Suburban Super heroes: for lack of a better name.

[Mik_Hael]

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Jason Leapman is a complete enigma that showed up out of nowhere to make a killing with several high profile risky investments. There were know records of him in any government database, or indeed any evidence that a man named Jason Leapmen had ever existed. Investigations were launched, but nothing about his past was ever turned up. He secluded himself in an out of the way mansion and, when it seemed clear he wasn't dangerous, became more of a local curiosity with urban legends ranging from criminal, to genetic clone, to exiled son of a world leader cropping up the explain his mysterious appearance.

However, the real explanation is much stranger than any of the rumors.

When Jason Leapman's powers first manifested when he was 13, the result was that it folded his entire life into the present moment, wiping out his past and any memory or record of him. All of his memories are intact, and he has perfect recall of the details of his entire "life" no matter how inconsequential, including knowledge of the future. He can also conscientiously switch between any state he was in from the moment of his "birth" to the moment of his "death." Using his life experience, including his time as a police officer, and the money acquired from his investments he fights evil as the superhero Lifetime.

Appearance: Varies from skinny to muscular, but always has blue eyes and black hair. Wears a full-body light blue/white costume made of a special future polymer that can expand or contract to almost any size and absorb the majority of of shocks and damages. Costume has a cape made of the same polymer, which can be removed to use as a net or used as a parachute to glade short distances.

Equipment: His gloves have small metal studs coming out of the knuckles that carry the electrical surge of a powerful taser, and his utility belt hold a pair of "Static Guns", another future technology that fire paralyzing bolts of electricity, along with small flash, smoke, knockout gas, teargas, grease, and explosive capsules. Also contains state of the art handcuffs, communicators, and pepper spray.  Rides around on a Hoverdisk. All of this he can teleport to his person instantly by speaking a command word into his special watch.

All of this technology is based on things used by him in his future and painstakingly recreated by him from memory. The guns and capsules are future police equipment, while the hover-disk is based on a device he used to get around in his old age, just souped up. The electric knuckles are going to become in vogue with criminals in 10 or so years to deal with invulnerable superheros. The watch is actually a emergency equipment acquisition unit, or an E.E.A., which allowed officers to request specific equipment in case of emergencies, such as body armor.

The material his costume is made of is based on his future S.W.A.T body armor, and he recreated the recipe from an scientific journal talking about it's discovery he read once. It insulates against blunt force, heat, and electricity.

Personality: Lifetime, when asked about his origins, claims to actually be from the future where Superheros like him are incredibly common and the world has entered a new golden age, and that he himself is actually one of the c-list heroes from the future and, finding himself largely unnecessary, came back to a time when he can actually do some good. Whether the future is actually like this or not, Lifetime says this and dresses in his stereotypical costume in order to inspire the superheros of tomorrow. An optimist, he wants to see the golden age he describes occur and have a hand in it's genesis.

[Mik_Hael]

So you're character's experience is not affected by any change in current events right? Otherwise such a power would be responsible for the end of all of existence.

Also, If something happens to one form of your character, are all older forms affected?

ex: let's say a villain manages to render you in your twenty five year old form paralyzed. Are all older forms paralyzed as well while all younger forms are unaffected?

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Yes. It didn't fold all time into one moment, just his personal timeline. He remembers his entire life, not the future. If his actions start to cause changes, he won't see those changes coming. For example; he has perfect recall of every crime he heard about or experienced in his old timeline, but has no idea what will happen when he shows up to stop them as a Superhero because he never did that in the old timeline.

As for the second question, it doesn't matter what events happen to effect his body in the new timeline because the forms he can change between are all from the old timeline where it never happened. So only the 25 year old him would be paralyzed, and he wouldn't be able to use it anymore.

[Mik_Hael]

Alright then, just making sure.

Also another question, considering that at some point in his lifetime the odds are that one of his loved ones had died at some point be it a wife, or a child, or a parent, or a friend, do to natural or unnatural consequences, does your character at any point feel the need to seek out these people, and how would he react in a situation in which they were put in harms way?

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Oh yes, he would react very emotionally to that.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

On his wedding day Rupert Raptor, a well to do 30 year old librarian, disappeared from the chapel where he was to be wed to Sofia Cross, his longtime girlfriend. His complaints of pain (in particular a splitting headache, joint pain, and an itchiness across his entire body) were attributed to last minute nerves by the wedding party and the man went to lie down in one of the upstairs rooms.

Minutes later a ear piercing screeching filled the church, coming from the room Raptor had adjourned to, followed by the shattering of glass. When the wedding party reached the room they found no trace of Raptor save the shattered window and the broken remains of his engagement ring. The room was filled with tattered black feathers, larger than any local birds. The only witness, a caterer who had been out back smoking at the time, says a figure in a black tuxedo covering his head with his hands sprinted past him and away into the woods. When searched by the police, more feathers were discovered leading into the forest.

Hours later it is revealed to the public that the city had been battered with cosmic radiation earlier that morning.

Two weeks later, along a stretch of forest road near the where Rupert Raptor disappeared, a man was led out for execution. Herbert Mouse, a undercover cop, was forced along at gunpoint by three members of the Axe Gang toward a shallow grave they had dug for him in the woods. As the officer begged for his life the forest suddenly filled with a loud screeching. One of the members of the Axe Gang, Harold "the Rat" Hardrada, is suddenly pulled away into the trees. What followed next was conflicting accounts, but what all stories share is a tall, screaming monstrosity dropping out of the trees and slicing Mouse's bonds. Mouse runs back toward the road, never looking back. All three members of the Axe Gang are found alive the next morning, hanging from trees with large lacerations across their bodies. Rumors begin to spread across the internet of a monster living in the forest.

Fifteen days later. First photographic evidence of the "Owl Man."


Appearance: The Owl Man is slightly over eight feet tall, with long limbs. He is wearing a worn black tuxedo, with feathers sporadically sticking out through its tears. By far the most distinctive feature of The Owl Man is that he has the head of an owl, and bird talong in place of hands.

Abilities:  The Owl Man's talons are capable of applying more than 500 pounds of pressure per square inch. His large eyes give him powerful binocular vision, and his asymmetrical ear holes and the specialized feathers of his facial disk allows him remarkable hearing. His hearing is so extraordinary that he can move effortlessly in the dark thanks to what is effectively an auditory map of the area. The Owl Man is also capable of moving completely silently.

Personality: The Owl Man is a private sort, keeping away from the spotlight and other people unless necessary. When confronted with another person he is likely to keep his distance, but will not act hostile and will stay quiet. This changes when he is confronting criminals and villains, where he seems to relish the psychological effects inflicted by his appearance and screeching. Because he can not make normal human facial expressions it is impossible to know what he is thinking, and this is only compounded by the fact that he can not speak. Nonetheless, he seems a very helpful sort.

[Mik_Hael]

If I remember correctly the cities in this game were stationed on giant floating machines because the forests had been over run with surface has been over run with super fauna.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

So there were no parks on these floating cities? Nobody transplanted a few trees?

Oh well, I have a more urban picture anyway. That works.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Where have I seen this scene before? Its driving me nuts trying to remember.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

The Lord of Tears. It's a kickstarter horror movie.

There's also this:

[Mik_Hael]

If I remember the layout correctly there are two parks located on the outer rim of the south west and east quadrants of  the city, however they don't have enough growth to hide anything substantial, which is why most creatures are found in the complex ventilation/sewer system that makes up approximately two thirds of the floating cities structure.

[Mik_Hael]

The rats were located in the sewer system of the 3rd basement level of the south east quadrant, relatively near to the third stabilizing thruster. However a vast stretching maintenance shaft used for quick access through to the rest of the sectors from the central energy hub is relatively untouched saved for a group of homeless people underneath the housing/restaurant district in the northwest quadrant. It's entirely empty, and the lighting systems in several of it's areas have been shut off in order to conserve power, a railway system has become more popular and the maintenance team only use it for emergencies a.k.a Arial attacks.

It used to be a hotspot for refugees, homeless, and mutants that were castaways or several instances of people or creatures not welcome in the residential areas, but the shafts were abandoned thanks to their positioning causing a vast amount of vibrations within the infra sound range being generated by the reactor and engines, resulting in vast hallucinations accompanied by auditory illusions caused by airflow through the system, or the grinding of metal during turbulence. Thanks to the period of people living their several items from the surface are often found strewn about in the darkness.

Aside from the odd animal mutant or psychopath the shaft is relatively empty and encompasses roughly a 20 mile radius expanding to 3 floors worth or room, with several crossways designed to quickly and safely allow access from any section of the city to another rather quickly, unfortunately many of these have been blocked off by debris creating a labyrinthine series of pathage ways.


So yeah, Owl man should be able to fit in rather well there.