Honey, I've read about your life on the nine o'clock news / Capes In Peril
I just can't stop playing with 2nd POV, it's good for short pieces when you haven't figured out all the character names yet.
When your doorbell rings, you imagine yourself being blinded by the flashbulbs, hands throwing up to ward off the light and the mics being thrusted forward like spears. It can't be the press, because the judge had kindly issued a publication ban.
You open the door, and then you try to close it. It's your mother, she jams her size five feet through the crack, and no matter how long it's been since you've last spoke to her, you are not going to slam the door on her if it means breaking her bones.
Your mother doesn't look at you the way everyone else (except your partner) doesn't look at you, instead, she held out a stack of tupperwares that must have been filled with all the favourite food she used to cook you the one time out of ten when she's felt bad for following you for an hour, yelling.
She pushed it into your arms and you caught them before they could fall, "I read about what happened during the bust on the news".
You don't invite her in, and she sniffles a sob before running off into her car. And You Thought You've Had The Last Of Her Guilt Trips?
...and I've read Top Ten: Forty Niners, and it's good but I'm entirely happy, due to ONE Women In Refridgerator incident, if it happened to a civilian woman, it would have made sense, but the women in Neopolis all used to be Science Heroines! I could understand how some people can go down like civilians, like, a Fly Boy who isn't used to close range combat could go down like a civilian, but a heroine, whose name imply that she's used to close range combat, should not react to the baddies busting in by raising up her hands and screaming, and then just standing there in terror when they strip her.
Like I really respect the hell out of Alan Moore, I love his portrayal of 'fallen women', beyond the shoddy works of the past that gives them sympathy but leaves them in the gutter, his prostitute characters feel real, and they are tough. What I don't like about Alan Moore is, that female characters are frequently subjected to sexual violence...the problem with this in comic books is not that it happens, because it is real life, but that it is often too frequent, and it hardly ever happened to guys. In one series, a bad guy who had assaulted women before, was subjected to rape, but it doesn't happen to the heros.
My respect for Alan Moore remains diminish over his choice to write a story where Batgirl was crippled to get the reaction of Batman and her father, especially since he decided to go through with it when, the exec in response to whether he could do something like that, was "cripple the bitch", an industry incident which played part in the Women In Refriderator website (though the trope namer was one where a hero has come home with his GF in the fridge to get him to angst moar). I grew up watching cartoons, and I liked Batgirl so much I looked up the comics, and was dismay to find her as The Oracle, who was stuck in a wheelchair even though she lives in a world where that should have been fixed, AND in the issue I skimmed across, she doesn't seem spunky at all, it was like woman Batman in a chair, gloomier, dead.
So I want to write a 'fix that' where
1. It will happen to a man, not only to even out the portrayals, so that women aren't cast in the Only Victim role, but for the benefit of men, who aren't invulnerable capes. I want to write about a hero who seemed invulnerable, until he was raped and crippled. I want to write about a hero who is subjected to that trauma, is broken down, but that recovers, with the help of his wife and children.
2. The Captain will remain The Captain even though he's in a wheelchair, in fact, that's how the story starts, with how he ended up there revealed in a flashback. If you are the punch Hitler in the face type of hero, you are not going to suddenly morph into Professor Xavier even if you can't literally kick ass anymore, cause hello, people in wheelchairs can still operate firearms! Of course, The Captain can't do field work as he did before, but as The Strategist, granted, one that likes to personally deliver punches a lot, he can still function as he did before, coming up with kickass battle plans that surprise smack the enemies as before. Would also need scenes where he pulls people down to his eye level by their collar.
3. In Universe Logic would be observed; He's stuck in that wheelchair, because the hyper immune system which protects him from viruses biological and nanobotic, would reject all attempts at limb transplant, or robotic legs trying to connect to his neural nerves. On the bright side, it was the hyper immune system that protected him from catching STD from the assault, or getting a septic infection.
When your doorbell rings, you imagine yourself being blinded by the flashbulbs, hands throwing up to ward off the light and the mics being thrusted forward like spears. It can't be the press, because the judge had kindly issued a publication ban.
You open the door, and then you try to close it. It's your mother, she jams her size five feet through the crack, and no matter how long it's been since you've last spoke to her, you are not going to slam the door on her if it means breaking her bones.
Your mother doesn't look at you the way everyone else (except your partner) doesn't look at you, instead, she held out a stack of tupperwares that must have been filled with all the favourite food she used to cook you the one time out of ten when she's felt bad for following you for an hour, yelling.
She pushed it into your arms and you caught them before they could fall, "I read about what happened during the bust on the news".
You don't invite her in, and she sniffles a sob before running off into her car. And You Thought You've Had The Last Of Her Guilt Trips?
...and I've read Top Ten: Forty Niners, and it's good but I'm entirely happy, due to ONE Women In Refridgerator incident, if it happened to a civilian woman, it would have made sense, but the women in Neopolis all used to be Science Heroines! I could understand how some people can go down like civilians, like, a Fly Boy who isn't used to close range combat could go down like a civilian, but a heroine, whose name imply that she's used to close range combat, should not react to the baddies busting in by raising up her hands and screaming, and then just standing there in terror when they strip her.
Like I really respect the hell out of Alan Moore, I love his portrayal of 'fallen women', beyond the shoddy works of the past that gives them sympathy but leaves them in the gutter, his prostitute characters feel real, and they are tough. What I don't like about Alan Moore is, that female characters are frequently subjected to sexual violence...the problem with this in comic books is not that it happens, because it is real life, but that it is often too frequent, and it hardly ever happened to guys. In one series, a bad guy who had assaulted women before, was subjected to rape, but it doesn't happen to the heros.
My respect for Alan Moore remains diminish over his choice to write a story where Batgirl was crippled to get the reaction of Batman and her father, especially since he decided to go through with it when, the exec in response to whether he could do something like that, was "cripple the bitch", an industry incident which played part in the Women In Refriderator website (though the trope namer was one where a hero has come home with his GF in the fridge to get him to angst moar). I grew up watching cartoons, and I liked Batgirl so much I looked up the comics, and was dismay to find her as The Oracle, who was stuck in a wheelchair even though she lives in a world where that should have been fixed, AND in the issue I skimmed across, she doesn't seem spunky at all, it was like woman Batman in a chair, gloomier, dead.
So I want to write a 'fix that' where
1. It will happen to a man, not only to even out the portrayals, so that women aren't cast in the Only Victim role, but for the benefit of men, who aren't invulnerable capes. I want to write about a hero who seemed invulnerable, until he was raped and crippled. I want to write about a hero who is subjected to that trauma, is broken down, but that recovers, with the help of his wife and children.
2. The Captain will remain The Captain even though he's in a wheelchair, in fact, that's how the story starts, with how he ended up there revealed in a flashback. If you are the punch Hitler in the face type of hero, you are not going to suddenly morph into Professor Xavier even if you can't literally kick ass anymore, cause hello, people in wheelchairs can still operate firearms! Of course, The Captain can't do field work as he did before, but as The Strategist, granted, one that likes to personally deliver punches a lot, he can still function as he did before, coming up with kickass battle plans that surprise smack the enemies as before. Would also need scenes where he pulls people down to his eye level by their collar.
3. In Universe Logic would be observed; He's stuck in that wheelchair, because the hyper immune system which protects him from viruses biological and nanobotic, would reject all attempts at limb transplant, or robotic legs trying to connect to his neural nerves. On the bright side, it was the hyper immune system that protected him from catching STD from the assault, or getting a septic infection.