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[OOC Information]
Name: Erica
Age: 23
AIM / E-mail / LiveJournal: Same as before
What characters do you play here already, if any? Terra, Karrin,
Rainbow Dash, Jason Grace
[IC Information]
Character Name: Kaldur’ahm “Kaldur” Aqualad
Series: Young Justice animated
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Species: Atlantean
Appearance: Kaldur has dark skin and light hair cut extremely short.
The skin of his arms and back is covered in a eel-pattern tattoo that
glows when his powers are used. He has blue eyes and generally has a
serious look on his face. More distinguishing than all of that
however is the fact that he has gills on his neck and webbed hands and
feet. When in uniform he goes barefoot and wears a bright orange-red
top and tight blue pants reminiscent of scuba wear except for the fins
on the back of his calves. On his belt is a stylized ‘A.’
Personality:
Kaldur is the leader of the new team and this is by no accident. He
has a natural ability to take command and knows how to issue said
commands as well. The others take note of this trait and this is why
he is elected leader of the team, first nominated by Robin. While he
can find being the leader burdensome at times, he hardly complains
about it aloud. Instead he completes the missions assigned to him
while doing the best he can to look out for his teammates.
To his team, Kaldur is very much the big brother type. He will lend an
ear when needed, but also tries to teach the other team members
respect and how to be a stronger unit. He is a very responsible
individual and is often the first to suggest they report something to
Batman or the League, especially when he thinks the team is over their
heads. He is also slow to anger which helps when dealing with the
bickering and sometimes immaturity of the rest of his team (especially
Robin and Wally). Despite his soft-spoken voice he has a strong
presence and all of this helps him in his job as the leader.
Kaldur can be a typical teenager at times. He can be impulsive, as
seen when he goes off with Robin and Kid Flash to investigate Project
Cadmus. Despite his stoic appearance, Kaldur does know how relax and
enjoy himself, but his responsibility always comes first. He has a
good relationship with his teammates and puts a lot of his trust in
them, even letting them know his real name as opposed to just calling
him Aqualad. He can empathize with others to a certain degree which
often puts him in the role of mediator. Kaldur is extremely respectful
to everyone, whether they are older or younger than him. He always
looks for insight from his fellow teammates but knows when a decision
needs to be made that it comes down to him to make it.
Kaldur is a rather private person so while he has not expressly shared
his hopes and dreams with his teammates (that is, aloud in canon) a
few of them can be inferred from the interactions he has had. For
starters, Kaldur hopes that he can live up to the burden of being
leader for this new team of superheroes. Not only does he wish his
team to do well and work together, but he also wants to impress his
mentors, especially his King (aka Aquaman) and Batman (aka the hardest
person to please...ever). Not only does he have high expectations for
himself, but Kaldur has high hopes for his team as well. He knows they
have the potential to do great things, and they have, but sometimes it
can be troublesome getting there since all of them are still new at
this.
Another dream of Kaldur's, but which might no longer be a dream, is to
be with Tula. Tula was a fellow classmate of his as the conservatory
along with Garth. The three of them learned the magical arts together,
however when Kaldur took on the role of Aqualad he ceased his studies.
This caused him to spend less time with Tula and, as such, Tula grew
closer to Garth instead. Recently Kaldur considered returning to his
home just to be with Tula again and to resume his studies, however
instead he found out that Garth and Tula were now dating. Despite his
usual demeanor, it is not too hard to believe that Kaldur still
carries some feelings for Tula and might even still dream of her as
the one for him. However, as Garth is his friend too, he would never
think to try and come between Garth and Tula. So, for now, Kaldur has
put his dream of love aside. Whether said dream will return in the
future is anyone's guess, but his major goal right now is just to
become a better superhero.
As far as minor hopes and dreams go, I imagine they include things
like: continuing to please his King, Wally and Artemis to get along,
and Robin to stop randomly vanishing during missions like a ninja. But
those are minor and, obviously a little bit less serious.
History: Kaldur’ahm’s past is mostly unknown at this point. When he
was young he joined the Conservatory to learn Atlantean magic with his
friends Garth and Tula. Eventually Garth and Kaldur joined forces to
help Aquaman take down the Ocean Master. After helping him Aquaman
offered them the chance to become his proteges, Garth declined but
Kaldur accepted and became Aqualad. That was two years before the
present day when the Young Justice team was created.
Of course, the team was only forged after an incident with a Cadmus
facility that he, Robin, and Kid Flash investigated. It turned out
that Cadmus had several genetic experiments, including a clone of
Superman. They rescued him and in the process destroyed the building.
The League was rather furious with them but Aqualad convinced them to
let them form their own team because they worked so well together.
After a few undercover missions, Aqualad was named team leader,
although he told Robin that he was the one destined to do so. Since
then the team has grown by one member, Artemis, who joined them a few
months after the initial group was formed. They helped take down
several bad guys along the way, after all, they are superheroes.
Aqualad’s most recent mission left him without his memories and
stranded in the desert. However, at missions end he was rescued and
his memories restored.
While recovering from this a strange event occurred and Kaldur was
transported to Chicago.
Supernatural Abilities: As an Atlantean, Kaldur has certain abilities
that are natural to him which I will cover in the ‘natural abilities’
section. Due to his studies at the Conservatory of Sorcery, Aqualad
had other abilities as well. He has an eel pattern tattoo on his arms
that glow and allow him to electrocute others with his hands or by
channeling it through water currents. Aqualad also has the ability to
manipulate water to his will and has shown himself capable of making a
number of different things out of it to assist in a fight. His tattoos
glow whenever he uses the electricity or water manipulation abilities
Supernatural Weaknesses: Naturally, Kaldur possesses a weakness to
extreme heat. Once he was brought to Chicago he will find things are
much more difficult than just that. For starters, his control over
water takes more concentration than before and sometimes might not
work at all. The other problem will be with his electricity.
Normally it’s not a trouble to produce but now he can only get a few
shocks out before becoming completely drained.
Natural Abilities: He can breath underwater thanks to the gills on
the sides of his neck and can swim fast thanks to the webbed fingers
and toes on his hands and feet. Living underwater also means he had a
denser skin and is more durable than normal humans, allowing him to
withstand high water pressure as well as heavy blows he might
encounter in a fight. Kaldur is capable of a great deal of strength,
much greater than that of any human. It has also been stated that his
blood is like jelly-fish toxin and gives him a degree of immunity to
most poisons. While these are technically natural abilities if they
need to be limited in any way please let me know.
Possessions: Kaldur is arriving with both his water pack and water
bearers. The water pack is basically what it sounds like: a black
metalic backpack that stores water inside (although how much water is
unknown). The water in the backpack is what he uses for his water
bearers and he stores them in the backpack as well. The water bearers
are the tools he uses to manipulate water and convert said water into
any shape he chooses. Without the water they are just a pair of twin
hilts. He will also likely have some sort of communicator or comm
link for the Justice League but obviously it will be useless.
First-person POV journal sample: [After a few seconds of pondering,
Kaldur finally decides he is ready to communicate. He gets the phone
to start recording and begins posting his voice as he speaks to it. It
would seem as though he is speaking thoughtfully, not quite sure what
the purpose of this post is just yet]
I do not know how my transportation across the United States was
possibly without alerting the rest of the League or why they have left
me with a means of communication but I must ask if anyone is out there
that can assist in returning me to the east coast. My team and I have
only just recovered our memories from the last mission and it is of
importance that we debrief Batman of the situation as soon as
possible.
[There is a pause, he realizes that since he IS new in the area
perhaps not everyone will know who is speaking. He begins again]
I am Aqualad. If anyone can hear this message I would be grateful for
answers or assistance that you might provide. I would also like to
inquire as to whether or not the following might be present here as
well: Robin, Kid Flash, Artemis, Miss Martian or Superboy. I realize
that we might not have arrived at the same place but it is better to
find out now rather than later. Of course, if any member of the
Justice League is here their presence would also be welcomed as I
imagine they might have more experience with such an occurrence as
this.
[He falls silent again, perhaps thinking if there is anything else he
should add.]
Again, I appreciate any help you may offer. If it is in my power to do
so I will repay the favor in kind. Thank you for your time.
Third-person POV rp sample: Despite having his memories restored,
Batman had ordered he stay in the medical bay for another few hours
just to be sure. Kaldur accepted this command but deep down wished he
could just leave. He wanted to see his team and he wanted to work on
his debriefing of the incident. Batman had at least left Kaldur with
access to the holo-computers so he could work on writing a report.
Kaldur stared at the glowing blue screen as he thought about how to
start. It would be easier now that his memories were restored but
since he had been unconscious for most of the events after the initial
psychic attack there was not much he could write without his
teammates. Sighing, Kaldur shut the holo-computer off and leaned back
in his bed, "I hope the rest are recovering well."
An hour or so later Red Tornado walked into the medical bay. After
looking over some data he turned his head to Kaldur, "You are free to
leave."
Kaldur resisted the urge to jump straight out of the bed he had been
placed in. Instead he got up slowly, the tiled floors beneath his feet
were cool and much more pleasant than the hot, desert sand of the
mission. "Thank you, Red Tornado. Please, can you tell me where I
might find the others?"
Red Tornado held out Kaldur's Aqualad outfit, "I believe they are
making lunch in the kitchen. Miss Martian decided it would do you some
good."
'Ah,' thought Kaldur, 'that would explain why they were not here by
his bedside for the last hour.' Well, it was either that or Batman had
told them not to. Of course, he didn't see that really STOPPING Kid
Flash or Robin. Kaldur bowed his head slightly to Red Tornado, "Thank
you. I will join them shortly." Red Tornado returned the nod and then
left the room so that Kaldur could get dressed.
After dressing, Kaldur headed for the kitchen, once again his thoughts
going towards the mission. They would really need to be more careful
in the future should such an attack happen again. Kaldur couldn't help
but wonder if there was even really a way to prevent against a psychic
attack like this. Perhaps he could ask his King or Batman. He was
tempted to go to Atlantis and research the idea himself, but he knew
his teammates were waiting to see how he was doing.
He found his way to the kitchen easily enough but even before he got
there he could hear the cheerful sounds of his teammates chatting and
goofing off together. It brought a smile to his face for although they
had just gone through a difficult ordeal, they were able to bounce
back. Kaldur knew that how they dealt with a mission after it's
success or failure was just as important as how they handled it during
the mission.
Kaldur stopped in the doorway just as everyone turned to him. He
offered them a small smile and a wave, "Hello. I hope you have not
started without me." He didn't even glance at Kid Flash but the
speedster immediately protested.
"Hey! Don't look at me! I was hungry, okay?"
"Oh we're looking at you. You're the reason we had to start over again
in the first place," Artemis quipped.
Shaking his head, Kaldur walked into the kitchen, "It is good to see
that things have returned to normal."
Name: Erica
Age: 23
AIM / E-mail / LiveJournal: Same as before
What characters do you play here already, if any? Terra, Karrin,
Rainbow Dash, Jason Grace
[IC Information]
Character Name: Kaldur’ahm “Kaldur” Aqualad
Series: Young Justice animated
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Species: Atlantean
Appearance: Kaldur has dark skin and light hair cut extremely short.
The skin of his arms and back is covered in a eel-pattern tattoo that
glows when his powers are used. He has blue eyes and generally has a
serious look on his face. More distinguishing than all of that
however is the fact that he has gills on his neck and webbed hands and
feet. When in uniform he goes barefoot and wears a bright orange-red
top and tight blue pants reminiscent of scuba wear except for the fins
on the back of his calves. On his belt is a stylized ‘A.’
Personality:
Kaldur is the leader of the new team and this is by no accident. He
has a natural ability to take command and knows how to issue said
commands as well. The others take note of this trait and this is why
he is elected leader of the team, first nominated by Robin. While he
can find being the leader burdensome at times, he hardly complains
about it aloud. Instead he completes the missions assigned to him
while doing the best he can to look out for his teammates.
To his team, Kaldur is very much the big brother type. He will lend an
ear when needed, but also tries to teach the other team members
respect and how to be a stronger unit. He is a very responsible
individual and is often the first to suggest they report something to
Batman or the League, especially when he thinks the team is over their
heads. He is also slow to anger which helps when dealing with the
bickering and sometimes immaturity of the rest of his team (especially
Robin and Wally). Despite his soft-spoken voice he has a strong
presence and all of this helps him in his job as the leader.
Kaldur can be a typical teenager at times. He can be impulsive, as
seen when he goes off with Robin and Kid Flash to investigate Project
Cadmus. Despite his stoic appearance, Kaldur does know how relax and
enjoy himself, but his responsibility always comes first. He has a
good relationship with his teammates and puts a lot of his trust in
them, even letting them know his real name as opposed to just calling
him Aqualad. He can empathize with others to a certain degree which
often puts him in the role of mediator. Kaldur is extremely respectful
to everyone, whether they are older or younger than him. He always
looks for insight from his fellow teammates but knows when a decision
needs to be made that it comes down to him to make it.
Kaldur is a rather private person so while he has not expressly shared
his hopes and dreams with his teammates (that is, aloud in canon) a
few of them can be inferred from the interactions he has had. For
starters, Kaldur hopes that he can live up to the burden of being
leader for this new team of superheroes. Not only does he wish his
team to do well and work together, but he also wants to impress his
mentors, especially his King (aka Aquaman) and Batman (aka the hardest
person to please...ever). Not only does he have high expectations for
himself, but Kaldur has high hopes for his team as well. He knows they
have the potential to do great things, and they have, but sometimes it
can be troublesome getting there since all of them are still new at
this.
Another dream of Kaldur's, but which might no longer be a dream, is to
be with Tula. Tula was a fellow classmate of his as the conservatory
along with Garth. The three of them learned the magical arts together,
however when Kaldur took on the role of Aqualad he ceased his studies.
This caused him to spend less time with Tula and, as such, Tula grew
closer to Garth instead. Recently Kaldur considered returning to his
home just to be with Tula again and to resume his studies, however
instead he found out that Garth and Tula were now dating. Despite his
usual demeanor, it is not too hard to believe that Kaldur still
carries some feelings for Tula and might even still dream of her as
the one for him. However, as Garth is his friend too, he would never
think to try and come between Garth and Tula. So, for now, Kaldur has
put his dream of love aside. Whether said dream will return in the
future is anyone's guess, but his major goal right now is just to
become a better superhero.
As far as minor hopes and dreams go, I imagine they include things
like: continuing to please his King, Wally and Artemis to get along,
and Robin to stop randomly vanishing during missions like a ninja. But
those are minor and, obviously a little bit less serious.
History: Kaldur’ahm’s past is mostly unknown at this point. When he
was young he joined the Conservatory to learn Atlantean magic with his
friends Garth and Tula. Eventually Garth and Kaldur joined forces to
help Aquaman take down the Ocean Master. After helping him Aquaman
offered them the chance to become his proteges, Garth declined but
Kaldur accepted and became Aqualad. That was two years before the
present day when the Young Justice team was created.
Of course, the team was only forged after an incident with a Cadmus
facility that he, Robin, and Kid Flash investigated. It turned out
that Cadmus had several genetic experiments, including a clone of
Superman. They rescued him and in the process destroyed the building.
The League was rather furious with them but Aqualad convinced them to
let them form their own team because they worked so well together.
After a few undercover missions, Aqualad was named team leader,
although he told Robin that he was the one destined to do so. Since
then the team has grown by one member, Artemis, who joined them a few
months after the initial group was formed. They helped take down
several bad guys along the way, after all, they are superheroes.
Aqualad’s most recent mission left him without his memories and
stranded in the desert. However, at missions end he was rescued and
his memories restored.
While recovering from this a strange event occurred and Kaldur was
transported to Chicago.
Supernatural Abilities: As an Atlantean, Kaldur has certain abilities
that are natural to him which I will cover in the ‘natural abilities’
section. Due to his studies at the Conservatory of Sorcery, Aqualad
had other abilities as well. He has an eel pattern tattoo on his arms
that glow and allow him to electrocute others with his hands or by
channeling it through water currents. Aqualad also has the ability to
manipulate water to his will and has shown himself capable of making a
number of different things out of it to assist in a fight. His tattoos
glow whenever he uses the electricity or water manipulation abilities
Supernatural Weaknesses: Naturally, Kaldur possesses a weakness to
extreme heat. Once he was brought to Chicago he will find things are
much more difficult than just that. For starters, his control over
water takes more concentration than before and sometimes might not
work at all. The other problem will be with his electricity.
Normally it’s not a trouble to produce but now he can only get a few
shocks out before becoming completely drained.
Natural Abilities: He can breath underwater thanks to the gills on
the sides of his neck and can swim fast thanks to the webbed fingers
and toes on his hands and feet. Living underwater also means he had a
denser skin and is more durable than normal humans, allowing him to
withstand high water pressure as well as heavy blows he might
encounter in a fight. Kaldur is capable of a great deal of strength,
much greater than that of any human. It has also been stated that his
blood is like jelly-fish toxin and gives him a degree of immunity to
most poisons. While these are technically natural abilities if they
need to be limited in any way please let me know.
Possessions: Kaldur is arriving with both his water pack and water
bearers. The water pack is basically what it sounds like: a black
metalic backpack that stores water inside (although how much water is
unknown). The water in the backpack is what he uses for his water
bearers and he stores them in the backpack as well. The water bearers
are the tools he uses to manipulate water and convert said water into
any shape he chooses. Without the water they are just a pair of twin
hilts. He will also likely have some sort of communicator or comm
link for the Justice League but obviously it will be useless.
First-person POV journal sample: [After a few seconds of pondering,
Kaldur finally decides he is ready to communicate. He gets the phone
to start recording and begins posting his voice as he speaks to it. It
would seem as though he is speaking thoughtfully, not quite sure what
the purpose of this post is just yet]
I do not know how my transportation across the United States was
possibly without alerting the rest of the League or why they have left
me with a means of communication but I must ask if anyone is out there
that can assist in returning me to the east coast. My team and I have
only just recovered our memories from the last mission and it is of
importance that we debrief Batman of the situation as soon as
possible.
[There is a pause, he realizes that since he IS new in the area
perhaps not everyone will know who is speaking. He begins again]
I am Aqualad. If anyone can hear this message I would be grateful for
answers or assistance that you might provide. I would also like to
inquire as to whether or not the following might be present here as
well: Robin, Kid Flash, Artemis, Miss Martian or Superboy. I realize
that we might not have arrived at the same place but it is better to
find out now rather than later. Of course, if any member of the
Justice League is here their presence would also be welcomed as I
imagine they might have more experience with such an occurrence as
this.
[He falls silent again, perhaps thinking if there is anything else he
should add.]
Again, I appreciate any help you may offer. If it is in my power to do
so I will repay the favor in kind. Thank you for your time.
Third-person POV rp sample: Despite having his memories restored,
Batman had ordered he stay in the medical bay for another few hours
just to be sure. Kaldur accepted this command but deep down wished he
could just leave. He wanted to see his team and he wanted to work on
his debriefing of the incident. Batman had at least left Kaldur with
access to the holo-computers so he could work on writing a report.
Kaldur stared at the glowing blue screen as he thought about how to
start. It would be easier now that his memories were restored but
since he had been unconscious for most of the events after the initial
psychic attack there was not much he could write without his
teammates. Sighing, Kaldur shut the holo-computer off and leaned back
in his bed, "I hope the rest are recovering well."
An hour or so later Red Tornado walked into the medical bay. After
looking over some data he turned his head to Kaldur, "You are free to
leave."
Kaldur resisted the urge to jump straight out of the bed he had been
placed in. Instead he got up slowly, the tiled floors beneath his feet
were cool and much more pleasant than the hot, desert sand of the
mission. "Thank you, Red Tornado. Please, can you tell me where I
might find the others?"
Red Tornado held out Kaldur's Aqualad outfit, "I believe they are
making lunch in the kitchen. Miss Martian decided it would do you some
good."
'Ah,' thought Kaldur, 'that would explain why they were not here by
his bedside for the last hour.' Well, it was either that or Batman had
told them not to. Of course, he didn't see that really STOPPING Kid
Flash or Robin. Kaldur bowed his head slightly to Red Tornado, "Thank
you. I will join them shortly." Red Tornado returned the nod and then
left the room so that Kaldur could get dressed.
After dressing, Kaldur headed for the kitchen, once again his thoughts
going towards the mission. They would really need to be more careful
in the future should such an attack happen again. Kaldur couldn't help
but wonder if there was even really a way to prevent against a psychic
attack like this. Perhaps he could ask his King or Batman. He was
tempted to go to Atlantis and research the idea himself, but he knew
his teammates were waiting to see how he was doing.
He found his way to the kitchen easily enough but even before he got
there he could hear the cheerful sounds of his teammates chatting and
goofing off together. It brought a smile to his face for although they
had just gone through a difficult ordeal, they were able to bounce
back. Kaldur knew that how they dealt with a mission after it's
success or failure was just as important as how they handled it during
the mission.
Kaldur stopped in the doorway just as everyone turned to him. He
offered them a small smile and a wave, "Hello. I hope you have not
started without me." He didn't even glance at Kid Flash but the
speedster immediately protested.
"Hey! Don't look at me! I was hungry, okay?"
"Oh we're looking at you. You're the reason we had to start over again
in the first place," Artemis quipped.
Shaking his head, Kaldur walked into the kitchen, "It is good to see
that things have returned to normal."