The Archivist

 

Appearance

Elara possesses a gaunt, haunting beauty. She is constantly shrouded in a heavy, charcoal-grey duster coat that seems to ripple even when there is no wind. Her eyes are a stark, milky white, lacking pupils, yet she navigates her environment with unsettling precision. She keeps her dark hair long and wears fingerless tactical gloves that hide hands perpetually stained with a shifting, ink-like substance.

Weird & Offbeat Powers: "The Mnemonic Residue"

Elara does not command elements or possess super strength; she interacts with the physical manifestation of discarded memories.

• Tactile Echoes: By touching an object, she can pull the "imprint" of the last person who held it into the physical world for 30 seconds. This is not a ghost, but a tangible, mute, translucent copy that mimics the actions the original person performed while holding that object. She uses this to reconstruct crimes or find lost paths.

• Narrative Anchor: She can "staple" a person’s shadow to the ground, forcing them to relive a single, traumatic memory in a sensory loop for a few seconds. The target is frozen in place, forced to experience the visceral pain of their worst moment, leaving them physically unharmed but mentally shattered.

• Entropy of Ink: The ink-like substance on her hands is actually liquified forgotten history. She can secrete this from her pores to coat objects, causing them to "age" hundreds of years in seconds, turning pristine steel into rust or solid stone into crumbling dust.

Origin: The Tragedy of the Silent Archive

Elara was a brilliant, reclusive archivist for a massive, secret governmental agency tasked with cataloging "psychic detritus"—objects recovered from mass casualty events.

One night, the facility suffered a containment breach. The "Weight of All Regrets," a theoretical psychic engine designed to store the collective trauma of the city, ruptured. As the engine collapsed, it didn't explode with fire; it imploded with emotion.

Elara was at the epicenter. She watched as her colleagues were not killed, but violently "unwritten." The psychic pressure erased them from history—their families forgot they existed, and their records vanished from every database. Elara, holding a stabilizing rod, absorbed the full force of the trauma. The sheer density of the memories of thousands of people flooded her mind, destroying her physical sight and burning away her ability to form personal connections. She survived, but she is the only person on Earth who remembers the people who died that night. Every day, she carries the ghosts of a thousand forgotten lives in her head.

Personality & Anti-Hero Status

• The Lone Operative: She avoids long-term alliances because she views emotional intimacy as a liability. She treats humans like fragile archives that are destined to be destroyed, preferring the silence of her own company.

• Moral Compass: While she doesn't care for laws or public approval, she is driven by a cold, relentless obsession to prevent "unwritten" tragedies. She will hunt down a supervillain with terrifying efficiency, not for justice, but to ensure that no more history is erased.

• Anti-Heroics: She has no qualms about using her "Narrative Anchor" to break a criminal's mind permanently if it means saving an innocent. She doesn't fight for the law; she fights for the preservation of reality.

Current Status

She operates out of an abandoned subway station, surrounded by thousands of objects she has collected, each pulsing with the faint, residual energy of the people they once belonged to. She is a silent sentinel, waiting for the next psychic tremor.

Created by: Marz Workman, 06-21-2026, using AI assistance.

The Archivist is an Open Source character, created by Marz Workman, and can be used freely by anyone with no copyright restrictions.

The Wraith — The Hollow Judge

Origin

Sable Orin was one of the best public defenders in the rust-belt city of Caldwell for eleven years. Not wealthy. Not connected. Just relentlessly, exhaustingly good at her job — which meant she had a front-row seat to watch the system fail the same people, in the same ways, on a rotating schedule. She got innocent people out. She also, when the evidence left her no choice, got guilty people out. She understood both outcomes were products of the same broken machinery.

The night that changed everything wasn't a murder in an alley. It was a verdict. A man she knew was guilty of killing three women walked free on a technicality she herself had argued — successfully — in a different case two years prior. The law was consistent. Justice was nowhere.

She didn't snap. She didn't rage. She went home, sat in the dark for a long time, and made a very calm, very considered decision to become something the courtroom couldn't.

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The Difference

Sable has no money, no manor, no inherited infrastructure. Everything she has she knows. She understands criminal law, forensic psychology, evidence chains, surveillance statutes, and the exact architecture of how systems protect the powerful. She doesn't have a cave full of technology. She has an abandoned law library in a condemned courthouse and eleven years of case files she memorized because she had to.

She is not a creature of the night because darkness is dramatic. She operates at night because during the day she's still a public defender. She never quit. The job is her cover, her intelligence network, and her penance all at once.

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Abilities

Systemic combat — trained in Krav Maga and judo, but her real weapon is knowing how and when to avoid a fight entirely

Forensic legal mind — doesn't just find evidence, knows exactly what evidence will hold up, what won't, and how to make sure the right things stick

Psychological precision — she doesn't frighten broadly; she finds the specific thing each person is most afraid of losing and stands next to it

Repurposed and requisitioned — forensic tools, legal databases, surveillance equipment obtained through creative interpretation of discovery law

No one. This is her most dangerous quality and her worst wound

Operates from the Vault — sub-basement of Caldwell's condemned 1920s courthouse, still connected to the city's original pneumatic document tubes

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Character Elements

She works within the law until she can't, then just past it. She knows exactly how far she can go before evidence becomes inadmissible, before she becomes the story. She is precise where Batman is absolute.

She doesn't believe in redemption through fear. Batman wants criminals to be afraid of the dark. Sable wants them to be afraid of being known — fully, completely, inescapably documented. She doesn't leave people in the hospital. She leaves them exposed.

She represents people in court the next morning. The cognitive dissonance of defending someone's rights by day and dismantling someone else's operation by night is not lost on her. She considers it the most honest thing about her.

She has no code against killing that comes from trauma. Hers comes from practicality — a dead criminal is a closed file. She wants open files. She wants confessions, testimony, systemic collapse. Death is a waste of evidence.

She is not trying to save Caldwell. She has watched Caldwell long enough to know cities don't get saved. She is trying to make injustice expensive — costly enough, uncomfortable enough, that the calculation shifts.

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The Costume

No cape, no cowl. What she wears is closer to tactical legal armor — a long, structured black coat that reads as professional until you notice the reinforced lining. Dark gloves, dark boots, a half-mask that covers from the nose down, featureless and pale — like a redacted document. Her eyes are always visible. She wants people to be seen seeing her.

She carries a modified document case that functions as both shield and repository — physical evidence she's collected, sealed in legal bags, timestamped, admissible. The most frightening thing she can do to a crime boss is open that case.

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The Symbol

Her mark is a small wax seal — pressed onto surfaces she's been, documents she's touched, doors she's passed through. The seal is a scale with both pans empty. Not balanced. Just empty. Waiting.

People who've had dealings with her learn to check for it. Finding it means she's already been there. Already knows. Already decided.

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Weakness

She is deeply, structurally alone — and not in the brooding romantic sense. In the genuinely dangerous sense. No backup, no medical care, no one who knows both halves of who she is. She has contingency plans for everything except the moment she physically can't continue. That moment is coming. She is aware. She hasn't decided what to do about it.

Also: she can be outmaneuvered legally. Someone with a better lawyer than her past self can box her in. It has happened. It is the only thing that makes her feel something close to helpless.

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Signature Trait

The Wraith asks what made this possible, who knew, who looked away, and how do we make sure the whole structure comes down — not just the man at the bottom.

When people ask her why she still takes public defender cases during the day, still works inside the system she dismantles at night, she says:

"Because if I only worked outside it, I'd be just another person who gave up on it. I haven't given up. I'm just not waiting anymore."

Created by: Marz Workman, 06-16-2026

The Wraith - The Hollow Judge is an Open Source character, created by Marz Workman, and can be used freely by anyone with no copyright restrictions.

Ironwood — The Evergreen Sentinel

Origin

Delegate Harlan Moss was a 28-year-old civil rights lawyer in 1943 — a Black man from Galveston, Texas who was already fighting a war on home soil before anyone asked him to fight one abroad. Recruited not by the military but by a rogue collective of scientists, artists, and activists who believed the government's super-soldier program was building the wrong kind of symbol, they offered Harlan an alternative formula — one derived not from synthetic compounds but from botanical biochemistry. Specifically, from compounds found in old-growth forests — organisms that survive centuries through adaptation, community, and deep roots.

The formula worked. But the collective was shut down before they could tell anyone. Harlan went underground, working outside official channels for the rest of the war — and every conflict since.

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The Difference From the Jump

He didn't get a government uniform, a government name, or a government shield. Everything he has, he built or earned. He has no mythology machine behind him. The propaganda never came. Most people in power pretend he doesn't exist — which, over the decades, he's come to consider his greatest advantage.

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Powers

 • Adaptive physiology — his body responds to threats like a forest to disease; slow but profound

 • Heals completely, but slowly — hours or days, not seconds

 • Enhanced endurance above all — he doesn't hit harder, he outlasts everything

 • No shield — see below

 • Systemic thinking — sees the structure behind problems, not just the immediate threat

 • Never lost — he's been present for all of it. Every decade. Every injustice. No convenient absence

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The Weapon — The Brace

Harlan carries the Brace — a forearm guard made from a dense, near-indestructible wood harvested from the last old-growth ironwood tree in North America, reinforced over decades with botanical resin that has hardened to a strength beyond most metals. It doesn't deflect like a shield — it absorbs. Kinetic energy goes in and dissipates as heat. Up close, it's also a devastating striking weapon.

It looks ancient because it is. It has dents, scorch marks, and repairs. It is visibly survived.

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Character Elements

• He never got to forget. Harlan watched every era unfold in real time — Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, crack epidemic, the war on terror, mass incarceration. He carries it all without the mercy of a gap in memory. It has made him both wiser and wearier than any soldier should be.

• He is not a symbol of the nation. He is a symbol of the nation's conscience. There's a difference. He loves his country the way you love someone you've watched make terrible choices for eighty years — with grief, with fury, and without giving up on them.

• He works in coalition. The original collective that created him instilled one belief above all: no one person fixes systemic problems. He organizes. He builds networks. He lifts other people into positions of power. He considers a fight won only when he's no longer needed in it.

• He has complicated feelings about being a hero. He's watched people call things heroic that weren't, and ignore heroism that was quiet and unglamorous. He doesn't love the word.

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Weakness

The botanical formula that gave him his abilities is in slow, decades-long conflict with environmental toxins — pollution, chemical weapons, industrial runoff. He's not allergic — he's accumulating damage in a way that normal healing can't fully reverse. The planet getting sicker means he gets sicker. It's not a plot device. It's a clock.

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Signature Trait

Ironwood represents the reckoning America keeps avoiding. He doesn't carry a flag. He carries a record. And when people ask him if he still believes in this country after everything he's seen, he says the same thing every time:

"Belief is a lazy word. I'm still here. That's not the same thing."

Created by: Marz Workman, 06-15-2026

Ironwood — The Evergreen Sentinel is an Open Source character, created by Marz Workman, and can be used freely by anyone with no copyright restrictions.

Solaris - The Lightborn

Origin

Kael Dawnros was born on Aethon, a planet orbiting a binary star system — one white dwarf, one young blue star. Aethonians evolved to absorb and store stellar radiation as a biological function, making them living batteries of cosmic energy. When Aethon's two suns entered a catastrophic gravitational merge, Kael's parents launched him toward Earth — not as a baby, but as a teenager, meaning he arrived with memories, grief, and a half-formed identity.

Powers

• Strength from any star — but varies wildly by type
• Light-riding — he surfs beams and ambient photons; indoors he's slower
• Solar flare burst — a full-body pulse, not a precise beam; has a cooldown
• Tough, but heals rapidly rather than being impervious — he can be hurt
• Spectrum sight — sees all wavelengths, including emotion-linked bioelectric fields

Character Elements

• He remembers his world. Kael mourns Aethon consciously. He carries survivor's guilt, not just a mythic origin.
• He can run dry. Extended time in darkness (underground, deep space, indoors) slowly drains him. He's not a god — he's a rechargeable being with real limits.
• He distrusts worship. Aethon had a caste of "Lightborn" who were treated as divine and it led to corruption. Kael actively resists being seen as a savior figure.
• His secret identity is genuine. As Marcus Vane, he's a documentary filmmaker — someone who tells other people's stories so he never has to center himself.

Weakness

Solaris is weakened by entropic radiation — a byproduct of dying stars. Prolonged exposure doesn't just drain him; it ages his cells, making him temporarily mortal and exhausted. A black hole's tidal edge is basically his Kryptonite.

Signature Trait

Solaris inspires through endurance. His symbol is a stylized double helix of light representing two suns becoming one, the last image of his home. He doesn't tell people it'll be okay. He tells them: "I know what loss feels like. Keep going anyway."

Created by: Marz Workman, 06-14-2026

Solaris - The Lightborn is an Open Source character, created by Marz Workman, and can be used freely by anyone with no copyright restrictions.

Dorothy Gale (incarnations)

Created by: Marz Workman 7-6-2020
 

Ellila Hermiylor, the Ruby Witch and Beary Alin

 Created by: Marz Workman 7-6-2020

Shyla Ghostcaller

 Created by: Marz Workman 7-7-2020

Sparkle

 Real Name: Stephanie J. Northrup

Era: Golden Age

Created by: Marz Workman, 9-6-18

SPARKLE is an Open Source character, created by Marz Workman, and can be used freely by anyone with no copyright restrictions.

History/Origin: Stephanie was a 10 year old street kid that was taken in by Bart Garret, the Blue Devil. She discovered he was the Blue Devil while she was snooping around the house. She promised not to tell anyone if he would train her to be his sidekick. Unknown to Bart, she never intended to tell anyone.

Powers: Sparkle has no powers, but is a skilled fighter and boomerang expert trained by Bart. She is not given Vitamin 2-X because Dr. Franz did not know how it would affect a child.

Notes: Sparkle is an add-on to my melds project, not really being a melded OSC. Created as an alternate to Holyoke's SPARKY. Enjoy.

Kurisumasu Fuyu Kamen Erufu (Christmas Winter Masked Elf)

Real Name: Chrystmas Holly Daye

Race: North Pole Elf

Height: 4'-6"

Weight: 85 lbs.

Created by Marz Workman, 12-13-18

#opensourcechallenge

Kurisumasu Fuyu Kamen Erufu is an open source character available for use by anyone with no copyright restrictions.

Chrystmas was born in 1855. She is considered, what humans call, a teenager.

Her people came from a far away galaxy and settled at Earth's northern pole, as it is similar to their homeworld. They have a lifespan ranging from 680 to 1000 years.

Chrystmas works in Santa's Candy Workshop as an expert candy maker and designer.

On Christmas Day 1972, she recieved a gift from Santa. When she opened it, it looked like a new buckle for her belt. Santa then explained how it worked. He called it the Aurora Shifter. It has a crystal in the center of a metallic casing. The crystal contains energies from the Aurora Borealis. When she wants to activate it, she touches the crystal and speaks, "It's Christmas Time!" She then is transformed into a superhero with many powers, weapons and martial arts skills. She has a reindeer companion named "Snowblast".

Only Santa and Mrs. Claus know she is Kamen Erufu (a short form of her hero name).

She helps defend the North Pole against invaders. She has been known to assist other heroes as well. She is small, but a total badass. She teams with Santa's Claws often.

http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Santa%27s_Claws

I have included art with a template and my original concept design.

The Ancient Blades

Created by Marz Workman

All are Open Source.

No story. Just playing with the mobile version of Fabrica de Herois (Factory of Heroes on Google Play). Was thinking something like Sentai Guyvers that sleep and wake through history.

 

Bombogenesis

Real Name: Ashikaga Tetsuro

Created by: Marz Workman, [12-13-2019]

Origin/History 
Tetsuro is an autistic boy of 11 yrs old. His emotions are out of control (happy to angry in an eye blink). He is non-verbal and can become frustrated when he cannot communicate his need to someone. He is prone to ritualistic behavior. 

Tetsuro was born in Japan. When he was around 1-1/2 yrs old, his behavior changed and he was diagnosed with autism. Around 5 yrs old, he developed the ability to control air, having that ability directly linked to his emotional state. After destroying his family's home, he was taken to a research facility. There, he was submitted through testing and was found to have an aptitude for technology and that his power is directly linked to his emotional state (the angrier he is, the more violent his air manipulation is). If he becomes too angry, he can create storms, hurricanes, and the like.

He is confined in a blast-proof glass "cell" where he is constantly monitored for his protection and the protection of others. He is well taken care of and his parents are with him always. The family receives a compensation. Studies on his conditions are used to help others.

Tetsuro also has the RH- factor in his blood.

Powers
Air Manipulation (linked to his emotional state without focus or direction)

Abilities
Techno-Adept: able to work any piece of technology with some degree of success. This does not appear to be a super power, but rather a side-effect to his autism.

Equipment
an android tablet

Notes
The above text is just a light back story, or set-up.

Story ideas for this character could have him utilized in extreme situations where is power would benefit the situation, or to have him always being pursued by aliens due to his RH- blood. Autistic children are aware of what is going on around them, they just cannot process the communication to express any response to it, they just react to a situation, much like instinct. He could also ward off kaiju (y'know, being based in Japan and all).

He cannot be placed in a suit with life support then placed in a vacuum, because when he became angry, he would just use the atmosphere in the suit, which would destroy the suit exposing him to vacuum, and ultimately kill him.

I found "bombogenesis" while reading a weather article, looked up what it meant and just rolled out this character.

The above image is for reference only and should not be used in any of your works.

Creator Notes 
As a father of a severely autistic child, a situation like this where the child also would have a potentially dangerous power would be extremely frightening. The bursts of anger and rage that could cause devastating destruction on a grand scale are unimaginable. The emotions of an autistic child are uncontrollable and these bursts are a "let it ride out" thing. You just have to keep them and those around them safe until it passes. It's stressful and trying, but you have to take it for the sake of your child. 

Legal
Bombogenesis is an open source character free for anyone to use with no copyright restrictions. Creator citation is not required, but would be appreciated.

Doctor Energy and E.V.E.T. (Open Source)

 Real Name: Dr. November Ross

Created by: Marz Workman, 11-01-2019

#oscgchallenge

Origin/History 
November was born in 1910 to a scholar father and an at-home mother. He was named "November" because he was born in the month of November. He was raised well and educated. After he had gone to university, his parents were killed amid gangster activity. He took a year off from school to sort out his business and grieve. He went on to complete his education and worked with a senior scientist.

After a few years, he began working on his own projects from his own lab at his home. During this time, in 1939, he was called to a farm to investigate a meteor that crashed in a field. He took the meteor to his lab. After a few tests, the meteor cracked open and a blue glow emitted from the crack. What was thought to be a rocky shell was actually a metal casing submitted to lots of abuse. Inside was what looked like a vacuum tube filled with a liquid that emanated blue light. 

He went on to build a device to test the energy output capabilities of the tube. When he plugged it into the device, it did as expected and powered his experiment, even overloading the capacitor. Once the smoke cleared, the tube began to flicker. He then realized that it was trying to communicate. He built another device that had all sorts of gauges, printable readouts, and even a speaker. He plugged in the tube, and heard a voice. It told him that it was a "liquid energy" called Evadeium and that its container was made to match the current Earth technology. He eventually called the tube the Evadeium Volatile Energy Transmitter, or, E.V.E.T.

In the early 1940's, with the rise of the "super hero" and villains, November designed several devices he could use to aid the heroes on occasion, not going out of his way to become a hero, and devices he experimented with to further his knowledge. The heroes dubbed him "Doctor Energy". He sometimes got caught in his own adventures, and even joined a team of heroes, but his passion was science and he mainly served in a reserve capacity. He designed gadgets for his fellow heroes and even designed the headquarters powered by E.V.E.T. When they called on November, s**t just got real. 

He eventually became the base leader of the team.


Abilities

• scientist, educated in many fields, including Engineering and Quantum, Astro-, Applied and Theoretical Physics of the early 20th century.

• skilled fighter

Equipment

• Evadeium Volatile Energy Transmitter (E.V.E.T.): a glowing vacuum tube filled with "liquid energy" that plugs into a variety of devices and can access most forms of energy, known and unknown. Some of these devices focus and emit that energy from an electrode apparatus on the device, and other devices channel the energy to power equipment in the lab. It can also detect energies, gases, temperatures, etc. It also talks to Doctor Energy through a speaker on each device and warns him of danger, questions his motives, and, occasionally, makes fun of him. It seems to have an unlimited energy capacity.

• a variety of small gadgets and parts kept in his utility belt

Weapons

• a pistol that emits a noxious gas that temporarily affects his enemies.

Notes 
E.V.E.T. exists into the modern time, having been passed down from teacher to student, father to son, etc. E.V.E.T. has never failed in 80 years.

E.V.E.T. can be used to power any sort of real or imagined device for your stories creating all sorts of adventures for November, or your own characters who later owned E.V.E.T.

Legal
Please include the below paragraphs with your work.

Doctor Energy is an open source character free for anyone to use with no copyright restrictions. Creator citations are not required, but would be greatly appreciated.

E.V.E.T. is an open source character object free for anyone to use with no copyright restrictions. Creator citations are not required, but would be greatly appreciated.

Mon Fighter J (Open Source)

Real Name: Camran Newist

Created by: Marz Workman, 10-22-2019

Origin/History

Camran is a high school student. He loves to hike in the mountains near his home. On one of his hikes he found a cave and explored it. Inside, he found an old metal box. he opened the box. As the hinged lid fell back, a hologram of an alien being appeared. It told him of another dimension where the Mons live and how his people had accidentally let them loose in this dimension. It also told him of the device, in the bottom of the box, and how to use it. It also tells him of his mission to return all of the Mons back to their home dimension.

Powers

Dimensional Summoning (of Mons)
Dimensional Travel (to/from Mon Dimension - Mons only)
Animal Manipulation (of summoned Mons)
Enhanced Strength
Enhanced Speed
Enhanced Leap
Enhanced Durability

Abilities

Encyclopedic Knowledge (of Mons and Mon Dimension)

Weapons

Energy Pistol (appears after activation)
Energy Sword (appears after activation)

Equipment

Mon Changer (activates by saying "Mon Change" in any language and is powered by an energy ring)
Mon Porter (appears on suit after activation - summons/banishes Mons)

Enemies

non-summoned Mons

Legal
Mon Fighter J is an Open Source Character and is free for anyone to use with no copyright restrictions. Creator citations are not necessary but would be greatly appreciated.

Ghost Tiger (Open Source)

Real Name: George Timball

Created by: Marz Workman, 10-22-2019

Origin/History

George is a local policeman and former military serviceman. He served during WWII. Upon returning home, he became a policeman. On a certain day, he came across a robbery at a local Chinese gift store. He entered, and, after a short confrontation, he subdued the thief. To show his appreciation, the Chinese man, Leung Mong, gave him a ring. It is not known if Leung knew the ring bestowed power.

Once home, George remembered the ring in his pocket and placed it on his finger. A wash of emotions and thoughts and feelings and pain overtook him. During this ordeal of bestowal, a voice speaking a form of Chinese began to tell him of the power of the ring, and somehow, George understood. When the event ended, George passed out for the night. 

The next morning, George awoke feeling better than he had before the war. He went on duty. During his day, he had chased criminals through the city. During these chases, a few of his powers manifested themselves. Once off duty, he returned to the store where he received the ring, only it was not there. According to the owner of the shop that was there, there was never a Chinese store there as his store had been there for twenty years.

At home, George was overcome with confusion, and he stares at the ring on his finger. All of a sudden, an older Chinese man appears in a ghostly form before George. He explains what the ring does and tells George that he must meditate daily to unlock and master the ring's power. He also says that the power can be used for good or evil, the choice belongs to George.

George begins to meditate daily, slowly over time unlocking new abilities. He also bought a farm outside of town so he could practice his new powers. He discovers that he has the abilities of a ghost and is able to equal or better anyone in combat. So, after a few encounters on duty, using his powers secretly, George decides to don a costume and fight crime off-duty as a super hero. He chooses a tiger for the base of his alter ego, as its symbol is on the ring. Couple that with his ghost-like abilities, and he called himself Ghost Tiger.

Powers

Adaptive Power-Level

Combat Merging

Combat Perception

Combat Specialist

Decelerated Aging

Energy Independence

Fear Inducement

Flight

Improbable Weapon Proficiency

Inaudibility

Inodorosity

Intangibility

Invisibility

Martial Arts Intuition

Multi-Weapon Wielding

Possession

Tactical Analysis

Telekinesis

Telepathy

Visual Nullification
Voice Masking

Weapon Proficiency

Abilities

trained soldier

trained police officer

speaks Chinese, via the ring

Weapons

a pair of "tiger claws" (clawed gloves)

Notes

It is unknown if George still lives in the present day and holds the ring, or if he passed the ring to someone else and lived/lives the rest of his life as normal.

Legal

GHOST TIGER is an Open Source Character and is free for anyone to use with no copyright restrictions. Creator citations are not necessary but would be greatly appreciated.

Spideress (Open Source)

Real Name: Shanyn Raynes

Aliases: Spider Queen (II)

Created by: Marz Workman, 10-14-2019

Origin/History 
Shanyn was digging around in her family's attic when she found a box with a costume, the “spider‐web fluid” formula and the set of bracelets her great-grandmother, Shannon Kane, invented. With these items were some news clippings of the Spider Queen. She took the items.

She made the formula and cleaned the bracelets to test if they still worked. Fortunately, they did still worked. She loaded them up an started practicing with them. She also began studying martial arts and gymnastics. After months of training, she decided to don the costume and fight crime as the second Spider Queen. After a few successful outings, she saw herself in the news feeds and on television. She noticed the costume looked dated, so she made an updated version. 

On one of her outings, she ran across the Black Arachnid (II). They happened to be chasing the same crook, so they teamed up and caught the guy. They began teaming and training more often, then, after revealing their identities to one another, they began dating. So, to better match with Max, she designed a new costume and changed her code name. 

At times, they have teamed with Black Arachnid (2.0) and Black Arachness. As a group, they call themselves The Arachnids.

She is a nurse at a local hospital.

Abilities
trained acrobat, martial artist, and web slinger.
trained nurse.

Equipment
a set of bracelets that shoot a "spider-web fluid" and a belt that houses many pellets and gadgets. Max has made her a new set of bracelets copied exactly from the originals, only made with better materials. She has archived the originals. 

Allies
Black Arachnid (II)
Black Arachnid 2.0
Black Arachness

Notes 
Spideress' spider-web fluid formula is different from both Black Arachnids (which each has his own formula), although they all function nearly the same.

Legal
Spideress is an open source character free for anyone to use with no copyright restrictions.

Djinna (Open Source)

Real Name: Carol Marie Banks

Created by: Marz Workman, 10-07-2019

Origin/History 
Carol is a test subject of the Greys that had taken Black Arachness. After Black Arachness vowed to destroy the Greys, Carol was left abandoned, as were many of the Greys experiments.

She was found by Black Arachness in an unnammed town, inside an old abandoned gas station. After a small battle where Carol showed her powers, she was subdued by Black Arachnid 2.0 and taken to a government holding facility. 

While in custody, General Joseph Parsons (American General) located her family and had them brought to Carol. When her parents arrived, the monster inside her came out, as it did when it fought Black Arachness. The American General calls it a demon, but it reveals itself as a Djinn. It is discovered that the djinn is not under Carol's control and she is merely the vessel for it. (Think of her as a genie lamp.) The djinn explains that the Greys took his vessel, destroyed it, and bonded it to Carol's DNA. It then reveals it's name as Garuko. It is discussed to remove the vessel from Carol.

Some time later, a procedure is developed and put into place. While waiting, Carol and Garuko bond and learn they can communicate telepathically. 

Carol is put into a coma and the procedure begins. Something goes wrong and metal begins to form on her wrists and her vitals go wonky. She suddenly wakes up and is wearing Garuko's bracelets.

It is learned that Garuko did not survive the procedure and that he gave Carol his power.

Powers

• Reality Warping
• Reliant Immortality
• Genie Manipulation

Enemies
The Greys

Notes 
Djinna features in The Arachnids in “Little Miss Monster” and American General in "The Genie Bottle", flash fiction by Marz Workman.

Legal
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