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Yeah, so this guy happened.
I’ve played a few rpg’s over the years with friends, playing a bunch of characters but my favourite has to be the Kushiban, Bobecc. Better known as Bob.
Bob was never really a player character but I kept bringing him back for some recurring guest appearances and he has become my favourite little murder bunny.
He’s basically Clint Eastwood if he was an alien rabbit, voice and all. Middle-aged, cantankerous and just so tired of everyone’s poodoo.
Yoshi Sakata is the best friend of Akihiro Shigenoi. Better known to the world as Starborn. The two have been practically inseparable since they were toddlers. So much so in fact that when Starborn ventures into space, he often takes bis best bud with him.
Yoshi, or Database as Aki dubbed him due to his genius-level intellect and eidetic memory, has been Starborn’s biggest fan and supporter since day one and was vital in helping the fledgeling hero understand his powers in those early days.
Starborn and Database’s trips through the cosmos are like a sci-fi dream come true for Yoshi and still can hardly believe this is his life.
Taryn Race is powered by her own anger. At the upper limits of her power, RAGE! (a name that has to be yelled) is easily one of the strongest and most powerful people on the planet.
I don’t really have any backstory for this guy. I just had a random idea one day for an octopus man so here he is.
The White Skull is a necromancer of somewhat limited ability. While she can reanimate the dead by calling their spirit back to their bodies, this only lasts for a matter of moments before the magic wears off and they return to death.
She has still used her limited ability to rake in some profit though and she is often employed by police looking to solve a murder or just bereaved family who never got the chance to say goodbye to their loved ones and want one last chance.
She is careful to keep her true identity a secret though for fear of unsatisfied customers who expected more or religious fanatics who would see her burned for the use of black magic.
Nicholas King is the son of a human woman and an incubus.
Rebelling against his own demonic nature and just rebelling in general, Nick ended up in a downward spiral of alcohol, drugs and sex that almost killed him several times over. Angry lovers or angry partners of lovers almost killed him more than that.
Most people were unaware of Nick’s heritage. He managed to hold onto his human form most of the time but he still found himself having to flee from the occasional demon hunter, despite his own hatred of demons and the crap they had put him and his mother through.
It was while on the run from one of these demon hunters that Nick crossed paths with the Nowhere Kids who were themselves on the run. Arcane, the kids resident mystic, saw Nick’s true face almost right away but much to Nick’s surprise didn’t try to murder him. In fact he and the rest of the Nowhere Kids actually helped Nick escape.
With no place else to go, Nick tagged along with the kids for a while. Kinetic gave him the nickname “Loverboy” and the name just stuck.
Nick’s time with the Nowhere Kids was fairly short but they parted ways on good terms and, inspired by his new friends, Nick was determined to do some good in his life. He was determined to prove that he should’t be defined by who his father is. Granted, he could probably have found an easier way to do this than becoming a demon hunter himself but he proved surprisingly good at slaying his evil cousins and even better at sparing those like him that weren’t actually evil at all.
Despite his desire to do good, Loverboy is still chaotic by his very nature. He has passed through the lives of a number of heroes such as Dead Beat and Hellion, always tearing through like a tornado kicking up all manner of trouble and emotions before departing again. Hellion has threatened to burn the pretty boys face off if they ever meet again but most others have grown fond of his chaotic but charming nature.
Loverboy is genuinely trying to fight his demonic nature and do some good in the world but he walks a thin line of violent tendencies and bad decisions and he may still ultimately end up straying down a path to becoming the demon so many people expect him to be.
People seemed to like the design on Happy Hour’s shirt so I just took a couple of minutes to do this and see what it looked like up close. Just as an experiment.
I quite like doing designs like this. Maybe I’ll do more….Maybe.
Harvey Adams hails from a still unknown year in the far distant future where he somehow acquired a suit that allows him to travel through time. While others may have used such power to conquer the planet and set themselves up as some sort of temporal despot, Harvey had no such lofty goals. While he almost certainly could have messed up the timeline to make himself the all powerful lord of time and space, there would likely still be some do-gooder who decided to stick their nose in and set things right. Harvey was far too smart to get involved in that nonsense. All he really wanted was to make enough money to live comfortably and that’s exactly what he did.
Travelling through time and stealing all manner of priceless items, he later sold them for huge sums of money. He could have retired comfortably but his greed soon got the better of him and he continued his spree of time heists until he encountered the Watchguard’s Delta Squad (Steel Spectre. Trance, Surge, Nightshade and Shadowfang) who stumbled upon him mid heist and attempted to stop him. The increasingly arrogant time traveller refused to leave until he had secured his prize and engaged the self professed superheroes in battle, during which his suit was damaged. Eye-witnesses saw the Traveller and Delta Squad caught in a bizarre explosion that appeared to obliterate everything it touched, including the ground beneath it.
Though no bodies could be found, all six were eventually declared dead.
In actuality, they had all been sent hurtling through the time stream. Each emerged at a different point in time with a piece of the Traveller’s armor but the Traveller himself emerged in the old west alongside Steel Spectre. While there was initially some conflict between the two men, they quickly realised that they would have to work together if they were ever going to get what was left of the Traveller’s suit working again and get home. This was a plan that took far longer than either man could have realised and they ended up spending over a decade together as they searched for parts to repair the suit. Neither of the time displaced men seemed to age physically in those years and their bizarre circumstance forced the pair to grow close to the point where they became legitimately good friends. A wrench was thrown into their friendship for a time when both men fell in love with the same woman but Spectre won her heart in the end and Harvey graciously accepted defeat. For a time, Steel Spectre considered simply not going home and staying in the past with his new love but that love was tragically cut short when she was killed by bandits a few years later. With nothing left for either man in that time period, they finally and reluctantly managed to power up what was left of the Traveller suit enough to make a jump to another part of it elsewhere in the timestream.
They repeated this process again and again until they had reunited with the other members of Delta Squad in various parts of history and the Traveller’s suit was fully repaired, allowing them all to finally return to their proper time. Delta Squad emerged just in time to help the rest of the Watchguard fend off an attack on the west coast by invading forces of the Terminus. While the others rushed off to join the battle, Steel Spectre stopped for a moment to ask his friend to use his time powers to help.
All he got was a knife in the gut.
It seemed Harvey hadn’t put his hatred aside after all. He had only been using Spectre long enough to rebuild his suit and he let him know it in the worst way possible. The Traveller vanished, leaving his friend to bleed out. Fortunately, when they realised that Steel Spectre hadn’t followed them, the rest of Delta Squad returned to find him. Spectre survived that night but he was hurt physically and emotionally by someone he considered family. While the others were quick to right the Traveller off as an evil coward, Spectre wondered if perhaps there was still a trace of true friendship in the Traveller. After all, why even bother bringing Delta Squad back to their own time once his suit was repaired? Why did he conveniently miss all of Spectre’s internal organs when he stabbed him? Trance accused him of clutching at straws, refusing to see the truth about someone he had considered a friend but Spectre remains hopeful that some element of the man he came to consider a friend is still in there.
The Traveller hasn’t been seen for years since this day but given the nature of his powers, it’s entirely possible that he could return at any point.
Only time will tell if he returns as friend or foe.
I meant to post this guy like a week ago but I got really sick and forgot all about him.
This character has had a loose design rattling around in my head for literally years now but I’m only now getting around to actually making it.
Roger Lott is a criminal by circumstance more than anything. A childhood friend of Steel Spectre, when Spectre left to join the military, Roger went the opposite way and fell in with a bad crowd who talked him into helping them rob a convenience store. Roger didn’t actually want to do it but the money making options for someone who only barely graduated high school weren’t great. Not only that but Roger already had a kid on the way that he knew he had to provide for. So Roger became a part of a small heist crew that over time became better at what they did.
Eventually Roger became quite well known in certain criminal circles and moved on to bigger scores when he worked as a henchman for a couple of masked super villains. They were all pretty much lunatics or idiots but they paid well. He could only stomach so much of taking orders from people like this though and eventually decided to strike out on his own. He had learned enough from his past bosses about how to make some serious money so he adopted his own identity of Revolver (due to his skill with the handgun) half to protect his identity and half to show his old bosses how it’s done.
While Revolver has earned a lot of respect over his almost decade long career as a masked “super criminal” he hasn’t quite achieved the level of success he had been hoping for. He still hires himself out from time to time, working for more powerful bad guys and helping them in their schemes when he’s not plotting heists of his own. He has, however, built himself a reputation as a genuinely nice guy with a code of honor. Albeit one who will blatantly rob you blind and shoot you in a (usually) non-vital body part if you get in his way. Even the heroes know Revolver as a charming and even likeable guy.
Steel Spectre learned Revolver’s identity a couple of years back and has made multiple attempts to convince his old friend to set his life back on the straight and narrow. Revolver knows he’s already in too deep to get out…But maybe one day.
Eons ago, the alien species known as the Preservers used their technology to advance life on countless worlds, including Earth.
The Preservers were so advanced that they eventually found a way to ascend to a higher form of life and become beings of cosmic energy. They abandoned the younger species that they had been watching over, leaving the mortals to their own affairs.
Life as a higher being wasn’t all it was cracked up to be though and a faction of Preservers broke off from the rest, intending to establish themselves as gods in the eyes of the lesser beings. The main body of the Preservers had sworn to never interfere in the lives of mortals again and even if some of their own broke that rule, the rest refused to interfere.
One Preserver saw the error of this though and took it upon himself to track down these rebels. His efforts took hundreds of years but were ostensibly successful when he captured their leader and the rest of the rebels scattered to various corners of the galaxy.
Trapping the rebel leader in an advanced prison cell disguised as a comet, the Preserver lawman set it to travel through the cosmos so no one would be able to locate it and orchestrate a prison break. Deciding that he could not return to his people, the lawman settled on a backwoods planet known as Earth where he could track the comet prison as it routinely passed by the planet.
Taking mortal form to better blend in, the lawman did his best to stay out of mortal affairs but over thousands of years with his energy trapped in a mortal shell, he began to lose much of his memory. An unexpected side effect.
In modern times he remembered that he was not of this world but he struggled to remember just where it was that he came from or even why he was here. He did know that he was very powerful and that he had a desire to fight injustice. So he used that power to join the growing number of masked heroes that fought crime and injustice.
Taking the name Neutron, he fought for the people of Earth for decades, becoming one of the planets greatest heroes. But over time Neutron became increasingly violent in his treatment of criminals, brutalizing many of his opponents. This behaviour began to alienate Neutron from many of his fellow heroes. Neutron’s anger and frustration grew with humanity but reached a tipping point when the mysterious hero Comet arrived on Earth.
Neutron couldn’t explain why he hated Comet so much but he knew that he was justified in his feelings. Comet was not the hero he claimed to be. Neutron just knew it. Neutron and Comet came to blows on a number of occasions afterwards turning Neutron from violent hero to psychotic bad guy. He still saw himself as the hero though and everyone else as idiots and cowards too scared to do what needed to be done.
Neutron became the bad guy for years until the day came when the combined heroes of the world fought the spirit of destruction, Entropy who had possessed many of the heroes who now sought to destroy him. Neutron arrived in the middle of the battle and suggested that Entropy take control of his body and use his strength to crush the so called heroes. Entropy jumped at the chance. It would be the last mistake he made though. Neutron proved too powerful for the spirit of destruction to fully possess and Neutron still had enough control to hold Entropy within himself long enough to escape Earth and blast off towards the sun. He would finally put an end to the monster that had plagued Earth for years. Something not even his hated enemy Comet could do. He would do this even if it killed him. Comet flew after Neutron, begging him not to through his life away but Neutron was too determined and blasted Comet one last time, knocking him out. When he came to, Neutron was already gone.
Neutron died a hero, saving the world from an enemy that would have gleefully destroyed it.
Or so everyone thought.
Neutron’s story didn’t end that day. Before he could reach the sun, he was scooped up by a mysterious alien ship crewed by none other than the rebel Preservers. The Preservers separated Neutron and Entropy and kept them in stasis while they travelled to Earth, intending to find their lost leader and establish themselves as gods to the pathetic humans who lived there.
The rebel Preservers attacked Earth and its defenders and abducting Comet.
It was then that the rebels new leader, Gamma Ray revealed both Neutron and Comet’s history. Informing Comet that he had not only been one of them…he was their leader.
Comet had no memory of this at all. All he remembered was his life on Earth and the people he cared about. Comet siding with the people of Earth surprised not only Gamma Ray but Neutron too. In an instant he put his years long hatred of Comet aside and they banded together to stop Gamma Ray. Neutron was instrumental not only in turning back the Preservers but also in the fight against an Entropy possessed Gamma Ray who had joined with the spirit in a last ditch attempt to win the battle.
Despite the combined efforts of Neutron, Comet and many of Earth’s other heroes, Gamma Ray eventually got the upper hand. The surprise return of the sorceress known as The Keeper caught Gamma Ray unaware though and she was able to separate him from Entropy, destroying the spirit of destruction in the process.
The battle continued however with Comet, Neutron, Gamma Ray and the other Preservers shifting back into their energy form and fighting each other while Earths forces fought off the invasion of the Terminus, triggered by Gamma Ray in one final screw you to humanity. (See Gamma Ray and his accompanying story for a more in depth look at all of this)
When the forces of the Terminus were turned back and the dust finally settled, none of the Preservers were anywhere to be found, including Comet and Neutron.
Days passed and both heroes were declared M.I.A. Many thought the Preservers had torn each other apart in the skies and were now dead but during a memorial service for those who died in the invasion, Comet suddenly reappeared in a flash of light that coalesced into his human form. He seemed entirely unaware of where the others had gone.
Several months later, Gamma Ray reappeared and attacked Comet. Their battle only ended when Comet recruited the young hero Starborn to teleport Gamma Ray to a far off corner of the galaxy. Comet noted that Gamma Ray had returned alone though. None of his troops were with him. He was unsure why but he had a feeling that Neutron had something to do with it.
He was correct. After the battle for Earth, what remained of the rebel Preservers had fled and Neutron had made it his personal mission to track them all down and ensure that they would never return. Neutron had made the decision to exile himself from Earth until this mission was complete and he could redeem himself for his past actions.
Neutron has become known as a guardian and hero throughout the cosmos, regaining much of the honour he had lost on Earth.
