- Pronouns
- He/Him
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Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)
StarSingerBlue’s Corkboard
StarSingerBlue
Zenryoku Zenkai !
- Location
- The City of Lights
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Since we have a lot of lore and I noticed the other corkboards aren't up to date, so I made my own !
-Visited Yellow Quilin and gave her a piece of the Frozen Throne for no other reason than it wanted to see what happened
-said that the games with the "not-mes" have been interesting
-Looked like a normal, if offputting guy when visiting YQ, but described later as having « too-long limbs »
-Seems to have captured Nora's psychic echo and incorporated her into itself
-described by Nora as "« if you tried to remake a figure of a person out of the melted wax » (said melted wax comes from Hand)
-Fighting Valkyrie and King ?
-refers to others as « not-mes »
-searching for "novelty" and "an answer to its question"
-also looking for a "she" that it is sure is in Horizon
-a space elevator that was built by Osanyin and his company. Actually a psychic siphon that draws power from the Leviathan to increase the powers of the people living inside
-At the top of the Ladder is Elysium, a space station owned by Osanyin where the super-rich live in utter luxury with futuristic technology
-Elysium's spaceport is being built by Kelso-Allard, and is unfinished
-a lot of the institutional knowledge on how to maintain the Tower is getting lost (kinda like fiber-optic cables IRL) and most of the people doing maintenance are now « rung-trash », abandoned children living in terrible conditions in the Tower itself. Edgar, White Hawk and Belle Sabreuse all used to be rung-trash, and Sunlight Knight has also adopted several.
-Ellie's dad lives in Elysium
-A lot of the workers who built Jacob's Ladder contracted Jorando's Disease (a disease that hardens your skin and makes it crack like glass before moving into your lungs) from the materials used. Nora's dad died of the disease.
-a piece of warped space in the middle of horizon
-it's impossible to get out, it will warp space so you can't leave. Steelheart once tried mapping it out and the drone fell a distance longer than the Earth's diameter before running out of power. And it never hit the ground.
-You can get out of there using teleportation, but only once. The Frozen Throne will instantly kill you if you try to return
-Is semi-alive, can psychically influence people to lure them into its grasp. Do not go there if you are physically sensitive.
-always has someone seated upon its throne. It seems to prefer metahumans for that purpose, and tries to railroad its preferred candidates into the job. Being seated on it gradually kills the seated.
-has been drastically growing thanks to the magical girls Yellow Quilin created turning into monsters
-first metahuman, an Algernon-type specialised in medicine
-was incredibly beloved for curing cancer and revitalising Brazil's economy
-built most of Horizon and Jacob's Ladder. Jacob's Ladder was finished after his (apparent) death, though
-his death led to the creation of New Dawn but was seemingly alive after the Susurration since one of the Fill-In Issues shows him with Yasmin and Yasmin seems to remember him clearly despite only being a year older than Nora
Jair Oliveria
-Yasmin and Yara's dad. An utter PoS
-One of the backers of Crusade
-Currently trying to get Yara declared dead so he can seize her shares and thus control Osanyin (the company). He curently has only 40%, not enough for majority control.
A subordinate team of Powers. Blue-collar, Ete of the Four Seasons hated them and they all died in the Movement. Both Chatelet's fiancee Abigail/The Giant Slayer and Handyman's boyfriend Vulcan/Gus were part of it. Chaucer, our director of operations, is a former member.
Le Petit Prince
-mindcontroller
-seems to have had his powers boosted by some unknown source, Chatelet mentions his name isn't on the list of people boosted by Scarlet Maturity.
-attempted to recruit Menagerie Witch and killed her mother. She wants Revenge
-powers are biokinetic in nature according to Scarlet Maturity
Ash Knight
-formerly heroic before Le Petit Prince got to him
-gets more powerful the more fire is around him, A-Lister
Le Petit Prince also has a number of other metahumans under his control.
-a swarm of self-replicating robots, including giant mechs, that constantly patrol the QZ and prevent anyone from leaving it with Goldnine.
-has partially biological components and can be possibly contacted telepathically
-its brain has two sides: one more logical and robotic, the other snarky
-We're going to go and try to chat with it to get Goldnine.
-a psychic hivemind. On their own, they appear to be odd individuals who try to badly fit into human society. Put two together within a hundred yards, and they become the smartest individual on Earth. Put three, they become more intelligent than any human has ever been. Four have psychic powers on par with Valkyrie, and five can sculpt reality like marble.
-They want to be reunited
-one was in Wonderland, one is in the Apiary
-a Leviathan-worshipping cult, headed by a series of "Father Pious". Said Father Piouses keep dying of goldnine exposure.
Currently up to Fill-In Issue #4: Flight of the Bumblebee pt. 2.
StarSingerBlue's Corkboard of All Things Wonderful and Prometheanesque.
The Four Voices
The four most powerful psychics alive: they are, in order, the Leviathan, Valkyrie, Hand/Trimegestrius and the Interlocutor.
The Hand of Mysteries/The Philosophers
Interlocutor
-A creation of the Leviathan ?-Visited Yellow Quilin and gave her a piece of the Frozen Throne for no other reason than it wanted to see what happened
-said that the games with the "not-mes" have been interesting
-Looked like a normal, if offputting guy when visiting YQ, but described later as having « too-long limbs »
-Seems to have captured Nora's psychic echo and incorporated her into itself
-described by Nora as "« if you tried to remake a figure of a person out of the melted wax » (said melted wax comes from Hand)
-Fighting Valkyrie and King ?
-refers to others as « not-mes »
-searching for "novelty" and "an answer to its question"
-also looking for a "she" that it is sure is in Horizon
Crusade
The Horae Guard
Jacob's Ladder
-a space elevator that was built by Osanyin and his company. Actually a psychic siphon that draws power from the Leviathan to increase the powers of the people living inside
-At the top of the Ladder is Elysium, a space station owned by Osanyin where the super-rich live in utter luxury with futuristic technology
-Elysium's spaceport is being built by Kelso-Allard, and is unfinished
-a lot of the institutional knowledge on how to maintain the Tower is getting lost (kinda like fiber-optic cables IRL) and most of the people doing maintenance are now « rung-trash », abandoned children living in terrible conditions in the Tower itself. Edgar, White Hawk and Belle Sabreuse all used to be rung-trash, and Sunlight Knight has also adopted several.
-Ellie's dad lives in Elysium
-A lot of the workers who built Jacob's Ladder contracted Jorando's Disease (a disease that hardens your skin and makes it crack like glass before moving into your lungs) from the materials used. Nora's dad died of the disease.
The Frozen Throne
-a piece of warped space in the middle of horizon
-it's impossible to get out, it will warp space so you can't leave. Steelheart once tried mapping it out and the drone fell a distance longer than the Earth's diameter before running out of power. And it never hit the ground.
-You can get out of there using teleportation, but only once. The Frozen Throne will instantly kill you if you try to return
-Is semi-alive, can psychically influence people to lure them into its grasp. Do not go there if you are physically sensitive.
-always has someone seated upon its throne. It seems to prefer metahumans for that purpose, and tries to railroad its preferred candidates into the job. Being seated on it gradually kills the seated.
-has been drastically growing thanks to the magical girls Yellow Quilin created turning into monsters
Osanyin and the Oliveria family
Osanyin-first metahuman, an Algernon-type specialised in medicine
-was incredibly beloved for curing cancer and revitalising Brazil's economy
-built most of Horizon and Jacob's Ladder. Jacob's Ladder was finished after his (apparent) death, though
-his death led to the creation of New Dawn but was seemingly alive after the Susurration since one of the Fill-In Issues shows him with Yasmin and Yasmin seems to remember him clearly despite only being a year older than Nora
Jair Oliveria
-Yasmin and Yara's dad. An utter PoS
-One of the backers of Crusade
-Currently trying to get Yara declared dead so he can seize her shares and thus control Osanyin (the company). He curently has only 40%, not enough for majority control.
The Alternate Timeline
SLAYERS
A subordinate team of Powers. Blue-collar, Ete of the Four Seasons hated them and they all died in the Movement. Both Chatelet's fiancee Abigail/The Giant Slayer and Handyman's boyfriend Vulcan/Gus were part of it. Chaucer, our director of operations, is a former member.
Monarch's faction and Wonderland Inmates
Le Petit Prince and Court
Le Petit Prince
-mindcontroller
-seems to have had his powers boosted by some unknown source, Chatelet mentions his name isn't on the list of people boosted by Scarlet Maturity.
-attempted to recruit Menagerie Witch and killed her mother. She wants Revenge
-powers are biokinetic in nature according to Scarlet Maturity
Ash Knight
-formerly heroic before Le Petit Prince got to him
-gets more powerful the more fire is around him, A-Lister
Le Petit Prince also has a number of other metahumans under his control.
The Demon Flamez
MAGICAL
The R-Train
-a swarm of self-replicating robots, including giant mechs, that constantly patrol the QZ and prevent anyone from leaving it with Goldnine.
-has partially biological components and can be possibly contacted telepathically
-its brain has two sides: one more logical and robotic, the other snarky
-We're going to go and try to chat with it to get Goldnine.
The Americans
The Defiance Unit
The Catch-22
-a psychic hivemind. On their own, they appear to be odd individuals who try to badly fit into human society. Put two together within a hundred yards, and they become the smartest individual on Earth. Put three, they become more intelligent than any human has ever been. Four have psychic powers on par with Valkyrie, and five can sculpt reality like marble.
-They want to be reunited
-one was in Wonderland, one is in the Apiary
The Supplicants
-a Leviathan-worshipping cult, headed by a series of "Father Pious". Said Father Piouses keep dying of goldnine exposure.
Currently up to Fill-In Issue #4: Flight of the Bumblebee pt. 2.
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[X] Stairway to Heaven (Valiant Red, Valkyrie, King, Dr. Theodore Frederson)
I think this is amazingly fundamental lore that we really ought to know. Flight of the Bumblebee would be nice and sad, but I think we have a lot more information about that already.
I think this is amazingly fundamental lore that we really ought to know. Flight of the Bumblebee would be nice and sad, but I think we have a lot more information about that already.
StarSingerBlue
Zenryoku Zenkai !
- Location
- The City of Lights
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] . . . ocean birds flying overhead. They swoop into the waters, striking fast with expert precision.
[X] Flight of the Bumblebee (Apiary, Scarlet Maturity, The Defiance Unit)
Birbs and the Defiance Unit, what's not to love ?
[X] Flight of the Bumblebee (Apiary, Scarlet Maturity, The Defiance Unit)
Birbs and the Defiance Unit, what's not to love ?
Wow this is impressive! Thank you,
Maybe put the different sections in spoilers to make it easier to browse through?
Also, how do we know Fish wasn't a member/prospective member of JU? I am big on the Uiara!Fish train (with sufficient fuckiness) so curious about that.
Kermie
Roses Are Red, I'm Single And Blue
- Location
- Hell (An Unfinished Google Doc)
- Pronouns
- Any
Yeah this is probably better than mine, you can take anything you want from my corkboard since it's getting too hard for me to constantly update it.
StarSingerBlue
Zenryoku Zenkai !
- Location
- The City of Lights
- Pronouns
- They/Them
- Location
- A place
[X] The Egg of the King (The Defiance Unit, Triss, Octavius, Edgar, Horae Guard)
[X] . . . a school of colorful fish, in all shapes and sizes. Darting an elusive, part of a whole yet individual
[X] . . . a school of colorful fish, in all shapes and sizes. Darting an elusive, part of a whole yet individual
StarSingerBlue
Zenryoku Zenkai !
- Location
- The City of Lights
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Thank you !
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] . . . ocean birds flying overhead. They swoop into the waters, striking fast with expert precision.
[X] Flight of the Bumblebee (Apiary, Scarlet Maturity, The Defiance Unit)
[X] Flight of the Bumblebee (Apiary, Scarlet Maturity, The Defiance Unit)
Legacy of a Villain — Rovos (canon)
- Location
- The Netherlands
Legacy of a Villain
Throughout the past decades there have been many heroes, Valiant Red, King, Radiant Silvergirl, Novalight and many, many others. Opposing them of course have been a great number of villains. The Defiance unit, Scarlet Maturity, Le Petit Prince, and the countless lesser villains who try to make a name for themselves on the streets and in the underworld.
These of course are the most well known, be it through their broad destruction, terrifying powers or just simply due to being very public in their villainy. There are others however whose deeds are less well known, not due to their impact being any lesser but due to simply being less overt.
The foremost of these is the thief. Many when asked about a villainous Thief imagine high stakes art robberies at a museum or exciting bank heists seen in movies and comics both. The reason is easy, once again these are the overt examples.
No, the sign of a truly skilled thief is that no one ever hears of them. This however would make for a difficult topic to discuss as there would be nothing known to speak of, however after a lot of research and several interviews there is a story to tell of a villain unknown to many for most of his career. Only becoming known to the wider world after his death, this villain was Draupnir.
Draupnir was a career thief and assassin who worked in the underworld for the better part of two decades. His power was a simple one, duplicating anything he could hold in his hand, from rare jewels and USBs filled with confidential data to the deadliest poisons available in the metahuman underworld it was trivial for him to create a copy.
It made him the perfect thief, so long as the object was small enough to hold the target would not know they had been robbed at all, as the original was either left where it lay and a copy taken or be replaced by a perfect replica. Corporate espionage was his main speciality as every megacorp in Horizon hired him to steal their opponents dirty laundry or new research.
It was however his Asssasination work that eventually let people outside of the underworld discover his existence, as politicians and influential businessmen died to poisons rare enough that tracing it would be nearly Impossible or died in ways that made them seem to be dead by natural causes.
It was one Hero who managed to catch the scent of this villain however, Justice Unlimiteds Lady Leizi, due to her own underworld background and exceptional knowledge in matters on the darker side of the world, managed to find the villain's existence.
This would mark the first time that Draupnir was ever stopped in his career, the Assassination of a CEO being foiled by the Hero. After this Draupnir would end up facing the Hero more and more often as routes of payment and contact were slowly subverted.
Then he disappeared without a trace. Noone in the underworld would be able to find or contact him, the payment paths were removed like they had never existed in the first place and there was never another sighting of the villain.
That is until a year before the Movement.
The death of a local old man had not been something anyone expected to be unusual, he was old, pushing his late eighties. He was wealthy, living in a large house and hiring staff to help him take care of it as he had no living relatives.
So it was that after his death his estate was searched so a proper value could be put on the man's belongings and to see how the man's will should be carried out. A will that led to a room none of the staff had known existed. Hidden behind a false wall was an expansion to the basement and within it multiple things were found.
The first was a suit, one that would be identified by Lady Leizi as Draupnirs. The Second was equipment, from windows cutters and lockpicks to knives and poisons. The Last however was what was truly shocking.
It was accounts, records of transactions dating back all the way to 20 years before. The clients, what service they had provided, how they paid, when they paid. Every lurid detail from 2 decades worth of crimes committed neatly organised and left there to be found post mortem.
That was the Legacy of the Villain Draupnir, the last theft and assassination committed by the little known but accomplished villain. To spend the last year of his life enjoying the fruit of his labour and when he passed away to give away every single one of the people who paid for his services.
Some of the crimes had passed the statute of limitation. Others however, well let's just say quite a few people ended up behind bars in the following year for hiring an assassin or Corporate Espionage.
AN: short little omake for my DNA sample. hope people enjoy!
Throughout the past decades there have been many heroes, Valiant Red, King, Radiant Silvergirl, Novalight and many, many others. Opposing them of course have been a great number of villains. The Defiance unit, Scarlet Maturity, Le Petit Prince, and the countless lesser villains who try to make a name for themselves on the streets and in the underworld.
These of course are the most well known, be it through their broad destruction, terrifying powers or just simply due to being very public in their villainy. There are others however whose deeds are less well known, not due to their impact being any lesser but due to simply being less overt.
The foremost of these is the thief. Many when asked about a villainous Thief imagine high stakes art robberies at a museum or exciting bank heists seen in movies and comics both. The reason is easy, once again these are the overt examples.
No, the sign of a truly skilled thief is that no one ever hears of them. This however would make for a difficult topic to discuss as there would be nothing known to speak of, however after a lot of research and several interviews there is a story to tell of a villain unknown to many for most of his career. Only becoming known to the wider world after his death, this villain was Draupnir.
Draupnir was a career thief and assassin who worked in the underworld for the better part of two decades. His power was a simple one, duplicating anything he could hold in his hand, from rare jewels and USBs filled with confidential data to the deadliest poisons available in the metahuman underworld it was trivial for him to create a copy.
It made him the perfect thief, so long as the object was small enough to hold the target would not know they had been robbed at all, as the original was either left where it lay and a copy taken or be replaced by a perfect replica. Corporate espionage was his main speciality as every megacorp in Horizon hired him to steal their opponents dirty laundry or new research.
It was however his Asssasination work that eventually let people outside of the underworld discover his existence, as politicians and influential businessmen died to poisons rare enough that tracing it would be nearly Impossible or died in ways that made them seem to be dead by natural causes.
It was one Hero who managed to catch the scent of this villain however, Justice Unlimiteds Lady Leizi, due to her own underworld background and exceptional knowledge in matters on the darker side of the world, managed to find the villain's existence.
This would mark the first time that Draupnir was ever stopped in his career, the Assassination of a CEO being foiled by the Hero. After this Draupnir would end up facing the Hero more and more often as routes of payment and contact were slowly subverted.
Then he disappeared without a trace. Noone in the underworld would be able to find or contact him, the payment paths were removed like they had never existed in the first place and there was never another sighting of the villain.
That is until a year before the Movement.
The death of a local old man had not been something anyone expected to be unusual, he was old, pushing his late eighties. He was wealthy, living in a large house and hiring staff to help him take care of it as he had no living relatives.
So it was that after his death his estate was searched so a proper value could be put on the man's belongings and to see how the man's will should be carried out. A will that led to a room none of the staff had known existed. Hidden behind a false wall was an expansion to the basement and within it multiple things were found.
The first was a suit, one that would be identified by Lady Leizi as Draupnirs. The Second was equipment, from windows cutters and lockpicks to knives and poisons. The Last however was what was truly shocking.
It was accounts, records of transactions dating back all the way to 20 years before. The clients, what service they had provided, how they paid, when they paid. Every lurid detail from 2 decades worth of crimes committed neatly organised and left there to be found post mortem.
That was the Legacy of the Villain Draupnir, the last theft and assassination committed by the little known but accomplished villain. To spend the last year of his life enjoying the fruit of his labour and when he passed away to give away every single one of the people who paid for his services.
Some of the crimes had passed the statute of limitation. Others however, well let's just say quite a few people ended up behind bars in the following year for hiring an assassin or Corporate Espionage.
AN: short little omake for my DNA sample. hope people enjoy!
- Pronouns
- She
[X] . . . a great sea serpent, larger than you dare imagine. It moves with slow grace, its power undeniable, irresistible.
[X] Stairway to Heaven (Valiant Red, Valkyrie, King, Dr. Theodore Frederson)
[X] Stairway to Heaven (Valiant Red, Valkyrie, King, Dr. Theodore Frederson)
Temes1066
To Defy Gravity you must Let It Go
- Location
- Coleraine
You have only partially underlined the title, which is annoying
Don't you mean: Everytime he is killed, he consumes one of the people he empowered and resurrects stronger than before.
The Ghost Dragon Triad was the organisation of Leizi's father not her own.
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- Location
- Strip-mall Hell
- Pronouns
- She/They
[X] . . . ocean birds flying overhead. They swoop into the waters, striking fast with expert precision.
[X] Stairway to Heaven (Valiant Red, Valkyrie, King, Dr. Theodore Frederson)
[X] Stairway to Heaven (Valiant Red, Valkyrie, King, Dr. Theodore Frederson)
- Location
- [REDACTED]
[X] . . . a great sea serpent, larger than you dare imagine. It moves with slow grace, its power undeniable, irresistible.
[X] Flight of the Bumblebee (Apiary, Scarlet Maturity, The Defiance Unit)
[X] Flight of the Bumblebee (Apiary, Scarlet Maturity, The Defiance Unit)
StarSingerBlue
Zenryoku Zenkai !
- Location
- The City of Lights
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Thank you for the corrections !
Quite an interesting concept for a last heist! In some weird sense it makes me think of a perfect crime, even though he revealed himself.
Toaster cult
I Am An Imaginary Living Body
- Location
- Tokyo
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] . . . a great sea serpent, larger than you dare imagine. It moves with slow grace, its power undeniable, irresistible.
[X] Flight of the Bumblebee (Apiary, Scarlet Maturity, The Defiance Unit)
Im a simple woman. Cool sea serpent
[X] Flight of the Bumblebee (Apiary, Scarlet Maturity, The Defiance Unit)
Im a simple woman. Cool sea serpent
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
[X] . . . a school of colorful fish, in all shapes and sizes. Darting an elusive, part of a whole yet individual
[X] Stairway to Heaven (Valiant Red, Valkyrie, King, Dr. Theodore Frederson)
[X] Flight of the Bumblebee (Apiary, Scarlet Maturity, The Defiance Unit)
[X] The Egg of the King (The Defiance Unit, Triss, Octavius, Edgar, Horae Guard)
[X] Stairway to Heaven (Valiant Red, Valkyrie, King, Dr. Theodore Frederson)
[X] Flight of the Bumblebee (Apiary, Scarlet Maturity, The Defiance Unit)
[X] The Egg of the King (The Defiance Unit, Triss, Octavius, Edgar, Horae Guard)