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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Kathrine
AGE: over 18
JOURNAL:spkathrine
IM / EMAIL: spkathrine[@]gmail.com
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RETURNING: I don’t have anyone in the game, but this is a re-app.
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Tom “Toro” Raymond
CHARACTER AGE: over 90 (92 if going by present date)
SERIES: Marvel Comics (616)
CHRONOLOGY: pre-The Supreme Squadron #6, before he blows his cover at the undersea Myriad base.
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Random housing in Nonah if possible.
BACKGROUND: Marvel 616 Universe | Terrigen Mists | Inhumans | Toro Raymond
Toro was the first “sidekick” so to speak, in that he and Jim Hammond (the Original Human Torch) teamed up to fight crime in New York City and beyond after his powers fully manifested (or so everyone thought) when he was sixteen. He was the first teenager in his world to take on such a role and eventually he and Jim would be recruited by the President himself to be part of The Invaders, a WWII team that combated the Nazis, HYDRA, and homegrown terrorists, that included Jim, Toro, Captain America (Steve Rogers), Bucky Barnes, and the Submariner (Namor). While Toro did take part in a lot of these missions, often he and Bucky were sent off on tours to sell war bonds around the states, promote the war effort to young adults, and also take on missions with their other teams, the Kid Commandos and Young Allies. He and Bucky were the face of the American Youths doing what they could to help America win the war.
It would be years later (after the war and the supposed deaths of Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes during, and Jim Hammond in the 50s) that he would die, come back to life decades after that, and be forced to rebuild because it was now the 21st Century and he had a lot of catching up to do. He finally decided to go back to school (he’d only ever gotten a partial high school education), but while getting a bachelor’s in French Literature, the terrigen mists were released to spread across the world, Toro was one of those affected, revealing that he was an Inhuman mistaken for a mutant the entire time. Being one with a strong Inhuman gene (as it had already been semi-activated through exposure to Horton cells, and radiation), Toro was trapped inside of a cocoon until he completed a full transformation into an Inhuman.
He went through this terrigenesis and came out thinking nothing had changed since he’d already had abilities. But then during a fight against Neo-Nazis in Germany helping out Iron Cross, his powers reacted differently than they ever had before and he realized that his powers were not from controlling thermal energies and combustion, but in his body releasing various elements and mixing them to create chemical reactions, from fire, to gases, and potentially more once he learned to control them fully. Jim took him to New Attilan, home of the Inhumans and was offered a place there by Queen Medusa. Months later he took on the mission of infiltrating the Myriad alien cabal that had been kidnapping fledgling Inhumans who were still inside of their cocoons to find out what they intended to do with them and then send for back up.
PERSONALITY:
At first look, Tom is generally what people would call a “good guy.” He’s normally polite, if a bit cocky, helpful, cares about people, knows right from wrong, and all that good stuff. He grew up with sickly parents who were both exposed to dangerous chemicals due to their work as scientists and researchers and he cared about them, greatly. Even though they weren’t the richest family, he didn’t lack for all of the important things. Still, because of the hardships that his family went through financially and, especially, with his mother’s rapidly declining health, Toro came to understand early on that life isn’t always the kindest to good people, like his parents.
But even a good guy can have rough edges. Living through the train wreck that killed his parents left Toro with survivor’s guilt and believing that he was the cause of the crash (which he wasn’t, but his flames did kill quite a few people when he accidentally activated his powers). His parents and everyone else on the train were dead, but he wasn’t, so it had to be his fault and the fault of the powers he had that his parents were so afraid of, because those powers meant that he was somehow different and dangerous. Terms like “mutant” and “inhuman” didn’t exist back then so all Toro knew was that there was something wrong about him that no one could ever explain. Even after meeting Jim Hammond and later on learning the truth about Lady Lotus’ culpability for his parents’ deaths, Toro would never stop believing that who he is—what he is—cursed them somehow.
As he aged, Tom came into full control of his powers (or his powers as they had manifested at the time; it’s complicated) and it helped him to come to terms more with what happened. Instead, he focused on using his powers to help people, just as his mentor, Jim Hammond, did. It may not be what he saw himself doing in his life, but it’s what he thought he should be doing at that time. His relationship with Jim was one of the strongest bonds he had after he had lost everything else and it shaped the way he looked at the world. Jim didn’t understand everything about human beings, because as a synthetic human he learned human emotions through observation and mimicry, and he took in the world different that most people because of it. Toro became one of the biggest models he followed because of their constant companionship, while in turn, Toro tried to be more understanding and open to the world because that was how Jim approached things. He wanted to make Jim proud of him, tried to live up to the legacy Jim had set before him even years after his death. It doesn’t always work, as Toro is more cynical and less optimistic than Jim, but he tries anyway. He also, as he gets older begins to get over some of his shyness around girls, although this is usually only when he’s being “Toro.”
Toro may not be the smartest guy around, and he has a tendency to ramble about things people really don’t want to hear, but he is intuitive and learns on his feet. He has no problem trying to learn new things when he’s got the chance. He doesn’t usually like to jump into situations without thinking things through or to go against orders—as a teenager, it was usually Bucky who did that and Toro who followed after him, arguing that they shouldn’t do it the entire time—but he does have a temper that can change that in an instant. It clouds his judgment if he lets it get the best of him, such as when he decides that the best way to regain control of his life after being brought back from the dead is to go after the man that had killed him, the Mad Thinker. Even when he was being warned against it by a friend, he went ahead with it because Toro was at the point that he needed something, anything to have a purpose in his life. For a second time he had lost everything and so he chose to avenge himself because he didn’t think he would be able to move on otherwise. And as usual when someone does something rash and unprepared, it backfires on he ended up being used as a research sample for the Mad Thinker studying Horton Cells. This didn’t help him learn his lesson, but not getting hot under the collar is something Toro’s never been the greatest at doing.
Toro is still, despite his at times cynical outlook, protective of humans in general (this does not include Nazis or supervillains), because he wants to believe that humans are capable of just as much good as they are bad. His priority though, will always be the people he cares for first. He could argue with a friend more times than they get along, but Toro will still consider them important before anything else. When he and his friends in the Young Allies were making an appearance for a war bonds drive, the program director refused to remove a blown up cover of one of the propaganda comics that were being published about them—despite the fact it included a disparaging caricature of one of the members, Washington Jones. Toro’s solution? Burn the poster down. He doesn’t stand for discrimination or racism in general, but having it happen to one of his friends really gets to him. He’s always had a desire to belong and clinging a bit to the people he cares about is part of that, so he gets very protective of them, even when they may not need it. Being an Inhuman has given him a place in the world, a people and a group that understands him and he will do anything he can to protect. They’re the only family he’s got left after all.
POWER: Tom has the ability to control elemental materials in his body and the atmosphere around him to create chemical reactions (for example his pyro-kinetic abilities were due to his body manipulating hydrogen, oxygen, potassium permanganate, and the other elements for flammable materials into combustive flames around his body.) He can use these chemicals to create flames, gases, etc., and because he has control of all of these elements, with awareness/forewarning he can also provide himself with immunity to chemicals (can’t kill him with poison or sedate him when he can create an antidote in his own body or burn it out of his system). Of course, Toro still had to learn how to do a lot of things with his abilities (such as being capable of creating water by manipulating hydrogen and oxygen in the exact mixture), and he’s not that much of a scientist to begin with. His Inhuman gene reacting in his cells also delays his aging to the point he barely looks older than he did in 1945.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[The smile on his face is both awkward and genuine. He’s trying to keep an upbeat attitude, because he’s been here before, he knows it won’t make a difference to fight about it. Instead he’s trying to pick up on what he’s missed out on.]
Hey, man, when things change, they change, don’t they? I was hoping to find someone who’d be willing to help a fella out with catching up on everything that’s happened around here in the past few months. I’m sure there’s probably some “text” or “file” on the phones for it, but there’s nothing quite like a good sit down, if ya ask me. I’m offering up a free dinner at this diner I know, uh…I think you call it “retro” nowadays.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
It felt like coming back to a dream he’d had a long time ago. Waking up here again and seeing the tattoo on his arm. He was barely more than a kid back then and yet now he might look the same, but so much more has happened. He’s not who he was just two years ago, and to consider himself anything like the boy who came back from the war two friends lost and still more hope than he knew what to do with? Hah.
But maybe he only really started to remember that kid in the past two years. When he stopped being bitter and finally started looking at life as something to experience instead of something to survive.
He doesn’t see everything the way he did back then, believing that the government might not be on the up and up, but it was still better to sign on so he could make a difference. Didn’t mean it was the wrong thing to do, but he had a very different perspective now. He had a mission to get back to and there’s not much he can do to force it to happen. But there was a lot he could do to get himself dead before he had the chance.
So he thinks of it like an extension of the mission. He’s still kind of undercover, playing a long game for the sake of keeping people safe and sending for backup as soon as he has the chance. He smiles and jokes and introduces himself to new people. If there’s one thing the government here can do, it’s throw a fun party. He may as well enjoy himself while he’s working out the shell of a Plan B. He sees a pretty girl and struts himself over there, the perfect cover for the night. It’d be just like in the old days when he and Bucky would talk up all the adoring fans outside the rallies and filming sites, keeping up the idea of the perfect soldier boys just waiting for a chance to get back to the action (which they were, but not for the reasons they talked about in front of the camera), and show them a good time.
“Hey there,” he says with a smile on his face just as she turns into his direction. She smiles right back at him and takes the hand he’s holding out to her and he can’t help but come up short, his mind frozen for a brief moment on where to go next. He hasn’t flirted with someone since the ‘60s, and that was his wife. “Uh…” he covers it with a laugh, “Sorry, you looked like someone I knew the last time I was here.”
Thankfully the young woman takes it easily enough and he introduces himself, gets to know each other a little. He even asked her to dance—sort of, he was working up to it! Only she ended up taking the situation out of his hands and telling him to give her a dance first—and everything it working out all right so far. Getting a nice dance with a pretty girl was a bonus. As long as he didn’t think about the fact she was young enough to be his granddaughter, it didn’t even get weird.
FINAL NOTES: Toro was in the game from April 2015 to September 2015 under the journalflamingshortshorts and his canon point at that time was mid-1945. His canon point has been moved up to present-time in Marvel Canon (which is basically 2015/2016-ish depending on who you ask), but I’d like to keep all of his memories from his previous time in game if possible. If not, considering the long time skip, I totally understand.
NAME: Kathrine
AGE: over 18
JOURNAL:
spkathrineIM / EMAIL: spkathrine[@]gmail.com
PLURK:
RETURNING: I don’t have anyone in the game, but this is a re-app.
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Tom “Toro” Raymond
CHARACTER AGE: over 90 (92 if going by present date)
SERIES: Marvel Comics (616)
CHRONOLOGY: pre-The Supreme Squadron #6, before he blows his cover at the undersea Myriad base.
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Random housing in Nonah if possible.
BACKGROUND: Marvel 616 Universe | Terrigen Mists | Inhumans | Toro Raymond
Toro was the first “sidekick” so to speak, in that he and Jim Hammond (the Original Human Torch) teamed up to fight crime in New York City and beyond after his powers fully manifested (or so everyone thought) when he was sixteen. He was the first teenager in his world to take on such a role and eventually he and Jim would be recruited by the President himself to be part of The Invaders, a WWII team that combated the Nazis, HYDRA, and homegrown terrorists, that included Jim, Toro, Captain America (Steve Rogers), Bucky Barnes, and the Submariner (Namor). While Toro did take part in a lot of these missions, often he and Bucky were sent off on tours to sell war bonds around the states, promote the war effort to young adults, and also take on missions with their other teams, the Kid Commandos and Young Allies. He and Bucky were the face of the American Youths doing what they could to help America win the war.
It would be years later (after the war and the supposed deaths of Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes during, and Jim Hammond in the 50s) that he would die, come back to life decades after that, and be forced to rebuild because it was now the 21st Century and he had a lot of catching up to do. He finally decided to go back to school (he’d only ever gotten a partial high school education), but while getting a bachelor’s in French Literature, the terrigen mists were released to spread across the world, Toro was one of those affected, revealing that he was an Inhuman mistaken for a mutant the entire time. Being one with a strong Inhuman gene (as it had already been semi-activated through exposure to Horton cells, and radiation), Toro was trapped inside of a cocoon until he completed a full transformation into an Inhuman.
He went through this terrigenesis and came out thinking nothing had changed since he’d already had abilities. But then during a fight against Neo-Nazis in Germany helping out Iron Cross, his powers reacted differently than they ever had before and he realized that his powers were not from controlling thermal energies and combustion, but in his body releasing various elements and mixing them to create chemical reactions, from fire, to gases, and potentially more once he learned to control them fully. Jim took him to New Attilan, home of the Inhumans and was offered a place there by Queen Medusa. Months later he took on the mission of infiltrating the Myriad alien cabal that had been kidnapping fledgling Inhumans who were still inside of their cocoons to find out what they intended to do with them and then send for back up.
PERSONALITY:
At first look, Tom is generally what people would call a “good guy.” He’s normally polite, if a bit cocky, helpful, cares about people, knows right from wrong, and all that good stuff. He grew up with sickly parents who were both exposed to dangerous chemicals due to their work as scientists and researchers and he cared about them, greatly. Even though they weren’t the richest family, he didn’t lack for all of the important things. Still, because of the hardships that his family went through financially and, especially, with his mother’s rapidly declining health, Toro came to understand early on that life isn’t always the kindest to good people, like his parents.
But even a good guy can have rough edges. Living through the train wreck that killed his parents left Toro with survivor’s guilt and believing that he was the cause of the crash (which he wasn’t, but his flames did kill quite a few people when he accidentally activated his powers). His parents and everyone else on the train were dead, but he wasn’t, so it had to be his fault and the fault of the powers he had that his parents were so afraid of, because those powers meant that he was somehow different and dangerous. Terms like “mutant” and “inhuman” didn’t exist back then so all Toro knew was that there was something wrong about him that no one could ever explain. Even after meeting Jim Hammond and later on learning the truth about Lady Lotus’ culpability for his parents’ deaths, Toro would never stop believing that who he is—what he is—cursed them somehow.
As he aged, Tom came into full control of his powers (or his powers as they had manifested at the time; it’s complicated) and it helped him to come to terms more with what happened. Instead, he focused on using his powers to help people, just as his mentor, Jim Hammond, did. It may not be what he saw himself doing in his life, but it’s what he thought he should be doing at that time. His relationship with Jim was one of the strongest bonds he had after he had lost everything else and it shaped the way he looked at the world. Jim didn’t understand everything about human beings, because as a synthetic human he learned human emotions through observation and mimicry, and he took in the world different that most people because of it. Toro became one of the biggest models he followed because of their constant companionship, while in turn, Toro tried to be more understanding and open to the world because that was how Jim approached things. He wanted to make Jim proud of him, tried to live up to the legacy Jim had set before him even years after his death. It doesn’t always work, as Toro is more cynical and less optimistic than Jim, but he tries anyway. He also, as he gets older begins to get over some of his shyness around girls, although this is usually only when he’s being “Toro.”
Toro may not be the smartest guy around, and he has a tendency to ramble about things people really don’t want to hear, but he is intuitive and learns on his feet. He has no problem trying to learn new things when he’s got the chance. He doesn’t usually like to jump into situations without thinking things through or to go against orders—as a teenager, it was usually Bucky who did that and Toro who followed after him, arguing that they shouldn’t do it the entire time—but he does have a temper that can change that in an instant. It clouds his judgment if he lets it get the best of him, such as when he decides that the best way to regain control of his life after being brought back from the dead is to go after the man that had killed him, the Mad Thinker. Even when he was being warned against it by a friend, he went ahead with it because Toro was at the point that he needed something, anything to have a purpose in his life. For a second time he had lost everything and so he chose to avenge himself because he didn’t think he would be able to move on otherwise. And as usual when someone does something rash and unprepared, it backfires on he ended up being used as a research sample for the Mad Thinker studying Horton Cells. This didn’t help him learn his lesson, but not getting hot under the collar is something Toro’s never been the greatest at doing.
Toro is still, despite his at times cynical outlook, protective of humans in general (this does not include Nazis or supervillains), because he wants to believe that humans are capable of just as much good as they are bad. His priority though, will always be the people he cares for first. He could argue with a friend more times than they get along, but Toro will still consider them important before anything else. When he and his friends in the Young Allies were making an appearance for a war bonds drive, the program director refused to remove a blown up cover of one of the propaganda comics that were being published about them—despite the fact it included a disparaging caricature of one of the members, Washington Jones. Toro’s solution? Burn the poster down. He doesn’t stand for discrimination or racism in general, but having it happen to one of his friends really gets to him. He’s always had a desire to belong and clinging a bit to the people he cares about is part of that, so he gets very protective of them, even when they may not need it. Being an Inhuman has given him a place in the world, a people and a group that understands him and he will do anything he can to protect. They’re the only family he’s got left after all.
POWER: Tom has the ability to control elemental materials in his body and the atmosphere around him to create chemical reactions (for example his pyro-kinetic abilities were due to his body manipulating hydrogen, oxygen, potassium permanganate, and the other elements for flammable materials into combustive flames around his body.) He can use these chemicals to create flames, gases, etc., and because he has control of all of these elements, with awareness/forewarning he can also provide himself with immunity to chemicals (can’t kill him with poison or sedate him when he can create an antidote in his own body or burn it out of his system). Of course, Toro still had to learn how to do a lot of things with his abilities (such as being capable of creating water by manipulating hydrogen and oxygen in the exact mixture), and he’s not that much of a scientist to begin with. His Inhuman gene reacting in his cells also delays his aging to the point he barely looks older than he did in 1945.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[The smile on his face is both awkward and genuine. He’s trying to keep an upbeat attitude, because he’s been here before, he knows it won’t make a difference to fight about it. Instead he’s trying to pick up on what he’s missed out on.]
Hey, man, when things change, they change, don’t they? I was hoping to find someone who’d be willing to help a fella out with catching up on everything that’s happened around here in the past few months. I’m sure there’s probably some “text” or “file” on the phones for it, but there’s nothing quite like a good sit down, if ya ask me. I’m offering up a free dinner at this diner I know, uh…I think you call it “retro” nowadays.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
It felt like coming back to a dream he’d had a long time ago. Waking up here again and seeing the tattoo on his arm. He was barely more than a kid back then and yet now he might look the same, but so much more has happened. He’s not who he was just two years ago, and to consider himself anything like the boy who came back from the war two friends lost and still more hope than he knew what to do with? Hah.
But maybe he only really started to remember that kid in the past two years. When he stopped being bitter and finally started looking at life as something to experience instead of something to survive.
He doesn’t see everything the way he did back then, believing that the government might not be on the up and up, but it was still better to sign on so he could make a difference. Didn’t mean it was the wrong thing to do, but he had a very different perspective now. He had a mission to get back to and there’s not much he can do to force it to happen. But there was a lot he could do to get himself dead before he had the chance.
So he thinks of it like an extension of the mission. He’s still kind of undercover, playing a long game for the sake of keeping people safe and sending for backup as soon as he has the chance. He smiles and jokes and introduces himself to new people. If there’s one thing the government here can do, it’s throw a fun party. He may as well enjoy himself while he’s working out the shell of a Plan B. He sees a pretty girl and struts himself over there, the perfect cover for the night. It’d be just like in the old days when he and Bucky would talk up all the adoring fans outside the rallies and filming sites, keeping up the idea of the perfect soldier boys just waiting for a chance to get back to the action (which they were, but not for the reasons they talked about in front of the camera), and show them a good time.
“Hey there,” he says with a smile on his face just as she turns into his direction. She smiles right back at him and takes the hand he’s holding out to her and he can’t help but come up short, his mind frozen for a brief moment on where to go next. He hasn’t flirted with someone since the ‘60s, and that was his wife. “Uh…” he covers it with a laugh, “Sorry, you looked like someone I knew the last time I was here.”
Thankfully the young woman takes it easily enough and he introduces himself, gets to know each other a little. He even asked her to dance—sort of, he was working up to it! Only she ended up taking the situation out of his hands and telling him to give her a dance first—and everything it working out all right so far. Getting a nice dance with a pretty girl was a bonus. As long as he didn’t think about the fact she was young enough to be his granddaughter, it didn’t even get weird.
FINAL NOTES: Toro was in the game from April 2015 to September 2015 under the journal
flamingshortshorts and his canon point at that time was mid-1945. His canon point has been moved up to present-time in Marvel Canon (which is basically 2015/2016-ish depending on who you ask), but I’d like to keep all of his memories from his previous time in game if possible. If not, considering the long time skip, I totally understand.