Swole City
Overview:Unhappy with your body? Wish you were less of a fatass?! Want stupid big SWOLE muscles?! Then come to SWOLE CITY!
This is a typical ad for SWOLE CITY, a smaller district home to the cities greatest fitness experts, magical plastic surgeons and nutritional experts. In many worlds upon worlds, there is no easy way to fitness and nothing any roided out fitness guru can say will be able to change that. However, in this city, in this district, that is just not true. Even so, everything worth striving for has a cost and that is especially true in this district.
Culture:The residents of this part of the city are mostly rich fitness junkies, professional athletes and privileged dude bros out to sculpt their bodies to perfection. However, the district makes most of its money from insecure people who wish to change their bodies. Potions and visits to mages with powerful transformation magic cost money, lots of money but even the average person can afford to go to a gym.
Gyms in this district cost a bit more monthly than any other gym in the city, but the results are astounding. With just a month of consistent training, you could build a body that takes years thanks to the magical properties of these machines. Of course, because these machines are so powerful, they require that you follow a strict routine to avoid creating muscle imbalances. In the past, there were those who decided only to work their arms and ended up with strange proportions. If you work hard and stick to your routine as precisely as possible, most people can have the body of their dreams in less than two weeks.
Of course, sometimes people are not looking for aesthetics. Sometimes people just want power. The gyms in this district are famous for allowing those with the proper resolve to surpass their human limits. Muscle is built by breaking down said muscle and building it back up stronger than before. Many of the more expensive gyms use magic to speed up the repair process, with a "break room" that is infused with powerful magic. It resets both your central nervous system and rebuilds your body. Of course, you still need to eat to feed your muscles, so it can be dangerous to just workout, sit in the room and workout again. However, if you can afford to burn money on a ton of food, you could, in theory, do several weeks of workouts in a single day.
Because of the vast array of powerful beings in the Nexus, many gyms are setup to work with those of supernatural strength. There are exercise programs for most common species throughout the nexus, such as werewolves, succubi, vampires, demons, fallen gods and angels. Although most only have the capacity to work those of incredible strength or weaker. If one needed the power of fantastic or above, they would need to be within the inner circle of Armstrong. The chief possesses a special gym that can help someone achieve up to legendary stats.
Supplementation, nutrition, and steroids:
In any competition, there is a culture dedicated to exploiting it. Just as there is magical equipment, there exist special supplements, nutrition plans and magic steriods each with special effects. To start with, supplements simply supply a person with a particular nutritional needs. For example, protein shakes are a supplemental drink that gives a person's body access to a ton of protein and fat without having to consume a whole meal. There are also things such as preworkout, which is just body builder coffee, allowing tired workers to trick their bodies into being ready for a workout they didn't want to do. In swole city, there exist supplements that go beyond this, ranging from enhancing recovery, strengthen bones or skin and even maximize gains in ways never thought possible.
Going beyond supplements are special nutrition plans. Because of the nature of supernatural creatures and the culture surrounding them, many do not actually know how to maximize their body to the fullest. Therefore, nutritional experts exist in this district to help keep these creatures healthy. The swole city district maintains a good relationship with other more supernaturally oriented districts by offering nutrition plans to monsters and other weird supernatural beings. With exercise, these can have insane effects.
Lastly, there are steroids. These are special performance-enhancing substances that are capable of providing a shortcut to aesthetic or power-related goals. Each one grants a massive boost in gains and general performance, but comes at an equally bad cost. Some make you bigger, faster, stronger but force you to peak physically earlier than you would normally. Other substances will make you a sex machine but invite sexual predators and rapists. Swole city has the most exotic collection of performance-enhancing substances in the entire nexus and the largest collection of horror stories related to them as a result.
Chief Armstrong:Chief Armstrong cares only about one thing, being and proving he is the strongest. There is a love for power and strength that rivals no other. He believes in the spirit of strength, which all previous leaders of the district followed. OF course, he also looks down on those weaker than he, and doesn't belive he should waste his time with someone who does not share his ideals, or are otherwise incapable of embarking down the path to power. People weaker than he are lesser, but worth training. People incapable of training or otherwise refusing to become stronger are worthless ants undeserving of his time.
Defenses: Other than the chief himself, you can expect this part of town to operate like any other. Seeing as it is a rich part of town, the place is decently staffed. Elites, swat teams and cops are not too far away if any ruckus is caused. As a result, crime is far lower than most places in the city.
Race: Human
Age: 35
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Weight:
Appearance:
Physical Attributes (Can be all stats, see muscle control)
Strength: Human-Legendary
Agility: Human-Fantastic
Durability: Human-Legendary
Magic: High
Arnold's magic isn't offensive in nature. Instead, it is the basis for many of the gyms around town. He is capable of enchanting items to grant special properties to the physical body of the user. For example, he can enchant an entire track to instantly restore a person's stamina at the end of their workout. Much of this is done by turning the item into a sort of mana converter, feeding off of the expansion of energy a person uses during their workout session to convert into mana. Then, the energy is funneled back to them to achieve the desired effect.
Magic Resistance: Medium
Other Abilities:
Biological control: Armstrong has complete and utter control over his own body. He is capable of increasing his own muscle mass, size and density, offering him complete reign over his strength and durability. He can turn on and off his fight or flight reactions, turn off his pain receptors and overload his body with a shot of adrenaline and other forms of hormonal control. This also allows him to control his body composition, allowing him to look how he desires. He can also freely modify his own genetics, allowing him to control his own talent so to speak. The limits of human strength were lost to him long ago.
Regeneration: The biological control also extends to his cellular regeneration. By forcing his body's cells to divide and grow, he can effectively regenerate from any injury. However, unlike traditional regeneration, this comes at a steep cost. The first is that it drastically shortens his lifespan. The second is that if he relies too much on it in a single battle, it can age him rapidly, even driving him to death.
POWER OF SCIENCE: Despite his appearance, Armstrong is very intelligent. Since about age 16, he has dedicated his life to exercise science and the study of magic. By combining the two, he has been able to rise to the top of the fitness industry. He can augment any exercise machines to generate improved results with either magic, or sheer innovation, allowing his monopoly on his particular brand of special gym equipment.
Equipment:
Exercise equipment: Inside Armstrong's special gym is the equipment and knowledge to go even further beyond human limits. Because of the elite nature of the gym and the intensity of the workouts, Armstrong does not allow anyone without at least incredible strength to enter.
Transforming weights: Armstrong carries a set of transformable dumbbells in his pocket. With the push of a button, the dumbell can gain weight and size, allowing him to injure people by throwing it at them.
Weakness:
Lack of skill: While insanely powerful in his final form, he does lack formal training as a fighter. He can hold his own in a street fight, but a master can take him down in close quarters combat. Another option is to hit him from a range.
Likes: SCIENCE, DA PUMP, Sex, Showing off, being on top,
Dislikes: Weak people, weak minded people, lazy shits.
