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Edited by Girraffalope:
9/20/2022 12:19:21 AM
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I give to you nerds, something nerdy
Today, my two friends and I were given the task of entertaining 4 young kids. All of whom worship superheroes the way I did when I was still short enough to use the monkey bars. Being the only member of the group with any sense of direction when it comes to keeping brats busy, I set up the activity to create and draw our own superheroes. I haven’t had any interested in comics since I was wee. In my art endeavors I’ve only attempted comic style once or twice when I was 13, but I remember being 8, sitting at my tiny desk and stapling together printer paper to create my own comic books full of uninspired justice league knockoffs. Lil me would be too proud of this revisitation.
My friends drawings were Hot Garbage™️, but they enjoyed the exercise a little too much. They wrote out whole character sheets with their strengths and abilities, even escaping to different rooms to invent their own secret nemeses. I neglected to remind them that they are both 20, and we are babysitting. They had more fun than the infants.
Kiddos got creative but still followed the DC blueprint a little too closely. I went for a Vibe without any ideas as far as character or ability, then I was scolded for being blasphemous and failing to create a hero outside of a look.
So here’s 0-BL1V10N, made in an hour with two black pens and some printer paper. She’s a rogue science experiment created and trained to absorb black holes endangering solar systems. Now she just goes around distributing tiny black holes to cause destruction or something. Yeah, she kinda sounds like a villain, but maybe she’s misunderstood or whatever. You write the arc, I don’t care enough. I successfully replicated a classic comic style that lil me used to adore, and that’s good enough. Cia0
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Nice. I was always pretty bad at drawing, but once or twice I impressed myself. How's this for an arc? 0-BL1V10N is a remnant of the Kaer Vokmir (a religious sect of aliens who can manipulate black holes), sent to earth to punish the earthlings for their sins. However, upon crash-landing on earth, she loses all of her memories and becomes an aimless, wandering being. She hides out with the Native Americans, -blam!- her as a god. She's kept her distance from civilized humanity for over a thousand years, but in 1492, Columbus and his crew arrive. She initially wants to flee, but a little boy sees her in the forest and pursues her. 0-BL1V10N doesn't know what to think of the child: her earlier excursions with civilized humanity left her with a jaded view of society. But the boy is kind, inquisitive, and teaches her about humanity: about its heroes, villains, cities, virtues, vices, etc. 0-BL1V10N grows fond of the boy. Eventually, however, when Columbus leaves, the boy goes with him, and 0-BL1V10N can't bear to see him go. So she uses the only method of transportation she knows: teleportation by black hole. In doing so, she accidentally manipulates space-time instead of just regular space, and as a consequence is teleported way into the future (to the present day). She doesn't know this and tries to track down her friend in a modern Spain. However, she only succeeds in finding his descendants and a gravestone in a local cemetery. Here her quest for meaning would have dead-ended again, but she finds out that the boy's direct descendant is a rich businessman in America. She sets out to find him, only to discover that the boy's descendant is a scumbag crime lord, getting rich on the profits of others in a corrupt, Gotham-like metropolis. He is fascinated by her for of course all the wrong reasons, and tries to capture her to learn her abilities. She escapes and her world is shattered a second time, but she decides to carry on the legacy of her friend where his descendant did not. (I.E., be a hero and protect those who the crime lord is oppressing) This sets up a archenemy for 0-BL1V10N, with possible story arcs involving flashbacks, 0-BL1V10N discovering others of her kind or remembering that she was sent to judge earth, and the main arc would be fighting against the crime lord. Lengthy and a bit weird, but that would be my take on it.
