The Saviors (accepting/started)

Humanity has almost destroyed the planet, through war and pollution. Some animals and plants have mutated into dangerous species that seem to have one purpose: devouring humans. They roam outside the walls of compounds that the last of our race now reside inside.
The governments of the world have begun to construct the "Space Arcs" (or just Arcs) to take certain people to a newly terriformed Mars. It is not intended to be a permanent move, for the top geneticists of the world have created an ingenious way to clean up the planet.
Getting desperate, scientists created a type of superhuman, known as Saviors. These humans have been engineered to have certain powers that are designed to remake the planet. Some can negate pollutive chemicals. Some can reverse the terrible mutations of the flora and fauna.
There is a bigger problem, as well: the scientists who created the Saviors have a terrible secret. Before they settled on the design that ended up as the Saviors, there were other, less advanced models. These were released into the wild, with the hopes that they will die. Die they do not, however. They find each other, seek each other out. They band together, bitter from their abandonment. Revenge, a personal vendetta against humankind, is their only motive. To keep the humans from returning to the planet that they have so conveniently abandoned. And all that is in the mutants' way are the Saviors.
Humans are leaving. The Saviors are left to their task, with only limited resources and basic radios to communicate with Earth officials and no idea about the danger that they are in. The world will die if they do not succeed.

Here are all of the powers. There are four:

1) You can eliminate noxious pollutants, making them into oxygen or nitrogen. Basically, as you breath, you are cleaning the air. You do not need a gas mask.

2) You can reverse the mutations of plants and animals. When you are within a ten-foot radius of any mutations, they begin to reverse back to their normal selves. You need a gas mask to breathe in the atmosphere.

3) You can purify water. This power is somewhat like the first in that you eliminate pollution. However, you need to touch the water to clean it. You require a gas mask to breath.

4) You have super strength. You are not for remaking the planet; you are designed to protect the other Saviors from outside forces. You can breathe for limited times without a mask.

For mutant characters, you can have one power, but please consult with me before posting it.

Here is the character template:

Name:

Gender:

Race: (Earth official, Savior, mutant)

Age: (13-25)

Description:

Personality:

Power:

Weakness/Strengths:

Short Bio:

Weapon: (not required)

Other:

Please try to keep the Savior/mutant ratio equal!

Rules:

Usual YWS rules (No god-modding, no killing off others characters without permission, etc.)

No sex scenes

No intense, gory violence.

Have fun!

Name: Ithycus Burns (Or just Burns)

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Description: Ithycus is tall and pale, with long black hair. He usually wears loose black clothing that's easy to move in. He's got a kind of pointy face, but there's always a smile there, or laughter. He is blind.

Personality: He's easy going, loves his friends, and is also fiercely protective. He is good at fighting, but does not like to harm anything, even enemies, and he can wield his power efficiently. He wholeheartedly enjoys his task of cleaning up Earth, and he never gets tired of it. He doesn't really have any love of the scientists who created him: it was painful, like torture. He knows what has to be done, though, and does it.

Power: Ithycus can reverse the mutations of plants and animals.

Short Bio: His parents gave his embryo to the scientists for the project, and, after he grew up and went through the painful experiment process (blinding him), he embraced his task. He volunteered to be left behind, in what was once South America.

Weaknesses/Strengths: He only ever reluctantly fights. It's very hard to urge him to do so. Most of the time, when he's fighting, it's to protect his friends. He has found that, much of the time, when he reverses the mutations on animals, they'll follow him around, and he can train them. Now he has his own mini force of dogs, cats, and squirrels.

Weapon: His power, a small handgun.

Other: Up for love.

I want a mutant spot with the power to absorb and store toxins. (This okay?)

Name: Auster "Aus" Noten

Gender: Male

Race: Mutant

Age: 18

Description: Auster is tall, very thin, with straight white hair and bright yellow eyes. His skin is pale and has a faint unearthly glow to it.

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Personality: Auster is hard, tough, he doesn't tolerate much stupidity. He doesn't care what anybody else thinks, if he has a better plan he's following his own rules. It's not that he's rude, he just doesn't like others making decisions for him.

Power: Ability to absorb radioactivity and other toxins and also has the option to store those things inside of him.

Weakness/Strengths: Communication is limited, but he has a strong will and a hard resolve. The inability for anyone to sway his mind is both a strength and weakness. He's very smart and manipulative. He knows how to get what he wants.

Short Bio: Auster was taken forcefully from his mother and used as an experimental guinea pig in the labs. He had many complications with the tests, they didn't work as the scientist expected, so they eventually threw him out.

Weapon: He can extract the toxins stored in his body and use them as chemical weapons.

Other: Up for love, no preferences. Because they're mutants I feel like there's something wrong so Auster is also mute, very subjective to disease, and is allergic to almost everything.

That's fine!

Name: Dmytra Barlowe

Gender: Female

Age: 18

Race: Savior

Description: She is of average stature with an athletic build and abrupt, defined features that are extremely versatile. She has straight, dark brown hair that is often fastened in a crown braid, a neutral skin tone, and deep set green eyes that are often narrowed in concentration. Though she appears quite ordinary at first glance, the emotions that play across her face and her eloquent poise make her remarkable.

Personality: She is passionate and expressive and though reserved in opinion, she is a logical thinker who gives time to make decisions and is often quite sure of herself. Though she is not a leader, she is loyal and honest and will cooperate with most anything she feels makes sense, or is too trivial to question. She is perceptive but is rarely bold enough to be confrontational or accusatory. She has a good sense of focus but can be easily thrown when confronted with matters of weighty emotional consequence.

Power: Water Purifier.

Short Bio: She has known nothing different from her life in the lab, though she has grown up is the custody of the research facility, she used stories as an escape, learning about the beauty and the balance that the old world possessed. This fueled her curiosity and interest enough to motivate her to pursue and achieve assignment to this task.

Weaknesses/Strengths: Though she is skilled in battle she often has difficulty dealing with justice and mercy on the field and will often falter when confronted with moral dilemmas. She is very nostalgic and can sometimes allow these feelings to distract her. She is a good strategist and through vigilant study, has mastered the geographical lay of the land. She also has some ecological
knowledge but it is outdated. She carries around notes that she compiles in order to help her understand the extent of the situation on Earth.

Weapon: .22 caliber pistol and a hunting knife.

Other: Up for love.

Reserving spot for male mutant. Would the power to create mutations in plants and animals be acceptable? He was supposed to be able to reverse them but the experiment failed.

Name: Chemster

Gender: Male

Race: Mutant

Age: 15

Description: His very body is comprised of toxic sludge, held in a transparent, plastic-like skin. His form is constantly in flux, but he usually prefers a humanoid shape. "Standing" at around 5'11, he takes on a slim, muscular body, with fully organs on the inside, comprised of a gelatinous substance. (They are there only for show, so don't be surprised if he decides to spontaneously regurgitate a larynx) His face is usually shifting through a wide array of comical caricatures. When he sleeps, he usually reverts to a liquid state.

Personality: Think Robin Williams meets Puck, on crack. He is constantly quipping and ranting, almost nonsensically. He is humorous, but overly filled with creativity and energy. He doesn't require sleep or bowel movements, but often does both because he's either bored or trying out some of his infamous toilet humor. He is infamous for his terrible pick-up lines, though he wouldn't pursue it if it got traction; the whole point of it is humor. Under all his spontaneity and immaturity, a deep hatred and blood thirst lie. When pushed to the absolute end, he becomes resolute and lethal.

Power: Literally made of toxic waste. His skin-like substance is all that keeps him from burning through everything he touches, and while it is a bit hardier than normal skin, it can be punctured and takes a while to heal. While on the offensive, he can voluntarily open holes in it in his "hands" to spray toxic sludge over obstacles or other people. So far, the only way he could be killed is if he's spread far enough apart or demutanized.

Weaknesses: Takes him a while to repair his containment field, as well as produce more of his "Lifesludge". When he is leaking, he usually just folds himself over the rupture until it heals. Additionally, rational thinking and empathy are stretches for him.

Strengths: His unique physiology can allow him to assume almost any shape, and his "Lifesludge" is highly corrosive, and can digest through most substances in seconds. His "skin" is very hardy, and he usually bends inwards on the point of impact to lessen the damage.

Short Bio: Research material. That was all he was to them. He was a sample of toxic waste from the Northern Atlantic Ocean, being exposed to a sample compound from Project "Saviors". It encased him in the anti-corrosive shell that had been expected, but what was unexpected was the sudden consciousness he developed. Intrigued, they subjected him to even more experiments. This continued for what seemed like an indefinite amount of time, until an experiment left him with enough mass to formulate some kind of escape. Fueled with rage, he willingly cut himself with a carelessly left scalpel and shoved his leaking "lifesludge" into the face of one of his scientists. Terrified, the other scientists hit the emergency release buttons, jettisoning him and two other scientists off of the Arc and into Earth's polluted atmosphere. There, they met their dooms, but he was able to pull his bits together after a month or two.

When he finally regained consciousness, he vowed revenge on the scientists and began to wander the desolate Earth. Almost impossibly, he struck upon a still functioning TV on a loop of comedy shows. Entranced, Chemster forged a new personality and name for himself, and began his career as the Mutant with a Mouth.

Weapon: (not required): He himself is the weapon. Unless an infinite supply of one-liners counts.

Dragongirl, that would be fine, but it should be limited by some factor, so that he doesn't become too powerful.

Name: Mathilda Blue, nicknamed Blue

Gender: Female

Race: Savior

Age: 18

Description:

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Personality: She's easygoing and playful, but strongly independent, and tends to get along with most people. She's a bit careless, especially when handling her rifle, so people often think that she's far more dangerous than she actually is.
Although (or maybe because) she trusts people easily and often help people without expecting anything in return, she never lets go of a grudge. If you've done her wrong she never forgets it.
'Schadenfreude is the only true joy' is her favorite saying and if she sees someone do something stupid she's gonna laugh her ass of.

Power: Cleans the air while breathing.

Weakness/Strengths: She's no good in close combat and tends to trust people too easily. She has a wicked aim and can take care of most threats from a distance. She recognizes most poisonous plants and have great skills when it comes to wilderness survival.

Short Bio: She has suppressed most of her memories from when she was being experimented on, but the memories she still has are filled with pain. Despite her past she's actually rather fond of her present life. Since she doesn't have to put much effort into her 'work', except for breathing, she spends most of her time hunting and wandering around.
She's very fond of the nature, and always keeps a pen and a notebook on her at all times to draw plants and animals that she sees around her, creating her personal flora and fauna. She thinks mutations are fascinating, and the scientists often use her notes since she can reach areas that are too toxic for them to reach.

Weapon: A hunting rifle with scope, a knife and various poisons.

Other: Up for love, straight. She's starting to realize that it would be nice with some company during her expeditions in the wilderness.

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Well, if we need girls this is a "just in case" profile. It doesn't have to be used.

Name: Nike "Ni" Whoen

Gender: Female

Race: Mutant

Age: 17

Description: 5"6, sickly thin, dark shadows under her eyes all the time, some parts of her body (mainly her fingers and toes) have begun to blacken because of the rot she has already taken in. Other places her skin has begun to gray.

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Personality: Nike is very hesitant and shy, she doesn't speak much or talk very loudly when she does. Her face is always blank, she doesn't show much emotion, but she is very observant and a quick thinker. She's not at all mean and is actually very nice, she just has a preference to keeping her emotions to herself.

Power: Can remove rot, mildew, etc, but it rots her own body once she takes that stuff in.

Weakness/Strengths: She can't hold weapons or really anything because of the state of her hands and she moves very slowly and carefully as not to joust any part of her body because everything on her hurts. She is, however, extremely smart and is much like an owl in that she sees everything and memorizes everything.

Short Bio: She was sold to the scientist at the age of seven for money by her parents. They experimented with her to see is she could succesfully remove rot, mildew, and other corrosive things such as that and it worked, but the rot she removed instead began to work on her own body. When the scientist saw that she was dying they threw her out.

Weapon: None, she can't hold anything.

Other: Up for love, no preference. She is in constant pain in areas like her fingers and toes especially because they're already black, but also in the graying areas of her body because those are the places being broken down. She is also slowly dying because of the rot inside of her.

Name: Nicholas Leatherman

Gender: Male

Race: mutant

Age: 18

Description: Having lived on the run for years, Nicholas always appears completely ragged. The soles of his brown sneakers flap open, his grey jeans have holes in the knees. His black hoodie, frayed at the wrists, encases a body lean from years of living in the wild, with lots of running and not a lot of food. He has a couple of spare t-shirts and pairs of underwear in the messenger bag he carries with him. Nicholas has shaggy brown hair tied back with a camouflage bandana.

Personality: Nicholas has allowed his life to harden him. This lone wolf only looks after himself. More often than not, he is bitter, mad and driven to kill the Saviours by twisted hatred for the scientists who mutated him. He might have a soft spot, deep inside, but he'll probably push anyone away before they get there.

Power: He can create mutations in plants and animals. It's usually nothing lifethreatening. It used to happend completely at random, and while he has learned to control it somewhat, it still happens at random sometimes, and for him to do it on purpose takes wuite a bit of concentration. Either way, it takes energy from his body. The greater the mutation, the more energy it takes from him.

Weaknesses: The random mutations he creates can leave him exhausted and physically weak without warning. He is terrible - terrible with people.

Strengths: Nicholas has physical strength and street sense from his years in the wild. He is good at stealth and camouflage.

Short Bio: Nicholas can only remember two stages in his life: the labs and the wild. He suspects he was either born among the scientists or brought there as a very young child. They did minor experiments on him through childhood, nothing extreme but enough pain and discomfort to make him hate them. When Nicholas was twelve, it was time for the "big one." He was supposed to be the first to remove mutations from plants and animals, but the experiment failed horribly and he got his current powers. Then they turned him loose. The rest of his life was spent on the run. He lived in the forest, avoiding the law, driven by revenge and hatred to destroy as much of the scientists and their work as possible, including the Saviours.

Weapon: A makeshift knife, made of a jagged bit of metal and some wood tied together with a scrap of string.

May I reserve a spot for a female savior?

Yes! I'm leaving this open until Tuesday, and we'll start then!
Also, link to the DT: http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=96087&view=unread#unread

I think you put the wrong link in your post
Functioning link to the DT: http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/viewtopic.php?f=200&t=96137&p=1099567#p1099567