#altu: supercity

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Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Motorcity (Cartoon) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Mike Chilton/Chuck/Dutch/Julie Kane/Texas Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Superheroes/Superpowers, Telepathic Bond, Polyamory, Telepathic Sex, Superpower Sex, Magical Artifacts, psychic invasion, Police Brutality, Dubious Consent Due To Identity Issues, Mind Manipulation, some of it very pleasant and enjoyable for everybody involved and some of it not, Canon-Typical Body Horror, just terra-adjacent nonsense you know how they are Summary:

Mike's life is as good as it ever has been, since he left the police force and took up vigilante heroism; he's helping his city, and he's got a team who has his back. Until a villain from his past finds him on patrol, and tips off a series of events that threatens to burn Mike's new life to the ground, and take his team and his city with it.

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in light of recent superhero AU happenings here's some slightly less scaly Stronghorn/Texas doodles from lunch break the other night

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So I read "supersynthesiac" and loved it. I was wondering about the other Burners and their powers/costumes? And how Mike knows them! Its such an epic AU

Aw, thank you!  the sequel to THAT fic is also still in the works!  Just very....very slowly, like so many of my projects right now.  OKAY WELL giant glut of vigilante superhero Burners and worldbuilding stuff under the cut I guess lmao

As far as powers go:

Chuck’s a telepath, that one’s pretty straightforward and covered in the first fic.

Mike is faster and stronger than a normal human at baseline, but he can also reach out his power to his allies and boost them, and get a return boost of power, which he can continue to give to people--a feedback loop of strengthening and encouraging his friends, basically. Nerd

Texas is already a strong, sturdy dude, but also he can essentially Hulk out into a giant, scaly rhino-dino-man AKA Stronghorn.  

Dutch controls metal ala Magneto from Xmen, but his use for it is usually much more subtle because on the side he’s also an inventor/mechanic/genius.  It takes a lot of strain to lift your enemy’s car into the air and smash it, but if you know how cars work it’s a lot less effort to reach in and unscrew all his spark plugs and then also jam his guns.  

Julie has the ability to make illusions, which are more solid and effect the world more, the harder she focuses and practices them. 

How they met Mike:

Dutch fixes Anything That Goes out of his garage; Mike brought in his motorcycle, and Dutch noticed pretty much immediately that he was Mike Chilton, because he doesn’t have a superhero alias and barely bothers to pretend he’s not the same guy who’s wanted by the cops.  There was some edgy negotiating and then it turned out they were both vigilantes and then they were bros.

Texas and Mike tend to show up to similar crime scenes because they’re both very strong and live in a similar area, and they bonded at fights and then Texas was like “you seem cool, let’s go get pizza” and then they were bros.

Julie knew Mike from a distance when he was one of her dad’s cops, and then saved his ass when she found him losing a fight one day months later and eventually very slowly established trust with him.  And then they were bros.

Chuck has a personal interest in clearing weird old superpowered/arcane artifacts off the streets, and he was following Julie’s tip to a weird psychic silver skull when the dude he was grudgingly working with went and touched it like an idiot.  While escaping the skull’s weird psychic test/trap him and Mike accidentally brain-bonded and then (eventually) they were bros.

Also polyburners, they’re all together idk what to tell you. 

I don’t have much for you about costumes, especially since Kane’s Detroit Of The Future in the Supersynesthesiac verse is not very welcoming to superheroes, so capes and costumes aren’t as much a thing; reinforced underarmor in a variety of colors and designs, usually covered by normal clothes are about the most superheroesque that people get.  

Texas shreds everything he wears on a pretty regular basis, so he just goes out there in like, the cheapest T-shirts and tanks he can find and probably like.........jeans or big sweatpants. He bulks up somewhat more on his upper half and is a lot more spiky up there, so sometimes if he wears stretchy enough pants he can get in and out of a fight without his pants ending up structurally unsound.

Chuck grew up on comic books, was really quietly excited about the thought of being a Real Superhero, so he does have the blue and gold under-armor, but he’s also got a bulletproof vest and gloves and jeans and goggles because it’s a dangerous city out there and skin contact is A Lot for him.

Mike just really likes his jacket so he wears that around a lot of the time, it’s basically his normal courier outfit but without the T-shirt over the green and black under-armor.

Dutch has a family and a job and can generally stop crimes without people even realizing that he’s the one doing it, so he dresses like a normal person most of the time.  He’s fully capable of pulling together a scrap metal mask and gauntlets or a staff with metal clinging to the ends and going to town if push comes to shove, though.

Julie’s got the under-armor look, but she dresses in very plain, dark colors and uses illusions to give herself a very feline face, yellow eyes and cat ears.  It’s distracting enough that most people never even think to look at anything else, and then Julie’s gone and they know nothing about her.  Also, she thinks it’s very cute.  So win-win.

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Supersynesthesiac - Birchbow

Fandom: Motorcity Rating: Mature Relationships: Mike Chilton/Chuck Characters: Mike Chilton, Chuck (Motorcity), Red (Motorcity)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Superheroes/Superpowers, Mind Meld, Psychic Bond, Angst and Porn, Fluff and Smut, it's not really PWP but there isn't a PWW tag, Porn With Worldbuilding, Background Poly

Summary:

It’s two in the morning and Mike is on another rooftop looking out over the riverwalk, when Blonde Thunder’s voice flickers to life in his head. The sharp white and blue prickles, the humming static, the aching dark red throb of self-hatred, a sudden bright flood. 

Mike still has no idea what his face looks like—he’s a private guy, Mike can respect that even if it makes him kinda sad—but it’s been months since the…accident.  Mike has had plenty of time to get intimately acquainted with Thunder’s anxiety. 

It's just something you get used to, when you're teamed up with a psychic.

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I used a randomizer to jump to random pages of my motorcity dump document last night, and did some illustrations!

......................geez I write a lot of Muckles.  :Tc

EDIT: why does tumblr make mspaint art so blurry???? it’s better full-sized. TnT

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hey Mikey, whatcha dreaming about?  //  hey Chuckles, what are you so afraid of?

The more power Mike gives other people, the more he has to give; the more Mayhem takes from other people, the more he can keep on taking.  His powers are horribly reminiscent of Kane’s, with one major exception; once Kane has taken everything his victim has to give, they’re no use to him any more.  When Mayhem drains somebody dry, he can just keep feeding.

rollerskatinglizard said to livelivefastfree:  Superhero au, Mike and Fearless 8)  rollerskatinglizard said to livelivefastfree:  *brilliant idea* oooooh, a matched set -- superhero au, Chuck and Mayhem!

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A pair of terrible supervillains 

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OH 2 other things I just remembered: what exactly were mike and chuck's powers in the superhero au? And: the polything at the end reminded me of this really great Road to El Dorado fic I read not too long ago and aaahh yes good

Well I’ve sort of been figuring that out as I went.  :D  The prompt that the prompt generator gave me specified some kind of psychic bond/connection and I’ve thought about empath/telepath Chuck before so that seemed pretty straightforward–he feels/sees thoughts and emotions from people in synesthesiac color, and if he gets close enough he can start to make out actual words/specific thoughts.

Mike I didn’t really know what to do because I wanted some kind of power that related to how he is in canon, which is just…really good at everything?  I’m thinking that when he’s close to people (physically and emotionally) he boosts whatever power they have–superpowers, physical, brainpower, you just work at 120% when Mike is with you.  The more people he’s working with the stronger the effect is on everybody, and the more people he boosts the more his own (impressive) baseline abilities improve.  He’s POWERED BY FRIENDSHIP

The end of that first mission that I wrote about is actually the first time they made physical contact.  He did in fact boost Chuck’s powers enough to get them out of the psychic deathtrap they wandered into, but in the process fused them into a sort of permanent stronger-than-normal psychic connection which they use to form a pretty effective team–Chuck finds trouble, Mike fixes the trouble.

….that’s what I’ve been thinking. U////U

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I’m not going to call this a superhero AU because that’s giving it too much credit.  Let’s just call it an excuse for 5000 words of low-effort shipping, featuring tight shirts and bulletproof vests.

the very first time they worked together on a mission, Mike tried to take some kind of ancient skull artifact from a villain’s layer and when they woke up they were in the middle of literally nothing/nowhere.  It was a Bonding Experience and Mike got out of it with a new friend plus the artifact turned out to be pretty fashionable and came with a badass matching staff.

I didn’t write those parts though, I wrote The Fun Part.