My Superhero City - Characters
Doesn't matter if it's all okay.
Doesn't matter if it's not our day.
-Who We Are, Imagine Dragons
-Who We Are, Imagine Dragons
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Squad One in General
Squad One in My Superhero Academy
Sam: This is my life now
Zach: It's always scary when you're going to be coming back to a place like this, after an incident like that. But...one little note of advice. It helps to have anchors around. By which I mean, something to keep you grounded. Every single time I had an episode, my wife Yoko was there for me. Calming me, keeping me down. After a while, it started getting easier to have the episode pass if I just reminded myself that it wasn't real, wasn't happening, and someone I dearly, dearly love was right there if I needed it.
Marcus: Duuuude! This crib is like, bangin'! Do you dudes do this often? Wow, look at all the food! Booyah!
Lily: I'm... okay... Just... a lot of people... that's all... I-I'll be fine.
Nariko: I was not there for the battle, Iona, but I can tell you this: whether or not one is a hero is not determined by one's view of oneself. It is a matter of doing what is right.
A mish-mash of old and new. The old, core of S1 are old soldiers so to say. The entire team is an animesque medium squad. Close but milder than the Iridium Wonders. Can fight but not as violent as the former S3. And individuals but well, they know each other unlike the current S3 (and former S4).
- Sentai: Affectionately known as Team Anime
Sam Everett (Snow Leopard)
Player: Blueace
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Has rather low self esteem and berates himself for many actions. Turns out he has depression and is treating it.
- Pretty Boy: Contrasting with Shane's more buffed out looks, Sam is more of a pretty boy, with a more lean look.
- Socially Awkward Hero: It's generally very clear he isn't too comfortable with opening up and expressing himself.
Zach Hirshbaum
Player: Michael Dj 54
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- Abusive Parents: Zach's father was an abusive, aggressive drunk who took it out on his wife and son whenever he felt slighted. His crowning achievement, however, was selling his own son to a cult.
- Art Attacker: His ink is his main form of attacking, usually in the form of drawing said weapons, with tendrils defaulting as blunt objects.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: He was told at a young age that he was going to die a lot earlier than anticipated, so a large majority of the stuff that happens to him, he accepts with a smile.
- Declaration of Protection: He's protective of everyone in his class and squad, but the Declaration part specifically goes to Yoko as a way of establishing their relationship.
- Humanoid Abomination: After Yoko purges Zach of his ink and combines the both of them, Zach becomes a being of living, breathing ink, rather than a human. Normally he appears as himself but has been known to shift into some strange, alien ink monster when threatened.
- Happily Married: To Yoko, though not in the human sense, the Kitsune sense before being officially married after they leave.
- Luminescent Blush: How he often reacts when Yoko decides to tease him, with heavy blushing on its most basic to catatonic shutdown on the worse ones.
- Nice Guy: Thus far, Zach has been upfront, friendly and optimistic about almost EVERYTHING. Sure, as of recent he's grown somewhat snark-y, but that comes with the territory of his class.
- Put on a Bus: After coming to terms with his PTSD affecting his heroic duties, Zach drops out of the University and leaves with Yoko to focus on being a parent.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: Technically he draws whatever he needs, but his weapons are LITERALLY anything he draws, from Power Gauntlets to BFS.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: After the attack from Gaea, Zach developed PTSD that ultimately killed his drive to become a hero.
- The Quiet One: Zach hasn't uttered a single word since the roleplay started. Apparently, it has something to do with the ink itself.
- The Pollyanna: He grew up poor, with an abusive father who at one point sold him to a cult for some quick cash. He never once lets it affect him and continues to be a nice, friendly guy.
Marky / Saint Lad -> Marcus / Stalwart
Player: Nick The Swing
The supposed Clone / Regeneration of / Its Complicated of The Saint, undertaken by Malhareff as an attempt at creating a weapon. However the end of the Guardians came too soon for anything to come of him. Instead, Marky proceeded to become a Hero in his own right, joining the Foundation when a call for more heroes was put out. Marky is very much what Malhareff thinks a cool teenager is like, after researching online trends and marketable characteristics - as a result, he's a 90s boy and an awkward addition to the team.
- '90s Anti-Hero: Subverted - Marky is very much a 90s kid, but he's not a gunslinging edgy anti-hero. He even comes into the big fancy dinner being thrown for the new heroes on a skateboard.
- Later on however Marky starts going by Marcus, changes his hero name to Stalwart, and becomes Darker and Edgier, though not exactly beholden to 90s stereotypes. While still very much a hero, it is mentioned that axe kick he did to the Anti-Saint's neck would've decapitated anyone else.
- Captain Ersatz: The Superboy to Saint's Superman. Replete with a similar stated backstory.
- Possibly due to being based on marketing and popular trends, Marky is a rather dull blond boy with bushy hair, a muscular body, and a similar speaking style. He's more or less Logan Paul without the insensitivity.
- Clone Angst: Starting to suffer from it lately, though nowhere near to the extent of the dread Clone Saga with regards to Peter Parker and Ben Reilly. Following the reveal of the Anti-Saint, Marcus has started to view himself in a more negative, monstrous light, and his aggression has started to peak.
- Heroic Build: He doesn't show it often due to his very baggy skater clothes, but when he wears a black shirt and jeans, its obvious that Marky is ripped. His musculature gets more accentuated later on as he becomes rougher.
- Idiot Hero: Marky is...not the brightest bulb. Though he has been getting better.
- Meaningful Rename: Stops going by Marky, and starts going by Marcus following the reveal of the Anti-Saint and following character development.
- Super-Strength, Super-Toughness, Super-Speed: Same powers as The Saint basically but somewhat weaker.
- Mind over Matter: Comes to possess tactile telekinesis after training with Cole.
- Survival Mantra: "No rest, no mercy, no matter what."
- Token Heroic Orc: Being that his creation involved putting a very similar thought matrix inside of his head as what the Eternal Horde has, it could be argued he's this.
- Totally Radical: Talks the part of the 90s kid - his speech is littered with 90s slang. This however drastically decreases as he experiences the trauma of the Saviors Arcs.
Lily
Player: Enirboreh
A somewhat shy martial artist who uses her family's inherited power of hydrokinesis in a variety of moves and techniques. Though trauma on her very first outing has made her a little more cynical, she still prioritises niceties over direct violence if and when she can help it.
- Character Tics: Due to her time in the nightmare realm, she's developed an intense fear of crowds and has a habit of rubbing her neck and coughing when she's nervous.
- The Clan: Her family; the Aquatos clan.
- Dance Battler: To the point where her family's fighting tournaments award points to display just as much as skill. The Aquatos' combat style and method of dance overlap so much that they are treated as one and the same in their taught philosophies.
- Heroic Spirit: Managed to get through an immeasurably long period of torture involving her being subjected to a Curb-Stomp Battle over and over for a longer amount of time than she'd been alive on Earth. Barring a few leftover symptoms of trauma, she's come out of it relatively intact.
- Making a Splash: Quite literally. Lily uses a form of hydrokinesis that enables her to control water even down to the molecular level.
- Pressure Point: Targets these in order to take down her opponents quickly. Overlaps with The Paralyzer on occasion, but is otherwise played realistically.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Suffers from recurrent, invasive memories of her time in the nightmare realm, and as aforementioned has developed a few tics due to her trauma. She's managed to get out of it relatively okay, though.
- Shrinking Violet: Has issues with anxiety and her own self-image; a prime example of this when a simple teasing implication of her and Sam being a couple caused her to have a panic attack to the point of blacking out on the floor.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Despite her outward timidity, she's proven time and again that she's unafraid to use violence when she has to. And she's efficient with it, too.
- Supernatural Martial Arts: As is tradition, she uses her family's hydrokinesis in conjunction with an adaptive close-combat style.
Nariko
