Oops I make an edit

Hmm I guess I will have to create a different character. That idea just popped into my head because I wanted to make a character that was genetically spliced (or engineered on) which would be an incredibly painful process for a human being considering the body restructuring itself and all that. I also liked the idea of a personality that would be childish too a disturbing degree and yet competent when the situation calls for it. I am reusing that physical description template though....I find the idea of a killer bunny amusing.

Oh an sorry Rotten. I made sure too look up multiple sources on it and research as much as I could. I initially was thinking of 2 separate personalities that would have there faults and advantages but I have read that it could extend beyond that and reading about it isn't the same as experiencing it. ZETA would torture someone for intel and they have been pursuing the idea of an ''enhanced'' army for years (The idea is pretty standard and is based off of several bad organizations in superhero/villain universes)

Hmmm I will save him for an another RP then.

I have another character idea but I only have the powers thought up. Essentially this guy would be able to pull out people's deep seated fears and make them into a ''reality'' with an illusion of said nightmare. He would essentially be a controller....he could easily ''torture'' a criminal for information or subdue them if needed. Of course he could use this power to kill criminals too (driving them to suicide or fooling into believing there teammates are trying to kill them essentially)

From what I was told I had + or - 13 give or take. Out of those I became aware of 5 or 6 others I was told about. From my personal experience the fracturing was along emotional lines. There was a Fire and Brimstone Preacher (have no idea how he got there), a nearly emotionless fellow who did what needed to be done the school work and such. The I don't give a crap personality called himself Legion who was heavy metal Goth mayhem. Good thing he didn't have control often or I would have done spiked hair and ended up with tattoos,,, still have the skull incense burner. A playful kid who even when I was in the mental ward at the age of 17 played with Legos and thought girls were strange. One that was anger bashed a hole in the wall (with forehead) smashed a rocking chair and once in school choke slammed a bully into the lockers with one hand. Note didn't get picked on after that for years. Then there was the center what I think of was and still is me the part that the others protected. The biggest doubt I have is the nagging fear that I myself even after 25 years of not having lost control is nothing but just another phantasm of a personality. That even I am nothing but a product of a broken mind struggling to protect itself when it just empty inside.

Yeah got kind of dark there at the end. But that why I have an issue with the term Dissociative Identity Disorder. Those other personalities were there to protect me, part of me, they faced things that the 11 yearold child I was when I was abused couldn't handle. It's a small point but for me when I was growing up they were my Heroes they came when I couldn't face what happened. They were more then figments of my imagination or a coping mechanism. They were willing to take the blows the child me couldn't and I hope that they are still a part of me that the best parts of them got retreaded into my whole. Because that's the part of me that believes in Heroes.

Also why I started Rping, kind of a way to let them have a life beyond the subconscious void in the back of my head.

So if you ever want a first hand experienced multiple personality to ask for assistance you got one.

Yeah, go ahead and skip me. I'll notify you when i'm feeling better.

PC Name: Lucien Lockwood
Codename: Dread
Function: Controller and Subduer, Information Acquirer/Torturer
Power Classification: Transformation, Fear ''Telepath'' and ''Illusionist''
Power Threat: Moderate to High, Dread is considered to be incredibly dangerous to non metahumans and potentially dangerous to metahumans
Personality: Soft spoken and calm, vindictive towards criminals and villains,

Physical Traits:
-[Height]: 5'7
-[Age]: 21
-[Weight]: 137 pounds
-[Skin Color]: Moderately Tanned
-[Hair Color]: Jet Black
-[Eye Color]: Emerald Green
-[Hair Style]: Straight, has the hair on the left side of his head completely chopped off and shaved while the left side is beyond shoulder length
-[Body Type]: Lean

Metahuman Type: Hybrid Alien/Human

Backstory: Lucien was relatively ''normal'' for most of his life. He was an hardworking student with a single mom that worked hard to support him and teach him how to be independent. By the time he was 13 he was fully capable of being wholly independent even with little to no resources. Lucien had a good relationship with his mom whom was named Sophia Lockwood and never truly discovered what became of his dad. Sophia's work hours were usually sporadic, sometimes she would not get home until 12 o clock at night or she would come back home when he was off to school or working. Lucien never payed much mind to this until one horrible day when he was 17.

Lucien woke up that day with a strange black substance leaking out of his eyelids and fingers that eventually dissipated after a certain amount of time. The substance itself felt strange....like some sort of thick fluid. Lucien initially thought that he was just seeing things after the substance completely disappeared so he cleaned himself up and naturally went about his day. He aimed to ask his mother once he came back home, knowing that she would get home sometime before his shift ended at a local music store he was working at. Once Lucien finished his shift he traveled back home only to discover what looked like a serious break in.

Material and personal possessions were broken and misplaced everywhere. Lucien searched the house for his mom only too discover her beaten, slashed, and broken body with her garments torn and exposed. Lucien was anguished and upset at the sight, the substance came back again only this time it completely covered his exposed hands, neck and head. He perked up when he heard what sounded like footsteps in another room of the house with a loud harsh voice talking about how useless his mother was at informing him on his fathers whereabouts and how he took pleasure in raping, torturing, and killing her in that order. Lucien's sadness at his mothers awful death quickly turned into rage and hate for this man for raping and killing her. His eyes and mouth started to glow and eerie white color while the substance covered his hands formed into a a three fingered claw. The rest of his body was then completely over overshadowed by this substance which became strange near ethereal form.

Lucien intended to torture and kill the murderer out of rage and revenge. Initially he stuck to the shadows of the dark room the man was in. He toyed with the man via visibly grinning at him from the darkness before he pounced on the man and slashed at him with his claws, his grin getting wider at the mans terror. Lucien quickly faded back in the shadows, not satisfied yet with this mans terror but something unexpected happened. The man continued to flail in terror and screamed constantly about being eaten alive by snakes. Lucien was perplexed by this and kneeled next to the man, noticing that substance his form was made out of leaked into his wounds. He drew some of the substance out to briefly calm the man for what he was about to do. He pinned the man by the neck with his claws and interrogated him about why he came here. The man was terrified and proceeded to tell him that his ''boss'' claimed that Sophia knew were his father was.

Lucien experimented with his new abilities and manipulated the substance remaining in the mans wounds to see what it would do. Lucien discovered that the substance manipulates and can attack neurological pathways to acquire certain information. He discovered that the man was a low-life gangbanger just taking a hired job of torturing Sophia to acquire information of his father for some creepy guy who called his phone. The dumbass apparently took his twisted fucked up idea of ''fun'' too far and ended up accidentally killing her before he got any information out of her. Lucien set his newfound power to attack the man's neurological pathways, putting him into his own personal nightmare again. He discovered soon after that if an individual ''dies'' in the nightmare that they will die in reality too.

After killing the man Lucien left his home with no intention of coming back. His new strange form receded on itself and eventually he resembled his human self again. He anonymously called the cops on a ''break-in'' from a payphone in a area that had no working surveillance cameras and continued on his way. Lucien at this point realized he was shoved out of any sense of a normal life with his new powers, his mom dying a horrible death, and discovering his dad was still alive and possibly around and that he apparently had a target on his head. Lucien wandered the streets and alleyways of certain crime rampant parts of Titan City. Learning more of how his powers worked and stopping criminals from harming, killing, or robbing civilians. The criminal gangs started to fear him which attracted attention of a local vigilante gang when he was wandering Ironport.

The group was called Cypher. Cyber was apparently a cyberpunk gang full of local citizens and outcasted metahumans who wanted to protect the more helpless civilians of Titan City via killing or dismantling criminal controlled buildings. This group heard of the reports of Lucien's criminal killings and welcomed him among them. Lucien at this time was having some trouble surviving on the streets and was thankful for the help. The leader of Cypher, Cybernautic, insisted for Lucien to join Cypher and help them protect the civilian population.

Lucien reluctantly accepted and joined Cypher. He received a great deal of help with his abilities and physical prowess with his ''Shadow'' form as he dubbed it and his original human form. Lucien was dubbed ''Dread'' by his newfound allies and he eventually took on the fashion style of Cypher in his human form. He pierced his lips, ears, and nose with pins and wore a custom made black jacket that had ''Doom and Gloom'' inscribed into it in graffiti styled blue and purple letters with intentionally torn up black jeans with black combat boots. His Shadow form also grew to be more taller then his human form at 6'2 feet and while this form was still humanoid it began to get a more ''jagged'' alien appearance.

Lucien eventually discovered who sent that low-life gangbanger to torture his mother on the whereabouts of his father in the worst of ways. Apparently it was a villain named Aphelion who called himself an ''Alien Hunter''. Aphelion controlled several small time criminal gangs and joined together to gain power. Aphelion knew of Lucien's existence and where he was...he sent an practical army of gangbangers, superpowered smalfries, and former Black Rose members to erase Cypher and capture Lucien.

Cypher fought back as best as they could but eventually were overrun and killed at there own headquarters. Cybernautic had no choice but to call heroes on the scene one of which was his good friend Marionette whom met Lucien on one occasion. Lucien and Cybernautic eventually were the last remaining members of Cypher. Marionette and other heroes who wanted to end the gang war were still traveling to the scene. Aphelion captured Lucien and told him of his father. Apparently his father was an rare alien from a dying planet that he has been hunting for years. Aphelion reasoned to himself that if he couldn't catch and kill Lucien's father then he would try to lure him out instead. He discovered Sophia and Lucien by sheer accident and thought of there discovery as a wonderful opportunity.

And he was right. Lucien's heritage gave him the ability to transform into a weaker yet still powerful form of the alien race his father belonged too. He was a half human hybrid of a alien race rapidly reaching extinction. Lucien managed to figure out how to escape and ended up killing Aphelion in the ensuing fight. Lucien ran off from Cypher's destroyed, body littered headquarters to wander the streets again. Cybernautic was picked up and treated of his wounds by the heroes that arrived on the scene. Cybernautic was forced to be dubbed a hero himself thereafter or face the law.

Dread still wanders the streets and alleyways terrorizing criminals into there deathbeds. He is considering an dangerous criminal himself by the Titan City Police Department for multiple degrees of murder. The civilian population in some of the worse parts of Titan City consider him a hero with brutal methods of dealing with criminals. Some heroes hunt him with prejudice while others leave him be, villains will commonly try to convince him to join them for the usage of his chaotic abilities. He still wears the cloths that his now dead friends in Cypher made for him.

Notes: -Lucien is well-mannered even in battle. He very rarely curses
-Lucien adores art. He prizes his custom made cloths from Cypher partly for this very reason
-Lucien himself practices art....usually creative painting or drawings
-Lucien is straight and had some casual girlfriends before in Cypher
-Lucien prefers to avoid the police and heroes. If he comes into contact with one he usually holds back on his powers and attempts to escape quickly
-Lucien's alien ''Shadow'' Form looks like http://www.deviantart.com/art/My-Shadow-495172009 this but more filled out.
-Lucien in his ''Shadow'' Form can also form tentacles or spikes out of his hands and back to impale or stab enemies from long range
-Lucien can not use his ''Shadow'' form for more then a day at a time before he collapses out of exhaustion
-Lucien can use guns in both human and alien forms
-Lucien is a hardworker when given tasks of any kind
-Lucien was 18 by the time he joined Cyber and he was 20 by the time he fought and killed Aphelion
-Lucien likes to terrify criminals but never intentionally terrifies civilians, unfortunately his alien form makes this really hard
-Lucien's alien form is weak to fire
-Lucien is only filed in the TCPD under his alien form's codename. His human form is in the ''Missing Individual'' records with a picture of how he looked way before his mother's death. On top of that, his friends and comrades in Cypher would usually call him by his codename or shortened his name into ''Luke'' much to his annoyance
-Lucien hates to be referred to as Luke. His now dead friends used to tease him about this.
-Lucien is capable of stealth. He usually hangs around the shadows as he can blend in easily. By the time a criminal sees his grinning face in the darkness there usually too late to stop him from driving them into a horrible nightmares or flat out killing them in a creative way depending on what he caught them doing.
-Lucien's father belongs to an ancient alien race named the Xanu. The Xanu's shadowy planet was destroyed by a Class X Apocalypse Event (Planetary-scale Physical Annihilation) via the planet gravitating way too close to that specific solar system's sun. Alien Hunters hunt the remaining Xanu, considering them prized specimens. Hybrid Xanu are prized even moreso now due to the sheer rarity
-Lucien's facial structure in human form http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/271/c/8/ringo_sama_by_em_j_akahana-d2zoig9.jpg (albeit he would not have as many piercings and his expression would be more relaxed)
-Lucien wears a gasmask over his mouth when he is in his human form (http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/351/d/2/m_e_l_t_d_o_w_n_by_aishaxnekox-d352gfu.png it would look like this, without the glowing). He does not wear it in public, he usually only uses it if he uses guns or knives
-Lucien's sclera and pupil will turn completely black while his iris turns an snow white when he is angry or when he is about to transform. He uses this for intimidation usually
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I hope this character is acceptable. I put a lot of effort to this guy (although I know for a fact that his powers are way more complex in how they work with the neurological pathways then what I put) and I will admit I based him off the likes of Scarecrow (the substance's workings), Darkrai, and various other ''Nightmare'' Power associated superbeings

Too be brutally honest I have no clue how not to make characters that have tragic backstories. Although considering the powers or origins of the characters I make it would certainly be a challenge to make a more lighthearted backstory. I will definetly have to take that challenge one of these days though

Despite the backstory Lucien will still be a pretty chill guy though (although if he does get mad he would likely try to tear you apart with words....and if it's a particularly bad criminal or villain like Aphelion...well lets just say the walls will be painted with blood). He just enjoys making the serious offenders scream more then anything else. I forgot to mention that he would usually rip some info of the criminals lives out of there minds first before he would kill them or scare them out of being criminals. The latter he does more for people who are just turning to a life of crime to make ends meet while the former he usually does for murderers, rapists, child molesters, terrorists, and psychopaths. I might make a story on his father and the alien race he descended from.

I also need to fill a character template for Cybernautic, Marionette, and Sebastian. More detail of there backstories and such are needed for there characters I think. Although I haven't even developed Cybernautic yet as he was just my tech Ironport hero I thought up on the spot.

Oh yeah Lucien definitely wouldn't like drug traffickers either especially the big time ones that are just concerned over there money and power. He especially hates the Chaser gang and other gangs that give out superpower drugs that would instantly hook the neurological pathways. The Chasers being a fire superpower gang would be hell to face for him but he still would go out of his way to kill them with extreme prejudice. Slave traffickers of any kind (sex, labor, shanghaied) would also be killed. Corrupt politicians or bushiness men would just receive a heavy dose of terror to make them reconsider there ways.

Hmm....this just gave me and interesting idea for him. I would imagine that Lucien would also practically haunt prisons (mainly the non-metahuman ones as the metahumans would have an easier time identifying him as a an combatant that could be fought) and would likely be responsible for some mysterious deaths on the convicts or death row inmates (those guys would get a worse death then lethal injection)

Edit: Oh lord I am amused at some of the similarities my character and Unknown has that I completely forgot about until I reread the bio. Yeah Rotten our characters are definitely going to get along.

PC Name: David Slater
Code name: Project One
Function: Assassination, reconnaissance, tactician, shield.
Power Classification: Teleportation, energy manipulation (Can form energy shields, energy blades from his wrists, move objects with his energy for brief periods and cloak himself for brief periods) and regeneration.
Power Threat: Moderate to High, Project One is considered to be incredibly dangerous.
Personality: Soft spoken and calm, vindictive towards criminals and villains,

Physical Traits:
-[Height]: 5'9
-[Age]: 119
-[Weight]: 225 pounds
-[Skin Color]: Different shades of purple.
-[Hair Color]: None
-[Eye Color]: Radiate with a soft purple glow.
-[Hair Style]: Has no hair. His scalp is deformed and covered in scratches and what look like implants so he always wears a hood.
-[Body Type]: Fit .
-[Special Qualities] From his nose down, his skin is lined with a thin layer of an extremely rare purple metal called "Burrithium" which is fairly light weight and made of solid energy.

Meta-human Type: Living Weapon

Back story: Even serving as a private in the US military in world war 1 back when he was human, David was an outstanding warrior. His ability to infiltrate the German ranks and quickly eliminate every enemy in his path were only matched by his loyalty to his country. Even then he knew what it meant to be a soldier. He was a weapon destined to follow orders without question. This gave him a sense of purpose. After the war ended, although he received many medals, he did not see himself as a hero. He was simply following orders.

His military career flourished for the next 20 years, but he didn't see any battle. In 1936, while training a group of recruits in the art of discipline, he was called to serve his country once more.This time not in battle, but as part of an elite team of veterans that would give up the lives they knew to head to a top secret facility and train to become something more. What that something was was unspecified, but it was called Project One. Slater was asked if he would give his life for his country. Of course his reply was "Sir, yes sir".

It was not long before Slater was transported to an underground facility in the desert where he would meet the rest of Project One along with a team of scientists that called themselves Goliath. Over the next 5 years, the members of Project One trained vigorously and went through extensive tests, unaware of the events happening in the rest of the world. The group slowly became somewhat of a tight knit family.

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Goliath believed that it was time to move to the next phase of Project One. The team was soon introduced to the leader of Goliath for the first time. Professor Derek Smith, a genius prodigy that was recruited for this project just after world war 1 ended when he discovered a meteor made of some form of solid energy which landed in his back yard. He was 14. Before Goliath was formed he was trying to find a way to create limitless clean energy and even possibly eternal life. Goliath was formed by the government as an attempt to weaponize the metal as limitless energy seemed "economically irrational". At first Smith refused, but was threatened with confiscation of the metal. He eventually agreed and used Goliath as a way to continue his research on his eternal life theory and masked it as a way to create perfect soldiers.

Smith explained to the members of Project One what burrithium was and that their molecules would be combined with the metal so that they would become more than human. They would become gods. The members were escorted to pods that resembled chrysalises and were guided inside. Purple energy soon radiated from the edges of the pods. The last things that David Slater experienced were intense flashes of purple lite and extreme pain. He cried out but nobody could hear him. Then everything went dark.

His pod opened hours later and he finally woke up. He felt different. He could feel the energy coursing through his veins where blood used to be. His senses were heightened. He could see and hear more clearly. Even the way he thought was somehow different. He felt the power that he held and inside of him and somehow knew that he wasn't himself anymore. But he couldn't feel anymore. There was no sensation of air brushing against his face or the cold steel of the pod he stood in. There was no longer pain in his joints and he wasn't even breathing. His first experience after his pod was opened was two scientists standing behind Professor Smith as he said "Looks like we have a survivor."

David looked at his hands and noticed that were now made of metal, along with the rest of his skin. He left his pod in a panic. "Wha- what did you do to me!?" He cried. He looked around at the other open pods. It was horrific to say the least. Deformed bodies, sacks of flesh and even some that seem to have become part of the metal from their pods. In a flury of confusion he began quickly teleporting around the facility. Blades made of purple energy ejected from his wrists. Each time he teleported a small explosion formed where he once was. "What is happening to me!?" Eventually the expulsion of energy stopped. He landed at professor Smith's feet felt exhausted. He was incredible pain, not knowing how to cope with what had happened. Most of the facility was destroyed.

Eventually Smith helped David cope with his transformation and control his powers. He soon acknowledged that David Slater died in that pod. He was now simply Project One; a human weapon. It was eventually discovered that the Japanese and the Nazis along with some other countries, including Russia, China, Vietnam and a few countries in the middle east were also experimenting with burrithium. Project One was then used as a tool to capture any facilities that were studying the the solid energy. It was apparent that nobody should have access to this kind of power.

During the cold war, after stopping all burrithium research in Russia, Project One discovered that he wasn't capturing these facilities in order to prevent the technology from getting into the wrong hands, but to create a monopoly for Goliath. Professor Smith was planning for world domination, but with the existence of super powered beings in the world, he would need power. Limitless power. In a fit of rage, Project One attempted to assassinate professor smith, but after cutting off the now old man's arm, he was stopped by some of the meta-humans that were working in the facility. Project One escaped and Smith went through the burrithium bonding process in order to keep himself alive.

Since then, Project One has traveled the world taking out many of Goliath's operations and doing anything he can to fix what he sees as a now broken world. Not only has he been trying to stop Goliath, but ha has also been on the run from them. He is on the radar of almost every government organization around the world and is seen by most only as a fugitive. He lives like a ghost, out of sight and out of mind. If he goes on a mission he does it quick and clean. There are never loose ends.

He has recently heard that there is a small Goliath team capturing meta-humans in Titan City so that Goliath can find a way to emulate their powers. He has tracked them down and intends to strike soon/

Notes:
-Some examples of Project One's appearance http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/270/b/b/cybernetic_guy_hooded_3_by_ivan_s_prado-d80obhz.jpg, http://www.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Darth-Malgus-Face-BagoGames.png, His skin looks something like this but purple http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/095/3/2/cyborg_zeta_by_kailyze-d7d6tmk.jpg
-As powerful as he is, if Project One expends too much energy without giving himself time to regenerate he can get tired out and even die.
-He often considers himself invincible, so he rarely takes his limited energy into account.
-He is a master tactician and almost always able to make a solid plan.
-Project One is very blunt, and never pulls his punches.
-He is incredibly loyal to any allies that he meets.
-He's not afraid to kill anyone in the way of his goals.
- His cloaking ability uses more of his energy than any of his other powers and he can not sustain it for long.
-He is generally quite hostile towards people he doesn't know, but if you get on his good side he is loyal until the end.
- He generally avoids authorities because he is generally being hunted.
- His ability to move objects with his mind takes up quite a bit of energy so he doesn't use it often
- On very rare occasions he can use up most of his energy to create a contained almost nuclear blast around himself.
- He is always willing to sacrifice himself for his allies.
- Wears a baggy trench coat, gloves and boots to hide himself in public.
- Often uses lethal force as his go to combat method.
- Doesn't believe in the concept of heroes. You either act or you don't. He's more prone to act.

Thank you ^_^. I think both of your concepts are pretty badass. And yeah, Goliath is a thing from a tv/movie series that I want to make but haven't got around to writing yet. In that universe they pretty much release burrithium into the atmosphere and are the reason for the existence of meta-humans. And then they capture them and study them and stuff. They're one of the main villain groups and have their hands in the pockets of pretty much every government organization.

I guess it would be better to describe it as crystallized energy than metal. Sort of like how if it's absolute zero it's possible to freeze light. I haven't fully developed the how this could happen But basically what it is is solid energy that if stimulated properly can be released. Once released i's self replicating, which is why Project One can regenerate his energy and potentially even live forever if he doesn't drain it before it has time to regenerate. Goliath has figured out how to release the energy but not how to make it solid again, so the resource is finite. It also happens to be pieces of a planet that is constantly at war, which is somewhat irrelevant because on earth that isn't discovered. But the aliens on that planet use it to build everything, including spaceships, which is why there are chunks of ships floating around in space which sometimes enter planet's orbits. Thus it's only found in meteors and is incredibly rare. For Project One it acts as a shell and a weapon as well as his life force.

Sweet thanks man.

Jourgun is a charasmatic modernized child of a Jōtnär and the norse god of vengence, who spent the first 11 years of his life in the Congo, moving to titan city when he was 12 years old never really learning of his orgin until after his 15th birthday, when he was trained by his father until he was 26, then got sent back to use what he learned to become a merc. Working more around the richer population.

Growing up with little money has made Jourgun a very humble never one to boast or brag, that is until he began to train with his father, and spending time with his new mentor Jorortis that he actully became the charaamatic enigma you see today.

He spends most of his time training or resting.

Jorgun lives and breathes combat, it is his one favorate ting in the world, he does more oftin then not take the lethal aproch if he can, but will get the job done non leathally as well.
Anything else you need to know just ask because I am on my phone right now and I am just trying to get out what I can.

sorry about the delay. back now, between work and personal stuff I didn't have a bunch of time.

I am good take your time.

nightly forays that are of heroic nature....that sounds perverted. :P

That or this guy.
[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1858794616/Family-Guy-quagmire-in-chair.jpg[/img]

Oh, Alexa! SQUEEEE!

*glances around slyly* Did I just say that out loud?

Neat, and detailed. :-)

Ok NINE is out. I'm going to do something super CyberPunk with her in the future so I'm calling in my original hitter- heavily modified of course. So without further adieu:

I've added his profile to my signature. I've been making edits and been erasing points of conversion with the Champions universe & editing them to be more apropos to this universe. He also may be getting a name change b/c Arachtek just seemed so bland.

And there is always the "cut to next scene" where the recruitment bit has already been done as a possibility.

I like reading the individual recruitment scenes, actually, but the post frequency does seem to extend the process considerably.

Most of the timeframe will depend on X to respond and turn around replies quickly, and then on other players to keep the individual recruitment scenes flowing and resolving quickly. If the computer and time isn't there to make that happen right now, then it would be better to go the Option 1 route.

I will put my vote in with Faceless for at least some of the training/team formation to be played out. I would like to have a scene where Nightstrike explains the purpose and the initial target that prompted her to form this group. This would give us a "here's what we're *really* facing" target, and then individuals could rally around and/or grumble about it. ;)

I think 1 as well.

Kartanian in his natural form (the furry golden-green eyed feline sneak) is already present in most major government, hero, and villain organization databases with the following information, almost like a press release...

[b](Summarized to cut the marketing-speak)[/b]
Name: [i][b]Kartanian[/b][/i]
Aliases: none known
Abilities: Claims to be a master rogue, sneak, spy, assassin, hacker, cat burglar (yes, he had to go there), rescuer of virtuous damsels (maintenance of original condition for a small surcharge), safecracker, proprietor of mercenary espionage group called Curiosity Kilz. Also walks dogs.
Source of Abilities: Alien; trained skills, chi (magic?), unknown
Allegiance: Neutral, mercenary, choosy about engagements; hard to tell what he considers a "good cause" or enough pay to stay bought (very limited track record to base a judgment upon at this point)
History: Showed up less than a year ago and has slowly come onto the market
Warrants/Contracts: No current open arrest warrants, bounty rewards, or contracted hits
Compare to: Signature heroes and villains of Titan City, but new, and less interested in the spotlight