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Character Information ;
Name: Terrence "Terry" McGinnis | Batman
Name of Canon: Batman Beyond
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: Canon
Reference: http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Batman_Beyond
Canon Point: Post-season 1.
Setting:
Set in the year 2040 AD, 40 years after most Batman "canons." Gotham City has been overrun by crime after Bruce Wayne gave up the cape and cowl about 20 years before the present day, and while other heroes have tried to fill in for him, none have succeeded (or not with anything of note, anyway). Terry is a teenager (and Bruce Wayne's biological son through weird creepy-ass superhero cloning justification without asking the permission of anyone involved, which should totally have been illegal in the first place, but Terry doesn't know that yet) who stumbles across Wayne's secret by accident and originally steals the batsuit to get vengeance on Derek Powers for the murder of his father. Shit happens, Terry and Bruce argue a lot, eventually Bruce decides that Gotham does need a new Batman and Terry is the super special teenager for the job (except he's not actually special or anything, just there). ANYWAY so they team up and Terry becomes the new Batman with the totally cooler suit.
Personality:
Oh geez, this is complicated. Uh, okay, starting with this:
Terry is the goddamn (second) Batman. Like Bruce Wayne before him, he's got a strong sense of honor and justice and the murder of a parent driving him to try and keep "evil" off the streets. He refuses to kill, prefering to fight hand-to-hand, and while he'll use batarangs and freeze guns and pipes and things like that, he almost never uses serious things like actual guns and knives. He doesn't really have a sense of fear -- for himself, anyway -- and he's just as stubborn and serious as his mentor, Bruce Wayne. And of course, just as emotionally distant and reclusive and introverted, though he's the type to keep people away with snark rather than srsbsns, and he does have one friend... maybe two...
It's weird. As Terry, in his day-to-day life, he's pretty unassuming and boring, kind of serious. A "good kid," you know the type--a studious kid, a responsible kid, a kid who will stand up to bullies that come his way but doesn't really make waves, decent grades but nothing spectacular, not part of any specific social group, kind of awkward in social situations and not exactly the brightest a little prone to being rash but he's nice enough. A good kid. With the suit on and adrenaline pumping, it's like he's a different person entirely. His sense of humor really starts to shine (dark things can shine, ok), he's more confident and composed, and weirdly enough, more laid back when he's fighting crime than doing his Math homework--and he's shooting snarky oneliners all over the place. Even when it's smarter not to do it.
Because unlike Bruce Wayne, Terry... is a little reckless. And a little ruthless. Even not as Batman, in the very first episode, he tries to take on an entire gang even though he knows he'll lose and have to run. That same episode, he steals the Batsuit and goes after Powers, alone, without even knowing how to properly use the suit (which again, he just freakin' STOLE. FROM BATMAN). He doesn't ever kill, but he's never sorry about hurting very badly, and he has absolutely no problem with fighting dirty -- you wouldn't see Bruce Wayne grabbing any handy weapon or hitting dudes in the crotch unless he had to, would you? While Terry is the type to do both of those and then mock whoever he's just PUNCHED IN THE DICK. Hey, old man, times change. Whatever stops the bad guy, stops the bad guy, right? And they totally deserved everything they get.
Which doesn't sound so bad or unforgiving -- until you figure in that Terry's been there himself. Sure, he's cleaned up now, but he used to be an angry kid (protip: he still is one, he just doesn't realize it because he's learned to stop lashing out) who used to be in a gang with other angry kids. A gang that tried to rob a bank. He's had his own run-ins with the police and broken his share of laws, and was close friends with another boy just the same as him. And yet he has no pity on the teenagers who are right where he was a few years ago. If you asked him, he'd probably tell you that he's cleaning up the streets and sympathy isn't his job.
And yet -- there's a weird duality to it. Yes, he sees the world in black and white, good and evil, and whatever happens to the bad guys as long as they're not dead, he doesn't care... or at least he'll always start off that way, until he starts figuring people in. He's shown sympathy to practically everybody who has shown themselves to him as persons and not just "criminals" -- he actually shows far more sympathy than Bruce Wayne for criminals like Mr. Freeze and Ten of the Royal Flush Gang. If you asked him, he'd probably tell you that he's cleaning up the streets and sympathy isn't his job -- but if the actual person he were trying to arrest did the same thing (unless it were Powers, he is an exception, grudge forever until his son tries to kill him and makes him feel bad goddammit), Terry would probably stop and think about that.
And basically, Terry's a 17 year old boy. He's mature for his age, but nowhere near what a comparable 25-year-old Bruce Wayne might have been like -- he's rash and lets his emotions (read: anger) get in the way of his practicality so often it's hard to count. He holds grudges, hard -- especially in the case of Derek Powers who had his father murdered, and never feels a drop of pity for him right up until Powers' own son tries to backstab and kill him -- even though Powers' transformation into Blight was actually mostly Terry's fault. And while he's bright (and has a smart mouth, which he uses, a lot), he's no World's Greatest Detective like Bruce Wayne -- or maybe he could be, if he stopped to think, but he usually doesn't. Why should he, why does he have to, when he has the old man backing him up? Forget the fact that when he's left alone, he tends to fail. A lot.
So. Teen Batman. And he's still in high school. He has issues, a hi-tech batsuit, and a batmobile that is, in his own words, "unbearably cool." He also has a (step)mother, a little brother, and a girlfriend who all have no idea he's Batman, and issues. Also, issues, and a Math test tomorrow. That's what the show was about, right?
Abilities and Weaknesses:
Uh, I think most of his weaknesses got covered up in the Personality section. He's reckless and hotheaded and stubborn and doesn't think ahead a lot of the time. He's also a high school student, ok. Savin' lives with epic technology and not knowing wtf an integral of a function is. Don't ask him how anything works, it just does, he didn't make it up.
As for abilities, nothing superhuman, which is kind of the whole point with Batman. He doesn't quite know all the martial arts he should know yet, but he's a pretty good brawler, runner, acrobat in general, even without the suit.
And then he has the suit.
Which is all great and good, except if it ever breaks HE HAS NO IDEA HOW TO REPAIR IT. Or what half the things in it are even called.
Inventory:
http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Terry_McGinnis%27s_Batsuit
Just. That.
(Uh, except can it be modified to only work while he's wearing it, or something? Gene-keyed to his/Bruce Wayne's DNA maybe, just so he doesn't die 50 times and the whole station ends up running around in exact copies of Batsuits looted from his corpses and stuff. Which would be really funny and I would be up for that, but it'd probably break the game. Terry WILL still freak out if he dies and try to get the suit back before anyone can examine it and figure out how it works, though.)
(Oh yeah! And it'll be modified so the comm unit in his mask redirects to the Sacrosanct system instead of the Batcave.)
Appearance:
In stark contrast to Bruce Wayne, Terry is built for speed and agility instead of punching-power. He's thinner and lighter and to just look at him (next to other superheroes, that is), he'd look kinda weak, for lack of GINORMOUS BULKY STEROID MUSCLE that seems to be the standard (or seemed to have been, 40 years ago). Even his batsuit is designed mainly for stealth and ease of movement -- it's streamlined and tight-fitting and practical. And doesn't have a stupid cape.
Terry himself is just kinda normal looking and usually is going around wearing a jacket, tshirt, jeans, and his srs face. Somehow, from Bruce Wayne's brown hair and brown eyes and his biological mother's red hair and black eyes, Terry ended up with blue eyes and black hair and looking weirdly asian. LOOK DON'T EVEN ASK ME HOW THIS WORKS, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW. But it's true.
Age: 17 :|
Samples ;
Log Sample:
Okay, he's waking up. So he was knocked out, then? Fine. And waking up in some place he doesn't recognize. That's okay too. Not that unusual, anyway. All part of the job. Someone probably just snuck up on him or something while he was out on patrol tonight (and left his suit on because they're stupid like that and do that all the time, morons) and all he has to do is break through the bonds and escape --
O-kay, breaking the bonds not working. And he's... moving? Somewhere. This is less okay. He can't seem to budge whatever's holding him at all (and it's starting to feel like huge metal pincers but where the hell would those have come from), this is maybe not okay at all. At least his struggling seems to ping some sensors and then bright light is flooding into the room, temporarily blinding him before the suit's visor compensates, but then he can see, and --
-- a shower head? Fnarrhhh --
He has time to try to duck and fail before he's being sprayed with something that smells like Lysol and tastes like Lysol in his mouth, then being dropped with a thud onto a floor (that smells like Lysol), and Terry slides around in it trying to get his footing (and a chance to think, except all that comes up is what the hell is this) and then he's being shoved into another room, this one with a dry floor, and left to flop over onto the floor on his stomach like a wet... well, bat. Covered in Lysol.
Well, okay. At least he's not hurt. Good thing the suit covered his eyes. He waits around a few seconds to see if any laughing supervillain comes along to announce his dastardly plans or where he is or anything (they like to do that in these hostage situations, he's noticed, he might as well wait around for them to show up and punch them instead of spending the effort to find them and punch them), but no one comes. Instead, there's only some signs on the walls that look sort of familiar, a cheery, friendly voice saying something he doesn't understand in something that sounds like --
Wait. "Chinese?" They took him to China? "Are you serious? What was that, Customs?"
Well, at least nobody is running in with guns or tasers or glowing radioactive bodies, you know, to beat him up or kill him or anything. Except that doesn't say much when they could be waiting right outside... whatever weird building this is. And besides, the lack of people trying to kill him means that this could be entirely Bruce Wayne's doing, because he totally would do something like this without warning him, and Terry's pretty sure he'd prefer the supervillains.
He groans a little and picks himself up, only tripping once in the pool of stuff dripping off his everywhere, and taps at the comm unit in his suit near his ear, trying to establish contact with the Batcave. But huh, that's strange, there's no signal he can hear, not even when he tunes it to different frequencies -- not even the usual static of blurry radio. Which makes no sense. It's China, isn't it? There should be networks all over the place.
Damn it, he knew he'd picked the wrong foreign language class in Freshman year...
Network Sample:
I don't think we're in Gotham any more... at least they've got the internet.
[The man in the bat suit takes a deep breath, and then turns toward the screen.]
Hey --
[He... probably shouldn't say "Bruce Wayne" on a public channel, huh.]
You know who you are. If you're out there --
[He raises one hand to his ear and makes exaggerated punching-cell-phone-buttons motions with the other.]
Call. Me.
[He drops his hand and it becomes clear he's crouched on the edge of the roof of a building somewhere.]
And if you're not out there, I think I'm screwed.
First one to tell me how to get back to Gotham wins a prize. Actually, America will do. Or how about Earth?
[He has an essay due tomorrow, okay. His semester grade may be depending on this.]
Name: Terrence "Terry" McGinnis | Batman
Name of Canon: Batman Beyond
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: Canon
Reference: http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Batman_Beyond
Canon Point: Post-season 1.
Setting:
Set in the year 2040 AD, 40 years after most Batman "canons." Gotham City has been overrun by crime after Bruce Wayne gave up the cape and cowl about 20 years before the present day, and while other heroes have tried to fill in for him, none have succeeded (or not with anything of note, anyway). Terry is a teenager (and Bruce Wayne's biological son through weird creepy-ass superhero cloning justification without asking the permission of anyone involved, which should totally have been illegal in the first place, but Terry doesn't know that yet) who stumbles across Wayne's secret by accident and originally steals the batsuit to get vengeance on Derek Powers for the murder of his father. Shit happens, Terry and Bruce argue a lot, eventually Bruce decides that Gotham does need a new Batman and Terry is the super special teenager for the job (except he's not actually special or anything, just there). ANYWAY so they team up and Terry becomes the new Batman with the totally cooler suit.
Personality:
Oh geez, this is complicated. Uh, okay, starting with this:
Terry is the goddamn (second) Batman. Like Bruce Wayne before him, he's got a strong sense of honor and justice and the murder of a parent driving him to try and keep "evil" off the streets. He refuses to kill, prefering to fight hand-to-hand, and while he'll use batarangs and freeze guns and pipes and things like that, he almost never uses serious things like actual guns and knives. He doesn't really have a sense of fear -- for himself, anyway -- and he's just as stubborn and serious as his mentor, Bruce Wayne. And of course, just as emotionally distant and reclusive and introverted, though he's the type to keep people away with snark rather than srsbsns, and he does have one friend... maybe two...
It's weird. As Terry, in his day-to-day life, he's pretty unassuming and boring, kind of serious. A "good kid," you know the type--a studious kid, a responsible kid, a kid who will stand up to bullies that come his way but doesn't really make waves, decent grades but nothing spectacular, not part of any specific social group, kind of awkward in social situations and not exactly the brightest a little prone to being rash but he's nice enough. A good kid. With the suit on and adrenaline pumping, it's like he's a different person entirely. His sense of humor really starts to shine (dark things can shine, ok), he's more confident and composed, and weirdly enough, more laid back when he's fighting crime than doing his Math homework--and he's shooting snarky oneliners all over the place. Even when it's smarter not to do it.
Because unlike Bruce Wayne, Terry... is a little reckless. And a little ruthless. Even not as Batman, in the very first episode, he tries to take on an entire gang even though he knows he'll lose and have to run. That same episode, he steals the Batsuit and goes after Powers, alone, without even knowing how to properly use the suit (which again, he just freakin' STOLE. FROM BATMAN). He doesn't ever kill, but he's never sorry about hurting very badly, and he has absolutely no problem with fighting dirty -- you wouldn't see Bruce Wayne grabbing any handy weapon or hitting dudes in the crotch unless he had to, would you? While Terry is the type to do both of those and then mock whoever he's just PUNCHED IN THE DICK. Hey, old man, times change. Whatever stops the bad guy, stops the bad guy, right? And they totally deserved everything they get.
Which doesn't sound so bad or unforgiving -- until you figure in that Terry's been there himself. Sure, he's cleaned up now, but he used to be an angry kid (protip: he still is one, he just doesn't realize it because he's learned to stop lashing out) who used to be in a gang with other angry kids. A gang that tried to rob a bank. He's had his own run-ins with the police and broken his share of laws, and was close friends with another boy just the same as him. And yet he has no pity on the teenagers who are right where he was a few years ago. If you asked him, he'd probably tell you that he's cleaning up the streets and sympathy isn't his job.
And yet -- there's a weird duality to it. Yes, he sees the world in black and white, good and evil, and whatever happens to the bad guys as long as they're not dead, he doesn't care... or at least he'll always start off that way, until he starts figuring people in. He's shown sympathy to practically everybody who has shown themselves to him as persons and not just "criminals" -- he actually shows far more sympathy than Bruce Wayne for criminals like Mr. Freeze and Ten of the Royal Flush Gang. If you asked him, he'd probably tell you that he's cleaning up the streets and sympathy isn't his job -- but if the actual person he were trying to arrest did the same thing (unless it were Powers, he is an exception, grudge forever until his son tries to kill him and makes him feel bad goddammit), Terry would probably stop and think about that.
And basically, Terry's a 17 year old boy. He's mature for his age, but nowhere near what a comparable 25-year-old Bruce Wayne might have been like -- he's rash and lets his emotions (read: anger) get in the way of his practicality so often it's hard to count. He holds grudges, hard -- especially in the case of Derek Powers who had his father murdered, and never feels a drop of pity for him right up until Powers' own son tries to backstab and kill him -- even though Powers' transformation into Blight was actually mostly Terry's fault. And while he's bright (and has a smart mouth, which he uses, a lot), he's no World's Greatest Detective like Bruce Wayne -- or maybe he could be, if he stopped to think, but he usually doesn't. Why should he, why does he have to, when he has the old man backing him up? Forget the fact that when he's left alone, he tends to fail. A lot.
So. Teen Batman. And he's still in high school. He has issues, a hi-tech batsuit, and a batmobile that is, in his own words, "unbearably cool." He also has a (step)mother, a little brother, and a girlfriend who all have no idea he's Batman, and issues. Also, issues, and a Math test tomorrow. That's what the show was about, right?
Abilities and Weaknesses:
Uh, I think most of his weaknesses got covered up in the Personality section. He's reckless and hotheaded and stubborn and doesn't think ahead a lot of the time. He's also a high school student, ok. Savin' lives with epic technology and not knowing wtf an integral of a function is. Don't ask him how anything works, it just does, he didn't make it up.
As for abilities, nothing superhuman, which is kind of the whole point with Batman. He doesn't quite know all the martial arts he should know yet, but he's a pretty good brawler, runner, acrobat in general, even without the suit.
And then he has the suit.
Which is all great and good, except if it ever breaks HE HAS NO IDEA HOW TO REPAIR IT. Or what half the things in it are even called.
Inventory:
http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Terry_McGinnis%27s_Batsuit
Just. That.
(Uh, except can it be modified to only work while he's wearing it, or something? Gene-keyed to his/Bruce Wayne's DNA maybe, just so he doesn't die 50 times and the whole station ends up running around in exact copies of Batsuits looted from his corpses and stuff. Which would be really funny and I would be up for that, but it'd probably break the game. Terry WILL still freak out if he dies and try to get the suit back before anyone can examine it and figure out how it works, though.)
(Oh yeah! And it'll be modified so the comm unit in his mask redirects to the Sacrosanct system instead of the Batcave.)
Appearance:
In stark contrast to Bruce Wayne, Terry is built for speed and agility instead of punching-power. He's thinner and lighter and to just look at him (next to other superheroes, that is), he'd look kinda weak, for lack of GINORMOUS BULKY STEROID MUSCLE that seems to be the standard (or seemed to have been, 40 years ago). Even his batsuit is designed mainly for stealth and ease of movement -- it's streamlined and tight-fitting and practical. And doesn't have a stupid cape.
Terry himself is just kinda normal looking and usually is going around wearing a jacket, tshirt, jeans, and his srs face. Somehow, from Bruce Wayne's brown hair and brown eyes and his biological mother's red hair and black eyes, Terry ended up with blue eyes and black hair and looking weirdly asian. LOOK DON'T EVEN ASK ME HOW THIS WORKS, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW. But it's true.
Age: 17 :|
Samples ;
Log Sample:
Okay, he's waking up. So he was knocked out, then? Fine. And waking up in some place he doesn't recognize. That's okay too. Not that unusual, anyway. All part of the job. Someone probably just snuck up on him or something while he was out on patrol tonight (and left his suit on because they're stupid like that and do that all the time, morons) and all he has to do is break through the bonds and escape --
O-kay, breaking the bonds not working. And he's... moving? Somewhere. This is less okay. He can't seem to budge whatever's holding him at all (and it's starting to feel like huge metal pincers but where the hell would those have come from), this is maybe not okay at all. At least his struggling seems to ping some sensors and then bright light is flooding into the room, temporarily blinding him before the suit's visor compensates, but then he can see, and --
-- a shower head? Fnarrhhh --
He has time to try to duck and fail before he's being sprayed with something that smells like Lysol and tastes like Lysol in his mouth, then being dropped with a thud onto a floor (that smells like Lysol), and Terry slides around in it trying to get his footing (and a chance to think, except all that comes up is what the hell is this) and then he's being shoved into another room, this one with a dry floor, and left to flop over onto the floor on his stomach like a wet... well, bat. Covered in Lysol.
Well, okay. At least he's not hurt. Good thing the suit covered his eyes. He waits around a few seconds to see if any laughing supervillain comes along to announce his dastardly plans or where he is or anything (they like to do that in these hostage situations, he's noticed, he might as well wait around for them to show up and punch them instead of spending the effort to find them and punch them), but no one comes. Instead, there's only some signs on the walls that look sort of familiar, a cheery, friendly voice saying something he doesn't understand in something that sounds like --
Wait. "Chinese?" They took him to China? "Are you serious? What was that, Customs?"
Well, at least nobody is running in with guns or tasers or glowing radioactive bodies, you know, to beat him up or kill him or anything. Except that doesn't say much when they could be waiting right outside... whatever weird building this is. And besides, the lack of people trying to kill him means that this could be entirely Bruce Wayne's doing, because he totally would do something like this without warning him, and Terry's pretty sure he'd prefer the supervillains.
He groans a little and picks himself up, only tripping once in the pool of stuff dripping off his everywhere, and taps at the comm unit in his suit near his ear, trying to establish contact with the Batcave. But huh, that's strange, there's no signal he can hear, not even when he tunes it to different frequencies -- not even the usual static of blurry radio. Which makes no sense. It's China, isn't it? There should be networks all over the place.
Damn it, he knew he'd picked the wrong foreign language class in Freshman year...
Network Sample:
I don't think we're in Gotham any more... at least they've got the internet.
[The man in the bat suit takes a deep breath, and then turns toward the screen.]
Hey --
[He... probably shouldn't say "Bruce Wayne" on a public channel, huh.]
You know who you are. If you're out there --
[He raises one hand to his ear and makes exaggerated punching-cell-phone-buttons motions with the other.]
Call. Me.
[He drops his hand and it becomes clear he's crouched on the edge of the roof of a building somewhere.]
And if you're not out there, I think I'm screwed.
First one to tell me how to get back to Gotham wins a prize. Actually, America will do. Or how about Earth?
[He has an essay due tomorrow, okay. His semester grade may be depending on this.]