forum Overcomplicated Dystopian Hero x Villain Romance/Action RP idea || OxO || CLOSED

Started March 20, 2020 by @Moriarty

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Name: Donovan Cain
Alias: Omen
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Powers/Abilities: (Original version had some shadow manipulation, but I have omitted that so that our characters don't have the same abilities ^-^); he can create illusions based off of the fears of others, as well as sense fear. He can also create portals to different locations, which can allow him to travel long distances if he passes through them. He has a heightened healing factor, but this has been given to him through genetic enhancement and is not a natural ability of his.
Personality: (majorly developing)
He has a tendency to be unpredictable. He's usually cool and collected, and he can seem impossible to shake– yet, when angered, he is a force to be reckoned with and seems to have little room for mercy. He's strategic in his thought processes, always trying to plan ahead, to consider the next possible move, as if the world around him is merely a game of chess– and he has every intention on winning. Though he does just fine alone, he tends to enjoy the company of other people– even if said company is fighting with an enemy. And he does love to fight. He loves the thrill of it all. The game. The chase. He will kill and torture if it benefits him, but he's not bloodthirsty– only ruthless. He likes to feel like he's in control of things. He can seem charismatic and even kind at times and is good at creating facades to convince other people of this. He is quite possibly a sociopath. For some reason, he has become infatuated with Phoenix.
Backstory: Nobody knows.
Appearance: 6'1", with average width shoulders and a strong, solid build. Fair-skin, with straight black hair, piercing blue eyes and a sharp jawline.
He wears a dark red– almost black– shirt, with black pants, and a long hooded trenchcoat that hangs down well past his knees. He usually has gloves, and thick leather combat boots.
Gear/Tech: A dagger, multiple small guns, and throwing knives are generally on his person– but nothing more.
Other: He has incredible hand-to-hand combat skills.

I like him!

Yay! ^-^ Alright, then, so… is there anything else we need to establish before we begin? Also, where do you think would be a good place to start?

Maybe with Phoenix and Omen or Nimbus facing off in the city, causing some damage?

Hooray for damage and destruction!
Sounds like a good idea to me. So, should we where Omen and Nimbus have already sort of teamed up, you think?

Sure ^^ that makes it easier lol

Okay, great. ^^ So… who should start? Also, let me just say– _{I too am enjoying the quarantine :3}

You can start if you want ^^
(also, I glanced over yours and grace's version of this a second ago, and needless to say I'm rather amused lol)

Yes I noticed that as well. I had to do a double take like "wait, wut"

But I shall start ASAP if you would like. :3

Alrighty, looking forward to it ^^

((Sorry for the generally crappiness and wonkiness of this; starting is always rocky XD))

Nimbus was always causing trouble for Phoenix and Surge, which was why Reid was relatively unsurprised that he and Ellie were facing off with him once again. After all, they'd dealt with him more times than Reid bothered to count. And they always beat him. Reid almost felt bad for the guy. Almost. Even if he was younger than villains generally tended to be, he was still a villain, technically– and he kept coming back. At this point, he was practically asking to get his butt kicked.
But tonight, when they received a call from the police reporting the villains activities (which were no doubt simply to lure the heroes to them), there were apparently two villains present– and Reid could never recall Nimbus working with anyone before…
But when they arrived at the scene– the evacuated town square– there were indeed two figures present.

"I have no one to thank for this arrangement but you," Donovan commented stoically to Liam during their wait for the hero's arrival. You know, after they had finished destroying some cars and running a few civilians off in order to capture the attention of the authorities. Police never bothered dealing with villains nowadays, so it was a given that the heroes would be called. And Donovan seemed as relaxed about the whole situation as one could be, especially considering the fact that there was a vehicle behind him enveloped in flames.
Nimbus had quite some experience with Phoenix and Surge, which was the main reason why Omen had chosen to team up with him. Of course, Liam had spirit– and that was always a necessity if one expected success. And if Donovan were to be an accomplice, he was going to be the accomplice of someone who could help him achieve his goals, too. Liam wanted to defeat Phoenix, whilst Donovan wanted– something like that. Though his goal was a bit different, truth be told. "And I'm sure it won't be long before we have both achieved our desired results."
It was about then that the heroes arrived, and Donovan smirked lightly. "Ah. It seems our guests have arrived right on time."

(Nah it's great ^^ mine will probably be worse lol)
"Come on, Reid! The kid's terrorizing children again!" Elisia sighed, running into the scene. Nimbus was indeed terrorizing some young children amongst another group of people by forming a thick storm around them. Their screams of terror were occasionally audible between raucous claps of thunder. The boy grinned when Phoenix and Surge approached, though it was hidden beneath his mask, and turned towards them. He raised himself into the air on a bed of angry looking thunderclouds to get out of their reach and chuckled.
Elisia formed a ball of fire in her dominant hand and sent it Nimbus' way, cutting a hole through the clouds and grabbing the boy's attention. "My god! Reid, I think he's teamed up with Omen! How on earth could he get that guy to agree to an alliance?!"
A flash of lightning narrowly missed Elisia. "Kid's aim got better too…" She grumbled bitterly, light and fire starting to gather around her in an ominous vortex of energy. One benefit of fighting a younger villain was that Nimbus had not quite mastered his powers the way Elisia had. He could prove to be a formidable opponent in the future, perhaps, but he was too inexperienced at the moment.

"Teamed up?" Reid echoed skeptically, though he could see what she was talking about. Though he wasn't yet doing anything of interest, he spotted the other villain. "Since when did that become a thing?" His eyes widened slightly as bolt of lightning nearly hit him, and he threw up his harm to shield himself from it. The wires within it lit up with a bright blue glow, absorbing some of the electrical energy from the bolt– but there was a little more force in that blast than he'd expected, and it sent him flying backwards anyways. He was relatively unharmed, if not aggravated. His brow furrowed, and he scrambled back to his feet.

Donovan regarded the scene with interest, inactive for the first several seconds of the ordeal, as if he were simply observing from a distance. He opened up a portal– a perfectly circular thing that could be looked through, like a doorway to another location, with a ring of luminescent purple along the edge of it– and stepped through it, emerging through an identical one that had appeared simultaneously to the first, a good twenty feet behind the two heroes. "Evening, friends," he greeted– far too calmly for the situation.

If anything, a look of visible annoyance crossed Reid's face– probably because this villain had the audacity to refer to them as friends and take the situation so lightly. Though, he did notice that the man's hand rested on the hilt of a dagger– which looked more to be more of the technological sort rather than the traditional, though Reid had no clue as to what was technological about it.

Elisia wheeled around to face Omen, glaring fiercely at him. "Bold of you to assume any form of camaraderie between us, Omen. What's up with this, by the way?!" She gestured to Nimbus, who was still snickering atop his storm cloud while he terrorized a few more citizens. "Teaming up with the kid? How on earth did he possibly manage to convince you to join him?!"
"I'll have you know, he asked me!" Liam yelled down from his clouds, seeming thoroughly annoyed.
"This just gets stranger and stranger…" Elisia sighed, keeping a light veil of protective fire around herself just in case either villain tried to sneak attack her.

Donovan smiled faintly, his eyes hardly visible behind the shadow of his hood. "So I made a new friend. Is that so bad?"

"It is when you're both psychopaths trying to kill everybody," Reid spat in response, pulling a small device that very much resembled a gun from his belt and aiming it at Omen. It was set to stun, as Reid didn't have any intentions on killing the man unless it were absolutely necessary. But, as instantly as he could squeeze the trigger, a self-made portal pulled Omen inside, rescuing him from the shot.

"I'm no psychopath," Donovan responded from behind Surge, kicking the younger boy's feet out from beneath him. "And if I wanted you dead, you'd already be." His gaze flickered to Elisia. "I didn't come here to kill anyone."

"Surge!" Elisia glared at Donovan, seeming thoroughly pissed off. She gathered fire in one hand and stepped back a bit, keeping her eyes firmly on Donovan.
Taking this as his chance, Nimbus threw down some more lightning. One of the bolts struck Phoenix's back and threw her to the ground, stunning her. He grinned with glee as he looked down at his handiwork, his normally neat hair growing more disheveled from the electricity. Elisia seemed to be temporarily paralyzed by the electricity, though her body was still red hot to the touch.

Reid grunted as he hit the ground. He scrambled back to his feet when Elisia was struck, and he rushed to her side, disregarding the villain who had knocked him down. His first response was a desperate attempt to check her pulse which was nigh impossible considering the fact that she was still too hot for him to touch her. Or, at least, it would've been impossible, had not one of his arms been entirely fake to begin with. She couldn't burn that one. He grabbed her wrist, his cybernetic fingers feeling for a pulse– and a breath of relief that he didn't even know he'd been holding escaped him when he found one.
"Careful!" Donovan snapped at Nimbus, his brow furrowing slightly. "We discussed this." Donovan rubbed his temple, wondering if the younger boy had even listened to any of his monologue earlier. Liam was allowed to kill the boy. Omen couldn't care less about the fate of Surge. He was practically worthless, as far as Donovan was concerned. An extra. An expendable. Someone that was simply in the way. But Nimbus was not supposed to cause any permanent damage or risk Phoenix.
Donovan crossed over to Phoenix and Surge– and the latter of the two glared up at the taller man before jumping to his feet and swinging a metallic fist in Omen's direction. Omen deflected it, clenching his own and slamming it into Surge's jaw– which sent the boy stumbling backwards. Donovan drew closer to Phoenix, but Surge recollected himself, his arm lighting up with blue energy– from which he shot a volt of electricity directly at Omen.
Donovan let out a tiny "Hmph" and promptly vanished into a self-made portal. Where he emerged was not immediately visible.

Liam rolled his eyes. "I'm not gonna kill her! I'm just making it easier for you to do… whatever it is you're wanting to do with her. I'm not sure I want to know." He sent a bolt of lightning Surge's way, hoping to mess with the bionic arm.
Elisia was struggling to get up at this point, knowing she needed to help, but her weakened body was making the task far more difficult. Tiny flames licked the ground around her as she shakily arose and turned to where all the chaos was happening.

"Agh!" Reid let out an aggravated cry as Liam's lightning bolt hit him straight on. Volts of electricity shot through him– and, if he hadn't had so many technological implants that made him partially immune to electrical strikes, he would've been at a higher risk of going into cardiac arrest. It was still possible, even as things were– but incredibly unlikely. Instead, he ended up a little more burnt than he would've liked and a bit stunned.

Donovan mustn't have gone far, because he reappeared closer to Phoenix and cast an unreadable glance at Liam before turning his attention to the heroine.
"Easy now, dearest. You're injured," he purred as he approached her, now only steps away. "No need to strain yourself further."

"Don't touch me." Elisia stepped back a bit, stumbling in the process. "Don't you dare come near me. I'm still completely capable." She formed a ball of fire in each hand, though the fire faltered and flickered more than it usually would. Liam was still thoroughly enjoying himself atop his thundercloud, sending more lightning Surge's way.

"I know you are," Donovan responded, though he had yet to stop advancing towards her. "As fiery as ever, even when you're injured. I've always admired that about you, you know. But I think you ought to relax just a bit. You know I'm not going to hurt you." His gaze dropped to the flickering fireballs in her hands, a smirk forming on his lips.

Reid was not having a good time. He wasn't really sure what was going on– it was hard to stay on top of things when repetitive bolts of lightning were firing in ones direction– but at least he was conscious. He tried to fire a few electrical strikes back from his bionic arm, but then he felt dumb for even trying that, assuming that Liam probably had electrical immunity. So he targeted Donovan instead– but that was pretty pointless too when a lightning strike nearly blasted him back and he had to maneuver desperately to avoid it.

"I don't care whether you plan to hurt me or not. You're disgusting and I don't trust you as far as I could throw you." Elisia kept glaring at Donovan, trying desperately to get her fire to be stronger. There was only so much she could to at this point
"Dance for me, Surge!" Liam grinned sadistically while he continued raining down lightning and thunder. "My little puppet~… I could kill you, you know. Would you like that, Surge?" He crooned in a sickeningly sweet tone. "Although, I do quite like watching you try to avoid the lightning. You're very entertaining."