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Player Information
Name: Cris
Age: 23
AIM SN: ffffudgesicles
email: ensigncris@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? A few!
Currrently Played Characters: N/A!
Reserve Link: Here!
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Wildstorm/The Authority
Canon Format: Comics
Character's Name: The Midnighter
Character's Age: 30-40s
What form will your character's NV take? It will look like this crescent phone. heh
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
Limited Precognition: With the aid of the supercomputer wired into his brain, Midnighter can predict every possible outcome of a fight in a split second (usually ranging around a million different scenarios per encounter), and choose to act on whichever scenario he prefers. He can be surprised by the introduction of outside variables, but again, because of the extraordinary speed at which he can process things, the time frame for taking advantage of this is extremely limited.
Cybernetic Enhancements: The technological upgrades don't stop with his brain; he's littered with cybernetic parts that make his body perform better than any normal human's, especially in the areas of balance, speed, strength and sensory range (he claims to have senses that there "aren't even names for," but was specifically shown to have an enhanced sense of smell, sight and hearing). He does not require food or water to live, and can survive for very, very short periods of time (minutes at most) in otherwise deadly environments like space.
Accelerated Healing: Midnighter can heal back from something as extreme as a broken neck, and had a secondary heart implanted just in case the first one ever gives out. His blood also contains antibodies that are nearly as badass as he is, as he says that he never has colds for "more than a few minutes," and he once contracted and subsequently beat AIDs in a matter of weeks.
Weapons: A myriad of knives and throwing stars (yes really), a pair of tonfas and a collapsible 3-piece staff.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Most of the Midnighter's past is shrouded in mystery (even from himself), all the way down to his unknown name. The only thing that's clear is that at some point he was inducted onto Henry Bendix' secret Stormwatch team (whether by his own volition or against his will is unknown) and while there he underwent a series of surgeries which imbued him with his set of powers - namely his ability to see a battle before it happens, and his cybernetically enhanced body.
The process erased his memories of his old life, and he - along with the other members of the new Stormwatch team (which only Henry Bendix ever knew about) - were given their code names and their new lives.
New lives which were over nearly as soon as they had started. On their first mission out, the entire team save Midnighter and another teammate called Apollo were killed in action. Presumed dead themselves, they escaped and lived on the streets of American cities for five years together, fighting crime and trying to stay a step ahead of Bendix. Sometime during this period, they started a relationship.
They finally stopped running after being discovered by the new leader of Stormwatch in Henry's old encrypted files. Initially mistaking them for Bendix' men and attacking, they stopped resisting after learning that he was actually dead and began to work with Stormwatch to wrest control of the Nevada Gardens from the U.S. government. Afterwords they were given new new names and lives, and went into retirement together for a time.
That is, until Jenny Sparks (the human personification of the spirit of the 20th Century) approached them about forming a new team called ~the Authority~. Midnighter worked as the strategist for the team, and (after awhile) learned to actually get along with people other than Apollo (... after a fashion, of course.) The Authority made themselves famous by stopping the dictator Kaizen Gamorra, then went on to beat back an invasion from a parallel Earth. That wasn't enough for them, though - they followed the invaders back to their dimension, and overthrew them there, sinking the entire country of Alternate Italy in order to get their point across.
Then they killed god.
Or close enough, anyway. They flew the Carrier into a giant alien organism (really, really giant) that had precipitated the advent of life on Earth and was seeking to return to expunge it, and Jenny Sparks electrocuted it right in the brain because that's how she rolls. Then the Century turned over and she died, only to be reincarnated as Jenny Quantum, the spirit of the 21st Century.
The Authority raced against the US Government and its droves of super-powered creations to find her, resulting in the hospital where she was born being wiped out and (presumably) everyone else inside dying. The Authority took baby Jenny in and casually began toppling despotic dictators and basically pissing off the whole world, so the US was pushed into creating an ultimate weapon (or just a dumb redneck named Seth surgically altered and given more powers the whole rest of the superhuman community put together). They they then unleashed him on the team, and Midnighter was the only one to escape, with baby Jenny in tow.
After Seth won, they replaced the Authority with an easily controlled puppet team, but there was one flaw in their plan!! (Okay, there were a lot.) Midnighter was still alive, and he was pissed. After a few months of planning and junk, he came back and killed pretty much everybody, freeing the real Authority, and then the government sent Seth in again.
This time he ripped out both of Midnighter's hearts and left him for dead, but Jenny depowered him and the Doctor pieced Midnighter back together. In celebration of their victory, Apollo and Midnighter got married, and adopted Jenny.
It was later revealed that Jenny wasn't the only one born at midnight on January 1st, 2000: her twin sister was also in the hospital when it was destroyed, and she lived, but was found by the Chinese government and put through a brutal, torturous assassination program despite still being an infant - they hoped to control her (and by extension the very spirit of the 21st century), but their brilliant plan backfired when they drove her to want to destroy the whole world instead. So that was great. Jenny Fractal (the twin) sought out Jenny Quantum and the rest of the Authority, killing her sister when it became clear that she wouldn't go along with the whole wiping-out-all-life-on-Earth thing, and the Midnighter was forced to jump back in time to kill her in infancy so that Quantum's consciousness could jump to Fractal's body and effectively end the threat. He did it, but it seriously rattled him.
Sick of the government's shit (because really come on now Wildstorm), the Authority took over the country and forced social and economic reform on it essentially at gunpoint. That didn't last too terribly long though, and the seeds of their downfall were sewn when an alternate Henry Bendix reappeared on the scene, with a shapeshifter masquerading as a version of Apollo from the future. The "Apollo" told him that the team ends up ruling the whole world with an iron fist, eventually culminating in Midnighter himself taking the reigns and obliterating the populace's right to a free will.
"Apollo" then pulls him in for a last kiss, transferring microscopic nanites through the saliva that then attached to the Midnighter's neural implants, allowing Bendix to remotely control him.
When the next big fight happened on the white house lawn, Midnighter took the opportunity it presented and abandoned the team - and his husband and daughter in the process. For the next three years he worked the streets again, avoiding Apollo and thinking that he had saved the world from himself. In the time that he was gone, Jenny began noticing that she was being watched, and used her reality manipulating abilities to age herself into a teenager before going out and browbeating the team back together to confront the little spied-on-by-Bendix problem she'd developed.
When they finally confronted Bendix, the Midnighter was forced to fight the team, and rather easily took out both the Doctor and Apollo before Angie entered his brain and disabled Henry's controls, freeing Midnighter up to rip out his spine with his bare hands. Because that's how he rolls.
All was back to normal for like thirty seconds, you know how comics be, and then he got kidnapped and had to team up with Grifter for some tentacle monster beatdowns, and he even got an inexplicable solo series in which he pretty much ditched Apollo again for a really poorly explained reason. He tried his hand at living a normal life (even though he and Apollo had already done that but I guess the writers forgot), but he decided it was balls and went back to the Carrier to live with his loving, equally psychotic family save the world a lot.
The end!
Point in Canon: Before the World's End crossover event.
Character Personality: At first glance, the Midnighter is an angry, brooding character with a foul mouth, growling and snarling his way through life as violently as possible. And he certainly is that, on some a lot of levels! But he's also a loving father and a husband, and a man who strives to make the world a better place, one dead body at a time.
He's highly intelligent and very observant, and his usual work with precognition makes him adept at predicting how smaller things will affect the larger picture even outside of fighting. He puts a lot of stock in probabilities and statistics, due in no small part to the computer bits in his brain, and while a part of him hates that he can no longer view the world in any sort of normal way, a bigger part of him revels in the things he's capable of doing because of it.
The Midnighter is largely unabashed by public displays of affection, and has never shied away from coddling his daughter, or holding his husband's hand, no matter where they are. He can be gruff and mean, blunt and distant and violent, but he can also wear his heart on his sleeve when around his family. Nothing makes him lose his cool faster than seeing Apollo in real danger that he can't overcome, and even though he spends most of his time arguing with the members of his team, it's his own way of showing affection for them (he and Apollo are constantly catty with each other as well.) He loves kids, and despite being so jaded towards the world and all of its people, he really does do the things he does in the hopes of making it a better place.
He has a lot of pride, and doesn't like asking for help when he goes into something with a mindset of accomplishing it himself (team efforts generally seem to be another matter entirely), and he tends to get pissed off when written off as the weakest member of their crazy group. He's also fairly prone to showing off, especially when you consider his favored opening speech of "I've fought our fight already, in my head, in a million different ways," and his usual method of getting his points across is to use extreme violence.
He's pretty big on revenge, especially for acts committed against his husband or daughter. He doesn't see himself as really being human anymore, and on occasion (when he's in a mood) will wallow in self-pity about being built for and solely capable of murder and mayhem. When he's not having these bouts of angst, he's actually got a sense of humor about how ridiculous their profession is.
He's also got a sense of vanity; he is constantly dying his hair either blond or brown (apparently, he thinks it's ridiculous for a guy called "The Midnighter" to be a redhead) and working out, despite the fact that his cybernetic enhancements could more than compensate for him if he were out of shape. He absolutely doesn't tolerate being ribbed about his sexual orientation from anyone but members of his team, and even tends to react violently to it (like the time he and Apollo put Kev in traction for calling them "a couple of poofs.") Otherwise, he sees absolutely no problem with attacking women just as readily he'd attack a man; he thinks chivalry can go fuck itself, and has never shied away from fighting dirty.
He started out very quiet, but over the years forced constant interaction with people other than Apollo has started to make him more talkative. Granted, it's still mostly sarcasm and quips, but what can you do?
Character Plans: The Authority, and Midnighter especially were extremely anti-Corporation. As soon as he figures out the deal with AGI and SERO I hope to have him promptly start sticking his nose where it doesn't belong!
Appearance/PB: A cheerful Midnighter. (When I get the time, I also plan to icon Daniel Craig for a maskless-Midnighter PB, since he so rarely took his mask off in the comics.)
Name: Cris
Age: 23
AIM SN: ffffudgesicles
email: ensigncris@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? A few!
Currrently Played Characters: N/A!
Reserve Link: Here!
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Wildstorm/The Authority
Canon Format: Comics
Character's Name: The Midnighter
Character's Age: 30-40s
What form will your character's NV take? It will look like this crescent phone. heh
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
Limited Precognition: With the aid of the supercomputer wired into his brain, Midnighter can predict every possible outcome of a fight in a split second (usually ranging around a million different scenarios per encounter), and choose to act on whichever scenario he prefers. He can be surprised by the introduction of outside variables, but again, because of the extraordinary speed at which he can process things, the time frame for taking advantage of this is extremely limited.
Cybernetic Enhancements: The technological upgrades don't stop with his brain; he's littered with cybernetic parts that make his body perform better than any normal human's, especially in the areas of balance, speed, strength and sensory range (he claims to have senses that there "aren't even names for," but was specifically shown to have an enhanced sense of smell, sight and hearing). He does not require food or water to live, and can survive for very, very short periods of time (minutes at most) in otherwise deadly environments like space.
Accelerated Healing: Midnighter can heal back from something as extreme as a broken neck, and had a secondary heart implanted just in case the first one ever gives out. His blood also contains antibodies that are nearly as badass as he is, as he says that he never has colds for "more than a few minutes," and he once contracted and subsequently beat AIDs in a matter of weeks.
Weapons: A myriad of knives and throwing stars (yes really), a pair of tonfas and a collapsible 3-piece staff.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Most of the Midnighter's past is shrouded in mystery (even from himself), all the way down to his unknown name. The only thing that's clear is that at some point he was inducted onto Henry Bendix' secret Stormwatch team (whether by his own volition or against his will is unknown) and while there he underwent a series of surgeries which imbued him with his set of powers - namely his ability to see a battle before it happens, and his cybernetically enhanced body.
The process erased his memories of his old life, and he - along with the other members of the new Stormwatch team (which only Henry Bendix ever knew about) - were given their code names and their new lives.
New lives which were over nearly as soon as they had started. On their first mission out, the entire team save Midnighter and another teammate called Apollo were killed in action. Presumed dead themselves, they escaped and lived on the streets of American cities for five years together, fighting crime and trying to stay a step ahead of Bendix. Sometime during this period, they started a relationship.
They finally stopped running after being discovered by the new leader of Stormwatch in Henry's old encrypted files. Initially mistaking them for Bendix' men and attacking, they stopped resisting after learning that he was actually dead and began to work with Stormwatch to wrest control of the Nevada Gardens from the U.S. government. Afterwords they were given new new names and lives, and went into retirement together for a time.
That is, until Jenny Sparks (the human personification of the spirit of the 20th Century) approached them about forming a new team called ~the Authority~. Midnighter worked as the strategist for the team, and (after awhile) learned to actually get along with people other than Apollo (... after a fashion, of course.) The Authority made themselves famous by stopping the dictator Kaizen Gamorra, then went on to beat back an invasion from a parallel Earth. That wasn't enough for them, though - they followed the invaders back to their dimension, and overthrew them there, sinking the entire country of Alternate Italy in order to get their point across.
Then they killed god.
Or close enough, anyway. They flew the Carrier into a giant alien organism (really, really giant) that had precipitated the advent of life on Earth and was seeking to return to expunge it, and Jenny Sparks electrocuted it right in the brain because that's how she rolls. Then the Century turned over and she died, only to be reincarnated as Jenny Quantum, the spirit of the 21st Century.
The Authority raced against the US Government and its droves of super-powered creations to find her, resulting in the hospital where she was born being wiped out and (presumably) everyone else inside dying. The Authority took baby Jenny in and casually began toppling despotic dictators and basically pissing off the whole world, so the US was pushed into creating an ultimate weapon (or just a dumb redneck named Seth surgically altered and given more powers the whole rest of the superhuman community put together). They they then unleashed him on the team, and Midnighter was the only one to escape, with baby Jenny in tow.
After Seth won, they replaced the Authority with an easily controlled puppet team, but there was one flaw in their plan!! (Okay, there were a lot.) Midnighter was still alive, and he was pissed. After a few months of planning and junk, he came back and killed pretty much everybody, freeing the real Authority, and then the government sent Seth in again.
This time he ripped out both of Midnighter's hearts and left him for dead, but Jenny depowered him and the Doctor pieced Midnighter back together. In celebration of their victory, Apollo and Midnighter got married, and adopted Jenny.
It was later revealed that Jenny wasn't the only one born at midnight on January 1st, 2000: her twin sister was also in the hospital when it was destroyed, and she lived, but was found by the Chinese government and put through a brutal, torturous assassination program despite still being an infant - they hoped to control her (and by extension the very spirit of the 21st century), but their brilliant plan backfired when they drove her to want to destroy the whole world instead. So that was great. Jenny Fractal (the twin) sought out Jenny Quantum and the rest of the Authority, killing her sister when it became clear that she wouldn't go along with the whole wiping-out-all-life-on-Earth thing, and the Midnighter was forced to jump back in time to kill her in infancy so that Quantum's consciousness could jump to Fractal's body and effectively end the threat. He did it, but it seriously rattled him.
Sick of the government's shit (because really come on now Wildstorm), the Authority took over the country and forced social and economic reform on it essentially at gunpoint. That didn't last too terribly long though, and the seeds of their downfall were sewn when an alternate Henry Bendix reappeared on the scene, with a shapeshifter masquerading as a version of Apollo from the future. The "Apollo" told him that the team ends up ruling the whole world with an iron fist, eventually culminating in Midnighter himself taking the reigns and obliterating the populace's right to a free will.
"Apollo" then pulls him in for a last kiss, transferring microscopic nanites through the saliva that then attached to the Midnighter's neural implants, allowing Bendix to remotely control him.
When the next big fight happened on the white house lawn, Midnighter took the opportunity it presented and abandoned the team - and his husband and daughter in the process. For the next three years he worked the streets again, avoiding Apollo and thinking that he had saved the world from himself. In the time that he was gone, Jenny began noticing that she was being watched, and used her reality manipulating abilities to age herself into a teenager before going out and browbeating the team back together to confront the little spied-on-by-Bendix problem she'd developed.
When they finally confronted Bendix, the Midnighter was forced to fight the team, and rather easily took out both the Doctor and Apollo before Angie entered his brain and disabled Henry's controls, freeing Midnighter up to rip out his spine with his bare hands. Because that's how he rolls.
All was back to normal for like thirty seconds, you know how comics be, and then he got kidnapped and had to team up with Grifter for some tentacle monster beatdowns, and he even got an inexplicable solo series in which he pretty much ditched Apollo again for a really poorly explained reason. He tried his hand at living a normal life (even though he and Apollo had already done that but I guess the writers forgot), but he decided it was balls and went back to the Carrier to live with his loving, equally psychotic family save the world a lot.
The end!
Point in Canon: Before the World's End crossover event.
Character Personality: At first glance, the Midnighter is an angry, brooding character with a foul mouth, growling and snarling his way through life as violently as possible. And he certainly is that, on some a lot of levels! But he's also a loving father and a husband, and a man who strives to make the world a better place, one dead body at a time.
He's highly intelligent and very observant, and his usual work with precognition makes him adept at predicting how smaller things will affect the larger picture even outside of fighting. He puts a lot of stock in probabilities and statistics, due in no small part to the computer bits in his brain, and while a part of him hates that he can no longer view the world in any sort of normal way, a bigger part of him revels in the things he's capable of doing because of it.
The Midnighter is largely unabashed by public displays of affection, and has never shied away from coddling his daughter, or holding his husband's hand, no matter where they are. He can be gruff and mean, blunt and distant and violent, but he can also wear his heart on his sleeve when around his family. Nothing makes him lose his cool faster than seeing Apollo in real danger that he can't overcome, and even though he spends most of his time arguing with the members of his team, it's his own way of showing affection for them (he and Apollo are constantly catty with each other as well.) He loves kids, and despite being so jaded towards the world and all of its people, he really does do the things he does in the hopes of making it a better place.
He has a lot of pride, and doesn't like asking for help when he goes into something with a mindset of accomplishing it himself (team efforts generally seem to be another matter entirely), and he tends to get pissed off when written off as the weakest member of their crazy group. He's also fairly prone to showing off, especially when you consider his favored opening speech of "I've fought our fight already, in my head, in a million different ways," and his usual method of getting his points across is to use extreme violence.
He's pretty big on revenge, especially for acts committed against his husband or daughter. He doesn't see himself as really being human anymore, and on occasion (when he's in a mood) will wallow in self-pity about being built for and solely capable of murder and mayhem. When he's not having these bouts of angst, he's actually got a sense of humor about how ridiculous their profession is.
He's also got a sense of vanity; he is constantly dying his hair either blond or brown (apparently, he thinks it's ridiculous for a guy called "The Midnighter" to be a redhead) and working out, despite the fact that his cybernetic enhancements could more than compensate for him if he were out of shape. He absolutely doesn't tolerate being ribbed about his sexual orientation from anyone but members of his team, and even tends to react violently to it (like the time he and Apollo put Kev in traction for calling them "a couple of poofs.") Otherwise, he sees absolutely no problem with attacking women just as readily he'd attack a man; he thinks chivalry can go fuck itself, and has never shied away from fighting dirty.
He started out very quiet, but over the years forced constant interaction with people other than Apollo has started to make him more talkative. Granted, it's still mostly sarcasm and quips, but what can you do?
Character Plans: The Authority, and Midnighter especially were extremely anti-Corporation. As soon as he figures out the deal with AGI and SERO I hope to have him promptly start sticking his nose where it doesn't belong!
Appearance/PB: A cheerful Midnighter. (When I get the time, I also plan to icon Daniel Craig for a maskless-Midnighter PB, since he so rarely took his mask off in the comics.)
