SquirrelWizard

Yeah, levels are a kinda nebulous when it comes to RP and the question is what is the metric where you change your outfit. For example if you are doing missions does the general level of the missions dictate where your character is at along their personal timeline? Running DFB and have him start in his scrap suit? Running higher level taskforces and he's got better gear from his exploits as a hero? Thats going to be annoying, but interesting, to make all the costume slots for. Beyond that I wouldn't fret the level system too much, and would largely ignore incarnate status unless its specifically important to your character's backstory. I tried to do something similar with Hawtdog, as her armor is entirely scavenged to the point where her boots dont even match. The idea I had was as she progressed she'd "acquire" gear with the various villain groups that she fought creating a mishmash armor set that tells a story of the groups she's run across. The idea is good but I've found it hits a bump in implementation as unfortunately some of the armor pieces are either npc only or, for the purposes of Arachnos, tied to the Spider Archetypes. As for "outside support" in the form of equipment donations. Corporations/businesses are going to want to support heroes who are moderately well known, or better, and are known for being good for PR. The more you make a name for yourself, and the more that name is associated with good things, then corporations might lend/give you equipment. Just remember, you start getting bad press by doing, or being accused of doing, dubious things and that support might evaporate. Another avenue to approach is the Super-Cottage Industry of Crafters. Basically think people who build custom orders for cosplayers except they make the real deal. Expensive? Probably. A state of the art neutrino edge on an axe always is. That doesn't mean you cant barter or earn it through favors. As your character does heroics he can do an Axe of Theseus where he gets a base axe, then gets someone to reinforce the handle, then reforges the head after it gets mangled, then adds an energy sheath on the edge because raw metal can only do so much. His equipment can evolve with him and while he doesn't just get a new axe, the axe he has at the end of the line is nothing like the one he started with.

I dont really design my characters with music in mind, mainly because I design them as characters in world rather than as a character one might see in a movie or show, so musical stingers or songs would feel out of place as "where is the boss music coming from?"

I haven't seen the Animatrix, but there are multiple dimensions in CoH, with some being more deviations than others. Your character could have developed their powers and, in the process of doing so, hopped dimensions. Just remember that what might have held true in your character's original dimension, might not hold true in the Primal dimension. Here is an example. My character Hawtdog is from a rather silly dimension, and it colors her experiences and expectations. She firmly believes she was sent into the past by her Leader to prevent humanity from being backstabbed by Catgirls and, ultimately, enslaved by aliens. In reality she was shunted from one dimension to another where the event she was supposed to prevent has never and never will occur. Most of the historical information she knows (which, admittedly, isn't much) is worthless. Her understanding of certain things, like magic, comes off as flawed. She's just a little special so she doesn't let this bother her, or at least doesn't dwell upon it. So the questions I guess you'd need to answer are. How did your character get their powers? What was the event that caused your character to hop dimensions? Is there someone chasing them? If so, Who are they? Why are they after them? How is your character going to elude them? Is returning to their home dimension something your character wants to do? If you want to have an organization from their home dimension popping up here is a suggestion, keep them largely limited to their home dimension. They send operatives out to other dimensions to do very specific missions (like recapture a wayward speedster), but they dont have any major bases in other dimensions because of their potential discovery by other groups who are aware of the multi-dimensional nature of the multiverse could cause all sorts of problems for them.

Forgive me if this is disjointed, kinda tired. So mucking about with the underlying code of reality is likely to have unforeseen, far reaching, potentially catastrophic results on reality. Your character may have discovered this the hard way, and suffered for it. Could even be the reason they are in the Primal Universe. Imagine if you shifted one variable on a whim and you end up in Paragon City with a hazy recollection of where you were prior and unable to return because you crashed that reality so hard it got deleted; Not that you have to go that route. It seems like your concept is leaning into what I call predictive super reflexes. Basically, by perceiving the code of reality, and being able to interpret it, you gain preternatural insight of nearby threats bordering on prescience. There can be complications. Things too far away might have too many variables to account for. Trying to predict things too far into the future is too hard because your actions ultimately change the values of the variables you are trying to read. The second part to the equation is how does your have the speed to process or react to what they see. Speed force is kind of a nebulous thing that can be slapped on a person to explain why they can move stupidly fast, but you aren't limited to that. If whatever allowed the character to perceive the code of reality didn't grant your character super speed, then perhaps the character sought some form of super speed to be able to comprehend the code. What did they do to achieve that? Did it earn them any enemies?

K4Z-0: "Daisy, Daisy..." Techno Smith: "What was that K4Z-0?" K4Z-0: "What was what?"

Smart move. Otherwise the Villains might have given him a theme song against his will.

Subject: re: RE: RE: An urgent matter for FBSA leadership. So doing my thing here, and I come across this. Let me get this straight... You canceled Doughnut Days for Veggie Stick... Days? And you call me a villain? I, figuratively, stand in solidarity for the doughnut-less office workers and heroes, even if the later might try and punch me. Also, fix your firewall, I noticed at least five different weakpoints that I could exploit. you're making this too easy on me, Data Crash