Name: Ivan Drogo
Identity Name: The Gypsy Boy
Birthday: July 22nd
Power:
- Borrowing abilities of ghosts: Not to be confused with ghost possession, he is still able to control his own actions. Ivan can ask to borrow a spirit’s skills acquired when said spirit was alive. For instance, the ghost of a military man can give him knowledge of guns and combat skills. This also applies to special powers.
- Side-abilities (a part of his main power, I just want to make things clearer): The Sixth-Sense - . Ivan can feel the negative energy of an area or objects. He is also able to see, communicate with spirits of the deceased and allow them to possess his body.
Weakness:
- While chatting with ghosts is fine for him, borrowing a ghost’s skill/talent will drain his energy quite quickly. The weaker the ability is, the longer he is able to maintain it. (Ex: normal human skills can be used for a whole day, while special human ability exhausts him after 5-30 minutes). Once the limit is reached, the spirit would be forced out of him, but forcing himself to use his power multiple times at this point would either knock him out or kill him.
- When channeling a spirit, he has to establish a connection. This means a strong spirit is able to overwhelm him with its energy (when it’s angered for instance), causing serious migraine to the point of passing out.
- Spending time in a place full of negative energy would sicken him.
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: East Slavic
Appearance: Ivan is a medium build young man, 178cm in height. His hair is raven black and he has a middle parted bowl cut. His skin color is that of a normal Caucasian man, only a bit sicklier. Ivan was born with amber eyes, a strange thing considering both his parents had blue eyes. His favorite style of clothing consists of a t-shirt, black jeans and a dark blue long coat. Having been fascinated by the moon-glyphs when he was a teenager, Ivan had had the symbol of light tattooed on his left cheek and the symbol of dark on his right. (Closest real person: Dan Rumpf)
Status: Neutral - good
Personality: Ivan is a shy man, having been bullied throughout his childhood for being 'weird'. But that didn't mean he wouldn't throw a punch at people who harmed others, or give a sarcastic comment once in a while. He is kindhearted and helpful to those who treat him nicely because he value friendship, something he never really had as a child. His biggest downfall is that he is quite indirect in fear of hurting people’s feelings or bothering them.
Background: Ever since he was a child, Ivan had often creeped other kids and his parents out. He always talked to empty spaces or corners. When questioned, it was always the same answers: he was either talking to his 'friends' or a deceased family member. No one ever knew if he was really talking to the dead or just outright delusional. As he became older, Ivan was aware of his own ability and realized letting people know about it would cause him troubles. He became more secretive about it, pretending he didn’t see anything others couldn’t.
Thanks to this, his parents and neighbors dismissed him having any super power at all, believing he was just making up stories like most kids with imaginary friends. Since he was deemed just a normal, socially awkward kid, Ivan and his family was never moved to Lost City (dodged quite a huge bullet there). He lived a relatively normal life despite being bullied by other kids, thanks to his parents’ support. He applied for college after high-school, hoping to become a social worker.
One day, while taking on the part-time job of cleaning up the local stadium, Ivan noticed a young woman running on the empty track. He asked one of the janitors, only to be told there was no one there. It was then he realized that he had seen a ghost and decided to not mention it again. However, the ghost of the young lady found out he could see her and followed him home. Sammy L. Frank was her name. She was a track-star on the rise when she died of a heart failure during a race. It would have stopped there had she not later found out a fellow athlete actually dosed her drink with a drug that caused her heart-attack. After exposing the case, Ivan realized how his power could help people. He became a traveler, helping any spirit he run into on the way while doing freelance works.
Fun fact: He has a tarot card collection. This earned him the nickname of “the Gypsy Boy” in middle school, which followed him till the end of high-school. He eventually embraced it and made it his nickname.
Name: Esteban Silva
Identity Name: The Peacock
Birthday: October 18th
Power:
- Flight and Super Vision: Esteban can sprout a pair of wings whenever he desires and gain the vision similar to that of an eagle.
- Pheromone: This is a passive-power. His body emits a nice scent to female, causing them to find him attractive and easier to be manipulated by him. In short, he is more likely to score a girl!
Both powers acquired after the nuclear explosion.
Weakness: His power has no weakness other than getting tired. Besides, flying can’t shield him from all fatal attacks after all.
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Appearance: Esteban’s height is 183cm. He used to have a frail and feminine build, shoulder-length black hair and grey/blue eyes. However, after the nuclear blast, he experienced a change in his physical appearance. He became more muscular and attractive. His black hair now has a few blonde highlights. Ever since his change in appearance, he also began to dress fancier and pay more attention to his looks. (Closet real person: Eduardo Verastegui)
Status: Anti-hero
Personality: It seems Esteban’s main goal in life now is to have as many girlfriends as possible. He loves impressing the ladies and flirting with them boldly, which usually gets him a slap in the face or some sort. Despite being such a flirt, he was still a gentleman enough no never have two girlfriends at once. Though, it’s a normal thing to see him with one girl but already with another girl the next few weeks. He is also quite that of a coward when it comes to fighting and a bit selfish. That aside, he is still a loyal friend and a good person in general. He might whimper in the face of danger, but would eventually return to help.
Background: No one could’ve imagined he was not much of a ladies’ man back in the days. In fact, he was so insecure about his appearance he was terrified of the idea of speaking to a lady. Esteban was just a normal salesman with nothing impressive living in Lost City. The day that nuclear bomb destroyed everything, he somehow survived miraculously. After he was rescued from the debris and recovered, he noticed his appearance was slowly changing, and he began getting on good terms with the ladies. It was surprising at first but he eventually enjoyed it. From then on, his whole lifestyle completely changed. He actually had lost tracks of how many ex and one-night-stands he had had.
Esteban had yet to discover his second power. He's currently on vacation in Romania.
Name: Arturo
Birthday: May 27th
Power:
- Body modification: Enhanced after the nuclear explosion. Before the incident he is only able to possess the strength and physical traits of a bear. Arturo now can modify his own body to resemble any animal’s, as well as acquiring the ability of the creature. Example: He may turn his arms into a bear’s, gaining him the bear’s strength and claws; or grow fish gills and fins to swim under water. However, he can’t fully transform into an animal.
Weakness:
- He can’t have 2 different animal traits as once. He’d have to change back to his normal form before changing again. The changing process takes about 15 seconds for each form. (Human -> Bear -> human -> fish = 1 minute).
- Changing to many times in a short time would result in a lot of pain, especially if the process requires modification of bone structures.
- Despite training himself to be able to maintain the modified form longer, he would eventually get exhausted.
- His injuries hadn’t fully recovered, restricting movements of his right side. Also, with his right eye covered, Arturo has quite a large blind spot.
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Appearance: Arturo is a tall, muscular man, reaching almost 190cm in height. He has a tan skin tone, messy and long dark brown hair. His eyes are upturned and light brown in color. After the nuclear explosion, over 60% of his body was badly burnt and scarred. So, he walks around with half of his face, his right shoulder, his torso and right leg covered in bandages. The burnt part of his face is covered by his hair. Arturo is most often seen wearing long sleeved shirts, military sweatpants and sport shoes. He also likes wearing bandanas. (Closest real person: Brock O'Hurn)
Status: Villain
Personality: As do most serial murderers, Arturo is a sadist and heartless man. He enjoys seeing the fear and suffering of people, and the terror in their eyes as he kills them. While quiet in public, he could be talkative when alone with his victims.
Background: Growing up discriminated by others and even neglected by his family for being a Special, Arturo hated the world. As a teen, he was a troubled kid, always getting into fights and disrespected teachers. He started fantasizing about ridding the world of these normal humans since high school. Slowly, things escalated to killing as he reached adulthood. He became a serial killer with a messy way of murdering his victims, tearing them apart viciously with his bear strength. He only targets normal human as they are the cause of his childhood misery. He was apprehended by the authorities and thrown into the Lost City prisons on death roll. However, the nuclear incident did him a huge favor, setting him free with the cost of his appearance. He was treated in Mother's Sanctuary. However, once he was able to walk again, he snuck out of there to continue his habit of killing. Though, with his injury still hurting, he had yet to kill on a large scale, only attack loners at night for their money when he ran low.
Name: Hiltraud “Hess” Wolff
Identity Name: The Sword
Birthday: May 2nd
Power: (I don’t know how to categorize this yet so I’ll edit later. If you have an idea please tell me xD)
Hiltraud has the ability to focus energy into her hands, which helps her cut though almost all materials with them, like a sword. Since after surviving the nuclear bomb, she can now transfer her power into any object in her hands to enhance their damage and use them as weapons.
Weakness: Basically her power uses her own life energy. So if she uses too much, she will get sick or die. This also caused her to be quite a heavy sleeper after fights to refill the energy she used.
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Germanic
Appearance: Hiltraud is an average build woman, 167cm tall with green eyes. She had blonde, wavy shoulder length hair styled just like her younger twin sister. Though, she had dyed it ginger since they were teens. Her wardrobe includes sporty outfits and wristbands. (Closest real person: Young Ellen and Alice Kessler)
Status: Hero
Personality: True to her power, Hiltraud is a strong, independent and bold lady. She would never back down from a fight and would be the first to charge into a burning house to save people. Her hot temper making it easy to be provoked, causing her to act reckless. She can be harsh and prideful sometimes, ignoring feelings of others but later regrets it.
Name: Theresa “Tess” Wolff
Identity Name: The Shield
Birthday: May 2nd
Power:
- Barrier Creation: She can create an invisible barrier to block incoming attacks or bullets. The barrier starts from her palm and would spread to her desired size.
Weakness:
- The barrier’s duration and thickness is strongly connected to her will power. She will have to be in complete focus to be able to conjure a large one. A slight distraction could cause it to break apart. She won’t be able to use her power if she’s under a panic attack or deeply traumatized.
- Keeping a barrier up doesn’t drain her physical strength. It rather put her mind under stress. She would pass out trying to hold a large barrier.
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Germanic
Appearance: Similar to her sister, only blonde. Her style of clothing is more feminine compared to Hiltraud. She never wears too revealing clothes and loves long sleeved sweaters.
Status: Hero
Personality: Between the two, Theresa is the voice of reason. You could say she’s the opposite of her older twin. Theresa is kind and caring. She enjoys helping people, especially children and animals. She is highly tolerant, not easily angered. Though, she can sometimes be passive aggressive if one annoys her too much. Her downfall is that she trusts people too easily, most of the time unable to decline a request and always too nice to give honest comments on a situation.