickname(s)/Alias(es): Spitfire, Agent Khalid, Sergeant Khalid
Sex/Gender: Male
Species: Human
Age: 35
Birthday: 15 August
Comes From: Manchester, England

Skills:
- He is a skilled confidence man and manipulator.
- Has an excellent singing voice
- Trained in four different Martial Arts disciplines. Holds 4th degree black belt.
- Trained and has practical experience in Small Unit Tactics as a Royal Marine Commando.
- Trained in Counter Terrorist techniques as a British SAS Operator.
- Agent Hancock can speak English (Fluent), Urdu (85%), Farsi (70%) and Arabic (60%).
- He is skilled in the use of all S.H.I.E.L.D weapons including all US Army Firearms.
- Parachutist qualified
- Scuba qualified

Personality:
Sergeant Khalid is a lover first. He enjoys charming the ladies and is very confident about his abilities and himself. He is very gregarious, engaging everyone in conversation. He is the center of attention in any party and knows how to turn a situation to his favor.

History:
Javed Khalil started out his military career with the Royal Marine Commandos. He spent several years with the infantry and then transferred to 22 SAS Regiment. He became qualified in special operations and remained their for several more years. When approached by S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Khalid accepted the offer and became an agent. When Nick Fury offered him a position on his newly resurrected Howlin' Commandos, Javed believed this was an excellent offer for him.

He has always been somewhat cocky or confident about his abilties, his looks and whatever talent he could muster. This has turned into a game for Agent Khalid where he manipulates situations. He is an excellent actor and gets just about anything he wants. He has been reprimanded twice for conduct unbecoming of a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.

Khalid has trained in Krav Maga, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Karate and Muay Thai. He began training in Karate when he was 4 years old. As a teen ager, he trained in Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai. The Krav Maga came in the military.

Current Occupation:
Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. & Member of Howlin' Commandos

Full Name: Maximiliano Luis Mendoza
Nickname(s)/Alias(es): La Cucaracha, Agent Mendoza, Staff Sergeant Mendoza
Sex/Gender: Male
Species: Human
Age: 33
Birthday: 21 December
Comes From: Del Rio, Texas

Skills:
- Trained and experienced as a US Army Special Operations Combat Medic.
- He is a skilled computer hacker.
- Trained in four different Martial Arts disciplines. Holds 4th degree black belt.
- Trained and has practical experience in Small Unit Tactics as a US Army Ranger.
- Trained in Counter Terrorist techniques as a US Army Special Operator.
- Agent Mendoza can speak English (Fluent), Spanish (90%), German (80%) and Russian (65%)
- He is skilled in the use of all S.H.I.E.L.D weapons including all US Army Firearms.
- Parachutist qualified
- Scuba qualified

Personality:
Sergeant Mendoza is a fierce fighter. He is intense when engaged in hand to hand combat. He views just about every situation as a possible combat scenario. He is "Semper Paratis" Always prepared for a fight.

History:
Max Mendoza spent time in the Ranger Regiment until he attained the rank of Sergeant. Then he attended Special Forces Qualification Course at Ft. Bragg and became a Special Operator. He trained in Combat Medic MOS. He served in 7th Special Operations Group (Middle East).

When approached by S.H.I.E.L.D., he had to think it over. Nick Fury personally invited Max to join his newly resurrected Howlin' Commandos. Max is somehow distantly related to Isadora Martinez who is a former member of the V-Battalion.

Max trained in Krav Maga, Judo, Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai. He started training when he was a teenager and has kept with it ever since. He enjoys the cardio vascular activity and the physicality fo the training. The aggressive conduct of the activity helps to vent frustration.

As a young man, he learned how to use computers and became quite skilled at various computer languages and understanding software. He can write his own programs and once hacked into the Department of Defense as well as the FBI.

Current Occupation
Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. & Member of Howlin' Commandos

Full Name:Emily Louden
Nickname(s)/Alias(es): Dingo, Agent Louden, Sergeant Louden
Sex/Gender: Female
Species: Human
Age: 36
Birthday: 3 February
Comes From: Melbourne, New South Wales, Australia

Skills:
- Trained and experienced as a Australian Army Demolitions Specialist.
- Trained in four different Martial Arts disciplines. Holds 4th degree black belt.
- Trained and has practical experience in Small Unit Tactics with the Australian Special Operations Engineer Regiment.
- Trained in Counter Terrorist techniques as an Australian Army Special Operator.
- Agent Louden can speak English (Fluent), Vietnamese (90%), Indonesian (80%) and Mandarin (65%)
- She is skilled in the use of all S.H.I.E.L.D weapons including all US Army Firearms.
- Parachutist qualified
- Scuba qualified

Personality:
Sergeant Louden is a friendly young woman and will engage in most people who she feels is personable. Those who either act unfriendly or unnecessarily hostile, she will leave alone. She is slow to forgive and can hold a grudge for a long time. It is the one character flaw she does not appreciate about herself. She can be loud and boisterous at times.

History:
Emily Louden joined the Army and ended up as a combat engineer in the Special Engineer Regiment. Her training includes the use of various forms of explosives as well as analyzing the structures to determine what weights and stresses it can withstand. She knows how to both blow something up and how to disarm a bomb.

After six years in the Special Engineer Regiment, she was afforded the opportunity to train in the Australian Special Air Service and did it. She passed with flying colors, even shaving her head for training. She eventually was promoted to Sergeant during her time with the Australian SAS.

Emily Louden trained in Krav Maga, Muay Thai, Karate and Kung Fu. She actually spent some time at a Shao Lin temple in China while studying Kung Fu. She was able to increase her fluency in Mandarin while in China.

Current Occupation
Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. & Member of Howlin' Commandos

Gunther · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:40 pm

I used to read Sergeant Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos religiously when I was a kid. The older Nick Fury you are talking about came around after I stopped reading comics. Could I resurrect a form of the "Howling Commandos" for our Role Play? It would mean having one primary character and maybe two or three NPCs?

This would be an elite unit from today rather than WWII. They don't even have to have mega powers. Maybe something soft? When I say soft, I mean not regenerative abilities and no super soldier ability like Capt America.

Jessie Shadowhold · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:11 pm

I'd also be fine with the birth of super-culture in LA as an original story. Another idea could be the forging of an Avengers unit or something like that.

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Indomitable Monolith · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:00 pm

Gunther wrote:

I used to read Sergeant Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos religiously when I was a kid. The older Nick Fury you are talking about came around after I stopped reading comics. Could I resurrect a form of the "Howling Commandos" for our Role Play? It would mean having one primary character and maybe two or three NPCs?

This would be an elite unit from today rather than WWII. They don't even have to have mega powers. Maybe something soft? When I say soft, I mean not regenerative abilities and no super soldier ability like Capt America.

Ah, so straight-up bad-asses. Cool. Yeah, no problem at all. If this falls after the Civil War, too, that would actually make sense; he could have drawn together a team while he was in hiding on the off chance that things didn't go back to normal. Maria Hill would then be in charge of SHIELD immediately following the repealing of the Superhuman Registration Act (I have played her - she's fun). But that assumes canon storylines. Again, this is AU, so a reason might not even be needed for Fury to put together a new Howling Commandos team (especially considering LMDs are usually in play in some form).

Alas...I ramble. Sorry.

I have a tendency to do that...but yeah, that's totally fine.

Jessie Shadowhold wrote:

I'd also be fine with the birth of super-culture in LA as an original story. Another idea could be the forging of an Avengers unit or something like that.

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And just to clarify...you mean superhumans in Los Angeles? Or Louisiana? Or did I miss a reference somewhere?

Jessie Shadowhold · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:39 pm

Lol, LA for sure. Luisiana (nothing against the state or the people in it) just doesn't have enough stuff in it to really work.

I'd have to say though, I would rather focus on super human beings rather then regular old badasses, mostly because it IS a Marvel RP, so I'd say we should at least have some super humans in it.

Indomitable Monolith · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:53 pm

Oh, of course.

It wouldn't be the first time that supers were called in to assist a team of bad-asses, though. Could be the new Howling Commandos get into a situation that they can't handle. That's how MUA began, after all: Doctor Doom attacked the SHIELD helicarrier and Fury called in the supers to deal with the situation.

Gunther · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:16 pm

I will make my Team Leader "Jackson Steel" to have some super power. I have given him access to Carl Creel's ability of "The Absorbing Man." But the rest are a bunch of traditional bad asses. Agent Steel is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Jessie Shadowhold · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:33 pm

K, that could work. Is that what we want to do? As soon as we've decided I'll put up a char sheet.

JDizzle383 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2014 3:45 am

So I was going to make a few OC villains for this. One would be a key figure against the heroes, but as this is not my RP I also have a few minor villains as a backup plan. however Monolith wants to go with this is fine by me. I can PM the details of my villains if you want, Monolith.

I would like to take an AU twist on Jackal's deteriorating clone known as "Kaine" since this is a generation AFTER the original spiderman and since Kaine would be either dead or completely deteriorated at this point, (the Gwen Stacy clone would never have happened due to Cheryl Blaine being the Spider Woman of this AU) I would like to assume he (Kaine that is) had relations with someone before death (whom will have a name and a bit of 'how she fell for him' in the bio for said character). I can make this Spider Woman's competition, A protagonist who is oblivious to her sexual preferences, or I can make him a simple 'friend' in their secret identities while being enemies when costumed. there's really a lot of ways to go with someone who had Kaine as a father before he left his wife/deteriorated into oblivion.

I am not known for only playing one character, (And by that I mean I've played ten at once before with relative ease) so I will most likely play another protagonist in addition to the villains. (yet to be determined. Probably an offspring of Anti-Venom since this would cause a symbiote to be good instead of trying to kill everyone and eat their decomposing bodies.)

I have a few OC heroes designed as a team that fit into any superhero world with a few tweaks, but depending on how many characters we are each allowed to have, I will/won't include them. If there isn't a limit, that's great as far as I'm concerned, because then we can have characters "Die" a.k.a. be put out of commision for until they are cloned/resurrected/found in some other reality/brought through a multiverse event/brought out of unconsciousness*Takes huge breath*.... without worrying about losing interactions between the remaining fighters that we each control. in my list of heroes I DO plan on character deaths at some point. It just wouldn't be considered a Superhero RP without a few casualties, after all.

Also, are we planning on doing the world 616, Spiderman 2099, World War Hulk, etc. thing as far as the multiverse goes, or are we keeping it to one world and leaving such events as Galactus swallowing earth, then the Watcher saving the planet through idk, working with the Time Broker or something out of this? I'm fine either way, but need to know for my villain characters so I don't make them seem OP in the case of only using one world, and don't make them easily defeated if we do the "Dimensional Multiverse" take on this, since it is the comics world we're using after all.

Sidenote: This is my first Alpha RP, so in order to reach posting standards, I will need to be more than just one character. How many I am allowed to be will determine the quality of my posts, as I am better with multi-character interaction than I am with elongating "the grass is green." situations.

Indomitable Monolith · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2014 4:41 am

Okey dokey...

You guys are better at plotting off the top of your heads than me, clearly.

So lessee...

One NPC I'm working on will be Iron Woman, the daughter of Tony and Pepper Stark. I think in this timeline, Peter Parker will have married MJ and had a daughter, May Parker, who's now Spider-Girl. So that could have some interesting implications, considering. If Kaine did have a child, my guess is he's now dead and his wife is...?

So yeah, that's one unknown you would have to come up with - two if you count the child as well. I would have no problem with Kaine's kid being interested in Spider-Woman, although discovering her identity might be a fun thing for somewhere down the line. I kind of imagined my Spider-Woman as sort of mysterious, though I dunno how well I'll be able to play that.

But I can certainly try. Cheryl's relationship with the Iron Woman's alter ego (haven't come up with a name for her yet but I'm working on it) is discreet even though her parents know; they're pretending they don't. But at this point, no one outside the Stark family knows that Cheryl is Spider-Woman (or they might know what Cheryl looks like but not have any idea who she was/is, and in NYC, that's a needle in a pile of needles).

It would be interesting if Kaine's kid exists in a similar capacity to some mix of Black Cat and Spider-Man, which I think is what you were implying, yes? So rivalry and horniness and lack of knowledge about Spider-Woman's identity and lesbianism...DRAMA, BAYBAY. Also humor. Mebbe.

I do have one OC villain in mind. He has no powers but he's sort of a Lex Luthor archetype. He's a brilliant inventor who utilizes tech and is just as dangerous as, say...a weaponized Mysterio. Basically arrogant and megalomaniacal. Goes by Mirage because nobody knows who he is...literally. He burned off his fingerprints as a kid and he doesn't seem to exist in any database. He's a total mystery. So it'll be fun to see what I eventually come up with (if anything) for him. He might even be Cheryl's main antagonist - I dunno yet.

As far as timeline...I would say this definitely takes place after the Civil War and into the next generation, as previously stated. Maria Hill is the leading agent of SHIELD now, much as Nick Fury once was; Nick Fury, of course, has now reformed the Howling Commandos using an LMD and...well, you read above what's what with that. So I'm thinking 616 AU overall.

As for limits...not sure...I know I'll have at least two NPCs - unless someone wants to fill the role of Iron Woman as a PC - and possibly others. The Stark and Parker parents would be NPCs at this point, I think, as would Kaine's wife (if she's still around). But Kaine and what-not is your department, of course.

The main question is what we would be thrown into. The Avengers Initiative could certainly be re-activated but it would be something that Director Hill wouldn't agree with; it'd be one of those orders she followed but didn't like. Or perhaps the new Howling Commandos have gotten themselves into a spot of some other trouble. Whatever we do, it needs to be a major baddie with some major plans in order to make this epic; after all, we're drawing in the Spiderverse and the SHIELD-verse and we don't even have a definitive plot yet.

But back to limits, I'm thinking no more than 2 PCs each; we can have multiple NPCs but two PCs would mean that we give each of our PCs plenty of action. I know you can handle ten characters at once, JD, but not everyone can.

So one or two PCs, maybe, and then various NPCs. And NPCs can always become PCs later on, too, especially if there are character deaths. The Spiderverse alone is massive, nevermind the rest of the Marvelverse.

JDizzle383 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2014 5:22 am

Okay, So let me see if I have this right.

2 characters TOTAL, villain or otherwise. (I would like three so that I have interactions between two heroes and a villain that is sort of carrying out your OCs orders, but it isn't my RP, so I can't change the rules)

You already have a main in the shadows type villain planned out.

You DON'T want more than one main villain, but NPC groups such as AIM and Hydra exist here.

This is going to be ONE singular world (Earth 616), and won't have characters skipping through time, so characters such as Kang the Conqueror and the Time Broker are off limits.

Is that about right?

the reason I am wanting to play at least three characters is that this being my first Alpha RP, I will have trouble making long enough posts if I have one villain and one hero since they don't always interact. granted they interact with the other characters, but that always remains iffy since they are not always with other characters.

Jessie Shadowhold · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:33 am

Well, I'd say you could have two characters that are your OC's and a few NPC's that you control but that we also technically can control some, if you feel the need to do a LOT of characters.

The character I was thinking of is my hero Ink. He's younger, but at the point in time on his timeline I was thinking of he could actually be a bit older then Spider Woman and Iron Woman. He is a mutant, able to generate a liquid steel suit and hardened weapons. He has high martial arts skill and a detailed background. While he doesn't have any actual magical ability, he has a lot of knowledge of how it works and could be "called in" as a specialist.

He is from LA, but could easily be visiting New York (or wherever) to just run into the bad guys. Or one of my original Villans could team up. I have one particular one who's a mob boss that could work well and give us a lot of cannon fodder.

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Indomitable Monolith · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:08 pm

You might be right...so I'd say 3 PCs each, then. Bear in mind I wrote that at something like 2 this morning. >.< Anyway, sorry...so up to 3 PCs would be fine, then. That's a potential total of 12 PCs, villains and heroes alike, plus the NPC good and bad guys. And to clarify, we can bring in beings from other planets but the RP itself would be set on Earth.

EDIT
By the way, slight change: Tony Stark is actually the director of SHIELD in this RP; he is married to Pepper Stark, though. Their daughter, Maria Stark, runs Stark Enterprises now with her mother as her advisor - and of course, Maria Stark is also Iron Woman. I realized that Cheryl's history didn't work for next-gen so I had to make an addendum to it. Sorry.

JDizzle383 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2014 6:31 pm

FIRST HERO:

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Full Name: Christopher Landry (Landry being his mother's maiden name, as Kaine never revealed to her that he was Peter Parker's Clone)

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Nickname(s)/Alias(es): The Titanium Tarantula
Sex/Gender: Male
Species: Human
Age: 32
Birthday: February 22nd
Comes From: Kaine(Parker???) and Donna Landry
Ailment: Paraplegic(can't walk)

Skills:

Superhuman strength, stamina, endurance, pain tolerance, and durability. these qualities, like Kaine's, are above and beyond the original Spiderman's
Superhuman speed, agility, flexibility, reflexes, and balance. These are on level with Spiderman's abilities
Superhuman healing and immunity. However, these seem to be less effective than the original Spiderman, probably a result of Kaine's deteriorating DNA
Spider-sense: can sense when he is being followed/attacked/stalked
Inherited the ability to administer the "Mark of Kaine" by placing his palm on bare skin and "Burning" the mark into the flesh.
Superintelligent in both the computer department and biochemistry/biology. this trait is demonstrated in the fact that although he is crippled from the waist down and uses a wheelchair out of costume, he has created a device that interfaces with his nervous system that when in costume gives his bottom half a spider-like abdomen with six legs built from a Vibranium/Titanium mix of metals that wraps around his legs and can be controlled with his thoughts. the top half of his body is covered in a thin but flexible metal casing that is only cosmetic to give him the appearance of a robotic half spider/half man. this truly gives his costumed look a spider-like appearance the color scheme is black and silver.
Can use his robotic Spider bottom half to leap across huge gaps, climb walls at the cost of small dents in the structures, and shoot web fluid from the mechanisms in the back akin to a real spider as well as twin web shooters on his wrists.
Using his combination biochemistry/computer skills, he has a small compartment in his Spider Abdomen that constructs and launches "detonatable egg sacks" as he calls them, which release thousands of bio-robotic spiders that obey his commands. these are limited in how many can be dispatched according to the amount of materials for the egg sacks he has in his costume, and this must be replenished every time he removes it, as they don't stay fertile indefinitely.

Personality as Christopher Landry: A shy and almost always nervous man at work, he is always found in a wheelchair, and will never talk about his father. His legs are always covered by a blanket because of their appearance. despite being shy and reserved, he is a hard worker and keeps the secrets of his employer under lock and key. (he does not, however, know anything about Cheryl and Maria's relationship.)

Personality as the Titanium Tarantula: Enthusiastic, albeit a bit ignorant of danger. uses his intelligence to his advantage, be it hacking into tech or building strange but useful devices, sees Spider-Woman as competition, and usually refuses to work with her unless S.H.I.E.L.D. gives him access to something he is looking for (the thing varies from time to time, but it is always for an attempt to restore his leg's mobility)

History: Donna Landry was a Scientist that Kaine was hired to assassinate, but when he found out that she was the leading biochemistry expert for AIM, he attempted to tell her about the men who hired him, saying that if she quit her job, then he would justify letting her live. She did so, and out of gratitude she turned her studies into countless hours trying to cure his deteriorating tissues. Eventually she fell in love with him and they had a child, whom to their dismay was a paraplegic. Unable to walk at all, his legs seeming to contract the same state his father was in. in the final moments of Kaine's life, Donna found a cure that would stop the deterioration, but in an act of love, he persisted that she should inject their son, saving the child as he died. and so it was that Christopher Landry survived where his father could not.

Although Donna had stopped the deterioration of her son's legs, she could not restore his ability to walk, and so it was that he spent the majority of his time around his computer and away from others. by the age of ten, he had built a computer that could rival S.H.I.E.L.D.'s security system, and had stolen crucial information for several robotic plans, collectively using it to create his disguise and Superpowered Alter-Ego, the Titanium Tarantula, which essentially worked in a manner similar to Doctor Otto Octavious' mechanical arms.

He began his claim to fame by following after his father and helping the daughter of Spiderman, Spider-Girl (May "Mayday" Parker to be more specific) track down a villain who called himself "Mr. Nobody" and using his knowledge that was stolen from S.H.I.E.L.D. about his suit's teleportation limits along with his own intelligence was able to calculate and hypothesize where Mr. Nobody was going to teleport next, slinging a web in the precise location he was going to appear, thus stopping him. he did not, however, emerge unscathed. Christopher showed up at home with a bullet in his right shoulder, and was rushed to the ER of the hospital. His healing factor, although not as apparent to the ER workers, was noticed by his mother, and when she confronted him about it, he got angry and blamed her for his father's death. She was devastated, and the two did not speak to each other for almost a year. when they finally did, he apologized, and told her about how he had really gotten the wound a year ago. Knowing he took after Kaine's abilities, she decided to send him to Ney York where he set himself up as a one man IT department for STARK Enterprises while secretly restoring the S.H.I.E.L.D. info he had stolen, but not before copying it to his personal files.

Current Occupation: STARK Enterprises one man IT department.

Genre(s): Marvel AU
PB: JDizzle the great and powerful

Indomitable Monolith · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:41 pm

For everybody's reference, PB means Play-By. If you use a specific character or person to pictorially represent your character, that would be your PB; in my case, that's Imogen Poots.

JDizzle383 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:18 pm

Finally finished my first character. more on the way!

Jessie Shadowhold · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2014 10:05 pm

Imogen Poots? I will never be able to take that name seriously. Sounds like the farts of a person called Imogen have achieved sentience and are writing in an RP.

Anyway, my hero:

Name: Akio Hamasaki
Super Name: Ink
Age: 18
Sex/Gender:Male
Species:Mutant
Apperance: As a hero, he is around six foot, with metallic 'skin' and a lean, well defined build. His chest is a blue-ish steel color with a bright blue capital "I" on it. The top line reaches around his shoulders and connects on his back, the lower lines do the same around his upper waist. His arms below the "I" are black, as well as his legs below his waist. All of this is covered in a stylish 'jacket' and close fitting 'pants'. His eyes are the same, striking bright blue.

As a civilian, Akio is five foot ten young man of Japanese decent. His hair is short and thick, with dark eyes and almond skin. He has a penchant for wearing black at all times. His clothing is well tailored and casual formal in style.
Abilities:
-Creates a liquid steel substance that he can mentally harden or liquify at will.
-He forms a liquid steel suit around himself that contracts as it partially hardens, giving him super strength (comparable to that of the origonal Spiderman) and making him bullet proof as well.
-He also uses this liquid steel (which he calls ink) to create weapons of every kind in blue and black.
-His jacket and pants in his hero form are made of the same material. he uses the steel in his jacket to make "wings" at times, not to fly as he's too heavy, but to direct his fall and allow him to survive jumping from any hight.
-He can shoot liquid steel at opponents and then harden it around them to incapacitate them. This only works against those with less strength then him.
-Akio has developed his own style of fighting he calls Omni-juitsu, or all skills, that involves rapidly switching between many different weapons, taking advantage of his abilities.
-He is a naturally gifted strategist, and is able to consciously think several steps ahead against most appoints.
-He has honed his own reflexes to the limit of human ability.

Personality: As both Akio and Ink, he is confident and fairly arrogant. He has a penchant for commanding others even when he is not in command, and taking on more then he can handle to remove the burden from others. However, for his overconfidence, he is unlikely to underestimate his opponents. in casual, non-combative situations, he is respectful of other's opinions, although he is unlikely to keep his unvoiced. He is contentious in nature, enjoying a good fight or argument, but he is aware of this and tries to avoid getting into too much trouble because of this.

History: Akio's family has always been wealthy, his father a successful international businessman and powerful political influence in foreign affairs with far east countries, so he has never had to go without. He flourished with the best childhood money could buy, becoming an accomplished young martial artists as well as becoming competent at pen sketches, extreme sports such as par core and motocross, and an excellent academic record. However, the price was that he father was never around, and so Akio took the few lessons he learned from him to heart, one of which was that those with wealth and power had a responsibility to those who do not, and those who make a mess should be the one that cleans it up. This only made him conscious of his own wealth and the responsibility he had, until the day his life changed forever.

One day, for reasons still not quite understood by him, Akio's sketches came to life. He had drawn many of the people he'd seen walking around in LA, but many of them did not become the heroes he'd imagined. He got his own powers in the same way, causing him to evolve a mutant gene. From that day on, he has taken both the lessons from his father and is on a quest to stop all the wrongs started by his own sketches and imaginings. He's been doing so for three years.

Recently, he's heard rumors that one of his long time enemies is in New York. So, he used his own allowance to buy a plane ticket (first class), and is looking into the local crime in the most hero-dense city in the world...

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So, I'm not sure which bad guy would work better for this RP. One is a Mob boss who doesn't take orders from others really well (which could lead to some interesting character interactions between villains) and he could be looking for some super villains to take back to LA with him, or to make connections with other crime bosses. The second is someone who specializes in making creatures and henchmen out of clay, so he could be in high demand amongst villains as a henchman. Which one would works better with your guys ideas?

Also, let me know if there's anything in my char sheet that doesn't work. Kinda wrote this while watching a movie, so it wouldn't do so well.

Indomitable Monolith · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:40 pm

Jessie Shadowhold wrote:

Imogen Poots? I will never be able to take that name seriously. Sounds like the farts of a person called Imogen have achieved sentience and are writing in an RP.

Yeah, it's an odd name. She's cute, though.

Jessie Shadowhold wrote:

So, I'm not sure which bad guy would work better for this RP. One is a Mob boss who doesn't take orders from others really well (which could lead to some interesting character interactions between villains) and he could be looking for some super villains to take back to LA with him, or to make connections with other crime bosses. The second is someone who specializes in making creatures and henchmen out of clay, so he could be in high demand amongst villains as a henchman. Which one would works better with your guys ideas?

Also, let me know if there's anything in my char sheet that doesn't work. Kinda wrote this while watching a movie, so it wouldn't do so well.

I dunno 'bout the villains. We still haven't established what trouble the Commandos got into or how the heroes come together (unless I'm just ignorant and wasn't paying enough attention @-@). As for the app, only thing I'd change is "Human" to "Mutant" ("Mutate" if his powers aren't natural for him).

To be honest, I'm usually more of a follower than a leader.

So I got a character or two to throw in but I don't have a set plot. I think so far, all we got is that the Howling Commandos get into some kind o' trouble and the supers have to bail 'em out. It seems everyone wants to RP in NYC, which is fine by me - or am I wrong on that? So we just gotta figure out what the situation would be that we're RPing.

Gunther wrote:

I will make my Team Leader "Jackson Steel" to have some super power. I have given him access to Carl Creel's ability of "The Absorbing Man." But the rest are a bunch of traditional bad asses. Agent Steel is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

By the way, are we not bringing Nick Fury into this, then? I'm fine either way but it seems like Jackson Steel is fulfilling the role of Fury as leader of the new Commandos. Just clarifying.

Jessie Shadowhold · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:42 pm

Right, forgot that.

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