Post by Faust Spaulding on Jan 6, 2015 2:06:46 GMT -5
Basics
Name: Faust Xavier Spaulding
Nicknames: Nimbus, Pinky
Age: 18
Birthday: May 14th
Grade: 12th
Power:
Cloud Manipulation: Faust's powers allow him the ability to create, shape and manipulate clouds, which are visible masses of liquid droplets and/or frozen crystals made of water or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body. While he can manipulate already existing clouds, pulling said clouds from the sky would be much slower than simply generating and controlling his own clouds. Clouds are usually created and sustained by upward-moving air currents, produced by the condensation of water vapor, meaning Faust can create clouds from air as long as there is moisture in the air around them; moving these clouds at great speeds while on land, in the air, or water. While there is moisture in the air in even deserts, there is very little, so using his powers in a desert would be dangerous and strenuous.
Using his powers, Faust can shift the density of existing or self created clouds, giving them a form of solidification allowing him to create cloud platforms for personal simulated flight, cloud constructs such as shields, ropes or walls, and create smoke screens using thick wide spread clouds. Changing the shape of the clouds into relatively simple forms: cubes, cylinders, globes, domes, etc. He can even control the size of the clouds, the smallest being about the size of a large marble and the biggest being shown about 100-150 feet (The larger size being for smoke screens only, with the largest solid cloud he can make being about 20 feet). Though when using larger clouds, Faust has a hard time molding them into shapes and must keep them in the form of a simple cloud which in turn can be used for cover. With training, Faust has learned to control the texture of his clouds in order to be used for different purposes, such as causing a cloud to become bouncy and 'marshmallow' like to catch people and objects, or heavy and dense in order to prevent attacks or people passing through.
While his powers may seem useless in combat for offense this isn't necessarily true. Faust can launch a dense cloud at an opponent and deliver enough force to knock someone over, and if in extreme danger he could force a cloud down someone’s throat and into their lungs to suffocate them long enough to knock them out. He would never use his powers to kill someone, and despises the very thought. He can also change the temperature of his clouds forming either a cloud of freezing mist, or a smog of boiling smoke (The later being something which he would never use against an opponent unless his goal was to kill them). Faust’s powers could also be used defensively to create a dense cloud wall or construct to block minor attacks, such as small projectiles, and flames, but larger attacks such as handgun bullets, bombs, and energy attacks would pass through. The only feat he has of blocking a large attack would be bouncing falling debris off of his bouncy cloud, or keeping someone with super strength away with a bouncy cloud which simply absorbed the force of the attacks with no harm. Though his powers have offensive and defensive purposes, Faust's powers are more used for tactical techniques.
By expanding his clouds over a wide area, He can create cover or a 'smoke screen' in order to escape of prepare an attack. His clouds are also extremely good conductors, able to retain lightning and electrical attacks making someone with electric based powers his perfect teammate. Another tactical way Faust can use his powers is by creating 'cloud clones' by molding his clouds mentally to resemble his shape and coloring them to be believable. While these cloud clones have no purpose but to cause a distraction, they are most useful while he has a smoke screen active so that his opponent only see's the silhouette of his clones making them look more real. His cloud clones can also be used to trap an opponent, by being condensed around an opponents limb when it is struck, but it can be escaped through super strength, energy attacks, or strong winds.
Faust can also use his cloud as a mode of transportation, as stated above, by condensing the body of the cloud and standing atop it he can simulate flight. This cloud can move at incredible speeds, given it's light weight and can move at up to 500mph, however his body has no adaptation to prevent against the effects of moving with such speed and he would become ill and disoriented if he tried to achieve these flight levels. Though with a flight suit, Faust might be able to do so with no problem. Faust can even create drinkable water by pulling water molecules from the air and turning them into small clouds, promptly moving the clouds into a glass and allowing the cloud to take it's original form of water molecules. By shifting a different liquid, such as medicine or poison antidote into clouds he can spread it through a persons body much faster by slipping a thin cloud through a cut and into their veins. This can also be used to save a drowning person by shifting the water in their lungs into clouds and quickly pulling it out.
Faust's clouds can't do any hardcore damage to durable opponents unless he changes the temperature, and if facing off against a wind manipulator he has no method to fight. While he can create and control multiple clouds, doing so repeatedly will result in him becoming fatigued, especially if he makes each cloud a different texture. Faust's powers can also be strenuous and exhausting if used in an extremely dry area, such as a desert, and he will be rendered basically helpless. When he takes his influence off of the clouds he creates, the clouds essentially rain away, turning back into water or cause minor precipitation. When shifting other liquid substances into clouds, some liquids are heavier than water making the mobility of the clouds less than that of a water cloud.
Cloud Mimicry: A secondary power of his, Faust has shown the capability to transform his entire body, or select parts into that of a cloud. Making him an untouchable, smokey mass for as long as he can concentrate on this form. While in this form no part of his body is more important than any other, meaning someone could slice off his head and he would simply reform it. This cloud can either chose to stay in the shape of Faust or spread itself to fill a room, making his own body into cover or clouds to escape or help his friends; This even allows him to extend certain limbs to reach areas he normally couldn't.He can enter any room that isn't air sealed, allowing him to seep through windows and vents; and he doesn't need to breathe, eat or sleep while in this form. Being completely soundless, making him perfect for stealth missions and other tasks, and he can use this form as a way of moving himself out of harms way or across hard to reach areas quickly. His body moving similar to a smoke cloud and riding the wind if he so chooses though he isn't completely invulnerable in this form.
Faust can still be contained inside air sealed containers making it impossible for him to revert to his human form, and if his cloud is destroyed he dies. Meaning if someone were to find a way to destroy his water molecules, he would simply disperse in the wind. His mind is also vulnerable to telepathic attack while in this form, and water manipulators and wind manipulators can control his body freely. His body is also a heavy conductor so if he were to fill a room with his cloud form, an enemy using a lightning attack could use this to attack everyone in the room who was unprotected (friends and foe). Faust can also be reverted to his human form if he stops concentrating on remaining in his cloud form, so breaking his concentration is a sure way of reverting him. When making himself intangible in this form he can only do so for about 5 minutes before he must go back into his simple cloud form, and wont be able to beocome intangible again for an hour.
Member Group: Battle Front
Canon or not: Not
Appearance: Faust is often times said to be a ‘peculiar looking boy’ with a round head and full cheeks. He is a creature of elegance with long full eyelashes surrounding his almost golden visage and powerful arches of raven hair above his deep, penetrating gaze and a petite nose filling the center of his face. Moderately full pink lips sculpted perfectly above his squared chin and strands of fuchsia woven into his round head, with the sides and back shaved bald and his hair coming from the middle in front in an almost exaggerated pompadour style. His hair being naturally pink on his head, perhaps due to his abilities.
Standing at a peeking height of about six feet and weighing around 170lbs, it's needless to say he could stand to bulk up. While he sports a tall and slender build, he is not lacking in some masculine development; boasting a set of defined abdominal muscles and well defined legs. A man both attractive and in his prime a bemused smile will find its a way to his calm and quiet features, when he sees something he finds to be beautiful or amusing in some way.
If Faust has a choice, he wears clothing that tends to lean more toward the dark side of fashion his usual attire consist of form fitting jeans, sweaters, cardigans, darker shades of color and of course black and pink. When alone or on a average day, Faust’s hair can be caught hanging in wild locks on his head and his nails are usually always painted a deep reflective black. Faust also has a plenthora of solid steel piercings in his body, about 12 in all; his nipples, his septum, his lobes two in his upper left ear, and 5 in his right ear. The young man also carries around a backpack or satchel with two large pockets, one filled with books and papers and the other filled with metallic coins and other metal pieces he has no use for so that he always has metal to play or fight with.
Personality
Overall Personality: Faust is someone who cannot be described through some marvelous quote or a song, and is a rather difficult man to pin down. Confidence irradiates from his being, yet he is more warm than condescending; taking people as they simply are rather than creating false images in his head, and doesn't seem to mind how you interpret him- if you do so at all. His confidence is actually an act, however, as he can be insecure, but due to his many years on the streets he puts on a cocky façade so that he isn’t bothered. Often times standing at his full height, with his arms crossed and his face expressionless making him seem inapproachable; which is what you WANT to be when living on the streets. Though Faust isn't loud mouthed because of it and has a more arrogant air to him, but he had no interest in petty debacles over trivial matters and if challenged will simply shrug you off with a snide or sarcastic comment.
Trying to stay in control of his emotions at all times, he is someone you can be assured will not react to any given situation or person with aggression. This has lead others to mistake his kindness for weakness, though he isn’t always as sweet as people think, being someone who is brutally honest and remorseless-ly so. Mainly so that he isn’t emotionally conflicted, but also because he feels like everyone could use a bit of harsh reality every once in a while. Not to HURT someone’s feelings, more to get them off their high horse, which even he needs sometimes.
Faust will resort to a tempering tone before actually physically harming someone, often choosing to cause environmental complications for foes before actually hurting them. Showing that even with the possibility of outright overpowering his opponents he shows self restraint. Despite this thoughtfulness, once he is provoked and angry you will wish you hadn't angered him as he becomes more aggressive and shows far less restraint. Not to the point where he would obliterate an opponent, but to the point where his main goal is to take them out as quick as possible. He was raised on the streets after all, and if someone is trying to hurt you ‘street law’ says you hurt them first, and badly if necessary.
Speaking of the streets, Faust as a child was far less willing to listen to others as he is now and would often see himself as right and them as wrong. He felt like the world owed him something for all the hard ships he was put through and this sparked his thievery of others possessions; justifying his actions by saying those people could simply buy another one. While he wasn't willing to listen to others, his brother could often influence his decision showing that he was more molded by his brother than anyone while growing up. He had to protect his younger sibling and if Charlie was caught doing wrong, Faust would take the blame or help his sibling escape. Charlie kept Faust grounded and level headed, teaching the other boy how to show compassion to others who were 'weaker' or 'needed protecting'.
Family is essential in Faust’s mind, whether it be keeping close to his team, or maintaining a relationship with his brother, it is important none the less. The desire to be loved by a man or woman and build his own family is powerful for him and this can lead to his romantic tendencies to be manipulated, and while strong and self-reliant in other aspects his heart can be easily wounded. This also makes the young meta-human incredibly protective over his friends and family, and any wrong doing toward them is taken VERY personally; usually resulting in Faust’s wraith being summoned.
Faust Spaulding’s was forced to mature much too quickly, and is still trying to discover who he really is. At first he was just a simple hoodlum who was looked down upon, but now that he has rich and famous parents people are drawn to him simply for existing. It's something that is hard for him to understand or even think about without getting upset and confused. He also sees normal humans as 'weak' and 'needing protecting' even when it is not the case and views his powers as a way to protect those who cannot protect themselves, as he has yet to meet a human who could take care of themselves. Also taking in his upbringing around people who were incapable of doing much of anything against simple threats, he just has a hard time picture people without powers being strong. Faust also has problems controlling his anger once he is upset, often leading to his 'wraith' becoming fierce and the only thing to calm him being his friends or brother.
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History
Family Members/guardians:
Ezra Fontaine: Father (Presumed deceased)
Gwendolyn Fontaine (Mother, deceased)
David Spaulding: Adoptive Father (Politician)
Angelica 'Angie' Spaulding: Adoptive Mother (Actress)
Charles 'Charlie' Spaulding: Brother
History: Faust and his younger brother Charles were born to Ezra and Gwendolyn Fontaine in the slums of Quebec, Canada. Gwen was never exceptionally close to her two sons and would rather spend time with her ’imaginary friends’ than with her own children. This was because she had special power of her own, the power to communicate with the different aspects of her personality as if they were invisible entities. Able to take over and control her body on a whim, leaving her mind a shattered mess. Ezra wasn’t exactly ‘father of the year’ and would often times waste the little money they had coming in on beer to drown his sorrows and would buy barely any food for his family. Often times having the boys eat what little scraps he would give them, but their mother would often give them her food if she was in her sane mind. This lead to the two boys bonding at a young age, realizing they needed each other to succeed, and survive in life.
At the age of 7, Faust and 6 year old Charlie began to use their adorable looks and homeless status to get food from strangers and other homeless people in their ‘sector’ who were willing to share with the children. This held them over until the boys learned to steal from grocery stores and small stores with little problem given their natural street smarts and intellectual prowess, and even without any form of education the boys were naturally gifted. They knew how to take care of themselves, they were -for lack of a better word- raised to do so.
When Faust turned 8 Gwendolyn committed suicide because she couldn’t live with her mind the way it was anymore and Ezra began to take out the anger of his wife’s death out on his children. After a week Charlie convinced him that they had to leave and make a life of their own and at first Faust was reluctant to do so, as he didn’t want to leave his father in such a state, but he would do anything for his brother and so he left with him.
Living on their own was simple enough, they knew how to steal and would sleep and eat at homeless shelters and constantly stayed on the move until they were taken in by adoption agency. The boys were hard to show off to families as they were full of attitude and lacked proper manners but they soon noticed the type of children who were being adopted and decided it was a time for a change. Having a discussion amongst themselves, the brothers knew that they would have to behave themselves in order to be adopted so that when they were old enough to take care of themselves the right way, they could do so.
After about 6 months the boys were adopted by the upper class family of the Spaulding’s. David Spaulding was a politician and his wife, Angelica, was an A list actress who was infertile and was desperate to have children. Though the reason they adopted Faust and Charles wasn’t only for that fact, but also because they were attempting to clean up their own shady reputations; by taking in the homeless, family-less kids. Angelica showed the children off at every relevant event and pretty soon the boys had their own fame that seemed to rival their ‘mothers’ just for simply existing. Tutors and a private school education were given to the now 10 year old boys and life seemed to be perfect. They no longer had to struggle to live another day and the family moved to New York for job opportunities. They lived a few months of utter peace and then it happened.
The nightmare… The awakening…
Faust had awoken one night from a nightmare of his mothers suicide and the sheer intensity of his emotions caused him to unconsciously fill the room with a freezing cloud, only stopping once his brother hugged him and told him everything was going to be ok. They didn‘t tell their parents about what happened and assumed that everything was fine, but his mother and father had secretly witnessed the entire thing from the doorway. Whenever Faust became excited or frightenedthe surrounding area would become smokey and wet, leaving the young man confused and frightened by his own power; but he noticed that whenever he was with his brother these things wouldn’t happen. So he and his brother stuck together and developed an even closer bond.
A few weeks later Faust’s brother discovered his own powers, and the boys decided they would learn to control them and help people like superheroes. That was when, as if on queue, Ashford showed up at their door and informed their mother of the Ashford facility. A private school that would help the boys ’develop their natural talents’ and Angelica wasn't opposed to the thought of having super powered children and in fact thought it would be good for David's public image to have children who were so different from their parents, and loved their children still the same. Sending the kids off to Ashford, Faust and Charlie quickly caught on to the war inside of the school, which was more like ‘home’ to the boys. Everybody out for themselves, and so Faust took it upon himself to find a way to join the Battlefront in his 11th grade year secretly and help the school and possibly the world. Though he forbid Charlie from doing so, and told his brother that he didn’t want him getting in harms way, and so he had to stay neutral and avoid any hostile situations. Not that Charlie was a good listener, and now Faust has spent many years training and mastering his powers in hopes of creating a better world and taking care of his brother. Taking the nickname Nimbus and staying secretive about his position in the Battlefront.
Behind the Character
Name: Molly
Chatango Name: Mollyhayes01
RP Experience: 7 years
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RP Sample:
Gamora was in hot pursuit of a group of space pirates who she had caught attacking and attempting to conquer a planet of peaceful aliens. They were similar to the people of her now extinct planet Zen Whoberi and the fact that they were raping the women and enslaving the men was simply icing on the cake. Gamora, the Deadliest Women in the Universe would not stand for such atrocities and after she had freed the people of the planet she had killed about three members of the crew before they retreated and attempted to escape her jurisdiction. They should know better than to think this fight was over, and after firing a tracing device onto the ship she jumped into her own one man cruiser ship and was hot on their trail.
Propelling through the vacuum of space wasn’t something new to Gamora and these sorry excuses for men seemed to be rather skilled in navigating as well, in a ship that seemed to be thrown together with black market supplies and the sort. Not that she was surprised by the lack of an ‘actual’ ship from these men but as soon as she was in range of catching up to them they fired off a few laser toward her ship which she easily dodged, or attempted to anyway. Hitting one of her wings the a red light began to flash on her command panel and she opened her mouth to speak obscenities on the ship.
"Stupid piece of intergalactic excrement!”
It would take more than that measly laser to take out her ship and it seemed that was all they had, but as she continued to drive full speed toward their ship her own began to seemingly break down. Of all the times for this piece of junk to stop working, now was NOT one of them. She was in the middle of space for crying out loud, the endless vacuum was not a place she wanted to be stranded in, but her ship did get her where she needed to go. The men has began to descend onto a planet of primitive origins and she followed them through the atmosphere, turning off her engine to not waste any gas as she simply plummeted through the sky before turning her engine back on and catching her self above the trees. Her cloaking device coming on when the ship was hit, unknown to her, and the men seeming to have found a new target already.
They were attacking a pink skinned man who was draped in a yellow and black bodysuit with a distinct insignia on his chest, one that she had never seen but she was sure it wasn’t the last time she would see it. He looked rather worn down and in need of rest, but he was still putting up a fight against these space pirates and had already killed one of the crew. A seemingly well place laser of yellow light had pierced the aliens skull and she nodded her head in an accepting manner as she grabbed her trusted blade, the Godslayer, and attached a laser gun to his hip while grasping a second blade in her other hand. Now was the time she upheld her reputation, even though there would be no survivors of the crew left to tell the story of how they were all slain by the green skinned woman.
Ejecting herself from the ship, Gamora soared through the air high above the trees, somersaulting once before holding her blade out in front of her ready to begin her killing spree. Her black and white space suit was hugging her curvy figure and her dark tresses of grass flowed from her head and the sun reflected off of her beautiful emerald eyes. She may have looked beautiful falling from the sky, but these men would be fools to admire her beauty and grace, and if they weren’t already running they were as good as dead.
“You picked the wrong lifetime to be a space pirate,”
Gamora yelled triumphantly as she caught her first victim at the end of her descent, her blade running through the middle of his body and spilling his innards upon the ground. Pattering blood upon her smooth green skin, rolling to the side she avoided a mass of gun fire before leaping into the air and slashing at the man throat while stepping off his forehead and somersaulting through the air, dodging more of the lasers and bullets these men seemed to be wasting on the wildlife around them. Landing on another mans neck with her legs laying upon his back, and her round posterior sitting on his chest, Gamora leaned backward, dragging the man off his feet with her powerful thigh muscles, and placed him flat on his back before grabbing her blaster and firing two shots into another of the men’s legs. Still sitting atop of her previous foe who now had the Godslayer pressed in between his eyes.
“I did not sign up for this ! I‘m getting the hell out of here!”
One of the pirates yelled which prompted his leader to swiftly smack him and push a gun into his lackeys hands, a look of determination in his eyes as he pointed to the Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy and the Master of Fear himself. He did not intend on losing this battle and he would win by any means necessary, he was not afraid to take as many lives as he could in the process.
“Quiet you coward ! You signed up to be a pirate and pirates do more than steal, we kill with no remorse ! Now stop standing there pissing yourself and take those two out, I want their heads as trophies !!”
He yelled, spewing venom in his words as he pulled out his own laser rifle and fired at Sinestro and Gamora, fear present in his eyes and mind but not showing on his outer layer as he seemed to be firing randomly between the two. Gamora was now jumping behind a tree as she pulled out her own gun and fired a few shots at the captain who was now taking cover behind a large rock. Her laser leaving large scorch marks on his rock and his leaving large burns in the tree she was hiding behind, causing the greenery to catch fire. Just great. Standing up, Gamora kicked the tree hard enough to send it tipping out of the ground and it was now laying on the dirt preventing it from setting the whole planet ablaze, while creating a better cover for herself and her yellow companion.
"If you give up now, I won’t have to kill your whole crew… Well actually, I’m going to kill all of you sorry excuses for men anyway so don’t hold me to that previous statement.“
