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The Outcasts
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Josie Peters: Born a mutate with rock hard grey skin, wings and talons protruding from her knuckles, Josie was abandoned by her parents shortly after she was born, ending up in an orphanage in Port Palmer. Growing up, she was bullied by the other children in the orphanage due to her freakish appearance, only really befriending one other child, a girl named Sarah. When Sarah was adopted, Josie became depressed and tried to run away numerous times, eventually leaving the orphanage for good just after her 14th birthday. She spent 4 more years living rough on the streets of Port Palmer before coming across the hideaway.
Chloe Wallis: A teenage mutate with extendable spikes protruding from her forearms. Her powers first surfaced whilst she was at school, unfortunately leading to the near fatal stabbing of a bully. The incident caused her to run away from home and live on the streets before coming across the Outcasts hideaway. She has a great love of art and can often be found drawing or painting in her room in the hideaway.
Alex Marridge: A mutate with green skin, Alex can cause illusions, making people see things that aren’t there or not see things that are. He often uses this power to make people think he looks normal, but he often loses this ability when under great stress. He was often bullied at school, with people trying to make him drop his illusion. His life wasn’t much better at home; his alcoholic father considered him a freak and often beat him. On his 16th birthday, Alex finally decided he had had enough, running away. He now lives in the hideout, practicing his illusions, so as he can help some of his other outcasts.
Todd Rouge: Born with horns protruding from his head, Todd was feared by anyone who saw him, especially being brought up in a highly religious area, where he was considered the devil incarnate. His parents originally covered his horns by forcing him to grow a floppy fringe over it, but as he grew the horns became incredibly hard to hide. In his late teens, he was attacked by mobs frequently and his body is covered in scars from numerous attacks on his life. He eventually found his way to the Outcasts hideaway, where he currently resides. He also has the ability to project dark energy from his hands, but he struggles to control this ability so he rarely uses it.
Danielle Radon: A highly loving character, Danielle always wanted to have a job that involved helping people. However, in her teens it became apparent that she had a rather unfortunate mutation. If she touched a living thing with her right hand, she would cause it to wither and die as long as she maintained contact, whilst her left hand could reverse damage to the body. The unfortunate truth was though; her healing power wasn’t as strong as her destructive power. Driven out of her home after a series of accidents, she eventually came across an old abandoned house on private land, which she turned into a hideaway for other outcasts like herself.
Spider: A former teenage delinquent and violent gang member, Spider has spent his life in and out of various forms of incarceration. In his late teens, his mutation surfaced, he grew four large arms from his back and these hands had the ability to stick to walls. He originally used his powers to steal, earing him the nickname Spider. He eventually decided to go straight after being thrown out of his gang, ending up in the hideaway. He spends most of his time listening to his music and taking illegal substances.
Xu Juan Feng: The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she was attacked by demon vampire in her early teens, causing her to mutate, growing fangs, horns and a whiplash tail. She covered her body in ancient runes to control her demonic nature, meaning she doesn’t feel the need to consume blood, however she can only eat meat, preferably raw. She found her way to the hideaway, after searching for the demon who attacked her, using it as a base for her explorations. She is very shy and withdrawn, hiding away in the darkness of her room for most of her time in the hideaway.
Matt Roberts: Born showing immediate signs of his unusual mutation, Matts parents hid him away from the world for most of his life, afraid of how people might react if they saw him. Despite his fearsome appearance, he is surprisingly gentle, although he lacks many basic social skills, due to not having had much social interaction for most of his life. On his sixteenth birthday, his parents decided to allow him out of the house as a present, but he got separated from them. Lost and alone, he was attacked by a gang of thugs who made fun of his appearance as they beat him. His life was saved by Spider, who took him back to the hideaway.
NOTE: I’m constantly looking for new ideas for members of this team. If you have any ideas for outcasts please tell me and if I like them, I’ll add them.
Justice Guard Villains
Upload: A mutate with the ability to “download” peoples abilities and memories by touch. Bought up in the worst gangland area in the south of Metro City, he originally used his powers to steal to feed his family. However, his activities attracted the attention of Dynamo. When Dynamo finally caught up with Upload in a car factory, the ensuing fight ended with Upload losing his right arm in part of the mechanism. Now, instead of stealing to help his family, he hunts Dynamo, hungry for revenge.
Eagle Man: An avian scientist, studying raptors, but his funding was cut. He created a flight suit to allow him to steal to fund his further research. He often faces of with Gold Hawk and Queen Eagle.
Nightstalker: The archenemy to the hero The Watchman, who has the mutate ability to manipulate darkness and shadows. He has often proved elusive because of this ability.
The Solaria
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Blue: Orion- Matt Stewart (Courage), Green: Cygnus- Raban Hun (Compassion), White: Epsilon- William Jordan (Hope), Black: Corvus- Vea Marak (Greed), Red: Tucana- Taras Lora (Hate)Women-
Yellow: Andromeda- Anasi Moore (Joy), Orange: Carina- Jala Maiye (Pride), Silver: Centauri- Lucy Walker (Trust), Pink: Procyon- Quala Hanta (Love), Violet: Vela- Nanasa Kar (Envy)Onto something more ambitious.
Golden Guardian: The Birth Of A Hero
The story parts can be found here
Part 1: http://jr19759.deviantart.com/gallery/34480612#/d5gk3ro
Part 2: http://jr19759.deviantart.com/gallery/34480612#/d5gkziy
Part 3: http://jr19759.deviantart.com/gallery/34480612#/d5graup
Part 4: http://jr19759.deviantart.com/gallery/34480612#/d5h1xnn
Part 5: http://jr19759.deviantart.com/gallery/34480612#/d5h2ago
(I’m not fully happy with part 5 of the story so if anyone has any suggestions I’m open to them.)Justice Guard
Caption: In unhappier times (the cover shot for The Justice Guard’s first major piece in The Daily Notice)
Left To Right: Dynamo, Fix, Gold Hawk, Queen Eagle, The Watchman, Blackstar, Mr Mass, Star-GirlExclusive excerpt from “The Miracle Men: The Superheroes Of Metro City” by Walker Leighton (Daily Notice Super-humans Correspondent)
Chapter 7- Justice Guard
Like many people, when I first heard that The Watchman was putting together a superhero team to operate in the Metro City area, I thought ‘Why?’. Metro City already has The Protectors, and with public interest in lower league heroes waining at this point, many dismissed it as a publicity stunt to try and get the press interested in them again. To the contrary, the battle with Negadroid’s cyborg army proved the doubters very wrong indeed, The Justice Guard works. So when I was invited to catalogue their adventures and the behind the scenes action in the team for the Daily Notice, I leapt at the chance.
When I first met the team, I grew to like them immediately. Dynamo is just like you expect him to be if you have ever seen him in action, quick witted, sharp and very funny to be around, the joker of the group. The Watchman, who can come across as surly and uncommunicative in the media, I found to be an essentially warm character, if not as talkative as the others, a man of mystery type they would have said in the old days. Gold Hawk, currently the only ‘out’ male superhero as far as I am aware, is very calm and measured in his words and actions, courteous and considerate, in contrast to his brash, boisterous sister, Queen Eagle, who had a tendency to trying to make herself centre of attention. Not that she didn’t have her good points. She was very friendly and the most willing to go out of her way to help you, even dropping me off at home when my car was stolen once (hopefully that will be the last time I fly without a plane, I don’t know how they do it). Mr Mass is very intelligent and a good conversationalist, whilst Blackstar was highly charming and very eloquent, with a habit of quoting Shakespeare and numerous political theorists in conversation. Star-Girl, the youngest of the group being barely into her twenties, is much more shy than her former publicist (and father) would have liked you to believe, but she is very polite and pleasant, and stunningly beautiful, even under the mask.
However, this leads me inevitably to the black-sheep, the rotten fruit of the bunch, a ‘hero’ by the name of Fix. A hulking brute of a man, he was a ‘superhero’ in the old fashioned sense of the word, a costumed adventurer with super strength who got his kicks from going out a pummelling thugs. I don’t quite know how he ended up in this company, but one suspects he was not invited. This could be plainly seen from his team-mates reactions to his every action, all of which seemed to cause offence, and my numerous interviews with the man, who seemed most eager to talk to me, though I wish he hadn’t. Racist, sexist and homophobic, the man was more like your stereotypical villain than the chisel jawed paragon of virtue that is a superhero. Across the year I followed the team, Fix all but pushed Blackstar (whom he described as a ‘n****r’ and a ‘black S.O.B’) out of the team and could frequently be heard referring to Gold Hawk as a ‘f*g’.
There would be huge in-team fights during this time, more often than not with Fix at the centre. Mr Mass would shrink away from such confrontations (often literally), whilst Dynamo would try to act as peacekeeper, often with little success. Gold Hawk would try his hardest not to react, no matter how hard Fix would try to antagonise him. But Watchman. Fix knew all of his buttons and pushed all of them frequently. Many times I would enter the lounge at their HQ the next day to discover Mr Mass and Dynamo fixing broken furniture at a molecular level.
The only person Fix didn’t ever try to fight with, apart from me thank god, was Queen Eagle. Personally, I think he was secretly scared of her, and who wouldn’t be. She was a formidable fighter and equal to Fix in both physical strength and the ability to dish out verbal abuse.
Fix was eventually forcibly ejected from the team by The Watchman about eight months into my time with them, after he was caught making some less than savoury advances upon Star-Girl, a girl at least fifteen years his junior. After that he disappeared. It transpired that not one of his ex-team-mates had ever known his civilian identity, something probably for the best.
After Fix’s departure, the team became more cheerful again, reinstating Blackstar and finally bringing to justice The Watchman’s arch-nemisis, NightStalker. However, nearing the end of my tenure, the horizon darkened again.Next: Tragedy Strikes- The countdown to armageddon (Only in tomorrows Daily Notice).
Recently finished.
Shade: An infectious sentient cloud that seeks out a host and takes over their body, transforming their physical state and manipulating their mind. Once it has taken a host it can assimilate other hosts into their body, taking physical attributes of the new host into the body, creating a composite host.
Thanks AMS, I’m going through most of my characters (mostly in group shots, cause I’m good at them) and redoing them with the tips you gave me on shading.
And on that note, a recent redesign of The Protectors (Version 2/ V2)
Backstory- The year is 2057; the world is now a puppet state for a race of aliens called the Surilins. Watched over by the all seeing eye, the people of earth are forced to mine resources for the Surilins war against the Costrilians. The President, John Dawson, is just a puppet, and his administration silences anyone who speaks out, using vicious Robotic killers (Robohunters) and super powered freaks to police the streets. Anyone with powers are hunted down and terminated, although some (like Mr E and Captain) have started helping the administration track down “non conformersâ€. The old police forces have been dispensed of and replaced by Robohunters.
In this bleak world, there is one beacon of hope. An underground super powered rebel group known as V2. Set up by old superheroes (many of whom have now been terminated) and lead by the son of the Protectors’ member, The Titan, they fight the administration in any way possible. They lead attacks on administration prison camps, freeing the prisoners. But their time is running short.You can find the profiles here- http://jr19759.deviantart.com/art/The-Protectors-V2-Profiles-332180361
I’ll put up team shots of the original Protectors team and the second one (after I completely redid them) after I’ve done the shading.@Kaldath said:
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In The Asteroids
I’m a bit new to this so I hope I’ve done this right.
You just need to add the text string so that people can get the image you created on there own computers. To get and save the text string here is a tutorial made by our own talented Kaylin88100 : http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/kaylins-tutorials/#p9836
and to see how to post that file to the forum here are instructions written up by the Bald Avenger himself Jeff: http://www.heromachine.com/forum/the-heromachine-art-gallery/how-to-post-your-character/#p9634
I am having a bit of a problem in that respect. When I go to View Existing File Uploads it isn’t showing anything even though I have two files uploaded. I’ve tried this with both rtf and txt files and it still won’t show. Any advice?
