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Relationships

Current

Amaryllis/Sapphire Angel

Aquamarine/Ash

Avril/Jack O’Lantern (Herman Marsden)

Axe of Kindness/The Clown

Blizzard/Ashburn

Bloodshot (Jesus Faye)/Duck Duckett

Deadly Nightshade/Sunny Spell

Elastique/Mungo St. James

Enchantress of the Black Lake/Lupin

Fly Girl/PC-31

Glory Boy/Zhen Wei

Hook/Veil

Ida/Schizophrenia

Jasmin/Flutterby

Joan Josep/Maxwell Hyakinthos

Kid Nightmare/The Slaughterhouse Kid

Kold/Nikita Bogolepov

Luca/The Censor

Lunetta/Thunder

Magic Eye/Nefarious

Mimic/Ryan Navara

Mishka Greenwolf/Noble Wolf

Mystica/Yang

Niko Sara/Flamewheel

Persephone/Tazer

Poltergeist/Weylin Wolf

Puppet Queen/Flame Prince

Rain/Fire

Rose/Ajax Carthartt

Ruby Dagger/Geo

Seara/Ace Milford

Shame/Kitzu

Shard/Hex

Shift/The Reality Bender

Shock/High Voltage

Sink/Mr Cuddlepuff Jr

Spectra/Snowdrift

Speed Demon/Kavette

Stickybomb/Nightsheath

Strong Arm/Sir Mysterious

Superpancake/Superwaffle

Whisper/Shadow Weaver

Witch/Wind Ryder

Yin/Red Wasp II

Zorra/Regan Grayson

Former

Amethyst/Geo

Bicep Bibi/Sandy

Bullion/Mimic

Cataclysm/Joseph Wiles

Emily Niewiarowski/Janusz Niewiarowski

Gary the Newt/Pop Sensation

Georgia Grundstrom/Hellraiser

Kid Nightmare/Wildcat

Kid Nightmare/Zhen Wei

Lilia Ivannova nee Kerona/Red Wasp I

Lolyo/Okolio Soul

Lolyo/Shadow Weaver

Lunetta/Deadwalker

Maata Falk nee Ropata/Hallowed Spirit

Negar Khosravi/Foxglove

Nii-Nii/Glory Boy

Persephone/Dirk McKenzie

Persephone/Shadow Weaver

Pussycat/Corrosion

Selene Faye nee Crell/Bloodshot (Ken Faye)

Silhouette/Choker

Storm/Cottontail

Thunder/Lightning

Valeria Jarman nee Cockrell/Aegis

Yin/Glove

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Happy Pride Month

Celebrating all our LGBT+ characters, made by queers for queers

Amaryllis (Nyah Kiros) - Homosexual Amazon Man (Émerson Luz Leitão) - Polyamorous Arachnis - Genderqueer Bloodshot (Jesus Faye) - Homosexual Bullion (Henri Firmin) - Homosexual Cailyin Hardfang (Montagu Darien) - Asexual Calcie (Rin Tousei) - Genderfluid Nonbinary Concrete (Freddy Caldwell) - Homoromantic Asexual Crazy Clown - Homosexual Cupid (John Fierro) - Homosexual Dante - Transgender Duck Duckett - Homosexual Edward Leopold - Homosexual Firefly (Jewel Simpson) - Transgender Flamewheel (Minh Vo) - Bisexual Gary the Newt (Gary Niewiarowski) - Bisexual Gianfranco Pinto - Homosexual Glory Boy (Mudiwa Mwenye) - Bisexual Hotlips (Becca Lynch) - Homosexual Jack O'Lantern (Kailee Thompson) - Pansexual Kangaroo Boy - Asexual Karma (Harper Hancock) - Nonbinary Kid Nightmare (Missy Varnham) - Bisexual Lissie Lauderdale - Transgender Luca Prescott - Bisexual or Pansexual Lunetta (Florencia Thorfinn) - Bisexual Mimic (Hubert Summers) - Homosexual Mystic Melody (Bertram Nasralla) - Bisexual Nikita Bogolepov - Bisexual Oleg Cherepanov - Homosexual Poet (Johnathon Hugo) - Bisexual Rainbow (Thanh Chu) - Homosexual Ryan Navara - Homosexual Sapphire Angel (Dicky-Caste Chapman) - Homosexual Shark Girl (Dalitso Baiton) - Transgender Shift (Kaiden Lewis) - Pansexual Speed Jive (Daniel Royce) - Homosexual Superpancake (Colley Milford) - Skoliosexual Superwaffle (Corey Finn) - Genderqueer The Almighty Nag (Fleta Falway) - Transgender The Censor (Cedar Claridge) - Transgender, Pansexual The Hive (Honey Harald) - Polygender, Polyamorous, Pansexual The Reality Bender (Sean Tavistock) - Panromantic Asexual Thunder (Molly McKew) - Bisexual Veil - Genderqueer Witch (Devin Dellis) - Bisexual Zhen Wei - Bisexual

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An Introduction To The Staff of Janusz' School For Superhumans

As I've done an introduction to the students so far, here is all the staff so far.

Janusz Niewiarowski - Founder and headmaster of the school, Janusz started his school alongside Bill and Viktoriya when all three of them found children in their lives were at serious risk all because of their powers. He is the only one of the three to have powers of his own. He is the father of Gary and Misaki (with the latter being adopted during the creation of the school). His powers allow him to emit sound waves of varying frequencies. He is from Poland originally.

Bill Hill - William 'Bill' Hill is the uncle of Angelino, the younger brother of Angelino's mother. He, Oebfinn and Skylar are collectively responsible for fitting Angelino with his cybernetic prosthetics and saving his life in the process. Prior to meeting the other founders, Bill was homeless and struggling with alcoholism. He and Oebfinn have had an on again off again relationship ongoing throughout the series. He is one of the founders and teachers of the school and is the one responsible for recruting the school's nurse and main technician. He is from the USA originally.

Viktoriya Petrova - One of the three founders and one of the teachers of the school. Viktoriya is sister in law to known super criminal Cupid and is the mother of Jakob Petrov-Fierro. She has been friends with Janusz for a long time. She went to him when she and her son were attacked over Jakob's powers and strong resemblance to his winged uncle. She is from Russia originally but moved to the US to be with her husband. The husband is now presumably deceased.

Oebfinn Otterville - The school's main (and currently only known) nurse. She is able to pinpoint the source of injuries and infections and help speed up the body's natural healing process. She was brought into the staff by her on and off boyfriend, Bill, after helping save his nephew's life. She's from Ireland originally.

Skyler Robertson - The school's main (and currently only known) technician. They are in charge of all the main security and electronics involved in the school and was brought into the staff by Bill after helping save his nephew's life. They and Gianfranco are the only members of staff known to smoke. They are the only known nonbinary member of staff.

Wilson Hutchings - Wilson serves as the main caterer of the school. He has several extra arms that allow him to do several things at once and is an expert at multitasking and organisation. He always dreamed of becoming a chef. He is the only caterer allowed on site and trusted with the secrets of the student body and school's location.

Bridget Van Dael - Bridget, formerly the superhero known as Bicep Bibi, serves as security detail and works closely with Skyler. In return for bed and board for herself and her baby, Rian, currently too young to be a student, Bridget agreed to use her superhuman strength to protect the students of the school from any potential intruders or anyone who might mean harm.

Coby Simmons - Coby serves as security detail. Like Bridget, he uses powers to ensure the safety of students, in this case the ability to stretch his arms, and enhanced strength.

Farrokh Khosravi - A teacher at the school and one of the more recent additions. He initially came to the school seeking shelter for his two sons. Like them, he takes the form of an anthropomorphic fox. He claims they were cursed to be that way by a witch. He is from Iran originally.

Gianfranco Pinto - A teacher at the school. Exactly how he became part of the staff is unknown, but he seems to be trusted by the others.

Harshada Chander - A teacher at the school. Exactly how she became part of the staff is unknown, but she seems to be trusted by the others.

Xander Weijn - A teacher at the school. Exactly how he became part of the staff is unknown, but he seems to be trusted by the others.

Dante - The only member of staff with no known surname. Dante The Snake Boy is a former member of a travelling freak show in Italy, and not in any way a willing participant. Having traits of the inland taipan, he is highly venomous, very fast, agile and accurate, and has scales in irregular patterns across his skin. He was set free by a child whose parents also planned to sell her to the freak show, and he took the child with him when he escaped. Both of them were injured in the escape and he was eventually found by Janusz, Oebfinn and Ajax and brought into the staff. The child he was with was brought into the student body (but has not yet been added to the student list on the blog) and Dante has come to view her as his daughter. He is deaf. He is the only known transgender member of staff.

Fact: While lore-wise Dante is the most recent person to have joined the staff, he was created before Gianfranco, Harshada and Xander, which is why they haven't quite yet been slotted into their place in this little family.

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I came to the realisation today that it can't be easy for Aegis and Molten Lava to be on the same team.

Both because Aegis' attitude annoys the shit out of Molten Lava, and because Aegis has significant fire related trauma, since his wife and daughter died in a fire and he has significant burn scars, and ML's powers are entirely fire based.

No wonder Aegis is always rude and snappy with the rest of the team.

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Warp: Nice beard. Hive: Thanks. It's full of bees.

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I want to talk about the sibling-like relationship between the hero Seastar and the villain Unwilling Donor.

Will is part of a gang of villains themed off urban legends, and she has the power to regenerate her body parts, giving organ harvesters an infinite supply of internal organs to take and sell on. After escaping them, she understandably has an intense distrust of other people, and she underwent a lot of pain and torture with these people.

Seastar is one of the 10-year-old heroes, and among his powers are the same thing, regeneration of any body part. At one point in his story, Seastar goes missing, and he has no family to look for him, no-one really caring for him, so all that's really noticed is the small ocean themed hero has gone missing. And he's in the same situation Will once was, a victim of organ harvesting because this is an infinite supply of organs for the market. A child's organs. And it's not the first time someone has taken advantage of his healing powers.

When he and Will first meet, he's escaping that hell and the first people he runs into are her gang, who could very easily just kill him there and then. Young, frightened hero crawling through the dustbowl? Noone looking for him? An easy take down. But he realises Will has the same power as him and has been through the same shit and just latches onto her. Sees her as someone he can relate to about the pain and trauma from this one specific power that other people only ever talk of the good of. And she gets attached to him too, protecting him from the others. They very much end up with a brother/sister bond and it's adorable.

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"I'm not like other girls."

"I got two dicks."

"I am: SHARK GIRL!" *epic surf rock riff*

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An Introduction to the Students at Janusz’ School For Super Humans

Basically what it says on the tin, an introduction to Janusz’ students. Basically compressed character files. For the time being, this only includes the names, ages and powers of each student. Further posts may follow regarding backstories.

The school itself is arranged into two main sections, children (3-12) and teenagers (13-18). Currently, Gary is the oldest student at 18, and Steinunn is the youngest at 3, but Janusz has stated that any students who wish to stay on after 18 are welcome to pursue further education (they are encouraged to take online courses as the teachers here aren’t really the best for providing university level education) or become staff themselves. This school functions heavily as a sanctuary for those with powers who have nowhere else to go, who are in danger beyond these walls. All students are at this school for their own safety. There is also a nursery set up when one of the teachers has a baby, and if any other babies are born this nursery can also care for them until they are old enough to have the same lessons as the other children.

I’ll do staff later probably.

Admir Abadzic - Admir is a 5 year old boy. His powers include the embodiment of the spirits of the drowned, specifically in the form of Topielec. Able to take on a zombie-like form, Admir is very resilient and does not seem able to feel pain or grow tired in this form. He can generate a limited water field around himself to drown others, swim at unnatural speeds and possess others. When in his Topielec form, Admir’s body gives off a corpse-like stench powerful enough to cause nausea in others within a certain distance. He is immune to poisoning, but water that drips off him in this form can carry bacteria typically found in rotting corpses. He has zombie-like enhanced strength and cannot be harmed by fire due to his damp form. He’s pretty much always dripping water everywhere. According to Admir himself, he gained his power after falling into a body of water that had taken many lives in the past, however he may have actually been thrown in intentionally with the intent to kill him.

Theresa Agius - Theresa is an 8 year old girl. Her powers allow her to ignore logic and reason, essentially acting with the fun, whimsical abilities of a cartoon character. Her limits are her imagination. She is the Looney Tunes Child.

Tor Ahlander - Tor is a 5 year old boy. He has control over any sewing equipment within his range, such as needles, thread, cloth, buttons and machines.

Talha Aladag - Talha is a 12 year old boy. His power is that he can manipulate the hair on his own body into dangerous spikes.

Vitalia Albano - Vitalia is a 4 year old girl. She has instinctive and supernatural combat abilities, often moving without thinking with unnatural speed, strength, precision, reflexes, analysis and control. Being such a small child, and having had no formal training, Vitalia’s body cannot actually keep up with her fighting prowess, often leading to excess strain on her body that causes her damage.

Schuyler Antoine - Schuyler is an 8 year old girl. She can detect and enhance the weaknesses of others and objects, making the slightest weakness something big and easy to exploit. She can worsen and spread the mildest crack, wear and tear, sore spot or the like until it causes the target to crumble.

Clovis Beaulieu - Clovis is a 14 year old boy. He is capable of accessing and opening the meridian channels within his body and manipulate the energy within to enhance his own body, increasing his defence, attack and speed to devastating levels.

Fealty Beleno - Fealty is a 16 year old girl. Her powers allow her to manipulate the relationships between others, specifically building upon bonds between people and upon their physical and emotional intimacy.

Zippora Berwick - Zippora is a 17 year old girl. Her powers allow her to steal anything she can think of, physical and conceptual (ever wanted to steal a character’s gender? Zippora can do that). Her getaway skills are beyond compare as a result, allowing her to escape into places that shouldn’t be possible and hide in plain sight.

Sumati Bhavsar - Sumati is a 14 year old girl. Sumati contains an inner beast within her that she can use to enhance her own abilities, though this often gives her a more feral style, and give a solid form to in order to assist her.

Rakel Blomgren - Rakel is a 15 year old girl. She is able to generate spikes from surfaces and thin air that she can then use to impale others or as projectiles.

Gaute Bondevik - Gaute is an 11 year old boy. He embodies the archetype of the ethical hedonist, someone who indulges in pleasure not just for himself but to bring that pleasure to others. He exhibits magnetic friendship and high levels of empathy, allowing him to bond with others easily and understand how they are feeling. His innate joy and ability to spread that joy to others allows himself to push past his natural limits and never give up, and encourages others to do the same.

Qamar Can - Qamar is a 16 year old boy. He can spin his body at great speeds without being held back by his own rotational mass, able to change direction and make sharp turns without any loss of momentum or speed, and can accelerate to top speed or decelerate to a complete stop in seconds with no blowback.

Ajax Carthartt - Ajax is a 15 year old boy. He is bonded to an eldtitch horror he refers to as Smiley, and is able to draw energy from close proximity to Smiley and other similar creatures and artefacts. He can induce fear and insanity in others, is omnilingual and can borrow specific powers and abilities from Smiley, though this typically causes a blow back on his own body.

Roxie Chow - Roxie is a 12 year old girl who can generate emotional auras, use emotional empathy to bond with other beings and read their feelings, and utilise an emotional force.

Christine Cookson - Christine, or Kiss, is a 17 year old girl. She is able to summon demonic whips and form whips out of demonic energy.

Connor Cookson - Connor is a 13 year old boy. Connor can create and manipulate orgone radiation.

Taliba Dawood - Taliba is a 16 year old girl. She is able to bond with and communicate with birds. Her torso takes the form of a bird cage within which the bonded birds can rest.

Didi Duvaunt - Didi is a 14 year old girl. Didi’s powers allow her to heal certain status effects from others, such as poisoning, burns and paralysis, and undo the effects of debuff powers that lower strength, speed or defence.

Karina Eskildsen - Karina is a 3 year old girl who can use electricity to greatly enhance her body, transforming into an enhanced state of being.

Kavette Gates - Kavette is a 17 year old girl. Kavette can disassemble or deconstruct any object with ease, to a certain level.

Angioletta Gentilini - Angioletta is a 4 year old girl and the adoptive daughter of Dante. She is bioluminescent and has wing-like membranes, can breathe underwater and move at high speeds. She can produce a noxious substance from her skin when stressed.

Nahamathadad Hashmi - Nahama is a 17 year old girl. She is basically able to embody and become laser light.

Hoshi Hayakawa - Hoshi is a 6 year old girl who can create and manipulate various forms of software at will.

Angelino Hill - Angelino is a 17 year old boy. He has several cybernetic prosthetics created by his uncle in order to save his life, which also give him enhanced strength and senses, and shoot lasers from his cybernetic eye. As well as this, he has always had the power to induce pregnancy in others.

Matus Holub - Matus is a 12 year old boy. He can manipulate existing spikes in any way he wishes. He has been encouraged to work alongside Rakel.

Noelle Hopkins - Noelle is a 13 year old girl. Noelle can revive extinct animals.

Maxwell Hyakinthos - Maxwell is a 15 year old boy. Maxwell is one of the few obviously mutated children. He has purple skin, a large prehensile tail, sharp teeth and claws and entirely black eyes. He is able to walk on walls and ceilings.

Amaal Jalali - Amaal is a 14 year old girl. She has the power to turn others into canines. She turned a lot of people who were mean to her into small dogs.

Joan Josep - Joan is a 15 year old girl. Joan is one of the few obviously mutated children. Her skin is silver and shiny, and appears to be in horizontal strips. This acts as a dermal shield. Magnets stick to her.

Gunther Josephs - Gunther is a 17 year old boy. He can cast spells through written language.

Pertti Joutsen - Pertti is a 10 year old boy. Pertti’s heart is infused with the power of chaos, giving him the ability to regenerate from any wounds and use and manipulate chaotic energy. He usually suffers chest pain and an erratic thought process.

Homayoun Khosravi - Homayoun is a 9 year old boy. Homayoun is one of the few obviously mutated. He takes the form of an anthropomorphic fox boy. He has enhanced speed and senses.

Parsa Khosravi - Parsa is a 12 year old boy. Parsa is one of the few obviously mutated. He takes the form of an anthropomorphic fox boy. He has enhanced speed and senses.

Katashi Kibe - Katashi is a 7 year old boy. Katashi is able to draw power from radiation of all kinds, making him stronger, faster and more durable. When away from sources of radiation, he is weakened and has a weak immune system, allowing him to grow ill easily. He is also able to instantly read the past of a person or object by touching it.

Moti Kidane - Moti is a 15 year old boy. He can release explosive waves of smoke in all directions at once.

Sanela Kirin - Sanela is an 11 year old girl. Sanela is able to manifest the physiology of ancient echinoderms such as sea urchins, stars and lilies.

Theodor Kraus - Theodor is a 13 year old boy. His power is taboo manipulation, the ability to make certain things forbidden within a certain field or circumstance.

Lissie Lauderdale - Lissie is a 17 year old girl. She is currently the only known transgender student at Janusz’. Her powers allow her to generate pheromones from her body which have a wide variety of applications, including acerbic, hallucinogenic, dulling, seductive and mental state manipulating pheromones.

Lorinda Lou - Lorinda is a 6 year old girl. She can release air waves in a variety of forms in a variety of pressures. This has multiple applications.

Lera Marchenko - Lera is an 8 year old girl. She has judgement manipulation powers, allowing her to bring down judgements on others instantaneously with her choice of consequence.

Morcant Mendelsohn - Morcant is an 18 year old boy. He is able to lock on to a target of choice, allowing him to trace them wherever they go, scan them for information and home in on them with attacks.

Freddie Miller - Freddie is a 15 year old girl. She can transform into and mimic the properties of electromagnetism. She can also use electromagnetism to fortify her normal body.

Aonghus Molloyi - Aonghus is a 6 year old boy. He can take on the traits of a Lavellan, monstrous, rodent-like and toxic. He is immune to disease and can tap into a feral state of mind.

Aishatu Musa - Aishatu is a 7 year old girl. She can generate whips formed from sonic sound energy.

Andile Mzikayise - Andile is a 7 year old girl. She has the physiology of an angel, however this has been twisted and mutated. Her body is naturally unstable, but her sister’s powers have kept her alive and well.

Sibongile Mzikayise - Sibongile is a 14 year old girl. Her abilities allow her to induce stability and balance in anything, keeping things solid and upright.

Gary Niewiarowski - Gary is an 18 year old boy. Gary has newt physiology. He is a strong swimmer, breathes through his skin and excretes a toxin through that skin. He is also one of the few students to be visibly mutated.

Pavla Novak - Pavla is an 11 year old girl. She can manipulate yellow lightning.

Etta Oakley - Etta is a 15 year old girl. She can manipulate, control and communicate with all forms of pinnipeds.

Steinunn Odinsdottir - Steinunn is a 3 year old girl. She can decrease the strength of gravity affecting an object, person or area. Tends to use this power to fly. Wheeeeee.

Olga Oropeza - Olga is a 6 year old girl. She can manipulate demonic light.

Jacob Petrov-Fierro - Jacob is a 17 year old boy. Jacob has large feathered wings, often referred to by friends as angel wings but probably more like those of an eagle. He can speak bird.

Serafin Pianka - Serafin is a 16 year old boy. He appears to lack nerves, is incapable of feeling or registering pain, and has impeccable automatic reflexes. He is capable of manipulating his own mental structure at will. Gives almost robotic, unfeeling machine vibes. Or mobile scarecrow vibes. He’s very flexible.

Cristal Rodriguez - Cristal is an 8 year old girl. She can create reverse worlds.

Daniel Royce - Daniel is a 13 year old boy. He is able to move at unnatural speeds.

Saturnina Saito - Saturnina is a 15 year old girl. She can channel her bio-energy field to create, shape, and manipulate the energies, forces, and substances that make up a quasar

Kynthia Salleas - Kynthia is a 6 year old girl who can heal others through any form of food she makes and serves.

Ainslee Savin - Ainslee is a 14 year old girl. She is able to take on the form of a Charybdis style sea monster, able to greatly increase her size and swallow and regurgitate large amounts of water, forming whirlpools as well as utilising this for other applications.

Shari Savin - Shari is a 14 year old girl. She is able to produce acid from her skin, infusing it to her skin to power up any strikes she makes.

Paola Scutari - Paola is a 12 year old girl. She is able to temporarily banish a target to a space located outside of space and time, to a location of her own creation.

Misaki Shiro - Misaki is a 16 year old girl. She is able to produce a sticky substance from her sweat glands, capable of holding her weight if she uses it to stick to or swing from a surface. This substance is highly volatile.

Jitka Sindelarova - Jitka is a 9 year old girl. She is able to cause targets to rapidly age.

Ruth Spud - Ruth is a 17 year old girl. She is able to create armies.

Antonia Stanley - Antonia is a 16 year old girl. Antonia has manifested fly physiology, having wings, the ability to crawl on walls, compound eyes, and the ability to pass on disease, alongside some other abilities.

Reagan Tarlton - Reagan is a 3 year old boy. Reagan’s abilities amount to an unnatural ability with scam artistry, essentially able to charm and persuade anyone as long as it is within the context of a scam.

Slavomir Tesar - Slavomir is a 6 year old boy. He is able to create shields out of ice.

Julie Thombre-Zalkikar - Julie is a 5 year old girl. She is able to touch and manipulate light as a physical object.

Roelof Van Dael - Roelof, or Roe, is a 12 year old boy. Roe is able to manipulate earth and rock in a variety of forms.

Nikon Vlasov - Nikon is an 8 year old boy. He can tame and domesticate creatures by placing his hand upon their heads.

Chanticleer Walker - Chanticleer is a 13 year old boy. Chanticleer is able to control and manipulate a variety of reptiles.

Amina White - Amina is a 16 year old girl. She has manifested Orchid Mantis physiology, allowing her camouflage, ambush predator instincts, toothed arms and a powerful bite.

Tramm Wi  - Tramm is a 16 year old boy. He is able to run at super speeds.

Kristian Worley - Kristian, or Krissie, is a 17 year old boy. He is able to transform his forearms into powerful blades.

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Backstories sure are fun.

If I'm correct, the one from the most recent time period would be Colette (1890's), then Tokihari (1660's), then Adam (1640's) and Zhen is from the furthest back by a very long way (1250's BC)

Colette also travels forward the least, because she travels to the cold war era while the others all end up in the modern day.

Tokihari is also a bit of an outlier because he's the only one who can return to his own time period freely.

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I’ve been thinking and y’know what? Whisper probably had a rough time getting her team to work as a goddamn team, considering she got surprise shafted with two former villains trying to reform for selfish reasons. Not just any two selfish reformers either, but two who less than a month prior had literally tried to kill each other in a street brawl. At the point this team first forms, it’s Whisper, Crayon (a literal child), Hex and Shadow Weaver. Shadow Weaver’s coming off the low of having a major bounty on his head and is very much just looking for protection, and Hex tried to collect that bounty to follow a lead concerning his missing memories, and only swapped sides to follow another lead. So overall, Whisper has a lot of reckless idiot wrangling to do, infighting to break up, babysitting and team building before she can get a moment’s peace.

That’s not even considering the additional members who join later, them getting tangled in the Shrine 4′s demon issues or the hitman who ends up in their protective custody and tries to teach Crayon to use all the violent weapons he can think of because like Hex, he finds being around this kid makes him miss his dead sister who would be around that age-

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I can’t believe One Piece Film Red stole my supervillain idea /j

For real though, I have ideas for like a whole ass musical based around the characters with sound powers. Ballad managing to broadcast his singing over a wide area, hypnotising and controlling people, his end goal here would likely be to orchestrate a riot or crime spree that only he can stop. He’s not antagonising his usual lot, he’s leaving his son alone for once, but the heroes who do respond without being caught up in his control are also sound based heroes.

So the obvious one is Mystic Melody, who is immune to Ballad’s powers because he’s deaf, but I also want to put Chantelle in there as she also has a singing based power.

Just epic musical battle featuring man who can control people by singing and heroes as the underdogs just trying to survive.

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So, regarding the elemental lands, I’ve been trying to fix that all together properly as of late because they’re very much a concept from our childhoods that never really got solidified.

It’s sort of like, this dimension has this specific planet that I guess occupies what would be the same place as Earth if they were in the same dimension, which would be why the two are so easily connected? And each elemental land is like a continent, with several countries within - the Shadow lands have been on and off considered part of this world, as the appearance of the Death Valley people are in line with the appearances of some of the Ice and Fire lands people, and the interdimensional portal ability Shadow Weaver possesses is an ability present in 10-15% of people from the elemental dimension, but it’s also the most removed from human culture. If the Shadow land is one continent, then Death Valley is a small isolationist country somewhere in there, ruled by the Soelle family. Which also makes Shadow Meister more of a race than a species.

Anywho, the point of all this rambling is there’s a lot more to build and play around with here in terms of geography and culture, stuff we can figure from scratch and really enjoy building upon, and I’m really looking forward to working on some proper full world building.

I’m making maps.

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Nothing says Pride like me decked out in full bondage gear while waving a dildo around!

Superwaffle

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Comic idea I can’t draw: Children aimed comic focussing on the child heroes. Issue 1, The Almighty Nag gets a sore throat and loses her voice and thus can’t use her powers until she’s better.

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That ‘I can’t believe we’re both X and trans’ meme but it’s The Censor and Firefly

Can’t believe they’re both green haired supervillains and trans!

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I'd follow him to hell and back, but I really just wish he'd stop going there.

Zhen, about Glory Boy, at some point probably.

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I'm afraid of things I don't understand. Like criminals who come from the void, technology and reading.

Shadow Weaver, after screaming at Sink, probably.