Citadel, Azara the Eternal

[Citadel]

Canon/Original: Original

Codename: Citadel

Real Name: Azara

Nickname:

Age: 40

Gender: Male


Appearance: Azara’s ancestors were mistaken for Greek gods and his physique shows it. He has impressively broad shoulders and narrow hips with long, powerfully muscled legs and arms. The muscles of his abdomen, chest and back are well sculpted though not overly bulky.

His face is equally attractive, with symmetrical, even features. His forehead is broad and his chin strong. His nose is straight and his cheekbones are prominent. His eyes are a deep blue. His bright red hair contrasts sharply with his olive colored skin.

Despite his actual age, his appearance is frozen at how he looked in his late 20’s.

Clothing: Citadel’s combat uniform is a red spandex body suit that covers him from ankles to shoulders. A broad blue streak goes up the middle of the suit. Thigh high black boots cover his legs. A black sash is tied in a belt at his waist. His left shoulder is covered by a large metal epaulet. His right arm is covered in banded metal armor and a metal gauntlet covers his right hand. His helmet resembles that of a Roman centurion.

In everyday clothes, Azara generally wears what is comfortable and functional with only a nod towards fashion and style. Jeans and a t-shirt are most common, though he can fill out a suit nicely should the situation call for it.

More than once, Azara, like his ancestors has been worshipped as a god or demigod or simply looked to as a classical hero. Generally, when this happens, he wears a leather or metal cuirass and a similar strip style kilt. As always when he goes into battle he also dons his helmet, shoulder plate and arm covering.


Powers: Superhuman Strength: Azara’s cosmic energy enhanced muscles and Eternal physique allow provide him strength and power far beyond that of a mortal and his focus developing his physical abilities has made him stronger even than most Eternals. He is thus able to lift approximately 70 tons.

Flight: Azara has a subconscious ability to negate gravity and project himself through the air by transforming a few of his atoms into cosmic energy. He is able to achieve speeds of about 650 mph, though his maneuverability at this speed is poor at best.

Superhuman Durability: Azara’s has focused his cosmic energy on his skin and flesh and has made it highly resilient to damage. He is able to shrug off bullets and any physical attacks from a normal human though anyone with superhuman strength can harm him. He has less resistance to most energy attacks, though he has developed his resistance to extreme temperatures to an extraordinary degree to the extent that even the heat of lava or the chill of deep space will not affect him. Azara has also trained his body to thrive on cosmic energy rather than the normal needs of a human. Under normal circumstances, he has to breath only once every ten minutes and can hold his breath for almost twice as long. He only has to eat once a week and can go up to two weeks without sleeping.

Immortality: Members of Azara’s race are phenomenally difficult to truly destroy. It has been theorized that only by blowing an Eternal’s molecules across a vast portion of space can they be permanently killed. His physical age has stopped at his late 20’s and his fellow Eternals have looked the same even after thousands of years of life. While his life is difficult to permanently end, he is just as prone to being incapacitated as anyone else with his level of superhuman durability. For instance, having his heart, brain or lungs destroyed would completely disable him and even send him into a state that would seem like death. However, he would continue to absorb cosmic energy and would slowly regrow the lost tissue until he was back up to a functioning level. The same is true of his limbs and less vital organs. If they are destroyed or removed from his body, he will regrow them, but it should be noted that he does not possess a phenomenal healing factor. It will take him as long to regrow an arm or liver as it would take a healthy person to heal an equivalent amount of muscle, easily months, if not years.

Cosmic Energy Projection: Azara can project the cosmic energy that infuses him out. However, as he is still young for a member of his race and has focused his manipulation of his natural abilities in, he cannot do any of the wondrous tricks of the rest of his race. Rather, he can only project simply blasts of energy from his hands or eyes that are relatively feeble. These energy blasts have a hundred yard range at best and the approximate stopping power of a 9mm pistol. On a very lucky shot he could kill a normal person, but it’s relatively ineffective against any superhuman foe.

Eternal Mind: Though Azara is young for his species, Eternals are a highly advanced race. On a human scale, Azara’s reasoning abilities would make him a genius, though he isn’t anywhere near as intelligent as such mental luminaries as Reed Richards, Anthony Stark or Victor Von Doom. However, his powers of perception are much higher than any of these men. While his senses do not exceed those of a normal human, meaning he can’t see or hear things from farther away than a normal person, he is much more in tune with them. In tune to such a degree that he’ll spot things that even a trained detective might miss. By the same token, his race possesses powerful wills and he’s able to resist compulsions and mental invasions.

Weakness: Azara is powered entirely by cosmic energy. While this mysterious energy seems to permeate most of existence, if someone were able to cut him off from cosmic energy or siphon it off somehow, Azara would be rendered powerless. In fact, if he was entirely blocked from cosmic energy, he would cease to function, going completely inert and comatose.

Azara is also an alien to this dimension and has been through enough dimensions that varied from his own that he is uncertain as to who is a villain and who is a hero in this universe. While he’ll trust Captain America and Thor more than the Green Goblin and Venom since they were heroes and villains respectively in his home dimension, he knows that things aren’t always the way they were back home and will be open to suggestion if a villain is clever enough to convince him they have good intentions.

Personality: Azara’s youth is often quite evident. He is an idealist and still believes that good can triumph over evil if heroes are willing to step forward to fight. He’s not boy scout and can be rude at times and is often brash. He’s glad to talk things out, if he can, but if he decides that something can only be accomplished with his fists, he’s willing and able. He’s adventuresome almost to a fault and will usually follow the action or throw himself into situations that he hasn’t thought through fully.

Azara is also quite ambitious. Both his mother and grandfather held the title of Prime Eternal and he plans on doing the same, eventually. He also aspires to develop his abilities and reputation to the level where he will be considered a hero equal to Thor or Hercules.

History: Azara was born in an alternate reality to the Eternal Thena. In fact, the only obvious difference between his home reality and this one is his existence and the fact that his mother retired from adventuring while pregnant with him.

His mother raised him alone and never revealed who his father was, though many suspect it was the Deviant warlord Kro. Thena taught the growing boy much of her knowledge about tactics and combat and he was also tutored by such Eternals as Ikaris, Gilgamesh and Sersi (though his mother kept her away from the last when he reached his teenage years.)

When Azara reached maturity, he followed in his mother’s footsteps, becoming an adventurer and taking the codename Citadel. Over the next few years, he fought against the Eternals’ hated foes the Deviants as well as all manner of other villainous characters in his own universe. He even managed to gain enough prestige to join his reality’s version of the Avengers.

At some point and for an unknown reason, Azara was yanked out of his reality and dropped into another. Once again, he fought for the side of justice and good and made a name for himself before he was, once again, pulled out of that reality. The cycle has repeated numerous times with the hero always fighting for what he believes is right, but never knowing who or what is transferring him from dimension to dimension or why, although the answer to the latter question may lie in the fact that he has yet to meet another version of himself.

After a misunderstanding in his last dimension, he ended up fighting the premier super team of that universe and losing. His physiology reacted strangely with the powers of one of the team’s members and another forced dimension shift occurred, dropping him into this reality.

Team Affiliates: Hero


RP Sample: Legion's charging attack was enough to knock Azara back, the black armored figure plowing into the large Eternal forcefully. Rather than fighting against the attack, Azara went with it. He raised his legs, letting Legion push him back and lift him even further. But he didn't just take the attack. It was a simple matter, given his ability to fly to flip his body, taking Legion with him. He went head over heels, kicking out when Legion's back was towards the ground and using the centrifugal force and his own strength to throw the black carapaced man against the stone pavement.

Azara flew several more feet before coming to land. His unorthodox maneuver helped him avoid many of Oversoul's shots, but two more struck home, making the powerful Eternal flinch. Before he could retaliate, however, Rose came on the scene and sent her mental message to her captor. Whether he was angry or relieved or saddened by her request, he made no show and it would be difficult for even Rose and Oleksander to read his emotions.

But Maestro did have the affect he intended. Azara was angry. Very, very angry. These people had killed some of his men and he no longer just wanted them gone, now he wanted them to pay. Thus, he did not take Rose up on her offer, but prepared to punish the interlopers for their effrontery.

As the concrete came at him, he blocked it with one forearm, staggering back from the impact before the stone fell with a heavy thud to the ground. He knew Robin was coming, had seen her lithe, slight form rushing at him, but even angry, he wouldn't punch a little girl.

Her job was much easier now than it would have been had he been wearing his normal gear. The tank top he was wearing was torn and shredded by the fight and the explosion of the RPG and he wasn't wearing either his glove or the bands of steel that normally covered his arm. Finding bare flesh was easy.

Draining him was like drinking from a tide pool. There was a vast amount of energy in him and it seemed that there was an almost limitless expanse waiting to refill that reserve. The tide pool was eventually drained, though.

Azara did not collapse or stiffen or show any other sign of pain. Even when he began to come apart in Robin's hands. It was not bloody or gory but bits and pieces of his body floated off, flaring bright and disappearing. The effect expanded and expanded, his entire body shifting along the spectrum of light until it ranged into colors the human eye can't see even as a tone sounded that started as a vibration that can be felt and became so high pitched only dogs can hear it. At the same time heat flowed off of him until abruptly it was all gone and only his empty clothes fell to the ground.

Code: Blind Chef

Previous RP Experience: I’m playing Wrecker here
4 years at the Kingdom of Berbusk on Delphi.
2 years at Macross: Symphony of the Stars
3 years at Skygate
3 years at Mechatalk

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