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[08 May 2013|10:18pm] |
Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Terry
Email: tj_mccarron@yahoo.com
AIM (if you have one): GoggleBoy83
Character Name: Richard "Richie" Georges Mercer
Character LJ (if applicable): parting_shot
Physical description: Lean with light complexion and red hair. Blue eyes, broad shoulders.
Age: 17
Birthday: May 30
PB: Joseph Mazzello
Codename: n/a
Abilities: Superspeed. Richie can make sprints all day long, but he can't make course adjustments easily, so he usually just moves from point to point. Can use speed to excite air molecules close to him to create blasts he can throw the same way he would a boomerang or other object.
Weaknesses and flaws: Superspeed only applies to initiated actions, mental reactions and control over trajectory do not apply.
Skills: Richie is extremely skilled in the crafting and usage of boomerangs and similar thrown weapons.
Character location/Home: A cheap apartment, his stuff is on the West coast with his parents.
Alignment: Potentially Heroic
Relatives: Owen Mercer (father, living), Bette Sans Souci (mother, living), Bart Allen (uncle, living), George Harkness (paternal grandfather, living), Meloni Thawne (paternal grandmother, living in the future); one sibling; Thad Thawne (uncle, unknown)
Backstory: Owen and Bette worked off their sentences as Suicide Squad members, but chose to remain in Checkmate employ afterwards. They ended up marrying and managing to maintain a double life, having two children, Richie being the older. Bette insisted on French spelling for his middle name as a concession to naming him after Owen's father. Between Owen and Bette's various older holdings and legitimate earnings from service to Checkmate, their children wanted for very little, along with sending Richie to excellent private schools. He inherited a variation on his father's speed and Owen made sure to teach him how to use it as best he could, along with training him to use his old gear.
Shortly after his graduation, there was an altercation at Owen and Bette's home involving a rogue former Pawn of Checkmate. Richie was able to defend himself and his sibling, but when their parents, and more of Checkmate, arrived, some unfortunate truths came out. Richie was enraged and hurt, and took off. He spent several weeks crossing the country, only using his credit cards when necessary. (Owen convinced Bette to let him take the time he needs, remembering the conflict he went through when he wasn't much older than Richie.) He kept in touch with his sibling via postcards, and made his way towards Manhattan.
How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: Finding an apartment. Anyone looking for a roommate?
What are you planning to do with this character? Receive a 'birthday present' of trick boomerangs from his grandfather. Richie is going to work on street-level heroics. Not sure where he'll settle.
What do you want to see happen with this character?: Eventually reconcile with his parents. Maybe interactions with the more clearly defined Flash kids, or exploring his link to the Speed Force.
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