Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2013 21:28:15 GMT -4
The person behind the character:
Name/Nickname: Hothead, Torch Bearer
Age: Between 24 & 25
Experience: 8 Years
Contact information: PM
Character basics:
Real name: Kyle Rayner
Code name: Green Lantern
Date of Birth: N/A
Place of Birth: N/A
Age: 20's
Known family: Aaron Rayner (father), Maura Rayner (mother, deceased), Zachary Rayner (uncle, deceased), Roderick "Snowy" Rayner (grandfather, deceased), unnamed maternal great-grandfather (deceased), Kathleen (aunt), Cary Wren (descendant)
The Reflection in the mirror:
Hair: Black
Eyes: Green
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 180 lbs
Legal Status: Adult
Occupation: Green Lantern
Affiliation: Green Lantern Corps
Abilities:
· Oan Energy Conduit: Kyle Rayner wields a Green Lantern ring, which uses Oan energy (supplied by a Green Lantern Power Battery) which in most cases takes the form of green light. Rot Lop Fan, from a race without eyes, perceives it as the sound "F-Sharp" and his 'ring' is actually a bell. A Green Lantern's ring, considered to be one of, if not the most powerful weapon in the universe, has the ability to affect and use fundamental forces of the known universe, including gravity, radiation, heat, light, and blasts of concussive force. It is also theorized that the ring also has a basis in other dimensional energies commonly called magic by users of such energies. The ring can also create fields of force formed from an unknown energy that was bound by the users' will. The limitations of such use are the skill, knowledge and imagination of the user.
· Energy Projection
· Environmental Playback
· Invisibility & Light Refraction
· Energy Twin
· Energy Absorption
· Wormholes & Spacial Warps
· Time Travel
· Limited Cellular Regeneration
· Electromagnetic Scanning
· Search Probes
· Galactic Encyclopedia
· Universal Translator
· Material Alteration
· Ring Duplication
· Emergency Beacon
· Homing Beacon
· Mind Alteration
· Pocket Dimension
· Security Protocol
· Preset Conditions
· Hope Symbiosis
· Indomitable Will: Like many Green Lanterns, he possesses an incredibly strong will. He has been able to resist Zazzala's hypnotic pollen (through some coaxing from Huntress) which no one has been able to resist in the past. In addition, Mageddon (Weapon of the old Gods) tried to disable his ring but the Ultimate Warbringer was no match for Kyle's will.
· Green Lantern Ring Mastery: Kyle's constructs are among the most powerful. Kyle's constructs are much more elaborate than those of any other green lanterns, often fading into view like a sketch refined into an illustration.
· Artistry: Kyle is a skilled and creative artist. He's been an artist since he was born and has an equally long history of creativity. He's drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed, inked, colored, designed, and created thousands of works of art with or without his Rings.
What's hidden behind the mask:
Personality: Kyle is, at heart, a big kid. Despite the horrors he's faced, he still loves being a hero, loves the attention, and loves helping people. Despite being the sort who craves recognition, he doesn't let it get to his head, and manages not to be arrogant or pushy. He is, in fact, a very sweet person, though he can sometimes come off as utterly clueless. Kyle tries to remain cheerful even in desperate or dire situations and keeps up a facade of bravado, but this masks deep fears concerning his loved ones. Kyle has lost many friends, family, and lovers in his time, and he deeply fears losing others. However, he possesses an incredible will, and can overcome these fears if he focuses on the fact that he needs to protect these people at all costs.
Kyle is gregarious and friendly, going out of his way to make friends and meet people. He's always ready with a smile and a handshake, and if you're his neighbor you'll know it. He's also a gigantic flirt. If it has boobs, he will make a pass at it. Still, he ultimately means well, even if he has a tendency to have wandering eyes even when he's in a steady relationship. Though he actually is a good boyfriend, his girlfriends have a habit of dying due to circumstances beyond his control.
Finally, Kyle is every bit the artist. Ultimately he's never satisfied. It's for this reason that he craves so much recognition. Kyle constantly refines everything he does, continually re-adjusting his outlook and tactics to fit a given situation. Most of all, he's never truly satisfied with himself. For the most part, this is productive, allowing him to continue to push himself to learn and grow, but sometimes he can get a little obsessive, and he has on occasion fallen into fits of self-loathing, fearing that he's not good enough to protect the people he loves. He breaks out of this quickly enough with encouragement from his friends, however, complete with a jaunty smirk and the reassurance that he is, indeed, Awesome.
As an aside, Kyle is a huge nerd. He became an illustrator because of a love of pop culture and comic books, and canonically he makes constant references to just about every nerd thing you can think of. He has before made constructs that look like Gundam or Lagann from Gurren Lagann; he talks about Star Wars and video games; he makes references to Marvel Comics, basically he's one big fourth-walling machine. His favourite art style is Art Deco.
History: Kyle Rayner was a starving freelancer in Los Angeles when one day after a long night of partying to try to get himself to forget how empty his bank account was a small blue man in a funny red poncho stopped him in an alley and gave him a green ring. Kyle was extraordinarily confused, but then delighted when he found out that the ring gave him the power to create anything he could imagine. Being an optimistic and somewhat silly sort, he immediately set off to tell his ex-girlfriend, the photographer Alex DeWitt.
Alex was initially unimpressed, but later glad that her ex-boyfriend was actually doing something besides moping and complaining about his lack of commissions. She decided to help him actually get the hang of hero work, and supported him during the somewhat rocky initial weeks of his career. Slowly, they grew closer together, with Alex actually respecting Kyle and helping him to get publicity by taking photos of him as the new Green Lantern and posting them to newspapers.
Major Force, a villain hired by some shadowy government agency with eyes on Kyle's power ring murdered Alex, then left her shoved into the refrigerator for Kyle to find. Kyle, predictably, had a bit of a heroic BSOD before going off and kicking Major Force's ass.
However, Kyle was still in the midst of an existential crisis, wondering if what he was doing was at all worth it. Alan Scott appeared to him and explained a little more about the Green Lanterns (which Kyle knew almost nothing about) and comforted him, which managed to get Kyle back in the game. He had a number of adventures after this, including an incident where he was forced to fight Parallax and had to destroy Oa itself in order to stop the former Lantern. Lost in space following this incident, Kyle met a former lantern, a young woman. She was in despair because of Parallax killing off the entire Lantern Corps. Kyle tried to comfort her, but she stole his ring and left him alone and stranded on the planet. Later, she returned it, saying that it did not work for her. Once again, Kyle tried to comfort her, but she brushed him off before shooting herself in the head in front of him.
Kyle then returned to Earth, where he met Guy Gardener for the first time. They teamed up to take down Major Force. Kyle refused to kill the villain, saying that he was a hero, and that to kill him would be wrong; Guy, however, had no such reservations. At the same time, Kyle did not stop guy from taking that action.
Kyle joined the Titans for a while, during which time he dated Donna Troy, met Jade, John Stewart, and Wally West. Initially, Kyle and Wally couldn't stand each other, but over time they gained grudging respect, and eventually became good friends. Unfortunately for Kyle (but perhaps fortunately for Donna) she broke up with him over a fight regarding him having a nude model in his apartment. Eventually, Donna returned, needing Kyle's help, and they got back together.
Kyle then met Connor Hawke, the current Green Arrow, and they bonded over their similar situations and histories. The two of them went on a trip to try to find Kyle's father, but ultimately did not succeed.
During the Final Night incident, Kyle went to find Hal Jordan, then Parallax, who sacrificed himself to re-ignite the sun. Kyle then fought a number of villains and had some adventures: he fought Fatality, met a Hal Jordan from the past, and met Jade, Allan Scott's daughter. Jade wanted to stay at Kyle's place, and unfortunately Donna became jealous and broke up with him again. Later, Jade and Kyle became romantically involved, and Kyle tried to re-start the Corps, with limited success. He gave Jade a Green Lantern ring anyway.
Kyle had a number of other adventures, including an incident where a number of alternate universe green lanterns, such as a version of Alex, had to help him with something before returning to their own universes.
For a brief period, Kyle became almost godlike after absorbing what he thought was the leftover energy of the sun after Hal Jordan sacrificed himself to re-ignite it. During this time, he became known as Ion. Unfortunately, these incredible powers came at the slow cost of his humanity. Kyle decided to abandon Ion's powers, restoring the Central Power Battery on Oa.
Shortly after this, Kyle Rayner was spent on a special mission to recover Hal Jordan's body from the center of the sun. During his journey, Kyle learned the truth about Parallax - it was, in truth, the living incarnation of fear itself, a parasite from the beginning of time. Kyle also met Kilowog and the other Lanterns, and finally got his first true assignment as a member of the Corps. After a horrible battle with Parallax possessing the Guardian Ganathet, Kyle and his fellow lanterns triumphed over the fear entity, imprisoning it once again.
During Infinite Crisis, Jade died, much to Kyle's sorrow - he had intended to marry her, even though they separated shortly before the events of Rebirth. With her dying breaths she passed the power of the Starheart onto Kyle, once again transforming him into Ion. Kyle is thus dubbed the Torchbearer, the Lantern who bore the light of the Corps when no one else could. He also begins to realize that Ion is in fact a separate entity from him, some sort of symbiont life form, but he does not realize the extent of this until much later.
Kyle discovered something strange - a yellow power ring. Before he could report this phenomenon to the Guardians, he was teleported to the antimatter universe of Qward. There, Kyle encountered Sinestro and his new Sinestro Corps. At first, Kyle had no problem overcoming his inner fears and fighting them, but they soon overwhelmed him with sheer force of numbers. Sinestro proceeded to rip Ion from within Kyle - revealing that Ion was a being like Parallax, save a benevolent one, the living incarnation of willpower itself and the ultimate source of the power of the Green Lanterns. Sinestro then revealed that his corps were responsible for the death of Kyle's mother, something which had been causing him great internal pain. The fear of losing his loved ones - he had lost so many - utterly overwhelmed him, and in this moment of weakness the Parallax entity possessed him.
Kyle was eventually freed with the help of Guy Gardener and Hal Jordan, though not until Parallax completely traumatized him. Even so, one of the Guardians asked him if he would like to return to the corps, and Kyle quickly agreed. Eventually, Kyle overcame the traumatization and once again became an Honor Guard of the Green Lantern Corps.
Code word: Armageddon
Name/Nickname: Hothead, Torch Bearer
Age: Between 24 & 25
Experience: 8 Years
Contact information: PM
Character basics:
Real name: Kyle Rayner
Code name: Green Lantern
Date of Birth: N/A
Place of Birth: N/A
Age: 20's
Known family: Aaron Rayner (father), Maura Rayner (mother, deceased), Zachary Rayner (uncle, deceased), Roderick "Snowy" Rayner (grandfather, deceased), unnamed maternal great-grandfather (deceased), Kathleen (aunt), Cary Wren (descendant)
The Reflection in the mirror:
Hair: Black
Eyes: Green
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 180 lbs
Legal Status: Adult
Occupation: Green Lantern
Affiliation: Green Lantern Corps
Abilities:
· Oan Energy Conduit: Kyle Rayner wields a Green Lantern ring, which uses Oan energy (supplied by a Green Lantern Power Battery) which in most cases takes the form of green light. Rot Lop Fan, from a race without eyes, perceives it as the sound "F-Sharp" and his 'ring' is actually a bell. A Green Lantern's ring, considered to be one of, if not the most powerful weapon in the universe, has the ability to affect and use fundamental forces of the known universe, including gravity, radiation, heat, light, and blasts of concussive force. It is also theorized that the ring also has a basis in other dimensional energies commonly called magic by users of such energies. The ring can also create fields of force formed from an unknown energy that was bound by the users' will. The limitations of such use are the skill, knowledge and imagination of the user.
· Energy Projection
· Environmental Playback
· Invisibility & Light Refraction
· Energy Twin
· Energy Absorption
· Wormholes & Spacial Warps
· Time Travel
· Limited Cellular Regeneration
· Electromagnetic Scanning
· Search Probes
· Galactic Encyclopedia
· Universal Translator
· Material Alteration
· Ring Duplication
· Emergency Beacon
· Homing Beacon
· Mind Alteration
· Pocket Dimension
· Security Protocol
· Preset Conditions
· Hope Symbiosis
· Indomitable Will: Like many Green Lanterns, he possesses an incredibly strong will. He has been able to resist Zazzala's hypnotic pollen (through some coaxing from Huntress) which no one has been able to resist in the past. In addition, Mageddon (Weapon of the old Gods) tried to disable his ring but the Ultimate Warbringer was no match for Kyle's will.
· Green Lantern Ring Mastery: Kyle's constructs are among the most powerful. Kyle's constructs are much more elaborate than those of any other green lanterns, often fading into view like a sketch refined into an illustration.
· Artistry: Kyle is a skilled and creative artist. He's been an artist since he was born and has an equally long history of creativity. He's drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed, inked, colored, designed, and created thousands of works of art with or without his Rings.
What's hidden behind the mask:
Personality: Kyle is, at heart, a big kid. Despite the horrors he's faced, he still loves being a hero, loves the attention, and loves helping people. Despite being the sort who craves recognition, he doesn't let it get to his head, and manages not to be arrogant or pushy. He is, in fact, a very sweet person, though he can sometimes come off as utterly clueless. Kyle tries to remain cheerful even in desperate or dire situations and keeps up a facade of bravado, but this masks deep fears concerning his loved ones. Kyle has lost many friends, family, and lovers in his time, and he deeply fears losing others. However, he possesses an incredible will, and can overcome these fears if he focuses on the fact that he needs to protect these people at all costs.
Kyle is gregarious and friendly, going out of his way to make friends and meet people. He's always ready with a smile and a handshake, and if you're his neighbor you'll know it. He's also a gigantic flirt. If it has boobs, he will make a pass at it. Still, he ultimately means well, even if he has a tendency to have wandering eyes even when he's in a steady relationship. Though he actually is a good boyfriend, his girlfriends have a habit of dying due to circumstances beyond his control.
Finally, Kyle is every bit the artist. Ultimately he's never satisfied. It's for this reason that he craves so much recognition. Kyle constantly refines everything he does, continually re-adjusting his outlook and tactics to fit a given situation. Most of all, he's never truly satisfied with himself. For the most part, this is productive, allowing him to continue to push himself to learn and grow, but sometimes he can get a little obsessive, and he has on occasion fallen into fits of self-loathing, fearing that he's not good enough to protect the people he loves. He breaks out of this quickly enough with encouragement from his friends, however, complete with a jaunty smirk and the reassurance that he is, indeed, Awesome.
As an aside, Kyle is a huge nerd. He became an illustrator because of a love of pop culture and comic books, and canonically he makes constant references to just about every nerd thing you can think of. He has before made constructs that look like Gundam or Lagann from Gurren Lagann; he talks about Star Wars and video games; he makes references to Marvel Comics, basically he's one big fourth-walling machine. His favourite art style is Art Deco.
History: Kyle Rayner was a starving freelancer in Los Angeles when one day after a long night of partying to try to get himself to forget how empty his bank account was a small blue man in a funny red poncho stopped him in an alley and gave him a green ring. Kyle was extraordinarily confused, but then delighted when he found out that the ring gave him the power to create anything he could imagine. Being an optimistic and somewhat silly sort, he immediately set off to tell his ex-girlfriend, the photographer Alex DeWitt.
Alex was initially unimpressed, but later glad that her ex-boyfriend was actually doing something besides moping and complaining about his lack of commissions. She decided to help him actually get the hang of hero work, and supported him during the somewhat rocky initial weeks of his career. Slowly, they grew closer together, with Alex actually respecting Kyle and helping him to get publicity by taking photos of him as the new Green Lantern and posting them to newspapers.
Major Force, a villain hired by some shadowy government agency with eyes on Kyle's power ring murdered Alex, then left her shoved into the refrigerator for Kyle to find. Kyle, predictably, had a bit of a heroic BSOD before going off and kicking Major Force's ass.
However, Kyle was still in the midst of an existential crisis, wondering if what he was doing was at all worth it. Alan Scott appeared to him and explained a little more about the Green Lanterns (which Kyle knew almost nothing about) and comforted him, which managed to get Kyle back in the game. He had a number of adventures after this, including an incident where he was forced to fight Parallax and had to destroy Oa itself in order to stop the former Lantern. Lost in space following this incident, Kyle met a former lantern, a young woman. She was in despair because of Parallax killing off the entire Lantern Corps. Kyle tried to comfort her, but she stole his ring and left him alone and stranded on the planet. Later, she returned it, saying that it did not work for her. Once again, Kyle tried to comfort her, but she brushed him off before shooting herself in the head in front of him.
Kyle then returned to Earth, where he met Guy Gardener for the first time. They teamed up to take down Major Force. Kyle refused to kill the villain, saying that he was a hero, and that to kill him would be wrong; Guy, however, had no such reservations. At the same time, Kyle did not stop guy from taking that action.
Kyle joined the Titans for a while, during which time he dated Donna Troy, met Jade, John Stewart, and Wally West. Initially, Kyle and Wally couldn't stand each other, but over time they gained grudging respect, and eventually became good friends. Unfortunately for Kyle (but perhaps fortunately for Donna) she broke up with him over a fight regarding him having a nude model in his apartment. Eventually, Donna returned, needing Kyle's help, and they got back together.
Kyle then met Connor Hawke, the current Green Arrow, and they bonded over their similar situations and histories. The two of them went on a trip to try to find Kyle's father, but ultimately did not succeed.
During the Final Night incident, Kyle went to find Hal Jordan, then Parallax, who sacrificed himself to re-ignite the sun. Kyle then fought a number of villains and had some adventures: he fought Fatality, met a Hal Jordan from the past, and met Jade, Allan Scott's daughter. Jade wanted to stay at Kyle's place, and unfortunately Donna became jealous and broke up with him again. Later, Jade and Kyle became romantically involved, and Kyle tried to re-start the Corps, with limited success. He gave Jade a Green Lantern ring anyway.
Kyle had a number of other adventures, including an incident where a number of alternate universe green lanterns, such as a version of Alex, had to help him with something before returning to their own universes.
For a brief period, Kyle became almost godlike after absorbing what he thought was the leftover energy of the sun after Hal Jordan sacrificed himself to re-ignite it. During this time, he became known as Ion. Unfortunately, these incredible powers came at the slow cost of his humanity. Kyle decided to abandon Ion's powers, restoring the Central Power Battery on Oa.
Shortly after this, Kyle Rayner was spent on a special mission to recover Hal Jordan's body from the center of the sun. During his journey, Kyle learned the truth about Parallax - it was, in truth, the living incarnation of fear itself, a parasite from the beginning of time. Kyle also met Kilowog and the other Lanterns, and finally got his first true assignment as a member of the Corps. After a horrible battle with Parallax possessing the Guardian Ganathet, Kyle and his fellow lanterns triumphed over the fear entity, imprisoning it once again.
During Infinite Crisis, Jade died, much to Kyle's sorrow - he had intended to marry her, even though they separated shortly before the events of Rebirth. With her dying breaths she passed the power of the Starheart onto Kyle, once again transforming him into Ion. Kyle is thus dubbed the Torchbearer, the Lantern who bore the light of the Corps when no one else could. He also begins to realize that Ion is in fact a separate entity from him, some sort of symbiont life form, but he does not realize the extent of this until much later.
Kyle discovered something strange - a yellow power ring. Before he could report this phenomenon to the Guardians, he was teleported to the antimatter universe of Qward. There, Kyle encountered Sinestro and his new Sinestro Corps. At first, Kyle had no problem overcoming his inner fears and fighting them, but they soon overwhelmed him with sheer force of numbers. Sinestro proceeded to rip Ion from within Kyle - revealing that Ion was a being like Parallax, save a benevolent one, the living incarnation of willpower itself and the ultimate source of the power of the Green Lanterns. Sinestro then revealed that his corps were responsible for the death of Kyle's mother, something which had been causing him great internal pain. The fear of losing his loved ones - he had lost so many - utterly overwhelmed him, and in this moment of weakness the Parallax entity possessed him.
Kyle was eventually freed with the help of Guy Gardener and Hal Jordan, though not until Parallax completely traumatized him. Even so, one of the Guardians asked him if he would like to return to the corps, and Kyle quickly agreed. Eventually, Kyle overcame the traumatization and once again became an Honor Guard of the Green Lantern Corps.
Kyle was proud of his achievement in becoming the Torch Bearer. He kept the legacy of the Green Lanterns alive after the destruction of the organization. It was an honorary title that Kyle greatly admired. There were over seven thousand Green Lanterns, all from different sectors, but Kyle was the only one with the honorary title as Torch Bearer.
On the outskirts of Oa, the secondary homeworld to the Guardians of the Universe and Green Lanterns Corps Headquarters, Kyle found himself in a heated battle with multiple Red Lanterns. "You Red Lanterns are lucky I'm not big, green, and angry! I'd have to SMASH every last one you!" Kyle always broke the fourth wall, which he found amusing. He was referring to The Hulk. Kyle was quickly under attack by the Red Lanterns, who would rather use their bare hands than create constructs. "My will is far too strong for your weak attacks!" Kyle instantly overpowered the Red Lanterns by using his power ring to construct a large force field.
The Oan energy surrounded Kyle in green light, as a group of Green Lanterns came to Kyle's aid, not that he needed it. "Here comes the cavalry!" Kyle changed his construct, quickly creating the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero (aka Wing Zero), which was a mobile suit that appeared in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, an anime that Kyle likes. The Red Lanterns realized they were outnumbered, therefore they decided to retreat back into the spacial warp they came from. Kyle approached the Green Lanterns, who arrived just as the Red Lanterns left. "Everything is under control!" Kyle used his power ring one last time to construct a surf board, before he went surfing across the stars on his way back to Oa.
On the outskirts of Oa, the secondary homeworld to the Guardians of the Universe and Green Lanterns Corps Headquarters, Kyle found himself in a heated battle with multiple Red Lanterns. "You Red Lanterns are lucky I'm not big, green, and angry! I'd have to SMASH every last one you!" Kyle always broke the fourth wall, which he found amusing. He was referring to The Hulk. Kyle was quickly under attack by the Red Lanterns, who would rather use their bare hands than create constructs. "My will is far too strong for your weak attacks!" Kyle instantly overpowered the Red Lanterns by using his power ring to construct a large force field.
The Oan energy surrounded Kyle in green light, as a group of Green Lanterns came to Kyle's aid, not that he needed it. "Here comes the cavalry!" Kyle changed his construct, quickly creating the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero (aka Wing Zero), which was a mobile suit that appeared in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, an anime that Kyle likes. The Red Lanterns realized they were outnumbered, therefore they decided to retreat back into the spacial warp they came from. Kyle approached the Green Lanterns, who arrived just as the Red Lanterns left. "Everything is under control!" Kyle used his power ring one last time to construct a surf board, before he went surfing across the stars on his way back to Oa.
Code word: Armageddon