DarkStorm [WiP]

Real Name: Maxwell Thompson
Super Hero/Villain/Renegade/etc Name: DarkStorm
Title: The Black Cloud
Alignment: Hero
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
Hair: Black
Eyes: Red
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 180 lbs

Costume Description/Image: As DarkStorm, Max's short black hair grows to shoulder-length and takes on the color of pure silver. His red irises glow a dull crimson and his pupils become a more grayish color. A cloud of darkness covers Max, becoming a long, black trench coat that is bound to his body. To go along with the coat, the darkness forms black gloves, black boots, and a black fedora. A gray mask with a large crimson mask appears over his face. These clothes manifested from pure darkness are the sources of Max's powers.

Personality: Because of his powers, Max is almost always mistaken for a villain, yet he actually is not evil in the least. He is unfriendly most of the time, due to what life was like for him growing up. No longer apathetic, he does all that he can to stop evil, wherever it is. Still, he is plagued by moments where the darkness in his heart tries to take over, causing his powers to begin to fizzle out as the darkness tries to free itself and control him instead of the other way around.

History: Long ago, Max was once a regular boy. He had friends and parents who cared about him. His friends liked his parents and his parents liked his friends. His life was a good one, but soon changed.

The day after his tenth birthday, Max's mother died of a heart attack. When she died, a portion of his loving heart died with her, forming an area of darkness there.

Shortly after his wife's death, Max's father turned to alcohol and drugs for comfort. There were many days where Max's father would come home drunk and beat him with his belt until his skin split. This killed yet another portion of Max's once-pure heart, letting the darkness spread.

As his father turned violent, Max's friends became afraid of him, not wanting to hang out with Max for fear of his father coming around and attacking them as well as his son. When they left him, everyone else also turned away from. He had then turned into the main focus of all bullies in his school. The last remaining fragments of his heart withered away and were quickly replaced by the darkness.

After six long years of being abused by his classmates, his teachers, and his father Max had become hateful of all of those around him. He began to hate his life and tried to kill himself on several occasions, but failed every time. It wasn't until one night, when he finally took a knife from the kitchen and set out to finish what he tried many times before.

On October 31st, in his bedroom, in the dark, on a windy and starless night, Maxwell Thompson, age 16, slit his wrists.

As his lifeless body hit the floor, the blood spilling forth from his open artery formed into one big puddle of red in the middle of the floor. From this puddle, the figure of a being made from pure darkness came forth. This being looked over the corpse of the boy and smiled wickedly. It soon began to inch closer to the dead boy, bringing the blood with it.

Meanwhile, Max's soul went plummeting through the circles of hell, watching as the tormented souls of the damned stared at him. He hit the bottom of the final circle and looked up upon the sight of the ruler of the UnderWorld: Satan.

The Devil asked him whether he wanted a new chance at a better life. Max was about to answer "no" when his soul was ripped from Hell by an unseen force as Beelzebub smiled evilly.

Max found himself back in his old body, but his old blue eyes had been replaced by red ones. A whispering voice appeared in his head and hissed in his ear: "You have been brought back by the grace of the Dark Lord. Be grateful. You may show your gratitude by turning over your free will to me." As the voice whispered this in Max's ear, the darkness began to creep over him, transforming him.

Max was about to give in, when something burst through a tiny crack in the darkness of his heart. It was a faint glimmer of the light. This prevented the darkness from taking him over and simply transformed his body, giving him the powers of the darkness.

One year later, and the darkness is still trying to take control, but Max is fighting it. he puts up with the abuse he gets at school and home, and does his best to fight evil with hopes that he may find a way to permanently defeat the darkness in his heart.

Powers:
Dark Flight:
While as DarkStorm, Max's trench coat can change around to become two black wings, giving Max the ability of flight. These wings can stretch to a wingspan of fifteen feet and can raise Max up to 50 miles above sea level.

Dark Cloud:
Using the darkness he has inside of him, Max is able to form clouds at will. These clouds can be large or small and are darker and grayer than even the darkest rain cloud. These clouds can be formed in the air or even on the ground as a black mist. The main purpose of these clouds are to shroud something from view.

Dark Burst:
Using the darkness inside of him, Max is able to call it forth as a burst of energy. This normally takes the form of a damaging projectile. As Max, the most he can conjure up is a ball of darkness the size of a baseball. While as DarkStorm, this can become even a stream of black lightning.

Dark Speed:
Sending the darkness coursing through him, Max is able to move over ground extremely fast. While using this, it appears that he has become a ball of darkness, but the truth is that a cloud of darkness covers his body, lifting his feet just about an inch above the ground. The cloud then carries him, moving him at high speeds.

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Roleplay Sample: (If new or new character)

It's a bit of an Emo history and I really really really really dislike teenage characters, but this dude is okay. I find the beginning of the history a bit simplistic and probably a bit cliché, you know, with the mom suddenly dying and the alcoholic father and the bullying by virtually everyone at school. (Aren't there any emo kids over there?). But that's my problem.
But the powers are pretty cool and the part where he is still conflicted with himself is just WOW! So I must say this app is app-roved, even though I dislike the main set-up of this char (He's a (another!) white, male teen EMO!!! with demonic 'darkness' powers (though those are, like I said, pretty cool)).

By the way, Personality: he's not no longer Apathetic (because that would mean he would be pathetic once again); he is no longer Apathic.
There's a difference between being apathetic and being apathic.

The character may seem a little cliche but I can vouch for Thunder's RPing abilities which are top notch, Its nice to have you back Thunder

Double-Approved