Marz Tales
This is my repository for the open source characters I have created. Enjoy and feel free to use whatever you want. If you do use any of this material, I ask that you please send me a link. Although it is not necessary. I also publish my osc's here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/157515817720769/
Friday, July 3, 2026
Star‑Rift Seven
Celeste Arden
“Freedom Sparks the Cosmos!”
Comic Age: Silver Age (1956–1970) — colorful, optimistic, concept‑driven sci‑fi
Time Anchor: July / 7 / Independence Day / Fireworks / Peak of Summer
Palette: Midnight (#2c3e50), Crimson (#e74c3c), Ash White (#ecf0f1), Amber (#f39c12)
Origin: The Rift of July Seventh
On July 7th, during a cosmic Independence Day experiment meant to study stellar fireworks, astronaut‑physicist Celeste Arden was caught in a catastrophic energy event known as the RIFT — a shimmering tear in spacetime shaped like a perfect number 7. Instead of destroying her, the Rift infused her with Amber star‑fire, Crimson plasma currents, and Ash‑White cosmic dust, rewriting her biology into something half‑human, half‑celestial.
When she emerged, the Midnight sky itself seemed to bend around her. Fireworks burst in patterns she didn’t command — but somehow echoed her heartbeat.
Powers & Abilities
Rift‑Step — Celeste can slip through micro‑fractures in spacetime, appearing in flashes of Midnight and Ash White.
Boltflare Hands — Her palms generate Amber‑Crimson BOLTS of condensed stellar electricity, spiraling like July fireworks.
Cairn‑Core Stability — A glowing CAIRN of seven cosmic “stones” or energy nodes floats within her chest cavity, acting as her internal reactor and moral compass.
Brushfire Ascendance — In moments of extreme emotion, her energy ignites into a BRUSHFIRE of Amber light around her feet, granting flight, speed, and explosive bursts of power.
Personality & Silver Age Tone
Celeste embodies the optimistic futurism of the Silver Age — a scientist‑hero who believes humanity’s greatest fireworks are yet to come. She speaks in bold declarations, leaps into danger with patriotic flair, and treats every crisis as a chance to reinvent what freedom means.
Her costume’s glowing number 7 is both a reminder of her cosmic birthday and a symbol of independence — the idea that every being deserves the chance to ignite their own spark.
Nemesis: The Rift‑Broken
A shadow entity born from the same July Seventh explosion, the Rift‑Broken represents what Celeste could have become: chaotic, uncontrolled, and hungry for cosmic dominance. Their clashes paint the sky in Midnight and Amber streaks, like fireworks battling for the soul of summer.
Legacy
Star‑Rift Seven becomes a beacon of hope in the Silver Age — a hero who proves that even when the universe tears itself open, humanity can rise from the RIFT with new light.
Created by: Marz Workman, 07-03-2026.
Star-Rift Seven is an Open Source character, created by Marz Workman, and can be used freely by anyone with no copyright restrictions.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Garuko
Garuko is a member of a race of alien beings called the Djinn. Humanoid in form, and can be of virtually any color. They mastered how to tap into and control cosmic forces by using arm bands to channel the power. This power allowed them to do anything they wanted, by thought or action and allowed them to live forever. In time, the Great Laws had to be established to keep the Djinn in check, and these laws were integrated into the cosmos, thus into the power of the Djinn. When a Djinn broke the law, its spirit was taken from its living husk and placed within a non-living object. This was done by the cosmos and at random. From this point, a Djinn became the servant of whoever possessed the object it was trapped in, for as long as the master possessed the object. and for a Djinn to be free from the object, the master must release the Djinn from service. The Djinn would be freed from the object, and also loose all connection to the cosmic power, rendering it mortal again.
Millenia ago, Garuko was a great master of the cosmic power and did good deeds all over the universe. To save an entire planet of people, it had to break one of the Great Laws. It was then punished and placed into a diamond (a raw diamond) and cast into space. It crashed into Earth many thousands of years ago. It was found by the Greys. It appeared and stated it's service, but they trapped it back inside using an energy field. Over many thousands of years, it's anger and hatred built. Then the diamond was atomized and it was placed inside Carol and merged with her DNA. Once again, it was able to exit the diamond, only to find no one owned, and could never own the diamond. It was now a part of a living being and for the greater understanding of the universe, slavery is not tolerated. Even parents do not own their children.
Friday, June 26, 2026
The Furious American
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Burgernator
Core Biography
Name: The Burgernator
Training: Special Order Forces
Combat Discipline: A master of Fast Food-jutsu and a recognized Martial Condiment Artist.
Tactical Gear & Capabilities
Signature Protection: He is heavily shielded by his iconic Burger Armor, featuring a central burger plate integrated into his tactical chest rig.
Weaponry:
Patty Blaster: His primary firearm used to neutralize threats.
Fry Spikes: Razor-sharp projectiles launched from his armored shoulders and forearms.
Soda Bomb: A potent explosive device disguised as a beverage cup, held at the ready for area-of-effect suppression.
Created by: Marz Workman, 12-18-2023.
The Burgernator is an Open Source character, created by Marz Workman, and can be used freely by anyone with no copyright restrictions.
Sunday, June 21, 2026
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.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
The Wraith — The Hollow Judge
Monday, June 15, 2026
Ironwood — The Evergreen Sentinel
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.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
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
- 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.
Monday, January 4, 2021
Sparkle
Real Name: Stephanie J. Northrup
Kurisumasu Fuyu Kamen Erufu (Christmas Winter Masked Elf)
The Ancient Blades
Friday, December 13, 2019
Bombogenesis
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.
Friday, November 1, 2019
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.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Mon Fighter J (Open Source)
Dimensional Travel (to/from Mon Dimension - Mons only)
Animal Manipulation (of summoned Mons)
Enhanced Strength
Enhanced Speed
Enhanced Leap
Enhanced Durability
Energy Sword (appears after activation)
Mon Porter (appears on suit after activation - summons/banishes Mons)
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.











