*double-checks* You appear to be correct. Well, that has upsides and downsides: Upside, Heatblast is pretty tough, and very powerful. Downside, Heatblast is extremely dangerous/collateral prone in comparison to Swampfire.
Zakara
Semi-Found Cat
- Location
- Chaldea, Bleached Airspace
Yeah, Heatblast is probably a better form for high-tier combat than Swampfire. Not only is his pyrokinesis something like an order of magnitude stronger, he's essentially immune to all forms of heat and vacuum, due to his species evolving on a star. Also, he's one of only two confirmed aliens to naturally counter Zs'Skayr, which should help
But yes, he's much more collateral prone than Swampfire. See Episode 1.
What about Dial-Up Heroine?
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FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
- Location
- Tennessee
- Pronouns
- He/Him
To be fair, we don't know if any circumstances have changed.
We don't even know if it is his DNA, or another member of his species.
Lunaryon
Dual Aurora Wave
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Oh my god our list is Broken. Grey Matter, Heat Blast, Goop, Pesky Dust, and freaking Ghost Freak!? HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH. NOTHING can stop us now.
[X][Dial] Round Head
Small and can be killed by wild animals sure. But definitely something that would cause the least panic to both Taylor, and whoever person comes from the camp to check the meteor, AND Eco Friendly. (Looks at Heat Blast)
[X][Dial] Round Head
Small and can be killed by wild animals sure. But definitely something that would cause the least panic to both Taylor, and whoever person comes from the camp to check the meteor, AND Eco Friendly. (Looks at Heat Blast)
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[X][Dial] Crab
Grey Matter is great for smarts and in canon Ben's son used him to reprogram the Omnitrix for more access to aliens but I like BrainStorm more.
[X][Dial] Dangle
I'm partial to this one right now because it's a summer camp setting. What's a summer camp without a tale of the creature from the Black Lagoon?
Adding this incase Vigax or his minions show up. Cuz well likely need the super intelligence for sabotage.
[X] [Dial] Round Head
Grey Matter is great for smarts and in canon Ben's son used him to reprogram the Omnitrix for more access to aliens but I like BrainStorm more.
[X][Dial] Dangle
I'm partial to this one right now because it's a summer camp setting. What's a summer camp without a tale of the creature from the Black Lagoon?
Adding this incase Vigax or his minions show up. Cuz well likely need the super intelligence for sabotage.
[X] [Dial] Round Head
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Strunkriidiisk
THE LEGEND
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Aw, damn. No Upgrade yet - I love Upgrade. Also she'd be useful for fixing the camera.
[X][Dial] A dinosaur?
[X][Dial] A dinosaur?
Zakara
Semi-Found Cat
- Location
- Chaldea, Bleached Airspace
Well, apparently Ectonurite DNA was never even supposed to go into the Omnitrix. Likely on account of that little personality problem. Say what you will about Azmuth, but he's not an idiot. Zs'Skayr actually possessed Wyldvine while he was being scanned and snuck his profile into the Codon Stream like a Trojan Horse. That the Omnitrix has him at all is a major red flag.
So....any reason why Brainstorm over Gray Matter?
So, here's descriptions for anyone not a Ben 10 fan and my thoughts on the alien forms, part 1.
Gray Matter, aka Galvan
Powers: Super-Intelligence to the Max, innate ability with technology, can stick to surfaces, slipper slime, frog-tongues, amphibious.
Weakness: Small, weak, intelligence does not mean infalliable, lack of knowledge can be impediment
Notes: Distinctly unsuited for direct combat, but their small size, movement capabilities and intelligence make them extremely troublesome foes, especially if they get access to resources they can use to build stuff. In other words, tiny-alien frog Tony Stark form with hiding abilities. Azmuth, the creator of the Omnitrix, is of this species.
Wildmutt, aka Vulpimancer
Powers: Enhanced sense of smell and hearing, forming a sort of radar/sonar, enhanced speed and reaction, enhanced strength and durability, sharp teeth and claws, prehensile limbs, can dig, adults have back quills that hurt.
Weakness: Can't talk, is blind, senses are vulnerable to being overwhelmed or blocked.
Notes: Useful in combat, but is the best at tracking, investigating or detecting hidden opponents. Regardless, useful in most situations.
Heatblast, aka Pyronite
Powers: Literal living lava/plasma and is thus immune/eats heat and fire, pyrokinetic, can generate extreme heat and explosions, native homeworld is a sun, can sorta-fly, can survive underwater for extended periods of time, immune to cold temperatures, enhanced strength and durability.
Weakness: Enough water or fire-retardant can dampen their fire power, though it's not fatal and they quickly recover once removed. Collateral damage prone, on account of all the fire and extreme body heat.
Notes: This the form you want to take if you want to fight Lung. Tough, strong and immune to his fire, and thanks to the Manton effect, likely immune to both things that affect fire/rock and things that affect living things much like Weld. It's like Weld, Lung and Sundancer combined. Of course, the downside of that is, as mentioned, the extreme collateral this form can cause.
Goop, aka Polymorph
Powers: Living slime, can generate and shoot off slime in blobs or streams, slime can be made acidic or adhesive at will, can regenerate, heat resistant, shapeshift and doesn't need to breathe. Strong, can change density and doesn't breathe. [Anti-Grav benefits: allows the ability to fly at high speeds]
Weakness: Higher gravities then that of their homeworld cause them collapse and lose the ability to properly control their form. Omnitrix compensates by generation an Anti-Grav device above form, but the device is vulnerable to inteference. Isn't particular fast. Omnitrix has trouble being properly attached to body.
Notes: Extreme versatile and useful, it suffers a glaring weakpoint in the fact that Earths gravity is too strong for it, and so an Anti-Grav device is provided to compensate, which produces a huge weakpoint. The weaker bond between this form and the Omnitrix is also an issue.
Brainstorm, aka Cerebrocrustacean
Powers: Super-Intelligence just a bit below the Galvans, intelligence is more around analysis of the environment and enemies to create plans, electrokinesis with a side of technokinesis, can breathe underwater, can develop electrical telepathy and alteration.
Weakness: Slow, needs to expose brain for some applications of electrokinesis, easily prone to getting side-tracked and going on tangents/getting lost in thought(considering Taylors prone to this herself, expect trouble learning this form)
Notes: The strategist/tactician of the forms, there's liable to be a learning curve while Taylor learns to keep focused in this form, but once that's done, it's easily one of the most useful. Observe here and here.
Gray Matter, aka Galvan
Powers: Super-Intelligence to the Max, innate ability with technology, can stick to surfaces, slipper slime, frog-tongues, amphibious.
Weakness: Small, weak, intelligence does not mean infalliable, lack of knowledge can be impediment
Notes: Distinctly unsuited for direct combat, but their small size, movement capabilities and intelligence make them extremely troublesome foes, especially if they get access to resources they can use to build stuff. In other words, tiny-alien frog Tony Stark form with hiding abilities. Azmuth, the creator of the Omnitrix, is of this species.
Wildmutt, aka Vulpimancer
Powers: Enhanced sense of smell and hearing, forming a sort of radar/sonar, enhanced speed and reaction, enhanced strength and durability, sharp teeth and claws, prehensile limbs, can dig, adults have back quills that hurt.
Weakness: Can't talk, is blind, senses are vulnerable to being overwhelmed or blocked.
Notes: Useful in combat, but is the best at tracking, investigating or detecting hidden opponents. Regardless, useful in most situations.
Heatblast, aka Pyronite
Powers: Literal living lava/plasma and is thus immune/eats heat and fire, pyrokinetic, can generate extreme heat and explosions, native homeworld is a sun, can sorta-fly, can survive underwater for extended periods of time, immune to cold temperatures, enhanced strength and durability.
Weakness: Enough water or fire-retardant can dampen their fire power, though it's not fatal and they quickly recover once removed. Collateral damage prone, on account of all the fire and extreme body heat.
Notes: This the form you want to take if you want to fight Lung. Tough, strong and immune to his fire, and thanks to the Manton effect, likely immune to both things that affect fire/rock and things that affect living things much like Weld. It's like Weld, Lung and Sundancer combined. Of course, the downside of that is, as mentioned, the extreme collateral this form can cause.
Goop, aka Polymorph
Powers: Living slime, can generate and shoot off slime in blobs or streams, slime can be made acidic or adhesive at will, can regenerate, heat resistant, shapeshift and doesn't need to breathe. Strong, can change density and doesn't breathe. [Anti-Grav benefits: allows the ability to fly at high speeds]
Weakness: Higher gravities then that of their homeworld cause them collapse and lose the ability to properly control their form. Omnitrix compensates by generation an Anti-Grav device above form, but the device is vulnerable to inteference. Isn't particular fast. Omnitrix has trouble being properly attached to body.
Notes: Extreme versatile and useful, it suffers a glaring weakpoint in the fact that Earths gravity is too strong for it, and so an Anti-Grav device is provided to compensate, which produces a huge weakpoint. The weaker bond between this form and the Omnitrix is also an issue.
Brainstorm, aka Cerebrocrustacean
Powers: Super-Intelligence just a bit below the Galvans, intelligence is more around analysis of the environment and enemies to create plans, electrokinesis with a side of technokinesis, can breathe underwater, can develop electrical telepathy and alteration.
Weakness: Slow, needs to expose brain for some applications of electrokinesis, easily prone to getting side-tracked and going on tangents/getting lost in thought(considering Taylors prone to this herself, expect trouble learning this form)
Notes: The strategist/tactician of the forms, there's liable to be a learning curve while Taylor learns to keep focused in this form, but once that's done, it's easily one of the most useful. Observe here and here.
Better dialogue for me.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X][Dial] Crab
Yeah, give Taylor enhanced intelligence to comprehend the situation, don't get eaten by birds. A good first form, and likely one we'll use often. Probably will swap between this and Grey Matter for Tech projects. Easy Tinker rating. Granted, we basically have every rating in at least one form.
We'll probably be rated primary Changer/Trump, secondary ratings for each of our forms? May have one of the highest Changer ratings in earth Bet, just because of the power and variety of our forms.
Yeah, give Taylor enhanced intelligence to comprehend the situation, don't get eaten by birds. A good first form, and likely one we'll use often. Probably will swap between this and Grey Matter for Tech projects. Easy Tinker rating. Granted, we basically have every rating in at least one form.
We'll probably be rated primary Changer/Trump, secondary ratings for each of our forms? May have one of the highest Changer ratings in earth Bet, just because of the power and variety of our forms.
Here's Part 2:
Ripjaws, aka Piscuss Volann
Powers: Can survive/breathe underwater(again), incredibly power and sharp jaws, extreme omnivore, amazing swimming ability, can produce light with lure, super strength and durability.
Weakness: Requires water to survive and so being on land without adequate water for too long is dangerous, extreme heat dehydrates them quickly, not particularly quick on land.
Notes: The meme-Aquaman of the forms, extremely useful in water, less so elsewhere, though those jaws can do a lot of damange. Their weakness to being out of water decreases with age, but it's still not great.
Pesky Dust, aka Nemuina
Powers: Flight, agile, can produce and shoot dust that puts damn near anything that isn't a straight-up robot to sleep and keeps them asleep, can then enter and manipulate their dreams, extracting information or creating nightmares.
Weakness: Small and physically weak. Dust can be washed off and eventually stops working unless reapplied. Note that this doesn't immediately wake the person up, it just means they can wake up.
Notes: This is Taylor's non-lethal takedown and interrogation form. Imagine Newters drug, only in powder form that can spread over areas. Can't remember if works through environmental suits, but I believe it does? Regardless, extremely useful.
XLR8, aka Kineceleran
Powers: Extreme super speed, agility and dexterity, enhanced strength and durability, sharp claws, can manipulate friction
Weakness: Non-solids can cause issues
Notes: If Ripjaws is Aquaman, XLR8 is the goddamn Flash, only bunch of knifes for a hand attached. All the standard speedster powers are here: run on water, create tornadoes by running around in a circle, run up and down walls, move faster then the eye can see. And, of course, that's as broken as you can expect.
Gutrot, species unknown
Powers: Can create or breakdown pretty much any gas inside of themselves, can expel or absorb gasses, enhanced intelligence, innate understanding of chemistry and its effects, enhanced strength, extreme resistance to immunity to poisons and acids, including a Nemuina's sleep dust
Weakness: Slow reaction speed, can't actually control gas, gas is mundane with no supernatural properties and so acts like gas should
Notes: A literal walking, talking chemical laboratory and war crime. Good for chemical analysis and gas production, but in a fight, you have to take into account gas spreads out and drifts, and there's no way to control dosages. Gutrot also never demonstrated the ability to create small, controlled bursts of gas to my knowledge, meaning this is a very dangerous form.
Ghostreak, aka Ectonurite, aka Zs'Skayr
Powers: Invisibility, Intangibility, Possession, Flying, Telekinesis, surprised tentacles that can grow thorns, super strength, does not count as "alive" for most things, sharp claws, energy blasts, power increases in proportion to lack of light
Weakness: Intangility can be cancelled out, invisibility can be broken through unknown means, has a "second skin" that weakens/inhibits powers, light or radiation extremely deadly if "second skin" is removed, IS FUCKING HAUNTED
Notes: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Okay, got it out my system, but this form is dangerous, use only in emergencies, as Zs'Skayr could try to take control at any point.
Ripjaws, aka Piscuss Volann
Powers: Can survive/breathe underwater(again), incredibly power and sharp jaws, extreme omnivore, amazing swimming ability, can produce light with lure, super strength and durability.
Weakness: Requires water to survive and so being on land without adequate water for too long is dangerous, extreme heat dehydrates them quickly, not particularly quick on land.
Notes: The meme-Aquaman of the forms, extremely useful in water, less so elsewhere, though those jaws can do a lot of damange. Their weakness to being out of water decreases with age, but it's still not great.
Pesky Dust, aka Nemuina
Powers: Flight, agile, can produce and shoot dust that puts damn near anything that isn't a straight-up robot to sleep and keeps them asleep, can then enter and manipulate their dreams, extracting information or creating nightmares.
Weakness: Small and physically weak. Dust can be washed off and eventually stops working unless reapplied. Note that this doesn't immediately wake the person up, it just means they can wake up.
Notes: This is Taylor's non-lethal takedown and interrogation form. Imagine Newters drug, only in powder form that can spread over areas. Can't remember if works through environmental suits, but I believe it does? Regardless, extremely useful.
XLR8, aka Kineceleran
Powers: Extreme super speed, agility and dexterity, enhanced strength and durability, sharp claws, can manipulate friction
Weakness: Non-solids can cause issues
Notes: If Ripjaws is Aquaman, XLR8 is the goddamn Flash, only bunch of knifes for a hand attached. All the standard speedster powers are here: run on water, create tornadoes by running around in a circle, run up and down walls, move faster then the eye can see. And, of course, that's as broken as you can expect.
Gutrot, species unknown
Powers: Can create or breakdown pretty much any gas inside of themselves, can expel or absorb gasses, enhanced intelligence, innate understanding of chemistry and its effects, enhanced strength, extreme resistance to immunity to poisons and acids, including a Nemuina's sleep dust
Weakness: Slow reaction speed, can't actually control gas, gas is mundane with no supernatural properties and so acts like gas should
Notes: A literal walking, talking chemical laboratory and war crime. Good for chemical analysis and gas production, but in a fight, you have to take into account gas spreads out and drifts, and there's no way to control dosages. Gutrot also never demonstrated the ability to create small, controlled bursts of gas to my knowledge, meaning this is a very dangerous form.
Ghostreak, aka Ectonurite, aka Zs'Skayr
Powers: Invisibility, Intangibility, Possession, Flying, Telekinesis, surprised tentacles that can grow thorns, super strength, does not count as "alive" for most things, sharp claws, energy blasts, power increases in proportion to lack of light
Weakness: Intangility can be cancelled out, invisibility can be broken through unknown means, has a "second skin" that weakens/inhibits powers, light or radiation extremely deadly if "second skin" is removed, IS FUCKING HAUNTED
Notes: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Okay, got it out my system, but this form is dangerous, use only in emergencies, as Zs'Skayr could try to take control at any point.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Just to give some context on XLR8, at age 10, Ben was moving so fast that the world stood completely still. And by age 30 (?), Ben 10,000 was able to patrol the entire world in seconds. There are also laser dodging feats, but since lasers are pretty slow in the Ben 10-verse, that's not a good measure.
Anyways,
[X] [Dial] Crab
- Location
- Hollister
[X][Dial] Crab
[X][Dial] Crab
- Location
- Unknown
I was going to suggest we consider the name TayTen(pronounced Titan or Tatin haven't decided) in homage to the original series but between Grey Matter, Brainstorm, and the crit we may well have more than ten forms before our first night of heroing, provided what happens next doesn't out our identity, though with ten disparate forms to choose from the connection shouldn't be that obvious.
Also thinking on some of our forms...was it ever established if Bitch's powers work like Skitter's in that they affect anything she considers to be sufficiently doglike, depending on the answer we may have a souped-up wildmutt to look forward to. On another note even ignoring all the other warning-flags from Ghostfreak being one of our orignal ten. Wasn't Ben noticably more sadistic in that form even before it directly took over, if so I could see that sadism feeding into Taylor's Warlord tendencies and possibly causing us to inadvertently earn Shadow Stalkers approval...or enmity considering the similarity in powersets
note: it has been a while since I watched the show so the Ghostfreak thing may be off
also
[X][Dial] Crab
Also thinking on some of our forms...was it ever established if Bitch's powers work like Skitter's in that they affect anything she considers to be sufficiently doglike, depending on the answer we may have a souped-up wildmutt to look forward to. On another note even ignoring all the other warning-flags from Ghostfreak being one of our orignal ten. Wasn't Ben noticably more sadistic in that form even before it directly took over, if so I could see that sadism feeding into Taylor's Warlord tendencies and possibly causing us to inadvertently earn Shadow Stalkers approval...or enmity considering the similarity in powersets
note: it has been a while since I watched the show so the Ghostfreak thing may be off
also
[X][Dial] Crab
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- Location
- Two hours away
- Pronouns
- He/Him
A thought on long term stuff:
Taylor owns the best shiny on the planet, we need to make sure that nobody knows it ain't tinker-tech.
I would also suggest going out to friendship Panacea to further integrate the omnitrix into our body or at the very least remove the PRT ability to just lob off our arm then regrow it.
Taylor owns the best shiny on the planet, we need to make sure that nobody knows it ain't tinker-tech.
I would also suggest going out to friendship Panacea to further integrate the omnitrix into our body or at the very least remove the PRT ability to just lob off our arm then regrow it.
I've seen that bandied about, but can't find a source for the feat.