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|name = Flicker
|name = Cheshire
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|civ_name = Levi Sims
|civ_name = Michael Rose
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|author = /u/Mr_Serine
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|affiliation = Mafia
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|class = {{cape/class|Thinker}}, {{cape/class|Shaker}}, {{cape/class|Stranger}}, {{cape/class|Brute}}
|class = {{cape/class|Striker}}, {{cape/class|Brute}}, {{cape/class|Shaker}}, {{cape/class|Master}}, {{cape/class|Stranger}}
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|redditlink = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/syx6lc/flicker_vr_cluster/
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|birth_date = 1998-10-20
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A new character who has been seen working with known members of the mob. Very little information available for now.
A relatively new member of the mob, has been seen acting as an enforcer in various parts of the territory. Little information available for now.


== Character Sheet ==
== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===
=== Appearance ===
[[File:Flicker_Mask.jpg|thumb|Right|A rendition of his mask]]
Civ: A tall young man, light brown curly hair in a light undercut. Thin, elegant features. Expressive. Curious multicolored eyes, which he often hides behind mirrored aviators.


Civ: A tall young man, light brown curly hair in a light undercut. Handsome features, mouth is maybe a ''bit'' large and expressive. Curious multicolored eyes, which he often hides behind mirrored aviators.
Cape: A sleek steel full-face mask, mostly featureless but with a large toothy grin. Lightweight body armor under a nice leather jacket, and fingerless studded gloves. Dark pants, belt with sheaths for his knives, and military boots.
 
Cape: A sharply angled, steel full-face mask. Mostly featureless except for the eyes: large, round mirrored lenses. For the rest, whatever he's wearing at the time, generally easy clothes to move in.


=== Equipment and Resources ===
=== Equipment and Resources ===
* Mask
* Mask
* Two steel batons, for when he wants to extend his range
* Two knives, one curved and one straight
* Occasionally flashbangs and smoke grenades
* Flashbangs
* A motorbike, to get around
* A motorbike
 
As one of the powered members of the Mafia, he has quite a decent income. He lives in a nice house overlooking the lake, deep in Mafia territory, and has a cover job as security guard. He also works part-time as an instructor in a dojo. He owns a cat.
 
''Wealth level:'' 6
 
=== Tinkertech ===
{{Equipment
| name      = Gilgamesh gauntlets
| appearance = A set of gauntlets. Mainly covered in a red material around the back of the hand, the palms and the lower arms with the occasional metallic lining inbetween.


A small apartment, slightly run-down because he was gone for a few months. Works for the Mafia as an enforcer (for now at least), which gives him a decent income. Owns a cat.
The whole thing goes up to just barely under the elbow.
| creator    = [[Memento]]
| abilities  = * The gauntlets generate plates of Memento's kinetic battery material, providing Cheshire the ability to block heavy impacts.


''Wealth level:'' 5
The plates run through the interior of the gauntlets themselves, allowing the user to use kinetic absorbed on other parts of the gauntlets to enhance punches and palm strikes.
 
A new set of plates is generated every 5 seconds after the previous fades.
 
The user can also flick a switch to have the gauntlet create spikes by the knuckles. These are similarly made out of the kinetic battery material though they are not hooked up to the other plates unless the switch was flipped before being turned on due to the material not linking up properly internally.
| notes      = Personal commission. Needs maintenance from a special device and a tinker with a relevant spec every 2 weeks.
| state      = collapsed
}}
 
Until further notice, I am no longer using these.


=== Skills and Specializations ===
=== Skills and Specializations ===
* Mixed Martial Arts: He's got experience from the simulation, and he's following courses. He's talented and actively getting better
* Skilled fighter
* Stick fighting
* Athletic and acrobatic
* Athleticism and acrobatics
* Quick thinking
* Quick thinking
* Lip reading and ASL: he's not good at it yet, but he's learning
* Some skill in both lip reading and sign language
* A bit of a power geek, interested in Manton effects and limitations. For understandable reasons, he also recently got interested in cluster mechanics
* A bit of a power geek, interested in Manton effects and limitations. For understandable reasons, he also recently got interested in cluster mechanics


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A generally nice guy. Cheerful, nice smile, pleasant voice, all that. Seems to keep his cheer no matter the circumstance. He's usually friendly and polite even to his enemies, making friendly chit-chat while actively kicking their teeth in. He is also theatrical, often making grand, sweeping gestures when using his powers, even though it's not necessary.
A generally nice guy. Cheerful, nice smile, pleasant voice, all that. Seems to keep his cheer no matter the circumstance. He's usually friendly and polite even to his enemies, making friendly chit-chat while actively kicking their teeth in. He is also theatrical, often making grand, sweeping gestures when using his powers, even though it's not necessary.


He may be nice, but he is not a ''good'' guy. He hasn't got a lot of empathy for people, and is willing to do a lot to achieve his goals.
He may be nice, but he is not a *good* guy. He could be diagnosed as a sociopath, having little empathy, willing to do a lot to achieve whatever goals he has. He follows rules and regulations because of the mess that comes when you break them, but he *will* break them if given enough cause and excuse.
 
After the simulation he had trouble finding a purpose, he roamed the streets looking to fight and push himself because that's one of the few things he really enjoys. He joined the Mafia because it gave him exactly that: a purpose.


Mental issues ho! When he's in an intense fight and the adrenaline really gets pumping, he sometimes reverts to the instincts from the simulation. This is bad, because he had a superhuman body in there, and he may try to do things he's not physically capable of in the real world.
Mental issues ho! When he's in an intense fight and the adrenaline really gets pumping, he sometimes reverts to the instincts from the simulation. This is bad, because he had a superhuman body in there, and he may try to do things he's not physically capable of in the real world.


=== Power ===
=== Power ===
Trigger type: Natural Cluster
''Trigger type:'' Natural Cluster


'''Primary power:''' Energy
'''Primary power:''' Energy


''Thinker''
''Striker''


Levi sees the 'webs' of energy (potential and kinetic) within things, and he has an instinctual understanding of what he sees.
Cheshire’s primary power is point-blank dynakinesis. He can control and transform energy within himself, and within an inch of his skin.


It allows him to predict people's movements a moment in advance, by reading the changes and surges in the flow of energy.
Converting heat to light, light to kinetic energy, kinetic to electrical energy, etc.  


More importantly, with the understanding it gives, he also knows where to strike to weaken and disperse the force of any movements. Both these factors make him a dangerous foe in melee, because he can foresee the movements of his opponent and make any strike of theirs close to harmless. However, armor or thick skin will block him from properly affecting these points.
He transforms energy with almost 100% efficiency. He usually uses it to transform ambient heat and light into kinetic energy for himself, to move faster and hit harder, as well as causing him to turn into a black silhouette as a side effect. He can also use other sources of energy, even his own body heat as a last resort. Just using ambient energy under normal conditions, like light and heat, Cheshire can generally punch hard enough to dent a car door and run at peak human speeds.


He can see these 'webs' within roughly 20 meters, and he can slightly see them through solid surfaces. He can see them in invisible people, but nothing in illusions.
More esoteric uses of the power include:
* Punching the air and turning the kinetic energy into light, for an impromptu flashbang
* Fire punch/taser punch/frost punch
* Staying cool in the summer
 
The power is mostly tuned for offense, and isn’t as efficient or effective for defending against attacks by converting energy to other forms. Under general circumstances, in the time a single punch lands on him, he can transform roughly half of the energy in it. Something like a bullet moves too quickly for him to affect. In addition, this power has trouble affecting larger amounts of power-generated energy (from pyrokinetics, lasers, etc).
 
To support this power, he also has a minor Thinker sense allowing him to see the energy within things, although usually without enough clarity to actually do something with it besides making it harder for people to hide from him. It has a range of roughly 10 meters, and can partially see through solid surfaces (just enough to see what’s on the other side of a wall). He can see the energy in invisible people, but nothing in illusions.


'''Subpower:''' [[Hellgate|Overwriting]]
'''Subpower:''' [[Hellgate|Overwriting]]
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''Shaker''
''Shaker''


Levi can overwrite small 'cuts' of objects (strictly Manton-limited to living creatures) with air, sending them to a pocket dimension. Effectively, he chooses a small (like 15 cm across) spherical area of space within 10 meters of him, and turns any living tissue in it to air. He can use it on himself, but pretends he cannot.
Cheshire can overwrite small 'cuts' of objects with air, sending them to a pocket dimension for a few (2-3) seconds. Effectively, he chooses a small (up to 20 cm across) spherical area of space within 10 meters of him, and turns any matter in it to air. It affects him just the same as others.


Overwritten parts are still connected to the rest of the body, so limbs won't fall off and Levi can't kill someone by 'pocketing' their heart. When the place something should occupy is occupied by something else when it returns, the most mobile of the two intersecting objects will be shunted to the nearest free space.
He can tune the Manton limit, choosing between cutting only living or non-living matter.


He tends not to use it on heads, out of respect for masks.
Overwritten parts are still connected to the rest of the object, so 'loose' parts won't fall off, and structural integrity isn't compromised. When the place something should occupy is occupied by something else when it returns, the most mobile of the two intersecting objects will be shunted to the nearest free space.
 
He tends not to use it on heads, to be a good sport.


'''Subpower:''' [[Transient|Flawed copies]]
'''Subpower:''' [[Transient|Flawed copies]]
''Striker''
Creates spectral limbs.
More specifically it's a spectral copy/clone of himself, but he can never summon the complete copy, he can only summon up to half at a time.
The spectral limbs aren't especially durable, only taking a good hit to dissipate, but he can re-summon them without much difficulty. This includes the recoil of hitting someone else. They don't have super strength either, they're just as strong as his normal body.
He can channel his primary power through the copies as easily as through the rest of his body.
'''Subpower:''' [[Voitarus|Desensitized]]


''Stranger''
''Stranger''


By making physical contact with someone, he wraps an illusion around them that looks like him. The illusion is intangible, but adapts to the body shape. It features everything he is wearing at the time of creation, and even disguises voices (but not body language). The illusions fall apart after roughly one hour.
Cheshire can make himself, or anything he touches, impossible to recognize.


'''Subpower:''' [[Voitarus|Desensitized]]
People still have all their knowledge and memories, it just becomes impossible to connect it to what Cheshire has tagged. Even details like "is wearing a mask" can't be identified.
 
Shapes and sizes can still be roughly recognized, no-one will mistake a baseball for a bat.
 
The effect can be difficult to recognize, especially if you aren't focused on trying to identify whatever's tagged.


''Brute''
It works on simple Thinker senses too, though more specialized powers will trump it


A rather simple ability to numb his own senses to varying degrees. This has uses like numbing pain, but also turning his sight or hearing off to avoid a Master ability. When turned off the senses are completely deactivated, so they can't be overstimulated (strong sensations leave no lasting effects).
The power can only be used on physical objects and creatures, only up to the size of a human, and only on one target at a time. It can last up to several minutes after he lets go of something.


===Cluster Mechanic===
===Cluster Mechanic===
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=== Backstory ===
=== Backstory ===
Levi followed an ad looking for testers for an "absolutely life-like gaming experience". Sadly this turned out to be a ruse by a Tinker specializing in simulations, who trapped him and pitted him against others in a high octane deathmatch-type-thing.
Michael followed an ad looking for testers for an "absolutely life-like gaming experience". Sadly this turned out to be a ruse by a Tinker specializing in simulations, who trapped him and pitted him against others in a high octane deathmatch-type-thing.


Eventually, something went wrong. As the simulation started glitching and breaking, the world literally falling apart around him, Levi Triggered. The glitches also caused three others to Trigger and break free, but sadly the Tinker who put them there got away before they did.
Eventually, something went wrong. As the simulation started glitching and breaking, the world literally falling apart around him, Michael Triggered. The glitches also caused three others to Trigger and break free, but sadly the Tinker who put them there got away before they did.


Levi was free again, but something had changed in him. He still craved that action, that excitement, and he definitely wanted to use these new powers. He had no interest in being a hero, but also knew he didn't have the skills and resources to be a solo villain. He started searching for groups, and quickly got interested in the organized structure of the Mafia.
Michael was free again, but he had changed. After getting his powers, he went around making trouble and getting in fights for a while. Eventually, the Mafia heard about him, and sent someone to offer him a job, a purpose. He said yes.

Latest revision as of 22:20, 22 July 2024

Cheshire
Author /u/Mr_Serine
Pronouns he/him
Civilian name Michael Rose
Alignment Villain
Affiliation Noncanon (Devilfish)
PRT Classification Striker, Brute, Shaker, Master, Stranger, , , ,
Born (1998-10-20) October 20, 1998 (age 26)
Devilfish, Minnesota
Status Noncanon



A relatively new member of the mob, has been seen acting as an enforcer in various parts of the territory. Little information available for now.

Character Sheet

Appearance

Civ: A tall young man, light brown curly hair in a light undercut. Thin, elegant features. Expressive. Curious multicolored eyes, which he often hides behind mirrored aviators.

Cape: A sleek steel full-face mask, mostly featureless but with a large toothy grin. Lightweight body armor under a nice leather jacket, and fingerless studded gloves. Dark pants, belt with sheaths for his knives, and military boots.

Equipment and Resources

  • Mask
  • Two knives, one curved and one straight
  • Flashbangs
  • A motorbike

As one of the powered members of the Mafia, he has quite a decent income. He lives in a nice house overlooking the lake, deep in Mafia territory, and has a cover job as security guard. He also works part-time as an instructor in a dojo. He owns a cat.

Wealth level: 6

Tinkertech

Until further notice, I am no longer using these.

Skills and Specializations

  • Skilled fighter
  • Athletic and acrobatic
  • Quick thinking
  • Some skill in both lip reading and sign language
  • A bit of a power geek, interested in Manton effects and limitations. For understandable reasons, he also recently got interested in cluster mechanics

Mentality

A generally nice guy. Cheerful, nice smile, pleasant voice, all that. Seems to keep his cheer no matter the circumstance. He's usually friendly and polite even to his enemies, making friendly chit-chat while actively kicking their teeth in. He is also theatrical, often making grand, sweeping gestures when using his powers, even though it's not necessary.

He may be nice, but he is not a *good* guy. He could be diagnosed as a sociopath, having little empathy, willing to do a lot to achieve whatever goals he has. He follows rules and regulations because of the mess that comes when you break them, but he *will* break them if given enough cause and excuse.

After the simulation he had trouble finding a purpose, he roamed the streets looking to fight and push himself because that's one of the few things he really enjoys. He joined the Mafia because it gave him exactly that: a purpose.

Mental issues ho! When he's in an intense fight and the adrenaline really gets pumping, he sometimes reverts to the instincts from the simulation. This is bad, because he had a superhuman body in there, and he may try to do things he's not physically capable of in the real world.

Power

Trigger type: Natural Cluster

Primary power: Energy

Striker

Cheshire’s primary power is point-blank dynakinesis. He can control and transform energy within himself, and within an inch of his skin.

Converting heat to light, light to kinetic energy, kinetic to electrical energy, etc.

He transforms energy with almost 100% efficiency. He usually uses it to transform ambient heat and light into kinetic energy for himself, to move faster and hit harder, as well as causing him to turn into a black silhouette as a side effect. He can also use other sources of energy, even his own body heat as a last resort. Just using ambient energy under normal conditions, like light and heat, Cheshire can generally punch hard enough to dent a car door and run at peak human speeds.

More esoteric uses of the power include:

  • Punching the air and turning the kinetic energy into light, for an impromptu flashbang
  • Fire punch/taser punch/frost punch
  • Staying cool in the summer

The power is mostly tuned for offense, and isn’t as efficient or effective for defending against attacks by converting energy to other forms. Under general circumstances, in the time a single punch lands on him, he can transform roughly half of the energy in it. Something like a bullet moves too quickly for him to affect. In addition, this power has trouble affecting larger amounts of power-generated energy (from pyrokinetics, lasers, etc).

To support this power, he also has a minor Thinker sense allowing him to see the energy within things, although usually without enough clarity to actually do something with it besides making it harder for people to hide from him. It has a range of roughly 10 meters, and can partially see through solid surfaces (just enough to see what’s on the other side of a wall). He can see the energy in invisible people, but nothing in illusions.

Subpower: Overwriting

Shaker

Cheshire can overwrite small 'cuts' of objects with air, sending them to a pocket dimension for a few (2-3) seconds. Effectively, he chooses a small (up to 20 cm across) spherical area of space within 10 meters of him, and turns any matter in it to air. It affects him just the same as others.

He can tune the Manton limit, choosing between cutting only living or non-living matter.

Overwritten parts are still connected to the rest of the object, so 'loose' parts won't fall off, and structural integrity isn't compromised. When the place something should occupy is occupied by something else when it returns, the most mobile of the two intersecting objects will be shunted to the nearest free space.

He tends not to use it on heads, to be a good sport.

Subpower: Flawed copies

Striker

Creates spectral limbs.

More specifically it's a spectral copy/clone of himself, but he can never summon the complete copy, he can only summon up to half at a time.

The spectral limbs aren't especially durable, only taking a good hit to dissipate, but he can re-summon them without much difficulty. This includes the recoil of hitting someone else. They don't have super strength either, they're just as strong as his normal body.

He can channel his primary power through the copies as easily as through the rest of his body.

Subpower: Desensitized

Stranger

Cheshire can make himself, or anything he touches, impossible to recognize.

People still have all their knowledge and memories, it just becomes impossible to connect it to what Cheshire has tagged. Even details like "is wearing a mask" can't be identified.

Shapes and sizes can still be roughly recognized, no-one will mistake a baseball for a bat.

The effect can be difficult to recognize, especially if you aren't focused on trying to identify whatever's tagged.

It works on simple Thinker senses too, though more specialized powers will trump it

The power can only be used on physical objects and creatures, only up to the size of a human, and only on one target at a time. It can last up to several minutes after he lets go of something.

Cluster Mechanic

The relation between the members of the VR Cluster is competitive: whenever they come across each other they will feel an intense drive to defeat (but not to kill) each other. It's not fully overwhelming and can be fought of, but this is very difficult.

The cluster members can also sense each other's presence in close proximity.

Backstory

Michael followed an ad looking for testers for an "absolutely life-like gaming experience". Sadly this turned out to be a ruse by a Tinker specializing in simulations, who trapped him and pitted him against others in a high octane deathmatch-type-thing.

Eventually, something went wrong. As the simulation started glitching and breaking, the world literally falling apart around him, Michael Triggered. The glitches also caused three others to Trigger and break free, but sadly the Tinker who put them there got away before they did.

Michael was free again, but he had changed. After getting his powers, he went around making trouble and getting in fights for a while. Eventually, the Mafia heard about him, and sent someone to offer him a job, a purpose. He said yes.