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Roderick ‘Roddy’ William Holloway

Portrayed By: Robert Sheehan

Character Brief

Codename:

Occupation:

Photographer/Videographer

Age:

21

Height:

6"

Eyes:

Blue

Hair:

Black

Creation:

Legacy:

Biography

Roddy Holloway was an adopted test tube baby given to Candace and Robert Holloway from St John’s, Newfoundland. His parents were oil and gas magnates. When the bottom fell out of their business, they packed up and moved to Chicago. Both his parents (who had worked together back in St. John’s) started up a consulting firm. The family lost most of their previous wealth, but made enough to be comfortable.

Roddy was only 12 when they moved, but he had been in Newfoundland long enough for the accent to ingrain itself in him. It brought him a great deal of teasing, which is how he sharpened his wit and decided it was better to make people laugh at his jokes rather than at something he couldn’t change.

His parents told him what he was when he was old enough to understand. So his manifestation came as no surprise. At first, they thought it was telekinesis, but a series of tests revealed it for what it truly was – singularity manipulation. That particular power wasn’t altogether unexpected given his genetic soup, but it was something he was never given full details of.

The young man always had a passion for recording things. He was taking pictures from a young age and got quite good at it. So as he got older, he started taking on freelancing gigs, both for news and some ad shoots and portrait photography. He also started taking up videography and applying some of the same skills. He has some aspirations to go to school properly, but for now, he’s doing all right with his freelancing.

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Aspects

High Concept:

Clown Prince of Black Holes

Roddy has a difficult time self-editing and loves making people laugh. He also has a hard time knowing when to shut up. Some people are charmed by this, but it makes other people want to punch him in the face. He’s the archetypal class clown in a way - if a class clown also came with deep-seated insecurities and dangerous powers.

Trouble:

Sees the Unseeable

The more Roddy uses his abilities, the more he sees into a slice of the universe that doesn’t function on the same rules as ours. He taps into that black hole horizon every time he does more than float a pencil. He risks untethering completely from reality if he uses his ability to affect a large area, or if he uses his ability at medium to high strength multiple times in close succession. He may or may not be able to bring himself back from the brink, depending. It’s a little bit like peering at an Eldritch Horror - if the Horror was every single law of physics completely run amok.

Hello Time Bomb

It’s really only a matter of time before Roddy kills someone or wreaks mass destruction. It remains to be seen whether or not this will happen intentionally, or whether it will be accidental.

Say Cheese!

Roddy is a photographer and videographer. He’s got a good eye and he’s technically competent. He’ll take a fine portrait, but is also equally skilled at snapping a newsworthy action shot.

Skills

Superb (+5)

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Great (+4)

Will

Good (+3)

Athletics

Provoke

Fair (+2)

Crafts

Investigate

Rapport

Average (+1)

Contacts

Fight

Notice

Stealth

Stunts

Provoke Violence

Mechanical Effect: When you create an advantage on an opponent using Provoke, you can use your free invocation to become the target of that character’s next relevant action, drawing their attention away from another target

Stunt Cost: 1

Power Suite One: Black Hole Manipulation

Roddy is able to manipulate singularities that mess with gravity around him. He can slow things, move them, and, if he can work up to it, cause things to crumple in on themselves..

Power Breakdown

  • Flight - You may fly. Use Athletics to overcome obstacles or create advantages related to flight.
    • Master Flight - +2 Athletics while airborne.
  • Harm - Deal 2 stress by touch, add 2 stress to all fight attacks using your bare hands.
    • Piercing Damage - Your Harm ignores armor ratings and works through clothing.
  • Telekinesis - Mentally move small objects in your or adjacent zones. Attack with Will against targets in your zone by hurling things.
    • Master Telekinesis - +2 Will when attacking with telekinesis.
  • Theme: Gravity Manipulation - Use of your powers is accompanied by visible distortions, lensing and feelings of lightness or heaviness as gravity shifts to accommodate your whims.

    Special Effects

    • Mental Recovery - You recover from all mental stress
    • Extra Action - You can split your shifts between two different yet related actions adding a +1 to each action

    Drawbacks

    • Mental Hangover - Use of his abilities comes with mental strain. He experiences symptoms similar to migraines, including sensory overload, light sensitivity, numbness, headaches and auras.

    Collateral Damage

    • Unstoppable Telekinesis - You can use your mental powers to lift something up to the size of a tank and hurl it, either to destroy a wall or similarly robust obstacle, or to attack every target in your zone or an adjacent zone.

    RP Logs

    Superfreak

    Justin Steele recruits his best friend Roddy Holloway to help him get some footage documenting the people coming in and out of the Purifier church linked to a dangerous drug ring. Of course, complications are inevitable. A pair of zealots enter the building they're using, driving the two young men away in a hurry.

    IC date: January 12, 2051 | Cast: Justin Steele, Roderick ‘Roddy’ William Holloway | NPCs: Some Purifiers

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    • Always a Way Out
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    • Talk the Talk
    • The Power of Deduction
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    • Tough as Nails
    • Trust Fund Baby
    • Uncanny Accuracy

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    • Animal Control
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    • Energy Blast
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    • Super Intelligence
    • Super Senses
    • Super Speed
    • Super Strength
    • Super Toughness
    • Telekinesis
    • Telepathy
    • Teleportation
    • Teleportation: Portals (Variant)
    • Theme: Chaos Conduit (Mutant Only)
    • Theme: Corruption
    • Theme: Dark Conduit (Mutant Only)
    • Theme: Electricity Projection
    • Theme: Energy Manipulation
    • Theme: Fire Projection
    • Theme: Frost Projection
    • Theme: Gravity Manipulation
    • Theme: Light Conduit (Mutant Only)
    • Theme: Shadow Projection
    • Theme: Super Form
    • Theme: Technology
    • Wall-Crawling
    • Weather Control

    Enhancements

    • Accelerated Growth
    • Alarm Bypass
    • Alertness
    • All the Things
    • Animal Telepathy
    • Banish Darkness
    • Black Bargain
    • Bloody Weapon
    • Built-In Wi-Fi
    • Capacitance
    • Cat’s Landing
    • Chessmastery
    • Close Observation
    • Cocoon
    • Collective Teleportation
    • Complex Summoning
    • Conductive Trip
    • Convincing
    • Critical Hit
    • Dark Aura
    • Dark Rites
    • Dark Sight
    • Dazzle
    • Defensive Blasts
    • Defensive Phasing
    • Disposable Duplicates
    • Distant Power Nullification
    • Dryad Step
    • Eagle-Eyed
    • Effective Duplication
    • Eye of the Needle
    • Familiar Presence
    • Fast Healing
    • Featherstep
    • Fire Control
    • Fortean Storm
    • Friend to Flames
    • Full Nullification
    • Full Sensory Overload
    • Giant Illusions
    • Growth
    • Horrifying to Behold
    • Hot Blooded
    • Human Pincushion
    • Ice Slick
    • Icy Aura
    • Immortal
    • Implacable
    • Improved Reaction Time
    • Intense Training
    • Ionize
    • Jaunt
    • Juggernaut
    • Kinetic Acceleration
    • Lasting Harm
    • Lingering Power Amplification
    • Lingering Power Replication
    • Lingering Weather
    • Long-Distance Telekinesis
    • Long-Distance Telepathy
    • Long-Range Blaster
    • Luck Curse
    • Machine Language
    • Mark and Recall
    • Master Absorption
    • Master Animal Control
    • Master Creature Summoning
    • Master Disguise
    • Master Duplication
    • Master Elasticity
    • Master Energy Blast
    • Master Flight
    • Master Gadgeteering
    • Master Hacking
    • Master Harm
    • Master Healing
    • Master Illusion
    • Master Influence
    • Master Invisibility
    • Master Item Summoning
    • Master Machine Control
    • Master Mimicry
    • Master Natural Weapon
    • Master Phasing
    • Master Plant Control
    • Master Power Amplification
    • Master Power Nullification
    • Master Power Replication
    • Master Precognition
    • Master Regeneration
    • Master Shape-Shifting
    • Master Shielding
    • Master Slowing
    • Master Super Agility
    • Master Super Intelligence
    • Master Super Senses
    • Master Super Speed
    • Master Super Strength
    • Master Super Toughness
    • Master Telekinesis
    • Master Telekinesis
    • Master Telepathy
    • Master Wall-Crawling
    • Master Weather Control
    • Menagerie
    • Mental Blasts
    • Mimicry Memory
    • Multiple Mimicry
    • Nice Toys
    • Obvious Target
    • Ongoing Mutations
    • Opaque Shields
    • Orbital Path
    • Out of the Shadows
    • Overhealing
    • Overwhelming Voice
    • Pain for Power
    • Piercing Damage
    • Portal Mastery
    • Power Generation
    • Power Suite Duplication
    • Power Vampire
    • Precise Invisibility
    • Precision Shielding
    • Quick Recovery
    • Radiohead
    • Rapid Shifting
    • Ray of Empowerment
    • Ray of Harm
    • Realm Warp
    • Restore Sanity
    • Sartorial Doubling
    • Semi-Permeable Shield
    • Sensory Suite
    • Shadow Dodge
    • Shareable Invisibility
    • Shiny Shiny
    • Shrinking
    • Skill Shifting
    • Slow Field
    • Spatial Distortion
    • Stand Fast
    • Stop
    • Stunning Blow
    • Superior Gadgeteering
    • Supersonic Flight
    • Taskmastery
    • Telekinetic Might
    • Telepathic Flexibility
    • Teleportation Mastery
    • Temperature Reduction
    • The Right Tools for the Job
    • Tireless Grip
    • TK Shield
    • Tough Little Thing
    • Tunneling
    • Uncanny Dodge
    • Useful Devices
    • Visions
    • Walking Library
    • Wall Kick
    • Weather Precision
    • X-Ray Vision
    • Zoological Polyglot

    Improved Special Effects

    • Bullrush
    • Dangerous Weather
    • Duplicate Action
    • Flame On
    • Hammer Toss
    • Healing Wave
    • Ice Shield
    • Magical Disruption
    • Visions of Change

    Drawbacks

    • A Danger to Anyone Nearby
    • Accident-Prone While Indoors
    • Always Freezing
    • Always on Fire
    • Always Shrouded in Darkness
    • Bright Green Skin
    • Burnout
    • Can’t Climb Perfectly Smooth Surfaces
    • Can’t Get Rid of Your Creature
    • Can’t Heal Someone You Don’t Like
    • Can’t Shut It Off
    • Caught Up In Dark Plans
    • Clumsy
    • Completely Visible Reflection
    • Constant Migraines
    • Darkened Soul
    • Destructive Rage
    • Doesn’t Work on Clothes
    • Don’t Get Along with Yourself
    • Don’t Know Who You Are Anymore
    • Don’t Know Your Own Strength
    • Easily Distracted
    • Easily Forgotten
    • Easily Overwhelmed
    • Energetic Diet
    • Energetic Distraction
    • Exhausting
    • Extended Transformation Sequence
    • Feel Their Pain
    • Fragile as Glass
    • From Another Time
    • Fueled By Rage
    • Grotesque
    • Grotesquely Scarred
    • Hackable
    • Half-Feral
    • Hard to Maneuver in Flight
    • Horrifying to Behold
    • Hot-Tempered
    • Huge, Visible, Pulsating Brain
    • Hyperactive
    • Illusions Dissipate in Daylight
    • Illusions Don’t Show Up on Video
    • Inaccurate at Close Range
    • Inhuman Visage
    • Intensely Sleep-Deprived
    • Involuntary Bursts of Energy
    • Involuntary Energy Field
    • Involuntary Mimicry
    • It Has a Mind of Its Own
    • It Looks Like a Living Nightmare
    • Kept Alive by Your Own Devices
    • Leaves You Weakened
    • Lethargic
    • Limited Fuel
    • Limited Fuel
    • Limited to Organic Materials
    • Limited to Terrestrial Mammals
    • Lots of Collateral Damage
    • Machinery Tends to Fail Around You
    • Massive Bursts of Ill-Smelling Smoke
    • Modern Tech Just Doesn’t Like You
    • Must Maintain Physical Contact
    • Need a Hardline
    • Need a Mask to Protect Those Around You
    • Need a Spark
    • Need Solid Anchor Points
    • Need to Concentrate to Stay Solid
    • No Empathy
    • Not Useful Indoors
    • Not Very Useful Indoors
    • Often Arguing with Yourself
    • Only Effective While Indoors
    • Only Good Up Close
    • Only Live in the Cold
    • Overflowing Light
    • Overwhelming Animal Instincts
    • Power Drain
    • Power-Hungry
    • Psychic Feedback
    • Quite Frail
    • Racked with Guilt
    • Radioactive
    • Reality Kind of Hates You
    • Require a Prop
    • Require Complete Concentration
    • Requires Physical Contact
    • Requires Sustained Physical Contact
    • Restless
    • Shabby Equipment
    • Short-Range Control
    • Slow
    • Slow to Form
    • Slowed Reaction Time
    • Sometimes Things Drop Right Through Your Hands
    • Sticky-Fingered (Literally)
    • Subconscious Made Real
    • Surrounded by Admirers
    • Sympathetic Weather Patterns
    • Tend to Abuse Your Power
    • The Machines Never Stop Talking!
    • Touch-Activated
    • Trail of Random Stuff
    • Unpredictable Superpower Misfires
    • Unwanted Feedback
    • Unwanted Feedback (Hacking)
    • Unwanted Menagerie
    • Up, up and away
    • Very Noticeable
    • Visibly Corrupted
    • Water Shorts You Out
    • Weak
    • Weak and Frail Body
    • Weakened by Daylight
    • Weakened in Ordered Environments
    • Weighty
    • You Can’t Breathe While Phasing
    • You Can’t Feel Much of Anything
    • You Can’t Turn It Off
    • You Don’t Look Quite Human
    • You Have Trouble Seeing the Present
    • You Think You’re Better than Everyone

    Collateral Damage

    • “DIE!”
    • Armor Piercing
    • Army of Me
    • Bad Ride
    • Balloon
    • Battle Plan
    • Berserk
    • Black Blessing
    • Blizzard
    • Bulking Up
    • Bulletproof
    • Charged Shot
    • Come to Me!
    • Deadly Ivy
    • Decay
    • Deflection
    • Demonic Gaze
    • Direct Control
    • Dramatic Entrance
    • Earthing
    • Escape Plan
    • Eviscerate
    • Expected Backup
    • Extra Copies
    • Flaming
    • Flashburn
    • Foreign Objects
    • Future Echoes
    • Gravity Manipulation
    • Grounded Discharge
    • Hair-Trigger Reaction
    • Handmade Off Button
    • Highly Experimental Device
    • Hold Fast
    • Holding Pattern
    • Horror Show
    • Hyper-Mode
    • Hyper-Visibility
    • Hyperfocus
    • Interception
    • Invulnerability Charge
    • Jaunt
    • Killing Disguise
    • Killswitch
    • Mass Empowerment
    • Mass Hysteria
    • Mass Illness
    • Mass Slowing
    • Megaton Punch
    • Mental Map
    • Micro Singularity
    • Mighty Bound
    • Missed Me
    • No More
    • Noble Sacrifice
    • Overload
    • Pacifist Aura
    • Pawn Interception
    • Perfect Evasion
    • POW!
    • Psychic Lockdown
    • Psychic Maelstrom
    • Puppetry
    • Quantum Tunneling
    • Rapid Fire
    • Rapid Reforestation
    • Ravage
    • Replicated Collateral Damage
    • Rubber Vengeance
    • Shadow Beast
    • Shield Bubble
    • SMASH!
    • Speed Demon
    • Stegosaurus
    • Sturm und Drang
    • Super-Power Strike
    • Sweet Ride
    • T-Rex
    • Take Up Arms
    • Through the Grid
    • Timeless Zone
    • Unstoppable Telekinesis
    • Untouchably Airy
    • Virtual Possession
    • Whirlwind
    • Winds of Change
    • Wormhole

    News

    • Website Updates 2 Jul 2020
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    • Miranda Moore has been approved for Roleplay 22 Nov 2018
    • Lilli Remilliard has been approved for Roleplay 18 Nov 2018
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