GreenGrenade

Rogue Continuum [CLOSED PENDING REBOOT]

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Connor Hawke // The Immortal Iron Fist

@Morden Man

I love you.

Rogue Continuum [CLOSED PENDING REBOOT]

Gave it a think over. What's that thing Uncle Ben's been known to say?

"Fuck it."

Did anyone say Spider-Verse?

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Dr. Peter Benjamin Parker // Spider-Man

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40

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Peter’s been Spider-Man for twenty-five years. He’s experienced, has Spidey down to a science – he knows what to do, has the skills and tools to do it, and that feeling of responsibility continues to burn hot, now more than ever, he’d say. He’s not that rookie kid eclipsed by the old guard anymore – he is the old guard.

Now, for the Parker half of his life. He’s married to Mary Jane, with whom he has two kids: Anna May (“Mayday”) and Benjamin (“Benjy”) – fifteen and ten years old. He works as a professor of biotechnology at his alma mater, Empire State University, having previously held a job as a science teacher at Midtown High while working on his PhD. Now, it may sound like Peter’s somehow managed to elude that annoying Parker Luck of his, but that’s not strictly true. It just manifests itself in different ways, as he struggles to juggle being a father, husband, hero, Avenger, and reliable employee all at once. The game’s still the same – the scenario’s just changed a little, is all.

| Brief World Background |

Earth 15862 // “Home”
A Marvel Studios production...

The old guard have, for the most part, given way to the new. Bucky Barnes is Captain America. Kate Bishop is the sole Hawkeye. Xavier’s School is run by Katherine Pryde, and Franklin Richards heads the Future Foundation alongside his sister with seldom guidance from their parents, who’ve hung up the blue spandex. Ben sits on the Avengers’ reserve list, while Johnny stands among the organisation’s seniority alongside the likes of Tony Stark, Logan, Luke Cage, and Jessica Drew (some more senior than others). Natalia Romanova is the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. following Nick Fury’s passing. Steve Rogers is President of the United States. The Daily Bugle supports Spider-Man.

It’s a strange world.

| Brief Character Background |

You know the story. At fifteen, Peter Parker was bitten by a spider. He got powers. He was irresponsible, and his uncle died. Peter’s guilt led him to swing through New York’s streets as Spider-Man. Over the first few years, through plenty of trials, lessons and loss, Peter learned to move past that guilt. It no longer defined him. He helped people because it mattered, because it was the right thing to do. These convictions took a toll on his life, and many people, himself included, suffered for it. Spider-Man took precedence over Peter Parker, for better or for worse... usually for worse.

Eventually, Peter learned to strike a balance. He did his best to give himself at least some of the attention everyone kept saying he deserved, and distinguished himself as one of the best among his peers, earning their respect, and occasionally, their admiration. He had a daughter, got married (in that order), finally got that doctorate he’d been neglecting, became a legacy, found a job he loved, and had a son. He was a father, friend, hero, husband, teacher and mentor, and despite all the blows life kept dealing – and boy, were they dealt – he was happy.

He is Peter Parker. He is Spider-Man.

And he’s trying to find his way home.

Peter was abducted while swinging home to cook dinner.

Rogue Continuum [CLOSED PENDING REBOOT]

@Retired I might sit this one out. Can't wait to see the final roster in action!

Absolute Comics - Season Two: The Monster Within

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FUCK THE FUCK, YES.

Accepted. Granted I'm not a GM. But I've accepted it and that's all that matters.

XoXo Gossip Girl

@Stein

To the character tab!

Absolute Comics - Season Two: The Monster Within

Sample post pending, here's my app. The storm's about to get wild in here.

Sparks

The Sparks is the defence mechanism.

The Sparks has the authority to take action to restore the balance.

J E N N Y S P A R K S

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C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:

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<sub>To wake, and know
your heart sinks
dark and heavy,
hardening into stone...

Slowly the sea lifts its waves,
slowly the trees turn red in the gorge,
slowly the fires begin to lap in hell,
slowly the truth dawns...
O L A V H . H A U G E</sub>

Jenny Sparks is sick of letting the world pass her by. So many years on this Earth, and what has she actually done? What has she achieved? Nothing. All she has to her name is a past she’s not proud of, the uncertainty of what she is, and the question of what she’s been brought here to do. She spends her days drinking and smoking her annoyingly long life away, doing nothing, achieving nothing. Being nothing. She reckons it’s about time she changed that.

Stryfe was an eye-opener. Watching America’s superheroes rally to defend the innocent made her realise something... they were doing it wrong. They’re disorganised, messy, reactionary. A far cry from the heroes they no doubt wanted to be. The world’s in a precarious place now, and shit could hit the fan at any second. It needs saving. But when the help you’ve got is just going to make things worse, what’s left for you to do?

Well, that’s easy. You’ve got to do it yourself.

Jenny’s new mission is going to thrust her back into a world she’s tried very hard to leave behind. Covert ops, secret intelligence organisations, superheroics, capes and powers and metaphysical superscientific bullshit. To make the world feel right again, she’s looking for a group of like-minded people – and her search is going to lead her right into the middle of the metahuman arms race.

Jenny is a very grumpy, old, powerful woman, and she’s done sitting on the sidelines.

Don’t piss her off.

C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S:

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Jenny’s spent her whole life (and that’s a lot of life) trying to figure out why she’s been put on this Earth. How is she over a hundred years old, but doesn’t look a day over twenty? How is it that she was born with powers, but doesn’t have a single metahuman gene in her body? How is she not dead yet? And just what the hell is she supposed to do with all these so-called gifts, which have thus far condemned her to a life full of bad decisions and countless disappointments? She still can’t answer most of those questions, but she thinks the last one might finally be in her ballpark. Maybe she’s supposed to save the world.

But to do that, she needs a team.

Through Jenny, I’ll be injecting some new, interesting concepts and characters from Warren Ellis’ Wildstorm catalogue into the Absolute Comics universe. I love these characters, and I’m excited for the chance to tell a story that can have far-reaching consequences not only for them, but for the Absolute universe as a whole.

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

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Apollo and the Midnighter. Data unavailable.

Battalion, Fahrenheit, Impetus and Winter. Data unavailable.

Henry Bendix. No known records in existence.

Cole Cash and Michael Cray, covert operatives specialising in wetworks.

Nick Fury, director of SHIELD.

Kaizen Gamorra, the dictator of a west Pacific island, indicted by the ICC on multiple counts of crimes against humanity.

Jack Hawksmoor, a powerful superhuman with a fractured mind.

Shen Li-Min. Winged metahuman.

Angela Spica, a gifted engineer and physicist working at Stark Industries’ R&D division.

John Stone, an intelligence operative with many black operations to his name. A former colleague of Jenny’s.

Jeroen Thornedike; the Doctor. Humanity’s shaman.

Miranda Zero, Jenny’s former colleague, an experienced HUMINT operative with an impressive resumé.

S A M P L E P O S T:

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HELLO, WORLD

_{P A R T O N E :
N I C K , O L D M A T E}

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<sub>"To wake, and know
your heart sinks
dark and heavy,
hardening into stone...

Slowly the sea lifts its waves,
slowly the trees turn red in the gorge,
slowly the fires begin to lap in hell,
slowly the truth dawns..."
O L A V H . H A U G E</sub>

P O S T C A T A L O G U E:

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01. Nick, Old Mate

Rogue Continuum [CLOSED PENDING REBOOT]

Oof, two webheads already! I was gonna throw my own take on Spidey into the mix, but at the risk of making this a Spider-Verse game, I might sit this one out unless a secondary concept comes to me. Happy to see this up, though-- I'll be reading along either way!

Absolute Comics - Season Two: The Monster Within

I’ll be there.

GreenGrenade's Character Compendium [2.0]

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L

F R E D D I E M Y E R S

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C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:

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_{Let them know who's king.}

This is the story of a group of kids who are exposed to a world they don’t belong to, set in the very real, very dark streets of Australia’s Sunshine State. A very different interpretation of Myers, and for all intents and purposes, his origin story.

C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S:

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Freddie’s an aimless high school graduate who’s wasting his life right out the gate. He hangs out with people who are just as aimless as he is, and is bound to them by a misguided sense of loyalty and blood brotherhood. It’s this bond that gets him involved in some shady shit, and sees him drawn into a world of violent crime that he’ll find very difficult to get out of.

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

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John “Johno” Allerdyce, fellow dropkick, best mate.

Hugh “Hughie” Dawkins, the most well-adjusted of Freddie’s mates.

Brian “Roo” Hibbs, amateur boxer, best mate.

Marc Reimer, local drug dealer.

Jacquelyn Myers, Fred’s mum. Separated, currently dating Darryl.

Stan Myers, Fred’s dad. Separated.

Darryl, Jacquelyn’s boyfriend.

Inspector William “Bill” Chance, inspector in the Queensland Police Service. Stormy Foster’s partner.

Inspector Jason “Stormy” Foster, inspector in the Queensland Police Service. Bill Chance’s partner.

Miles Warbeck, crime boss based in Surfers Paradise.

Davis Warbeck, Miles’ son. Involved in his father’s organisation.

Heather Warbeck, lifeguard. Miles’ daughter. Affiliated with the Warbeck syndicate by name only.

Grizzly Winchester, a lieutenant of Warbeck’s.

S A M P L E P O S T:

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A R C T I T L E

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_{"Quote."
Q U O T E}

P O S T C A T A L O G:

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01. Chapter

StarLordess: The War between Banana and Terriblue

I've only got one thing to say Maria

_{I'm so sorry}

GreenGrenade's Character Compendium [2.0]

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L

T H O R

_{"I desire my death now.
The disir call me home,
Whom Óđin hastens onward
From his hall, to take me.
On the high bench, boldly,
Beer I’ll drink with the gods;
Hope of life is lost now —
Laughing I shall die!"
R A G N A R L O Đ B R Ó K}

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O F T H E A E S I R}}

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:

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_{"I am tired, Heimdall.
All of the half-truths, the lies...
I did not wish to come back here."
T H O R}

A millennium ago, the last of the pagan Northmen renounced their beliefs in the Aesir and the Vanir. The death of the great jӧtunn, Ymir, was replaced by Genesis; Valhǫll and Hel replaced by Heaven and Hell; the world tree, Yggdrasil, all but discarded; and the many gods and goddesses of Ásgarđr replaced by just one, the Christ-God. But there was a time before, when the Northmen still sailed to conquer new lands, that they would worship the cunning Óđin, the mighty Thor, the beautiful Freyja and mischievous Loki. Their stories would be passed on from parent to child, warrior to warrior, farmer to farmer – and although the truths in these stories would get lost amid retellings and revisions, there were those who knew them well. Those such as Ragnar Lođbrók, legendary king of the Danes, and friend to Rymr – who, illuminated by hearthfire and as impassioned as in battle, would tell his sons the true stories of the gods.

“Thor is the god of thunder; the son of the All-Father, Óđin, and the jӧtunn woman, Jӧrđ. He is the protector of the Aesir, sworn guardian of Ásgarđr, and wielder of the great hammer, Mjölnir. He was born with hair as red as blood and bright as flames, his eyes as blue as lightning; and as he grew from boy to man his body changed into that of a great warrior, his godly strength proving to be greater than both the Aesir’s and the Vanir’s combined. Long ago, when his youthful energy was more explosive than the thunderous sky, he was gifted with his first weapon by the dwarves of Niđavellir – Járnbjӧrn, the battle axe. With it he honed his skills as a warrior, and battled many a jӧtunn, until he became known as their scourge.

“His home is Bilskirnir, the largest hall in Ásgarđr; his realm, Thruđheimr. He shares it with Sif, his wife, the goddess of grain and harvest, and his children: Magni, Mođi, Thruđr, and his stepson, Ullr. He has travelled deep into Jotunheim, and emerged victorious. He has bested Útgarđa-Loki, and killed Hrungnir. He blesses us on our raids in faraway lands, and gives us fertile soil so that we may last the harsh winter. With Mjölnir, most powerful weapon in all the Nine Realms, he is fiercer than storms; with us, on Miđgarđr, he is good, and gentle, and terrible. He is Thor. He is our friend. Destined is he to kill the Midgard Serpent, Jörmungandr... just as the Serpent is destined to kill him, when Ragnarök comes, destroying everything, and everyone.”

But there is something that not Ragnar, not the Northmen, not even the Gods accounted for. Thor is not in Ásgarđr anymore.

C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S:

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This isn't Kirby and Lee's Thor. Asgard (rendered as Ásgarđr) isn't a grand, golden metropolis, and its gods aren't extra-dimensional aliens. They are gods. This Thor has a much firmer basis in the original Norse myths, grounding him in what I believe is a far more epic, and at the same time personal interpretation of the Aesir.

Thor has divorced himself from Ásgarđr and the rest of the gods at the start of our story. No one knows where he is. All anyone can say is that he left, leaving behind his family and his people for Miđgarđr, to live among the mortals – and that if it were up to him, he’d never come back. Unfortunately for him, Fate has other plans. Thor’s going to find himself drawn back into the mythical world of the Aesir, confronting the demons of their past while preparing for their future. Fate waits for no one, after all, and although it can be delayed, Ragnarök is set in stone.

For the purposes of this concept, the mortal world is unaware of the gods’ existence – as far as humanity knows, the Norse, the Greco-Romans, the Egyptians, the Abrahamic God, and the world’s other deities are pure myth and scripture. The only footprints these gods have left on the world lie in their stories, traditions and beliefs. As humanity is going to find out, though... the gods are very real.

And they will all have a part to play.

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

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The Aesir

Baldr, god of purity and brother of Thor.

Bragi, poet of Valhǫll, husband of Iđunn.

Forseti, the law god, son of Baldr and Nanna and nephew of Thor.

Freyja, the beautiful Vanir goddess of love, wealth and fertility, leader of the Valkyrjur, and a powerful practitioner of seiđr magic.

Freyr, brother of Freya, Vanir god of fertility and ruler of Álfheimr, realm of the light elves.

Frigg, wife of Óđin, practitioner of magic – vӧlva.

Heimdall, brother of Thor, watchman of the gods, and guardian of Bifröst, the bridge that connects Ásgarđr and Miđgarđr.

Hermođr, messenger of the gods, brother of Thor.

Hođr, the blind god, son of Óđin.

Iđunn, the keeper of the Fruits of Immortality, the keys to the Aesir’s longevity.

Loki, the trickster jӧtunn, and blood brother of Óđin.

Magni, Mođi and Thruđr, children of thunder.

Mimir, beheaded counselor of the gods.

Njorđr, Vanir god of the sea, and father of Freyja and Freyr.

Óđin, All-Father of the Aesir; wily, manipulative and obsessed with Fate. God of poetry, war and the gallows, patron of rulers and outlaws.

Sif, goddess of grain and harvest, and the estranged wife of Thor. Her beauty is second only to Freya's.

Týr, god of war and justice, brother of Thor. The One-Handed. Among the fiercest of the Aesir.

Ullr, son of Sif, god of the hunt.

Vali, son of Óđin and the jӧtunn, Rindr.

Viđar, the silent god.

Vili and Vé, brothers of Óđin.

The Mortals

Agnar, Björn, Eirik, Hvítserk, Ívar, Rognvald, Sigurđ, and Ubba, the sons of Ragnar.

Barbára Nórisdóttir, a nineteen year-old girl from Reykjavik, Iceland.

Jane Foster, a doctor who's made friends with the man she calls Donald Blake, often visiting him on his property.

Ragnar Lođbrók, a king of the Danes.

Thjálfi and Röskva, Thor's former servants from a time long past.

S A M P L E P O S T:

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S A G A

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_{"He knows alone who has wandered wide,
and far has fared on the way,
what manner of mind a man doth own
who is wise of head and heart."
H Á V A M Á L
S A Y I N G S O F T H E H I G H O N E}

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01. The Man Called Donald Blake

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I’ve been somewhat selective with the renderings of Old Norse names here. Many are anglicised, but most are written in ways that better represent how they may have been pronounced during the Iron Age. With the latter, you’ll likely see this letter, đ, representing the sound of a soft th. This means that Óđin, for example, is pronounced Othin instead of Odin, which is pretty wild – but it’s the more accurate pronunciation of the two, so you’ll either have to get used to it or keep reading it as Odin, I dunno, I’m not the boss of you.

Now, in the Eddic texts and Old Norse in general, some instances of th are rendered as ð, but given that it looks whack in Arial and is prone to getting confused with o, I’ve gone with its less common straight-backed version đ as a compromise.

I’m not just pulling all this out of my arse, I promise – I have Old Norse specialist Dr. Jackson Crawford to thank, who also uses đ in his translations and is a gift to humanity who should be cherished always. Thanks, Daddy Crawford.

Glossary

G L O S S A R Y :

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A list of the Old Norse words and phrases used by Thor and the rest of the Aesir, updated regularly as they appear in-story.

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_{Artwork by Maximilian Jasionowski}