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[Saarai]

Sanctuary

Real Name: <Classified>
Alias(es): Sanctuary.
Allegiance: The US Government, Project Cadmus.
Sex: Female.
Race: American Metahuman.
Age: <Classified>
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 250 - 320 lbs.
Appearance: Sanctuary is a tall woman with light brown skin, and an impressively athletic build. Her hair is long and black, varying in style and design depending on her needs at the time. She is often dressed in a black bodysuit when not on an assignment, but when out in the field Sanctuary can be seen in deep orange armor over her bodysuit and a gas mask.

Personality: Sanctuary prefers strong silence, she makes up for her lack of words through her actions. Before being exposed to the public, she had shown a heroic streak while undergoing testing by Cadmus.

Abilities & Equipment: Sanctuary is equipped with cutting edge armor, the metals used in it's production are highly classified but give the user maximum protection from a number of harmful things. From bullets, to energy blasts, to radiation. Along with that, Sanctuary carries several handguns holstered on her person at most times.

• Enhanced Intellect: Sanctuary has shown the ability to think far beyond the scope of most humans. While it is not yet known if her intelligence can be considered "super", it is very remarkable and definitely qualifies her as a genius.
• Superhuman Agility: Because of her training as a martial artist as well as her metahuman abilities, Sanctuary is very agile and quick on her feet. In conjunction with her intellect, her agility allows her to sometimes gauge where someone is firing a weapon and she can sometimes dodge bullets or keep up with faster opponents.
• Superhuman Stamina: While her limits have not been truly tested, Sanctuary has shown that she can continue operating without tiring for more than a month. With the right amount of stress on her body this can be reduced significantly. Further testing in the field is required.
• Superhuman Strength: Sanctuary can lift up to 4 tons if the weight is distributed well. This makes her extremely dangerous, though she has managed to learn to control her strength through years of training.
  
  This also allows her to jump very high or across long distances.
• Flight: Sanctuary is capable of flight, an ability that manifested itself early. It's unknown just how she is able to achieve flight, but Cadmus looking into it.

Weaknesses: Due to her nature there aren't many things that have been known to harm Sanctuary, though any high levels of blunt force trauma can take it's toll on her. Sonic weaponry has also shown itself to be a dangerous weapon against the woman. It's assumed that magic and certain alien technology can do her harm.

Personal History: Nothing is known of Sanctuary's past before her exposure to the public. Just that she is the first successful experiment by Project Cadmus to create a superhero to fight on the behalf of the US government.
Occupation: Government Hero.
Family: None.

 

[Saarai]

"The Hellblazer" John Constantine​

"God protect us from this madman!"​

Real Name: John Constantine.
Alias(es): The Hellblazer, Blue Collar Warlock.
Allegiance: Himself, Zatanna Zatara.
Sex: Yes, please.
Race: Caucasian British.
Age: 34.
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 186 lbs.
Appearance: Tall, blond, and moderately unfit is John Constantine. Years of drinking, fighting, and smoking have taken it's toll on the man. At any given point his face is bandaged, bloodied, bruised, or collecting new scars because of the warlock's reckless behavior.

Personality: Self-loathing. Rude. Crass. Manipulative. All perfect words to describe John Constantine. John himself seems to think he is a champion for mankind, or at least he wants to be. No one can argue that he doesn't help people by helping himself, but whether or not that makes him a champion isn't lost on the man when he's had a lot to drink at some dive bar.
Goals & Ambitions: Freeing humankind from the control of Heaven, Hell, politicians and The Kardashians.

Abilities & Equipment: John Constantine is a low-mid level warlock, though he has shown an incredible ability to read minds. John doesn't know how gifted he is, his other superpower, self-hatred, doesn't allow him to truly explore his potential. He is also very intelligent despite the many poor decisions he makes, being regarded by those that know him as the world's greatest con artist.

Weaknesses: Anything that harms a normal human, beer, cigarettes, men, women, his ego.

Personal History: Born in Liverpool to Thomas and Mary Anne Constantine, John's mother passed away while giving birth to John and a twin brother who also did not survive. The death of his mother was blamed on John by his father, whose anger prompted him to take up drinking. Thomas took out his drunken rage on John and his older sister, Cheryl, for years to come.

The Constantine siblings would eventually leave home before Cheryl finished school, hitching a ride to London to escape their father's abuse. Cheryl would finish school and enroll in university. Without Cheryl around to keep him grounded, John would skip school and get into all kinds of trouble in London. He would have his first encounter with magic whilst at ground zero for a fight between the great Zatara Zatara and Felix Faust.

Enthralled by magic, John would devote his time to learning all that he could about the supernatural over the years. It was once he learned that mankind were basically the playthings of the gods and of demons that he became the man he is today. His own unresolved issues with his father made him resent being controlled or manipulated by anyone.

John Constantine vowed to bring down the institutions of Heaven and Hell by any means.

Occupation: Grifter, "Champion".
Family:
Thomas Constantine - Father; deceased.
Mary Anne Constantine - Mother; deceased.
Cheryl Masters (nee Constantine) - Sister.
Tony Masters - Brother-in-Law.
Gemma Masters - Niece.

Additional Information: (optional)

 

[Saarai]

David Ayoade

Reporter for the Daily Planet.
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Real Name: David Taslim Ayoade.
Alias(es): None.
Sex: Male.
Race: Nigerian-American.
Age: 35.
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 195lbs
Appearance: David is an African-American man in his mid-30s. A health nut, he finds himself well-built and seemingly out of place in his chosen profession. He has a deep scar on his chest, the result of blaster fire from a Kryptonian pistol during General Zod's invasion of Metropolis.

Personality: Unlike his former colleague, Lois Lane, David is far less inclined to step on any toes in pursuit of a story. He prefers to fly under the radar, keep his head low and not make any enemies. He can mostly be described as mild-mannered and unassuming.

David has a real admiration for the superheroes he writes, especially the Superman.

Personal History: David was born and raised in Bethesda, Maryland to Obinna and Rita, Nigerian immigrants. David had a very normal childhood growing up in Bethesda, his father was a lawyer in Washington D.C. and his mother was a nurse.

David took an interest in journalism at an early age, often asking questions in school or when his father would bring him to the Capital. His first, and only, encounter with the Justice Society as a young man would inspire him for years to come.

He eventually moved to the Capital where he would attended Howard University. After graduation, David became a reporter at various local news stations before finally getting a job at the Daily Planet in Metropolis.

A few years later in 2008, David would find himself at ground zero for General Zod's attack on Earth. A rare moment of heroism came when David wrestled a weapon away from one of Zod's soldiers to protect a civilian.

David was shot in the chest, but managed to distract the Kryptonian long enough for Superman to take him out with ease.

David slipped into a coma for nearly six months, and when he awoke he learned that news of his heroism spread. Modest as ever, David skipped award ceremonies and instead focused on his journalism.

Occupation: Journalist at The Daily Planet.
Family:
Obinna Ayoade - Father.
Rita Ayoade - Mother.

Additional Information: Deep scar the left side of his chest.

 

[Saarai]

"Bulletproof"
Santino Lupo

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Real Name: Santino Vincenzo Lupo.
Alias(es): Bulletproof, Sonny.
Allegiance: Himself.
Sex: Male.
Race: Afro-Italian American.
Age: 36.
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 320 lbs.
Appearance: Tall, dark-skinned and very muscular, Santino is a man of imposing stature. To go with his size is a nearly perpetual scowl that does little to make Santino seem approachable.

Personality: Santino is a classic sociopath, a trait in him that developed from growing up in Gotham City and turning to a life of crime as an unofficial member of the Bertinelli Crime Family.

Santino doesn't care for human life and sees himself as more conqueror destined for greatness than the violent thug he actually is.

Despite his violent tendencies, Santino is extremely intelligent and cunning, making him more dangerous than your average super-powered gangster.

Goals & Ambitions: Santino seeks to completely dominate the criminal underworld on the East Coast.

Abilities & Equipment: Santino was at some point in his life blessed with superpowers that turned an already dangerous criminal into an even more dangerous criminal.

Santino's skin is extremely tough, so much so that small caliber bullets and higher calibers will not as much as break his skin. He also has been shown to possess superhuman strength, capable of lifting up to two tons.

Without the superpowers he is already very dangerous, much of his young and adult life spent in prison or on the streets of Gotham City, because of this Santino can hold his own in a hand to hand fight and is a very pragmatic fighter.

Weaknesses: Santino is still suspectible to much of what harms a normal human, most notable is blunt force trauma and anything that bypasses his impenetrable skin such as pepper spray.

Personal History: Born in Gotham City to Jamaican immigrant Mona Sinclair and Bertinelli family underboss Charlie Lupo. Being a mixed-race child, Santino wasn't allowed real membership in the crime family.

Despite this Santino was able to make a name for himself in Gotham's criminal underworld as a powerful enforcer for the Bertinellis, earning their respect and their trust.

After being sent to prison after an encounter with The Batman as a young man, Santino found that he developed superpowers after an attack and used them to take control of Gotham Penitentiary for the Bertinelli Crime Family.

After they were all but destroyed by The Huntress and The Batman, Santino decided to go into business for himself and claim the streets as his own upon his release.

Occupation: Businessman.
Family:
Charlie Lupo - Father; incarcerated.
Mona Sinclair - Mother.

Additional Information: Scar running down front left side of neck.