DC Universe: The New Age of Heroes (Signup and Discussion Topic)

[Nogus101]

I am leaning towards doing that now.

[TheMightyObsidianDude]

@Ghid

Undoubtedly at this point heads were being turned, but what did it matter? He would be ready for them. For the first time ever, he had found friends.

[Ghid]

I am definitely not winging it

[TheMightyObsidianDude]

@Ghid

I am definitely not winging it

Oh yeah me neither brother

[_el]

Name: John Junes
Alias(es): Junes, Prisoner #5367
Gender: Male
Species: Meta-Human
Alignment: Prisoner

Bio: The slightly younger brother of a set of twins, John Junes grew up valuing their twinship to an abnormal degree. Obsessed with copying and mimicking his twin, they grew up, a spitting image of one another. This even extended to developing each other’s habits and even a declaration to simply be called by their last names as a set. They kept this facade up during school and home life.

Once his brother activated his Metahuman gene as they got out of high school, the new strand of individuality broke them apart. John quickly moved away and delved into studying powers in hopes of replicating his brother. If maybe he could awaken his own metagene, maybe they could continue living together like they always had. While his brother started to become a successful hero within their city, John Junes found himself soiling away, mooching off of his family.

Mundanely eating at a cafe, John found himself choking on a cherry tomato in his salad while studying, finally activating his metagene in the process. While swallowing his bile down, his power blossomed, flooding the cafe full of decrepit figures of himself.

Due to the unmanageable and almost unethical nature of his ability, John Junes, without a lawyer was able to present himself in court was quick to get incarcerated. Presumed to have unleashed his power on purpose in a fit of rage and with the public distaste for metahumans rising at the time, he was sent to Styker’s Island, restrained and prevented from any use of his power.

Powers/Abilities/Equipment:

Master swear warning I suppose btw. :

Through any consumption of himself, Junes can start to activate his power. This can range from minor or minuscule things such as fingernails or even skin flakes, but his power’s beginning strength scales on how much and what Junes consumes.

Once his abilities conditions are met, Junes can start to produce astral images, closely resembling himself. While the power starts off rather weak, simply only allowing for Junes to summon the decrepit effigy of a person at most, he is still able to summon portions of a person instead.

Through further consumption of himself or of his astral projections, he can start to summon larger and fuller portions, even eventually being able to summon images of other individuals if given enough time and how much his stomach can hold.

Appearance: Shaved bald with his mouth restrained, Junes typically wears Stryker’s Prisoner garb. Before he went into prison, he enjoyed buying cheap packs/bundles of clothes from wholesale locations.

[Ghid]

@_el

Before he went into prison, he enjoyed

what a loss

ok actual question @_el why doesn’t saliva count

[TheMightyObsidianDude]

@_el

Name: John Junes
Alias(es): Junes, Prisoner #5367

Based

And approved

[_el]

@Ghid

why doesn’t saliva count

i mean it would but in larger quantities. He’d just have to consciously take out of his mouth and swallow it. Or I suppose sort of realizing that its in his mouth and swallowing it over time could also work (sort of like how you never think about how your teeth feel in your mouth).

his power would be start off super weak due to it and be nearly unusable though.

[Ghid]

@Nogus101

“Excuse me, but are you going to try and kill me?”

I paid for the whole ally of thugs I’m getting the whole ally of thugs

[rainsong]

@rainsong

Name: Lauren Nichols

Alias: Snapshot

Gender: Female

Species: Human

Alignment: Hero

Bio: Upon turning 18, Lauren was left three things by her late grandmother: first, a Polaroid camera, a memento of the countless weekends they had spent together in her childhood; second, a set of yellowed, hand-inked tomes; third, the knowledge that her grandmother had been a practitioner of magic, and wanted to pass her craft along to Lauren. Needless to say, this was quite the shock. However, between her natural curiosity and love for the fantastical, she couldn’t help but honor her grandma’s request and throw herself into these strange new studies. This proved quite difficult, in part because she lacked any homo magi blood, and it took her several months to do so much as enchant her grandma’s old camera.

Finally, she reached a breakthrough: while she was awful at using magic in novel ways, she devised a way to copy powers that she had seen using her camera. Wandering the streets of the ever-busy Metropolis was a surefire way to find powers to copy, giving her plenty of heroes to photograph and opportunities to practice her unique niche of magic. She wasn’t able to stay an idle observer for long, though, crafting the identity of “Snapshot” as she became a semi-active member of the city’s mask scene.

In the meantime, she threw herself back into her hobby of photography, combining it with her in-progress journalism degree to find a career as a newspaper photographer. She earned herself a job at The Lancer, working alongside her friend Katelyn. She does her best to balance her job with her contributions as a hero, still trying to learn more and live up to her grandmother’s legacy as a magician on the side.

Powers/Abilities/Equipment: As mentioned, Lauren is far from a prodigy magician. She struggles to pull off anything more than simple spells without concentration and practice, with things often getting out of control when she tries to do so. Instead, she has found another application of magic: enchantment of objects.

However, crafting an enchanted artifact from scratch is quite the process, tedious and time-consuming to a frustrating degree for someone who also has to balance a full-time job, a secret life as a super hero, and pretending to be a normal human being on the side. This is where the camera comes in. When her camera is used to take a picture of a power, it creates an imprint of the photographed power, an imprint that she can then infuse into an object, creating an enchanted object.

When a picture is taken, the imprint obtained can be a bit limited, something that mostly comes into play with more general or nuanced abilities. For example, if a picture was taken of someone using pyrokinesis to shoot a fireball, the imprint would include the ability to shoot fireballs, but not any other aspect of pyrokinesis. Something else, like manipulating existing fire or heat resistance, would need to have its own picture. Furthermore, the pictures need some time to develop, usually half an hour to an hour, before they can be used effectively.

When it comes to the enchanted objects, a few factors play into their creation. While Lauren has yet to find a definite and consistent limit on how powerful a single object can become, this isn’t to say that an object can be enchanted without end. For one, the size of the object in question seems to play a role, with small objects like pens or simple jewelry only being capable of holding a single power, but larger objects like staffs or even cars (don’t ask) being able to hold far more. Furthermore, it seems that similar powers synergize and are able to coexist more easily, whereas it takes more effort for dissimilar powers to coexist in a single object. Finally, alterations to the object, such as carving runes and glyphs or even adding foreign materials like gemstones, are key to allowing an object to gain and retain a given power. Objects similar to their initial shape will only hold powers for a short amount of time, while objects with significant engravings, gemstones, etc. are bound to maintain their power for as long as Lauren is alive. This offers Lauren a trade-off: being discreet with a very limited arsenal, or being able to utilize magic more fully at the cost of doing so very obviously.

Now, for a brief overview of Lauren’s collection of enchanted trinkets. The talismans listed here are only meant to be an idea of what she likes to keep on hand/use often; I hope to expand upon this list at a later date, with prior approval of course.

-Camera: An old Polaroid camera passed down to Lauren by her grandmother. She has enchanted the camera to have an unending supply of film, and to be able to copy the powers that it captures in photo form. It also has the ability to create a blinding flash of light to disorient opponents in battle.

-Sunglasses: A pair of aviator sunglasses, enchanted with a simple glamour spell that blurs her face and features.

-Pendant: A small pendant, engraved and inlaid with a gemstone. Has the ability to transport her and only her back to her home. Works within Metropolis, hasn’t been tested outside of there.

-Flashlight: a slim, handheld flashlight imbued with the power of laser vision

-Jacket: a black jacket, imbued with increased durability

-Pen: A ballpoint pen imbued with speed copied from a speedster. It writes fast, which can be as much of a curse as a blessing.

Lauren also has a handgun that she usually keeps tucked away at home.

Appearance: Lauren stands a bit on the short side, with olive skin and an athletic build. While she keeps her dark hair long, most often she has it pulled up in a ponytail. She doesn’t explicitly have a costume, as her sunglasses can blur her features when she needs anonymity.

Added a gun to her gear.

[TheMightyObsidianDude]

Aight, that’s fine

[rainsong]

As if I didn’t approve it with you first

Cool, thanks.

[TheMightyObsidianDude]

Oh, hush

[Ghid]

it was the first thing I found under Drift 7, name Drift 7 R, known everywhere else as Drift GTR, and yes I absolutely expect the cover to look like this

[TheMightyObsidianDude]

ack, foiled again

[Ghid]

RP: Let’s see how well you can survive my goons pumped up on Bane’s own drug and my man eating snake, you tech-powered kid and your little goth accomplice

Also RP: Try not to have horrific flashbacks as you press the green button in Mario Kart

I love this RP

[TheMightyObsidianDude]

I hate how accurate this is

[rainsong]

I mean, it is a superhero RP; sounds about par for the course.

[Ghid]

Petition to change Teeth’s alias to Tooth Fairy because I just thought of it right now and am kicking myself for not making it that from the getgo

[TheMightyObsidianDude]

I mean, I’m not gonna stop you