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I guess the two radioactive elements mixing sent me forwards in time and space somehow. quote:How is your future self exactly what you never wanted to become? I...She isn't like me at all. God this is confusing. Is she me? Is this what I'm going to be? I hope not I really do. She's/I'm a killer I've seen the records 30 dead villains that everyone knows about and who knows how many more she/I covered up. I don't believe a hero should kill unless there's like genuinely no choice. And she changed my name. I mean it's a pretty boss name I'll admit Everyman sounds way better than Plastic Girl. But I wanted to be a hero not some sort of cold blooded emotionless killer. I don't want to turn into that. I'd rather be dead myself first.. quote:Who, outside of the team and your future self, wants to send you home? The Watchmaker he's some sort of time controlling hero. I'm not sure how his powers work exactly but he specialises in time travel. Anyway when he met me for the first time after I started talking about where I was from. He started talking about "disruptions in the timeline" and an "excess of chroniton particles in the area of my appearance" He's not very good at talking to normal people though I think. But I got the general impression. I shouldn't be here and I need to go back otherwise something bad is going to happen. Or maybe already has happened. Time travel is enough to give me a headache. quote:Why are you determined to stay here, at least for now? Because I can't go back. Still that said I'm not sure I want too. I mean the future isn't exactly the colonies on the moon utopia I was hoping for but it's still pretty righteous. And besides I have like 50 years of fashions, culture and most importantly baseball to catch up on. I don't want to miss any of it. It all looks really cool. quote:Why do you care about the team? Well Halycon still needs it's heroes and it's reassuring to know that whatever else has changed there's still people standing up and fighting back. I couldn't be the person I am and stand back while there's a fight to be won and innocent people are getting hurt. quote:Which hero sponsored you for this team and what did you do to get their attention? Well that would be Cowboy Jack, he has some sort of enchanted revolvers that never run out of ammunition and he's a really good shot he can make those bullets go anywhere. I thought he was some sort of time travelling refugee like me at first but really I think he just watched too many John Wayne films. Anyway he seems to have taken a shine to me. Said I remind him of someone he knew when he was younger. Said I shared her spirit and he owed it to her to look after me. We first met when some girl I'd never seen before came after me babbling something about killing her husband. I still don't know what that was about but she had some form of ice powers that were focused through her wand and she could put up walls and throw icicles. I held her off for as long as I could with some clever shifting but I could tell she was way stronger than me. And she knew it. She was toying with me when suddenly out of nowhere she took a bullet to the hand forcing her to drop the rod. It was Jack. I thought I was a failure but he said I'd done well to hold out as long as I had and that he liked me for a greenhorn. It wasn't long after that I got the call. quote:What's an interesting place in town? Liberty Stadium Home of the Halycon Heroes the best baseball team in the country in my not at all biased opinion. A lot of Halycon has changed over the years but the stadium is still standing and hasn't changed a bit. Even the hotdogs are just as terrible as I remember. I've been to check out a few games since I got here and at least baseball is still baseball. It's nice to know some thing's never change and it looks like it's going to be a good season this could be our year! quote:Who's an interesting non-hero in town? Dr Dugdale She's like some sort of very specialised psychologist, apparently I'm not the first person to turn up in Halycon from an alternate dimension or time and it's common enough that the League can and will pay to have a specialist on call to deal with it. And it helps believe you me. Finding out that everyone you knew is dead or missing or returned to their home dimension and that you're alone here. Well it was a shock and I had a bad moment but having someone to talk about it with helps. She's always there if I have any questions about how things have changed and if there's any aspects of modern life I'm having problems with. She's even talking about setting up some sort of support group or charity to help people who've been in this sort of situation. And I'm one of the lucky ones it was only sixty years for me. Some of them have come from a thousand years ago, or a couple of hundred years from now. quote:(optional) What are you doing in the show's intro credits montage? WIP quote:(optional) A thread name for the IC thread WIP quote:Name: Plastic-Girl Ferrosol fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Sep 27, 2016 |
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Plastic Girl, the InnocentCapfalcon posted:What's a place that's changed to keep up with the times, but still feels just the same? League HQ located still at One Liberty Plaza. I understand that the building I used to be in and out of has since been blown up by a particularly ambitious super-villain but they rebuilt it. Bigger and better than ever They took us there for a tour and some interviews before we signed up. And well I'm impressed. I don't quite understand all the tech upgrades they were talking about but I get the idea of the automated defence systems and the fact that it's artificially sealable to protect from gas or radiation attack and that it has a fully equipped trauma suite and staff trained in "Special medicine" oh wait you're not supposed to call it that now right? Umm what was it. Meta and extra-human medicine that's the ticket. But what really impressed me most was the people I haven't had the chance to catch up on everything I've missed in these lost years but the place was bustling heroes moving in and out with a sense of purpose a sense of pride. A desire to do good and defend the innocent. It's good to know that people with the right stuff are still around. Capfalcon posted:What's gone that you miss? Why? Aside from my family and friends? I was tempted to look them up by the way but I'm not sure any of them are still alive. And even if they are they've probably built their own lives, without me. Last thing you want is some great-aunt turning up whose younger than you are. Besides I'd only make them targets. But if I can't say family what can I say. I miss the culture I suppose. I lived in an era where anything seemed possible. We'd stopped the Nazi's , nuclear power was going to solve everything and we were going to the moon. Somewhere along the way America lost that and I'm not entirely sure why. Instead everyone is so cynical. Too big? Well ok I miss this little diner that used to be on the corner of Third and Main they made the best breakfast waffles I ever had. I went past there the other day and it's a pet shop now. What a waste of good waffles. Capfalcon posted:What's Major Fallout up to these days? That's the thing, I haven't been able to find any record of him. There's not even any record of the battle I fought in, even though from what I can gather most of my team-mates who were there survived and went on to have some quite successful careers. It's like the whole thing never happened. And that just doesn't make any sense really I mean if there's another me running around then it must have happened. I mean I was there. Could he have been caught in the explosion and time-displaced like me? I hope not I mean the futures not that bad for me. But if I recall correctly he was one of the hard core commies, I doubt if he's popped out somewhere he's happy his side lost the cold war. Which surprised the heck out of me I'd have given us 50/50 that we'd either be speaking Russian or battling giant radioactive ants by now. Still I'm sure if he turns up I won't make the same mistake I made last time. Nothing about this adds up at all though. It'd take someone with serious connections to make all the evidence of a major fight like that vanish. Capfalcon posted:What happened the last time you ran into your future self? I wasn't even sure it was me at first. Trust me when you're a shapeshifter you learn not to take things at face value but I was fooled. It was another one of those government goons I thought. I dunno what they think I'm supposed to know any deep dark secrets I knew would be sixty years out of date. Not that I do know any you understand but the government sure seems convinced I'm hiding something. Possibly about my future self. This was another fishing expedition but then the questions started to get a little personal. Stuff that no one else other than me could have known about so I got suspicious. And I confronted the "agent" I'm actually kind of weirded out by the thought I was talking to myself. He? She? I? congratulated me on my perceptiveness and said they wanted to get a closer look at me. And that I was still green and innocent as hell but I'd soon learn. So I started arguing with myself I'd rather be green and innocent than a cold blooded killer. I should have tried and stopped me there and then, I deserve to be in prison murder is still murder after all even if it is for a good cause but I must have seen me move and before I could stop myself I changed into a rat and was scurrying away into the air vents. That would have been the end of it but a couple of weeks later I got a letter through the mail containing some computer thing with a note saying I should read it and then destroy it. The note was in my hand writing but can I trust someone who knows me better than I know myself? How do you even use this thing anyway? Who can I trust to ask knowing that any one of them could be me in disguise? PS: I really need to find some better way to separate her from me. These pronouns are confusing the heck out of me Capfalcon posted:EVERYONE, just to be clear, do you actually have a secret identity? Why or why not? If yes, who knows? Well that's a tricky question. Yes, no sorta. I'm not exactly advertising who I am but I'm not hiding it either. Future me seems to have made a lot of enemies and some of them would love to strike at me in the off chance that it would hurt her in some sort of way. Don't ask me how that's supposed to work it gives me a headache just thinking about it. I mean if I really wanted to keep my identity a secret I could shape shift into a different secret identity everyday. Like if one day I wanted to catch a movie without being interrupted then yeah sure why not. But otherwise what's the point? Most of the time I just stay as I am because life's easier that way. I did go through a phase of trying to look prettier when I was younger but that attracts the wrong kind of attention and well... it didn't end well. Eventually they're going to see you warts and all and you can't keep that pretty face up forever. Ferrosol fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Jul 19, 2016 |
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 Capfalcon posted:Where do you go to feel like you're back at home? Funny you should ask that, I did try to go home you know. I went back to the little street where I grew up out in the suburbs. And well I was surprised to find my old house was still standing. I mean the paint had flaked a bit and the area was a lot more run down than I remember but it was still recognisably my home. I'm not ashamed to admit it but I had a bad moment when I saw the old place. See I thought I'd accepted it but seeing my home occupied by someone else kinda drove home that everything had changed for me. That everyone I knew was gone.... I don''t know how long I sat there staring at the old place but next thing I know my eyes are drawn to the movement across the street. I don't know who lived there now but it used to be Old Mrs Robinsons house she had a son about my age if I remember rightly but what mattered to me was someone sneaking out of the window carrying one of those big modern flat tv's, Now I know street crime is a little below me I mean it's like using a sledgehammer to crack walnuts but I wouldn't be a hero if I could ignore crimes like that. I chased the crooks pretty quickly not that it took me long given they were slightly overburdened with their stolen loot. Anyway to cut a long story short I ended up turning them over to Halycon's police department who seemed grateful. And well I have a cause. I might not be able to save the world but I can at least save my old neighbourhood right? It's a little run down sure but with some paint and that old fashioned attitude we could really spruce the place up. And well there are times I'm really not sure what normal is anymore being able to help out is like a reminder what decent people, the real heroes are fighting for. quote:Who did your future self kill that everyone else sort of agrees was for the best? How do you feel about it? The Piper incedibly powerful mind controller and telepath who expressed his powers through music. One blast of his music would have even the strongest willed hero eating out of his hands. He built quite the army of turncoat hero's until she/I came along. Thanks to a very tricky bit of shapeshifting that I'm not clear how it works exactly she managed to block her ears. Kind of hard to control someone with music if they can't hear you. And when you can look like anyone or anything it's easy to get close to even the most deadly of villains. After all most of them are still human or at least humanish and have people they care about. In this case she/I apparently had apparently shapeshifted into the form of one of his conspirators another sound themed villain the Siren they had some sort of weird couple thing going on. And she got mighty close to him. I'm not sure I believe the rumours of how close though... ewww. Just the thought of it makes my skin crawl. And then when his guard lowered she cuts his throat with a knife before he had time to realise he'd been had. I mean yeah maybe I was the only one with the ability to stop him but surely I could have found another way? If you can get that close to him take away his insturments or something. Don't just kill because it's easier. I've tried to be better than that. I can't imagine a me that would think something like that is ok. Yes villains deserve to be punished but by the law not by the knife. quote:Where have you been staying while you've been figuring everything out? Well the league has put me up in this really nice hotel for the time being. At least until the testings done and they offer me a permanent position or find me a way home. But to be honest I only really go there to sleep. It's too quiet and when i'm left alone with my thoughts I start brooding.... quote:Do you really think the future can be changed? God I hope so. I've never been a great believe in destiny or fate Just because future me happened to be a heartless killer doesn't mean I have to be. Right? To be honest I'm scared of what I'm potentially capable of. I've done things or she's done things that I wouldn't condone. And yet no one's ever been able to force me to do things I didn't want and from what I can gather this other me is equally stubborn. So I must be doing these things because I want too. And that scares me all the more. What could have happened to me to make me want to do things like that. I hope I never have to find out.
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So uh Dr Dugdale gave me this diary to write my thoughts down in, Now I know I haven't been using it much but still I thought I'd write down what I think of my would be teammates. Bunny Bat First of all what sort of name is Bunny Bat? Secondly who dresses like that? I mean fashion must have really got weird in the last sixty years to make someone think that that's ok. I'm not sure how I feel about the whole Dracula thing anyway. So she's like a vampire but not like a movie vampire and to make things better or worse she used to be a villain. I'm not sure I trust her but then given what future me has done I'm not exactly in a position to talk about trust. I mean I should hardly expect anyone to trust me. So probably best to live and let live but that doesn't mean I won't be keeping an eye on her in case she falls into her old habits again. Hamon A robot! an actual walking talking robot! Now this is the kind of future stuff I was expecting. He? is totally honest and really freakishly smart. And from what I saw of those light bending powers he'll be a real handful in a fight. My only worry with it is that he is that naive and could be tricked into doing something he? might regret. Still he means well. Bolt and Lodestone Nice kids who have some sort of psychic twin thing going on. Watching them fight is eerie the way they move in perfect sync with each other. Kind of annoying to be around though given the way they finish each others sentences and the fact that you never see one without the other. Also another devotee of weird fashion sense. What is it about heroes and bad fashion? Tatsu So dead for three days and then got back up he's either a zombie or Jesus. Or I dunno Zombie Jesus. Either way he's strong tough and stupidly determined. Seems like he could be a decent guy if he doesn't retreat into brooding. Not that I'd know anything about that of course.... Spiderman Apparently he was a normal guy until he was bittern by a radioactive rear end in a top hat and then since then he's devoted himself to using his rear end in a top hat powers for his own good. No I'm not still upset that the first thing he did when we met was start suggesting kinky uses for shapeshifting powers. Or that his introduction to modern music included his own terrible efforts. Flaire Flaire is well... I'm not sure how describe her. She's some sort of human avatar of the legendary phoenix. She really is powerful and could be a real asset to the team if she gave her best... But she's way more interested in looking good and getting a reputation for being good than in actually you know being a hero. I'm not sure I like her. But I guess I'll have to put up with her. Li I don't know what to make of Li. She's apparently some sort of Frankensteins monster created by and utterly devoted to one of the more ambiguously good hero's in town. I mean I know what it's like to be looked down upon because of something you had no choice in but that doesn't mean you have to be a doormat. Still maybe we can teach her some independence. Entropy She's hiding something. And I don't just mean whoever it is behind the mask. Whatever secret it is it must be important to her. Maybe it's none of my business but she could be a real asset to the team if she'd just open up a little. I know what it's like to have to watch yourself for everyone else's expectations. Aegis and Key I really like these two. Key's been incredibly friendly to me ever since I got here. Even when most people have quite sensibly shied away from me for fear of what I might become. And Aegis is pretty cool as well and kind of cute. Plus it's the whole star-crossed lovers thing destined by fate to be joined together is so romantic I hope I have more time to get to know them a bit better. Ghost Eater A hero from a long line of heroes. I think I even vaguely remember hearing about his grandmother back before I ended up here. That mask is kind of goofy though and he shouldn't take himself so seriously. Still I sympathise with him he has a lot to live up to and a lot of expectations piled on him so I'll try and cut him some slack. Silver Bolt So we've got a vampire and a vampire hunter. They're going to get on like a match and a gasoline spill. I just hope they can keep their fingers off each others throats for long enough for us to get the job done. other than that he seems nice enough. Barracuda Another masked heroine. Although in her case I think the mask is just there to hide how much of an adrenaline junkie she is. Still her powers are pretty impressive even if she did freak me out when she bent her leg that way... Lunaria Another shapeshifter! Even she is a weird alien she seems like she means well and I might be able to learn something from her. 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 White Cat the Delinquent I'll be with you in just a second. Ooh a big scary firewall. Oh wait nevermind it's six weeks out of date get with the times grandpa. And there right every computer in the Motherland Hero Institute should be playing the national anthem. Ours of course not whatever the ruskies have. Shouldn't have called me an overrated has-been should you comrade? Sorry about that just a bit of business to take care of Now what can I do for you? Questions sure. I like talking about my favourite subject me of course. quote:How did you get your powers? Who knows? I've just always been like this. The eggheads call me a technoempath but I think that's just their bullshit desire to label everything. As for why well I've heard every theory under the sun. I won the genetic lottery maybe. Or mom dropped too much LSD when she was pregnant with me. I sat too close the TV. Or there's my favourite one I'm actually an alien in disguise infiltrating earth to destroy it. Yeah lets go with that one it sound pretty cool quote:What do you do for fun? I build things and I hack things. I was dismantling and putting back together my Mom's TV when I was six. By eight I'd hacked into NASA's classified files about the Martian invasion of '76. By age 12 I was giving the NSA fits when I stole their secret recipe for coffee. And of course my latest little joke that landed me here. I rang up Barry at midnight and started reading his own nuclear launch codes to him. I thought he was supposed to have a sense of humour but no some people can't take a joke can they. Before too long it was black helicopter and orange jumpsuit time. Of course they let me go in the end after I promised to be a good little girl and behave myself in future. Of course when no one was looking I helped myself to an interesting little schematic that DARPA got from some friendly alien for a man portable teleporting device. Took a little work to get it working reliably what with those miniature fusion reactors and all. But hey I'm drat good at what I do. quote:Who, outside the team, thinks better of you than you do? Hey I don't know what you're implying. I hack for the fun of it. No one gets hurt. It's not like I'm stealing peoples credit card numbers or outing closeted gays or anything. Sure some people don't like me waltzing through their secure databases but it's not my fault they can't do their jobs properly is it? And it's not like I was selling that information to the Russians or the Martians or anything either. At least that's what Vulcan said when he stood up for me. He's the one that handles tech security for the Super League so he's probably the closest to being on my level. quote:Why do you try to be a hero? Because I'm on probation. One wrong move and I end up in the kind of prison where you don't get a lawyer because no one tells your shyster the prison exists. Well and it's kind of the right thing to do I suppose quote:Why do you care about the team? Care about those losers? Hah whatever gave you the idea I care about them. When it comes down to it and your backs against the wall the only person you can trust is yourself. Still some of them might be salvageable once I remove the giant stick up their asses. I would feel kind of bad though if they got hurt because I screwed up though quote:Which hero sponsored you for this team and what did you do to get their attention? Vulcan yeah the tech guy with the big fancy armoured suit. He's actually pretty cool even if he is a giant nerd. I mean who names themselves after some musty old god that only nerds would bother to know about? Still as for getting his attention well I kinda hacked his personal network. Now that was a real challenge. Dude has some of the best computer security I've ever seen and I'm sure he has some sort of adaptive AI working security for him. I musta burned something like half a dozen laptops before I finally got through. Turns out for all that security he didn't have much that was interesting a few prototype weapons, some notes of how to take down his fellow superheroes should he need to that sort of jazz. Boring. Still he managed to trace the hack back to me and here I am. He said he wants me where he can see me and where I can put my talents to good use. quote:What have you accomplished in town over the past month? Oh you heard about my ongoing battle with Mr Bionica. I'm not calling him a doctor, did you know his degree only came from one of those online diploma mills? No it's totally true. He's not even a real doctor. Anyway I found evidence that he was building an army of robots to do whatever it is supervillains do when they're bored. Probably conquer the world or rob a bank or whatever or get revenge on someone who wronged them. Truth is I tended to tune out after about the first thirty seconds. He was working through cutouts and false front companies. I tracked him through his account transactons. Wasn't that hard really banks have some of the lamest security. Turns out he had them stashed in a warehouse on the edge of town. So I went in and dismantled them. It was a rubbish design anyway, who the heck goes for the terminator look these days? I mean come on dude the 80s were over before I was even born get with the times man. But there was no sign of the good Mr Bionica anywhere. So looks like he gets a chance to do the same thing again. Oh well I guess I'll just dismantle the next lot he makes. quote:(optional) What are you doing in the show's intro credits montage? quote:Name: White Cat Ferrosol fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Nov 23, 2016 |
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Capfalcon posted:White Cat the Delinquent: There's no one out there better than me. At least not these days anyway. Oh don't get me wrong there's some young up and comers who might be able to knock me off my perch given a lot of hard work and a little luck and a few years experience . The only one that's ever come close to matching me is Wraith. And She(He? They?) is a legend. A myth that novice hackers tell each other when they've drank too much mountain dew or when it turns out their SQL injections aren't quite as clever as they thought they were. Supposedly they could waltz through any firewall around like it wasn't there. You wouldn't even know you'd been robbed until the KGB or Homeland Security or whatever was arresting you or your corporate rival was producing something identical . I mean no false modesty here but I am the best around and there's no way you can hack something without leaving any trace. Besides even the legends just say the hacking... stopped one day. I dunno maybe She was run over by a bus or something. Everyone knows a guy who knew a guy who hired her once. But I've never seen any trace of them. Just another urban legend I suppose. quote:Who in the city is against your involvement with the league due to your past crimes? Hey they weren't crimes. They were practical jokes! No one ever actually got hurt by any of my hacks. Just because some old farts don't like having someone reveal their worst secrets all over the internet or looking like idiots. But yeah there's been people who've been kicking off. The worst is probably uhh what's his real name again? Sam Stokes yeah that rear end in a top hat is running for Mayor, You probably know him better as Starfall but he's hung up his cape and gone into politics. And he's running on one of those tough on crime platforms using his supposed experience of dealing with metahuman threats as propaganda. Apparently the league "focuses too much on rehabilitation and not enough on punishing the villains. Even now there's plans to recruit another such criminal who's been incriminated in several high profile data hacks." Which is me apparently because then the media are all over my poo poo. It's almost like he has a grudge against me over something. I certainly have a grudge against him. Some stuck up old hero who hasn't left the silver era thinks he knows all about computer crime. quote:What's the next headline grabbing stunt you have planned? What makes you think I'm planning anything? I'm on probation remember? One wrong move and it's off to extra dimensional Guantanamo with the other non-persons. What do you mean I'm always planning something? I've never been so accurately insulted in my life! Ok fine I am not planning something. It's just i think a certain wannabe politician has some skeletons in their closet. It would a shame if someone were to discover those skeletons and "accidentally" splice footage of them into their election broadcasts. That individual would probably derail a promising political career of a massive rear end in a top hat and be something of a hero. Of course this is only wild speculation of course I'd never dream of getting caught doing something like that myself.
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