The New Teen Titans

Nogatias Eolcoh
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Alignment: Good

Appearance:
Hair: Black, a bit long and unstyled, like he hasn’t been paying attention to it.
Eyes: Brown
Skin: Mediterranean
Apparel: He wears a green, long sleeved shirt, usually with the sleeves rolled up, a pair of brown cargo pants with a belt, a pair of hiking boots, climbing gloves and a backpack. He also has a bracelet around his wrist made of dulling, rainbow colored fibers.
Height: 6’
Weight: 160 lbs.

Tools & equipment:
First and foremost, Nogatias has a book that he keeps safely in his pack. The book blends magical and scientific methods to produce certain supernatural effects, or as he prefers to call it, alchemy. The book shows him how to do various small things, though useful nonetheless. He doesn’t know the full extent of the content of the book, so there are certain things he can do, but doesn’t know he can do. Among the smaller stunts are a few bigger effects that bear mentioning:

Transmutation – One of these effects includes the subject transmutating into another form. For this to work, among other ingredients, the subject must ingest either a hair, feather or scale of whatever he/she plans on turning into (If said creature doesn’t HAVE hair, feathers or scales, the transmutation is impossible). The subject takes on speech patterns and appearance, as well as the risk of becoming convinced you ARE the creature. This effect does not work well in copying other humans.

Elemental Formulae – The ability to form elemental power into physical object. For example, an egg of fire; the size and solidity of an egg, the heat and power of fire, when said object cracks, the fire is no longer contained and unleashes itself. The creator and user in no way control the element.

The Showstopper – As the name suggests, this is the last thing the subject would use. The Showstopper has two effects, one on the body and one on the soul. It manifests as a clear, transparent liquid that seems to sparkle. When consumed, nothing happens at first, but if the subject is killed, before passing on, the subject gains access to his/her murderer’s every thought and feeling, stored in a secondary ‘mind’. The next effect is, if the body is burnt to ash, then scattered into a fire and burnt again, the subject will be able to pass on whatever he learned as a final appearance, before truly passing on. Nogatias isn’t aware of this in his book yet.

Apart from his book, Nogatias has tools for extraction of materials, plus a pair of temperature proof, un-conductive gloves. He also has a set of herbalist’s tools, like a distiller, though he keeps these at wherever he is residing in at the moment.

Strengths:
Nogatias is an expert at finding and classifying samples, able to tell what most plant, animal and mineral samples are, though he wouldn’t be able to consider himself a great alchemist without it. Another strength is flexibility; he has a recipe or formula for most situations in his book somewhere, the trick is finding what to use and where to find it.

Weaknesses:
Apart from being rather unsubstantial in body, he can’t always know what he’ll need in any given encounter; he may have the solution to most encounters, but he won’t know when he’ll need them, and carrying them all with him is obviously out of the question, though he’ll keep a few ready-made quick-fixes with him.

Personality:
Nogatias is rather frazzled and unorganized, often misplacing whatever bit he needs at the time, though he gets it done eventually. He can seem a bit zoned out at times with his work, but he’s a caring and attentive person when he’s not at his alchemist’s table. An odd trait of his is that he suddenly becomes very collected during stressful moments.

History:
Nogatias generally lived with his mother growing up; his father was slightly ecstatic and never really stayed for long periods of time. In the Eolcoh family, they have one heirloom; a book, his book, to be exact. The book is filled with the discovery and practiced methods of generations of his family (Though they write things down on whatever they had near them at the time; the book is very unimpressive). At the age of six, Nogatias found the room his father used for his practices, and began playing with it himself. The end product was super-powered glue that didn’t really come off with anything less than the strongest of acids. The glue was a new and surprising addition to the book. His father, who was back on a rare visit, noticed Nogatias’ talent for the craft, who he had thought incapable of such things, and began teaching him various techniques and recipes. From that day forward, Nogatias always had something up his sleeve, whether it be super-powered glue stowed away or simply a rock ready to be thrown. At the age of 12, Nogatias’ frazzled nature got out of hand when he misplaced something he was working on; a rather deadly poison that looked a lot like water. Now, Nogatias’ mother was a well enough person, with a well enough relationship with her son, but she never really payed much attention to her son’s alchemical practices, which made it all the more ironic when she drank the glass of odorless, colorless and tasteless poison her son forgot about. She never knew it was poison, until she died the day after. That was when Nogatias realized where he left his poison. His father came home after another excursion two days later, and when he saw the scene, he didn’t really accept an explanation to it. His father packed his things up, including his wife’s corpse, and left. Of course, Nogatias got his frazzled misplacement from somewhere, which is what the stricken Nogatias realized when his father left behind his book, unintentionally passing it on to the next generation. Nogatias spent a lot of time locked in the house after that, not willing to do anything, but eventually he heard of his father’s disownment of him, through a lawyer who came to the house. That set Nogatias to realize both his parents were gone now, and he took the alchemical book, not as a memento but as a reference, and left the town he grew up in. For the last four years he has gotten by through travelling and getting what he could with the occasional alchemical stunt. He still hasn’t mastered the contents of the book, though he has added quite a few pages. More recently, he's found himself weary of travel in jump city, and aspired to become a titan, though inside he's not sure how long he'll last. The one thing that he always wondered though, was whether his father left the book behind on accident or as a way to pass it on to him.

Liam Black
Alias: Umbra
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Alignment: Evil I guess, but he likes to consider himself neutral.

Appearance:
Hair: Covered, though if shown, black, long and shaggy
Eyes: Covered, but either red or green, depending on the situation.
Skin: Covered, but either white or extremely pale, again depending on the situation.
Apparel: Wears a pitch black tactical suit up to his neck and over his head like a hood. He also wears a black mask over his face which looks completely featureless beyond two slits for eye holes. He has a black leather belt with a pouch on the front and a knife holstered on the side. He wears a black metal gauntlet on his left hand that keeps his fingers free.
Height: 6’ 4’’
Weight: 200 lbs.

Tools:
The pouch on his belt contains various poisons, tranquilizers, hallucinogens and adrenaline, although the hallucinogens aren’t very plentiful or predictable. He has a specific poison that is of his own making which he is particularly proud of which fakes death in every way without actually killing the target.

The gauntlet he wears on his left arm has a switch-blade hidden inside, when revealed, the blade comes out over the back of his hand.

He has a hand held tranq-gun and injection needles in the pouch in the front of his belt.

He has a simple black necklace, that when he wears it, his eyes turn red, his skin becomes pale and burns in sunlight, and he becomes more agile and fast.

He has a hand-gun and a knife holstered on the side of his belt.

Strengths:
Without his necklace, Umbra is just another person, but when he wears it, he becomes agile and quick. He has a decent aim, not perfect but enough not to miss horribly. He also has a knowledge of chemicals and herbs, which is how he selects the drugs and poisons in his belt.

Weaknesses:
Umbra’s main weakness is the fact that while he wears his necklace he can’t be in sunlight without protection.

Personality:
Umbra is careless and fun loving, although his idea of fun is killing. He kills for happiness and challenge, not for money or whatever else is offered, though he’ll take it if it’s there. He’s also a vegan, though not for the reasons of most. He treats animals as well as humans target wise, of course that means he kills them too if they’re hard enough to kill.

History:
Liam began as a kid living in England, a place where his family had lived in for centuries. He grew up around a family who was incredibly into ‘the right thing’, which as far has Liam was concerned, was directly linked to ‘the boring thing’. The reason behind all this was the fact that their family had gained a reputation of being thieves. This stopped at his grandfather’s generation, as he grew tired of the bad rep. That passed onto his father, who tried passing it on to Liam. Anyway, that’s how Liam grew up; bored and righteous. Around the age of nine, he began showing a future outlaw feeling about him, to his father’s displeasure, who claimed that was how his great grandfather started. Liam ignored him and went on to becoming one of the countries younger thieves, and a good one at that. Now, this went on for a good while, until Liam met someone who claimed was a friend of his families. ‘Course, he never met the man; he was a shadow. Literally. Liam didn’t care though, he was told that this man, who simply called himself Shade, was an incredible friend of one of his grandfather’s who lived in the 14th century, following through the ages. He explained that thievery was kind of his families’ business, and that it was good that he was bringing it up again. The man sounded very happy to be talking to him, and Liam was just happy enough to oblige. Years go by, he and Shade grow closer, he eventually gets kicked out of his home by a shameful father, and he lives as a 17 year old urchin. Now, this was more boring than tragic for him, and he always searched for entertainment, which has always been stealing. Well, one day he gets into a brawl that goes on a little too long; Liam kills the man. And he likes it. So, he gets into more brawls, all to Shade’s dislike. Eventually he seeked someone of reasonable power to test himself. He kills him. This keeps growing bigger and bigger until he’s a full blown assassin. Eventually, he got bored of England and moved on. Now, he’s in Jump city, years later, doing what he does best.