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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Kathrine
AGE: over 18
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〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Toro Raymond
CHARACTER AGE: 19
SERIES: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: late 1943
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Nonah, if possible!
BACKGROUND: Marvel 616 Universe | WWII by Marvel | Toro Raymond
Toro was the first “sidekick” so to speak, in that he and Jim Hammond (the Original Human Torch) teamed up to fight crime in New York City and beyond after his powers fully manifested (or so everyone thought) when he was sixteen. He was the first teenager in his world to take on such a role and eventually he and Jim would be recruited by the President himself to be part of The Invaders, a WWII team that combated the Nazis, HYDRA, and homegrown terrorists, that included Jim, Toro, Captain America (Steve Rogers), Bucky Barnes, and the Submarine (Namor). While Toro did take part in a lot of these missions, often he and Bucky were sent off on tours to sell war bonds around the states, promote the war effort to young adults, and also take on missions with their other teams, the Kid Commandos and Young Allies. He and Bucky were the face of the American Youths doing what they could to help America win the war.
PERSONALITY:
At first look, Toro (don’t call him Tom, he hates that) is generally what people would call a “good guy.” He’s normally polite, if a bit cocky, helpful, cares about people, knows right from wrong, and all that good stuff. He grew up with sickly parents who were both exposed to dangerous chemicals due to their work as scientists and researchers and he cared about them, greatly. Even though they weren’t the richest family, he didn’t lack for all of the important things. Still, because of the hardships that his family went through financially and, especially, with his mother’s rapidly declining health, Toro came to understand early on that life isn’t always the kindest to good people, like his parents.
But even a good guy can have rough edges. Living through the train wreck that killed his parents left Toro with survivor’s guilt and believing that he was the cause of the crash (which he wasn’t, but his flames did kill quite a few people when he accidentally activated his powers). His parents and everyone else on the train were dead, but he wasn’t, so it had to be his fault and the fault of the powers he had that his parents were so afraid of, because those powers meant that he was somehow different and dangerous. Terms like “mutant” and “inhuman” didn’t exist back then so all Toro knew was that there was something wrong about him that no one could ever explain. Even after meeting Jim Hammond and later on learning the truth about Lady Lotus’ culpability for his parents’ deaths, Toro would never stop believing that who he is—what he is—cursed them somehow.
As he aged, Tom came into full control of his powers (or his powers as they had manifested at the time; it’s complicated) and it helped him to come to terms more with what happened. Instead, he focused on using his powers to help people, just as his mentor, Jim Hammond, did. It may not be what he saw himself doing in his life, but it’s what he thought he should be doing at that time. His relationship with Jim was one of the strongest bonds he had after he had lost everything else and it shaped the way he looked at the world. Jim didn’t understand everything about human beings, because as a synthetic human he learned human emotions through observation and mimicry, and he took in the world different that most people because of it. Toro became one of the biggest models he followed because of their constant companionship, while in turn, Toro tried to be more understanding and open to the world because that was how Jim approached things. He wanted to make Jim proud of him, tried to live up to the legacy Jim had set before him even years after his death. It doesn’t always work, as Toro is more cynical and less optimistic than Jim, but he tries anyway. He also, as he gets older begins to get over some of his shyness around girls, although this is usually only when he’s being “Toro.” When he’s just being regular Tom Raymond, away from the battlegrounds and promotional tours and turning himself into a human bonfire, he reverts back to being awkward and doesn’t know how to act in more personal settings around pretty girls. Bucky had to push him to dance with a girl he’s been keeping an eye on for over a year just because Tom couldn’t bring himself to go talk to her on his own and years later it hasn’t really changed that he can interact with pretty girls so much easier when he’s being a hero versus being a normal guy.
Toro may not be the smartest guy around, and he has a tendency to ramble about things people really don’t want to hear, but he is intuitive and learns on his feet. He doesn’t like to jump into situations without thinking things through or to go against orders—as a teenager, it was usually Bucky who did that and Toro who followed after him, arguing that they shouldn’t do it the entire time—but he does have a temper. He argues with Namor and Bucky and doesn’t mind pointing out when a plan is likely to go very poorly, and his temper at times even gets him into trouble because he forgets to stop and look at the situation, but one of the most important aspects about Toro is his loyalty. Even if he thinks a friend is going down the wrong path, he’ll either try to steer them from it, or he’ll be right there beside them. He’s lost so many people in his life already that he’ll do anything to keep the ones he still has. A good example of this is even after the war, when a new villain, Isbisa, is going around destroying museums and relics, a clue is left to purposefully make the All-Winners Squad think Namor is allied with Isbisa. The rest of the All-Winners turn on Namor, even Jim, but Toro refuses to believe it and sets out after Namor to help him prove his innocence, despite the fact they don’t get along that often. That’s just the kind of person Toro is.
Toro is still, despite his at times cynical outlook, protective of humans in general (this does not include Nazis or supervillains), because he wants to believe that humans are capable of just as much good as they are bad. His priority though, will always be the people he cares for first. He could argue with a friend more times than they get along, but Toro will still consider them important before anything else. When he and his friends in the Young Allies were making an appearance for a war bonds drive, the program director refused to remove a blown up cover of one of the propaganda comics that were being published about them—despite the fact it included a disparaging caricature of one of the members, Washington Jones. Toro’s solution? Burn the poster down. He doesn’t stand for discrimination or racism in general, but having it happen to one of his friends really gets to him. He’s always had a desire to belong and clinging a bit to the people he cares about is part of that, so he gets very protective of them, even when they may not need it. They’re the only family he’s got left after all.
POWER: To put it simply (for now), Toro has control of pyrokinetic abilities due to the Horton Cells he was exposed to from both his mother working with Professor Horton before his birth and from transfusions he received of Jim Hammond’s blood (Horton Cells make up Jim’s entire body).
Toro is immune to the effects of extreme heat himself and thus never burns, but this does leave him some weakness to water and extreme colds. He has the ability to control and manipulate “ambient heat energy,” raising the heat in the air, controlling fires, putting them out, absorbing heat into himself, and the ability to raise his body heat to the point of combustion—thus turning himself into a living “torch.” Using this ability he is capable of flying on the hydrogen atoms created, heating air until it bursts into flames and even “sky-writing” where the flames become words or weapons that he can control with enough concentration (like fireballs). While in his Human Torch form, he is able to recognize changes in heat energy in the air, even to the point of recognizing figures hidden or obscured in them.
He also has a naturally high body temperature that causes him to get cold easily and is more prone to getting sick if left too long in wet/damp locations. All of his external fire powers are impossible to use without oxygen in the air around him. When Tom flames on, he also heals majority of wounds to his body, much like what one would experience if they cauterized their own wounds. This doesn’t heal things such as broken bones, but it does heal gunshot wounds (if the bullet has been removed), deep lacerations to his skin, and internal bleeding.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: Thread Sample!
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
It hadn’t been a bad day, all in all. Sun was shining, he had the day off from work, and Toro had plans to hit the town today. Stop some crooks, wave at a couple cute girls, and maybe visit with a few friends. First he had to get some cleaning done and he realized a little late that he had a lot of laundry to wash--because he hadn’t remembered to do it in almost two weeks…
And that was how he ended up at the nearest laundromat, waiting for the load of his uniforms to finish in the dryer. At least it gives him a chance to fold the load of regular clothes he’d done first, since that side of his closet was getting pretty spare, too. He’s not sure why Bucky decided to tag along, it’s not like it’s the most interesting thing he could be doing, but there he is, sitting in a plastic chair and balancing a hanger on his fingertip.
“How are you even doing that?” he can’t help but asked because Bucky manages to do all sorts of things Toro never quite figures out and his foster parents are born and bred circus folk.
Bucky just grins and spins the hanger before letting it drop into his hand, saying it’s a trade secret. Toro rolls his eyes because they’re both in the same “trade.” It’s not like they’ve got anything else besides saving people going on, even if they wanted it. The jobs they give them here are more of a joke than serious occupations, in his opinion, but it pays the bills--what little there are--which is what counts.
He hears the ping of the dryer and walks by Bucky to get to it, snatching the hanger from his hand and putting it back on the cart it came from. “Keep ya hands off, since it’s not mine, anyway,” he tells him right as he pulls the door to the dryer open. But as soon as he looks in, he knows something it wrong. There’s a lot...less in there than there should be and a lot more pink instead. He wonders if he might have opened the wrong dryer and looks to both sides but no he can tell those aren’t his either.
So he slowly, with some reservation, reaches in and pulls out a pair of shorts. They used to be green, but are now pink and white, which he’s not even sure how that’s possible.
But soft, choked snickering behind him lets him know full well how it happened.
“J. Bucky Barnes, you better hope they gave you superspeed when you got here,” he says lowly, “Because I’m going to singe your eyebrows off and maybe everything on top of your head, too.”
FINAL NOTES:
Toro at this point in canon does not know he’s an Inhuman (and actually he ends up thinking he’s a mutant for years because the Horton Cells mess with his DNA; it really is complicated). When exposed to terrigen mists, his powers fully manifest and he has the ability to control chemical and elemental materials in his body and the atmosphere around him (as his pyro abilities are due to his body manipulating hydrogen, oxygen, potassium permanganate, and the other elements for flammable materials.) It’s not something to worry about right now since terrigen mists don’t exist in the game.
NAME: Kathrine
AGE: over 18
JOURNAL:
spkathrineIM / EMAIL: spkathrine[@]gmail.com
PLURK:
RETURNING: Yes! I play Galatea (
funkindofwicked)〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Toro Raymond
CHARACTER AGE: 19
SERIES: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: late 1943
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Nonah, if possible!
BACKGROUND: Marvel 616 Universe | WWII by Marvel | Toro Raymond
Toro was the first “sidekick” so to speak, in that he and Jim Hammond (the Original Human Torch) teamed up to fight crime in New York City and beyond after his powers fully manifested (or so everyone thought) when he was sixteen. He was the first teenager in his world to take on such a role and eventually he and Jim would be recruited by the President himself to be part of The Invaders, a WWII team that combated the Nazis, HYDRA, and homegrown terrorists, that included Jim, Toro, Captain America (Steve Rogers), Bucky Barnes, and the Submarine (Namor). While Toro did take part in a lot of these missions, often he and Bucky were sent off on tours to sell war bonds around the states, promote the war effort to young adults, and also take on missions with their other teams, the Kid Commandos and Young Allies. He and Bucky were the face of the American Youths doing what they could to help America win the war.
PERSONALITY:
At first look, Toro (don’t call him Tom, he hates that) is generally what people would call a “good guy.” He’s normally polite, if a bit cocky, helpful, cares about people, knows right from wrong, and all that good stuff. He grew up with sickly parents who were both exposed to dangerous chemicals due to their work as scientists and researchers and he cared about them, greatly. Even though they weren’t the richest family, he didn’t lack for all of the important things. Still, because of the hardships that his family went through financially and, especially, with his mother’s rapidly declining health, Toro came to understand early on that life isn’t always the kindest to good people, like his parents.
But even a good guy can have rough edges. Living through the train wreck that killed his parents left Toro with survivor’s guilt and believing that he was the cause of the crash (which he wasn’t, but his flames did kill quite a few people when he accidentally activated his powers). His parents and everyone else on the train were dead, but he wasn’t, so it had to be his fault and the fault of the powers he had that his parents were so afraid of, because those powers meant that he was somehow different and dangerous. Terms like “mutant” and “inhuman” didn’t exist back then so all Toro knew was that there was something wrong about him that no one could ever explain. Even after meeting Jim Hammond and later on learning the truth about Lady Lotus’ culpability for his parents’ deaths, Toro would never stop believing that who he is—what he is—cursed them somehow.
As he aged, Tom came into full control of his powers (or his powers as they had manifested at the time; it’s complicated) and it helped him to come to terms more with what happened. Instead, he focused on using his powers to help people, just as his mentor, Jim Hammond, did. It may not be what he saw himself doing in his life, but it’s what he thought he should be doing at that time. His relationship with Jim was one of the strongest bonds he had after he had lost everything else and it shaped the way he looked at the world. Jim didn’t understand everything about human beings, because as a synthetic human he learned human emotions through observation and mimicry, and he took in the world different that most people because of it. Toro became one of the biggest models he followed because of their constant companionship, while in turn, Toro tried to be more understanding and open to the world because that was how Jim approached things. He wanted to make Jim proud of him, tried to live up to the legacy Jim had set before him even years after his death. It doesn’t always work, as Toro is more cynical and less optimistic than Jim, but he tries anyway. He also, as he gets older begins to get over some of his shyness around girls, although this is usually only when he’s being “Toro.” When he’s just being regular Tom Raymond, away from the battlegrounds and promotional tours and turning himself into a human bonfire, he reverts back to being awkward and doesn’t know how to act in more personal settings around pretty girls. Bucky had to push him to dance with a girl he’s been keeping an eye on for over a year just because Tom couldn’t bring himself to go talk to her on his own and years later it hasn’t really changed that he can interact with pretty girls so much easier when he’s being a hero versus being a normal guy.
Toro may not be the smartest guy around, and he has a tendency to ramble about things people really don’t want to hear, but he is intuitive and learns on his feet. He doesn’t like to jump into situations without thinking things through or to go against orders—as a teenager, it was usually Bucky who did that and Toro who followed after him, arguing that they shouldn’t do it the entire time—but he does have a temper. He argues with Namor and Bucky and doesn’t mind pointing out when a plan is likely to go very poorly, and his temper at times even gets him into trouble because he forgets to stop and look at the situation, but one of the most important aspects about Toro is his loyalty. Even if he thinks a friend is going down the wrong path, he’ll either try to steer them from it, or he’ll be right there beside them. He’s lost so many people in his life already that he’ll do anything to keep the ones he still has. A good example of this is even after the war, when a new villain, Isbisa, is going around destroying museums and relics, a clue is left to purposefully make the All-Winners Squad think Namor is allied with Isbisa. The rest of the All-Winners turn on Namor, even Jim, but Toro refuses to believe it and sets out after Namor to help him prove his innocence, despite the fact they don’t get along that often. That’s just the kind of person Toro is.
Toro is still, despite his at times cynical outlook, protective of humans in general (this does not include Nazis or supervillains), because he wants to believe that humans are capable of just as much good as they are bad. His priority though, will always be the people he cares for first. He could argue with a friend more times than they get along, but Toro will still consider them important before anything else. When he and his friends in the Young Allies were making an appearance for a war bonds drive, the program director refused to remove a blown up cover of one of the propaganda comics that were being published about them—despite the fact it included a disparaging caricature of one of the members, Washington Jones. Toro’s solution? Burn the poster down. He doesn’t stand for discrimination or racism in general, but having it happen to one of his friends really gets to him. He’s always had a desire to belong and clinging a bit to the people he cares about is part of that, so he gets very protective of them, even when they may not need it. They’re the only family he’s got left after all.
POWER: To put it simply (for now), Toro has control of pyrokinetic abilities due to the Horton Cells he was exposed to from both his mother working with Professor Horton before his birth and from transfusions he received of Jim Hammond’s blood (Horton Cells make up Jim’s entire body).
Toro is immune to the effects of extreme heat himself and thus never burns, but this does leave him some weakness to water and extreme colds. He has the ability to control and manipulate “ambient heat energy,” raising the heat in the air, controlling fires, putting them out, absorbing heat into himself, and the ability to raise his body heat to the point of combustion—thus turning himself into a living “torch.” Using this ability he is capable of flying on the hydrogen atoms created, heating air until it bursts into flames and even “sky-writing” where the flames become words or weapons that he can control with enough concentration (like fireballs). While in his Human Torch form, he is able to recognize changes in heat energy in the air, even to the point of recognizing figures hidden or obscured in them.
He also has a naturally high body temperature that causes him to get cold easily and is more prone to getting sick if left too long in wet/damp locations. All of his external fire powers are impossible to use without oxygen in the air around him. When Tom flames on, he also heals majority of wounds to his body, much like what one would experience if they cauterized their own wounds. This doesn’t heal things such as broken bones, but it does heal gunshot wounds (if the bullet has been removed), deep lacerations to his skin, and internal bleeding.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: Thread Sample!
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
It hadn’t been a bad day, all in all. Sun was shining, he had the day off from work, and Toro had plans to hit the town today. Stop some crooks, wave at a couple cute girls, and maybe visit with a few friends. First he had to get some cleaning done and he realized a little late that he had a lot of laundry to wash--because he hadn’t remembered to do it in almost two weeks…
And that was how he ended up at the nearest laundromat, waiting for the load of his uniforms to finish in the dryer. At least it gives him a chance to fold the load of regular clothes he’d done first, since that side of his closet was getting pretty spare, too. He’s not sure why Bucky decided to tag along, it’s not like it’s the most interesting thing he could be doing, but there he is, sitting in a plastic chair and balancing a hanger on his fingertip.
“How are you even doing that?” he can’t help but asked because Bucky manages to do all sorts of things Toro never quite figures out and his foster parents are born and bred circus folk.
Bucky just grins and spins the hanger before letting it drop into his hand, saying it’s a trade secret. Toro rolls his eyes because they’re both in the same “trade.” It’s not like they’ve got anything else besides saving people going on, even if they wanted it. The jobs they give them here are more of a joke than serious occupations, in his opinion, but it pays the bills--what little there are--which is what counts.
He hears the ping of the dryer and walks by Bucky to get to it, snatching the hanger from his hand and putting it back on the cart it came from. “Keep ya hands off, since it’s not mine, anyway,” he tells him right as he pulls the door to the dryer open. But as soon as he looks in, he knows something it wrong. There’s a lot...less in there than there should be and a lot more pink instead. He wonders if he might have opened the wrong dryer and looks to both sides but no he can tell those aren’t his either.
So he slowly, with some reservation, reaches in and pulls out a pair of shorts. They used to be green, but are now pink and white, which he’s not even sure how that’s possible.
But soft, choked snickering behind him lets him know full well how it happened.
“J. Bucky Barnes, you better hope they gave you superspeed when you got here,” he says lowly, “Because I’m going to singe your eyebrows off and maybe everything on top of your head, too.”
FINAL NOTES:
Toro at this point in canon does not know he’s an Inhuman (and actually he ends up thinking he’s a mutant for years because the Horton Cells mess with his DNA; it really is complicated). When exposed to terrigen mists, his powers fully manifest and he has the ability to control chemical and elemental materials in his body and the atmosphere around him (as his pyro abilities are due to his body manipulating hydrogen, oxygen, potassium permanganate, and the other elements for flammable materials.) It’s not something to worry about right now since terrigen mists don’t exist in the game.