New Spin on Help with Character

[MisterD]

I know many people used this message board for help with their characters.

 

I am also asking for help. BUT.

 

Not with character sheet, not with how to model a desired power.

 

I need help with background.

 

Please enjoy the backgrounds on my characters BUT I need help. I want to flesh them out and fill them in more. I need help so readers know where they came from, what they are doing and why they chose to be on the path they chose.

 

So be free to pose any questions, comments or suggestions.

[MisterD]

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DITTO: Power Mimic

 

Joshua's parents were unable to have children. They tried many methods and went to a few doctors. One was able to bless the Crane's with a child. It was just that this doctor also worked for (Enter villainous organization here). His project was a long one. the 'natural' creation of super powered beings. Other projects had Grafting, Chemo/radiation, Retro-Virus and other methods.

The doctor was successful and Joshua was born. He had a normal and happy child hood. Monthly visits to the doctor showed Joshua to be a healthy child.

 

When Joshua was 13. the age most commonly associated wit developing abilities, A mild poison was administered to Josh so the doctor could have an extended time to test and study Joshua. After the poison ran its course and the tests were finished, Joshua was diagnosed as a healthy, to the doctor's agitation.

 

The same procedure was tried on Joshua again at ages 14 and 15. Again he was diagnosed as a health and NORMAL kid.

 

This did not please the doctor or the organization. The only good thing to come out of Joshua's birth as far the the doctor was concerned was that the EGG that was to become Joshua was a foreign object on the mother's body and the doctor was able to trick the mother's immune system to accept the EGG.

 

It wasn't until about three months later when two hero teams from neighboring cities did a charity basketball game at Joshua's high school. One player was Metallica, a very attractive and attention getting member of one of the teams. She obviously became the focus of this particular healthy normal teenager.

 

While focusing on Metallica, Joshua experienced a slight buzz. he thought this was hormones till his skin started to itch and hurt a bit. He made his way to the bathroom to see if he was getting a rash or if cold water would help. When he was almost at the restroom, his hands developed a silvery shine.

 

Joshua was lucky when he entered the bathroom that everyone was at the game cause when he looked in the mirror, His skin was a shiny silver color and when he tapped the faucet, a metallic clink sounded.

 

After an immediate panic attack and saying this can not be happening to me over and over again to himself, the Silver faded and he was himself again. Joshua thought of going home to bed or back to the game. When thinking of the game he thought of Metallica, when he thought of Metallica he thought of his body turning to metal. And it started to turn to metal again so he went through his mantra again and decided going home was the best thing.

 

The game was on Saturday night so he had Sunday to hide from his friends and family. And he played with turning on and off the Silver Skin. Since he had Metallica's Silver Skin he tried to see if he had her strength. He almost hurt himself trying to lift his dresser.

 

So. He took a pair of scissors and pressed it into his hand. Nothing. He went on to pressing it harder and harder and then stabbing his hand harder and harder. The result was a pair of broken scissors and just a light tapping sensation on his hand.

 

So I got protective Silver Skin, Joshua thought to himself. I guess super hero is in my future. So without any super strength, Joshua got his parents to let hit take karate lessons from a Dojo in town.

 

So Joshua had school, time with his friends, karate lessons and time he went to abandoned locations to see what he can do. So far just have protective skin and his karate, no matter how much he worked out he did not get any super strength.

 

Five months later, when Joshua and a bunch of his friends were walking though town they passed town hall where DASH was being given some award for his help in rescuing a few families from a burning apartment. Joshua was focusing on Dash and he started to get that feeling again.

 

Joshua slowly baked up, leaving room for his friends to fill in the space wanting to see a hero getting his award.

 

Joshua ran to the nearest bathroom. REALLY RAN. He ran a few blocks in the time it took to cross the street.

 

Now I am a Speedster? Joshua thought.

 

After school, Joshua went to his favorite abandoned location and tried his speeding. He also tried to Silver Up. He soon discovered he can either Run fast or Silver up. But not both. He is not a Silver Skinned hero like Metallica (OK so she is a heroine but you get the idea) or a speedster like Dash. He mimicked their power. He was a mimic.

 

After that realization he went to all super hero appearances he could and also got into reading up on the whole super power phenomena.

[MisterD]

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JACK FROST: Ice/Cold Manipulator

 

Jack had what most children had growing up, A normal childhood.

 

Jack is the younger of two siblings. He has an older brother.

 

One winter, around his 14th birthday, Jack was having a free for all snowball fight with his brother. He was having a ball. The ice and cold did not seem to hamper him in any way. Too bad his brother could not say the same.

 

When their parents came out the game were children against the parents. Jack?s father was making a fort him and his wife. Jack and his brother Brian were making their fort. But when Jack reached out to start making the fort and wall of ice sprang into existence.

 

That winter Jack worked with Brian and his father to see what he could do. There was no known school to teach Jack how to use his powers.

 

It was soon learned (after the winter) that ice, snow and cold was not needed for Jack to use his powers.

 

Jack and his father decided it was best to wait till winter to work on using his powers as to not draw attention to it. This went on for a few years.

 

As time went on Jack had better control of his powers, he also managed to get a part time job at a local garage working as a mechanic. His brother followed their father into the police force.

 

One year tragedy stuck the family. Jack and Brian's father was killed in the line of work. Jack and Brian went after the people responsible for the killing.

 

Brian and the police went full force into the investigation. Jack took what ever information the police had and went after them. By the time the police were able to enter and search the suspect's base of operations, Jack had entered, got a confession on tape and had the suspects bound in ice.

[MisterD]

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JOHNNY BLAZE: Fire/Heat amnipulator

 

Jason found out at a very early age he has a special gift. He could mold fire. When his grand father would light a cigarette, He would hold the match or lighter up to Jason so he can see the flame dance a bit. Some times Jason was able to see objects in the flames and when he concentrated, he could have the flame take on the shape he imagined.

 

The first time he did this it surprised his family, but instead of being afraid or angry at their child's ability, they were impressed and encouraging.

 

Over time as Jason grew, so did his ability to mold fires. This skill was so high that he was able to make a very comfortable living doing it. (He was the only artist that worked in flame)

 

Jason's work has is in museums, office buildings, and hero head quarters, (There is no real danger of fire hazards near his art work. Any strong wind or even touching an art piece will cause it to wink out of existence.)

 

One day during a showing in a museum there was a break in and attempted theft. Seems there was some artifact in the museum some villain thought would increase his power so he had a squad go and steal it for him.

 

Jason soon discovered that he did not need a fire source to use his powers. He could generate fire at will. He hit a few goons with blasts of fire and quickly grabbed a fire extinguisher to put them out (Spray the fire and hit the crooks with it)

 

When the police finally got there they found some creeks trapped in a cage of fire with museum security keeping an eye on them.

 

The press are not just toting Jason as a special artist but also as a hero (There goes a chance for a Secret ID)

[MisterD]

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DOVE: Wingged Teen & Light Manipulator

RAVEN: Wingged Warrior & Darkness Manipulator

 

As all young children, Mindy had a normal childhood. Going to school, playing with friends and doing all the things a child does. She was your normal little kid till the age of 12.

 

At age 12 her back and upper shoulders grew malformations. Mindy was able to hide it for a few weeks under baggy and lose shirts. When her parents found out about the growths they took her to a doctor and discovered that the grows these the forming stages of wings.

 

Mindy went through a short period of jokes from her peers as her wings were forming. After they finished and she had actual wings she was a target of awe from her peers

 

Mindy's parents managed to contact REDHAWK, A winged hero from a neighboring city, they hoped would be able to mentor their daughter.. After many letters, Redhawk and the hero team he belonged to had Mindy and her family come visit.

 

After meeting with the Corman's, Redhawk decided to take Mindy as a student to learn to cope with being a winged teen and the team took Mindy on as an unofficial team mascot.

 

The Corman's moved to the new city and Mindy almost moved into the heroes base.

 

Redhawk taught Mindy how to cope and how to fly, It was also discovered that Mind could Generate and manipulate light and photonic energy manipulating powers.

 

By the age of 17 Mindy went with Redhawk when he continued his hero career after the team dissolved. (One member lost interest in the hero business and one lost her powers) and became his sidekick DOVE.

 

Mindy had an active life and Redhawk's sidekick and also became a media darling. This lasted till Redhawk and Dove fought with Shade. A dark force based villain. Shade was about to hit a dazed Redhawk with one of his bolts when Dove pushed him out of the way. The result was Redhawk recovered but Dove was gone.

 

NOTE: She was sucked into a dark dimension.

 

Result was Shade in the hospital, Redhawk retired, and Mindy/Dove had a very public and media intense memorial.

 

After pushing Redhawk out of the way of Shade’s bolt, everything literally went black. Mindy lost all senses except the sense that she was falling.

 

There was nothing she could do to help her plight. No breeze to catch so she could glide, nothing for her to grab on to. Nothing until she landed on solid ground with a painful crash and the knowledge that her wing was damaged.

 

She found herself in some woods. The sun seemed to be out but everything was a shade of dark gray.

 

A man, if you can call it a man, came riding something that looked like a black unicorn with red glowing eyes and flames coming from its hooves rode up to her. The creature and its companions were circling around Mindy talking in some language that she has never heard before.

 

As Mindy was trying to make her way away from these being she had a net thrown around her and was being dragged out of the woods. Out of the woods and to a castle. Not one of those Camelot type castles but those horror movie ones.

 

Mindy was dragged into a great hall where an even larger creature was sitting on a throne. As the creature on the throne was talking to the things that captured her in that weird language, a thin mockery of these creatures came up to her and poked and prodded her. He was examining her like some lab rat.

 

The thin thing then bent down, reaching through the net he grabbed and handful of feathers from her damaged wing and pulled. Mindy did not want to give these things the satisfaction of knowing they hurt her but pulling out those feathers hurt. She gave a sharp loud cry.

 

The little creature sitting on the steps to the throne made a disturbing giggling sound and clapped. She then tuned in a pleading voice talked to the seated creature.

 

The seated creature gave the little thing a disturbing looking smile and nodded. Mindy did not understand one word of this but she knew this was not good. She also discovered that she was unable to use her light powers here. She was in trouble.

 

Mindy was dragged up stairs into and through a bedroom of some sort. Into some hellish looking play room. A pitiful looking animal that was chained to the wall was dragged out and she took its place chained to the wall.

 

Mindy has spent an unknown length of time chained to the wall as this thing took pleasure in hurting her in every way imaginable and then some. Time, Hope, even her own identity lost meaning. All she was some toy for this little creature.

 

By the time Mindy accepted the tortures and no longer made those pain filled sounds that this ‘child’ seemed to crave, the ‘child’ came back but this time with the thin looking creature she met a long time ago.

 

He, Mindy assumed it was a he, showed the child a crystal. He walked over to the only window in the cell. As the dark sun shone into the cell and through the crystal a black ray emanated from it. He twisted the crystal till the beam bathed her and its light. And she again made those pain filled sounds the child liked.

 

When the light no longer bather her, Mindy found some of her feathers have turned black.

 

Over time more and more bathing in black light has ended with all her platinum blond hair and feathers turning black.

 

When the child lost interest Mindy was thrown into the arena so her last moments would be to entertain these sick creatures.

 

It seems that She retained the muscle memory of all the training she had and the not caring if she lived or died as long as she took as many of the creatures with her, she survived.

 

In fact she became a constant contender in the arena.

 

During one fight a nimbus formed in the arena, peering into the nimbus a memory sparked in Mindy. And she dove into it.

 

On the other side of the nimbus she was in a bright world, A group of colorfully dressed people that looked a lot more like her that the creatures she spent her life with were fighting some black clad person who seemed to be moving the nimbus around.

 

Mindy surprised everybody with her sudden appearance through the nimbus and even more surprised when she threw the black clad person through the nimbus.

 

She then did the only thing she could do. She collapsed. She was home.

[MisterD]

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HARDBODY: Metallic Amazon

 

Rebecca Rhyder was born into an extremely poor family that lasted till Rebecca was 10. (Strike 1). Her dyslexia was never diagnosed and she has been labeled a problem child all through grade school (Strike 2). By age 13 her paranormal ability emerged leaving her a metallic monstrosity (Strike 3)

 

 

Rebecca ran away from home soon after. After living on the streets for a while she was taken in by a gang DIABLO. For a few years she was 'JUNKYARD' She was treated almost like a pet but the gang members where kinder and warmer to her than her mother was.

 

 

By age 16 DIABLO was glad they treated 'JUNKYARD' well. for all the metal spikes quills plates and other protrusions stopped growing and were absorbed into her body and she turned into a metallic Amazon. Rebecca went from loved pet the loved girl. It was also discovered the Rebecca was extremely strong and nigh invulnerable to anything the streets threw against DIABLO. with the newly christened HARDBODY. Diablo became a powerful gang.

 

In one gang activity that went bad a few members of Diablo and Hardbody was cornered by the police. After the police were out of ammo from the altercation, the still armed members were hyped and willing to 'off' the cops.

 

Taking out a threat or self defense was OK with her but killing a cop. That was bad no matter what. She stood between the pals and the unarmed and injured cops and tried to talk them out of killing the cops. The gang was still hyped and if you were not with them you were against them. They tried to have Rebecca move. she refused so they shot her. The bullets did not do any physical damage but having her 'family' shoot at her shocked her. Diablo got away but Hardbody was arrested.

 

Hardbody's actions and the testimony of the cops she saved earned her a special probation. Hardbody is now a heroine

[David Johnston]

Re: New Spin on Help with Character

 

The first thing I notice is that these are all hero concepts. What do you intend to use them for?

[MisterD]

Re: New Spin on Help with Character

 

The first thing I notice is that these are all hero concepts. What do you intend to use them for?

 

350 point champions characters

250 if appropriate.

 

Hoping to use in the future.