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Chapter Eight: The Heroes of RPGC
There have been many, many, many, MANY people in the RPGC Universe’s history that have risen up to the rank of heroes, inspiring future generations and making the universe a much better place to live. And RPGC itself has produced a few such individuals, determined to make the best of their lot in life and to do anything in their power to defend and improve their homeland. Here is but a small sampling of these individuals.
Wilfredo Martinez:
Black Mage
It doesn’t get much more classic than Wilfredo Martinez. As RPGC’s oldest superhero, he has been involved in more multiverse-spanning adventures than anyone cares to count. As a result, he has mastered every matter of Black Magic available, even spells and styles long lost or completely unknown to his own home. Unfortunately, this traveling was the result of necessity rather than choice; his family, distrusting his powers and believing them to be far more malevolent, all but disowned him when he first learned the truth in his early teens. When he returned years later, he was a fully accomplished sorcerer, and although his siblings, especially his oldest sister, never really accepted his abilities, they were far more open with him, especially after his niece Nelimar began to exhibit the same abilities.
Martinez is a man of extremes. In battle, he is calm and collected, using his twenty-five years of experience to tactically approach even the most basic of conflicts. This has given him nearly a Batman-level of omniscience; give him enough time to plan, and he’ll be able to take down anything from a lowly thug to the Blood God Khorne. However, outside of such situations, he is a lecherous perverted bastard, holding the world’s largest porn collection and often hanging at strip clubs and brothels, or “dating” his hundreds of “girlfriends.” However, when with his family, he is an extremely caring and sweet, if very overprotective and eccentric, brother and uncle. Either way, do not harm Neliamr if you want to keep your organs arranged properly…and since he has a code against killing, well…
Weiila:
White Mage
When Weiila first came to RPGC, she was a calm, generally loving Swedish girl, using her white magic abilities freely while also pursuing a career in writing. As time has worn on, however, she has slowly become more cynical and harsh, thanks in no small part to the horrid side of fanfiction, Galloway’s endless torment of her, and being turned into a young girl at least once a year. Either way, she has become extremely jaded these days, although still a charming young lady.
She also happens to be a reincarnation of the goddess Anja. The youngest daughter of Ukko, king of the Finnish Pantheon, she fell in love with modern technology to the point that she was decreed “unfit” for living in Kalevala. Her body was destroyed, and her soul was sent through time to a two-month-old fetus. As a result, she was born and raised a human for much of her life. However, when she was thirteen, she suddenly began to sprout a pair of angelic wings. This, combined with her general awkwardness and anxiety, led to her being the subject of intense bullying for much of her life, and has permanently left her scared of dodgeballs. She has become one of RPGC’s greatest champions, and can always be depended upon to fight for what’s right, although it might take a little more prodding these days.
Heaven’s Soldier:
Warrior/Angel
Heaven’s Soldier’s past is a little more screwed up than most suspect…mostly because I don’t really understand it fully. Oh well. Needless to say, Heaven’s Soldier has shown considerable skills and honor in most things, although he can be a colossal dick if pushed enough. He has worked as a member of the RPGCPD, and was even Chief of Police. However, he is most famous for his career as a member of the RPGC Task Force, where he proved himself to be a true leader.
Above all else, however, Heaven’s Soldier has shown considerable care for creating a proper image for others to follow. After the Task Force’s fall into shame under Galloway’s leadership, he managed to route the heroes and turned them into a worldwide force to be reckoned with. Even the Illuminati placed his conversion or elimination at the top of their priorities, as without him, the Task Force would have collapsed. When the force did break up, he quickly formed another, although with a much different roll call, and is quickly making them to be another power in the metahuman community. It is this that will be remembered as his greatest work once GOD rips his entrails out like dried salami.
GG Crono:
Amnesiac Traveling Warrior
You know those amnesiac guys with spiky hair? The guys that seem to lose their memories at the drop of a hat, and go on a globetrotting quest to get them back? Well, GG Crono is half of that; he has amnesia and spiky hair, but does NOT want his memories back. This is not so much because he is afraid of what he may have done, but because going on such a quest would be giving in to the “Powers That Be,” and he is NOBODY’S servant. Thus, he began his quest to find a way to destroy the Powers That Be, or to at least free the world from their control.
In the end, he ran into RPGC, where he eventually joined the RPGC Task Force. He formed a strong friendship with Pierson, almost to the point of being a “couple,” and quickly found a place within the small team. When the team dissipated, he decided to form yet another, rather than allow himself to become purposeless and thus give in to the Powers That Be. This paranoia would drive him to several other adventures over the years.
Pierson:
Hero/Thief
Pierson is a thief, a mercenary, traveling the world under his sandaled feet…that is, if he actually wore sandals rather than boots. Pierson’s reign of terror was once the highlight of RPG Town…until PC Glenton showed up, stealing the limelight and rendering Pierson merely a distant memory. Enraged, the thief decided to go about trying to foil Glenton’s many crimes. All of these ended in failure…until he managed to defeat Glenton in an epic showdown on the roof of the Vatican. After an amazing show of blind luck, Pierson managed to stop the thief from stealing the Spear of Destiny…and suddenly found himself praised. Deciding he liked the adoring limelight more than being feared, he turned to acts of blind heroism as a member of the Defenders of the Plot Continuum.
Pierson was a founding member of the third Task Force. However, as time went on, he found his heart lying less and less within the group. This was further driven by his lack of powers, forcing him to rely on bionic armbands stolen from one of his old enemies. Unfortunately, they began to take over his mind, until he nearly thought he was the villain in question. It took some intervention from the Task Force to save the day. After that, he felt he had nothing to contribute to the world of superheroes, and left both the Task Force and RPGC in general. He can still be seen at times, but has generally retired from adventuring.
Mabatsekker:
Blue Mage
Hailing from noble Finland stands the blue-haired Blue Mage, Mabatsekker, wooer of catgirls, champion of Paragon City, and the greatest guy in the universe. Now that the endorsement’s out of the way, on to the good stuff. At a young age, Mabat discovered he had the power to copy the attacks of anyone, as long as he could continuously observe the move or was hit by it. As a result, he went on a worldwide journey to gather as many moves as possible. In the end, he and his girlfriend, the catgirl Kat-Chi, moved to Paragon City for a few years, where Mabat trained himself to the point that his entire body was a towering monolith of pure muscle.
He eventually ran into Wilfredo Martinez, and was so fascinated with him that he chased him all the way to RPGCity. Soon after, he was swept into the whole Naar conflict, and after returning to his new home joined the third RPGC Task Force. Unfortunately, he soon came into major conflict with Galloway, due to vast differences in evil-bashing techniques and the latter’s almost racist hatred of Blue Mages, and even held a small weenie roast to celebrate his departure. Unfortunately, only a year later, he was drafted into the Finnish Air Force, and had to leave his team behind. He returned some time later, during Naar’s second attack, and joined the new Task Force in battling their old enemy. In the end, despite a few small problems in his past (such as accidentally killing some people in his early days), and his penchant for downing entire wine cellars dry within a single night, he is very much an ideal hero.
Valkyrie Esker:
Thousand-Year-Old Ex-Goddess
Born the youngest daughter and child of a lowly woodsman, Robyn soon demonstrated an almost unnatural skill for combat. So much so that the Valkyrie, warrior-goddesses of the Norse Pantheon (who, also, never actually fought a damn thing), chose her to become a member of their small army, granting her full godhood upon reaching the age of nineteen. Unfortunately, she lacked faith in Odin, so he forced her to go on some MacGuffin-filled quest to recover some lost weapons, hilarity ensues, etc. She found all the legendary weapons, returned home, and lived a relatively peaceful and boring existence. Finally, she couldn’t take it anymore, and decided to leave the Valkyrie. Now a mortal again, she ended up in RPGC, where she quickly became both the most valiant knight and biggest whore the place had ever seen.
Esker’s biggest claim to fame, besides being a former goddess and member of the RPGC Task Force Reserve, is her deep, deep rivalry with PC Glenton. Started for reasons long forgotten, the two have been at each other’s throats for years, continuously coming up with bigger and bloodier means of killing the other. In the end, of course, nobody really wins, since both are damn near unkillable. Furthermore, Val also possesses the Eskermobile, a car so fast it leaves a trail of death, destruction and misery just going down the street to the supermarket. Needless to say, we all duck and cover whenever the words “Esker” and “drive” in the same sentence.
Galloway:
Saiyan/Kai Lord
Everyone has to have that “one guy.” You know, the guy that somehow manages to surpass almost everyone, saves the Earth a few dozen times, and still has time to cram in a session of gaming every night? You know, a Gary Stu? That’s d Galloway. For reasons way, way, WAY too overly long to explain, he was genetically engineered into a Saiyan, and then trained to become a Kai Lord. He’s fought Mox repeatedly (but has never really won without cheating), defeated Naar twice (nearly fucking up both times), and will one day destroy the world (just before his past self comes forward and kills him). And he kills people. Our hero, ladies and gentlemen.
More to come…
