Subject: Art: The Reference.
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Posted on: 2017-07-27 15:23:00 UTC
You'd be amazed how much information she can access through her wristband computer. And her phone, obviously - this is the 21st century, after all!
hS
This is a fairly simple and creative game. Anyone can play; just reply to the previous post in the thread. Try to avoid branching chains, though!
Your post will contain three pieces: a superhero/villain name, a corny catchphrase for the hero the previous player named, and a short blurb for the hero the previous player gave a catchphrase to. It goes like this:
(0. You will put the name of your own hero/villain here.)
1. Name: American Aardvark
(You will add a catchphrase to American Aardvark.)
2. House (This would have been posted by the previous player.)
Catchphrase: "Never bet against the House."
(You will add a blurb to House)
3. The Narrator - "Are we sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin..."
Blurb: When the Narrator plants her staff in the ground and begins to read, the world around her changes. The story she reads takes shape, spreading in a growing circle from the base of her staff. Skyscrapers can become jungles; oceans can become caves; there is no limit to her transformative powers, nor - as long as she keeps reading - how far they can spread. Only when her staff is uprooted from its place will reality snap back.
(You will delete The Narrator from your post.)
If a completed hero/villain catches your fancy (as the Narrator here), feel free to reply to her blurb post with a creative work featuring her - a picture, a story, anything you want. You can even incorporate other completed characters from the thread! But don't try and shoehorn it into a full Round Super-Robin post - keep the stories etc separate from the character creation.
It is possible that there will be a picture of the heroes and villains of Round Super-Robin, once the thread winds down - so go ahead and make them as silly as you like!
Next player: add a new Name, add a Catchphrase to American Aardvark, add a Blurb to House, and delete The Narrator.
hS
I mean, that's a cool power that doesn't get used very often, plus it appeals to literature geeks like us :D
-Twistey
Here's a Superpower Wiki page on that power: http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Vocal_Narration
Can I use superhero names from my writings in this (without giving anyone any details about them)?
But don't expect people to attach the same meanings to them as you do! ^_~
hS
You'd be amazed how much information she can access through her wristband computer. And her phone, obviously - this is the 21st century, after all!
hS
But I reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreally want to see it! Please send a link asap! :D
-Twistey
http://m.imgur.com/gallery/2pnyr6t
Your computer seems to be having a problem with Imgur. Or possibly just with me.
hS
My computer can be so annoying sometimes. T_T
-Twistey
1: Name: The Starlight Sentinel
2: Name: Graft
Catchphrase: "You won't get anywhere without hard work..."
3: Name: The Thought Police
Catchphrase: "Not even the mind is safe."
Blurb: Aleister Charles Magnusson: small-time science fiction author, somewhat larger-time interdimensional protector. The Earth we know is but a fraction of the true whole, and beings of terrible power and inscrutable purpose seek to take what is the rightful property of mankind: our minds, our personalities, our very souls. Ali's ability to draw upon the power of multiple planar versions of himself are almost unique in the annals of history, and now he fights alongside a ragtag bunch of misfits to protect mankind from infohazards, deadly cults, and beings from beyond the limits of imagination. Not even your mind is safe.
Welcome to the Thought Police.
Just wanted to say, I would read the hell out of that. Very cool.
-Phobos
(Link)
I figure the Narrator is one of those mercenary types who keep changing their allegiance when it's convenient. On this particular outing, she's hanging with the villains.
hS
I cannot art.
Anyway, have Immaculate and Packrat in what I think might be their respective costumes:
Alas, "long rat tail" was not an available option in the site I used, so you'll just have to imagine PR's. Also, you might be wondering why her costume looks the way it does; the key theme I took from Mir's description of her was "tacky", so, y'know, tacky is whatcha got. =]
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byba3agSZv_4OUtRaWpEY2ZQNkU/view?usp=drivesdk
I suck at writing captions so I will leave it to you guys to do it. In case anyone wonders the fireball thing is a miniature star.
A lot better than me! (Of course, I kind of stopped trying in favor of developing my own style. But never mind that.)
-Twistey
How do you embed a picture here? I tried to but the image doesn't show up on the preview.
Bear with me if this fails spectacularly.
Apparently it won't work on my tablet, which is why my previous post has a broken image.
Anyways, here is the imgur version for those of you who don't like google drive.
Let me know if I haven't, and I'll tweak my post.
1. Name: Universitonne
2. Name: Mountaineer
Catchphrase: "Gotta go in by the door, they told me! Ha!"
3. Name: Pack Rat
Catchphrase: "What's yours is mine, what's mine is mine!"
Sophia Antonia Cartler always liked pretty things. It was just that her definition of what was pretty was a bit different from most people's. Her morals fell even farther outside the norm, and she gained a reputation as a weird, mysterious thief who didn't even consistently take valuable items.
She was furious when she gained superpowers from an attack on the movie theater she was in, and then delighted once she'd realized that, despite the very random tail she'd grown, she now had the ability to walk through walls. Well, and summon cheese at will, but that was a lot less useful to a lactose intolerant person. Until the time she first used the cheese as projectiles, that is.
So Sophia continued her stealing, more frequently than before she'd left her job, and she was happy. She'd put on her same mask, let the tail out (what? It unnerved people), and gone straight for Tiffany's. Her next few sprees were also expensive, to the point where a local newspaper nicknamed her "the Magpie." Had she continued that trend just a little longer the name might have stuck, but as fate would have it she went next for a series of commonly low-value items. These were so varied and so frequently useless that when a difference paper jeered, "more like a *pack rat*," that was the name that ultimately stuck.
Everyone ignored her protests that it was undignified, prejudiced, had connotations of dirtiness, etc. After the first time it led to her capture, Sophia vowed revenge and resolved to be more careful when trying to get the moniker changed. She remains unsuccessful in both respects.
1: Name: Carbide (don't look at me like that, you knew a Robot Wars reference was coming sooner or later)
2: Name: Universitonne
Catchphrase: "By the Ashen Moles of Bodley!"
3: Name: Mountaineer
Catchphrase: "Gotta go in by the door, they told me! Ha!"
Blurb: When you're a big, tough anti-hero, you don't play by the rules. You're loud, you're brash, you've got awesome powers, and collateral damage is a problem for tomorrow and/or somebody else. That's as true for Gamma Man as it is for anyone else in his position. This is not his story.
When you're a scientist who people have the temerity to call mad just because you've won the Nobel Prize for Wave-Motion Brain Annihilation three years on the bounce, you don't play by the rules either. What you want is what you get, what you get is what you can grab, and what you can grab generally blasts a whole bunch of interesting exotic particles out the business end whether it's supposed to or not. That's as true for Doctor Cranitron as it is for other people who got laughed at in the Academy. This is not his story.
When heroes and villains fight, people get caught up in it: bystanders, photographers, hostages, it's a fact of life. So it was when Doctor Cranitron took the SupraCorp tower in downtown Metro City hostage, Gamma Man, that fair metropolis's edgiest hero, took it upon himself (to the quiet despair of the local constabulary) to rescue the hostages and deal with the Doctor once and for all. They fought, the building collapsed, but Gamma Man got everyone out, just about. The Doctor? Well, he was a smear on the ground, but villains come back from a lot worse all the time. Pavement pizza is just another Tuesday.
But what about Eduardo Cabrera, the undocumented Honduran immigrant cleaning the windows on the twenty-seventh floor, where so much of the fighting had taken place? What happened when his body was suffused with every example of Raygun Science (Mad) know to man? What happened as he awoke the next day, phased halfway through the rubble of the collapsed building and suspended thirty feet off the ground? This is the Mountaineer's story.
This is his story.
Let's find out.
Most of the thread has become art, haha!
1. Name: Role Reverse
2: Name: Carbide
Catchphrase: "Nothing is tougher, yet nothing more advanced."
3. Name: Universitonne
Catchphrase: "By the Ashen Moles of Bodley!"
Blurb: In her own time, Annelise Grimmer fought tooth and nail for women to be allowed in colleges. By night she would work on secret breakthrough discoveries, which is how she accidentally slowed the effects of time on her down. Which is how she is still alive during the 21st century. As Universitonne, Grimmer is less of a superhero and more of just a mentor for heroes such as The Reference, since she was already getting on in years when the accident happened. She provides them with the information and encouragement they need to be successful on their missions.
-Twistey
I'd give you a bio of my character formerly known as Mountaineer (at least, a bio of her original incarnation, and not the about-to-be-current one as PPC agent Amber Callahan), but the URL for her page involves my school district, so I'll copy and paste it into a reply if anyone's interested.
I really like what you did with the blurb, especially since it brings more realism to the superhero genre. Bystanders get caught up in stuff all the time, it's a fact of life and of war. Great job!
-Twistey
(Link)
They've got one of those forbidden hero/villain romances going on.
hS
there was an attempt.
'Looks like you've become a bit of a Mountain-rear!' exclaimed Doctor Encaso, roaring with laughter and slapping his knee with one hand and wiping tears from his cheek with the other and murmuring to himself about how much of a good one that one was. His minions, as they always did whenever he had one of these little moments, shuffled awkwardly.
'How can you possibly oppose my invincible, my unstoppable plan?!' Doctor Encaso collapsed once more into tearful, back-bending laughter, and his minions all tried to look as unaffiliated with him as they possibly could while wearing big conspicuous uniforms with loud 'E's on their fronts.
'How, possibly, physically possibly, could you ever find a way to use your remarkable matter-phasing powers and ability to travel through any wall or material against me-' he sputtered and chuckled. 'If you're trapped inside of this globule of amber?!'
'How can your unique ability to escape any physical boundary possibly be used to oppose me, now that you are trapped there, behind that amber?!'
'How can my crimes ever go challenged, if your astounding wall-phasing talents are held, here, behind this all-encasing wall of amber all around you, oppressing you from all sides?!'
Doctor Encaso did not laugh after that one, because Mountaineer's fist promptly drove its way through his face with a horrendous thud, throwing his front teeth gorily to the sides and smacking him into the cracked pavement that he would groan and twitch on until he was eventually dragged off it to prison. His minions continued trying to look unaffiliated, even as they, too, were dragged off.
But this was not over, for Doctor Encaso. For even as his fellow prisoners glared over at him and readied their fists into balls, he had a greater, even more flawless plan for defeating Mountaineer:
Trapping him inside of a very large steel cage. And hiding the key.
We seriously need to start writing comics in a superhero 'verse. All these ideas are too good to go to waste.
-Twistey
Perhaps you could put this in a G-doc like you did with the LotR-Justice League crossover? That worked for me. I just really really really want to see it! Argh! 8D
-Twistey
Here.
hS
Holy crud, that was cool! The Reference in particular was almost exactly as I imagined her (hooray, I'm getting better at imagining characters as being non-white), and all of the character designs were quite well-done. Thanks for the link, hS!
-Twistey
So far as I know, the idea is original to me, though it's a fairly simple expansion of the Round Robin concept - or that old thing where you draw the top part of a picture, fold it over, and pass it on to the next person to draw the middle. But I didn't borrow it from anywhere. And I don't mind you sharing it around.
hS
I've got so many writer friends who would love this game! Thanks!
-Twistey
Mesmeric criminal overlord with a steampunk falcon theme? Yep, I'll take that!
hS
But I'm glad somebody caught what I was going for! Steampunk is indeed what I intended with the catchphrase. :D
-Twistey
I love all the little details in the cog and the coat, and the way it's broken on the side. Also the mask is perfect. This is so cool! :D Love the last name, as well.
-Alleb