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The Wards: A Grimdark Teenage Superhero Story

@Mintz

Fun fact, her alias is V. As in, CTRL V.

The Wards: A Grimdark Teenage Superhero Story

Holy shit, this exploded in the last couple hours I’ve been working. I’ll be making a perky 13-year-old with sort of… copy paste powers, I want to say? She can recreate any item she sees and handles, but her power can run out. The amount of energy each creation takes depends on specificity, necessity, and complexity. Each item disappears within one hour and she can disappear it at will.

The Wards: A Grimdark Teenage Superhero Story

She does. It’s my personal nightmare.

I’ll start a character sheet soon.

The Wards: A Grimdark Teenage Superhero Story

Not sure if I’ll have the time, but I love Worm so count me in.

Young Justice

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Location: Mission Briefing Room --> Laboratory Interacting with:The Team

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Daphne. Alisa felt her spirit drop to her feet as Martian Manhunter revealed what had become of her friend. What happened? What did her dad do to make her… like this? She could barely bring herself to look at Daphne, entombed in greenery. This next mission would be hard without her. So hard. Her infinite gentleness couldn’t be matched by anyone else on the team. Even with the return of Casper, the team would still be missing something important without her.

Alisa gazed at the ghostly boy for a moment before looking away and furrowing her brow. His return had shocked her- she had thought him dead for sure- yet beyond a few cursory words and an enthusiastic ‘welcome back!’ they hadn’t talked. She doubted that would change too much. The thought of not being friends with one of her new teammates didn’t torture her as much as it had a month ago, now that she had found friends. Not that her friends had been very forthcoming as of late. Viktor had ignored her for most of the past weeks before a heartfelt conversation between them that had led to their friendship being stronger than ever, and Aleen’a was almost completely absent. And everyone else was the same as them. Ja had seemed to bounce back, while Kassy had sequestered herself in her bedroom after the awful way the Atlantis mission had ended. Alisa didn’t blame her. She wasn’t a monster, but having something that personal exposed hurt. Zach was hurt but still as sassy as ever, and Daphne was… well.

In a way, Alisa felt she was the only one who had emerged from these past few weeks unscathed. She had to be the strong one, the steady rock for the rest to lean on. Alisa was coming to understand her purpose on the team more and more as just that- someone who could be counted on to be trusted and to protect the team in crisis. It was something she was suited to.

Five hours was a long time to prep. Alisa headed to the lab after the briefing, sparing a sad glance back for Daphne. There was nothing she could do for her now. She remembered the last Kobra-related mission well- La Hoya, Argentina, where they had lost Casper and Felix. If their plan to pose as bait worked, they’d need some way to recover any information gleaned from their base. That was where Alisa’s new flash-drive technology, uncreatively termed ‘flash drive pinkie’, could come in. Memorizing the entire computer was an awful gambit, but connecting herself directly was a foolish one. Allowing her to download information like a computer while also protecting her core computer was the ideal, and what she was trying to improve.

In the lab, Alisa sat on the stool and booted up the computer, bringing out her tools while she waited for the program to start. She was nearly done. Hopefully she could finish this project in five hours.

Young Justice

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Location: The Conference The Aquarium Interacting with:The Team

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Chaos followed Kassy’s haunted scream- but Alisa wasn’t sure why. Atlanteans and her teammates alike began to yell in terror, punching at things that weren’t there. Everyone was terrified without reason. She floated, a quizzical look on her face. Was ‘the defect’ that terrifying? It just looked like Kassy’s eyes had turned black and she had revealed a tattoo on the back of her neck. Then, Alisa remembered. Her powers. Mirage had to be stronger than everyone else had thought. She was out of control, broadcasting her emotions and taking over others’ minds with them. Alisa, however, was the only one who could see through the haze.

So many things were happening at once. Alisa’s eyes were drawn to Viktor as he swam over to Kassy, apparently in a daze, and threw a punch at her. Idiot! Asshole! Alisa started rapidly swimming towards them, fury building in her. Couldn’t Viktor see that it wasn’t her fault? Was he heartless? Aleen’a, ever brave, rushed at the two of them, barreling into Viktor- but it wasn’t enough to stop the next awful thing from happening. Alisa swam at them, trying to stop it before it was too late. She had the best chance of fixing this.

Aleen’a shouted to destroy the vials, and Alisa changed course, swimming towards the cowering scientist cradling them in his arms. Aleen’a wasn’t entirely correct about the vials being the source of Kassy’s rage- it seemed to be more about her emotions- but getting the vials out of their hands would help. It would prevent their usage- and whatever they were, Kassy and her ilk didn’t deserve that fate. It made Alisa terribly sad to think about. Brain-dead zombies. She understood why Kassy was upset.

“Give me that!” Alisa held out a hand for the scientist to give her the case and, when he simply cowered in fear, she yanked it from his hands. There was a struggle.

“Stop! Demon!” he screamed. “You can’t have the cure! I won’t let you!”

Alisa punched him in the stomach and ripped the case from his hands, pushing him aside and swimming up. “I got it! I got the case!” She could see no reason to destroy the vials- having them leak into the water might have some adverse effects on people- but they needed to be in safe hands.

𝚂𝚙𝚢 𝙷𝚒𝚐𝚑!

maybe

Young Justice

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Location: The Aquarium Interacting with: Zach (@Crimson Flame), Daphne (@Dreamingflowers)

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Alisa jumped away from the electric eel as its current rippled through the water. It was reflexive, but she ground her teeth anyways. Hopefully, there were no more of those in there. She followed Zach and Daphne into the expansive aquarium complex, where there were six soldiers trying to free the animals inside. They turned to the three young superheroes, shouting in alarm, before rushing at them.

Okay, Alisa, this is kind of what you’ve trained for… you’ve got this!

While Zach fought off two with flamboyant spells and Daphne used her plant abilities on another two, Alisa aimed her hand at the guy shooting at her with a pistol and fired her hand cannon. The recoil knocked her back a bit, but the actual bright blue blast knocked the Deluge soldier into the wall hard, taking him out of the count. Alisa then turned, shocked by the power of her own invention, only to see the sixth soldier within feet of her. Too close to use her cannon.

He closed in before Alisa could do much but scramble for purchase. He grabbed her leg from underneath her and pulled, taking her off balance. But he didn’t take into account how heavy she would be, and Alisa kicked him off and then kicked his head in as hard as she could. Then, as he reeled, she punched in the head and knocked him out cold.

“Yup, got it! I think we’re done- wait, Daphne, watch out!”

Toontown | The Guild's #1 Stop for Cartoon Discussion

I feel like Netflix makes some awesome cartoons. A lot of the cable networks these days just make really, really shitty cartoons. Looking at you, Cartoon Network. Some of my favorites in the last couple of years have been She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Carmen Sandiego, and The Dragon Prince. I've also been getting into Young Justice thanks to a couple of persistent RPers here and I really enjoy it!

Steven Universe was also really good seasons 2-4 (or 5?).

Young Justice

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Location: Submarine; The White Island Interacting with: Zach (@Crimson Flame), Daphne (@Dreamingflowers), The Team

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In the following minutes after the squid attack, shock turned to anger turned to bright-red fury. As Alisa sat in her seat once again, her lips pursed to a fine line, she wondered how some people were just so stupid. Dr. Bingley- stupid. Viktor, her maybe-best-friend- stupid and stubborn and unfeeling. How could he be more steel than her, the girl made of it? She found herself getting angrier as she watched him walk back to his seat, utterly unperturbed by Kassy’s silent haranguing. It hadn’t been him who had fired the shot, she knew- but he would have, and was only taking the blame for it in pursuit of the mission goal. The mission. Alisa could have strangled Dr. Bingley right then and there, if she hadn’t been on a mission. She hated people like him- curious without thought of harm, weak and simpering until they had a chance to do something awful and took it.

He reminded her a bit of her mother and the people who had helped make her, she realized. That hit her harder than she expected.

Viktor’s overheard conversation with Daphne made her even angrier. Alisa sat and listened silently, not acknowledging that she was hearing a thing. Daphne and she had spoken about their similar origins a bit ago, and she knew what it felt like to be an object of fascination. Of study. He had contacted her father? Without even asking Daphne first? If he had done that to her… if she were less competent, he might have.

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Listening to Dr. Bingley’s speech just made her hate him more. Although Alisa didn’t entirely get magic, she understood enough to know that that was eugenics, and definitely not okay. Zach leaned in to say something to her, and she found herself nodding. “It bothers me too,” she whispered back. “This guy is such a prick.”

Then, the next disaster happened. Alisa wasn’t entirely sure what the Deluge was, but they needed to go reinforce the aquarium. Ugh. Underwater fighting wasn’t Alisa’s expertise. She was with Daphne and Zach- a good group. She swam over to Daphne with Zach. “Looks like we need to get going to the aquarium. We’re gonna do great.” She wasn’t sure if she meant it or not, but her voice didn’t betray much insecurity. She smiled from beneath her helmet.