on today's episode of Hashing Out Concepts Theatre, i spent a while today while waiting for my new fridge/freezer to be installed after my previous one died and i lost all my food hashing out a bunch of concepts for another game idea i have. (rest assured i'm not actually working on it as a game yet i just like to bash out a framework for things every now and then to make my brain do happy chemicals lmao)
putting all of this stuff under a cut since it's a bunch of images and also in case people aren't interested XD
i am regrettably a huge fan of comic books (mostly DC) and i've seen a couple of comic book inspired IFs popping up lately, though when it comes to my own interest, i'm definitely more into a straight interpretation of a comic book universe than a more. the boys-style universe - i'm into the camp lol, not so much the grim and gritty stuff. (though that's just my own personal preference)
anyway the idea behind That's Just Super is something that i really like about certain comics - giving the villains more of a purpose and rounded existence than just existing to be in somebody's rogue's gallery. the joker's angry defence of the batfamily from various other DC evil forces, lex luthor's furious resistance against brainiac alongside superman because it's His planet, damn it, DOOM throwing in with the heroes in every second marvel event comic... i really like stories where villains and evil characters don't always make the Most Evil choice just Because, but have clear and explainable motivations that sometimes bring them into what we'd consider a 'good' alignment because unlike in d&d, there's no real such thing as a concrete moral alignment.
(this is my banner design for it)
the basic idea is that an inexplicable cosmic event removes all of the superheroes from the planet, leaving it vulnerable to attack by evil mindflayer style aliens - unless the supervillains who remain are able to band together despite their more unpredictable, less cooperative natures and save the planet in the heroes' absence. after all... if aliens take over the earth, the villains can't take it over themselves.
here's my fun little UI design idea lmao...
the other major thing about That's Just Super that i've been hashing out is the pc. the basic idea is that you pick your villain identity from a list but you get to customise their like. birth name and secret identity, while the villain identity comes with its own name, costume, and set history (including occasionally past romantic encounters). i like playing around with the way that IF works with the idea of mcs and customisable mcs so i just thought it'd be a fun twist... it also allows me to create nice drama by having set occurrences in the past lol.
so i did some profiles for the nine villain options - three each of the DC triad of tech/metahuman/magic origin. they're all based on a specific kind of villain archetype, and i really tried to limit myself to ones where i could definitely pin down more than one specific influence so it didn't end up like me just making too many analogues haha... even if some of the influences are probably pretty obvious.
weirdly i haven't even Thought about ROs yet since i've been so focussed on the pc... maybe i'll play around with the partially set background idea even more and only have 1 possible RO for each villain choice or something. maybe a couple that you can romance as anybody... not sure. (talionis could definitely have a messy broken romance with his superhero for example)
apologies that readability isn't great but these are mostly just made for me lmao
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ok y'all, as of tonight I've temporarily set the queue to post once a day instead of twice! this will affect the time it posts as well, and I'll definitely go back to twice a day once I'm done with this batch of requests
(tho... to be 10000% honest, I'll most likely peace out for a bit after I do that, half to focus on other fandoms/content and half because it'll probably be near the start of NaNoWriMo or slightly into it by the time I finish this batch, and NaNo will obviously take a lot of my attention lol)
BUT, we're getting there! I currently have 31 requests left, and when I get to about 25 I'll redo my list one last time (because I just can't help myself XD) and I'm really really close, I'm super hoping I'll be at 25 by tomorrow night!
love you guys so so so much, thank you for sticking with me even tho I'm really slow and scatterbrained!!! <3 <3 <3
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Rating: Teen & Up
Warnings: none, mentioned canonical character death
Characters: Skizz, Tango, Etho, Bdubs, Ren, Lizzie, Scar, Joel, Jimmy, Mumbo, 3rd Life Ensemble
Relationships: Skizz & Tango, Minor/Background Relationships, Mentioned 3rd Life Relationships
Additional Tags: Unconventional Format (kind of), Constellations, Stargazing, 3rd Life SMP References, Set During Last Life SMP, Canonical Character Death, Storytelling, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Experimental Style
Word Count: 3426 words, 6 chapters
In this world, the Last Lifers do not remember 3rd Life, but the stories of the world are told in the stars. Some of them, inexplicably, know the tales of these constellations.
Or: the stories of 3rd Life, told through the constellations of Last Life. Skizz tells the story of the Martyr, Etho tells the story of the Weapon, Ren tells the story of the Trickster and the Silvertongue, Scar tells the story of the Wolf King, Jimmy tells the story of the Lovers, and Skizz tells the story of the Pyre and the Scapegoat
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🖊🖊🖊🖊 for diana ofc
a fun little fact about diana is that she wears her watch with the face on the inside of her wrist
while working for umbrella (well, undercover for the rival company, that is), diana's employment was never common knowledge to the public – because why would a pharmaceutical company need a herpetologist? instead, she simply held a position as a researcher at raccoon university, and would occasionally do lectures, but for the most part she would just take the cable car underground to the nest
when diana collaborated with the connections through h.c.f. in the early 2000s, they named one of the d-type bioweapons after her
diana saw a lot of her younger self in sherry when they first met due to the similarities in their situations with their parents, and the way she behaved around both herself and albert. despite her dislike of children, she couldn't help but feel for her and even came to enjoy when she would stay over on occasion (i'd love if my brain would let me finish the rewrite of their first meeting because i touch on all of this in there and diana's thought process ough)
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