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Name: James Martin

Age: 27

Height: 6'5

Hair: Black, close cut. Occasional stubble on his face, but rarely reaching a full beard.

Eyes: Steel Grey

Build: Broad and muscular, easily and frequently used for intimidation.

Personality: Cold, calculating and utterly ruthless toward enemies, lukewarm at best toward allies and only really affectionate toward close friends. At the moment, this includes Elizabeth and Victoria, his Girlfriend and his little sister respectively.

Power: James and his sister both manifested during childhood, far earlier than usual (Typically after puberty, brought on by incredible stress). His power centres on manipulation of Entropy and general decay on a rapid, massive scale. He can reduce a solid object to dust (And the more solid, the easier it is), ignite flammable objects by deterioting matter to create heat and generally cause destruction on a large scale. Though his powers have few direct limits, he generally only acts in the most vital of missions and on the smallest of scales, both because his actions can draw serious, unwanted attention and because the act of destruction is incredibly addictive.

Weapons: Sword worn at waist. Shaped by his own power, the steel is razor sharp down to an almost atomic level and nearly impossible to destroy, chip or dull. His powers giving him an extreme advantage at range, he carries it as much for the dramatic flair as for actual use.

Clothing: Mostly dark. Favours leather jackets, dark jeans and other generic outfits unless he's trying hard to make a statement or draw attention.

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Name: Elizabeth Martin (née Belcourt)

Age: 24

Height: 6'

Hair: Long, straight, strawberry blonde, with extra strawberry

Eyes: Sapphire Blue

Build: Reasonably athletic, though far from bulky, she has a long, hourglass figure with well defined muscles and reasonably generous curves. Pale skin lends her a somewhat delicate appearance, aside fron very sharp features that lend themselves easily to either harshness or gentility depending on her mood.

Personality: Far more open than James, she lends her natural acting ability well to manipulation and infiltration. She can lie to nearly anyone, play any character and incorporates her power so seamlessly into her act she scarcely even seems to need it. With people she knows she's charming, open and generous to a fault, but she has grown so good at playing parts that only James and Victoria truely know her.

Powers: She has a dual ability she refers to as Soothing and Rioting. The first dulls an emotion, the second enhances one. She can't create emotion that isn't there, but even a spark of trust, sympathy, attraction, suspicion, fear or anything else can be turned into an inferno depending on her needs and she can alternatively soothe away such things, allowing her to act her way past places that should be impregnable. It's limited in that extreme, emotionless discipline in a task dulls her effectiveness, while people with powers require significant focus to work on. Those with mental powers or who require extreme discipline to control their abilities can detect her touching their minds. She can sense emotions without manipulation, making her almost impossible to lie to unless a person is strong enough for her to fear touching their mind. She also describes it as a very intimate experience and thus avoids all by the most mild alterations unless she absolutely needs more. Connecting with someone's mind puts a sense of them in her.

Weapons: She frequently conceals knives all over her person, preferring to manipulate her way close and kill in silence. She's quite strong and knows the pressure points to hit to make someone vulnerable... mentally and physically.

Clothing: All other things being equal, she prefers jeans, t-shirts and a jacket. However she is equally comfortable in fancy dresses and heels or even loose fitting clothing to dress like a scrawny man. Makeup and hair dye are her constant companions.

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Name: Victoria Martin

Age: 19

Height: 5' 10"

Hair: Fully red and wavy, in spite of frequent attempts to make it stay straight.

Eyes: Silver

Build: A scrawnier version of Elizabeth (Who is half big sister, half deity to her and a constant source of attempted emulation), she knows how to carry herself, being both athletic and full grown, if lithe. Pale, heavily freckled skin and dimpled cheeks give her a baby face and she's grown quite adept at makeup trying to compensate. She's not entirely full figured, but is endowed enough to leave no ambiguity regarding gender at any distance. She's not as refined in her acting as Elizabeth, but her own abilities give a unique advantage in disguise. Her arms, unlike the rest of her, are extremely well defined in muscles, owing to her weapon of choice.

Personality: Playful and not naturally deceptive, she earns people's trust by the appearance she has nothing to hide—unusually, because she genuinely doesn't. She's something of a contradiction, being on the one hand mostly the product of raising by two people less than 10 years older and constantly in danger, while also being sheltered by them to the extent that she's able to kill people without ever actually seeing the worst of them. She's also flushed full of insecurities and while she to manifested as a child and mastered her powers young, she's still relatively reserved in using them.

Powers: Victoria is able to create a time bubble around herself, with speed inside running either much faster or much slower than usual. These can be up to the size of a medium sized room and can compress minutes for her into seconds for an outside observer or turn minutes for her into hours passing outside. She's learned to use this to become something of a quick change artist, able to do major changes to makeup and wardrobe almost instantly. She can also try to isolate opponents, allowing her to dispatch them one at a time before others can hope to interfere or use her time in her bubble to aim and fire several shots in perfect security. The main limits are size, the limiting of the bubble to forming directly around her and a slight delay that prevents her from dropping one and instantly making another, as well as being unable to alter the time dynamic inside the bubble once it's created (make it slower or faster).

Note: once a bubble breaks, time normalizes. So if she spent several minutes of her time changing, once she lets it go, there will be a few seconds of "flickering" where everything she did would be TECHNICALLY visible (If impossible to make out). All sound is likewise compressed and comes out extremely high pitched

Weapons: She favours a (heavily modified) bow and arrows, as they can be easily aimed from inside her bubbles, with a pair of long knives if things get in close. She's ideally equipped for scouting and stealth infiltration, as her bubbles let her make and hide bodies in near total silence.

Clothing: She's more of a girly girl than she would care to admit, liking somewhat loose fitting dresses when she can get away with them or at least jeans and a blouse when she can't. She almost always wears at least short heels and tends to favour blues and purples more than the blacks and browns of her brother and not-quite-sister.
 
Name: Eric #432001 436
Age: 25
Height: 5'5
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Blank, Long
Skin: Pale
Body type: Lean and skinny
Indentifying marks (Tattoos, scars, etc): needle scars on the arms and a massive cur on the chest.
Additional description (Optional) : Anaemic

Power: Telekinesis for Metal objects. Can mould metal given enough time.

Weakness: Anemic, burns the iron from his blood when he uses his powers
  • Fatigue and loss of energy.
  • Unusually rapid heartbeat, particularly with exercise.
  • Shortness of breath and headache, particularly with exercise.
  • Difficulty concentrating.
  • Dizziness.
  • Pale skin.
  • Leg cramps.
  • Insomnia.


Backstory (Optional): Born as the youngest son in a mid class family, has an older brother and an older sister. The first thing that seemed off with Eric was his anemia - iron deficiency, that just wouldn't come under control. No matter the diet and medicine, he still suffered quite a few of the symptoms.

Despite the illness, Eric had a happy life he mostly devoted to books and studying.

The powers manifested as the car he was in with his friend crushed. Eric somehow had managed to keep the metal pieces into crushing his own body. Not long after more things begun to happen, small metal objects moving and bending to his will, or when anger took him. Soon enough authorities discovered him and that was ... 1o years ago.

//in Experimentation now//
 
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Name: Case Phillips
Class: Tank
Age: 40
Height: 6' 0"
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Body type: Medium
Identifying marks (Tattoos, scars, etc): None

Power: Density Control/Manipulation over his body mass and that of small to medium sized objects.

Weakness: Lacks Discipline; Self-serving and Obdurate at times. Using his power takes a significant toll on his endurance/stamina and thus can only sustain it for a short time. Usage over time will elongate the period at which he can use the powers at any given time.

Backstory (Optional): Case was a petty criminal with an inflated ego before getting captured by authorities and locked away. He came from humble beginnings and didn't become aware of his powers until early adulthood. It was then that he started his life of crime and - thanks to his newfound abilities - was very good at it. He began robbing small banks and jewelry stores. The crimes never yielded much, which is why he had to do it so frequently. Case was betrayed by a man he considered a friend and has since been locked away in a special cell to negate any use of his powers. He remains there to this day.
 
Physical:
Name: Celeste McDermott
Age: 29
Height: 5' 4"
Eyes: White
Hair: Silver
Skin: Pale
Body type: Lithe and toned, she cuts an interesting hourglass figure. Hot-crazy scale applies here.
Indentifying marks (Tattoos, scars, etc): Electrical burns on her arms and torso.
Additional description (Optional) :

Power: She can use the electrical impulses in the brain to cause pain to a living person, or to relive the end of those who are already dead. As far as she knows that is the limit of her ability.

Weakness:
Seeing people die has fried her brain some. She's off her rocker. Sometimes she's Celeste, sometimes she's someone else. Take your pick.

She has to be physically touching the people in order to use her ability.

Backstory (Optional):
Ah... Celeste grew up in a family with....issues. Her own father sexually, mentally, and physically abused poor Celeste. During one particular episode of abuse, Celeste broke and she used her power in a burst of energy never before tapped. Her father was reduced to the gibbering mental capacity of a mentally handicapped adult. Her mother threw her out and also happened to have called the police. Which triggered a search for her. Well. Celeste spent her time hiding in the local Cemetery, sitting in a crypt. It was then she had been attained by this wierd group of scientists who just happened to know almost everything about her.

She was dragged kicking and screaming into their labs. While she had been somewhat cooperative to start out, she soon learned that these were the guys she did NOT want to cooperate with.

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Physical:

Name: Jasmine Belcourt
Age: 32
Height: 5'8"
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Blonde
Skin: Fair
Body type:Athletic while a little more on the busty side.

Additional description (Optional) : A butterfly tattoo on her shoulder. Dont ask!

Power: Shapeshifter. She can take the form of anyone she sees. The more she sees them the better she gets at taking the shape and nailing their mannerisms. Taking on the shape of a larger person will look a little odd. A little off. Strange maybe. It's all in the performance she will tell you.

Weakness: See explanation above. Also, chocolate and a good red wine!

Backstory (Optional):
Elizabeth's cousin! She kinda just inherited the crazy that rules the island. Or rather her cuz married it. Not one to raise a fuss, or stand in the way of justice, she took on the cause with both shoulders and has proven herself time and again useful in infiltration and subterfuge.
 
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Name: Summer Collins
Age: 22
Height: 5' 6"
Eyes: electric blue
Hair: golden blonde with a dyed blue streak on the right side
Skin: pale
Body type: athletic
Identifying marks (Tattoos, scars, etc): calluses on all fingertips as well as a sunburst shaped scar on her lower back


Power: The ability to control electricity. She can steal power from power sources and machines to shut them off or to use the power as a weapon. This can vary from a small zap to something resembling a bolt of lightning.

Weakness: Smaller discharges are easier to direct and handle but as the discharge builds it becomes less predictable as to what direction the current will take as well as if it will jump to other objects. She has the ability to hold onto small charges for several minutes before releasing them. Holding onto or even simply releasing a large discharge puts physical strain on her body and more than once she has had to have her heart restarted.

She can pull electricity from the atmosphere if there are no other power sources nearby but this takes more times and causes her fatigue with the effort. Though in an electrical storm, the ability becomes as easy as breathing.

Backstory (Optional): Summer was not born with her ability. When she was fifteen, she was swimming in a pool during a storm with friends. When it began to pour, people left the pool and she was the last one to leave. Before she was able to exit, the water was struck by lightning. She was pulled from the water not breathing and having no heartbeat. Upon being resuscitated, she immediately pulled power from the EMT's equipment and then fired it back into the ambulance, causing the sirens and lights to go haywire before shorting out.

It didn't take long before Summer realized her gift could be used for her own personal gain. Robbing stores became easy. Once without power, she could walk in and take what she wanted. A blast of current was all that was needed to get into many places. Escape was an important factor, both to retain what she had stolen as well as to keep away from those who would find her abilities of interest. She began to train--running daily to build her endurance and also becoming quite adept at parkour. Escaping via the roof was not an uncommon occurrence. She then worked her way up to financial institutions. Her streak continued until she became too confident and they were ready for her.

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Name: Alexander Abrams

Age: Mid to late 30's*

Height: 6'4

Hair: Dark blonde, slight wave, facial hair is darker, he usually keeps a full but trimmed beard.

Eyes: Blue

Build: He has broad shoulders and a muscular body structure but is not "ripped".

Personality: Warm, outgoing, charming, and charismatic...but also an arrogant sociopath. Alexander has spent most of his life living outside the law working as a mercenary for various dictators, warlords, and drug lords. His abilities have allowed him to live much longer than most men and so he has had more than enough time to make widows on six of the seven continents. Though he has developed his skills enough to extend his life, he rarely uses it for more than personal enrichment.

Power: Kinetikinesis, the ability to absorb energy and use it for either regeneration or redirect the energy outwards.

Weaknesses: His arrogance usually blinds him to the needs of others, but also their intentions, so he often tries to manipulate others to avoid being caught off guard. He is weak to poison, though if he has enough energy metabolized he can regenerate damaged cells, but if not… Oh,
and red haired women.


Weapons: None needed but he has an affinity for firearms, as he can use his kinetic abilities to increase the velocity of projectiles.

Clothing: Prefers formal dress most of the time, suits, slacks, ties, etc.
 
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Name: Daniel

Age: 19

Height: 6'1"

Hair: Brown, often a little unkept, crew cut

Eyes: Brown

Skin: Pale

Build: Slender and Athletic.

Identifying marks (Tattoos, scars, etc): Multiple scars along his back.

Personality: Headstrong, confident, and fearless. Doesn't like sitting around waiting for things to happen and don't like being told what to do.

Power: Daniel has the ability to manipulate both direction and strength of the gravitational fields of objects. To affect an object he must come in physical contact, though in times of extreme emotion, sometimes sight is all that's required. Once he releases an object the pull decreases at a rate proportional to the amount of time he was in contact. He calls what he does a "Pull", which is equivalen the force of gravity. Two "Pulls" is twice the force of gravity (Acceleration of 19.62 m/s^2).

Weapons: Daniel ignores most conventional weaponry, choosing instead to use whatever objects are nearby as projectiles.

Clothing: anything that's convenient, he doesn't like to stick out in a crowd.

Notes: Twin to Sarah, orphaned as a child, grew up on the streets.

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Name: Sarah

Age: 19

Height: 5'9"

Hair: Dirty Blonde down to lower back, often kept in neat bun.

Eyes: Brown

Skin: Lightly tanned

Build: Athletic hourglass figure

Identifying marks (Tattoos, scars, etc): Tattoo of the sun on her right shoulder blade

Personality: Opposite to her twin brother is many ways, Sarah is cool and calculating, preferring to plan before acting.

Power: Sarah has the ability to manipulate light, causing existing light to brighten or diminish. She's able to focus the light into concentrated beams or bend it around objects making them harder to see. Focused beams can be used to disorient, blind, or even burn. She cannot create light where there is no light, nor can she completely diminish a source.

Weapons: She carries a small Glock and 3 flares on her at all times.

Clothing: Simple clothing, jeans and a blouse.

Notes: Twin to Daniel, orphaned as a child, grew up on the streets.
 
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Age: 27
Height: 5'7"
Eyes: Grey

Build: Fit but agile, his hands are his tool and he can use them to great precision. He's not exactly the athletic but he's had to run enough throughout the hospital he once worked at to be relatively in shape. As a doctor and a surgeon, he always strives for perfection and excellent, his body is no exception.

Personality: Being calm and collected are two of the three C's that a doctor requires. Clarity was another one, though he hardly could do that when he had the secret of his ability to hide. Sometimes, "nanobiotics" and "multilevel complexity of advancing disease stages accumulation" was all he needed to say for people to nod and accept whatever else he was proposing. He was rather good at that. Aside from his work, he enjoys bullying co-workers and having insignificant talks over tea or coffee. A man with little fear and little needs. Simple, elegant, and to the point.

Class: Healer

Power: Nyxorio can heal people in one of two ways. Through direct contact, he can channel his energy into them, directly patching up their wound. If he focused enough power, he could bring someone from unconscious and on the verge of bleeding out straight back into combat condition. Granted, they would be disoriented, dizzy, and confused about the state of their body, but they would be able to fight and not be dead. That being said, surgery was still needed to remove bullets and other foreign objects, unless internal bleeding was a kink his patient enjoyed.

By concentrating, Nyxorio can also deeply tap into the person's body, being able to identify and cleanse them of debuffs such as mind control, some toxins, and other ailments aside from cancer, AIDS, and a few other diseases that no one has identified a cure/solution for. However, this comes with a cost of him having to feel an intimate connection to the patient's body and part of their mind if the problem goes that far, including the pain suffered. The patient would also feel a sense of intrusion, though how they receive it would be a different story. As such, he is highly likely to conveniently forget about being able to do this, opting instead to give them some nanobiotics and call it a day.

Secondly, he can channel a beam of energy up to 10 meters away, linking to a single person. When they require it, energy would flow from him to them, stimulating their body to increase the rate at which they regenerate wounds and alleviate the pain they felt. It's not as quick, being self-healing from the person's body, so they would still lose blood and feel pain as usual. In addition, they would become fatigued much faster if taken too much damage that needs healing, though Nyxorio can keep track of that and end the power when needed. The target was not invincible and he warns them as much. However, he can't stop them from running in with that misconception and dying. He isn't a miracle worker. Just a surgeon with high healing capabilities

Weapons: Chivalry is dead and so is "do no harm," especially when his life was involved. He knew well enough what happened to people with powers, and he sure as hell wasn't about to find out the extent of his ability to perform surgery on himself. As such, he preferred two suppressed pistols, being ambidextrous from his time as a surgeon. If he could manipulate two scalpels with pinpoint precision for a brain surgery, he could tap men in the forehead with two pistols.

Weakness: His own regenerative ability is higher than the usual person but is still as easily killable as them. His beam ability glows in a dull but noticeable obsidian purple hue, making him an easy target for the enemies if he kept it active. In addition, he can jog short distances well enough but he's not built to run a marathon or deal with close-quarters encounters.

Clothing: He wears a suit. When he has to do something that involves blood and a mess, he goes with the classic surgical gown and latex gloves. He's not too picky of course, sometimes he had to do what he had to do while wearing the wrong outfit. Just so long as laundry was available.

Backstory: Nyxorio grew up wanting to become a doctor. Coming from a relatively shady family, he had all the funds he needed and all the hurt personnel he wanted to practice on. He eventually got officially certified as a surgeon for various fields, even going so far as to dabble in some basic nanobiotics in his work. Eventually, he went to focus on more nanobiotics as he realized that his healing talents extended beyond just his natural skills as a surgeon. Knowing what was happening to those with powers at the time, he knew that it was best he experimented with these powers in private, rather than risking becoming attached to someone during a surgery and slipping up. That being said, he was truly a professional doctor with ties to a mafia in the past.

No one had his sympathy and he had seen enough death to become numb to it all. There was no way he would slip up. With a stoic expression and calm demeanor, he'll do what he does best. Perform perfectly and without exception.
 
Name: Scott De Vries
Age: 28
Height: 6'0
Eyes:Light Grey
Hair: Brown, Short cropped with a fade.
Skin: Weathered with a light tan.
Body type: Athletic build with a wide set frame.
Indentifying marks: A long scar from a deep wound across his right peck.

Power: Scott can teleport himself and any matter in direct contact with him from one place to another without occupying the space in between. He has on rare occasion been able to focus enough to transport objects from afar to himself but has not managed to reliably duplicate the effect. Teleportation by memory and ending up in an object is possible, although it shunts the object with less mass away from the space. Both himself and anything he brings with him lose momentum when transported.

Weakness: Scott can only teleport to locations he currently sees or has been to before. It also takes time to transport anywhere he can't currently see and isn't possibly for him in a high stress situation (Combat, torture, etc.)

Backstory: Scott developed his powers as a teenager and applied them to getting into places he wasn't supposed to be in. Falling into shady circles he quickly accumulated enough wealth to have a comfortable lifestyle. He put himself through a flight school for both fixed and rotary wing aircraft and started ferrying the rich around in their private jets to cover up his extra income.

After a botched job exposed him to the government and sent him into hiding he was approached by the Martin's, who had been keeping closer tabs on him than he'd realized. Needing a pilot, and finding one with his extra maneuverability, fit right in to their little underground movement and they pulled him into hiding with them.
 
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