Tag: The Phantom Five
DAY 18: 21st Century Sandshark Studios Presents- TITANIUM BLONDE
21st CENTURY SANDSHARK STUDIOS PRESENTS
A DAN NOKES HAPPENING…
THE 30 CHARACTERS IN 30 DAYS CHALLENGE
DAY 18: TITANIUM BLONDE
CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY: Yvette Clare was born just outside of Paris, France in 1938. She spent her early years in occupied France being raised by her grandmother. Her parents were Resistance members who were both killed in 1944. Yvette had a passion for acting and by the age of 16 was cast in her first film. By 1960 she was a rising actress and French cultural item in the cinematic scene, when her life detoured forever. She was one night, abducted, and had her DNA altered along with 4 other individuals and returned to our world. When she awoke the next day, she only had fractal dreamlike memories of the previous night’s events. She treated them as such and went to a location shoot that afternoon. While there she manifested her powers for the first time. She found that she had the ability to turn herself into living metal. She also found a strange psychic draw to the four other abductees.
Through a series of events she found the other members and co-founded a super hero group called THE PHANTOM FIVE. For the next decade and a half she along with her teammates became some of the most beloved and regarded costumed adventurers of the era.
That all came to an end however, with the 1975 incident where Ghor The Ahnilalator invaded our world with a large standing army. He was defeated by Earth’s heroes, villains, metas, and standing armies. But at a high cost, with thousands of military, civilian, and meta deaths, including all but one of The Phantom Five. Titanium Blonde was buried in France at   Père Lachaise Cemetery.
DAY 15: 21st Century Sandshark Studios Presents NIL
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in conjunction with
THE 30 CHARACTER IN 30 DAY CHALLENGE
Presents…
A Dan Nokes Happening
DAY 15
NIL
Character Biography-Little is known about the being known simply as Nil. He is ruler, master, and to most of the inhabitants of the Shadow Realm, its god! The Shadow Realm is a dimension somewhat paralell, but different in nature from ours. In some ways it is best described as a hell based in darkness. It can be accessed by the shadows cast by everyday objects, but only a few gifted, some say cursed individuals can access this dimension. Its ruler is a cold, cruel, and sadistic, creature known as Nil. Nil only became known to this world recently through the actions of the US based super hero team known as THE DIVISION, and more specifically, through its shadow power based member known as The Shadeling. Nil has been a foe of The Division and many other of the adventurers of the 1960’s and 70’s. After the battle against Ghor in 1975, spottings of Nil have been almost non-existant. But whispers of him attempting to invade and conquer our realm have begun to cerculate. For now they are just whispers. But whispers and shadows are how Nil has always begun…
DAY 14: 21st Century Sandshark Studios Presents-FLINTLOCK
21st CENTURY SANDSHARK STUDIOS PRESENTS
A DAN NOKES HAPPENING…
THE 30 CHARACTERS IN 30 DAYS
DAY 14: FLINTLOCK
CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY: Jared “Flint†Locke was born in Wheeling, West Virginia in October of 1921. His family were poor coal miners and had to survive off the land and other “less reputable†means of making due such as bootlegging. Jared learned how to use a gun from the time he could walk, and by the age of 6 he was a crack shot with a rifle and handgun. When World War II broke out, Jared and his brother Carl enlisted in the Marines. Both brothers proved themselves in battle, Jared himself earning the rank of Gunnery Sergeant in the Pacific in less than 4 years and Master Gunnery Sergeant by the time he retired from the Marines in 1954. Carl used his GI Bill to get a business degree from the University of West Virginia, while Jared enlisted in the FBI, where he became a sharpshooting instructor at the academy. In 1960 he was abducted along with 4 others from across the globe by an undisclosed alien race, and experimented upon. When they were returned, their memory had been tampered with, to where all they could recall was from a fractal dream-like state.
Within 24 hours Jared began exhibiting the strange powers to manipulate his arms and hands into organic guns and hand cannons that shoot out living bullets that become active upon contact with air, and explode upon impact. Jared also felt a psychic link that drew him to the other 4 abductees. Through a series of adventures, the individuals found each other and formed a group a costumed adventurers known as THE PHANTOM FIVE. Over the next decade and a half, the group became one of the foremost super hero teams along with The Alliance of Super Heroes, and The Division that brought the second era of the metas lasting from 1953 to the mid 70’s. This era ended when a world conquering galactic despot known as Ghor the Annihilator, invaded Earth in 1975. The combined heroes and villains of our world managed to turn him back, but at a huge price. Many people and metas lost their lives in the battle, including all but one of the Phantom Five were killed. Most bodies were recovered or accounted for. Jared Locke’s was not among them….
DAY 7-21st Century Sandshark Studios Presents: MISS NOCTURNAL
21st CENTURY SANDSHARK STUDIOS PRESENTS
A DAN NOKES HAPPENING…
THE 30 CHARACTERS IN 30 DAYS
DAY 7
MISS NOCTURNAL:
Maya Alvarez was born in Havana Cuba in September of 1940. When she was four, her father was killed by the local organized crime ring for not paying his protection fee for his small business. Her mother did her best to try and raise her, but at the age of 10 her mother died of breast cancer. From the age of 10 on, Maya lived on the streets, fending for herself as a petty thief, and sometime street performer. Over time she came to the notice of a group of revolutionaries, who slowly indoctrinated her into their group. When the Cuban revolution broke out, Maya acted as a spy and saboteur. When Castro came to power in 1959, Maya joined the Cuban Army and earned a commission. In 1960 her life was changed forever when she, along with four others across the globe were abducted by a unknown alien entity, and had experiments performed upon her, before being returned along with the others.
At first, things seemed normal; all she could recall was in a fractal dream state. But within 48 hours, she began to mutate, her skin turning purple, growing bat like wings, and developing a form of echolocation that could be used as a weapon like a sonic scream. She also developed a strange connection to try and find the other abductees. Through a set of unusual circumstances the group all met up and over time formed a team of costumed adventurers called THE PHANTOM FIVE. Maya was dubbed Miss Nocturnal by the media. At first she was considered a loose cannon due to her aversion to her western world team mates, and general temperament to her other members. But over time she became a trusted and fiercely protective member of the group, going so far as to develop a strange romance with fellow team member Construct.
Then in 1975, the team joined other super heroes, villains, and world armies, to do battle with a space conqueror known as GHOR THE AHNILALATOR. Ghor was defeated but at a high price. Many soldiers and supers were killed including Miss Nocturnal and all but one of The Phantom Five.
21ST CENTURY SANDSHARK STUDIOS PRESENTS: THE 30 CHARACTER IN 30 DAY CHALLENGE DAY 2: THE NARWHAL
21st CENTURY SANDSHARK STUDIOS PRESENTS
A DAN NOKES HAPPENING…
THE 30 CHARACTERS IN 30 DAYS
DAY 2
THE NARWHAL
Character Background: Rene DeBlanc was an oceanographer and marine biologist. Born in Brittany in France, he had a lifelong passion for the sea and made it his career. DeBlanc won a scholarship to University of Washington in the US. DeBlanc earned a Doctorate in 1956 with a double major in Marine Biology and Oceanography and began a distinguished career in the field heading many scientific expeditions to remote parts of the globe.
It was on one of those expeditions that DeBlanc was abducted by some unknown alien species along with 4 other persons from across the planet. All five members had their DNA tampered with and augmented before being returned to Earth. All abductees were gone less than a night, were apparently unaltered, and aside of vague dream like, fractal memories, unaware of the abduction.
But within 24 hours of their return the five individuals began manifesting strange powers and mutations. DeBlanc began transforming into a humanoid creature with characteristics similar to that of a narwhal. His strength increased 20 fold, could take extended periods underwater without oxygen, and had a tough skin that could resist extreme heat and cold. He also had a psychic connection to the other 4 members of the abduction party.
DeBlanc then sought out those other members and over the course of several months began to develop a bond with those persons. So to the point that they formed a team of adventurers called THE PHANTOM FIVE.
The Phantom Five over the next decade and a half became one of the preminent super hero teams of the 1960’s and 70’s along with THE DIVISION and THE ALLIANCE. Then on a fateful day in 1975 the heroes, villains and people of Earth came up against a world conquering tyrant known as GHOR THE AHNILILATOR. The combined forces and metas of Earth managed to turn back Ghor and his forces, but at a terrible cost. All the Phantom Five but Narwhal were killed in the battle. Afterwards Rene withdrew from public life and returned to his scientific exploration. He currently works for the National Institute of Marine Study in Paris. He occasionally lends aid to other members of today’s super hero community in an advisory capacity. But has not donned his old Phantom Five costume since…
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