Name: Jamie Voss - Codename: K.O.
Power: Heroic Form Brick - Four-armed 9' tall tank with super strength.
Background: Jamie was born in the small town of Ryder, Texas, which is about an hour northwest of the greater Houston area. Her parents both teach at a local community college; one being an arts teacher, her father and her mother being an economics and mathematics professor. She wants to become a hero as she feels it is her destiny, like those military warrior geniuses she idolizes from past history.
Jamie is a geek and something of a genius prodigy when it comes to strategy and tactics. To say she's a student of history or a history 'buff', is an understatement. She's studied at length all of history's recorded battles and wars that made differences, or stand out as changing history. She also has a thing for past women warriors. She's finishing her degree in military history, and loves strategy board games, as well as strategic challenges.
Her heroic form manifested itself when she was 12. She tripped over her pajama pants while walking down the stairs at home and instantly transformed into K.O. She destroyed a wall and a good portion of the stairs and could only explain it to her parents by showing them. After a few years of keeping this quiet, they finally decided to sign her up for the school in Overton at the appropriate age; to get her degree in her love of history of course.
Family & NPCs: Abraham and Sara Voss are big city folk who moved to the smaller town when they learned a baby was coming. They transferred to the local community college then for the hours and less stress. They have been there ever since. Her father's hobbies are attending civil war reenactments, and more recently WWII reenactments, as a reenactor of course. Jamie used to go to these when she was young, but left the hobby to her father when her teen years hit.
Her mother often gives Jamie details of the mathematics and logistics involved in some famous battles of the past, things most people overlook or just never hear about. Her mother's vice is horses, and they own three. Her mother often rides in amateur competitions and her dad uses his horse for his Calvary reenactments.
Friend - Her longtime friend of her same age, since school began in kindergarten, is Cody Sparks. Yes, that's his name. He's a geek like her, and they went to Prom as just friends. It's always been just that, but secretly, Cody has a thing for Jamie and would marry her in a heartbeat.
Description: Jamie is a 5'5" slender ginger. She's relatively average save her grey-blue eye color that has her stand out more than the average ginger. She's tenacious and not afraid to speak her mind if she feels she really knows what she's talking about. In her heroic form she is able to morph her body into a 9' tall version of herself - if that version was extremely muscular, had four arms, and had a skin tone and form of polished ebony stone that is.
Personality: Jamie has rarely met anyone she couldn't strike up a conversation with. This mostly comes from her inherit drive to learn new things. Her hobbies are collecting and playing strategy and war-based board games, and attending reenactments whenever possible. She loves old war memorabilia, and uniforms. She always has some kind of throw back military garb worn on her person.
She likes people that like to work together, and really loves being a part of a team. She tends to highly dislike those who dismiss others and their contributions and think they, or what they represent, are the only people that matter. She has been told she is a natural leader, and should pursue a war college or similar higher education. Given her heroic abilities, she can't quite see how that would work out.
"I think you're a bit young to be a solder, at least to earn those jump wings. If they aren't yours, do they belong to anyone you know?", the elderly gentlemen says as he turns from his view of the plane he and Jamie are about to board.
"Oh. No. You got me. These belonged to my Uncle. He was a Ranger. LRRPs unit until he retired a few years back. This is one of his old fatigue shirts he gave me." She noted his veteran's ball cap from WWII and asked, "You ever jump?"
Turning more towards her he smiled and said, "No, no. I was one of those who wanted jumping to be the last thing I did. Ever."
Jamie smiled and move a seat closer to him. She knew what he meant, being a student of history. "Were you a pilot, or crewman? What aircraft?"
"Pilot. P-40s, and P-51s in the World War 2. Never had to jump, though came close, really close one time", he said as she shook his head with a big smile.
"You actually had to put your chute on?", she asked, knowing that in those planes he had it on at all times. She was fully immersed in what he had to say and her heart was racing a bit in anticipation of this first person recount of an actual event in WWII.
"Always had our chute on in those days. Weren't no staying in your seat like the later single cockpit machines that would come. Yeah. I was over Germany in a P-51 and took some serious hits from flak guns. I looked out and my engine had been hit so bad I could actually see a bunch of the pistons going up and down, a bit part of the engine casing was just gone.
She finally sputtered and died and I crawled out onto the wing so I could slip off and miss the tail like we were trained to do, and she just sputtered and came back to life. So, I scrambled back into the cockpit and flew on. Then she died again and I finally had to crawl back out on the wing to jump. You know... I crawled out on that wing 3 times before I finally got back to the airfield?"
He smiled and pointed slightly at Jamie. "Didn't have to jump though."
It had started when they were both in the Library, and Jamie had seen Thomas selecting a book. She had informed him that it was full of historical inaccuracies and he had said the author was good at telling a story, and the back and forth had gotten heated, but remained polite.
They began to hang out more and more and now refer to each other as friends to other people. Whether it will remain that way, or turn romantic, time will tell.
Last edited by Drachenspirit; 02-05-2019 at 11:15 AM.
Okay anyone who's read the books, is my application's power theme acceptable?
The only concern I have with it is the ability to go BACK in time... but as long as it's only for like, localized healing purposes and not for the purposes of changing the past -- an event that would require a power potent enough to be a plot device in and of itself, in my opinion -- then I'm not as concerned about it.
You're effectively a speedster that uses localized time dilation as the medium rather than just moving really fast.
Yep! Got it in one! "Going Back" is entirely just a rewind of a person's physical state to heal them, and it also explains healing 'uncurable' injuries or dismemberment.
I also had made sure that his Pre/Post cognition powers were uncontrolled, so you can take the reins with those, as it should be.
Last edited by Runetide; 01-14-2019 at 12:42 AM.
So, is it possible for children to inherit their powers from a parent, or are they truly unique? Basically I was looking at a character that is the son of a thermokinetic that has one part of that power set. I've got an idea for fluffing it as completely unique, but it does feel a little wonky and highly fortuitously coincidental, even for superhero lore.
Children have unique powers but generally with a similar aspect to their parents.
For example in the fiction Captain Starlight ends up with one descendant who can generate force fields made of light and another who creates fields full of shadow blades (star light and the darkness between it?).
Last edited by Moridain; 01-14-2019 at 05:20 AM.
Given the you the bare bones of my app.
Power: Cold Generation. His body can perform thermosynthesis using endothermic reactions, absorbing the heat around him.
Colin was born and raised near Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. His family runs a souvenir shop (read tourist trap) at a fishing hole just outside the city, to which he and his two brothers helped out in from a young age. One of their little business tricks was going out during ice fishing season and selling thermoses of hot cocoa and coffee to the fishermen.
It was during one of these rounds that he discovered his powers, namely when he opened up his bag to find his entire stock for that round cold to the touch. He returned to get some more, figuring he must have grabbed the wrong ones or something, but as he was pouring a fresh batch of coffee into one of the thermoses, it started freezing while he was pouring it. Needless to say, he proceeded to, very calmly and very rationally, freak out. For a grand total of two minutes, at which point his older brother walked in, carefully assessed the situation, then burst out laughing before walking over and heating up the now thoroughly frozen coffee with his hands. Upon seeing Colin's very confused expression, his brother called for their father, who explained his own capabilities as a direct thermokinetic, and showed Colin how to control his powers.
After that, Colin quickly became everyone's best friend when the days got too hot during the summer (and gym classes). His brother eventually went off to train to be a hero at Sizemore Tech, and like a normal younger brother, Colin decided to follow in his brother's footsteps, although choosing to go to Overton instead, as he wasn't exactly keen on the idea of being in quite as large a city as Chicago.
Description: Colin is about 5'9 and boasts the build of an outdoorsman. His brown hair, while not excessively long, does have a bit more length than a standard male cut, and his eyes are a darker blue. He has a habit of wearing shorts and t-shirts, mostly because Overton is far warmer than home.
Personality: Colin's usually pretty laid back, although he can get wrapped up in the fun of competition at times. He enjoys hunting and card games, and can probably be blamed for a rise in euchre's popularity at the school. He does have a bit of an issue with crowds however, and tries to avoid being in large ones, especially if in small rooms.
Colin couldn't help but roll his eyes at the scene before him: two tourists, screaming about the ice giving way, caught with their four-wheelers in newly formed ice mound at the end of the only solid ice sheet on the lake.
“When the sign says the ice is too thin, it's usually got a point,” He stated almost lazily. “You were lucky to pick this particular lake.” He pulled a thermos and two sturdy plastic cups out of the bag he had on his back and, with clearly practiced motion, proceeded to pour each of the now slightly calmer men a cup of coffee.
Since it was asked via PM, Applications will close somewhere around the end of the first week of February. I'll be on vacation during that time and I'll have enough time to go over apps in detail and finalize a team of 4.
Oh, something that was bugging me as a Physicist. I know in comic books Magnet People rip the iron out of people’s blood all the time, but actually the iron in someone’s blood is bonded to various compounds in the body. The overall effect is that blood-iron is temporarily made weakly paramagnetic/diamagnetic depending on if it’s bonded to oxygen at the moment or not.
Meaning that for Magneto (or Gauss) to actually steal all of the iron out of someone’s blood he has to create a magnetic field so powerful that the victim’s flesh is reduced to mush from how the chemistry has been affected anyway.
Last edited by GleefulNihilism; 01-16-2019 at 04:12 PM.
Is also not going to happen, she has nowhere near that kind of fine control. She could draw the water from the lungs of a drowning victim, but that's about it. She's not so good with water that's mixed with other stuff on a molecular level, though siphoning water from a sediment like purifying muddy water is no problem.
LOL. Yes, have seen that one in my searches.