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Had to be done
For Jeff’s contest on the blog.
EDIT: I wanted to try my hand at a simpler more graphic version, just because I’m bored at work awaiting feedback on a project. Here goes:
So we have our super-idealistic ultra powerful-type, our mythical warrior-person, our speedster/teleporter. What’s left for a classic superhero team? How about a telepathic alien or an ocean-dweller? How about both?!
CETACEA
Bio: CETACEA is of an ancient race of humanoid aliens, from a massive planet, completely covered in water. She has revealed little of it’s culture or history to her friends, nor what her place was within that society or if all her species possesses the gifts that she does. She was sent hurtling to the Earth in a stasis pod, adrift for thousands of years. She crash landed on Earth, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, her stasis pod automatically deconstructing itself on the molecular level (a failsafe, she guessed, to keep advanced technology from falling into the hands of underdeveloped civilizations.) She remained hidden for centuries, glimpsed by maritime travelers and inspiring legends of women in the water. In the 21st Century, the superheroine Pinnacle encountered her while saving the crew of a collapsing oil platform. Apparently Cetacea had been saving people in these kinds of situations for centuries, always erasing their memories of the event to preserve her anonymity. Pinnacle kept Cetacea’s secret for a few years, but upon deciding to form her team, she knew Cetacea’s talents would prove invaluable…
Abilities: Much of Cetacea’s abilities come from her alien physiology. She can breathe both air and water, but her body more efficiently metabolizes oxygen from the latter. Her body is incredibly durable, able to withstand the crushing pressures of the ocean, and her strength and stamina are proportionately enhanced. She has razor sharp claws on her feet and hands that are incredibly dense and can rend through rock and metal with ease. Her eyesight is enhanced to the point where she can see clearly with very little light and at many fathoms below sea-level. The appendages growing out of her head have a sensory function, and can detect electrical activity (such as in the nervous systems of living organisms) and motion in her surrounding environment.
Cetacea is also a vastly powerful telepath. She can the read thoughts and memories of others. Because she cannot physically vocalize human language, she projects her voice into the minds of others as a form of communication. Offensively she can release devastating blasts of psionic energy or impose her will over the minds of her opponents. In times of severe stress Cetacea has been able to release telekinetic force on her environment, but this ability is wildly uncontrolled so she does not tend to use this ability unless given absolutely no other option.
Another member of the team, ostensibly the most powerful and team leader. PINNACLE
Bio: She doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a stasis chamber miles under the earth in a secret genetics facility. They’d implanted a set of basic memories in her brain, something to give the spatial awareness, coordination, language skills of an adult the approximate age of her rapidly grown body, but there were no emotions, no empathy, no sense of identity. Or at least, there wasn’t supposed to be.
Pinnacle was the product of decades of research and testing. During the Cold War, Soviet scientists had grew her from superhuman DNA samples using unearthed Nazi records as a foundation. They wanted her to be their nuclear deterrent, a posthuman weapon of mass destruction. But her senses had evolved past them, she perceives life in a way that we can’t imagine, holds it sacred. They thought she was unaware of her true potential. She was. Before they could put her through the planned mental conditioning, Pinnacle broke out of her bonds and began to destroy the facility, undoing years of research. Her escape triggered the automatic security deep within the facility. The facility locked all exits and unleashed a devastating thermonuclear explosion, killing everyone within… except for her. She barely survived, her abilities being in their nascent stage. After a decade or so of inactivity, recuperating and testing the potential of her abilities, Pinnacle emerged in as a superhero. She used her titanic abilities to preserve life in any way that she could, becoming somewhat of a role model for the emerging posthuman community.
It was after the invasion, when she was forced to kill her nemesis despite her moral objections, that Pinnacle knew she couldn’t do this alone. She sought out other established heroes, and some new faces, hoping to organize a team that could play off of each other’s strengths, balance each other’s weaknesses, and more effectively protect the planet.
Abilities: Pinnacle is the highest caliber posthuman known. Hers is the measure to which all other posthumans are compared. She possesses superhuman strength of limitless potential. At resting it is in the upper range of the 100-ton class, but when she truly exerts herself Pinnacle is a worldbreaker. Her bodily tissues are nearly invincible, superdense and incredibly durable. She can move at incredible speeds upwards, resting at around Mach 10, but can push herself faster with exertions. She has self-sustained flight and enhanced sensory perception, as well as a form of sixth sense that allows her to empathically sense the presence and emotional state of sentient life.
Next member of the team: ÉPOQUE
Bio: Gerard Genet was a physicist from France, whose renowned work in multiversal theory and time-dilation earned him a spot on a multi-billion research project. The project entailed the construction of a massive supercollider. Gerard was to head the subsequent experiment. The idea was to make micro-breaches in space-time to study differences between the neighboring dimension and our own. However, an overzealous researcher miscalculated and the breach was far wider than anticipated. Gerard ushered the research team out of the blast chamber and attempted to manually close off the hemorrhage. His plan worked, but as the closing breach unleashed a devastating wave of of energy right before it sealed. Gerard was caught in the blast and nearly died.
He was in a coma for six weeks, under careful government observation. Upon awakening, Gerard found his body infused with the dimensional energy, able to project it from his body and warp space-time in his immediate environment. He used his abilities locally at first and only for scientific research, but more and more Gerard found himself wishing to make a difference. He started using his abilities for disaster relief, at first in France and then Europe at large. He adopted the name ÉPOQUE, trying to be like the colorful superheroes of the age, and gained notoriety within the international posthuman community.
When the invasion happened, Époque was instrumental in stemming the tide of the invading troops and helped Pinnacle seal the main breach, causing the chain reaction that closed off all other incursion points. He accepted Pinnacle’s offer to organize into a team with no hesitation.
Abilities: Gerard can release a unique form of energy that enables him to control space-time. He envelops a person/object or even himself in this energy to a number of effects. He can accelerate or decelerate the passage of time on a single object, freezing them in a single moment stretched out to hours, or forcing them to age several days in a matter of minutes. Using this aspect of his abilities on himself, Gerard can approximate superhuman speed by phasing himself into an accelerated timeline relative to the world around him. He can also his energy teleport himself and others vast distances. The larger the change to local space-time and the more mass involved, the more tiring it is for him.
So new year, new concept
First member of my new superteam: [NAME TO BE DETERMINED]. He fills the role of the immensely strong mythical figure, with a dash of body-switching thrown in.
GUAN YU
Bio: Jesse Zhang was a Chinese-American orphan, raised by his grandfather in California. Growing up he was taught to revere the old legends and historical figures, chief among them, legendary warrior: Guan Yu. His grandfather even claimed that the shrine in their shop housed a fragment of Guan Yu’s mythical weapon, the Green Dragon Crescent Blade. Jesse didn’t think much of these stories, until the invasion.
An extra-dimensional warlord who had clashed with Pinnacle on a number of occasions finally managed to breach into our dimension and his invading forces poured in at multiple incursion sites. With Pinnacle and the established heroes busy trying to contain the breach and stop the invasion at its source, some areas were left at the mercy of the invaders. Jesse’s hometown was one such area.
His grandfather sealed up their shop and hoped to wait out the storm, but a young girl’s cries for help outside led him to expose their position. The ground forces were executing any and all living beings they encountered. Jesse’s grandfather ushered the girl inside, but was struck dead before he could make it himself. As the attackers cornered Jesse, he pushed the young girl behind him and instinctively grabbed the first weapon he could reach: the ancient blade handle housed in his grandfather’s shrine. When he held up the weapon to defend the girl, the spirit of Guan Yu within the blade sensed his righteousness and acted. Instantly Jesse was transformed into the towering legend himself: GUAN YU. He single-handedly repelled the invaders and decimated the West Coast incursion site. His actions saved hundreds of thousands of lives. When the breach was sealed and the fight over, Pinnacle approached Jesse, offering him a position on her newly formed team, an international posthuman response unit, meant to prevent tragedies such as this one from happening again.
Abilities: When he grabs the ancient blade handle, so long as his cause is just, Jesse is able to physically embody the living legend Guan Yu. Jesse is not in conscious control of this form, actually physically switching places with the deity rather than transforming into him. While one is active, the other resides on the astral plane, able to communicate with the other through telepathy.
Guan Yu possesses superhuman strength of the highest caliber, surpassed only by Pinnacle, and near invulnerability. His speed/reflexes/stamina are similarly enhanced, able to move at velocities several times the speed of sound. His beard can sense evil intent and itches when danger is near. He wields the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, a supernatural weapon able to cut through almost anything. The blade can produce mystical blue fire in its wake which Guan Yu can shape into a massive wall of flame.
I was thinking now that all these additions are being made, would it be at all possible to get the emaciated body type in just a torso? Sort of like this:
Or maybe even torso and one isolated arm?
I’ve been able to use it just fine by masking/hiding the limbs like I did for this screenshot, but it sure would save a lot of time for people (like myself :D) who want to use it.
Whew! Been a little while. The hubby got me Pokemon X for Christmas so I’ve been pretty occupied for the last couple of weeks. (I’m about to head through Victory Road to face the Elite Four! Woot woot!)
Anyway, just to get my first post of 2014 out of the way, here’s a group shot of my Wardens. They may be a little weird, and they may sometimes (a lot of the time) hate each other, but they’re humanity’s only hope dammit!
http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l607/DiCicatriz/Other/Wardens/WARDENS_GROUP_REV.png
Hopefully I can get back to machining sooner rather than later. I have a villain or two planned out for the Wardens, and then a new more traditional superteam in the same kind of larger-than-life vain as the Justice League or the Avengers.
Happy New Year to everybody! Hope you all have lots of success in 2014
Fly Guy is amazing! He’s pretty… uh… fly.
Seriously though, great work on him. The white outline against the gradient background: perfection.Thanks everybody! Always good to know you guys are digging my creations
@Lightningsword said:
Vessel is awesome! But does the suit change color when she turns to a demon? It would look kinda wierd seeing a demon in that outfit. Anyway, love the Wardens!
I was going for sort of a reverse Nightrawler (from X-men) look. You know: red skin/blue accents on a black costume as opposed to his blue skin/red accents deal. Plus she doesn’t necessarily identify as a demon, she just borrows its body when she needs to
Last member of the Wardens, the mysterious Trinity. He was discovered in a deep corner of the All-Space by Voyeur. Not even Scribe knows where he comes from, nor is Trinity willing to divulge his origins. He is not human, that much is certain.
He possesses the ability to draw in natural energy from his environment to enhance his physical strength. He can also attune his senses to the natural biosphere of his environment and anticipate changes/disturbances before they happen. At first glance these appear to be the limits of his abilities and it wasn’t until he had adventured with the Wardens for quite some time that Trinity’s true nature and ultimate potential were made evident.
Trinity is a singular ancestral entity. He is his mother, his father, and himself all at once. If he so chooses, every seven hours, for a period of 77 minutes, Trinity can embody one of these aspects of himself, transforming physically and mentally into either Mother or Father and given use of their wildly powerful abilities.
Mother is a healer, and a protector. She wields the Wellspring, from which flows all life. Using her staff, Mother can direct the healing waters of the spring, using them to cure injury and illness in others. She can convert the waters into a protective mist, the most powerful protective barrier known. Mother can also purify existing bodies of water, absorbing them into the Wellspring. With this ability she can teleport herself and others from any body of water on the planet to another.
Father is more destructive than either Trinity or Mother. He wields the Quintessence, five swirling orbs of distinct energies with varied effects: blue altering temperature and matter, red releasing searing bursts of energy, green drawing power from the planet itself to increase the wielder’s strength and durability to incalculable levels, purple imposing force of will on reality and allowing for immensely powerful telekinetic feats, and the white-gold energy of Father’s mind; which he keeps contained in his hands at all times, being a force that can end reality.
Bonus! Here’s a shot of Trinity alongside his other forms:
http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l607/DiCicatriz/Other/Wardens/Trinity_Singular.png
For Jeff’s contest on the blog.
Seriously though, great work on him. The white outline against the gradient background: perfection.
