Re: [OOC] Freedom Tower Super Lounge
Eh, got a bit sidetracked the last couple days, as well as taking some time to consider some character builds. And trying and failing to come up with a custom quality. Part of it is I'm trying too hard, and pressuring myself to come up with something awesome. Nor am I spotting an obvious angle. Help?
Lauren Lager moved to Megalopolis with her friends a few years ago. They had plans for being in the big city near their desired careers; Lauren mostly made the rent numbers work out. Not that it was without benefit, but a sci fi & fantasy artist can do most of their networking online these days. Being an artist didn't quite pay the bills, so she was a waitress as well.
She was badly injured during the OblivAeon chaos; exposed to various radiation and caught in a collapsing building. It wasn't quite miraculous that there were able to dig out her still alive body, but the survival rates for that rubble pile weren't great. The miracle was more in how fast she recovered, and the extent - most people don't grow 6 inches and put on a bunch of lean muscle in 2 weeks. Or develop super-strength in the process.
Being the victim of a super fight meant that she was already on the radar of the Sentinels, or at least their bureaucratic staff. Then developing superpowers while in the hospital meant that received an invitation to come down for some power testing once she was released from the hospital.
A small part of Lauren is thinking about illustrating a comic of her own adventures some day. A bigger part is responsibility; she was always the reliable friend, the one there to clean up after the wacky hijinks her friends got up to. Besides, what is she going to do, not be a superhero after she gets superstrength and flight? Doesn't every little girl want to grow up and be [Wonder Woman analogue] at some point?
Speaking of questions, one just popped out as I was typing here. Is there a Wonder Woman analogue? Not in a Paradise island Amazon way, but more in the sense of the most famous female superhero, the icon and legend in her own time?
One more question. Freya is a character concept I've been sitting on for a while, and has always had a bit of a Power Girl homage in the mix. But a tall, blonde flying brick in a white leotard already exists in the form of Legacy. Is that too close, and I should switch it up? Or is it okay, and perhaps even a source of comedy for mistaken identity? I'd be mixing things up with blue, below the knee boots and a red bolero jacket (aka, black canary style).