Post by The Remedy on Dec 10, 2010 3:27:10 GMT -5
Name: Bruce Bryant
Alias/Code Name: (in order of prominence) The Remedy, The Cure, Mr. Cure
Age: Early twenties
Character Type: Human, alien symbiote
Gender: Male
Alignment: Neutral Good...Although Bruce is something of a patriot and is certainly well-meaning, he was not much for bureaucracy when he was a mere man. The law means little to him as The Remedy.
Appearance:
As Bruce: A slightly tall sized, slim and decent shape, young, light-skinned, African American man. (deliberately vague image)
As Remedy: A white bodysuit with large black eyes and a black spider on the chest and back. He glows white very softly. Very similar to Anti-Venom, for what will be obvious reasons. Significantly more lean. Eventually capable of changing color and shape with effort.
Personality: This will develop with time. He's a religious, altruistic young man, who has lost his childish sense of hope, but has lost it so recently that the seat is still warm. This does not mean that he is apathetic or pessimistic, just that at this point in his life he has seen how evil people can be and takes everything with a grain of salt. Bruce is initially borderline terrified of himself and what he is becoming. Part of him is amazed and excited about what's happening in his body. But the majority of him is initially more than terrified of the unknown. A strong young man, he is keeping a handle on it so far. But recently he's begun to feel like he's not alone even in his own thoughts. He has a strong aversion to thoughts of becoming a superhero due to the uncertainties and changes in lifestyle. But his altruistic tendencies and faith will not let him forget his potential.
Likes:[/size] American Cars, Military Aircraft, Football, Voluptuous Ladies, Science
Dislikes: [/size]Japanese Non-Economy Cars, Busywork, Soccer, Feminine behavior, Scumbags
Strengths: Resilient and determined, Bruce will never fail a task for lack of effort. He favors the most efficient path he can find, which means he will fight fire with water. In a confrontation he will usually act without fear.
Weaknesses: Can be lazy and undisciplined sometimes. Prone to fearfulness when idle or plotting. Rarely too confident unless he has reason or is acting. Not always good for a task which does not have some variety. His business partner's desires do not always match his own and can influence his decisions. He can also get carried away when frustrated. His powers require lots and lots of energy and he eats like a whale when he can afford to.
Powers/Weapons:
The Anti-Venom symbiote was an experimental lifeform derived from the Venom symbiote by Andreas Brickmoore and Project Destiny. It was designed to eliminate some of the major weaknesses of the Venom symbiote. It was recovered from Project Destiny by Venom himself, who oddly chose to find a purpose for it. Bruce unknowingly received the Anti-Venom symbiote via an emergency gift from Eddie Brock.
Bruce's powers will grow with time but they are initially quite weak. He has only a minimal amount of self-generated symbiote cells. His physiology and healing are enhanced, and he is on the order of two or three times as strong as he'd normally be. Eventually he will generate enough for the symbiote to become a true entity of it's own. Initially it is dormant with only a small psychic influence.
When the symbiote grows enough to become a true symbiote being, Bruce's powers will gradually increase to a level similar to Venom and Spiderman. At that point it will have a stronger psychic influence and be able to communicate telepathically. The symbiote has wide-ranging empathic senses which can allow Bruce to find people in duress.
Bruce's powers when at their peak:
The symbiote can mimic any form of clothing, and via it's color shifting abilities also provides a sort of 'cloaking' or camouflage mechanism. He can mimic other people's appearances if the sizes are similar. It also has a small dimensional aperture, or 'storage portal', that allows Bruce to store items without having to carry them on his person. The symbiote provides an essentially unlimited amount of webbing similar to, though stronger than, Spiderman's. Notably, overuse of the webbing over a short period would weaken him and he would recover more slowly than the other symbiotes. In addition to the webbing he can with effort generate tendrils and use them as additional limbs which have no size or flexibility constraints, and with even more effort they can be used as simple stabbing or cutting weapons. He sometimes, in the absence of buildings to swing from, will create long disc-like wings on his legs and arms, and use them to glide or sometimes 'swim' through the air like a manta ray. He can slowly gain altitude in a forward glide with effort.
The Anti-Venom symbiote provides Bruce with powers of recuperation far and away more powerful than Spiderman's or any other symbiote. Though extremely difficult to injure as it is, he can recover with a healing factor that would repair a broken arm in under two minutes. However this healing factor only applies to Bruce himself. Due to the low amount of symbiote-cell generating tissue in his body, if injured his symbiote is much slower healing than the others. In addition, he only heals at this accelerated rate when he focuses and applies the power. If he doesn't actually use his symbiote's power to heal then he would heal at a rate similar to Spiderman. He can re-grow limbs, but it is a much slower process than repairing material that is still there. It would take about a week to regrow a leg from the knee down, with constant effort.
To ask Bruce, his greatest power is his ability to heal others as if they had a healing factor, restoring them to wholeness sometimes at a detriment to their superpowers. He must wrap his tendrils around someone to heal them. In restoring someone to wholeness he can keep healing even further and temporarily neutralize any powers that are not natural to the lifeform. He could also go after the powers first. His ability to heal will overcome foreign substances, injuries, addictions, and diseases with general ease. This is why he calls himself The Remedy.
The symbiote itself has some telepathic abilities and can generally sense people. It can communicate telepathically with those it is touching. One of the symbiote's quirks is that like the other symbiotes that must consume adrenaline or phenethylamine, it has a certain desire to consume the toxins in diseased or rotting flesh.
Like Venom, Bruce has inherited Spiderman's abilities. He is not quite as strong as Venom, but comparable to Spiderman. His reflexes are comparable to Spiderman or Venom's. Although his pure agility is slightly superior to Spiderman's, his flexibility is not, and they therefore have similar levels of maneuverability. Bruce is thereby more agile than Venom.
Bruce's durability is perhaps not as strong as Venom's, although close enough to the common observer. When in suit, he is far and away more durable than Spiderman due to the symbiote's protection and ability to create shields. Notably, he is practically immune to fire and sonics have little effect on him. His suit protects him from extreme cold to some degree and provides filtered air for him to breathe.
Notably, he has not inherited an immunity to the Spider sense, although he does have the sixth sense himself. It is not quite as quick as Spiderman's. He has a similar superhuman equilibrium and superior ability to stick to surfaces. His senses are all at the peak of human ability.
Like when Venom fought Juggernaut, he has the ability to increase his strength by an order of magnitude when under great stress such as fighting a far and away more powerful foe. This is limited, however: when Venom fought Juggernaut, it only allowed him to escape with his life.
History:
Bruce was a journeyman through his young life, still struggling to find his place. He had recently decided to take a semester off from school and volunteer his time for local humanitarian efforts. A group of his friends decided to take a vacation in New York City and he went with them. During his time in the city he mucked around with his friends and occasionally volunteered at a philanthropist's soup kitchen and homeless shelter. During one fateful day at the soup kitchen, Eddie Brock happened to be visiting from San Francisco and was checking up on some of the homeless people he had protected from harm.
The shelter came under attack by some gang enforcers who were seeking vengeance against the owner, who refused to be extorted. They opened fire upon the reformed antihero, who was unthreatened, but Bruce dove and tackled Eddie out of the way. He was a step too slow and took several slugs to the back in the process.
Venom kicked their asses, while Bruce slowly bled to death, unconscious. After the fight, Eddie was surprised to find that the new guy at the soup kitchen was fatally wounded. He, in a moment of spontaneity, removed the cap from the vial of Anti-Venom and poured it over Bruce's wounds. In it's first breath of life, the symbiote stopped Bruce's bleeding and sustained his life until he was treated by paramedics some time later. The symbiote adapted in it's first few moments of life, taking on magnificent powers of healing to save it's host and bonding with his white blood cells to stave off infection.
Bruce awoke in the hospital, patched up and recovering. He was, unbeknownst to even himself, growing symbiote leukocytes at a very gradual rate. The doctors at the hospital knew there were a few foreign cells in his blood stream but wrote it off to infection. He himself knew nothing of the symbiote. As time wore on he was released from the hospital and returned home, continuing his daily life and working out sporadically. Something was odd, though. His lifts increased dramatically over the next few months, far more than he should have been able to develop naturally. He found himself straining to see out of his eyeglasses, which seemed like the prescription was far too strong. And anytime he got nick on his finger it healed before the week was out.
He kept his physiological changes to himself until one night he was coming home from a late night run and encountered one of his neighbors being robbed at gunpoint. Bruce quickly pulled his ski-mask down and delivered a full-body blindside tackle to the robber, who was knocked unconscious. Bruce then ran off, struggling with a lot of things on his young mind.
Should he become a superhero? His physical prowess was borderline superhuman. He knew he had the brains, but what kind of life would it be trying to be a wannabe cop? Bruce continued his life, telling no one. But every night he went for a run, he found himself wandering aimlessly. And night after night he found himself coming across the scene an emergency. Sometimes he arrived in time, sometimes he didn't, but it was becoming obvious that the urges he was having in his mind were directing him towards areas of high human emotion.
Bruce felt like he was beginning to lose his mind, and his life was swinging out of control. As much as he loved helping people he didn't feel like it was much a career. But it was becoming harder for him to ignore what was seeming like another presence in his mind, urging him to find these people who needed him.
Alias/Code Name: (in order of prominence) The Remedy, The Cure, Mr. Cure
Age: Early twenties
Character Type: Human, alien symbiote
Gender: Male
Alignment: Neutral Good...Although Bruce is something of a patriot and is certainly well-meaning, he was not much for bureaucracy when he was a mere man. The law means little to him as The Remedy.
Appearance:
As Bruce: A slightly tall sized, slim and decent shape, young, light-skinned, African American man. (deliberately vague image)
As Remedy: A white bodysuit with large black eyes and a black spider on the chest and back. He glows white very softly. Very similar to Anti-Venom, for what will be obvious reasons. Significantly more lean. Eventually capable of changing color and shape with effort.
Personality: This will develop with time. He's a religious, altruistic young man, who has lost his childish sense of hope, but has lost it so recently that the seat is still warm. This does not mean that he is apathetic or pessimistic, just that at this point in his life he has seen how evil people can be and takes everything with a grain of salt. Bruce is initially borderline terrified of himself and what he is becoming. Part of him is amazed and excited about what's happening in his body. But the majority of him is initially more than terrified of the unknown. A strong young man, he is keeping a handle on it so far. But recently he's begun to feel like he's not alone even in his own thoughts. He has a strong aversion to thoughts of becoming a superhero due to the uncertainties and changes in lifestyle. But his altruistic tendencies and faith will not let him forget his potential.
Likes:[/size] American Cars, Military Aircraft, Football, Voluptuous Ladies, Science
Dislikes: [/size]Japanese Non-Economy Cars, Busywork, Soccer, Feminine behavior, Scumbags
Strengths: Resilient and determined, Bruce will never fail a task for lack of effort. He favors the most efficient path he can find, which means he will fight fire with water. In a confrontation he will usually act without fear.
Weaknesses: Can be lazy and undisciplined sometimes. Prone to fearfulness when idle or plotting. Rarely too confident unless he has reason or is acting. Not always good for a task which does not have some variety. His business partner's desires do not always match his own and can influence his decisions. He can also get carried away when frustrated. His powers require lots and lots of energy and he eats like a whale when he can afford to.
Powers/Weapons:
The Anti-Venom symbiote was an experimental lifeform derived from the Venom symbiote by Andreas Brickmoore and Project Destiny. It was designed to eliminate some of the major weaknesses of the Venom symbiote. It was recovered from Project Destiny by Venom himself, who oddly chose to find a purpose for it. Bruce unknowingly received the Anti-Venom symbiote via an emergency gift from Eddie Brock.
Bruce's powers will grow with time but they are initially quite weak. He has only a minimal amount of self-generated symbiote cells. His physiology and healing are enhanced, and he is on the order of two or three times as strong as he'd normally be. Eventually he will generate enough for the symbiote to become a true entity of it's own. Initially it is dormant with only a small psychic influence.
When the symbiote grows enough to become a true symbiote being, Bruce's powers will gradually increase to a level similar to Venom and Spiderman. At that point it will have a stronger psychic influence and be able to communicate telepathically. The symbiote has wide-ranging empathic senses which can allow Bruce to find people in duress.
Bruce's powers when at their peak:
The symbiote can mimic any form of clothing, and via it's color shifting abilities also provides a sort of 'cloaking' or camouflage mechanism. He can mimic other people's appearances if the sizes are similar. It also has a small dimensional aperture, or 'storage portal', that allows Bruce to store items without having to carry them on his person. The symbiote provides an essentially unlimited amount of webbing similar to, though stronger than, Spiderman's. Notably, overuse of the webbing over a short period would weaken him and he would recover more slowly than the other symbiotes. In addition to the webbing he can with effort generate tendrils and use them as additional limbs which have no size or flexibility constraints, and with even more effort they can be used as simple stabbing or cutting weapons. He sometimes, in the absence of buildings to swing from, will create long disc-like wings on his legs and arms, and use them to glide or sometimes 'swim' through the air like a manta ray. He can slowly gain altitude in a forward glide with effort.
The Anti-Venom symbiote provides Bruce with powers of recuperation far and away more powerful than Spiderman's or any other symbiote. Though extremely difficult to injure as it is, he can recover with a healing factor that would repair a broken arm in under two minutes. However this healing factor only applies to Bruce himself. Due to the low amount of symbiote-cell generating tissue in his body, if injured his symbiote is much slower healing than the others. In addition, he only heals at this accelerated rate when he focuses and applies the power. If he doesn't actually use his symbiote's power to heal then he would heal at a rate similar to Spiderman. He can re-grow limbs, but it is a much slower process than repairing material that is still there. It would take about a week to regrow a leg from the knee down, with constant effort.
To ask Bruce, his greatest power is his ability to heal others as if they had a healing factor, restoring them to wholeness sometimes at a detriment to their superpowers. He must wrap his tendrils around someone to heal them. In restoring someone to wholeness he can keep healing even further and temporarily neutralize any powers that are not natural to the lifeform. He could also go after the powers first. His ability to heal will overcome foreign substances, injuries, addictions, and diseases with general ease. This is why he calls himself The Remedy.
The symbiote itself has some telepathic abilities and can generally sense people. It can communicate telepathically with those it is touching. One of the symbiote's quirks is that like the other symbiotes that must consume adrenaline or phenethylamine, it has a certain desire to consume the toxins in diseased or rotting flesh.
Like Venom, Bruce has inherited Spiderman's abilities. He is not quite as strong as Venom, but comparable to Spiderman. His reflexes are comparable to Spiderman or Venom's. Although his pure agility is slightly superior to Spiderman's, his flexibility is not, and they therefore have similar levels of maneuverability. Bruce is thereby more agile than Venom.
Bruce's durability is perhaps not as strong as Venom's, although close enough to the common observer. When in suit, he is far and away more durable than Spiderman due to the symbiote's protection and ability to create shields. Notably, he is practically immune to fire and sonics have little effect on him. His suit protects him from extreme cold to some degree and provides filtered air for him to breathe.
Notably, he has not inherited an immunity to the Spider sense, although he does have the sixth sense himself. It is not quite as quick as Spiderman's. He has a similar superhuman equilibrium and superior ability to stick to surfaces. His senses are all at the peak of human ability.
Like when Venom fought Juggernaut, he has the ability to increase his strength by an order of magnitude when under great stress such as fighting a far and away more powerful foe. This is limited, however: when Venom fought Juggernaut, it only allowed him to escape with his life.
History:
Bruce was a journeyman through his young life, still struggling to find his place. He had recently decided to take a semester off from school and volunteer his time for local humanitarian efforts. A group of his friends decided to take a vacation in New York City and he went with them. During his time in the city he mucked around with his friends and occasionally volunteered at a philanthropist's soup kitchen and homeless shelter. During one fateful day at the soup kitchen, Eddie Brock happened to be visiting from San Francisco and was checking up on some of the homeless people he had protected from harm.
The shelter came under attack by some gang enforcers who were seeking vengeance against the owner, who refused to be extorted. They opened fire upon the reformed antihero, who was unthreatened, but Bruce dove and tackled Eddie out of the way. He was a step too slow and took several slugs to the back in the process.
Venom kicked their asses, while Bruce slowly bled to death, unconscious. After the fight, Eddie was surprised to find that the new guy at the soup kitchen was fatally wounded. He, in a moment of spontaneity, removed the cap from the vial of Anti-Venom and poured it over Bruce's wounds. In it's first breath of life, the symbiote stopped Bruce's bleeding and sustained his life until he was treated by paramedics some time later. The symbiote adapted in it's first few moments of life, taking on magnificent powers of healing to save it's host and bonding with his white blood cells to stave off infection.
Bruce awoke in the hospital, patched up and recovering. He was, unbeknownst to even himself, growing symbiote leukocytes at a very gradual rate. The doctors at the hospital knew there were a few foreign cells in his blood stream but wrote it off to infection. He himself knew nothing of the symbiote. As time wore on he was released from the hospital and returned home, continuing his daily life and working out sporadically. Something was odd, though. His lifts increased dramatically over the next few months, far more than he should have been able to develop naturally. He found himself straining to see out of his eyeglasses, which seemed like the prescription was far too strong. And anytime he got nick on his finger it healed before the week was out.
He kept his physiological changes to himself until one night he was coming home from a late night run and encountered one of his neighbors being robbed at gunpoint. Bruce quickly pulled his ski-mask down and delivered a full-body blindside tackle to the robber, who was knocked unconscious. Bruce then ran off, struggling with a lot of things on his young mind.
Should he become a superhero? His physical prowess was borderline superhuman. He knew he had the brains, but what kind of life would it be trying to be a wannabe cop? Bruce continued his life, telling no one. But every night he went for a run, he found himself wandering aimlessly. And night after night he found himself coming across the scene an emergency. Sometimes he arrived in time, sometimes he didn't, but it was becoming obvious that the urges he was having in his mind were directing him towards areas of high human emotion.
Bruce felt like he was beginning to lose his mind, and his life was swinging out of control. As much as he loved helping people he didn't feel like it was much a career. But it was becoming harder for him to ignore what was seeming like another presence in his mind, urging him to find these people who needed him.