Avatar Permissions Thread for the Artistic Challenge

[Pyroclasm]

My only concern here is the Artistic Challenges.  Some of the artists have been known to write new background stories for their designs.  Thus they are writing a form of fanfic.  Should some of the artists be told that they can't make up new stories for the new character concept while others can?  Every single one of them will be some sort of redesign and/or reimagining of the character they've been assigned.  To me, there is no distinction because the Artistic Challenges already have an element of fan fiction to them.
Previously people complained it wasn't fair they weren't nominated.  Some complained that they were nominated without wanting to be.  I don't want to deal with either in any of the Artistic Challenges.  I reluctantly agreed to adding avatars to the mix.  Accepting "I kinda sorta give some permission to only do stuff that I want" would make this process moot.  Sure some people would only like some things done, but then, those that are uncomfortable with their character being designed as a clown shouldn't be adding their name to the pot either.

Edit: Changed the thread title

[BatWing]

eh letme get my origin

[Pyroclasm]

The new Artistic challenge's signup thread will be posted today.  It's going to be a theme randomizer using Avatars.  You have April 1st to post your avatar so it can be included in the random assignments for Artistic Challenge 15.  If your avatar doesn't get chosen for this challenge, you will have a greater chance of showing up in the following.

[Spring Heeled Jack]

Name: Spring Heeled Jack
Identity: Unrevealed
Hero Type: Altered Human
Origin: A radical experiment on a distant alien world left SHJ, lightyears away, embued with phenomenal stores of energy and potential.
Powers: Incredible agility, speed and extra-human strength, with low-level energy generation abilities as well.

[Toxic_J]

HERO NAME: Toxic J
IDENTITY NAME: Toxic J
HERO TYPE: Genetically engineered humanoide consisting of all kinds of toxic/radioactive waste.
ORIGIN:  Secret government project, created in a lab.
POWERS: Can shoot toxic waste, radiation blasts, some ability to mutate himself and manipulate his environment to a certain degree. Overall not so easy too kill as he has no organs or anything like it (kinda like the changelings from Star Trek only no ability to change into a Tarkalean Hawk.. I think  :P)
Weakness: He doesn't like fire as intense heat will have him mutate without being in control. 

This is The first and the last design I made of him a long time ago:


He can be used and redesigned in any way the artist feels like it, it's always fun to see how people imagine Toxic. :)

[The Pwime]

Note: the following information is more based on "The Omega" version of Pwime, although he's still the same guy, just with energy-manipulation powers along with his standard telekinesis.

HERO NAME: The Pwime / The Omega
IDENTITY NAME: Unknown (as in I haven't really thought of one yet ><)
HERO TYPE: Mutant/Mystical
ORIGIN: Born with powerful telekinetic abilities he was unaware of, the Pwime lived his early life as a normal person, whilst causing very strange things to happen unkowingly (objects moving mysteriously, etc).  After figuring out that he had powers and becoming a hero, Pwime spent his earliest crime fighting days doing little more than stopping the occasional robbery.  One day, however, he was requested to aid several other heroes in a large-scale battle against a powerful supervillain who claimed to be a god of the sorts and was trying to duplicate himself to swarm and destroy all of America, and eventually the world.  Nearly dieing in battle, Pwime heard a voice offer him a second chance in his last moments, promising him glory and fame as a hero.  This voice was actually the disembodied spirit of a "clone" of Pwime's god-like adversary, and as it merged with Pwime it tried to enforce it's will.  However, Pwime was able to resist it for several months, enjoying the new powers the being had bestowed upon him.  Eventually he was seperated from the entity known as "The Nemesis," and several months later (He sort of went into hiding because he did some...pretty bad things when under the influence this thing) Pwime re-emerged into the superhero business with a new costume, silver hair and a new name: The Omega.
POWERS: Vast telekinetic powers which he is re-learning, and as of his seperation from The Nemesis, his body is filled with a very powerful, unidentifiable energy which he can project and use to heal himself (basically, if he gets a broken bone or a really nasty cut, the affected part of his body is replaced with this energy within a matter of minutes, and can function as if it were bone, flesh, muscle, etc. despite it's glowing, flame-like appearance)
WEAKNESS:  Other energy and The Omega do not mix.  If he's in a flesh-based form, of course getting zapped with energy is going to hurt...it would do the same to most other people.  However, if he's already been damaged and is in a partially-energy based state, the energy of his own body and the other energy in question will likely conflict eachother.

Also, if The Omega has been damaged to the point where almost all of his body is currently energy-based, using any of his energy based attacks will actually eat away at his "body."  Not good.

[spoiler] - The Omega, my preffered and more frequently used design.

- The evil, twisted version of my avatar, under the influence of The Nemesis

- The Pwime as he looked as a brand-new crimefighter![/spoiler]

Jeez, I feel sorry for anyone who reads all of that.   :mellow:

[gdaybloke]

HERO NAME: (technically, none)
IDENTITY NAME: Graham Day (G. Day)
HERO TYPE: Normal human in very good physical shape
ORIGIN: Leader of H.A.M.S.T.E.R., a clandestine agency dedicated to combatting clone villainy. Think a slightly more volatile Nick Fury type with an addiction to milk duds.
POWERS: Inherently none, though Graham is in excellent shape. Known weapons in his arsenal include the incendeniary gerbil, concussion guinea pig, armour piercing chinchilla, stealth death attack egyptian spiny mouse, and the intercontinental ballistic vole. Generally speaking these can be deployed via his H.A.M.S.T.E.R. launcher. Other gadgets include a R.A.T. (Registered Analog Teleporter). Don't even ask what he's trained the capybaras to do.
LINK: [spoiler]



NB: These CoH screenshots do not correctly display the H.A.M.S.T.E.R. logo


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[catwhowalksbyhimself]

HERO NAME: Catwhowalksbyhimself
IDENTITY NAME: None, although legends of black cats being demonic come from his appearances throughout the centuries
HERO TYPE: Cosmic Entity
ORIGIN: A manifestation of the collective consciousness of all feline creatures.  He has always existed as long as cat has.
POWERS: When seen, he normally exists in a non-corporeal, partially transparent form, although he can take full physical form at will.  He must be completely one or the other, however, and can be physically harmed whenever solid, although incorporeal is his default existence.  Physical harm, however, takes the form of reducing his presence, forcing him to dematerialize.

He can appear and disappear at will, but normally does so by appearing to walk into or out of the nearest wall, floor, or ceiling.  He can take other being with him, but they must be re-materialized immediately, while he can simply disappear for extended periods of time.

Although normally appearing as a normal sized black house-cat, he can change size and shape to match that of any form of cat, although he always keeps his black color.

Being a cat spirit, he can communicate with all other cats, and generally know everything that any cat knows, making him a useful source of information--should he feel like giving any.  His presence also tends to make any cat nearby act in a more rational way.  More dangerous big cats such as lions, for instance, tend to be completely harmless in his presence.

His major weakness is that he can only appear for any length of time when other cats are in the immediate vicinity.  One of or two are sufficient to allow him to remain indefinitely, and he often has regular felines of various types with him as companions should he need to appear for an extended length of time.  His ability to assume larger cat forms, however, is dependent entirely on the number of cats in the area.

PERSONALITY:  Just like you'd expect a cat to be if he know just about everything and could talk.  He's unpredictable and whimsical, and even though he often helps out others (especially the PALS) he likes to pretend like he's doing nothing of the sort and is just there for his own amusement.  Sometime he can be downright frustrating to deal with, but he always seems to pull through in the end, although with a snobby air of superiority attached and a usual lecture about the stupidity of humans.

LINK: No pictures have ever been made of this avatar, save for the image in my signature.

You can use him for any purpose--art, fanfiction, mods, whatever.

[Panther_Gunn]

*wonders if he should have his head examined for doing this &lt;_&lt;*






HERO NAME: Panther; The Panther (take your pick.....the Gunn part was for a unique ID for FR.....figured Panther would have already been taken by then  &lt;_&lt;)
IDENTITY NAME: Not yet revealed (he's a private sort of guy  ^_^)
HERO TYPE: Mutant(?) (may have been altered into a mutant)
ORIGIN: (strap yourselves in, kids....it's gonna be a bumpy ride!)
[spoiler]Our story starts off with the hero-to-be as a normal teenager, growing up reading comic books, on a world without heroes (similar to Pre-Crisis Earth Prime, or our reality, but not specifically stated yet).  Nothing seems to be out of the ordinary as he goes to sleep one night.  He's awoken from a deep sleep by a cold wind, and a general sense of unease.  Upon opening his eyes, he finds himself staring into blue, daylit sky.  All around him, in fact.  Looking back (down) over his shoulder confirms his initial fear....he's free-falling, from quite a distance up.  Can anyone really blame him that panic set in rather quickly?  Eyes closed (so the impact will come as a surprise, and *maybe* he'll bounce because he didn't tense up), throat a little hoarse (from screaming for a couple minutes solid), he notices the sound of the wind seems to change somewhat (maybe it's an updraft!  please please please please!!!), and a slight perception that he's slowing down (:?:), right before a *THUD* rocks through his body.....and then he's not falling anymore.  Since there doesn't seem to be any agonizing pain anywhere immediately, he cracks an eye open (he can hear noise of some kind around him, maybe talking, but the wind whipping at his ears for that long has him feeling like he's just come out of front row at an Ozzy concert), and sees something that's quite puzzling (well, more than surviving that fall!).....a head & shoulders of someone that appears to have caught him.....and he really looks like some kind of metal!  The stranger changes to what looks to be flesh & blood, speaking to our boy (did that sound like "tovarish"?), but not much intelligible is making it past his general confusion over the whole thing (y'know, this guy looks kinda like Colossus, but that doesn't make any sense.......ooh, look at the pretty stars....).  Fade to black (unconsiousness).

He wakes up in something resembling a hospital bed, with a couple of monitors hooked to him.  After a minute or so, slowly at first, then all at once, people come to the bedside, crowding around, asking how he is, etc.  Only, they *all* look like X-Men, or at least, the way they *used* to look (Kitty's in her black & gold.....they must be fresh back from losin' Jean.  ouch, bad timing).  Prof. X tells him that Cerebro registers him as a mutant, but the readings keep fluctuating.  "I sure don't feel any different" he thinks to himself, "at least, except for the whole surviving the fall thing.  Guess Storm slowed my fall or something."

"Relax & get some rest.  We'll check on you later."  says the Professor.

That evening, as Nightcrawler is regaling him with stories of various adventures, his attention is rudely stolen by...pain.  Mind-numbing pain, knifing through his entire body.  "ok.....this can't be.....a dream.....dreams don't.....*hurt* this much...." he thought, just before slipping into the blackness again.

Re-awakening in the same bed, feeling *much* better (most of the pain is gone....just enough lingering to keep him tensed up), he's told that he was out, curled up in a tensed, pain-filled ball for three days.  As the last wave of pain seemed to pass, he realized that his hand was clenching something in it.  Opening his hand, he discovers a ring.  The X-Men are all perplexed, as none of them recognize it, and are sure that nothing like it was nearby before the attack.  Our hero, however, does recognize it, but is, again, filled with incredulity.  "This looks an *awful* lot like a Legion flight ring.  Oh, this just keeps getting weirder."  On an impulse, he flips at the top of the ring (what the heck, maybe it's filled with a Super Energy Pill!), surprising himself (and everyone else) when something seems to spring out of the ring & rapidly expand.  Before anyone can make out what the object is, our boy instinctively gets out of the bed & puts it on (it's some kind of clothing).....quicker than the blink of an eye....at least, that's what everybody tells him!

There's more, but I think that should do it for an origin, with the rest just being history.  ^_^[/spoiler]

POWERS: (GG & MJB, gimme strength for this one!) -- I've had trouble paring this down.  Strength & agility equal to Spider-Man, with something akin to Spider Sense and the friction pads.  Barry Allen-level Super Speed.  Nightcrawler-like Teleporting.  Healing factor (and claws) to rival Wolverine, with one exception.....the adamantium seems to be "organic", mixed in with the bone structure, rather than just strips of it bonded to the bones.  Durlan Shape-shifting.  Invisibility.  Phasing (without the disruption of electronics).  Impenetrable Mental Shield.  Costume made out of unstable molecules, for morphability/invis, and some degree of protection.  Gadgets may include: fully stocked utility belt (Bats), webshooters, white dwarf material (for shrinking), various & sundry martial arts/melee weaponry. 
(I *hate* listing all of this stuff......even *I* have a hard time of not dropping the  :paradoxsign flag)

As a further note, his mood is a bit grim, somewhere between Wolverine & Batman, but he does try to lighten up & have fun with it a bit, when the responsibility of it all isn't weighing him down.

LINK:  [spoiler]


Costume notes:  eye-flames should look closer to what Pyro & 'Panda have them as.  Black is flat, silver is shiney.  Cape is black outside, silver inside, bottom edge in the same shape as the flames (so it looks ragged, but does have a pattern).  Chest symbol on bear is what he plans to have as a buckle flashlight (similar to Spidey's).[/spoiler]




And now the laughing & retching can begin.... :rolleyes:

[Gremlin]

HERO NAME: Gremlin
IDENTITY NAME: Leonard Morrison, presumed dead
HERO TYPE: Altered human
ORIGIN: Leonard Morrison was a highly insecure teenager, gifted with a natural knack for making electronic items work.  The minute amounts of mutagen flowing through the air capitalised on these aspects, slowly transforming him over the course of several months into a bizarre purple monster.  Running away from hom early on, Morrison was presumed to have killed himself due to problems with bullies at school.  Taking the moniker Gremlin, Morrison vowed to start a new life where he could work to make a difference protecting the people who, like himself, are underappreciated.
POWERS: Control over electronic items (if there's a direct circuit to the item's innards), claws, increased agility, mildly enhanced senses.
LINK: It's up on my avatar pic.  The face is the only important part; the rest looks generally human.  Current costume (designed by MJB) is...on my other computer, so I can't upload it.  I'll edit the post if I can get it online.  Otherwise, PM me if you need more info.

[Rick Battlemage]

HERO NAME: Rick Battlemage
IDENTITY NAME: Rick Kranghand
HERO TYPE: Magic
ORIGIN: Young Rick was playing with his Magic: The Gathering cards, when suddenly as if out of nowhere a bolt of Energy X zapped him and threw him in a portal into the mystical world of Dominiara. Rick was found by Multani, Maro-Sorcerer, Multani teached Rick most of his 'green magic'. After many years of training Rick returned back to the real world by combining his magic with multani's.
POWERS: Rick grew wings which cannot be 'disenchanted' they're a part of him now, Rick has the power to heal and cast spells, he can also fire magic energybolts.
LINK:

Original costume

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Modern costume

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Awesome costume

[Thunder]

Name: Thunder

Powers: Flight, enhanced strength lightning/electrical blasts


Avatar:

[Lycus]

Hero Name: Monitor (subject to change)

Identity Name: Jason Knight

Hero Type:
(Let's just say 'Mutant' and pretend it's true) Full details unclear at this time. Appears genetic in nature, possibly a previously unknown species. The characteristics appear often through subject's paternal ancestry.

Origin:
Subject is one of three children born into the Knight crime family. His older Sister has severed all connection with the family, save the subject in question. The younger brother is likely to take their father's mantle as head of the family in the future. The subject himself seems to have reached an uneasy truce with the family in order to prevent bloodshed on either side. Said truce would likely not survive his father's passing. He is believed to have aligned himself with a small group of 'like-minded' individuals.

Powers:
-Enhanced senses, of which he maintains near complete control over. The exception being frequent migraines which he has been unable to numb.
-Lightning reflexes. Note that while he is not faster than a speeding bullet, he is fast enough to get out of the way of an aimed weapon before the trigger is pulled.
-Minor healing factor. Subject is immune to all disease. Will heal much faster than a human, but not amazingly so. One report maintains a three week healing period after having his arm crushed by a Strength-Enhanced Individual.
-Palms excrete a substance which allows him the ability to attach to walls and ceilings - this suggests increased upper-body strength also.

Equipment:
Light-weight impact suit protects from practically all blunt-force trauma. Approximately 70% coverage of bulletproof armor - joints and head are identifiable weak points. Suit has been enhanced with retractable Glide-Wings and Launch-Boots allowing him to jump to great heights. Features a two-part mask suitable for any occasion

Skills:
Fluent in eight languages - English, German, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, French, Navajo and ASL. Martial Arts training, somewhat piecemeal in appearance, no particular style stands out.

Crude Renderings:
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[GhostMachine]

(This applies to my CoH avatar, I guess, since that's what I'm using atm - not my Freedom Force avatar that I actually consider my main but haven't used in a while)

Name: GhostMachine (note: one word, with a capital M - some people mistakenly spell it as two words or use a lower case m)
Identity Name: Real name unknown, but uses the aliases Dr. Lucas Wolfe and Michael Black
Hero Type: Technological (He's a cyborg)

Origin (leaving out the CoH specific parts): GhostMachine was a scientist working on a device using technology acquired from two different sources by a team of superheroes: a technologically themed criminal organization and a race of artificial constructs once bent on conquering Earth. However, prolonged exposure to an experimental power source caused him to suffer severe damage, and he had to be transformed into a cyborg in order to save his life. Adding electrical projection devices to some of his cybernetic body parts, he decided to become a crimefighter himself.

GhostMachine operates out of a secret headquarters beneath an abandoned factory that is rumored to be haunted.

Powers: In CoH terms, GhostMachine is an Electrical Blast\Devices Blaster with the Munitions Mastery epic pool and the Flight, Teleportation (Recall Friend\Teleport Foe only), Concealment and Fitness Power Pools. His entire right arm, left hand, right leg from the knee down and both eyes are cybernetic. His cybernetic parts are highly damage resistant, but don't give him superhuman strength. However, his eyes do give him enhanced night vision - he can see perfectly even in total darkness.

Skills: GhostMachine is one of the world's leading experts in robotics and cybernetics, and is also a highly skilled detective. Is also fluent in Japanese.

Weaknesses: Has *some* basic street fighting skills, but that's about it, so he's not all that great in hand to hand combat. Can't use his electrical powers underwater (funnily enough, soaking rain is no problem).

Notes on powers: Uses Stealth, Tesla Cage, Phase Shift and the Cryo-Freeze Ray a LOT. Fights dirty; Tesla Cage then walk up and drop Trip Mine tactic is a favorite.

Note on appearance: the black around his eyes is the Goth eyepaint.....which looks pretty much like old school Alice Cooper eye paint, if you don't play CoH.

[captainspud]

POWERS: (GG & MJB, gimme strength for this one!) -- I've had trouble paring this down.  Strength & agility equal to Spider-Man, with something akin to Spider Sense and the friction pads.  Barry Allen-level Super Speed.  Nightcrawler-like Teleporting.  Healing factor (and claws) to rival Wolverine, with one exception.....the adamantium seems to be "organic", mixed in with the bone structure, rather than just strips of it bonded to the bones.  Durlan Shape-shifting.  Invisibility.  Phasing (without the disruption of electronics).  Impenetrable Mental Shield.  Costume made out of unstable molecules, for morphability/invis, and some degree of protection.  Gadgets may include: fully stocked utility belt (Bats), webshooters, white dwarf material (for shrinking), various & sundry martial arts/melee weaponry. 

I think a better question would be... what powers DON'T you have?

:mellow:

[The Pwime]

At least he doesn't have Nightcrawler-like teleportation and phasing that doesn't disrupt electronics!
























































...oh, wait...  :blink:

[Sword]

Hero Name: Sword
Hero Identity: Benjamin Flynn
Hero Type: Altered Human
Origin: Ben Flynn was one of three hundred victims of the Omega Gate. This was a device originally meant for interstellar travel, but due to an intentional glitch, it mutated those inside into horrible monsters and superhumans. 100 of the three hundred walked into the gate, never to return. Those who did became heroes and villains of Sunset City.
Powers: Blink-style teleportation, Low Level invulnerability(Can survive being shot with anything but high-caliber weapons) Illusion Generation, Group Invisibility
Abilities: World Champion MMA, Ninjitsu, Intimidation.
Weaknesses: No useful long range superpowers.
[img=http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/8673/sword3jp3.th.jpg]http://- Twilight Corps Costume designed by UFB
I don't have it on this computer, but I'm sure someone can provide the C6 avatar I used for CRUSH.
My current PALS costume is something like this in navy and gold.

[Tomato]

HERO NAME: Tomato
IDENTITY NAME: Jonathan Hansburg
HERO TYPE: Mystical
ORIGIN: Jonathan P. Hansburg is a complcated person, if you consider total geekiness a complicated subject matter. JP loved superheroes, which was a very good thing since he lived on a planet full of them. He dreamed of becoming one, but because he was a walking twig and didn't have a mind for technology, he was forced to spend most of his time online pretending to be.

Then one day, he discovered a GP sponsored contest, wherein a winner and one friend could go on a tour of europe. Upon wnning, he invited his friend Kirk Sigmon on the trip with him.

During one of the tours, JP crashed into one of the walls and knocked loose one of the electric torches adorning it. Upon hitting the ground, the glass flame of the torch cracked apart, and set the floor on fire. Kirk and JP, who had fallen behind the rest of the tour, began to freak out, when suddenly the flames got really intense, and vanished completely. They had cut an opening in the wall, one looking much like a door.

Curious, Jonathan entered. Inside he discovered a grand hall of beautiful artwork, none of which he though all that great, all centered around a single orb. Jonathan Hansburg recieved powers from this orb, called the "Orb of Fire". It contained the power of one of the seven great heroes who lived long ago.

POWERS: Tomato's power is not, as it would appear, creation or control of flame, but is in fact manipulation of heat, which allows him to control flame. The tips of the fingers on the gloves of his bodysuit are covered with a course material, designed to create a spark when snapped, which Tomato can then expand into a full fledged fire.

LINK:

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Alternate:
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[deanjo2000]

Name: Deanjo2000
Hero type :Mistaken wearer of alien battle suit.
Powers: Flight,Energy blasts and 3 times the speed,strength,endurance of a normal healthy man. Low level force field strong enough to repel small fire arms.
Identity name:Dean Morris
Origin:Whilst looking out of his window one night Dean witnessed a small meteorite land in his back yard on closer inspection he found it to be a small glowing crystal when he touched it a bright flash knocked him out cold.When he awoke the next day he realized the crystal had some how fused with him giving him abilitys far above normal men.Also when ever he concentrated a suit of almost liquid form encased his body.He later found out that the crystal was meant for another world but had been sucked through a black hole and crashed on earth.Apparently an invasion force from another galaxy had destroyed all in its path through the cosmos so the greatest minds of many worlds banded together merging their technolgy and designed 5 power suits as thier best hope of defeating the destroyers.A champion had been chosen but had never receaved the final crystal.Dean now had a choice forever bonded to the suit does he stay on earth or join the other 4 bearers to stop the invasions.After all can it be that long untill they discover earth.
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[BentonGrey]

Howdy guys, I only just recently recieved a new avatar, but if anyone wants to use it, please feel absolutely welcome.

HERO NAME: Prince Grey
IDENTITY NAME: Benton Grey
HERO TYPE: Last Lost Prince of the Undersea Kingdom of Atlantis
ORIGIN: Benton Grey was the heir to the throne of Atlantis, living a life of ease and frivolity until he uncovered a plot against his father by the court vizer, Magden the Solemn.  Unwisely confronting the powerful mage, a terrible struggle ensued, and the gentle prince found himself magically exiled and his kingdom vanished.  He is doomed to wander the seas, unable to die and unable to return home.  His centuries of exile have hardened him, but he still secretly searches for his lost home.

POWERS: He is immensely strong, and practically immortal.

You can find Unko's great design here:
http://freedomreborn.net/archive/index.php?topic=41232.0

You can find Juancho's awesome mini here:
http://freedomreborn.net/archive/index.php?topic=41824.0

[Mr. Hamrick]

I like the armor on Sword's avatar . . . well, the all black version at least.

[Pyroclasm]

Just a reminder.  I will be handing out assignments to the challenge signees this weekend.  If you want your avatar considered, you need to post a completed entry profile in this thread before the 1st.  If you are missing an avatar picture, or just ignored some of the profile outline, you will not be put into the pool for selection.  Thanks.  :thumbup:

[Uncle Yuan]

I did not post a pic because I do not consider any of the ones that I have to be definitive.  They are, to be blunt, wrong.  Fabulous art, yes.   Beautiful work, indeed.  And I'm proud to have and use them.  But not a one are how I would picture or describe UY.  With that in mind, I was looking forward to what others would come with.  I can put a few of the avs I have up, but if nothing posted winds up represented or is other wise used as inspiration, I would be completely OK with that.

[style]

HERO NAME: Tha Style!: The Ultimate Fan!
IDENTITY NAME:Ha you're trying to get me there ^_^
HERO TYPE: Hi-Tech, Advanced Training,
ORIGIN: My story is about a young dude in his 20's who befriends a mad scientist (ala Back to the Future) Yes Doc Mackinzey created weaponry for a group of terrorist or so they thought. When he found himself and Jay Bell(the young dude in his 20's)in a tight situation locked up by the terrorist he made a metal electronic baseball bat that gives you the strength of ten  Yankee greats! (Gehrig, Ruth, DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra, Jackson, Mattingly, Giambi, Rodriguez, and Jeter) Doc Mac also stole some tech from the C6 suit which allows the bat to shoot C6 energy blast! After using the bat to free himself and the Doc Jay Bell desides to fight all types of crime and terrorism as Tha Style!: The Ultimate Fan!
POWERS: Tha Style has a metal electronic baseball bat that gives you the strength of ten  Yankee greats! (Gehrig, Ruth, DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra, Jackson, Mattingly, Giambi, Rodriguez, and Jeter) the bat also shoots C6's blue energy blast!
LINK:

[Night Dragon]

This is a tad bit long, it's a profile I sent to EmJay a while back that details out ALOT about ND. Of course I took out a few things that are still unknown about him.


Hero Name : Night Dragon
I.D. Name : James 'Jay' Austin (Jay is believed dead to the public at large)
Occupation : Former Arson Investigator, adventurer
Hero Type : Normal Human (1st Form) ; Accidental Mutation (2nd Form) ; Mutation/Mystic (3rd and Current form)
Group Affiliation : Dragon Force
Height : 6 ft. 6 in. (Originally 5 ft. 10 in. )
Weight : 235 lbs. (Originally 160 lbs. )
Eyes : Yellow ( Originally Green )
Hair : Brown
Skin : Green

Powers and Abilities : Night Dragon has superhuman strength, agility, reflexs, endurance, regenerative abilities, and resistance to injury. At peak effiecency, Night Dragon can lift (press) a maximum of 18 tons. Due to the massive changes in his body's entire cardio and muscular systems, Night Dragon is able to preform extended periods of intense activity without the need for rest. This is further aided by his body's regenarative abilites which help reduce the production of fatigue poisons in his sytem.

Due to the enhanced skeletal and muscluar systems, Night Dragon's body is much sturdier. At close range a firearm will break his skin and cause some bruising, but no lethal damage. Larger firearms still present the ability to cause lethal wounds.

Night Dragon is also highly resistant to heat. He is virtually fireproof to all but the most extreme temperatures. Unfortantly, his body still needs oxygen to function, so he still has to be wary of fire removing all oxygen in an area.

Night Dragon also possess the ability to breath fire. Night Dragon can vary the range from within several inches to around 20 feet away. The temperature can also be controled, with the maximum reaching the melting point of steel.

Night Dragon's wings provide him with flight. He can fly at extremly high speeds. His normal 'cruising' speed is around 50 M.P.H. which he can maintain without rest for 10 hours. His top speed is close to 115 m.p.h. , but can only be maintained for a short period. Night Dragon can reach heights of 12,000 feet with very little effort.

Night Dragon's senses have been altered as well. He is able to see in all but total darkness, and with a small amount of effort can see the Kirlain field of a person's aura. He can also sense when someone is using magical energies, forces, etc. Night Dragon can also see for a much further distance then a normal human can and with much sharper detail.

Night Dragon also ages at a very slow rate. The average is something close to, every 12 years is the eqivilent of aging one human year. It has been theroized that also like some myths on dragons, Night Dragon could very well grow much stronger as he gets older.

History : James Austin grew up in a typical small rural town. James left home to go to school at Patriot City a year after his mother passed away. James meet two close friends his freshman year in college. His roommate Mike and his soon to be girlfriend Aimee. Of course he and Aimee didn't hit it off right away, but it was more a big brother/little sister teasing thing, which blossomed later on into love.

During James's Junior year of college, he got a phone call that his father was killed in an explosion of a burning chemical factory. Aimee and Mike both helped James manage through a diffucult time.

Finally Mike and James graduated, Aimee still had some time to go before getting her Phd. James had gotten a job in Arson investigations and Mike had gotten grant work doing research. The night of their graduation, James felt some pent up energy and went for a walk. His walk lead him right into the middle of a gang war. One side had their own metahuman and James watched as the neighborhood turned into a minature war zone. The fighting came to an sudden stop when one of the gang memebers little sister ran into the fighting for her big brother and was caught in the crossfire. James ran to help her, but was too late. James set his mind that someone needed to help fight the smaller crimes that some heroes might not notice.

Over the next few weeks James desigined himself a costume and began patroling the streets as Night Dragon. For nearly a year James worked to help make the streets a much safer place. He kept his dual identity a secret from Aimee.

Night Dragon soon busted a small time drug running operation, and soon finds himself fighting the operations muscleman Jacknife, a super strong metahuman. During the fight, Night Dragon is critically injured and tossed through the roof of a building and left for dead by Jacknife. This was meant to serve as a warning to any other 'heroes' to stay out of their business.

Little did Jacknife know, but he had tossed Night Dragon onto an abandoned warehouse, which had several sealed canisters, many decades old, inside it. Dragon's body shattered many of the canisters, although it also broke his ribs and a large chunk of metal ripped his side open. Dragon laid there bleeding to death, when in his struggles to get up, he shattered the container. A purple glow lite the room as the contents leaked out and onto Dragon's broken body. Within minutes, not only did Dragon feel better, but stronger, faster, and ready for round two with Jacknife.

That was until he saw himself in a dusty old mirror. His body has been transformed. He stood taller then before, and had more muscle mass on his frame. But his skin and eyes were changed too. His skin was now the same color and texture as a reptiles, and his eyes were yellow with slitted pupils. And somehow, he had grown a tal. James screamed out and took off running for his home, not thinking at all, just wanting to hide his horrible mutated form.

When he arrived at home, Aimee woke up and found him in the bathroom, curled into a ball. At first she was shocked and terrified at what happened to him, but underneath all those changes he was still the man she loved. It was with her love that James managed to accept what had happened to him and eventually return to his role as a hero.

Night Dragon tried to keep up his 'human' life as best he could, but, since he had no family to worry about, he faked the death of his human alter ego. Night Dragon was still determined to find a way to cure himself, but this helped free himself from having to deal with the problems of his dual identity.

Eventually Night Dragon was contacted by a mystic named Vartock .He said he might be able to mystically remove the energies of that mutated Dragon and revert him back to human. While Dragon didn't want to give up his days as a hero, he wanted to be able to give Aimee a normal relationship. HIs friends all reminded him he was a hero long before he had those powers. Dragon agreed and he and Vartock began the ceremony. Near the end, as Dragon finally regained his human form once more, something happened, Vartock began attacking Dragon. Vartock sought the powers Dragon had given up. He began altering them to make them even more powerful. Dragon struggled with the mystic and regained his temporarly cast off powers. But not without changes.

Dragon now looked like a cross between his original human self and his mutated form. He was even taller, standing at 6' 6". His ears had grown pointy and he had horns atop his head. Even stranger, he had grown fully functional wings. His face was now no longer covered in scales, but looked more like a green skinned version of James. His eyes looked human again, but with the same yellow coloring.

Night Dragon found he was stronger then before, and his senses were sharper then ever. Plus he seemed able to detect mystical activity. And he also discovered, much to Aimee and the living room couch's dismay, he could breath fire.

Since this last change, Dragon's outlook on his life has changed as well. He has become more adjusted to his lot in life, accepting that it might never be normal, but it will never be dull. He has grown more accustom to his role as a leader, although he still questions himself often about it.

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- Poser Image of ND ( Current form). Image by GG
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- Chibi Image of ND... by, you guessed it GG :D.
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- ND from Villains Reborn by MJB.
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- ND by Mowgli.
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Challenge #15 assignments have been posted.  The ones chosen this time will have their names scratched off my list, so they won't get picked twice.  If you hadn't posted but would like to add your name in the pool, you can still do that.  I'll just save the names of all completed entries for the next Avatar themed challenge.

[Zippo]

HERO NAME: Zippo
IDENTITY NAME: ZP-0 (official designation), Felix Felbourne (Alias)
HERO TYPE: Genetically Engineered Human (Altered Human)
ORIGIN: Created to give the Canadian government the ultimate tool in both warfare and peacekeeping missions, experiment ZP-0 was a prototype soldier designed to make an enemy's weapons useless on the battlefeild. During his training, his superiors noticed ZP-0 was developing too much free will and a compassion for living things. It was decided that when his training was complete, he would have his mind altered to better suit their needs of an ultimate weapon.
Unexpectedly, when the procedure began his powers were triggered, causing much of the sensitive equipment in the complex to explode. The entire complex was destroyed and ZP-0 presumed deceased. He excaped into the country for a while, to learn how to interact with real people, before becoming the undeservingly unappreciated protector of Vancouver, BC.
POWERS: Zippo has powerful psionic abilities similar to telekinesis. His powers take the form of an unknown energy that is presumably part of Zippo's body, which can be controlled mentally, and is stored internally while not in use. Using this energy, Zippo can move objects at a distance and fly. Zippo posesses a constant, set ammount of energy, whether stored internally or in use. For an object to be manipulated, Zippo must "send out" some of his energy to it. Once he releases his control of the object, the energy returns to his internal reserves. Because of this, Zippo can manipulate a few larger objects, or many small objects at once. It is possible that because he is still young, his energy reserves will grow as he continues to mature.
Zippo's second main ability is that his engergy can act as a form of catalist or "anti-catalist", causing chemical reactions to occur more spontaiously/more intensely, or not at all. For example, Zippo could stop dynamite from exploding by stopping its chemical reactions, or increase the explosion by increasing the reactions. This can also be used to cause metals to rust away.
The main hinderance on Zippo's powers is that none of them can affect any living sentient life directly (other than himself). It is unknown whether this is because of some sort of natural mental defense inherently present in sentient beings, or whether it is a subconcious mental block in place to stop Zippo from ceasing chemical reactions in a being's brain.

Zippo has the strength/speed/agility of an athletic male of his age, but has had intense training in close and ranged combat by the military.
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[Charmed]

HERO NAME: Charmed
IDENTITY NAME: Joey Henry
HERO TYPE: Alien
ORIGIN: When Joey was but a child, his parents knew he wasn't normal. Adopting a child was risky buisness, you never knew what you were going to get. He would throw "power-tantrums", when he couldn't control his powers. By 13 years old, he had them mastered. He was the perfect student and the most popular guy in the football team. When he was 18, he got to go on a field trip to NASA. He liked it there so much, once he graduated, it became his profession. He soared through his training to be an astronaut like it was what he had been born to do. On his first mission, he went to the moon. While walking on the surface, he saw a strange silver mist. From the mist appeared a beautiful woman. She said she was Selena and he was her son. He came back to Earth in shock and did what was right; he became a superhero.
POWERS: Super Strength, Flight, Energy Manipulation


Joey Henry and Charmed

[BatWing]

HERO NAME: Raijin
IDENTITY NAME: Johnson Le
HERO TYPE: Electric/Thunder
HERO TYPE: Altered Human
ORIGIN:
johnson was a simple electric engineer, til a heavy storm hits.
casuing a black out at johnson's work station. he tried repairing a power line, but a thunder strikes and wierd energy strike also. surging through johnson's body. Transforming into a walking thunder, unable to control it and was driven to madness. He attack the city with his powers unable to maintain. Police came to take him down but they were no match, they did tire him down. Then johnson went to a safe place where police won't track him down. slowly turning back into his human form, then went unconcious. After waking up, he was confuse of where he ism he looked around the city and it was a mess. Johnson delt shameful of what he did to the city, apparently no one knows that it was johnson that did it. so he quickly ran home and packed up, to start a new life and control his powers.


POWERS: Electric and Thunder creation and manipulation. The ability to fly. Superhuman speed(thunder form)

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Gah...good thing I noticed...
If anyone changes their name/avatar, please indicate that in your new post.  Since I just add names to the list, I may not notice that I need to switch a name rather than adding.  Don't worry Raijin, I noticed and will make the change on my list.  We wouldn't want it to be unfair. ;)