Add-on:City of Heroes
05-19-2021, 11:42 PM (This post was last modified: 05-28-2021, 08:25 PM by Terrenceknight.)
05-19-2021, 11:42 PM (This post was last modified: 05-28-2021, 08:25 PM by Terrenceknight.)
Been scratchin my head over how to go about this, decided to just say 'screw it' and wing it..much like how I've been going about this so far ^_^''.
It would be a few months post the Dragon incident and Terrence had claimed Valcorsorax's hoard, much of the time was spent on the run or in hiding after i was discovered what he had done, despite what he had done the way he done it branded him a heretic due to the soul based nature of the kill. Yet he had little desire to put more blood on his over this so he chose to evade hunting groups even if he could have fought back, he had enough on his mind with the nightmares of that last battle still somewhat fresh on the brain. It was around this point however that Gate finally interfered again giving Terrence a couple days warning via a message inscribed into the ground via a stroke of purple and green lightening. With little recourse he mentally prepared himself sending out a few parcels to those he considered friends before vanishing in another lightening strike a few days later.
The Arrival:
During the teleportation Gate ended up sealing the lions share of Terrence's strength both physically and chi wise leaving him comparable to his physical condition when he first stepped out of the forest post training, sealing the soul fury abilities were not needed as assimilating the dragon's soul changed his own just enough to disrupt the ritual effects. Finally Gate also masked and forced dormancy the gradual changes that had started taking place leaving him reading as a human to methods of scanning. So when Terrence finally came stumbling out of an alleyway in a disorientated daze he found himself greatly weakened to the point of being slightly stronger than a normal person with almost no chi reserves to speak of and was very distraught but swallowed his emotions as he also quickly realized he was in a much more modern era and more importantly a hostile location with thugs on the streets with glowing green eyes trashing the place. He didn't know much of his current environment but couldn't ignore what was going on and despite being greatly weakened he still had his experience and fighting skills so he could start by knockin a few heads together and resisted the urge to go for fatal blows as he worked under he assumption of modern society frowning upon killing much more than where he had just lived, but it wasn't easy after so long.
He'd quickly come to terms of this new world he was stuck in now, helped along greatly by assistance from government branches that dealt with offworlders or others dimensional strays, thankfully his years of constant wandering and forced relocation's due to his teleportation curs so his mind was very flexible and he quickly got the gist of the situation. Once getting set up in a small apartment he'd work his way towards becoming a hero since he didn't have too many other relevant skills outside of combat even in his diminished state, of course when he went through the courses he avoided revealing certain skills beyond his greater than normal strength and minor chi manipulation mainly wanting to keep certain aspects secret. However what he did show was more than enough to get him doing work for Susan Davies in ELITE.
The Legendary:
A few months down the road found Terrence fully and comfortably adjusted to the life in Paragon City, he wasn't the most social individual outside of his hero work as he didn't have friends or family so he threw himself back into training with gusto taking advantage of vastly superior training facilities than what he had to prior so he was making up lost ground. He did however realize he needed to come out of his shell and probably join one of the numerous supergroups as by this point he was really start to feel the burden of not having familiar colleagues that he could trust and have his back for bigger tasks. So having decided that he started to paying closer attention to the word on the street during patrols keeping tabs of names to look into when mentioned in passing by villains whom he might be trailing at the time, after all in his mind your doing something right if multiple villain organizations have hits out on your group. After a few interviews with members from other Supergroups he couldn't really get along with Terrence finally found himself a fledgling member of The Legendary after meeting their leader Evangelia and trusted his gut feeling that he could trust her.
Turning towards a brighter path:
It would be near half a year of struggling with his solitary tendencies and only occasionally working together with other members of the group before Terrence would finally start feeling like he belonged there, while he didn't fully open up to anyone he started to relax and be more at ease when working with other Legendary members and was thankful that there wasn't anyone that he didn't feel like he couldn't get along with. Working alongside heroes who have been in the business for a while did a great deal to help him grow accustomed on how to handle varied situations and without really realizing it helped turn his mindset to something considerably more heroic and lenient than what he had long been used to in the prior world where killing was a necessity far more often than not. While he couldn't regain the innocence of his youth with the blood forced onto his hands he took this as a real opportunity to work towards being better, even if it meant having to work far harder to apprehend instead of dispatch.
Concerning habits:
He wasn't able to entirely shed all his habits as there was a number of occasions where he'd be called in and questioned about his work ethic with his logs showing him having dangerously low amounts of downtime, he was dangerously obsessive about picking up missions or monitoring police scanners giving himself very small amounts of downtime between that and his relentless training. Almost without fail he'd be found using the training facilities when not out doing missions working himself to exhaustion, he'd frequently just deflect questions when asked why he works so hard finding it difficult to just admit he's trying to regain what was lost. It was always a worry in the back of his mind what might happen if he was knocked out in a hostile environment and knew this was a double edged sword but he wanted to push himself to get powerful enough to greatly reduce the risk of being rendered unconscious.
Allies and coming into his own:
As the Legendary started branching out to work with allied groups most commonly Riot Force and Dojo of the White Tiger, working with martial artists and real ninja's on missions gave him plenty of opportunity to observe and understand how they manipulated their energy giving him insight on how to possibly expand on his own chi based training allowing him to make considerable strides in his own goals. His first encounter with the Sabers left him in deep thought since he couldn't sense living entities inside the power armor, he first thought that maybe the media property he recognized them from in his home dimension existed here too and some super scientist just emulated the suits as mecha. He remained silent on the subject especially when he learned there was individuals inside, had they also been the subject to dimensional transfers but had that thought kiboshed when he learned bits and pieces of how their group came to be here. Still he couldn't help but want to give them aid above and beyond what might normally be offered in missions, never did say why.
An earlier incident during a Terra volta operation revealed he could shrug off the lingering effects of radiation and used his internal energies to protect from initial burns effectively being safe from radiation based sickness, this would end up how he'd get into ta relationship with Gamma Emission and Emerald Blast, the 'Hero Sandwich' as was the running joke within the groups and it was something he treasured immensely even if Rhea's shenanigans would fluster him at times he wouldn't trade it for the world. Eventually once he started doing work for Unai he'd often be found returning to certain dimensions through portal corp, particularly one where the Banished Pantheon ran rampant becoming their Bogey Man with how often he came knocking and finally coming to the point where he felt he was very close if not finally surpassing his old self prior to Paragon but progress had slowed to an extent as he looked into further methods to push his limits.
Rejection of the Well:
When he first learned of the Well of the Furies and Incarnates in general Terrence had been equal part curious and concerned given his own past experiences with an entity turning his own life on its head leading to where he was at this point. Still if nothing else his curiosity overcame his concern and when the opportunity to find a shard of it came up he took it, he at the very least wanted to be in the presence of something like that if only briefly for experience. Upon being found the well felt his drive to get stronger and didn't hesitate to offer him a link to it giving him a small taste of its power momentarily infusing him with with godly power but found itself rebuked and the power rejected through force of will, having come this far on his own power Terrence refused to become its pawn instead stubbornly kept on his own path. Yet this meeting wasn't without a consequence as the brief influx of a godly essence was enough to rattle the proverbial seal on his power that had been imposed by Gate when he was first deposited on this world and gave him the potential to reclaim what had been locked away for so long. When he first intuited what happened the first thing he did was take a couple weeks leave from the Legendary for 'personal reasons' while he'd isolate himself at home or in quiet locations while he worked on breaking the seals down further through internal training and mental exercises.
Wearing down the blocks over time gave Terrence gradual access to all his formerly restricted strength and power output allowing him finally to have a feeling of wholeness once more that he had been missing for so very long, it hadn't been an easy process to reclaim and synch up with his old power but the end result was allowing him to keep up with the growing threats of incarnate scale foes including raids on Praetoria to take down Tyrant and his crew. However things took a turn for the worse when the Battalion came knocking and the still fledgling incarnates and other heroes were ill prepared to handle the invaders and earth found itself on the defensive.
Farewell friends/End of a timeline
this is all headcannon for me, certainly don't take it for gospel!)
It wasn't too far down the road where Terrence found himself alongside of a few of his closest allies from the Legendary holding the line keeping agents of the Battalion at bay while the remaining refugee's in the area along other members of the Legendary escorted them through. Making a snap decision he surprised his allies and with an apologetic shout hurled them through the portal as well before anyone could come back through and destroyed the portal along with the facility to prevent the invaders any chance of following them. Escaping during the carnage and worked with others he found who couldn't or wouldn't escape and harassed with guerilla tactics as straight up combat was a losing proposition. Over time he wrote down everything could learn about the Battalion both from what he's experienced and what he could gather from the dwindling number of survivors in a faint hope that maybe someone can cobble a means to go back in time to prevent such a thing for others. Many of the first to fall were incarnates as the invaders had shown themselves to be exceedingly efficient at hunting them down, probably his own saving grace was having not accepted the well's influence back then.
Finally at a point his gut was telling him something was off..yet he couldn't put a finger on what was wrong as the feeling persisted for a couple days, however what he hadn't been expecting was a stroke of familiar colored lightening to come from nowhere as there hadn't been a cloud in the sky and strike him causing him to vanish an indeterminate amount of time before the universe reset back to an earlier time but as Terrence would find out not everything was exactly the same...
(AN Final edit:Good lord I'm done finally and I feel relieved to get that out of my system which had been nagging me for sooo long.)
It would be a few months post the Dragon incident and Terrence had claimed Valcorsorax's hoard, much of the time was spent on the run or in hiding after i was discovered what he had done, despite what he had done the way he done it branded him a heretic due to the soul based nature of the kill. Yet he had little desire to put more blood on his over this so he chose to evade hunting groups even if he could have fought back, he had enough on his mind with the nightmares of that last battle still somewhat fresh on the brain. It was around this point however that Gate finally interfered again giving Terrence a couple days warning via a message inscribed into the ground via a stroke of purple and green lightening. With little recourse he mentally prepared himself sending out a few parcels to those he considered friends before vanishing in another lightening strike a few days later.
The Arrival:
During the teleportation Gate ended up sealing the lions share of Terrence's strength both physically and chi wise leaving him comparable to his physical condition when he first stepped out of the forest post training, sealing the soul fury abilities were not needed as assimilating the dragon's soul changed his own just enough to disrupt the ritual effects. Finally Gate also masked and forced dormancy the gradual changes that had started taking place leaving him reading as a human to methods of scanning. So when Terrence finally came stumbling out of an alleyway in a disorientated daze he found himself greatly weakened to the point of being slightly stronger than a normal person with almost no chi reserves to speak of and was very distraught but swallowed his emotions as he also quickly realized he was in a much more modern era and more importantly a hostile location with thugs on the streets with glowing green eyes trashing the place. He didn't know much of his current environment but couldn't ignore what was going on and despite being greatly weakened he still had his experience and fighting skills so he could start by knockin a few heads together and resisted the urge to go for fatal blows as he worked under he assumption of modern society frowning upon killing much more than where he had just lived, but it wasn't easy after so long.
He'd quickly come to terms of this new world he was stuck in now, helped along greatly by assistance from government branches that dealt with offworlders or others dimensional strays, thankfully his years of constant wandering and forced relocation's due to his teleportation curs so his mind was very flexible and he quickly got the gist of the situation. Once getting set up in a small apartment he'd work his way towards becoming a hero since he didn't have too many other relevant skills outside of combat even in his diminished state, of course when he went through the courses he avoided revealing certain skills beyond his greater than normal strength and minor chi manipulation mainly wanting to keep certain aspects secret. However what he did show was more than enough to get him doing work for Susan Davies in ELITE.
The Legendary:
A few months down the road found Terrence fully and comfortably adjusted to the life in Paragon City, he wasn't the most social individual outside of his hero work as he didn't have friends or family so he threw himself back into training with gusto taking advantage of vastly superior training facilities than what he had to prior so he was making up lost ground. He did however realize he needed to come out of his shell and probably join one of the numerous supergroups as by this point he was really start to feel the burden of not having familiar colleagues that he could trust and have his back for bigger tasks. So having decided that he started to paying closer attention to the word on the street during patrols keeping tabs of names to look into when mentioned in passing by villains whom he might be trailing at the time, after all in his mind your doing something right if multiple villain organizations have hits out on your group. After a few interviews with members from other Supergroups he couldn't really get along with Terrence finally found himself a fledgling member of The Legendary after meeting their leader Evangelia and trusted his gut feeling that he could trust her.
Turning towards a brighter path:
It would be near half a year of struggling with his solitary tendencies and only occasionally working together with other members of the group before Terrence would finally start feeling like he belonged there, while he didn't fully open up to anyone he started to relax and be more at ease when working with other Legendary members and was thankful that there wasn't anyone that he didn't feel like he couldn't get along with. Working alongside heroes who have been in the business for a while did a great deal to help him grow accustomed on how to handle varied situations and without really realizing it helped turn his mindset to something considerably more heroic and lenient than what he had long been used to in the prior world where killing was a necessity far more often than not. While he couldn't regain the innocence of his youth with the blood forced onto his hands he took this as a real opportunity to work towards being better, even if it meant having to work far harder to apprehend instead of dispatch.
Concerning habits:
He wasn't able to entirely shed all his habits as there was a number of occasions where he'd be called in and questioned about his work ethic with his logs showing him having dangerously low amounts of downtime, he was dangerously obsessive about picking up missions or monitoring police scanners giving himself very small amounts of downtime between that and his relentless training. Almost without fail he'd be found using the training facilities when not out doing missions working himself to exhaustion, he'd frequently just deflect questions when asked why he works so hard finding it difficult to just admit he's trying to regain what was lost. It was always a worry in the back of his mind what might happen if he was knocked out in a hostile environment and knew this was a double edged sword but he wanted to push himself to get powerful enough to greatly reduce the risk of being rendered unconscious.
Allies and coming into his own:
As the Legendary started branching out to work with allied groups most commonly Riot Force and Dojo of the White Tiger, working with martial artists and real ninja's on missions gave him plenty of opportunity to observe and understand how they manipulated their energy giving him insight on how to possibly expand on his own chi based training allowing him to make considerable strides in his own goals. His first encounter with the Sabers left him in deep thought since he couldn't sense living entities inside the power armor, he first thought that maybe the media property he recognized them from in his home dimension existed here too and some super scientist just emulated the suits as mecha. He remained silent on the subject especially when he learned there was individuals inside, had they also been the subject to dimensional transfers but had that thought kiboshed when he learned bits and pieces of how their group came to be here. Still he couldn't help but want to give them aid above and beyond what might normally be offered in missions, never did say why.
An earlier incident during a Terra volta operation revealed he could shrug off the lingering effects of radiation and used his internal energies to protect from initial burns effectively being safe from radiation based sickness, this would end up how he'd get into ta relationship with Gamma Emission and Emerald Blast, the 'Hero Sandwich' as was the running joke within the groups and it was something he treasured immensely even if Rhea's shenanigans would fluster him at times he wouldn't trade it for the world. Eventually once he started doing work for Unai he'd often be found returning to certain dimensions through portal corp, particularly one where the Banished Pantheon ran rampant becoming their Bogey Man with how often he came knocking and finally coming to the point where he felt he was very close if not finally surpassing his old self prior to Paragon but progress had slowed to an extent as he looked into further methods to push his limits.
Rejection of the Well:
When he first learned of the Well of the Furies and Incarnates in general Terrence had been equal part curious and concerned given his own past experiences with an entity turning his own life on its head leading to where he was at this point. Still if nothing else his curiosity overcame his concern and when the opportunity to find a shard of it came up he took it, he at the very least wanted to be in the presence of something like that if only briefly for experience. Upon being found the well felt his drive to get stronger and didn't hesitate to offer him a link to it giving him a small taste of its power momentarily infusing him with with godly power but found itself rebuked and the power rejected through force of will, having come this far on his own power Terrence refused to become its pawn instead stubbornly kept on his own path. Yet this meeting wasn't without a consequence as the brief influx of a godly essence was enough to rattle the proverbial seal on his power that had been imposed by Gate when he was first deposited on this world and gave him the potential to reclaim what had been locked away for so long. When he first intuited what happened the first thing he did was take a couple weeks leave from the Legendary for 'personal reasons' while he'd isolate himself at home or in quiet locations while he worked on breaking the seals down further through internal training and mental exercises.
Wearing down the blocks over time gave Terrence gradual access to all his formerly restricted strength and power output allowing him finally to have a feeling of wholeness once more that he had been missing for so very long, it hadn't been an easy process to reclaim and synch up with his old power but the end result was allowing him to keep up with the growing threats of incarnate scale foes including raids on Praetoria to take down Tyrant and his crew. However things took a turn for the worse when the Battalion came knocking and the still fledgling incarnates and other heroes were ill prepared to handle the invaders and earth found itself on the defensive.
Farewell friends/End of a timeline
this is all headcannon for me, certainly don't take it for gospel!)It wasn't too far down the road where Terrence found himself alongside of a few of his closest allies from the Legendary holding the line keeping agents of the Battalion at bay while the remaining refugee's in the area along other members of the Legendary escorted them through. Making a snap decision he surprised his allies and with an apologetic shout hurled them through the portal as well before anyone could come back through and destroyed the portal along with the facility to prevent the invaders any chance of following them. Escaping during the carnage and worked with others he found who couldn't or wouldn't escape and harassed with guerilla tactics as straight up combat was a losing proposition. Over time he wrote down everything could learn about the Battalion both from what he's experienced and what he could gather from the dwindling number of survivors in a faint hope that maybe someone can cobble a means to go back in time to prevent such a thing for others. Many of the first to fall were incarnates as the invaders had shown themselves to be exceedingly efficient at hunting them down, probably his own saving grace was having not accepted the well's influence back then.
Finally at a point his gut was telling him something was off..yet he couldn't put a finger on what was wrong as the feeling persisted for a couple days, however what he hadn't been expecting was a stroke of familiar colored lightening to come from nowhere as there hadn't been a cloud in the sky and strike him causing him to vanish an indeterminate amount of time before the universe reset back to an earlier time but as Terrence would find out not everything was exactly the same...
(AN Final edit:Good lord I'm done finally and I feel relieved to get that out of my system which had been nagging me for sooo long.)