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PLAYER

Name: Jess
The 100 Question: I understand.

CHARACTER INFORMATION

Name: Jonathan Lowell Spencer Storm
Age/Date of Birth: 26/June14
Sexuality: Mostly heterosexual?
Housing: Random!
Prospective Job: Rescue and Recovery & Random or something to do with engines and the like.
Fandom: Marvel
Medium: Movies
Canon point: End of Rise of the Silver Surfer, just after Sue and Reed are married.
Items of Note: Johnny is wearing his designer tuxedo, and under it is his suit. He’s also got his wallet with license, money, credit cards, and a picture of Sue and Johnny with their parents. He’s also wearing a pair of cufflinks in the shape of fireballs.

PB: Chris Evans

PERSONALITY

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. He’s arrogant, self-centered, and impulsive. Some of that stems from being orphaned at a time when he really needed adult supervision and guidance, and instead felt as if he’d been abandoned by everyone and everything. But some of it is just God-given personality, and Johnny has big one. Personality, that is.

He hasn’t admitted it to himself, let alone anyone else, but Johnny feels like he has a lot to prove -- that he’s invincible, that he is the life of the party, that’s he’s okay. He has a nagging suspicion that his father left a lot undone in his life, that he never went to the places he always talked to Johnny about, that he never really took the time to take a Sunday drive or go scuba-diving. Johnny absorbed all of that, and exhibits it as thrill-seeking. Sky-diving, waterskiing, bunjy-jumping, racing cars and motorcycles, mountain climbing -- Johnny’s done it all. Including being an astronaut. Johnny’s last words will likely be “Hey, bro, WATCH THIS!”

Johnny is gregarious and engaging; he’s charming and funny, and while he most often isn’t terribly witty, he does know how to take a joke. And make them. He even likes listening to people tell their stories, although it doesn’t happen often. He gets recharged from being in a crowd of people, and generally hates going home to an empty apartment with only himself for company. One thing’s for certain: you want a good time, you go out with Johnny Storm, and you will have all the stories to tell when you’re done.

But the truth is, you don’t get to be an astronaut without being very focused on your career and gaining the skills you need to advance. 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.

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.


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. Cue happy ending, yes! Because Sue and Reed finally get married! Cue happier ending! As soon as the ceremony is finished, the world needs the Fantastic Four, and off they go again.


SPECIAL ABILITIES AND SKILLS

• 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.
• The radiation will actually boost his powers slightly.
• 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
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