Souffle's Recipes for Disaster

[Ari]

It's not that it's "Iron Age", more that a vigilante shooting people is very different from a superhero pinning a bad guy by their shirt to a wall or something. Yes, they could use rubber bullets, etc, but then one has to ask why bother using a gun, when there are so many other weapon choices that fit the non-lethal sceme much better. You could use AA's Green Sharpshooter as an example for how somebody could still use things like firearms but not.

The main opposition here is that guns are HARD to justify as heroic weapons when they have so much fear and power behind them. They don't have the mystique or romance of stuff like bows or swords, and lack those weapons' nature of being entirely under the control of the person wielding them. A bullet can ricochet, even when already inside somebody's body, finding ways to "just" wound people with them is phenomenally difficult, and most superhero fights(when they'd be useful) have the intent to subdue, not kill. And it's not like this is a world where the Shadow or the Punisher are necessary, where occasional lethal force against other people is just fine, it takes seriously extenuating circumstances for it to be close to okay for someone to be killed on here.

[souffle_girl]

That guns don't have flair, I'm not that sure, but I understand your point.

what I'm trying to achieve here is someone walking the line between vigilante and hero but still mostly a hero, just with a dark background. I was thinking about people like Domino here. And there's plenty of heroes using guns out there and still coming up as good guys. Star Lord and Rocket, for example, are definitely a bit crazy but they don't end up killing people in the movie. Also, Allison is more than capable to subdue someone without her guns, reserving them for "hard" targets.

Why not other weapons? because when you have to fight a brick you need punch and it's not likely they'll get injured by guns. but I'll think about it.

Edited January 24, 2015 by souffle_girl

[Ari]

On the one hand that makes perfect sense. Guns as back-up, for the tougher stuff. Okay.

Though I do question the use of a rank 3-4 Blast, considering that many of the toughness-shifted baddies have Impervious far higher than that, or that could be reached with Power Attack.

EDIT: Ah, the Autofire would help, yes, but that goes only up to ranks 8-9 at most. I'd vote some kind of Snare, as such bruisers routinely have low Reflex saves.

Edited January 24, 2015 by Arichamus

[souffle_girl]

easy, some kind of Snare grenade...

[souffle_girl]

The Gunslinger

 

Player Name: Souffle_Girl
Character Name: Capacitor
Power Level: 7 (105/105PP)

In Brief: Defender of the weak and discriminated, gifted with energy generation and projection powers.
Catchphrase: "Power up!"

Alternate Identity: Rachel Bright
Identity: Secret
Birthplace: London, UK
Occupation: tbd
Description: Tall blonde girl on the thin side, with golden eyes that glow according to her charge status (see powers). In battle she wears a golden jumpsuit with a red sash, gloves and boots, and hides her face and eyes with a mask and goggles.

 

Age: 23
Gender: female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Height: 170 cm
Weight: 62 Kg
Hair: Blonde.
Eyes: Golden.

 

Power Descriptions:

 

As the name suggests, Capacitor is a mutant with energy generation, storage and projection powers.

 

Energy Generation - Rachel constantly generates and stores an energy of a still unknown nature. As a side effect of Rachel's mutation, her eyes turned golden and they glow accordingly to how much energy she's storing. Charging up completely takes Rachel about three days.

Energy Discharge - Rachel can discharge the energy she stores in small bursts or in a large, radial discharge. When discharged, the energy takes the form of a golden lightning arc.

Energized Body - Rachel's energy stores augment her strength and toughness; the more energy she's storing, the larger the boost.

 

Rachel generates energy out of food through normal metabolism, meaning she needs to eat far more than a regular human or risk death by starvation. Also, there's an upper limit to how much energy she can store, and when her reserves are full she discharges uncontrollably and explosively. In the past her full capacity was very limited, leading to frequent and ebarrassing uncontrolled discharges, but it steadily grew over a few years to her current maximum. It's not sure if it's going to increase further.

 

History:

 

Rachel was born in London, her father is a construction worker and her mother a shop clerk. She has two older siblings, Kate (25) and Gregory (28).

 

Growing up, Rachel was very fond of her sister, and the two of them have always been inseparable, even more when they grew into puberty. It was then however, that Rachel realized she had no interest in boys, and was attracted to girls instead. He revealed this to Kate, who was very supportive. Rachel became a staple part of Kate's circle of friends, who probably suspected there was something about her sexuality she wasn't telling, but apparently didn't mind.

Rachel wasn't sure about how to tell the rest of her family about her condition. Fate conspired against her, however, as her parents one day overheard her talking with Kate about a crush she had for one of her friends. Rachel tried to explain her condition to her family, but her parents didn't want to have anything to do with it, refusing to accept her.

Even worse, Gregory had caught wind of the news, and started to mercilessly pick on Rachel despite Kate's attempts to protect her, going as far as spreading rumors about his sister at their school. Rachel became the laughing stock of the school, and she retreated even deeper into her books, comics and videogames as a mean to escape reality.

Things, however, were going to get even worse. Rachel started to feel ill. Specifically, she developed an itch that, no matter what, wouldn't go away. The itch grew worse and worse over a few days, and she was just coming back from a visit at her doctor when she ran into one of the bullies from school. He started insulting her, then puched her in the face – and at that moment, Rachel discharged a blast of golden energy all around her.

The blast wasn't powerful enough to seriously injure the bully, that however ran away screaming "mutant". Soon, a crowd had gathered and the police had taken Rachel in for interrogation.

To Rachel's parents, this was the last straw, and when one of Rachel's relatives who lived in Freedom City offered to take care of her, Rachel's parents were more than happy to get rid of their twice-freakish kid by sending her overseas.

 

In Freedom, Rachel found out that the grand-uncle that had taken her in apparently had... connections, and had found her a place where she would be trained as a superheroine: Claremont Academy.

 

Her time at the Academy was a happy one, and she was happy to have finally found a place where people didn't judge her, and she finally graduated full of desire to put her powers to good use.

 

Today, a new masked heroine has hit the street, fighting evil to defend the weak and innocent.

 

Personality & Motivation:

 

 

 

Powers & Tactics:
 

 

Character Sheet