Angel, Day 1

[Hypester]

I noted that Angel was passed on for the First Class family of RPs on this board. Understandable... what's so fun about flying. Here's my shot at making an Angel that I would enjoy playing. No Archangel (razor wings or healing blood) just plain old Angel.

Name: Warren Worthington III
Age: 18
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Weight: Uncharacteristically light
Build: Cut and very slim.
Height: Six Feet, 4 inches.
Wingspan 19 feet, 2 inches.

Abilities: (8w2r)
Intelligence: 4
Strength: 2
Agility: 4
Speed: 3
Durability: 3

Actions 11w1r
Advanced Social Skills [As Dance]: 5 (3w)
- Use for Social Skills
- Lying
- Flattery
- Redirecting Responsibility
- Misdirection

Flight: 5 (6w)
- Aerial Maneuvers
- Fly-by/Fly-through Attacks
- Soaring
- Using wings protectively
- Carrying another person

Wing Whip: 2 (2w)

Close Combat: 1 (1r)
- Agility Bonus

Modifiers 18w
Wealth: 5 (3w)
Enhanced Vision: 6 (Telescopic) (2w)
Hollow Skeleton (Makes Warren Lighter allowing for increased agility and other situation modifiers) (1w)
*Soaring/Gliding (+2 to flight) Only after Warren has spent a panel airborne or if Warren begins flying from a high area. (4w)
*Flight Reflexive Dodge (+3) Only When in Flight (3w)
*Wing Toughness (+3) Only wings have this. (3w)
*Flexible Wing Structure [As Flexible Skeleton] (+1) Only applies to wings. (2r)
Bird Senses 1 (1r) Make Warren more sensitive to vibrations and future changes in weather.
Mutant, Non Human Appearance. He does have big wings, after all.

*'wing-' or 'flight-only' options are bought at -1 cost level.

Challenges
Non Human Appearance (-2w) (Big wings, but can be hidden)
Compulsion to stick up for underdog (-3w) Warren genuinely hates his concience, but he has it, and he's not exactly sure where it came from... but it's always REALLY weird when a bunch of people start calling you an Angel and you have no arguement against them.
Mutant (-3w)

Total
38 stones base. That's five in challenges pluse the mutant challenge to make 30. If it were a 40 stone RP, I'd up the wing whip to make him an actual close (and range 2) combat threat and toughen up the wings and up flight one or two. As is, I like the character and he has room to grow, numbers wise.

Persona
Warren is a gift-of-gab rich kid, he loves to charm ladies, he loves to have his way and he finds people, in general, intriguing and entertaining, much of life, to him, has been a game which he has enjoyed playing. This mutant thing has only given him more pieces to play with.

Bio
Born to a stinking rich family, Warren has lived, basically with a silver spoon in his mouth, though he occasionally uses his golden tongue to acquires other precious metals as needed.

At present, Warren is looking to meet new people and acquire new experiences, and Xavier's academy is perfect for that. Besides, his personal tutor isn't that hot anyway.


Summary
I think I could have fun with that. Flight is fun, easy, occasionally useful and the wings are skillful. For whatever reason, they are tougher than Warren himself, which is cool, imho, the image of covering someone protectively with wings is... well... it's a pretty epic image. Also, the idea of slapping someone upside the head with a wing is fun, even if it's not a villain-smashing attack. Climbing high into the air and adding flight + soaring + situation modifier for a dive attack could be fun, but even without open sky, a guy with such versatile wings could have fun.

I also like the idea of having tons of money on hand at any given second as well as being able to talk people into buying the clothes that they have on from you. I would have fun with that both in and out of combat.

Looking over him, one last time, I still question his combat usefulness, but this is one version I believe I would have fun with, even on the Morlock mission, cuz who doesn't want to complain about that?

The thing I'm most pleased about is how the flexible wing structure subtly suggests how he's able to hide his massive wings.

[andyman]

Great! How about adding "can always combine Close Combat with Flight" (like Hawkeye can always combine Acrobatics)?

[Hypester]

I was thinking about that later, about the dive bomb or flythroughandpickupopponent style attacks... perhaps if I were to take the wing whip and cut down the wealth by one I could afford it.

Great suggestion. I shall mull it over at length.

[Hypester]

I'm posting my Day 1 Storm here as well so that it will be convenient if I should ever need her.

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Storm

Name: Ororo Munroe
Age: 15
Height: 5'5"
Build: Voloptuous
Hair: White
Eyes: Blue

Abilities (11w1r)

Intelligence: 4
Strength: 1
Agility: 2
Speed: 2
Durability: 2

Health: 2
Energy: 6
Regen: 2/panel

Actions (26w)

Poetry: 4
- Urban "Spoken Word" Poetry
- Satirical Poetry
- Haiku

Dance: 4
- Belly Dancing
- Contemporary
- Hip Hop
- Freestyle

Gardening: 3
- Dry Climates
- Thin Soil
- Bonsai Trees

Social Skills: 3
- Bohemianists
- Swahili
- Meeting new People

Thieving: 4
- Pickpocketing
- Palming
- Sleight of Hand
- Lock Picking

General Knowledge: 4
- Intelligence Bonus
- African American Literature
- Historic Quotes
- Poetry, Spoken
- Poetry, Written

Mastery of Weather: 3 (15w)
- Accumulate Energy
- Unlimited Create/Manipulate Element
- Efficient
- Others not shielded from power use

Modifiers (0w2r)

Sorceress Heritage [Magical Defense] (+2)
Wealth (0)

Equipment

Nothing.

Challenges

Mutant (-3)
Human Looking Mutant, vulnerable to human prejudice

Haunted Past (-3)
Ororo has been through quite a bit, and it's always there.

Guilty Concience (-2)
Ororo has a kid out there somewhere... and parents. That's the kind of stuff that stays with you.

Persona

Ororo is quietly optimistic and deeply conflicted. Her open nature communicates a certain kind of wisdom despite her coloquialism and spontaneous quaintness. She is, if nothing else, a free spirit, and while she has a lot of anger, and pain and dark moments in her past, these are things that she makes great pains to keep to herself.

Bio

Ororo Munroe is a travelling soul. Her mother is Kenyan, she was born in Harlem New York to David and N'Dare Munroe. With her father being a photojournalist prone to long assignments, and her mother being obsessed with seeing the world, the group travelled quite a bit. Ororo was often homeschooled and spent much of the day with locals, and thus, lived a somewhat, vicarious bohemian lifestyle.

On their respites in New York, Ororo found solace in her rooftop greenhouse garden, and began to get into poetry, jazz and urban hipster culture even from the age of 11 and 12. She developed a strong love for reading and before long had amassed a number of quotes, philosophies and sayings acquired from all over the world, especially her native Harlem.

During this time of self-discovery and rediscovery, Ororo was about 13 and David Munroe had a chance to visit the oft-hidden Wakanda tribe. This was an eventful trip, as N'Dare was taken captive and proclaimed a fugitive from some group called the Dora Milaje. Ororo herself was proclaimed, and worshipped, as the Goddess of the Sky' and David Munroe was badly hurt in the ensuing altercations. Mr. Munroe cleverly traded his freedom for that of his daughter.

Subsequently run out of the Wakandan City, Ororo wandered the jungle for days until she stumbled upon some tourists in the plains. Brought back to civilization, no one had heard of this Wakanda, and without papers, she wound up on the street, stealing to survive, working for an unsavory man named Achmed el-Gibar, who moved the talented theif to a busier Egypt to increase profits and build trust with rival Cairo-based villain Amahl Farouk.

In Egypt it wasn't long before Storm was asked to do more than just steal, and that's when she knew she had to get out. By the time she had a plan too, it was too late -- she was pregnant. Demoted to menial labor, Ororo delivered her baby at 14 years of age and stealthily delivered him to a doorstep she knew to have compassion before running away on her own. Her second time running away was even more arduous. She was tired, dehydrated and cold, in addition to the emotional and mental stressors. Clouds swirled threateningly all around her. She remembered the Wakandans talking about a Goddess and, in her deluded state, called out to the sky for water.

The sky answered. Water and warmth flowed down upon the deserted plain. Lightning danced around her and winds howled anguish and pain to match her own. This happened until she passed out from exhastion.

The next morning, she was awoken curled up by a rock by a group of travellers, similar in spirt to herself. Django and Marya Maximoff offered her safe travel, as he was prone to doing, and helped her rebuild some semblance of trust in humanity during their few months together. Django, due to raising two mutants, shared with Ororo a perspective on special abilities that is deep and inspiring, and removes the fear of her gifts. It was here that Ororo began to see how her moods and deep desires could change the weather.

When the time came, in their opinion, the Maximoffs delivered Ororo back to an American Embassy, who, shocked that she'd survived, having never heard of Wakanda, managed to get her back to the US, where she was taken into Foster Care, since she is only 15 years old. She hates it desperately, and vows, one day, to go back and find her parents, and free them... when she's strong enough. But right now, she's really not sure where to start.

Commentary
I just like the idea a lot. If I were to incorporate it into the First Class universe, I would have to figure out what to do about the Quicksilver/Scarlet Witch crossover.

[tazirai1]

NIce writeups.. pretty well planned.

[Hypester]

Thanks... It's funny... I kinda planned them for X-Men 313... and both of these characters were taken on the same day. Crazy.

So here's a possible new entrant.

Mystique
Raven Darkholme
Age: 19
Height: varies
Weight: 121 lbs
Hair: varies
Eyes: varies
Build: varies

Abilities 6w1r
Int: 3
Str: 2
Agi: 3
Spd: 2
Dur: 3
Health: 3
Energy: 18
Regeneration: 3r/panel

Actions 20w

Social Skills: 5
- German
- French
- Spanish
- Persuasion
- Seduction

Thieving: 3
- Agility Bonus
- Palming
- Pickpocketing
- Codebreaking

Shapeshifting: 3 (4w)
- 1r/panel to maintain

Metamorphosis: 3 (12w)
- 1r/panel to maintain

Modifiers (9w2r)
Wealth: 2
Energy Battery: 3 (3w)
Reflexive Dodge (+2)
Reflexive Shapeshifting (+1)
- Mystique effortlessly retains her shapeshifted forms, even while sleep or knocked out.
- Bought as Shapeshifting Action-to-Modifier

Equipment
none

Challenges
Mutant, -3w, non-human appearance
Looking Non Humuan, -4w, Mystique has blue skin and yellow pupils. She stands out sometimes.
Psychological: Unique Personality Disorder, -1w, Mystique has several forms which seem to act on their own and are ignorant of the thoughts and activities of her typical forms.

Cost
Abilities: 6w1r
Actions: 20w
Modifiers: 9w2r
Challenges: -8w
Total: 30w

Bio
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Raven Darkholme lived and worked on a farm with her family and six siblings, of which she was the youngest. When she became of age however, she began to get blue lesions on her skin, much to her family's disturbance. The doctor couldn't do anything about it and it wasn't long before her whole body took on this form. She was cloistered away for a long time, and she learned how to heal herself by force of will. Emerging from the home, she trained herself to maintain this form, over time finding that she didn't age... until she wanted to.

Experimenting, she found her blue, natural form did indeed age, and that she could go back and forth. Her envy soon led her to assume the forms of other people. She began to explore her hometown in different forms, different ages, different faces. She was discovered, she was run out of town, and she's spent the last few years stealing to survive, pretending to be others, conning people, cheating people, assuming different forms and just exploring the world, both physically and socially.

Then she was discovered... and before she knew it, she found herself at Xavier's School... the one in Europe.