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| Topic Started: Mar 2 2013, 06:39 PM (620 Views) | |
| William | Mar 2 2013, 06:39 PM Post #1 |
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CODE [align=center]PLAYER INFORMATION[/align] NAME: Joshua Powell CONTACT: Skype: Josh9222 HOW YOU FOUND US: Internet search on Invision OTHER CHARACTERS ON THE SITE N/A RULES CODE: Blackbird CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE: Picture used of “Jeremy Renner” [align=center]CHARACTER INFORMATION[/align] [align=center] [/align]BASIC INFORMATION CANON OR ORIGINAL: Original AFFILIATION: X-Men FULL NAME: William Terry CODENAME: Reflexive strike NICKNAMES: Bill CURRENT AGE: 28 DATE OF BIRTH: March 17th 1985 MARITAL STATUS: Single SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Bi-sexual BASE OF OPERATIONS: New York TIME AT INSTITUTE: N/A REGISTERED WITH SHIELD? No HOMETOWN: Ballincollig, Cork, Ireland KNOWN RELATIVES: John Terry: Older brother, deceased during timeframe of “Apocalypse” PHYSICAL APPEARANCE HEIGHT: 6’ 1” BUILD: Well built muscular body... not exactly “ripped”. EYES: Piercing, light blue eyes HAIR: Dark brown hair, normally combed business style. DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Celtic unity type tattoo located on left shoulder. CLOTHING STYLE: Black sneakers, or dress shoes, black slacks accompanied by a white collared shirt and black leather coat which normally remains open. UNIFORM: Black boots and black leather pants with a crimson red leather coat. POWERS Reflexivity control: William has the ability to "control" cause and effect. By using this ability, he is able to calculate probabilities of equations, or formulas and make sense of them to make sure that they work the way their supposed to every time. Battle: In a fight, William is able to watch the moves of his attacker, and react accordingly each time, which can allow for a flawless fight. Every day life: William enjoys playing games such as chess where he can watch each move his opponent makes, and then calculate, and perform the correct counter. He also uses this ability to create drinks... which he takes in regularly. All he needs to do is look at an ingredient label on drinks, or other consumables and then calculate exactly how much of each ingredient would be used to come out with the ideal end. GENERAL DESCRIPTION: William is a mute, so he primarily uses sign language to communicate with others. Along with Williams powers, he also has skills in martial arts including unarmed combat, use of the bo staff, and straight edged long sword. WEAKNESS: In Battle: 1. William is human, and therefor has a human body... Even though he can calculate each move, and respond correctly his body still gets tired, and depending on how long the fight goes, his body can become extremely fatigued. If he get to tired he will no longer be able to fight correctly, which will then cause him to become dizzy and become unconscious. This can also at times cause massive seizures if his body uses to much strength. At the current time he can hold his own for around 2 hours without assistance. With assistance he can go up to 6 hours. All of this is based on his top physical health, and condition which he keep up constantly. 2. William must be able to see his attacker, as he can only calculate the moves if he see's them. This causes problems if he is in a position where he must fight multiple opponents at once and on his own. 3. William must also have the knowledge of how to attack the opponent depending on what fighting style the other uses. (Example) If the opponent pulled out a gun, and William didn't know how to defend himself, it would leave him vulnerable to the attack. Every day life: As with #3 in (Battle), William must have at least a basic understanding of what he is trying to do. (Example) If William is put into a boat, and down a river he must have at least glanced at how to use the boat to make proper moves to guide it. PERSONALITY Before "Apocalypse" William was a very shy young man. Having been born a mute there were many that bullied him, even as he grew up. He considered his older brother John to be... somewhat of a protector for him. William wouldn't take much time for friends, as he didn't know what he could expect from others he didn't know, and found that John would be the only one he would ever need. This feeling increased when William was 12 years old, and his parents were killed in a car crash. After this happened, John who was at the time 27 years old volunteered to take William to live with him. As William got into his late teens, he would be forced into finding friends of his own as his brother would become very busy running a large business organization he and a friend has created together. William was still quite shy, but, as he was forced to find others he could be with, he quickly found it easier to do so. William dislikes fighting, as he doesn't wish to hurt anyone. However, with the martial arts that he learned growing up with his brother, he learned the rule "We only fight to protect our lives and the lives of others". Making this a true guideline for his life, William never fights for sport, and will only fight for the defense of his life or that of others who cannot defend themselves, or are fighting with William for what he considers would be a good cause. HISTORY: PRE-APOCALYPSE William was born to Mark and Elizabeth Terry in Ballincollig, Cork Ireland in 1985. In his early life, William was bully’d severely by the children, and even the adults in town... even his parents didn’t do very much to avoid it, only because “Bill” kept it all to himself. His older brother John quickly became his protector, almost never leaving his side as they grew up together. At the age of 12 years old, William and John’s parents perished in a vehicle accident, and John who was in his early mid 20’s at the time decided to bring up his younger brother. It was at this time that John decided to teach William the Korean martial art of “Kuk Sool Won”, and teach him about body building. About a year later was when William noticed it... his powers finally broke through the surface. William had decided, against his brothers wishes to try working out on his own, so in the basement of his brothers house, he laid down on his back and lifted the weight on the bench press. Almost as soon as we was on position, John walked down the stairs and scolded his little brother for not obeying the rules he has laid down. William quickly got up, and John replaced his brother on the bench. As he put his hands onto the bar, John lifted the pole... but then felt his arm almost instantly give out on him. In that split second before the bar could fall on his brothers chest, William somehow saw exactly how to react, and grabbed the pole tightly... All this happened right as his brothers arm had given out. Throughout the years, until William was 18, he found that he could do with these abilities. He gained a fondness for chess, playing quite often with his brother. He enjoyed watching John "squirm" as he knew he had his brother beaten in just the first few moves... even though, at times... he did "try" to let his brother win, but Williams calculating mind got the better of him each time. In 2008 at 23 years old... at the behest of his older brother John, William wanted to go out “exploring” however, by this he meant... leave Ireland. He had heard about strange occurrences, and people showing up in America, and with an insatiable curiosity, William left for New York city on April 1st 2008, unaware as to what his new adventure would turn out to be. DURING APOCALYPSE (April 7th through April 12th, 2009) At 8AM in a small apartment in New York on April 7th 2009, William woke up to a skype call from his brother John... but this was not one he expected. William heard a frantic speech coming from his normally very calm older sibling saying “Bill... brother, I don’t have a lot of time... Don’t be afraid little brother *heavy breath*... You’ll be ok. Never change, and never let them win... I love you little.......” With that, the call was done. William tried several times to call John again, but without any response. He then heard something coming from outside... SCREAMS!!! As he got to his feet, William heard a frantic rambling on his door. As William ran, barely dressed, he assessed the immediate situation by extending his powers out to the other side of the door... and found a young man he had never known with bleeding boils breaking out all over his face! William quickly opened the door to help the young man, ignoring what might happen to him... but just as he pulled the door open, the young man lost consciousness, and fell to Williams feet. As William saw this, he quickly... and carefully dragged the fallen young man to his bed, and tried as hard as he could to clean the boys wounds. William then tried to call emergency services all around the area, but all lines were busy. Bill so very much wanted to find out what was happening to his brother, but he knew that John would want his attention on the young lad on his bed... and that’s where it would be. ...But then, just a few hours later... the young man died. William, without any thought for his own life finally got dressed, and ran outside to help others who might be sick or hurt. About an hour after leaving his apartment, William spotted another young man being attacked by a group of 3, ugly looking men screaming “KILL ALL MUTANTS... THE DEATH BRINGERS!!!!!” William ran towards the men, and grabbed a large piece of wood which he used as a bo staff. He knew that he could react to each move these men made, and defeat them... but it wasn't enough. Two of the men got behind him, and hit him over the head... Luckily however, they did not stay after this as the panic in the streets grew fiercer. The next thing he knew, Bill was in a dimly, candle lit room with a tall man in a Dr’s mask standing over him, and the young man from the street standing next to him. It took a moment for William to come out of his happiness that the boy was alright... but when he did, he heard the Dr. saying, “Mr. Terry... Mr. Terry, are you alright?” William was able to sign “I’m alright sir... what happened?... Where am I?”. The man standing above him, apparently understood sign language and responded saying “You’re at my home son, you’ve been here a day now... You’ve missed the war.” William looked at the man with a quizzical look. “War?” He signed. With that, the Dr. went to a nearby window, and opened the shade... He then looked outside, and answered in a stern voice... “war” POST-APOCALYPSE The Purifiers: After Apocalypse, it seemed like there would finally be peace... a way to continue his life the way William wanted to... To enjoy life, and help others to enjoy it to... but things didn't go as planned. A new evil came into his life, and the life of all mutants... The purifiers. As with Hitler, William found this group to be nothing but evil. Killing, and destroying lives of people who were simply different. Even his friend Ken, who was the Dr. that watched over him during the recent, dark events was killed in an attack against those who were called the "X-Men"... and all Ken wanted to do was try to save as many lives as he could. William was told to stay behind by his friends, not wanting him to be hurt... but as time continued, he had, had enough... He would join the fight. There was one day that he found a group of mutants called "Morlocks" being attacked... These were only children that seemed to have no defense for themselves. With a great amount of anger in his heart, William raced towards the attackers, and made sure to keep each one in sight as much as possible, and beating down every one he could... However, eventually he fell. His body was to overworked, and the pain was so much, that he fell into a seizure. The next thing William knew, he was back in his apartment, not knowing what had happened, or even how he got back... But he noticed on his single table in his room... there was a picture that was drawn with crayons... Three little children were standing next to a taller figure with a word above it saying "Thank you" and an arrow pointing down at the taller individual... William allowed himself a smile, knowing he had done some good, and would continue to fight for whoever was innocent... being the protector he knew his older brother to once be, and not stopping till this new darkness was taken down. Skrulls: The life of a protector never stops... It was almost right after the battles with the Purifiers had stopped... but William didn't know it all right away. He first noticed something wrong when one of his mutant friends had vanished!... This was someone he had come to know very well, and even fought with him through the many fights with the purifiers... With no message, William began to investigate. With the news being a constant companion of his, William wanted to see if anything else was going on around New York that might explain his friends disappearance... and even though he didn't see what he wanted to, he noticed something even stranger... Mutants all over the state were becoming violent... even to the point where they fought against each other... William continued to watch the news, and knew many of these mutants to be friends of his, and with each other... This shouldn't have been happening. It was at this time that he learned... some kind of plague was raging around the state... Something that went around changing the personalities of these once peaceful individuals... William didn't know why he wasn't effected, but he didn't care, something had to be done. The next day, William went to a corner store very near to his home, and saw 6 or 7 mutants he had met before in passing... They were all fighting against each other, and they were not doing this for fun. William charged to try to stop the fight, but all he did was get knocked down... but he wasn't out. He continued to fight, not for his life, but to try to stop his friends from killing each other. He knew that he couldn't last long, but got them to the point where they couldn't either. He then tried to run home before having a seizure, but didn't make it... He then looked up, and saw a big man in what seemed to be a black rubber suit standing over him. The next thing he knew, William was in another hospital bed. No one was there at the moment, but the TV was on... showing a date of exactly 1 week since he had passed out. As William laid there, he prayed for the protection on his friend that he hadn't seen since the beginning of this attack.. but knew in his heart that he would never see him again. Having had a seizure, the Doctors in charge of William decided not to let him go until this was all figured out... which thankfully, did not take very long. William eventually learned that what had been happening, was the beginning of a global wide control of an alien species called "The Skrull's", and that they had been stopped by several groups of mutants... including the ever popular "X-Men". Even though they were not loved by the general public for their being mutants... William knew that he had to find them... That he had to join them in their fight against the defenseless. The time would be now, and with that, he called the Dr. to help him sign out of the hospital. SAMPLE RP POST: William was sitting at the airport, wondering what was taking the plane so long... He was ready to depart, and the plane should be on time with his watch... William had to convince himself with the thought "Nobody's perfect", even though he thought the airlines should be for getting people everywhere, and for claiming to be the best type of transportation in the world. As he sat there near the window, he realized that he would now be leaving his home... his brother, and everything he had known since birth... He didn't know where he would go, or stay... Oh sure, his plans for the near future was to be in New York, to find why his Mother loved it so much... but he didn't know why. Why was he doing this, what point was there to going to a completely different country then what he had known before. ...Then a thought came to mind. His brother. He had regarded his brother as a protector... and there was that one time that William save John from being crushed underneath the weights of the bench press... John knew... just from this simple thought, that he wanted to protect. He didn't know how this come about, but he knew that destiny had lead him to this, and that he would follow through. |
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| Alix | Mar 3 2013, 02:37 AM Post #2 |
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Telepathy, Telekinesis / Empathy
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Hey Joshua, Thanks so much for applying! There's a few things we need to sort out before we can accept you, but once we get that going you're good to go! Now, technically, telepathy is a banned ability on the site. However, after a bit of poking around, we found that there are some factions that could do for a telepath-- Namely Xcorps, Morlocks, Xfactor, and brotherhood. (listed in order of who could benefit the most to the least) Each faction has it's various details, so you'll need to talk to the faction leader about them if you pick one out. I can also help with that. If you are really wanting to go with Xmen, you'll have to work out another ability. I'm really sorry to do this, there's just alot of telepaths rollin' around that team group right now, so we'd like to balance things out. As for abilities, there's also a few things we need to work out. Telepathic & Psychic: Telepathy falls under the realm of a psychic ability and what you have listed is technically all telepathic abilities. Short distances into the future is, however, a precognitive ability and something that is currently banned. So if you could combine all the aspects of these abilities under telepathic and loose the precog ability, I'd really appreciate it. Beyond that, we need alot more details on his telepathic and telekinetic abilities. How much can he project, how long, how far, how many people? What does straining his abilities do to him, and how long is it until he goes unconscious? When it comes to lifting, how far away does he need to be before he can lift? Is it the closer he is, the more he can manipulate? For an example on how to handle this, I can suggest my own profile for Alix. She's very similar in ability to William (as she was until very recently a mute telepath as well) and you can see some ways to define limits. The same goes for the weaknesses. Imagine it this way. This is your character's stat sheet, so anything and everything that he can possibly do needs to be defined to it's limits here. -- Personality is currently a bit flat-- add some more dimension. How is he normally? How does he feel when he's being forced to fight? How does he deal with close friends? Acquaintances? Since he's mute, how does he feel around normal people? -- As for history, this is something that is partly my own fault (I need to add it into the profile blank) But we also need how he reacted to the purifiers and to the skrulls. Both are discussed in the site history, so if you could add those in, I'll go over your history properly then. Focus on those things this go, and we'll move on from there. Thank you so much for your patience and if you have any questions, please let me know! |
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| William | Mar 3 2013, 08:11 AM Post #3 |
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Hey Alix. The Rewrite is completed... Check it out:). |
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| Alix | Mar 4 2013, 07:19 AM Post #4 |
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Hey Joshua, This may've been me misunderstanding what you were saying in your PM, but the ability you've described here is actually the description for Probability Manipulation and is currently banned for OCs, sadly this isn't like the telepathy one where we'll fudge around it, so I'm going to also have to ask you to change it. If you need help picking a new ability, don't hesitate to ask once again and don't limit yourself to something that no one has. There's -alot- of characters on this site and therefore it's pretty certain that someone on the board is going to have similar powers. Furthermore, again, you need to definitely include alot of detail on your abilities. Go through this list if it helps: -How long can his abilities stay active? -How far can they extend before he is strained? -How many/much people/items/volume/weight can he manipulate before he is exhausted? Without telepathy, it is going to be difficult to play a mute. Not every character is going to speak sign language, so you're going to need to be absolutely certain that you are comfortable playing what will be a constantly difficult situation. When it comes to your history and your sample post, I'm going to ask that you go back through this and analyze your grammatical structures. The over use of ellipses ( ... ) and over use of exclamation points are unnecessary. Furthermore, when it comes to the sample posts we ask that you show the very extent of your character. While our minimum required word limit is 200 words, for your sample we really would like to see more just so that we can get a good understanding of your character in action. I think partly where you're getting stalled is with rushing. You said you wrote the app in 3 hours the last time, and the edits were done pretty quickly as well. There's no need to rush. Now that your app is up, we will be patient as you work through things in order to fit. Read other profiles, gauge what can be done and slowly go back through and edit your profile. Let it sit a while and come back and work some more. I wont be doing another look through until Wednesday, so feel free to take as long as you need on this. I'm available to talk through everything, though, so if you have any questions feel free to reach out to me by PM or aim. |
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| Betsy Braddock | Mar 15 2013, 04:46 PM Post #5 |
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Telepathy (I'm not a bloody ninja)
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Hey Josh, are you still working on this? Please respond to the feedback on this app by March 22nd or it'll be moved to denied due to lack of activity. |
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