Netherwar Player Characters

Bowman

Played by Calvin

History

Fletcher “Fletch” Beaumont III is the fourth to take on the name Bowman, carrying the legacy started by his grandfather in the 1940s. It was a title he sought even before his time attending the Claremont Academy and leading the first iteration of Next-Gen. While in Next-Gen, and for some time after, he had ongoing relationship with fellow student and teammate Seven. They ended their relationship after both becoming members of the Freedom League, something that Fletch regretted in secret. However, before he could tell her, Seven disappeared during a battle with Una. In the years since then, the regret and guilt he felt hardened him into a darker version of his younger self. When the possibility to recover Seven and finally defeat Una as part of Freedom League Dark arose, Bowman readily volunteered.

Over the last few months, Fletch has been a part of Operation Custodian, a project to improve life for those living in the Southside area of Freedom City, largely focused on several construction projects. While providing funds for the project, he started what would be a brief flirtation with Sophie Quarrel, who he believed to be a Southside local with ideas that could be used to help others. However, it was revealed that Sophie was in fact using Fletch to get to her former mentor Adrian Eldritch, who the world believed to be dead. After causing the apparent death of Eldritch, Sophie managed to escape.

While working in Southside with the Freedom League Dark, Bowman encountered Jason Harper, a young resident of the area who was in the middle of taking the wheels off of a wrecked Bowcycle. Bowman took the boy in to repair the vehicle at first, but Jason soon proved his technical skills and showed promise as a hero after the Overlord Invasion. Bowman dismissed Jason out of concern for his safety, but after seeing what the betrayal of a mentor did to Sophie, he wanted to correct that mistake. Jason was two steps ahead, having already taken gear from Bowman’s lair, The Quiver, and naming himself Bolt.

Personality

Bowman is cool, confident, and collected. He’s been training as a hero for as long as he can remember, so he really doesn’t know any other sort of life. He’s a natural leader with a take-charge attitude and a demeanor that commands respect. He bravely faces down powerful supervillains, with no real powers beyond his considerable skills and training. It took some adjustment going from star Claremont student and leader of the Next-Gen to junior member of the Freedom League, but he handled it, and has proven himself as a full-fledged hero in his own right.

Although he’s sometimes wistful about never having a “normal” life, the truth is that Bowman loves the action and excitement of his superheroic calling, and wouldn’t give it up for anything. He looks to balance his craving for adventure with a sober understanding of the importance of the legacy he carries, and what it symbolizes to people. Although Bowman can be both a romantic and a flirt, he’s cautious about relationships both because of the danger, and the fact that he puts his calling above other concerns in his life.

In spite of his daring, Bowman has become largely comfortable with operating in a support capacity within the Freedom League. He knows that he can best serve the team by setting up opponents, taunting or hindering them, and waiting for the opportunity for the right target to present itself.

Powers & Abilities

Bowman has no super-human powers, but is a finely trained athlete with extraordinary agility, coordination, and skill with a bow. His family, teachers at Claremont Academy, and mentors in the Freedom League have ensured that Bowman can handle himself in a wide variety of situations, and he has taken on far more powerful opponents and won.

Bowman’s primary weapon is his namesake, a high-tech compound bow with a heavy pull, and a quiver of trick arrows, equipped with various gimmicks. The arrows listed in his bow and arrows array are just the most common ones Bowman uses in the field. He sometimes carries specialized arrows as well, spending hero points to add them as power stunts of the array. The Easily Removable flaw of the array reflects that Bowman sometimes simply runs out of arrows in addition to losing his bow or quiver due to damage or being disarmed in combat.

Still, anyone who assumes Bowman is helpless without his bow is in for a surprise. The hero is also very athletic, a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, and and excellent infiltrator.

Centuria

Played by Kat

Centuria, AKA Katherine “Kate” Leeds, is the daughter of Freedom City’s famous Centurion. When she arrived in Freedom City from her home planet, she acquired the same super strength and flying capabilities that her father had before he died. She used it for good and decided to join the Freedom League.

After helping Resonant, Mortis and OverDrive with a mission into the Nerian Nexus Centuria was given a glass shard that could be used to change herself. All she had to do was look into it and think of what she wanted. After a distress call from the Freedom League, she decided to use the mirror shard to become a version of herself that could help defeat Una. She was transported out of Earth Prime’s dimension and in her place was a different dimension’s Centuria.

The new Centuria went through all the same experiences as the original Centuria but her timeline was further in the future. She had not only faced Una twice before, but she was the only surviving person in her dimension after Una’s second attack. She had been roaming Earth, alone, for 10 years. She is slightly crazy from her time alone, but has slowly been recovering since coming to Earth Prime.

Centuria has faced the ongoing obstacle of her relationship with Overdrive. The pair were married in her home dimension, even having a big, brown lab named Brutus at home. This Overdrive had never met her though, and is currently in a relationship with another woman. Centuria copes with this by talking to an Overdrive action figure from her home universe, one she recently found out possesses the soul of her husband.

Centuria’s main goal at this point is to keep her group together, and stop anything bad from happening to them. She would like to avoid watching all her friends die. Again.

Mortis

Played by Jonesy

 

Overdrive

Played by Kevin

Dave Collins’ earliest memories are of being on the move. His mother, Lauryn Collins, was a real-estate agent who frequently relocated along the East Coast – Dave did not realize in childhood there was a darker reason for that. She feared that if Dave should manifest his father’s powers, Death Race may come looking for them.

The Collins family moved to Freedom City when Dave was eight; Lauryn felt as though the best place to conceal a young metahuman would be in a city of heroes. Five years passed before Dave began to manifest his father’s speed powers. After a year of trying to coax Dave to not use his powers, an invitation to meet with the headmaster of the Claremont Academy convinced Ms. Collins that Dave might as well learn to control his powers from an institution geared to guide young metahumans.

Dave’s first day was traumatic; he met the new iteration of the Liberty League just in time for the young heroes to lose Seven to the Underworld. It is during these adventures that Dave created his Overdrive persona; or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that he becomes aware of it (temporal anomalies lead to confusion). The emotional turmoil of this overshadows the League, and the older students quickly depart to their own pursuits. Feeling abandoned, Dave takes his super hero career to the West Coast for four years, staying regular Dave to attend college at Emerald City University.

In college, Dave meets pre-med student Tracy Appleton, and Dave settles into his first long-term relationship. Things were relatively stable through Dave’s college years, but the ghosts of the past are soon to reassert themselves.

A stirring in the Nexus brings the Liberty League members back together, and after an awkward reunion the childhood friends Overdrive, Resonant and Mortis team with an otherworldly version of Centuria and the Bowman of Earth-Prime to form the Freedom League Dark.

Complicating Dave’s personal life, the alternate Centuria had a deep relationship in her reality. Tracy quickly picks up on the emotional bond Overdrive is forming with his teammate and trouble rears its ugly head.

As the saying goes, it never rains but it pours. Dave’s father Death Race is masterminding an attempt to usurp the Wellspring of Velocity in attempt to fight off the cancer that is killing him. One of the unexpected side effects of Death Race’s little game is that only Overdrive can currently access the Wellspring.

With all his relationships crumbling, Dave is struggling to find his way as the last speedster of Earth-Prime and stop Una’s mad plans to conquer the Underworld and all reality.

Resonant

Played by Andy

Gemma Trayvis, the hero known as Resonant, is not from this world, quite literally. When she was young, she lived on Leifandi, a world parallel to Earth Prime, until the day she slipped through a tear in the fabric of space and found herself alone in Freedom City. Unable to return home, as the tear sealed behind her, she was helped by the heroes to get on her feet, and eventually was enrolld in Claremont Academy, learning more about Earth Prime and the heroes that inhabit it. While there, she became good friends with Seven, as the two could share their triumphs with their magical abilities together, as well as Death Gate (who would later become Mortis). Still unsure of her place in the world and not completely confident in her abilities, she wouldn’t let Seven go to face Una by herself, and joined her friends in a rebuilt Liberty League to stop her. Unfortunately, that battle ended in a pyrrhic victory, as while they managed to stop Una from taking over Earth Prime, it came at the cost of losing Seven.

For Gemma, losing her first and best friend shook her to her core. Shorty after graduating from Claremont, she gave up the hero life, instead choosing to focus on taking care of the people around her. She’d seen enough about how easy it was for the heroes to forget who they were fighting for, and decided to do what she could to rectify that situation. She opened her own book store, Phoenix Books, which also housed her massage and Reiki business. While there, she worked on perfecting her gem magic, being able to tap into three more gems and the energy they contained. In doing so, she was able to help set up wards and other security measures within her neighborhood, as another layer of security for the people she lived nearest.

After 8 years of not seeing her friends, a sudden message from Seven from the beyond brought her back into the fold of her fellow heroes. Hesitant at first, Gemma soon stepped fully back into her role as Resonant once again, joining Centuria, Overdrive, Mortis and eventally Bowman as the newly formed Freedom League Dark. Now her goal is to help the one friend she couldn’t all those years ago, and make up for the time she lost with those she cares about.