El!
El has been with the site for nearly two years now and has continued to prove her value. Currently, she is heading up our site event, Battle for Liberterram, on top of keeping up with her own personal plots.
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Peggy Carter!
Lux's posts are all wonderful to read. She has done a wonderful job of grasping the new universe and incorporating Peggy into it.
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Peter Parker!
It's good to see Spidey back on the site. Watching him deal with the universe shift in his own snarky way has been nothing short of entertaining.
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Eight O'Clock on the Dot!
El and Lux are making magic in this thread. Straight up fireworks, and the way they've played with drawing out the reveal is top class.
Infinity Endverse is coming! With the new Endverse will come a brand new background for your character. You are free to choose to keep your current backstory and the like and have the character be confused in this new world, or to have your character be native to the new world and not know anything about their old continuity.
For this reason, we have created the following form, which will be added to your applications by staff after you have posted it here. Please check out the Infinity Endverse Backstory, the Infinity Endverse Storyline, and the Job Claim to see where your characters might fall in the new continuity.
After you have finished reading the new info, fill out the form below and post it here by October 22nd for approval. After this point, the continuity will be flipped over and we'll be playing in a new sandbox!
Keep in mind, nothing is set in stone yet. If you have a different idea than those we've built, let us know and we can work something up, but the documents written are the general layout of the universe. Don't create any new countries on us, but feel free to mess around in the sandbox with us before writing up your addendums so that we have a character design that we're all excited about!
CANON INFORMATION: CANON: Mortal Endverse (oldcon) or Infinity Endverse (newcon)? Which canon does your character believe is true?
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: NAME: Put the name here. ALIAS: other names that your character goes by AGE: how old is your character? OCCUPATION: character's occupation goes here MEMBER GROUP: what groups your character now belongs to. If you're unsure, feel free to ask a staff member or refer to the Member Groups thread AFFILIATIONS: what affiliations your character now has. Refer to the Member Groups thread for a list PLAYBY: You may change this is if you'd like.
BIRTHPLACE: Where was your character born? RESIDENCE: If your character is a student, where do they live when they aren't in school? For adults, where do you live when you aren't sleeping at your desk? PARENTS: Their names and perhaps relationship. SIBLINGS: Does your character have any siblings we should know about? IMPORTANT RELATIVES: Is there anyone else close to your character that deserves a mention? IMPORTANT PERSON: Courting anyone? Married, perhaps? Who's your special someone?
HISTORY: This is where you write about what their self in the Infinity Endverse's life has been like. This is the canon that NPCs and player characters that decide to be newcon will believe is true of the character. This is the position that they will be living. If it is similar to their current canon, then simply make note of the major changes that have occured to what is already in your application.
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[u][b]HISTORY:[/b][/u] This is where you write about what their self in the Infinity Endverse's life has been like. This is the canon that NPCs and player characters that decide to be newcon will believe is true of the character. This is the position that they will be living. If it is similar to their current canon, then simply make note of the major changes that have occured to what is already in your application.
Post by Alice Moore-Stark on Oct 9, 2016 4:51:49 GMT
CANON INFORMATION: CANON: Old Continuity
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: NAME: Alice Ismene Moore ALIAS: Alice Moore-Stark, Alice Stark, Al, Qwerty, Ally AGE: 21 OCCUPATION: Chief Technology Officer of Stark Industries MEMBER GROUP: OC, Civilian, Government AFFILIATIONS: None PLAYBY: Brittany Robertson.
BIRTHPLACE: Persica, South New England Area. RESIDENCE: Stark Mansion PARENTS: Tamara “Tammie” Moore|42|Mother|Alive, Strained Anthony “Tony” Stark|40|Father|Alive Dustin Amsel|41|Ex-Step-Father|Alive, Estranged SIBLINGS: Forrest Moore|23|Older Half-Brother, Estranged IMPORTANT RELATIVES: Tony's parents would be her paternal grandparents. Relationship is not great. IMPORTANT PERSON: No one
HISTORY: Alice’s history remains the same, except for the fact that Atlanta doesn’t exist in the new universe anymore. Things start changing around when her ‘parents’ got a divorce when she was seven and her brother was ten.
The accusation that she wasn’t the child of the man she’d known to be her father for a while resulted in a DNA test being taken, but the case was resolved before the test ever needed to be presented in court, and it was subsequently forgotten about. Alice and her mother also remained in her birthplace, Persica, trying to eke out a living there.
Things went about as well as they usually did, which was to say not fantastic, especially with bills upon bills to pay for the lawyers from the recent divorce, etc. The rest of this history remains unaltered, up until the point where Alice has just turned sixteen.
The DNA test from the divorce trial sat forgotten for about nine years in the DA’s office. When it was recovered, it was discovered that Dustin was correct about his assumption that Alice wasn’t his daughter; instead she was the bastard child of Tony Stark himself. This prompted the lawyers to dither about for a bit, before they ended up calling Mr. Stark.
Obviously re-testing would have to be done on both parties, just to be sure. Alice at first didn’t believe any of this, but since it was apparently being paid for by not her and was super quick to do, she figured she might as well indulge the people in their delusions.
It was once more a match. Alice was at a loss for how to deal with this, and she already knew that even if a case was made, and even with the grossly unbalanced court system, no one in their right mind would award her mother any custody rights.
Despite her personal thoughts on the matter, the point was that she wasn’t going to end up with her mother. So the agreement was that she would go stay with him on a few conditions; first and foremost being that her mother was sent to rehab/taken care of, or she wasn’t going anywhere. Some other things were finagled out between all parties, and Alice was whisked away from the South and brought to the heart of the empire.
Also apparently she achieved a degree from MIT and is now in charge of people and has an office, and all of these things make her extremely uncomfortable.
Post by Sigyn Iwaldidottir on Oct 9, 2016 5:07:53 GMT
CANON INFORMATION: CANON: Old Con
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: NAME: Sigyn Iwaldidottir ALIAS: Sigyn, Sigyn, Daughter of Frejya, Third Princess of Nidavellir and Princess of Asgard. AGE: Ancient OCCUPATION: Head Librarian of Asgard, Princess of Nidavellir MEMBER GROUP: Asgardian AFFILIATIONS: None PLAYBY: Laura Vandervoort
BIRTHPLACE: Niadvellir RESIDENCE: Asgard PARENTS: Iwaldi , Emperor of the Dwarves|4,000+|Alive|Good relationship Frejya Njordsdottir| 4,000+|Alive|Complicated relationship SIBLINGS: Idunn Iwaldidottir|1,000+|Sister|Alive Syn Iwaldidottir|1,000+|Sister|Alive Sjofn Iwaldidottir|1,000+|Sister|Alive Lofn Iwaldidottir|1,000+|Sister|Alive Var Iwaldidottir|1,000+|Sister|Alive Snotra Iwaldidottir|1,000+|Sister|Alive Nanna Iwaldidottir|1,000+|Sister|Alive Hnossa Odrdottir|1,000+|Half-Sister|Alive Gersemi Odrdottir|1,000+|Half-Sister|Alive IMPORTANT RELATIVES: Frey Njordson, Uncle, Alive Narvi and Vali, Sons, Alive
Loki, Ex-Husband. Complicated doesn’t even begin to describe their relationship. Currently still in Helheim/Valhalla/Wherever he went (Deceased) IMPORTANT PERSON: No one
HISTORY: Nothing changes for Sigyn, except that in this time line she never met Mr. Stark and stayed with him, nor did any of the other meetings with Midgardians occur. Of course, she remembers both timelines at once so it’s always a bit tricky now. Also she does remember the reckoning of Ragnarok, but it’s different for both timelines.
She hates remembering almost two different sets of events. Sigyn is going to try and solve a bit of the problem here, considering that this shouldn’t even be possible.
Post by z inactive marcspector on Oct 10, 2016 1:58:04 GMT
CANON INFORMATION: CANON: Old Continuity
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: NAME: Marcus 'Marc' Spector ALIAS: Moon Knight; Mr. Knight; Steven Grant; Jake Lockley; Yitzak Topol AGE: 44 OCCUPATION: Millionaire, 'Freak Beat' consultant, Avatar of Khonshu MEMBER GROUP: Canon, Superhuman AFFILIATIONS: Marine Corps, Central Intelligence Agency PLAYBY: Gunner Wright
BIRTHPLACE: Loewstown, Shadow Province RESIDENCE: A decrepit mansion in an abandoned stretch of land in the Shadow Province SIBLINGS:N͘o̧n̵è Randall Spector [Unknown]: Marc's younger brother Randall was, like Marc, the target of a lot of bullying when he was young for his Jewish heritage; unlike Marc, however, Randall was never quite as savage or violent as his older brother and relied on Marc for protection as a boy. As is wont to happen with older and younger siblings, Randall got more displays of parental affection while Marc was given more responsibilities and trust. The discrepancies in their treatment lead to a falling out later in life, and after Marc left for the military, they dropped contact. PARENTS:Y̶i̸t҉̢̢z̡a̕ķ T̸o̧p͘òl̶ Elias Spector [Father]: As far as Marc knows, Rabbi Spector is still living in Loewstown in the Shadow Province. He has not seen or heard from his father since he left to join the military. Rabbi Spector and Marc’s relationship, although complicated and at times strained, was extremely important to the young man who would be Moon Knight. Spector was incredibly supportive of his son in every endeavor, and instilled many important morals in the young boy. Despite this, Marc often fought with his father, and considers the old man better off without his son. Harriett Spector (Deceased) IMPORTANT RELATIVES: None IMPORTANT PERSON: None.
HISTORY:
This is a story that starts f͜҉i̵͏ve͘ millennia ago.
In the ẁ͏a̡͡à͢x̴i̛ǹg̀͞ days of the mighty Kemet empire, a collection of powerful entities first appeared on the planet Earth from elsewhere in time and space, known as the Heliopolitans. The powerful extraplanar entities called a strange, unknowable dimension called the Othervoid home, and their ability to influence the very reality around them on the mortal plain moved the ancient Egyptians to worship them as gods.
Amongst these gods was Khonshu, a powerful entity of the moon, a guardian over travelers at night, a deity of many aspects. In his time it was said that when Khonshu’s crescent moon shined, cattle became fertile, women had healthy babies, and the air was fresh to every nostril and throat. As time passed, Khonshu and the other Heliopolitans became more and more powerful. But it wouldn’t last; at the peak of their power, most of the Heliopolitans left our plane and returned to their own, the Celestial Heliopolis. Kemet crumbled, left for En Sabah Nur to rebuild. Khonshu, however, stayed behind, surr̸e͢n͡d͝er̶̷i̕ǹg͡ h͟i̕s̛҉͟ b̵o͏͝d̡y̧ ͏̕i̶n̨͜ o͠ ͡҉or͘͡ ̸̡dér ̀҉tó̷
Did you think it would be that quick and easy to get rid of me? That I wouldn't notice when the world was thrown into flux? I've been waiting for an opportunity like this for thousands and thousands of years.
I wasn't just going to sleep on it.
Alright kids, let ol' Khonshu give you the lowdown on what's new and what's not. First and foremost, I am no longer 'dead'. No longer a pale phantom of my former self. I exist in both your mortal plane and the Othervoid in tandem. I was considered a god of time, after all- when the mortal plane went sideways I used the opportunity to give myself a sizeable shot in the arm. The only problem is, when that upstart runt En Sabah Nur rose to power he locked away my power within my idol-statue in my temple at Karnak, and I was sadly left about as useful as that time I sacrificed my physical form to remain on this plane. Remember that? Oh. No, you wouldn't. Never mind.
After almost five thousand years, with World War II brewing and Russian pogroms getting Jews all over Europe killed or sent away to death camps, a young Jewish man and his family flee to America. You know him by a different name. Here, he is Elias Spector, and his arrival in America is bumpy, at first.
Luckily, Elias found himself a home in Loewstown, originally a quarter of Chicago in the Province before the influx of Ashkenazi Jews fleeing persecution overseas built the area into a city of its own. He settled down as a Rabbi with a wife and had two children; the younger of the two, well, he's a story for another time. Marcus Ariel Spector is the boy of the hour.
You know the shpiel. Grade school saw a boy mad at the world and willing to get physical to keep himself, his brother, and his friends from being the butt of too many bad jokes. After high school he became an excellent boxer. At twenty-eight he got in a fight with his pop, left to join the military, and never looked back. Spent some time as a marine, spent some time in the CIA. Spent some time as a mercenary. The song is still the same.
When Marc found himself beaten nearly to death (And, in fact, dying) at the base of my idol-statue in Karnak, I knew this was the boy I had been waiting thousands of years for. Moon Knight was back on the scene (Technically, for the first time). But this time, we were proactive. Marc's mental state was never that good in this timeline- the boy was showing signs of psychosis when he was in high school- and his alternate identities were much more assertive. Steven Grant set up the Spector Foundation during his extended stay behind the wheel, and the Foundation has done much for building infrastructure, clean energy initiatives, fighting pollution, and he even debuted as a prominent movie director. Everything else... well, more or less the same.
It hasn't all been roses, of course. Many of the relationships Marc spent time building have vanished, and as far as he knows what few friends he's collected have forgotten all about him. The strain of having two different timelines fighting for dominance in Marc's head has caused his already-fragile mental state to shatter completely. Marc Spector, Moon Knight, Mr. Knight, and even the disparate personalities Marc fought so hard to tame are all whirling around in tandem.
Marc Spector and all of the identities associated with him have not been seen in almost two weeks- since right around the time the timelines fragmented, not that anybody would know as much. Who knows where Marc has gone? The severity of his mental break leaves a number of possibilities, and one thing's for sure... nobody is keen to go looking for the violent vigilante known as the Moon Knight.
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: NAME: Clinton Francis Barton ALIAS: Hawkeye; The Hawk; Professor Barton AGE: 40 OCCUPATION: Professor (Physics) & Archery team sponsor at Shadow Academy MEMBER GROUP: Government, SHIELD AFFILIATIONS: none PLAYBY: Jensen Ackles
BIRTHPLACE: Waverly in Western New England RESIDENCE: Shadow Academy Off-Campus Housing PARENTS: Harold & Edith Barton SIBLINGS: Barney Barton IMPORTANT RELATIVES: Natalia Romanova is his closest friend. IMPORTANT PERSON: Flirtationship with most people he meets.
HISTORY: Clint’s history is mostly the same, except that shortly after recruiting Nat to SHIELD he decided to step out of field work. Finding that he actually preferred being in the position to find and train recruits, he took up a position at Shadow Academy. While at first no one was sure what, exactly, he could teach at a prestigious University, Clint quickly proved to have a natural knack for Physics due to his circus training heavily relying on its laws and after some instruction he was able to grasp it in more official terms in order to teach it.
Once on campus Clint also took control of some of the clubs and sports, including the gymnastics and archery teams. Through all of this, he works on SHIELD recruitment via the Academy in addition to simply teaching those that won’t go on to the agency.
Still generally a slacker, he has an incredibly put-upon Teaching Assistant named Kate Bishop who is constantly attempting to keep him in line and making sure that he grades assignments instead of just drawing smiley-faces on them.
He occasionally does return to the field for special missions, but he enjoys the more laid-back life that teaching affords him, in addition to his renewed ability to collect various critters that he finds.
CANON INFORMATION: CANON: Newcon with suspicions of oldcon?
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: NAME: Kayley Ryan ALIAS:Glitch AGE: 22 OCCUPATION: MEMBER GROUP: Mutant AFFILIATIONS: None PLAYBY: Cara Delevigne
BIRTHPLACE: Chicago, Illinois RESIDENCE: New York City PARENTS: Jordan Ryan | 55 | FATHER | ALIVE Edith Cole-Ryan | 53 | MOTHER | ALIVE
SIBLINGS: Gavin Ryan | 24 | BROTHER | DECEASED
IMPORTANT RELATIVES: None IMPORTANT PERSON:
HISTORY: Most of Kayley's early life is very much comparable to what has been written. She's born to a wealthy family of politicians, lawyers, and businessmen and women. Her parents were very much extremely strict in forming their daughter's life in just the way they wanted to see it be formed. Whether that was telling her how to dress, act, learn, and even think.
Just the same, Kayley fought back against the forced teachings of her parents, and didn't care much for the life of a wealthy debutante that would get the finest education and upbringing money could buy. Her tomboyish persona was very much there, and her parents very much went above and beyond in trying to punish their daughter in following their lessons.
But at one point, everything changed. Her prodiguous brother -Gavin, who is ten year's the elder of Kayley- has always had the favor of their parents, showing extraordinary talent in law that put him in the center of attention of not just their parents, but the entire extended family, and many of the connected friends and colleagues. A true rising star, one that had both the adoration and envy of his contemporaries. A man truly with the world at his feet.
For Kayley it formed a ready made contempt for her more talented, more beloved sibling. Suffering under the crushing expectations of what her brother had started, it was only to be expected for her to be on par with her naturally gifted sibling. After all, both of them had to bring pride and further success to the family, and the extraordinary accomplishments of her brother wouldn't make the demands any less massive.
But on Christmas day, in Kayley's 14th year. Tragedy struck, as Gavin was struck by an uncontrollable truck which ended his life in an instant. And would forever change the life of Kayley, her parents, and everyone else. And any thought of rebellion, of running away from it all, were killed alongside her brother.
Fully realizing the fragility of life, and understanding how blessed her life truly was. Kayley's rebellious spirit finally succumbed under the pressure, this time not just having to equal her brother, but to also do his memory honor by fulfilling the potential that was cut short in her brother.
It took longer than expected, but finally her parents got the submissive yet driven daughter they had tried to create. One that was finally willing to go along with their plans, and fulfill the future they saw in her. For years she still struggled shaking off her old personality, but not wanting to disappoint her family, she managed to suppress it well enough.
She also learned a lot, from private school to additional private tutoring to get rid of any deficit she had put upon herself during her rebellious years. Kayley learned politics from her father, and matters in law from both her parents. And also dabbling in other fields that would no doubt serve her well in the future.
On the backs of her parents affluence, she also enrolled into Harvard, allowing her to be given the finest college education money and power could buy. And even being to excel amongst the finest of her peers. She would graduate with the highest possible honors, and in combination of her family's extensive connections, she truly had the world at her feet when it came to making a choice about the future.
Additionally to all of that, her x-gene eventually unlocked, giving her powers of the technopathic variety. But out of fear of it tarnishing the family's reputation, these abilities have been kept firmly under wraps, with the majority of her own extended family not even knowing that she is a mutant. As a result she has mostly only had the chance to improve at it herself, which has somewhat limited her potential, but still has made her able to infiltrate computer systems in a stealthy manner, and using it to gain an edge over any competition...
To make her life even more complicated, her family's rise to wealth and affluence through foreground success has been mostly facilitated through extremely shady back-office dealings. Taking on big debts with criminal elements the world over, from Metropolita to Madripoor, with debts rumoured to even go as far as such people as Madam Masque. And as a result Kayley's talent and powers make her an extremely valuable bargaining chip in paying off such debts, being effectively an indentured servant to pay off the biggest of debts.
BIRTHPLACE: London, Old England RESIDENCE: SHIELD HQ PARENTS: Jonathon Drew - Deceased Merriem Drew - Deceased SIBLINGS: None IMPORTANT RELATIVES: None IMPORTANT PERSON: Aside from ill-conceived crushes, nope
HISTORY: Much of Jess’ history is quite similar, but there are small differences. Jonathan Drew moved his family into the Hydra Empire when they funded his research, essentially causing them to disappear. Jess still became sick in the city of Wundagore, near the Latverian border, and was healed thanks to her Father’s research. Upon his death, Jess was taken in by Hydra and trained as an operative.
Sent to infiltrate SHIELD by Madame Hydra herself, Jess quickly found herself in the role of a double agent. Each organization believes that they are where her true loyalties lie and Jess is just trying to figure out what she really does believe. As a member of the Secret Warriors, she does a great deal for SHIELD and sees what they are doing as good, but she feels that she owes too much to Hydra to betray them. As such she is stuck passing information back and forth while each party hopes her loyalty is ultimately to them.
BIRTHPLACE: Wundagore on the Latveria-Hydra border. RESIDENCE: Utopia, Genosha PARENTS: Django Maximoff - Adoptive Father Marya Maximoff - Adoptive Mother Erik Lensherr (Max Eisenhardt) - Birth Father Magda Lensherr (Eisenhardt) - Birth Mother SIBLINGS: Anya Lensherr - Older Sister Pietro Maximoff - Twin Brother Lorna Dane-Lensherr - Younger Half-Sister IMPORTANT RELATIVES: none IMPORTANT PERSON: She enjoys the company of the Avenger Vision when she can.
HISTORY: When Magda and Erik’s home was attacked, the couple was separated. While Erik escaped with Anya, Magda and the twins escaped elsewhere. She was terrified upon learning of Erik’s mutation and took the twins to Wundagore, where some of her Roma heritage had settled. She became very sick that winter and died and the twins were adopted by the Maximoffs, a Roma couple that had lost their own children.
Growing up with the extreme prejudices against the Romani from the surrounding people was difficult, and on one unfortunate night when Wanda’s powers suddenly manifested while they were in a neighboring city, the prejudice became worse. The small destruction her abilities caused terrified the locals, who decided to attack their home. Their home burned for a second time in their short lives and the still-young twins were left parentless.
While they were wandering the countryside, trying to find a new home, they were picked up by Hydra scientists, who were intrigued by their mutations and began running experiments on them. While these experiments were painful, they increased the twins’ natural mutations, giving them more power. Still, they could not discover a way to escape.
Their true father had been searching for the twins ever since he’d lost them, and upon hearing rumor of mutant twins in Hydra, he mounted a strike team to rescue the now-teens. They were terrified, at first, due to the extreme shows of power Magneto and his team utilized to rescue the twins, but upon realizing that he was their Father, this fear edged away and they followed him back to Genosha.
Now reunited with their family, the twins slowly acclimated to their new lives. Wanda’s care for others has become widely-known in Genosha, where she is often seen helping the poorer members of their community. It has been eight years since her and Pietro have come to live there.
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: NAME: Darcy Anne Lewis ALIAS: -- AGE: 28 OCCUPATION: Chief of Staff, Stark Industries MEMBER GROUP: Civilian, Canon AFFILIATIONS: Civilian, Canon PLAYBY: Kat Dennings
BIRTHPLACE: Roanoke, Virginia RESIDENCE: Manhattan PARENTS: Graham Lewis (father; 52; alive) and Susan Lewis (mother; 50; alive) SIBLINGS: None IMPORTANT RELATIVES: None IMPORTANT PERSON: Dr. Jane Foster - Best friend Dr. Eric Selvig - Best friend’s boss Thor Odinson - Best friend’s beau Tony Stark - Boss
HISTORY: Darcy was born the only daughter of Graham and Susan Lewis. All in all, her childhood was decently mediocre. Both of her parents positions at the hospital as CNA’s, and the pair of them worked hard day in and day out to see to it that their daughter never wanted for anything. What they didn’t realize, unfortunately, that the only thing Darcy ever truly craved was their attention.
As the years went by, Darcy grew accustomed to the quick family breakfasts, and the babysitter that was there, waiting for her after school. In hindsight, it wasn’t terrible. Due to their tenure at the hospital, both parents had weekends off, which they devoted to family time.
When she turned 12, Darcy decided she was tired of dealing with babysitters, and so she drew up a plan to get rid of them once and for all. A few printed articles about how to learn CPR were the only exhibits she needed for the presentation she offered her parents. In under a week’s time, she was attending a small seminar at the local YMCA on how to resuscitate a person who’d stopped breathing. It was an amazingly intense and enlightening course for a young lady, but she passed with flying colors.
Now that she was certified to save a life, she was certified to babysit others, and thus, herself. Even from such a young age, she knew that she wanted to go to college, and so most of her babysitting profits went towards her future tuition fund. What she was not aware of, however, was the fact that her parents were also stocking up. For every afternoon of babysitting they no longer had to pay for, they now put that money into a separate bank account, specifically for Darcy’s future.
Puberty hit during her freshman year, and Darcy quickly found herself gaining more attention from the opposite sex than she’d ever received in her life. Of course, all the attention could also have been due to the colorful nature of her hair. Indeed, she had reached her teenage rebellion phase. Thankfully for her parents, this phase did not include sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll.
Well, there were no drugs, at least…
In the entire student body of her high school, there was only one boy who seemed genuinely interested in her for who she was, rather than for the size of her chest. The pair dated on and off throughout their high school career, but when it came time to think about the future, neither one of them could picture the other at their side. They still remain friends on Facebook, but both have moved on with their lives.
Soon enough, it was time to pick a college. As intensely thoughtful as she’d been at age 12, she now realized she had no clue what to do. The medical field had never called to her, probably due to the knowledge that even the low-ranking nurses had to work 12 hour days… No thank you! Finding a school was more than a little daunting, but in the end, she finally decided on Culver University. After so much effort put into finding the right school, she decided against bothering when it came to a major.
In the end, she jumped on the Political Science bandwagon merely by chance. Still, she was a stubborn girl, and so rather than flip-flopping like so many other college students, she gave the subject her all. It wasn’t until her last year that she finally started to get a bit burned out. Rather than searching for something in her own major for a few extra credits, she decided to apply for an internship under astrophysicist Jane Foster.
She nailed the interview, but only because she was the only applicant and Foster was desperate. Still, despite her lack of knowledge in the realm of astrophysics...or astros...or physics… she managed to earn her college credits. Her keen powers of observation, and her knack for thinking outside the box slowly but surely swayed her into Jane Foster and her colleague, Dr. Erik Selvig’s good graces. Her natural charm eventually won Jane over, and the two became more than just colleagues - they became good friends.
One foggy night, while on a mission to BFE, America, the trio of astrophysicists (well, two astrophysicists and their assistant) encountered an anomaly never witnessed before. In the zero visibility weather, Jane ended up driving the van straight into a large man, much to everyone’s fright. When he got up, apparently unharmed, Darcy found herself more than a little on edge. His neurotic shouting finally tipped her over the precipice and she tased him until he was unconscious. Feeling more than a little guilty, the three of them brought the unidentified man to the hospital.
Perhaps a good, clean overly expensive bill of health would do some good in assuaging their consciences.
After a lot of arguing amongst themselves, a home err… lab robbery by SHIELD (which she never did get her iPod back from), and more than a few close calls on her life in such a short span of time, Darcy decided that this man - Thor, the God of Thunder, Prince of Asgard - was a pretty alright dude. He would definitely be better boyfriend material for Jane than Donald Blake ever had.
As the dust began to settle, they got back to work. In light of the events, SHIELD offered both Jane and Dr. Selvig jobs within the shadowy organization. Both politely declined. Instead, they relocated their laboratory to New England - on the Stark’s dime. Manhattan was not an easy place to live, especially on a waitress’ wages, so after awhile, Jane finally managed to pull some strings and get Darcy an interview at Stark Industries.
This time, when Darcy nailed the interview, it wasn’t just because she was the only applicant.
So far, she has proved herself a valuable asset to the corporation, quickly stepping in when problems arise and thus rising herself through the ranks. She’s been Chief of Staff for going on two years now. If asked, she couldn’t tell anyone what exactly her job’s responsibilities are, but she nails it day after day all the same. What she does know is that it’s the most stressful job she’s ever held (except for that summer after her junior year of high school, when she worked in the aviary at the zoo near her home -- Hitchcock wasn’t wrong!), but it’s also the most rewarding, and she wouldn’t trade it for the world.
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: NAME: Anthony Edward Stark ALIAS: Tony; Iron Man AGE: 40 OCCUPATION: CEO, Stark Industries MEMBER GROUP: Civilian AFFILIATIONS: Hellfire Club PLAYBY: RDJ
BIRTHPLACE: Manhattan, New England RESIDENCE: Stark Mansion or the Penthouse of SI Tower PARENTS: Howard Anthony Walter Stark Maria Collins Carbonell-Stark SIBLINGS: None IMPORTANT RELATIVES: Alice Moore-Stark - Daughter JARVIS - AI DUM-E, Butterfingers, U - Robots IMPORTANT PERSON: Perpetually Single… with occasional bad decision flings.
HISTORY: [Howard and Maria are both younger in this universe than in the original one, and as such Tony is slightly younger as well. Howard’s father, Walter, is the man that assisted in WWII and started Stark Industries, eventually taking over as Head of State as well. Howard followed in his Father’s footsteps, becoming Head of State after a man named Wilkes stepped down. Thus, the company passed to Tony. The Stark family has a connection to the Hellfire Club, through both Howard's merit warranting an invite and the Carbonell family's old money, and Tony currently keeps up their seat. They are not high-ranking in the Club, but are slightly above general membership.]
The day that Howard and Maria were set to die is the day that everything really changed from the story Tony knows. Instead of being killed by the Winter Soldier, a combination of factors combined to break through his programming and Howard was able to help his old friend recover. A few years later Howard became Head of State and Stark Industries went to Tony, who was still only 22 at the time. During these intervening years, much investigation was done into those that could have wanted Howard dead and had ways of passing information along to Hydra, but nothing was found.
Much of Tony’s history at that point was the same as what had happened in the universe that he knew, except that his parents were still around and so was Barnes.
Ill-fated flings are something of a thing with this Tony as well, between Rumiko Fujikawa in college, Sunset Bain in his early career as CEO, and the woman known now as Madame Masque later on, once he'd become Iron Man.
The incident overseas that turned him into Iron Man happened 13 years ago, when Tony was 27, in a war zone near Vietnam in the Asiatic City-States. The Ten Rings were still responsible, and Tony still ended up with an Arc Reactor in his chest and three months of captivity under his belt.
Coming back a changed man, Tony threw himself into work in addition to becoming Iron Man. The showdown with Stane happened in much the same fashion, as did Tony’s reveal of himself as Iron Man. Vanko even surfaced, though without the assistance of Hammer this time.
Tony was even around to run with the Avengers for a long stretch of time before deciding that the team thing wasn't quite for him, though he's still friends with them and helps out on occasion.
Things change even further on the day five years ago that the paternity test for one Alice Moore was discovered and brought to his attention. Agreeing to testing again, Tony was thrilled to discover that he did, indeed, have a daughter. Deciding to ease back on his partying ways so that he could be a Father, Tony jumped into things headfirst. His relationship with his own parents being decidedly better in this world, he was much more at ease with the idea of raising a child himself - especially with the most difficult years out of the way.
The alien attack on Manhattan four years ago led to a more cosmic awareness and Tony dedicated his time to the ‘building things for the army and SHIELD’ role. While he still works as Iron Man within Manhattan and the New York Metroplex or when friends call, he's taken on more of a support role.
Eventually, with the help of Reed Richards, he was able to figure out a way to remove the reactor from his chest and get back to normal. Or as normal as his life could be. It was through discussion with Richards over the course of working with him that he came up with the idea of the Illuminati - a group of science-minded individuals that meet as the ideamakers of the future.
Tony is disappointed to discover that he and Darcy are nothing but a holiday party fling in this universe and that while not as bad as before, this version of him is still something of a womanizer.
Post by Baldr Odinson on Oct 20, 2016 16:17:05 GMT
CANON INFORMATION: CANON: OldCon
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: MEMBER GROUP: Asgardian, Deceased AFFILIATIONS: none
HISTORY: Nothing changes for Baldr except that now no one remembers his visits to Midgard or his heroic sacrifice except for other Asgardians and the Svartalfar.
When the world was corrected by the Infinity Gems, Baldr was set free from his death and back to Asgard. He wishes to return to assisting his brother and the rest to save the universe from Thanos.
Post by z inactive julianaalias on Oct 20, 2016 20:42:41 GMT
CANON INFORMATION: CANON: OldCon
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: NAME: Juliana Alias ALIAS: Umbra, Jules AGE: ~1500 years old, 19 physically OCCUPATION: Vigilante, Purveyor of Antiquities MEMBER GROUP: Superhuman, Original Character AFFILIATIONS: None PLAYBY: Odette Annable(/Yustman)
BIRTHPLACE: Small village in Feudal England RESIDENCE: Small studio apartment in New York City. PARENTS: No record exists of Juliana's parents, and she doesn't remember their names at this point, but both are deceased. SIBLINGS: None. IMPORTANT RELATIVES: None. IMPORTANT PERSON: Juliana has fond memories of the man who she only ever knew as the Knight of the Curved Blade. While they were never intimate, leaving his company is a regret she carries with her.
HISTORY: In the annuls of history, Juliana exists throughout time as something just above a footnote. The presence of a woman who shares similarities with many modern-day crime fighters can be found across centuries. A black-robed woman fighting alongside the Knights of England, a masked woman working against HYDRA and the Nazi forces in World War II, old pirate legends of a Captain's First Mate able to command the darkness of the deep ocean. Her presence is not common or conspicuous enough to be known as a fact, she is merely a tall tale that has resurfaced and taken many forms across history. She spends her immortality traveling the world, and most recently her travels bring her to New York City, searching for answers about a world and reality that no longer seem to exist.
Post by z inactive jessicajones on Oct 20, 2016 22:54:52 GMT
CANON INFORMATION: CANON: Mortal Endverse
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: NAME: Jessica Jones ALIAS: Jewel, Jess, Jessie AGE: 31 OCCUPATION: Super Hero MEMBER GROUP: Super Human AFFILIATIONS: N/A PLAYBY: Krysten Ritter
BIRTHPLACE: Caldwell, New Jersey RESIDENCE: Apartment, Hell's Kitchen PARENTS: Brian Jones (Father), Alisa Jones † (Mother), SIBLINGS: Phillip Jones (Brother) IMPORTANT RELATIVES: N/A IMPORTANT PERSON: N/A
HISTORY: The differences lie in the details. Most of Jessica's 'old con' history is very much the same. There was an accident when she was thirteen, though the only fatality was her mother, who had been in the passenger seat when the car was struck. Her brother and father survived with minor injuries, Jessica's having been the worst as she had been seated behind her mother.
Jessica was never adopted by Dorothy Walker. Trish was never more than a friend from school. The two eventually grew apart as they grew older, and Trish became more and more famous.
The outing of her powers came at the hands of her brother, rather than Trish. He'd been bullied over something trivial, and Jess had stepped in, putting one of the bullies in the hospital with a fractured collarbone from being shoved a little harder than intended. It was her brother's idea from there to behave like a hero. Do good for the city, and generally be a better person. As she grew older, Jess clung to that.
She never met Killgrave. He lives on, doing what he does. She never killed Reva, though if she met an untimely demise elsewhere it has yet to be seen. Luke Cage is a man she's never met, or even Claire Temple. Jessica Jones lives quietly in an apartment in Hell's Kitchen, working for Hogarth, Chao and Benowitz as a Process Server. She masqurades at night as the hero Jewel, keeping crime out of the city.
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: NAME: Felicia Hardy ALIAS: Black Cat. Alexina Brigham, Valaria Munroe, Ashley Moon. AGE: 27. OCCUPATION: International mob boss. MEMBER GROUP: Villains, Mutants AFFILIATIONS: The Brotherhood, the Hand. PLAYBY: Nora Arnezeder
BIRTHPLACE: Long Island, New York, New England. RESIDENCE: Several. PARENTS: Walter Hardy, father, deceased. Lydia Hardy, mother. SIBLINGS: None. IMPORTANT RELATIVES: None. IMPORTANT PERSON: Not at the moment.
HISTORY: Much of Felicia's history has gone the same. Except from the very beginning, she acted as though she were cowed into obedience. From this, she took to tearing apart Fisk's empire from the inside, bided her time and eventually killed him, claiming his criminal empire as her own. Unfortunately her power play cost her her father's life.
Felicia's been running Fisk's operation for two years now, and has outlawed human trafficking.
Additionally, her position of power as a mutant has drawn some attention from the Brotherhood who approached her a year back. She is their covert ally and some of her international operations benefit the state, though ultimately she serves herself more than Genosha.
Post by Natalia Romanova on Oct 21, 2016 5:07:56 GMT
CANON INFORMATION: CANON: Mortal Endsverse
INFINITY ENDVERSE CANON: NAME: Natalia Alianovna Romanova ALIAS: Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff, Natalie Rushman, Laura Mathers, Czarina AGE: 88 OCCUPATION: Empress of Atlantis, Professor of History, Back-up Defender MEMBER GROUP: Atlantean, Government, Superhuman, Canon AFFILIATIONS: Defenders PLAYBY: Scarlett Johansson
BIRTHPLACE: Stalingrad, Soviet City-State RESIDENCE: Atlantis (Antarctica) PARENTS: Presumed deceased SIBLINGS: None IMPORTANT RELATIVES: None IMPORTANT PERSON: Namor - Husband Ilarion - Son (infant) Clint Barton - Best Friend Steve Rogers - Close Friend Ivan Petrovitch - Estranged Surrogate Father
HISTORY: Natalia’s history doesn’t divert from its Mortal Endsverse path too much until recent years, save a few important missions for the KGB…
In the late 1960’s, Natalia was sent by her KGB masters to infiltrate Stark Industries. She did so by utilizing one of the most notorious facts about the corporation’s head - his fondness for pretty women. Under the guise of Laura Mathers, Natalia wrapped Howard Stark around her finger for a solid couple of months, earning the genius’ trust and gleaning as many secrets as possible about his business. When the order came from on high to finish the job, Natalia didn’t so much as blink before attacking the billionaire. His advanced technology proved to be too much for her, unfortunately, and she only got away with a handful of secrets for her masters.
By the time Natalia was sent back to the Starks in the 1980’s, Howard had met Maria who’d conceived their son, effectively removing the role of a potential love-interest. Her history with the man was also a problem, of course. Instead of sliding up from alongside him, Natalia used her skills in infiltration. The Starks, again, were ready for something of the sort and this time she barely managed to steal some intel and escape with her life intact.
In the late 1990’s, Natalia met the man who would finally turn her life around: Clint Barton. Sent to kill her, the archer made a different call, opting to spare her life instead. The fact that he’d held her life in his hands and hadn’t pulled the metaphorical trigger was not lost on the Russian femme fatale, and instead of running back to her masters in the KGB, she followed Barton back to the Shadow Province.
She joined SHIELD, slowly but surely rising through the ranks, even after Clint moved on to a considerably less hazardous line of work. When Steve Rogers broke away from the shadowy organization, Natalia was one of the people he invited to join the ranks of a new team of heroes he was attempting to form. She went as a friend to hear him out, unsure at the time whether she would accept his offer or not.
Just as she was arriving to the scheduled meeting place, another of Steve’s potential recruits was leaving. With a few minutes to spare before her allotted time, Natalia had no qualms with stopping to speak with the man. If she joined the group, he would become one of her colleagues after all. Twenty minutes later, Natalia’s phone rang and she realized she’d passed her small timeframe by a large margin while talking to the Atlantean.
In the end, she decided to accept Steve’s offer, though perhaps not entirely because of the ideals he was preaching. Natalia and Namor began their courtship not long after the founding of the team, but kept their activities a secret. It wasn’t until they sent out invitations to their surface wedding ceremony that anyone even knew about the pair’s long-term relationship.
Natalia retired from SHIELD just before the wedding and moved to Antarctica to be closer to her husband. She began a tenure at a University in one of the human settlements, teaching History. She and Namor spent the next ten years blissfully wed, save one missing piece: a child.
As King of Atlantis, Namor was in need of an heir to his throne, but the “graduation ceremony” in the Red Room had taken that option away from Natalia. Scientists and Magicians alike worked for nearly a decade to find and perfect a cure for the royal couple. Finally, in 2013, there was a breakthrough. Even after taking the final product, it took some time for Natalia to conceive a child. Once pregnant, she took a leave of absence from the team, opting to keep herself - and the baby growing inside of her - as far from danger as possible.
Ilarion Alexander Romanov was born on July 5, 2015. He was introduced to his godfather, Steve Rogers (whose birthday celebrations he caused the couple to miss) a few days later. Natalia has remained loyal to the Defenders, but remains mainly focused on teaching and being a mother and Empress unless her skills are absolutely necessary.