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crotcharrow) wrote2012-09-11 08:18 pm
crotcharrow) wrote2012-09-11 08:18 pm
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PLAYER INFO:
Name: Pura
Preferred pronoun: she/her
Preferred means of contact: plurk@ Purapea
Any other characters currently in-game? Nooope
CHARACTER INFO
Name: Thomas “Tommy” Shepherd/Speed
Gender: Male
Source: Marvel 616; Young Avengers
Canon point: End of Children’s Crusade issue 9, before the statues of the Avengers have been unveiled.
Age: 17
Colour: #4B8A08
Chumhandle: crotchArrow
History: here
Personality: Above all things, Tommy is an asshole. He enjoys messing around and irritating people and takes great pleasure in hitting the right buttons that make people squirm in annoyance. Because he is a speedster, no matter what he says he can always have a fast getaway. He doesn’t think about the consequences of his actions and thinks he can get away with a lot more than he really can because hey, if that person you just called a douche turns and tries to punch you in the mouth it’s handy to have speedster powers on your side. Because of this, he is extremely cocky. Tommy is also rather blunt and will say what he thinks; for example, if Tommy doesn’t like you he will make it as clear as day, he’s not afraid to call you an idiot, and you better hope he doesn’t think you’re an idiot because he’s one to hold a grudge. He also rushes into things without thinking them through, tending not to think about the consequences of his actions and seizing what’s a good idea at the time rather than meticulously planning out his every move. Tommy acts on a spur of the moment attitude, which doesn’t always work out.
He’s also incredibly flirtatious and will hit on anything with breasts and a pretty face, mostly because he’s a teenage boy with speedster hormones. His flirting never really gets him anywhere, (see: Tommy is an asshole), but he still does it mostly because it’s fun.
However, his cockiness, his flirtatious behavior, and even how much of a jerk he is are all fronts, covering up how emotionally damaged he truly feels. He can’t handle talking about his feelings, preferring to brush anything serious off and act aloof like he doesn’t care, since it’s easier than actually opening up to someone. He’s spent his whole life striving for attention from parents who didn’t want to give it to him—it’s part of the reason he’s the way he is; acting out in the hope that at least one of his parents would react or do something--and came to the conclusion on his own some time after his sentence that they never cared about him. Tommy tends to bottle everything up, and gets incredibly sarcastic when he’s upset, often leaving without warning so he can go deal with his problems out of sight from the rest of the team. He’s never connected with anyone who stuck around for more than a month or two, and he has a lot of problems letting people in; his trust is extremely hard to gain. But once you’ve gained it, you’ve got it for life. His adoptive family—the Young Avengers—means the world to him, despite seeming to take him for granted a lot of the time. They’re pretty much all he’s got, and when one of them goes missing, he has a hard time dealing until they’re back safely (He spent pretty much all of Siege trying to find Kate and Eli, and was beating himself up because he couldn’t save them, and wasn’t a superhero if he couldn’t even save the people close to him).
Most of his team doesn’t even know the issues that Tommy is covering up because he thinks it’s better they think he’s a jerk than someone who can’t handle stuff. His extended incarceration at the juvenile detention centre gave him hella issues. For starters, the experiments they did gave him an unease around doctors and scientists, and he’d rather avoid them then go in for a checkup. Being in a small cell for a huge amount of time and being in a place where he can’t escape or run freaks him out. His morality was injured in juvie as well; he came very close to exploding the heads off of all the scientists that ever laid a finger on him, and could’ve become a supervillian easily if it hadn’t been for the Young Avengers’ influence. He still struggles with his morality at times, thinking it perfectly fine to go and break into the Avengers mansion to impress a girl when he was supposed to be a hero, which has earned him the title of the ‘Team Sociopath’, but he’s doing a lot better now that he’s been with the team for a long time. He had the opportunity to leave and join the Young Masters—a darker version of the Young Avengers—as he had been involved with Coat Of Arms, one of the girls on the team who had been at juvie with him. He had declined, even though the team would’ve suited him better and would’ve probably appreciated him far more, because the Young Avengers were his family, and he wasn’t going to bail on his family.
Being a speedster with boundless energy and a crazy metabolism, Tommy finds it really hard to sit still for long periods of time. He gets bored really easily, and has to be constantly moving—be it twitching or walking around while he talks—otherwise he gets too uncomfortable. He has a tendency to pace like a caged animal when he’s upset or can’t get away. He sees the world almost in slow motion, and gets incredibly impatient extremely fast. It’s like standing in a line for the ATM, being already late for something, and the person in front of you is a little old lady who can’t see very well, and getting really agitated because the elderly lady keeps missing keys and making errors and starting all over again. Think about that, and how angry you’d get, and then multiply that by about 50, then apply it to everyone Tommy knows who isn’t a speedster -- you’ve pretty much got the reason why Tommy is irritable most of the time.
Under all this crap, Tommy is still just a teenager. He loves playing video games like Call Of Duty and Rockband, mostly because he uses his superpowers to cheat, loves pranks and jokes and will often convince Billy’s two young brothers to aide him in tormenting their older brother. He loves being around kids but would never admit it since he was an only child and never got to act like a big brother before. Molly from the Runaways is one of the kids he’s really connected with, and he treats her like a little sister, looking out for her, and just trying to make her smile. He’s found himself spending a lot of time with Billy’s two brothers as well and although he’d never admit it, he loves being a brother to all three Kaplan boys.
Abilities & physical limitations: As his name suggests, Speed can run really fast. And I mean seriously fast. He can run faster than the speed of sound and he can run across the surface tension of water. He once ran from the eastern seaboard of the USA to Genosha in almost the same amount of time it took Wiccan to teleport there. Because of his speed, he can easily dodge punches, catch high-speed objects (for example a knife being thrown at him) and almost be in two places at once. He can also generate hyper-kinetic vibrations, which causes the molecules of whatever he’s directing them at to vibrate and then explode. He can also accelerate his own, and other people’s molecules, and shake them to the point where they phase through solid walls.
Deep down, Tommy is actually a good person when it comes to the people he cares about. It’s hidden under all that cockiness and the fact that he’s the ‘team sociopath’ but it’s there, even though it might not be obvious. He’s incredibly loyal to the people who have gained his trust, and considers his team to be his family—the only family he has left now. His time with them has turned him from someone who was nothing more than a delinquent teen, to someone who is a superhero, and actually cares about the people around him. This is especially prominent with Kate and Billy, but though he never would admit it, he does actually appreciate all of them, and gets uncomfortably twitchy if one is missing.
Tommy might not be concerned about doing the right thing all the time, but when it involves the people he cares about he will go out of his way to help them, and if that means fighting the good fight then he’ll be by their side. He doesn’t necessarily feel like he should be doing the right thing and he doesn’t really give a damn about it either, but if it makes his family happy, he’s going to do it.
Because of his extended incarceration in a juvenile detention centre, which turned out to be an experimentation facility, Tommy is a closet claustrophobic. He would deny it if anyone mentioned it, but he dislikes being in places that he cannot run away from. If he doesn’t have the option of control – i.e. he only stays and fights because he chooses to and can run away if things get bad, thus giving him the delusion that he’s in control of his life – he will get very uncomfortable and twitchy. If he is contained, he shows similar behaviour to a caged animal, pacing and being generally restless. Another branch of this is that he doesn’t like anything that limits his movement. Things like constricting physical contact such as extended hugs fall into this category, as well as some types of clothing. Another result that has come from being inside juvie is that he has a strong distrust and hatred toward doctors and scientists.
Another weakness of his is that Tommy tends to rush into battle without thinking. He tends not to think about the consequences of his actions and seizes what’s a good idea at the time rather than meticulously planning out his every move. He acts on a spur of the moment attitude, which doesn’t always work out, and can cause him to do stuff like run into forcefields or walls because he was too impatient to check if whoever they were fighting had any defenses up.
As one final thing, teleporting makes Tommy feel really queasy, since he's not in control of his own actions and he finds it hard to keep his lunch down when Billy teleports the team somewhere. He much prefers to run on his own.
Appearance: Tommy is a pretty toned teenage boy, probably getting a lot of his muscles from the fact that he is almost constantly running (though with superheroes its really hard to tell on this sort of thing if it’s not shown in canon). By superhero standards, he’s actually not that buff, but when you have people like The Hulk and Wolverine to compare against it’s entirely understandable. Speed is 5ft8, and has a head full of white, messy hair and a pair of green eyes. Apart from these differences, and for the fact that he has a smirk on his face most of the time, Tommy is identical to his brother, Billy Kaplan, and at first a lot of people get them confused (even with the hair differences). When he’s in crime fighting mode, he a green and white bodysuit that has a yellow arrow pointing to his crotch (no. I’m not kidding. And no, he did not design the suit himself) and a pair of orange goggles. When he’s not wearing his suit he usually wears tight fitting clothes – as long as they don’t restrict his movement in any way – and jeans. Tommy also has medical scars scattered across his body, but mostly covering his legs and feet, from his time in ‘juvie’, but are never seen due to him hiding them with his clothing.
Notable AU differences from canon, if applicable: n/a
Strife Specibus: fistkind
Prototyping: a random Manhattan city pigeon (missing a few toes and looking a bit manky in general)
Title: Envoy of Haste
In-game abilities: Envoy is a passive class and when combined with Haste, the barer becomes a messenger of urgency and haste to other people or helps them see when it is necessary granting others a will to finish things quickly. Exactly how it manifests will depend on whether Tommy finishes his quests.
Planet: Land of Snow and Shell (LOSAS). Once a vast flat desert inhabited by speedy tortoises, they used to hold races from one end of the desert to the other in an anual sun celebration. That was until the denizen swallowed the sun, sending the desert into an eternal winter. The desert turns to tundra and the speedy tortoise's lose their ability to run, their cold blood practically freezing, which sends the entire population into a state of slowness, combated only by a few scarfs and woolen hats. Without their speed, the tortoises become depressed and even more lethargic.
RP Sample:
rp sample is here
Name: Pura
Preferred pronoun: she/her
Preferred means of contact: plurk@ Purapea
Any other characters currently in-game? Nooope
CHARACTER INFO
Name: Thomas “Tommy” Shepherd/Speed
Gender: Male
Source: Marvel 616; Young Avengers
Canon point: End of Children’s Crusade issue 9, before the statues of the Avengers have been unveiled.
Age: 17
Colour: #4B8A08
Chumhandle: crotchArrow
History: here
Personality: Above all things, Tommy is an asshole. He enjoys messing around and irritating people and takes great pleasure in hitting the right buttons that make people squirm in annoyance. Because he is a speedster, no matter what he says he can always have a fast getaway. He doesn’t think about the consequences of his actions and thinks he can get away with a lot more than he really can because hey, if that person you just called a douche turns and tries to punch you in the mouth it’s handy to have speedster powers on your side. Because of this, he is extremely cocky. Tommy is also rather blunt and will say what he thinks; for example, if Tommy doesn’t like you he will make it as clear as day, he’s not afraid to call you an idiot, and you better hope he doesn’t think you’re an idiot because he’s one to hold a grudge. He also rushes into things without thinking them through, tending not to think about the consequences of his actions and seizing what’s a good idea at the time rather than meticulously planning out his every move. Tommy acts on a spur of the moment attitude, which doesn’t always work out.
He’s also incredibly flirtatious and will hit on anything with breasts and a pretty face, mostly because he’s a teenage boy with speedster hormones. His flirting never really gets him anywhere, (see: Tommy is an asshole), but he still does it mostly because it’s fun.
However, his cockiness, his flirtatious behavior, and even how much of a jerk he is are all fronts, covering up how emotionally damaged he truly feels. He can’t handle talking about his feelings, preferring to brush anything serious off and act aloof like he doesn’t care, since it’s easier than actually opening up to someone. He’s spent his whole life striving for attention from parents who didn’t want to give it to him—it’s part of the reason he’s the way he is; acting out in the hope that at least one of his parents would react or do something--and came to the conclusion on his own some time after his sentence that they never cared about him. Tommy tends to bottle everything up, and gets incredibly sarcastic when he’s upset, often leaving without warning so he can go deal with his problems out of sight from the rest of the team. He’s never connected with anyone who stuck around for more than a month or two, and he has a lot of problems letting people in; his trust is extremely hard to gain. But once you’ve gained it, you’ve got it for life. His adoptive family—the Young Avengers—means the world to him, despite seeming to take him for granted a lot of the time. They’re pretty much all he’s got, and when one of them goes missing, he has a hard time dealing until they’re back safely (He spent pretty much all of Siege trying to find Kate and Eli, and was beating himself up because he couldn’t save them, and wasn’t a superhero if he couldn’t even save the people close to him).
Most of his team doesn’t even know the issues that Tommy is covering up because he thinks it’s better they think he’s a jerk than someone who can’t handle stuff. His extended incarceration at the juvenile detention centre gave him hella issues. For starters, the experiments they did gave him an unease around doctors and scientists, and he’d rather avoid them then go in for a checkup. Being in a small cell for a huge amount of time and being in a place where he can’t escape or run freaks him out. His morality was injured in juvie as well; he came very close to exploding the heads off of all the scientists that ever laid a finger on him, and could’ve become a supervillian easily if it hadn’t been for the Young Avengers’ influence. He still struggles with his morality at times, thinking it perfectly fine to go and break into the Avengers mansion to impress a girl when he was supposed to be a hero, which has earned him the title of the ‘Team Sociopath’, but he’s doing a lot better now that he’s been with the team for a long time. He had the opportunity to leave and join the Young Masters—a darker version of the Young Avengers—as he had been involved with Coat Of Arms, one of the girls on the team who had been at juvie with him. He had declined, even though the team would’ve suited him better and would’ve probably appreciated him far more, because the Young Avengers were his family, and he wasn’t going to bail on his family.
Being a speedster with boundless energy and a crazy metabolism, Tommy finds it really hard to sit still for long periods of time. He gets bored really easily, and has to be constantly moving—be it twitching or walking around while he talks—otherwise he gets too uncomfortable. He has a tendency to pace like a caged animal when he’s upset or can’t get away. He sees the world almost in slow motion, and gets incredibly impatient extremely fast. It’s like standing in a line for the ATM, being already late for something, and the person in front of you is a little old lady who can’t see very well, and getting really agitated because the elderly lady keeps missing keys and making errors and starting all over again. Think about that, and how angry you’d get, and then multiply that by about 50, then apply it to everyone Tommy knows who isn’t a speedster -- you’ve pretty much got the reason why Tommy is irritable most of the time.
Under all this crap, Tommy is still just a teenager. He loves playing video games like Call Of Duty and Rockband, mostly because he uses his superpowers to cheat, loves pranks and jokes and will often convince Billy’s two young brothers to aide him in tormenting their older brother. He loves being around kids but would never admit it since he was an only child and never got to act like a big brother before. Molly from the Runaways is one of the kids he’s really connected with, and he treats her like a little sister, looking out for her, and just trying to make her smile. He’s found himself spending a lot of time with Billy’s two brothers as well and although he’d never admit it, he loves being a brother to all three Kaplan boys.
Abilities & physical limitations: As his name suggests, Speed can run really fast. And I mean seriously fast. He can run faster than the speed of sound and he can run across the surface tension of water. He once ran from the eastern seaboard of the USA to Genosha in almost the same amount of time it took Wiccan to teleport there. Because of his speed, he can easily dodge punches, catch high-speed objects (for example a knife being thrown at him) and almost be in two places at once. He can also generate hyper-kinetic vibrations, which causes the molecules of whatever he’s directing them at to vibrate and then explode. He can also accelerate his own, and other people’s molecules, and shake them to the point where they phase through solid walls.
Deep down, Tommy is actually a good person when it comes to the people he cares about. It’s hidden under all that cockiness and the fact that he’s the ‘team sociopath’ but it’s there, even though it might not be obvious. He’s incredibly loyal to the people who have gained his trust, and considers his team to be his family—the only family he has left now. His time with them has turned him from someone who was nothing more than a delinquent teen, to someone who is a superhero, and actually cares about the people around him. This is especially prominent with Kate and Billy, but though he never would admit it, he does actually appreciate all of them, and gets uncomfortably twitchy if one is missing.
Tommy might not be concerned about doing the right thing all the time, but when it involves the people he cares about he will go out of his way to help them, and if that means fighting the good fight then he’ll be by their side. He doesn’t necessarily feel like he should be doing the right thing and he doesn’t really give a damn about it either, but if it makes his family happy, he’s going to do it.
Because of his extended incarceration in a juvenile detention centre, which turned out to be an experimentation facility, Tommy is a closet claustrophobic. He would deny it if anyone mentioned it, but he dislikes being in places that he cannot run away from. If he doesn’t have the option of control – i.e. he only stays and fights because he chooses to and can run away if things get bad, thus giving him the delusion that he’s in control of his life – he will get very uncomfortable and twitchy. If he is contained, he shows similar behaviour to a caged animal, pacing and being generally restless. Another branch of this is that he doesn’t like anything that limits his movement. Things like constricting physical contact such as extended hugs fall into this category, as well as some types of clothing. Another result that has come from being inside juvie is that he has a strong distrust and hatred toward doctors and scientists.
Another weakness of his is that Tommy tends to rush into battle without thinking. He tends not to think about the consequences of his actions and seizes what’s a good idea at the time rather than meticulously planning out his every move. He acts on a spur of the moment attitude, which doesn’t always work out, and can cause him to do stuff like run into forcefields or walls because he was too impatient to check if whoever they were fighting had any defenses up.
As one final thing, teleporting makes Tommy feel really queasy, since he's not in control of his own actions and he finds it hard to keep his lunch down when Billy teleports the team somewhere. He much prefers to run on his own.
Appearance: Tommy is a pretty toned teenage boy, probably getting a lot of his muscles from the fact that he is almost constantly running (though with superheroes its really hard to tell on this sort of thing if it’s not shown in canon). By superhero standards, he’s actually not that buff, but when you have people like The Hulk and Wolverine to compare against it’s entirely understandable. Speed is 5ft8, and has a head full of white, messy hair and a pair of green eyes. Apart from these differences, and for the fact that he has a smirk on his face most of the time, Tommy is identical to his brother, Billy Kaplan, and at first a lot of people get them confused (even with the hair differences). When he’s in crime fighting mode, he a green and white bodysuit that has a yellow arrow pointing to his crotch (no. I’m not kidding. And no, he did not design the suit himself) and a pair of orange goggles. When he’s not wearing his suit he usually wears tight fitting clothes – as long as they don’t restrict his movement in any way – and jeans. Tommy also has medical scars scattered across his body, but mostly covering his legs and feet, from his time in ‘juvie’, but are never seen due to him hiding them with his clothing.
Notable AU differences from canon, if applicable: n/a
Strife Specibus: fistkind
Prototyping: a random Manhattan city pigeon (missing a few toes and looking a bit manky in general)
Title: Envoy of Haste
In-game abilities: Envoy is a passive class and when combined with Haste, the barer becomes a messenger of urgency and haste to other people or helps them see when it is necessary granting others a will to finish things quickly. Exactly how it manifests will depend on whether Tommy finishes his quests.
Planet: Land of Snow and Shell (LOSAS). Once a vast flat desert inhabited by speedy tortoises, they used to hold races from one end of the desert to the other in an anual sun celebration. That was until the denizen swallowed the sun, sending the desert into an eternal winter. The desert turns to tundra and the speedy tortoise's lose their ability to run, their cold blood practically freezing, which sends the entire population into a state of slowness, combated only by a few scarfs and woolen hats. Without their speed, the tortoises become depressed and even more lethargic.
RP Sample:
rp sample is here