RE: The Grand OC! [CONTEST ONE: FLIGHT!]
01-14-2014, 01:07 PM
Username: cyber95
Name: Carlos Bracero
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Color: #DB1600
Description: Carlos is a thirty-something Latino man of slightly below average height, and slightly above average weight. He's currently trying out something new with a goatee, what do you think? Maybe he should get a haircut, too, it's starting to get a little scruffy again. When he's on the job, he's usually wearing a pair of blue jeans and a red polo shirt with his company logo on it. He wears a digital watch on the wrong wrist that he doesn't know how to use, and always has a pair of sunglasses on his forehead when they aren't covering his eyes.
Customer testimonials describe him as "A joy to be around" and "Happy to help every step of the way." Coworkers say that "He has more patience with idiots than the rest of us put together," and "Even when he does get fed up, he hides it real well from the customer." If it weren't for his unique position, that'd be a little more special, but he certainly has a knack for keeping up a pleasant professional demeanour.
Outside of work, his clothing of choice is "This probably still fits" and "Charlene, have these been washed? Eh, oh well." As far as he's concerned, life is pretty swell. He runs a fairly successful business (that he would totally expand more if he could), a wonderful wife and daughter, and something really unique and useful that nobody else has. Every week he treats his employees and a few friends to pizza and beer, and it doesn't seem to be changing any time soon.
Sure, he may not think ahead a lot, but what could life really throw at him that he couldn't handle? No point in dwelling on what could happen. Thinking about tragedy just makes him upset anyways. Much better to focus on the positive. Just... always think positive. That's how he got where he is today.
Weapons/Abilities: The ability to turn darkness into lightness, and vice versa. That is, can convert light into mass. He can take a well lit room and make it dark, while simultaneously adding a few pounds to the nearest person, or object. On the flipside, he can make anything light as a feather, as long as he doesn't mind it getting real bright in the immediate area.
Some have described his infallible patience as a superpower, but the fact is when everything he has to move weighs next to nothing, it's just a hell of a lot less stressful than it is for everybody else. He doesn't have superpatience, just an easy job.
Biography: Carlos lives in Fremont, California, where he owns and works at his own moving company. They're small, but fairly popular, due to his ability to get things moved faster than anybody else. He has to keep the company small, of course, unless he can find somebody else with the ability to make furniture weightless.
He met his wife, Charlene, in high school and hooked up with her a few years after the fact, and they've been happily married since another year after that. His 8-year-old daughter, Isabel, is a bit of a handful, but always making daddy proud. No superpowers of her own, as far as Carlos can tell. Charlene theorizes the superpower gene comes from the mother's side, but Carlos doesn't think his mom had superpowers. I mean, he's done a good job keeping it a secret from most people, and he runs a business around it! So maybe it isn't that hard, after all...
If he wasn't born with them, Carlos has no clue where his ability came from in the first place. He was twelve when he first discovered it. Rather, he discovered the ability to make things bright or dark. It wasn't for another few months when he realized where that light came from and went. If superhero comics taught him anything of course, it was that with great power comes great responsibility. And okay, it wasn't an amazing power. When was he gonna use it? He could make a store real dark and steal stuff while nobody could see, but that would be stealing, which he had been led to believe by many people was wrong. Still, even if there wasn't that much power going on, it still demanded responsibility! And keeping it secret! That was the other thing. Responsibility and secrecy.
Before that point in any case, Carlos can not recall anything that would give him such a bizarre power. He didn't bathe in radioactive goo, wasn't aware of any... mutated photons or whatever, and was fairly certain he was never signed up for an injection of supersoldier serum in place of the yearly flu shots. In any case, it didn't matter to him. The thought crossed his mind on occasion, but, well, he was happy enough knowing it was working out for him now. Probably better than trying to fight crime anyways.
Name: Carlos Bracero
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Color: #DB1600
Description: Carlos is a thirty-something Latino man of slightly below average height, and slightly above average weight. He's currently trying out something new with a goatee, what do you think? Maybe he should get a haircut, too, it's starting to get a little scruffy again. When he's on the job, he's usually wearing a pair of blue jeans and a red polo shirt with his company logo on it. He wears a digital watch on the wrong wrist that he doesn't know how to use, and always has a pair of sunglasses on his forehead when they aren't covering his eyes.
Customer testimonials describe him as "A joy to be around" and "Happy to help every step of the way." Coworkers say that "He has more patience with idiots than the rest of us put together," and "Even when he does get fed up, he hides it real well from the customer." If it weren't for his unique position, that'd be a little more special, but he certainly has a knack for keeping up a pleasant professional demeanour.
Outside of work, his clothing of choice is "This probably still fits" and "Charlene, have these been washed? Eh, oh well." As far as he's concerned, life is pretty swell. He runs a fairly successful business (that he would totally expand more if he could), a wonderful wife and daughter, and something really unique and useful that nobody else has. Every week he treats his employees and a few friends to pizza and beer, and it doesn't seem to be changing any time soon.
Sure, he may not think ahead a lot, but what could life really throw at him that he couldn't handle? No point in dwelling on what could happen. Thinking about tragedy just makes him upset anyways. Much better to focus on the positive. Just... always think positive. That's how he got where he is today.
Weapons/Abilities: The ability to turn darkness into lightness, and vice versa. That is, can convert light into mass. He can take a well lit room and make it dark, while simultaneously adding a few pounds to the nearest person, or object. On the flipside, he can make anything light as a feather, as long as he doesn't mind it getting real bright in the immediate area.
Some have described his infallible patience as a superpower, but the fact is when everything he has to move weighs next to nothing, it's just a hell of a lot less stressful than it is for everybody else. He doesn't have superpatience, just an easy job.
Biography: Carlos lives in Fremont, California, where he owns and works at his own moving company. They're small, but fairly popular, due to his ability to get things moved faster than anybody else. He has to keep the company small, of course, unless he can find somebody else with the ability to make furniture weightless.
He met his wife, Charlene, in high school and hooked up with her a few years after the fact, and they've been happily married since another year after that. His 8-year-old daughter, Isabel, is a bit of a handful, but always making daddy proud. No superpowers of her own, as far as Carlos can tell. Charlene theorizes the superpower gene comes from the mother's side, but Carlos doesn't think his mom had superpowers. I mean, he's done a good job keeping it a secret from most people, and he runs a business around it! So maybe it isn't that hard, after all...
If he wasn't born with them, Carlos has no clue where his ability came from in the first place. He was twelve when he first discovered it. Rather, he discovered the ability to make things bright or dark. It wasn't for another few months when he realized where that light came from and went. If superhero comics taught him anything of course, it was that with great power comes great responsibility. And okay, it wasn't an amazing power. When was he gonna use it? He could make a store real dark and steal stuff while nobody could see, but that would be stealing, which he had been led to believe by many people was wrong. Still, even if there wasn't that much power going on, it still demanded responsibility! And keeping it secret! That was the other thing. Responsibility and secrecy.
Before that point in any case, Carlos can not recall anything that would give him such a bizarre power. He didn't bathe in radioactive goo, wasn't aware of any... mutated photons or whatever, and was fairly certain he was never signed up for an injection of supersoldier serum in place of the yearly flu shots. In any case, it didn't matter to him. The thought crossed his mind on occasion, but, well, he was happy enough knowing it was working out for him now. Probably better than trying to fight crime anyways.