Post by Dr. Manhattan on Jul 3, 2010 1:46:44 GMT -5
DR. MANHATTAN
Canon/Non-Canon- Canon
Birth Name- Jonathan Osterman
Secret Identity- Dr. Manhattan
Nicknames- N/A
Gender- Male? Technically...
Age- 30 when accident happened, stopped aging.
Race- Pure energy!
Alliance- (Are you apart the Teen Titans? HIVE? The Brotherhood of Evil? Or are you on you're own side?)
Alignment- Neutral, for now...
Citizenship- Hero
Physical Appearance- Dr. Manhattan as a result of his accident was transformed into a fairly tall (but can change) hairless blue man. His body gives off a glowing blue aura and his pupils have been turned white. Also, on his forehead is then Bohr model for hydrogen. His body is composed of matter that experiences time in a non-linear fashion. Also which Dr. Manhattan has full control of able to change his size as stated before but also his color, presumeably he could appear in any way shape or form he chose.
Uniform- Butt. Naked. All you have to say, Dr. Manhattan is beyond clothes but for the sake of public appearance he creates a black Speedo like cover for his...delicate areas. Also if need be he has been known to don a suit from time to time. Apart from that however he is usually naked and has no care either way for opinions of himself. Dr. Manhattan refused to wear anything created by humanity, save a suit for mandatory public appearances, however at the conclusion of The Watchmen he appears to have gained some of his ‘humanity’ and thus he is not totally against clothes.
Outer Personality- Dr. Manhattan is extremely intelligent, able to understand and create nigh anything he wishes. His intelligence reaches far into everything as he has seen and done it all for the most part. Utterly indifferent to humanity, Dr. Manhattan though he can see into the past and future does not prefer to change it. Instead he would rather let everything run it’s course. The only connection he had with humanity was with his ex-lover Laurie Juspeczyk though he has since given up and moved on completely.
Dr. Manhattan is not above showing arrogance, even going so far as to virtually spit in the face of Adrian Veidt when the latter thought he had bested Dr. Manhattan by dismantling his atoms. After reforming himself, Dr. Manhattan gave Veidt this speech “I have walked across the surface of the Sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast they can hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.” Showing that Dr. Manhattan is fully aware of his status as an Ubermensch, that of a man above men. Dr. Manhattan in short is utterly indifferent to the rest of the world.
Inner Personality- To humanity, Dr. Manhattan could care less. His attitude is that in seeing the importance of the human condition he still does not acknowledge it. The only human he had feelings for left, and in accordance with that Dr. Manhattan has since left the earth entirely only recently has he started hopping between dimensions seeking other earths, other answers. Despite his lack of humanity he still does some things out of habit, like laying in bed, or breathing. Though he can survive without ever eating, drinking or breathing he does so anyway as a remnant of his humanity.
Dr. Manhattan is in a state of ennui so to speak, that everyday things bore him. Yet they do not. Dr. Manhattan has no internal monologue and no prose to the inside of his mind. All that could be said is that his indifference is so great that it is almost as if he dislikes humanity. However he has expressed interest in them, his personality so to speak is a anomaly in itself. In that while he doesn’t care for the world, there are things that draw him back to it over and over again. If it be people, or if it’s curiosity.
Powers/Abilities-
Power over time and space,
Regeneration,
Energy and matter manipulation,
Flight,
Immortality,
Superhuman strength, speed and durability,
Intangibility,
Precognition,
Teleportation,
Self-duplication,
Superhuman growth
His consciousness has become linked to reality on a quantum level, allowing him to behave in the ways of sub-atomic particles, and have precise mental control over sub-atomic particles and forces, including the ones in his own body, allowing him to move objects using his mind. Uses of this power include matter transformation, teleportation of himself and others over astronomical distances, phase shifting and creating multiple copies of himself. When first seen, he has grown to gigantic size, over 60 ft. He is seemingly immortal and does not require food, water or air to survive. It is implied that he could create life. Perhaps the superpower that most defines his personality is his ability to see all along his own personal timeline at once, past and future. The only thing known to interfere with his ability to see the future are tachyons, high-energy particles that travel backwards through time, which could be made by nuclear detonations on a global scale (Ozymandias uses custom-made tachyon-emitters in satellites and at his Antarctic base specifically to trick Dr. Manhattan into thinking that a nuclear war was imminent). Dr. Manhattan is not omniscient, however, only knowing the past and future as it has or will occur for himself. This power to see the future is perhaps the greatest, and only practical, limit to Dr. Manhattan's powers: he does not take action or interfere because he knows that he will not, and feels and is as powerless to change the future as a normal person can change what they did yesterday.
Regeneration,
Energy and matter manipulation,
Flight,
Immortality,
Superhuman strength, speed and durability,
Intangibility,
Precognition,
Teleportation,
Self-duplication,
Superhuman growth
His consciousness has become linked to reality on a quantum level, allowing him to behave in the ways of sub-atomic particles, and have precise mental control over sub-atomic particles and forces, including the ones in his own body, allowing him to move objects using his mind. Uses of this power include matter transformation, teleportation of himself and others over astronomical distances, phase shifting and creating multiple copies of himself. When first seen, he has grown to gigantic size, over 60 ft. He is seemingly immortal and does not require food, water or air to survive. It is implied that he could create life. Perhaps the superpower that most defines his personality is his ability to see all along his own personal timeline at once, past and future. The only thing known to interfere with his ability to see the future are tachyons, high-energy particles that travel backwards through time, which could be made by nuclear detonations on a global scale (Ozymandias uses custom-made tachyon-emitters in satellites and at his Antarctic base specifically to trick Dr. Manhattan into thinking that a nuclear war was imminent). Dr. Manhattan is not omniscient, however, only knowing the past and future as it has or will occur for himself. This power to see the future is perhaps the greatest, and only practical, limit to Dr. Manhattan's powers: he does not take action or interfere because he knows that he will not, and feels and is as powerless to change the future as a normal person can change what they did yesterday.
Weapons- N/A
Gadgets and Gizmos- N/A
History- Jonathan Osterman was born in 1929. His father was a watchmaker, and Jon planned to follow in his footsteps. When the US drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Jon is sixteen. His father, confronted with the undeniable facts of the theory of relativity, declares his profession outdated and throws his son's watch-making parts out the windows, urging him to instead pursue a career studying nuclear physics. The incident represents the turning point in Jon's potential future from watchmaker to nuclear physicist and foreshadows Doctor Manhattan's 'exterior' perception of time as predetermined and all things within it as so determined, including Doctor Manhattan's own reactions and emotions.
Jon Osterman attends Princeton University from 1948-58 and graduates with a Ph.D. in atomic physics. In early 1959, he moves to a research base at Gila Flats, where experiments are being performed concerning the 'intrinsic fields' of physical objects which, if tampered with, result in their disintegration. Here he meets Janey Slater, a fellow researcher; they eventually become lovers.
During a trip to New Jersey in July 1959, Jon and Janey visit an amusement park. Janey's watchband breaks, and the watch is damaged when a fat man steps on it. Jon decides that he can repair the watch, and tells Janey so. That night they sleep together. One month later, in August, 1959, shortly after his thirtieth birthday, Jon plans to give Janey the repaired watch, only to discover he has left it in his lab coat which is inside the intrinsic field experiment test chamber. While Jon is inside the test chamber retrieving his coat the door closes, automatically locking as a safety feature. Unable to open the door or override the countdown, Osterman's colleagues - save for Janey, who cannot bear to see the last moment and flees the room - can only watch, horrified, as the countdown for the current experiment shortly reaches zero, and Jon has his 'intrinsic field' removed. Bathed in the radiant light, he is torn to pieces from the force of the generator, instantly vaporized and officially declared dead.
The following months see a series of strange events and apparitions at the research base, leading residents to speculate the area is now haunted. It becomes plain that Jon has been progressively reforming himself during this time. This progression being indicated by a series of partial bodily reappearances: first as a disembodied nervous system, including the brain and eyes; then as a circulatory system (November 10); then a partially muscled skeleton (November 14). Each time, the appearance only lasts for a few seconds. Jon fully reappears on November 22 as a tall, hairless, naked, blue-skinned man.
After his transformation, Jon begins to experience time in a non-linear, "quantum" fashion, and it is implied that he is aware of and experiencing all the moments of his life simultaneously. Jon is not omniscient; he remains reliant on his intellect and sensory experience to reach conclusions, but his range of sensory data has been abruptly extended, in proportion to the lessening of his emotional capacities. This often leads him to arrive at conclusions greatly different from those available to normal humans. His already weak will (marked by his apparent submission to his father's career plans, whatever they might be) becomes sublimated further during this time. He increasingly has difficulty acting in what those around him consider the present moment, leading to many accusations and even the public perception that he is emotionless and uninterested in human affairs. For instance, he does nothing to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, even though he is aware it is going to happen as he meets the President. However, during the course of Watchmen he displays powerful emotion several times. His apparent lack of sentiment is more a matter of radically altered priorities, owing to a colossal, unbridgeable gap of perception between Jon and the rest of humanity.
He subscribes to a deterministic view of events (at one point remarking "We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings."). Throughout most of Watchmen, Doctor Manhattan appears to exert an effort of choice, and his actions often seemed governed by a rigidly utilitarian code of ethics in which the correct course of action must be the one that benefits the most. In some sense, unlimited power has come at the cost of the total absence of responsibility, and his growing detachment, if not apathy, is juxtaposed with his apparent ability to do anything. During the period in which Doctor Manhattan is a crime-fighter (at the behest of the government), he states that the morality of such activities escapes him. From his radically altered perspective, almost all human concerns appear pointless and without obvious merit.
Jon gradually becomes a pawn of the United States government, though the means by which his loyalty is secured are never revealed; he is given the code name 'Doctor Manhattan', a reference to the Manhattan Project that, it is hoped, will defeat America's enemies. He is also provided with a costume which he grudgingly accepts, though he refuses to accept the icon design which is provided for him (this being a stylized orbital model of the atom). Instead, Jon chooses as his emblem a representation of a hydrogen atom, whose simplicity he declares to be something that kindles his respect; accordingly, he painlessly burns the mark into his forehead. This preference for material mechanisms marks the beginning of Jon's declining humanity, which is progressively mirrored by his gradual shedding of the uniform - by the end of the 1970s, he refuses to wear anything at all except for mandatory public appearances.
However, Jon's presence still succeeds in tipping the balance of the Cold War in the West's favor, and the United States consequently becomes more aggressive and adventurist during this period. His abilities also radically alter the world economy, as he can, for example, synthesize the massive amounts of lithium required for all motor vehicles to become electric. At President Richard Nixon's request, he brings America victory in the Vietnam war within three months. This victory distorts the American political process, as the 22nd Amendment is repealed and Nixon is then repeatedly reelected (and is still serving as of 1985, the year in which Watchmen is set, for what is theoretically his fifth term). Moreover, indications in the storyline suggest that, far from solving the problems underlying the international tension, Doctor Manhattan's presence in fact exacerbates them while stifling their expression, which inevitably builds towards disaster; the entire plot of Watchmen occurs during the countdown to a potential nuclear holocaust.
During the first meeting of the Crimebusters superhero group, Laurie Juspeczyk, the second Silk Spectre, catches his eye. His relationship with Janey Slater ends acrimoniously shortly after, and he begins dating Laurie.
During the execution of Adrian Veidt's plot to save the world, Manhattan is accused of giving cancer to those exposed to him over long periods of time. It emerges that this is untrue, for it is rather a careful fabrication of Veidt's, but this revelation is not quick enough to prevent Manhattan from exiling himself to Mars, where he spends much of the action of Watchmen. Eventually, he brings Laurie (who, in the meantime, has taken Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl II as a new lover) to Mars, where they argue over the fate of the human race. After the debate and Laurie convincing Manhattan that mankind has some value he confronts Adrian who promptly catches Dr. Manhattan in a trap. This trap blasts Manhattan with tachyon energy and dismantles Manhattans physical form. Adrian, thinking he has one proceeds with his plan. Manhattan simply reforms himself and taunts Adrian who begins to tell Manhattan the reason behind his madness. Manhattan agrees that Adrians way is the only way for true peace, with Rorschach
angered at the fact that Manhattan is going to let Adrian off he storms out. In the snow Rorschach is stopped by Manhattan who tells him that he can’t allow him to leave and let the deaths of all those innocents to be in vain. Accepting his fate, Rorschach asks Manhattan to kill him. Manhattan does and the second Nightowl watches in horror.
Manhattan agrees to leave Earth, stating that he may go somewhere and create some life of his own. However this is not exactly the case, after drifting alone in space again Dr. Manhattan was compelled to come back to Earth. Knowing he could not go back to his original one, he decides to simply skip dimensions and travel to other Earths, it just so happens he stumbled upon this one...
RPG sample Taking in his hand some baser elements, Dr. Manhattan creates water. Slowly staring at it in his palm completely unaware of his surroundings he watches it slowly. Every particle, how it moves where it is, where it is not is all made apparent to him. If he was more observing he would have realized he was in the middle of a park staring into his hand. The water slowly falls through his hand, yet is suspended in mid air due to Manhattan influence on it. With a thought, the water is instantly turned back into one parts oxygen and two parts hydrogen turning into gas. Standing up he watches the scenery for a while, the humans, the plants, the animals and time itself. Even though he was a glowing blue man, in this city that was a not-so-out-of-the-ordinary occurrence. This city was populated by many super beings.
Children laughed around him, the wind was blowing yet he could not feel it. Did he miss the wind? Did he miss any of this? Manhattan was simply on a search for answers. He needed to know something, anything. Even if he knew everything about time and space he was beginning to feel hollow. Were humans the missing part to this equation? Suddenly a small child bumped into Manhattans leg running back to catch a football. The football instead hit Manhattan in the chest as the boy hit his legs. The boy, looking up scared as the football hovered before Dr. Manhattan. Even though the kids were used to seeing super individuals, they were still aware of the villains. Dr. Manhattan grabbed the ball, slowly analyzing it. The child opened his mouth, “C-can I have that back...?” Looking down Manhattan dropped the football into the boys arms. Running away, smiling he yelled “Thanks mister!” No emotion came to Manhattan’s mind, he simply stood there and watched.
Name- Souretsu (c-box name)
Age- Over 18 lol
Randomness- I go to NYU and love every second of it.
Did you read the rules? Dr. Manhattan (this name, or Souretsu? XD) , (DX ?usteruoS ro ,eman siht) nattahnaM .rD (or do you mean just the word ‘backwards’ whatever I have both.)
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