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| Topic Started: Nov 8 2012, 08:26 AM (2,515 Views) | |
| Speed | Nov 8 2012, 08:26 AM Post #1 |
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Superspeed
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[align=center]PLAYER INFORMATION[/align] NAME: Terry CONTACT: AIM, PM (Vanisher) HOW YOU FOUND US: I’m here and you’re not getting rid of me now OTHER CHARACTERS ON THE SITE Cloak, Vanisher, Silver Samurai, Druid RULES CODE: Blackbird CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE: Conner’s app, Will’s app, Wiccan’s app, Marvel Wiki and Comic Vine [align=center]CHARACTER INFORMATION[/align] [align=center] ![]() Steven R McQueen is Tommy Shepherd [/align] BASIC INFORMATION CANON OR ORIGINAL: Canon AFFILIATION: New X-Men FULL NAME: Tommy Shepherd CODENAME: Speed NICKNAMES: Tommy CURRENT AGE: Nineteen DATE OF BIRTH: March 22nd 1993 MARITAL STATUS: Single SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Heterosexual BASE OF OPERATIONS: Worthington Complex TIME AT INSTITUTE: A little over three years REGISTERED WITH SHIELD? No HOMETOWN: Springfield, New Jersey KNOWN RELATIVES: Adoptive Family: Frank Shepherd (Adoptive Father) Mary Shepherd (Adoptive Mother) Biological Family: Wanda Maximoff | Scarlet Witch (Mother) ??? | ???(Father) Billy Kaplan | Wiccan (Twin Brother) Pietro Maximoff | Quicksilver (Maternal Uncle) Lorna Dane | Polaris (Maternal Aunt) Erik Lehnsherr | Magneto (Maternal Grandfather) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE HEIGHT: 5’ 11” BUILD: Athletic EYES: Gray-blue HAIR: White and well-kept DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Other than the fact white hair tends to stick out. No. CLOTHING STYLE: To sum up Tommy’s clothing style, he goes to great effort to make it look like he makes little to no effort. Baggy jeans, loose fitting t-shirt and baseball caps are all part of the look Tommy goes for. If he thinks he can impress a girl with it though he will also dress up and wear smarter clothes, it’s these times when it becomes most apparent how much time he takes to get ready, though to a speedster; that time is no more than a blink of an eye. UNIFORM: Tommy’s uniform consists of a form fitting green body suit, that has silver strikes through it. The suit has been built to withstand the incredibly high levels of friction that comes with moving at the speeds that Tommy moves at. Tommy also wears a pair of orange goggles which protect his eyes from dust, bugs and from drying out when moving at high speeds. POWERS GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Superspeed: Like his Uncle Pietro, the result of his mutant gene has given him the ability to think and move at superhuman speeds. The top speed that he can run at is not known at present due to having many years ahead for him to hone his powers but at present he is capable of breaking the sound barrier. When moving at such speeds he is easily capable of running across the surface of water. His fine motor skills are not impeded as he moves faster; as a result he is capable of performing tasks like assembling objects and operating computers at speeds far beyond that of a normal human. His senses are also not affected by the speed at which he moves, meaning he can both see and hear easily while running, however when running faster than the speed of sound he is unable to talk as he the sound is unable to catch up with him. As a result of being able to move incredibly fast, far faster than any baseline human can imagine to move his body has had undergo a series of adaptations; as such his resting heart, breathing and metabolism are all much higher than that of a normal person. Prolonged periods of running can also lead to a greater level of exhaustion than that of a normal person, causing him to require periods of downtime so he can recover from his outbursts. Molecular Acceleration: Tommy is also capable of accelerating the atoms within an object, by generating hyperkinetic vibrations within an object, when Tommy targets an item with these vibrations he is capable of causing the item to explode. Despite having practiced with this power, he struggles to focus these vibrations and so he finds using this power quite draining on his stamina and so he tries to do it as little possible. Hyperkinetic Phasing: Tommy is also capable of focusing the hyperkinetic vibrations on himself or a small group of two or three people and use the vibrations to allow himself or himself to phase through solid objects. However at present Tommy can’t use the molecular acceleration to a safe degree to try practicing it on himself or others and so this power is unavailable to him currently. WEAKNESS: There are three main weaknesses that come with being a speedster for Tommy; the first of those is sharp corners: if he is unable to factor in a change of direction in advance enough he will not be able to make the turn and if he tries to force a turn he will more than likely end up falling which risks injury to himself. The second of these weaknesses is that because of the high metabolism he has to eat a lot and often to keep himself fuelled up. If he doesn’t he will grow tired, and will be unable to run for very long. Lastly because Tommy is living in a different gear to everyone else, he often gets frustrated when things are moving too slowly for him which can and has seen him bounce between hobbies, friends and even girlfriends on the spur of a moment. On top of these power specific weaknesses, Tommy has all the weaknesses that any nineteen year old boy who works out regularly would have, including susceptibility to sickness, weapons, telepathic attacks and all manner of mutant powers. PERSONALITY Tommy is most often defined by the traits that are seen on a daily basis; he is a young man that likes to have fun and doesn’t let anyone hold him back. He is loud, outgoing, sarcastic and a show-off he will admit to it. He likes to think of himself as a ladies man whether he is always successful at it is another thing though. He is known to be flippant and cocky when it comes to facing opponents; whether through over confidence in his own ability or whether he just believes himself to be untouchable has yet to be determined. Despite all his flaws there are two major factors that are driving his life forward; his desire to do good which as a result of experiences during his short life leads him to be vocal about mutant rights, and his need for someone to care for him. The latter could be a result of the revelations of his birth and not really knowing who his true parents are as he has yet to develop a meaningful relationship with Wanda since finding out she was his real mum. This is something he is hoping to fix after his ordeal with the Skrull. With Tommy it boils down to that he is a good hearted young man, but he is own worst enemy when his mouth shouts off before he has fully thought through the consequences of what he is saying. His capture, detainment and subsequent replacement by the Skrull have left their mark on the boy, while he is not a quivering wreck; he suffers from nightmares about what happened to him during his time on Skrullos. Like all wounds this can be healed with time, but with being Speedster he puts added pressure onto himself as the world moves that much slower to him to him, often leading to frustration at himself. HISTORY: PRE-APOCALYPSE Nineteen years ago there was a boy called Tommy with no parents he was adopted by Frank and Mary Shepherd of Springfield, New Jersey who would raise him as their own son. While Tommy was a handful, he was not trouble prone except for the occasional scrap at school or occasional accident, and so Tommy’s pre-pubescent life could be labelled as normal. That however changed when Tommy hit puberty, his view of the world changed and opening him up to a whole new experience; girls, he was enamoured by them and would do anything to impress them. During his high school freshman year, home coming dance. He approached the current flavour of the moment whose name happened to be Ashley Poole, asking her to dance she accepted and the pair moved onto the dance floor. As they were dancing, Tommy became unusually nervous for him; this feeling of nervousness caused his mutant gene to trigger. As he danced, he began to move much faster than Ashley, to the point where he was moving at an uncontrollable speed, no longer able to hold onto Ashley as he moved faster and faster; everything he touched seeming to fall apart within his hands. After the dance, the school decided to press charges of criminal vandalism and had him arrested. As a result he was sentenced to one year in juvenile detention. Serving out his sentence he did his best to avoid trouble, however being the new guy and a mutant who couldn’t yet control his powers more often than not trouble found him. As a result he would spend periods of time within solitary confinement, where the guards would beat him when his powers flared up. Finally released he returned to his home in Springfield; however the Tommy that returned home wasn’t the Tommy that left home when he was sentenced. Struggling to fit in, and his parents unsure what to do with him they enrolled him at Xavier’s school for gifted children. DURING APOCALYPSE (April 7th through April 12th, 2009) Arriving at the school just a day before the Apocalypse broke out; Tommy hadn’t been able to settle in at the school when the world was plunged into darkness. During the main attacks he remained with the students in the school, trying to carry on as best they could while the world around them was getting ever darker. During this time, Tommy encountered an adult by the name of Pietro, who Tommy initially believed to be a future version of him, sent back to stop something bad happening. During this meeting Tommy also met Pietro’s sister; Wanda. Both of whom stirred up unfamiliar feelings in Tommy that he couldn’t quite place. When the school was evacuated, Tommy was with the rest of the students being taken to Graymalkin 1, upon arrival he would use his powers to help move those students who couldn’t move to where they needed to be. POST-APOCALYPSE Following the Apocalypse, Tommy would face a crisis much closer to his own home. The arrival of his new roommate, lead to confusion and heated words when the pair came face to face for the first time due to both boys looking identical, save for Tommy’s white hair. The pair went straight to Hank McCoy who was unable to run tests on them at the time, due to his supplies being used by the police following Apocalypse’s attack. So for the time being a hesitant truce was called between the pair until the tests could be carried out, despite Billy believing that Tommy was in fact his doppelgänger. Things were relatively quiet for the next two months, Tommy and Billy maintained some semblance of peace, while Tommy also began to look at Pietro more and more as a role model. Things would all change in mid-September when after Pietro’s defection to the Brotherhood, Tommy sets out to track down Pietro. Using some of the elder speedster’s own tricks he managed to find him, the resultant discussion of how Tommy needs to see Pietro as a traitor leaving Tommy in distress. Returning to the school he grabs Billy and drags him to medical where Hank finally runs the DNA test on the pair, revealing in front of Avery that Tommy and Billy are indeed of immediate family and that they were direct descendants of Magneto. Leading the twins to believe that they were his son’s which repulsed the pair. The next two months would see Tommy and Billy reveal to Lorna that they were her brothers, as well as the pair using Billy’s powers to travel to Murderworld to speak to their father, however they gained little information for their troubles, having been captured by the Brotherhood the pair would have been killed had it not been for Pietro who told them when to escape. Managing to get safely back to the school, Tommy had no choice but to return to whatever semblances of normal life they had. Wanda however was struggling under the burden of Pietro’s betrayal leading her to take on a persona known as Loki, using her powers she began granting wishes to those that asked of them; both the good and the bad side of them. Tommy was not one of the ones granted a wish by Loki; however he was in the area, seeing someone threaten Wanda, Tommy used his powers to get behind Wanda and knock her unconscious. Under instruction from a man known as Doctor Strange, Tommy took Wanda to Strange’s Sanctum. Within the sanctum, Strange tended to Wanda making her as comfortable as possible, it was here Tommy learnt that Wanda had used her powers to create a world for herself. With Wiccan’s and Doctor Strange’s help, they were able to move into the realm that Wanda had constructed for herself; which was a utopia for her family. Everyone was there Pietro, Avery and their two children, along with Magneto and finally Wanda and her two young children that looked suspiciously like Tommy and Billy. Tommy for once tried the softly, softly; Billy however was unable to given how Wanda had preached to him about using his powers. As the Wanda’s world began to fall about as she was forced to confront that which she had tried to escape from. It was during this collapse in the world that the truth came out about Tommy and Billy being Wanda’s sons. Believing she had no other choice she created a portal sending the two children back in time to the points where they were adopted by their respective families, the only mystery still unanswered was who was the boys father. With Doctor Strange's help both Tommy and Billy together were able to lead her out of the world and back into the real world. Despite the revelations, and the fact that the twins worlds had once again been turned on its head once again. Things did manage to return to normal Tommy continued his studies at the school while developing his powers. During this time Tommy was dating Kim Parker and he began leaving the school running to wherever he felt like it; dubbing them “mini vacations” as he could leave and be back at the school before anyone would notice. It was during one of these mini-vacations that Tommy met with the acolyte known as Spitfire, despite being in a relationship with Kimmy still, the pair began flirting and one thing led to another and the pair kissed. With two relationships on the go at once, the events of WWX began, to add even more excitement to Tommy’s life. Tommy’s counterpart used the codename of Blur. He was a street rat that ran with Ruby Summers’ crew. During the cross overs Blur would deliver information to Ruby on who exactly he was dealing with. While Speed was within the real world that he came from, he was attacked by the WwX version of Julian Keller, known as Hellion the attack leaving Tommy battered and bruised sealing a long standing rivalry between the pair. Tommy would also rescue Jac during the crossovers, the pair would then go on to help bring down onslaught and end the threat to their world. With the two worlds no longer colliding, Tommy and Kimmy broke up after it was revealed that Tommy had been cheating on Kimmy. Tommy and Jac would continue to see each other as their relationship continued to grow; both of them however staying with their respective factions despite their relationship. Subsequently Tommy’s relationship with Jac would push Tommy’s relationship with Billy to breaking point after the events at Murderworld; due to Tommy worrying more about whether Jac was safe and uninjured over his family members. With a changed Pietro returning to the school and placed in custody there, Tommy would speak to his uncle on New Year ’s Eve of 2010, not getting the answers that he wanted he met with Jac at the ruins of Murderworld. It was during this meeting that Tommy tells Jac that he is going to leave the school and that he wants to go to Sanctuary with her, which she agrees to. Upon arrival at Sanctuary both Tommy and Jac are greeted by Magneto. Despite not being welcomed with open arms, Tommy was allowed to stay within Sanctuary, he was given his own apartment in the citadel. Despite being there Tommy struggled to get to grips with being among members of the Brotherhood other than Jac, leading to tensions between the pair. Leaving Tommy with feelings of homesickness, it was during this time that Billy used his powers to teleport directly into Sanctuary to see his twin, Tommy was glad to see Billy but feared that he would be detected by the systems in place within the mutant city, so their conversation did not last long, although afterwards Billy did accept Tommy’s decision more so than he had done before hand. Death and destruction would lead Tommy back to Xavier’s Institute when the suicide attack destroyed the mansion, Tommy helped with the recovery of those children injured and trapped within the ruins of the school. When the Purifiers attack on the ruins began Tommy was in the thick of the fighting with Cyclops, Logan among others. He managed to kill several of the aggressors before he was hit with a nul dart while in a tree, powerless he was ordered by Scott to climb onto the back of his armour suit and use the guns that he was unable to fire. With the attack over as everyone was licking their wounds from the shocking and unrelenting attack on mutant kind, Tommy and Jac split up with Tommy deciding to remain at the school. The following months was a time of healing for everyone following the attacks, especially so for Tommy as he put his life back together in Utopia repairing friends with Joshua, Laurie and his other friends. Though most importantly, he put his relationship with his twin back together. Except for the dinosaurs and the fact that he was essentially living in what is the Lost World now, Tommy’s life eventually got itself back on track moving on from Jac and from the attacks of the Purifiers. However in the November of 2011, during a row with Billy, the reality warping twin placed a hex on his brother that stripped Tommy of his superhuman powers. He had been forced to slow down to the speed of a normal human being, Tommy hated it and on top of this he was given brief glimpses of his powers briefly as they appeared and disappeared. These power fluctuations would last well into the beginning of January 2012, when Tommy had a brief reunion with Jac when she was brought to Utopia following her flight from Sanctuary. In a way typical of Tommy their reunion led to an argument and in the end Tommy was forced to leave, finally closing that chapter of his life once and for all. Three days later Tommy would drag his twin to his uncle Pietro to try and get his uncle to force Billy to fix what he had done with him and if he couldn’t he might have known a way in which the effect could have been reversed. Pietro however did not know a way and before the conversation could finish Tommy experienced another power fluctuation, this time however he had been teleported to the bridge of the SHIELD Hellicarrier, where he met Cassie Lang whom he had went to school with back in New Jersey, with her help he was able to escape the Hellicarrier and get back down to the streets of New York. Sometime following the events on the Helicarrier, Tommy was attacked and captured by Skrull agents. His true self was sent to Skrullos where he was placed in prison, to be experimented on and beaten by the Skrull. While back on Earth, Tommy had been replaced by a Skrull, who was impersonating Tommy perfectly, so much so that even Billy could not tell that the Tommy that was with him was a fake. The fake Tommy would move from Utopia back to New York and on the 4th of April, the Skrull Tommy visited Doctor Strange. Strange saw through the disguise thanks to his abilities and went on to kill the fake Tommy. The body of the Skrull was then taken to X-Factor before being moved up to Box’s laboratory where it was used to help create technology that could be used against the Skrull. Back on Skrullos, Tommy was kept in the prison along with the rest of the mutant population that had been captured, occasionally he was taken out of his cell to be experimented on but mostly he remained in his cell. When Doctor Strange appeared in the prison and released everyone, Tommy joined in with the escape aiding against the Skrull where he could. Later on he would, he would continue to aid the escapee’s in their raids against various Skrull targets on their home world until they were rescued by the Hellfire Club and returned to Earth. Arriving in the Hellfire Club, Tommy stayed with those that were preparing their attack on the Skrull fleet. Tommy went with the other mutants and helped to fight off the Skrull forces as the X-Men and others were non-complacent began spreading the cure across the city. He managed to escape injury by making the most of his powers, once again he helped with the clean up after the fighting had stopped ferrying those injured to where they needed to be. Following the end of the invasion, Tommy was promoted to the New X-Men team, moving to the Worthington complex so he can be close to his mum and still be with his friends, as he worked on putting the events of being a captive in an alien prison on an alien world behind him. SAMPLE RP POST: Time: 3:42am Date: Shortly after the Skrull invasion It wasn’t the first time that Thomas Shepherd had had his powers supressed. Not six months before, his twin William had lashed out with his reality changing powers placing a hex on the young speedster and as a result Thomas had lost them completely and when they started to come back he was unable to control them. Like an engine backfiring, he got glimpses of them, but they were unstable and far between. While he had his freedom he could cope with the lack of powers but the Skrull had gone a step further than his brother, they had taken his freedom and were doing their best to break his spirit, however he held out hope that his family would be here eventually with their respective teams to break him and the rest of the prisoners out. Throwing him against the wall of his cell Tommy looked up at the two Skrull guards that were bringing him back from some tests they had been running on him. Wiping away some of the blood that was trickling down from the edge of his mouth. “Heh… that the best you got, ET?” Spitting some of the bloodied saliva at the one of the Skrull guards; issuing a flippant challenge to his guards, for them to up their game. For all his speed he wasn’t the fastest learner when it was the right time to disengage his mouth and let his brain do the thinking. Without hesitation the guard Tommy spat at struck the teen in the stomach knocking the air from his lungs, Tommy let out a cough as the air was forced from his lungs, he wouldn’t let them see how much he was hurting. He was from a line of powerful mutants, nor would he just lay down and behave like a good prisoner that they wanted. Doubling over his chuffed hands rested on his thighs as he gasped for the precious breaths to fill his lungs. Before he could recover the guard had grabbed him by his hair pulling him up, forcing Tommy to stand upright. “You know..” Tommy’s breath was starting to catch up with him, but his first few words were still a little wheezy. “My Grandfather hits harder than you, much harder. Do you know who he is?” Brazen confidence backed up his words; he had no doubt that if Magneto were here the Skrull would be dead or on their knees. “ooough” The guard back handed him this hand, the right side of his face glowing crimson and warm where the hand had struck him, fear was not something that Tommy would entertain, his own arrogance and self-confidence saw to that, as his head was yanked back a flash of Tommy’s ever so charming yet in this instant arrogant smile was caught by the guard; this time the fist would strike his face. THUD! Tommy was awoken from his nightmare by his body crashing onto the floor of his room at the Worthington Complex. His arm hurt where he landed on it; this wasn’t the first time he’d dreamt of different variations of goings on, on Skrullos it’d be a rare night if the prison left him alone completely. His grand rescue hadn’t come at the hands of the family members that he’d expected to rescue him; in fact none of his family were there at all, it had been left to the Hellfire club to bring him home something that had confused the young mutant and left him feeling more than a little abandoned. The truth was they had been busy doing their part in ending the short Skrull reign on Earth rather than worrying about the life of one, he was young and he didn’t know what Pietro and Wanda had been doing in the time stream. But still he couldn’t help but feel a little bit bitter that they had left him for so long to rot in that cell. “Cheese dreams.” Wrinkling his nose, as he spoke to himself. For the simple reason of reassuring himself and making everything feel normal. “No more nachos with extra cheese and peppers before bed.” Glancing up at the alarm clock, it was hours still before it would get light again. Within a blink of an eye he raced round untangling himself, before going to bed he stopped in front of the window to get a good look out at the city, somewhere out there in the city was his mother; was she in the undercity with X-Factor or was she somewhere saving the world it didn’t matter, she wasn’t where he needed her to be. Despite what he may say; his mind was betraying his age. With another quick movement he moved from the window bedding in hand, within moments he was back in his bed with his duvet covering him. “Sleep, Sleep, Sleep.” Speaking to himself in his faster than normal way, it wasn’t coming quick enough and he wanted to just will himself to sleep; this time a dreamless one preferably. Come light he would go looking for his mother. |
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| Speed | Nov 8 2012, 08:27 AM Post #2 |
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Superspeed
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everyone mentioned, I've spoken to and got approval from to mention in the app. |
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| Selene | Nov 8 2012, 06:05 PM Post #3 |
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Life Essence Absorption/ Shadowform
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I don't see any issues here. I could pick nits but you've been here long enough so I trust you. [S T A M P] |
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| Wanda | Nov 8 2012, 08:43 PM Post #4 |
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My dearest beloved son, you know I love more than life and though I personally am not overly concerned about school subjects, the WORLD is a far better school, I must point something out to you.
My dear sweet boy, Pietro and I are 27 years old, we were born in 1985. Mathematics holds no interest for me but 19 years ago Pietro and I were 8 years old. Who teaches math at that school you go to? Is it that Scott Summers man? Perhaps your uncle Pietro would be a better teacher. Confused, my darling? You did have the answer later.
Knowing that I could not be a good parent to you both, I created a portal back through time and sent Baby Billy and Baby Tommy through it to be adopted by good families, the Shepherds and Kaplans. And your father is still a mystery yet to be solved. *kiss* |
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| Speed | Nov 8 2012, 10:20 PM Post #5 |
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Edits made, sorry about that. |
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| Volt | Nov 14 2012, 08:56 AM Post #6 |
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Electrokinesis / Cloned Origin
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