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Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)

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Jair Oliveira imprisoned?
In which prison in which nation?
The guy owns 40% of Qsanyin that in turn owns and controls the Ladder AND Elysium
Which also means control over the Horae Guard.
I am also pretty sure he is the company CEO or else he wouldn't have headed the event during which Crusade debuted.
(You don't need to have 51% of the company shares to be CEO. In fact you can be CEO without any shares to your name so long as you have the backing of the shareholders.)

Frankly I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Jair is a Philosopher.
And even if he doesn't have a named title he is still integral to the Philosopher s Organization.

Which if true and if Key is SB gives them another reason to coordinate.
 
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Identity — Parabola (canon)
  • Apocrypha
    • Identity (by Parabola)​

    Three hours after the memorial

    You are Noelle Han, though you prefer 'Ellie'.

    You stare at the screen of your screen. The screen stares back, mockingly.

    After the whole debacle with Monarch, and learning that Steelheart had apparently been behind some extremely shady shit, you'd stomped off, seeking your bed. Resting is also an important part of being a hero. You… still have mixed feelings about your mother, but the least you can do is not be a hypocrite. You must not overwork yourself. So you took a shower, got into your sleeping clothes, organized your room (you actually have a new room all to yourself now) and then realized you had nothing to do. Normally you'd exercise a bit to tire yourself to sleep more easily, but you just can't be bothered after... everything.

    So you did the only thing you could: you started doomscrolling.

    This has proven to be a mistake.

    It feels like every news regarding the memorial and Monarch's appearance can't help but interject White Hawk's interview spiels, and beneath every single forum topic or social media post regarding this, there's ongoing fights about what 'really' happened. Why is the world like this? Why are people inclined to believe an asshole who protects the richest bigwigs in the world over the people who were actually there in the Movement? PR machine or not, why are you just barely fending off Crusade's attacks?

    …Admittedly, of Justice Unlimited, only Chatelet and Lady Leizhi came back alive from the QZ. The rest of the current team wasn't present there - you're all quite literally newbies. Perhaps that's why their speeches being talked about more than the rest of the memorial's incidents? Looking at it that way, you can feel better about it all. Just a bit.

    Having rationalized your cope away, you type your way to the Hero for Hire website, sighing as you do.

    @Ellie_Starfish23 got banned on Hero for Hire a while back for reposting some of Valiant Silver's epic-scale smut. Annoying though that may have been, it's just as well - you need a different account for official PR stuff anyway.

    Tomorrow you're all getting interviewed. You don't really like it - you'd prefer being out in the field, doing something more productive - but just like the rest of the team, you can recognize a necessary evil when you see it. The longer you have before you are forced to reveal Project Prometheus, the better, but that'll be harder the more Crusade and its PR team bangs on the drum that Nora caused the Movement and Project Prometheus is continuing Leviathan-experimenting research.

    To fend Crusade off, you need as much goodwill as possible, and on top of counterattacking their claims, that means you must all appeal to as much of the public as you can. You all have a lot of variety, thankfully - you appeal to several age groups, several of you are gay, and perhaps most importantly, you all still have a soul, not a chain leading to some impersonal set of PR quotes.

    It was a bit touch-and-go for a moment on whether someone would be held back, though. Lady Leizhi was very clear that everyone who would be going would be coached by her on likely attacks on your characters, and how the more people got interviewed, the more likely it would be that someone would ask a question she overlooked. But in the end, she was persuaded to have everyone go.

    Thankfully, everyone's covers are pretty solid. It would take a truly awful slip of the tongue or malicious question for someone to say something which Crusade could use against you or would investigate. Lady Leizhi seemed to think that your capacity to lie in particular is questionable, so you two rehearsed a partial truth: You do not actually have metahuman powers, you are merely the specialized wielder of Nora Kim's final armor, which no, does not run on the Leviathan, it runs off of a specialized connection with you and your own psychic potential. If forced to, you might have to give the excuse that because of the possibility of Monarch and other Wonderland escapees seeing the broadcast, you cannot give too many details about the armor. But you discussed the possibility of disclosing that the armor cannot be wielded by any metahuman, at least, as a safety measure.

    Technically Dr. Ibis and Nora's manual say you are a metahuman, just one whose power is wielding EXCEED-BEYOND... but you feel like that's splitting hairs. What really matters is that you wield someone else's legacy to protect others, not powers which are wholly yours. And more than that, you are someone who strives to make this world right.

    Perhaps one day you'll comfortably call yourself a 'hero' without feeling fake. Perhaps.

    But for now, you put these thoughts out of your mind and make your new account - and you hurry a bit, because now that you think about it, it's possible that Crusade could end up stealing the username you intend if you don't hurry, or at least make the process of getting it back a hassle. And that will just not do.

    This name, after all, is one you can call yourself without feeling fake.

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  • Apocrypha
    • I have a second group from a different Omake as well, but for them I'm going less teenager-ish and more simple, with the four being:

    -Kamaitachi
    -Weakpoint
    -Whistleblower
    -Grenade
     
    @Bitterman, I have a few questions:
    1. Did Scarlet Maturity fight (and kill) Rosemary for the challenge or because he was paid to do it?
    2. Did Scarlet Maturity kill Rosemary on purpose?
    3. If he was paid to do it and he did do it on purpose, how paid him to do it?
     
    Parabola said:
    Identity (by Parabola)
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    Very nice! A good look into Ellie's headspace. +1!
    The Laurent said:
    Disco.
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    I may have an Inland Empire themed power in mind, ngl. And DuBois from Eminence pt. 1 is just a sober Harry lol.
    Temes1066 said:
    @Bitterman, I have a few questions:
    1. Did Scarlet Maturity fight (and kill) Rosemary for the challenge or because he was paid to do it?
    2. Did Scarlet Maturity kill Rosemary on purpose?
    3. If he was paid to do it and he did do it on purpose, how paid him to do it?
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    These are all questions that will be answered by the plot and thus I cannot respond at this time. RAFO!
     
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    Bitterman said:
    Very nice! A good look into Ellie's headspace. +1!

    I may have an Inland Empire themed power in mind, ngl. And DuBois from Eminence pt. 1 is just a sober Harry lol.

    These are all questions that will be answered by the plot and thus I cannot respond at this time. RAFO!
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    Well, it is true that evil child-murdering billionaires rule the world with a shit-eating grin in this timeline too.
     
    Zeno (9) + Fast Track (3) + Your pick of Daggermaw, Soldier X, or Mr. Hunch (1)

    Just a silly idea in the hopes that Space-Time Manipulation + Enhanced Speed could give us a guy who stops time.
     
    Gore17 said:
    My theory is that there's an environmental factor/trigger, so it may not be a coincidence, but much like in Worm, adopted or step relatives would also have a disproportionately high rate. Which might be why they so sure it's not genetic, now that I think about. 🤔
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    I mean, there's a definite locational factor: Horizon has more Metahuman awakenings than anywhere else on the planet and it's right next to the damn Leviathan. That is absolutely a factor in this.
     
    I've recently come to terms with the fact that this superhero creation system I half-assed is the most interesting thing I will ever make.

    Sorry, my daughter. Do you have notes from the Dr. Mammoth Ibis?
     
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