Breakthroughs (original supers / freeform ) [RECRUITMENT]

[Levi]

Me either

[Lyrical]

I’d like to do a retake on on old character.. A burglar with remote viewing/teleporting.. not sure of the range/scope that would be relevant yet.. maybe it grows as she works her range?

Sounds interesting. Send to me in a pm and we can work through the details.

[Juggtacular]

Not paired either.

[Dragongoddess]

Still working on my character but she isn't paired either.  I also wouldn't mind if her pairing is with an old rival or something like that.

[GhostOfPatches]

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Alias: N/A
Name: Nora Young
Age: 23
Height: 5’4
Birthplace / Ethnicity:  Ontario, Canada / French/Hispanic

General Appearance: Tan skin and dark hair with dyed tips, Nora has the look of a troubled youth despite being in her early 20’s. Apparently she never “grew out of that phase” because she still looks like one of those people that loiters around shops. You would be hard pressed to catch her without a leather jacket on, she likes the look of them and she has ear piercings with plans to get a tattoo in the future. Her eyes are hazel, though they’re usually more on the brown side and she has a long scar on her arm from when she had her Breakthrough. She doesn’t hide it but she also doesn’t talk about it. It’s a part of her life and there’s no getting around it.

Personality Traits:
Rebellious: Nora doesn’t follow just anyone's orders, it has to be worth her while. If she thinks there’s a better way to do things you’d better believe she’s going to go for it.
Hot-headed: Like all rebellious youths, Nora has a short fuse and gets easily pissed off.
Liar: Too many people are afraid to bend the truth to save their skin and the people around them for the sake of “honor.” Nora calls bull on that shit.
Carefree: Does her own thing and doesn’t care what others say. If it makes her happy she’s going with it.
Daring: She takes risks to get the job done, that’s the way it’s always been. Most of the time that works out for her but there have been times where it's made her life incredibly difficult.

Powers/Special abilities:

• Phytokinesis:  Able to control leaves found in nature and bend them to her will, making them fly or float around her. This is only leaves, other plant-life doesn’t count.       
• Leaf enhancement:  This makes it possible to sharpen many leaves at a time, making it a handy blade. Like a razor or a file, if given enough time it’s possible to saw through metal. Think razor leaf from pokemon.       
• Chlorokinetic Constructs:  The ability to toughen leaves, though not by a large degree. However, in large groups they are capable of becoming temporary stairs or a flimsy shield, it’s not gonna block any bullets but cover is important in the heat of battle. The more leaves available the stronger the construct will be, very flammable though.       
• Leaf surfing: Possible to support her weight and carry her through the air, this ability doesn’t work in groups. It requires her concentration and works best alone as she can freely control and make adjustments to the plant matter beneath her feet.       

Breakthrough
Nora often hung around with troubled folk, it was just her thing. Druggies, thieves, you name it and Nora probably knew a couple people that fit that description. One of her closer friends was an origin chaser, something that even Nora found iffy but decided not to say anything. It was their life, they could do what they wanted. What she hadn’t realized was how far this person took that title, throwing themselves in front of cars and into traffic in hopes of forcing their powers to awaken. This led to many endangered lives, though thankfully there was always a hero around to save the day. Slowly the people around them began to leave and this friend got desperate. Their thought process spiraled and they came to the conclusion that putting themselves in peril just wasn’t working, so maybe they had to play a different role. Maybe they had to be the one that saved someone else.

They orchestrated an event with Nora in the center, inviting her to hang out one day on the roof of an abandoned complex. Somewhere nobody else could be, no prying eyes, no witnesses and absolutely no other heroes. While they were there, they pushed her off the building, watching with gleeful eyes as they waited for their powers to manifest. Only they never did. Nora felt only horror as the wind whistled by her ears, howling a symphony that only she could hear. Her life flashed before her eyes as she realized she was really going to die. Just as she was making peace with that thought she noticed a leaf falling through the air with her. An odd moment of tranquility passed over her mind and she couldn’t help but reach for it, jealous of how beautifully it fell. Memories of her childhood sprang from her mind, those autumn days where she would build leaf piles only to dive right in and mess it all up. She wished she could do that again.

Suddenly, as if answering her thoughts, the leaf fell past her form before drifting beneath her. Clusters of foliage began to rise up in an effort to break her fall. Wall after wall of gold, orange, red and brown encased her vision as each one worked in an effort to break her fall. When she finally hit the ground the impact had lessened tremendously. Her arm was slashed open by a loose garbage can and she had sprained her ankle but other than that she was unscathed. At least, physically. Emotionally, she could only stare up above at the disappointed expression on her ex-friends face as they realized that they didn’t gain their breakthrough and Nora did. Leaves crunched beneath her body as she shifted to raise her good arm and with a blank expression on her face, flipped them off. Not today.







Personal Bio
N/A







Skills:

Lock Picking: Something she picked up as a teenager and has gotten surprisingly good at. It’s a problem and her cousin is not impressed.

Equipment:

Lock-picking set:Carries around a lock-picking set at all times. You never know when the chance to break into something will arise.






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Relationships / Connections

• Maya Durand:  Straight laced, killjoy cousin.       
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Face Claim: Nadia Mejia

[JessLowell12]

Okay, so Maya knows Nora, and Tara. She tentatively knows Krystal as well.

[PhantomPistoleer]

Powers and stuff have been approved, but still a WIP.

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Alias: Clique
Name: Francisco "Frank" Giron
Age: 30
Height: 6'1
Birth Place / Ethnicity: Buenos Aires, Argentina, Latinx

General Appearance:  Clique is a Hispanic male of European descent.  He has undercut brown hair, often styled with mousse, and a natural olive complexion, which is often darkened by exposure to the sun.  He has wide-set almond-shaped eyes, which are gray, beneath rounded and groomed eyebrows.  A straight Grecian nose, flattened at the bridge, is the sole indication of an imperfection in his facial symmetry.  A meticulously styled stubble covers his square jawline, and thin lips, often curled in a pensive frown, complete this man's countenance.  He is often dressed in tailored wool suits.

Personality Traits: Clique is:

• obsessive;
• egotistical;
• manic depressive;
• intelligent; and,
• desperately trying to be a good person.

Powers/Special abilities:

• Kinetic Duplication:  Clique creates an identical physical living duplicate of himself upon any physical impact. This process is spontaneous. Although he can create multiple duplicates, and the duplicates themselves can also replicate, each is only able to create one duplicate at a time; he has been seen to produce four duplicates before no more can be created. The duplicates think, feel, and act independently, though usually guided by the original. Each tends to manifest one aspect of his personality, which increases in strength with lengthier separation from the original. Clique is telepathically and empathetically linked to his duplicates, suffering severe, potentially fatal, trauma if one dies;
• Duplication Experience Transference: :  When Clique merges back, he retains the memories, knowledge, and experiences of the dupe.  Clique doesn't have to absorb his duplicates to absorb information from them, he automatically absorbs information from any of his dupes if it kills itself.

Breakthrough
"To keep everyone I loved safe, I had to end my life.  I had gotten in too deep in a criminal investigation and my suspect was someone powerful.  Someone big.  And I thought that I could handle it.  I thought that I could expose them and bring them to justice, but... that wasn't true.  I bit off more than I could chew and I trusted the wrong people.  Things fell apart quick.  People--good people--died.  And it was my fault.

"So I wrote out my suicide note in a rundown motel off Interstate 90.  I didn't bother writing about Sam Backer or all the filthy shit he had done.  If I did, that note would have never seen the light of day.  So I wrote a brief note, said I was killing myself for reasons I couldn't get into, and I wrote out a holographic will, too, even though I knew that New York didn't recognize them.  I just needed my family to know that I had written the note.  They could wonder why I had killed myself, but I didn't want them to wonder if I had killed myself.  Doling out my personal belongings to people based on inside jokes would, I felt, make them realize I had truly done it and help them move on.  Keep them safe.  The last thing I wanted was for them to track down my leads and reinvestigate this case.

"After I wrote the note, I watched an old rerun of an old show I liked to watch with my guys when I was in the suck.  Downton Abbey.  Remembering how Dwayne hooted and hollered every time Lady Sybil showed up made me smile.  It was a nice memory, and I chased it with a bullet through the temple.

"I don't know what happened next, but I found myself standing beside myself, looking down at my dead body like some kind of ghost.  I really thought I was a ghost, too.  It was wild to think that people had actually gotten this part of dying right.  But I wasn't a ghost.  I fell ass backwards when I bumped into the bed and landed on my head.  I didn't pass out, but what happened next gave me such a scare.  Another person was in the room, sprawled on my bed.  Another me.  And he was as frightened of me as I was of him.

"Nothing was making sense, and it was difficult for me to think straight.  I just killed myself, or so I thought, and then became a ghost, or so I thought, and then I realized I wasn't a ghost, but then some guy who looked just like me showed up just as I hit my head, and so, for a moment, I think I lost my mind."

"And he punched me," the duplicate said.

"... Yeah, I punched him," Frank said.  "And it hurt.  Like, it hurt my hand, yeah, but it hurt my face, too."

"Yeah, he got me right in the eye," the duplicate said, pointing at where Frank had hit him.  "It made me really emotional."

"... Yeah," Frank said, wincing visibly.

A third duplicate, or really a fourth duplicate, nodded and added:  "And that's when I showed up."







Personal Bio

After high school, Clique enlisted in the U.S. Navy, becoming a NCO Petty Officer 1st Class with a rating of Hospital Corpsman 1st Class.  He served with distinction in Iraq before attending Yale Law School.  After graduating, Clique became a federal prosecutor and tried criminal and administrative cases in the Eastern District of New York.  While investigating a case against a powerful individual, Clique decided to kill himself to protect the people he loved.  He was successful in his suicide attempt, but he unknowingly experienced his power breakthrough and duplicated.  Sensing an opportunity, Clique allowed himself to be presumed dead so that he could continue his investigation unfettered.






Skills:

Physical Aptitude:  Clique possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise.

Military Training:  Clique obtained multi-branch military training and served as a Naval hospital corpsman with the 2nd Marine Regiment in Iraq.  As such, he has obtained basic military instruction in seamanship, small-arms training (with particular emphasis with the M9 pistol), firefighting, survival techniques, military tactics, and advanced training in emergency medicine, nursing techniques, disease and pathologies, sanitation and public health.  Although Clique was in a hostile zone for two years, he does not have any combat experience.

Multilinguist:  While in the military, Clique obtained a bachelor's degree in Russian and can speak it conversationally.  Additionally, he can speak Spanish conversationally, and knows enough Arabic and Kurdish to treat patients.

Legal Training:  Clique obtained a law degree from Yale University and is licensed to practice law in New York and all reciprocal jurisdictions.  Additionally, as a federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York, Clique has obtained additional legal training from the Justice Department in advocacy and cross-examinations.

Forensic Accountant: In addition to undergoing continuing legal education, Clique has obtained FBI training in the forensic analysis of business and personal records.

Equipment:

M9 Pistol: Clique possesses a concealed weapon license and carries a Baretta M9 pistol at all times.







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Relationships / Connections

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Face Claim: Janis Ostojic

[PhantomPistoleer]

I haven't made any connections, but I think my character could possibly know Foxy Oni's Parisa.  My character could have prosecuted Parisa's ex-boyfriend for financial crimes, and MC might have even interviewed Parisa during the investigation.

[Lyrical]

Group back story & Pairing information



Several months ago, Breakthroughs started to appear. A few of them made headlines and one of them happened in Superior City.

The hero known as Ms Fantastic stopped a nuclear meltdown in progress. This was pure Chernobyl level shit. Ms Fantastic had her breakthrough at the power plant that day. Since that time she has been seen around Superior City doing fire rescues and helping to round up some dangerous Breakthroughs that were putting peoples lives in danger and the police had trouble with.

Ms Fantastic has been larger than life. A superman for the modern age. She's campaigned with charities locally to help homelessness and is extremely active in women's rights.  Her own personal charity provides homes, scholarships, and interest free loans to help single mothers get educated, set up businesses, and basically make better lives for themselves and their families. While Ms Fantastic is originally from Hollywood herself and has a loving family, she feels a great sense of connection with all the single mothers of the world. #WomensRights #GirlPower

Her exploits include stopping a major gang war, putting out the states largest wild fire in history, and of course battling random dangerous variant humans. Not to mention Absorbing all the nuclear radiation from the meltdown when she had her Breakthrough moment in the first place.

A couple months ago, The Department of Variant Affairs (DVA), a new formed federal government organization, came to Superior City and set up a new super team.

They included 4 team members:

Ms Fantastic
Spartan
Star
Terrae

This team was in the news a few times, taking down some Breakthroughs that almost hurt themselves and others. They took part in some rescue operations and disasters such as fires and stuff.

Over the same period of time a growing unrest among the population has taken to the streets in the form of small protests around government offices. The protestors are mostly compromised of people wanting to have people tested to see if there is a variant gene, register all variants, and some are calling to imprison them for being a public menace.

Another more disturbing trend has arisen among origin chasers with increasing injuries and subreddits of posters claiming to know how to guarantee a Breakthrough. The ideas put forth are often extreme and have no known basis in fact. People are getting hurt.

Meanwhile, the DVA has recently announced that it's planning on taking Ms Fantastic to other cities so the DVA can roll her out as an example of what variant humans can do and the help they can bring as part of a recruiting program to set up super teams in other cities. In her place they plan on expanding the local team into multiple teams.

That leaves the 3 founding members of the first team to greet the new batch of supers and form new teams to help the city and it's surroundings.

This is where you will all come in.... The Breakthroughs






At this point entering the story. The characters are going to be just meeting for the first time, except those that know each other. (The paired up people, see work in progress below)*

No one has a name for themselves in the public eye yet. You are all new Breakthroughs. Except my character STAR and Terrae (Jesslowell12)'s character. They are both part of the original team. (See the little back story piece above.)*

Any names selected for yourself at this point are just something your character is thinking in their head and maybe put down on the application forms they filled out online. So it's open to change if you want.

For whatever reason your characters have been choose to join the team. The core requirement for the team is a genuine desire to do good and be helpful. Regardless of your past, you are here to be the heroes.





PAIRS List (work in progress)



   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Astrid	[Sarita]	&
Dae	[TheBlackThorne]	&
Maya	[Jesslowell12]	&	Nora	[GhostofPatches]
Robert	[Levi]	&
Krystal	[ElayneTrakand]	&
Parisa	[FoxyOni]	&	Clarissa	[BarbaraGordon]
Brandon	[Juggtacular]	&
Tara	[keyotess]	&
Frank	[PhantomPistoleer]	&

✪ If there is anyone that you don't wish to be paired up with, send me a private message. No judgements. We can all get along :)

If I missed anyone let me know.

[Envious]

I think this thread may go too fast for me, so I'm going to bow out.

Now that I've just about finished my character sheet    

Have fun!

[Silas Wolf]

Color me interested! Will get CS in soon.

[TheBlackThrone]

I think you should just pair people up. If anyone wanted to pair up with others, meaning they had someone they really wanted to be paired with, then they would have done it by now. Me, I don't care who I pair with. But it will depend on who it is if you want me to form a history with that person because if that player you paired me with has nothing to do with my character's current lifestyle, then it won't work. It'll make for a forced and really ugly history that doesn't make sense.

Key things for MC:

Enrolled in college
Bartender
Chef at an Italian restaurant

He would need to be paired with someone who would have gone to the restaurant, had a drink there, or who goes to college. Not someone in high school, someone rich and famous (out of his social class), or an introvert who just doesn't go out. Specifically, people who he has the least likely chance to encounter.

[Callie Del Noire]

Just approved

I could see her connection via
- Criminals
- School (Engineering student)
- Social settings (She’s an athlete and Maker fair fan)

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Alias: (none yet but soon)
Name: Sinclair ‘Syn’ Dane
Age: 20
Height: 5’5”
Birth Place / Ethnicity: Las Vegas, 1/4 Egyptian/3/4 English

General Appearance: Dark hair, blue eyes with an intense focus, she prefers nondescript clothing to blend in, particularly on the ‘job’

Personality Traits: ‘On the job’: Focused, mission oriented, professional who knows her job and to keep in professional to avoid mistakes.
‘Off the job’: She tries to enjoy life as much as possible, very energetic and athletic. Likes to blow off steam in a variety of ways: extreme sports, partying, sunbathing/diving but could easily curl up with a book or tour a museum.

Powers/Special abilities:

• Remote Sensing:  She can see and hear in locations beyond the reach of her physical body, by projecting an invisible psychic ‘sensor’ that lets her to see/hear where it is at. She can project the sensor about the distance of a football field but is steadily growing with practice. To date only solid ground and very layers of lead paint in the old prison boiler building have provided her with any difficulty within her powers range.
• Teleportation:  She can ‘jaunt’ or teleport over distances. There are two ways that she can do it. Close range or ‘blinking’ lets her work in rapid succession in the immediate area she can see, about 30 to 50 feet, changing her orientation and facing easily. While it is quite, and the more easily done of the two ways, more than a minute of rapid blinks in rapid succession tends to tire her out, though her endurance and wind are improving.
  The other method is longer distance ‘jaunts’. At first she was only able to jump about 10 yards (the distance to the roof of her prison wing) but is able to cover a distance of a football field with occasion jumps slightly further (130 yards seems to be her current limit). She can carry a good portion of her own body weight easily enough but the heavier the load the more concentration required and more tiring it is. She THINKS she can take a passenger but as of yet to actually try it.  Longer distance jumps out of sight require either her remote senses or a good image of the target location.
• Photographic Memory/Speed reader:  She has an exceptional memory, inherited from her mother. Capable of recalling both books and locations with a high degree of recall. 

Breakthrough

It had been started as a bad week in solitary confinement, Syn was feeling a bit off and very very bored. Feverish even as she lay in her rack with her eyes closed. One moment her head was wracked with pain, then it was like suddenly she was outside her cell. Slowly over an hour she ‘floated’ thru the prison, listening and seeing things she could possibly have seen.

The next day, she’d have written it off as a fever dream but she was able to do it again and again. Listening in to the guards and how they were handling the day’s loads. Slowly over a week she used her new found ability to listen in and spy on various folks in the prison as well as scout out a potential escape route.

It was late one night about a week later that she found out the flip side of her ability, she was able to ‘jaunt’ to nearby locations she could visualize accurately. With her photographic recall and new found remote sensing that was easy enough to do as she found herself on the rooftop of the wing that housed solitary. As well as the library, canteen, prison store and administration offices. In short order, she had a few books to read, a soda and some other items lifted from the closed canteen and store for uses later.  Slowly over her 45 day period in solitary she started doing research on who had put her into prison and found out in addition to her own frame job, there were several others who had like wise been imprisoned for crimes they hadn’t done.

Using her photographic memory, and powers, she collected the evidence she needed as she moved from the immediate impulse to simply escape and vanish to getting even and ruining everyone involved with framing her. The warden, judge an DA in particularly.






Personal Bio
Fifth generation career criminal, Sinclair was raised to be an independent woman and talented criminal. The story goes her great great grandmother got burned in the roaring twenties by her lover, and ever since the Dane women made their way thru life. She picked up her grandmother’s knack for locks and alarms and was well on the way to being as good as she was in her heyday.

Till she got caught, but ironically for a crime she didn’t commit (she was casing a check cashing shop at the time) and sentenced to 36 months in a private women’s facility for first time offenders. During her Breakthru, she uncovered evidence on who framed her (and others).

She decided to get the group responsible rather than simply escape, and started investigating things till she had a good enough picture of things by the time she was released. She slipped her evidence to the local, state and federal authorities as well as several newspapers, activists groups and signed up for an internship in Superior City after joining in the civil suit that was building up steam in Vegas as her evidence brought more corruption came to light.

For the most part, she’s happy to be an engineering student, working on her degrees and using her powers discreetly as needed. Mostly to help other women, investigate the more vicious anti-variant groups and to pursue her new hobby of finding ‘lost real estate throughout the city. Spots that would be inaccessible to someone without powers like hers. With the passing of her grandmother while in prison, her mother died when she was seven (car accident), she’s looking to at least go on ‘hiatus’ till her conviction is expunged.





Skills:

Thief: She was taught by her grandmother, mother and their associates a variety of skills more common to a street thief or con artist. Sleight of hand and pickpocket, as well as how to play confidence games. (Such as 3 card Monty)

Electrical/Mechanical Engineer knowledge : She is a accomplished engineer with nearly 3/4s of a bachelor’s in both mechanical and electrical engineering with a focus in security systems, locks and surveillance systems, supplemented with specialized training as a burglar by her grandmother and a gift for machining specialized tools from her time in the prison machine shop.

Parkour: She is an accomplished enthusiast of free running or Parkour, having done it most of her teens to stay fit. Before her incarceration she was a well known enthusiast in the. Nevada area.

Krav Magra: She was taught self defense in the brutal style by a friend of her grandmother, with a focus in holds, breaking holds and knife fighting since she was 13


Equipment:

B&E Gear: Typically has a set of lock picks and a leatherman Multi-tool on her, has additional gear hidden away for more demanding systems (Slimjim for cars, scanners and electronic gear for alarms and a climbing rig). Given time and access to a properly equipped machine shop she can produce custom tools.






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Relationships / Connections

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Face Claim: Jennifer Green

[Lyrical]

Color me interested! Will get CS in soon.

Looking forward to it :)

[Lyrical]

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Alias: Spartan
Name: Michael DeLuca
Age: 28
Height: 6'5"
Birth Place / Ethnicity: Superior City / Italian American

General Appearance: Brown eyes, short brown hair, tall, built like a line backer. He's tan and has a few tattoos of tribal designs on his arms. A square jawed guy with a ready smile. Due to his powers he usually goes shirtless and wears wrestler style shorts as a uniform.

Personality Traits: Warm | Friendly | Good-natured | Ready smile | Likes to help | Is far too trusting because he believes in the best of people

Powers/Special abilities:

• Super Strong:  Can easily flip cars or even rip the door off of one   
• Very durable:  bullets hurt but bounce off of him. A close range blast can stun him but won't penetrate. He also isn't sensitive to temperature changes, but he will burn if exposed to a flame for to long.       

Breakthrough
Was in a major car accident. Gas was spilling out, people were panicked. It had been a major multi-car pile up on the highway. Michael had always been strong and big so he didn't think anything of it when he kicked the door off of the car he was trapped in. Then he ripped the door off of another to free a mom and her child. But when lifted the back end of a car and moved a car out of the way so he could go free someone else he started to realize that something had changed. He was unscratched, no bruises even those his clothes were all torn up. And he lifted the back end of that car up like it was just another set of weights at the gym. He got become much much stronger.

Cell phones recorded video of him rescuing people and he continued on until the emergency responders arrived.






Personal Bio
Always a big kid, he was on his high school wrestling team and went on to try out for the Olympic team. After that he traveled and competed in world competitions a few times. A couple years ago he made the transition over into the world of professional entertainment wrestling. It had been a lot of fun and he enjoyed entertaining all the fans. Not yet a major star before his Breakthrough many wrestling fans recognized him from his time in the ring.

But once his breakthrough happened he we recruited to join Superior City's first Super Hero team.

During his time over the last couple months on the team he has been very active in the community, speaking at schools against violence and about mental health issues. He has a well known love of animals and owns several puppies himself. He has been to the animal shelters several times making donations and speaking on their behalf for commercials encouraging responsible pet ownership and adoption.






Skills:

Wrestler: He is both a skilled professional Olympic wrestler and an entertainment wrestler.






Extras

Relationships / Connections

• Ms Fantastic:  sort of thought they were dating but it was never public and after awhile he realized she was just using him for sex. He doesn't really like her anymore but he doesn't say anything about it. Instead he just avoids her when he can.       
• Star:  he likes her, she's good people and she patches him up when needed. She's often come out to speak at the schools with him and they've been seen in public together a few times.   
• Maya:  The cop, she's good people. Pretty much the boss lady when it comes to keeping the team in line. He respects her knowledge of the law and dedication to getting justice done.       
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Face Claim:  Randy Orton

[Lyrical]

We will also be needing some regular humans if anyone wants to play that sort of role? See below for some available positions. Character sheet will be posted at bottom.

No previous pairings required for human only characters.




Job Postings

Department of Variant Affairs

About Us

It is the mandate of our department to guide and assist in the transition of variant humans to the betterment of the American people.
Department of Variant Affairs (DVA) under the auspices of the Variant Security Act are charged with forming task forces and setting up administration around them.
Join an exciting new inter-governmental career opportunity in this dynamic and challenging environment.

All positions requires class 1(A) full security clearance application.



Position:  Medical Doctor - 1(A), PERMANENT, SUPERIOR CITY, WISCONSIN

About You
Applicant must posses a minimum of five years surgical experience.
Preference will be given to those with active military or comprehensive emergency room experience.
A background in either genetics, medical research, advanced biological, or organic chemistry are considered assets.



Position:  Psychiatrist - 1(A), PERMANENT, SUPERIOR CITY, WISCONSIN

About You
Applicant must posses a medical degree with a minimum of five years clinical experience.
Preference will be given to those with post traumatic stress disorder treatment experience and criminal behavioral studies.



Position:  Public Relations & Marketing - 1(A), PERMANENT, SUPERIOR CITY, WISCONSIN

About You
Applicant must posses a relevant Master's Degree from a recognized institution; experience in both public relations and marketing experience with large corporate budgets.
Preference given to those with governmental policy experience.
Acceptable combinations of education and experience may be considered.




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[Xunthrae]

Hello everyone! Please let me introduce Santiago

Santiago Ramirez

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Alias: Graviton
Name:  Santiago Ramirez
Age: 28
Height: 6'1
Birth Place / Ethnicity: Los Angeles, California / Spanish

General Appearance: Santiago takes good care of his appearance.

Personality Traits:
Inquisitive
Thoughtful
Inventive
Insensitive

Powers/Special abilities:

• Gravity Manipulation: Mede can control the intensity of gravitational fields in a moderate area (About 15’ by 15’ at the upper end). For now, he is able to magnify gravity up to 3 times earth’s normal strength. In the other direction he can decrease the power of gravity by about one third.
• Anti-Gravity Movement: While one day he may be able to fly with this power, at the moment he is only able to move as if he was in Zero-G. He cannot change directions yet while in the air other than to release the power and fall
• Gravitational Sense He is able to sense gravitational fields. So far he has only been able to sense the moon and the earth's gravitational fields. Theoretically if he hones the sense he may be able to sense the tiny gravity that smaller objects and people give off.

Breakthrough
Santiago’s powers manifested while he sat alone in an observatory watching data come in on a binary pair of black holes. He was monitoring it when he couldn’t believe his eyes. He watched in real time as the data came in, showing that the two celestial objects collided. He couldn’t contain his excitement and he literally jumped in joy. However, instead of falling back down to the ground, he kept floating upwards.

In a panicked flail, he yelled out in surprise. His momentum carried him towards the ceiling, and his movements caused him to start to rotate in the air, spinning helplessly. He collided with the ceiling gently. He looked around in shock. In the moment he began to grasp what was going on his powers failed and he fell ten feet back to the floor with a thud and a groan.





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Skills:

Astrophysicist: Santiago graduated with his degree in physics with a specialization in gravity.

Surfer: Growing up in L.A he always had access to the beach and so he learned how to surf and is good. Not a professional, but he knows what he is doing.

Minor in Engineering: Because of his proximity to expensive scientific equipment, Santiago made sure to take classes on how those things work so he would understand the instruments he was using.

Equipment:

None as of yet.






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• Robert Dexter Junior:Long distance friends
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[JessLowell12]

Xunthrae!!!!!!


*waves and dances*

[Xunthrae]

Heya! *waves*

[keyotess]

Hello Xunthrae, welcome to the madhouse.

[GhostOfPatches]

Xunthrae!!! Good to see you!

[TheBlackThrone]

My question now is...are you wanting us to pair up for "history" or just for the "connections?" Also, how were they discovered and recruited into the team because that would add history and connections to your NPCs. Because people who show up and have a drink or a meal is not really history. That is more of a small connection.

[Lyrical]

My question now is...are you wanting us to pair up for "history" or just for the "connections?" Also, how were they discovered and recruited into the team because that would add history and connections to your NPCs. Because people who show up and have a drink or a meal is not really history. That is more of a small connection.

About the pairing situation, I have explained that it's up to the pairs what sort of a relationship they have. The complexity of that is entirely up to the writer's. If you don't want it to be any more than a random person that you know casually or if it's someone you have a deep long shared backstory with, that's completely up to you.

This isn't meant to create a challenge or obstacle, it's just meant to give your character a way to have a personal connection in some capacity with someone else in the teams.

See quotes below for reference. I hope this clarifies things.

Q: How does the pairing up work? Do I have to be in a pair when I join?
A: The concept is that people will be paired up for their initial entrance to the game. It's a shared backstory type of thing just to establish relationships. The relationship can be anything, friends, neighbors, relatives, couples.. it doesn't matter that's up to the players. Keep it simple if you want or make it complex, it's up to you.

On the topic of how the characters were discovered and recruited.

All Breakthroughs are expected to report themselves to local government authorities or they need to keep a low profile to keep from being caught. There is a mixture of different types of registration that exists at local levels. A lot of confusion exists around the issue because it's such a new thing that's happening. The public is highly sensitive and on high alert so there's a lot of paranoia surrounding these new variant humans.  No one knows exactly what to do about them yet.

The Department of Variant Affairs (DVA) was formed so the government could be seen to be doing something about it. Their response has been to form a test super team in Superior City. The whole country was watching. After the last couple months of having that team they are now going to form several new teams. That's where you all come in. (see a few posts above for a little more on that.)

Our Breakthroughs have volunteered themselves by ones means or another to come in. Most likely through an online form but possibly they came in person to the local DVA representatives office and signed up. 

I'll be starting with a call to a meeting where you will all go. (probably post game threads sometime early next week if not before.)




Let me know if there are any questions or if anything needs some additional clarification. I'll get back to it again later. I'm at work and a little distracted, I may have missed something.

[Callie Del Noire]

I imagine some of might be approached. I could see Syn’s actions being not as totally covert as she thought. Maybe getting caught on a camera that isn’t in the building plans? Such as a video camera used by the FBI or such?

[Lyrical]

I imagine some of might be approached. I could see Syn’s actions being not as totally covert as she thought. Maybe getting caught on a camera that isn’t in the building plans? Such as a video camera used by the FBI or such?

Sure. I'm good with that.

The primary thing here is that all the Breakthroughs are volunteering to do this. No one is being forced. The characters have to have a genuine desire to be on the good side.