Sabotage

by Mauricie Alois January 4th 2016, 4:41 am

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SABOTAGE
"Gotta' die sometime!"

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Basic Biography

Real Name: Pedro Henrique Silva Lobo Lima
Renegade/Hero/Villain Name: Sabotage
Title: The Anarchist
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Hair: Black
Eyes: Black
Height: 1.80 meters (5'11 ft)
Weight: 81 kg (179 lbs)
Blood type: AB+

The Looks

Spoiler:

The Legacy

Personality: Pedro was very known in the Favela he grew in due to his tendencies of always causing an immediate impact on his surrondings. Theory, abstract concepts and plodding discussions about global issues and their implications can't keep him interested for long. He likes to keep conversations energetic, and with a good dose of intelligence, but he likes to talk about what is -- or better yet, to just go out and do it! The boy tends to leap into action before looking or thinking, fixing mistakes as he goes, rather than sitting idle. Finding goals in things such as dissolving and deconstructing societal programming, directly attacking consumerism, and generally upsetting the established social orders. With ideals that seemingly combine elements of Neo-Luddism, Insurrectionary Anarchism and the search for Nietzsche Übermensch. He likes to speak of his opposition to popular culture, materialism, capitalism and modern society in general.

Pedro has an uncanny ability to perceive people's attitudes and motivations. He picks up on little cues which go completely unnoticed by most other types, such as facial expressions and stance. He is typically a couple of steps ahead of the person he is interacting with, and he often uses this ability to get what he wants out of a situation. Rules and laws are often seen as meaningless guidelines for behavior, and if he decides that something needs to be done, then his attitude takes precedence over any form of rules. However, Pedro has his own strong belief in what's right and what's wrong, and will doggedly stick to them.

To put short, Pedro is a blunt, straight-forward risk-taker, willing to plunge right into things and getting his hand dirty. Living in the here-and-now, placing little importance on introspection or theory. He looks at the facts, quickly decide what should be done and execute it.

History: Born in one of Rio de Janeiro's biggest Favelas, Lobo was accustomed to violence and drug abuse since a very young age. The Favelas are a cruel place for a young boy to live; thugs armed with automatic weapons and violent drug addicts are a common sight, and you are never quite sure when you're going wake up to the sound of someone being gunned down due to a drug debt. Living in a small house, and only eating one meal (composed only of rice and beans) per day, Pedro never had time to have the big dreams ever kid should have the right of having, and the only dreams he could have were simple ones: some meat to go with his rice and beans, or to maybe get a simple toy for Christmas.

Like many others, the young boy grew up hearing marvelous stories about the Superheroes, and how they would fight the many threats that besieged our world, saving countless of lives and upholding all that is good in humanity. But unlike many kids who looked up to these heroes in awe, Pedro could only wonder why those so-called do-gooders hadn't stopped his drunk father from dying during that fatidic cachaça-fueled bar fight. These amazing tales that inspired many where only worth to induce rage, sadness and pain upon this poor boy from Brazil. For years he grew bitter to the concept of heroes and villains, instilled with the gray morality that only the slums could provide for such a young hearth.

It was only when Pedro first stepped into school, at the age of nine, that he first displayed his abilities. The was strangely capable of gathering and assimilating vast arrays of knowledge upon their first contact with it. Teachers were in awe at how the boy managed to learn subjects extremely fast, and how he seemed to learn more than what was actually taught to him. Teachers, and later on specialists, confused this ability with an advanced form of eidetic memory, but Pedro eventually became self-aware of his own capacities. He was in fact owner of a strange passive form of Instant Learning, for when he reads, sees or hears any concept he will understand it completely, whether said subject is natural or supernatural. If he came into contact with any piece of "Information" that was wrong, he intuitively knew it and managed to discern it from truth.

During his teenage years Lobo began to display a liking for the ideology behind anarchism, and studied a plethora of authors to before firmly establishing himself as an anarchist. The boy also began to indulge into a world of alcohol and drugs (both legal and illegal), trying to easy his mind from his evident psychological issues. Lobo had never went to a therapist, but he managed to diagnosis himself with a plethora of problems, some probably caused by his struggling childhood, others possible caused by his superpower. Major Depression, Social Anxiety, Panic disorder, Intermittent Explosive Disorder and Insomnia. Even if plagued by a multitude of disorders and indulging in vast quantities of substances that do not go well together, Lobo went to one of Brazil's most renowned colleges. While in college he experienced the best days of his lives, due to his incredible intelligence he managed to pass his exams with exceptional grades while maintaining a happy, even if somewhat unhealthy, lifestyle.

Everything changed when his mother was killed by a stray bullet. While many would have allowed this to throw them into a profound depression, Lobo converted all the pain into unwavering rage and a thirsty for vengeance and justice. Where all the heroes when he needed them? They had allowed his father to die a long time ago, and now they had once again allowed his mother to die. Enough was enough. If the bastards did not known how to do their job, Lobo would do it for them. Using his inhuman knowledge of a plethora of subjects Lobo developed iNRage; one of the strongest drugs known to man, synthesized from a plethora of different chemical compounds. iNRage is capable almost emptying all rational restraints from a human being. A discharge of multiple hormones gives the user the ability to ignore fatal physical damage as if it barely affected them and continue fighting with heightened senses, improved strength and reckless abandon. With his iNRage pills and his suit, Lobo set across to fight those that wronged him: the criminals who took his mother, governments that forced people into situations such as the one he grew in, and those heroes who did nothing to stop these things.

The Powers and Weaknesses

Powers

Instant Learning: Lobo is capable of gathering and assimilating any kind of knowledge and understanding it fully and instantaneously if he hears or sees something strictly connected to that a knowledge. The only way to stop Pedro from assimilating this knowledge is to somehow deceiving or rendering those senses useless, in which case he will not be able to identify the subject, and thus won't assimilate this knowledge. If what Lobo is trying to assimilate and understand is a subject too complex for human minds (even an augmented one such as his) he will not be able to possess such knowledge. If he comes into contact with any piece of data that is wrong, he will be intuitively know it and will be able to discern what is right for wrong.

This power will not be triggered during social conversations, Pedro will not be able to instantly learn anything that is referred in a conversation, and thus won't immediately acknowledge subjects, objects and beings without personally contacting them. This means he can be lied to. His capability of immediately discerning right from wrong is simple: his powers will not trigger when he comes into contact with wrong data. Thus Lobo can be wrong, although rare he will make wrongfully assumptions based upon the data he has. This is entirely possible, since his powers will never trigger because of his thoughts, leaving these assumptions to be based upon his own conjectures, a process that do not involve any form of inhuman power.

iNRage: Lobo can become stronger with the "high" provided by the use of iNRage. When the immense discharge of adrenaline is combined with the biological effects of stronger substances contained in the drug, Lobo's physical condition is extremely improved, making him incredibly strong, quick, agile, vastly lessens the feeling of pain from all physical sources, and even increase his regeneration speed to a small degree. iNRage is not an intoxicant in the same way as other drugs, if anything, it actually heightens coordination and focus. Lobo has calculated that iNRage improve his fighting abilities tenfold. The effects of iNRage pills stack, but Lobo never took more than three pills at once, for he strongly believes that taking four pills would drive him into an overdose that will most assuredly kill him. He also has developed a far stronger version of the drug, named iNRage Red, that is capable of improving his abilities a hundred-fold, but the discharge of adrenaline would be so immense that he would probably die after the fighting was over. iNRage also temporarily nullifies the effects of Lobos' mental disorders.

Weakness(es)

Mental Disorders: Lobo is plagued by a multitude of disorders that can greatly affect his operation. His Major Depression is marked by mood swings so profound they can render Lobo useless for days by chipping away his will to live or fight back. When his Social Anxiety kicks in, Pedro can be extremely uncomfortable around people, and will seek to stay as far away from them as possible. Those events are often followed by panic attacks, periods of intense fear or apprehension that begin abruptly and are followed by cognitive symptoms (such as heart palpitations, dizziness, shortness of breath, or feeling of unreality) and can last from minutes to hours. When faced with high stress situations, Lobo may lose his senses and engage unknowingly on highly violent behavior, causing destruction or physically hurting nearby people. His insomnia makes sure Pedro is often operating tired, severely reducing his abilities.

iNRage's Aftermath and Addiction: iNRage is a powerfully drug, and thus it has powerfully side effects. The drug's high reach its peak in 30 minutes, and slowly starts to decline after two hours before fully vanishing around six hours late; if the user is still hurt when the drug effects start to pass, he might begin feeling wounds he did not feel before or even die from a wound that previously offered little harm. Nine out of ten times, the user will feel extreme fatigue after the effect has fully passed away. Six out of ten times, the fatigue will be so great that the user will immediately collapse due to the overstress experienced. Stacking iNRage pills will extend the duration of the effects, but will also increase the fatigue experienced drastically. The constant consume of iNRage has made Lobo addicted to the drug, and thus if he goes long periods without ingesting it, he can face one of the harshest drug abstinences known to mankind.

RP Mechanics

RP Mechanic(s): Lobo will quickly acquire extensive knowledge of anything he hear or sees. This include objects, subjects, superpowers and even heroes. He is not able to identify masked heroes, except if he has meet these heroes secret identities before, in which case he will likely be able to successfully connect the two due to thing such as body shape, voice, posture or even similar breathing. Lobo can not acquire knowledge of things he can't hear or see and isn't capable of understanding concepts that are too complex for a human mind (such as a Lovecraftian beings).

iNRage is a potent drug, but is not enough to make Lobo's strength match that of super-powered heroes, but it will make him able to hold his own against large groups of average human beings, even if they are armed. iNRage Red is a drug capable of making Lobo hold his own against super-powered heroes, but it will most likely kill him, and will undoubted damage his body and mind forever, and because of it, he will only take one of these as a last resort.

Items/Minions: A bag full of average iNRage pills, but one pill of the deadly iNRage Red variation. A military grade gasmask, capable of filtering most impurities known to mankind.

Physical Priority
Agility: 2
Endurance: 4
Reaction: 1
Strength: 3

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by **Thorgron** January 4th 2016, 7:49 am

Alright this mostly checks out and I'm always a fan of the "badass normal" types. However there are a few things that need tweaked.

1. The Bulletproof hoodie is not mundane and needs some sort of weakness.

2. I am a little shaky on his instant learning ability. As you state in your app this is beyond an eiditch memory. Before I say one way it another with this power please let me know how he is able to intuitively discern between true and false information. That is the part that I am most concerned with as it potentially opens the door function like perfect lie detection as well as a means to pseudo-omniscience.

That said I really do like the app and the character you've created here and hope to be RPing alongside him soon!

by Mauricie Alois January 4th 2016, 12:28 pm

Thorgron wrote:Alright this mostly checks out and I'm always a fan of the "badass normal" types. However there are a few things that need tweaked.

1. The Bulletproof hoodie is not mundane and needs some sort of weakness.

2. I am a little shaky on his instant learning ability. As you state in your app this is beyond an eiditch memory. Before I say one way it another with this power please let me know how he is able to intuitively discern between true and false information. That is the part that I am most concerned with as it potentially opens the door function like perfect lie detection as well as a means to pseudo-omniscience.

That said I really do like the app and the character you've created here and hope to be RPing alongside him soon!

I've updated the profile to make the limit of his powers clearer. This power will not be triggered during social conversations, Pedro will not be able to instantly learn anything that is referred in a conversation, and thus won't immediately acknowledge subjects, objects and beings without personally contacting them. This means he can be lied to. His capability of immediately discerning right from wrong is simple: his powers will not trigger when he comes into contact with wrong data. Thus Lobo can be wrong, although rare, he will make wrongfully assumptions based upon the data he has. This is entirely possible, since his powers will never trigger because of his thoughts, leaving these assumptions to be based upon his own conjectures, a process that do not involve any form of inhuman power.

I've also removed the Hoodie entirely, I came to the realization this piece of equipment had no synergy with the rest of the character.[/b]

by **Thorgron** January 4th 2016, 10:52 pm

With that cleared up I'm happy to say that this guy is approved! Just make sure his knowledge gaining ability isn't abused.

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