HeroMachine Character Portrait Creator

Ernesto Etienne/Triggerfinger: Ernesto Etienne is a self-made man, and his journey from a kid in the slums to one of the most prominent crime lords of Midnight City wasn’t an easy one. His struggles may have left him with a sense of respect and compassion towards his enemies and innocents, but they also left their marks; he’s a cold and efficient assassin who will carry out his missions with ruthless professionalism, and he’s earned a well-deserved reputation for NEVER missing a target. God help you if the Blossom Needles crime family put a hit on you.

Ernesto Etienne/Triggerfinger blends his natural skill with marksmanship with the powers granted to him. He is blind, but his senses of hearing, smell, and taste have been enhanced to extraordinarily high levels, allowing him to tell where the precise location of a target is. His perceptiveness and intuition also serves him well, and he relies on gut instinct and his hearing to process incoming threats. As a result, Triggerfinger is one of THE top marksmen of Atlas, capable of hitting targets even if they are miles away. 

Triggerfinger's price for his powers was his sight.

Markus Petra/Groundpounder: An absolute powerhouse of a beast with a brain the size of a walnut, Groundpounder is perfect for smashing and breaking... and nothing else. With absolutely no intelligence beyond smashing, rage, and eating things, he remains blissfully unaware of his lot in life, and serves as an attack dog for villains to point in a direction and let loose. The big lug may want to help, but that doesn't mean much when he's so convinced heroes are the bad ones...

Groundpounder is the biggest and strongest of the Parthenon Mutations, possessing a strength level far exceeding even other heavy hitters like Sgt. Hardshell, Black Maratia, or even Patriarch. He can shake off direct hits from tank artillery, tear train engines apart, punch hard enough to create shockwaves, and more. His TRUE power, however, is his ability to manipulate his own body density; by decreasing his mass, weight and density, he can make himself nearly intangible and float in the air like a balloon... then shift his density to the OPPOSITE end of the spectrum and drop like a stone, causing untold destruction when he lands. 

Groundpounder's price for becoming a Paradigm was his intelligence. 

Jason Talisman/The Dreamcatcher: Jason Talisman has absolutely nothing to offer in physical strength; he makes up for it with his knowledge of the human subconscious... and what he needs to poke and prod at to completely break someone in mind and spirit. Eloquent, soft-spoken and sadistic, he loves nothing more than to haunt a man's nightmares and use their bad memories, buried traumas, and insecurities to take them apart, bit by bit...

The Dreamcatcher can enter the minds of others through their dreams and manipulate their subconscious for a variety of effects. He can inflict horrific nightmares on his victims, use their worst fears and insecurities against them, force them to relive repressed, traumatic memories over and over again, and more; if he's feeling merciful, he'll just shut their minds down and kill them. The Dreamcatcher's physical body has a defense mechanism in the form of pheromones; he constantly produces them and will cause anyone who breathes them to fall asleep, trapping them in the dream world with him. 

The Dreamcatcher's price for becoming a Paradigm was his physical strength, leaving him an emaciated husk confined to a bed. 

Lady Amaranth wrote:

Thanks! I used a blood/spatter effect (I think from the Insignias tab?), added the pattern that kinda looks like tree bark, and then gave it the same color scheme as the trees.

And you just used positioning/sizing to get it to blend into the form? Its not masked onto any kind of invisible body component or anything?

So was goin thru cleanin out my accumulated files on my comp cuz it was startin to run a touch slow and came across a number of pieces (mostly CDC entries) that for some reason I guess I never got around to posting into this thread:

CDC Prize for Christi S.

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