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Your Name: Ari
Contact: DerpasaurusGao
LiveJournal: digi_dragon
Timezone: GMT -6
Do you have other characters in this game? No
Character
Name: Madeline “Veil” Berry
Fandom: Avengers Academy
Age: 17
Physical description: Here.
Overall, she’s a girl of average build at an average height; nothing too special.
Background: Background at the Marvel Wiki.
To add on, Maddy’s main focus in the story has been to find a way to make sure she doesn’t discorporate in the future. She tries to get along with the other members of her team -- Reptil, Finesse, Striker, Mettle, and Hazmat -- and even struck up a brief romantic relation with Striker, though it was mostly due to her own feelings of rejection after realizing Justice, who she had a teacher crush on, had a girlfriend. Despite her own doubts and insecurities, she tries to be a contributing member of the team.
Generally she’s been relaying on other people -- Dr. Pym, the other scientists, even potentially Norman Osborn after she, Mettle, and Hazmat saw him again -- to try and save her from her eventual tragic fate but also desperate to prove her own worth. This lead to her attempting to bring back Janet Van Dyne, who Dr. Pym seemingly found in Underspace and had tried to revive. Keeping her form alive in a containment field, he eventually conceded that it was better if she remained dead, for he knew she wouldn’t want to be brought back like that. But Maddy listened in on this and decided if she could just do this right and bring back Janet herself, it would make up for all the mistakes she’d made thus far at the Academy. If she showed them she deserved to stay, Dr. Pym could still try and fix her.
Yet this was not Janet. This was another figure trapped in the Underworld, Carina Walters, the wife of Korvac, a “mad demigod” who nearly killed everyone in the past. He had previously been thought dead, and his “wife” had hidden herself to escape the tyrannical man, choosing nonexistence over a life with him. While the Avengers reported in to fight the crazed demigod, Maddy and the other students went with Carina to hide in a safe room. She offered them a proposition, saying that she could bring bodies their older bodies from various timelines here to fight Korvac -- for these children had the potential to become extremely powerful heroes. They accepted, and their young minds were transplanted into their older bodies. Though she felt strong and powerful, she could feel that she was still dying in this body -- and in fact unable to even touch people -- just as some of her friends were less than pleased with their potential futures.
Regardless, they went to fight Korvac, and when a body fell -- like for Striker, Mettle, and Finesse -- a different one would be brought to continue the fighting. Carina told Maddy and Hazmat that they were the key to defeating Korvac. Being nearly a ghost, she was able to slip her molecules between his and take control of his body, holding him while Hazmat, prepared to attack. She pulled away at the last moment, and Korvac was killed. Save for Reptil for the moment, the students all returned to normal, and diagnostics were done on all of them. And to Dr. Pym’s surprise, Maddy was no longer dying-- at least, not at the rate she was before. While one with Korvac, she could use his God-like powers to save herself, fixing her body’s dissolving state. She finally accepted something: That she had to save herself, and that with more time, she could have done so much more, for herself and the world.
The group slowly began to recover, and between a superhero prom and a failed mission against the Sinister Six, they had their ups and downs, the lowest point being meeting another person who had been tortured by Norman Osborn, a boy named Jeremy Briggs who could change any kind of matter into anything else. He, like them, was almost a member of the Academy, but he showed improvement in an isolated state. The teen was borderline sociopathic, they discovered, after seeing that he arranged to try and get the others to leave the Academy, forgo the ideas of good and evil and join him, using their powers for personal gain. Despite all of them working together, they could not even stand up to Jeremy, and he let them leave.
This event proved to be a lingering fear regarding how they would fair in real war situations, and they would find out soon after. When a God-like being simply known as the Serpent started attacking the Earth and sending his Worthies-- villains and heroes possessed by the warriors in seven mystical hammers-- to destroy the world, the heroes of the Earth were spread thin and the Avengers Academy had to be called in to help evacuate the burning New York. With only Tigra by their sides, the kids went to war, rushing the injured through Dimension Doors that lead to hospitals. And this war is only just beginning.
Point in Story: As this is the most recent comic, I am going to be taking Maddy from the Fear Itself storyline which involves Serpent and his war on the Earth. She will, from her point of view, be hurrying through a Dimension Door when she blacks out and when she comes to will
Personality: First and foremost, Maddy is and always has been the shy social outcast. She’s been the girl dreaming of being liked and loved, but not ever doing anything about it. She clearly is anxious and nervous about what people think, especially given that her powers first manifested after she was greatly embarrassed in school. Even at the Academy at first, she felt awkward and nervous around her new classmates, and she wanted to prove that she was worthy to be helped; this need to prove something shows that that’s how she thought life went.
It also shows that Maddy has an insane inferiority complex. The more she messes up, the less of a positive opinion she has of herself. This, perhaps, feeds into her belief that she can’t help herself and needs others to save her-- or maybe even causes it. However, as time goes on, she not overcomes this, but starts to believe it false. As she does things right -- especially after Korvac -- Maddy starts to have more faith in herself and it extends to helping the other students as well. Definitely her sense of self is determined by her victories and defeats.
Despite all these insecurities and worries, Maddy is a genuinely caring teenage girl, always trying to help her new friends...even if she can’t or has no experience with them. Hazmat in particular she’s been shown to try and assist with, but she can’t possibly understand the level of isolation the other girls feels, for she’s forever confined to a hazmat suit, thus most of her attempts fail. This also extends to Striker, though she seems to have better luck with him; in general, she feels drawn to those who have suffered greatly or have been abused, most likely echoing her experiences with Osborn’s torture, and she greatly wants to help out. It may again connect to her need to help to feel worth something. At times, she has bursts of confidence and the more comfortable she gets with people, the more she can joke around and let go of her fears.
Lastly, Maddy is interested greatly in love and romance, be it her own -- failed, regarding her teacher crush -- or her friends. She’s the kind of girl who would love a romantic comedy or get involved in the lives of those around her just for the show. She’s got a bit of a hero worship personality as well, given her praise for Ms. Marvel.
Powers/Abilities: Maddy can turn her body into various gases. Any kind of gas out there, she can become it, from fog to ethanol. She has, at one point, managed to turn herself into kinds of glasses, but that was under extreme torture from Norman Osborn. It is safe to say that one day she may be able to do that on her own, but it is definitely not something that will happen in the near future.
Items you're bringing with you: Quite likely, her costume. If she’s not wearing it, Maddy has her costume with her all the time. It comes with the whole “school for troubled superheroes” thing. A probably useless communicator.
Samples
First Person POV (Network Post): Um, excuse me? Can-- can anyone out there hear me? Is this on? Why won’t anyone answer with the other...? [A young teenage voice sounds over the com system, obviously nervous, a little ragged; she’s breathing heavily and almost panicked.] Can any of the Avengers hear me? This is-- um, this is Veil, reporting, the Dimension Door put me somewhere-- somewhere else, can--
[A deep, deep breath.]
Can anyone get me back to Washington D.C.? I need to...help. [So hopeless and small; she’s supposed to be a hero. Yeah right.]
Third Person POV (Log Post): Men and women. Children. All screaming, running, and Maddy-- no, Veil right now-- and her classmates were the only ones to help. Funny, the group of near villains against a legion of robots as the capital burned. God, the capital, and what if no one made it out? The entire world was dying and it was up to her-- up to them to fix it and--
And quickly, Veil turned her body to fog as a round of bullets flew at her. Focus, Maddy! With this kind of battlefield, she could not afford to get distracted. She could do this. She’d done it before against Korvac, and though it hadn’t been her body, it had been her mind that defeated the demigod.
I’ve beaten a demigod, she repeated slowly, fading back in as Mettle’s red form crashed into the mech baring down on her. I can do this. If only she really believed that.
A moan from her right signaled her to a man bleeding heavily, laying against the ruins of a stone building. She gasped and, still half-formed, flew over to him, because it would be slower.
“Can you stand?” She asked him, her voice caught in her throat as her eyes lingered on his oddly-positioned arm, his blood-soaked shirt. “I can get you to-- a hospital.”
With difficulty, she got him on his feet and slowly, together, they inched to a Dimension Door area, a place where she could get the injured civilian to safety. Not safety, she reminded herself. Nowhere is safe anymore.
Through the door and she was, for a moment, in a bustling hospital, but far away from the carnage and from her responsibilities. As a nurse ushered the injured man away from her without even a breathless thank you, she wondered for a moment if she could just stay there and not go back, because she was just a kid and she just made a mistake and went with the wrong person and suddenly she was in danger of being a dangerous villain and--
And that was absurd. She had to fight. Her friends were out there. She turned to leave and go back, ran into the light and--
And everything went black.
Contact: DerpasaurusGao
LiveJournal: digi_dragon
Timezone: GMT -6
Do you have other characters in this game? No
Character
Name: Madeline “Veil” Berry
Fandom: Avengers Academy
Age: 17
Physical description: Here.
Overall, she’s a girl of average build at an average height; nothing too special.
Background: Background at the Marvel Wiki.
To add on, Maddy’s main focus in the story has been to find a way to make sure she doesn’t discorporate in the future. She tries to get along with the other members of her team -- Reptil, Finesse, Striker, Mettle, and Hazmat -- and even struck up a brief romantic relation with Striker, though it was mostly due to her own feelings of rejection after realizing Justice, who she had a teacher crush on, had a girlfriend. Despite her own doubts and insecurities, she tries to be a contributing member of the team.
Generally she’s been relaying on other people -- Dr. Pym, the other scientists, even potentially Norman Osborn after she, Mettle, and Hazmat saw him again -- to try and save her from her eventual tragic fate but also desperate to prove her own worth. This lead to her attempting to bring back Janet Van Dyne, who Dr. Pym seemingly found in Underspace and had tried to revive. Keeping her form alive in a containment field, he eventually conceded that it was better if she remained dead, for he knew she wouldn’t want to be brought back like that. But Maddy listened in on this and decided if she could just do this right and bring back Janet herself, it would make up for all the mistakes she’d made thus far at the Academy. If she showed them she deserved to stay, Dr. Pym could still try and fix her.
Yet this was not Janet. This was another figure trapped in the Underworld, Carina Walters, the wife of Korvac, a “mad demigod” who nearly killed everyone in the past. He had previously been thought dead, and his “wife” had hidden herself to escape the tyrannical man, choosing nonexistence over a life with him. While the Avengers reported in to fight the crazed demigod, Maddy and the other students went with Carina to hide in a safe room. She offered them a proposition, saying that she could bring bodies their older bodies from various timelines here to fight Korvac -- for these children had the potential to become extremely powerful heroes. They accepted, and their young minds were transplanted into their older bodies. Though she felt strong and powerful, she could feel that she was still dying in this body -- and in fact unable to even touch people -- just as some of her friends were less than pleased with their potential futures.
Regardless, they went to fight Korvac, and when a body fell -- like for Striker, Mettle, and Finesse -- a different one would be brought to continue the fighting. Carina told Maddy and Hazmat that they were the key to defeating Korvac. Being nearly a ghost, she was able to slip her molecules between his and take control of his body, holding him while Hazmat, prepared to attack. She pulled away at the last moment, and Korvac was killed. Save for Reptil for the moment, the students all returned to normal, and diagnostics were done on all of them. And to Dr. Pym’s surprise, Maddy was no longer dying-- at least, not at the rate she was before. While one with Korvac, she could use his God-like powers to save herself, fixing her body’s dissolving state. She finally accepted something: That she had to save herself, and that with more time, she could have done so much more, for herself and the world.
The group slowly began to recover, and between a superhero prom and a failed mission against the Sinister Six, they had their ups and downs, the lowest point being meeting another person who had been tortured by Norman Osborn, a boy named Jeremy Briggs who could change any kind of matter into anything else. He, like them, was almost a member of the Academy, but he showed improvement in an isolated state. The teen was borderline sociopathic, they discovered, after seeing that he arranged to try and get the others to leave the Academy, forgo the ideas of good and evil and join him, using their powers for personal gain. Despite all of them working together, they could not even stand up to Jeremy, and he let them leave.
This event proved to be a lingering fear regarding how they would fair in real war situations, and they would find out soon after. When a God-like being simply known as the Serpent started attacking the Earth and sending his Worthies-- villains and heroes possessed by the warriors in seven mystical hammers-- to destroy the world, the heroes of the Earth were spread thin and the Avengers Academy had to be called in to help evacuate the burning New York. With only Tigra by their sides, the kids went to war, rushing the injured through Dimension Doors that lead to hospitals. And this war is only just beginning.
Point in Story: As this is the most recent comic, I am going to be taking Maddy from the Fear Itself storyline which involves Serpent and his war on the Earth. She will, from her point of view, be hurrying through a Dimension Door when she blacks out and when she comes to will
Personality: First and foremost, Maddy is and always has been the shy social outcast. She’s been the girl dreaming of being liked and loved, but not ever doing anything about it. She clearly is anxious and nervous about what people think, especially given that her powers first manifested after she was greatly embarrassed in school. Even at the Academy at first, she felt awkward and nervous around her new classmates, and she wanted to prove that she was worthy to be helped; this need to prove something shows that that’s how she thought life went.
It also shows that Maddy has an insane inferiority complex. The more she messes up, the less of a positive opinion she has of herself. This, perhaps, feeds into her belief that she can’t help herself and needs others to save her-- or maybe even causes it. However, as time goes on, she not overcomes this, but starts to believe it false. As she does things right -- especially after Korvac -- Maddy starts to have more faith in herself and it extends to helping the other students as well. Definitely her sense of self is determined by her victories and defeats.
Despite all these insecurities and worries, Maddy is a genuinely caring teenage girl, always trying to help her new friends...even if she can’t or has no experience with them. Hazmat in particular she’s been shown to try and assist with, but she can’t possibly understand the level of isolation the other girls feels, for she’s forever confined to a hazmat suit, thus most of her attempts fail. This also extends to Striker, though she seems to have better luck with him; in general, she feels drawn to those who have suffered greatly or have been abused, most likely echoing her experiences with Osborn’s torture, and she greatly wants to help out. It may again connect to her need to help to feel worth something. At times, she has bursts of confidence and the more comfortable she gets with people, the more she can joke around and let go of her fears.
Lastly, Maddy is interested greatly in love and romance, be it her own -- failed, regarding her teacher crush -- or her friends. She’s the kind of girl who would love a romantic comedy or get involved in the lives of those around her just for the show. She’s got a bit of a hero worship personality as well, given her praise for Ms. Marvel.
Powers/Abilities: Maddy can turn her body into various gases. Any kind of gas out there, she can become it, from fog to ethanol. She has, at one point, managed to turn herself into kinds of glasses, but that was under extreme torture from Norman Osborn. It is safe to say that one day she may be able to do that on her own, but it is definitely not something that will happen in the near future.
Items you're bringing with you: Quite likely, her costume. If she’s not wearing it, Maddy has her costume with her all the time. It comes with the whole “school for troubled superheroes” thing. A probably useless communicator.
Samples
First Person POV (Network Post): Um, excuse me? Can-- can anyone out there hear me? Is this on? Why won’t anyone answer with the other...? [A young teenage voice sounds over the com system, obviously nervous, a little ragged; she’s breathing heavily and almost panicked.] Can any of the Avengers hear me? This is-- um, this is Veil, reporting, the Dimension Door put me somewhere-- somewhere else, can--
[A deep, deep breath.]
Can anyone get me back to Washington D.C.? I need to...help. [So hopeless and small; she’s supposed to be a hero. Yeah right.]
Third Person POV (Log Post): Men and women. Children. All screaming, running, and Maddy-- no, Veil right now-- and her classmates were the only ones to help. Funny, the group of near villains against a legion of robots as the capital burned. God, the capital, and what if no one made it out? The entire world was dying and it was up to her-- up to them to fix it and--
And quickly, Veil turned her body to fog as a round of bullets flew at her. Focus, Maddy! With this kind of battlefield, she could not afford to get distracted. She could do this. She’d done it before against Korvac, and though it hadn’t been her body, it had been her mind that defeated the demigod.
I’ve beaten a demigod, she repeated slowly, fading back in as Mettle’s red form crashed into the mech baring down on her. I can do this. If only she really believed that.
A moan from her right signaled her to a man bleeding heavily, laying against the ruins of a stone building. She gasped and, still half-formed, flew over to him, because it would be slower.
“Can you stand?” She asked him, her voice caught in her throat as her eyes lingered on his oddly-positioned arm, his blood-soaked shirt. “I can get you to-- a hospital.”
With difficulty, she got him on his feet and slowly, together, they inched to a Dimension Door area, a place where she could get the injured civilian to safety. Not safety, she reminded herself. Nowhere is safe anymore.
Through the door and she was, for a moment, in a bustling hospital, but far away from the carnage and from her responsibilities. As a nurse ushered the injured man away from her without even a breathless thank you, she wondered for a moment if she could just stay there and not go back, because she was just a kid and she just made a mistake and went with the wrong person and suddenly she was in danger of being a dangerous villain and--
And that was absurd. She had to fight. Her friends were out there. She turned to leave and go back, ran into the light and--
And everything went black.