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Heroes of the City
Sep. 22nd, 2004 01:26 amJessica Kirkwood ran away from home at a young age, partly because of her step-father's abuses, and partly because of the unique pressures being a pubescent mutant put on a girl. She ran into a gang who called themselves the Courtyard Kings, or just 'The Kings'; she found a place of acceptance, and they found a useful, if slightly animalistic, partner in crime. The looked past her odd weasel-like features and behaviors in favor of a superb burglar and more-than-descent street fighter. Several years later, Jessica crossed paths, and claws, with a super heroine, Lady Blanche, who had come to halt gang activity. After a short scuffle, Lady Blanche subdued Jessica and convinced her to register with GIFT, who would help her cope with the difficulties of being a mutant and help her get off of the streets. Though she's jumped to the other side of the law, Jessica still goes by the name that her second family gave her, Svelt.
Anthony Jones was the son of a Navy officer who, though on a surface ship himself, had a great deal of pride and respect for the Marine Corps. Since as long as he can remember, even before his mother died while he was still very young, Anthony wanted to be a Marine, and to really make his father proud. He was robbed of that chance when a group of men from a militaristic terror group called the 5th Column came to their house, making demands of his father. When his father refused whatever it was they wanted, they shot him, executioner-style. He remembers that night vividly, as the leader of the band leaned down to a 12-year old Anthony not to forget what happened when his father denied the 5th Column. And he didn't; he spent the next twenty-five years of his life training hard to reach the peak of human physical achievement. Beyond athletic, beyond Olympian, even beyond the Marine Corps, Anthony trained himself. He had a new goal now, not honor his father in the Marines, but to honor him in vengeance. He signed on with ELITE under the agreement that he would work for them if they would help him get back at the 5th Column. As a testament to his dedication, Antony took the call-sign of Sic Semper, 'Always Thus'.
Elizabeth O'Toole was a shy girl who found herself on the outside of the In-Crowd in highschool, and as such she made friends with other outcasts. one trio of girls in particular made Elizabeth feel the most comfortable, and the four were then on inseparable. She though it was fun when Angie brought them an old leather-bound book with thick pages and strange texts. She thought it was fun when they made the winds blow, and the rocks float, and the candles turn blue. But when they performed a ritual which Angie directed; when Angie began to act strangely, callously, meanly; when Angie got out of control and it took two full-fledged members of MAGI to stop her; then, it wasn't so much fun. It was decided that she and her two friends weren't responsible for what Angie did, but because of their new-found powers they were required to register with MAGI, and either be mystically bound or trained as agents. Her friends opted to be bound, but Elizabeth had grown too fond of the power; she registered and trained with MAGI, taking the form of her name which she and her friends had always liked, Bethan.
Victor Starke had been a professor of physics at the local community college for only a couple of years. The faculty barely knew him, the students were more-or-less apathetic, but it was a good enough job for a single man his age. He had a mundane life, and mundane cares, until the night his car got stolen out of the school's parking garage, and he had to walk back to his apartment. He never made it. Before he'd gotten more than a couple miles, he was abducted off the street in one of the darker parts of town. In the basement of an abandoned warehouse, a small cult performed an arcane ritual which twisted his body and bound his soul to the demon Makatiel, Seraph of Despair. Unfortunately for the cultists, they underestimated the demon who broke their wards, ate their flesh and sucked the marrow from their bones -- quite literally, and using what had become of Victor's body. Luckily for Victor, it wasn't long before a band of MAGI agents came to subdue the Beast. With their help, he was able to suppress the demon and reassert his own will, though actually removing the demon proved beyond their powers; Makatiel had been sure to destroy the scrolls containing the ritual, and without those texts, the magic would be all-but-impossible to 'reverse engineer.' In the meantime, so that MAGI might be near should he lose control again, he joined them and trained as an agent, using the dark powers of his demon-self to fight those who might otherwise serve dark beings. Victor died that night, and Makatiel was forever changed; now, there is only the constant inner turmoil of The Abandonment.
Anthony Jones was the son of a Navy officer who, though on a surface ship himself, had a great deal of pride and respect for the Marine Corps. Since as long as he can remember, even before his mother died while he was still very young, Anthony wanted to be a Marine, and to really make his father proud. He was robbed of that chance when a group of men from a militaristic terror group called the 5th Column came to their house, making demands of his father. When his father refused whatever it was they wanted, they shot him, executioner-style. He remembers that night vividly, as the leader of the band leaned down to a 12-year old Anthony not to forget what happened when his father denied the 5th Column. And he didn't; he spent the next twenty-five years of his life training hard to reach the peak of human physical achievement. Beyond athletic, beyond Olympian, even beyond the Marine Corps, Anthony trained himself. He had a new goal now, not honor his father in the Marines, but to honor him in vengeance. He signed on with ELITE under the agreement that he would work for them if they would help him get back at the 5th Column. As a testament to his dedication, Antony took the call-sign of Sic Semper, 'Always Thus'.
Elizabeth O'Toole was a shy girl who found herself on the outside of the In-Crowd in highschool, and as such she made friends with other outcasts. one trio of girls in particular made Elizabeth feel the most comfortable, and the four were then on inseparable. She though it was fun when Angie brought them an old leather-bound book with thick pages and strange texts. She thought it was fun when they made the winds blow, and the rocks float, and the candles turn blue. But when they performed a ritual which Angie directed; when Angie began to act strangely, callously, meanly; when Angie got out of control and it took two full-fledged members of MAGI to stop her; then, it wasn't so much fun. It was decided that she and her two friends weren't responsible for what Angie did, but because of their new-found powers they were required to register with MAGI, and either be mystically bound or trained as agents. Her friends opted to be bound, but Elizabeth had grown too fond of the power; she registered and trained with MAGI, taking the form of her name which she and her friends had always liked, Bethan.
Victor Starke had been a professor of physics at the local community college for only a couple of years. The faculty barely knew him, the students were more-or-less apathetic, but it was a good enough job for a single man his age. He had a mundane life, and mundane cares, until the night his car got stolen out of the school's parking garage, and he had to walk back to his apartment. He never made it. Before he'd gotten more than a couple miles, he was abducted off the street in one of the darker parts of town. In the basement of an abandoned warehouse, a small cult performed an arcane ritual which twisted his body and bound his soul to the demon Makatiel, Seraph of Despair. Unfortunately for the cultists, they underestimated the demon who broke their wards, ate their flesh and sucked the marrow from their bones -- quite literally, and using what had become of Victor's body. Luckily for Victor, it wasn't long before a band of MAGI agents came to subdue the Beast. With their help, he was able to suppress the demon and reassert his own will, though actually removing the demon proved beyond their powers; Makatiel had been sure to destroy the scrolls containing the ritual, and without those texts, the magic would be all-but-impossible to 'reverse engineer.' In the meantime, so that MAGI might be near should he lose control again, he joined them and trained as an agent, using the dark powers of his demon-self to fight those who might otherwise serve dark beings. Victor died that night, and Makatiel was forever changed; now, there is only the constant inner turmoil of The Abandonment.
