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[Steel Shadow]

Ok, had idea, ran out of time to finish it. Posting it up to edit it later.

Name: Nathan Dragonfang

Alias: Light Blade

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Appearance: A blond haired young chap who tends to look rather annoyed at his surroundings, whatever they may be, through death-trap or sunny vacation. Light skinned with green-ish eyes, his casual wear usually consisting of casual clothes (Shocker) that tend towards the blue and white side of the colour spectrum. Mediumish height and average build.

Equipment: A sword of light and it's scabbard!

Sword: Excalibur – You've heard of this one. No, I know you have. Possibly the most famous sword in myth and legend, it was once wielded by the legendary King Arthur himself. Though it's often confused with the sword in the stone, it was actually given to him by the Lady in the Lake – a pattern that has repeated itself throughout history, though perhaps never quite so famously. One of the great swords of light, Excalibur is a strong weapon, capable of cleaving through most materials. 's still only a sword though, and only one, at that.

Sheath: The somewhat lesser known part of Excalibur, the sheath provides protection for the swords wielder. In this case, that comes in the form of regeneration from wounds. While not instant, mortal wounds will cease to be life threatening in about 5 minuets, and should heal near totally within a day or two. The smaller the wound, the faster it heals. Naturally, if the wound is fatal, the scabbard can't really help the wielder there. It also only works when the sword is in their possession.

Abilities:

Walk on water: Thanks to the blessing of a certain lady of a certain lake, Nathan/Light Blade can walk on water. Through sufficient testing, he's found this is a rather flexable ability, which allows him secure footing on ice and the ability to walk on water vapour with care and concentration, essentially being able to fly in non-desert like areas.

Combat instincts: Thanks to his sword, which has experienced the hands of many, many owners over the centuries, in combat Light blade's instincts are close to pre-perception, and his skill with the blade is beyond what's realistically possible for a human. This only applies when the sword is in his hands.


Biography: Describe your personality, origin and current status. How long have you been a superhero? Keep in mind you'll all be working together so DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE. Do you take pains to conceal your real identity?

Superhero Persona: Your costume, how you try to be perceived and a little about how you operate. I will cut the first person to use a T-shirt with an insignia and jeans as their costume. CUT YOU.

Affiliations: You might have some connections.

Enemies: Name go here: A homunculus.. uh, artificial human, created from Nathan's own blood – a traditional counterpart to him created when he took up the sword.

[Arhra]

In no particular order:

IHMN: looks very interesting. Your crime fighting temporal hobo is approved!

TheBlindMime: An unusual power. Its a little hard to judge strength but you've built in plenty of weaknesses so I think it'll be fine. Should be easy to tweak if it's not as much fun as it should be.

I do have some concerns about the 'just passing through' element and being a loner. I was hoping to form the players out into a group later on, so how were you thinking of responding to that?

AB: Hopefully you should be fine now. If you feel a bit underpowered during the game just say so and we'll find a fix. (This goes for everyone really.) Good to see a few non-lethal options.

Toastburner: I'm a bit conflicted. I love the character but I'm worried he might be a bit strong. Having to get to where his combat body is stashed and boot up can be a pretty heavy downside though.

On the lethal ammo, I'm sure you're planning to use it on the sort of thing where more force is needed, but I'll just restate this for everyone: superheroes don't kill.

Could you give some info about what the upper ends of the beam weapon firepower is and whether Sentry can fight effectively in the air or is it more a fast reposition thing? Just need to know a little more to be able to decide.

Arcanum: Hmm, I'm a little nebulous on coming from ANOTHER DIMENSION, but that's mainly because I hadn't given any thought to the idea before now. Much more importantly, your guy seems pretty weak. While the danger of guns is lessened by the generous laws of comic book physics, bullets are not your friends. Or any form of ranged attack really. Feels like a glory seeker should be a little flashier as well.

Originally Posted by Dracorion

I worry I'm stepping on Batgirl's ideas, but this team needed some serious super-strength, and I don’t mean just Toastburner’s character.

That... is not serious super-strength. To be blunt I don't really like the character much and don't think it'll work out well. Quite weak, no heroic motive established and, well, no personality showed at all.

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Arhra

That... is not serious super-strength. To be blunt I don't really like the character much and don't think it'll work out well. Quite weak, no heroic motive established and, well, no personality showed at all.

Well I tried to grade her strength based on the "fighting against half a dozen mooks has to be interesting" bit. If she's too strong, there's nothing stopping her from throwing something heavy at them. If she's too fast, all she has to do is punch them in the face five times before anyone can get a shot out. If she's too durable, no need to even worry about dodging, just walk up to them and punch them out at normal strength while invulnerable.

Still, I get your point. If it's just strength that's the problem, what if I say she's strong enough to lift like a car, or punch through a normal wall? Maybe buff durability a bit to match that, or maybe not.

On motive, I don't agree with you. "Get powers, decide to fight crime" is about as much motive as other characters have, and you've approved them.

I'll admit, I dropped the ball on personality. Basically, I meant for Ellen and Andromeda to be two separate entities. I'll edit some personality proper for both of them into her profile.

[krogothwolf]

Yeah but at least others gave an expanded reason on why they want to help people. Programing, desire for some reason.

Yours is Daddy died, left military for civilian life then decided to help people.

It would be interesting to know why the military let a test subject just leave to start a civilian life though.

[Dracorion]

How're they gonna stop her?

... Okay, that's probably not a good enough reason. She'll probably still be working for the Air Force.

[krogothwolf]

Um, she's not immortal? She's just strong and durable. It's not like they wouldn't have a way of tracking her down? I mean, you didn't say she went into hiding and started fighting crime in secret. Just that she decided to go, "Yo military, thanks for the powers I'mma gonna be a civilian though." Which in a world with super powered individuals you'd think the military would have some way of either stopping you or hunting you down.

You could totally work for someone like ThunderBolt Ross though!

[Overcast]

I imagine you could be monitored. The idea that the military cannot only make super soldiers they can then retire them and make a new batch without any major psychological repercussions. Then it could become a regular program, and the rising quantity of super-people wouldn't be much easier to counteract. Biological arms race and all that.

This can even move further into that idea by the military seeing that some individuals given such power cannot actually revert back into civilian life. Whether this is a chemical need to use the powers or just a psychological predisposition caused by being in the military and using those powers is up to you.

And that was in a hurry, give it some time. But not much time because I want to start already.

[Dracorion]

Technically her dad is Thunderbolt Ross.

And he's alive again! Hurray!

Except he could go all Red Hulk at any moment.

As for the military controlling her... yeah, I think not. Mainly because there wouldn't be much reason for them to let her join a superhero team, or live anywhere outside of a reinforced cell. After all, just because she hasn't gone crazy yet like the other test subject doesn't mean she won't.

Hell, the only reason she isn't living in a reinforced cell is because her father is the most decorated human on the face of the planet. Dude's probably won like thirty wars or something, or the equivalent in a world full of superpowered beings.

Seriously, respirator or not, it is not a good idea to piss off a man like that.

He might just Hulk out and smash you.

Still, she does work for the military, and the only reason she hasn't gone full-on into civilian life is because A) she's still a military brat, and B) they'd never let her. And she is being monitored pretty much all the time.

[IHateMakingNames]

My guy got complimented and started super heroing. That isn't much better of a reason.

[Dracorion]

And then there's Phoenix's character, who lost her job and started superheroing.