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OOC Information:
Name: Al
Age: 21
AIM: daiannecrotalus
MSN: Tell me if you want this?
Y!M: N/A
E-MAIL: crotalusroleplaying@gmail.com // albarampant@hotmail.com
Are you new? If not, list your current characters: Nope, I play Superman and Jason Todd.
IC Information:
Name: Elijah “Eli” Bardley // Patriot
Fandom: Marvel (Young Avengers)
Timeline:Almost by the end of the Children’s Crusade, when he’s about to shoot the Scarlet Witch.
Age: 17
Appearance: Eli is tall, muscular and (depending on who you ask…) handsome. He’s a really normal-looking bald African-American kid. When he is being a civilian he dresses like a very normal kid, and he seems to prefer sweaters to anything else.
His uniform as patriot is pretty similar looking to Bucky’s, which was kind of the idea. He wears white trousers and a tight blue shirt, along with a red domino mask. The shirt has a white start strapped on it, a very patriotic design overall. He usually wears a belt along with the suit (which was once used to hold the Mutant Growth Hormone).
Abilities:
At the point I’m taking him from Eli is one of Marvel’s super-soldiers, like Captain America to a lesser degree. While he isn’t exactly super-powered he reaches the peak of the human body, and this is valid for everything I’ll write. His powers come from a blood transfusion from his Grandfather, more on that later.
Basically, Eli has:
> Super Strength: He can easily lift more than 800lb.
> Speed: He’s shown almost outrunning a helicopter so… yeah, nothing to laugh at.
> Durability/Stamina: He can physically exert himself for an hour without getting tired.
> Agility: Both from the serum and for how long he’s been training with the Young Avengers.
> Reflexes: He reacts very quickly, especially in battle.
> Healing: He heals faster than your average human.
> Peak human senses: Super-hearing, super-vision, etc. Again, nothing superhuman… just extremely high, at the peak of human condition.
So yep, a Super-soldier. Apart from that he's also a quick-thinker and a good strategist.
Personality:
Eli is in general a good kid. He wants to see the best in people, he wants to fight for this world, both to defend it and to make it a better place. However... he doesn't always go about it in the most logical way.
Ever since he was a kid he's always been discriminated because of his skin color, and that has filled him with a rage that he doesn't always know what to do with. It's hard to call yourself 'patriot' when you live in the world of segregation and hatred, and he sometimes needs a little lift to keep on going. But instead of hating the country he lives in he tries to see what it could be, tries to change it for the better beginning with his actions.
He's very good at planning, and knows how to use everybody's powers to their advantage in a battle. He might come across as impulsive sometimes, but he always tries to come up with a plan before acting. Even if that plan is mainly smash the walls around and hit everybody inside. It's still a plan.
Kinda.
Eli is extremely loyal to his friends and family. The main reason he choose to lie to Iron Lad and tell him he had superpowers was to live up to his grandfather's legend, to carry on the legacy. Family and friendship are two of the most important things in live in his opinion, and he will do what it takes to protect them.
He will always pick his friend's side and try to protect them from any harm, even if it means risking his life. He takes it as a personal offense if somebody suggest any of them part ways, and he doesn't doubt to step off the team if it's the best for them.
That doesn't mean he makes it easier for others to be as loyal to him, or that he shows how much others mean to him. He's open with his feelings and always wears his heart on his sleeve, yes... but he also likes to keep people at arm's length and it takes a while for him to be truly comfortable around anyone new. He also expects everybody to share his point of view from the start, and gets frustrated when they don't or when people simply aren't as open with their feelings as he is. He doesn't get people might have a harder time than he does at that.
While he tries to plan ahead he's also usually ridden by his feelings. He's very strong-opinionated and if he thinks something is the best for his friends or simply humanity as a whole, he will do it no matter what others might think of it. He thought taking the mutant growth hormone would let him help people, so he did. He thought shooting the Scarlet Witch to stop her from returning the powers to their respective humans, so he did. And I could list a lot of examples more, that's just Eli for you. Of course he regrets these actions later and he has no problem admitting he's wrong when things go badly because of him... but that's always later.
He has a very big mouth that he doesn't always keep in check, and it has gotten him in trouble more than once. It's not that he actively tries to be rude or start a fight, is just that he always says whatever he thinks and not always in the most nice way. And while he will always recognize his mistakes and try to make up for it, he doesn't always realize his words might hurt people... so he might come across as rude even if he doesn't mean to. This is probably one of the reasons he likes keeping people away, even if he might actually like them or care about them.
Eli is kind of an acquired taste.
Eli tends to get into fights, both in and out of costume. We see him at school, where he reads an essay about the government project that made his grandfather into the black Captain America. It obviously gets him into a fight with a student in the class that doesn't appreciate him badmouthing America, and Eli gets expelled for a couple of days when he breaks his nose (even if he gets an A for that essay).
He even talks back to Steve Rogers, Captain America himself. He tells him how if he wants the Young Avengers to disband, he'll have to stop them himself.
He just refuses to stand down for anybody else.
He doesn't want glory or fame or fortune. He refuses interviews with journalists and, like mentioned before, he will always step down if that's really for the best of the civilians or his team. He does what he does because it's the right thing to do, and to protect those who can't protect themselves. Eli just wants to be a hero for them, not for himself.
That doesn't mean he isn't proud... he was very very quick to get mad when another team took the 'Young Avengers' name without their permission. Eli has a lot of pride, and that's probably what makes him beat up himself so badly anytime he makes a mistake.
So tl;dr... Eli is a nice good kid that might come across as arrogant and obnoxious at first, but he really means well in the end and won't hesitate to make sacrifices if he has to.
History:
Eli's backstory begins with his grandfather's. After the serum created to make Steve Rogers into Captain America was lost when his creator was killed, the government tried to duplicated in 300 african-american soldiers from the Mississippi. It didn't work out well, and only a handful survived. Of those, only one survived the cover missions and operations: Eli's grandfather, Isaiah Bradley. The serum slowly deteriorated his brain and body, and now he can barely speak.
Eli's mother Sarah was birthed before Isaiah was forced into that project, so both her and her children were born without any powers. We don't see much of Eli's mother or his brothers and sisters, and it's safe to assume he was mostly raised by his grandmother and grandfather while his mother worked.
Since Isaiah had sworn to secrecy most people didn't even believe he had been Captain America at some time, and mocked him. Eli didn't care at first, but he eventually began wondering if any of the stories were even true. His grandmother angrily told him he didn't have anything to prove, not to him and not to anybody.
One day, Eli got in trouble with some bullies... and Isaiah went Captain America on their asses as Eli watched.
Ever since that day, he didn't have any doubts anymore and all he wanted was to make his grandfather proud.
So it isn't surprising that when a young version of 'Kang the Conqueror' came to look for his uncle, who was born with supersoldier powers, to defend the world from the possible thread of an adult Kang he offered himself to the fight even without any powers, using the Mutant Growth Hormone (MGH). He called himself Patriot, and claimed he'd gotten the powers from a blood-transfusion from his grandfather.
Along with Hulking, Wiccan (Asgardian at the time) and Kang using the armor to become “Iron Lad” they started the young Avengers team (even if the name was technically given by the press). They trained for months then went on superhero missions. On the second one they tried to save the hostage in a church... and got themselves another team-mate in Kate Bishop (future Hawkeye) when she saved Eli's life. He's been in love with her ever since.
Later, Cassie Lang (Ant-man's daughter) joined the team as well as Stature when she discovered she could switch size as will like her father did. They also go break out Tommy “Speed” from prison later (after the battle with Kang), who turns out to be Billy “Wiccan”'s twin in... soul... it's complicated, let's move on.
While they were inside the Avenger's mansion they were attacked by Kang the conqueror, as his younger-self had predicted. They managed to beat him, but the avengers ordered the young avengers to disband and never use those costumes again. Iron Lad returns to the time stream, and the armor becomes sentient and becomes the new “vision”.
They followed the orders, kind of. Kate happens to be very rich and made them new costumes. She even gave Patriot Captain America's old triangular shield, that he cherishes.
In a fight with Mister Hyde Eli was forced to reveal he had no powers and had been using the MGH to convince them he was a super-soldier, and walked away from the team. He ignored everybody's calls and texts for days and weeks, but he put the suit back on when Teddy (Hulking) got involved in the middle of a kree-skrull war for his custody. He took a bullet that was meant for Captain America and almost died, but a blood-transfusion from his grandfather saved him...
And finally gave him super-powers. From then on he leaded the team towards a lot of missions.
Some time after that Kate and Eli went on a super, extremely awkward not-date. Eli gets really angered because he truly, honestly likes Kate but he can see the feelings are returned. She tells him at the end he just have to wait after a kiss, and they do make some comments about it from that point on.. but the relationship never went anywhere. Eli had honest feelings towards Kate but it wasn't meant to be.
He joined the resistance to the registration act like most of his team during the super-hero civil war, protected Earth from Skrulls along with the Runaways, and went to help all the superheroes rebuild Asgard during the siege in that place.
There's a really important moment for Eli after civil war when he finds Bucky in front of his house after he's talked to his grandfather. He and Kate convince Wiccan to use a location spell to find him, and after they help Bucky fight some of Hydra's soldiers Eli follows Bucky's bike thanks to a tracer Kate put on his bike. They have a meaningful talk about what it means to truly be a 'patriot' and love America, and what Steve had meant for both of them. Eli has looked up to Bucky ever since.
The next and last big arc that's important for Eli's backstory is Children's Crusade, in which Eli and the rest of the team help Billy and Tommy look for their mother, Wanda Maximoff (also known as the scarlet witch). Eli is opposed to the idea from the beginning because Wanda could be extremely dangerous, and even more when Magneto and Quicksilver joined them.
Yeah, Magneto the well-known terrorist. So it's kind of understandable.
They find her about to be married to Doctor Doom, and amnesiac. Doctor Doom is apparently truly in love with her, go figures. Once the word that Wanda's been found gets out the Avengers fly there to get her... and a war could have easily begun if it hadn't been stopped by the return of Iron Lad.
Iron Lad saves them all by transporting them into the past, where they manage to save Cassie Lang's father and make Wanda recover her memories of being the Scarlet Witch. She wants to make up for what she did to the mutants by stripping them of their powers, but the mutants are far too angry at her to let her do it.
So she decides to do it on her own, with Doctor Doom's and Wiccan's help. Eli thinks that's unfair to the millions of mutants that wouldn't want their powers back, and shoots one of Hawkeye's arrows at her to try to stop her.
He will come to the facility without knowing if he'd managed to.
Roleplay Sample - Log:
He wasn't really worried about being expelled. It was just a couple of days, and he could ask whatever he'd missed to his friends. And if he was honest with himself he knew he deserved it. Sure, he'd let the kid be the one to hit him first so he was technically only hitting him in legitimate defense... but still he knew he'd been provoking him out of mere anger.
His grandma's reaction to it? Now that'd be the problem. She wouldn't yell- she hardly did. She would just get that disappointed look in her face that forced Eli to look away every time, his chest hurting as the guilt made him forget any reasons he had to break the kid's nose.
And then his grandpa, he'd give him that reassuring smile that told him it was okay, he understood, nobody could be perfect all the time. And that was somehow worse.
He was already planning his excuses when he saw it.
“Captain America lives!”
He read out-loud the painting on the wall, frowning. There were a lot of those around lately. He guessed it was kind of normal, everybody liked to latch onto the tiniest bit of hope they could gather, and Captain America had been magically resurrected once, hadn't he? It could happen again.
But Eli knew better. There was only one Captain America alive right now, and it was Eli's grandpa.
And he wasn't going to save them all anytime soon.
Roleplay Sample – Journal:
[When the feed turns on there's silence, and what looks like some hand-painted target on the wall. There's apparently nobody in the room-
but suddenly, a star flies right to the middle of the bull's-eye. Or well, to be fair not exactly in the middle. Slightly to the left. Which is probably why Eli looks slightly pissed when he walks into the feed's sight to retrieve the star. By this moment it's clear he hadn't meant to turn on the berry, he was just training.
He's too far away for the feed to pick up what he's saying when he starts to mutter, but he's obviously complaining about a movement of the wrist and the length of his arm to himself.
Finally, he turns his head and notices the red light. Rolling his eyes he simply walks to it and growls a 'can't even leave them lying around' as the feed finishes with a click.]
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function?
Eli has seen a lot of bad things in his world, comes with being a hero. He's had the world's destiny in his team's hands more than once or twice. He's also handled a lot of pain, both physical and emotional. That really won't be a problem for him to handle.
Watching his team and (probably) new friends suffer will be a completely different thing. Knowing him he'll probably try to save them first, blame himself when everything goes wrong... and finally accept he did the best he could and there are a lot of things he can't control in this place and learn to live with that.
So yeah: denial, anger, bargain... the typical road to acceptance.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. Nope.
Name: Al
Age: 21
AIM: daiannecrotalus
MSN: Tell me if you want this?
Y!M: N/A
E-MAIL: crotalusroleplaying@gmail.com // albarampant@hotmail.com
Are you new? If not, list your current characters: Nope, I play Superman and Jason Todd.
IC Information:
Name: Elijah “Eli” Bardley // Patriot
Fandom: Marvel (Young Avengers)
Timeline:Almost by the end of the Children’s Crusade, when he’s about to shoot the Scarlet Witch.
Age: 17
Appearance: Eli is tall, muscular and (depending on who you ask…) handsome. He’s a really normal-looking bald African-American kid. When he is being a civilian he dresses like a very normal kid, and he seems to prefer sweaters to anything else.
His uniform as patriot is pretty similar looking to Bucky’s, which was kind of the idea. He wears white trousers and a tight blue shirt, along with a red domino mask. The shirt has a white start strapped on it, a very patriotic design overall. He usually wears a belt along with the suit (which was once used to hold the Mutant Growth Hormone).
Abilities:
At the point I’m taking him from Eli is one of Marvel’s super-soldiers, like Captain America to a lesser degree. While he isn’t exactly super-powered he reaches the peak of the human body, and this is valid for everything I’ll write. His powers come from a blood transfusion from his Grandfather, more on that later.
Basically, Eli has:
> Super Strength: He can easily lift more than 800lb.
> Speed: He’s shown almost outrunning a helicopter so… yeah, nothing to laugh at.
> Durability/Stamina: He can physically exert himself for an hour without getting tired.
> Agility: Both from the serum and for how long he’s been training with the Young Avengers.
> Reflexes: He reacts very quickly, especially in battle.
> Healing: He heals faster than your average human.
> Peak human senses: Super-hearing, super-vision, etc. Again, nothing superhuman… just extremely high, at the peak of human condition.
So yep, a Super-soldier. Apart from that he's also a quick-thinker and a good strategist.
Personality:
Eli is in general a good kid. He wants to see the best in people, he wants to fight for this world, both to defend it and to make it a better place. However... he doesn't always go about it in the most logical way.
Ever since he was a kid he's always been discriminated because of his skin color, and that has filled him with a rage that he doesn't always know what to do with. It's hard to call yourself 'patriot' when you live in the world of segregation and hatred, and he sometimes needs a little lift to keep on going. But instead of hating the country he lives in he tries to see what it could be, tries to change it for the better beginning with his actions.
He's very good at planning, and knows how to use everybody's powers to their advantage in a battle. He might come across as impulsive sometimes, but he always tries to come up with a plan before acting. Even if that plan is mainly smash the walls around and hit everybody inside. It's still a plan.
Kinda.
Eli is extremely loyal to his friends and family. The main reason he choose to lie to Iron Lad and tell him he had superpowers was to live up to his grandfather's legend, to carry on the legacy. Family and friendship are two of the most important things in live in his opinion, and he will do what it takes to protect them.
He will always pick his friend's side and try to protect them from any harm, even if it means risking his life. He takes it as a personal offense if somebody suggest any of them part ways, and he doesn't doubt to step off the team if it's the best for them.
That doesn't mean he makes it easier for others to be as loyal to him, or that he shows how much others mean to him. He's open with his feelings and always wears his heart on his sleeve, yes... but he also likes to keep people at arm's length and it takes a while for him to be truly comfortable around anyone new. He also expects everybody to share his point of view from the start, and gets frustrated when they don't or when people simply aren't as open with their feelings as he is. He doesn't get people might have a harder time than he does at that.
While he tries to plan ahead he's also usually ridden by his feelings. He's very strong-opinionated and if he thinks something is the best for his friends or simply humanity as a whole, he will do it no matter what others might think of it. He thought taking the mutant growth hormone would let him help people, so he did. He thought shooting the Scarlet Witch to stop her from returning the powers to their respective humans, so he did. And I could list a lot of examples more, that's just Eli for you. Of course he regrets these actions later and he has no problem admitting he's wrong when things go badly because of him... but that's always later.
He has a very big mouth that he doesn't always keep in check, and it has gotten him in trouble more than once. It's not that he actively tries to be rude or start a fight, is just that he always says whatever he thinks and not always in the most nice way. And while he will always recognize his mistakes and try to make up for it, he doesn't always realize his words might hurt people... so he might come across as rude even if he doesn't mean to. This is probably one of the reasons he likes keeping people away, even if he might actually like them or care about them.
Eli is kind of an acquired taste.
Eli tends to get into fights, both in and out of costume. We see him at school, where he reads an essay about the government project that made his grandfather into the black Captain America. It obviously gets him into a fight with a student in the class that doesn't appreciate him badmouthing America, and Eli gets expelled for a couple of days when he breaks his nose (even if he gets an A for that essay).
He even talks back to Steve Rogers, Captain America himself. He tells him how if he wants the Young Avengers to disband, he'll have to stop them himself.
He just refuses to stand down for anybody else.
He doesn't want glory or fame or fortune. He refuses interviews with journalists and, like mentioned before, he will always step down if that's really for the best of the civilians or his team. He does what he does because it's the right thing to do, and to protect those who can't protect themselves. Eli just wants to be a hero for them, not for himself.
That doesn't mean he isn't proud... he was very very quick to get mad when another team took the 'Young Avengers' name without their permission. Eli has a lot of pride, and that's probably what makes him beat up himself so badly anytime he makes a mistake.
So tl;dr... Eli is a nice good kid that might come across as arrogant and obnoxious at first, but he really means well in the end and won't hesitate to make sacrifices if he has to.
History:
Eli's backstory begins with his grandfather's. After the serum created to make Steve Rogers into Captain America was lost when his creator was killed, the government tried to duplicated in 300 african-american soldiers from the Mississippi. It didn't work out well, and only a handful survived. Of those, only one survived the cover missions and operations: Eli's grandfather, Isaiah Bradley. The serum slowly deteriorated his brain and body, and now he can barely speak.
Eli's mother Sarah was birthed before Isaiah was forced into that project, so both her and her children were born without any powers. We don't see much of Eli's mother or his brothers and sisters, and it's safe to assume he was mostly raised by his grandmother and grandfather while his mother worked.
Since Isaiah had sworn to secrecy most people didn't even believe he had been Captain America at some time, and mocked him. Eli didn't care at first, but he eventually began wondering if any of the stories were even true. His grandmother angrily told him he didn't have anything to prove, not to him and not to anybody.
One day, Eli got in trouble with some bullies... and Isaiah went Captain America on their asses as Eli watched.
Ever since that day, he didn't have any doubts anymore and all he wanted was to make his grandfather proud.
So it isn't surprising that when a young version of 'Kang the Conqueror' came to look for his uncle, who was born with supersoldier powers, to defend the world from the possible thread of an adult Kang he offered himself to the fight even without any powers, using the Mutant Growth Hormone (MGH). He called himself Patriot, and claimed he'd gotten the powers from a blood-transfusion from his grandfather.
Along with Hulking, Wiccan (Asgardian at the time) and Kang using the armor to become “Iron Lad” they started the young Avengers team (even if the name was technically given by the press). They trained for months then went on superhero missions. On the second one they tried to save the hostage in a church... and got themselves another team-mate in Kate Bishop (future Hawkeye) when she saved Eli's life. He's been in love with her ever since.
Later, Cassie Lang (Ant-man's daughter) joined the team as well as Stature when she discovered she could switch size as will like her father did. They also go break out Tommy “Speed” from prison later (after the battle with Kang), who turns out to be Billy “Wiccan”'s twin in... soul... it's complicated, let's move on.
While they were inside the Avenger's mansion they were attacked by Kang the conqueror, as his younger-self had predicted. They managed to beat him, but the avengers ordered the young avengers to disband and never use those costumes again. Iron Lad returns to the time stream, and the armor becomes sentient and becomes the new “vision”.
They followed the orders, kind of. Kate happens to be very rich and made them new costumes. She even gave Patriot Captain America's old triangular shield, that he cherishes.
In a fight with Mister Hyde Eli was forced to reveal he had no powers and had been using the MGH to convince them he was a super-soldier, and walked away from the team. He ignored everybody's calls and texts for days and weeks, but he put the suit back on when Teddy (Hulking) got involved in the middle of a kree-skrull war for his custody. He took a bullet that was meant for Captain America and almost died, but a blood-transfusion from his grandfather saved him...
And finally gave him super-powers. From then on he leaded the team towards a lot of missions.
Some time after that Kate and Eli went on a super, extremely awkward not-date. Eli gets really angered because he truly, honestly likes Kate but he can see the feelings are returned. She tells him at the end he just have to wait after a kiss, and they do make some comments about it from that point on.. but the relationship never went anywhere. Eli had honest feelings towards Kate but it wasn't meant to be.
He joined the resistance to the registration act like most of his team during the super-hero civil war, protected Earth from Skrulls along with the Runaways, and went to help all the superheroes rebuild Asgard during the siege in that place.
There's a really important moment for Eli after civil war when he finds Bucky in front of his house after he's talked to his grandfather. He and Kate convince Wiccan to use a location spell to find him, and after they help Bucky fight some of Hydra's soldiers Eli follows Bucky's bike thanks to a tracer Kate put on his bike. They have a meaningful talk about what it means to truly be a 'patriot' and love America, and what Steve had meant for both of them. Eli has looked up to Bucky ever since.
The next and last big arc that's important for Eli's backstory is Children's Crusade, in which Eli and the rest of the team help Billy and Tommy look for their mother, Wanda Maximoff (also known as the scarlet witch). Eli is opposed to the idea from the beginning because Wanda could be extremely dangerous, and even more when Magneto and Quicksilver joined them.
Yeah, Magneto the well-known terrorist. So it's kind of understandable.
They find her about to be married to Doctor Doom, and amnesiac. Doctor Doom is apparently truly in love with her, go figures. Once the word that Wanda's been found gets out the Avengers fly there to get her... and a war could have easily begun if it hadn't been stopped by the return of Iron Lad.
Iron Lad saves them all by transporting them into the past, where they manage to save Cassie Lang's father and make Wanda recover her memories of being the Scarlet Witch. She wants to make up for what she did to the mutants by stripping them of their powers, but the mutants are far too angry at her to let her do it.
So she decides to do it on her own, with Doctor Doom's and Wiccan's help. Eli thinks that's unfair to the millions of mutants that wouldn't want their powers back, and shoots one of Hawkeye's arrows at her to try to stop her.
He will come to the facility without knowing if he'd managed to.
Roleplay Sample - Log:
He wasn't really worried about being expelled. It was just a couple of days, and he could ask whatever he'd missed to his friends. And if he was honest with himself he knew he deserved it. Sure, he'd let the kid be the one to hit him first so he was technically only hitting him in legitimate defense... but still he knew he'd been provoking him out of mere anger.
His grandma's reaction to it? Now that'd be the problem. She wouldn't yell- she hardly did. She would just get that disappointed look in her face that forced Eli to look away every time, his chest hurting as the guilt made him forget any reasons he had to break the kid's nose.
And then his grandpa, he'd give him that reassuring smile that told him it was okay, he understood, nobody could be perfect all the time. And that was somehow worse.
He was already planning his excuses when he saw it.
“Captain America lives!”
He read out-loud the painting on the wall, frowning. There were a lot of those around lately. He guessed it was kind of normal, everybody liked to latch onto the tiniest bit of hope they could gather, and Captain America had been magically resurrected once, hadn't he? It could happen again.
But Eli knew better. There was only one Captain America alive right now, and it was Eli's grandpa.
And he wasn't going to save them all anytime soon.
Roleplay Sample – Journal:
[When the feed turns on there's silence, and what looks like some hand-painted target on the wall. There's apparently nobody in the room-
but suddenly, a star flies right to the middle of the bull's-eye. Or well, to be fair not exactly in the middle. Slightly to the left. Which is probably why Eli looks slightly pissed when he walks into the feed's sight to retrieve the star. By this moment it's clear he hadn't meant to turn on the berry, he was just training.
He's too far away for the feed to pick up what he's saying when he starts to mutter, but he's obviously complaining about a movement of the wrist and the length of his arm to himself.
Finally, he turns his head and notices the red light. Rolling his eyes he simply walks to it and growls a 'can't even leave them lying around' as the feed finishes with a click.]
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function?
Eli has seen a lot of bad things in his world, comes with being a hero. He's had the world's destiny in his team's hands more than once or twice. He's also handled a lot of pain, both physical and emotional. That really won't be a problem for him to handle.
Watching his team and (probably) new friends suffer will be a completely different thing. Knowing him he'll probably try to save them first, blame himself when everything goes wrong... and finally accept he did the best he could and there are a lot of things he can't control in this place and learn to live with that.
So yeah: denial, anger, bargain... the typical road to acceptance.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. Nope.
