Post by Loki on Feb 4, 2009 22:04:24 GMT -6
Mr. Immortal
Craig Hollis
Fighting: Excellent
Agility: Excellent
Strength: Excellent
Endurance: Remarkable
Reason: Typical
Intuition: Excellent
Psyche: Good
Resources: Excellent (funds from Big Bertha)
Popularity: Despite best efforts, Poor
Powers:
True Immortality:
Mr. Immortal, quite simply, cannot ever truly die; he is a man that has evolved past Death itself. Deathurge, the avatar of Oblivion, has stated that it is Mr. Immortal’s destiny to be the one surviving being at the end of the universe and learn the “great secret” that will be revealed once that occurs. Mr. Immortal has been “killed” dozens and dozens of times, from being incinerated by the Human Torch, exploded with dynamite, crushed by a giant, riddled with gunfire, decapitated by Deadpool, and a myriad of other deaths that include piranhas, bear trap, cannon, chainsaws, pythons, and spears.
The exact nature of his resurrection is not fully understood. At times his “corpse” arises fully healed, but at others a duplicate body forms nearby leaving the carcass there. In role-playing terms, Mr. Immortal can return from any “death” in 1-3 rounds or usually around 2-10 minutes. The most he has been able to keep himself dead was a few hours during a rash of suicide attempts. Mr. Immortal has also developed several disturbing power stunts based on this ability.
-Regeneration: All wounds suffered before resurrection heal completely post-resurrection. Even his clothing and equipment appears to become repaired even after serious damage is caused to them via whatever vehicle of harm attempts to “kill” Mr. Immortal.
-Teleportation: Mr. Immortal also has a very crude, morbid form of teleportation, able to sometimes direct where his resurrection occurs. For example, if he killed himself outside of a vault he could resurrect himself inside, or save himself a walk home by killing himself and appearing there.
-Self-Aneurism: Mr. Immortal is so in tune with his body (and Death) that he is able to rupture key blood vessels in his brain, causing a much less messy version of death than swallowing a bullet or other forms of suicide.
-Death Perception: Mr. Immortal has always been able to see Death and its many forms and avatars, be it Death, Oblivion, Deathurge, or even Doorman once he took over Deathurge’s position. Even as a child he would play with Deathurge, who encouraged him to play in traffic and experiment with fire.
Equipment
Mr. Immortal Suit
Mr. Immortal, tired of dying by mundane means, wears a costume which provides Excellent body armor.
.454 Casull Handgun
A proponent of showy force, Mr. Immortal uses an impressively-sized .454 Casull handgun. The bullets used cause Excellent damage and can pierce through armor, shifting body armor/resistance rankings -6 CS. The .454 Casull is a six-shot model with Excellent material strength.
Grenade Bandolier
Mr. Immortal keeps a string of grenades on his utility belt. They are inert when not activated, but he can activate them to cause Monstrous damage, killing himself in the process. Unlike his other equipment, the explosives do not come back after they have been used and Mr. Immortal resurrects himself, though they will return if Mr. Immortal has been killed in another manner besides using them. (RP Meaning: They can be used once per confrontation)
Talents:
Performer, Gambling, Guns, Marksman, Tumbling, Acrobatics, Dodging, Disguise, Streetsmart, Inhuman Pain Tolerance, Resist Domination, Martial Arts B, H, Q
Weaknesses
Mr. Immortal is subject to fits of depression and often goes into nearly unshakeable rages after resurrection. Beyond that, his mortal body is no more durable or strong than any other human’s.
Contacts
Great Lakes Avengers, Avengers, X-men, Deathurge, Doorman
History
Immortal is the leader and founder of the Great Lakes Avengers, a regional offshoot of the Avengers made up of heroes with almost-but-not-quite-useless abilities. Their base of operations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which appears to be their shared birthplace.
Mr. Immortal possesses the superhuman ability of immortality. Before her untimely death, his teammate and sometimes lover Dinah Soar was the only one able to calm him down when he was revived, as he was prone to fits of rages upon returning to life. This unique ability has always given him the courage to try daring, reckless life-endangering stunts and he is quite ready to sacrifice himself for the rest of the team. It has also left him in frequent states of depression by having to watch his loved ones die around him. He discovered his ability after attempting suicide several times.
This is something he has had to cope with since the start of his life, as the cosmic entity Deathurge regularly appeared to him. Deathurge first appeared before Craig shortly after his birth, and the untimely death of his mother. His mother made Deathurge promise that he would look after Craig, and he has done so ever since in his own unique way. Craig would dub Deathurge, "D'urge", and the two became the best of friends. His father believed Deathurge to be an imaginary friend, but Deathurge was quite real, and constantly urging Craig to endanger his life by, for example, playing in traffic. Each attempt at the boy's first death was averted and Craig wrote it off as: "Just playin' with D'urge, daddy."
On Craig's 8th birthday, Deathurge had once again stimulated Craig into a daring stunt, first setting his house on fire, and then telling Craig to hide under the house, while it was burning down. Craig was ultimately saved by the firemen, but he was forced to see Deathurge take his father to the afterlife. Deathurge stopped visiting Craig afterwards, and Craig was moved into a new home.
His new father, a Mr. O'Doughan, was an abusive man, but Craig persevered, in large part thanks to the daughter the O'Doughans already had, a girl named Terri. She became his first real friend, and this would ultimately develop into love. Like a lot of young loves, the couple moved out and tried to live on just that, love. Craig had to work long and hard, but he kept going, until the day Terri left, leaving only a Dear John letter on the table.
She had committed suicide, and once more Deathurge appeared, revealing that he was in fact real. Grief-stricken, Craig begged Deathurge to take him as well, but Deathurge refused and departed again. Craig wanted to kill himself as well, and his first suicide attempt was jumping off a building, only to find he had survived. Every successive suicide attempt (from dynamite to drowning) failed as well, and to his surprise, Craig found out he couldn't die.
Seeing the amazing potential of having superpowers, Craig found his calling and decided that he would become a superhero! And thus... Mr. Immortal was born. And killed. On his first outing as a superhero, trying to foil a bank robbery, Craig was shot and left for dead. He decided it might be best to form a team, so his abilities could actually be useful.
Response to the ad he then placed could be called relatively successful, as the Great Lakes Avengers were formed, with its founding members Mr. Immortal, Doorman, Big Bertha, Dinah Soar and Leather Boy. They would come into contact with the West Coast Avengers, where they were even able to convince Hawkeye and Mockingbird to join them. They fought the occasional supervillain, but mostly spent their time playing cards.
Over that time, Craig would develop a loving relationship with Dinah Soar, as he was also the only one who could understand her language. It turned out that he and her were soulmates and he was her ageless-love, as she herself also possessed a degree of immortality.
Craig was close to calling the GLA quits, when the real Avengers were disassembled and Craig happily rejoiced that they were now the real Avengers. In their following outing against Maelstrom, Dinah Soar was killed, and Deathurge appeared to take her away to the afterlife. The former friendship between him and Deathurge was now truly over.
Mr. Immortal would meet Deathurge again at Dinah Soar's funeral, where Deathurge expressed his regret, showing that he had truly come to love Craig as something as a son. Craig himself was enraged at Deathurge, having taken away all that Craig had ever cared about, so he attacked Deathurge, but received only a sound thrashing. In his grief, Mr. Immortal starting spending a lot of time downloading the Magnolia soundtrack. Not only that, but he also dressed up in Dinah Soar's costume and impaled himself on gigantic scissors.
Craig was able to return the favor when Deathurge appeared to take away Monkey Joe and appeared in the form of a squirrel, leaving him in a vulnerable state. It was then that Deathurge revealed to Craig what his destiny was: to outlive everyone as the one true immortal, and then learn the grand secret that will reveal itself at the end of things. Deathurge, by taking away some of his loved ones, tried to prepare Craig, so that he could truly live to that destiny, and the villain Maelstrom was at the point that he could very well take that purpose away, ending the universe, in its entirety, prematurely. Explaining his role as Homo Supreme in the grand scheme of things gave Mr. Immortal a new incentive to live and he set out to stop Maelstrom and save the universe.
The GLA stormed Maelstrom's base, and it was ultimately Mr. Immortal that was able to save the universe, although at the cost of his friend Doorman (although Doorman would later be resurrected). Coming close to Maelstrom, Mr. Immortal was able to play on his feelings, that ultimately Maelstrom would be the one left alone, and that was the grand secret of things. Horrified by the thought, Maelstrom wanted a way out, and Mr. Immortal offered him one: suicide.
Not knowing that Mr. Immortal would be able to come back from the injury, Maelstrom killed himself like Craig had done, and Craig was able to push the button that stopped the machine Maelstrom had created to achieve the destruction of the universe. The GLA saved everybody, but gained no recognition, and were even forced to drop the Avengers name, but the group persevered, becoming the GLX (Great Lakes X-Men) and after intervention by Rachel Summers and Dr. Strange, the Great Lakes Champions.
Craig Hollis
Fighting: Excellent
Agility: Excellent
Strength: Excellent
Endurance: Remarkable
Reason: Typical
Intuition: Excellent
Psyche: Good
Resources: Excellent (funds from Big Bertha)
Popularity: Despite best efforts, Poor
Powers:
True Immortality:
Mr. Immortal, quite simply, cannot ever truly die; he is a man that has evolved past Death itself. Deathurge, the avatar of Oblivion, has stated that it is Mr. Immortal’s destiny to be the one surviving being at the end of the universe and learn the “great secret” that will be revealed once that occurs. Mr. Immortal has been “killed” dozens and dozens of times, from being incinerated by the Human Torch, exploded with dynamite, crushed by a giant, riddled with gunfire, decapitated by Deadpool, and a myriad of other deaths that include piranhas, bear trap, cannon, chainsaws, pythons, and spears.
The exact nature of his resurrection is not fully understood. At times his “corpse” arises fully healed, but at others a duplicate body forms nearby leaving the carcass there. In role-playing terms, Mr. Immortal can return from any “death” in 1-3 rounds or usually around 2-10 minutes. The most he has been able to keep himself dead was a few hours during a rash of suicide attempts. Mr. Immortal has also developed several disturbing power stunts based on this ability.
-Regeneration: All wounds suffered before resurrection heal completely post-resurrection. Even his clothing and equipment appears to become repaired even after serious damage is caused to them via whatever vehicle of harm attempts to “kill” Mr. Immortal.
-Teleportation: Mr. Immortal also has a very crude, morbid form of teleportation, able to sometimes direct where his resurrection occurs. For example, if he killed himself outside of a vault he could resurrect himself inside, or save himself a walk home by killing himself and appearing there.
-Self-Aneurism: Mr. Immortal is so in tune with his body (and Death) that he is able to rupture key blood vessels in his brain, causing a much less messy version of death than swallowing a bullet or other forms of suicide.
-Death Perception: Mr. Immortal has always been able to see Death and its many forms and avatars, be it Death, Oblivion, Deathurge, or even Doorman once he took over Deathurge’s position. Even as a child he would play with Deathurge, who encouraged him to play in traffic and experiment with fire.
Equipment
Mr. Immortal Suit
Mr. Immortal, tired of dying by mundane means, wears a costume which provides Excellent body armor.
.454 Casull Handgun
A proponent of showy force, Mr. Immortal uses an impressively-sized .454 Casull handgun. The bullets used cause Excellent damage and can pierce through armor, shifting body armor/resistance rankings -6 CS. The .454 Casull is a six-shot model with Excellent material strength.
Grenade Bandolier
Mr. Immortal keeps a string of grenades on his utility belt. They are inert when not activated, but he can activate them to cause Monstrous damage, killing himself in the process. Unlike his other equipment, the explosives do not come back after they have been used and Mr. Immortal resurrects himself, though they will return if Mr. Immortal has been killed in another manner besides using them. (RP Meaning: They can be used once per confrontation)
Talents:
Performer, Gambling, Guns, Marksman, Tumbling, Acrobatics, Dodging, Disguise, Streetsmart, Inhuman Pain Tolerance, Resist Domination, Martial Arts B, H, Q
Weaknesses
Mr. Immortal is subject to fits of depression and often goes into nearly unshakeable rages after resurrection. Beyond that, his mortal body is no more durable or strong than any other human’s.
Contacts
Great Lakes Avengers, Avengers, X-men, Deathurge, Doorman
History
Immortal is the leader and founder of the Great Lakes Avengers, a regional offshoot of the Avengers made up of heroes with almost-but-not-quite-useless abilities. Their base of operations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which appears to be their shared birthplace.
Mr. Immortal possesses the superhuman ability of immortality. Before her untimely death, his teammate and sometimes lover Dinah Soar was the only one able to calm him down when he was revived, as he was prone to fits of rages upon returning to life. This unique ability has always given him the courage to try daring, reckless life-endangering stunts and he is quite ready to sacrifice himself for the rest of the team. It has also left him in frequent states of depression by having to watch his loved ones die around him. He discovered his ability after attempting suicide several times.
This is something he has had to cope with since the start of his life, as the cosmic entity Deathurge regularly appeared to him. Deathurge first appeared before Craig shortly after his birth, and the untimely death of his mother. His mother made Deathurge promise that he would look after Craig, and he has done so ever since in his own unique way. Craig would dub Deathurge, "D'urge", and the two became the best of friends. His father believed Deathurge to be an imaginary friend, but Deathurge was quite real, and constantly urging Craig to endanger his life by, for example, playing in traffic. Each attempt at the boy's first death was averted and Craig wrote it off as: "Just playin' with D'urge, daddy."
On Craig's 8th birthday, Deathurge had once again stimulated Craig into a daring stunt, first setting his house on fire, and then telling Craig to hide under the house, while it was burning down. Craig was ultimately saved by the firemen, but he was forced to see Deathurge take his father to the afterlife. Deathurge stopped visiting Craig afterwards, and Craig was moved into a new home.
His new father, a Mr. O'Doughan, was an abusive man, but Craig persevered, in large part thanks to the daughter the O'Doughans already had, a girl named Terri. She became his first real friend, and this would ultimately develop into love. Like a lot of young loves, the couple moved out and tried to live on just that, love. Craig had to work long and hard, but he kept going, until the day Terri left, leaving only a Dear John letter on the table.
She had committed suicide, and once more Deathurge appeared, revealing that he was in fact real. Grief-stricken, Craig begged Deathurge to take him as well, but Deathurge refused and departed again. Craig wanted to kill himself as well, and his first suicide attempt was jumping off a building, only to find he had survived. Every successive suicide attempt (from dynamite to drowning) failed as well, and to his surprise, Craig found out he couldn't die.
Seeing the amazing potential of having superpowers, Craig found his calling and decided that he would become a superhero! And thus... Mr. Immortal was born. And killed. On his first outing as a superhero, trying to foil a bank robbery, Craig was shot and left for dead. He decided it might be best to form a team, so his abilities could actually be useful.
Response to the ad he then placed could be called relatively successful, as the Great Lakes Avengers were formed, with its founding members Mr. Immortal, Doorman, Big Bertha, Dinah Soar and Leather Boy. They would come into contact with the West Coast Avengers, where they were even able to convince Hawkeye and Mockingbird to join them. They fought the occasional supervillain, but mostly spent their time playing cards.
Over that time, Craig would develop a loving relationship with Dinah Soar, as he was also the only one who could understand her language. It turned out that he and her were soulmates and he was her ageless-love, as she herself also possessed a degree of immortality.
Craig was close to calling the GLA quits, when the real Avengers were disassembled and Craig happily rejoiced that they were now the real Avengers. In their following outing against Maelstrom, Dinah Soar was killed, and Deathurge appeared to take her away to the afterlife. The former friendship between him and Deathurge was now truly over.
Mr. Immortal would meet Deathurge again at Dinah Soar's funeral, where Deathurge expressed his regret, showing that he had truly come to love Craig as something as a son. Craig himself was enraged at Deathurge, having taken away all that Craig had ever cared about, so he attacked Deathurge, but received only a sound thrashing. In his grief, Mr. Immortal starting spending a lot of time downloading the Magnolia soundtrack. Not only that, but he also dressed up in Dinah Soar's costume and impaled himself on gigantic scissors.
Craig was able to return the favor when Deathurge appeared to take away Monkey Joe and appeared in the form of a squirrel, leaving him in a vulnerable state. It was then that Deathurge revealed to Craig what his destiny was: to outlive everyone as the one true immortal, and then learn the grand secret that will reveal itself at the end of things. Deathurge, by taking away some of his loved ones, tried to prepare Craig, so that he could truly live to that destiny, and the villain Maelstrom was at the point that he could very well take that purpose away, ending the universe, in its entirety, prematurely. Explaining his role as Homo Supreme in the grand scheme of things gave Mr. Immortal a new incentive to live and he set out to stop Maelstrom and save the universe.
The GLA stormed Maelstrom's base, and it was ultimately Mr. Immortal that was able to save the universe, although at the cost of his friend Doorman (although Doorman would later be resurrected). Coming close to Maelstrom, Mr. Immortal was able to play on his feelings, that ultimately Maelstrom would be the one left alone, and that was the grand secret of things. Horrified by the thought, Maelstrom wanted a way out, and Mr. Immortal offered him one: suicide.
Not knowing that Mr. Immortal would be able to come back from the injury, Maelstrom killed himself like Craig had done, and Craig was able to push the button that stopped the machine Maelstrom had created to achieve the destruction of the universe. The GLA saved everybody, but gained no recognition, and were even forced to drop the Avengers name, but the group persevered, becoming the GLX (Great Lakes X-Men) and after intervention by Rachel Summers and Dr. Strange, the Great Lakes Champions.