Post by Rick Tyler on Jul 7, 2008 10:41:19 GMT -5
The Character
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Cannon or your own: Cannon
Copyright (Marvel/DC/ect): DC
Characters civilian name: Rick Tyler
Code names/Aliases: Hourman
Class [Superhero, Vigilante, Mercenary..ect]: Superhero
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Gender: Male
Age: Thirty-Three
Apparent Age: Thirty-three
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Height and weight: 5'9", 170 pounds
Appearance: Rick is muscular, with mid-length hair, and always with some stubble around his face. He is seldom seen outside of his costume since he is for the most part, full-time as a hero.
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Super Powers: Like his father, the first Hourman, Rick has no innate superpowers, he uses the Miraclo enhancement pill to gain the following powers for one hour: super strength, speed, agility, reflexes and durability, infrared vision, and the ability to survive underwater.
Learned Abilities: Rick is, among other things, an exceptional artist, and a skilled hand-to-hand combatant.
Equipment: Most importantly, the Miraclo Enhancement. The hourglass around Rick's neck once had the ability to send him to a frozen moment in time in order to let him spend one hour with his father before he died, this ability has been used up.
Weaknesses (Must Have): Rick can only take one of the Miraclo Enhancements by way of transdermal patch in the hourglass amulets on his gauntlets per day, or risk permanent physical damage, and the enhancement lasts for only one hour. Without the enhancement he is a normal human without any powers.
Background: Rick Tyler was born the child of Rex Tyler, who was a successful hero and a business man. However, Rex wasn't a very a good father. When Rex wasn't spending time with business, he was out doing his superhero work, as addicted to it as the substance that powered him, Miraclo. This meant that Rick rarely saw his dad, even on his birthdays, and eventually Rex wasn't even sure of the age of his son.
It was no surprise that although Rick would develop into a well-balanced teen, he was consistently looking for his father's guidance and approval. Yet, Rex could not see the role model Rick really needed, and he tried to push Rick's education to its limits, an endeavor that Rick didn't wish to pursue, and he constantly felt inferior to his father.
Rick became the second Hourman when the Crisis on Infinite Earths threatened all of reality, and he used one of his dad's Miraclo pills to save the life of Beth Chapel, who he grew quite fond of. His father strongly dissapproved of Rick's actions, knowing the addictive effects of Miraclo and tried to prevent Rick from taking up the Hourman mantle. Nonetheless, Rick ended up trying to join a team of other 2nd generation heroes known as Infinity, Inc. Rex was able to temporarily convince his son not to, although Rick continued to try and persuade him. Matters became worse however when Rex, along with his teammates in the Justice Society of America sacrificed themselves to fight eternal Ragnarok in Limbo. When Northwind and Beth Chapel came to tell him of the news, Rick ran away in grief. He was later kindapped by the new group Justice Unlimited, themselves former members of the Injustice Society and used as a hostage against Infinity Inc. Rick was able to escape, but in the process, seemingly killed the Wizard.
Rick had a hard time forgiving himself, although it would later be revealed that the Wizard was in fact still alive. Rick gave up the Hourman identity almost as soon as he assumed it, as he angrily unmasked himself before a press photographer. Luckily, Lyta was able to prevent the photo from being taken and took Rick away, trying to console him.
Nonetheless, Rick wore his Hourman outfit another time to attend the court hearing for the villain Mr. Bones, although Rick feared he was just as bad as Bones as well, fearing that the Miraclo pills had simply worked on an already violent urge when he killed the Wizard. Eventually though, Rick returned to becoming Hourman, wearing an outfit similar to his father's in honor of him. Shortly afterwards, Infinity Inc. disbanded.
Eventually, Rex and the rest of the JSA returned from Limbo and he and Rick were reunited. In the meantime however, Rick had contracted leukaemia due to the prolonged exposure to Miraclo. With the help of Rex's old teammate, Johnny Chambers (aka Johnny Quick), both Rex and Rick learned to tap into their superhuman powers without the use of Miraclo and instead using his mind-focusing technique.
Father and son would only spend a short time together, when the villain Extant killed Rex and some of his allies from the Justice Society during the event known as Zero Hour. Tragedy kept on striking, when shortly afterwards his sweetheart, Beth Chapel (as Dr. Midnight) was slain by Eclipso.
Rick remained retired from the superhero business for a long time, and in that time he met the new android Hourman. This android had been engineered by his time travelling father from Rex's own DNA. Although Rick intensily disliked the new Hourman, he was saved by the android when he transported Rick into the Timepoint (a place where time stands still), so that he would be spared from an unidentifiable alien illness.
The two would grow closer when the android then cured Rick of his cancer and bestowed him two gifts. Rick was now able to see one hour into the future, as well as being given an hour with his dad in the Timepoint. The Hourman android had plucked Rex out of the timestream before he was killed fighting Extant. When the hour in the Timepoint would be up however, Rex would be sent back in time, where he would fight and die. The transportation to the Timepoint would be activated by a button in Rick's Hourman gloves.
Now being cured of all his illnesses, Rick resumed the mantle of Hourman (adopting a new costume in the process), using the non-addictive form of Miraclo, and joined a makeshift JSA in defeating the Ultra-Humanite. Rick remained with the JSA after this battle and began growing close to Jesse Chambers, who was the JSA's business manager and also the superheroine Jesse Quick. Rick is still close to his mother and has a strained relationship with his cousin Rebecca who runs his father's company TylerCo.
When the JSA travelled with Hawkman to the Middle Eastern country of Kahndaq to stop Black Adam, Rick was severely injured by one of Nemesis' swords (a member of Adam's gathered group). Realizing that he would die from the massive blood loss unless he was quickly operated on, Rick saw no choice but to transport himself to the Timepoint where his father was. Rick quickly swapped places with his father, and the Timepoint held Rick and his wounds in stasis. Rex was returned to the regular world and was left with no means of returning to the Timepoint or how he could save his son.
The answer once again came in the form of the android Hourman, who transported Rex and several other JSA members to the Timepoint, amongst them the latest Dr. Mid-Nite (Pieter Cross), who was able to save Rick's life. The time used to save Rick also meant that Rex's time was up, and that he would have to return to fighting Extant. Rick, however, tried to take his place, so that his father could live again. Instead, the android Hourman sacrificed himself so that both Hourmen may live.
By the time World War Three came around, Rick had been operating with the newly formed Justice Society of America, and had been married for considerable time to Jesse Chambers aka Liberty Belle. Feeling obligated, Rick joined the fight. He joined the Untouchables, choosing to help the various branches of Military Intelligence and Black Ops, seeing as how most of their hit-and-run assaults only lasted an hour, perfect for his limitations. He was placed in the Untouchable's Seventh Regiment, "Stealth and Spies"
Rick still operates as a reserve member of the Untouchables, mostly dealing with domestic problems. Dangers on the home front, so to speak. He is not proud of everything he did during his year of service but he is proud that he served his country, as a member of the Justice Society of America. He feels honored to have served alongside heroes like Power Girl, another JSA alum, who gave her life for their country.
Personality : A well-balanced person, really. Nice to be around, never too severe, and he enjoys being Hourman. Living up to the family legacy is important to him, and he has done so, so he's fairly happy. The most important thing to him is protecting his home, and the home of his wife, and the home of the children they might have some day.
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Brief Sample Roleplay The night air felt good, Rick thought he smelled rain in the distance. The American soldiers behind him were a little shaky, they were green for the most part. As the small squad finally came upon the structure, they held up, Rick looked back at the soldiers.
"Alright, boys, when I say go, we've got one hour to get the prisoner out and bring him home. We got that?" He heard "Affirmative echo back across the squad. Rick shivered for a moment, desert nights were cold. "You men disable the surveillance systems and set the plastic explosives. I'll take care of the target." Rick pressed down on the hourglass amulets on his gauntlets and felt the Miraclo pump into his bloodstream, he felt the sudden surge of power, now, he was unstoppable. "Go, go go!" He said quietly. The men all went their separate ways, and Rick ran, faster than any of the soldiers could, to the fence of the encampment.
he inched quietly, avoiding the lights circling the compound. when he saw a clear, no guards, no lights, he jumped the fence, literally. He just jumped straight over it. He ran along the compound searching. Barracks, barracks, barracks, barracks, aha! Private officer cabins. He heard silenced gunshots in the distance, no one else could, the troopers were doing their job well. Hourman looked for the numbered cabin that reconnaissance had indicated the target would be in. Found it. He tried the door, locked of course. He punched a hole through the door and unlocked the deadbolt from the other side. He moved in quickly, before the newly awoken man could shout, Horman had his hand over his mouth, with chloroform. Knocked out after a couple seconds struggle. Hourman checked his watch. Forty-three minutes left. He threw the man over his shoulder and left.
Across the compound, the stealthy soldiers were slaughtering anyone who had seen them enter. Hourman poked his head through the door.
"Come on, Thirty-nine minutes left." The nodded their heads and found what they were looking for in the main building of the compound. The armory. They placed a few charges of C4, they wouldn't need much. Set the timer for five minutes. They left.
Two minutes and thirty seconds later, the soldiers were crawling through the hole they had cut in the fence. Thirty seconds later an alarm sounded. They found the bomb, or the hole in the door, or something. Hourman handed the prisoner over to the soldiers. He was an Intelligence Officer, North Korean, looked at satellite pictures and made troop movement decisions with them. He was important. Hourman was, unfortunately, expendable.
He ran back to the main building of the compound. They had begun to scramble the troops. Hourman needed to stop them from finding the soldiers and the prisoner, distraction. That was what the bomb was for, but that might not work, so Hourman needed to do something. He reached out from the shadows in which he hid and knocked out a soldier running through the halls. The rest saw him, swarmed him. They were using whatever they had. Twenty seconds later, the bomb detonated.
Twelve seconds later, Hourman landed, 133 yards ouside the compound. He checked himself out, five broken ribs, burns where the flames had gone through his uniform. He was alive though, can't ask for more than that. He checked his watch. Three seconds left. Had he waited three seconds longer on making a decision at any point, he would be dead. Wow, he thought, That was a hell of a thing.
