Might revive an old project...
So years ago with the Truth & Justice rules I created few characters for what I called the Fifth String Heroes. Characters who were not going to be meeting bank robbers fist to fist or alien invaders eye-beam to ray-gun, but were still super powered and found a niche for their powers... My two clearest ideas were The Auditor and The Sitter (my, what creative names :p). The first was a man who had a super powered intuitive grasp of economics. He can walk into a business, spend a short time reviewing the books, and tell you both how well the business is truly doing but also who needs to be investigated for embezzling and with a little more effort figure out what the embezzler was doing with the money. The sitter is a second generation cape born to two heroes. When she inherited some of their powers the assumption was that she would go into heroing as well -- where her passions took her instead was child care and now she is one of a small and select group, those who provide child care for super powered children.
This was in fact the early origin for Mourning Dead Gods (and the follow on Face the Music) as Kitree and Charles's son is one of the children she regularly watches.
So why am I bringing this up? Reading some recent posts by
dialecticdreamer and
ysabetwordsmith has me itching to pull out Truth & Justice once more and dust off these characters. The posts in question: Hero or Villain, Build a Better Villain, part one, part two, and part three. The three part Build A Better Villain follows from an initial idea to working out how this character ends up crossing the line to become a villain. And adding later: Responsibility, even for villains?
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This was in fact the early origin for Mourning Dead Gods (and the follow on Face the Music) as Kitree and Charles's son is one of the children she regularly watches.
So why am I bringing this up? Reading some recent posts by
dialecticdreamer and
ysabetwordsmith has me itching to pull out Truth & Justice once more and dust off these characters. The posts in question: Hero or Villain, Build a Better Villain, part one, part two, and part three. The three part Build A Better Villain follows from an initial idea to working out how this character ends up crossing the line to become a villain. And adding later: Responsibility, even for villains?
(This is a crossposting |
replies at the original post on dreamwidth | Comment at dreamwidth | You can comment on DW posts even if you don't have an account there Using OpenID!)