Behind The Hero: Double Bubble
by SolarGemX
Heroes, love them or hate them, nobody can deny their weight in our worlds industry and lives. From the simple civilian militia, corporate super teams and even the Titans that are known around the world; Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. The amount of things these empowered individuals can do vary drastically depending on their powers, skills and financial backing. From stopping a simple bank robbery to fighting off Named Behemoths, almost all heroes do their best to help when its necessary. Keyword being
Almost, not everyone with a power is going to put on some tights or a alluring robe and go punch people in the face just for anything *cough* Scarlet Maturity *cough*.
"What? Oh don't worry there was just something in my throat". *Ahem* Not all heroes go out looking for trouble, in fact it can be said that a good bunch of those that have powers decide they don't want to deal with the world of heroics ALL the time, and its understandable. This job has DANGEROUS stamped in its description and some people just don't want to deal with that, not when there's other means to use their power for a profit. Yes, with the advent of more and more empowered in todays age, many have seek to use their powers in their everyday lives or in their 9-5 jobs. In todays episode of Behind The Hero, we take a Glympse at the history and job life of the Pseudo Hero team Double Bubble, a mostly job level team working out in the tropical paradise of Hawaii.
Before we begin we need to establish that we at Behind The Hero, respect the lives and choices of all heroes and their work and we hope only the best in their future paths, now with that out of the way lets talk of the six member strong Double Bubbles.
Lets start with perhaps the most shocking member of the group, Kai Kahele also known as Captain Tentacle Beard or Cap for short. This individual is quite the sight for first time viewers, Mr. Kahele is has a slight dysmorphic appearance in addition to his powers, the young "captain" has an octopus for a head with four additional wiggly limbs coming from his normal human body, specifically the back. In contrast to his Illithid appearance, the 37 year old is actually quite knowledgeable conversationalist and a treat to talk to. Mr. Kahele is an expert mixologist and bartender in the "Double Bubble: Reef and Beef Shack" near one of the various costal areas in Hawaii. Initially Raised as a fisherman by his father at an early age, young Kai learned everything about sea life from his dear old dad and its thanks to this knowledge and his fathers old fish boat "The Salty Catfish" that, at age 12, Young Kai Kahele would meet his newest friend and future wife Malia Kahananui and future business partner, but more of that later. Old Tentacle Beard works as Bartender in the Double Bubble when the bar opens in the later hours of the night, mixing and prepping delicious cocktails and drinks for all night time costumers, and with 8 dexterous limbs its pretty easy to see how. In addition to this, The Captain serves the most unusual of treats: Shaved Ice. You see, in contrast to what his appearance would imply, The Captain is capable of Freezing Liquids and containers that come in contact with his tentacles. Due to this making ice is extremely easy for him and his chilled drinks are among the locals favorites.
The second member of this motley Crew is Mr. Kahele's wife the alluring landbound Siren, Malia Kahele also known as Mermail. As you may surmise from the little moniker, Miss. Kahele also has a slight Dysmorphic appearance, but unlike her beloved Captain, she takes a more traditional look of a fairy tail mermaid. Small sets of orange scales adorning her arms and face and long powerful fish tail from the waist down. Miss. Kahele is actually capable of breathing underwater, from some side interviews made by fans and scientists, she actually has two sets of lungs in her body, one pair capable filtering normal air and the second one activating when underwater, letting her "breath" water as well as normal oxygen (Additionally, while submerged a set gills can be seen at the sides of her neck). Its this first set of abilities that led the young miss to meeting her future husband, Kai. At twelve years of age the young girl was an avid swimmer and accidentally got herself caught in Kai's fishing net during one of his fishing runs. Quite the first impression ain't it folks? After apologizing the 2 kids began talking and Kai and his father decide to take the young girl back to shore. Later meeting the young boy in a more calm (and less embarrassing) circumstance.
While cute you may wonder how is it that she can move on land if she has a fish tail for legs, and that is a very good question! You see its all thanks to her secondary power, water bubbles. Miss Kahele can grab moisture or even surrounding water and make it... buoyant for a definition of the word. These bubbles can be shaped in different ways like balls, rings or even flatten to a disc, after shaping them she can make springy. By using these properties and her ability to move them with her mind she creates a chair size bubble and uses that to move while in land, as the worlds wettest wheelchair. In addition of acting as the restaurants accountant, Miss Kahele actually has a side hustle renting her powers for beach goers near the shack. Her bubbles as previous stated work great as entertainment and for a small fee she lets beach goers use rings, balls and trampolines made of her water for some fun in the sun.
Our Third and fourth members of the motley crew are Chris Flamberge and Leilani Pueo, Childhood friends of the Restaurant owners and their Head Chef and Waitress/Chief of Hiring. Having a much more mundane appearance to the previous two members Mr. Flamberge and Miss Pueo, also known as Flame Cut and Iron Sight respectively, met the their future members when the young childhood couple moved to Hawaii seeking to learn the culinary arts of the island. At 16 years of age both teens were wet behind the ears, yet filled with vigor and a want to learn, which led them to meeting Kai and Malia at the same College they attended and later after graduating with honors, joining the Halele's in their restaurant and bringing a much needed boost to the restaurants reputation and speed. Mr. Flamberge's power is quite simple but interesting in execution, fire and heat control. Flame Cut is capable of controlling all generated fire and its temperature in a 1 mile radius around him, he can make fire burn far hotter than it should be or actually make it cold to the touch. In one occasion where the two male adults of the group made a bet of whose powers was "cooler" Mr. Flamberge inversed the properties of the flames, making it so cold it actually FROZE water, to the udder bafflement of the scientific community (who drowned their sorrows at seeing thermodynamics be bend like a pretzel at the bar).
This control of flames makes him the best chef in the kitchen, perfectly cooking all sorts of dishes like Hawaiian Style Mahi-Mahi with ease. As for his wife, Miss Iron Sights power is quite simpler, but by no means not useful. Ms. Pueo's power is concentrated in her eyes and her brain, much like her name suggests the empowered is capable of "zooming" her eyesight to incredible degrees much like a telescope; it also is capable of changing to night vision letting her see clearly in the dark. The second aspect of her power is that she has perfect memory of everything she sees and hears, making her incredible with it come to taking orders of quoting important details or documentation. In fact, Miss. Pueo has been contracted from time to time in Hero-for-Hire to help identify individuals in security footages .
The final two members of the restaurant are the youngest of the group, at a current 16 years of age we have the viscous adopted children of the Kahele's, Koa and Alani Kahele, also known as Acid Apple and Acid Cherry (They choosed their names when they were like 7 and by the time they realized how..."uncool" it was it was already to late). Both siblings were found by the recently married Kai and Malia at the tender age of 6 years, the siblings were discovered when they were searching for food among the restaurant's garbage. Untrusting at first, the pair eventually warmed up to the couple who spend quite some time searching for any information on the kids, to no avail. Eventually, the kids were going to be sent to an orphanage since they couldn't find anything about their parents and in what could honestly be called a drastic move, the young couple decided to adopt the giving them their new names. (The reason is actually quite personal and unknown to anyone except close friends; you see Malia Kahele is actually infertile, so they decided to adopt the kinds so they could have children.)
Having a slight different body to most, the young siblings are best described as a pair of sentient human shaped slimes. Koa being a lime green in color, while the sister Alani being bright red; each sibling has a core where their slime originates from making them the second weirdest looking members of the group right behind their adopted father. The kids body is akin to gelatin in consistency with no added benefits for strength or endurance, in exchange for this the siblings have a "unusual" set of powers... eating. Acid Apple is capable of digesting all forms of liquids: Water, juice, cooking oil, even tat and crude oils are digested in matter of seconds by the male slime. On the other Hand, Acid Chery is capable of digesting all forms of solid materials: Pencils, scraps, trash and even metal are digested in seconds, giving anyone that sees it in action quite a scare. Don't worry the twins don't get sick from anything they consume, they can choose what to digest or not, they can turn off their tastebuds and in fact anything that passes through them is disinfected... if left smelling like apples or cherries. This makes them the best cleaners in the restaurant and in occasion they are hired to help clean things like oil spills. Ironically making them the richest members of the group, although they still ask their mom and "aunt" to help with finances from time to time. The sibling heroes main form of clout is a video channel they have where they have muck bangs or describe the taste of the things they eat.
As you can see, not all empowered decide to become heroes or villains with their powers, but they can still find ways to help their community, be it with a warm meal or with some simple community service. Its good to remember that behind the splendor, the powers and the masks, Heroes are people too and it nice to see how powers can be used to further along the more "mundane" side of our daily life. Well, it was a pleasure talking about the Heroic restauran Double Bubble and quirky cast of members and how they decided to bring a little more "flavor" and "color" to their community. This has been "Behind The Hero", signing off.
Authors note:
I have written more for this quest in the last week than in other forum I have ever been in....huh...neat. Anyways here is Omake Numero 2!
A slightly more slice of life in comparison to the previous Behind the Hero, but here we have another group of heroes working in much more calm setting, a restaurant in Hawaii. I took inspiration from several sources for the characters.
Captain Tentacle beard was inspired Octodad and a picture of a Buff octopus bartender (Fun Fact: Mr. Kai is jacked), Mermail was inspired by the Pokémon Primarina, a gen 7 mermaid Pokémon that can make giant bubbles to move and attack with also the name came from a Yugioh card with the same name. Flame Cut and Ironsights came from two other mons Inceneroar and Decidueye (Making characters out of the three starters) just instead of a wrestler fire cat and leaf archer owl they are humans with some different abilities. Finally the Acids where primarily inspired by slimes and the names came to me because of their color (Fun fact 2: The names Acid Apple and Cherry were chosen because that was their favorite flavor of sour candy, again... they were 7, so cut them some slack
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Welp, that it for me. I don't think I can think of something new for now, maybe in a week or two when I'm not occupied with college work. Hope you like the omake! And now we wait for the continuation of The Good, The Bad and The Scarlet tomorrow.
