All those Super Gods-but it was a grouch in a leather jacket that terrified them

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2015-06-02T22:28:54Z

Whoever this is, take a hint and fuck off. I'm not interested.

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Permissions Post

2015-06-01T21:22:25Z

Permissions for Midnighter and OOC contact info can be found here

The Midnighter was given a lot of enhancements and several abilities when he received his implants from Henry Bendix, which can be generally categorized in three different areas: Battle Precognition, Enhanced Skeleton/Senses, and a Limited Healing Factor. If you are so inclined, you can find out more about them by clicking here. His Battle Precognition powers make RPing the bastard a little difficult, so I'm asking for everyone to let me know whether they opt in or opt out to Midnighter's abilities working on their characters, so I don't step on any toes.

Here's a breakdown of the biggies:

► Battle Precognition: Like Midnighter says about 20 times over the course of the series "I know what moves you're preparing to make. I've fought our fight already, in my head, a million different ways." He can do this thanks to one of his lovely implants in his head, which essentially enables him to do math ridiculously fast. He can run over every possible scenario he can think of, and then determine the best plan of attack (or figure out what he wants to do and work backwards on how to get there).

He primarily uses this ability to beat the crap out of people, and should he ever be using this ability against your character, it will be discussed with you first. However, if you would prefer to completely OPT-OUT, just let me know below.

► Ability Sensing: The big one. Midnighter has the fun ability to "sense the increased electrical activity" in the brains of others, which apparently is what happens when your characters have special abilities (according to him). So basically if they have powers, Midnighter can "see" and identify them, even if they aren't using them. He simply senses that they're there (ex. just by looking at Storm from the X-Men, he'll know she has the ability to manipulate the weather even if she's just sitting there doing a crossword). He might not have a word to describe it (ex. if he runs across a Superboy he might call Kon's TTK a forcefield), but he will know how it works.

Basically, this so his battle precog can function better and he can kill them faster. But don't worry, he won't be using this ability to kill them (unless they really piss him off, and even then it will be discussed with you first).

This is OPT-IN. He will not be sensing anyones abilities without the player's permission, and should you opt out, he will chalk up not being able to see your character's abilities to the nanobots messing up his implants.

► Fourth Walling: While not exactly an ability, pop culture references in The Authority are abound. Angie/the Engineer is a huge DC nerd, Apollo's watched Friends, the Doctor's quoted Star Wars, they've all been on Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, etc. As a result, I'm lead to believe that though not completely identical to our world (superpowers, different presidents, China not occupying Tibet, etc), their pop culture at least is very similar. Midnighter doesn't exactly strike me as a pop culture junkie, but he will recognize you if you're say Kim Kardashian, but not if you're Khloe's husband (and I really hate myself for typing that sentence out).

He's also been around the multiverse long enough to not be blatantly obvious about it, though he may express surprise upon seeing your characters face or accidentally use your characters name when your character hasn't introduced themselves... something of that nature. For example, if he runs into Charles Foster Kane, he's not going to tell him that he's going to end up dying all alone in his decaying mansion crying for his sled unless he really pisses him off (and even then that would be after getting the player's explicit permission) but he might accidentally refer to him "Charles" or "Kane" before Charles introduces himself.

Basically I ask you specify how much you'd like your character to be identified, if at all (ex. text in the brackets can indicate he recognizes the character but not say anything to the effect/he can have a minor slip up like saying his name but nothing more/not allowed to fourth wall at all/go nuts/etc).

This is primarily for characters in western fandoms, but if you're playing someone from something easily recognizable from anime/manga (Ash from Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Goku from DBZ), it applies to them too.

Midnighter's canon point is around 2009, so if your canon is after that, this doesn't apply to your character at all, so just say "N/A".

This is OPT-IN. The Midnighter will never Fourth Wall a character without the player's permission first.

Permissions

Please fill out the following for your character, so I know if the Midnighter has permission to do any or all of the above (all comments are screened)

Character Name:
Journal: journalname

Permission to use Battle Precognition against your character?: Y/N
(Any situation where this would arise will always be run by the player beforehand, even if you say yes here)

Permission to sense your characters abilities: Y/N
Quick rundown of your characters abilities: (a link is fine)
Anything you explicitly don't want him to know?:

Permission to Fourth Wall your character: Y/N
How far can he go?:
Anything you explicitly don't want him to know?:

Anything Else?:

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MoM App

2015-04-26T21:57:24Z

〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Kaitie
AGE: Over 21
JOURNAL: redconfession
IM / EMAIL: Redconfession on AIM
PLURK: redconfession
RETURNING: Yes, currently playing Normie Osborn

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: The Midnighter (whatever name he was born with, he doesn't know it)
CHARACTER AGE: Unknown (most likely around late 30s)
SERIES: Wildstorm/DC Comics
CHRONOLOGY: Pre-World's End, but post everything else
CLASS: Anti-Hero
HOUSING: Whatever housing they give him, he's going to reject (most likely violently), so it doesn't matter.

BACKGROUND:
As far as the Midnighter is concerned, he has no family, no childhood, no legal name. That's because it was all taken from him when he somehow got himself involved in a black ops group headed by Henry Bendix, the Weatherman (or leader) of a UN sanctioned team called Stormwatch. Stormwatch was supposed to be created to watch over the superpowered threats on the planet and respond accordingly, but Bendix... well he only really cared about Bendix. So he formed this black ops team consisting of seven members, totally erased the lives they had prior to them joining the project, and then sent them off on a suicide mission. So how exactly Midnighter got involved in this project is just as much of a mystery as his real name.

Getting back to the mission... it was a disaster. Of the seven members only two, Midnighter and his eventual husband Apollo, survived. Unable to get back to Stormwatch and realizing that Bendix is fucking insane, the two went underground. For five years they lived on the streets of various cities, fighting corruption and trying to fight for a better world from the bottom up while dodging one of the most powerful men on Earth. At one point there was a close call--Bendix had them cornered in a warehouse after laying a trap for the pair--but their future leader, Jenny Sparks, helped them out and they were able to escape back into the darkness.

Around the turn of the century, Stormwatch fell apart thanks to ~~this really crappy Alien (like the movie) crossover~~ like 75% of the workforce dying, so the aforementioned Jenny Sparks decided to form her own team. Among those recruits were Apollo and Midnighter, then dating. Their first assignment put them up against a man of Bendix-proportioned crazy, Kaizen Gamorra, who was using clone suicide bombers to blast his symbol (three knots on a ring) into the world, effectively claiming it as his own. He got as far as two rings before the Authority stopped him. Midnighter was especially crucial in this plot, as he defeated Gamorra by dropping the Authority's base, the Carrier, onto Gamorra's county. It’s important to note that the Carrier is 50 miles long.

Though Midnighter was present for their second real mission--the near destruction of the world and the murder of God, he really didn't do much there. However, at the climax of the battle against God, the clock struck midnight on the year 1999, and Jenny Sparks, a century baby (or a person who embodies and helps shape the century in which she is born), died and in her place, a baby in Singapore, Jenny Quantum, was born. The team fought their way through ~~bad Marvel and DC expies~~ posthumans created by an evil genius named Krigstein, who wished to alter the 21st century by using Jenny's abilities, to save her, and once the baby was in their care, decided to raise her (Jenny's mother was believed to have died at the hands of the aforementioned superhumans, who wiped out the entire maternity ward ~~because this was a Millar comic and it can't be a Millar comic without unnecessary ultraviolence~~.). Originally the group split caretaking duties of the infant, but eventually Midnighter and Apollo became her primary guardians, and sought to formally adopt the baby after they got married.

However, the G7 nations were unhappy with the way the Authority threatened the status quo, and arranged to have the team taken out and replaced with a puppet Authority. Midnighter barely managed to escape with baby Jenny, and laid low until he could remove the new team from his home, which he did almost single-handedly with baby Jenny strapped to his back (because he's a badass like that). The old Authority took back control of their headquarters (the Carrier), and Apollo and Midnighter were finally wed, and formally adopted baby Jenny.

While not the perfect family, the three were happy until one day Jenny's birth mother, Michelle Leung, came forward and contested their adoption. Midnighter was especially displeased by the turn of events, acting especially angry and irritable on missions and nearly getting into a fight with his husband because he didn't want anyone to take his little girl away from him. It was soon revealed that Michelle Leung wasn't who she said she was--she was in fact Jenny Fractal, an "evil" twin of Jenny's raised to be an assassin by the Chinese government. The two Jenny's fought and Fractal killed Quantum in front of Midnighter. In order to save his little girl, Midnighter was forced into a position that will haunt him for the rest of his life--to save Quantum he had to kill Fractal in the cradle, as it was the one point in time the Authority determined the super-powered 4 year old couldn't see. Midnighter managed to tell the identical twins apart and murdered the newborn, enabling Quantum to take over the present-day Fractal's body with the help of one of another Authority member.

A little while later, the United States government nearly caused an interplanetary incident and accidentally destroyed the state of Florida, setting the members of the Authority over the edge and declared a coup over the incumbent government. Midnighter, though originally for the plan, didn't the way then leader Jack Hawksmoor was handling the situation. To make matters worse, Midnighter accidentally stumbled upon an alternate future where he met an older version of his husband. Apollo warned him that if he allowed the Authority to continue, the world would fall into chaos. Shaken by the events he saw, he promptly returned to his own time and forcibly broke up the team, relinquishing control of America back to the people.

For next three years Midnighter wandered the streets alone, purposefully distancing himself from the two people he cared about most to protect them from the future he had seen. However, the three were finally reunited when Jenny Quantum (who had magically aged herself to 15), dragged him back to the Carrier and reunited the group once more. It was then discovered that the future Midnighter had seen was an illusion orchestrated by Henry Bendix to remove the one obstacle in his path for world domination. Though Bendix originally overrode Midnighter's implants and used him as a puppet against the others, he eventually broke free with the help of Authority member Angie (aka the Engineer) and killed Bendix by ripping his head from his spine.

Sometime later, Midnighter eventually goes on a few adventures of his own, including going back in time and almost killing Hitler, and attempting to find the life he had before Bendix took it all away from him (to no avail). He and the rest of his team also met DC's Jason Todd, Donna Troy, and Kyle Rayner as the three traveled through alternate dimensions. Otherwise Midnighter's been working on strengthening his relationship with Apollo and trying to connect with his teenage daughter.

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, 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 politicians 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.

POWER:
Battle Precognition - When the Midnighter was created by Henry Bendix, he was designed to be a master of combat. As a result, he 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.

They also allow him to "sense the increased electrical activity" in the brains of others, which translates to him being able to see the special abilities of others merely by looking at them, even if they aren't using them. He simply senses that they're there. He might not have a word to describe it but he'll have a rough idea of how they work. This is a part of his battle precognition, as it's designed to help him accurately run the statistics needed to pick the optimal strategy to fight/kill his opponent, though he doesn't have to be actively engaged in battle with the other person for them to operate.

Enhanced Skeleton/Senses - 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, as well as to withstand a pain greater than the average human being, to the extent where he is able to undergo major surgery wide awake. It also gives him heightened senses--such as being able to hear someone's heartbeat to determine if they're lying or being able to track an opponent by scent. According to him, he has senses "they don't even have names for."

Limited Healing Factor - 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 the 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 the 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.

However, 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.

〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[The camera clicks to show a close-up of a nice shot of leather crotch, which quickly whips upwards to show a white crescent insignia on top of a gray upside down triangle. Look, he's not exactly needed to frame himself for a glorified skype conversation before, all right? The Authority would usually just headmail each other.

After a moment more of fidgeting, showing off some various shots of the strangers black trench coat, the camera finally makes its way up to his cowled face--a very, very unhappy cowled face.]

Look, you can all just skip the multiverse pep talk. Until yesterday I lived in the goddamn Bleed between realities, and me and four alternate versions of me play poker every other Thursday. I'm familiar with the concept.

What I want is how exactly they brought us here. An Earth alternate too stupid to get itself out of the cold war shouldn't have the technology to snatch people from other dimensions.

[Especially without the Authority knowing about it. But he decides to keep that little piece of information to himself, because it's none of their fucking business.]

I tried asking the woman that brought me here, but she was too busy trying to explain to me what a gee golly great place America was. Give me answers and maybe I won't find trying this thing a major waste of my time.

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Next time, I'm gonna be more specific.

That was the first thought that came to mind after knocking out both the emissary handing him a file that apparently contained all of his personal information and the driver of the jeep taking him to some place called Heropa.

“Yeah right, like there's going to be a next time,” he muttered to himself, wringing his hands to shake off the few drops of blood that found its way on his knuckles after the idiot driver tried to fight back. He should consider himself lucky that he was just unconscious; the Midnighter just couldn't fault the guy from doing his job. Not until he had more information about this place, at any rate.

Wherever, exactly, this place was.

Which really was the problem all along: he shouldn't have left it up to the Carrier where to send him. She may have taken his side on his plan to break up the Authority, but she certainly wasn't thrilled about the idea. Stranding him on this alternate Earth of some sort had to be her idea of revenge.

Revenge he certainly deserved. What he just did yesterday, he could never take back. With a few careful words, he'd blown up everything: The Authority, his friendships, his marriage, his relationship with his daughter... Confirming what he suspected for a long time now: that even his words were deadly.

But god damn it all, he had to. It was either force them to break up, or they'd become the very thing they fought against—and there would be no one stronger to oppose it.

He'd done the right thing.

It was the only way.

One day he'd actually believe that.

Okay, that's enough whining for a lifetime. Midnighter looked at the jeep and thought about taking it, leaving the others behind, but ultimately decided against it. Who knew what kind of tracking devices this place might have on what appeared to be their government vehicles. Instead, he began to walk in the direction the jeep was heading, and eventually finally made his way into town by nightfall.

It didn't take long for trouble to find him... or was it for him to find trouble, he wasn't exactly sure. He had ducked down an alley to avoid detection from a passing police car when he heard voices around the corner. Voices very clearly doing some kind of major drug deal in the open. Jesus wept, what idiots.

Maybe this wasn't a punishment after all. Maybe the Carrier was trying to help, by removing the temptation of going back... and giving him something else to focus on.

“Good evening, shit-for-brains. My name is the Midnighter,” he said with a grin, pulling a tonfa out from beneath his coat as he took a step towards the group. “And I'm your worst nightmare.”

FINAL NOTES: I fully understand if some of his abilities need to be nerfed for the sake of the game, and with his ability to see other abilities, it would always be opt in with a link to a permissions post.

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a_facility activity log (week 170-179)

2012-05-13T21:36:04Z

Week 170 (Off Week )

- Adopts Mariko with Apollo

Week 171 (Age Regression Week )

- Chats with bitty Jenny Sparks
- Talks Batman with bitty Artemis
- Chats with bitty Galatea
- Talks with ~~bitty LaviKane~~
- Teaches bitty Dean where the kidneys are
- Realizes his new little girl is a lot more like him than he first thought

Week 172 (Gravity Week )

- Steals Lois' body from the bots to keep Clark from destroying them
- Finds out someone hurt Mariko...
- ...and goes to pick her up, only to find something changed.
- Admires his husband out in space
- Laughs at Dean's pain

*Week 173 (Skrull Week )

- Facepalms at Todd Smith's spectacularly dumb advice
- Kills Skrullpollo with Mariko

Week 174 (Off Week )

- Agrees to spar with Grell on a regular basis--and accidentally gives Val an idea
- Pisses off Emilia in record time

Week 175 (F3 Trip - Onsen)

- Is amused by Tommy and Kate's relationship
- Announces he's bored already at the hot spring, and requests hair dye
- Snarks with Loki
- Mocks Komui's pain--and reject's Blair's advances

Week 176 (F3 Trip - Onsen - Animal Week (Unaffected))

- Doesn't have it in him to mock Clarks's pain
- Yet again mocks Komui's pain
- Secretly shows Nill he's a closet romantic
- Is sexually harrassed by an affected Clark
- Tries to out-innuendo Tyki
- Has some fun with Venom

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- Discusses with Apollo how much he hates this place
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Canon Swap Information

2012-02-05T17:00:12Z

::BASIC INFO::

REAL NAME | Lucas Trent
AGE | 15
LOCATION | Middle of Nowhere, Pennsylvania

CHARACTER NAME | The Midnighter
CLASS | Twin Blade
LEVEL | 66
GUILD | The Authority

MEMBER ADDRESSES | Apollo, The Engineer, The Doctor, God of Cities, 21st Century Spirit, BuddhaSwift, 20th Century Spirit, Weatherman, ~~Amaze~~, ~~Stalker~~, ~~LampLight~~, ~~Crow Jane~~, ~~Impetus~~

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