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Appreciations to Stulte for your positive comments so far.
Another week gone by and another character done. I said in my old gallery (somewhere around page one) that I was unsatisfied with a character I had submitted into the Transformations contest last year, and would at some point redesign her. Beginning with her angelic form, here is Fallen Angel as an Angel of Foresight.
Name: Angel of Foresight
Alias: Fallen Angel, True Name Unpronounceable by Human Tongue
Team Affiliations: Eyes of Heaven, Soul Survivors, Clockwork (reserve member)
Race: Angel
Birthplace: Heaven
Powers/Abilities: Physical blindness, Can see into the future through human eyes, Access to low-level Angelic technology (Wings, Armor, Staff of Foresight).
Bio: The being who would become Fallen Angel was born and engineered to be an Angel of Foresight. Foresighted Angels had no vision–at least, not in the conventional sense–but had the ability to witness the future through human host eyes by using a Staff of Foresight to focus their powers. They served as communications officers, under Angels of the Guardian rank, and were rarely called upon to work in the field. One Foresighted Angel grew tired of her disconnected life, using her advanced knowledge of Heaven’s communications network to hack into Hell. She wished to see the world through her own eyes, and so made a deal with a high-level demon who promised to restore her vision. On their meeting, the demon branded her with the mark of the dragon, which would pollute her Grace and slowly transform her into a demon as well. Now able to intervene in the physical world, Fallen Angel uses her slowly deteriorating foresight and her half-demon powers to save human souls from her future masters before her own soul fades away.Appreciate the feedback, Light and Jack.
Ugh. A whole friggin’ week gone by this time. I’ve been working on a shaded version of my old Tetra character, but I stopped because a new idea got in the way and I decided to finish it first.
I’m going back to the Elemental Witches (not a team, as some of the covens wage war against each other) to bring you the Alice In Wonderland– inspired Witch of Space.
Name: Wonder Girl
Alias: Alice Gladwell
Team Affiliations: The Coven of Leodd, The Enforcers, Clockwork
Enemies: Tempora, The Society of Foes
Race: Human
Birthplace: London, England
Powers/Abilities: Size-shifting, Super-strength, Increased skin density, Can breathe in oxygen-poor environments.
Bio: All members of the Coven of Leodd were born with an unusual substance in their blood, a substance we now know to be an alloy of liquid Kanvium and Mercury. Deathly poisonous on their own, when molecularly bonded their alloy fosters an array of special abilities, including super-speed, teleportation, interdimensional travel, and growth and shrinking, among others. Some in the coven present multiple abilities, as Alice has, but it is rare to come across a Witch of Leodd who possesses them all–a Leodd Supreme. Leodd witches are unaligned as a coven, but individually they remain active in the war, often contracted as territorial enforcers or messengers for their speed and physical durability. Upon finishing her service, Alice briefly joined The Enforcers under the codename Wonder Girl. She is currently a reserve Clockwork hero, but has remained in contact with her coven since learning that one of Clockwork’s founding members is a rogue time witch.
Note: Leodd is one of the Welsh words for “space.”OK, so it was actually four days before I could give you another character.
If you look at some of the last posts on my old thread, you’ll know that the inspiration behind my Power Suits team is that I was trying to create a team of armor-wearing villains with names and abilities based on various kinds of suits and suit-related phrases. They are meant to be Frank Hallows’ villains, but have also crossed paths with other heroes (Clockwork and non-Clockwork alike). This latest villain of mine is the only female member of the team, and is based off of the Little Black Dress.
Name: Kurosutsu Sukoshi
Team Affiliations: The Power Suits, The Yakuza
Enemies: The Enforcers, Frank Hallows
Race: Human
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Powers/Abilities: Anti-Knavium battle armor (Enhanced strength and reflexes, red matter energy shields), skilled at hand-to-hand combat.
Bio: Sukoshi is the only child of crime boss Kurosutsu Shibomo, who was betrayed and killed by Nihonto and Shirudo, his two most trusted Yakuza. Sukoshi took over the organization following her father’s death, and fueled by her long-simmering jealousy toward her adopted sisters and a newfound desire for vengeance, Sukoshi enlisted the help of her organization’s science division to develop a suit of armor far more sophisticated and powerful than Shirudo’s prosthetics.
The Yakuza scientists fashioned a shield-equipped suit from anti-Knavium (a carbon-Knavium alloy that was tempered through bombardment with anti-matter particles). When powered by a stolen and modified P.A.T.C.H. core, the anti-Knavium suit produced a new kind of energy called “red matter,” which had the potential to disperse anti-matter, rendering Shirudo’s shield projectors useless. Unfortunately, prolonged use of the Anti-Knavium armor has deformed Sukoshi and left her wholly dependent upon the armor for her survival. The severity and nature of her underlying symptoms is unknown at this time.
Notes: Sukoshi means “little” in Japanese. Kuro means “black,” and sutsu is Romanized Japanese for “suit.” The name Shibomo is derived from words meaning “fat” (Shibo) and “lord” (omo).While Heromachine’s new server is allowing me to do so, I’ll post Sextant. She is the final member (and leader) of The Enforcers, as well as the Six O’Clock member and founder of Clockwork.
She was one of my entries into last year’s Fashion contest, when she looked a bit more cabaret. She drew some interest but didn’t qualify for the polls that week. I have since re-posed, re-costumed, and shaded her as follows:
Name: Sextant
Alias: Six L’Orange
Team Affiliations: The Enforcers, Clockwork
Race: Human
Birthplace: Paris, France
Powers/Abilities: Superior intellect, reflexes, expert swordsmanship (sword hidden in her cane), precognition.
Bio: The daughter of wealthy French producer Alex L’Orange, Six L’Orange grew up watching Stanley Kubrick movies. Her mother died giving birth to sextuplets, leaving them in the care of a father so absentminded that he could only think to name his identical children after the first six cardinal numbers, Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre, Cinq, and of course, Six. Absorbed in his work, their father would keep the young girls distracted by plopping them down in front of the television before he went on set. Though Six was technically the youngest, she had her sisters easily convinced otherwise, and would use her false seniority to monopolize the DVD player with her favorite movie, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. It didn’t make any sense to her at her young age, but she liked the silly costumes, and the hero (who shared a first name with her father) made her feel safe in her otherwise neglected household.
One day, the movie’s surrogate power gave way to an overwhelming desire to see her father, as though he might be in some terrible danger. So as soon as she thought he had gone, she sneaked out of the house and followed on her bicycle, all the way to an abandoned warehouse on the edge of town. Her father had borrowed money from a local mob boss which he failed to pay back, and Six arrived just in time to hear gunshots as the mobster’s henchman executed him. In her shock, she stumbled over something that gave away her position and started running as the gunshots turned in her direction.
If she had been made as Alex L’Orange’s daughter, that meant her sisters were in danger as well, and she would have to get home as soon as possible.
Six pedaled her bike like Satan himself was after her family, but she again arrived too late. Her father’s house was already surrounded by a flashing red-and-blue glow, meaning the police had already responded in the wake of her sisters’ murders.
She was entered into a special foster program with U.S. Witness Protection. When she came of age, Six left the program and used her WitSec identity and the self-defense tactics she learned from her supervising marshal (who was also her foster father) to cover a third alias, Sextant. As the Clockwork Orange-inspired heroine, Six would use her innate intelligence and finely honed fighting skills to take revenge against the crime family that had taken her sisters’ lives.
Sextant would later realize the larger nature of crime in the world, and assemble a group of numerically inspired heroes to protect those who cannot protect themselves. Soon, Clockwork was born.
