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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rybaer" data-source="post: 1460068" data-attributes="member: 118">In order:Age doesn't matter too much, as long as the character will have some sort of motivation to be willing to work with other metahumans.  I'm leaving the mechanics of how your characters will work together a little open-ended at this point.  I think anything over 18 would be fine.Coast City.  Sorry, I slipped up on a previous post and will go fix that up.Army would be okay, but would probably work better as a background.  It would be much tougher to integrate one military charcter with three non-military.  Ex-military, however, would get your the same skills as well as create a plot-point I could work off of...as the military tries to draw you back in, perhaps.  The military currently has no public stance on metahumans, but it is wildly rumored that they are trying to actively recruit people with useful powers.As for how super powers are being accepted, it still varies dramatically.  It is such a recent phenomenon that most people are still coming to terms with it.  There have been a few people that have come forward with their powers and tried to do good with them...and some of these have gained great fame and a generally good reputation for it.  Others, often those with strange appearances, have been persecuted, assaulted, or even killed.  The prevailing feeling around Coast City is that metahumans should be judged on their actions, but monitored with increased scrutiny.One NPC I've developed is a young woman, Sandra Poynter, who has just founded an advocacy organization for metahumans.  A good friend of hers, who had just gained the ability to shapeshift, was gunned down in a nightclub when she transformed into a tiger under the stress of an aggressive drunk.  The drunk was acquitted on most charges (aside from unlawful possession of a concealed firearm) due to "extenuating circumstances".  Her new organization, the Coast City Metahuman Rights Foundation, is growing quickly and has gotten considerable press both locally and nationally.</blockquote>

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