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Sorry for the intermittent delays in response. This is the first time I've crawled out of bed for three days. I'm supposedly "off work" for two weeks, which is just as well as I keep falling alseep.
Is it that cold/flu going around?
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After introducing a fair number of characters early on who were really just silly versions of comic book characters (we were all doing it), during my "middle years" writing in the Parodyverse I consciously downplayed and avoided those direct derivatives as much as possible. For that reason I never bothered to establish much backstory or rationale for them. It's only now in my "last gasp" phase that I feel comfortable dragging them out again and using them unashamedly.
I stopped using near copies as well around the time I started reading Adam Warren's Empowered, and how easy it was to make up and integrate multiple new throwaway characters.
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He's the God of Murder, not Suicide.
Well, he's been dead, and then brought back multiple times, he might just want to be left dead for a while.
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Well, Aella is 13, so she's not really in H9's "hot girl" category yet. And he thinks he knows a lot more things than her.
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Doesn't he think he knows more than everyone?
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Well, he is a smart teenager, so yes.
He'd probably get along with Lara, then. She tends to let know-it-alls be know-it-alls without arguing about it. Specifically because it's less stressful. If he can bring himself to talk to her, that is.
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It's odd looking back at my earliest stuff, because back then Hatman and CSFB! were the newest rookies in the LL.
Making Lara short and slim enough to occasionally mistaken for a kid was inspired directly by a good friend of mine. She is often asked at stores and cons, "Where are your parents?" It's a running joke by now. Lara's issues are not nearly as extreme, but it makes it so she has difficulty being taken seriously.
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Like that stops most band reunions.
It does if one of those jerks tried to have her arrested once.
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I agree. That's the kind of plot that can only be exploited so often, though, without becoming repetetive.
It can manifest in other ways that are interesting, like certain Legionnaires might become suspicious or distrusting of her because of that new-found power. Because she gets herself in real trouble so often, and because in her past she lost her temper and set fire to a man. They might not believe she can control herself.
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Which tells you even more about the queue of things waiting to annoy Visionary.
I'm sure if worms could see, they would have gone after the lighthouse by now.
