BangoSkank

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Boxing a ghost lion, oh man. That's wild.

What's the reason behind your Username?

My first like adult reading book was by Stephen King (then writing as Richard Bachmann) and probably my favorite of his is the Dark Tower series and the way it intertwines with a bunch of his books, including that first book I read which was called Desperation.

Bango Skank is the great lost character from both The Stand and some of Peter Straub's writing (he also did some collaborative work with Stephen King), he leaves graffiti all over the place in various dystopias and in odd places. From an alternate messed up New York to underneath The Dixie Pig, which is basically a hideout for wicked evil animal people cannibal buttholes.

I don't do it as much anymore but I used to do a lot of little notes in some of my writing indicating that I was basically speaking to the reader. Sometimes just saying stuff like "Imagine, dear reader, if you will what must have been going through his mind as blah blah blah the shoobity doobity" because I picked it up from reading a ton of King's stuff when I was little.

References include:

"I wonder what happened to Bango Skank...."

"BANGO SKANK AWAITS THE KING!"

""Bango Skank was here" was written on the bridge."

Bango Skank in Media and Other Weirdos

A Change.Org Petition to Learn His Story

change.org/p/tell-bango-skank-s-story

A Deviant Art artist's interpretation of the character


A Weird Band's Funny Song (Language Warning for the Intro)

bangoskank.bandcamp.com/track/scurvy-…

MARVELS: Streets of New York

I sort of have three ideas. All ideas I've done before or tried to do. The first and last kind of have good reasons for why they might be off limits so I figured I'd just list all three.

Street Level Wolverine:

I always like RPing as Wolverine, particularly street level versions of him if that's acceptable. My favorite version of him has pretty much always been the versions where he is not with a team. Wandering, sort of like Jack Reacher, maybe doing little team ups. Doesn't really seem the Team type despite how popular he is in teams. I like him as sort of the "ya coulda been a contender kid" type that just doesn't work well with groups.

If needed I could come up with some reason he's fallen out of favor with the X-Men, seems like there's always a reason for homie to hop on his motorcycle and take off.

Brief Example from an Old Character Sheet for Logan

History:
Spent a lot of time staring into that abyss. Sometimes wasn't the only one looking through my eyes. France, Germany, Africa, Japan, Viet-fuckin-nam, Madripoor, Mexico, good old US of A, Canada of course. Shed blood all over the world, bled a lot of it too. Seen all manner of cruelty and evil, come to the conclusion it, Evil, ain't some alien thing from Hell that reaches out to us every few decades. It's a thing that lives in all of us, some more than others. God knows I've got enough of it in me. Ol' Kurt Wagner taught me plenty 'bout that.

Stare into that abyss and it stares back at you. Me and it we old friends. Very old. Ain't no spring chicken anymore. Body still is, but the shit takes its toll. Wonder sometimes how we do it. How we keep on pushing year after year, decade after decade. More than a few of us been doing this for generations now. Run into folk I've been friends with or enemies ta or both for longer than most folk get to live. Plenty of folk tried to help or tried to stand in my way. I took plenty of their lives, those that tried to stop me, and just me being me ended up getting plenty of them that tried to help me dead. Plenty more of them just wilted, like people do eventually. It's like them Kansas fellas said, Dust in the Wind.

I can't see myself just sitting by while bad things happen. Not in me. But maybe I can stop being such a damn ass about things. Stop running out on friends first sign of them caring a little too much. Got kids to think about, them that don't hate me and ain't tried to kill me at least. I can hope for redemption for them that do want to kill me too can't I? Nothing says I can't. Maybe this old dog can learn a new trick. Maybe this short hairy mangy old mutt can even make up for the dark old days.

US Agent:

I was doing a Captain America for the 1968 version of Marvel that I really enjoyed. Got me exploring sort of his mythos and what he means and that got me in to the Less Than Steve versions of him and characters he impacted. Weapon X, Nuke, and John Walker. I'd like to do it as Nuke and have him be sort of a broken, volatile, tool of US groups. Something like a Homelander vibe in that people are just waiting for him to break and go too far, but he's useful. Not as useful as Captain America of course, that's why Steve is hopping around the world and either Nuke (or if that's too much John Walker) is stuck in NYC.

This was for Steve Rogers but it should give an idea of what I'd be trying to go for with Nuke/Walker

"I got one more thing for you. Technically it's still in deep storage somewhere. Officially it's still in deep storage somewhere."

My shield. My old original shield, triangular. Three stars horizontal across the top and nine stripes vertical down it's length. Had barely seen this thing since T'Chaka gave me the circular one I always carried.

"It's almost New Years Steve, I want you to enjoy it. I've got one more thing I want to say to you and then I want you to mix in. We've all seen a lot, we've all got stories."

It was a lot to take in, but I was going to try.

"You're more than just a fighter Rogers. I've led men who wanted nothing but a battle, I've known men who were nothing more than fighters, that isn't you. You're a defender, you're a leader. The world didn't love you just because you killed Nazis. Killing something repugnant, even the Nazis, that alone isn't enough to generate love, not real love. They loved you because you defended their brothers, their husbands and their sons. You're a defender, a beacon, a leader, like it or not. You're a symbol of America Steven, it's up to you what that symbol means."

We shared a drink after that. It was kind of hard to pick up a conversation after something like that and he really did want me to talk with the others. Dum Dum had given me a lot to think about and he gave me a little more to get me moving. He gave me a smile and a nod and a light push on the shoulder to spin my stool around, urging me to get out there and talk to the others. I guess that was it, that was my christening. World War Two was over and had been for decades. New wars had been fought, newer wars were being fought. Dugan was right, I was a Leftover now, we all were. Couldn't ask for better company.

Bushwacker:

Much more of an anti-hero of a character. I wrote him as like right on the borderline of a psychopath once some time ago. Similar to US Agent sort of but more of an agent of chaos. More mercenary. Would essentially be playing a villain.
In short from the Wiki:
Carl Burbank was a priest who abandoned his vows following the drug-related deaths of young parishioners. He joined the C.I.A., which outfitted him with a cybernetic arm and made him an assassin under the codename "Bushwacker", but ultimately he became a freelancer.
The character is usually depicted as an adversary to the superhero, Daredevil, and less frequently to the Punisher and Wolverine.

I was having him as a basically agent provocateur/assassin/damn near terrorist working for the shady as F government agency I came up with, Janus.

This was from his audition basically to join a shady government agency by killing a mutant

I get up. Still smoking. Mostly naked now. Most of my skin back, translucent yeah but it's something. Big shit eating grin.

His friends are looking at him. One is indeed putting pressure on one of his wounds, as best he can. It's too late now. Even if I weren't back up and about ready to turn this up he'd still be done for. Internal bleeding. External bleeding. A good quantity of bleeding all around. His other buddy is stuck in a loop. Checking his blood pressure for some reason and telling him to hold on.

Pyro Mutie, he's just staring at me. That different look I mentioned.

Pyro Mutie, he ain't seen nothing like me before. I bring my hand up again. Good and slow. He's in too much shock to stop me and his buddies are too distracted to notice. Not that they could do shit if they did. This time instead of shooting through my palm I take the time to form my fingers into a barrel, slowly aim down it, and give him a little wave before I splatter his friends with his thinking bits and end his night.

With a bang.

hello hello!

This is a good place for it.

It can be hard to start up but look around for stories you like. Have fun coming up with a character to join one or create a whole new thread if you have an idea just burning a hole in the back of your head.

Cheers.

Favorite character you’ve made?

A Halfling character I came up with for a planned 1x1 RP here.

My partner was going to by TyrannosaurusRex. He was going to be a sort of disgruntled Knight. A woman who wanted to avenge the loss of her family to, IIRC, another noble family.

I was going to be Malva. A Halfling woman. Her family had welcomed a couple humans in one night to escape the cold and the dark. Things had happened, it would eventually turn out to be petty and both their and her father's fault, and in the end her father ended up dead and the humans fled.

Her brother sets out to hunt them down. She ends up growing up with her mother being jealous of her brother and never really getting over the loss of both of them. Eventually she leaves her mother alone to find her brother because news of his travels and adventures in hunting the men down had spread.

That's basically the backstory. Our story was going to begin with the two meeting. Malva was a pirate who used her brains to make up for her size. Part of the story was going to be basically her coming to terms with her mistakes and her families mistakes, finding out her brohter isnt the hero she thought he was, and eventually becoming something closer to the hero she thought he was than he ever was.

We had an end planned that was maybe going to be a sort of cliffhanger tag to move into another RP but also maybe just going to be the end of it. Shame it never worked out, we talked about several plot developments in Discord before he ended up leaving here.

Still like that character. Maybe one day I'll write my part.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

I bounced off the first Doom Eternal big boss fight. Just kept dying but goddam it's fun. I should try again now that the next in the series is coming soon(ish)

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

If your PC is a potato try the Heroes of Hammerwatch 2 Demo.

It's sort of a Rogue-Like Diablo type game. I downloaded the demo and bought the game as soon as I beat it. It's only like $17 or so.

If your PC is a BEAST maybe try the Monster Hunter Wilds Demo. It will be available to play from like 2/6-2/9 and then 2/13 to 2/16, the full game is out 2/28.

I'm going to be playing that shit like a fiend. Like a fiend with very poor impulse control and even worse time management skills.

Blackguards!

Just wanted to add in this looks awesome.

I'll be eagerly reading and keeping an eye out for a Blackguards 2 : Stone Prison Boogaloo thread.

LOVE Mer Fuhgoad D'Got and of course Auguz. I love making Halfings (instead of Dwarves because smaller is betterer) and Orcs with similar skill sets so I'm looking forward to seeing this story unfold.

.....So....Hi...

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Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Playing Ghost Recon Breakpoint and having fun with it.

Looking forward to Monster Hunter Wilds when it comes out in a few months.