Publicschoolprivateschoolnoschoolatall Flickr
Playbook: Bull
Hero Name: Flickr
Real Name: Unknown
Look: Man, white, calloused hands, ragged clothing, no costume. Flickr boasts a toned, but fairly average frame despite standing 190cm (six foot three) tall, presenting as a little lanky in certain lights. With a dirty face of slightly precocious stubble for the eighteen-year-old and a mess of emerald hair with dark roots and short, black back and sides he comes off as rather unkempt, normal considering his homeless status. He looks Northwestern European in descent but has the kind of natural tan one gets unavoidably by being outside all the time, rather than acquired and carefully-distributed. Flickr dresses eclectically, but his clothes are always ragged, punkish and have spray paint stains; lately he has been sporting an emerald green tweed blazer with a number of genuine bullet holes in it. Goggles, a flannel-pattern face scarf and fingerless gloves are also in persistent attendance due to his graffiti art habit. There is a measure of generally dressing for ease of movement however, as he's picked up the useful talent of parkour for a homeless kid in Halycon City.
Abilities: Superhumanly tough, incredibly strong and uniquely skilled at fighting. Flickr, appropriate to his name, is in a subtle state of constantly flickering between thousands of microseconds in time. Due to this, impacts, currently tested to the point of gunfire, distribute their energy through this flickering incarnations and ultimately bounce off his skin. Similarly, although Flickr himself is not built to throw a particularly strong punch, when you factor in the strength of a thousand different versions of him, the combined impact of that energy is frequently deadly when misused. Although Flickr has learned to street fight over the years, most of his talent comes from this state of flickering through times, it grants him the ability to anticipate actions, especially in states of heightened stress and thus react to foil them before they have even begun. Flickr does not understand the extent of these abilities yet and is still slowly easing into their use, generally preferring not to push his luck.
Labels: Danger +3 Freak +2 Savior -2 Superior +1 Mundane -1
MOVES:
Team Moves:
When you share a triumphant celebration with someone, make them your love or rival immediately to mark potential. If they are already your love or rival, take Influence over them and mark potential.
When you share a vulnerability or weakness with someone, give them Influence and hold 2. Spend that hold to help them as if it were Team in the pool.
Bull Moves:
You've got a head you don't need: When you provoke someone with obvious threats and shows of force, roll +Danger instead of +Superior.
In a china shop: When you directly engage a threat, you can cause significant collateral damage to your environment to choose an additional option, even on a miss.
The Bull's Heart:
Love: Emily
Rival: Hellion
Defender: When you leap to defend your love or rival in battle, roll + Danger instead of + Savior to defend them.
BACKSTORY:
Who changed you? Blackness. Paralysis. Bright lights. A Scandinavian accent. A foreign tongue. The nightmarish feeling of your body and mind being displaced in time. That's all I remember. I have no desire to dig any deeper.
How did you escape from them? They dressed me in rags, made tracklines on my arms, dragged me down to the docks. Shot me in the back of the head. At least, I heard a gunshot. But I lived.
Who, outside the team, tries to take care of you now? King. He picked me up early on. I don't know much about him other than he talks like he has powers but I've never seen them, he runs the gun trade in Halcyon City and he's always been kind to me.
Why do you try to be a hero? King. He told me to. He said people like us had a responsibility to do what we think is right.
Why do you care about the team? I don't feel like such a freak around them.
RELATIONSHIPS:
Emily is your love. You've opened up to them about the worst parts of your past. Emily and Flickr talk. And they skate. And they spray. But mostly talk. Since they randomly met that day, they've had a thousand conversations about all manner of things. They felt comfortable talking to one another, for whatever reason. Maybe Flickr seemed so distant from Emily's real life that there was no anxiety about telling him things; but Flickr definitely talks to Emily because he feels an empathy with her struggles to control her powers, a kindred spirit. Of course, when they talk that much, eventually his past came up. He was reticent at first, but one time, on a bad day, Flickr told her about the flashes he could see when he closed his eyes. The dark room. The blue light. The people, it was a different one every time, wrists hanging from a rope attached to the ceiling. And punching them. Over and over. The crunching sounds. Flickr does not want to be the person he is when he closes his eyes. He wants to protect, not hurt. He's decided to protect Emily. (I've taken Defender as my Bull's Heart move!)
Hellion is your rival. They tried to control you at a crucial moment. In a moment of weakness when Flickr's temper got the best of him, someone's life was at stake and while Hellion did not go about it the best way, he saved that life.
Noor is cool. She seems kind of full of herself at times, Flickr doesn't know what the whole vlogging thing is about and he's still struggling to deal with the fact that he's surrounded by people who have a far better life than he does (in his opinion) but Noor has been kind to him. He treats the fact that she spars with him as a much bigger deal than someone normally would. As far as he's concerned, it's tantamount to risking serious harm to help him, because his punches can be very not gentle, although the point of the exercise is to learn to make them that way. Still, he doesn't really understand her. She behaves strangely around him sometimes and he's not sure what it means.
AJ knows what it's like to have something thrust upon you that you don't want (at least, that's the way he sees it) like him and Emily, so there is empathy there, as well. I think surrounded by the grand affairs of the pantheon, Flickr sometimes intentionally provides a rather grounding element, because while he sees himself as a freak, he's down-to-earth in his goals, in the way he sees things. It's very genuine and contrary to the grand schemes of her Legacy.
Arnilla gets stared at. A lot. Flickr does not know what to make of her. They aren't on the same wavelength at all, apart from being outsiders. But the way she is is different to the way he is. He wants in. She's just visiting. At least, that's the way he sees it. In that way, she's the same as the others, she has everything, she gets to play pretend at being normal half the time, while if Flickr is seen on school grounds he's escorted out by security. Envy characterises their relationship.
Bonespur and him have a certain amount of history. At the behest of King, he and a bunch of other street kids broke into and vandalised the trophy room, only to get chased out by Bonespur. He feels bad about it. It seems like she's taken it in her stride, like all things, but Flickr isn't so sure. He seems to get tongue-tied talking to her a lot for some reason, but plays it off as a distant silence.
INFLUENCE:
Emily
Noor
AJ
Arnilla
