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Screen Name: Optikal
Character you would like to play: Black Adam
Powers: From the Egyptian gods, Adam draws super-strength, invulnerability, flight and super-speed.
Brief biography of the character's history:
Teth-Adam is the son of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II, and impresses one of the high priests, the wizard Shazam, with his good deeds. The wizard gives Teth-Adam the power to become the superhero Mighty-Adam by speaking the word "SHAZAM", which itself is an acronym of the initials of Gods from which his power is derived.
Mighty Adam serves as Egypt's champion for many centuries, but becomes corrupted by the charms of a mysterious woman, revealed to be Shazam's evil daughter Blaze in disguise. The bewitched Adam is convinced that he and his mistress should rule Egypt, so he kills the Pharaoh and appoints himself ruler.
Shazam learns of this treachery and strips Adam of his powers, encasing them in a mystical scarab necklace. Adam's depowered body rapidly experiences the aging process that the magic had staved off, and the former hero withers away into a dried cadaver in seconds.
Shazam buries both the body and the scarab in the tomb of Ramesses II, where he plans for it to remain for all eternity. In death, the former hero is referred to as "Khem-Adam" ("Black Adam"). Disillusioned by what he perceived as Adam's betrayal, Shazam waits several millennia before appointing a second champion to fight evil in his name.
Thousands of years later, during the late 20th century, an unscrupulous archaeological aide named Theo Adam finds himself assigned to the Malcolm Expedition, financed by the Sivana Foundation to excavate the tomb of Ramesses II. Adam uncovers Khem-Adam's tomb in a secret passageway, and leads his superiors, C.C. Batson and his wife Marilyn, to the discovery. Upon first sight of Khem-Adam's scarab, Theo Adam becomes obsessed with the artifact, and kills both Batsons in order to steal it.
Adam soon rises to prominence and becomes leader of the small country of Khandaq, where he rules with ruthless efficiency. He has travelled to the Norse realm of Hel in order to return the God of Thunder, Thor, to the living amongst other heroic deeds. Recently though, he has fallen victim to the evil machinations of the President of the USA, Lex Luthor. Coming to blows with the Avengers and surrendering to Luthor in order to half a massacre of his countrys citizens at the hands of Luthors robotic Sentinels.
Currently, Adam is held in a permanently sedated state deep in a top secret SHIELD facility.
(Partial credit to Wiki)
List a few reasons why you have chosen that character: This game needs villains. I like Adam.
What can you bring to this game?: The usual.
Color and font you plan on using for your character's speech: Black, Bold. Georgia for Black Adam. Unbolded Georgia for Teth-Adam
How many times do you intend on posting a DAY IN the RPG: many.
Please provide a sample post with original content in the style that you plan to write your character in (must be at least 5 paragraphs long and contain at least 3 line of dialogue):
-Out Of Continuity-
A hot wind whirled around the blazing sands surrounding the Egyptian city of Cairo. The sun was unusually hot this time of year in the desert country, known for its steaming hot summers. In the city, the markets were operating at full capacity, despite the extreme heat. Vegetables and trinkets of all kinds were being sold and traded as if there was no tomorrow. Small cars whizzed down the dusty streets next to camels and pack animals of all sorts. In a region of economic and social turmoil, everybody seemed chipper enough to give a wave to one another.
Away from the city limits, on the other side of the mighty and majestic Nile River lay the desolate and isolated communities of farmers and fugitives from the law. Surprisingly enough, not too far from there, closer to the dunes and bones, lay the imposing Cairo Provincial Prison; the English name of the jail. Surrounded by fierce sandstorms and miles upon miles of worthless desert made escape from the prison unacceptable not only to the bosses of the jail, but to the inmates themselves. They know full well what the desert can do to a man.
Technology hadn't kept up its visit to the prison; the walls offered only a laughable protection from the sand and wind and the bars were unusually weak. None of this matter, really, since the guards knew that no man would dare risk leaving one prison into an even worse prison known as the Sands of Deaththe desert itself.
The cells were given to two inmates at a time. Crime was on a decline at this point in time, so less prisoners were left in the prisons. The guards still had their fun; however, Brutality was still a common part of daily life in Cairo Provincial; it was a matter of surviving the guard's attacks more than the inmates themselves. Still, the prisoners were the worst of the worst in this hellhole.
In the M wing of the prison, in a cell at the end of the block, a prisoner lay silent and stared at the ceiling above. A strong wind blasted sand and dust through a small hole in the cell. It didn't matter anyway; sand was always getting through one way or the other. His cellmate was in the midst of sleep while the racket of the other inmates was echoing through the cellblock.
Inmate Number #2356 is what they called him here. Outside, he was known as Theo Adam, a successful geologist and college graduate. When word of his incarceration reached those who respected him the most, an outcry started immediately. That is, until they found out who, what and how it happened. His friends and family turned their backs on him and left him to rot in this god-forsaken prison.
I'll get them all back for this, he thought.
"What do you plan to do today, Adam?" asked the groggy cellmate.
"I plan to escape from this hell, you pathetic insect," retorted Adam.
"Such temper, Adam! You have got to be joking about escaping," said the cellmate, rubbing his eyes and looking at the hole.
"I don't joke," said Adam.
"Can you please plug up that hole?"
Adam ignored him and looked out his jail cell down the cell block. One guard was walking up and down the rows, minding his own business as the other sat at his post and read a dirty magazine. Adam poked his head back in and lay on his bed.
"I'm sorry for what I'm going to do later, my friend," said Adam as he closed his eyes and rested.
"What are you talking about?" asked his cellmate.
"You'll see," Adam said.
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