{{cape
|name = Memento
|alias = 
|civ_name = Christie Dawson
|author = /u/Scrublord_Koish
|alignment = Villain
|affiliation = Hierarchy
|status = Active
|location = Devilfish


|class = {{cape/class|Tinker}}
|rep_morality = -1
|rep_notoriety = E
|rep_criminal =


|redditlink = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/rf1f8e/memento/
|image = Memento_'costume'.jpg
|caption = 
|birth_date = 17-2-2002
|birth_place = Devilfish, USA

|}}
A teenager in wannabe anarchist apparal has been spotted going around the alleys and back roads of town. Occasionally carrying small game with them, but always carrying some variant of tinkertech firearm. And there are some vague pictures of her while surrounded by black spheres all around while talking to capes and other shady figures. Some deeper searches on the internet for tinker weaponry supposedly allow for the tinker to be contacted.

== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===
Christie has shoulder length brown hair tied into a tail. Wearing lightly faded, comfortable clothes with a coat shielding her from the elements somewhat. She also has an aura about her that makes it clear she doesn't want to deal with anyone's shit.

While in her 'cape identity', the color scheme of her outfit goes all black and has her put on a hood and black cap alongside a scarf or bandana to cover the lower half of her face. She also has a sort of tablet hanging from her side.


=== Equipment and Resources ===
* Wealth Level 4
* A home/workshop combination in a poorly isolated house owned by Phix
* A blanket
* A backpack filled with clothes
* Phone
* Pocket knife
=== Tinkertech ===
{{Equipment
| name = Proto mass generator
| appearance = A small plastic box covered in metal supports with two slots for AA batteries on the side. It has a cube shaped port on the side that glows with an inner light.
| creator = [[Memento]]
| abilities = * Can make about 5 kilograms of unmodified powered matter per AA battery put in.
* Can only make cubes and rods with a thickness of up to an inch.
| notes = The base of all of Memento's tech. Sadly it's a prototype, so it sucks.
|state = collapsed
}}
{{Equipment
| name = Proto pistol configuration
| appearance = A blocky plastic gun clearly made out of an old nerf gun spray painted black with a large slot for the mass generator on the bottom. Most of the top is covered in circuitry and wires.
| creator = [[Memento]]
| abilities = * Can fire cubes of matter by heating them up and then firing them using electromagnetism. These shots' impacts are about on par with rubber bullets.
* Up to eight of these shots are stored at the front of the gun when in use. And a new one is made about every 5 seconds.
* The shots remain accurate up to about 10 meters.
| notes = Memento's first weapon. Born from the necessity to have something for self defense, and to help with hunting in the nearby forest to not have to beg for food.
Sadly it's a prototype, so it's pretty bad.
|state = collapsed
}}
{{Equipment
| name = ARES rifle frame
| appearance = Superficially resembles an m4 rifle with a blockier middle section and no section for a magazine to be inserted. Instead having a section to slot energy cells into.
| creator = [[Memento]]
| abilities = * The device accelerates cylinders of powered matter at supersonic speeds using electromagnetism.

It fires perfectly straight with no recoil, and remains lethal for several hundred meters.
The device has two modes. Semi automatic and burst. The latter firing in bursts of 4 shots.

The internals have been covered in a significantly more conductive layer, followed by one that is the exact opposite. Acting as a 'shield' of sorts against electromagnetic pulses. The energy instead charging up the energy cell currently inside the weapon.
| notes = A commission for the mafia. Memento maintains one for herself for self defense purposes. Needs maintenance from a special device and a tinker with a relevant spec every 2 weeks.
|state = collapsed
}}
{{Equipment
| name = ETNA detonation frame
| appearance = The back resembles a rifle of sorts, while the front resembles the spray nozzle of a fire extinguisher. The back has a section to slot energy cells into.
| creator = [[Memento]]
| abilities = * The device has two modes that can be switched between if given around 20 seconds.

The first accelerates spheres of powered matter slightly over the size of a baseball at targets using electromagnetism. Exploding a second after impact. A new 'grenade' being made every 5 seconds. These can also be ejected via a latch for throwing instead of firing.

The second functions more like a grenade launcher. Launching a superheated tube of matter that explodes upon impact with a bit of slowly burning matter attached to the back for thrust. Travelling at around 100 meters per second after launch. A new 'rocket' is made every 10 seconds.

The internals have been covered in a significantly more conductive layer, followed by one that is the exact opposite. Acting as a 'shield' of sorts against electromagnetic pulses. The energy instead charging up the energy cell currently inside the weapon.
| notes = A commission for the mafia. Memento maintains one for herself for worst case scenarios. Thank fuck the mafia commissioned this before the Reclaimers arrived. Needs maintenance from a special device and a tinker with a relevant spec every 2 weeks.
|state = collapsed
}}
{{Equipment
| name = VANGUARD turret spheres
| appearance = Black spheres the size of a baseball with grey reflective lines running across the surface. Has four lenses in the cardinal directions, and expands to be the size of a melon with four 'legs' and a gun at the front when deployed.
| creator = [[Memento]]
| abilities = * Can be configured to either fire blocks of material at low speeds for non lethal takedowns, or switch to firing 'bullets' that are about the equivalent of handgun bullets. Firing every second regardless of mode.

Target acquisition is done by firing at anyone who is not Memento or in a small database of people.

The internals have been covered in a significantly more conductive layer, followed by one that is the exact opposite. Acting as a 'shield' of sorts against electromagnetic pulses. The energy instead charging up the energy cell inside.
| notes = Made as support so Memento can defend places or GTFO while these things cover for her. Her tinker lab has a good amount of these strewn around. Needs to be replaced every 3 days.
|state = collapsed
}}
{{Equipment
| name = Kinetic Battery
| appearance = A deep red material with a reflective surface.
| creator = [[Memento]]
| abilities = * For most intents and purposes, this material absorbs 80% of the energy imparted on it by spontaneous impacts. Being near identical to hardened steel otherwise aside from being around three quarters of the weight. Being able to get bent under continuous pressure for instance. Though it does not melt.

* Impacts to the material cause it to store up the energy impacting it. Holding it inside until an electrical current is applied, at which point it will release said energy on the next impact in the form of intense vibrations imparted on the impacting object.

* Should an impact force be greater than 5000 newtons (basically a smack from a strong brute or a sledgehammer), the material will flicker and fade 5 seconds later. During this time, stored energy can still be released.
| notes = This material generally takes longer to make than Memento's other materials and lasts for 3 hours before fading.
|state = collapsed
}}
{{Equipment
| name = Microburst
| appearance = A blocky sword sheath and handle. Containing a couple buttons each. Drawn, the sword's blade is a deep red.
| creator = [[Memento]]
| abilities = * The sheath creates a blade onto a sword handle out of Memento's kinetic battery material. Being able to generate a new sword every 10 seconds after inserting the handle into the sheath.
This material allows it to store kinetic energy from impacts. With the handle having two triggers. One to eject the blade if gets bent, and another to create an electric current to trigger the release.

* Additionally, the sheathe contains a secondary system that generates explosive charges inside, detonated by a trigger on the sheathe. Effectively allowing the holder to launch the sword handle out and charging the kinetic battery material a bit while drawing it with extreme speed. Allowing the wielder to cut with half a dozen times more force than a regular person. With a somewhat reduced effects for brutes. Being able to just about double it.
| notes = One was also made for Lady Fisto, which additionally contains a small speaker on the side that can link to a phone via USB port to play one or a playlist of songs while the generators making the blades are turned on.
Like all Memento tech, it needs maintenance every two weeks before its internals annihilate themselves and some amount of matter around them.
|state = collapsed
}}
{{Equipment
| name = Some simple scanners
| appearance = A glove meant for the right arm and an accompanying bracer. The side of the bracer having three small bulges to hold black, bulbous drones.
| creator = [[Memento]]
| abilities = * The gauntlet can generate and operate a series of small drones, mainly meant for the sake of scanning powers in use and powered materials.

The drones can move about 5 meters away from Memento and are controlled via a small keypad on the bracer. Power data being kept in an internal memory that can be accessed via USB cable.
| notes = Has scanned Flicker's powers so far.
|state = collapsed
}}
==== GAP Storage Space ====
*'''Source''' = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/xyf9xs/finally_some_more_utility_and_civilian_mode/
*'''Creator''' = [[Memento]]
*'''Appearance''' = A matte black plastic tablet with a pale blue panel at the front. It also has some buttons set into the bottom. Sunk slightly into the device to prevent accidental presses. Comes with clips or straps depending on where she's wearing it to fasten it over/under her clothes.
*'''Abilities''' = The device acts as a storage device for Memento's tech. Being able to store devices being made at least a third out of Memento's power matter by volume and sending them to a pocket space.

Devices can be chosen to take out through the buttons on the tablet. Or by giving the proper commands through the same gauntlet Memento uses for her scanning drones.

Devices stored in this fashion may not exceed a combined 10 kilograms in weight of non powered matter, and 50 kilograms of powered matter. (Items with negative mass just count as having 0.
*'''Duration''' = Like all Memento tech, it comes with a hard 2 week time limit between being maintained, or its internals annihilate themselves.
*'''Notes''' = Made with a scan taken of Flicker's pocket dimension subpower. Probably also helps not looking like she's prepared for war and get the PRT called on her when she doesn't want to.

==== Inverse Mass ====
*'''Source''' = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/xyf9xs/finally_some_more_utility_and_civilian_mode/
*'''Creator''' = [[Memento]]
*'''Appearance''' = An almost pure white, thick liquid
*'''Abilities''' = The material is an opaque liquid with a consistency of tar while poked.

The material's main property come into effect seconds after exiting the generator, its density dropping sharply before eventually stabilising at negative 22570 kg per cubic meter, or the density of osmium inversed.
*'''Duration''' = Around an hour post creation, or until coming into contact with oxygen. Which causes it to turn into a gas and expand rapidly for a second before fading.
*'''Notes''' = Made using a scan from Scoria's flight power.

==== Gravity Harness ====
*'''Source''' = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/xyf9xs/finally_some_more_utility_and_civilian_mode/
*'''Creator''' = [[Memento]]
*'''Appearance''' = A matte grey harness + thin body armor combination. The majority being covered in red plates while active. Though it is meant to be worn under one's clothes.
*'''Abilities''' = The harness has two sets of matter generators. Some for the inverse mass, and some for the kinetic battery. The latter covering the vital areas and acting as bracing while the former are spaced throughout the suit. Allowing for some decent protection and also for its other function.

The harness' capacity for inverse mass can be regulated. Allowing the wearer to effectively choose how much they weigh. The average person having about 50 kg of leeway for wanting zero gravity or to fall upwards.

The harness also expells small amounts of inverse mass to help orientate and move the wearer in the air.
*'''Duration''' = Like all Memento tech, it comes with a hard 2 week time limit between being maintained, or its internals annihilate themselves.
*'''Notes''' = I don't really want Memento to go anywhere with power armor, and this seemed like a good option to still give her some protection.

=== Skills and Specializations ===
* The ability to stay calm while trying to wrangle idiots/kids
* Can similarly stay relatively calm when yelled at
* Managing their time
* A large of experience with basically every household task
* Proficient at making hunting traps like tripwires and snares
* Scavenging
* Can butcher most kinds of game common around Devilfish
* Being able to move quietly
* A pretty great shot with their tech

=== Mentality ===
Christie is a very self sufficient person. Having been forced to grow up rapidly. She does have a caring side, but is willing to take zero bullshit from anyone these days.
They also have rapidly gained an aversion to authority. Especially those that try to use said authority over her.

=== Power ===
Memento is a focal tinker focused around cores that can produce a near infinite amount of semi stable powered matter. And while they aren't required to, this is expressed mainly in devices that create or use single use items made mainly or fully of said powered matter because of their temporary nature.

The material's base qualities:
* It is an oily viscous liquid up until exposed to oxygen. Quickly solidifying to gain most of the qualities of basalt, with about half its weight.
* It will remain stable on its own for about a day, before warping, then disappearing in a flash of light.
* The matter becomes an excellent conductor when heated above 500 degrees celcius. And can be manipulated via a sufficiently strong electromagnetic field.
* Once heated above 1000 degrees celsius, it will glow white hot, and when impacted/impacting/pressurised with with the force of about a regular person's punch, it will explode with a force similar to nitroglycerin.

=== Backstory ===
Christie grew up as the oldest sibling of a family of six. Her, three younger siblings and her parents. Her father was fine, if a bit absent with how he was often off at work.

Her mother though? 'Lazy entitled bitch' would be putting it lightly. She made Christie do everything. Cleaning the house, doing the dishes, looking after her siblings? All her job while their mother watched tv. And on top of that, she had to finish every single chore before she could start doing anything for school. So she'd sometimes just not have time or energy for homework, then arrive at school the next day, completely exhausted. Which started to get especially bad once more of her siblings grew up into teenagers.

Her grades took the hit from all the extra effort she had to put in, which in turn got her berated more and more often by her mother.

She wasn't even surprised when she managed to collapse from exhaustion during exams once.

Knowing that she quite simply wouldn't be able to survive college and taking care of 5 people at once, Christie instead got herself a part time job. And for the first time in years, the workload was bearable. Hell, she could even save up a bit to buy herself something nice!

So she decided to treat herself one day as a reward for her own work. (Since her mother obviously wouldn't.) A nice lunch followed by going out to get herself a small necklace. A little silver thing.

The first thing her mother decided when she saw it was that Christie had stolen it. Apparantly it didn't matter if it was money that she had earned, all money in her bank account apparantly automatically belonged to her mother instead.

In the resulting shouting match, something broke in Christie. Barely even noticing anything had changed as she went upstairs to pack her belongings. Her mother on the phone calling the police and reporting her for theft and apparantly also assault when she came down and stormed out of the door. Not that she'd hit or even pushed her. It wasn't until sitting down at a friend's place that she realised that something had changed.

Tulpa

2022-09-08T00:37:09Z

Koish: Created page with " {{cape |name = Tulpa |alias =  |civ_name = Cienna Emery |pronouns = She |author = /u/Scrublord_Koish |alignment = Hero |affiliation = Rockstar's entourage |status = Active |location = Devilfish <!-- leave as Devilfish unless they are somew..."

File:Tulpa costume.png

2022-09-08T00:20:11Z

Koish:

Memento

2022-06-13T07:25:46Z

2022-04-20T19:55:23Z

Memento

2021-12-20T15:52:03Z

Transmission

2021-12-18T20:21:51Z

Koish:

{{cape
|name = Transmission
|alias = RadioTuning
|civ_name = Brianna Hood
|author = /u/Scrublord_Koish
|alignment = Villain
|affiliation = None
|status = Inactive
|location = Devilfish


|class = {{cape/class|Master}}, {{cape/class|Mover}}, {{cape/class|Stranger}}
|rep_morality = -3
|rep_notoriety = D
|rep_criminal =


|redditlink = 
|image = Transmission faceclaim.jpg
|caption = 
|birth_date = 16-9-2002
|birth_place = Pineland Colony, Minnesota



|}} 
As Transmission, they haven't done much at all as of yet. Being a recent arrival to Devilfish.

As RadioTuning they are a streamer with a rapidly growing fanbase that seems to be erring on the fanatical side of things. She plays music covers on stream and takes requests either ahead of time for a stream or on the spot in exchange for a small donation. The covers seem to consistently be of high quality.


== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===

Brianna is, for lack of better words, plain. Brown hair kept at shoulder length and framing a thin face. She's not particularly attractive or well endowed. Having a bit of muscle on her that she usually hides via an assortment of hoodies and other loose clothing.

When streaming as RadioTuning, she's altered her appearance on camera. Bright clothes that show off a better figure than she has any right to have and dark hair framing a face not hers, the hair kept somewhat away from her face by a pair of headphones.


=== Equipment and Resources ===

* A shitty apartment
* A small computer setup with microphone and webcam
* Phones. Mostly cheap burner ones.
* A radio.
* A baton for self defense
* Pepper spray
=== Skills and Specializations ===
* Pretty decent singer
* An excellent guitarist
* Knows how to weave clothing.

=== Mentality ===
Brianna is an egoist and rebellious to a fault. Responding to anything not fitting to her view of how the world works with more resistance the more one pushes.
The fame she's gotten by using her powers on an online audience has also rapidly gotten to her head. Enlarging her ego even further.

=== Power ===
Transmission is a limited technopath, capable of influencing devices that output, record or transmit sight and sound, able to influence them to either glitch or otherwise change what they are outputting or recording. Recordings remain altered, even when Transmission's power is no longer influencing the device.

These replacement sounds and noises feel very pleasant and satisfying when perceived in any way and are highly addictive, potentially leading to a dependency with enough exposure.
This addiction is comparable to an addiction to alcohol. Having similar withdrawal symptoms as well.

To actually affect a device, Transmission must be able to see it or have it be within 10 meters, in which case they are immediately aware of its existence as well.
Transmission can affect a device up to ten minutes after she last affected the device.

The cape can also, after a few seconds of touching an object, move into electronics capable of emitting or recording sound or visuals that they are touching, hopping to other devices under their effects and leaving by physically pushing themselves out of its surface device. The larger a device is, the faster the cape can push themselves out. (So they could technically push themselves out of a phone, but it would take a good while longer than, say, a TV.)
Hopping from device to device does not need the device to be in LoS/within 10 meters. As long as they are still under the effects of Transmission's power, she can hop to them.

They can also force themselves to be ejected out right away, which breaks both devices entirely.

Transmission's power is capable of affecting tinkertech, but only the parts capable of outputting or recording sight and sound can be affected. Transmission also cannot force themselves through immediately to break pieces of tinkertech.
=== Backstory ===
Brianna was born on the Pineland Colony to a sadly very strict pair of parents. That didn't mean that they didn't love her, but they had some very dated views on technology.

Sure. They had a landline phone for emergencies, but that was it. And she wasn't allowed to use it.

So instead, she put herself towards music. That, and sneaking along with friends whose homes did have a television. Mainly music though. And she often sang along to or simply sang the songs her friends had let her listen to while playing the accompanying music on a guitar.

After a while, a friend offered to put videos of her playing and singing covers on the internet, and she agreed eagerly. Happy to share her hobby with more people.

Except someone snitched. And one day when she came home from school, she was practically blown away by the sheer anger her parents were displaying, having found out about the videos of her on the internet.

Something broke inside of her as she stood there and her would-be punishments were listed off.

Dejected, she went to bed that night. Only for her anger to flare up after a while of being unable to sleep. She was done with being walked all over. Done with all this shit.

Pulling most of the things she cared about into a bag, she snuck out of the window that night. Making her way to Devilfish to see about making something of her life without constantly being told what to do.

And hey, Gretchen lived in Devilfish now, didn't she? She could go for a visit.

Eden

2021-12-06T23:06:04Z

Koish:

{{cape
|name = Eden
|alias =
|civ_name = Lana Carrigan
|author = /u/Scrublord_Koish
|alignment = Villain
|affiliation = None
|status = Inactive
|location = Devilfish



|class = {{cape/class|Shaker}} ({{cape/class|Changer|5}}
|rep_morality = -2
|rep_notoriety = E
|rep_criminal = -


|redditlink = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/n5uqj4/eden/
|image = Eden Costume.png
|caption = Eden in her costume (comes with a mask that features opaque lenses.)
|birth_date = 25-8-1995
|birth_place = Devilfish


|}}
An incident was reported regarding a cape completely blocking off the front of a pawn shop using fleshy looking stalks before robbing the place, leaving with the cash in the register and a few odd bits.


== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===
Out of costume, Lana is a tall woman with long brown (dyed) hair who simply dresses herself neatly, if often the same every day. She's also sometimes seen with a white cane, denoting her as blind.

In costume, Eden is often seen wearing a somewhat modified suit covered in a protective layer of her power's stalks and eyes, her arms being covered the deep red substance of her power for easy usage. Her face is covered in a plain white mask with opaque lenses. Her hair is also reverted to a grey-blue-ish color. (A result of her misremembering the hair color she had before losing her sight and deciding she liked the color afterwards.)

=== Equipment and Resources ===
* A regular ass knife
* A phone with important numbers pre programmed
* A few coins to use for shaping makeshift spears on (by absorbing stalks and leaving the 'main' one)

=== Skills and Specializations ===
* Able to read braille
* Can give speeches without real trouble
* Excellent motivational speaker
* Remembering paths and areas after only having been there once or twice
* Is able to guess where something is purely by sound

=== Mentality ===
Eden puts an extreme amount of value towards her own independence. Refusing aid unless she can pay them back for it immediately or in the very near future.
In costume, she has also picked up on a somewhat curious nature regarding the things that she couldn't really do or experience without her now power gifted sight.

=== Power ===
Eden is a changer/shaker who controls a thick, reddish substance that has replaced their blood. It has a similar consistency to tar, though she can negate the stickiness and draw it out of things it's soaked. It can slowly be exuded through her skin if wanted, while actual wounds would allow her to draw out more. This substance does not contain DNA and is incapable of carrying blood borne diseases/other foreign stuff.

Once outside of their body, the substance can move slowly along surfaces at about the same speed as a regular person's calm walking pace. The cape can also on command, make the substance congeal or explode into hardened, potentially branching 'stalks' of sorts dozens of times their original volume over, ending up looking not too far from the branches of an especially morbid tree without leaves.

These stalks have the occasional eye spaced about that the cape can see through and will remain for a few hours after leaving the cape's presence or until losing their connection with the surface that it is on. (So removing a bit will destroy that bit, while tearing it near the base will destroy the whole thing.) The stalks are approximately the equivalent of steel and count as organic.

These stalk explosions vaguely follow the cape's will regarding the direction and will attempt to avoid impaling the cape or others unless intended, simply trapping them otherwise.

When touched, the stalks can also be shaped to some degree, and the 'surface' they are attached to can also be transferred to somewhere on the cape's body, being able to be moved across their body as if they were still 'blood' and weighing only a tenth of their actual weight for Eden herself.

While on the cape's body, their control over the stalks intensifies greatly, allowing for the shaping of pointed weaponry and equipment, if with open spots as the stalks will not allow themselves to be completely shaped to be tight against one another to allow for full coverage, though something close can be achieved with time and effort are spent intertwining multiple sets of stalks attached to a 'base'. Stalks on the cape's body count as part of their body for the sake of power effects.

When touching a stalk, the cape can also absorb it into their body, healing their body and replenishing their 'blood' for future use. Healing themselves in this way costs approximately the same volume that is being healed for flesh, with bones and organs requiring twice as much. Injuries closer to the point of contact come first and all healing uses Eden's self image as a reference.

=== Backstory ===
Lana remembers very little of her childhood, but she remembers not always having her current impairment, and how she used to not be 'so damn helpless' as she'd put it.

It was frustration, day in day out. Trying to learn how to not need to rely on others. But something would always come up that needed her to ask someone for help. Thankfully she had a grandfather who understood. He didn't offer help unless she asked for it. And if it wasn't for him, Lana would've probably either been far more bitter, or driven herself mad with frustration long ago.

And as she grew up, the feeling of other people thinking that she needed help, that she was somehow less than them. It ground on her mind. So what if she didn't have one of her senses? The others worked just fine.

Except things would always come back up. She was more than what she lacked, dammit! And she came to only teeth grinding conclusion. People were always going to be looking down on her for it for once reason or another.

So she turned to researching powers. The capes she heard about were seen as a real threat. As people who shouldn't be messed with and weren't helpless. So she set out, looking into powers. How they worked. And most importantly, how to get them.

Except all sources point towards one thing. You didn't simply get powers, and there was no surefire way to get them. She almost threw her computer out of the window that day, instead she found herself a spot and screamed her throat raw in frustration.

And that is when she heard a woman step up behind her. At first she though that it was a burglar who had come in, but that quickly changed when the woman offered her powers. Complete and utter independence from any need for help if she wanted it. To be the person she wanted to be. All it'd cost... were the memories of her grandfather.

She was handed a rune, and if she truly wanted powers, she was to break it. If not, the woman would be back. Lana still had no idea how the woman had gotten in or out beyond maybe teleportation.

And the next day, as she was thinking it over, Lana decided that it would all be worth it. Smashing the rune to bits. Then as she felt her heart slow, and her body fill with an odd awareness that she knew that the woman had not been bullshitting her.

Shellshock

2021-12-06T23:05:42Z

Koish:

{{cape
|name = Shellshock
|alias = 
|civ_name = Alejandra de Leon
|author = /u/Scrublord_Koish
|alignment = Hero
|affiliation = Wards
|status = Inactive
|location = Devilfish



|class = {{cape/class|Tinker}}
|rep_morality = -1
|rep_notoriety = E
|rep_criminal =


|redditlink = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/m1m9tl/shellshock/
|image = Shellshock suit.png
|caption = Shellshock's HYDRA armor
|birth_date = 18-2-2006
|birth_place = Sonsonate, El Salvador



|}}


Shellshock is currently a Ward in Devilfish, tending towards being extremely loud and flashy during public appearances. Seems to be rather short tempered at times.


== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===



Alejandra doesn't look like much. Black hair tied back into a tail framing a face that has clearly seen better days. A few scars marring her face.
She stands at an unimpressive five foot nothing and looks like she hasn't had a bite to eat in weeks.

=== Equipment and Resources ===

* Wealth level 4 (Ward salary)
* A baton
* Phone (both civilian and for Ward business)
* Ties for criminals

=== Skills and Specializations ===

* Pretty good at avoiding attention when needed.
* Acting. (Mostly just lying and acting like she's fine.)
* Mediocre at lockpicking. (She learned quickly enough to put the lock back as it was after practicing.)
* Great at situational awareness.

=== Mentality ===

Due to her long time of captivity, Alejandra doesn't have much when it comes to self esteem, compensating for this by being loud and boastful. On the other hand, she has a tendency to be spiteful and hold grudges long past when others would've forgotten them on on a perceived wrong.

Her need to compensate practically skyrockets when out as a cape, preferring flashy, over the top moves and attitudes to keep her self image and ego as great and large as she can get them.

=== Power ===

Shellshock is a multithread tinker with a focus around an armored frame and gear that works directly with it. She cannot simply 'make' a gun or power armor though. Each piece of tech is fairly mediocre on their own when compared to other tinkertech. Its potential comes to the front with their 'main' function though.

With about ten seconds, Shellshock can shift a piece of gear around their frame, essentially modifying the base frame to be focused around the function that the tech had previously performed and shifting the previous focus to its regular gear state. A jetpack may become a mobility oriented frame with jet boosters while a pair of wrist mounted blades would grant them an extra pair of bladed arms. While shifting, the gear shifting to be the new focus and the old one do not have their usual functions, any additional armor it may have given generally going away at the halfway point.

=== Tinkertech ===
{{Equipment
| name = HYDRA suit
| image = Shellshock_suit.png
| url = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/m1m9tl/shellshock/gqfrhvs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
| appearance = A shiny metal suit vaguely made to fit someone with a less than impressive stature. It features a lot of rails and other kinds of slots to hold tech.
| creator = [[Shellshock]]
| abilities = * The suit is fitted with loads of rails and other slots to house Shellshock's tinkertech.

* features servos to help mitigate the weight of any gear that Shellshock carries, including the steel plating of the suit itself.

* The open areas between the plating features II grade armor.
| notes = The first version of the frame designed to hold Shellshock's tech.
|state = collapsed
}}
{{Equipment
| name = GEGENEES gauntlets (Decommissioned)
| image =
| url = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/m1m9tl/shellshock/gqfrhvs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
| appearance = A pair of silvery gauntlets that go up to Shellshock's elbow.
| creator = [[Shellshock]]
| abilities = * When simply worn, it allows for Shellshock to have a grip strength capable of bending a steel rod with effort, as well as exert force for punches, lifting, etc. equal to a fully grown adult.

* When the focus of the HYDRA armor, some of the armor of the gauntlets will split off to form an additional set of arms with somewhat sharp tipped fingers, both sets being capable of the same feats as its non-focus variant.
| notes = An upgrade to a weapon made from scrap for self defense. Also very handy when tinkering. (Pun totally intended.)
|state = collapsed
}}
{{Equipment
| name = ZEUS gun
| image =
| url = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/m1m9tl/shellshock/gqfrhvs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
| appearance = A mostly sleek gun of red painted metal with two silvery metal rods extending out of the front.
| creator = [[Shellshock]]
| abilities = * As a gun, it fires bolts of electricity that are more or less the same strength as a taser, working off of the frame's power supply. After 10 meters the electricity will no longer have enough power behind it to impair someone. When not directly held with the HYDRA armor on, it can be fired for up to 20 seconds of continuous fire.

* When the focus of the HYDRA armor, the gun will integrate itself fully, gaining the ability to impart the same electric shocks on touch, as well as firing them from the palms.

* Additionally, when the hands are held relatively close together, Shellshock can build up charge between the two. Either generating a magnetic field to keep a metallic object hovering inbetween or fire a bolt of electricity with the accumulated charge. This bolt is highly inaccurate and will more or less just hit whatever is closest by in a vague cone in front of her when released. The closest by object is highlighted through the HYDRA armor's visor to aid in aiming.

* While the HYDRA armor is focused on this piece of tech, touching a source of electricity (like a power outlet), will start to recharge the battery directly. This does not work on devices with more energetic output than a car battery, trying to do so will have the suit automatically stop the intake. Forcing it will fry the device's internals instead.
| notes = Shellshock's version of a 'self defense weapon'.
|state = collapsed
}}
{{Equipment
| name = AETHON pack
| image =
| url = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/mg4uut/someone_made_the_probably_poor_decision_to_watch/
| appearance = A blocky metallic backpack in the same red color scheme as the rest of Shellshock's equipment. It also comes with flame themed decals for when it's the focus of the HYDRA suit.
| creator = [[Shellshock]]
| abilities = * As a jetpack, it functions as just that. If not one with an amazing amount of lift. It allows for what are closer to very potent jumps to be performed and to help cushion high falls. The jumps in question being able to take her onto most one story buildings.

* As the focus of the HYDRA suit though, it generates more than enough lift for her to maintain flight. Being able to go up to 50 mph in a straight line, with the then active thrusters all over allowing her to have a pretty good turn rate when going under 25 mph.

* Also features a display for where 'down' is as well as her current trajectory to be shown as a HUD of sorts on the inside of the HYDRA suit's helmet.

* Comes with some very high grade shock absorbers in the arms and legs as well as a failsafe that will automatically fire thrusters to aid in Shellshock having a safe landing.
| notes = Intended for stunt flying and extremely flashy moves such as jet assisted axe kicks and ramming into a villain, then carrying them into a wall.
|state = collapsed
}}
{{Equipment
| name = HYDRA suit V2
| image = Shellshock_suit.png
| url = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/owbdf0/high_tech_low_tech_weaponry/
| appearance = A shiny metal suit that stands at 180 cm tall, hiding Shellshock's than impressive stature underneath. It features a lot of rails and other kinds of slots to hold tech.
| creator = [[Shellshock]]
| abilities = * The suit is fitted with loads of rails and other slots to house Shellshock's tinkertech.

* It features servos to help mitigate the weight of any gear that Shellshock carries, including the steel plating of the suit itself, as well as shock dampeners to mitigate impacts and falls.

* The open areas between the plating features II grade armor.

* While worn, Shellshock's strength and speed are closer to that of a fully grown, fit adult. And is able to maintain such activities with minimal effort on her part.

* The suit features the ability to reroute most of the power that would have gone to other pieces of tech to the servos in the suit, allowing her to clear a one story building with a jump, run up to a speed of 30 mph and perform feats of strength five times what would be expected from an olympian athlete. She is also capable of using this mobility in brief bursts of high speed movement along the ground or large 'hops'.
| notes = Shellshock's gauntlets have been cannibalised into the upgrade. Zipdash has also helped redo the armor's layout to allow for the more extensive reconfiguration.
|state = collapsed
}}
{{Equipment
| name = HYPERION projectors
| image =
| url = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/owbdf0/high_tech_low_tech_weaponry/
| appearance = A pair of weapon handles that are a little larger than would be comfortably held by a regular person.
| creator = [[Shellshock]]
| abilities = * On their own, the projectors are capable of projecting a small list of weapons out of golden colored hardlight. Namely a sword, a round shield and gauntlets. Each being about as strong as steel with similar weight to them.

* While her taser is the focus of her suit, Shellshock can channel the electricity through the projectors, giving the hardlight blades a more teal coloration in the process

* When integrated into the suit, the suit can project any weapon of choice in Shellshock's hands. Being able to exist apart from her for about ten seconds.

* Shellshock can also, on command, make the weapons made by the projector focus explode. Smaller objects like throwing knives being about as powerful as a firecracker while larger, two handed weapons are closer to a hand grenade. If without any shrapnel.

* There is a safety built in to prevent Shellshock from detonating the weapons too closely to herself, but this can be overridden.
| notes = Contains a tracking device that triggers if the devices are removed from Shellshock's possession without first giving a specific command via her suit. Once triggered, the tracker can be disabled by putting in a pass code into a terminal in Shellshock's room.
|state = collapsed
}}
=== Backstory ===

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS BACKSTORY CONTAINS HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Growing up in the slums of Sonsonate, Alejandra had heard more than once from her parents that one day they would move up to America. That once they did, they would never have to fear going without food again and Alejandra and her older brother would be able to study to become doctors or lawyers and have the good life they deserved.

So of course, she had been ecstatic to hear from her father that as a present for her 16th birthday, he had arranged for the four of them to head northwards and make the trip. Promises of a better life awaiting there.

Except she couldn't quite shake the gut feeling that something was wrong as she hopped on the back of a pickup truck a week later. She didn't mention it though. Everyone was in high spirits and this was the chance of a lifetime. And they made it to America, alright... right into the waiting arms of men and women with guns, the man her father had said would bring them here being handed more money than Alejandra had ever seen as they were shoved along at gunpoint.

The weeks that followed were hell. Any defiance, real or not, was harshly punished. Barely kept alive with the horrible food they were given. And she had to watch as her family was sold off one by one. With her only remaining because apparantly a client with 'particular tastes' hadn't returned from a business trip yet.

And despite all of this, she didn't truly break. Simmering in her rage towards the captors. Not that she showed any of it. One of her captors was true sadist, occasionally picking someone to hurt just because, and she didn't want to catch his eye.

Until one day, she had been trying to sleep when being awoken by the sounds of yelling. Apparantly someone had gotten free and their hands on a gun while most of the traffickers were away and people were trying to escape, one of the others who had been captive with her wildly gesturing for her to run.

So she did, sprinting on shaky legs for where she thought the exit was. One of their captors being tackled to the ground by him when they neared the exit, knocking his gun to the ground.

Alejandra was paralyzed. Run for the exit or grab the gun and shoot the man? And after some hesitation, went for the gun, fueled by her rage. Except she had waited too long, and the traffickers were regaining control, multiple guns being trained on her.

She triggered right there, a captive once more as she was dragged back, deeper into the building.

It wouldn't be another two weeks before the police raided the building, the first being filled with beatings (he held back so as to not damage the 'merchandise') and the second with her scrounging together what she could to try and make one of the blueprints in her mind for the next escape attempt before rescue came, the police raiding the building and freeing them. Finding a scared teenager clutching some kind of bladed glove thing among the captives.

Tarrasque

2021-10-27T20:44:53Z

Koish:

Replica

2021-10-06T11:09:11Z

{{cape
|name = Natalie Howard
|alias = Replica
|civ_name = Natalie Howard
|author = /u/Scrublord_Koish
|alignment = None
|affiliation = None
|status = Active
|location = Devilfish



|class = ({{cape/class|Breaker}}, {{cape/class|Brute}}) -->
|rep_morality = X
|rep_notoriety = F
|rep_criminal =


|redditlink = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/pxxbq1/natalie_howard_replica/
|image = Replica.jpg
|caption = Natalie's 'costume'. Also features a mask.
|birth_date = 8-11-2001
|birth_place = Ashton, America

|}}

There is very little to no information on Replica, aside from a few sightings of some kind of robot around Ashton.
== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===
Natalie looks nearly physically flawless. Fit with a good amount of muscle on her.When simply going about her day, she has black hair draping over her shoulders. Generally gravitating towards either tidy clothing not out of place for a fancy party or job interview or bicycle leathers depending on her mood.

Her 'costume' is little more than a neat suit with some armor plating underneath, as well as a grey mask and gloves.
=== Equipment and Resources ===
* Wealth Level: 5 (Cannot spend it frivolously)
* A sparsely decorated apartment
* A motorcycle
* An old pack of pokemon cards in good condition.

* A pair of combat knives.
* A personal phone.
* A mask for emergencies.
* A swiss army knife.
* Lockpicks.
* A laptop.

=== Skills and Specializations ===
* Highly capable using both hand to hand and her knife for combat.
* Can easily keep a mental list of tasks.
* Knows how to do first air rather well.
* Rather good at maintaining situational awareness until emotions get high.
* Doing tasks methodically so they actually get done.
* Pretty good at first aid.
* Enough knowledge of firearms to safely manage and unload them, but not much of firing them.

=== Mentality ===
Natalie is by nature a rather violent person. Despite this, she has learned to keep it hidden away under a facade of near perfect calm civility.
Despite this, high emotions have a tendency to cause this facade to crack.

When using her power, the more it is used, the harder it becomes to keep it down. Her shard pushing her aggression even further. Barely giving any thought anymore when pushed to her limits.

=== Power ===
The cape is a breaker whose power is permanently activated. Looking like a more idealised version of their previous self. Not unlike a person sized doll.

When their form is damaged enough, parts of their body physically shatter and break off, as if shedding a layer from their entire body at once, being replaced with a near identical, if more decrepit looking variant of themselves being revealed beneath. Clothing being more shredded or burnt and showing inhuman parts as if they had been hidden beneath the skin and the facade was being torn off. These parts are all purely cosmetic, the entirety of her body being equally tough.

To break through a layer, the total damage taken must exceed a certain threshold. Damage done to parts covered in armor, power made or physical and blocking or deflecting blows lowers the effectiveness of damage done.

Should a layer be broken, the breaking process takes a second or two, and any 'excess' damage will not carry over to the next. (For example: Shooting the cape in the head with a rifle in their baseline form point blank will only break one layer.)

The effects of broken layers are elaborated on below.

{| class="wikitable" |
! Layers broken
! Durability of the layer:
!Physical capabilities
!Inhuman parts and special capabilities
|-
|0 (Baseline)
|A couple decent punches breaks through the layer. As does being on fire at all. A decently caustic liquid would break through a layer in a few seconds.
|Pushing up against human limits.
|N/A
|-
|1
|Taking a beatdown from a trained boxer would break through, as would being forcefully stabbed with a knife. Being on fire for a dozen seconds also breaks the layer. A decently caustic liquid can break a layer in about half a minute.
|Can lift a couple hundred kilograms. Greatly increased stamina.
|Bits of metal become visible in 'damaged' parts.
|-
|2
|A dozen shots from small arms fire or a damage similar to a baseball bat swung with proper form will break through. Being on fire for thirty seconds will break through the layer, as would a dozen seconds under a potent acid.
|About triple the strength of a peak human being, as well as being able to run up to 20 km/hr. Can do heavily strenuous work for long amounts of time without issue.
|Hands and feet become sharp metallic claws. Large patches of skin and the lower arms and legs are replaced by metallic plate armor. The claws can be used to stick to surfaces.
|-
|3
|Repeated shots with higher caliber firearms. Being on fire for 2 minutes would break through the layer as well. Half a minute under a potent acid would similarly break the layer.
|Capable of bursts of speed via horizontal jumps that can also bring them onto single story buildings. Can survive high falls without much issue or damage taken. Punches are capable of leaving dents in steel and cracking concrete. No longer capable of becoming tired.
|Most of the body has been replaced with cybernetic looking parts, the human bits looking decorative at best. Arms, legs and torso covered in plate armor. Arms can be shot out similar to a harpoon/grappling hook up to 10 meters away. Can emit electricity similar to a stun gun through their body. Gains heavy resistance to electricity all over.
|-
|4
|Several smacks from a very strong brute or being hit by a truck. Can be on fire for a good 5 minutes before the layer breaks. A potent acid could also break through the layer in a similar time.
|Capable of explosive bursts of speed and keeping up to cars on the highway with repeated long bounds, as well as jumping several stories high. Capable of tearing through steel with their claws.
|All human parts are gone. Looks fully like a halfway broken robot. Claws gain a chainsaw-esque effect that makes a horrible screeching noise. Can emit heavy bolts of unguided electricity to nearby objects or send it through their body. Electricity can heal the cape up to an 'undamaged' final layer. Max speed healing requires 5 seconds of a car battery or stronger to 'full heal'. Each full heal equivalent halves effectiveness.
|-
|5
|The sphere is tough enough that anything short of a souped up tinkertech hydraulic press or throwing her into the sun is ineffective.
|Near immobile. Can at best roll at the speed of a calm walking pace.
|The layers are gone. The cape is reduced to a metallic sphere that can fit in a person's palm.
|}
When they manage to calm down and stop fighting, their body will start to return to its more pristine state over some time depending the damage taken. Taking up to half an hour if all layers are gone. Natalie can stop this regeneration if wished.

Natalie does not need to eat, drink or breathe, and clothing she wears are incorporated into her breaker state until taken off.

=== Backstory ===
At age 10, Natalie ran away from home after a bad fight with her parents, having always been a violent child with too much energy for her own good. And after living on the streets for a while, living off of people's pity and ganking other hobos for their stuff, she caught the eye of a rich businessman, and is taken in with a few conditions. She'd help out with keeping the house clean and protect the man's daughter. Being coerced after a while to be augmented by the man, apparantly a tinker, to better protect his daughter as a new requirement.

And so she grows up alongside the daughter. A bodyguard and servant. The tinkertech inside her pushing her far beyond human limits. And it eventually becomes a comfortable thought. Partially as her violent tendencies were unknowingly being surpressed by an implant. New tech occasionally being put in as she grew.

And then one day, the daughter goes away with friends to a cabin one of the others owned. Natalie had been sad that she couldn't come with, but accepted it.

Except when Claire didn't come back, both she and the father became more and more worried. The latter erratic, even. And then one day as Natalie laid down for maintenance, something went horribly, horribly wrong. Briefly screaming in pain as she feels her insides starting to tear before clamping down on it. Trying to keep her screaming down so she could be fixed. Having complete and utter faith in her master's craft even as she writhed and eventually passed out, delirious from the blinding pain.

When she woke and figured out that she had triggered, she made a request of her master. A rare occurence for her.

To look for Claire.

2021-07-13T08:19:10Z

{{cape
|name = Transmission
|alias = RadioTuning
|civ_name = Brianna Hood
|author = /u/Scrublord_Koish
|alignment = Villain
|affiliation = None
|status = Active
|location = Devilfish


|class = Master, Mover, Stranger
|rep_morality = -3
|rep_notoriety = D
|rep_criminal =


|redditlink = 
|image = Transmission faceclaim.jpg
|caption = 
|birth_date = 16-9-2002
|birth_place = Pineland Colony, Minnesota



|}} 
As Transmission, they haven't done much at all as of yet. Being a recent arrival to Devilfish.

As RadioTuning they are a streamer with a rapidly growing fanbase that seems to be erring on the fanatical side of things. She plays music covers on stream and takes requests either ahead of time for a stream or on the spot in exchange for a small donation. The covers seem to consistently be of high quality.


== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===

Brianna is, for lack of better words, plain. Brown hair kept at shoulder length and framing a thin face. She's not particularly attractive or well endowed. Having a bit of muscle on her that she usually hides via an assortment of hoodies and other loose clothing.

When streaming as RadioTuning, she's altered her appearance on camera. Bright clothes that show off a better figure than she has any right to have and dark hair framing a face not hers, the hair kept somewhat away from her face by a pair of headphones.


=== Equipment and Resources ===

* A shitty apartment
* A small computer setup with microphone and webcam
* Phones. Mostly cheap burner ones.
* A radio.
* A baton for self defense
* Pepper spray
=== Skills and Specializations ===
* Pretty decent singer
* An excellent guitarist
* Knows how to weave clothing.

=== Mentality ===
Brianna is an egoist and rebellious to a fault. Responding to anything not fitting to her view of how the world works with more resistance the more one pushes.
The fame she's gotten by using her powers on an online audience has also rapidly gotten to her head. Enlarging her ego even further.

=== Power ===
Transmission is a limited technopath, capable of influencing devices that output, record or transmit sight and sound, able to influence them to either glitch or otherwise change what they are outputting or recording. Recordings remain altered, even when Transmission's power is no longer influencing the device.

These replacement sounds and noises feel very pleasant and satisfying when perceived in any way and are highly addictive, potentially leading to a dependency with enough exposure.
This addiction is comparable to an addiction to alcohol. Having similar withdrawal symptoms as well.

To actually affect a device, Transmission must be able to see it or have it be within 10 meters, in which case they are immediately aware of its existence as well.
Transmission can affect a device up to ten minutes after she last affected the device.

The cape can also, after a few seconds of touching an object, move into electronics capable of emitting or recording sound or visuals that they are touching, hopping to other devices under their effects and leaving by physically pushing themselves out of its surface device. The larger a device is, the faster the cape can push themselves out. (So they could technically push themselves out of a phone, but it would take a good while longer than, say, a TV.)
Hopping from device to device does not need the device to be in LoS/within 10 meters. As long as they are still under the effects of Transmission's power, she can hop to them.

They can also force themselves to be ejected out right away, which breaks both devices entirely.

Transmission's power is capable of affecting tinkertech, but only the parts capable of outputting or recording sight and sound can be affected. Transmission also cannot force themselves through immediately to break pieces of tinkertech.
=== Backstory ===
Brianna was born on the Pineland Colony to a sadly very strict pair of parents. That didn't mean that they didn't love her, but they had some very dated views on technology.

Sure. They had a landline phone for emergencies, but that was it. And she wasn't allowed to use it.

So instead, she put herself towards music. That, and sneaking along with friends whose homes did have a television. Mainly music though. And she often sang along to or simply sang the songs her friends had let her listen to while playing the accompanying music on a guitar.

After a while, a friend offered to put videos of her playing and singing covers on the internet, and she agreed eagerly. Happy to share her hobby with more people.

Except someone snitched. And one day when she came home from school, she was practically blown away by the sheer anger her parents were displaying, having found out about the videos of her on the internet.

Something broke inside of her as she stood there and her would-be punishments were listed off.

Dejected, she went to bed that night. Only for her anger to flare up after a while of being unable to sleep. She was done with being walked all over. Done with all this shit.

Pulling most of the things she cared about into a bag, she snuck out of the window that night. Making her way to Devilfish to see about making something of her life without constantly being told what to do.

And hey, Gretchen lived in Devilfish now, didn't she? She could go for a visit.

File:Transmission faceclaim.jpg

2021-07-13T08:03:07Z

Koish:

Hysteria

2021-06-26T23:00:39Z

Koish:

Eden

2021-05-17T14:11:04Z

Koish:

{{cape
|name = Eden
|alias =
|civ_name = Lana Carrigan
|author = /u/Scrublord_Koish
|alignment = Villain
|affiliation = None
|status = Active
|location = Devilfish



|class = {{cape/class|Shaker}} ({{cape/class|Changer|5}}
|rep_morality = -2
|rep_notoriety = E
|rep_criminal = -


|redditlink = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/n5uqj4/eden/
|image = Eden Costume.png
|caption = Eden in her costume (comes with a mask that features opaque lenses.)
|birth_date = 25-8-1995
|birth_place = Devilfish


|}}
An incident was reported regarding a cape completely blocking off the front of a pawn shop using fleshy looking stalks before robbing the place, leaving with the cash in the register and a few odd bits.


== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===
Out of costume, Lana is a tall woman with long brown (dyed) hair who simply dresses herself neatly, if often the same every day. She's also sometimes seen with a white cane, denoting her as blind.

In costume, Eden is often seen wearing a somewhat modified suit covered in a protective layer of her power's stalks and eyes, her arms being covered the deep red substance of her power for easy usage. Her face is covered in a plain white mask with opaque lenses. Her hair is also reverted to a grey-blue-ish color. (A result of her misremembering the hair color she had before losing her sight and deciding she liked the color afterwards.)

=== Equipment and Resources ===
* A regular ass knife
* A phone with important numbers pre programmed
* A few coins to use for shaping makeshift spears on (by absorbing stalks and leaving the 'main' one)

=== Skills and Specializations ===
* Able to read braille
* Can give speeches without real trouble
* Excellent motivational speaker
* Remembering paths and areas after only having been there once or twice
* Is able to guess where something is purely by sound

=== Mentality ===
Eden puts an extreme amount of value towards her own independence. Refusing aid unless she can pay them back for it immediately or in the very near future.
In costume, she has also picked up on a somewhat curious nature regarding the things that she couldn't really do or experience without her now power gifted sight.

=== Power ===
Eden is a changer/shaker who controls a thick, reddish substance that has replaced their blood. It has a similar consistency to tar, though she can negate the stickiness and draw it out of things it's soaked. It can slowly be exuded through her skin if wanted, while actual wounds would allow her to draw out more. This substance does not contain DNA and is incapable of carrying blood borne diseases/other foreign stuff.

Once outside of their body, the substance can move slowly along surfaces at about the same speed as a regular person's calm walking pace. The cape can also on command, make the substance congeal or explode into hardened, potentially branching 'stalks' of sorts dozens of times their original volume over, ending up looking not too far from the branches of an especially morbid tree without leaves.

These stalks have the occasional eye spaced about that the cape can see through and will remain for a few hours after leaving the cape's presence or until losing their connection with the surface that it is on. (So removing a bit will destroy that bit, while tearing it near the base will destroy the whole thing.) The stalks are approximately the equivalent of steel and count as organic.

These stalk explosions vaguely follow the cape's will regarding the direction and will attempt to avoid impaling the cape or others unless intended, simply trapping them otherwise.

When touched, the stalks can also be shaped to some degree, and the 'surface' they are attached to can also be transferred to somewhere on the cape's body, being able to be moved across their body as if they were still 'blood' and weighing only a tenth of their actual weight for Eden herself.

While on the cape's body, their control over the stalks intensifies greatly, allowing for the shaping of pointed weaponry and equipment, if with open spots as the stalks will not allow themselves to be completely shaped to be tight against one another to allow for full coverage, though something close can be achieved with time and effort are spent intertwining multiple sets of stalks attached to a 'base'. Stalks on the cape's body count as part of their body for the sake of power effects.

When touching a stalk, the cape can also absorb it into their body, healing their body and replenishing their 'blood' for future use. Healing themselves in this way costs approximately the same volume that is being healed for flesh, with bones and organs requiring twice as much. Injuries closer to the point of contact come first and all healing uses Eden's self image as a reference.

=== Backstory ===
Lana remembers very little of her childhood, but she remembers not always having her current impairment, and how she used to not be 'so damn helpless' as she'd put it.

It was frustration, day in day out. Trying to learn how to not need to rely on others. But something would always come up that needed her to ask someone for help. Thankfully she had a grandfather who understood. He didn't offer help unless she asked for it. And if it wasn't for him, Lana would've probably either been far more bitter, or driven herself mad with frustration long ago.

And as she grew up, the feeling of other people thinking that she needed help, that she was somehow less than them. It ground on her mind. So what if she didn't have one of her senses? The others worked just fine.

Except things would always come back up. She was more than what she lacked, dammit! And she came to only teeth grinding conclusion. People were always going to be looking down on her for it for once reason or another.

So she turned to researching powers. The capes she heard about were seen as a real threat. As people who shouldn't be messed with and weren't helpless. So she set out, looking into powers. How they worked. And most importantly, how to get them.

Except all sources point towards one thing. You didn't simply get powers, and there was no surefire way to get them. She almost threw her computer out of the window that day, instead she found herself a spot and screamed her throat raw in frustration.

And that is when she heard a woman step up behind her. At first she though that it was a burglar who had come in, but that quickly changed when the woman offered her powers. Complete and utter independence from any need for help if she wanted it. To be the person she wanted to be. All it'd cost... were the memories of her grandfather.

She was handed a rune, and if she truly wanted powers, she was to break it. If not, the woman would be back. Lana still had no idea how the woman had gotten in or out beyond maybe teleportation.

And the next day, as she was thinking it over, Lana decided that it would all be worth it. Smashing the rune to bits. Then as she felt her heart slow, and her body fill with an odd awareness that she knew that the woman had not been bullshitting her.

Eden

2021-05-17T14:10:42Z

{{cape
|name = Eden
|alias =
|civ_name = Lana Carrigan
|author = /u/Scrublord_Koish
|alignment = Villain
|affiliation = None
|status = Active
|location = Devilfish



|class = {{cape/class|Shaker}} ({{cape/class|Changer|5}}
|rep_morality = -2
|rep_notoriety = E
|rep_criminal = -


|redditlink = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/n5uqj4/eden/
|image = Eden Costume.png
|caption = Eden in her costume (comes with a mask that features opaque lenses.)
|birth_date = 25-8-1995
|birth_place = Devilfish


|}}

An incident was reported regarding a cape completely blocking off the front of a pawn shop using fleshy looking stalks before robbing the place, leaving with the cash in the register and a few odd bits.



== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===
Out of costume, Lana is a tall woman with long brown (dyed) hair who simply dresses herself neatly, if often the same every day. She's also sometimes seen with a white cane, denoting her as blind.

In costume, Eden is often seen wearing a somewhat modified suit covered in a protective layer of her power's stalks and eyes, her arms being covered the deep red substance of her power for easy usage. Her face is covered in a plain white mask with opaque lenses. Her hair is also reverted to a grey-blue-ish color. (A result of her misremembering the hair color she had before losing her sight and deciding she liked the color afterwards.)

=== Equipment and Resources ===
* A regular ass knife
* A phone with important numbers pre programmed
* A few coins to use for shaping makeshift spears on (by absorbing stalks and leaving the 'main' one)

=== Skills and Specializations ===
* Able to read braille
* Can give speeches without real trouble
* Excellent motivational speaker
* Remembering paths and areas after only having been there once or twice
* Is able to guess where something is purely by sound

=== Mentality ===
Eden puts an extreme amount of value towards her own independence. Refusing aid unless she can pay them back for it immediately or in the very near future.
In costume, she has also picked up on a somewhat curious nature regarding the things that she couldn't really do or experience without her now power gifted sight.

=== Power ===
Eden is a changer/shaker who controls a thick, reddish substance that has replaced their blood. It has a similar consistency to tar, though she can negate the stickiness and draw it out of things it's soaked. It can slowly be exuded through her skin if wanted, while actual wounds would allow her to draw out more. This substance does not contain DNA and is incapable of carrying blood borne diseases/other foreign stuff.

Once outside of their body, the substance can move slowly along surfaces at about the same speed as a regular person's calm walking pace. The cape can also on command, make the substance congeal or explode into hardened, potentially branching 'stalks' of sorts dozens of times their original volume over, ending up looking not too far from the branches of an especially morbid tree without leaves.

These stalks have the occasional eye spaced about that the cape can see through and will remain for a few hours after leaving the cape's presence or until losing their connection with the surface that it is on. (So removing a bit will destroy that bit, while tearing it near the base will destroy the whole thing.) The stalks are approximately the equivalent of steel and count as organic.

These stalk explosions vaguely follow the cape's will regarding the direction and will attempt to avoid impaling the cape or others unless intended, simply trapping them otherwise.

When touched, the stalks can also be shaped to some degree, and the 'surface' they are attached to can also be transferred to somewhere on the cape's body, being able to be moved across their body as if they were still 'blood' and weighing only a tenth of their actual weight for Eden herself.

While on the cape's body, their control over the stalks intensifies greatly, allowing for the shaping of pointed weaponry and equipment, if with open spots as the stalks will not allow themselves to be completely shaped to be tight against one another to allow for full coverage, though something close can be achieved with time and effort are spent intertwining multiple sets of stalks attached to a 'base'. Stalks on the cape's body count as part of their body for the sake of power effects.

When touching a stalk, the cape can also absorb it into their body, healing their body and replenishing their 'blood' for future use. Healing themselves in this way costs approximately the same volume that is being healed for flesh, with bones and organs requiring twice as much. Injuries closer to the point of contact come first and all healing uses Eden's self image as a reference.

=== Backstory ===
Lana remembers very little of her childhood, but she remembers not always having her current impairment, and how she used to not be 'so damn helpless' as she'd put it.

It was frustration, day in day out. Trying to learn how to not need to rely on others. But something would always come up that needed her to ask someone for help. Thankfully she had a grandfather who understood. He didn't offer help unless she asked for it. And if it wasn't for him, Lana would've probably either been far more bitter, or driven herself mad with frustration long ago.

And as she grew up, the feeling of other people thinking that she needed help, that she was somehow less than them. It ground on her mind. So what if she didn't have one of her senses? The others worked just fine.

Except things would always come back up. She was more than what she lacked, dammit! And she came to only teeth grinding conclusion. People were always going to be looking down on her for it for once reason or another.

So she turned to researching powers. The capes she heard about were seen as a real threat. As people who shouldn't be messed with and weren't helpless. So she set out, looking into powers. How they worked. And most importantly, how to get them.

Except all sources point towards one thing. You didn't simply get powers, and there was no surefire way to get them. She almost threw her computer out of the window that day, instead she found herself a spot and screamed her throat raw in frustration.

And that is when she heard a woman step up behind her. At first she though that it was a burglar who had come in, but that quickly changed when the woman offered her powers. Complete and utter independence from any need for help if she wanted it. To be the person she wanted to be. All it'd cost... were the memories of her grandfather.

She was handed a rune, and if she truly wanted powers, she was to break it. If not, the woman would be back. Lana still had no idea how the woman had gotten in or out beyond maybe teleportation.

And the next day, as she was thinking it over, Lana decided that it would all be worth it. Smashing the rune to bits. Then as she felt her heart slow, and her body fill with an odd awareness that she knew that the woman had not been bullshitting her.

{{cape
|name = Tiphereth
|alias = Fiber
|civ_name = Alicia 'Alice' Schäfer
|author = /u/Scrublord_Koish
|alignment = Hero
|affiliation = None
|status = Inactive
|location = Devilfish



|class = {{cape/class|Tinker}}
|rep_morality = 2
|rep_notoriety = D
|rep_criminal = ?


|redditlink = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/fyolxo/tipherethfiber_resubmit/
|image = 
|caption = 
|birth_date = 16-12-1997
|birth_place = Munich, Germany



|}}


A vigilante biotinker that has been moving about near the forest for a while now and seems to be fine with having a chat with visitors.
Criminals she takes in are generally healed of any injuries she may have inflicted before being handed off to authorities.



== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===



Most often seen in almost casual attire these days, a mask of bone and metal protecting her identity. A tail of a black, chitinous material trails behind her, often coiled around her own waist.

She's let her hair grow out a bit since her early cape days, a bit of her blonde hair spilling out over her shoulders and a grey 'scarf' made of scales. (With hood if needed.)
Recently seen in a more dark, hooded outfit with various pouches strewn about.
=== Equipment and Resources ===


* A few additional burners for if the mask is destroyed.
* A small medkit containing both mundane equipment and tools + healing liquids for emergency surgery.
* Ties made out of sinew.
* A small quiver containing 15 arrows.

=== Tinkertech ===


==== Healing liquids ====

* Appearance: Either red-pink, or deep green depending on if made for healing or curing of diseases. Generally held in vials or syringes.
* Abilities: Regenerates adjescent tissues near instantly, allowing for rapid healing of wounds, limbs cannot be restored in this fashion unless the limb was made over the span of a couple days before attaching.
* If made to counter poisons and diseases, usually contains a ‘base’ set of antidotes, antibiotics and the like for the most common diseases. (Like the common cold) For anything beyond that, requires a special batch to be made for that specific disease/toxin.
* Has a shelf life of a week before turning gray and VERY toxic.
* Requires exact dosage. If too little is injected then the wounds won’t properly close and likely cause major infections. If too much is used then it will cause horrific tumors.

==== A 'slight' upgrade ====

* Appearance: None
* Abilities: Basically a ‘master’ upgrade to the body that allows future creations to integrate/interface directly with the body.
* Also some work has been done around the joints in her fingers, arms and legs to increase her body’s flexibility and more specifically, effectively allow for quadrupedal movement at a speed of 45 mph and the ability to climb up walls via an iron grip on handholds and digging the fingers into the wall.
* Futhermore, this comes with underskin layers of armor equivalent to type II armor all across the body, heavily enhanced muscles to allow for 1500 kg lifting strength and the ability to run at 35 mph on two legs. Also heavy shock absorbers in the arms and legs to not rip open limbs while in use and against higher falls.
* Comes with added desire to eat large amounts of pickles.

==== Tails of the Corpse Thief ====

* Appearance: Either one of two tails coming out from her back by the tailbone, covered in matte black carapace.
* Abilities: Can be either separate as two tails or put together into a single somewhat larger one. A single tail has 250 kg of lifting strength, both together just barely managing 550. Can coil around stuff to lift it up. Has a maximum range of 4 meters for stuff like stabbing and swiping, only 3-ish meters when coiled around something. Can be detached in an emergency if necessary.
* Due to compromises in its internal designs, attempting to crush or violently whip something with the tails will cause them to break, internal fleshy tissue being shredded.

==== Internal medical equipment ====

* Appearance: A sort of bony syringe coming out of the inside of the arm.
* Abilities: Can extend extend a needle 10 cm from the bottom part of the wrist and is used for injecting or drawing out liquids from and to a couple small storage sacks located in the upper arm section.
* Storage tanks are individually linked and can contain different liquids.
* Also comes with medical ‘scanner’ of sorts, which will scan the body of touched individuals, providing a 3d ‘map’ of sorts of the individual’s body when used in combination with the mask.

==== A face she prefers ====

* Appearance: A blank white mask with red lenses.
* Abilities: A bone and chitin based mask that isn’t quite capable of stopping a bullet, but does slow it down to reduce potential damage. Does provide somewhat decent protection against blunt force and cut based attacks.
* Has built in communicator for both verbal communication and to act as an emergency signal/beacon.
* Links to the scanner in the palms of the suit for instant results and to direct and display the liquids inside of the combat needle’s reservoirs.
* Bottom can open up, looking remeniscent of mandibles and allowing the consumption of food and drinks while still covering most of the face to hide the wearer’s identity.

==== Freeform scarf ====

* Appearance: A ‘scarf’ and ‘hood’ made of a grey ‘scales’, if still behaving like if it were made of rather heavy cloth when moving.
* Abilities: When commanded to do so, the scales will reform themselves into crude shapes as wanted, generally swords, spears, shields and hammers.
* Can either form a single two handed sized weapon, or two one handed sized weapon.
* When affected by the striker subpower, locks it into whatever weapon it currently is until fully reverted.

==== Emotional support spider! ====

* Appearance: A 'Goliath Birdeater' spider, schaled up to the size of a small cat and covered in soft, black fur.
* Abilities: Has venom that is painful, but not harmful to humans and larger creatures, and a paralytic to creatures smaller than itself.
* Will try to inject a blood coagulant when noticing an open wound on a human.
* Is mentally a fusion between an affectionate cat and a spider, having the personality of the former and clinging to walls/ceilings + hunting like the latter.
* Can purr.
* Will hunt for rodents and can be fed using a primarily meat based diet or nutrient paste.
* Is a cuddlebug!

==== High Tension Bow-Gauntlet ====

* Appearance: When unfolded, it looks to be a compound bow, the front covered in black scales with the back having a fleshy interior and a deep red tendon serving as the bowstring. When folded up, like a bracer made out of black scales.
* Abilities: Can be stored on the arm like a bracer, unfolding when pressure is applied to a spot near where the wrist would be to turn into a fully sized compound bow.
* Scales linger behind to serve as an arm guard when in use to keep the skin underneath flawless.
* Serves as a 100 pound draw weight recurve bow.
* In a pinch, the bow can be used to smack someone, but this will damage the tissue depending on the force applied, either breaking or snapping if too much force is applied.

==== Hive Quiver ====

* Appearance: A medium sized quiver covered in black scales, with 'arrows' sticking out the top.
* Abilities: Holds 20 untipped arrows made of flesh and bone.
* Internally births one of several different creatures, which will then latch onto one of the arrow tips. Up to three of each are kept in sacs within, a new one taking three minutes to grow to maturity for use.
* The first contains sacs of its own with spores held within. On impact, it detonates in about a meter radius of spores from the impact point, dissipating within ten or so seconds. Can of course be blown apart like any gas. Should these spores be breathed in, they will act as an anaesthetic. Minor exposure making a person start to feel numb, breating some in will start to make it harder to stay awake, and several breaths or more will make a person fall unconscious within a dozen or so seconds, barring brute powers.
* The second has a sharper tip, meant to penetrate through armor and reach flesh or wiring underneath, where it will attempt to deliver electric shocks to a living target like a taser or fry internal electronics.
* The third is closer to a dart in nature, drawing from a small fluid sac within the quiver itself and injecting it into the target hit.
* The sac for the third dart mixes whatever is held inside with a suppressant for her healing liquids that breaks down when in contact with chemicals released when injured, effectively covering up wounds until a person can get proper attention. It can hold enough for up to 5 shots

==== The Scavengers ====

* Appearance: Superficially resembles a condor, if with a larger wingspan.
* Abilities: For mosts intents and purposes, the Scavengers are just that. Specifically condors.
* Maximum flight speed of 100 km/h.
* Armored skin underneath the feathers. Cannot stop more than a handgun bullet.
* Can carry up to 25 kg while maintaining flight.
* Reinforced beak that can, with time, break apart steel plating.
* Enhanced intelligence and social structure. Can cooperate with other Scavengers to break down objects. Will attempt to avoid damaging wiring, should they encounter some while breaking down an object.
* Tipereth has made 8 of them. Should they breed, either with eachother or wild condors, the result will not be enhanced in any way.
Not amazing at combat against anything larger than them. Mostly intended for scouting and collection purposes.

==== Voice box ====

* Appearance: None
* Abilities: Allows Tipereth to communicate with her creations without using words using animal noises, clicks and squeaks.
* Comes with a small alteration to her own brain to be able to interpret these in return.
* Allows mimicing of animal noises. (Sounds like nonsense to the relevant animals)
* Allows Tipereth to more delicately control her voice and yell up to 3x louder than before.
* Lets Tipereth alter her voice, potentially mimicing someone else's, but not speech patterns. Requires a couple weeks of time and large amounts of reference material to mimic voices.

==== Hole in the ground ====

* Appearance: A from the outside normal looking cave.
* Holds Tiphereth's tinker lab. Housing half a dozen tanks of varying sizes and a range of medical equipment.
* Has a cot in case of overnight stay.
* Lighting provided by bioluminescent plants.
* Has a few small offshoot that can be dug out to make extra 'rooms'.
* Houses a creature that aids Tiphereth in the conversion of biomass into the stem cells she uses as the base for her work and for the creation of nutrient paste to feed herself and the organisms living there.
* Houses a hive of 'ants' that have a very similar mentally and physicality to the argentine ant that scavenge for and tear apart dead plants and animals, delivering them to the creature mentioned above. The ants eat exclusively nutrient paste. If given a specific signal, the ants will find a tree some ways away in the forest above and begin to break it down to bring back.
* Has a fungus based defense system with a nerve cluster serving as a 'brain'. Is capable of recognising appearances of and sounds made by allowed individuals and creatures. Creatures made by Tiphereth are always added to this memory upon creation.
* Plants on the surface above have been hijacked to siphon off the energy produced via photosynthesis to feed the fungus acting as the place's defense.

==== Fungal defense ====

* Appearance: A soft mycelium-esque growth covering the walls with the occasional mushroom near the entrance, with occasional tube-like growth as one goes further in.
* When an individual not known to be allowed by the nerve cluster detects a creature approaching, the mushrooms growing around will start to emit spores. These spores will cause creatures that had the spores touch their skin or breathed them in to start to fall asleep. It takes around 30 seconds to saturate the air with spores, and the more spores the spores are touched/breathed in, the faster the effects will take hold, halving the time required in the case of both.
* It takes around a minute for a person to fall asleep at the minimum density of spores, and 15 seconds at a maximum saturation.
* When a creature goes further into the cave, the tube-like growths will start to spew a sticky substance that is mildly corrosive, ceasing to be corrosive once it comes into contact with the chemicals that cause pain signals to be sent to the brain. This is intended to eat away at equipment and leave creatures with at most first degree chemical burns.
* When damaged, the mycelium releases a slippery substance intended to slow down and eventually halt the spread of flames, eventually snuffing them out unless a constant flame is applied.

=== Skills and Specializations ===
* Hand to hand combat.
* Small amounts of martial weapons training.
* Politics.
* Coding.
* Keeping calm under pressure.
* Putting on a 'customer support' voice and attitude.
* Medical jargon
* A frankly creepy ability to recall faces and appearances

=== Mentality ===
She has severe abandonment issues, resulting in her being overly clingy towards the people she trusts and having a need to either be with people who don't die easily, or make it so they won't die easily.

After a recent shot of confidence, she's become quite a bit more aggressive in her efforts in trying to 'fix' the above. Either by trying to give people her tech or going after the problem herself.

=== Power ===
Trigger type: Cluster

Tinker power (main):
* Tinker specializing in the concept of symbiosis. All tech is made to either work alongside one or more other organisms to function, or requires an exchange if the sole intended other organism is a person. Typically in the form of feeding a sort of biological 'core' food.
* For the first, this could come in the form of acid spewing turrets that are blind, requiring a completely separate drone to locate the target for the turret to shoot at, or making hundreds of tiny bug-like organisms form into an armor.
* For the latter, she can create biomechanical 'cores', maws that devour all with even the tiniest scrap of sustenance that is fed to them and turn it into energy for her usage. This usually comes in the form of an incredibly nutritious (and foul tasting) nutrient paste, alongside the occasional weirder cravings if placed within the body. These cores need to be fed often, less the tech shut off, hibernating until their next chance to feed.

Master subpower (Keira)
* The ability to emit a loud scream, seemingly getting louder as it echoes off of walls. People who hear this screech will have their fear response and desire to flee enhanced. Getting weaker the quieter the scream is to the people hearing it.
* With the power exchange gimmick, additional mouths open up on clothing and held items, screaming in concert with the main scream. (Basically it's just louder than before.)

Thinker subpower (Inky)
* Allows for alternative methods using projectile weapons that technically have a chance of succeeding to be equally effective as doing it normally would have been. This effectively allows for things such as trick shots and gun kata, regardless of actual effectiveness. In other words, any alternative ways of using projectiles shall have the same effectivity, regardless of how unlikely it seems.

* With the boost, projectiles, weapons and their own body are slightly more aerodynamic, bounce slightly better, and have other minor bonuses to facilitate the alternative methods, even allowing for close quarters fighting that looks choreographed from the outside. It also allows for parkour, though arriving at the destination will cost approximately the same amount of time.
* This enhancement happens subconsciously and only while using the alternative method.
* This power has to be consciously activated, and the cape needs at least partial control over their own movements to work. Being blown through the air won't allow it to work, but trying to do so while flying or jumping high in the air would.

Striker subpower (Shimme)
* Can designate and charges a melee weapon that leeches energy from her movements. Her movements grow far more sluggishly while wielding the weapon, just a little slower than they would normally, but in exchange the weapon can hit like a goddamn truck, the energy that would have been put into the movements instead being focused into the impact of the weapon. The weapon also enlarges and transforms after being designated, slowly turning a basic hammer into a giant mallet, for instance.
* With the power exchange gimmick, reverting a weapon back to its base state goes far faster. From slow buildoff to just a few seconds to revert. The power does not compensate for the sudden shift in weight.
* When in use, Tiphereth is slower than the average human being.

Cluster gimmick
* Tiphereth's cluster has a gimmick, allowing for their secondary powers to be boosted or drained. When two cluster members come into conflict or work together, their shards are looking for interesting, dramatic, and powerful plays. After a particularly impressive defeat of a cluster mate, or a particularly impressive demonstration of teamwork between cluster members, the shards poll the rest of the shards in the cluster (we vote OOC at the end of the thread) to decide if it was impressive enough.
* If the shards are happy with the performance, there is an exchange of power. The cape who is drained loses access to the secondary granted by the other cluster mate, while the cape receiving the boost gets a boost to their own secondary donated by the one drained. In a case of dominating a cluster mate in a conflict, the winner drains the loser, in the case of a cooperative effort between capes, the cape that was the impressively helpful is the one drained, giving too much of their effort away.
* This effect lasts for an irl month.

=== Backstory ===

Alicia had been born to a rather wealthy family in Munich, Germany.

She grew up well educated and loved… but noticed that there was always a weird undertone on how her family went about things, and she often found them speaking of people different from them with disdain. Doing some research herself, as they had taught her, brought to her the knowledge of just what her family was. A set of well connected, modern day nazis.

Of course, the fact that the family she loved could be compared to such monsters horrified her, and she got a mixture of both praise for the research… and an explanation on how deep the hatred went. How with their connections with the upper class and the consistently strong powers running in the family would secure a bright future for the ‘superior race’, which she was to aid in as well once she triggered.

She didn’t want to understand her father’s words.

Slowly, she distanced herself from them, choosing to study medicine in the capital of Berlin both because it was an occupation fit for a ‘proper lady’, as she had been taught… and so that she wouldn’t alert anyone to the fact that she didn’t share their views.

It went well, things considered. And she was well on her way to finishing her studies when getting a letter in the mail, her heart sinking as she went over the contents. Cooperate or they would release details on her connections to what in the cape community was apparantly a very brutal group of fascist capes. Blackmail.

Being blackmailed was a lot scarier than movies had made it out to be, and it had apparantly started to show on her, as the friends she had made in her time there started to get concerned for her health.

One day, she just couldn’t take it anymore, and told the guy who she had been heavily crushing on everything. About the family she had run away from, and they were now haunting her as blackmail material being held over her head. She had rarely been happier than when he embraced her and promised to help make things better.

Slowly, her mood improved again, practically being showered in attention and support. Maybe things wouldn’t be so bad after all.

And then one day she got a message from him. He was going to broker for her freedom. It would’ve made her happy if the gang he was heading for hadn’t been known for being violent in nature.

She ran out the door as fast as she could, running into gang territory despite the danger it would pose, desperately searching for any trace of her love.

Until finally, she stumbled onto a bizarre sight. Another of her friends, Julie, raising a gun to aim at him.

A loud bang echoed through the building, and her eyes found one of the gang members having raised his gun and fired at Julie. Her confusion would’ve lasted far longer if a second shot hadn’t rung out, Julie’s gun firing as well, and she watched her crush fall as she looked back.

Alicia screamed, running to his side and shaking his rapidly lifeless becoming body, then clutching it to her chest, dress being stained with blood.

She didn’t know how long she had been there when she couldn’t notice his heartbeat anymore.

Trigger.

Riposte

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2021-01-12T13:20:37Z

Koish:

Tarrasque

2021-01-12T13:20:17Z

Child of Light

2021-01-05T13:50:59Z

Koish:

{{cape
|name = Child of Light
|alias = CoL
|civ_name = Mari Bright
|author = /u/Scrublord_Koish
|alignment = Villain
|affiliation = None
|status = Active
|location = Devilfish


|class = {{cape/class|Breaker}} ({{cape/class|Striker}}, {{cape/class|Changer}}) -->
|rep_morality = 3
|rep_notoriety = D
|rep_criminal = +


|redditlink = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/bvnvj9/child_of_light/
|image = Child of Light.png
|caption = 
|birth_date = 2005-07-17
|birth_place = Ashton, Washington



|}}

== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===
Out of costume they look like a fifteen year old girl with shoulder length dark hair and green eyes. She is rather short for her age and rather well muscled with it.

When entering her other state, a ring of black liquid forms a halo above her head and back from which insectoid limbs dripping with the liquid extend. While out as a cape she wears a thick jacket, knee and elbow braces projecting her joints and a greyish mask. All of this turned into black, white and various shades of grey by her power.

=== Equipment and Resources ===

* A padded costume with braces for her knees and elbows.
* A couple of glass marbles that she likes the look of.
* Burner phones
* Cable ties

=== Skills and Specializations ===
* She's got an extremely good memory, remembering people she's met once for months afterward.
* Is a surprisingly good singer.
* Quick learner.
* Somewhat good at eastern martial arts.
* Pretty good runner

===Mentality===
Mari tries her best to be cheerful, fully believing that she should be using her powers to help people. She is also exceedingly awkward towards other people her age, not having had much contact with any since her trigger.
She has a tendency to become very tense when around heroic capes that she doesn't know yet, her powers having given her a history of being attacked for its appearance.

===Power===
''Trigger type:'' Natural trigger

Can change into a deleterious breaker state, taking on what could be described as an almost demonic form. A pitch black halo made of 'ink' appears above their head and another at the center of their black, everything else just turning monochrome. She can extend long insectoid 'arms' from the rings that are covered in the same ink. They are about as strong as the arm of an average adult and up to three meters long, capable of impaling, swatting at things, and otherwise protecting her and she has a fine control of them. Each “arm” coated in an oily ink like substance, also dripping it from each tip. This ink acts as an 'acid' of sorts and simply eats through whatever it touches in equal volume when not on the 'arm', removing it from existence. The ink is manton limited to only affect nonliving material.

===Backstory===
Mari grew up in a strict and heavily religious family, being told that as long as she was doing her best, everything was fine. So she worked her hardest every single day. Sure, she didn't always succeed, but that was fine as long as she did her best, right?

She would go to school and the other children would be mean to her, but this was fine, she was her parents' little angel and nothing would change that. Not the mean looks, not them stealing her stuff, not them trying to trip her as she walked to her seat. Everything was fine... really... please believe me.

Mari had been walking home from school, where nothing bad had happened if anyone were to ask her. The bruises she was hiding under her shirt meant nothing.

She was about halfway when she was roughly pulled into an alleyway and slammed against the wall, several of the children from her year standing over her with anger on their faces.

She was about to ask them 'why' when the first punch hit her, causing her to double over in pain. Things were still fine though she just had to-

The next punch sent her stumbling further into the alleyway. Maybe things weren't fine. She needed to run away and hide somewhere if she could just-

The next punch hit her straight on, sending her to the ground. She looks up to her tormentors, the people who had been making her life hell and were about to make it worse yet again.

'''Trigger.'''