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Player's Name: Kaitie
Contact info: AIM - RedConfession, Plurk - RedConfession
LJ: Red_Confession
Character: the Midnighter
Canon: The Authority
Version: Comics continuity
Canon Point: Just after The Authority Volume 3, Issue 14, a few days after killing Jenny Fractal
Age: Unknown (around 30s)
Gender: Male
History: Good Wiki here
Personality: When one thinks of a superhero, a guy like Midnighter typically doesn’t come to mind. Sure, he’s a costumed, card-carrying superhero, but that’s where most similarities end. The Midnighter is a self-proclaimed asshole, a man who has a brain to mouth filter but often chooses not to use it, as saying what’s on his mind is usually most satisfying. He also doesn’t censor himself, and curse words are frequently found in his vocabulary.
More importantly, unlike his better known counterparts, he is not only quick to use violence, he revels in it. Midnighter is happiest when he has a room full of bad guys he can crush, slice, or break until their hearts stop beating. He’s also the team’s torture expert, knowing and having no inhibitions using several block ops torture techniques on anyone unfortunate enough to be captured by his team. If he’s in a situation where he can’t punch things, he’s been known to daydream about it to relieve his frustration about not being able actually to do it. That being said, he’s not one for violence for violence sake. Though he believes most things can be solved through violence, he isn’t one to start a brawl if the team is pursuing diplomatic ends.
For a man that thrives in violence and carnage, Midnighter has soft spot for children, and not just his adopted daughter, Jenny. He has a soft spot for any and all children. In one adventure where he was sent back in time to kill Hitler, he went out of his way to make some German children, brainwashed by the Hitler Youth culture, happy, even if that meant pretending to be a Nazi, something that didn’t sit too well with him. In another adventure, Midnighter went out of his way to locate a child’s lost kitten (sure it was a bet from Jack, but the bet only involved “do something for the everyday person” and not specifically children).
Also in contest with his violent nature, Midnighter is a family man, with a husband of over 10 years (though in the RP it will be more like 5), and an adopted daughter, Jenny Quantum. Apollo and Midnighter had been together since their rebirth and had gone through so much together, and as a result Midnighter knows Apollo better than he knows himself. He knows when to help his husband and when to let his husband fight his own battles. Midnighter knows his husband will always have his back, and Apollo is the only person in the world he fully trusts. That isn’t to say the two haven’t had their spats and near break ups, but in the end their love for one another wins in the end.
With his own daughter, he’s not the perfect dad but he tries his best. He’s shown attempting (with varying degrees of success) to cut back on his cursing, and has foregone sex at least twice so he and his husband can comfort their frightened little girl. He sacrificed his teammates for a while to ensure his daughter’s safety when the Carrier was compromised by the G7 governments. Midnighter even goes so far as to cut himself off from his husband and daughter for three years because he believes that being away from them will save them from a dystopian future.
Something he doesn’t have respect for is authority figures (which is fairly ironic for a man in a group called “the Authority”). He finds politicans and world leaders to be villains actively working to destroy the world, and has a disdain for corporations for similar reasons. Midnighter doesn’t even seem to like police too much, most likely from his time living in alleyways prior to joining the Authority. Despite that, he does have respect for the everyday man: the blue collar worker struggling to support their families, children being used as laborers in third world countries, the little old lady crossing the street. And that’s why he’s a member of “the Authority”-because he strongly believes in the mission statement of building a better world. He genuinely wants a better world for everyone, and just thinks that people only need a push in the right direction to achieve it.
Fears: Loss. Loss of his husband, his child, his teammates, or his memories (again). He’s a man who has already lost who he was once, and if he had any sort of knowledge that he lost his memories again it would be devastating to him, even if he can’t place why. And though he’s often seen as a killing machine by strangers and colleagues, he’s also a family man. Apollo is the person he’s known the longest on this planet, literally from the moment he was “born again,” and by far the most important person in his life. In the end, nothing else matters other than Apollo. The same can be said for his adoptive daughter, Jenny. Though Jenny may be one of the most powerful people in the world, it doesn’t stop him from protecting her the same way any father would protect their child.
He also has lingering feelings of guilt for killing his daughter’s twin, Jenny Fractal, in her cradle. Though he knew he had to do it to save both his child and the world, it didn’t make the decision any less difficult, and he hadn’t had a chance to come to terms with it before arriving.
Weaknesses: The Midnighter’s fantastic abilities are all due to implants. These implants have been shown on multiple occasions to be capable of being shut down, either by psychic manipulation or nanobots. Also, thanks to those implants it’s possible to manipulate Midnighter to do things against his will by rewiring them, again either by psychic forces or nanobots.
He also doesn’t play that well with others. Midnighter will do whatever he feels is right, and though he can work well in a group if asked, he will just as easily go off on his own to do his own thing. This can be considered a strength, but if he has information that is important to the others or something to that effect, it can easily screw over everyone else.
Mundane Strengths/Abilities: When the Midnighter was created by Henry Bendix, he was designed to be a master of combat. As a result, he has knowledge of various weapons ranging from shuriken to tanks, and keeps custom-shaped shuriken’s and forearm-sized battle staves on him at all times when in costume. Despite this, he’s primarily a hand-to-hand fighter, preferring to get up close and personal when he fights. He’s been shown going up against over 30 men and killing them all with ease.
Midnighter, when he wants to be, can also be quite stealthy. He’s been shown infiltrating, and was only “caught” when he wanted the enemy to see him. But typically he isn’t used for stealth purposes-he’s usually the one on the team to get their hands dirty. He knows multiple black ops interrogation techniques, and ways to horribly mutilate a man without killing him, and isn’t afraid to use any of them to get what he wants.
Sensitivity/Magical Ability: In addition to his natural skills, Midnighter has multiple implants designed to not only augment his body to superhuman levels, but to also grant him special abilities. The ability he uses the most often would be his battle precognition, which enables him to run through every possible battle scenario in a blink of an eye, and build a plan of attack around it. He’s also shown he can use that ability in reverse-pick an outcome and work backwards to achieve that outcome. However, this ability will come to fail him in the house of doors, much to his frustration. Another implant allows him to see the abilities of those around him simply by looking at him.
The rest of his implants allow him to push his body past normal human limits-he has enhanced speed (though nothing compared to a speedster), strength (he can’t lift a car over his head, but he can tear a man apart with his bare hands), reflexes, and coordination. A different set of implants enable him to have a greater ability to take pain, to the extent where he is able to undergo major surgery wide awake.
His blood has healing properties enabling himself (and others through blood transfusions) to heal at a quicker rate. This healing factor will keep him from catching a cold or let AIDS stay in his system for longer than 6 weeks, but does not function that quickly in terms of physical injury. If Midnighter gets seriously injured (ex. breaks an arm, gets a hole blown into his chest), he will require medical attention and be out of commission for a few days. This healing factor also allows Midnighter to go for (at the very least) months on end without eating or using the facilities. Should anything happen to his original heart, he does have a second one in case of emergencies.
Supply List:
- Midnighter costume consisting of: leather gloves with small spikes at the knuckles, leather helm, leather coat, leather boots, leather belt with roundish black belt buckle, leather outfit not dissimilar to Batman’s, but with a crescent moon where the Bat logo would be.
- Forearm-sized leather staff for beating idiots
- Small shuriken for stabbing idiots
Game Transfers: n/a
Sample RP post: Midnighter wasn’t in the habit of waking up in strange places, but this was definitely not the carrier. Not unless the carrier had a previously unknown Victorian wing to it. Given the carrier’s size and the fact they hadn’t managed to explore it all it was possible, but the fact that the carrier was an alien creation it incredibly improbable, unless that alien race had some sort of Sherlock Holmes obsession.
As he rose to his feet, he felt the smooth leather on his skin, and the tug of gravity on the tails of his black leather trenchcoat. Okay, so he was still in his costume. Definitely not his choice of bedwear--he had always been an “in the buff” guy until his daughter started wanting to share the bed at night, so he’d been forced to buy a pair of sweat pants. That meant he hadn’t fallen asleep next to his husband.
Then what exactly was the last thing he remembered? Closing his eyes, he remembered that the city of Manila had spontaneously started raining fire, and the Authority went in to save it from burning to the ground. He had been on evacuation duty, ushering as many Filipinos through the carrier door as he could bear. There had been a man who chose to run from him. Of course the runner was no match for Midnighter’s desire to punch something, and as quickly as you could say “sucker” the man had been cornered.
It became clear that the guy had something to do with the fact half of Manila was on fire, and just as clear the man had no plans of talking. Midnighter distinctly remembered thinking And they say there’s not a Santa Claus. A smile crept across his face as he remembered the way it felt when his shuriken sliced into the man’s flesh, cutting skin, muscle, and bone until his arm had been completely severed from its body. The other arm soon joined it. The left leg was a few cuts shy of joining the arms when the man finally gave up everything. The superhero looked down at himself. No blood on his costume.
Fuck, did any of that happen at all?
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw movement. Not willing to take any chances, he grabbed the stranger by the throat and pulled him close, so his face was within an inch of there’s. His voice growled slightly as he asked “Where the fuck am I? Who brought me here? Talk fast because I’m in a spectacularly pissy mood.”
Contact info: AIM - RedConfession, Plurk - RedConfession
LJ: Red_Confession
Character: the Midnighter
Canon: The Authority
Version: Comics continuity
Canon Point: Just after The Authority Volume 3, Issue 14, a few days after killing Jenny Fractal
Age: Unknown (around 30s)
Gender: Male
History: Good Wiki here
Personality: When one thinks of a superhero, a guy like Midnighter typically doesn’t come to mind. Sure, he’s a costumed, card-carrying superhero, but that’s where most similarities end. The Midnighter is a self-proclaimed asshole, a man who has a brain to mouth filter but often chooses not to use it, as saying what’s on his mind is usually most satisfying. He also doesn’t censor himself, and curse words are frequently found in his vocabulary.
More importantly, unlike his better known counterparts, he is not only quick to use violence, he revels in it. Midnighter is happiest when he has a room full of bad guys he can crush, slice, or break until their hearts stop beating. He’s also the team’s torture expert, knowing and having no inhibitions using several block ops torture techniques on anyone unfortunate enough to be captured by his team. If he’s in a situation where he can’t punch things, he’s been known to daydream about it to relieve his frustration about not being able actually to do it. That being said, he’s not one for violence for violence sake. Though he believes most things can be solved through violence, he isn’t one to start a brawl if the team is pursuing diplomatic ends.
For a man that thrives in violence and carnage, Midnighter has soft spot for children, and not just his adopted daughter, Jenny. He has a soft spot for any and all children. In one adventure where he was sent back in time to kill Hitler, he went out of his way to make some German children, brainwashed by the Hitler Youth culture, happy, even if that meant pretending to be a Nazi, something that didn’t sit too well with him. In another adventure, Midnighter went out of his way to locate a child’s lost kitten (sure it was a bet from Jack, but the bet only involved “do something for the everyday person” and not specifically children).
Also in contest with his violent nature, Midnighter is a family man, with a husband of over 10 years (though in the RP it will be more like 5), and an adopted daughter, Jenny Quantum. Apollo and Midnighter had been together since their rebirth and had gone through so much together, and as a result Midnighter knows Apollo better than he knows himself. He knows when to help his husband and when to let his husband fight his own battles. Midnighter knows his husband will always have his back, and Apollo is the only person in the world he fully trusts. That isn’t to say the two haven’t had their spats and near break ups, but in the end their love for one another wins in the end.
With his own daughter, he’s not the perfect dad but he tries his best. He’s shown attempting (with varying degrees of success) to cut back on his cursing, and has foregone sex at least twice so he and his husband can comfort their frightened little girl. He sacrificed his teammates for a while to ensure his daughter’s safety when the Carrier was compromised by the G7 governments. Midnighter even goes so far as to cut himself off from his husband and daughter for three years because he believes that being away from them will save them from a dystopian future.
Something he doesn’t have respect for is authority figures (which is fairly ironic for a man in a group called “the Authority”). He finds politicans and world leaders to be villains actively working to destroy the world, and has a disdain for corporations for similar reasons. Midnighter doesn’t even seem to like police too much, most likely from his time living in alleyways prior to joining the Authority. Despite that, he does have respect for the everyday man: the blue collar worker struggling to support their families, children being used as laborers in third world countries, the little old lady crossing the street. And that’s why he’s a member of “the Authority”-because he strongly believes in the mission statement of building a better world. He genuinely wants a better world for everyone, and just thinks that people only need a push in the right direction to achieve it.
Fears: Loss. Loss of his husband, his child, his teammates, or his memories (again). He’s a man who has already lost who he was once, and if he had any sort of knowledge that he lost his memories again it would be devastating to him, even if he can’t place why. And though he’s often seen as a killing machine by strangers and colleagues, he’s also a family man. Apollo is the person he’s known the longest on this planet, literally from the moment he was “born again,” and by far the most important person in his life. In the end, nothing else matters other than Apollo. The same can be said for his adoptive daughter, Jenny. Though Jenny may be one of the most powerful people in the world, it doesn’t stop him from protecting her the same way any father would protect their child.
He also has lingering feelings of guilt for killing his daughter’s twin, Jenny Fractal, in her cradle. Though he knew he had to do it to save both his child and the world, it didn’t make the decision any less difficult, and he hadn’t had a chance to come to terms with it before arriving.
Weaknesses: The Midnighter’s fantastic abilities are all due to implants. These implants have been shown on multiple occasions to be capable of being shut down, either by psychic manipulation or nanobots. Also, thanks to those implants it’s possible to manipulate Midnighter to do things against his will by rewiring them, again either by psychic forces or nanobots.
He also doesn’t play that well with others. Midnighter will do whatever he feels is right, and though he can work well in a group if asked, he will just as easily go off on his own to do his own thing. This can be considered a strength, but if he has information that is important to the others or something to that effect, it can easily screw over everyone else.
Mundane Strengths/Abilities: When the Midnighter was created by Henry Bendix, he was designed to be a master of combat. As a result, he has knowledge of various weapons ranging from shuriken to tanks, and keeps custom-shaped shuriken’s and forearm-sized battle staves on him at all times when in costume. Despite this, he’s primarily a hand-to-hand fighter, preferring to get up close and personal when he fights. He’s been shown going up against over 30 men and killing them all with ease.
Midnighter, when he wants to be, can also be quite stealthy. He’s been shown infiltrating, and was only “caught” when he wanted the enemy to see him. But typically he isn’t used for stealth purposes-he’s usually the one on the team to get their hands dirty. He knows multiple black ops interrogation techniques, and ways to horribly mutilate a man without killing him, and isn’t afraid to use any of them to get what he wants.
Sensitivity/Magical Ability: In addition to his natural skills, Midnighter has multiple implants designed to not only augment his body to superhuman levels, but to also grant him special abilities. The ability he uses the most often would be his battle precognition, which enables him to run through every possible battle scenario in a blink of an eye, and build a plan of attack around it. He’s also shown he can use that ability in reverse-pick an outcome and work backwards to achieve that outcome. However, this ability will come to fail him in the house of doors, much to his frustration. Another implant allows him to see the abilities of those around him simply by looking at him.
The rest of his implants allow him to push his body past normal human limits-he has enhanced speed (though nothing compared to a speedster), strength (he can’t lift a car over his head, but he can tear a man apart with his bare hands), reflexes, and coordination. A different set of implants enable him to have a greater ability to take pain, to the extent where he is able to undergo major surgery wide awake.
His blood has healing properties enabling himself (and others through blood transfusions) to heal at a quicker rate. This healing factor will keep him from catching a cold or let AIDS stay in his system for longer than 6 weeks, but does not function that quickly in terms of physical injury. If Midnighter gets seriously injured (ex. breaks an arm, gets a hole blown into his chest), he will require medical attention and be out of commission for a few days. This healing factor also allows Midnighter to go for (at the very least) months on end without eating or using the facilities. Should anything happen to his original heart, he does have a second one in case of emergencies.
Supply List:
- Midnighter costume consisting of: leather gloves with small spikes at the knuckles, leather helm, leather coat, leather boots, leather belt with roundish black belt buckle, leather outfit not dissimilar to Batman’s, but with a crescent moon where the Bat logo would be.
- Forearm-sized leather staff for beating idiots
- Small shuriken for stabbing idiots
Game Transfers: n/a
Sample RP post: Midnighter wasn’t in the habit of waking up in strange places, but this was definitely not the carrier. Not unless the carrier had a previously unknown Victorian wing to it. Given the carrier’s size and the fact they hadn’t managed to explore it all it was possible, but the fact that the carrier was an alien creation it incredibly improbable, unless that alien race had some sort of Sherlock Holmes obsession.
As he rose to his feet, he felt the smooth leather on his skin, and the tug of gravity on the tails of his black leather trenchcoat. Okay, so he was still in his costume. Definitely not his choice of bedwear--he had always been an “in the buff” guy until his daughter started wanting to share the bed at night, so he’d been forced to buy a pair of sweat pants. That meant he hadn’t fallen asleep next to his husband.
Then what exactly was the last thing he remembered? Closing his eyes, he remembered that the city of Manila had spontaneously started raining fire, and the Authority went in to save it from burning to the ground. He had been on evacuation duty, ushering as many Filipinos through the carrier door as he could bear. There had been a man who chose to run from him. Of course the runner was no match for Midnighter’s desire to punch something, and as quickly as you could say “sucker” the man had been cornered.
It became clear that the guy had something to do with the fact half of Manila was on fire, and just as clear the man had no plans of talking. Midnighter distinctly remembered thinking And they say there’s not a Santa Claus. A smile crept across his face as he remembered the way it felt when his shuriken sliced into the man’s flesh, cutting skin, muscle, and bone until his arm had been completely severed from its body. The other arm soon joined it. The left leg was a few cuts shy of joining the arms when the man finally gave up everything. The superhero looked down at himself. No blood on his costume.
Fuck, did any of that happen at all?
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw movement. Not willing to take any chances, he grabbed the stranger by the throat and pulled him close, so his face was within an inch of there’s. His voice growled slightly as he asked “Where the fuck am I? Who brought me here? Talk fast because I’m in a spectacularly pissy mood.”