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Johnny Storm (

flameon_) wrote,
@ 2014-03-04 18:51:00

PLAYER INFORMATION

Name: Jess

CHARACTER INFORMATION

Name: Jonathan Lowell Spencer Storm
Age/Date of Birth: 26/June 12
Sexuality: Heterosexual (approximately a 1 on the Kinsey scale)
Housing: 202
Prospective Job: He thinks it’d be the coolest ever to be a firefighter. Ha, see what I did there? He’s going to fight himself!
SHIELD: Undecided. He could see how it would make sense, but he’s been there, done that with the military thing and he liked going freelance.
Fandom: Marvel
Medium: Movie
Canon point: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, just after he discovers that Sue is alive and he no longer trades powers with any of them when they touch.
Arrival Date: Wednesday March 12, 2014
PB: Chris Evans

PERSONALITY

Self-confident. There’s no way that you can be where Johnny is and not know that you’re good at it -- whether it is driving a car, flying a plane, or even saving the world. He knows he’s good at it, and it shows. He’ll tell you that there’s nothing he can’t do, and while that is obviously a lie, he’s good at telling it. When he walks into a room, he just assumes that everyone is looking at him, and so he acts accordingly. Big smiles, chatter, handshakes, hugs, posing for photos, he is the the very picture of a guy who knows that he is the best at what he does.

Adventurous. Skydiving? Snowboarding? Waterskiing? Bunjy-jumping? Yeah, he’ll do ‘em. He’ll also race a car and drive a motorcycle too. Johnny lives for the thrill that risking his life gives him; there’s nothing like the adrenaline rush as you put your life into your own hands. Oh, you want to go mountain-climbing? Okay, but just be warned that if he’s not careful, he may end up a little, uh, bare.

Gregarious. Johnny geniunely likes people. He likes talking to them, he likes listening to their stories (even if he doesn’t show that side often). Mainly, though, he just likes being around them. He likes to sit in a bar full of people, listening to the chatter and the laughter, and it only gets better when he puts himself into the middle of it. You want a good time? Go out with Johnny Storm one night. You’ll end up with a million stories to tell afterwards. (Interestingly, Johnny’s last words will very likely be “Hey, man, WATCH THIS!”)

Determined. The truth is, you don’t get to be an astronaut without being very focused on your career. Yes, Johnny likes a good party or three as much as the next guy, but put him in that plane, and he is determined to fly it better than anyone’s flown it before. Give him a superpower? Well, he’ll milk the publicity, yes, but he’s also going to do his damnedest to make sure that he keeps the world safe. That he knows that he can’t do it alone is a credit to him. But just don’t stand in his way if you’re talking to a girl he wants to chat up at the bar.

Irresponsible. There’s a reason he left the Air Force and NASA. He takes risks. Sometimes, those risks go beyond the acceptable limits set for him by his superiors. Most of the time, yeah, it’s all worked out, but it only takes one time for him to fuck up to get someone or himself killed. This irresponsibility leaks into his personal life. He doesn’t have pets, because chances are, he’ll forget to feed them. Thank God for automatic bill-pay, otherwise the lights might go out in his apartment. He’s working on it, though. He’s going to get a pet rock, soon.

Arrogant. There’s self-confident, and then there’s arrogant. Johnny Storm is both. He knows he’s good at what he does. What is also obvious is that he thinks he’s better at it than you are, too. Everything you can do, he can do better, or so he says. And he won’t stop rubbing that in until he’s proven otherwise.

Self-centered. If there’s a group of people laughing more loudly than the others, chances are Johnny’s in the center of it. If there’s an interview about the Fantastic Four, he’s likely giving it. He’ll make the jokes to make himself look better, and he’ll turn almost any conversation back to himself. After all, who wouldn’t want to talk about him, or be around him?

Impulsive. That’s a nice car. Bought it. Hey, I want to go to Mexico. Cancun it is! I’m bored. Let’s go snowboarding! Oops, I burnt my clothes off and am now naked in the middle of a snow-covered mountain, but hey, I’ve made a hot tub right here by myself? Okay, let’s have sex! That thought that just popped into your head? Say it. Johnny has a filter in his brain that lets him know that he shouldn’t be doing something. He does it anyway. Chances are he’ll say whatever comes to mind, do whatever he wants, and live with the consequences in the morning. And even if someone calls him out on it, he won’t stop.

HISTORY

Johnny Storm’s life was pretty normal, up until he turned 17. His parents were good people, his dad Franklin a surgeon and his mother Mary a homemaker. His older sister Susan was all right, for a sister (just kidding, he’d do anything for her, including bothering her to no end and hiding all of her Barbie dolls just to hear her cry about it), but they got along okay, when she wasn’t being a Big Sister. But when he was seventeen, halfway through his senior year in high school, that normal, happy, pretty idyllic life came to a screeching halt.

Franklin and Mary were killed instantly when a semi-truck crossed the center line. The driver had fallen asleep at the wheel, and awoke just as he heard the sound of Franklin sounding his horn. Sadly, he was killed, as well, leaving two families to grieve. Susan, already in college for a few years, took the rest of that year off to stand in as Johnny’s guardian, and to watch helplessly as her little brother tried desperately to deal with the grief of losing their parents. While she threw herself into making sure everything ran smoothly and that she and Johnny were taken care of financially (helped by the life insurance policy that was put into effect upon Franklin and Mary’s death) and that all of the myriad details of selling a home would entail (it would be sold once Johnny graduated), Johnny threw himself into trouble. Nearly at the top of his class and a star on the basketball and baseball teams, he began skipping classes, which led to skipping school. He dropped the friends he’d had since preschool, falling into a rougher crowd. He came home late, or not at all, and his grades began to fall.

A night in the drunk tank, however, did open his eyes a little. He backed off somewhat, and began seriously considering the military after high school, instead of college and whatever career might have come out of that. Graduation came, and then his birthday, in quick succession. Johnny joined the Air Force; he’d discovered a love for fast cars, and if cars were fast, well jets were faster. He earned his wings, and from there it seemed like his life was set. Fast planes and pretty girls in whatever town or city he was stationed -- life was great. And he was even able to think about his parents without wanting to run away from it. The Air Force put him squarely where he wanted to be, and gave him a focus and a drive that he wasn’t certain he would have had if his parents were still alive.

NASA was an option that he’d considered from the moment he began flying, and after meeting their requirements, he began the rigorous training that would eventually send him into space. Once qualified, he was assigned to a group under Ben Grimm, some years his senior and a friend of Reed Richards, who by coincidence also knew, and was in love with, his sister Sue. The two of them often came to loggerheads, and Johnny, quickly becoming tired of the immense amount of regulation cutting into his airtime, left NASA to work for Victor von Doom, who had also hired his sister Sue to work as a genetics researcher.

It wasn’t long before Johnny was given another chance to pilot a space mission, thanks to Reed Richards. While on it, he was subjected to a cosmic cloud, along with his sister, Reed, Victor von Doom, and Ben Grimm. The result of this exposure was that Johnny developed a mutation, causing him to be able to control fire, specifically as it pertains to his body, and without doing himself damage.

With the promise that Reed would find a way to reverse the problem, Johnny settles in with Reed, Sue, and Ben at Baxter Tower, but it wasn’t long before he was itching to get out. He did, and during an interview, called himself the Human Torch. He was, quite clearly, basking in the attention. After arguing with Ben, and then later Sue, Johnny took himself off to cool down (ha!). He returned home to find that von Doom, now styling himself as Doctor Doom, had reversed the changes made to Grimm, and had also knocked Ben unconscious. He and Sue helped Ben to sit up, just in time to have Doom fire a heat-seeking missile at the building. Johnny guides it away from the building, and detonates it on an abandoned island. He flies back to where the others are fighting Doom, and along with the rest, are able to defeat him.

Fast forward to a year later. Sue and Reed are about to get married, but the ceremony is cut off by a Silver Surfer. Johnny goes after it, catching up to it only to have it carry him out of Earth’s atmosphere. He’s dropped, but manages to save himself. The contact with the Surfer did have one side effect, however, a major one: Whenever Johnny touched any of the others, he traded powers with him. This proved to be a problem when the four of them went to London in an attempt to stop the Silver Surfer at the behest of the U.S. Military. Shortly after this it was revealed that Victor von Doom had used his leverage with the military to have the Fantastic Four work with him.

Reed developed a way for the Silver Surfer to be trapped. He was brought into custody and his surfboard confiscated. It wasn’t long before Doom’s true purpose was revealed; he stole the surfboard and left. The four of them plus the Surfer followed in the Fantasticar, all the way to Shanghai. Unfortunately, they wrecked, and then Doom mortally wounded Sue. Johnny absorbed the powers of the other three to defeat Doom, but Sue dies anyway. The Surfer, reuinited with his board, revives Sue and defeats Galactus, with a boost from Johnny. Johnny returns to earth to find that he can no longer trade powers with the others.

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Johnny can envelope himself in fire. Technically it is a firey plasma, but it is actually more fun to say that he’s on fire. With this ability also comes the ability to control it; he can fly by using the thrust from the energy expended by his flame to push him forward. He is also able to sent out bolts of fire from his hands, and to shape those bolts into various shapes.
He’s able to control the ambient heat of his flame, and is able to control it enough that he can be near to people -- even touching them -- without hurting them. Any sort of heated object doesn’t affect him, and he is able to destroy incoming projectiles (bullets, for example) using the aura of flame that surrounds him.
Johnny also is an experienced pilot. He can’t cook, unless it’s out of a can or a box. He has the strength, agility, and endurance expected in a healthy male in his twenties, who exercises regularly and eats a normal diet.

THIRD PERSON SAMPLE

Your arrival through the Tesseract. How do you react?

One moment, Johnny was hugging Ben Grimm, more relieved than not that he was actually able to not turn into the guy than he was horrified that he was actually hugging him, and the next, he was pulled in by this light. His head hurt. Hell, his whole body hurt, felt like he was being squeezed from the inside out, and the outside in. And then it was done, and he was left on the ground, gasping.

Just as he stood the door opened, bright light streaming in and obscuring the figures who joined him. Then all was dark, as every person in the room stood, waiting to see what would happen next.

A snap of his fingers, and a flame sparked up from his thumb. Yep, they were definitely people, and they defnitely looked surprised to see him. He grinned, the winning grin that had captured the hearts of ladies (and many men) the world over. “Hey, guys. I’m Johnny Storm. Who the hell are you?”

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