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Post by dorkknight23 on Mar 6, 2020 12:25:02 GMT -5
The Guardians are a forgotten team of superheroes from the past, displaced in time and now returned to find a world that needs them now more than ever. Initially founded roughly contemporaneously to the Avengers unthawing of Captain America, the Guardians became a sort of informal superheroic society, trying to mentor upcoming heroes and acting as first response to any invasions or crises that normal law enforcement couldn’t handle, while trying to provide an upright moral example to the community at large. They frequently fought alongside the likes of the Avengers, the Defenders, and the X-Men and were on friendly terms with most of their members and despised by supervillains and aspiring despots in equal measure. During the battle with the psionic entity known as Onslaught, The Guardians were trapped in a pocket dimension by Franklin Richards along with The Avengers and Fantastic Four to prevent their complete annihilation. The Guardians managed to breach the world of Heroes Reborn on their own earlier than the others, but found themselves unhinged in time and space. Their travels across the multiverse only now return them to their native reality finding it far different when they left: human-mutant relations disintegrating alongside an influx of Inhumans, the Avengers and Fantastic Four both overwhelmed in their own ways by various world-shattering wars, invasions, and crises. Now they must struggle to rebuild and find their own place in a world that has largely forgotten their existence and moved on.
Character Creation: 60 stones, max 10 in challenges count for stones PM me with CAD’s, happy to field individual questions/comments here. First off: while inspired by my past Guardians games, I encourage players treating this as an entirely fresh slate to work off of. That being said, I also won't oppose seeing any of the old characters, as long as they fit in with 60 stones+(max 10).
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Post by Ricochet on Mar 6, 2020 13:55:04 GMT -5
How forgotten are these Guardians exactly? Is it an "oh yeah, the Guardians used to be a thing" or is it more of a "the what now?"
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Post by Gris on Mar 6, 2020 14:14:08 GMT -5
Oh yeah. I'll be working on something along the weekend, will decide if I remake Galaxy Girl or go in another direction entirely.
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Post by dorkknight23 on Mar 6, 2020 15:02:29 GMT -5
How forgotten are these Guardians exactly? Is it an "oh yeah, the Guardians used to be a thing" or is it more of a "the what now?" I'm not 100% confident on this, it's one of the ideas I'm jumping back and forth with for the long-term story. Right now my answer is: I think it'll depend on the person and how closely they interacted with them. So, someone who never met them or dealt with them will have a reaction closer to the latter, but more regular associates suddenly would come to remember them and their dealings with them when confronted with the information.
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Post by Ricochet on Mar 6, 2020 16:42:18 GMT -5
So anything from nothing to a weird deja vu or even a "Why did I forget that". Kinda like Sentry.
My head is saying "the other clone of Spider-man", but I'm going to see if I can come up with something interesting.
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Post by Dhark on Mar 6, 2020 16:58:38 GMT -5
Are you looking for that Silver Age vibe on this one? Or would Onslaught-Era grim and gritty work as well? I wouldn’t want to be the sole edge-lord on a Shiney Silvery team... :-p
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Post by dorkknight23 on Mar 6, 2020 18:46:33 GMT -5
So anything from nothing to a weird deja vu or even a "Why did I forget that". Kinda like Sentry. My head is saying "the other clone of Spider-man", but I'm going to see if I can come up with something interesting. No opposition as long as it's kept in the stone limit and made different enough from the standard Spidey. Are you looking for that Silver Age vibe on this one? Or would Onslaught-Era grim and gritty work as well? I wouldn’t want to be the sole edge-lord on a Shiney Silvery team... :-p I think anywhere within those two extremes is acceptable.
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Post by Janus on Mar 8, 2020 8:29:42 GMT -5
Are you looking for that Silver Age vibe on this one? Or would Onslaught-Era grim and gritty work as well? I wouldn’t want to be the sole edge-lord on a Shiney Silvery team... :-p I'm planning a slightly edgy character to so i imagine DK will adapt. I have to say season two of Titans on Netflix was interesting from a heres what happens when we take something light and fluffy and turn it dark and gritty. I mean i probably wouldn't want to go quite that dark but i do enjoy modern comics.
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Post by Janus on Mar 8, 2020 13:59:19 GMT -5
So I've got a character in mind who would likely know the other Guardians. So who else have we got?
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Post by Gris on Mar 8, 2020 15:10:34 GMT -5
Haven't worked on a CAD yet, but I have a first draft on a background. It takes inspiration on those wonderfully weird Jack Kirby myth ideas to transition into more of a classic bronze age heroine, all in interest of seeing how she faces and evolves within a modern comic book era. Still don't have a proper codename for her though, and nothing rainbow-y that I have come across sounds good. Eira Vinterbrauta Olafsdottir
The stories of myth and gods are strange ones, a mixture of what is, what isn't and what could or even perhaps should be. As mortals come and go the legends change, and what once was the legend of a knight slaying a dragon slowly evolves into one of a peasant rescuing a princess. Never quite the same, although perhaps sharing a common sense, an entwined destiny.
Eira's story begins in a blizzard. The astronomical observatory of Karholl in Iceland was half buried in snow, and yet the only scientist standing watch that week wasn't safe on the inside. Olaf Sigursson had always been an odd one, strangely spiritual perhaps for a man of science, even if he wasn't particularly religious. Only someone like him would be bound to be outside in the snow, call it curiosity about a strange iridiscent light as the tempest ended and the skies cleared. What he found wasn't a reasonable explanation for the visual phenomenon, but a baby. A little girl who by all accounts couldn't be there, and even less looking at the stars with curiosity instead of crying. The gods had been merciful with her, and maybe with Olaf too by sending him something he didn't know he needed. Olaf named her Eira, mercy in old Norse, and Vinterbrauta, winter's way in the new Norse, to reflect how the Milky Way now shined above them in the now cleared sky.
Eira's story begins with the love of two beings, one of the Outer Realms and one of the Inner Realms. Their love for one another was without limit, and yet they couldn't be together, not even touch each other. A magician unlike no other had a solution, yet it would require the final sacrifice. Their souls could finally be together beyond physical form, and they would be joined for eternity in a passage, a prismatic bond that would tether the realms. From their love was born a miracle, a rainbow bridge like no other, and perhaps something more. Eternity can sometimes run short, the twilight of the gods thwarting destinies and shattering bridges. Where once was a bond, an understanding, later can be the pain of an open wound. But fragments of that connection can live on, and as what once was bridge turned into prismatic shards, those same bits of multicolored hope could be a bridge once more. Sooner or later, as time meant nothing in the never ending cycle of the gods, the rainbow would shine again.
Eira's story begins with another fight between good and evil. Heroes facing insurmountable odds against a superior foe, men of legend against beasts of tales long forgotten. She was just a mere college student, honoring her father's wishes of living a normal life, and yet there was no way she couldn't stay still as the champions of the people fell into battle. She couldn't stay still while the Guardians fought. Instinct or destiny, even if Eira barely knew what could she do, what should she do, she still ran into battle without a second thought. Power like no other saved that day, giving the Guardians respite to honor their name and put an end to the menace. By the end of that fight Eira may have faulted the promise she made to her father, but she had no doubt that he would be proud seeing her on the side of heroes as one more Guardian.
Eira's story begins as she and the Guardians finally escape an ordeal that threatened to have no end. Maybe being adrift through space and time didn't have the same effect on her timeless nature, even if she felt frustrated about not being able to bring the Guardians home, but she had managed to keep her good nature mostly intact. The Guardians were back home, even if they could hardly identify it as that. Things had changed in their absence, and in a world that barely remembered them, the Guardians were more needed than ever.
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Post by Janus on Mar 8, 2020 18:22:21 GMT -5
OK, so general idea of my character.
Amnesiac, teenage mutant speedster, she was subjected to experiments by Russian government giving her vibranium bone weave, turning her into a super soldier.
The Menace then used her to capture the Guardians. They then turned her to their side and defeated the Menace with her help and she joined the Guardians.
Need to figure out how she fits in now and how everyone feels about her.
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Post by Gris on Mar 8, 2020 19:07:34 GMT -5
Mine, given that the background wasn't explicit about some stuff, is basically some kind of miraculous offspring of the souls that formed Bifrost. A girl raised normally by an astronomer that got into the Guardians by helping them in a fight even if she promised to carry a normal life. She's Asgardian tough (although far from Thor tough)and can use her connection to the Bifrost to both teleport or summon a shard of it as a sword (but not both at the same time). Despite blaming herself for being unable to bring the Guardians back from the pocket universe properly, she's still optimistic (and perhaps a bit naive) and probably one of the less edgy characters of the team. Given that,she probably likes (or at least tries to like) every Guardian, no matter what they think of her.
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Post by RidiculousNinja on Mar 8, 2020 23:57:15 GMT -5
I'm submitting Wolfpack: he's a gruff mutant was born 107 years ago. He's got experience with war and is in part a government asset though he's proven that he's no puppet. He has a wife and two daughters and recently started praying. He lives with PTSD and feels immense guilt over his actions.
Abilities: Cellular Enhancement -Duplication -healing -slowed aging
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Post by Janus on Mar 9, 2020 11:31:48 GMT -5
This is starting to sound like a pretty bad ass team we're putting together.
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Post by Dhark on Mar 9, 2020 14:25:34 GMT -5
Mine, given that the background wasn't explicit about some stuff, is basically some kind of miraculous offspring of the souls that formed Bifrost. A girl raised normally by an astronomer that got into the Guardians by helping them in a fight even if she promised to carry a normal life. She's Asgardian tough (although far from Thor tough)and can use her connection to the Bifrost to both teleport or summon a shard of it as a sword (but not both at the same time). Despite blaming herself for being unable to bring the Guardians back from the pocket universe properly, she's still optimistic (and perhaps a bit naive) and probably one of the less edgy characters of the team. Given that,she probably likes (or at least tries to like) every Guardian, no matter what they think of her. I shit you not, I nodded off last night reading up on the Birost on the internet with a VERY similar idea in mind. So. On to idea number two then, less fleshed out... Mastery of Weather it is.
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