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The Twelve Labours: General Discussion

Was a little late considering how little I had to read, but here are my opinions on the entries.

How to Make Them Equal

... I am immediately reminded as soon as I start reading that I already know how this is going to end due to the labour. Suppose the REAL labour is about how to take that and still make a good story. God knows I failed. Now, how did you do?

My, ain't you portraying the ideal leadership. Why does that feel like a dream too good to be true? Hah.

… Yeah, it was like that, wasn't it.

… Well. That's one depressing way to do it. It tells a story, which in a way is beautiful. It tells exactly what it needs to tell, nothing more, nothing less. A steady, perfectly paced flux taking place over many years towards an inevitable end. It reads well. Nicely done.

Though, I'd never read this for my own enjoyment. It's not an entertaining story to share and like. It just is. But, suppose that's fitting for the labour. I'll applaud this. Sigh. Oh, well.

Forward

I'm a bit confused. Was there, like, a time-skip between each paragraph? He went very quickly from being amused to not being amused. Like, a single sentence with the explanation to why coming first after, which was rather jarring. But, as far as I can tell, there's this giant being/world or so that the people worship, but then they fight each other over it and eliminate themselves, pretty much? … Hm. Okay. Yeah, suppose that's about it.

Going Home

I do still hope you pass. Even if you only got three hours to write. Now, let's read.

Oh. So because they were going to leave Ariana behind, Metzi burned the ship to punish them. But, by doing so destroyed Ariana's hopes of coming home. So, like, the ship was her link to her world, and it was destroyed. … … … Like that? Well. I certainly see how you came to that reasoning.

The writing is as good a quality as always, despite the lack of time you wrote the entry on. These are characters that I feel I wouldn't have minded to learn more about. Alas, circumstances are circumstances and inspiration doesn't come when we want it. But, for what it resulted in, good job. Haha.

The Young Devils [Teenage Super Villains roleplay]

... The thing is, with play-by-post, is that it does not require all involved parties to be present at once. Which is like, really good when we're from all kinds of different continents with different schedules and the like. If you're trying to gather us up in a program like that first, it... well... makes it difficult.

Like, right now, I'm confused if I should just post or go into that TitanPad document or something. It seems that... er, there suffered a little complication in there, and now I'm confused as to what I should do. Oh, well. I'll just wait until I'm told something, I suppose.

The Young Devils [Teenage Super Villains roleplay]

@Eyeruption Hm. I never decided. Let's see. If we say it was directly after a loss... Let's say she has about 20 of them right now. Plus Tia. Haha.

Edit: And now I vanish for 14 hours. *poof*

The Young Devils [Teenage Super Villains roleplay]

@Eyeruption How many do you need? She can fill the streets if given enough time to build them. Note that their combat capability means they'll never win against heroes, but they could keep police busy and at least delay heroes. Then there's intimidation as well. But, of course, they'd need to be stored somewhere before they appear. Haha.

The Young Devils [Teenage Super Villains roleplay]

... If we need a wall, Metallia's robots can hold enemies off for a short while. That's pretty much what they're good for, other than scouting for her. That, and she can fly with magnetism-machines if that's useful.

And in other news, I'll vanish for the next 14 hours. I'm excited to see when I get back. Haha.

The Young Devils [Teenage Super Villains roleplay]

... Metallia can totally act support and have robots standing in important places keeping a look-out for super-heroes / police which can then send warning-signals to her, who could then relay this to the team. Yupp.

She wouldn't see much benefit to robbing a bank, but eh. If the super-powerful entity that promises to end her indirectly if she doesn't follow orders says so.

Edit: She needs to make small scout-bots.

The Young Devils [Teenage Super Villains roleplay]

@Zebra Want me to invent a radar that detects pursuers? Should be fairly simple.

The Young Devils [Teenage Super Villains roleplay]

as to the polaroid thing, we're already wearing disguises, right?

@Stekkmen

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Oh. I forgot to think of secret identities and such.

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Eh. I can say she's wearing glasses as Angelica Wilder. Nobody would suspect a thing.

The Young Devils [Teenage Super Villains roleplay]

... Because of her apathetic nature, Metallia will have problems understanding the reasoning behind having to make a silly face to a photo. XD

She probably won't care about the name of the group, either. As long as it isn't downright repulsive or somehow doesn't serve the purpose of being a functional name, she'll just go with it. Haha. ... But dread if she somehow gets an idea. Because then she might blow you up in annoyance for not thinking her idea is a good one. Tihi.

The Young Devils [Teenage Super Villains roleplay]

Metallia

Alias: Metallia

Name: Angelica Wilder
Age: 15
Gender: Female

Appearance:

Appearance

Personality:
Apathetic, she floats along life, showing little emotion even to the deeply disturbing. She does not mind doing disturbing things herself, either.
Arrogant, she believes she’s better than you, even if the opposite is proven. She looks down on any petty act that has no purpose, as well.
Irritable, things that annoy her annoy her a lot, and is about to explode. She’s very likely to hold a grudge, which is why she’s here.
Graceful, the way she moves and talks would make you think she’s royalty. This is her at her best, disturbingly graceful. At her worst…
Childish, that ice-cream looks delicious. I want it. Hey, pay attention to me. Heeeeeeeeeey. … I can’t have it? … *ice-cream stand explodes*
Hmpf. Serves you right.

Powers/skills: Her one capability is her understanding of technology way out of her league and capability to construct such. However, if confronted without her toys, Metallia will be but a 15 year old girl in terms of combat prowess.

Equipment:

Things

On herself.
Her headset, those two things on her head, contains extremely powerful transmitters and receivers, allowing her to make use of public satellites to communicate with her robots wherever they might be. They also send back any information they have to update them on what they’re doing right now. Using this, Metallia can directly control her robots as if they were her own limbs, should she wish it.

Oh, and that dress is bullet-proof highest grade combat-armor. There’s also metal in it, to allow her to control herself with the next machine if needed.

Her chair.
She has her own chair which is called the R5. This machine is equipped with two very powerful magnetic controllers (one in each black box by her hips in the image). These allow Metallia to fly, carry around those two giant metal arms to do her bidding and generally harass enemies with any metallic things nearby. Her magnetic control with this can be pretty powerful, though she cannot deform metal objects with it and there’s a limit to how fast she can accelerate things depending on their weight. She probably can’t affect a car all that much.

It is also outfitted with machine-guns, capability of launching multiple kinds of rockets or explosives, supreme impact-power in close combat, emergency thrusters and it is also rather customizable depending on what Metallia needs on her newest trip.

Robots.

Robots

Tia in the middle. Usual robots to the left and right.

First there’s Tia. She’s an android that Metallia felt like building because she was bored one day. Tia does not have the capability to display any emotions, but through an AI Metallia considers “rudimentary” she emulates human intelligence to a frightening level, though has no capacity to do anything but follow instructions and answer to her mistress’s commands. That is, except for destroying enemies with robot strength and utilizing the rockets/machine guns in her arms. Metallia spent more time on Tia than her usual robots and she should be considered more powerful.

The usual robots are big humanoid shapes that are bulky but quite strong. In their shoulders they can carry weapons from blades, guns, explosives, whatever Metallia felt like putting in it. Metallia can control them directly or she can allow their AI to do the maneuvering based on her instructions. Though, while the AI in them is supposedly very advanced because Metallia made it, they mostly suck in combat and most heroes make short work of them. Their inability to be competent should never be underestimated. However, Metallia can make a lot of them in a relatively short amount of time. If The Presence needs an army, she can provide it.

Of course, in the future, Metallia is able to invent new robots to cause trouble for her enemies. When she does, I’ll most likely delve into this link, where I found her image.
conceptrobots.blogspot.se/2012_07_01_a..

Short Bio:

Bio

Metallia does not know her own backstory. But, if you wish to know, then feel free to open the hider.

What Metallia does not know

Metallia is a drone from a super-villain of galactic proportions. She is, to say, a biological android, having been designed rather than born but yet still have organs and function like a normal human would. Her “father” created her and sent her to Earth in a shuttle that would germinate her on the way so she’d be born upon arrival. She was supposed to gain further orders upon arrival.

However, when Metallia was arrived on Earth and was born, no orders came. Be this because the super-villain was defeated before she arrived or for another reason entirely, the information that was supposed to spur her on her way never came. And then… she was stuck there. … However. Her mind still has information which her father considered “vital for survival”, which just happened to include information on superior technology from space.

Metallia started her existence as 14 years old in England. She simply opened her eyes and there she was. Nobody knew who she was, not even herself. That said, she managed to quickly find lodging with a nice old grandma who took pity on her. The police could not find any record of her existence, and when she was sent to the hospital for a check on her mind.

In the hospital, however, something odd happened. She… became extremely annoyed at the technology they used to examine her. Because, it could be so much more efficient, so much more thorough. As it was, they could miss whatever the issue was! She lashed out in anger, and then she was down at the police again, who believed themselves to have a problem child on their hands. They had no idea.

Encouraged to do something about humanity’s inferior technology, she started working. Under the name Angelica Wilder, a name she took out of nowhere, she took the job as a maid to a prevalent technological doctor while she worked tirelessly on new technology on the side. She invented something ground-breaking in the field of robotics, and she expected to be praised. Sure enough, she WAS praised by the doctor…

… Then he took patent on her invention and received all the credit. Nobody would believe a young maid like her had developed such a piece of technology. Enraged, Angelica decided to forcefully punish the doctor who took her things by building robots that would do her bidding. Taking the name “Metallia”, she attacked the doctor’s university. … That’s when she found out she stood no chance against the heroes of today.

Managing to escape, Metallia turned her attention to these… “heroes”. They had defended the doctor. They had to pay. She’d develop better robots, better weapons. She’d find out their secret identities and who their loved ones were. It became clear to her that the only way she could be allowed to make humanity better… was if she took over it all herself, first…!

… That said, she never had much luck as a super-villain. Her robots were often easily destroyed by heroes she confronted. … That’s when The Presence contacted her… … …

Other: … If bored someday, you might find her aimlessly browsing the internet and/or playing a video game. She can be easily distracted if she doesn’t feel like doing what she should be doing. Beware her knowledge of the internet.

She can fairly easily get and invent what she desires by selling things she made/fixed on the internet while buying, which is how she gained all the items she needs to make her contraptions. The things she buy look innocent on paper, but become significant when she starts working on them. Money has never been her goal.