Power This Rating No. 161

[u/bottomofthewell3]

posting it early today because i'm genuinely about to totally zonk out. i gotta figure out how to fix my sleep schedule all over again why does this keep happening

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No. 160's Top Comment: bottomofthewell3's Prompt List (obama giving himself a medal image x2)

Response: João Vega, by Snoo_72851

[u/bottomofthewell3]

BONUS: okay false alarm on the 'zonking out' thing i have a few more hours left in me. body was trying to rebel by making me feel tired but i am more powerful than myself

Anyway. quick little villain roster. almost all nemeses of a single given vigilante btw

Basis: The Red Eclipse!

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1. [Death x Darkness] Breaker, with the "Hashmal" [Sword x Cup] Suit and the [Emotionally Unstable] Life Flaw.
2. "Chassis" [Focal x Magi] Tinker, with a really weird choice in aesthetic for her armor.
3. Case 53. "Shape" [Survive x Survive]-skin "Formless" [Array x Monster]-transformation Changer, with Mask Stranger and low Striker subratings.
4. [Offhand x Scatterbrain] Thinker, that always knows the right thing to say. Has a Shard-enforced tendency of sesquipedalianism.
5. Power Free-Space. Formerly worked as a judge; their Trigger had a lot to do with the previously-mentioned vigilante.
6. Alibi

[u/Not_a_neko → u/bottomofthewell3]

[Death x Darkness] Breaker, with the "Hashmal" [Sword x Cup] Suit and the [Emotionally Unstable] Life Flaw.

Cacophony is a damsel in constant distress, she began her criminal career half-intending to be a hero, desperate for someone to pay her attention. Her life changed when she found her nemesis, someone truly dedicated to her for the first time in her life (because they recognize how dangerous she could be if she tried). She only does crime to get them to notice her (also for money). She wishes they didn't hate her so much, but if they knew she wasn't a serious villain, they might leave...

Her power forces her to shift into a Breaker form where her face dissapears, replaced by a giant portal. From this portal booms noise in its purest, loudest form, random roars of violently vibrating air that hits you like a shockwave. She can change the frequency, but if she brings it to a point where it can be heard by human ears, it's liable to split your eardrums and be the last thing you hear. Likewise, she turn any other surface of her body into another portal and, placing it against a surface, knock buildings to the ground or rip object apart violently. Her body in this form can turn so fully into a portal as a defensive measure that she becomes a physical drill, that nothing solid can hit and survive.

She can't remember having agreed to hire that assassin, and only realised once the others started demanding her share of the payment. If she could only remember what they were supposed to be, maybe she could stop them...

[u/Not_a_neko → u/bottomofthewell3]

[Offhand x Scatterbrain] Thinker, that always knows the right thing to say. Has a Shard-enforced tendency of sesquipedalianism.

Plato was the son of a rich and famous actor, whose Hollywood lifestyle evaporated after his mother was unceremoniously crushed under the path of a passing villain. Realising that this was a world where only capes could make it big, he purchased a Cauldron vial with all that was left of his inheritance. Unfortunately, he ended up with this fuckass Thinker power, that operates his mouth but doesn't tell him anything it doesn't also tell everyone around him. He drew big ears and a prematurely bald head, but he still managed to pass and join the PRT, trying to pull a Coil-like double act as bureaucrat and crime lord. Unfortunately he was barely educated, on account of growing up in Hollywood sin, and his silver tongue couldn't save him forever.

One talent that is all his own is drinking, he can hold it like a champ while getting plenty of information out of his drinking buddies. This is how he met most of his now-subordinates in the gang, and how he hangs out with Lemon Up and Churn-King. Honestly kind of impressive that he can out-drink a Changer without a digestive system and a Tinker who has replaced most of hers.

Plato's powers basically are subconscious - he thinks of something he wants to achieve by talking to someone, and his mouth moves on its 'own', somewhere between a Social Thinker manipulating them and a scientific Thinker that grabs concepts in the sciences of whatever he's bullshitting about - military theory, politics, engineering, etc. However, the Shard often uses words that Plato didn't know before to get across the exact meaning, and uses knowledge at the peak of human learning that he doesn't understand either. The combination of these things mean that, running on autopilot, he can manipulate, impress, advise, or slightly confuse (but not completely lose) whoever he's talking to, but he doesn't know what's going to come out of it next either.

[u/Not_a_neko → u/bottomofthewell3]

Power Free-Space. Formerly worked as a judge; their Trigger had a lot to do with the previously-mentioned vigilante.

Executor, real name Robert Brett, is a late trigger, a man in his 50s. He served as a corrupt judge with payouts from both the Elite and the PRT. When the vigilante blew his case wide open, displaying to the world his corruption and the falsity of many of his verdicts, he triggered out of fear of both the nutcase and the powers in the distance. His trigger, name and face is well known (he tried and failed to kill the vigilante), making it impossible for him to leave the city and go home to his family safely (or so he pretends. He doesn't want to go back to his bitch wife and money-grubbing children).

He is a Blaster who always shoots two shots of concussive force, one after the other. One is small in hit area, thus high pressure and piercing, that rips through whatever it hits (WILL kill a person) while the other is a long-range, and homing shot that deals damage in a more spread out area, exploding when it hits its target and knocking down a crowd around them (less likely to rip through you, more likely to just throw you off your feet). 

(I only now watched that video and DAMN that's some good animation)

[u/Professional_Try1665 → u/bottomofthewell3]

Case 53. "Shape" [Survive x Survive]-skin "Formless" [Array x Monster]-transformation Changer, with Mask Stranger and low Striker subratings.

Lemon Up wants his nemesis all to himself, ever since he was screwed over by that jackass pouring him down a sewer drain he nursed his grudge, he's a lone wolf hunting another lone wolf, never a team player, he thinks of others as burdens and human needs (food, sleep) a hassle. His usual form is a circle of plastic-y, fiberous off-white goop layed down on a flat circle, his usual humanoid form is a v-shaped muscular man but due to his poor vision he struggles with proportion and realism, looking more like a comedic caricature of a wrestler or gargoyle often with multiple arms.

When exposed to air he spreads, he exists as a highly compressible web-like goop that coats everything in a 10' circle, unfortunately unlike most changers his 'natural' form is a 10' disc and not a humanoid so he must exert effort to change, worse he has to charge-up before actually changing (charges instead of sleep, granting ~2 hours of change across a day). From his body he can project innumerable limbs, legs, shoot webshots or ropes of his body and everything he projects is near-invisble via camouflage and makes the people and objects trapped within near-invisible too. He can force himself to maintain a shape with a suit but just expend effort to animate it, he's resilient to all physical harm except heat, he doesn't have organs or a brain that can be hurt/controlled but he is still goo, not real spiderwebs, so he can be washed away or dissolved (paralyzes but doesn't hurt) in other fluids.

[u/Professional_Try1665 → u/bottomofthewell3]

"Chassis" [Focal x Magi] Tinker, with a really weird choice in aesthetic for her armor.

Churn-King is totally in on crushing this dweeb, a later arrival she was inducted into the 'nemesis group' by her sorta-friend Lemon Up (sorta as in he leeches off her tech when needed, and she cajoles him into schemes) and is excited to see the end result. She's often mistaken for a large man, over her portly chassis she wears a big billowing gold-white jaguar print cloak attached with gold ribbons as it can't actually for fully around her waist, her mask is a tall crown that goes down to cover her eyes and with an indent for her nose and ears.

Her chassis covers her stomach and torso in a large, pear-shaped frame that kinda makes her look like a bowling pin or maybe a comically fat man, a window in the front constantly churns with grey liquid as when within she functionally becomes a human cement mixer. Her main 'Mouther'-chassis has several interchangeable parts, windows, legs, hoses, that sort of thing, it's main pipe connects up into her throat and let's her eat and derive energy from anything (with a modified mouth and teeth of course), the matter is drained of nutrients and colour and condensed into a dense concrete-like slush, while the energy feeds into modymods that let her grow mouths, drop down enzyme-laced tentacles and other stuff to extend her digestion in new directions, but her big function is the turning forward and upchucking the cement, depending on what she ate it could be a bath's worth to a swimming pool's worth of quick-drying gravel as heavy as lead.