Justice League: The New Wave (OOC - Interest Check)

Gabriel Blue (JLNW: Challengers from Beyond)

Alter Ego – Gabriel Blue

Alias – Blue / Boy Blue / The Cerulean / The Herald


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http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Boy_Blue_(Fables)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Blue_(Fables)
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Witching_Cloak

Appearance
Blue is eternally youthful. He always looks young; often mistaken for being anywhere between 18-21 years old with his baby face and slight build. He is at least 273 years old, but as a Fable he is functionally immortal so long as people sing song and tell his story.

His eyes are bluer than blue like sapphires studded into the eyes of a snowman. His hair is a lustrous gold, cut short and neat. He wears blue jeans, casual t-shirts, and of course Chuck Taylor All-Stars.

Height 5' 5"
Weight 135 lbs

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Personality
Blue is easy going, even nerdy to his core. He is aloof at first but opens up to close friends. Which can come off as meek, almost passive, but it's not because he's afraid of confrontation. Blue has been through a century of warfare and resistance against the Adversary. He's fought and weathered so many storms that he's tired and worn out.

He doesn't have many friends. His introverted, preferring to spend the night reading comic books or playing his trumpet. He loves music, but his passion is for wind instruments. He prefers to being candid, which means for people he doesn't know he tends not to speak up to avoid confrontation. However, for his friend's he opens up, even to the point of hurting his friend's people's feelings.

He's been through a lot in his life. He's served as a farm hand, minstrel, squire, and clerk. He remembers most anything he hears, but he has a hard time paying attention to large blocks of text. This is in large part because he only learned to read in the past ten years. He's an auditory learner with haptic tendencies.

Gear (optional)
  • Witching Cloak. It's the last remaining piece of Mr. Dark, crafted from his Bag of Nightmares. It's an immensely powerful magic cloak. While wearing it, the user can make themselves invisible, as well as change their appearance by manipulating light to create perfect holographic projections. The wearer is also able to teleport across distances and dimensions, as long as they know where they want to appear. The cape is nearly indestructible, though other magic, if strong enough, may cause some harm. It also has unlimited storage space and perfect recall of stored objects, but living things whether and die if left inside longer than a few hours. It can also be taught to respond to commands like giving it a whistle to call it to him or telling it to restrain someone. It may have other abilities, but these are the ones Blue has discovered over the centuries of using it.
  • Vorpal Sword. Forged from harvested moonsilver that was crafted with no tools, forged at night and cooled with water that had never seen the sun. It is protean in nature, altering its shape to serve the needs of its master. Some believe it has sentience. It prefers the shape of a long, thin blade, but can contort itself into a dagger or bloat to a plow shear. Souls can get caught in the blade when someone is killed by it. In darkness, these souls can be released as a moon wraith. The moon wraith’s body of darkness appears as a humanoid with a pair of boney claws, swaddled in black rags wearing a white clay mask. They don't last long either way.
  • Gabriel's Horn. It is the divine instrument of the silver host used to herald the coming of Judgement. It's internal surface area is infinite but its volume is finite. The energy generated by the horn are mystical, holy, and sonic in nature. It can be used to inspire hope, summon aid at tremendous distance, shatter stone and metal. If directed at a singular target it can knock back, stun, and even shatter the ear drums of living creatures. It is even audible in the vacuum of space.
  • Minor Artifacts. A handful of magic beans. Three potions of healing. A rope that entangles things. A candle whose flame never goes out. Seven nails that bind anything together. A ring that shoots fireballs. Dust that dries out anything. A snow globe with an actual blizzard contained within it. A quill that can sketch what's described to it. A decanter that pours endless quantities of honey. And a bunch of other minor stuff including several libraries worth of comic books, cases of beer, and junk food.

Power/ability – See above. A fable is hard to keep dead if its story is well known and often spoken. Skilled Trumpet player; efficient administrative assistant; Master of the Witching Cloak; Wielder of the Vorpal Sword; gorilla warrior of considerable prowess.

Weakness – He’s a fable, but with most of the same weaknesses as a human.

Background

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Blue_(Fables)

He helped his father on the farm for an indeterminate time, idling the days away with an old, dented bugle. The idyllic days were crushed beneath the boot of the the Adversary as all of the European Fables were massacred or interned. When his farm was burned to ashes and his family imprisoned, Blue found himself joining the resistance. While much of his time was spent boosting morale or on logistical issues as the resistance was whittled down, he was forced to put more and more blood on his hands until he was drowning in death and mayhem. As an occupied people, the resistance was forced to use insurgent tactics and gorilla warfare towards the end. He fought in many campaigns across several worlds including the hellish rout of Hollycourt, the desolation of Oakcourt, the bloodbath that turned the Crystaline Lake permanently into the Ruby Swamp, and massacre at the Last Castle.

The day before that last battle, a woman claiming to be Red Riding Hood rode into the fort nearly dead from arrow wounds. She and Blue quickly became infatuated with each other, to the extent that she suggested that Friar Tuck should marry them so that Blue will be allotted a seat on the last ship out. Citing his duty, he refused. Arriving for battle in the morning, he learned his new orders: observe the battle from a high parapet and, at the appropriate time, to use a powerful but poorly understood item known as the Witching Cloak to teleport himself to the ship with the message that the last defenders had fallen. Fabletown, a refuge village in the mundane world, would need to know what happened, his commander told him, but he also saw this as a way for Blue and Riding Hood to be together. Unfortunately, when Blue arrived on the ship, he discovered that Riding Hood, not wanting to live without him, had given up her spot to a stranger and stayed behind.

His work as an aide-de-camp translated well into a job as a simple clerk and gofer in the back office of Fabletown. There he was exposed to Buffin a flying monkey and librarian who he was friends with. He heard many stories and had exposure to a vast array of arcana and the occult from all the legends of the world contained within. He lived a normal if nerdy life for decades with some friends, just hanging out and reading comics when not trying to get gigs at jazz clubs (and being rejected for his appearance).

Eventually he was convinced to take up the mantle of the Witching Cloak and train in secret with it and the Vorpal Sword by Prince Charming (a grandmaster duelist). Many things happen to him including being betrayed and having Fabletown nearly destroyed on at least ten occasions. It all got worse and worse.

After his best friend Pinocchio is dismembered during "The March of the Wooden Soldiers," Blue left for the Homelands, taking the Vorpal Sword, the Witching Cloak and Pinocchio's puppet body. The Witching Cloak acted as Blue's impregnable armor; it could not be burned, stretched or ripped; it provided endless personal carrying capacity, and it gave its wearer excellent infiltration abilities. Blue spent his time killing the Empire's soldiers, impersonating at least one governor, killing at least one dragon, and working his way toward the capital.

He learned the true nature of the Adversary and the Emperor, but he was ultimately caught by the Snow Queen in an ambush. Surprised, he was encased in a block of ice. He used his wits and leverage (Pinocchio was the Adversary's son) to eventually escape. But not before he had his heart broken again when he learned that the lady in the red ridding hood at the Battle of the Last Castle was actually a spy. He's able to call the Witching Cloak with a whistle and return home.

During the war to retake the Homelands, he served as a spy and transporter. Everything went along nicely until an arrow enchanted to always hit its target was fired at a friend. He used the Witching Cloak to block the arrow, but a piece of the cloak got lodged in his body. He recovered at first with the help of the best doctor in the world and one of the best magicians ever. It doesn't last; he declined and ended up in a comma. Not until the Witching Cloak's true owner, a godlike entity named Mister Dark (aka the boogeyman man) is killed by another god (the North Wind) in an epic battle, did Blue awake. Finding Fabletown decimated and those left alive having returned to their respective worlds to help rebuild, Blue left for his family's farm.

Notes - Earth 27, because Fables are cool enough to be in the double digits earning their earth the title Ninth of the Triads.



Aptitude & Powers

Intelligence_____________Human cleverness / craftiness.
Strength_______________Human
Speed_________________Peak Human, excellent reactions
Durability______________Fable, 50-100 invulnerable depending on the Witching Cloak
Power/Energy Projection__80s? He has many tricks, but his greatest ones are outlined already.
Combat_______________80s? Veteran warrior of at least a century of combat
 
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Looks good to me, seriously.

It always impresses me how fast you turn bios around, Major Girl took me all yesterday evening and I'd been planning the bio out for days.

Varshanka, what do you think?
 
Alter Ego - Laurel Gand

Alias - Andromeda, M'Onel

Age - 24

Appearance -
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Personality - Laurel is a reliable, steady young woman. She is, or has been, a good leader. Recent developments may have shaken that. Laurel is cautious when it comes to trust, but once it is earned it is pretty much forever.

Gear (optional) - Standard issue Legion flight ring, telepathic plug for communication in space, a Skein suit (again Legion issue), and her Legion issue Omnicom for long range communication and universal translation.

Power/ability - Kryptonian level strength, toughness, speed, intelligence, and senses. Independence from atmosphere, flight, x-ray, microscopic, and heat vision. Super cold breath rounds out her power set.

Weakness - Laurel has weaknesses to red solar rays and magic. She also has a weakness to Kryptonite that is not well known seeing as she is a Daxamite.

Bio - In Earth 11's heroic age there was an alliance formed between the Dominators, the Khund, Thanagarians, the Durlans, Warlords of Okarra, the Citidal, Spider guild, Gil'Dishpan, the Psions, and the Daxamites as observers. This alliance had come to a consensus that Earth was a threat to the universe and needed to be controlled. All but the Dominion and the Psions that is. Long story short, when the Daxamites found the true reasons for the Invasion Ambassador Gand sacrificed himself to stop the Invasion. His daughter Laurel traveled to Earth to see what her father had sacrificed himself for. She became a hero known as Andromeda for a brief period before taking the Human test subjects of the Invasion and finding them new home worlds. She returned to Earth and fell to her races allergy to lead. She was sent to the phantom zone by Superwoman to save her. A thousand years forward she was saved by Querl's Dox of the Legion of Superheroes. Laurel learned that many of the races she had helped create had formed Religions with Andromeda as a Goddess. To avoid this attention Laurel took on the name of M'Onel, the Martian word for Wanderer.

M'Onel served in the Legion for years and had an unheard of term as leader. The team had a golden time and thrived until the Dominion raised its head again. The Earthwar was horrible and it cost the Legion badly. Triplicate boy lost one of his three, becoming known as Tag team. Ferolass, Lyla Norg,and Chemical Queen all lost their lives in the war. M'Onel resigned immediately after and has taken a leave of absence.

Notes - Doctor Gymll, the Legions doctor on call has diagnosed Laurel with PTSD. His diagnosis has Laurel as unstable in combat situations.

Aptitude & Powers

Intelligence
x50/100

Strength
x95/100

Speed
x93/100

Durability
x98/100

Power/Energy Projection
x90/100

Combat
x80/100
 

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Alter Ego – Gabriel Blue

Alias – Blue / Boy Blue / The Cerulean / The Herald

Notes - Whatever the Earth of Fables and Mundies is.

I'm gonna declare that it's Earth-27, because Earth 27 isn't defined in The New 52, I like multiples of 3, and gosh darn it Fables is important enough to belong in the front row.
 
9th of the Triads it is!

Well that bio took like 5+ hours yesterday and a ton of wiki reading, I just didn't do other things I was supposed to do. I wrote a post too, so I didn't get to bed until 1:30am. :)
 
9th of the Triads it is!

Well that bio took like 5+ hours yesterday and a ton of wiki reading, I just didn't do other things I was supposed to do. I wrote a post too, so I didn't get to bed until 1:30am. :)

Hah! You bested me by like fifteen minutes.

Nicely done, in any case!
 
Okay, people ramping up for Challengers.

Your characters should be on your various Earths.

Your intro post should involve a desperate catastrophe with virtually no hope of victory, from which The Doctor will then snatch you as though from the jaws of death. Like, a huge shadow falling across your universe.

PM me with your ideas just to make sure they don't hiccup overall Multiverse continuity, but I wanna be flexible so you can help build the universes you're from.
 
Superman: Challengers of the Beyond

Name - Jonathan Samuel Kent

Alter Ego - Superman

Alias - Jon

Age - 18

Appearance - Jon is a somewhat tall (6'3") male of Kryptonian and Human decent. He is characterized by his shield costume crest and steel-like blue eyes, traits all Kryptonians seem to possess.


Personality - Jon is quick-thinking, respectful and a bit of a daydreamer. He idolizes his heroic father and wishes to follow in his footsteps. He has shown an interest in space exploration and technology.

Gear (optional) - None

Power/ability - Jon is a Kryptonian/human hybrid and was actually conceived and born under the yellow sun which seemingly made him even more powerful than his father.

These include:

~Solar Energy Absorption
~Heat Vision
~ Solar Flare:This power utilizes all the solar energy stored within Superman's cells, allowing him to resort to an all-out attack. However, Superman cannot use it more than occasionally, as it drains him of all the solar energy he has stored up until he can recharge his cells with solar energy which takes him about 24 hours. During this time frame, he is essentially human in his abilities
~Super-Hearing
~Enhanced Vision
~Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision
~Telescopic Vision
~X-Ray Vision
~Microscopic Vision
~Infrared Vision
~Flight
~Invulnerability
~Superhuman Stamina
~Superhuman Strength
~Superhuman Speed
~Superhuman Agility
~Superhuman Reflexes
~Super-Breath

Weakness - The usual weaknesses also apply here. Magic, Kryptonite, and Red sun. When Jon uses his "Solar Flare" ability he becomes as vulnerable as any normal human. Though normally he can recharge in 24 hours, it can take longer. Jon is susceptible to actual solar flare activity. He has found his powers spiked hard during solar storms, causing sensory disruptions and nausea/vomiting as well as massive uncontrollable leaps in his powers.

Bio - Jonathan was born on Earth-247, during a cataclysm after both his and his mother's lives were jeopardized by a Great Darkness. Superman managed to get his family into safety with the assistance of Batman who aided Superman in the delivery of his son. Batman then helped Lois and Jon accompany Superman to an alternate Earth-0. Jon and his parents ended up stranded in a different Earth than the one they came from, one where it's Superman and Lois had disppeared, to which they were forced to overcome and adapt to have a fulfilling life.

Jon grew up oblivious of his parent's past, while living an apparently normal life, but he was always suspicious of their sometimes awkward behavior, and always showed curiosity for, unbeknownst to him, his father's secret exploits. Jon later discovered he had superpowers, including heat vision when he accidentally killed his cat. Later, he went to the Moon to help his father (once again operating openly as Superman) fight the Eradicator, who had trapped Superman inside of him. Lois got into one of Batman's suits and helped Jon free Superman and defeat the Eradicator. Afterwards, Clark gave Jon a hat and glasses to conceal his secret. He then got into his costume and went with his dad to the Justice League Watchtower and Superman introduced Jon to Batman and Wonder Woman as Superboy, making him a part of the Justice
League.

After going to the State Fair in Hamilton with his family, Superman brings Jon to the Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic in order to help him finish his science
project for school. Jon had decided on making a flying saucer. However, due to an unforeseen malfunction by the device, Jon, his father and Krypto were transported to Dinosaur Island. There, they encountered the only survivor of the Losers, Captain William Storm. Storm agreed to help them find the device that brought them to the island. However, during a battle with the mutated denizens of area, the device activated and Storm stayed behind to prevent the beasts from following Superman and his son to the outside world.

While searching for a tree for Christmas, Jon accidentally torched some woodlands near a swamp in Hamilton. He was subsequently rescued by Maya Ducard aka Nobody and Goliath. Jon later awakened in the Batcave and found out that Robin had been keeping him under surveillance for a long time. The two initially did not get along, and the situation was further complicated when Batman and Superman arrived, blaming each other for the conflict. The ensuing melee is abruptly averted when Jon used his Freeze Breath to separate the two sides and allow him to explain the situation to his father. While their fathers were discussing the lab tests that Daimian had performed on Jon, the two boys went off to look at Daimian's pets. However, due to Damian's snide remarks and goading, Jon lost his temper and another brawl broke out between them. This was also put down quickly as Batman looks down on them in furious silence. In order to properly discipline their sons and teach them the value of working together, Superman and Batman have them undergo a series of challenges. However their lack of teamwork and animosity toward each other cause them to fail every challenge. The boys finally manage to put aside their differences and worked together in order to save their fathers from an apparent threat in the Batcave, but this later turns out to be a ruse. At this point, Alfred Pennyworth declares them to be the Super Sons.

Not long after his graduation from high school a creature from his father's past returns... Doomsday. Jon was told to remain in the Fortress while his father left to defend Metropolis. Jon watched on the Fortress' monitors as his mother was killed when Doomsday destroyed the building, before a man appeared that looked like his father lobotomized the creature using his heat vision. This angered Jon since he knew his father would never do such a thing. He went to the vault and removed the suit that his parents had designed for him and put it on. For years he had been Superboy, now he was going to become Superman.

Notes -

1. Theme.
2. Superhero.
3. Feel Invincible.

The only item that Jon was able to take with him when leaving the Earth he had known his whole life was a picture of his mom and dad's wedding which she had somehow managed to bring with her from Earth-247.


Aptitude

Intelligence: 95/100

Strength: 100/100

Speed: 95/100

Durability: 100/100

Power/Energy Projection: 100/100

Combat: 85/100

For GM's approval.
 
The Red Sun

Out of curiosity, what is it about a "Red Sun" that depowers Superman-types? Is it the visible spectrum light (e.g. Red light in general hurts or drains superman)? Or is there some undiscussed, special radiation emitted?

Also, is it established in cannon if superman-types internal organs are as durable as their exterior? Is it only the shell that's invulnerable?

As for surviving outside the atmosphere, are they just able to hold their breath for a really long time (like their lungs are essentially pressurized oxygen tanks)? Or do they not actually need to breath (oxygenate) so long as they have solar power stored up in their cells? I could see them not needing to breath, as the major use of oxygen is to generate energy...and it sounds like Kryptoians have a special mechanism to highly efficiently store solar energy (better than plants).
 
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Out of curiosity, what is it about a "Red Sun" that depowers Superman-types? Is it the visible spectrum light (e.g. Red light in general hurts or drains superman)? Or is there some undiscussed, special radiation emitted?

A red sun is not as strong in the pure energy output as a yellow sun. It isn't that a red sun really depowers Kryptonians/Daxamites, it just doesn't provide the same strength as a yellow sun. It tends to muddy up the output of stored yellow solar rays as well, weakening and slowly depowering them. The longer you keep them in Red or dimmer solar rays the weaker they become.

That being said the comics tend to forget this and have it be an immediate depowering. In the comics they also tend to have red solar rays hurt Kryptonians/Daxamites. It ought to be a more enfeebling effect than an actual damage in my opinion.
 
So can they recharge under a UV lamp like you can grow plants or is there something special/magical about suns?
 
So can they recharge under a UV lamp like you can grow plants or is there something special/magical about suns?

In the Supergirl show they have used the lamps. In comics they have as well. They have also used mechanical "boosters", usually some some of modification to costumes to boost the solar signal up to yellow. Although those tend to be fairly fragile.
 
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