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The Seven Deadly Sins
Though the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man were and remain trapped on the Rock of Eternity, their ability to watch and influence the world still remained quite strong. The Second Blackest Night, which cracked the door between the realm of the dead and the realm of the living, wrecked fantastic havoc on the boundaries between various other realms as well. One of which was the partial sundering of the Entities of the Emotional Spectrum, which lead to the creation of the New Guardians. But another effect of it was to allow the Seven to sunder part of themselves and send it out into the world, where they too, could find hosts to again raise chaos and discord in the world of men. Unlike the New Guardians, who are only somewhat influenced by the Entity aspects they carry within them, the Sins influence their avatars much more significantly, making it difficult for them to act in contrary fashions to their basic natures.
Abraham Dante
Dante is the emissary of the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man on Earth, having been selected by them long ago to help spread chaos in their name, possibly as far back as the dawn of Christianity. He was, therefore, one of the first to be aware of the Sin-aspects seeking avatars on Earth and, while he could not influence their choices, was able to keep their existence a secret from the various supernatural powers who might otherwise be upset by such things. He's spent his time since gathering up the Avatars and bringing them together. The sudden appearance of the new Guardians has further attracted his attention, and he plots their demise, particularly those of the avatars of Rage and Avarice, though all the Entity aspects would be powerful things worth possessing.
Powers: Dante is functionally immortal, having lived for countless centuries without aging, though he must still take care not to be mortally wounded. He is a skilled scholar and sorcerer in his own right.
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Pride
Gordon Stewart, a retired Brigadier in the British Royal Army, was a veteran of numerous campaigns and, while quite successful, also quite arrogant and superior. Coming from a long and prestigious lineage, he thought himself better than his subordinates and superiors, and especially superior to the godless and heathen foreigners they were fighting. Though the era of it had long since past (and was, in fact, largely before even his lifetime), he lamented the days where the British Empire was a place where the sun never set. Equally, he was obsessed with maintaining his physical perfection and his appearance, in spite of having lost an eye in a campaign. This arrogance drew the Pride-aspect to him, transforming him into the first of the Sins.
Powers: Like all the Sins, Pride possesses enhanced physical abilities, including strength and durability, and is, in fact, the second strongest of the Sins. His remaining eye enables him to analyze any structure, person, or thing, and find imperfections and points of weakness. He is a skilled soldier and tactician.
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Lust
Jennifer Champers was a bored housewife in the Hamptons, who had a loveless marriage, one she'd entered into with such hopes, but found her husband emotionally distant and gone all the time. And so she had affairs. With the pool boy. And the gardener. And the maid. And her best friend's husband. And many more. She had needs, she reasoned, and if her husband would not satisfy them, well, that was his problem. She was able to successfully hide this for a several years, eventually attracting the Lust-aspect to her.
Powers: Like all the Sins, Lust possesses enhanced physical abilities, including strength and durability, though hers, at baseline, are generally those of a human in peak physical condition. She possesses the ability to incite feelings of Lust in anyone inclined to be attracted to females, making them extremely compliant in following her wishes and desires. Additionally, Lust possesses the ability to generate energy projections of a person her target lusts after, and use that construct as a weapon against them.
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Sloth
Erica Durant, of California, had never done a kind thing for anyone else. Ever. Not because she did not have the means, not because she did not see others in need, but simply because she did not care. If she'd been alive centuries ago, it might well have been her saying, "Let them eat cake." Having inherited a family fortune, she used it for a life of idle indulgence, never doing much of anything, and in fact, had never done a day's work in her life. She paid others in school to do her assignments, never had any chores, never did much of anything. And when asked to donate to charities or other worthy causes, simply refused. It is this apathy that made her a candidate for the Sloth-aspect.
Powers: Like all the Sins, Sloth possesses enhanced physical attributes... if she could be bothered to put them to use. She possesses the ability to control motion, using it to float along rather than walk, and to protect herself from attack by simply negating kinetic energy around her. Her abilities can be used as a form of telekinesis, when she bothers to do so.
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Gluttony
Dave "Bubba" Tucker, of Texas, was a big, big man to begin with. Chili Cook-Off Champion ten years running, competitive eater, NASCAR enthusiast, and owner of a successful chain of barbeque stands throughout the county. Survived two heart attacks before he was thirty five, diabetes, and yet he still kept up eating like he wanted to, without much concern for his long term health. A third heart attack had actually put him in the hospital when he was found by the Gluttony aspect.
Powers: Gluttony, like all the Sins, possesses enhanced physical attributes, and is the physically strongest and most durable of them. Despite his incredible bulk, he is actually quite agile and quick. Gluttony possesses the ability to eat anything, as well as the ability to regurgitate it or part of it, with acidic saliva and razor sharp teeth.
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Wrath
Alex Mercer, of Chicago, is the youngest of the Sins, at only sixteen years old, but with an already impressive criminal record. From a broken home in the wrong side of the tracks, he learned to make himself hard from an early age if he wanted to survive, turning his rage on those who tormented him in school, and then even more outwardly, as he turned to a life of petty theft and crime, combing with what seemed to be a pure joy in striking back at a world he perceived as having wronged him. He beat a second grade bully tormenting him nearly to death... and things just slowly escalated from there. The perfect angry young man.
Powers: Like the other Sins, Wrath possesses significant physical enhancements, including strength and durability. Wrath possesses the ability to transform his limbs into blades of varying lengths, sharpness, and edges, with sufficient strength to inflict harm on many super-human foes.
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Greed
Cody Mack, of Nevada (Las Vegas, specifically) was a gangster. In it for the power, in it for the money, he took what he wanted and enjoyed the protection from the law his position allowed him. Money, women, drugs, whatever he wanted, he got. Life was, in a word, good. But crime was slowly going down in Vegas, the mob getting ready to pull out of some of its more illicit affairs in exchange for the actually more profitable legal methods. Stymied by changes that left no place for him or his desires, Cody was perfect to become the embodiment of Greed.
Powers: Like all the Sins, Greed possesses physical attributes of a super-human level, being nearly as strong as Pride. Greed also possesses the ability to literally "steal" an object from anywhere. Just by concentrating on what he wants, he can make it appear in his hand, even if there is no such thing in his immediate surroundings. Whatever he makes appear, however, is "stolen" from somewhere else, rather than being conjured from thin air. Certain undefined factors do possess the potential to interfere with this power, however.
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Envy
Ed Parker, at 18, is the second youngest of the Sins, and is the youngest in a family of four older brothers and three older sisters. Never having anything new, and always receiving the least amount of attention, it's little wonder he fell in with the wrong crowds at school, where he never measured up to his brothers and sisters in sports, behavior, or academics. He dropped out at sixteen and was basically disowned, getting a crappy apartment with some of his friends and getting an even crappier job. He'd been fired for stealing from customers and facing possible criminal prosecution when the Envy aspect found him.
Powers: Like the other Sins, Envy possesses enhanced physical attributes. His unique power is the ability to copy the powers or abilities of anyone he is around, although he is limited to copying one person at a time.
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