HeroMachine Character Portrait Creator

Transistor- Alex Kane

Powers: Electro-Manipulation

Born as a girl, Alex always felt as though there was something wrong, as if he was in the wrong body. He tried to live as a girl, but he could never escape the disconnect between his brain and body. It was this dysphoria that brought about the emergance of his power to create and control electricity. Fortunately, Alex was able to begin transitioning after gaining a small inheritance when his grandmother passed away. A few years on and Alex is in a much better place, now living as a guy. He has also put his powers to good use, joining Pride and becoming their final member after a chance meeting with a few of the team members at his former place of work.

T.A.S.K. (Ten Artificial Sentry Keepers)

ReGen- Jen Rudd

Powers: Superhuman Healing Factor

Jen's life before joining Pride is a tale of two halves. Raised in a devout Catholic family, Jen was expected to behave  like a good God-fearing girl, do as they were told, go to church, say their prayers and eventually get married to a nice guy and raise a family. But as Jen grew older, they began to question a lot of what they had been brought up to believe. This really came to a head during Jen's teenage years. Alongside a growing realisation that they didn't really identify with the prescribed gender roles being enforced and the struggles of being Non-Binary in such a strict environment, Jen got kicked out of the expensive Catholic school that their parents had sent them to after being found to have smuggled cigarettes into the dorm. It didn't help that a backcatalogue of talking back, questioning the sanctity of the bible and general disobediance had been building up gradually, but this was the last straw. As one might expect, Jen's parents were not best pleased about this... and then things really kicked off. In fairness, Jen didn't exactly help the situation, a few things probably shouldn't have been said, but it all ended up with Jen being kicked from the house and invited to not return until that attitude problem had been fixed. Jen, being what could best be described as very stubborn, hasn't spoken to their parents since. Unfortunately, things would only get worse from there. Jen's time of the streets was rough and they don't really like to talk about it now, but it all culminated in a suicide attempt around Jen's 18th birthday, where Jen threw themself off of a roof onto the pavement below. It was at this point that Jen's ability to heal from practically any injury manifested, which really sucked apparently, because Jen still feels pain and doesn't heal instantly. It took them a days of pain to fully heal from all of the broken bones and torn up insides. However, after they healed, the knowledge of their powers made Jen reckless. They started acting more and more dangerously. Fortunately, it seemed as though fate intervened before Jen got into any more serious trouble as by coincidence they ended up staying at the same shelter that Tavio Fernandez happened to frequent when he was also living rough. The two formed a close bond (Jen now sees Tavio as almost like a brother, because he's helped them out of so much and pretty much never let Jen down), so when Tavio and Melissa Ashford formed Pride, Jen was an obvious member.

Earthshaper- Michael Chase

Powers: Ability to manipulate the "power of nature", Geokinesis

Since he was a child, Michael was all about one thing; sports. A standout football player at high school, he managed to get a scholarship to play collegiate football. However, his time at college would end up shattering his dreams. Michael had known he was gay since he was around 15, but had never come out for fear of backlash, but one time at college, he got drunk and let his guard down, he tried to kiss this guy he had a crush on in public and word got around. People started treating him noticably different after that, but things came to a head at practice. Michael doesn't really have a good memory of what happened, but he ended up on the recieving end of a particularly nasty tackle, the aftermath of which left him in hospital with a concussion and a broken leg. Unable to play football again, he lost his scholarship, his place in college and his ability to do the one thing he'd always wanted to do. His powers manifested shortly after (latent superpowers tend to become active during periods of great stress), as Michael started working at a local gym as a fitness coach. Alone, depressed and with new superpowers developing and causing him all kinds of trouble, Michael was looking for an out. Fortunately, he was introduced by a mutual friend to Melissa Ashford and Tavio Fernandez, who saw his heroic potential and invited him to join their new superteam PRIDE.

Salamander- Melissa Ashford

Powers: Pyrokinesis, Immunity to the effects of heat

Born by a surrogate mother to a gay couple who wanted to have a family, Melissa was lucky in that she was brought up in a fairly liberal area. Of course, she got all of the "why do you have two dads" questions as a child, but she never thought of her family as something different. She realised she was a lesbian early on in her teens and came out to her dads fairly quickly (of course, they were very supportive). However, the family would later relocate, due to a change of job and Melissa would face for the first time real backlash against her sexuality and her race. It was soon after this that she met and became friends with Farah Al-Masur (Manara) and Melissa started to become more aware that her life before moving was an outlier. Through Farah, Melissa became more in touch with politics and came to understand the world a bit better. The pair would discover their powers at the same time (with Melissa being the only person able to approach Farah to calm her down when she lost control of her powers). Melissa would later be inspired by Farah's work as a superhero and help found PRIDE, a superhero team made up of LGBTQ+ superhumans.

Test

There’s a reason why cloning humans remains illegal. Not the least of which is that “Dr. Fax” showed how poor results could still be grandly disastrous. Told to wear cutoffs, many of them cut ONE leg off of their good jeans instead of putting on their cutoffs. Despite not having enough coordination to put on a shirt or buckle a belt, some of them managed to learn a granny knot. None of them could bend to put shoes on without snapping their spines. Their skin was pretty bad, due to shortcuts in their mummy-style wrappings during skin fastening. Not to be outdone by their low quality, "Dr. Fax" sold the clones in the 7800 and 7900 group to a terrorist group. He warned his client of their limitations.

Not to be outdone at the clones total failure to learn to aim a gun FORWARD, the group gave them all lit dynamite and told the only command they could follow besides ‘eat.’ That command was ‘run.’

Casualties were kept to a minimum by sheer dumb luck and the fact that anyone not slamming a door between themselves and the ill-fated clones tended to scream out ‘RUN!’ This generally caused them to run in the opposite direction, and so the parking garage where they were released was the only structure completely destroyed. It was also successfully evacuated in the panic.

23 dead, 3518 injured, less than 200 critically.

*Lackey contest winner.

Here is Banker, the money man for the criminal underworld.