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Even to this day, many people still consider the original American Dream to be one of the greatest heroes of all time.

Rita Rose found herself empowered by an ancient talisman and used her newfound strength to defend her country during world war 2 and beyond. American Dream earned the respect of the entire country and became something of a feminist icon before retiring from life as a costumed hero to focus more on her burgeoning acting career.

Rita set aside her heart-shaped talisman and eventually married the love of her life, starting a family while also maintaining an award-winning acting career. Rita Rose became an American legend before quietly retiring in her old age to live out the rest of her years in quiet peace with her family.

Rita's end would be anything but quiet though.

When the extra-dimensional tyrant Omega invaded earth, the entire world was thrown into conflict and Rita was forced to use the lingering remnants of her powers to defend her family from Omega's forces. While she successfully protected her family and many others, the strain proved too much for the ageing legend. Rita Rose, the American Dream, died as she had lived.

A hero.

Before her passing though, Rita publically endorsed a new American Dream who today is one of the worlds most celebrated heroes. She also saw her granddaughter Jennifer adopt her heart talisman (entirely by accident) and become the heroic Supermodel.

Rita's legacy is today not only carried on by the new American Dream but also in a number of other young women. Most notably, her great-granddaughter, Jamie. Also known as Knockout, who inherited the heart totem from her aunt Jen. The former member of the Nowhere Kids, Icon, and the Watchguard's Aerial are also distantly related to the legendary hero.

With four amazing young women fighting to protect the world in her honor, the legacy of Rita Rose and American Dream continues to this very day.

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Alright!  Like to see artists renter the forum. Looking forward to your next post.

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Yep, come back

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So, last main team member, but not the last of the profiles, there's more of those to come.

Oh and because I rather stupidly forgot to mention this in the profile, the Nightwatch outfit is to keep as much sunlight off of her as possible. Oh and she still has a violent allergic reaction to garlic and simular vegtables/ plants (because, you know, vampire)

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All Seafarers have been uploaded! Please enjoy this group shot of them:

 

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Torah Lindholm/Glaciation: The Silent Sunrise's boatswain and battle strategist, the tallest woman on board the ship, and proof that sometimes, OCD doesn't mix well with the superhero career. A calm and collected woman dedicated to organized logic, her uptight personality and dedication to order and cleanliness has rubbed many of her teammates the wrong way. She's also not too fond of the unexpected and sudden; it can cause her a full-on freakout if it's unexpected enough. It doesn't help that Siren, who is disorder given a physical body, has set up shop in the cabin right next to hers; being next-door neighbors with the unhinged mermaid pisses Torah off to no end.

In spite of this, Torah does recognize the state her relationships with her teammates are in, and when off-duty, she makes an effort to try and relate to them on a personal level. It may usually end with her getting caught in the middle of a fight between Leviathan and Maelstrom, but she's trying.

Torah Lindholm/Glaciation can freeze large amounts of seawater and manipulate the resulting ice for a variety of uses; one popular use is to create several melee weapons or even ammunition for the ship's cannons. She is powerful enough to form colossal icebergs and telekinetically use them to crush enemy ships between walls of ice. She is unable to manipulate pre-existing icebergs beyond melting them, which comes in handy when the Seafarers arrive to rescue ships trapped in ice.

Glaciation's motif is the idea of ships getting frozen in arctic seas, in accordance with the Seafarers representing an aspect of the sea.

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Arthur Stokes/Man-O-War: A former mercenary and bounty hunter now working as the Silent Sunrise's primary lookout. Still an outlaw at heart, Arthur Stokes lives by the philosophy that rules are made to be broken. If there are laws, he'll go out of his way to break them. If something isn't tied down, he's taking it. His ideology has earned him a reputation as a wild card among his team, and the people on said team itself have lost track of the times they've had to drag him out of a situation of his own making; it leaves them annoyed at best, and at worse the captain screaming at him. But all of them understand Stokes genuinely doesn't mean harm; he just finds laws stifling. It helps that he's a genuinely welcoming Seafarer who will gladly take the younger generation under his wing and promise them adventures and rewards of treasure that he follows through on, and his jolly, devil-may-care attitude ensures it's hard to stay mad at him for too long.

Arthur Stokes/Man-O-War is a human-jellyfish hybrid who can generate massive amounts of electricity from his own body and manipulate for both offense and defense. He is well known to stick his hands in the water and electrocute any pirates wading their way to shore, and he is capable of choosing how much voltage he releases; it can range from a mild static shock to searing flesh clean off the bone. He is capable of staying underwater for an infinite amount of time and no longer needs to sleep or eat, making him an ideal candidate for the ship's crow's nest. Man-O-War has two primary weaknesses; he can only manipulate electricity he himself creates, and is a notoriously slow swimmer.

Man-O-War represents an unconventional aspect of the sea; he emulates the Stingsilk, a jellyfish-like creature that lurks off the coast and preys on anyone who gets too far out to sea, and is capable of devouring great white sharks and even orcas.

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Wanda Bryant/Rockweed: A deckhand who works alongside Flotsam and Jetsam, and the Seafarer you can expect to see the least. A sufferer of crippling social anxiety and a recluse who spends most of her time in her cabin when not needed; she'll be the first to leave the dining hall when the Seafarers eat together and will blush and hide her face when directly interacted with. Despite her overwhelming shyness, she's not entirely closed off to relationships; she has established a close father-daughter bond with fellow teammate Man-O-War and is surprisingly close friends with the crew's resident rule-sticker Glaciation. The more she emerges more from her shell, the more the Seafarers realize the girl has one of the kindest and most empathetic hearts on the entire ship.

Wanda Bryant/Rockweed is capable of manipulating seaweed, kelp, and various other marine plants; when in an area with a large amount of sea plants, she becomes a force of nature who can ensnare, trap, and drag down opponents with thick chains of seaweed. She is also known to create large "rafts" of seaweed when the Seafarers aid a wrecked ship. Finally, Rockweed is able to breath underwater for a short period of time, allowing her to remain somewhat out of reach during battle.

Rockweed emulates the feeling of a piece of seaweed wrapping around one's foot when in the water, in accordance with each Seafarer representing an aspect of the ocean.

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Silas Steinberg/Maelstrom: Bilge's closest friend, lab partner, and one of the most dedicated Seafarers to ever live. He is also a frenetic, and high-strung paranoiac with a hair-trigger temper and an obsessive need to worry and overthink every last detail, every possibility. He absolutely hates traitors to the core of his being, but the one thing he hates more than that is his supervillain-turned-teammate, Cade Vanderbilt/Leviathan. As far as Steinberg is concerned, Vanderbilt will turn tail and betray the Seafarers the minute it suits him, and not even the reassurances of his teammates of Vanderbilt's goodwill will sway him from his obsessive hatred; though it's only rumors, many believe that Steinberg's vendetta against his teammate has something to do with the city Cade dragged to the bottom of the sea. Despite this, Steinberg does understand who his friends are and will do everything he can to keep them and any innocents out of the line of fire; when properly convinced, he is even willing to save his eternal arch-rival from harm, even if he spends most of it complaining.

Silas Steinberg/Maelstrom can manipulate ocean currents to create whirlpools, the size and strength of which depend solely on the ocean depth; shallow waters will only destroy some rowboats, while deeper areas enable him to create vortexes gigantic enough to devour entire fleets of pirate ships.

Maelstrom emulates the myths of giant whirlpools devouring ships, in accordance with the Seafarers each building a motif around an aspect of the sea.