<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 32pt;">-OOC &amp; CHARACTERS-</span></strong></div><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj499/MzHyde/GunGirl2_zps422983fe.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Gina Cross, "Recoil", Member of The Olympians and Judge #1</strong></span><br/><em>Gina, extremely popular in Japan, poses on the cover of 'Gun Freak.'</em><br/><br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Recoil<br/><strong>Identity:</strong>Gina Cross<br/><strong>Age:</strong>24<br/><strong>Base of Operation:</strong>Washington, D.C.<br/><strong>Power Class:</strong>Paragon (Class B)<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Hailing from New York City, NY, Gina escaped the rough life she grew up in by joining the military as soon as she could. Sooner, actually. She lied about her age and claimed she was older than she was. With peacekeeping missions abroad in desperate need for more troops, her paperwork was looked over and she was allowed to join at sixteen. Gina excelled at everything the Marines threw at her, scoring high marks in CQC, marksmanship, tactics, and survival. With waning PI interest in joining the military, the US Government sanctioned The Hercules Project, an effort to create super soldiers from scratch. Gina was nominated for the program and, through a combination of gene therapy, enhanced nanomachines, and newly developed serums, she became a super soldier. Going under the nickname 'Recoil', she worked extensively for the government for many years, conducting clandestine operations overseas. When she came home, she worked freelance for a bit in her home city before being recruited by The Olympians. Some speculate that she shouldn't qualify for Paragon level and, thus, should not be an Olympian, but her government ties allowed her access to the PI group. Gina Cross is now a judge in The Hero Project.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong>Her military training provides her with extensive knowledge of firearms, hand-to-hand combat, explosives, and tactics. That alone makes her an extremely formidable opponent. The Hercules Project, however, endowed her with several enhanced attributes; slower aging, peak physical conditioning, enhanced strength and speed, and the ability to predict, with almost 100% accuracy, an opponents movement. Her expensive, cutting-edge, government-issue EV and nanobots also grant her accelerated healing and almost unerring accuracy with firearms.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj499/MzHyde/HercuLina_zpscc19ae95.png)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Lina Lynons, "HercuLina", member of The Olympians and Judge #2</strong></span><br/><em>HercuLina stands in her costume, which is inspired by Roman gladiators.</em><br/><br/><strong>Alias:</strong>HercuLina<br/><strong>Identity:</strong>Lina Lyons<br/><strong>Age:</strong>25<br/><strong>Base of Operation:</strong>Washington, D.C.<br/><strong>Power Class:</strong>Paragon (Class A)<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Lina Lyons grew up in Washington D.C. and had a very normal life, for the most part. She was a normal girl who grew up in a two parent household, got good grades, and idolized PI's. Normally, a PI discovers their abilities sometime during puberty, when the body is undergoing the most changes. At eighteen, having not displayed any abilities of her own, Lina assumed she had no future as a hero. She went on to become a police officer and thought to fight crime that way instead. However, Lyons was a first responder at a museum heist by the villain Psycho Pathfinder. After being hit by one of the criminal's psychic attacks, Lina's body finally unlocked the power hidden deep within her. The discovery of her abilities led her to foiling the robbery single-handed, and forging a new career as a hero. Now known as HercuLina, Lyons is one of the most popular PI's in recent memory and she has her face on a wide variety of action figures, comic books, and her own breakfast cereal. She is a patriot, and a model heroine.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong>HercuLina possesses an extremely powerful set of abilities. She has enhanced speed, reflexes, flight, and strength almost immeasurable. Her endurance has also been raised to superhuman levels, allowing her to withstand heavy impacts, slashing, and even small arms gunfire. Lina, while not the smartest or most tactical fighter, possesses a willpower and determination that allows her to see almost any situation through. Her police training has left her with some advanced hand-to-hand techniques and holds.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj499/MzHyde/Character%20Portraits/Tilly2.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Tracy Grimm, "Hellfire", member of The Olympians and Judge #3</strong></span><br/><em>Tracy explains her powers and abilities mathematically.</em><br/><br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Hellfire<br/><strong>Identity:</strong>Tracy Grimm (pseudonym; real name, Tracy Grimes)<br/><strong>Age:</strong>23<br/><strong>Base of Operation:</strong>Chicago, Il.<br/><strong>Power Class:</strong>Paragon (Class A)<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Tracy's life in the city of Chicago was not an easy one; she grew up poor and in a broken home. Like other troubled kids, she fell in with a bad crowd and was soon running with a gang. Her life of crime was, thankfully, rather short. As soon as she hit seventeen her powers manifested themselves, albeit in a rather odd way. Tracy fell into a deep trance, almost comatose. She has never spoken of what was going on inside her head at the time, but the PI said that when she finally snapped out of it "I realized that there was no God. Humanity had become Gods. I just chose to be the Devil. What's light without a little darkness?" Despite the claim, Tracy has proven to be more an anti-hero than any sort of devil or villain. Her powers, by their nature, are extremely destructive but she has, to this point, used them for good. Tracy claims that picking on innocent civilians would just be no fun. As her powers increased she eventually earned herself a place in The Olympians, much to HercuLina's chagrin.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong>Hellfire displays the ability to control shadow and flame. She can disappear completely in shadow, bend shadows into tangible, living creatures or weapons, and even move through darkness. The downside is, of course, that some shade must exist in order to be manipulated. Tracy's fire manipulation is even more impressive. She doesn't need fire to manipulate it; she can create flames from nothing by super-heating the molecules in the air, in essence creating spontaneous combustion. The heat she is able to produce can reach temperatures high enough to melt solid steel.