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Character: Warren Peace
Series: Sky High
Character Age: about 16-17
Canon: Sky High is the story of an aspiring hero and his friends (and enemies) as they face the dangers of a hero/sidekick high school. Which is sort of like any other high school, except the likelihood of property destruction is greatly increased. Like in the classic jock-nerd system, heroes still give the sidekicks swirlies and shove them in lockers. But during a fight in the cafeteria you could wind up facing twenty people who are all the same. Cloning yourself must be a really useful power.
Enter one Warren Peace (lol his parents), the school's badass son of a villain and archenemy of one Will Stronghold, the movie's protagonist. He's cranky, wears leather, sets things on fire, and glares about twice as much as he talks (intimidation is an A++ social skill). You should be terrified. Yes, you. Even if you just happen to see him dispensing relationship advice after school in the Chinese restaurant where he works, or changing deaged baby diapers. I promise they're being done in the most misanthropic manner possible. Really, he is a big scary... fluffball who wants the best for the people around him. Sekritly. Also did I mention the setting things on fire? It makes him grunt a lot. Raaaaugh!
Note: Save the Citizen is a training exercise where heroes save mechanical 'victim' dummies.
Sample Entry: Setting zombies on fire is a mistake, check. Why was that not in my heroing textbook? Radioactive zombies, sure. Zombies with heavy artillery? That they covered. But the fact that decaying barbecue is something to avoid? Not a word. Clearly pyros are an underrepresented minority... we don't even rank being dropped off at training with the rest of the group. Not that I mind being alone, but as orders go, 'track down the citizen' is pretty vague. How? I start fires. I don't pull rabbits out of hats, or tracking skills out of my ass... which is still wet. If this is a 'drowning citizen' exercise, then they're out of luck, I'm not going back into that mess. It's too bad, really. I'm sure they'll lose out on some quality machinery. 'Save me! Saaaaave meeee!' Right. Very realistic.
...okay, that one is sort of realistic. Don't tell me they've started using real citizens again. Not that it wouldn't still be a dummy, to agree to this. But fine, fine, I'll save it anyway. Anything that gets me out of here faster. We're following the screams like a good little hero, yes we are. And then we're torching whoever picked this place as the field training location. Yes we are. What's the next obstacle? Hopefully something that's still alive.
Huh. You're not what I meant by 'alive', but I guess you've still got your roots in the ground. That doesn't mean they're safe from me. I'll turn you to charcoal, so keep your branches where I can see them. That means out of my pants, thanks. I can't see you there, and honestly? I'd have better uses for x-ray vision.
Yeah, 'rapist oak tree' definitely counts as an obstacle, and obstacles mean I'm headed in the right direction, so I'll keep going this way. I think there's a clearing up there, and... great, more water. I guess a toxic lake is a good place to dangle the citizen, but I don't know how much danger she's actually in. Dad said people never actually die from toxic waste, they just get powers that are probably better than ours. Whatever. This is stupid, let's get on with it. Hey there. Yeah, you, with the tentacles, holding my grade point average. You'd make one gigantic house special. No, not--get off the leather--raaaaauuuggghhhhh!
..................roast tentacles, somehow worse than zombies. Got it. I'll make sure they stick all of this in the textbook -- no, screw the textbook. Screw heroing, I bet villains don't have to put up with this. I'm switching sides. Let the heroes flambé the undead, I'm cluing in the people who don't think my homecoming date should be a cephalopod.
And if anyone ever asks me why I dropped out of Sky High, I'll just tell them that this one time, at hero camp...
Character: Warren Peace
Series: Sky High
Character Age: about 16-17
Canon: Sky High is the story of an aspiring hero and his friends (and enemies) as they face the dangers of a hero/sidekick high school. Which is sort of like any other high school, except the likelihood of property destruction is greatly increased. Like in the classic jock-nerd system, heroes still give the sidekicks swirlies and shove them in lockers. But during a fight in the cafeteria you could wind up facing twenty people who are all the same. Cloning yourself must be a really useful power.
Enter one Warren Peace (lol his parents), the school's badass son of a villain and archenemy of one Will Stronghold, the movie's protagonist. He's cranky, wears leather, sets things on fire, and glares about twice as much as he talks (intimidation is an A++ social skill). You should be terrified. Yes, you. Even if you just happen to see him dispensing relationship advice after school in the Chinese restaurant where he works, or changing deaged baby diapers. I promise they're being done in the most misanthropic manner possible. Really, he is a big scary... fluffball who wants the best for the people around him. Sekritly. Also did I mention the setting things on fire? It makes him grunt a lot. Raaaaugh!
Note: Save the Citizen is a training exercise where heroes save mechanical 'victim' dummies.
Sample Entry: Setting zombies on fire is a mistake, check. Why was that not in my heroing textbook? Radioactive zombies, sure. Zombies with heavy artillery? That they covered. But the fact that decaying barbecue is something to avoid? Not a word. Clearly pyros are an underrepresented minority... we don't even rank being dropped off at training with the rest of the group. Not that I mind being alone, but as orders go, 'track down the citizen' is pretty vague. How? I start fires. I don't pull rabbits out of hats, or tracking skills out of my ass... which is still wet. If this is a 'drowning citizen' exercise, then they're out of luck, I'm not going back into that mess. It's too bad, really. I'm sure they'll lose out on some quality machinery. 'Save me! Saaaaave meeee!' Right. Very realistic.
...okay, that one is sort of realistic. Don't tell me they've started using real citizens again. Not that it wouldn't still be a dummy, to agree to this. But fine, fine, I'll save it anyway. Anything that gets me out of here faster. We're following the screams like a good little hero, yes we are. And then we're torching whoever picked this place as the field training location. Yes we are. What's the next obstacle? Hopefully something that's still alive.
Huh. You're not what I meant by 'alive', but I guess you've still got your roots in the ground. That doesn't mean they're safe from me. I'll turn you to charcoal, so keep your branches where I can see them. That means out of my pants, thanks. I can't see you there, and honestly? I'd have better uses for x-ray vision.
Yeah, 'rapist oak tree' definitely counts as an obstacle, and obstacles mean I'm headed in the right direction, so I'll keep going this way. I think there's a clearing up there, and... great, more water. I guess a toxic lake is a good place to dangle the citizen, but I don't know how much danger she's actually in. Dad said people never actually die from toxic waste, they just get powers that are probably better than ours. Whatever. This is stupid, let's get on with it. Hey there. Yeah, you, with the tentacles, holding my grade point average. You'd make one gigantic house special. No, not--get off the leather--raaaaauuuggghhhhh!
..................roast tentacles, somehow worse than zombies. Got it. I'll make sure they stick all of this in the textbook -- no, screw the textbook. Screw heroing, I bet villains don't have to put up with this. I'm switching sides. Let the heroes flambé the undead, I'm cluing in the people who don't think my homecoming date should be a cephalopod.
And if anyone ever asks me why I dropped out of Sky High, I'll just tell them that this one time, at hero camp...