the g r e a t e r good | semi-lit | male hero slot open

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the g r e a t e r good

For as long as comic books have existed so have heroes and villains. E n h a n c e d by unhuman abilitys, these are the supercharacters we've all grown up wanting to become.
But there are some in our city.
4 villains, Wrecking the day.
4 heroes, Saving it.

But it all seems too scripted, too perfect.
Not to us, 'the mere mortals', to us it's like all comic books have come true.
But for the heroes and the villains, the g u a r d i a n s of the city, it's all getting a little too predictable.
A fraction of a second before the trigger is pulled, the bullet disappears.
A minute before a forcefield is made, the missile changes course.
What's going on and who is behind it?

When two e p i c rivals join forces for the greater good their world starts to unravel. But in the comic books there's always a twist, and most of the time, it's not the one anybody is wishing for.

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the b a s i c plot

So this is basically set in a big city, A metropolis if you will, and as in all comic books, there are the heroes and the villains, four of each, to be precise. These long established rivals have been at each other’s throats for years, at first it was out of genuine hatred, but recently it is just for the amusement of the public. The heroes and villains have been getting steadily sick of it, yes they save the day, but only because they're expected to. Half of them would rather be living their lives, their 'secret identity' and settling down. But they can't, they are the guardians of the city, it's their job, when someone is endowed with a superhuman ability, they can't just ignore it get on with life, they are either a hero or a villain.
But anyway, enough of their sad little history, now is time for the present. Recently both parties have been noticing something a little... off. When a young girl is about to be shot and the hero is about to dive in, the bullet dissappears. Just as a villain steps in to guard their hideout from the incoming missile, the missile itself changes course. What is going on and why? There's only one way to find out, and whether it be in secret, or in the eyes of the public, the two greatest rivals are going to have to join forces. Villains, meet the Heroes. You're going to have to become well acquainted if you're all going to survive this...

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Before you read this section, bear in mind I have a mini-mod, Wildmagic_warrior. It won't just be me instigating these rules, she's partly in charge too, so watch out, try not to break the rules or you'll us both on your case

r u l e s

Ok, this is simple as, read these five steps and you'll most likely be accepted and stay in this roleplay.

1) Only make one character and make them a good one. - Oh, and I do reserve spots by the way. Yep, they're aren't going to be that many spots in this roleplay and so only one character each, and, although I accept form edits, try and be happy with your character to begin with. I've seen people get bored of their characters and kill them off after only a small amount of time. Come on people, these are our protagonists and antagonists, they're meant to be steadfast in society no matter what happens. We've got to try and keep them going C:
2) Once accepted wait for my queue to post. I'd like to establish a starting time and a little bit of back-story before we start, so if you could just hold your horses for a bit I'd be very grateful.
3) Whilst roleplaying please keep to all of Tess's rules, try to have, and be kind to other roleplayers. That's a pretty self-explanatory rule, if we all try and get along and have fun we'll end up enjoying this RP a lot more.
4) If you want to a) quit the roleplay, or b) have to leave for an extended period of time but will be back RPing afterwards... Let me know. That's all I ask, either PM me or post on the thread so I can remember to get a recap ready and to make sure we slow down our pace.
5) And finally, this is semi-lit. I can accept your form or decline it depending on how good I think your writing ability is or whether or not you will bring something to the roleplay. Please respect my decisions to accept or decline you, and if you disagree then take it out with me over PM, I don't want fighting or spam on this thread.

That's all, Enjoy the roleplay everyone.

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the f o r m

Delete the bits in brackets, hopefully this is self-explanatory, but if you need help, just ask.

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[list][b]supername:[/b] (i.e. 'the caped avenger' or 'wonderwoman', go all out for this, it's what your character will be going by for the rest of their life)
[b]superpower(s):[/b] (up to three)
[b]age they appear:[/b]
[b]persona:[/b]
[b]appearance:[/b]
[b]costume:[/b]
[b]motive for heroism/villainy:[/b] (why have they become a hero/villian. this can be completely made up 'for the public'but I would like to at least see the real reason in the history)
[b]closest allies:[/b] (in here label your character's friends, crushes, allies, whatever)
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[left][list][b]name & nicknames:[/b] (right, this is the bit about your actual character. Not them in superhero form, them as a real person)
[b]skills:[/b]
[b]age:[/b]
[b]personality:[/b]
[b]looks:[/b]
[b]clothing style:[/b]
[b]history:[/b]
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the c h a r a c t e r s

The Villains:

The Heroes:

Janet Crumb / Mistress Mayhem / Wildmagic_warrior / page two

Jenna-Lou Sweetman / The Animator / Magique / page one

Alessandra Danielle DiLaurentis / The Flame / light. / page one

Danika Ashan /The Violet Dragon/ ~Fullmetal.Heart~ / page four

villain

Nathaniel David Jacobson / The Stranger / anonymous. / page three

Kiro Xavier Briht / Sync / Riliane & Allen / page two

reserved for Rainy&Chess

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heroine

the f a c a d e

supername: "The Animator"
superpower(s): Animation - 'Ability to bring inanimate objects to life and to free an individual from petrification'
age they appear: Mid-twenties
persona: When seen by the public "The Animator" always seems, well, not very animated. She isn't quite withdrawn or shy, but she is the mysterious one, the lonelier one of all the heroes. She doesn't quite seem, well, in the group. Whilst they are all standing up, laughing jovially with the cameras and the press, she is seated, not looking directly at anyone, only speaking when spoken to, and just making inanimate objects move. Despite her shy disposition in front of the cameras, she is quite a well-loved heroine, there already being action figures made of her which sell for a fair price, and fairly frequently, in most stores. She doesn't exactly seem to be a very amazing heroine, but quite frankly, her reserved character, quirky smile and shy demeanour makes her seem quite kind and loveable in her own, odd little way.
appearance: The Animator has that typical heroine kind of style. She's not as promiscous in her clothing choice as Wonderwoman, nor is she quite as busty, however she certainly does have the long flowing locks of wavy brown hair, the tall, slightly curvy build, and a knack for having beautiful eyes. The Animator has gently tanned skin, warm dark eyes and an oaky shade of brown hair that seems just to siwsh in the wind perfectly. Her complexion is even and she looks quite model pretty, especially with her quirky eyebrow raise that seems to entrance gentlemen. She seems almost manicured, buffed, perfected in quite a desirable way. She isn't fake, well, she is, as this is just a facade, but what I mean to say is she doesn't look overly fake herself, she looks, well, balanced and beautiful.
costume: The Animator adopts an almost steam-punk style of clothing, but it still has that typical super-hero theme. She adopts knee-high dark brown boots with a modest heel, and also dons a rather short, yet rather floaty bronze skirt with that gentle sheen. To top it off she wears a low-cut, but not overly so corset, which is brown with many cogs and wires and other gadgets and gizmos attached. As you can see, this is where the steampunk element resides.She has, like most superheros, got a mask, just a typical one that has eyeholes and only covers a small part of her nose and forehead.
motive for heroism/villainy: "The Animator" whenever asked this question, will reply with a non-commital shrug. It's truly perplexing, however, for those who care to look there is a short interviewer on a few little known news sites, explaining how she felt that, if she wasn't going to put her power to good use, she'd always be the weird girl making things move in the corner. She wanted to be someone more than that. Someone who didn't just play about, make party tricks, someone who could make a difference.
closest allies: The Heroes

s e c r e t identity

name & nicknames: Jenna-Lou Sweetman, but everyone calls her Jenna, some people like to take the mickey and call her JLS, despite the fact she depsises the band. Usually though, only people who know her well tease her this badly. Every single female member of her family, well all the ones that have been remembered and written down, all had double-barrelled first names. It has become something of a tradition, if they can't keep a surname they might as well keep an orignal first name.
skills: She always has enjoyied inventing. Not like amazingly ground-breaking things, but simple toys of elegant beauty. She is quite the artistic craftsman. She is a fairly competent carpenter and often whittles small toys to sell to those living down her street.
age: 22, she looks older than this as a superhero, due to her more mature state of mind.
personality: Jenna-Lou is a very sweet-hearted individual. Although "The Animator" is shy and reserved, the woman who acts her is quite the opposite. She is a very friendly, humble, maybe slightly bold and giggly woman. She is kind to adults and children alike and has a good, well-meaning sense of humour. She's the sort of lady that lives down your street and you wouldn't feel guilty about borrowing milk from her, she's just that sort of woman. Most people find her humourous and good-natured, but some can find her bubbly, jovial demeanour either irritating or intimidating, she doesn't intend to be either of those things, and really, she just has the best intentions at heart.
looks: Jenna doesn't look all that much like The Animator, due to the fact that as the animator she wears brown contacts, has hair extensions and doesn't wear glasses. Jenna-Lou. when being herself, her 'secret identity', is a humble sort of girl, with short brown curly hair, hazel eyes and a set of rectangular glasses. She has a contagious smile, but not quite as volumptuous a one as The Animator has. See, Jenna-Lou took plenty of time drafting out how she wanted to look as a heroine, much like Peter parker did when becomind Spider-Man, and it has worked out just perfectly. She has that air of loving mystery, which men lust for and women envy, but as herself, she has neither of those things. She seems quite an approachable woman though, and no-one in their right mind would suspect her of being The Animator, after all, she's just a plain young woman, and The Animator is a moody, gorgeous lady, who would suspect a thing?
clothing style: She's quite the plain Jane in reality, someone who looks like they've just walked out of the haberdashery. Her fashion style is basically just layering up in loose, casual items, often patched up second-hand clothes topped off with some good shoes. She mainly resides in drain-pipe jeans and loose jackets and jumpers.
history: i'll rp it out as ideas come to me
friends and family: same as above

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villainess

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the f a c a d e

supername:
The Flame
superpower(s):
Flying and Fire Controlling
age they appear:
Early twenties.
persona:
appearance:
When Alessandra becomes "The Flame", several alterations occur in her body. Transformations, shiftings. Her usually ebony dark brown hair becomes lighter and lighter, until it reaches a point where it shines with golden and red reflects, almost pure red. But Alessandra doesn't wear contacts or any kind of camouflage to hide her identity, just a little mask to hide the space between her nose and her forehead, with two holes for her eyes, her deep black eyes, the only thing she'd like her enemies to see.
costume: Black leather jacket and slim pants combined with high boots. The leather jacket is folded in what could look like scales. On the back of it you can find in the middle of the back a circle with a red flame inside, and the jacket has more red details. It's always zipped up, so it remains unknown what is she wearing below it, probably her normal clothes.
motive for villainy:
closest allies:
None by the moment, but will be added soon. By now, The Flames works alone.

s e c r e t identity
name & nicknames:
Alessandra Danielle DiLaurentis, though people call her just Alex or Dany, very boyish nicknames, but the one's she prefers; besides, she dislikes the shortenings of her last name, and you should keep that in mind.
skills:
age:
23, around the same age she appears with her super heroine identity.
personality:
You may start Alessandra psychological description with this word, and then you may continue, but keep this word in your head all the time. Because most of her personality will be based on this word. She tends to think about something, have an opinion about it, she’s very critical about some themes. But then she opens her mouth and you discover how she really is, willing to change her own opinion in benefit of her social position. You can be popular, you can be gorgeous, but if she dislikes you at first sight you have many few chances she’ll like you in a near future. But she’ll still talk to you, look at you and laugh with you about stupid things and jokes. And in a way you won’t discover how much she dislikes or hates you.

Oh, there’s also another word you can use to describe her sometimes. Bad, Alessandra is bad. And she’s not afraid to admit it, and she doesn’t regret being bad most of the times. It’s part of her, and she is proud of it, maybe because it’s a reason why people like her sometimes, because it’s someone that they can hide behind. When you hurt her, or her friends/family/etc, one time, just one time, you’re giving her a reason, an excuse to ruin your life as much as she can. All her efforts, thoughts, will be used against you. If it’s in her hand, she’ll make your life something not very different from hell. This comes from all the anger, held through the years, and sometimes all this has to go out.

Alessandra will fight and bite to defend her honor, and will never back down. She'll never shut up when someone is trying to beat her. Her tonge can be fast and her words can be bitter and full of regret. She does not take well to others intruding or snooping around her personal life, that's why it's called "personal life". She has a fiesty, fiery soul, but if she's angry is better to stay away from her. She has bad temper, but she tries hard to controll it. Anyways, sometimes she has to let it out. And you shouldn't be around when that happens. Romantic is not an adjective you can use with her, is much the opposite. When she's in love, it's kinda hard for her to find the right words, and ends messing up everything. But if you stand this (as a friend or something more) you'll discover a girl who doesn't know what self-confidence means, who only had some real friends, and all of them were took away from her in different circumstances. The ice cold girl you see is no more than a reflect of what she wants to be, but deep inside she's full of emotions. If you hurt her, her feelings or one of her friends, she'll become your enemy and she'll show no mercy. She'll try to make you suffer as much as she can, and she won't give up on that. She has a soft spot, though all this, but first you have to find it and stay on it for a long long time. Then, when that happens, that's when you have her heart -if it happens to be one-. Don't dare to go against her or try to change her mind, she'll end up hating you and trying to shrink your popularity status -if you have one-, making your friends go away. Alessandra can make your life a hell, she'll never leave you alone.
looks:
Alessandra's not a model, and she wouldn't like to be one of them, but she's not the ugliest girl on earth either. Maybe she could be classified as normal, some boys like her, and some others don't. Just the average. Her body is not made only great breast and a slim stomach and she's not indestructible, or has any hidden source of force appart from her own strenght. No, that's just fantasy. Alessandra isn't fat, but if she lifts her shirt you'll find she's slim enough to eat what she wants whenever she wants to. That’s fantasy, but she admits she’d like to have more muscles, enough to be a little tougher, but not enough to become a culturist. Alessandra just doesn’t want to be one of them, it doesn’t seem healthy or beautiful. She’s tall and well built, and that seems enough for her, since she’s very healthy.

At first sight, the first things you focus on are her eyes: brown. But the color goes further than just a simple brown; it reminds you of something, something that’s present in everyone’s remembrances: darkness. When you go to sleep at night and you find yourself in the middle of the darkness, with no light. But at the sunlight you find lighter spots on them, a very dark brown with golden spots that you can only see in the sunlight [or poiting directly at the eye with a torch, though I wouldn't recomend that]. That’s what you can find on Alessandra’s eyes. Sometimes you see nothing, pupil and iris are together and there's no way to know where one ends and the other begins. But then you move on, to her hair. Again, the average, nothing special. It’s not dyed in electric blue, combed into a special way (sometimes she doesn’t bother on combing it anyways) or with a specific cut. Hair, just normal hair. Alessandra culs it or straightens it, very often, but it's naturally wavy, with little curls down. It starts with a light brown, like weath, but then it turns dark brown, forest bark brown or soil brown.

Alessandra believes everyones position in the society is based on the elegance, the way you move and look at other people, not only by money or power. Elegance, for her, is also the way you combine things, or if you're wearing something that makes you fat or your legs look like sausages. People, in her opinion, need to control that as good as their tonges in required moments. She takes care of keeping always her chin high, looking forward and directly in the eye of the person she's talking to. To move correctly, walking, running or just standing, Alessandra took ballet classes when three years, leaning very useful things such as balance and postures, how to keep her back from combing or how to bent down in a good way.
clothing style:
Alessandra is a mix between a punk and a posh, you don't know what to expect from her. Alex loves fashion, reading about it and watching models in the catwalk, all the new designs and that stuff, but when it comes to open her wardrobe, you seem to find a punk store, full of ripped off jeans of all imaginable colors and designs, tees of all the punk groups and festivals and a shelf full of all types of converses. Leather is another of her passions, as you can see form her super heroine outfit. She's a huge fan of leather jackets and leather pants too. When it comes to her posh part, Alessandra likes creating new outfits and creating new things, trying new dresses or adapting old ones to her.
history:
Alessandra is the only daughter of William Jawbrooke II, the main stockholder of many of the big fashion brands, such as Dolche and Gabbanna, Dior, Tommy Hifflinger, etc. Alex grew up spending all the money she wanted, going on vacation to the Hamptons or flirting in Miami beach. Her grades we're good enough always, so she didn’t worry about her studies. In her high school, she was the typical stereotyped cheerleader, with a crush on the current quarterback or any of the important jocks. Sports had always been an important part in Alex's life, and her favorite sports have always been horseback riding, gymnastics, cheerleading (yes, she counts it as a sport) and swimming. If she needed to pay, sob, cry or bite to get someone better than her out of a competition, she did it. But she works hard to get what she wants, that's why she can't stand people who's better than her, and why she'll always try to be the better in everything. Her mother died giving her birth, and maybe that's the reason her father is pays more attention to her than to her other sister and her three brothers. She doesn't miss her mother, because she thinks she can't miss someone you never get to know, but she sometimes miss someone to tell her problems or to ask for advice.

Her father met her mother working with Inditex Ind., in Spain, and 8 months later they were married, and some months later William and Casey were born. Dany’s mother never told about the “special abilities” a daughter may have, but she never worried because they were only paning on having boys. Another boy came, and Alex’s father wanted a girl, but his wife was already pregnant of another boy. That’s what the doctor said. During vacation, while the whole family was at Barcelona; Spain, Alex's mother waters broke. The boy came unexpectedly, but there was something strange with the boy, as the doctor discovered during the birth, the baby was a girl. Three days later, Alex’s mother died of an uncontrollable hemorrhage. The doctor said something had burned her inside. Some years later, her father remarried again with a singer, who already had two daughters.

Dany doesn't really hate her stepmother, or her stepsisters, they just disgust her, a lot. They're somewhat alike her, but in other way. They would be willing to do anything for fame -a reason why her stepmother married her father, that and the money- as Daenerys would do everything to win. The only difference is that Alessandra would never sacrifice her honour, and those three girls would sell their whole family. Alex's brother also hate them, more than Alex does. Alex never saw how much her father loved her mother, but they did, and they noticed the exact moment they met their stepmother that his father didn't love her, neither did her. By those years, Alex was only six years old, and this changes in her life made her irritable and uncontrollable, but no one knew yet about her power, only her brothers knew something was wrong with their sister, and they kept an eye on her, not because they feared she could be dangerous, but because they didn't want her to hurt herself. But everything comes to an end, and sometimes that happens when Alex' patience reachs the limit.

One night, Alessandra's father decided to throw a party with the other high ranks of his company, with no wives and no kids, only men. This party happened to be in Mexico, and lasted a week. Alessandra and her three older brothers had to stay home with their stepmother and their two stepsisters, Bianca and Belinda Watson. During the dinner, their stepmother started to call names to their mother, and the girls approved them. But things went from bad to worse when Dana discovered one of the girls flirting with her brother. That made her explode, litelaly. Alex's father still loves her, but he thinks she's dangerous for the family, and her only refugee is in France, where her mother's family live. Then, after her aunt died, they sent her here, to the metropolis. Alessandra changed her last name, everything that remembered her to her family except her name, to remember why was she suffering.
friends and family:
x. brian lequio jawbrooke -- brother -- twenty three
x. william alec jawbrooke -- brother -- twenty five
x. casey john jawbrooke -- brother -- twenty five
x. bianca violet watson -- stepsister -- twenty two
x. belinda vega watson -- stepsister -- twenty four
x. william arthur jawbrooke -- father-- fifty
x. farrah sansiego -- mother -- deceased
x. helena julienne jawbrooke -- stepmother-- fourty seven

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((Thank you for joining, that's such a cool power! The Flame's spot been added to the list c:))

[loki.i love you.]

May I reserve a villain?

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((Of course, the reservation will be added to the front page c:))