Hello Dusty! So here we can discuss plot details, character development, and all the other fun stuff. :3

So for the antagonists, I was thinking they would be a brother and sister from the elitist group who would be competing to see who finds the most 'worthy' mutants first. Each one would have a specific pattern that would lead our detectives to find out there's more than one killer. Since they're framing humans for the act, perhaps the sister would poison her victims and the brother would strangle his victims?

I'm still working on my mutants but I'll post their profiles here when I'm done. :3

Sure no worries! Take your time with your characters. I will think about mine antagonist while laying in bed tonight. That is apparently when I do my best thinking.

Ok gotcha. Brother and Sister pair that kill any non-worthy mutants. Sister will have to be the harder one to track down! Since the poison will be harder to track! I guess we will stumble upon the brother first. Then maybe he will lead us to his sister.

Glad you don't think my character was overpowered! I wanted it to be a power that I could grow as we go along. That way it isn't the same old stuff, my power kind of grows with the story. Never know where it will lead after we catch the Elite Group serial killers!

P.S: I am glad you are joining the other RP as well!

That's a really good idea! My antagonist is going to have an osteokinetic or bone manipulation power and my hero is going to develop a lightning related power. The brother leading us to the sister we can definitely do. :D I'm glad to have joined up on the other rp as well. I was really searching for joining another group rp and this one seems really interesting as well! Thanks for inviting me!

Your powers seem super cool! I will you be able to create your own electricity with the lightening power? Or purely be able to strike from the sky. Maybe your power can grow with your character as well!

Sleeping didn't yield any new powers for my antagonist. I am headed to work now, but hopefully when I get home I will have thought of a cool power!

I think we got the story line down. Just need to plan out the characters. I guess one of us should type up everything that we talked about that way he can see the final result! I can do that tonight after we get off of work. Then we can make changes to that and make sure everything flows nicely!

Yep, it's pretty much just coming up with clear concepts of the characters and a name for our roleplay! Hm, maybe your antagonist could be umbrakinetic? It's the ability to manipulate and generate darkness or shadows. Kind of like Shikamaru from Naruto? Either way I'm sure you'll come up with something. :D

My hero profile is here! Let me know what you think. :3

The Hero--
Name: Melody Mercier
Also Known As: Striker
Appearance:
Striker is 5'9" with sandy blonde hair and piercing ocean blue eyes. She's got a toned hourglass figure but much to her chagrin, a small bust. Striker considers her best features to be her hips and long, shapely legs. More often than not, she'll wear daisy dukes and mini skirts to show them off.


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Age: 21
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Race/Ethnicity: Mutant/Dutch and Cajun
Birthplace: Lafayette, Louisiana
Powers:
Electrokinesis, Striker has mastered the basics of her ability to manipulate and generate lightning. Her mentor Storm predicted there was much more to these powers than the young woman currently realized. In their current manifestation, they allow Striker to shoot lightning strong enough to inflict second degree burns. In rare instances Striker's lightning has been able to knock people unconscious for about five to ten minutes. She's unable to use her power during severe lightning storms as it might overcharge her body and kill her.
Personality:
Striker is pretty laid back and easygoing for the most part. In her downtime, one can usually find her eating a spicy fruit flavored lollipop and curled up with a good book. Much of the time she has what her peers call a 'benevolent deadpan' look on her face. However if she's talking about her favorite subject (food) Striker is very expressive and talkative. Many people mistake her general lack of facial expressions and leisurely pace as stupidity, flightiness, or nonchalance. In truth Striker is incredibly intelligent, possessing in depth knowledge of psychology as well as having keen attention to detail.
Bio:
Striker was born in Lafayette, Louisiana to a large family who loved her dearly. Being the youngest of eight siblings had its challenges for her in more ways than one. Firstly, she was what her siblings called the runt of the litter. Secondly, her powers awakened once she hit puberty and accidentally gave the family cat a jolt. Mr. and Mrs. Mercier decided it would be best for their daughter to go to a school for mutants. For several years they saved up until they could send Striker off to New York for college at Xavier University. She majored in criminal psychology and her eye for detail didn't go unnoticed. After training with the X-Men and Professor Xavier, Striker was assigned to a special investigations unit with several other graduates.

I actually love that power that you suggested. I think I will use it!

Your character is very detailed! I will type up equally detailed bios when I get the chance tonight. Hopefully I will be able to find a good picture. I shall search the internets from top to bottom looking for a good picture!

Cool! Glad I could help! :D

Thank you, glad you like her profile! I'm still mulling over what to do for the sister as far as name, looks, etc. I have a feeling she's going to be...interesting. XD

A lot of times I scour photobucket, tumblr, or pintrest to find good character photos. If you need help with finding stuff, let me know what you want your characters to look like and I'll do my best to hunt some pics down for you. :3

Story: Two mutants have graduated the university. Both were selected to be apart of the Special Mutant Investigations unit. Meanwhile, a brother and sister duo are in the Elite Mutant Organization. There goal is to find as many elite mutants as possible. If the mutant does not fit their standard, the get murdered. The brother and sister make the deaths seem like a human serial killer is responisble. The Sister's MO is poison, and the brother strangles his victims. Little do they know, that two of the SMI's best agents will be trying to stop them.

Did I miss anything or is that a pretty good introduction?

Yay! The introduction looks good. What should we call our thread? Or do you want to wit on that until we've finished crafting our characters?

Oh your avatar is looking cool! :D

By the way, here's my antagonist:

The Antagonist--

Name: Lillian Graham-Araújo
Also Known As: Thorn, Widowmaker
Appearance:
Thorn is 5'1" with hair so black it has natural navy blue highlights. Her eyes are a honeyed hue of golden yellow. She's a buxom girl with a petite, fit figure. Thorn can't stand her height and will often wear high heeled or platform shoes to compensate. The only colors she'll wear are black, white, and or blood red. Often she wears black or red lipstick. On her left shoulder blade is a tribal tattoo of a lance head showing membership in her father's organization.

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Age: 25
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Race/Ethnicity: Mutant/British and Portuguese
Birthplace: London, England
Powers:
Osteokinesis, she can generate and manipulate bone growths on the skin along her spine. Thorn can also manipulate the keratin in her fingernails so they grow into vicious talons at will. While it is possible for Thorn to use her bone growths like throwing knives, if she does it too often they will become brittle. She's required to have calcium infusions of almost 1,000 milligrams every three days or she suffers from moderate heart complications and bruises appear on her skin. If left untreated she could die.
Personality:
Thorn upon first meeting is sweet and warm. She'll use this to draw people in and deflect suspicion. The instant she no longer needs/wants you around or feels you have offended her, she transforms into a cold heartless individual. She's incredibly vain but not at all vapid. She's clever, finding her victims' weaknesses with enviable ease. The only people Thorn cares about genuinely are her immediate family. She doesn't believe in romantic love, preferring to feed her lust and desires instead. However Thorn has many men who are deeply in love with her at her beck and call. She refers to them as her 'devoted harem'.
Bio:
The founder of an elite pro-mutant group, the Spearhead Alliance, kept five wives. They all lived on a gorgeous private island off the coast of Greece with several other mutant families they had found worthy of joining their cause. The leader's two favorite wives bore his only children. The first was a boy and the second was a girl, Thorn. Thorn's powers emerged at the tender age of nine during intensive combat training. From there her father carefully cultivated his little princess into a deadly diva. Along with carefully chosen members of the Alliance, Thorn and her brother were sent to New York in hopes of finding more recruits. Perhaps even some of the legendary X-Men...

Great! I should have my antagonist done by tomorrow. Here is my hero! I just kind of took your outline and went with it. I will make the antagonist similar to yours. Since they will be brother and sister. Let me know what you think about the hero! I didn't have a chance to look for a picture. So if you have time to help me out on that, that would be amazing!

I will try and think of a name for our story today!

The Hero--
Name: Lance Holden
Also Known As: Hydrogen (Hydro for short)

Appearance:
Hydro is 6'1" with dark black hair and forest green eyes. He has a tone build, thanks to the rigorous training at the University. More often than not you can find him in simple clothes. Jeans and a t-shirt is how he feels the most comfortable.

Age: 23
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Race/Ethnicity: Mutant/ Caucasian
Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Powers:
Hydrokinesis: Hydro has mastered the basics of his ability to freeze water into different shapes. He can maintain small amounts of water in his hands. At the university, Iceman took a strong interest in Hydro. He guided Hydro to fully accept his power and never stop trying to achieve his full potential. Imagination is Hydro’s greatest asset. As long as he can stay creative, his frozen objects can yield great results. He is unable to use his power when no water is present. He has not yet mastered how to pull water through other materials, but can sense the water is nearby.

Personality:
Hydro is somewhat of the quite type. He didn’t make many friends at the university because of the amount of time he spent trying to perfect his abilities. Any other time Hydro had, he spent learning. Find images of weapons, then creating them in ice and learning to wield them. The few individuals that did get to know him considered him to be the most trustworthy person they have ever met. Hydro would do anything from his close knit group of friends. Hydro comes off as a very serious person when it comes to school and training. In those few moments of time he has spent with his friends he is almost funny. A very sarcastic type of humor .

Bio:
Lance was the only child to a humble family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At a young age he grew to love the water. He would take tons of trips out onto the lake with his father. He first learned of his ability when spitting out water from laughing to hard. The water stayed in the palm of his hand. His family just wanted the best for him, and they knew that he would never be happy in Wisconsin. He was shipped out to the University for Mutants. His major was Criminal Justice, his father had always taught him to do what was right. So he felt this was a perfect major for him. Upon graduation, Lance was assigned to a special investigations unit with several other graduates.

This looks great! He's going to be an interesting partner for Striker, that's for sure. XD I found a few pictures for Hydro for you to choose from. :3






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The second one looks pretty good! Minus the ear-ring!

Then I will use the top one as the antagonist! Kind of looks related to yours!

Here is the antagonist: (Let me know what you think of the bio / personality. Is this something you can see as the relationship between our two characters.)

Name: Jae Graham-Araújo

Also Known As: Shadow

Appearance:

Jae is 5’8"with Jet Black Hair, so black that light shimmers off the top. His eyes are a hazel, but no one ever says how pretty they are. He has a thin body, and is nearly pale white. He rarely comes in contact with the sun unless he absolutely has to. In his love for darkness, he only wears the color black. Just like everyone in the Spearhead Alliance, he has a tribal tattoo of a lance head on his left shoulder blade.

Age: 26
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Race/Ethnicity: Mutant/British and Portuguese
Birthplace: London, England

Powers:

Umbrakinesis: Jae’s ability revolves around light, well the lack thereof. Any room with artificial light in it, he is able to make completely dark. He is not yet mastered how to block out the rays of the sun. In the darkness he is swift, he can see perfectly, without the need for night vision glasses. With intense concentration, he is able to control and move objects by their shadow. From being in the darkness so long, sunlight feels painful to his skin. His power has been rumored to be able to create darkness so dense, it can actually be used as a solid object for combat. Jae is unable to perform this.

Bio / Personality:

Due to the strict household environment, Jae is stern person. He earns respect through fear and anyone that stands in his way will regret it. For Jae it was always a competition, even though he was the oldest child, his sister Lillian was always the favorite. She was perfecting her power even before Jae knew he had one. He discovered his power from being so frustrated with his parents he closed himself into a dark room. His dad started to open the door to give him a “man-up speech” letting a small amount of light in. In Jae’s rage he blacked out the entire house from the light.

Thorn was always very nice to Jae, and even helped him train. For that, he liked her. Even with his sister’s love, he still secluded himself in dark areas, practicing his abilities. He needed to prove to his dad that he was as strong as his sister. No matter how strong he got, his dad never seemed to approve.
After being accepted into the Spearhead Alliance, he and his sister were selected to go on a mission to New York. Their job was to find people worthy for the Spearhead Alliance, if they aren’t they don’t deserve to live.

Very cool! :D I like him. Yeah, I could definitely see Lillian and Jae having a loving but strangely competitive relationship. She's very attached to him and sees any competition between them as his way of goofing around with her. Does he confide in her at all or does he try to be the cool but aloof big brother?

Hmmm! Well, I feel like your character knows how demanding our father can be. So in that they have bonded, and it isn't anything personal to you. He just wants to do better, so he will be looked at better in his fathers eyes. I was also kind of going on the angle that, you haven't really seen me much. I kind of stay secluded, but now that we are going on a quest together. We will have to be around each other more often!

What should our starting point be?

Also, I guess I will make the Role play thread, since you made the OOC! I need to make my character for Mark of Etos. Did you want to wait until maybe tomorrow before we start the RP?

Sounds like a plan. I'm wiped out today so tomorrow is perfect for me. Ugh, Kareem was tough to piece together with all that's going on but he's done. Your monk is super cool! Kudos on finding pics that look so much like an older version of Aang. :3 Um... the starting point for our one on one should be with the twins committing maybe their third or fourth murder followed by our mutant detectives getting suspicious of the "serial killer" being talked about all over the news. Their hunch could be dismissed by their leader, causing them to secretly strike out on their own to investigate.

Kareem looks good! You can always make changes if you need to! That gives us a pretty good idea of who he is!

I will start the thread today and type up a good intro. I will do some research into the actual X-Men lore to find out what makes sense.

Title? Or just like X-Men RP - Clock & Dusty.

Special Mutant Investigators - Dusty Clock

Been really busy. I will hopefully be able to get things going tomorrow!

Not a problem! XD I got really caught up myself. Link me to it whenever you're ready!

Alight. Well I got started on it... Still not completed, but it is a start. I pinged you to this thread.

Let me know what you think of the name. (My power + your nickname minus 'r') Just something I thought was cleaver!

Also, let me know if you want to add anything to the introduction. That was just kind of a rough start, and I didn't proof read it yet. So there are probably some spelling mistakes! I just need to get some sleep so that is all I am doing for today!

Alrighty! I will post asap, by Friday night for sure! Yay!!!

That sounds good! I am pretty focused on Rylaf at the moment. Trying to get a really good first post!

I was kind of thinking we start with the classic dinner theme. we are sitting at a table, eating a meal. Then the news is on and that talks about the serial killer. Basically exactly what you said earlier.

Yay! Our first posts done!

I made Lance be straight and to the point!

Woo-hoo! Hahaha! Yeah, Melody is kind of off in her own thing but she isn't stupid. They're going to get along great, I think. Lance might get frustrated with her methods now and then, and she might find him a bit too serious sometimes but they'll be fine. :P What did you think of her appetite? XD

It is pretty intense!

I thought about having Lance grab some to see what your reaction would have been. I resisted though. haha. Didn't want to get zapped in the next post!

Oh that would have been funny! Feel free to make Lance grab some food while Melody reviews the case. :3 Jae is pretty straight forward too. He saw right through his sis trying weasel out a foot rub. XD