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I changed my Tumblr url to Sportabean, in case anyone had been thinking of looking me up.
I loved my old url, wyomingsmustache, and it's a wrench to change it, but I feel like it's time for a change, and anyway, wyomingsmustache is associated with too many things that hurt now. So I'm sportabean now. (It's a lazytown url.)
I've been thinking about Hope and Dark lately, and I've got this idea for the fourth arc that involves the third arc ending with Dark killing the big bad, because he can see (where Hope can't) that there's no reform for this guy, and that given the sheer number of people who have died/are going to die because of him, he also doesn't see that he deserves it.
But Hope is one of those "give everyone a chance" heroes, and never wanted to make the decision for anyone else, and can't grasp the whole idea of "sometimes it's you or them". I blame the fact that his first two villains got redemption arcs. It set a precedent.
Anyway, Dark kinda enjoys killing Kickstarter, he gets a thrill from it, and Hope can see this, so he gets angry, and there's some displacement and they argue and Hope ends up telling Dark the fuck off and don't come back. So Dark does, and the fourth arc is a recovery arc from the first three as the story shifts into a new arrangement.
At some point during the separation, Dark's original fire-based powers come back, so part of the arc is him learning to use his powers in conjunction with each other. This makes him one of only two characters to have more than two base powers, the other being Trinity, who has three but can only use one at once. (Everyone else has two and can combine them. Dark gets three, and expects to have the same limitation, except that he can combine his, and is very confused. Unfortunately the scientist studying the "outliers" is part of their group and he stubbornly refuses to be the one to go back to Hope. If Hope wants him back, he'll have to do the legwork himself.)
At the same time, serious talk is popping up on the news and in the media about these outliers and how dangerous they are and whether they should be allowed to continue, because no one in this verse has read comic books or something. Though some excellent points come up about how, sure, some of the outliers have been sure not to cause trouble, but some have gone out of their way to, and humanity is dependent on other outliers to prevent them from causing harm. In Amity it gets especially brutal because Claudia's research ended up drawing a lot of outliers, and Kickstarter's plot created more, so now a small rural town is basically crawling with heroes and villains, and while they were pretty chill with one each, dozens and dozens is more than they're prepared to deal with.
I loved my old url, wyomingsmustache, and it's a wrench to change it, but I feel like it's time for a change, and anyway, wyomingsmustache is associated with too many things that hurt now. So I'm sportabean now. (It's a lazytown url.)
I've been thinking about Hope and Dark lately, and I've got this idea for the fourth arc that involves the third arc ending with Dark killing the big bad, because he can see (where Hope can't) that there's no reform for this guy, and that given the sheer number of people who have died/are going to die because of him, he also doesn't see that he deserves it.
But Hope is one of those "give everyone a chance" heroes, and never wanted to make the decision for anyone else, and can't grasp the whole idea of "sometimes it's you or them". I blame the fact that his first two villains got redemption arcs. It set a precedent.
Anyway, Dark kinda enjoys killing Kickstarter, he gets a thrill from it, and Hope can see this, so he gets angry, and there's some displacement and they argue and Hope ends up telling Dark the fuck off and don't come back. So Dark does, and the fourth arc is a recovery arc from the first three as the story shifts into a new arrangement.
At some point during the separation, Dark's original fire-based powers come back, so part of the arc is him learning to use his powers in conjunction with each other. This makes him one of only two characters to have more than two base powers, the other being Trinity, who has three but can only use one at once. (Everyone else has two and can combine them. Dark gets three, and expects to have the same limitation, except that he can combine his, and is very confused. Unfortunately the scientist studying the "outliers" is part of their group and he stubbornly refuses to be the one to go back to Hope. If Hope wants him back, he'll have to do the legwork himself.)
At the same time, serious talk is popping up on the news and in the media about these outliers and how dangerous they are and whether they should be allowed to continue, because no one in this verse has read comic books or something. Though some excellent points come up about how, sure, some of the outliers have been sure not to cause trouble, but some have gone out of their way to, and humanity is dependent on other outliers to prevent them from causing harm. In Amity it gets especially brutal because Claudia's research ended up drawing a lot of outliers, and Kickstarter's plot created more, so now a small rural town is basically crawling with heroes and villains, and while they were pretty chill with one each, dozens and dozens is more than they're prepared to deal with.