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A friend and I were talking about dumb superpowers and I mentioned Prehensile Moustache. So then I spent all of ten minutes on this guy because I apparently had nothing better to do with my time….Enjoy?
I regret to inform you all that this guy has escaped my brain and now you all have to deal with him.
I’m so sorry. 🙁
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Beneath Emerald City on the west coast of the United States lies the Undercity. A long-forgotten relic of Emeralds history that was paved over and built on top of after extensive flooding in the 1800s. The Undercity gives much-needed shelter to Emeralds large homeless community but also vermin packs, criminals and violent psychopaths.
And something much more insidious.
In the deepest and darkest part of the Undercity lurks a being known as Danny Longlegs. A name that was given to him by the homeless community who live nearby. They spread tales of this slender man with elongated limbs who walks on spindly spider legs that protrude from his spine. His constant and creepy grin makes him even more frightening.
While Danny Longlegs is certainly a dangerous presence, he seems to have established a mostly working relationship with the homeless community. If they regularly bring him a share of whatever food they get their hands on, he keeps them safe from the other threats of the Undercity.
It’s hardly an ideal situation but it’s certainly better than being murdered in your sleep by a random psychopath or, even worse…Danny Longlegs himself.
Twilight retired from life as a superhero years ago after passing on his duties as guardian of a magical realm to his protege. But that protege has recently gone missing, forcing Twilight out of retirement one last time to find her.
Twilight is old and his magic is fading but he’s determined, driven and, most importantly, stubborn as an old bull. Nothing will stop him from finding his missing protege…Except maybe his own body.
When Chris Matthews (Adrenaline) bought the failing business Redshift Energies, everyone thought he was crazy. They thought he was doubly crazy when the first person he hired to work at Redshift was a 10 year old.
Gabrielle Hale is no ordinary 10 year old though. She is a prodigy of the highest calibre who’s intellect towers over those twice her age and then some. She may be a tad eccentric but then all the best geniuses are.
Chris Matthews sees a lot of potential in Gabby and has put his full support behind her in the hopes that he can help him turn Redshift Energies around. Her research into alternative energy sources is already showing great promise.
Gabby is a genius but she’s also a superhero fangirl so if she can test her inventions in the field by following Adrenaline around and helping him out then she’s really living the dream. Adrenaline isn’t exactly sure about a 10-year-old following him into battle against super villains but Gabby (or “Prodigy” as she likes to be known) is remarkably stubborn and he’s learned that telling her she can’t do something is often a sure-fire way to ensure that she does it so he has stopped trying in the hopes that she’ll figure it out on her own.
Prodigy, though lacking in experience, has so far acquitted herself well as a hero and has already learned a lot from studying various devices the maniacs who roam around wearing masks and shooting laser rifles and stuff use to rob people like idiot savants.
Prodigy hopes to one day use her own inventions for something better than robbing strangers blind but if she can have some fun and help people in the meantime while punching bad guys in the face then all the better.
Sonya Nichols saved the world several times over. As the hero Psyonix, she used her vast psychic powers to save countless innocent lives and was hailed as one of the worlds greatest heroes.
As powerful as her mind was though, her body was not so strong and her heart began to give out. The doctors were unable to find a suitable replacement in time and sadly, Sonya Nichols died in a hospital bed with her devoted husband Nathaniel by her side.
Meanwhile, a wanderer had come to Earth. A member of the alien Lor and refugee from a war light-years away, Foxx Kam’ron had grown tired of the corrupt leaders of his home system and decided to live out the rest of his life on what he thought was a much quieter world. Earth.
The telepathic Lor was physically similar enough to a human to pass as one of them and adopted the name of Cameron Fox. Looking to serve his new planet in the best way he could, Fox enlisted in the police force and began using his psychic abilities to solve crimes. He was soon promoted to detective where he encountered many of the worlds masked heroes, often aiding them in their crime-fighting.
Unfortunately for Fox. Many of those heroes would eventually play a part in his death.
When the Lor homeworld was destroyed and the republic was thrown into chaos, many alien refugees found their way to Earth where they were housed on Star Island. Fox offered his services to help his people adjust to their new surroundings and while many of them were grateful to humanity for taking them in, others chaffed under the rule of what they considered to be a lesser species. The fact that a lot of humans treated them poorly didn’t help matters.
A group of Lor Mentats (those gifted with psychic abilities like Fox) banded together in an attempt to reverse their fortunes and seize power for themselves. Their plan included using their combined mental strength to psychically manipulate the majority of the population of nearby Freedom City, including a sizable group of superheroes. One of the few heroes who were left to fend off the attack by the manipulated heroes was The Scarab, who used his vast Psychic powers to fight back. He wasn’t alone in this fight, however. Cameron Fox joined the fight and attempted to psychically subdue the other Mentats, allowing Scarab to free the heroes. Unfortunately, the mental strain of the psychic battle with the Mentat’s proved too much for Fox. Although he managed to stop them, it came at a great cost.
In the aftermath of the battle, Fox was declared brain dead. Though he was physically fine, his mind had been fried and he was now left in a vegetative state. Fox was gone. All that was left was a shell.
Fox’s adoptive family were left with a heartbreaking decision. Should they leave him in this state and hope that he somehow recovered? Or did they make the more difficult choice?
The choice was ultimately removed from their control.
While they contemplated their choices, Fox, or what was left of him, was left alone in a hospital bed. But he soon had a visitor.
Nathaniel Nichols, the husband of the late Sonya Nichols, arrived quietly in the night. He spoke with Fox as though the other man could hear him though he ultimately knew that it was more for his own peace of mind than anything. He explained himself as best he could. He explained that this was hardly an ideal situation. If there was any other option, he would have taken it. What he was about to do weighed heavily on him…but he was so tired of waiting.
Soon afterwards, the hospital lights flickered violently and an alarm blared from Fox’s room as the machines he had been hooked up to went crazy. Doctors and nurses raced to the room, quickly followed by Fox’s family. What they found surprised them all. Fox was alone and awake.
Though he seemed to have lost much of his memory, he was alive and talking and everyone was overjoyed that he was.
After several days and a battery of test, Fox was released from the hospital. He memory hadn’t returned but there was physically nothing wrong with him. The Scarab offered to help him regain his lost memories but Fox declined, stating that he had had enough of other people in his head for a while and that he would prefer to sort this matter out by himself. Scarab understood and saw no real problem with this as Fox had already displayed that he still knew how to use his psychic abilities. If he could piece things together by himself then The Scarab was happy to let him.
In the coming months, although Fox seemed to recover quickly, he also seemed to distance himself from those closest to him. Many of them stated that he seemed like a different person a lot of the time.
What no one realised at the time was that he actually was a different person.
Afraid of truly dying, Sonya Nichols had stored a copy of her psyche in a special crystal which she entrusted to her husband before her death. She planned to have Nathaniel find a suitable host body, one that was mentally dead but physically alive and use the crystal to install her psyche in the body. Ideally, it would have been a female body but Nathaniel had been unable to find a suitable body and mind that could hold the vast psychic energies of Sonya. Fox’s mind was more than capable. And, truth be told, Nathaniel had just grown tired of waiting. It had been years since he was separated from the woman he loved and if he passed up this opportunity, he may never see her again. So he implemented the plan and left. Fading into the night as “Fox” awoke and people arrived believing their loved one had miraculously come back to them. He really didn’t want to have to answer any questions right now. After all, he wasn’t even sure if it had worked.
Initially, Sonya genuinely didn’t remember anything at all. Even the details of her own life. She managed to piece to things together about Fox from mental images that streamed from the people around him that night at the hospital but her full memories quickly came flooding in. By the time they did, she had realised the emotional impact of what she had done on Fox’s friends and family so she let them carry on thinking that he had come back to them. It was the least she could do.
The more she looked at these people though, the guiltier she felt about puppeteering Fox’s body around, knowing that the person they had loved was gone.
She found Nathaniel again but he seemed uneasy around her. Uncomfortable with her new form…or uncomfortable with the ramifications of what they had done.
Sonya felt alone. She couldn’t face Fox’s friends and family so she pushed them away, trying to distance herself as gently as she could without truly hurting them. But she also felt distanced from Nathaniel. The one person she could truly be herself around…So to speak.
She was lost and confused. She didn’t know how to fix things. The one thing she did know how to do though was help people. She was good at that. Psyonix was good at that.
Sonya readopted the identity of Psyonix, albeit in a different form and returned to life as a superhero. To the outside world, it just seemed like someone knew had adopted the identity of Psyonix. It was hardly the first time someone had used the name of a previous hero after all. No one considered the possibility that it was actually the original Psyonix in a new body.
Regardless of their form though, Psyonix helped a lot of people. Battling the forces of evil alongside other heroes like Sonya had done for years. As Psyonix, Sonya finally felt like herself again. Doing what she loved and doing it well.
The universe seems determined to punish Sonya though.
Recently, she has begun to see flashes of a life not her own. She has begun to hear a voice in her head. A voice not her own but one all too familiar.
Sonya has begun to wonder if Cameron Fox is really gone after all. And if he’s not then she may just have to face the ramifications of her decisions after all.
While the teleporting thief known as Black Jack is clearly a criminal, most people who encounter him find him charming and oddly likeable. By all accounts a thief with morals, Black Jack never steals from those who can’t afford to lose whatever he takes. He has even been known to adopt something of a Robin Hood gimmick, giving a portion of whatever he steals (though admittedly a small portion) to those in need.
One person knows there’s far more to Black Jack than meets the eye though.
Originally, the identity of Black Jack was an alias that the hero Dragonfly used to infiltrate a criminal organisation. With his mission complete and his alias not compromised, Dragonfly retired the identity of Black Jack.
Some time later, however, reports started emerging of Black Jack committing robberies, Dragonfly knew that it wasn’t him so someone had clearly adopted his criminal alias and was using it for their own gain. The hero looked into this new Black Jack, attempting to stop his crime spree but has so far been unable to apprehend him.
What bothers Dragonfly the most is the eery similarity between himself and this new Black Jack, both physically and in the mannerisms he adopted while undercover. If he didn’t know any better, he would swear it was him. He’s starting to doubt his own sanity at this point.
This mysterious fey woman gifted the legendary king Arthur the sword Excalibur and has acted as a guardian and guide to Arthur’s descendants ever since, all the way to the current wielder of Excalibur. The hero known as Invictus.
The Lady of the lake has a psychic link with Invictus through Excalibur and she often offers him guidance in his quest to protect the innocents of the world.
Though she prefers to act through agents like Invictus, the lady isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty on admittedly very rare occasions when someone of greater power is required to fend off the forces of evil. In combat, the serene lady becomes a whirlwind of death that even the most powerful demons fear. It takes something of truly momentous scale to coax the Lady of the lake into interfering directly in the lives of mortals though and she mostly remains an ethereal presence in the mind of Invictus.
