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Gwen Anderson aka   "Hear you needed a hero?" Backstory posted:How did you gain your skills? I lived and breathed dance since I was about five. Boston School of Ballet, Julliard Pre-College, I was on the gueling fast-track to stardom. Did you ever have something you knew was bad for you but you couldn't get away from? Dance was like that for me. Loved it. Absolutely adored it. All kinds, ballet especially. It sucked down all my time. It shaped my whole life, took it over, the same way you hear about for child actors or Olympic athletes. I lived dance, I breathed dance, it crowded out everything else from my life. Which was fine, because I loved it. Maybe I would have sought balance on my own. As it was, I didn't have a lot of a choice, becuase a the ripe old age of fourteen, I blew out my knee. Massively, the full on pins and staples and surgery and everything. It sucked. I mean, as you can tell, I'm fine now, but ballet's a harsh, obnoxious mistress. I was off the bar for two whole years and by that time...well, it's an art that chews up practitioners young, that's no secret. Sixteen and I freaking aged out! But I had to stay active. I spent my off-years trying to jump to acting - you'd be surprised how many make that leap. Even Audrey Hepburn! I had a half-dozen good stage roles, but it's still tough. I tried to stay fit too, lots of swimming which is easy on the joints. A friend suggested I try archery - it's good upper body without straining my knee. That's pretty awesome and old school. Turns out it's well suited for heroing too, although I didn't plan it that way. Backstory posted:Why do you try to be a hero? Says something that you'd ask that. 'Why do you, silly girl with no powers, try to do this?'. Because how could I not?! The chance to be an actual, real life superhero? Wow! I've been at it a couple years now - and sure, at the start, it was mostly to prove to myself I could do it. And to everybody else. Now, it's more that I really really love doing good. Inside all that hard work, those crazy moments, there's really cool, amazing stuff that happens. The moment when you snatch a civilian out of danger. When you get to tell a teammate how much they mean to you. Oh, and that time I got to go to the moon. :-) Mostly helping people, though. Backstory posted:Who, outside of the team, thinks you shouldn't be a superhero? Oh, plenty of people, I'm sure. My parents aren't so thrilled. The one that sticks in my craw, though, was Grimoire. Picture a librarian, but super uptight, and magical. When I joined up with the Valkyries, my first super-team, he was one of our trainers, and just had no time for me. Kept calling me a foolish girl, asked what my 'sticks' could do to somebody like him. I really really wanted to just shoot him in the eye sometime. I've crossed paths with him a number of times since, and no matter how much I've done, he's still a dismissive rear end. Probably a sexist too. Backstory posted:Why do you care about the team? If I'm honest? Because they're a gateway to adventure. I mean, awesome as I am, I'm still just a chick with a bow. Can't fly, can't shoot lasers from my eyes. How else does a human get to hang out with godlings? Backstory posted:When did you first put on your costume? About six months after the accident. I'd been training a bunch, taken up archery, all really for my own fitness. You see the costumes on TV...well, it puts ideas in your head. Isn't it the ultimate role? It's...glamorous, frankly, and I've always been a performer, of one flavor or another. I started with some light vigillantism, got Slingshot's attention and some mentoring, and before I knew it, I was a real blown young hero! The Key Question posted:How are you getting dragged (on a journey) to hell? Excessively Catholic parents? No, no, that's flip. I actually met Styx a while back, through Memorium. He'd been tracking down something called the Eye of Oganesson, this ancient artifact from Sumeria that the Overmage was going to use to....I'm not sure. Something about warping the planet into some kind of fantasy realm? Some serious bullshit. Me, I like hot running water and antibiotics and the Internet. But Overmage is - errr, was - powerful, and Memorium needed to call in backup. That meant that my metor at the time, Slingshot, brought me along. So Styx and I met in the way you meet kids of your parent's friends, I guess. But we got along, she was nice. After the big battle (we won, BTW :-) ) we hung out at the victory party. It wasn't quite fair to her, I leaned on her hard about a rough breakup I'd just been through. Styx was super sweet and supportive - not what I'd have expected from a ghost, at all. Which meant when she disappeared...well, I haven't sidekicked for Slingshot in a while, but Memorium still has my number and asked for my help. First, I get to help out a fellow young hero, and second, I get to go to the freaking underworld! Sign me up! quote:Hero Name: Bravura Platonicsolid fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Slydingdoor posted:@Platonicsolid you found out something terrible about Slingshot from someone in Hell because of them. How'd it change what you think of them? Every hero has a regret, I think. You hammer away on the side of good long enough, well, you don't always strike the nail on the head each time, do you? Slingshot didn't. I should have known he didn't, just because of the odds. Still, he's my mentor, it's hard to see him as flawed. That and being a superhero. When I came into Hell...(she said casually as if that weren't a BFD to start)...they say that the souls you meet are drawn by your own 'scent', which is why you'll tend to meet ghosts of family rather than just a lot of randos. Me, I wound up meeting Stormstrike. Slingshot's arch-nemesis. He'd died probably ten years ago? Everybody had said he killed himself with a lightning bolt during a showdown with Slingshot on the top of Halcyon Tower. That's...not entirely true. Stormstrike said...that Slingshot hit him with a grounding arrow, electrocuted him and then let him fall off the roof to his death. Which...wow. That's not the Slingshot I know. Sure we wound people sometimes - arrows aren't kids toys - but we're not murderers. Are we? Relationships posted:Luci is awesome, and you take every chance you get to hang out with them.
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