Post by Nikola Tesla on Jul 15, 2013 3:37:42 GMT
The Basics
Name: Nikola Tesla
Age: Biologically 30, chronologically 157
Sex: Male
Species: Immortal human
Date Of Birth: July 10, 1856
Nationality: Serbian-American
Hometown Similijan, Croatia
Occupation: Inventor, scientist, complete and utter badass, cofounder of Division 42
Alignment: Good
Theme Song:
Outer Stuff
Face Claim: Nikola Tesla
Height: 5’ 8”
Weight 125
Hair color: Black
Hair style: Reference the pic
Eye color: Blue
Skin color: Caucasian
Posture: Straight, dignified
Scars/ Tattoo’s/ Other markings: N/A
Accessories: An old locket embedded with the blueprints for the Teleforce cannon
Clothes: Usually dresses like this, but with more black
Anything Else?
Inner Stuff
Likes:
- His experiments
- Wardenclyffe
- Seeing how far man has progressed
Dislikes:
- Edison
- Those who would misuse his gifts
- Those who would harm his friends
Strengths:
- A shockingly (lolpun) intelligent man, smarter than most modern experts, possessing an eidetic memory and an incredible engineer and inventor
- A fairly skilled combatant, especially with older weapons (sabers, brass knuckles, etc.)
- His body is a living battery; he can absorb absolutely insane amounts of electricity, giving him highly increased physical capabilities and the ability to shoot electricity
- Highly loyal to those he considers friends.
Weaknesses:
- If he’s wounded, it heals far more slowly than a normal human, due to the nature of his immortality
- He tends to fly into a rage if anyone mentions Edison as the inventor of something of his.
- When he does his little lightning trick, he becomes sluggish for a few hours afterward
- Somewhat prone to self-destructive rampages if his friends are in danger
Goal(s):
- Help the world reach a new age of enlightenment
Habits/ Quirks:
- Pretty much always has some project he’s tinkering on.
Relationships:
- Thomas Edison- His (thankfully) long-dead rival
- Division 42 agents- He’s partial, since he helped found the Division.
Overview: Tesla is somewhat outdated, but has adapted partly. He speaks with a mix of old and modern terms, he’s rather chivalrous, and he’s extremely loyal to his friends. He is willing to sacrifice anything up to his life for anyone he considers a friend or close ally. He is also very, very dedicated to keeping man from abusing his gifts to destroy each other and the planet. He keeps the Teleforce blueprints, his most dangerous invention, on his person at all times, in order to defend it.
Other Equipment:
- His prodigious catalogue of inventions, including a handheld localized earthquake generator, an electrified pair of brass knuckles, etc. He pretty much has an invention for everything.
- His laboratory at Wardenclyffe
History
Nikola Tesla has had a very long and successful life. Born in Serbia to a pair of Orthodox priests, his mother had a talent for making gadgets and other things, as well as memorizing Serbian epics. To this day, Nik has maintained he inherited his creative talents and eidetic memory from his mother. He went through school in Serbia and the old Austrian Empire, before beginning to work for the Continental Edison Company in France. He later relocated his operation to NYC, and got a job working with Edison. He later quit when he made a major improvement to Edison’s motors under the expectation of payment, and when he didn’t receive it, he quit immediately.
He started his own company, but after a few years, he was fired by his own shareholders and forced to find work digging ditches. A year later, he started another company, and was given license by his shareholders to work on his idea of alternating current power distribution. He developed an AC induction motor, and it was licensed to George Westinghouse’s company, who also hired Tesla to work for him for a year. In 1891, he patented his famous Tesla Coil.
He became a naturalized US citizen at age 35. A few years later, he dreamed of an angel who looked like his mother, and considered the first sign his mother died. She had indeed. He moved on, beginning to experiment with wireless electric transmission and X-rays, before losing a large amount of his research in a fire. This is when things started getting weird for him.
He dreamed of his mother the angel once again, and when he woke up, all of his supposedly destroyed research was in his room. He brushed it off with a little investigation, and moved his operation to Colorado Springs. He stayed there for about five years, conducting experiments, until he built his own lab in Wardenclyffe, New Jersey. He continued having experiences he could only describe as supernatural, often revolving around him dreaming of an angel who looked like his mother. He began received strange letters as well.
In 1937, he was hit by a taxi, wrenching his spine and confining him to a bed for several months. During this time, he was actually visited by this angel, and his healing process accelerated significantly, ending with him making a complete recovery. He knew this was impossible, so for the rest of his (known) life, he acted as if he was crippled. In his final years, he conceived the Teleforce weapon, which was essentially a working laser cannon capable of eliminating entire armies at amazing distances. He committed the design to memory, and later to his locket, which he keeps on his person to this very day. In 1943, he was found dead of coronary thrombosis.
He woke up in his lab at Wardenclyffe, with the angel standing over him. The angel explained that it was, in fact, an extraterrestrial being, and its kind had seen the future. The world, according to the angel, would tear itself apart if it were to misuse Tesla’s gifts, and the angel charged him with leading man into a new age of enlightenment. Tesla later discovered that he was immortal, and, on accident, discovered electricity’s effect on his body.
Many years he later, he helped found the Division 42 organization, to gather and defend the world’s most dangerous items and keep man from using them to destroy each other.
OOC Stuff
Anything Else: I officially win this forum.
OOC Name: Skye
Name Color 990000
Number Of Stars 5
Color Of Stars White
Sample RP: “Alright, then.” Tesla muttered, adjusting the video camera, before hitting record. “Test Number 22, Electrical absorption capabilities of my own body. Testing up to 375 megawatts.”
He stepped back, standing in the center of four tesla coils. “Begin test.” The coils lit up with electricity, before all four discharged directly into Tesla. He clenched his teeth as the energy surged through his body, his fingers clenching so tightly bruises began to form on his palms. The coils stopped after about a minute, and he staggered over to a computer, sticking sensors to his chest and brain.
“Vital statistics.” He said.
“Body functioning at a consistently above-average level.” The computer replied.
“Reconfigure for physical capability test.” Tesla called into the lab. With a whir, the lab reconfigured, setting up four stone columns, a pair of inactive coils, and a metal plate. “Beginning physical capability test number 21.”
With a cry, he drove a fist into one of the columns, shattering the solid stone like Tiffany crystal. Two more columns shattered, before he turned to one of the coils. He wound up, as if he were about to throw a baseball pitch, and fired a bolt of lightning at the coil, lighting it up.
“Bolt wattage.” Tesla called.
“5 megawatts.” The computer replied. Tesla whirled around, slamming a fist into the metal plate.
“Punch force.” Tesla yelled.
“1000 newtons.”
“End test.” Tesla said. He leaned against one of the coils, and began to discharge the excess energy in his body. “I could be a god, if I so chose.” He muttered to himself as he watched the electricity discharge into the coil.
