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Name: Cadence “Cade” Reynolds

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

Species: Metahuman

Affiliation: C.A.R.M.A

Rank: Meta Squad

Powers/Abilities: Sound Manipulation

Weaknesses: Distance and volume depend on the strength and skill of the suer. Controlling and manipulating extremely loud, high-, or low-pitched sounds is exhausting. All sound must have a medium to travel through, so if a certain medium muffles sound by nature (for example, water) it is more effort and more tiring to control sound through/in that barrier. Thus, other powers can be used to lessen or nullify the effects of sonokinesis. Cade is also not “immune” to her own sound - a particularly loud or high-frequency sound she produces can affect her own hearing as well as anyone struck by her power. Usually, she can counteract this with earplugs and focus on blocking out her sound, but the bigger the task, the worse the damage is. Fortunately, the damage doesn’t last for her as it might for her target.

Faceclaim: Holland Roden

Biography: 

Cadence Marie Reynolds was born on August 4th, 2020, to Andrew and Renata Reynolds in Los Angeles, CA. Following in her actress mother’s footsteps, Cadence starred in title roles in children’s comedy that people no longer recognize her from. Her early career and busy parents made her an only child, but she also became very independent at a young age. At 13, she began to realize that showbiz was asking more of her than she was willing to give. She gave up the spotlight to go to school, a decision her parents were always supportive of (since her father had wanted her to have a normal childhood from the beginning). Cade renewed her passion for acting in high school drama club. This was where she discovered her power. She knew she had a powerful singing voice; her notes were always clear, strong, and emphatic. She was clearly passionate and found a love for music early on. But it was an accident that made her realize she could do more. Cade was onstage, the lead in her school musical, captivating the audience, when she saw her father collapse in the first row of the audience. At first, not realizing it was her father, she attempted to go on with the show. But when other parents crowded around, and she saw her father on the floor, she screamed. The sound cut through the auditorium; the frequency shattered the lights over the stage and throughout the room; the audience clutched their ears as the sound struck them. Obviously, it stunned her as well, but after the chaos had died down, everyone wrote it off as a series of strange coincidences, a microphone malfunction. But Cadence and Renata knew she was more than human. Her father had suffered a heart attack in the audience, and Renata and Cade buried their beloved husband and father shortly after. Cade’s suddenly unleashed abilities made her almost afraid to open her mouth. She became quiet and reserved, except around her mother, who often dealt with the lashing out of a moody teenager who kept everything bottled up in public. Being feared by her friends and neighbors didn’t help either. The community shunned them, and at 15, they moved to a small town on the coast. Cade finished high school there and while looking at colleges, decided on a whim to visit Pansaw U and fell in love. It was her dream school, and there she pursued a BFA in Music, her lifelong passion despite fear of her ability. She never tried to control it, and was afraid to make use of it. So throughout these years, Cade stayed as quiet as possible and made sure to stay cool, calm, and collected. It was in college that her abilities made another surprise appearance. Her senior year, Cade was brutally assaulted on the way back to her dorm in the middle of the night. A pained and terrified scream alerted many in the area to her plight but also her power–that scream shattered windows and practically deafened her attacker. But Cade wasn’t in great shape either. A good Samaritan brought her to the hospital, where she was first formally introduced to C.A.R.M.A. Upon waking up, Cade was confronted C.A.R.M.A and offered a choice: join C.A.R.M.A for their “good cause” or be registered and released. Still a student and now on the news as a campus safety improvement martyr at Pansaw University, Cade knew what a registered life and going back to school would mean for her. Not good things. Almost against her better judgment, Cade agreed to join. She began training as soon as she had healed from the attack, and she wasn’t happy with it when she did. She was so used to hiding her power that using it, let alone fighting with it, was hard to get used to. Cade still finds it difficult to use her voice, but she’s taken to humming when bored.

Personality: 

Name: Uriel Zeriah

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Straight

Species: Metahuman

Affiliation: Nephilim

Rank: Morningstar

Powers/Abilities: Nephilim Physiology

Weaknesses: Danger Intuition – May be unable to sense remote dangers, may be unable to divert oneself from attacks, could be fooled by someone you trust. Flight – may require air/atmosphere to maintain lift, cannot go beyond borders of atmosphere, may suffer from cold/altitude sickness without adaptation skills. Semi-Immortality – may still suffer from mortal wounds and death/dying. Supernatural Condition - Given how obviously superior the user is compared to the normal members of his/her species, some level of megalomania, messianic complex and/or similar problems with attitude are a very real possibility. Aether Manipulation - Distance, mass, precision, etc. depend upon of the knowledge, skill, and strength of the user, and their power’s natural limits. Extensive use of powers over a long period of time could deplete one’s energy reserves.

Faceclaim: Tom Hardy

Biography:

Uriel was born in a small town to a single mother who died during childbirth. He was raised in an orphanage run by the local church. The local pastor in charge of the orphanage was a very hellfire and brimstone style preacher who harbored anti-meta bigotry and passed this bigotry on to the orphans that were in his charge. In addition to his preaching style, the pastor was a firm believer in the ‘spare the rod; spoil the child’ parenting style. The children in his care were beaten and starved for the smallest infractions, including the circumstances revolving around their births. Uri was often a victim of these abuses considering he was born to an unmarried woman who had what the pastor considered ‘loose morals’.

One day, Uriel was once again the target of the pastor’s ire. During this particular tirade, the pastor was beating Uriel, lecturing on the evils of metahumans and how they were a curse visited upon humanity by god for their wicked ways.  Uriel snapped, his powers coming to the fore and blasted out from him, killing the pastor and setting fire to the orphanage. Uriel was one of the few children to survive, the adults having been caught in the burning building. After being rescued by the local authorities, all of the children were placed under medical and psychiatric care to reverse the damage that had been done to them, but it was too late for Uriel. Uriel had internalized the pastor’s teachings, but his personal revelation that he was a meta, twisted the man’s teachings. Uriel became convinced that metas were not a plague on humanity but instead the result divine interbreeding by the fallen angels, the Nephilim reborn.  Uriel believes that it is the destiny of the metas to regain their rightful place as the rulers of the Earth and the masters of humanity.

Uriel managed to hide his beliefs from the psychiatrists and nursed it internally, becoming more and more firmly seated in his delusions that metas were superior to humans. Unlike his delusions however, Uriel reveled in his powers, finding any excuse to bask in the glory he felt they would lead him to. As a teenager, Uriel was captured by bounty hunters looking for metas for underground fighting arenas. Instead of fighting against his captors Uriel used this opportunity to push his ideology, converting strong but weak minded metas to his cause. As his fighting fame grew, he was sold to Moxxi’s Madhouse where he continued his quest to raise a meta army to enslave humanity. Uriel’s fame continued to grow until Moxxi made him a partner in her organization. Uriel uses Moxxi’s organization, wealth, and influence to further his goal; converting the strongest and smartest fighters to his ranks.

After establishing the Nephilim in Pansaw and setting them on the path to reclaim their lost glory, Uriel left Pansaw to track down and assassinate the senator who authored the Metahuman Registration Act. It was a fairly simple task for someone of Uriel’s ability but something happened on the way back to Pansaw. Uriel’s powers began to metamorphosize. Instead of drawing on the power of Light, Uriel began to sense more changes in both himself and his power. Determined to get his changing powers under control, Uriel remained absent from Pansaw until his powers were fully under his control.

Personality:

+ Charming + Persuasive + Determined