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S.S.S.S.S.S.S MEME; redux, by request

Super Secret Special Supernatural or Scientific Situation Squad Meme

You've surely seen something similar. An ensemble of people unique people all brought together to face off against equally unique threats that cannot be overcome with conventional methods. The squad has few members but has existed in some form for a very long time indeed.

"There was an idea. To bring together a group of remarkable people. So when we needed them, they could fight the battles that we never could."

1 Post your character to the meme outlining a few details about them and what sort of role they play on or opposing the team. Additionally, playing someone caught up in the squad's business without any connection to them is also possible.

2 Tag others, either using some of the prompts below or of your own. Presuming CR will usually be implied, but playing a newbie to the team is good too.

Scenarios

Off Duty
1: All's Quiet At HQ Nothing disastrous happening for once. Enjoy the downtime.
2: Training Gotta keep the skills sharp.
3: The After Mission You survived another one. Maybe you lost someone, maybe it's party time.
4: Team Scuffle You've had it with this hot headed jerk/overly cool jerk!
5: Recruitment Someone with the qualities the S.S.S.S.S.S.S needs has been found.
6: In Trouble You're getting a talking to from the boss.
7: Remembrance Pour one out for your homies that couldn't be with you.
8: Recovery Someone needs healing.
9: Off the Books You have something that needs doing but it can't be official.
10: I Quit! You've had enough of this nonsense!

In Action
1: Emerging Situation You just got the call. Something is going down, time to gear up and head out.
2: Easy Mission This one is so simple you could handle it in your sleep. Yawn.
3: Catastrophe And this one is so dangerous you might not all be coming home.
4: Invasion The HQ itself is under attack!
5: Sneaking Mission Breaching the enemy fortress.
6: Stranded Welp. Stuck in a jungle/desert/frozen wasteland/middle of the ocean.
7: Giant Monster Potentially rampaging through downtown Tokyo.
8: Timed Mission You're on the clock on this one! Hit the button quick!
9: Escort Mission The job this time is protecting someone.
10: The Horde Kinda like zombies. Maybe it is zombies.

Mystery
1: Small Disappearances People are going missing, with one thing connecting them. Find out what it is!
2: Big Disappearance A whole town/city emptied overnight.
3: Ancient Ruins Something potentially dangerous hiding in a remote location.
4: Mysterious Death Something caused these wounds... something unnatural!
5: Thefts A string of unusual thefts are pointing to one conclusion...
6: Missing Time Where are you? Why are you covered in blood?
7: Mysterious Artefact What is the purpose of this thing?
8: Weird Location What a strange haunted mansion/underground city/undersea society.
9: Who Am I? Who and or what are you? Time to find out.
10: Bizarre Phenomenon Crop circles is the least of your worries.

Enemy
These prompts are designed for antagonists of the squad.
1: Caught in the Act Crap, they've found you!
2: Infiltration You've convinced them you're on their side.
3: You Can't Stop Me Now! Your plan is almost complete!
4: Revenge They've meddled with you too many times. Now it's personal.
5: Captured And now you're caught. Damnit.
6: Captor Time to repay the favour.
7: Minion Recruitment Get someone on your team.
8: Team Up Something bigger and badder.
9: Misunderstood You're not evil, just... not right.
10: Success YOU DID IT! 35 minutes ago optional.

BONUS PROMPTS!

Add scenarios you'd like to see in this thread.

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[Either a long-time member of the squad or an antagonistic rival.]

Feda has been on and off the team ten years ago, since he was seventeen, agreeing to work for them in exchange for not imprisoning him for his childhood history of bloody murders, which he is now attempting to repent for. His recruitment was an unintended side effect of a mission to catch a rogue demonic entity that had incidentally cursed him. The details of his past are generally kept secret from fellow squad mates, and as friendly guy with a fun loving personality it's often a shock to learn it. He's usually pretty easy to get along with in short doses, but his irresponsible and somewhat juvenile attitude can grate over time.

In day to day and low danger missions he's typically unreliable, reckless and negligent, quite often more trouble than he's worth. But he has a well earned reputation for being excellent in an emergency. When not officially a part of operations, he's usually off doing the same sort of thing somewhere else anyway. His speciality is being nearly impossible to kill via regenerative powers and being able to return damage to whatever attacked him, though he has enhanced physical abilities (in particular a sense of smell off the scale) too. All this stems from his nature as a rare cousin species of human, a Mage whose magic is a part of his biology.

[This is basically canon for him, so why not?

Henry Pym is a scientist; his main field of study is biology, though he also dabbles in robotics, geology, particle physics, chemistry, and whatever else catches his interest. Through his studies, he discovered a particle that allows him to shrink down to a few millimetres in size while maintaining the strength and speed of a normal sized man, or grow up to roughly four times in height with his strength being multiplied by how much he grows.

However, Pym is also a pacifist; while he wants to use science to help people, this also includes the villains. Violence is always a last resort for him, which may put him in conflict with his own teammates, or make him easier to manipulate if villains pretend to be reformed. He's fairly sure to having powers, and he's not sure if this is the best way to use them.]

OOC: How would you like to do Enemy #5 with a captured Nazi warmonger who absolutely loathes pacifists?

A demonic elder god from ancient times, Asura is the embodiment of madness and fear. Unable to be destroyed, only sealed away, he has returned from imprisonment time and again in his attempts to destroy the order of the world. Because of this he has been something of a nemesis to the team and their spiritual predecessors, emerging in great catastrophe and being defeated in some way- Usually at the cost of at least one member's life.

Despite his destructive goal to destroy society itself, his Church of Madness has always had faithful members and always will, so long as humans seek the easy way to escape their fears. He has also been known to align himself with destructive beings, offering them assistance for the sake of furthering his own ultimate goals.

[Bonus option!]

Following his latest defeat, Asura was not once again sealed but successfully placed under control instead. Now a single member of the squad can give him direct orders, which is he is forced to undertake to the best of his ability.

[Extra bonus option!]

After being supposedly defeated once and for all, Asura in fact possessed a member of the squad. Now imitating them, he seeks to destroy from the inside in order to avoid their meddling in the future.

*In her canon, Eko is a convincingly humanlike android who was originally part of an experiment meant to help rebuild human society in the wake of World War III. The experiment's overseers weren't exactly the sanest or most upright bunch, however, and as a result, Eko's electronic brain has been loaded down with two separate identities: Eko, the school sports star; and Heidimarie Heidegger, a young soldier who was a casualty of the war but whose personality and memories were digitized following her death.*

*As a practical upshot of all of this, she's a highly skilled combatant who combines a soldier's training with the superhuman capabilities of her robot body. She also has a high degree of mechanical knowledge, as Heidimarie's unit was assigned to run support missions for her military's mecha forces. If a machine needs to be repaired, improvised, or destroyed, she's the one to call!*

*Totally fine with AUing her background for the purposes of the scenario /o/*

The team's resident alien geneticist, medic, and all-around tech expert! Mordin is an extraterrestrial scientist who was taken in by the S7 after his ship crashed during a scientific mission, leaving him stranded on Earth. In return for protection and concealment, Mordin lends his genius (and sometimes his gun) to the Squad as a doctor and researcher.

Mordin doesn't seem to mind being stranded very much, viewing this as a fantastic opportunity to study Earth's culture and people while saving lives. He does sometimes come into conflict with his peers though, due to ruthless or eccentric actions and his refusal to share potentially valuable alien technology with a 'primitive' race like humanity.

One of the S7 Team's most loathed antagonists, the Major is a Nazi war criminal who was once in charge of the Third Reich's research into the supernatural. He survived the end of the war via transformation into a cyborg, and now haunts the modern world seeking to foment further conflict.

The Major is utterly insane and completely obsessed with war in all its forms. He has no real goal or ideology beyond bloodshed for the sake of his own entertainment. Despite this, he routinely manages to find new resources and minions after every defeat, devising new ways to threaten the world and vex the Squad.

Jack Bauer is one of the Squad's most experienced and infamous field agents. Despite not having any superhuman abilities to speak of, he has acquired a reputation both for his skill at espionage and counter-terrorism, and for being ruthless and unpredictable. Jack will do almost anything to accomplish his missions, including breaking the law, endangering civilians, or getting his allies killed. He habitually treats himself as expendable, leading some of his superiors to suspect he has a death wish. It's a minor miracle that Jack continues to succeed and that he has not been fired, killed, or arrested yet.

Lady Evangeline Nix, Doctor of Occult Crypto-biology (and yes, she will say the whole title when asked to introduce herself, every time) lived in the late 19th century as a member of a very covert group of scientists studying during the Occultist Revival of the first Industrial Revolution. Walking that path where "science and superstition go hand-in-hand". She is wildly intelligent, defiant of societal norms, brave and committed to her work.

Of her own accord, Eva naturally has eidetic memory and can recall virtually any text she has read, or anything she has written down. This is not a super power, but one some humans are simply blessed with.

If the story takes place after 1893, Evangeline will have become, in essence, a vampire, though a very tame and isolated one. She has heightened senses, and doesn't sleep. She is however physically not very strong and may be somewhat reserved in mannerism, possibly to the point of being described as "shy".

If the story takes place after the second World War, Evangeline will have transitioned from lady adventurer and biologist to a sort of highly focused research librarian due to a sudden aversion to modernity and the passing of years. She can be found in the team's (inevitable) library or research space, where she may be called upon to retrieve or interpret virtually any piece of folkloric information presented to her.

[Eva is best suited for B.P.R.D, League of Extraordinary Gentleman and Penny Dreadful style organizations/groups.]

Captured half starving for worship and attention in the 1920s, the organization won Callie over by allowing her to work in various forms of attention getting like radio and background in music. In return, Callie works with various teams facing forces where the ability to calm and captivate large group or individuals is vital. Other agents are likely to be different degrees of suspicious of her, given their awareness of her voice's ability to win people to her cause passively over time, along with her patience, but it's very difficult to outright dislike her if they interact day to day.

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BONUS PROMPTS

Peacock | Skullgirls | OTA

Feda Gandamak | OC

Hank Pym (Ant Man) | Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

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no subject

Eko Yonekura | Classmate Kamimura Yuuka Said This | ota

Mordin Solus | Mass Effect | OTA

The Major | Hellsing | OTA, warning for being a goddamn Nazi

Jack Bauer | 24 | OTA

Lady Evangeline Nix, Occult Crypto-biologist || OC

Callie Bell | OC | OTA