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Indeed, I didn't even know this thread existed.
Anyway, Jake's description soon to come.
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Name: Jake Walsh
Alias: Corrupted Youth (This was a name given to him by the oh-so-unimaginative media. He doesn't like it, particularly, and will ask those that call him as such to not.)
Age: Fifteen
Threads: The Necronomicon, A Force Into the Isles, The Future is Mayhem
Appearance: Normally wears a black trenchcoat with a white T-shirt underneath. Wears deep blue baggy pants and black boots. His hair is white and semi-long, his bangs reaching just past the eyebrow and halfway covering his ears. He also is almost never found without his blast goggles, which gives him information on his vitals, as well as providing him with several other features. They are always either on his forehead of covering his eyes, depending on whether or not he has a task.
Jake was once, and last time I checked, still is, the son of a recently famous professor, known to give new and veteran heroes alike devices to aid them in their eternal fight. In fact, the day before his escape, he went with his father on a trip to Freedom Corps HQ, where his father was hired to develope advanced technology for Longbow's use. But I digress, attention like this certainly never always good, and this case is by no means an exception. Professor Walsh had garnered the attention of many villain groups, most notably Crey and Arachnos. Both factions wished to use him to pursue their own devilish experimentations, however, Arachnos decided to act first, unleashing a psionic assault on the residence of the Professor, thereby having him seemingly come to the Isles of his own free will. The plan, unfortunately, failed. The Professor never made it to the Isles in the 48 hour time span that was expected of him, and most certainly didn't come after that. Frustrated, the Arachnos higher-ups planned to 'reassign' the Arbiter in charge of the program and put someone else more capable as the head.
The third day after the failed assault, only hours before the Arbiter was officially taken off the program, Kalinda reported a new arrival in Mercy, having come via ferry to the Hell-hole of an island, to a certain Fortunata who was to be put in charge of the program. When asked what relevance this had, Kalinda simply replied, "He says his last name is Walsh." The Fortunata's ears visibly perked at this, and demanded that he be escorted to Grandville immediately, to be presented to Recluse himself. One hour later, arriving at Recluse's tower via Arachnos Flier and being escorted by many, many, Wolf-Spider Huntsman, he was presented to Senoir Spider himself. Bowing before the might of the man who was programmed to be a God in his mind, he presented him with several gadgets, two of which truly stood out. A portable forcefield generator (Which Jake had modified to fit in his fingerless gloves) and several different models of combat robots, originally being developed by his father for use by Longbow in mid-combat. Recluse seemed pleased enough by these findings, and ordered Black Scorpion and his technicians to begin mass-producing them for Arachnos soldiers of all ranks. Satisfied with Jake's work, Recluse ordered his back to Mercy, so that he may prove further worth among the organization of Arachnos.
For the past two months, Jake has been serving Arachons without fail, killing who he was ordered to kill and siding with the spiders on all occassions(sp?). Jake is still himself however, and will often attempt to skip out on his duties if the oppurtunity arises. He often approaches with a very laid back and nonchalant attitude, partially due to a bit of cockiness, however, when the situation arises when he realizes that he truly is out-matched, he changes clothes, so to speak, and becomes serious, taking in the scene with much detail and speculating on an ideal battle strategy.
As of late, Jake's mind has been slowly reversing the effects of the psionic alteration, leaving his loyalties to himself above all others. This is only just beginning, as he would still kill someone who so much as lifts a finger in his direction without losing a wink of sleep, but he is certainly moving in the right direction. (This is most noted in 'A Force Into the Isles' thread, where Jake is attempting to go back to Paragon and hopefully redeem himself among the general population.)
DESCRIPTION OF POWERS AND ABILITIES:
FORCE FIELD: Jake's force field gadetry resides within his fingerless gloves, making it fairly simply to activate on the fly. It essentially has three basic functions. Repulsion, in which it is designed to throw someone back wildly. Shielding, in which it is designed to deflect (and/or redirect) incoming projectiles. And Detention, in which the forcefield encases someone or something inside, allowing nothing to hit it and vice-versa. Jake's shielding works in certain degrees of power, from a barely noticeable shield that will knocking something off of its mark by a miniscule amount or all the way up to a Personal Forcefield, being similar to the Detention Field, however, allowing its occupant to move about. Each of these refracts the path of the incoming object in an increasingly extreme fashion until it is finally outright deflected by the shield. They are currently being improved and adapted by Arachnos, who, upon its completion, will issue it to all foot soldiers.
ROBOT HENCHMEN: These little buggers come in three basic designs, the first of which being designed to function as a unit in groups of three, coordinating attacks on a single target and basically covering for other, larger, more effective units. They are highly ineffective when compared to the other two models, and mainly serve as fodder whilst more advanced units do the majority of the damage.
The second type of model is appropriately called the Protector Bot, designed with roughly the same amount of fire power as the Battle Drones, but with the added bonus of the ability to give medium shielding to fellow bots and allies, giving them a very defensive role.
The final model is also appropriately called the Assault Bot, known as such for its sheer size, defense, and fire power. Its size alone is normally enough to intimidate normal foes, and at least give a moment of hesitation to other supers. It's not an empty threat either, as the Assault Bot has a different type of laser from it's other two counterparts. The laser it totes deals major burn damage, most times enough to melt armor. This is complimented by Jake's modification of a flamethrower, which it will occassionally use on opponents, if the mood strikes.
Despite Arachnos's attempts to keep the design secret, it appears to have leaked all across the Isles, as many would-be villains and true villains alike have been seen toting the metallic monstrosities across the Isles, striking fear into the hearts of passers-by.
Jake is currently working on several modifications to his bots, although all are in the prototype phase and not ready for field testing.
BLAST GOGGLES: Jake blast goggles are just and all-around good device to have. Not only giving Jake a good idea of his personal vitals, it gives him a detailed description of his robots' conditions, and even warns him when and if his shields will go down. The goggles also have the ability to scan one's face and access their file from an Arachnos data-base, immediately giving Jake all the knowledge that Arachnos has on the particular hero, or villain even. Note that this requires both that the person's face being exposed and Arachnos having information on it. If either of these requirements is failed, the scan will as well, resulting in a rather annoying '
FILE NOT FOUND'* to show up in Jake's view. Jake is also currently working on modifications to his goggles, again, which are in the prototype stage and ,also again, not ready for field testing.
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INSPIRATIONS FULL ftw.
Edit again: Huh... just realized that he's an evil Shikamaru... Ah well. *shrug*
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Odd. It won't let me edit. *Shrug*
Name: Dusan Konpaku
Alias: Tenrai Shinzui
Age: 19
Height: 5'11"
Appearance: Has semi-longish hair that stays above the brow and about halfway covers the ears. He's also almost always seen wearing a white hoodie when appropriate, at all other times wearing a white T-Shirt. No matter what his dress, he's always seen wearing a dark blue pair of baggy cargo jeans. His shoes are standard sneakers.
Kings' Row certainly isn't an ideal place to grow up. Hell, practically anywhere in Paragon isn't an ideal place to grow up, but, with street thugs, super powered gang members, and cultists willing to sacrifice your soul to their god littering the streets, and not nearly as many heroes as you'd have liked, it was a wonder anyone could get to and from work, let alone on a daily basis.
However, many people do it every day. Sure, somebody gets possessed or sacrificed here and there, but overall, things work out.
For Dusan, things didn't work out so well.
The first obvious thing that went wrong that day [Next to him getting out of bed] was his being captured and ceremonially sacrificed by the Circle of Thorns. The Circle aren't picky with their victims, and aside from the occassional unspoiled virgin, most of their rituals worked pretty well on almost anyone.
That is, unless they're interrupted mid-chant.
The day of Dusan's capture, they had been planning a rather big ritual. They had a special area of Oranbaga set up for just this purpose; the incense, the pentagrams, the lighting. Everything was perfect. They planned to bring one of their gods into the physical plane via a host. One who's soul would kindly depart in favor of their god's.
By this point, it's clear Dusan is said host. In fact, by this point, it's fairly obvious what happens from then on. Dusan is brough to the ritual chamber, the preperations are made, he's put in the pentagram, chanting commences, etc.
Well, it was in the middle of that 'etc.' that things change a bit. A hero had gotten a tip on an increase in magical energies in that particular region, and just happened to drop in at that convienant moment. The ritual was interrupted, and only a part of the god's soul was put into Dusan, mingling with Dusan's soul and overall fusing with it, granting Dusan unique abilities.
Due to the tampering with his soul, Dusan has ever since been in touch with the ethereal plane, able to summon spirits from the dead to help him and control (To an extent.) the souls of others.
DESCRIPTION OF POWERS AND ABILITIES:
CONTROL OVER OTHERS' SOULS: Dusan has limited control over other people's souls, due to their not technically being in the spiritual realm, but rather, connected to it. He can do a variety of things with this ability, from pushing his allies beyond their physical limits by increasing those of their soul, to 'convincing' an enemy to have a change of heart, for a moment, at least. He's still coming up with new and more unique ways of using this control to his, and his allies', advantages.
SUMMONING OF SOULS: Dusan has the ability to call the souls of the dead back to the physical realm, the catch being, he must have known them in life. (Or at least known of them.)
He already has a pact with several departed heroes, to which they have agreed to be called back to life at any time to aid him in a battle, one of which being his best friend in life, Dennis. These souls basically have two states of summon, partially, and fully. Partially summoning a soul allows it to seem as great a threat as anything, but being able to do no damage at all, and in turn, not being able to take any. These serve as primarily a distraction, used to create a diversion for a quick getaway, or to divert attention from some of the more fragile heroes.
The second state of summons requires a bit more concentration on Dusan's part, however, allows them to be a bit more corporeal than their partially summoned counterparts. This allows him to deal full damage while still being mostly resistant to most physical damage. He normally reserves this summon for his best friend, Dennis, who is completely comfortable with the abilities that come with the job.
Short history of Dennis:
Dennis was, and still is, Dusan's best friend, simply put. Not a moment was spent with them apart, and as a result, they knew nearly everything about each other, that is, until one day.
One fateful day when the both of them were twelve, Dusan was captured by the Circle of Thorns as a sacrifice for a god. Needless to say, when Dennis heard the news, he was worried sick, praying to God (His Christian one.) that Dusan would come out of it alright. His prayers were 'partially' answered. Dusan did come out of it alright, but the hero that saved him warned that a part of the ritual had already been performed. Dusan certainly looked the part, his eyes were wide and frightened, the tips of his hair were snow white, and he couldn't stop shivering for the love of the world.
For weeks Dusan stayed locked in his room, traumatized, afraid to even leave the safety of his bed for fear the Circle would come back for him. Come back for the portion of soul he had stolen from their God.
It was within these weeks that Dennis had suffered a tragic death.
Dennis had been walking home from his school, (It was only two blocks away.) back to his apartment when he was suddenly grabbed, beaten, and mugged by a group of Skulls, after which they quickly ran off. Thankfully, the Skulls were caught shortly afterward, but the damage was done. Dennis was fatally beaten.
Dusan grieved for weeks after hearing this, knowing that if he had come out of his room he might've been able to use his newfound abilities to save him. It was after this that he trained for months on end to learn to summon the dead, so that he could see Dennis at least one more time and apologize for not being there...
