[quote=@DocRock]
Color me interested.

I do enjoy a good superhero rp. I just hope I can keep up, if things end up moving quickly for some reason.

A question, since I glanced at your vault version of this before coming here, but in regards to the "tolkienesque" factor, would that include entities such as "monsters" of the fantasy variety? Like Rocs, Krakens, Dragons, and the like? Additionally, since the same societal shifts exist, what does that mean of major comic book franchises such as DC and Marvel, do they exist in this timeline?

Also, would animal experimentation to create animal superheroes have possibly occurred? I ask all of these questions to see what character ideas I can play with. Hope this is fine-
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No krakens, dragons, grumpkins, or snarks. There are demons and otherworldly creatures, but the DHR and VILE only allow high-ranking magicians to legally try to contact these guys. A level 3 magician trying to talk to Cthulu would be like a high school chemistry teacher trying to buy plutonium. It doesn't work and you end up on a watch list. There are also monsters, but more of the hammer horror and cryptozoology variety than the pointy-eared elf variety. The sasquatch exists, for instance, but he's the byproduct of incestuous gorilla people created by the Russian government in the 50s. I'm not making that ish up, we sat down and discussed this nonsense at one point.

Animal and human experimentation are commonplace, but animals cannot be Supers. The only exception to this is Gorilla Warfare, who is technically a gorilla with a man's brain and sentience, making him a weird kind of cyborg, but not a trained monkey all the same. 

DC and Marvel exist in this world, but I am trying to bring them up rarely. Their canon can be used as conversational references (Batman had the coolest villains), but I am trying to avoid characters bringing up the similarities between their own world and the world of comics. It'd be like a Naruto character pointing out that they speak English but their names have clear Japanese meanings despite Japan not existing, or a Game of Thrones character pointing out that the worldbuilding involves an unprecedented thousand years of no technological innovations, or -- you get the point. Regardless, comics and comic movies about fictional superheroes exist as well as comics and movies about real supers.