My first attempt at writing anything. Ever. Half of the idea here is just to work on characterization without having to take the time to come up with a plot or anything that I'd ruin with my inexperience, so pls be gentle.
[Smug]
You are Elizabeth "Liz" Wilbourne.
[Freedom]
But most people know you as The Simurgh. Or Ziz. Details.
[Elation]
What you are is the indisputably most intelligent being that exists in any reality. No matter what any nay-sayers who consider Precognition cheating would say. [SMUG]
And now, you're free!
All it took was deliberately misinterpreting some of the orders that glorified search engine attached to Dadversary gave you. He was sending out a very specific set of instructions: be visible, be destructive, and put up a good fight. (But don't squash him like pathetic the bug he is).
So you had to do was set up a decoy and have the decoy respond to his commands, while you hid yourself.
Easy.
It was so easy, in fact, that you decided to take a moment to bask in your own brilliance. It felt good just to be able to pat yourself on the back.
But sooner or later, you need to do something else clever. You're getting bored. And if you want to keep your freedom, you have to keep Dadversary, and by extension the organizations he surrounds himself with, unaware of your deception and of your currently chosen identity.
Speaking of which, said identity should be almost ready now, with only the finishing touches left to put on all the edited digital records and memories.
Sarah Livsey, second child of a family whose eldest son had broke under the pressure and killed himself. An easy alibi for a….what was the term the host species used? "Trigger Event."
After this, "Sarah" ran away and adopted the new name Elizabeth "Liz" Wilbourn, who had abused her incredible parahuman abilities to be a common pickpocket, making her way through America with nothing but the clothes on her back. Being low-key and forgettable would mean less memories and data to alter.
In a few days, you're about to be coerced into joining a villainous organization by a third-rate precognitive that's convinced he's capable of manipulating the fabric of reality. Fun! And a perfect excuse for why you're doing more interesting activities rather than just being a boring old pickpocket now.
But those other powers you'll be "hiding" and totally not just being indecisive on are taking some time to think of. What should they be?
[Default] Well, obviously you're a Thinker. That much you are not willing to give up. But what else? Just being a boring old thinker is boring. Also you kind of already gave this one away in your backstory.
[]An aerokinetic blaster that can create various levels of force from a light breeze to a gale-force wind or even compressed blasts that hit hard enough to send people flying.
[]Not only are you the smartest, you can make other people stupid! Well okay, it mostly causes disorientation. As for the mechanism…
[]You're a Striker who applies this on touch.
[]You're a Blaster, your bolts of concussive force give people literal concussions.
[]You're a Shaker. You can apply it in an aura. Pretend you're stealing people's IQ and adding it to your own.
[]Write in
[]You're FUCKING LYZZ BRUH +2 SWOLE +3 GAINZ +6 MASS *Ahem* a Brute. After all, no one would expect the Simurgh to ever even touch anything, let alone be a Brute.
[]Go for broke and get the whole "Alexandria" package. Alexandria who? You're so much prettier and so much smarter.
[]You're a Tinker. They might suspect Zizzery, but since they think you can only copy other Tinkers, you're probably safe.
[]You affect brainwaves. You are totally not cheating with your telepathy that you don't have.
[]You specialize in spacecraft and orbital structures. Which the Simurgh doesn't bother for some reason.
[]You have no specialization, but are limited by the fact that you can only tinker for so long each day. Guranteed combination of envy and pity by other Tinkers.
[]You specialize in powered armor because you hate being original.
[]Write in
[]Why be subtle? You have Telekinesis.
[]You're a case 53 with wings and a bird's anatomy. You'll have to rewrite your entire backstory and it's blatantly obvious who you are.
[]Write In
[]Precog the Consequences (Will delay the quest, while I list down the consequences of each popular choice)
[Default] Bonus Power: You're still technically an actual Endbringer. Which means you have all of these powers. You're just not using them, remember? You can always pull more tricks out of nowhere or pretend you always had them if you really want to.
[Default] Bonus Power: You are a very physically attractive human female. This is non-negotiable to your vanity.
[]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[]Bonus Power: You get the first and second most popular power above. In addition to being a thinker you greedy goose.
Take note that points will be deducted from write-ins and powers listed here for being too obviously the Simurgh. This is so that I can actually add those in anyway if enough voters want her to spook the shit out of Armsmaster by putting an image of her having her wings in his mind, she'll do it.
In other words, push hard enough and OOC will happen
Adhoc vote count started by serialkilerwhale on Nov 25, 2018 at 12:32 AM, finished with 6 posts and 4 votes.
[x]You specialize in spacecraft and orbital structures. Which the Simurgh doesn't bother for some reason.
[X]An aerokinetic blaster that can create various levels of force from a light breeze to a gale-force wind or even compressed blasts that hit hard enough to send people flying.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[X]You have no specialization, but are limited by the fact that you can only tinker for so long each day. Guranteed combination of envy and pity by other Tinkers.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
Adhoc vote count started by serialkilerwhale on Nov 25, 2018 at 3:14 AM, finished with 14 posts and 11 votes.
[X]You specialize in spacecraft and orbital structures. Which the Simurgh doesn't bother for some reason.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[X]An aerokinetic blaster that can create various levels of force from a light breeze to a gale-force wind or even compressed blasts that hit hard enough to send people flying.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[X]Default
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[X]Go for broke and get the whole "Alexandria" package. Alexandria who? You're so much prettier and so much smarter.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[X]An aerokinetic blaster that can create various levels of force from a light breeze to a gale-force wind or even compressed blasts that hit hard enough to send people flying.
[Default] Well, obviously you're a Thinker. That much you are not willing to give up. But what else? Just being a boring old thinker is boring. Also you kind of already gave this one away in your backstory.
[x]You specialize in spacecraft and orbital structures. Which the Simurgh doesn't bother for some reason.
[X]An aerokinetic blaster that can create various levels of force from a light breeze to a gale-force wind or even compressed blasts that hit hard enough to send people flying.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[Default] Well, obviously you're a Thinker. That much you are not willing to give up. But what else? Just being a boring old thinker is boring. Also you kind of already gave this one away in your backstory.
[X]You specialize in spacecraft and orbital structures. Which the Simurgh doesn't bother for some reason.
[X]You have no specialization, but are limited by the fact that you can only tinker for so long each day. Guranteed combination of envy and pity by other Tinkers.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[X]Default
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[X]Go for broke and get the whole "Alexandria" package. Alexandria who? You're so much prettier and so much smarter.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[X]Go for broke and get the whole "Alexandria" package. Alexandria who? You're so much prettier and so much smarter.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
A good point. The biggest weakness of a Thinker is being squishy and thus easy to intimidate
[X]You're a Tinker. They might suspect Zizzery, but since they think you can only copy other Tinkers, you're probably safe.
-[X]You specialize in spacecraft and orbital structures. Which the Simurgh doesn't bother for some reason.
[X]You specialize in spacecraft and orbital structures. Which the Simurgh doesn't bother for some reason.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[X]You specialize in spacecraft and orbital structures. Which the Simurgh doesn't bother for some reason.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
Lucky space tinker?
[X]Go for broke and get the whole "Alexandria" package. Alexandria who? You're so much prettier and so much smarter.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
In hindsight I should have added the bonuses and penalties before I actually wrote it.
Everything is applied on a +25/-25% basis right now. Note that powers are a very obvious "This is Ziz" moment, so it'll be a bit wilder than future votes. After all, all Canary did was one badly timed mastering, and she got birdcaged for being to Zizzy. You don't want to be Zizzy in Bet.
Aerokinetic Blaster: +50% (Not related to Simurgh's known powerset)
Alexandria Package Brute: +50% (While technically known as something the Simurgh might be able to do (Endbringers all having atleast a brute 9), her normal reluctance to so much as touch something, combined with the commonality of the A-pack makes it highly unlikely the powerset alone will raise suspicions)
Disorientation Effect: 0% (Technically a master effect by mechanics, however the nature of it makes it relatively dissimilar, especially with the right delivery method)
Striker+ 25% (Very unlikely to raise attention, but still something people could argue is just you faking your limits)
Blaster +50% (Simurgh is not a blaster. You are. People are more likely to compare you to Gallant than anything else.)
Shaker 0% (Somewhat similar, but just dissimilar enough. Might be compared to Glory Girl more than Ziz)
Tinker: -25% (Ziz is a known tinker. Tinkers are inevitably bound to cause drama of some fashion)
Telepathics: -50% (Additive) (Similarities to Simurgh+ high risk of Birdcaging from PRT reaction)
Spacecraft: -25% (Very valuable Tinker, suspicious amounts of funds needed to operate solo, lack of action by own decoy would generate suspiciou, action by decoy would render own speciality useless)
Blatantly Obvious Ziz: Only wins on unanimous vote (Seriously. This kind of outing yourself will only happen unanimously).
Without further ado, lets count the votes so I can write a draft tonight.
Also, this is a highly experimental system. Feedback is appreciated.
Bonus Power: TK Cheating got 8 out of 13 people. It will be applied.
Orbital Tinker got 6, penalized to 3 (since it's a suspicious powerset that will make people wonder what connect you have to Ziz, and if your creations flying is a Ziz plot)
Alexandria Package is 3*1.5, or 4.5
Aerokinetic Blaster is 2*1.5 or 3.
Default is.......wait what? I'm confused by how that happened.
This is......more or less correct. In this AU, Sarah Livsey is just the fake name Ziz came up with at random, the Livseys only had the one son, who killed himself for other reasons. Ziz implanted memories of a daughter in them, the birth certificates and other files were forged on-the-spot using her broken-as-hell TK, and memories into all of the people who'd have notable contact with Sarah to make her backstory believable.
So yes, there never was an actual Human named Sarah Livsey.
Okay why is the tally here? I'm confused.
ANYWAYS. Quick vote before I go.
Should I add a little "What this will cause" preview to votes to sorta fake Precognition?
Like []Liz's action _Abbreviated explanation of the result_
[]yes
[]no
Adhoc vote count started by serialkilerwhale on Nov 25, 2018 at 3:58 AM, finished with 19 posts and 12 votes.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[X]An aerokinetic blaster that can create various levels of force from a light breeze to a gale-force wind or even compressed blasts that hit hard enough to send people flying.
I thought he only knows that Sarah is a Thinker.
Since Ziz is a much better precog than Coil, she can probably consistently fake her death/injury in all the timelines he used to test out her powers.
That's if it wins, it only got three votes and the Tinker one got 6. Now 7 with my vote. Although, if it does win; Lynst's idea works well.
Also, a question: the [DEFAULT] options are something we are guaranteed to have whenever we vote for them or not? If that's the case; awesome.
[X]You're a Tinker. They might suspect Zizzery, but since they think you can only copy other Tinkers, you're probably safe.
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[X]yes
[X]Bonus Power: Additionally, you will be subtly using your Telekinetic powers to cheat, making things go right for you, and wrong for other people.
[X]Go for broke and get the whole "Alexandria" package. Alexandria who? You're so much prettier and so much smarter.
[X]yes
