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"In the chill of night, at the scene of a crime, like a streak of light, he arrives, just in time!"

Welcome, Spider-Fans, to the show! I'm looking for a few good people to do a story-centric, spider-man-AU-playing-on-canon RP ... kind of a sandbox that may or may not contain any story elements from the comics, and anything new we want to throw in, but with a focus on a few New Yorkers who have suddenly or recently come into possession of powers rather similar to ol' spidey. (I mean ... it's a staple of the series) This would be the story of their day-to-day struggles, in tandem with their lives as superheroes. I feel like Spider fandoms need those kinds of stories, given the nature of the various Spider heroes :p Fighting crime and dodging eviction notices!

NOW, We're not going to be high-schoolers, obviously, but college students are an option, normal people with day jobs and apartments and lives. I have a few story ideas to start us off, depending on what kind of personalities we get into the mix, but I really want this to be a co-operative writing experience, where we all use the canon for inspiration, but make up our own original characters, contents, and whatnot to drive the group story. So like ... the mains, our primaries, wouldn't be canon characters, but you could rely on canon mechanics for their backstory; symbiotes, ninja clans, radioactive spiders, clones, scientists of the super or mad varieties, etc.

Drop me a line if you're interested, and leave me a bump regardless! DO EEET!


NOTICE: Only one spot it currently available.
LINK!
 
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Alright, I suppose it's time I address the generalities of character building;

I will accept scientific, mystical, and quantum/meta causes for spider-powers, and encourage original takes, as well as traditional ones.

We're all essentially building the same character by different means. Everyone will have some form of the following powers;
Enhanced Strength
Enhanced Speed
Enhanced Reflexes and Agility
*ENHANCED TOUGHNESS - forgot this one!
Kinesthesia
Boosted Healing
Wall-crawling of some kind
Webbing or grapple-lines
Enhanced senses
Spider-sense :p

However, for flavour, I would encourage people to add an additional flavour power, like poison, web-effects, camouflage, or expand on an existing power. Please limit yourself here, as characters will "grow" after plots resolve.

EDIT: ALSO, PM CHARACTERS TO ME! Once we get a little more interest, I'll set about putting together a profile skeleton and the other threads for the RP. Again, any questions, post them here ^_^

EDITTHESEQUELING: And again, I can't emphasize this enough, we're in the "hoodie and joggers" phase of character development at the beginning, not the "Thank you Mr. Stark!" phase. Even characters relying on tech to simulate spider-powers should have unpolished tech.
 
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@CasualAdventurer OMG, right, the profile I totally owe you and everyone :P

Alright, here goes:

For the first part, you have two options, both written; Stats or Description, Either way, you'll need to cover the following details;

Name, age, ethnicity, height, physique, complexion, eye colour, hair colour, and distinguishing scars or marks.

For the second portion, I'll need the answer to the following questions;

How did you character come by their powers?

What pushed them into fighting crime?

What does your character do in their daily life, and how do they provide for their basic needs?
 
Morgan(a) Faulkner

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Age: 24

Ethnicity: German-American

Height: 5'9"

Physique: Thin, Wiry

Complexion: Pale, Smooth

Eye Color: Grey

Hair Color: Black

Scars/Marks: Surgical scars, Back

Unique Power: Suit Compatibility

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Source of their power?

While lacking powers in the traditional sense, her cybernetic spine grants increased agility, upper-body flexibility, and an invulnerability to vertebrae damage.

Driving force to fight crime?

Inspired by the emergence of superpowered individuals using their prowess for good, but still planning to rebuild her parents' company, Morgan has decided to come to the aid of the team with their technological know-how... While also taking on a sort of "freelancing superhero" identity fully independently (and secretly) from her powered colleagues, to keep the true identity of her alter ego an absolute secret.

Day job?

Morgan now works as her apartment building's resident handyman (handy-woman?), famous among her fellow tenants for her "above-and-beyond" attitude towards simple repairs.

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Bio: Doctors Faulkner were giants in the field of bioengineering before their untimely deaths, survived by no children, due to their mutual disinterest in letting their careers be set back by something as time-consuming as parental responsibilities.

Of course, that was only the story the rest of the world was spoon-fed. The truth was, Isabel and Hugh Faulkner did have an offspring, oke they loved, and had good reason to keep them hidden. In the midst of a corporate espionage war with Haygen United, they feared that their ravenous competitors would take advantage of any weakness they left exposed. Sadly, that included a newborn. So, entrusted to the knowledge of a select few employees, their head scientist acted as their surrogate and had their child for them. A girl. One they named Morgana.

At an early age, her love of the sciences became obvious to her parents, and while they did their best to nurture these natural interests, Morgan was always more transfixed on their research. No matter how many times they scolded her for it, she always seemed to be able to sneak into their private labs to watch them experiment. Most of the time, the risk was minimal. Her eyes were exposed to the occasional bright flashes from welding, and sometimes, she nicked herself on their tools, but no permanent harm ever came her way.

That is, until the accident. It happened quickly, painless from the state of shock she was in, but that wouldn't last forever. Immediately, they got to work at saving her. Years of culminated, stagnant research took shape in a single evening, and their life's work was complete, put to use to ensure their daughter's life was one of quality. Embedded where her old, damaged, organic spine used to be was now a marvel of bioengineering. A fully functional, artificial vertebrae. One that would grow as she aged, never fail, and even grant her physical coordination the likes of which was only seen in professional athletes. However, their act of good needed to be hidden away. To keep a child a secret, and to preform an unsanctioned surgery upon her would ruin them. Would ruin her. And so she was kept a secret for years into her adulthood, until her parents one day never returned to the lab.

Killed in a suspicious car accident, her parents were left no chance at survival. Soon enough, Faulkner Bioengineering started to fall apart, and the only person who had the acumen to save it legally didn't exist. With no other options, Morgan was forced to leave the safety of the labs and head out into the concrete jungle known as New York.

A month later, and she's just started to make a life for herself. Slowly, but surely, Morgan's learning how the outside world works. No amount of studying could've ever prepared her for this.

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Quotes:

= "So, uh... How many degrees do you have?"

= "YEET! That's right, right?"

= "11.92 an hour? How does anyone live on this?"

= "Why do her pants say 'juicy' on the butt?"

= "Apparently, it's illegal not to have a birth certificate. It's also apparently very easy to forge documents."
 
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Age: 21
Ethnicity: Australian
Height: 5'11
Physique: Athletic, lean muscular
Complexion: slightly tanned.
Eye Colour: Brown
Hair Colour: Dark Brown
Scars/marks: Vertical Scars on his forearms and wrists

Source of Power?
Genetically altered, irradiated super spider bit Frank while he was participating in a sleep study at university to make some quick cash.

Driving Force to Fight Crime?
Frank's best friend and roommate was super into comics, and heroes and stuff like that. The night of the sleep study, someone tried to break into their apartment, and Frank's friend was killed. Frank returned after the sleep study, to find his apartment trashed, and his close friend dead. Over the following days, he figured out he had spider powers, and swore to use them to fight crime.

Day Job?
Frank Dukes is regretting leaving Australia to study in America. He is in a mountain of debt and struggling to find a way to find enough money to eat. He is trying to put his studies to use, trying to pick up coding jobs, or even try and design something that could change the world, but in this economy, neither is really working out for the college student. So, most of his money comes from him being a bike courier.

Bio:
By Frank's optimistic attitude, you wouldn't know that he tried to kill himself. You see, since moving to America, even though his life I objectively worse than it ever was, he sees the positives.
The Dukes family wasn't unwealthy, but they weren't rich either. They were solidly middle class. In Queensland, they didn't have any reason to complain. At least everyone but Frank. Frank was a scrawny kid. He was bullied a lot. You know how teenagers get. The unrelenting bullying lead to Frank seeing that taking his own life was the only option. So, when he seventeen, he slit his wrists. His parents found him in the bathtub, and paramedics managed to get there in time to save him.
The botched suicide and the resulting therapy gave Frank a new outlook on life. He changed to a better high school, and stopped sweating the little things.
After graduating from high school, he thought it would be fun to move to America. Start a tech start up company, so he moved at started studying a dual degree in mechanical engineering and computer sciences.
While studying on America, he found himself struggling to get by financially. Taking a job a bike courier. He found himself a roommate who soon became his beast friend.

Note: due to the botched suicide attempt, web shooters never fully came in. They developed, but due to the scar tissue, they can't project web by themselves very far.
 
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Name: Brigitte 'Bikki' Grolsch
Age: 22
Ethnicity: Dutch-Norwegian American
Height: 5'3"
Physique: Athletic, lean
Complexion: Milky white
Eye Colour: Gray
Hair Colour: Blonde
Scars/marks: None

Source of Power?
Super serum.

Driving Force to Fight Crime?
Bikki robs criminals to get the money to survive.


Day Job?
None. Bikki is unemployed and homeless.

Bio:
Bikki was a gymnast training for the national team, but the team was being experimented on by a secret government agency. Bikki was the only girl who's body successfully bonded with the super serum. When the rest of the team started deteriorated from mysterious illnesses, their deaths were faked in a plane crash in the Carribean. Bikki and her teammates were taken to a secret base on a tropical island. Bikki's teammates were studied as they died, but Bikki was trained as a secret agent for about a year. A hurricane struck the island and Bikki escaped. She made it back to the USA, but she couldn't go home because the secret agency would find her and put her family in danger. She was officially dead, so she couldn't get a job or get welfare. She is terrified of interacting with the authorities.

Bikki's mind is partially fragmented. She doesn't have multiple personalities, but she has a lot of reflexes and situational programming forced into her by a year of black-tech mind control. It's like what happened to Bucky Barnes in Captain America: Winter Soldier, except the controllers only got about a fraction of the way into it. They finished the super soldier fundamentals, but Bikki escaped before they got around to reprogramming her personality and implanting deep control. If Bucky Barnes is about 85% agent and 15% Bucky, Bikki is 20% agent and 80% traumatized Bikki. Bikki was never given any general directives, but she feels a sense of confidence, purpose, and rightness when she's obeying her programming.
 
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To even things out, I plan to make Morgan female, since Robbie's character is gonna be another male.
 


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Name:

Emilio "Milo" Flores

Nickname{s}:

'Milio, Emi

Age:

21

D.o.B:

12/12/1997

Ethnicity:

Afro-latino

Height:

6"0

Frame:

Proportionately muscular

Complexion:

Pecan-toned

Scars/marks:
  • A string of small moles from his mid to lower back that resemble the Cassiopeia constellation
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Eye color:

Dark brown

S.O.P:

Symbiotic incident, of which he'd rather not specify.

Ability:

Much like the infamous Scytodidae, or rather, more commonly referred to as the "Spitting Spider." Milo ejects a type of venom (more like throws up.) that congeals prey in place & envenoms it. His ablity however, is far from perfected as he can only spit a short amount.

Official occupation:

Starbucks barista part-time,research student majority of the time.

Biography:

For the longest time Milo had always felt as if he were just one giant, walking, mistake. After all, that's all he can do right? Make mistakes? And what's worse- the kid has a family that he always seems to let down. His sweet mama, his stern but loving father & of course, sweet baby Erica (she hates that nickname.) & even Gordo- the snide bastard of a cat.And so, when these so called "powers" came ashore, he took it upon himself to prove to everyone- but mainly himself that he could do more, better than just making mistakes.

Quote{s}:

  • "With great power comes great responsibility... The fuck's that supposed to mean?"
  • "Well, that's a minute we're never gonna get back."
  • "Ewwwww it's wet... That's what she said."
  • "Shut up, Gordo."

Playlist:



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Name:

Gordo

Nickname(s):

Juicy

Age:

6 in human years, 41 in cat years

D.o.B:

05/09/2013

Ethnicity:

As a British shorthair cat, it's safe to say that Gordo is relatively Caucasian.

Height:

38 cm

Frame:

Thicc

Complexion:

Densely coated in rich ginger fur, with clean patches of white

Scars/Marks:

He's the one that gives the scars

Eye color:

Bright blue

S.o.P:

Purina Cat Chow

Unique ability:

To invoke both pure love & hatred from a man who barely understands himself

Occupation:

Milo's child

Biography:

All he knows was one day he was out of his hollow cage at the shelter and laying on the couch while being bottle-fed by a pair of strong arms.

Quotes:

  • *Stares judgingly*
  • ".....Meow"

Playlist:

 
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Name: Victoria Gogol
Age: 19
Ethnicity: Second Generation Ukrainian-American
Height: 5'6"
Physique: Slender and wiry, wide at the hip and small in the bust.
Complexion: Buttery
Eye Colour: Pale green
Hair Colour: Oak brown
Scars/marks: None.

Source of Power?
Victoria's powers are the result of an unforeseen interaction between experimental, and traditional, forms of cancer treatment. The program, which used gene-editing techniques, has since been shut down due to concerns over the effects of some of their test patients. Victoria, as far as they were concerned, was one of very few "normal" successes. Her powers developed just a few months after she returned home from the hospital.

Driving Force to Fight Crime?
Victoria has lived poor. She's seen the hardship poverty brings, knows how easily whole families can find their legs pulled out from under them, knows the fear and helplessness of being the victim of crime, to be a victim's loved one. Thankfully she still has her mother and father, but she knows people who can't say the same. Not only handed a second chance at life, but amazing new abilities, she can't help but feel like defending the defenceless and persecuting the unjust is just ... kind of ... a calling. What else is she going to do, rhythmic gymnastics?

Day Job?
Victoria's boosted metabolism means she doesn't require as much sleep as most people. She tells her parents she's got a night job as cover for patrolling, but she works as a croupier at a casino during daytime hours ... and she picks up a night shift here or there.
 
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Age: 21
Ethnicity: Chinese
Height: 5'8''
Physique: Lean and kinda weedy, but well toned.
Complexion: Fresh, olive skin. Typical Asian eye appearance.
Eye colour: Warm coffee kind of brown.
Hair colour: Jet black.
Distinguishing scars or marks: One scraggly scar across his left eyebrow. A small pair of white puncture marks on his arm above his wrist and a larger pair above that.​
Unique Ability: Healing venom.

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How Cheng came to acquire his powers:
It was a hot summers day in one of the southern farming provinces of China, the crickets humming among the steamy fields of rice and wheat. A pair of distressed parents urged a donkey onward as their child sobbed from its back, arm wrapped tightly from wrist to elbow. He'd been playing in the field alongside his parents as they worked when he was bitten by a venomous type of snake. No real medical facilities, the harried parents took him to the only resource they had. The Witch Doctor. Once inside her room full of odd herbs and jars, his bitten arm was revealed as the Witch unwrapped it, placing a jar- open end downward- against the young boy's skin. A small delicate spider, abdomen swollen and dragging behind it as it moved about in distressed circles across his vulnerable skin. Suddenly, it bit down. Within moments the boy was writhing uncontrollably, but to his parents it was immediately noticeable that the wound from both spider and snake had healed.

What pushed him into fighting crime?:
After immigration to America, his powers well under control by his 17th birthday, he accidentally came across a mugging. Too scared to fight the thugs, he rushed in to help the man after, biting down on the male's wrist to inject his healing type of venom, the wounds of the man slowly healing as he came to consciousness, only to find his saviour gone. He simply cleans up the aftermath of situations, to afraid to face them head on.

What does he do in their daily life, and how does he provide for himself?
As a med student, Cheng studies and lives on campus while working a job at the local Asian grocer to make up his college tuition and residence. He recently quit his MMA and Muai Thai self-defence classes due to lack of funds.

Quotes:
'I'm an A-sian, not a C-sian!'
*covers eyes using pinkies* 'Ah... I'm so scared...'
'What do you mean you might study?!'
'Five-spice fixes everything'
'Wh-what was that sorry?'
'Sorry!'
'So sorry!'
 
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We could always just "begin" now, and make the arrival of another character it's own event in the story. Speaking of which, @Cheshire Cat, how are the characters getting in contact? (My character's not even gonna think about being a superhero until they're inspired by the others in action.)
 
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