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Francois Odabano was an ethnic Sara living a migratory life in Chad, CAR and southern Sudan. His tribe was always being chased away by other African tribes for thievery and dishonesty. Due to this upbringing, Francois grew up mean and with little regard for others outside his tribe. One day in Chad tending to his tribes herd of goats, some cattle thieves came to steal his herd. He put up a fight but eventually they beat him and held him down. Finding a black mamba poisonous snake the thieves had the mamba bite Francois to kill him slowly for fun. The bite did indeed stop Francois’ heart but it also activated his GorWol trait and when Francois revived, he slew the thieves. Eventually Francois felt that life amongst his tribe was not his calling and he left to pursue loftier, and more profitable, goals. Taking the name Abiku from the mythological African monster, he terrorized and stole wherever he went. This brought him into contact with some ISF heroes, namely Army Ant and Dark Weaponeer. Dr. Dimento found him, recruited him into the Dark Cabal and provided him with a costume that stretched along with his body. Francois gets along with Darkwitch, although he is scared of her but he dislikes Hooligan. Abiku possesses malleable physiology which allows him to stretch his limbs and body to superhuman lengths and sizes. He can contort his body into various positions and sizes impossible for ordinary humans. This physiology grants him heightened agility enabling him flexibility and coordination that is extraordinarily beyond the natural limits of the human body. He is resistant to high velocity impacts that would kill an ordinary person, resistant to blasts from energy weapons and is bulletproof. He is able to shape his hands into hammer and mace style weapons, and concentrate his mass into his fist. (Thanks to LiveWyre for the pose assistance).
Jessica Loren Wiggins was your typical housewife outside of Denver, Colorado raising three kids while her real estate broker husband worked. One night while out on a date with her husband Darren, their vehicle was hit by a drunk driver and Darren perished in the accident. The trauma of the accident triggered her GorWol trait yet Jessica did not know it at the time. After dropping the kids off at school, Jessica went to a rarely used running trail to be alone. Frustrated over the death of her husband Jessica started jogging faster and faster and faster until she found herself surrounded by a blue energy and flying over the trees. When she finally stopped a few minutes later she found out she was just north of Casper, Wyoming. Stunned at what she had accomplished, Jessica hurried home before her kids got out from school. Practicing with her powers everyday for a month Jessica increased her abilities and her speed. Eventually she was found by the ISF and given training. They even provided her with a friction-less suit and helmet to assist her with control while in flight. Taking the name Kinetica she accepted ISF associate membership which provided enough money to pay her bills. Everyday she drops her kids off at school then patrols the Midwest until her kids are let out. Kinetica possess a form of Kinetikinesis; she can generate a kinetic field of unknown energy around herself which absorbs all kinetic energy directed against her. While encased in the kinetic field it is nearly impossible to hurt her, and she bounces harmlessly from object to object, with minimal loss of momentum. She can absorb outside kinetic impact into her own energy supply and then re-channel it to increase the bludgeoning power of her blows or create explosive shock waves upon impact. She has learned to channel the stored up kinetic energy from her shield into an energy blast she can aim at targets. Her kinetic field also provides her with the power of flight. She can fly at transonic speeds (MACH 1.5) but needs a breathing apparatus. Her suit is padded and reinforced to protect her while in flight and while bouncing around.
Jana Kovanski was a young IT specialist working at an office in Walzbrych, Poland near the border of the Czech Republic. She spent her days fixing computers and reprogramming printers and her weekends enjoying the night life. Unbeknownst to her, her name was on the list of possible GorWol candidates Dr. Dimento stole from ISF computers during the Meta War. Dr. Dimento sent Skulljagger and Kyton to retrieve her so he could either manifest her trait and code it or kill her if she proved to be useless. ISF leaders MEGATEK and Stargazer found out about Skulljagger and Kyton being in Poland and sent retired ISF members Vargr and Vikka to investigate. When the Dark Cabal members cornered Jana at her place of work, Vikka and Vargr attacked. In he ensuing battle Jana’s nitrokinesis manifested. Confronted by Skulljagger she caught him off-guard and punched him through a wall. He later remarked she was a cute little powder keg of a gal. Jana helped Vikka and Vargr drive of the Dark Cabal members, then helped them rescue trapped civilians in the wreckage. Skulljagger had an opportunity to carry her off but he didn’t for unknown reasons. Jana then traveled to ISF HQs where she was given training and accepted associate membership under the name Powder Keg. Jana is a nitrokinetic. Unlike Nitrogal, Jana’s nitrokinesis is similar to Bronco Billy’s. She gained super strength (25 ton range), thick skin and bones providing good resistance to attacks, and super leaping ability from her leg strength. Unlike other manifesters, Jana did not have a tremendous increase in height having gained only two inches to her 5’2 frame. She stands 5’4″ and weighs a stout 150lbs. Jana also secretes nitroglycerin from her hands which she unleashes in melee attacks increasing her punching damage. Gunslinger quipped that she punches above her weight class.
The heroine known as Sandarme (French for Saint-at-arms; a variation of the Gendarme) was born Veronique St. Renard in Paris, France. She excelled in her studies and graduated from enseignement secondaire at age 15. She entered Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University to study Physics and Engineering at age 16. By 20 she was getting her Doctorate in Engineering at the prestigious École Polytechnique and followed that with advanced studies in Robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. By 24 she was regarded as one of the world’s best experts in her field of Weapon Engineering. She found employment as a French Government expert with Dassault Aviation (makers of the Mirage) and Nexter (makers of the LeClerc MBT). Her primary function was working on nextgen weapons for the French military. Eventually she was tasked with developing an exo-battle suit for the French Army. She spent five years on the project before budget cuts shut the program down. When she was packing her office thieves broke in to steal the prototype battle suit. Determined not to let the prototype fall into the wrong hands Veronique donned the suit and fought off the thieves. Feeling the adrenaline rush Veronique took the suit with her and finished it in her garage. She then took to the skies as a hero for France under the name Sandarme. The suit provides Veronique with enhanced strength (12 tons), durability, flight (via jetpack and leg rocket boosters, the wings are for stability and steering), mini rockets, sensors, create energy shields, and energy beams. She also has a laser pistol and rifle. Veronique is also a minor technopath. She can analyze and decipher most earth made equipment. She has advanced degrees in many scientific areas and is considered an expert in robotics, mechanical engineering, physics, computers, chemistry, weapons development and nuclear physics. She is a poor hand to hand combatant and will stay away from her opponent if she can.
Jessie Morgan Summers was a truck-stop waitress near Portland Oregon rarely leaving the area she grew up in. Distraught over how her life had turned out she packed all her things and hitch hiked her way to LA. On the way to LA she was stopped by a vicious biker gang and was about to be raped when her GorWol trait manifested. She unknowingly shoved all her attackers away from her via intense and focused shockwaves. She managed to kill a couple before the rest fled on their bikes. Fascinated by what she had done she found one biker hiding, the one that convinced the others to grab her, and she spent hours out by a rock out cropping near the highway torturing him and discovering what she could do. After she was done with him she took possession of one of the abandoned bikes and began her criminal career as Vibralass Mistress of Destruction. Her criminal activities brought her into conflict with both the ISF and American Watch. So far she has avoided joining any criminal group. Vibralass possesses vibrakinesis and can generate intense vibrations which can manifest in a number of ways, including destructive shockwaves, subtle frequency matching, and phasing herself through solid substances. Her vibrations can cause an inorganic objects to shatter or crumble into dust. When directed against large objects, like buildings or upon the earth itself, the vibrations can produce effects similar to those of an earthquake or an avalanche within a limited area. She does not create shields with her vibrations but she can protect herself by altering the trajectory of incoming attacks using her vibration waves.
Benjamin “Big Bear” Bigalow was your typical high school jock and bully in Wisconsin. He excelled at football, wrestling and detention. After graduating from high school and blowing a full athletic scholarship at Wisconsin for partying, Big Bear found a job working as a farm hand, road crew member, janitor, anything he could find. He even completed training as a bail jumper retriever, or bounty hunter. Low on funds and depressed Big Bear went to a bar to get drunk. After having 30 beers he staggered out and was accosted by some street punks looking for an easy mark. Big Bear got angry and attacked them; they shot him multiple times but the bullets bounced off his body. The street punks left and when Big Bear checked to see if he had been hit, he realized he was unscathed. Testing himself he discovered he was now super strong with tough skin. He rededicated his life to helping others and became a meta human bounty hunter. He crossed paths with Warmage while on the trail of Speed Demon and is currently partnered with fellow bounty hunter Skipchaser. Big Bear is a biokinetic. He is super strong (25 ton range), highly developed smell, hearing and vision, has thick skin and heals faster than a normal human.
Esteban DeCortez came from a wealthy and distinguished Spanish family. He could trace his ancestry to conquistadors and was brought up with a silver spoon. Attending the finest private school and becoming a lawyer in Madrid Esteban was a ruthless but successful criminal defense attorney. One case had him defending a known criminal drug dealing multi-rapist Esteban got his client off even though he knew his client was guilty. Out on the court steps Esteban was conducting his press conference with his client when a mob of parents of the victims attacked the press conference and one of the parents threw a vial of acid at the client. The client shoved Esteban into the path of the acid bottle and the acid broke open over Estebans body. Taken to the hospital Doctors feared Esteban was going to die since his body was not healing normally. The acid mixture manifested Estebans dormant GorWol trait and mutated it to the extent where scientists are unable to determine what he should have morphed into. Fleeing the hospital esteban had one thought on his mind, his client was responsible. Tracking him down at his house Esteban easily dispatched the guards and murdered his client in front of the press, then he fled. He was dubbed the Super Beast by the media. His actions brought him into conflict with the ISF and the American Watch when he surfaced in the US. Super Beast looks like a cross between a dark lion and an ape with wings and tusks. He possesses enhanced strength (20 ton range), durability, resistance to elements, limited regeneration, claws, and wings for flight.
Laura Leupp was a swiss fashion model when during a particularly difficult photo shoot in Jamaica her GorWol trait manifested and she ended up destroying her trailer. People believed the accident was due to faulty wiring but Laura retreated back to her native Swiss Alps and began figuring out what happened to her. When she gained mastery over her powers she decided to become an adventurer, taking the name Nitrogal. Sometimes she worked on the side of the law, sometimes on the other side of the law. This brought her into conflict with both heroes and villains. She has standing feuds with Bombshell, Starpixie, Blood Harpy and Betty Blitzkrieg. Nitrogal has a specific form of nitrokinesis. She can direct energy from her hands and cause focused explosions within 100 yards of her position. Her hands glow a hot pink and then explode when she focuses on her target. Her hands immediately reform seconds later. Her explosions have the same force as 150 lbs of TNT with one hand directed at a target and 250 lbs with two hands directed at a target.
Walter Johansson was a hardened criminal in Jersey by the time he was 21. After doing five years for aggravated assault he joined up with a newly forming criminal syndicate in Providence as muscle. Noticing the syndicate leader, Kurst, was having difficulties with the local hero Warmage, Walter volunteered to kill the hero if Kurst outfitted with the tools to do the job. Kurst spent money to give Walter everything he needed and Walter spent months killing random people in the city to give Warmage and the police fits trying to solve the serial killer. Walter studied the modus operandi of Warmage and then went after the hero. He almost succeeded in killing the hero but Warmage proved to be resilient and beat Walter unconscious. Before the police apprehended him Walter escaped and began a new life as a villain often battling lesser powered meta humans. He is interested in gaining super powers to better compete with meta humans. Deathaxe has a highly durable double bladed war axe, lightweight but resistant armor and is a good combatant.
Caesar was a typical Chilean crook/thug/muscle with a long criminal rap sheet for a crime syndicate down in Chile. One day after collecting payments from local shopkeepers in a poorer section of Santiago, Caesar and his partners were ambushed by an anti-crimes task force unit. Caesar was soon the last criminal standing as all of his men had been gunned down. The anti-crimes police were not taking prisoners that day. Caesar almost made it out but the police shot an rocket at his getaway vehicle with him near it. Recovering in a local hospital discovering his arms and legs had been amputated from below his elbows and knees respectively Caesar was angry at the police for not killing him. Col Stanislav whisked him out of the hospital and analyzed his condition. Believing Caesar had the GorWol trait Stanislav experimented on Caesar trying to bring the trait to manifest. After enduring tremendous amounts of pain Caesars ergokinetics manifested. Stanislav created a special amour suit that is powered by Caesars bioenergy and provided Caesar with cybernetic appendages. Caesar took the name Bombard and left to create chaos for the Col, targeting banks and research facilities. This brought him into conflict with members of the American Watch which he has fought many times. Bombard is an ergokinetic. He can discharge powerful energy force bolts and focused lasers from his optical visor and his chest piece. He does not shoot energy beams from his hands, possibly due to the loss of his hands, nor can he fly, possibly due to the loss of his feet. His gauntlets allow him to focus energy blades from his wrists and use them in melee combat. Caesar is a criminal and has the typical traits and skills of a career criminal.
These three super heroines team together to take on missions and/or opponents too tough for them alone. Together they have defeated Gorilla King, fought off Iceborg and almost captured Bloodwolf.
These four heroes banded together after meeting at an ISF social/recruitment drive. Noticing they had the same enemy in Gog, the four heroes decided to watch over America as the ISF started to concentrate more activities overseas and in outer space. Dubbing themselves the American Watch the four heroes respond to major threats within the US.
(I must admit, doing these four together posed quite a challenge, do not know how you pros do more than four and in complex poses)
Frank joined the army at 21 and spent the next 20 years serving in a variety of roles and theatres. Retiring with a medical discharge for migraines Frank took a job around the DC area. He seemed to live a comfortable and quiet life yet he yearned for the adrenaline rush of his past employment. When he was walking to work near Foggy Bottom metro stop the villain Gog was advancing towards the Smithsonian museums area when ISF Team DELTA members Thebe and Gravenger attacked Gog. Frank rushed over to provide first responder care to some of the wounded and noticed Gog picking up a metro bus full of people to hurl it at Thebe. Angry and feeling helpless Frank wished there was a way he could save the people in the bus and his GorWol trait manifested. Using his mind he caught the bus in the air and gently placed it on the ground. Stunned by what he had accomplished Frank used his powers to help the beleaguered ISF members drive Gog away. Power Stryke found him the next day and brought him to ISF HQs. Taking the name Warmind he accepted associate membership. Warmind is a telekinetic and a neurokinetic. He can create telekinetic shields, force bolts, levitate and fly. He can also use psychic energy to protect his mind and teleport. He also displays low level telepathy.
