Richard "Big Bo" Hendry
22 | Male | Bisexual | Brown hair | Brown eyes | 6'4" | Lawful Good
"If it's easy, it ain't worth it. Life's supposed to be hard. I don't trust shit that comes easy."
Appearance
Richard's tall and broad shouldered, and that makes him intimidating to some, but he's really just a big goof. His natural posture while standing is a bit stooped, as he's used to having to look down at the people he's speaking with. His posture while sitting is perfect, however, as most of his height is in his legs. He walks with a slight limp as he'd blown out his right knee during the senior year of high school.
Scars:
His nose is noticeably bent from an impact he had with his father's anvil while roughhousing with one of his younger sisters when he was thirteen
Burn scars and such on his hands from his job and from working with his father
Likes: Coffee; puns, dirty jokes, toilet humor, and people that can make him laugh; baking; talking about his family; classic country music; warm temperatures
Dislikes: Loud people and noises; being interrupted; mice and rats; sudden change; lemons and other sour foods; complaining; people who are easily offended
Abilities
His gift is Terrakinesis, the ability to control stone and earth. He can use it to lift and throw rock and stone objects, break open the ground, or raise entire sections of earth right along with whatever is on top of it.
Strengths:
His abilities can be used both offensively and defensively
Survival training and knowledge of guns, from the hunting trips he often went on when he was young
Hand to hand knowledge, from the boxing classes he took in high school
Strong willed and determined
Weaknesses:
His ability costs the same amount of energy it would take to accomplish the task by hand, and pushing his capabilities can have painful consequences
Inflexible, both physically and personality-wise
His right leg is weak and more susceptible to injury than his left
Personality
Dependable, Patient, Honest, Single-minded, Proud, Obstinate, Unadventurous, Protective, Extroverted, Vulgar, Easily Amused, Focused, Moral
Richard is every bit as stubborn as the rock he controls, which can be either good or bad. On one hand, he is a dependable and trustworthy person, the sort to not back down from difficulty and do his very best to accomplish his goals. On the other, he is obtuse and prideful when it comes to arguments, usually unwilling to bend even for a compromise and not the sort that apologizes even when he is in the wrong.
He's also an extrovert, the sort who likes to go out and introduce himself to people, but it takes him a while to become comfortable with someone. Once he is, one might be surprised by how downright goofy and playful and affectionate he can be with someone he really likes.
Bio
Richard was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the oldest of seven children. His youngest brother was born when he was fifteen and the rest of his siblings were scattered across that age gap, so his home life was predictably stressful. His patience was kind of forced upon him by all the children running around the house. They were a close knit group, though, and his childhood was by no definition a bad one. He did well with sports and the boxing classes his father insisted he take, and did even better with chores around the house and helping his father with fixing the car. He'd even planned on enlisting with the military after graduating. An injury to his knee during a family game of football threw a wrench into those plans, however.
So, after his high school graduation, he moved out of the family house and to the little town he called home. Life was fairly normal. He had an apartment of his own, he was working in the local mechanics shop, he baked little things like cupcakes and such for fun and the benefit of his neighbors. Then he received a strange note mentioning abilities, and he was cautious but curious as to what his might be.
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Kaydyn "Kay" O'Sullivan
17 | Male | Homosexual | Brown hair | Brown eyes | 6'0" | Chaotic Good
"Well, if they wanted to keep people out of here, they should have put up a bigger sign."
Appearance
Kaydyn's taller than average, but he's lanky and the sort who avoids gym classes. His posture is usually slouched in some form or fashion, regardless of whether he's sitting or standing, and he's the sort to splay out across the whole chair when he sits down. He also tends to chew his bottom lip or rub his head when he's concentrating on something.
Scars:
Multiple small ones from various situations he's gotten himself into over his short life
A large burn scar on his right elbow from falling onto a hot stove when he was eight
A misshapen scar in the middle of his left shin, caused by an open fracture he got after jumping out of a tree onto concrete at fifteen
Likes: Horror movies and video games; science classes; animals but especially cats; the color blue; summertime; snacks and junk food
Dislikes: His name being spelled incorrectly; small spaces; bullies and cruel people; silence; peanuts; being cold
Abilities
His ability is to drain energy from others via touch and use it to enhance his own senses. He only takes a small amount of energy by default, but if he concentrates, he can enhance his senses further at the cost of draining much more energy from the person he is touching.
Strengths:
His enhanced senses cover everything; he can see, hear, smell, touch, and taste far better than any ordinary person for as long as he maintains physical contact with someone else
Courageous and willing to do what he feels is right, even when afraid
High tolerance for pain and such, thanks to injuries he's sustained in the past
Weaknesses:
He can't use his own energy for the sense enhancement and he can't "store" energy from others to enhance his senses later
The feeling of draining energy is quite addicting, so he avoids touching others
Fairly shortsighted and rarely paused to consider the outcome of an action before doing it
Personality
Courageous, Cunning, Impulsive, Sarcastic, Easily Bored, Loyal, Rash, Adventurous, Disorganized, Vindictive, Confident, Adaptable
Kay is fearless. Odd, given he's six feet of bones, skin, and sarcasm, but he really is. Stand up to some idiot hassling a freshman, even if he gets hit for it? No problem. Jump off a great big drop, even if he twists his ankle, or tell off a teacher for giving an unfair homework assignment, even if he gets detention, or break into a place to get something his friend needs, even if he gets caught? Done, done, and done. He sees something he considers a problem, he does his best to fix it. He doesn't take risks into account until after he gets hurt, though, so "brave but reckless" is a quite accurate phrase to describe his personality.
If one can put up with his sarcasm and tendency to ask random rhetorical questions when bored, he's a loyal and dependable friend and a surprisingly good listener given how much he talks.
Bio
Kay had a decent childhood. It wasn't without difficulty, mind. His mother's job required her to travel around quite a bit and that was a cause of tension between her and his father. He listened to more than enough arguments in the middle of the night when he was little to have a practical view of what relationships were really like. Still, they were a family, and he didn't have to suffer through any huge divorce. That didn't stop Kay from doing things that got him in trouble or even put into the hospital, however. By his seventeenth birthday, he'd already amassed a collection of scars. He was "out" to his parents before he'd entered high school, and both were completely fine with his homosexuality.
About a month before he developed powers, his best Internet friend, Jaime, was kicked out of her house by her homophobic parents. He was pretty quick to offer his own place as somewhere she could crash. His parents weren't nearly as sure, but they came around after meeting the girl. When he and Jaime both started developing powers, he was quite excited. Hesitant about his abilities, but excited to fight crime like a real superhero.
Other:
Has a little brown tabby cat he named Piers
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Aeson Gallagher
28 | Male | Pansexual | Black hair | Green eyes | 5'10" | Lawful Neutral
"I like to be around people. I just need to research how to talk to them in an unprofessional environment."
Appearance
Aeson looks scary, what with his tattoos and the dark clothes he wears and the "I murder puppies" scowl that's almost perpetually on his face. The fact that the only parts of his face that are frequently expressive are his eyebrows helps exactly none. His posture is excellent, but he walks like a shy person, with his hands in his pockets or his sleeves and head tilted toward the ground. He tends to try and gesture when he talks, but usually aborts those motions as soon as he makes them.
Great Big List of Tattoos:
A grayscale gladiator from wrist to elbow of left forearm, self-done
A Celtic cross in green over his heart for his little brother
"
Live Long and Prosper" in Vulcan down his spine
Asian-style red dragon full sleeve on his right arm
Some complex, badass design featuring knives and skulls and roses done by his master when he allowed her to do "whatever she wanted" on the outside of his left forearm
A geometric howling wolf in black, covering much of his right side
On the back of his right shoulder is a barn owl sitting on a branch with an oval of dark forest background around it, a ring of Irish text reading "Níl an todhchaí a leagtar, níl aon cinniúint ach cad a dhéanamh linn dúinn féin" (which translates to "The future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves") around the oval
Multiple random things he allowed his master to tattoo onto him, most featuring some sort of skull, dagger, flame, or other macabre thing, the majority being located on his chest, back, or shoulders
Scars:
Nothing noteworthy
Likes: Being around people; organization; Star Trek and scifi in general; mint tea; drawing people; having an intelligent debate
Dislikes: Boasting; being underground; disorder and disorderly people; messiness; soda; people touching or taking his glasses
Abilities
Aeson's ability is Cell Regeneration, or healing. He can erase minor wounds, close larger ones, replenish a moderate amount of lost blood, and otherwise repair damage on another person.
Strengths:
His ability works quickly, though healing burns from acid or fire will still leave a scar
Analytical and creative, so he's good at assessing problems and working out solutions
Medical knowledge, from his work as a tattoo artist as much as his abilities
Weaknesses:
Using his ability drains his energy, and repairing structures more complex than skin and muscle significantly increases the energy required
Extremely pacifistic, to the point that violence makes him uncomfortable
Incessant worrier
Personality
Analytical, Socially Awkward, Intelligent, Self-Critical, Diligent, Efficient, Shy, Artistic, Creative, Stoic, Low Self Worth, Logical, Perfectionistic
For all that Aeson looks like a scary person, he's actually quite the sweetheart, always courteous and polite and on time. Despite his shyness and difficulties with socializing, he enjoys being around people, thus why he loves his work so much. But, also despite or perhaps because of his shyness and difficulties socializing, he can and does step into conversations between other people to correct some fact one of them got wrong. He's a focused person, the sort to stare at a person he's having a conversation with as intently as he would stare at a perplexing problem or a drawing he's doing.
Under his outward personality of shyness and stoicism but also extroversion and perfectionism, he's almost alarmingly hard on himself and ridiculously easy to embarrass.
Bio
Aeson's birth and history before he was left at an orphanage with his little brother, Oran, is uncertain and not something he's ever tried to look into. Oran, as he'd learned to talk for his brother as well as himself, was quite the adorable kid and got adopted when he was five. Aeson was too awkward, too quiet, too serious, even as a child, and was never adopted. He spent his entire life, up until his eighteenth birthday, in that little orphanage. It was run by Catholic nuns and wasn't the most friendly, nurturing place for a little boy to grow up in, but it was no horrible nightmare.
After he turned eighteen, he worked up the cash to move to Los Angeles, and after a few months of working odd jobs in the city, he met a woman named Laura. She was a tattoo artist, and she liked Aeson's diligence. The talent he already had for drawing certainly didn't hurt, either. He soon became her apprentice, and a few years later, an artist in his own right. Until he received a note.
Other:
He has an Irish accent and can also speak Irish fluently
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