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Thanks, D, for your input.
I don’t usually post progress shots because I think the effort expended in the uploading process alone could be better spent on finishing the character. But to keep the input coming, I thought you might like to see the work I’ve done on Angl’aar of the Bodak Corps so far.
And yes, I am fishing for compliments
Apparently you have to read the rules before entering a contest. I was all hyped up to create this character so I could include it in FNF, but she doesn’t fit any of the categories. I suppose as a vampire-like creature she could fit the Undead Monster scenario, but she’s technically an alien bat and so not undead. I’ll just settle for sharing her with you guys and forget about the contest.
Name: Ekko
Team Affiliation: Bodak Corps
Race: Nocterran
Birthplace: Desmodon
Powers: Bracelets that give her similar energy-manipulation abilities to those of Black Marble/Rivelle D’Mor. Nocterran abilities include preternatural hearing, flight, night vision, and a sonic scream.
Bio: Ekko’s home planet of Desmodon is a cavernous asteroid, the largest in its sunless system. Rejected by her family because they feared her pale skin (a rare Nocterran genetic abnormality that manifests at puberty) would draw the attention of Demodon’s native predators, Ekko was left to survive on her own and became a fierce warrior. She was recruited as J’Kal’s second-in-command when circumstances led him to investigate a plot by Desmodon’s religious leaders to free the then-alive Shadow King (whom they worshipped as a god) from his prison realm.
Ekko now accompanies J’Kal on his mission to Earth, where sunlight burns her flesh and renders her blind. She constantly wears a thin layer of dark energy over her skin, calibrated to also reduce the effects of sunlight on her night vision. But she is still relatively blind, and so must rely on echolocation and her advanced hearing as an alternate form of sight.@Angel of Chaos said:
Gamma skull and Arch -angel are truly to me epic.
What he said
Plus I just went back through this thread and am digging the horror vibe. Even the stuff that isn’t shaded is badass, and I’d love to know how you did the 3/4 head on your batwolf. That made me stop and stare for a few minutes.
I decided to expand Black Marble’s universe a bit, introduce what could be a new team, and create a character for the OS Energy Blaster contest. Meet J’Kal:
Name: J’Kal
Team Affiliation: Bodak Corps
Race: Anubian
Birthplace: Anubis Five
Powers: Bracelets that give him similar energy-manipulation abilities to those of Black Marble/Rivelle D’Mor. Anubian abilities include being able to sense danger and to make his body intangible.
Bio: J’Kal was chosen by the creators of the Bracelets to be the protector of his home planet, the asteroid known as Anubis Five, and its encompassing star system. He is an original member and commanding officer of the intergalactic federation known as the Bodak Corps. J’Kal was recently informed by his superiors that a pair of Bracelets that had been active in a nearby system (namely, ours) suddenly went dark. Accompanied by a small team of his most trusted Corpsmen, J’Kal made his way to Earth on a mission to ultimately apprehend Black Marble and return her to the Bodak homeworld for judgement and the subsequent removal of the Bracelet energy from her body by any means necessary. Before the Apocalypse comes, as Cerberus gears up for its personal endgame, before the time of Meridian arrives, Black Marble and the other Soul Survivors must face the Event Horizon….Thanks, HK!
Here, now with shading and a new bio, is Apollo’s chosen mortal, Ray Quincy:
Name: Sun Wolf
Alias: Ray Quincy
Race: Human/Wolf
Birthplace: Olympia, WA
Powers: Werewolf-like transformation, Canine senses, Superhuman strength and reflexes, Sonic howl.
Bio (RetConned): Ray Quincy is the chosen mortal of Apollo. Born with a sun birthmark, Ray has the ironic ability to transform into a werewolf-like state (without the contagious bite/scratch true werewolves possess) by absorbing moonlight energy into his body. He does not require full moonlight, however, the phase of the moon determines the strength of his powers while in that form. Early transformations left Ray in a feral frame of mind that caused him to attack any living thing that crossed his path, and led to his eventual incarceration in the Cerberus compound, where his sister was also being held in a separate room to keep her powers from fueling his transformation.Thought I’d try getting more stylized with this next New Olympian (and I’m inspired to re-do the others I’ve done so far as well). I also thought I’d get back to the bio style of post.
Name: Hearth
Alias: Heather Stevens
Race: Human
Birthplace: Olympia, WA
Powers: Copier & Facilitator (can copy or enhance one New Olympian ability at a time, but the ability only works if she has seen the person’s birthmark).
Bio: Born with a claw-like flame birthmark, Heather Stevens is the chosen mortal of Hestia. It was originally believed that she inherited her father’s time-manipulation ability (Carl Stevens is a New Titan, chosen by Cronus; Renee Demetrius-Stevens is also a New Titan, chosen by Rhea) and shares her sister, Karen’s pyrokinetic powers. But as she encountered more children with New Olympian gifts, Heather’s power grew until she could no longer keep track of any one ability long enough to master it, and she lost control of herself to the point that she had to be incarcerated in the Cerberus compound. But there was more going on inside Cerberus than anyone could have imagined, or the government would have ever allowed….I finally buckled down and got to work on Apollo and Artemis’ chosen mortals, electing for option two (if you’re following the Character Creation Help topic of the blog). With some posing courtesy of ams, here are Ray and Rita Quincy, a.k.a. Sun Wolf and MoonGirl:
As the only officially declared superheroes among the New Olympians, Ray and Rita Quincy use the powers bestowed upon them by Apollo and Artemis to fight crime in Olympia as Sun Wolf and MoonGirl. Ray Quincy’s sun birthmark gives him the ability to transform into a werewolf-like creature by absorbing energy from moonlight. In this form, he cannot turn people as a conventional werewolf would be able to, but he possesses superhuman strength and a sonic howl he can pitch to any frequency at will. Rita Quincy’s moon birthmark gives her the ability to absorb moonlight energy into her body like her brother, but her powers do not manifest physically like his. Any moon energy she absorbs, she can use to fly or expel it from her body by radiation, firing concussive blasts, or (as her hunter’s nature dictates) shooting energy arrows, among other means.Keric’s coffee zombie pose gave me the idea to make a zombie of my own for the OS Speedster contest. Meet Turbo Zombie:
The guy he used to be died while drinking a 7-shot Americano during a zombie outbreak. Upon reviving as a zombie, he found out the coffee had given him super-speed. As a human, he was a comic book nerd and some of that memory stuck with him. So he painted TZ on his shirt in human blood and went zipping around the city saving people from zombies. Go fig….Thanks, D and Jack. Good to see multiple comments on the same character.
More out-of-the-box thinking as I considered what a speedster would be like if he went nowhere fast, and I came up with this guy:
Meet Nowhere, the hero that gets there fast. Possessing mastery of microscopic velocity, Nowhere can adjust the speed of the molecules in his body to change its state of matter or age himself in any direction at will.@JR19759 said:
I must say I laughed when I first read that description. Nice and unusual method of flying, I like it.
Glad you like my slapdash bio (and the Whirlybird that goes with it), JR. I tried to put a circular wind effect (using the bullseye aura) on her to show more motion, but wasn’t sure how to go about making it not look like a bullseye so I left it off. I’m still very pleased with the results.
Continuing my New Olympians team, here’s Jeffrey MacAbee, chosen mortal of Hephaestus:
Jeffrey was born deformed, an unfortunate side-effect of being marked with Hephaestus’ hammer. In addition to his facial deformity, as Jeffrey aged, his birthmarked left arm grew at a faster rate than the rest of his body, giving him superhuman strength and impressive alchemic abilities. Outcast like Scarlett and Trent because of his appearance, Jeffrey eventually came under the care of Era Zayas at the Mount Olympia school and learned to use his strength and alchemy for the betterment of society. Scarlett and Jeffrey would forge a lasting friendship (and more in later years) based on their kinship as social outcasts. Their son, Eric, would become a second generation New Olympian as the chosen mortal of Eros.I’ve submitted several of my old characters into the Old School Flying Contest, including Locust, Beelzebub, Lady Icarus, and Tina Pallas. But here’s an original character with a rather unusual power that I created for the OSF Contest:
Whirlybird has the power to make her hair do whatever she wants. She thought it would be fun to spin her braid like a helicopter to see if she could fly, and it worked. She works as a performer in a traveling stunt show for Universal Studios, and uses her income to pay entrance fees for hair-sculpting competitions.I’m still stuck on the twins (Apollo and Artemis), but in the meantime, here’s my Aphrodite character, Scarlett Ford:
She’s a bit sexually suggestive in dress and appearance, but Scarlett Ford doesn’t have to be. Branded with Aphrodite’s Rose, Scarlett exudes a supernatural pheromone that makes men fall in love with her and do pretty much whatever she tells them. This has had some fatal consequences in her past (men jumping off of bridges or drowning in lakes after she utters an offhand figure of speech in their direction). Her ravings about how all the men around her keep dying led Scarlett’s family to have her committed. As her powers increased, so did incidents in the asylum and her frequent insistence that she was a danger to others. The asylum granted ultimately granted her requests for a straightjacket, a mouthguard, an airtight room, and an all-female staff to attend to her needs.
But things were getting intense outside the asylum’s walls as well, and a compound had been approved and constructed to house Olympia’s super-powered criminals. Scarlett (designated “Cerberus Patient A” under the new facility’s coding system, as she was to be the Cerb compound’s first detainee).
Unfortunately, as can happen when bureaucracy gets involved with public safety, the transport team sent to retrieve Scarlett was headed by Martin Spears, who was not made privy to the nature of his prisoner. As a chosen mortal himself, Spears was immune to Scarlett’s suggestive power, but her pheromones still caused Martin to fall in love with her on sight. When he returned with her to the transport, Scarlett pleading with him to go away and let her go, the rest of the team immediately fell under her influence and walked away as she asked, but Martin would still not leave her alone. His immunity to her power intrigued her and after a moment she calmed down.
Martin took Scarlett home with him and cared for her, homeschooling the girl, cooking her meals, neither of them aware for the majority of their time together that the other was also a chosen mortal.
One night, Scarlett made the mistake of asking Martin if he truly loved her or if he was under her power. He asked her what she was talking about, and when she told him what she could do–had done in the past without realizing she was the cause–he became enraged and threw her out of the house.
Keeping out of sight as much as she could, Scarlett walked the streets of Olympia in search of shelter until she came upon the Mount Olympia school, where she was taken in by Era Zayas and introduced to the other New Olympians.@Keric said:
@Timedrop23 said:
I had to double check to make sure that was my pose! Nicely done! Merry Christmas!
I changed the hands and the torso (I don’t like dressing the bent/fat/three-quarter bodies) a bit, but yeah, it’s your pose.
Merry Christmas, Keric!
