[G. W.]

Forgot my username and the backstory:

The villains bickered amongst themselves. There were alliances within the group, but many of them simply did not like each other.

“Ladies and Gentlemen!” said the approaching figure, feigning astonishment. “I am surprised at your manners!” The villains instantly recognized the distinct voice of Seth, remarkable more for its passionate, angry, and charismatic tone rather than for its rather common, generic sound.

“What is our mission?” asked Pinup.

“This is not a mission, per se, so much as an issue of… well, branding. They can’t very well cower in fear if they don’t know who’s attacking, can they?”

“I mean, they actually can…” said Mirrors.

“SILENCE!” bellowed Seth. “Anyway, we need an identity. A name to strike fear into all who hear it.” Guanlong and Pinup rolled their eyes, but the rest were utterly captivated by his passion. “We are on a quest. A quest to spread our agenda of anarchy! Therefore we shall be the Legion of Chaos! As for how to market ourselves, I have an idea for an insignia. Our mission is against society. And what better symbol for society than the archetypical city? The city, full of corruption, crime, homelessness, hunger. All of society’s evils within a single urban sprawl. And what better symbol for chaos than fire? Not wishing to shape things, simple to destroy, to revert them to their natural shapes. Not a force of society, but one of nature. Nine flames, nine of us. Nine legionaries!”

“Enough!” yelled Guanlong. “Some of us don’t care about your politics, Seth! Will I get the money!”

“Yes, of course you will! Don’t worry, all in due time. Now, is anyone a graphic designer? Nobody? Oh well, we’ll get there eventually.”

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[G. W.]

Legion of Chaos (Villain Team CDC Logo)

The color scheme represents the colors of the villains on the team. The city coloring of black and gold represents Seth, the red and grey flame represents Pinup, the blue and red flame is Guanlong, the generic red and orange flame represents the thus unknown ninth member of the team, the orange and blue flame represents Tick Tock, the purple and black flame represents Dark Web, the red and black flame represents Wildfire, and the grey and black flame represents Smoke and Mirrors.

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[G. W.]

These characters are all great, both in writing and in visuals. Your work has a very distinct style into it, and I really like your rather unique take on superheroes. Seriously, keep this up.

[G. W.]

Messed up on the file name:

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CDC Entry: Wildfire

Real Name: Henry Victor

Age: 15

Hometown: Chicago, IL

Powers: Fireproof, can throw fireballs, can turn all or part of body into pure flame, super speed/strength/endurance when in flame mode.

Weakness: The longer he stays in flame mode, and the more of his body in flame mode, Henry loses more and more control over himself.

When Henry was 8 years old, his parents died in a tragic car accident, and he was sent to live with his uncle. Unfortunately, his uncle hated him, and was verbally and physically abusive. One day, when Henry was 15, his uncle tried to rid himself of Henry once and for all. He pretended to leave for work, when in fact he actually just went outside the house and started a fire in an attempt to kill Henry. As he was about to die, Henry saw a strange, glowing being in the flame (the truth behind the being is still unknown). He was strangely drawn toward it, and reached out to touch it. He passed out, but was otherwise completely unharmed when firefighters found him buried beneath the rubble of his uncle’s house.

In the hospital room, after he had awoken, his uncle came in feigning sympathy. In that moment, Henry realized exactly what had happened, and in a fit of rage, confronted his uncle. To his surprise, he reached his hand toward his uncle, and his hand burst into flame, setting his uncle on fire. Panicking, and realizing that he was entirely engulfed in flame, Henry ran through the hospital, accidentally killing many people in the process. He ran as far as he could, eventually jumping into lake Michigan in an attempt to extinguish himself. When he returned to himself, he went into hiding.

Penniless and alone, Henry was living in the streets of Chicago, stealing what he could and avoiding the cops and other authorities best he could. He planned to get away from the city as soon as he could to avoid arrest. It was December. In a dark alley, Henry held his arm ablaze in an attempt both to warm himself and to heat up a couple of hot dogs he had stolen. Suddenly, He was approached by the strangest group he had ever seen: Two beings, one seemingly made of smoke, the other of glass, a giant lizard man, a robotic spider, a woman who appeared to be a stripper of some sort, a young man who seemed at most a few years older than himself, and, somehow both the most normal and the most peculiar of all, a man in a crudely made Egyptian mask.

As soon as he first saw the young man, Seth knew he was seeing someone who was very powerful, very dangerous, and, if he acted quickly, very easy to manipulate. He put on an act of sympathy, listening to Henry’s story, dubbing him “Wildfire,” and bringing him into the team. Although his sympathy began as a ruse, Seth grew to develop a soft spot for the young man, as did many other members of the team.

As for Henry, he was just glad to feel accepted for the first time in years. He didn’t realize or even really care that he was being manipulated, or that he was with the bad guys. Although Guanlong still creeped him out.

I chose the backstory that I did after realizing that all but one of the villain team members thus far is in it for personal gain, with Seth being in it to promote a political ideology. Even Smoke and Mirrors, who have a bit of a vengeance story, are still in it at least partially for the money. For that reason, I wanted to introduce a character to the team who would be at least somewhat sympathetic.

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[G. W.]

Hello again. I know it’s been awhile, but it will be another while before I post again.

I am rebooting my universe yet again (I know, what am I, DC?) In the past, I’ve talked about how I’m going to take the time and do some planning and come back when I’m ready, but in the past I’ve never really done it.

This time, I genuinely am going on a semi-long term hiatus in order to organize my mythology and time scale.  It’s going to be a very long time, maybe several months before I make another image upload. In the meantime, I will make occasional text posts in order to inform you of some basic elements of my universe.

As usual, when I resume uploads, I will start with the same few I always due. Usually it’s because of writer’s block. This time it’s because I need the major characters as a reference point for my minor characters. For a while, I’ve been thinking of new character ideas, including a few which I’ve had since the beginning but which I’ve never actually used.

See you all in a while.

[G. W.]

Whoops. Never added my username:

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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. Jack’s uncle is a former college professor who was fired for his weird experiments, and then he became a full time mad scientist. Jack enlisted his uncles help to build a device for his right hand that would allow him to summon jets of flame. He then chopped off his own hand and had his uncle build a powerful robotic replacement.

[G. W.]

For this week’s CDC: Seth.

The Egyptian mythology book Jack Zee found was a bit… different. Attached to the front cover was a gem with magical properties, which drew Jack to the book and specifically to the myth of Seth. When he decided to create a personal based on Seth, Jack decided, he thought on a mere whim, to place the gem in the collar of the mask. As it turns out, the gem was actually posessed by an entity claiming to be Seth, who has given Jack Zee immense power while also making him insane.

When the entity is partially in control (basically anytime Jack is wearing the mask) , Jack has enhanced speed, strength, agility endurance, intelligence, and combat skills. When the entity completely takes over, Jack is completely unkillable, and has the powers of shapeshifting, telekinesis, and some degree of mind control.

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I just realized that I never actually posted this guy. I don’t have a name for him yet, but I do have a backstory.

When he was five years old, he realized that he had somehow been born with a superpower. Unfortunately, that superpower was that he could summon into his hand objects of less than one square foot that were less than a meter away from him. Nevertheless, the fact that he had a superpower made him fascinated with the idea of superheroes, and he spent his youth obsessed with comic books, often being bullied because of it.

The bullying only worsened when he found his second love in seventh grade: sewing and fashion. He became obsessed with clothes, and sewed by hand all of the costumes for his high school plays.

When he went off to college, he ended up in the same room as Aiden Ignatius (Captain Blaze) and they quickly became friends. One day, he happed to walk in on Aiden while he was still in his Captain Blaze costume, but unmasked. He quickly got over his initial shock, and began recommending a change of costume. When Ignatius was recruited by the Warrior, he brought his roommate with him, and he is known as the top superhero costume designer in the world.

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This is the silver age version of the Man of the Future (what should his name be).

He was a billionaire who made his fortune on technology, and who grew up loving stories of the original Man of the Future. He had already been working on a suit that could make someone a one-man army when his headquarters was invaded by Soviet agents seeking the prototype. To drive them away, he donned the suit, thus becoming the second Man of the Future (1960).

He spent the rest of the decade collaborating with other heroes and fighting the Soviets and Chinese. Then, in 1970, his entire company crashed. He lost all of his money, and thus his suit, and fell into alcoholism. Eventually, he was able to rebuild some of his lost wealth, but not enough to recreate the suit, and even if he could afford it he was no longer fueled by the optimism he had once had. He also had witnessed poverty and other societal problems first hand, and thus he became the vigilante “Whisper,” so called because of his favored weapons: darts and arrows, hence criminals he shot heard nothing but a whisper and saw nothing but a blur as they died.

This Man of the Future can fly, has enhanced strength, and can shoot bullets from his wrists, and has other tools as well (he’s basically a flying, weaponized, high-tech Swiss army knife.) In 1964, he upgraded his suit with alien technology to shoot beams from the hands and be able to fly into space.

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For this weeks CDC: Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror. This is based on Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec god of fate, conflict, wind, and mirrors, among other domains. He also has connections to the jaguar. My version has the power to see into the future, can shroud himself in a cloud of darkness using the symbol on his chest, can manipulate wind, and can turn into a jaguar (as well as simply manifesting jaguar attributes, such as claws.) He lost his foot a while back, hence why one is mechanical.

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@HerrD Thank you for the suggestions on Polarity. The lining up with the earth idea is pretty good, and while I’m not going to call him Ferrous Bluer, I actually might adopt Ferrous as a last name.

@RobM Thanks! My idea with Man of the Future was to make him someone who could easily be a legacy character. I might even have versions of Man of the Future from before the 20th century.

[G. W.]

Okay, I freely admit that this character is kind of a Rocketeer ripoff, at least in design.

Well, technically, I got the idea from one of various golden age costumes featured in a recent CDC entry. It had a seemingly Rocketeer-inspired aesthetic (though I could be wrong) and it made me realize that my universe has two problems (well, it has a lot of problems, but it only made me think of two of them):

1. Not enough golden/silver age characters. I always hate it when universes have 99% of their super-powered characters show up in the 21st century, when that makes no sense. Heck, I’ll probably try making some characters who fought crime before the 20th Century, because that just makes sense to me. My next several pieces will probable be characters who existed in the 1960s or earlier.

2. Not enough tech powered characters. I also realized that very few of my characters fought crime with technology.

Thus, I decided to create a golden age character powered by technology.

Presenting: The man of the future.

Charles Futuri was going to be just an ordinary air force pilot during World War 2. Then, in mid-1941, he was placed in a special government program dedicated to creating a flying man. Although the U.S. didn’t enter the war until December of 1941, they did secretly authorize the program just in case. They had already built the jetpack, they just needed a test subject. Thus, he became the world’s first flying man to not have superpowers.

He adjusts the power of the jet pack using the button on his belt, and he steers simply by moving. He does carry two specially designed guns that shoot out small bursts of energy, manufactured by the government using alien technology, but they are not pictured because I forgot to give him weapons, so let’s just say that this was in the early phases of testing.

Though he was not a founding member, he did become an All-Star when the team was recruited by the military to fight the Nazis. In fact, the military tried to prop him up as being the team leader, although he himself never pretended to be, and was very vocal that the true leader was the Warrior.

The program shut down after the war, because it only took one man for them to realize the project’s impracticality, but Futuri was allowed to keep the tech. He put away the jetpack in the late ’40s, although he continued using the pistols to fight crime on the streets of Pine city, now under the name of Blaster. He retired from crime-fighting in 1954, when the anti-superhero sentiment reached its peak. He died in a plane accident just one year later. His jacket, jetpack and twin blasters are on display in the Smithsonian Museum of American History.

I’ll probably make some more historical characters soon to develop the history of my universe.

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[G. W.]

Reupload of an old thing for the current CDC

 

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