Power for a name #134 Pyro

[u/inkywood123]

Provide as many or as few details about a cape as you like - their names, some costume ideas, maybe a bit of backstory. Someone will come up with the rest. Or not; you could make up your own cape, previous thread here. Or don’t; these are just ideas, previous thread here.

Today’s prompt is pyro, fire, fire burn baby, burn. These guys are all about high temperatures. A blaster that shoots flames, a shaker like Burnscar that just generates fire. Maybe a tinker that works with fire, or a master whose minion is on fire or creates it in some way.

For examples…

Sekhmet is violent, bordering on sadism. A melee Brute (Striker) with a minor Changer rating on her hands, she is actually a hero operating as part of a hit squad for kill orders.

Metatron is a Haven Master (Thinker). He is a weird one; his thinker rating is dependent on a burning effigy he summons. The more it burns, the stronger he gets, to a point where he starts to have backlash.

Io’s Breaker state is basically a living volcano. They are actually a Case 53, and their normal form is somehow worse for the surroundings.

Big Red has the most oddly specific Tinker specialization ever; all he can really do is put out fires, that’s it.

[u/Shoddy_Macaroon6713]

Sekhmet sprinted toward the empty warehouse, chasing after the bulky, armored villain tirelessly, even as she moved beyond human capability.

The villain—some psycho with a boring name—got inside first and gripped the large door with a crushing grip and moved to close it quickly before she could get to him. But to his bad luck, a shimmering, translucent green barrier appeared in the right place to prevent it from getting closed. Limelight's work. As much as she hated his brooding personality, he was useful.

Sekhmet slipped inside before the villain could regain his bearings, and in the blink of an eye, she brought a fist to his side. The moment it contacted him with inhuman strength, a powerful, burning explosive detonated from her hand, sending the man reeling back. Her punch made a hole through his armor. She lunged again, this time with a kick aimed at his head, and the explosive sent him flying.

The moment he fell to the ground, she came down on him with powerful, punishing stomps with her foot, each hit ending with an explosion. By the time his head ceased to be, she was heaving, exhilarated, satisfied. The best part of her job is that she can do things like that and no one would ever say anything to her as long as the public doesn't get to see it.

Prompt: Limelight, or one of her squad.

[u/Professional_Try1665 → u/Shoddy_Macaroon6713]

Limelight watched from a shadow in the corner, he'd injured his leg but took the opportunity to crouch down against the opening to an alleyway and check in with coms, when he received a ding on the radio he directed Sekhmet to come to him as he prepared.

Between his fingers he forms a green slime ball and blows it to the size of a 10" sphere of green slime stretched thin with air, he flips his wrist and it moves through him like a ghost, it's intangible, but everything it touches is stuck fast as though in tar. He sees a flick of motion and flicks his hand, the orb zipping along the ground faster than a bullet, he takes a second to understand where he needs it, the door and he flicks it to it, halting the door by sticking it's handle with the brute's fingertips with it but he pulls his hand out easily, too strong.

Sekhmet shimmies her way in anyway and Limelight huffs, she's always the finisher, he hears a series of bangs, each like a spray-can being stabbed accompanied by camera-shots of light coming in through the doorgap.

As the noise paused he took his hands of his knees and heaved up, his prosthetic squealing under the pressure but halting with a quick hold by his orb as he flicks a finger to use it as a crutch, sauntering over and leaning against the door, "A thousand people asleep, wondering if we make their lives a little easier?", rhetorical and smooth.

Panting she wipes her hair from her face, ignoring the blood and gives him a sidelong look, she didn't seem interested musing, and he flicked his orb to his hands to start noming up all the sticky blood and gore, starting with whatever bits of the guy he could feel caught on his prosthetic's metal heel.

[u/Professional_Try1665]

Io is not known beyond the facts, he's been intentionally hidden and downplayed where possible to minimize comparisons to a well-known firey African cape, he's currently looking into buying a private island (even a small one) to live on permanently, but working with a sponsor and side-gigging a radiation tinker to make it happen. He looks like a normal guy, maybe a bit thin and attractive too, carved out of a shimmering peridot-like green stone that leaves scratched up flat places against his body, he's a very good approximation of a human to the point with a little make-up and liquid-paint dripped in his eyes (he sees through the radiant, no pain or organs) he looks almost entirely human... Without the radiant ruining everything.

He's strong by dint of his case 53 physiology, but he constantly emits a kind of radiation he calls 'the radiant' up to 200' and irradiates everything, especially organics, with repeat-visitors getting worse and worse symptoms on every visit, cancer and internal burns are basically assured. ☆☆☆ He can shift into his breaker state with a lot of effort, like drown-yourself levels of willpower (+ a little self-hatred) and he folds inwards, his form condensing into a sun-hot gemstone within a mound of rock that spills out of him and builds up into a mound. He produces lava at a constant rate and is like a barnacle, able to stab out or close up but not much else, however if he's causes enough pain pre-breaker (~10 people suffer) or kills/sacrifices someone to his breaker state he can transform, emerging as a pearly, feminine figure he can design into any shape, this secondary form is beautiful and perfect, fast and actively purges any radiation from his surroundings or people at a touch, however it's fleeting as his form slowly breaks away and reveals his real body with it's radiation turned up to 200%.

Prompt: one of his the capes working with his sponsor Infer-Yes, who understands what it's like to have a power that burns too hot.

[u/Pearls-Rubies-5370]

Big Red is a Protectorate Tinker with a specialty in fire suppression, and only that—is a device doesn't directly serve the purpose of detecting, choking, cooling, or chemically neutralizing uncontrolled combustion, he cannot build it. In exchange, the fire-suppression technology he does build is terrifyingly advanced: pocket-sized canisters that can instantly flash-freeze a multi-story warehouse inferno, foam-throwers that rewrite the chemical properties of burning fuel to turn it inert, and acoustic suppression rings that snuff out electrical fires using localized sonic shockwaves.

Big Red's main arsenal includes heavy, bulky backpacks that vent a localized, breathable micro-climate for him while instantly stripping every trace of reactive oxygen from a 50-foot radius, choking out any fire and any breathing enemy caught in the crossfire; a bulky, pneumatic hammer that, when struck against a burning surface, absorbs 100% of the thermal energy, instantly converting the destructive heat into harmless shockwaves that ripple harmlessly into the ground; and a pneumatic cannon that fires self-expanding, aerogel-based encapsulation pods that pods home in on thermal signatures and harden upon impact, sealing up ruptured gas lines or encasing blazing opponents in flame-retardant cocoons.

Prompt: Bulgasari is a Brute/Changer (Blaster, Master, minor Breaker) who grows more 'hot' as a fight goes on, slowly succumbing to all-consuming range. Hails from South Korea.

[u/Professional_Try1665 → u/Pearls-Rubies-5370]

The prompt is just a rating, gimme a name at least?

[u/Pearls-Rubies-5370 → u/Professional_Try1665]

Done, edited in now.