Samuel T. Langston

by itgmechiel June 27th 2014, 8:23 pm

CHARACTER NAME
CHARACTER TITLE OR QUOTE

Basic Biography

Real Name: Samuel Terry Langston
Renegade/Hero/Villain Name: Terry
Title: N/A
Alignment: True Neutral (Regenade - TN)
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Hair: (Very) dark blue, almost black
Eyes: Crimson, slightly glowing deep red
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 206 lbs
Blood type: AB-

The Looks

Spoiler:

(Noctis Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy, same outfit everything).

The Legacy

Personality:
On first sight and meeting, Samuel can be rude, blunt and straightforward. Almost as if he has no heart at all, but he can stand his ground in both defeating a villain, or saving a civilian. If it's in his best interest, he does it. He is pretty selfish, which could already have been guessed. This was caused by being alone and shut off from the world. Before, he used to be very outgoing and lawful. He still has some of those traits within his personality 'arsenal', meaning sometimes he's still lawful and cheerful but those moments are very rare for him and people who know him well know that this had changed. The selfishness.. it came when his parents died. He had done everything for them in his best hopes that they would recover. He fixed them the best doctors, best medication but the condition just wasn't cureable with the technology of that time. He found out that the cure was hidden by the government, ever since then he basically thought: fuck everyone. Nobody could be trusted, was his new resolution and he only does stuff for personal interests now.
History:
His childhood was very good. His parents had tons of money and huge influence in national affairs. School was hard for him though. He had troubles keeping up at first but suddenly his intelligence popped and he was the smartest kid ever. He developed this gift and eventually found out he had others as well. There were also other people with similar powers and gifts from above and now Terry is one of them. He has continued to develop this gift, not in school but with other people with intelligence as high as his. Terry has outsmarted every genius human he had encountered and his knowledge of all things exceeds that of the regular human being.

In his teens, Terry's parents died. He inherited their wealth and houses. He suddenly owned mansions all across the world, hundreds of millions of dollars and their high reputation in society. Terry had a hard time dealing with all this sudden popularity and shut himself off from society in a mansion he had let built by workers. He spent all his time there alone with several servants of his, who got paid good money to keep everything he did secret. They were the people he trusted the most during his shutdown. He spent most of his time in his throneroom which was build in the center of the building. He shut himself off from society for three years, where he had learned his powers and other gifts.

After all this, he was 20 and went out of his dark mansion for the first time. The world had changed immensly. There were more people with the same powers as him, and also more people who didn't recognize him. That was why he had shut himself off in the first place. He still wore the same outfit as before, a black trenchcoat, shortsleeved with black army trousers and army boots. Also leather gloves to boost. He was all about shadow and darkness and that was what his powers manifested into.

For the last two years, Terry had been infamous, doing bad stuff for the good of himself. He can do good, he can do bad. Terry is one of the most unpredictable persons you'll ever meet. You'll meet a bad person with a good heart. Rather a selfish heart but with an accent of good.

Spoiler:

His throne room, with a sword manifested from the shadow.

The Powers

Power 1:
Mechanical proficiency: Terry has no problems detecting and fixing problems in anything mechanical in the superhuman aspect, such as magical weapons. His knowledge in human technology such as cars and guns is limited but still present.
Power 2:
Expert swordsman: Terry has perfected handling a sword, giving preference to fight with daishou, a combination of a katana and a wakizashi.
Power 3:
Barrier: When attacked, Terry's soul carries out its will to protect him and forms a light-green/transparent shield.

Barrier in action (Credits to Kubo-sensei and the animators of BLEACH):

Power 4:
Amazing eyesight: Terry's eyes glow, and not without reason. He can assess his opponents powers and abilities like no equal (Think Sharingan). He can also use his left eye as a magnifying glass.
Grid
Intelligence: N/A
Occult: 8
Strength: 3
Speed: 3
Durability: 3
Barrier: 5
Enhanced Sight: 1
Fighting Skills: 5
Magic: 0
Spells: 0
Flight: 0
Wealth: 3 (1 as start and 2 starter points)

by **Chellizard** June 27th 2014, 9:11 pm

If this is finished, you need more history. You also need a better explanation of your powers.

Each power needs it's own ability bar, unless they are explained by an existing stat on his grid.

by itgmechiel June 28th 2014, 7:52 am

Chellizard wrote:If this is finished, you need more history. You also need a better explanation of your powers.

I have extended the history and modified the explanations for powers.

Chellizard wrote:Each power needs it's own ability bar, unless they are explained by an existing stat on his grid.

What does this mean? EDIT: I asked someone and I fixed it.

I should have everything correct

by **Chellizard** June 28th 2014, 12:45 pm

So you have two other powers, Energy Manipulation and Matter Manipulation.

Energy Manip allows you to form a shield, but the name for it is too broad. You also lack points on your grid for this power. Unless you're creating an item for it?

If so, you can unlist this as a power and create your item app. Depending on how "strong" you want the shield is what level of item you would make it.

And the same goes for your matter manip.

The name is much too broad. If you intend to just have items that change your clothes, or a pair of gloves that form claws, make it out of items.

But if you intend to change more than that, then you need ABI allocated toward that power.

However, JUST changing clothes or having an aesthetic appearance change is an RP mechanic.

by **Dissonance** June 28th 2014, 12:55 pm

Don't know if you've looked into it, but using a transformation grid for the shadow form is a possibility, as it can allow for a change in stats and other things to suit the new form. If you would prefer that you can find details here:

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by itgmechiel June 30th 2014, 3:35 pm

Chellizard wrote:So you have two other powers, Energy Manipulation and Matter Manipulation.

Energy Manip allows you to form a shield, but the name for it is too broad. You also lack points on your grid for this power. Unless you're creating an item for it?

If so, you can unlist this as a power and create your item app. Depending on how "strong" you want the shield is what level of item you would make it.

And the same goes for your matter manip.

The name is much too broad. If you intend to just have items that change your clothes, or a pair of gloves that form claws, make it out of items.

But if you intend to change more than that, then you need ABI allocated toward that power.

However, JUST changing clothes or having an aesthetic appearance change is an RP mechanic.

I changed it a bit and it should be good now

by **Dissonance** June 30th 2014, 4:28 pm

Can i recommend changing your points from intelligence to occult?
That would allow you to create more mystical and magical items, including Shadow swords and the other dark things that you spoke about.
Also, it won't effect your character being a genius by human standards just how they interact with human technology!

But that's completely your choice anyway Razz

Other than that you'll need an extra point for your enhanced sight. you should display it like.
Ability: Shield (6) Enhanced Sight (1)

Also, if you could flesh out the personality a bit then you'll be all good to go!

by itgmechiel July 1st 2014, 6:59 am

Dissonance wrote:Can i recommend changing your points from intelligence to occult?
That would allow you to create more mystical and magical items, including Shadow swords and the other dark things that you spoke about.
Also, it won't effect your character being a genius by human standards just how they interact with human technology!

But that's completely your choice anyway

Other than that you'll need an extra point for your enhanced sight. you should display it like.
Ability: Shield (6) Enhanced Sight (1)

Also, if you could flesh out the personality a bit then you'll be all good to go!

Done

by **Dissonance** July 1st 2014, 7:31 pm

Lovely! Approved until stated otherwise!

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