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Well I'm an avid fan of X Men and have always wanted to write stories about them as they are my favourite Marvel characters. Hopefully you lot like them too, or at least like the idea of them, as I've chosen this place to host the RP.
For those of you that don't know what X Men is, I'll fill you in as best I can:

The X Men are a band of 'mutants' who are frowned and looked down upon by humans. One mutant, Professor Charles Xavier, started a school in which mutants could live in, learn in and hide from humans in. They all have special abilities, such as fire manipulation, ice generation and shape-shifting. Some disadvantages of their powers are that they may look different from others, eg, Wolverine has sharp 'claws' that protrude from his hands, Mystique and Nightcrawler have blue skin, plus Nightcrawler has a tail.
All the good mutants reside in Xaviers school for the 'gifted', whereas others who wish to damage the humans have joined the Brotherhood, led by Magneto, an old friend of Xaviers. Their is a constant rivalry between the X Men and the Brotherhood. The humans have built Sentinels, very large robots that seek out mutants and destroy them.

Your role in the RP will be to become a new recruit to either the X Men or the Brotherhood. At the beginning of the RP, I plan to have one of the X Men or Brotherhood(depending on who you align yourself with) seek out your character and take them to their side, before the opposition or the Sentinels destroy them(eep!) I will not create a character, instead I will be controlling the current characters. Although if ever you want to include one of them in your updates, just ask my permission. :)

Wow, that's a lot for an interest check. This is my first RP, and I plan to make it successful. Any questions, please feel free to ask.

EDIT And now for the sign-up.

Name: Here is where you come up with their real name, and then their nickname. Their nickname is actually something like Wolverine or Storm, and it must describe your characters' power and/or personality.
Age: Straightforward, but none of that 'unknown, but looks....' stuff, alright?
Sex: Male or Female
Height and Weight: You don't need to include this if you don't want to.
Appearance and Personality: Include whether he/she looks like a freak, eg, Beast, Nightcrawler and Mystique have permanent blue skin and/or fur. Include their personality as well.
Special Ability: Whatever the hell you want. It can either be offensive, defensive or something which does not involve combat. Include how the character discover their power
Alignment Brotherhood or X Men, please state.
History: Brief or unbrief, it's entirely up to you. A longer history, however, makes for a happy me. But remember, the RP starts off with your character being taken away by the X Men or the Brotherhood, so describe the events leading up to this as well, whether they are hiding or sitting happily at home, unaware of their level of power.
Weaknesses
Strengths
That should be it. Fill out please.

it could work out.

I'll join.
Can I have 1 character from each side?

The irony that I was half complaining about not being able to use a new character....just have to make a few changes to avoid the obviousness of his basis....

Yeah, if you want, but it'll make it harder and funner if you were only aligned with one-

Forget it, go ahead.


Well that's at least one interested, from what I can gather simply. A few more (3 or 4) and we're good to go.

Sounds cool, I too love X-Men, so yeah I'd be happy to join, and are there any restrictions on characters?

...four by my count already. *is counting self*

Well, yes, they'll have their strengths and weaknesses. Once I post up an OOC, you'll get to decide from their. Just also don't make their power too extreme. They need to have limits, eg, they could have made Pyro generate fire, but instead they gave him a lighter(movies)/flamethrower(comics).

You know what I mean.

[quote=Arachnion]...four by my count already. *is counting self*[/quote]

Ahh, sounds good. I never really checked properly.

I'm in, if you don't mind me using a reincarnated character. The RP it comes from is apparantly stillborn.

Name: Brian Griffin/Bio
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Ht: 6'0"
Wt: 155 lbs.

Appearance and Personality: Sickly gray skin, thin build, short black hair, gray eyes. Typically wears blue jeans, a white sleeveless shirt, and a black jacket. He seems emotionally distant or even cold most of the time, but can be rather bloodthirsty. He has next to no sense of loyalty, willing to switch sides in a conflict if the opposition offers him a better deal. He tends to avoid using his powers, saying that if he can do a job without them, he doesn't need them to do it.

Special Ability: Bio-Manipulation: Brian is capable of manipulating his body's internal workings. The effects can currently range from increasing his adrenaline output to increase his speed and strength to causing his bones to warp, grow, and harden (Think Kaguya bone manipulation, but he's currently unable to grow new bones or remove bones from his body). He can also dissolve his bones, allowing him to slide through any opening capable of accomodating his brain and heart, similar to an octopus's ability to slide through virtually any opening. The bio-manipulation also causes him to have faster healing than a normal human, i.e., a cat scratch will heal entirely in about thirty seconds, a bullet hole will heal in about an hour. Due to being able to seal his blood vessels, he is highly resistant to blood loss.

Possessions: Desert Eagle pistol with 10 cases of ammunition (stolen from war veteran). Five hundred dollars.

History: Brian has always been the outcast. Due to his appearance most people tended to avoid him even before his powers fully manifested. After accidently killing his abusive father with his bones in a fit of rage, he left his original home and started wandering from place to place. During this time he adopted a policy of using his powers only when he needed them, never when they would simply be convenient. He also developed an emotionless persona to avoid a repeat of his father's accidental murder (if you could call it that). After arriving in Bailey (or Baiville, or whatever the heck the town that's home to the Institute is called) he heard about both the Brotherhood and the Institute, and is currently waiting to see who offers him the better deal.

Alignment: Neutral, prone to switching sides (see Appearance and Personality)

Strengths: Highly resistant to blood loss and shock from injuries, fast healing ability, very lethal close-range combatant with his bones, capable of hardening his bones to adamantium hardness (though not beyond). See Special Ability.

Weaknesses: Extensive use of his abilities can damage his body, i.e., extensive bone manipulation can lead to symptoms similar to calcium deficiency, extensive glandular manipulation can damage his organs and muscles, extensive adrenaline overproduction can lead to muscle damage, etc. Cannot regenerate lost body parts or heal without signs of the wound existing (a severed arm will heal to a stump, wounds will scar, though not as much).


Is this acceptable?

Name: Chris, nicknamed Warlock
Age: 21
Sex: Male
Height and Weight: 6'3" and 136.4 lbs
Appearance:
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Personality: Chris can sometimes come over as arrogant, but in fact it is just the way he is. He keeps to himself until he trusts others and is openly hostile. You don't want to find out what he'll do if you piss him off.
Special Ability: Elemental Manipulation. Chris can manipulate elements without needing any form of assistance (eg, lighter). His favourite element to manipulate/use is ice. He can form weapons or armour from the elements but usually just uses them to add to his kicks and punches (eg, ice punch to cause frostbite, fire punch to cause third degree burns)
History: Chris grew up as a normal human until one day when all that changed.
Chris was on a school trip to visit a nuclear power plant when he left the group and fell into a large pool of tainted nuclear waste. The rest of his class left and the teacher told his parents that he was dead.
The weirdest thing for Chris was that he was alive and could breath underwater. Then again, that was before he saw what he now looked like (the image) and what he could actually do. He was amazed that he could manipulate the elements and decided to use this for the good of everyone.
After learning of the X-Men, Chris has wanted nothing more than to join them and help.
Alignment: X-Men
Strengths: Elemental control means that he can stop himself from bleeding, make himself faster, etc. He is also pretty strong with his arms and legs and can make use of natural camouflage.
Weaknesses: Warlock has one real weakness due to his power. If he uses his power for LONG (And I mean LONG) periods of time he will start to bleed from his nose and he'll pass out cold.


Name: Vince, nicknamed Assassin
Age: 27
Sex: Male
Height and Weight: 6' and 120 lbs
Appearance:

Personality: In short, Vince is an arrogant prick. He doesn't care about others and only talks to those that he sees as sharing the same view of the world.
He does, however speak to those he fights, but mainly to mock them and make them realise their bad choice of sides
Special Ability: Vince has Adamantium in his body that he can manipulate to form weapons out of his body. These usually just burst through his flesh, causing no harm to him, and can vary from a set of claws to a long blade.
History: Vince hated his parents. They always treated him like crap and tried forcing him to go to a religious school.
Vince dropped out of the school and his dad went berserk, beating Vince until Vince killed his father, putting a large blade through his heart.
It was at this time that Vince realised he wasn't normal and he began to use this ability to rob service stations and shops.
After learning of other mutants he has decided to join the Brotherhood if approached by one of their members. If approached by an X-Man, Vince has already decided to kill them.
Alignment: Brotherhood
Strengths: Nigh undefeatable, bones can't be broken because they're coated in Adamantium, he can make himself into a weapon and he's damn strong.
Weaknesses: Overcocky in fights because he thinks he's undefeatable.

See, part of the fun of comic books is the varied enemies. So I was wondering, could a person be a product of the weapon plus series? After all, they can always build more.

Basically, I'm planning on drawing on some of the more obscure areas of the X-men canon (Stryker and Friends, Weapon Plus, Phalanx, Genosha...). Children of the vault, not so much, as they don't really get along.

So I'd like to know which of those options are open.

On note of having at least two semi-wolverine-like characters already...

Name: Logan Landcaster
Age: 28
Sex: Male
Height and Weight: 6" 8', 190lbs
Alignment: leaning toward Professor X's school but currently neutral
Appearance: Lancaster is like a bull who enjoys a good workout and as a result is reasonably fit. He has a chiseled face and broad shoulders. He wears, his light (almost blonde) hair long and shaggy and often has a smile in his turquoise/bright blue eyes.
The back of his left ear has a seriels number tatooed on it and all over his body there are very thin scars tracing his bone structure. The outer sides of his first three fingers (index, middle and ring) look like they have very deep cuts between the first and second knuckles on the top and between the second and third knuckles on the bottom.
Lancaster typically wears jeans and his steel-toed boots year round and wears dark or forest coloured hoodies and wears a white full length coat with a black tuque. Warmer climates bring a change to solid coloured t-shirts and either a black ball cap with his home town stenciled on the back on white or a dark cloth headband to keep his hair out of his eyes. In any case he always wears a shark tooth necklace, a .303 casing on a string and a real rabbit foot strung on a thong made of polar bear sinew. A plain dive watch is on his left hand while a simple bead bracelet is on his right.
He loves to traval, especially in rural areas and drives a heavily beaten pickup (stereotypical redneck truck, only it actually runs properly) with an equally well-used ATV in the back. Because of his native ties, he wears a hunting knife with a carved handle on his right hip, and keeps both a short machete and a .303 rifle in his truck (properly stored- unloaded in a locked box with the ammunition double locked in a container inside)
Personality: Generally easy-going, Lancdaster is quiet and soft spoken- often avoiding human contact. Despite his anti-social tendancies, he makes friends easily and loves to have a good time. When something upsets him, he can become very intense and has been seen at the head of the odd blockade in protest of Aboriginal freedoms.
Special Ability: slight super-human strength,
Strengths:
Weaknesses: has a somewhat niave approach to everything and has a tendancy to 'leap before looking'
History: Landcaster was born in an isolated Inuit reserve deep in northern Canada. He grew up learning the ancient ways of his culture but longed for something more. When a government employee arrived to take a census of the reserve, he went with her and found work with Transport Canada, flying bush planes to similar reserves. Tiring quickly, he applied for the medical research programs with the Armed Forces. After a long waiting list, he was offered work with a project looking at reinforcing human skeletons with metallic alloys. The surgery lasted fifty hours and he spent three years in recovery and muscle therapy. He learned that they had replaced the hard bone structure with a titanium/composite fibre alloy which made them nearly indestructible. Recognizing his natural ability as a hunter, they also grafted a series of razor sharp blades to his fingers and tied them to pain receptors that had been reversed to allow him control. The downside was an initial 37% loss in over all touch receptors, but he was told they would recover in time. With nothing left to offer the researchers, he has aquired a mercenary contract with the Canadian Armed Forces- one of few groups who tolerate (albeit barely) persons of such 'unique' skills. Interested in making the world a better place, he has started driving south to find this mysterious 'Professor X'.

Got it, my characters need to be not-wolverines. And probably at least one girl.

Name: 4th wall: Nickname. Daniel is his real name.
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Appearance and Personality:


Personality is constantly changing as each of his 7,892 personalities are exchanging places. Happy upbeat one moment, Hardcore Goth the next, Homer Simpson has been known to make an appearance. The personalities were created to cope with the strain of his power.
Special Ability: Everywhere at the same time. And by EverywhereI mean Everywhere He has had it since birth and so has leaned to cope with it, moderately. He seems to think that the world is some plaything for some higher being entertainment, hence the nickname.
History: Declared insane and was committed to a mental hospital when he was 7 because one of his personalities took over, and beat another kid who was teasing him black and blue in under a second. Because he was Everywhere, he simply walked out. He was taken to Xavier's school and then Expelled because he did not fit in. Seriously not fitting in. Like almost being murdered not fitting in. Since no-one would accept him he found himself in the Sewer. He lived like a king by simply stealing from the inside of banks. One day he was approached by a strange figure, and he was given an appealing proposition....
Alignment: Brotherhood.
Strength: He is everywhere, he can punch you from 20 places and kick you from 30 more, at the same time. He has slightly more than twice regular human strength, slightly more than master martial artist speed.
Weakness: There is always the chance of a mental break down, and his personalities change in a completely times. His memories stay the same though.

So far, you are all approved. ^_^

But, as tired as I was last night, I need you all to include Alignment, Strengths and Weaknesses. I completely forgot, and I'll have you know I fell asleep after editing my first post.

I'm also hoping to keep both sides fairly balanced. ^_^