Ah, I feel kind of horrible about this, but my muse for Xerxes has entirely evaporated. I'm not sure if I can muster up the will to complete his introduction post. Hence the inactivity. As such, in lieu of offering excuses, I think I might withdraw, because I'd rather not drag down the group any more.
Oh come off it. Just get on the creative horse and stop watching youtube videos!
Byrd Man (Tone, Mood) 2013-2015 Probably the last in a long line of influences, not so much a mentor but a peer who utterly trumps me in detail and tone. I can’t write introspection or detective serials like Byrd can and I always find myself dissecting his posts new and old to try to learn something as I did with Master Bruce and others from the Hype games. He’s a multi-genre talent that can convey comedy, suspense, and action all on equally sufficient levels; to the point where I wonder who he learned from and what tips he can give me, which ironically I have actually asked him in private on occasion. I’m glad this is someone I can still write with and hopefully I won’t have to look on in fond remembrance for a very long time.
Eddie Brock / Andy C (Perspective, Characterization) 2013-2015 This one is a tie since both of these individuals inspired me around the same time to give first-person perspective a try which completely changed how I looked at certain characters as well as how to characterize emotion as well as introspection rather well due to how they handled characters like Peter Park and Clark Kent. Much like Byrd these are people I’m glad I can continue to write with and I’m sure there’s much we can learn off one another as time continues onward.
Pachamac (Critical Thinking, Game Direction) 2007-2015 An individual who has a deep vision for tone and a talent for bringing his characters to life. I haven’t had the chance to write with them for years due to my own complacency or ill-fated coincidence. We have very different views and influences, but I’d think of few people I’d just like to write with for a decent period again. But what I like the most about Pach is his talent for critical thinking and leading a game, he’s a gifted GM and has really helped me analyze my own writing issues and problems on more than one occasion. We started writing together around 2007 and our last joint venture was around 2011 or 2012.
Rico Underwood (World-Building, Character Development) 2001-2011 Though I know him beyond his pen-name at this point, Rico is and was the original source of inspiration for my collaborative writing. As a youth in 2001, I idolized and utterly respect him not for his detail prose but his distinct world-building, no nonsense attitude, and his stances against purple prose. I also consistently annoyed him since well, he was well into his adulthood and I was twelve – so it pretty much went how you expected it to. However, I was never shunned or isolated, being fully allowed to breathe in settings with acceptance despite by missteps in plot and prose alike. When my peers later on would criticize him I stood there in the shadow of this mentor and simply wouldn’t let that attitude be spoken in front of me. I just wish I could write with him one more time, but I imagine he’s moved on to greater responsibilities and focusing on his deeply enriched setting.
Tergonaut (Narrative, Detail) 2004-2012 Whereas I was taught there was quality in a mere sentence by my first ‘mentor’, from around 2004 onward Tergonaut showed me the full power of detailed narrative at the hands of a talented writer. A dynamic force on my first role-playing forum and probably the second most important to indirectly teach me what collaborative writing was about. Where Rico taught me about characters, Tergonaut taught me about narrative and pacing. I was still young by this point, but he was just as encouraging and supportive as any other person – which is something I wish I had myself as I can be admittedly selfish and too much of a perfectionist when it comes to my collaborative writing. Much like many people from the forum, life and interests shift.
@GowiWell, since my other RP started back up and this one hasn't started. I think I'm going to back out of this one (before it gets going and I can't). Though there is a nearly complete CS for Doreen Green (Squirrel Girl) if anyone wants it. Hope you all have a fun time with this one.
Probably the most minimalist of CS's I've seen from you, and I still quite like it. Heh. The only thing I can think of that is worth mentioning is when we get a Spider-Man there'll probably be Gwen's dad and some other cops doing stuff but I hardly doubt that will be an issue. Very... curious.
My introduction to Dick Tracy was the NES game, I think.
“She is smarter than you would think, and perhaps more so than her idol; she has potential that few can ever imagine let alone realize.”
| Identity | Kara-El / Linda Lang / Supergirl
| Origin & Backstory | Early Life The childhood of the girl of tomorrow was one of isolation, tragedy, and obscurity; which would very much explain the blonde-haired Kryptonian’s personality in the years to come. Kara’s father, Zor-El, was one of the brightest minds of his generation and alongside his brother were crucial to developments on their planet until the shadow of darkness befell it. Kara’s father was a very paranoid intellectual— something that would only become worse as before Kara reached her six cycle after birth something tragic and terrible occurred in Argos; his wife and the mother of his child had been murdered thus changing everything. At this point there was nobody to rein in his delusions or theories and on the shadow of a great crisis he refused to listen to even his own brother. The last thing Krypton knew of Zor-El was that he had locked himself and his daughter away in his laboratory rambling to himself about fate and danger.
Following the isolation, Kara found herself in an environment that was shaped around her father and his extensive educational process due to the fact that either the death of Alura had degraded him to lunacy or that he had deduced a crisis that would shatter the world; Kara was taught the latter. At such a young age, Kara didn’t really know how to come to terms with her mother’s death nor how to handle her tutelage by her father. The next few years for her were all planned subsequently through this tutelage and with Kara in mind, Zor-El began to toil with her genetics in the guise of medical checkups which would net her the engineered physiology. This engineer physiology would increase her brain functions, evolve her immune system, modify her perceptive capability, and much more. Kara didn’t understand why she would in time pick up on information from archives and instructional lessons at a faster level than before nor did she understand why she no longer became prone to illness; but she never thought much of it until much later in life.
In time, the crisis that Zor-El had predicted had come and the aged scientist made the decision to doom his daughter away to an alien planet with nothing and nobody. The last daughter of Krypton was placed in a hyperbolic sleep and placed in a illegally developed spacecraft destined to make sure that the House of El in the form of Kara lived to see the next cycle and damn the consequences. This starship would drift in space as it literally froze her in time until it landed in the star system known as Sol. Equipping her with a robotic AI with a recorded log from himself, he hoped Kara could make it out there with what he had given her. Much like Kal-El, Kara-El had been designated towards the planet known as Earth. However, due to a variety of complicated events she would never reach Earth until much later than anticipated.
2008: Welcome to Earth Discovered and intercepted by Superman, Kara would awaken confused and with all of her senses absorbing the effects of Earth’s particular atmosphere and solar connection whilst awakened by a strange man bearing the symbol of her house on his chest; not a pleasant introduction at all. It would turn out that time would mend all wounds and the experience of at least having somebody that was of the House of El beside her would make it all the more easier. However this would come with consequences as her landing did not go unnoticed as SHIELD’s extraterrestrial division called SWORD, and Lex Luthor himself would investigate – a terrible precedent to the beginning of her time on Earth.
Initially this did not concern Superman, who had just discovered a connection that he thought he could never have— especially after the last time he had interacted with other Kryptonians had been at the brunt of an invasion by General Zod several years prior. Under suggestion by Lois, he found he would have to prioritize her safety above all else which meant she had to be raised low-key like he had. The options were slim however as it came down to a few fringe ideas until his childhood friend Lana Lang, a renowned novelist who also lived in Metropolis came to be an ideal option. Turning to the Justice League’s Batman for help in regards to securing her identity, it was in no time that Kara’s alter-ego as “Linda Lang” would become concrete.
At first, Kara couldn’t help but believe she was being further isolated and abandoned as she was shuffled off to a non-Kryptonian who couldn’t possibly relate or help her to cope. However, this was only piece of the puzzle as Kara found herself gaining powers quicker than even her cousin could have anticipated and decided that the Fortress of Solitude could only offer so much. More help from the Justice League came when Wonder Woman suggested that she oversee Kara until she got a handle on her powers and as a way of private sanctuary before she settled in as her dual identity of Linda Lang. After some complications Kara found herself feeling a sort of whiplash as she was tossed from Superman to Lana Lang to Wonder Woman’s care in a manner of weeks which caused distress in the young Kryptonian— it was as if she had no place immediately on Earth and nobody knew what to do with her.
2009: Supergirl Several months would pass and the New Year dawned. Kara’s time on Themyscira boded well for her as she felt an environment where her new powers could be developed in peace and obscurity, and as she came into control of herself she had returned “home” to Metropolis and her guardian, Lana Lang. It was here that she seemed to absorb knowledge even faster than she came to her powers which was especially curious to those supervising her; wondering what set her apart from her cousin in this regard. It was after this that Superman found himself attacked by a coalition of villains called the SRS (Superman Revenge Squad). It was time for Supergirl to debut, though Kara herself wasn’t sure about the actions she had studied her cousin’s escapades as ‘Superman’ to get an idea of why he was who he was and what he stood for—which included deep conversations between her and her cousin who at this point Kara had partially substituted as a parental replacement for her own father. Join the fray, she gave Superman the edge he needed to fight off the SRS— and so Supergirl was revealed to the public in plain view.
Kara’s life had been set in stone as complicated as the previous year had been and adapting certainly wasn’t easy; but what was done was done and she had to look and move forward. As Linda Lang, she found herself juggling the responsibilities of three worlds much like her cousin had in his years on Earth— the role of a civilian to understand and experience Earth culture as Linda Lang, the role of a Kryptonian survivor in the domain of an alien world, and the role of a Protector that stood for her house and the legacy of Superman’s colors.
With Supergirl known as a public figure, things began to change as Metropolis— people were still unsure about Kryptonians even nearly a half-decade following the Zod crisis that was dealt with sufficiently by her cousin. Political figures like G Gordon Godfrey sought to demonize the increasing nature of “child superheroes” as well as his delusions that the existence of Earth-based Kryptonians only preluded dangers they would bring to the planet as well as a belief that individuals like Superman sought to become their “new gods” and strip the powerless of their liberties. One of these manic paranoid beliefs would prove a little true when a intergalactic synthetic named Naxx appeared on Earth and attacked Supergirl viciously and without reason whilst Superman himself was dealing with a crisis in Madripoor. The fight would be the first “real” one she would have following aiding Superman against the SRS having only dealt with natural disasters, thieves, and non-powered criminals in the meantime. Aided by John Henry Irons, Kara is able to defeat and disable Naxx who is afterwards collected by a Dr. Emil Hamilton of the Metropolis STAR Labs branch before SHIELD or LexCorp can arrive and claim parts of the synthetic like they had before in regards to enemies like AMAZO and others.
The months seemed to fly by quickly afterward, and Kara found herself capable of being ready to truly experience the culture that she was supposed to defend and soon found herself enrolled in the Midvale Academy in Metropolis through a little help from an undefined trust fund set up by Batman, her scholarship through her intelligence scores, and some contacts from inside that Lana had made years prior who happened to be a big fan of her books. This in September 2009 Linda Lang became a student after a long term “homeschooling”. She would become friends with two students in the succeeding months – Lori Luthor and Richard Malverne. However she soon became introduced to Nasthalthia Luthor who seemed conflictive in her views on superhumans— in particular aliens. Despite this Linda Lang did not become enemies, but as Supergirl Kara knew it would only be a matter of time.
And so our story continues…
| Attributes | Kryptonian Physiology – Much like Superman and General Zod, Kara has a vast powers that include perception, endurance, strength, flight, speed, and potential.
Engineered Physiology – As a daughter of Krypton and one of the most physically advanced individuals in the universe, Kara has the potential of power growth that is immense. However, unlike Superman or even other Kryptonians there exists abilities beyond that potential. This is, of course, due to scientific experiments done to her by her father throughout her life due to his dogmatic fear of society and the universe as a whole. This of course was not a taboo idea on Krypton, a place where the civilization survived on said genetic adaptions to their environment. However, Zor-El was not only a brilliant geneticist but considered a genius even amongst the standards of his people. So it is through that where Kara gained abilities such as:
Eidetic Memory – Kara takes after her father in intelligence, but it is through his engineering that she weilds not only a photographic memory but perfect recollection of memory sonically or visually absorbed. It can be theorized that this is greater than the normal “sponge effect” Kryptonians can wield thus making Kara possibly a living archive of Kryptonian culture and knowledge.
Power Evolution – Due to her genetic tampering it is possible that Kara obtains the potential to not only excel in learning her powers on selective environments but have these powers mutate or develop to a level where new ones can be created.
Reactive Adaption – Allowing Kara to be the “ultimate” survivor, Kara has the ability to adapt to new surroundings and especially planets in an exceptionally short time compared to other Kryptonians of a quality pedigree. She holds an immune system designed to make her more resilient thus protecting her from various toxins and dangerous as well as allowing her body to develop countermeasures to them efficiently.
| Character Notes |
Lana Lang – Her cousin's childhood friend and her guardian.
Artemis of Themyscira – An expert archer and hand-to-hand combatant that trained as well as befriend Kara during her time on Themyscira.
Lori Luthor – Kara’s first friend and the daughter of Lex Luthor’s estranged sister, and a student at Midvale Academy. Lori is kind-hearted and loyal, as such qualities will be fully revealed in time.
Detective Michael Henderson – Lead detective for MPD’s Special Cases Squad.
Richard “Dick” Malverne – One of Kara’s friends at Midvale Academy.
Valerie Myles – One of Kara’s teachers at the Midvale Academy which she attends as Linda Lang.
Blackstarr – A dangerous metahuman who can manipulate gravity as well as generate energy to a dangerous level. She is one of the criminal elements in Metropolis, running an organized crime outfit that respects her out the power she wields. Has somehow eluded confrontation with both Supergirl and Superman in years past suggesting her rise to power is relatively recent.
Livewire – A member of the SRS who holds a deep-seated grudge against Supergirl for foiling her “perfect” revenge against Superman.
Mirabai – A techno-sorceror and enemy of Supergirl, though the Kryptonian does not know it yet.
Mojax – A jewel thief that was stopped by Supergirl after he endangered countless lives during a heist.
Naxx – A synthetic designed by a Coluan scientist to hunt criminals; later programmed to hunt Kryptonians as well but for an unknown reason. Supergirl fought the robot assassin during her first year.
Nasthalthia Luthor – Lex Luthor’s niece who has apparently inherited his genius, xenophobia, and ruthlessness— the polar opposite of Lori Luthor. Nastha sees Supergirl as the prophecy of a militant metahuman and mutant threat that would bring the fall of civilization and thus considers herself an enemy of her and all Kryptonians. Interning at LexCorp.
TBD
| Character Goals | To create stories about a Supergirl as an adolescent in an alien world coming to grips with responsibility, duty, and humility. Been trying to run this version of Kara for a year and a half now, so lets see if it sticks this time.
| Sample Post | The Kent apartment was quiet preluding up until the robbery that entangled both the Atom and Superman, with Kara-El finding herself divulging in more of Clark’s informative media as she had done since she got comfortable on planet Earth. Sitting firmly before the television set came a loud whisper—the call for help from Kal-El. The hardest thing in her time on Earth had been this particular viable asset of “super-hearing” and Kal had for the most part tried to help her tune out most of it, but there was no complete deafening of it so when we she heard her cousin’s voice in pain and worry she narrowed her eyes as she spun out of her Earth clothes and into the kryptonian suit underneath which upon last year she had programmed to visibly appear like Superman’s costume.
In a flash she was heading for the overview of where Superman’s voice had come from.
“It’s Supergirl!” The voice of one of the citizens barked as she hovered above the building. Kara left a smile as Kal had often told her to put on ‘a show’ to reassure the public everything was going to be alright, so that’s what she had found herself doing in situations like this.
Switching over to her variable visions she saw the scene before them—seventeen subjects, two superheroes, six criminals, nine hostages. The most worrying thing is that these robbers seemed to have the heroes on the ropes and she could tell this from the apparent hue of the green death that was upon them. This was not unlike Metallo, but with hostages. Though Kara very well knew she couldn’t throw an automobile into the crowd of robbers even if they were what Kal had called “powered” as the hostages would be at risk. But she couldn’t wait around either and she needed a plan of action.
Quiet and quick she sped into the entrance of the bank, blasting the man who had been “attacking” the Atom with a minute shot of heat vision at his hands. It wasn’t enough to melt human flesh in this capacity but it was just enough to mimic touching a hot stove or burning fire.
“You guys are cheating.” Kara cooed as she shot a destructive blast of heat vision at the “super magnet”, the robber holding it dropping it as it turned into goo.
“Why don’t you come closer, superbaby?” One of them spat as he noticed she was keeping her distance.
“Get away from my cousin and maybe I will.”
Kara smirked cockily as she put her hands on her hips—she swore she had seen this from one of those new “Earth movies” she had stumbled upon in her year since landing on the planet. Her next step was the firearms of the individuals as with a third superhero here and keeping her distance they’d look to threaten the hostages. So she decided she’d melt their guns at a distance as well.
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