"The Multiversers: Hypertime" Signup/OOC Thread

[Byrd Man]

Okay, I'll work up some other MRC ideas.

 

[batnkevlar]

Remember: don't contradict what is already stated in the books... best would be to look this up on wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Syndicate_of_America

It's a pretty cool read...

 

[Byrd Man]

Yeah, I know the CSA, bad guys who have the powers of the bad guys. and the bad guys are good guys.......Wait, I'm confused.

 

[batnkevlar]

Read the wikipedia thing...

 

[Byrd Man]

I was joking, damn it's hard to be sarcastic on the internet.

 

[batnkevlar]

Haha, ok...

anyway, yeah, we're looking for TWO more CHOSEN, so if anyone wants to play, then give me a good enough character app...

so far, it's Arrow Lantern, Black Canary III, and Batman II...

 

[Byrd Man]

Hell, I'll move Robin over to a chosen.

Codename: Robin

Real name: Jason Drake

Human name (if applicable):

Age: 16

Height: 5'11

Weight: 195

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Black

Occupation: High School Student

Marital Status: Single

Known Relatives: Tim Drake (Father) Rose Wilson-Drake (Mother) Bruce Wayne (Adopted Grandfather) Dick Grayson (Adopted Uncle)

Group Affiliation (history of group needed): Bat Family

Universe/Timeline history*: An Earth twenty years removed from the current DCU


History: From the time Jason was old enough to realise his family's past, he was forbidden to take up the mantle of Robin or any other superhero by his parents, despite his augmented abilites and the goading of his Grandfather Bruce. Tim knew that being affiliated with Bruce had made him lose his first love, Stephanie Brown as well as his father. After Jason reached the age of 7 Rose, with the help of Tim started to train him in a variety of martial arts for his protection and made him swear to only use it for self defense. Unbeknowst to Rose and Tim, on Jason's 16th birthday. Bruce as well as Dick approach him and make him an offer he couldn't refuse and has been the new Boy Wonder for about six months and is just getting in the groove as Robin V

Skills: Highly advanced in hand to hand combat as well as chemically augmented strength, speed, stamina, agility inherited from his mother and a high level of intelligence from his father

Powers (comparative to main DC Universe characters): He doesn't exsist

Hero, anti-hero, villain?: Hero

 

[batnkevlar]

Well, two MRC's can't be from the same universe...

 

[Byrd Man]

I thought we was doing the CSA thing?

 

[batnkevlar]

But I'm still Terry McGuiness...

 

[Byrd Man]

that can be changed....

 

[Byrd Man]

Their, Dick is Batman in my U.

 

[batnkevlar]

I'd rather not have a Batman AND Robin on the Chosen... ya know? It'd be cool to just have Robin or just have Batman, but not toegther...

c'mon, there's a whole universe you can choose from... and many more...

 

[Byrd Man]

Codename: Martian Manhunter

Real name: J'onn J'onzz

Human name (if applicable): John Jones

Age: Unknown

Height: 6'1(Humanoid Form) 6'7 (Martian Form)

Weight: 200 (Humanoid Form) 300 (Martian Form)

Eyes: Blue

Hair: None

Occupation: Detective

Marital Status: Single

Known Relatives: None

Group Affiliation (history of group needed): None

Universe/Timeline history*: Earth 45 remsembles the current DCU, only many of the characters are just starting out carrers in crimefighting and many are still young and unexperienced.


History: J'onn J'onzz is a Martian Special Agent working for the White Martians He is infact a White Martian who tracks down the evil Green Martians, He is known by many on his homeowrld as "The Martian Manhunter". During the beggining of a war with the Green Martians, he is accidentally teleported to Earth by a human scientist, Dr. Erdel, who immediately has a heart attack and dies, leaving the Martian stranded and unable to return. He is able to use his powers to fit in, adopting a human-like appearance and calling himself "John Jones". He starts a detective agency and secretly uses his alien powers to help the inhabitants of his new planet. After he had given up his John Jones persona in 2000, the Manhunter from Mars started openly fighting crime in a white-skinned form.

Skills: Skilled Detective, Bi-Lingual, Advanced Intellegence.

Powers (comparative to main DC Universe characters):
J'onn possesses numerous superhuman powers, including vast strength, the power to fly through telekinesis, the ability to move and react at super-speed, and remarkably fast reflexes. He can alter his shape, appearance, and clothing at will to resemble both humanoid and non-humanoid creatures. He can also render himself invisible for brief periods of time. He also has limited telepathic abilities, enabling him to read minds and also possesses "Martian vision," which enables him to see through object.

Hero, anti-hero, villain?: Hero

 

[batnkevlar]

So, this is a MM from earlier on in his career?

Or the one from New Frontier?

 

[Byrd Man]

Sorta but not really, He starts out as a detective in the late 50's and hardly ever changes from his human form, until right after new years in '00. Feeling depressed he abandons the John Jones persona and reverts to his martian form (Looks like he does in the new MM book) and calls hisself The Martian Manhunter.

 

[batnkevlar]

So what's different about him?

 

[Byrd Man]

Just a few minute details, His telepathy is weaker than his DCU counterpart. The mars he was from was just starting a war with the hated white martians when he was teleported away, and he knows not the fate of his family. He's not afraid of fire becuase he didn't witness his wife burn to deats and he still loves oreos....Who doesn't?

 

[batnkevlar]

Ok, so he's a white martian? Cool...

Accepted as a Chosen

 

[Byrd Man]

What can I say? Sometimes the best ideas, they come from above. It's like a gift really.

 

[batnkevlar]

We are now accepting ONE more Chosen, so I will take the best character...

and also, looking for MRC's...

 

[batnkevlar]

And if Twy and Johnny Blaze'll come back and play, that'd be cool...

 

[LibrarianThorne]

I'd like to be a Chosen, and if that's not possible, I'd like DD to be an MRC.

Codename: Superman

Real name: Kal-El

Human name (if applicable): Clark Kent

Age: 56

Height: 6'2

Weight: 245 pounds

Eyes: Blue

Hair: black

Occupation: Editor in Chief for the Daily Planet

Marital Status: Married

Known Relatives: Son, Jonathan Lane Kent. Wife, Lois Lane.

Group Affiliation (history of group needed): Justice Society of America

Universe/Timeline history*: Earth-246 resembles Earth-2 in many regards. The Justice Society of America defended freedom at home and abroad during World War II, but did not disband when faced with the McCarthy hearings. Instead, the mystery men of old fought and were victorious against the growing fear of communism in the united states. It would be another decade before the team was forced to disband over heavy differences concerning the Civil Rights act.

But the Earth would not be without her champions for long. A decade after the last hero had faded, during the bicentennial year of 1976, a new hero in a bright red cape emerged on the scene. A Superman by any other name. Inspired by the legends of the heroes before him, he campaigned tirelessly against the evils in the world. With him came a new generation of heroes, some adopting the mantle of their golden age forebears, but many (such as the mysterious Batman of Gotham)
chose to form new legends. Four years after he burst on to the scene, Superman led the initiative in creating a new Justice Society of America, a team whose members included the Flash (Barry Allen and Jay Garrick), the Green Lanterns (Alan Scott and his daughter, Jade), Green Arrow (Connor Hawke, son of the legendary Olliver Queen), and a bevvy of reservist heroes. For ten years, the Justice Society protected the planet against threats both extra terrestrial and extra dimensional, until catastrophe again befell the storied team.

December, 1990. The skies raged red and black, and the heavens themselves shook with fury. Earthquakes and other natural disasters struck on a global scale, driving the planet into a panic. The members of the Society, stretched thin just keeping the world together, could not expect what would come next. A roar like the end of the world split the skies, and a gigantic tear in reality itself formed. Upon a golden chariot blazing with fire there came a being called only Highfather. His being glowed with light, and his eyes with a cosmic fire. He informed the Earth that the time had come for them to be part of the Genesian Empire, and that if the leaders of the world succumbed to his demand that the planet would be spared. The United Nations sent an envoy to the cosmic being asking for specifics. The envoy was informed that the Empire stretched across the galaxy, all planets subservient to the omnipotent Source and its avatar, the Highfather. A perfect order would be theirs, an eternal servitude bereft of the free will that complicates the Source's grand design.The envoy was then summarily executed, his being reduced to the atoms which make up all things.

This was the breaking point. The heroes of Earth rallied around Superman in a last ditch effort to stop Highfather, now the known source of the calamities befalling the planet. Recorded and broadcast around the world was Superman's speech to the lone invader.

"Earth will never yield, Highfather. Our lives may not be perfect, and they may not even be happy most of the time, but they are our lives to live. Not yours, not this 'Source' you talk about, but ours. I speak on behalf of the Earth when I say this: We will die before we sacrifice freedom. For the sake of my son, and all the sons and daughters of this world, for their future, you will not succeed."

The battle was costly for the heroes. Barry Allen, the second man to wear the trademark Mercurial hat of the Flash, sacrificed himself as he raced beyond the limits of time and space in a desperate gambit to cut Highfather's power at the source. No one knows the ultimate fate of the scarlet speedster, but what is recorded is that Highfather vanished in a flash of light thirteen minutes after Barry Allen disappeared. Several dozen heros had been killed, including the original Green Arrow (come out of retirement to defend Star City against Highfather) and the Batman (incinerated while placing a high yield thermonuclear device upon Highfather's back).

It also marked the end of that incarnation of th Justice Society of America. Now, sixteen years after the incident, new heroes are starting to emerge. Of note is a young, black haired teenager calling himself Superboy. After the Highfather Incident, Superman was seen less and less around the world, eventually receding from the common mind and becoming more of a folktale and legend, and many heroes followed his example. But a new generation, led by the formation of the team Young Justice, has brought about a resurgence of the superheroes.

History: Rocketed to Earth from doomed Krypton as an infant, Kal-El found a home in rural Ohio, discovered by Jonathan and Martha Kent. Raised in the agricultural heart of the state, the young Clark Kent witnessed both the great triumphs of the community, and the great depressions. These would have a profound impact on the young boy who had been gifted with a strong sense of right and wrong. As he grew, he admired the legendary heroes of the Justice Society of America, and thrilled to the adventures that his Pa, Jonathan Kent, told of their actions in World War II. On his sixteenth birthday, just after obtaining his driver's liscense, he was told the truth as his parents both showed him the fantastic rocket ship that had carried him through the cosmos. Still, no one could have expected the fantastic powers the boy manifested as he went through his sixteenth year. He became faster, stronger, and more intelligent than anyone at his school (though the last bit he attributed mroe to studying hard than any actual power). And then, a year after his powers grew ever more fantastic, he learned that he could fly. Just seventeen, the young Clark Kent made a solemn oath: he would not use his powers and abilities to benefit himself. Like the heroes of old, he would save the world from threats to it.

After high school, Clark Kent entered Ohio University, and began working secretly. He woudl go out, at night, and stop minor disturbances all around the country. Tabloids picked up the story of an angel in black, but none could ever get a solid photograph of the mysterious being. When not out heroing, the young Clark Kent worked on designs for his eventual public debut, knowing that he could do more good in the limelight than out of it.

At the age of tweny six, on July 4, 1976, Clark Kent made his debut as Superman. Taking a strange S-Shield found on his rocket for his emblem, and dressing in bright blue and red, he was observed by reporter Lois Lane to be a 'striking, heroic figure of a man.' He had secretly been living in New York for years after leaving college, and had found a job as a street reporter for the Daily Planet, one of the city's most famous newspapers. Stringin alogn a personal life as Clark Kent and managing to fulfill his youthful vow as Superman, he couldn't hekp but fall in love with Lois Lane, a co-worker and friend. As part of hsi proposal to her, he revealed that he was Superman, a man that Lois Lane had loved since she first saw him. In 1984, the pair were married in a ceremony attended by many of the world's greatest heroes. Six years later, in December of 1990, the couple was gifted with a young boy, shortly before the Highfather Incident ended the so-called Silver Age of the superheroes. Superman entered a state of semi-retirement while raising his son, and began to refocus on life as Clark Kent, eventually succeeding James Olsen as editor for the Daily Planet. His son knew about his father's legacy as he grew up, and when his powers first started manifesting themselves took up the oppurtunity to follow in his dad's footsteps as Superboy. Clark and Lois, ever the protective parents, worry about their son as he continues to mature.

Skills: Experienced leader, great investigative reporter

Powers (comparative to main DC Universe characters):
Super strength, flight, various levels of super vision (heat vision, x-ray vision, infrared vision, etc.), invulnerability. As he has aged, Superman's power level has not grown considerably, as the increased amounts of solar radiation are merely serving to offset his advancing age.

Hero, anti-hero, villain?: Hero

 

[batnkevlar]

Well, not bad... so what's so different/special about this Kal-El?

 

[LibrarianThorne]

Well, not bad... so what's so different/special about this Kal-El?

Well, with Ma and Pa Kent dead, Lois and Jonathan are the only real family he has left (in this timeline, Kara Zor-El and Argo died with Krypton). He's also past his prime, superheroing wise, and isn't as strong as the indomitable force he once was. He's still a fearless leader, and once separated from his wife and son (a son he desperately wants to shepherd, despite the boy's rebellious streak) will do almost anything in his power to be with them again. All his life, he has been the last son of Krypton, with little interaction with his homeworld outside of the Fortress of Solitude. This has, in turn, made him much more human than the current Superman (who it seems is being returned to the Silver Age version of Kryptonian on Earth).

He's also much more experienced and level-headed than many other superheroes, with nearly thirty years of superheroing under his belt. He's fought deities and aliens and extradimensional threats of every description. He's faced down magic and cataclysms that would make lesser men shirk their duties. This Superman is not super solely because of his powers, he is Super because he has become a bedrock of hope for the people of Earth. I think this version of Kal-El is more like the ultimate end point for the Byrne-era Superman, a man who is a human being gifted with great power, and one who accepts the responsiblity those powers mean.

He's also not as powerful as the current comics Supes. He can fly at just under lightspeed still, but he can't move planets (though most asteroids he can still move around). His heat vision burns hotter than molten magma, but not as hot as the core of the sun. And while normal bullets won't harm him, sufficently large weapons can grievously injure this Man of Steel (a trait I rather liked from the Byrne era, to be honest).