my league of extraordinary gentlepersons
because rose brought this up over dinner last night and i couldn't help but hypothesize.
/the rules/
1. Choose five to seven characters.
2. They may be from books, movies, comics, TV shows, games, and real life--but no traditional superheroes.
3. They may be from any place in the universe, any time. They do not have to be from the same time/place as the original League.
4. You must identify the recruiter, the villain, and the leader, and there must be at least one female.
5. Optional, you may identify their main mode of transportation.
/the league/
trish (devil may cry)
*recruiter
because anything dante can do, trish can do backwards and in high heels, so to speak. she would gather everyone together by crashing through their front windows with stolen motorcycles; that always seems to get their attention. (very good at getting people to follow her, especially if they are men with a fondness for blondes, guns, or blondes with
guns.)
strengths: demon-slaying. performing gun katas. wielding a sword big as she is. wearing skin-tight pleather. also quite competent with cutting-edge technologies.
weakness: ...dante. (how else do you explain it?)
odessa silverberg (suikoden)
as if my ideal team would lack a silverberg. a canniness for strategy runs in her family, mingled uniquely in her own personality with a willingness to take risks and a burning desire to see justice done at any cost.
strengths: charisma unparalleled, strong principles, nice calves. handy in combat, too, with long-range weapons like bows & arrows.
weakness: pms and small children.
alphonse elric (fullmetal alchemist) in armor
though perhaps not as flash as his famous older brother, incorporeal al is still quite capable of kicking ass and taking names (and maybe even more so, if he's good at besting his brother).
strengths: unarmed hand-to-hand combat, research, alchemy (both battle and non-), vast and seemingly limited patience. does not require food, drink, or sleep.
weakness: though seven feet tall, he's still fourteen years old, and sometimes prone to emotional moments. achilles heel: the blood-seal at the base of the armor neck, inside. also, as white aster so rightly points out, al has a major weakness for cats.
kestrel (tenshi's songbirds)
real name rouen; the lark in his heyday as a songbird, now the rockingest bird of prey since, well, ever.
strengths: proficient with sword and voice, deadly with both. also a sharp dresser, possessor of a keen political mind, and player of a mean game of queen's peril.
weakness: for pretty young blond things. also known to be snippish and vain, but only on bad days.
braska (ffx)
i firmly believe that every team needs a summoner. and i couldn't think of any other summoner more likely to put up with this wacky bunch.
strengths: white magic, both healing and offensive (holy, anyone?). summoning any number of fabulous aeons. unflappable in the face of astronomically bad odds. willing to sacrifice self if needed.
weakness: cumbersome clothing. somewhat of a religious extremist (though fortunately he never proselytizes).
billy lee black (xenogears)
(i can just hear your surprise.) so what, my league has two gun-wielders. billy's just so pretty with a pistol. probably just in the league for the money, to support his sister and his orphans, not to further any heathen agenda they might have.
strengths: profundity of faith, quick reflexes, impressive arsenal all hidden underneath one simple blue cloak. a dead-eye shot, shooting.
weakness: goody two-shoes (stashes pamphlets on the hoods of people's cars). also, crankypants.
qui-gon jinn (star wars: ep.1)
*leader
despite getting on in years, the jedi master has both the force of presence and the penchant for causing trouble that keeps this team together. not to mention the fact that he's taller than everyone, including armor al.
strengths: lethal (and quite liberal) with the jedi mind trick. dueling artfully with light-sabers. looking fabulous in brown drab.
weakness: might, if you caught him in a somber or vulnerable moment, admit that he is actually dead. but it's a sensitive subject. also has a proclivity for gambling.
/the villain/
krelian (xenogears)
who, as everyone knows, has spent the past five years studying microbiology so frickin' hard that he's lost his mind. out for world domination through eugenics, superior technology, oppression of the masses, and finally getting a date with a chick named sophia.
/the mode of transportation/
our league gets around on the prima vista (ffix), theatre-ship extraordinaire! not sure how they managed to steal it from baku et al., but i'm guessing qui-gon acquired it in a game of chance. he's good like that.
/the rules/
1. Choose five to seven characters.
2. They may be from books, movies, comics, TV shows, games, and real life--but no traditional superheroes.
3. They may be from any place in the universe, any time. They do not have to be from the same time/place as the original League.
4. You must identify the recruiter, the villain, and the leader, and there must be at least one female.
5. Optional, you may identify their main mode of transportation.
/the league/
trish (devil may cry)
*recruiter
because anything dante can do, trish can do backwards and in high heels, so to speak. she would gather everyone together by crashing through their front windows with stolen motorcycles; that always seems to get their attention. (very good at getting people to follow her, especially if they are men with a fondness for blondes, guns, or blondes with
guns.)
strengths: demon-slaying. performing gun katas. wielding a sword big as she is. wearing skin-tight pleather. also quite competent with cutting-edge technologies.
weakness: ...dante. (how else do you explain it?)
odessa silverberg (suikoden)
as if my ideal team would lack a silverberg. a canniness for strategy runs in her family, mingled uniquely in her own personality with a willingness to take risks and a burning desire to see justice done at any cost.
strengths: charisma unparalleled, strong principles, nice calves. handy in combat, too, with long-range weapons like bows & arrows.
weakness: pms and small children.
alphonse elric (fullmetal alchemist) in armor
though perhaps not as flash as his famous older brother, incorporeal al is still quite capable of kicking ass and taking names (and maybe even more so, if he's good at besting his brother).
strengths: unarmed hand-to-hand combat, research, alchemy (both battle and non-), vast and seemingly limited patience. does not require food, drink, or sleep.
weakness: though seven feet tall, he's still fourteen years old, and sometimes prone to emotional moments. achilles heel: the blood-seal at the base of the armor neck, inside. also, as white aster so rightly points out, al has a major weakness for cats.
kestrel (tenshi's songbirds)
real name rouen; the lark in his heyday as a songbird, now the rockingest bird of prey since, well, ever.
strengths: proficient with sword and voice, deadly with both. also a sharp dresser, possessor of a keen political mind, and player of a mean game of queen's peril.
weakness: for pretty young blond things. also known to be snippish and vain, but only on bad days.
braska (ffx)
i firmly believe that every team needs a summoner. and i couldn't think of any other summoner more likely to put up with this wacky bunch.
strengths: white magic, both healing and offensive (holy, anyone?). summoning any number of fabulous aeons. unflappable in the face of astronomically bad odds. willing to sacrifice self if needed.
weakness: cumbersome clothing. somewhat of a religious extremist (though fortunately he never proselytizes).
billy lee black (xenogears)
(i can just hear your surprise.) so what, my league has two gun-wielders. billy's just so pretty with a pistol. probably just in the league for the money, to support his sister and his orphans, not to further any heathen agenda they might have.
strengths: profundity of faith, quick reflexes, impressive arsenal all hidden underneath one simple blue cloak. a dead-eye shot, shooting.
weakness: goody two-shoes (stashes pamphlets on the hoods of people's cars). also, crankypants.
qui-gon jinn (star wars: ep.1)
*leader
despite getting on in years, the jedi master has both the force of presence and the penchant for causing trouble that keeps this team together. not to mention the fact that he's taller than everyone, including armor al.
strengths: lethal (and quite liberal) with the jedi mind trick. dueling artfully with light-sabers. looking fabulous in brown drab.
weakness: might, if you caught him in a somber or vulnerable moment, admit that he is actually dead. but it's a sensitive subject. also has a proclivity for gambling.
/the villain/
krelian (xenogears)
who, as everyone knows, has spent the past five years studying microbiology so frickin' hard that he's lost his mind. out for world domination through eugenics, superior technology, oppression of the masses, and finally getting a date with a chick named sophia.
/the mode of transportation/
our league gets around on the prima vista (ffix), theatre-ship extraordinaire! not sure how they managed to steal it from baku et al., but i'm guessing qui-gon acquired it in a game of chance. he's good like that.