So far I'm looking to tie together the "business world" and tech sides of one of these games, just as other people in the past have looked to establish the "magic/magick/magik" side of these universes.

I've always liked how each of the most brilliant minds of the Marvel and DC Universes have kind of had their own corners of expertise and their own differences which have made them their own people.  From Pym's instability, to Reed Richards insatiable need for knowledge and discovery.

Ted Kord's genius has seldom really defined him in most works and he's often a Batman-Lite business head/gimmick inventor who has amazing potential and has had issues of focus which have been his biggest obstacle when discovering that potential.  He's almost "too human" to be the person he could really be.  So I wanted to explore why that's the case, and wanted to give Ted something that other geniuses don't tend to have in order to better differentiate his mind from other Marvel/DC geniuses... hence the perfect eidetic/photographic memory thing.

In terms of influences, I've probably poached and pinched a bit from a lot of the previous similar games in the past.  The L-Pad reference in the first post quite blatantly came from one (or many) of [@AndyC]'s runs on Superman in the past, which I expanded out with naming it's video chat software as LLL.  A lot of this will be reflecting back other events in the business side of this combined universe as we saw with how [@Sep]'s Iron Man stuff has directly impacted K.O.R.D.  The character of Mike Ross from [i]Suits[/i] will inform on a lot of what's come with Ted's perfect memory and using a brilliant but raw mind to dominate a new profession as well as my own class clown experiences in my own schooling, which probably impacted my decisions far more than I'm even willing to admit.

I'm stealing from everywhere!  Even obscure places you wouldn't think about!  I'm taking it!  It's like an homage only more blatant and hacky!