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Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Eric
Email: ghostguy2012@gmail.com
AIM (if you have one): ghostguy2012@gmail.com
Character Name: Jay Macendale
Codename: Hobgoblin
Character LJ (if applicable):
http://www.scribbld.net/users/neogoblin/Physical description (face, build, weight):
Jay Macendale is a very physically fit young man standing at about six feet tall even and weighing about a 157lbs. He’s got a well defined wrestler’s build. His light brown hair is kept very short and he often is seen with a coat of stubble on his cheeks and chin. His eyes are a piercing green but often hidden behind sunglasses. Typically he wears old clothes picked up from Church drop boxes and has a fondness for leather jackets.
As the Hobgoblin, Jay wears a slightly stylistically modified version of the Hobgoblin costume his father wore. He’s almost never seen without the gleaming silver goblin glider.
Age: 18
Birthday: March 1st
PB: (If using one.) Cam Gigandet
Abilities: Marksmanship, Martial Arts, Knowledge of Explosives, Skilled Engineer.
Goblin Glider: Like all the others using the Goblin name, Jay rides on a Goblin Glider. It’s a lightweight craft able to travel at up to 150mph. It’s able to support about 500lbs including Jay’s own weight. It’s highly maneuverable and very armored, able to withstand anti-tank bazooka rounds and keep working. It’s controlled primarily by the rider’s weight and attitude but can also operate via remote. The glider usually has a self-destruct device within and a two-foot long blade hidden inside it.
Goblin Armor: The goblin armor is made of multi-segmented Kevlar in chain-mail style. It’s strong enough to resist an anti-tank bazooka round without breaking even if the person inside would be rather banged up. Piercing weapons (spears, stabbed) can get around the defense the armor provides much easier. It comes with a self-contained air-supply that lasts up to three hours and there’s a vocal changer in the mask that alter’s the wearer’s voice.
Goblin Gauntlets: Specially designed and insulated gauntlets capable of firing blasts of electrical energy up to 10,000 volts. Blasts can be maintained for about five minutes before the batteries deplete and need time to recharge. The gauntlets are insulated to protect the wearer and generate light when used as well.
Pumpkin Bombs: Just like any goblin, Jay wields pumpkin bombs like a duck takes to water. He carries various kinds including concussion, incendiary, tear gas, anesthetic, knock out gas, regurgitant gas, flash bangs, and smoke bombs. All are twice as effective as military grade versions of the same thing.
Razor Bats: Carbon steel pop-out blades that come in two varieties. The first is just a standard throwing blade able to cut through something about as tough as Spider-Man’s webbing if thrown. The second is the same blades but with a built in mini-thruster for either one directional change or a burst of power strong enough to let it puncture steel plating.
Goblin Pills: Pills containing modified versions of the imperfect Goblin Formula. When taken, a person is granted some of the Goblin Powers for about an hour. Jay usually carries a few with him at all times.
-Super Strength: While on the formula, Jay can lift and press about 8 tons.
-Super Agility and Reflexes: As long as the formula is in effect, Jay’s reflexes and agility are on par with someone who has taken the Super Soldier Serum.
-Regenerative Healing Factor: While he’s still affected by the formula, Jay’s able to heal much faster than a normal person. He doesn’t heal anywhere near as quickly as the likes of Wolverine but injuries such as a large knife-wound in the chest are gone within a few hours and smaller ones in less time.
-Super Durability: While guns can still kill him and knives still guy him, the formula makes Jay highly resistant to blunt force trauma. He can take repeated blows from foes with Spider-Man level super strength before sustaining damage.
-Increased Intelligence: When taking the formula, Jay’s intelligence is increased. He thinks faster and clearer than normal but it’s not a massive boost in the brains department.
Weaknesses and flaws:
Human: Under all the armor and weapons, Jay’s still just human. Unless he’s on the Goblin Formula at the time, the things that’d kill a normal human could kill him just a easily.
Goblin Legacy: Those that assume the mantle of the Goblin tend to just have bad lives. Insanity, death, and loss of friends and family. No one that has been apart of this legacy has done well. The legacy comes with a lot of enemies the various men calling themselves the Hobgoblin have made. And since the true identity of the original hobgoblin has never been exposed to the world, Jay may find himself wanted for questioning by a few people even though his knowledge only goes back as far as Ned Leeds.
Mental Instability: Taking the Goblin formula, even in small doses, has an affect on one’s mental status. While taking the pills, Jay becomes more violent and aggressive. His temper gets shorter and his inhibitions are lowered. There’s a small benefit in the fact that his mind and emotions become a lot harder to read in this state but the after effects don’t fade for an extra half hour after the powers themselves have worn off. Excessive use of the pills could lead to serious long term side effects.
Arsenal: Jay can only carry so much ammo. Once he runs out, he’s significantly less effective. Also, his power supplies aren’t unlimited. His glider and gauntlets can run out of juice which is never good…especially for the glider because the costume doesn’t come with a parachute.
Spider-heroes: Ever since the incident in his childhood, Jay’s felt he owed Spider-Man his life. Compounded with a bit of subconscious guilt over how much of a pain his father was for the wall crawler, it wouldn’t be hard for members of Spider-Man’s family to get Jay to pull favors for them. He’s also very likely to refuse to fight them without some VERY good reasons.
Character location/Home: Homeless, will be joining the Thunderbolts and going where they take him.
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Anti-heroish
Relatives (living/dead?): Hobgoblin IV (aka Jason Macendale Jr., father, dead). Mother (dead)
Backstory: Jay started out not knowing his father. His mother occasionally told him stories about a CIA agent father so Jay had a bit of a heroic image of the man he never met because his parents were divorced.
Jay ended up a Spider-Man fan as he was growing up and hoped his father was a super hero too. The image was shattered at a young age when Jay’s dad finally came calling. Jason Macendale Jr. aka The Hobgoblin was angry with his ex-wife so he kidnapped his own son. Spider-Man rushed to the rescue but was thwarted by the Mercenary Villain Coldheart.
When the Hobgoblin mask came off and the villain explained he was Jay’s father, the boy was horrified and refused to believe it. Before Macendale could strike his son in rage, Spider-Man and Coldheart showed up again and Jay ran for cover. As the tides of the battle were starting to turn in Spider-Man’s favor, Hobgoblin tossed a bomb at Jay and the boy went flying. Spider-Man saved him but they weren’t out of danger. Coldheart attacked the web-slinger and would have killed her if not for Jay’s intervention in the form of pleading for the hero’s life.
Jay was returned to his mother and life proceeded normally save for some therapy to get over it all. When Jay turned 13, his father was finally arrested and put on trial but the boy only watched from home instead of going to court. When Jason Macendale was killed one night, Jay ended up with what his will left him. Included in a hidden little space in a boo Jay had been given was a map. Ever curious, Jay decided to follow the map. He was rather shocked when it led him to one of his father’s old Goblin Lairs and he quickly set about boarding the place up.
By the time he got home, life took a turn for the worse again. Men working for the villain Gaunt were waiting for him. It seemed that his father hadn’t paid enough for his cybernetic enhancements and Jay was going to have to pay the price. With his mother killed by the men, Jay was taken away. The boy was going to be subjected to an process that would make him Gaunt’s own personal goblin minion. And the first step was downloading information into his brain.
Jay was hooked up to a machine and with the help of a telepath, various skills that had been downloaded off Macendale himself were forced into Jay’s young mind. Luckily, Gaunt’s base came under attack before the process was finished and the machine was destroyed. Unluckily, this put Jay in a coma.
He stayed in it for two years, awakening at age 15 rather dazed and confused in the hospital. When some doctors tried to draw blood, Jay panicked and attacked them with martial arts skills he didn’t know he had. Continuing with the panic, Jay ran for it.
He ended up on the streets, stealing clothes and food. Eventually he hooked up with a gang of other street kids and got a respectable place in the ranking thanks to the skills he had. He spent the next two years with the gang, his new family, learning about the streets and anything else he could.
Things weren’t meant to stay happy though. A killer began to stalk New York City’s streets, looking to kill any homeless kids he could find. And with powers to back it up, he took down quite a few homeless kids. With no hope of getting any help from the cops or even superheroes, Jay’s little gang took to defending themselves. It didn’t go very well and a few of Jay’s close friends died.
Angered, the boy ran off to one place he knew he could get some help. The Goblin lair. He spent the next few days modifying some of his father’s gear and with the use of notes left behind, he managed to create a flawed version of the Goblin Formula in pill form.
Donning the mantle of the Hobgoblin and stepping onto a glider, the youngest goblin set out. It didn’t take long to find who he was after and it soon became a battle of monster vs. goblin. In the end, Jay won by detonating a pumpkin bomb in the enemy’s face, killing him.
From that moment on, Hobgoblin would occasionally step forward to fight even when he was needed.
How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: He’s going to join up with the Thunderbolts.
What are you planning to do with this character?: I’m planning to have him hang with the Thunderbolts and slowly work towards becoming less of an anti-hero and more a good guy.
What do you want to see happen with this character?: I’d like to see him try to grow slowly more ‘good’. Possibly get into conflicts/interactions with other Goblin-legacy, Spider-Man family, and even Jack O’Lantern characters (since his dad was the original Jack O’Lantern and all)
Sample post:
Jay cracked his neck before he started to pull on his costume. He didn’t often go out on ‘patrol’ like a superhero might but there’d been a lot of drug dealers around lately. And that annoyed Jay. He was going to scare them off.
Slowly, he pulled on all the armor before the mask was stretched down over his face. He scowled at the mirror for a moment. That face used to give him nightmares as a child nut now he was using it. The thought brought a half laugh from Jay before his pulled the hood over his head.
Next up were weapons. He always tried to start with the non-lethal ones but sometimes he just needed to toss out a bomb or two. Especially when fighting metas.
“Hell, if anything it might get the attention of some actual heroes…” he trailed off with a smirk, spinning a bomb on a finger before putting it away.
