OOC: Information on your new Dean of Students
Hi! With The Tick gone, there is an opening for a comic book character with powers ranging from superstrength to a degree of invulnerability to be the new Dean of Students, so that's what I went with. Since Drax is a relatively obscure character even among Marvel Comics fans (I swear, Cosmic Marvel doesn't get any love unless it's a shiny guy on a surfboard), here is a potentially useful OOC post.
First and foremost, and I'm not putting this behind a cut because this is important, Drax is called "The Destroyer" for a reason. While he is generally a hero, he isn't very friendly, he isn't very nice, and he is more than willing to threaten you to get what he wants (and considering that he wants to make sure that those in his charge are strong enough to deal with whatever the world throws at them, he'll have no qualms threatening people with detention or worse with little provocation). If he likes you, he'll put up with more from you and you might start to understand how he works. He tends to like insightful people who are brave enough to try to put him in his place. Doing that might result in a quiet compliment or with him wishing he had his weapons.
So, basically, he is very possibly going to be a nasty bastard to you no matter what he thinks of you unless you really impress him. I will have fun being a nasty bastard to all, but let me know if it makes you uncomfortable and I'll be happy to tone it down. This will cause Drax to hate me, but I'm the real one here so he can bite me.
Anyway, way back in the 70's, Marvel was looking to knock off of the work Jack Kirby was doing with his Fourth World books at DC, so they came up with some cosmic god-types. They lived on Titan, the moon of Saturn. One of these Titans (because Marvel wasn't creative enough to call them something catchier like "New Gods") was a really bad guy named Darkseid Thanos. Thanos was obsessed with Death. No, seriously, the personification of Death (the SKELETAL personification) is his girlfriend. Creepy. Thanos came to Earth to be evil, some guy named Arthur Douglas and his family spotted Thanos, Thanos wanted to make sure that nobody on Earth could report seeing him so he killed the family.
Thanos's father, a generally good godlike alien named Mentor, resurrected and reshaped Arthur using the ground of the Earth itself. He then became a really powerful being called Drax the Destroyer. His mission? Destroy Thanos. Gotta love simplicity.
Drax failed at this a bunch of times, succeeded once only to see Thanos resurrected, served as a cosmic patrolman, and died a bunch of times. Upon each death, he was reborn in a slightly different form. Some forms were stronger, some were dumber, some had more powers, all of them until the last one had him wearing a skullcap/cape ensemble and the biggest belt buckle you'll see outside of Texas. His most recent form, after dying at the hands of some dangerous alien criminals who happened to land on Earth, is the lean, mean, tatooed, leather pants-wearing destroying machine you see in my icons.
In the recent mini-series, Annihilation, the universe went to war when an extradimensional threat named Annihilus decided to destroy everything in existence. Annihilus's forces, deemed the Annihilation Wave, started the war by destroying the planet cluster Xandar, home of the space police called the Nova Corps. Only one Nova survived and Drax - who just so happened to be near Xandar at the time - decided to train him in how to use his power against the Wave since it was safer to be behind somebody with that much power and because it got him on the right path towards Thanos. Thanks to Drax's guidance, Nova was able to lead an army against Annihilus. During this time, Drax was being tailed by a sociopathic young girl named Cammi whom he showed some affection for (by not killing her and by abandoning her several times, but the brat was persistent and kept catching up).
The mini-series ends with Drax's mission seemingly complete and his leaving for parts unknown now that he had no purpose defining his life.
I suggest that when Drax disappears, he ends up in Fandom. He has no driving purpose in his life with Thanos seemingly dead, and he recently had experience with both teaching and with children, so he decided to give Fandom a shot.
I mentioned "threats" before. Drax finds threats to be very effective. At the beginning of his mentorship of Nova, Nova needed to focus his newfound power without it driving him insane. Drax told Nova that he WOULD do it because if he didn't, Drax would kill him. It worked.
Drax understands that in a school, that would be inappropriate. Principal Washburn would be cross with him. How she could possibly keep Drax in line is unclear, but, c'mon, you don't mess with Zoe.
So at Fandom, Drax's first and most frequent threat will be detention. He'll play fairly fast and loose with these - I'll e-mail you and make it clear in narrative that the conversation is leading in that direction before giving one out - and it will please him a little. He will work his way up the ladder, though. He'll freely throw around threats of suspension or expulsion, but you should know that those threats will never go through without plenty of OOC communication first.
There is a theoretical chance that Drax could threaten violence, but he's smart enough to know that he would get away with it once at best against a student before getting fired, so I wouldn't count on it happening.
Faculty members may not be so lucky.
Drax's powers are pretty simple. He's really quite strong and he's rather invulnerable. Not as strong nor as invulnerable as Tick was, but he has an edge that makes up for that. Simply put, he is The Destroyer. He was created for combat with, basically, gods. He's an excellent fighter with a keen focus and a cunning mind. He's definitely not unbeatable in a fight, but he can make you hurt a lot if he's determined.
While he's excellent in hand-to-hand fighting and good with guns (especially ludicrously oversized comic book guns), Drax in his current form likes to fight with simple, sharp knives. Of course, those have to be stored at home or in the weapons locker, which doesn't please him at all. Detentions are now his knives. He will unsheathe them if you make him.
He's also fairly experienced with flying spaceships at this point. There's no reason to believe that he's the best pilot around by any means, but he can get from point A to point B.
Finally, while I've just described at length a character whose basic purpose is to be a really powerful badass, I'm still a player who loves crack, so don't expect anything too serious too often. Mostly I'll be having fun throwing a guy built for - you guessed it - destruction into office life because that amuses me.
First and foremost, and I'm not putting this behind a cut because this is important, Drax is called "The Destroyer" for a reason. While he is generally a hero, he isn't very friendly, he isn't very nice, and he is more than willing to threaten you to get what he wants (and considering that he wants to make sure that those in his charge are strong enough to deal with whatever the world throws at them, he'll have no qualms threatening people with detention or worse with little provocation). If he likes you, he'll put up with more from you and you might start to understand how he works. He tends to like insightful people who are brave enough to try to put him in his place. Doing that might result in a quiet compliment or with him wishing he had his weapons.
So, basically, he is very possibly going to be a nasty bastard to you no matter what he thinks of you unless you really impress him. I will have fun being a nasty bastard to all, but let me know if it makes you uncomfortable and I'll be happy to tone it down. This will cause Drax to hate me, but I'm the real one here so he can bite me.
Anyway, way back in the 70's, Marvel was looking to knock off of the work Jack Kirby was doing with his Fourth World books at DC, so they came up with some cosmic god-types. They lived on Titan, the moon of Saturn. One of these Titans (because Marvel wasn't creative enough to call them something catchier like "New Gods") was a really bad guy named Darkseid Thanos. Thanos was obsessed with Death. No, seriously, the personification of Death (the SKELETAL personification) is his girlfriend. Creepy. Thanos came to Earth to be evil, some guy named Arthur Douglas and his family spotted Thanos, Thanos wanted to make sure that nobody on Earth could report seeing him so he killed the family.
Thanos's father, a generally good godlike alien named Mentor, resurrected and reshaped Arthur using the ground of the Earth itself. He then became a really powerful being called Drax the Destroyer. His mission? Destroy Thanos. Gotta love simplicity.
Drax failed at this a bunch of times, succeeded once only to see Thanos resurrected, served as a cosmic patrolman, and died a bunch of times. Upon each death, he was reborn in a slightly different form. Some forms were stronger, some were dumber, some had more powers, all of them until the last one had him wearing a skullcap/cape ensemble and the biggest belt buckle you'll see outside of Texas. His most recent form, after dying at the hands of some dangerous alien criminals who happened to land on Earth, is the lean, mean, tatooed, leather pants-wearing destroying machine you see in my icons.
In the recent mini-series, Annihilation, the universe went to war when an extradimensional threat named Annihilus decided to destroy everything in existence. Annihilus's forces, deemed the Annihilation Wave, started the war by destroying the planet cluster Xandar, home of the space police called the Nova Corps. Only one Nova survived and Drax - who just so happened to be near Xandar at the time - decided to train him in how to use his power against the Wave since it was safer to be behind somebody with that much power and because it got him on the right path towards Thanos. Thanks to Drax's guidance, Nova was able to lead an army against Annihilus. During this time, Drax was being tailed by a sociopathic young girl named Cammi whom he showed some affection for (by not killing her and by abandoning her several times, but the brat was persistent and kept catching up).
The mini-series ends with Drax's mission seemingly complete and his leaving for parts unknown now that he had no purpose defining his life.
I suggest that when Drax disappears, he ends up in Fandom. He has no driving purpose in his life with Thanos seemingly dead, and he recently had experience with both teaching and with children, so he decided to give Fandom a shot.
I mentioned "threats" before. Drax finds threats to be very effective. At the beginning of his mentorship of Nova, Nova needed to focus his newfound power without it driving him insane. Drax told Nova that he WOULD do it because if he didn't, Drax would kill him. It worked.
Drax understands that in a school, that would be inappropriate. Principal Washburn would be cross with him. How she could possibly keep Drax in line is unclear, but, c'mon, you don't mess with Zoe.
So at Fandom, Drax's first and most frequent threat will be detention. He'll play fairly fast and loose with these - I'll e-mail you and make it clear in narrative that the conversation is leading in that direction before giving one out - and it will please him a little. He will work his way up the ladder, though. He'll freely throw around threats of suspension or expulsion, but you should know that those threats will never go through without plenty of OOC communication first.
There is a theoretical chance that Drax could threaten violence, but he's smart enough to know that he would get away with it once at best against a student before getting fired, so I wouldn't count on it happening.
Faculty members may not be so lucky.
Drax's powers are pretty simple. He's really quite strong and he's rather invulnerable. Not as strong nor as invulnerable as Tick was, but he has an edge that makes up for that. Simply put, he is The Destroyer. He was created for combat with, basically, gods. He's an excellent fighter with a keen focus and a cunning mind. He's definitely not unbeatable in a fight, but he can make you hurt a lot if he's determined.
While he's excellent in hand-to-hand fighting and good with guns (especially ludicrously oversized comic book guns), Drax in his current form likes to fight with simple, sharp knives. Of course, those have to be stored at home or in the weapons locker, which doesn't please him at all. Detentions are now his knives. He will unsheathe them if you make him.
He's also fairly experienced with flying spaceships at this point. There's no reason to believe that he's the best pilot around by any means, but he can get from point A to point B.
Finally, while I've just described at length a character whose basic purpose is to be a really powerful badass, I'm still a player who loves crack, so don't expect anything too serious too often. Mostly I'll be having fun throwing a guy built for - you guessed it - destruction into office life because that amuses me.