#Metahumans are easy to spot with a DNA Test

[bet-on-me-13]

Metahumans are just Liminals

So! As far as I know, Metahumans get their powers because they have Nth Metal in their DNA (I think? It might be a single continuity thing).

But what if Nth Metal is just Solidified Ectoplasm?

Metahumans are just a different Brand of Liminal. They get their powers from Metalic Ectoplasm in their DNA rather than Pure Ectoplasm in their Soul. As such, their powers are much more based on their Genetics rather than their Obsessions.

A Metahuman is more likely to have children who share the same power. It is Passed On through their DNA, and as such it may not actually fit the users Personality. The upside is that the Power is usually stronger than normal.

A Liminal will get their powers from their Soul. Whatever fits their Obsession the best is what they will get. The downside is that their power is weaker than a Metahumans abilities.

A Ghost is the perfect combination of the Two.

They have a Core made of Metalic Ectoplasm, and a Soul made of Pure Ectoplasm. They have the Power of a Metahuman, and the Fitting Nature of Liminals.

Side Note: Halfas are kind of an even better version of that? They have the Metalic Core, the Pure Ecto Soul, and the Body of a Human to contain the Power.

Thoughts?

[projectgaiarp-blog]

Full Name: Leroy Ward Nicknames: Roy Level: 1 Species: Metahuman Age: 31 Date of birth: 12/29/1985 Home Town: Fairfax, Virginia Occupation: Tactician/Strategist Faceclaim: Jensen Ackles

Personality:

INTP – The Logician

When it comes to ideas and theories, Leroy is quite an adventurer who needs to explore anything and everything. His mind is always buzzing with thoughts as to what invention could be of use for humanity and how to improve already existing systems or techniques, which is why he is having troubles with guidelines, regulations and authority. Roy’s greatest strength is that he is not just able but very enthusiastic to think outside the box and use alternative methods to reach his goals faster and more efficiently. Thusly, he is also highly receptive to alternate theories as long as they are supported by logic and facts.

On the downside, however, he believes himself superior to most other people as he keeps strong pride in his knowledge and rationale, ending up being condescending towards others. Sometimes, he gets so caught up in his logic that he forgets any kind of emotional consideration and dismisses subjectivity as irrational. As a result, purely emotional situations can be utterly puzzling for him, and his lack of timely sympathy can easily offend. Just like that, Roy’s a very private and withdrawn person, sometimes even shy in social settings, who keeps second-guessing himself. These doubts often hinder him in his work as he knows his current result is only the second-best to what he could achieve in maybe a month’s or year’s time, leaving him with sometimes quitting projects before even starting them.

Biography:

At the age of five, most children dream about becoming knights and princesses, fire-fighters and, in Leroy’s case, astronauts. However, as they slowly grow older they normally settle for more ordinary jobs, letting go of these imaginations. Not so Roy, though, as he has been determined ever since to go and explore the universe when he has grown up. In highschool, he became somewhat of an overachiever with spending hours and hours of studying and earning well-deserved grades that eventually got him the top spot among his class mates. As his dream took shape, he planned to study astrophysics at Harvard or Cambridge, at least Columbia. However, even though his family was never forced to lead a poor life, there would not be enough money to enable him to go to one of these top universities, especially since there were two younger brothers and one younger sister that needed support as well. So Leroy strived for nothing less than a full-time scholarship.

By the time, he never got along too well with people, neither his class mates, nor his family. His comrade’s hidden jealousy amused him, misleading him into additionally making fun of them and eventually ending up with his head underneath the lavatory flush every now and then. His parents were way too emotional about his success, annoying him at best, and his siblings, well, they would never be able to live up to where he has set the bar. Despite his nasty behaviour, Leroy still fell in love with a human who actually reciprocated his feelings, Scarlet Cress. Unlike many others, she was intelligent and witty enough to follow his thoughts and understand his work.

She slowed his rash journey to the top down for a bit but while his feelings were true and intense, Leroy knew it could not last forever. So when Cambridge sent him the so desired offer of a full-time scholarship, the decision between following his childhood dreams and Scarlet came almost too naturally to him. In a single conversation, he ripped her heart out and tore it to shreds, claiming that she was barely more than a nice distraction but that he could not allow himself such pleasures and that he needed to carry on; that their relationship would have never been able to last forever, anyway, because she would not be able to keep up with him and at some point she would not be good enough anymore. Looking back now, he realises why these words have offended her like that, but back then he did not understand why she would want to inflict such agonising pain on him as she did with nothing but a single glare. Squirming with pain, he instinctively located a hidden source inside him and unknowingly used his power on her, absorbing her abilities. The pain ceased immediately, leaving him breathless and Scarlet wondering where her powers had gone. It did not last longer than a few seconds but it was enough to throw her off balance and run away. Leroy has not seen her ever since.

Afterwards, even though it went against every strain of his being, he forced himself to forget about this incident and not wonder how she had been able to inflict such pain on him without even touching him; or how he has made her stop it. He carried on with his life, went to Cambridge, nineteen by the time, and started studying astrophysics. By then, he was among the smartest men and women of his age, finally facing an actual challenge. After four years of studying, his mother begged for him to come home as there seemed to be troubles involving his little sister Amalia, but Leroy dismissed them with only a few words. Instead, he went for his master degree and topped it off with a nice and swell doctor title. Only then did he allow distractions to get the better of him and went back to Virginia to visit his family, only to learn that his sister has been missing for multiple months by then. The sudden guilt overwhelmed him as he could not help but blame himself for not caring enough for her.

He has not been back in Fairfax, Virginia, for more than a couple of months, having decided to stay closer to his parents to make up for his foolish neglecting, until men working for a seemingly strange company called Atlas contacted him. They asked him to accompany them to their labs as they wanted to make a few tests with his DNA and even though he refused, they took him anyway. Just like that, he left his family the same way his sister had two years ago. Quite surprising, however, it turned out that she was not as dead as they had believed her as he became an agent, too, and he still is not quite sure how to feel about that.

Powers:

Power Absorption and Power Replication, plus higher resistance to abilities used on him.

Roy is able to steal his opponent’s powers and use them himself, instead.

Weaknesses:

Firstly, he cannot hold this up for very long. Usually, he can only absorb powers for about a minute, sometimes two, and use them in this short time span only. If the holder needed a lot of practice to gain control over his powers, Roy will not be able to use them perfectly but as if he never had that training, leaving him with only little control over the abilities he replicates. Thusly, he does not use them to defeat his opponent but to throw them off balance, to bamboozle them, so to say, to buy him enough time to either lock them down or have his team follow up and do the job.

He does not have to be in physical contact in order to use his power, but his opponent has had to use his abilities on Roy before the latter would be able to absorb and replicate them. Thusly, his body has a high resistance to metahuman powers than others’, but it does not make him immune to them, of course. If, for example, a person had the ability to knock people out with a single glare, they would need maybe two to three glares to knock Roy out.

Connections:

Amalia Ward: Roy’s younger sister. Being the oldest Ward-child and six years older than Malia, Roy found himself too good for playing and fighting with his siblings. Frequently, there would be arguments and really bad and hurting accusations, but after all he cares deeply for his sister and brothers. As Amalia disappeared, however, she left him devastated, blaming himself as he thought he should have taken better care of her. After all this time, he already believed her dead until he joined Atlas and saw that she was lively as ever. Even though he is, of course, overjoyed that she is anything but dead, the relationship between them has been super awkward every since.

Scarlet Cress: Roy’s ex-girlfriend. He has not had many relationships in his life, maybe two or three. None of them could ever compare to Scarlet, however, his first love. She was intelligent, witty and gorgeous, everything he could only ever dream of, and everything seemed to be perfect until Roy broke her heart. By the time, he was offered a full-time scholarship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and deciding between the love of his life and his career of becoming an infamous astrophysicist was a bit too easy for him. Telling her about the news without much of any emotions darkening his voice, he ripped her heart out, adding even that he needed to fully concentrate on his studies and could not allow himself to be distracted by her. He thought this to be quite a romantic compliment but the pain she inflicted on him with her powers proved him wrong. However, that was when he found out about his own powers that later lead him into a whole new life.