Board 8 > Scarlet Ranks 52 Characters from 52 Sessions of the DCRPG Campaign: Part III

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I feel so bad for Kent. I've debated talking to him about things but it doesn't really feel like Brennus' place

hombad46 posted...

Scare I already had Devlin drop

Listen you

I'm mobile and am trying to remember the draft from memory

TotallyNotMI posted...

I feel so bad for Kent. I've debated talking to him about things but it doesn't really feel like Brennus' place

Why feel bad for Kent?

Fastbreak posted...

Why feel bad for Kent?

Because Martina doesn't actually like him at all

Martina's voice is so easy to get into, and I really look forward to her gunrunning finally get up and go, to fuel our armies and just to see how she acts when she's no longer talking from a position of potential business, but active business.

TotallyNotMI posted...

I feel so bad for Kent. I've debated talking to him about things but it doesn't really feel like Brennus' place

Yeah but it's fiction and a game so do what you want

TotallyNotMI posted...

Because Martina doesn't actually like him at all

No they're getting married Kent told Spirit himself.

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Yeah but it's fiction and a game so do what you want

wait what

also would 1 perception brennus notice that martina doesn't actually like him or would he be buying into the wedding bells

Doesn't sound like Martina is subtle about it.

Brennus would notice because he's very sensitive to when people are catty and mean

#80 - Sue Dibny
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She'll break your heart, don't you know.

Susan Dearbon Dibny, the longtime companion of Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man, was often considered an honorary member of the Justice League from some of its earliest days. Always faithfully at her husbands side, Sue had a passion for travel and adventure, and her presence helped to ground the Justice League in its International and Satellite eras. However, when left alone in the Satellite during one routine mission, Sue witnessed the arrival of Doctor Light on the scene. She was captured and held down as Light proceeded to rape Sue. The Justice League soon arrived and, taken to the hospital by Ralph, the remaining members decided to hold court and make a decision as to the fate of Doctor Light. It could be argued that Sue inadvertently set in motion the chain of events that led to the foundation of the Society, in that respect. Sue was tenacious, however, and after her recovery, she and Ralph resumed their mission in superheroes with the Justice League Europe and International incarnations, as well as with the Superbuddies.

After years of partnership, Sue learned she was pregnant, and while planning a surprise party to tell Ralph, she was murdered by Jean Loring, the wife of the Atom, in a bid for that former spouse to win back the heart of her superheroic ex. This came on a Sunday, during a mission Ralph undertook in California with Firehawk. On his way home, Sue began to experience pressure on her brain caused by Jean Loring, who attempted to cause a seizure within Sue to scare both her and Ralph. Instead, inexperienced with the White Dwarf Belt belonging to her ex-husband, Jean accidentally crushed Sues mid-medulla. Shocked by the sudden death of her friend, Jean used a flamethrower weapon to burn Sues body and escape. By the time Ralph arrived, his wife was dead, her body singed to a crisp.

If you ask someone like Paul Lincoln, our historian du jour in the campaign, he'll tell you that the death of Sue Dibny precipitated the fall of the superhero community. Sue was beloved - not even Lois Lane was an honorary member of the JLA, but Sue was. She was a partner not just to Ralph Dibny, but the rest of the League. Her sweetness, her kindness, was unparalleled. And her death shook the world.

Especially as of late, Lush seems to be deeply, deeply affected by Sue's death. The two of them share a common thread, after all. They have a connection to one another through the mindwipes of Zatanna. By all rights, Lush should be as angry with Sue as she wishes, and yet Lush is the one who has visited Sue's body in the morgue of Z'onn Z'orr. It's almost terrifying, thinking of how Lush took Sue's hand in her own, of her own volition, feeling every ounce of pain and empathy for a woman whose inadvertent legacy IS Lush, in a lot of ways.

But for others, like Rosetta, the realization that Sue Dibny's true legacy IS this Crisis, is dawning slowly before them. Perhaps no character's life and death have impacted this campaign as significantly as Sue's has.

Of course, her rebirth at the hands of the Cult of Conner... well, maybe there's a chance that the life and death and life once more of Sue Dibny will be a story to be told soon enough.

Round 4 loses another draftee.

One of Roz'etta's options after No Man's Land was to join the Justice League, not as a main member, but as a member nonetheless.

The death of Sue and the impact has shaken her a bit, but I wonder if the biggest impact joining would have been making Sue's death hit harder, especially since the Atom saved Roz'etta's life, and Sue is dead by the hands of the Atom's ex-wife.

She's shiny, she's happy, she's Aquazon?

A picture has been painted of Sue Dibny that there was not a single soul in the community to have a bad word for her. But there were two souls that hurt her deeply and it impacted every single hero in the community, and eventually the actions done to her impacted the villains as well, just in another direction. Person by person if you bring up Sue Dibny it's like you're talking about someone that died just yesterday and that hurt is not only lingering, but active.

As someone who has minimal experience with DC comics outside of this campaign and major media, Sue was a total unknown to me. This completely normal person that has such a giant impact on the entire world of DC was very interesting to me as a player, it reinforces again and again how even the mundane experience the incredible here. Like Scar said I have a character that ultimately views that their story and Sue's are connected, and I agree with that both in and out of character. It's really interesting to be able to do some investigative work and find out that not only does your character have roots in the world with the characters you designed them to have connections with, but roots that go deeper to characters you didn't even know existed and learn to find out just how important this person was to you personally. Exploring Sue, her death, and the people around her have been one of the highlights of the campaign to me.

80 is like 50 spots too low. I have a lot of pushing of both her and Eclipso so that they fair better the next time a list like this comes around. Making the list is great on its own, but I hope everyone can find a reason to care about these two as they truly are at the heart of it all.

As for Sue - we've got people really into the Church of Blood storyline. We just learned the Church may inadvertently be sending acolytes down the pipeline to Eclipso - including Creeper and Plastic Man.

And we all want to continue the Church plotline... but bringing Sue Back to life is, well, complicated.

It's funny that Lush and Rosetta are the ones mentioned in the write up as they have had a joint Sue related moment in the campaign.

We visted Zatanna's home of Shadowcrest and Lush and Rosetta became paired up as they searched the house. What quickly became apparent was that some of these mind wiped people had their personalities placed in objects around Zatanna's house for protection. Rosetta and Lush came across a telescope that was personified by Doctor Light. It turned it's tail end towards Lush and I could not resist-- a vine shot up its back side through and through until it popped out the lens. Lush offered a 'That one was for Sue" as they finished up their investigation. It was a perfect moment.

As for prediction, let's continue to go with the dead theme and put Fiddler here

#79 - Stephanie Brown
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Like, first of all, I am the night.

Like, first of all, Stephanie was a longtime protector of Gotham, even after her douche of a dad became mayor. Despite surviving all of No Mans Land, she was unable to maintain her role in the game when Black Mask rolled into town, killing her in retribution for the way she mucked up all of his plans. Devastated, the Cluemasters entire agenda shifted into an anti-Batman, pro-accountability platform, allowing him to rise to the rank of Senator of New Jersey. Meanwhile, Stephanies death had been largely over exaggerated - set up with a new identity by the woman who claimed to be her ultimate killer, Leslie Thompkins, Steph began a new life as Sally Beamish at Brentwood Academy. At some point prior to A-Day, Sally was sent the costume and cowl of Batgirl and a warning. Since then, Stephanie has been the ten to the Headmasters 2, a real thorn in the side of the Darkseid-faithful that control the sleepy little town of Bristol Township. After a group of Checkmate agents absconded with one of the students of the Academy, Stephanie chose to remain behind, protecting those she had sworn to guard, even if the consequences might be severe.

As Stephanies plan to bring to light her fathers crimes went up in flames, as did the rest of Gotham, vigilantes were pushed to the brink in trying to bring to an end the plans that had snowballed into an out-and-out street war between the gangs of Gotham. Carnage had ensured, Batman was put through his paces, and believing herself responsible after Batman scolded her, Stephanie went after the Black Mask to make up for her mistakes. Black Mask took advantage of Stephanies naivete and inexperience, capturing her and torturing her. Stephanie ultimately died thanks to the wounds she sustained, confused and scared, wishing she had been able to leave her fathers legacy alone. Or, at least, she thought she had. But in reality, Leslie Thompkins placed Stephanie in a state of hibernation, a pulse so weak and breath so slow and shallow that not even the trained eyes and ears of Batman could tell she was still alive. Stephanie had let her life be swallowed up in the hunt for her father, for vengeance. Leslie released her from that and also, in her mind, forced Batman to confront the destructive effects of his presence in childrens lives. And Stephanie Brown, the identity, died as a result of those machinations, those beliefs. Soon, Sally Beamish would take her place.

It's Sally Beamish that the party came to know in Bristol Township - ever the plucky, snotty, sometimes bitchy perfect ten that they'd come to know and love. We've all met the mean girl in our high school or middle school (or even college in some cases), and Stephanie fulfills that role in spades - but it might also simply be a cover for her, a mask beneath the cowl. Having been delivered by Bruce Wayne the legacy of Barbara Gordon, Helena Bertinelli, and Cassandra Cain, Stephanie has big shoes to fill. The sort of shoes she'd tried once before to fill and failed in such a spectacular way that she nearly brought down a city around her.

Stephanie had been relegated to being trapped on a campus full of innocent students, but now that three weeks of Bristol's campaign are complete, the world is opening up to the current Batgirl once more. But Stephanie wants to return to Gotham... and Oracle has made Xander vow to prevent that from occurring. Meanwhile, reunions abound - Data 7, Rosetta, Spirit and more.

And, like, I'm all here for it, you know? This campaign of twos could use a ten in their lives.

We're going undrafted again at #78.

I've been wondering for awhile how the Saoirse/Stephanie meeting will go - given Saoirse gains Enemy (Stephanie Brown) for wearing her mask in the field.

Do I dip in to that? Do I forego the mask? Can't decide...

I do like that Batman knew the truth about Stephanie this whole time, to the point where he was ready to bring her back into the fold when needed. There's a lot to unpack there.

I got an item that I could give to someone Spirit has contact with to upgrade to ally with them and I gave it to Stephanie. She's just so great.

It should be noted that Sally Beamish faked her death in Bristol too. Supposed she was killed by Kid Karnevil, heartlessly and cruelly.

This time though, we know the truth, and might even be the ones on the inside of he coverup.

There's way too many questions left with Batgirl.

Who knew she was alive? When did Batman know she was alive? Why did he send her the suit? DID he send her the suit? If he did did he know about what was about to happen?

We'll probably get to Mammoth relatively soon

We better. Whisper doesn't know what she's in for.

Bremnus doesn't know what she's in for either

Brennus doesn't know who Bremnus is

Stephanie's definitely a ten, I love her story.

WarThaNemesis2 posted...

It should be noted that Sally Beamish faked her death in Bristol too. Supposed she was killed by Kid Karnevil, heartlessly and cruelly.

I'm sensing a pattern here.

#78 - TNTeena
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By preestablished metrics, one of the most effective heroes.

TNTeena was among the first generation of post-superhero children, and as such, grew up in a society that praised those children who desired lives of service and activism. From the time she was a toddler, Tina dreamed and delighted in the ideas of superheroics. Tina begged her mother to test her for the metagene, and despite her mothers misgivings at catering to her autistic daughters delusions of herodom, she nevertheless relented and shelled out the $2500 necessary to perform a genetic study. Tina was delighted when the results returned, determined that Tina indeed possessed a unique meta-deviation in her DNA, although it didnt manifest until age 13. Tina instead was foisted in the meantime on the super-pageant circuit by her mother, desperate to find some profit in the new, unawakened abilities of her daughter. When at last the abilities did manifest, Tina destroyed her familys home. Left homeless, Tinas mother was able to convince a local news anchor, through sex, to air a puff piece about the sorry family and the state they were left in by a bright-eyed, autistic hero wannabe. Somehow, the story crossed the desk of Cyborg, and, understanding the difficulties that Tina faced and dealing with challenges himself, felt that Tina, now under the pseudonym of TNTeena, deserved an opportunity to live out her dream. Cyborg created an outreach program for at-risk youth with metapowers, and using some of his fathers fortune, outfitted the Titans with a non-profit wing called the Titans Auxiliary, a program Vic would run in his off-time to teach the next generation of potential heroes. TNTeena was one of the first recruits, and her mother happily pushed her into a functional boarding school that specialized in taking care of meta-youth in order to be done with her. Tina remained in their care until A-Day, when she was finally called upon to help protect Titans Tower. Instead of victory, the gathering of green rookie heroes was defeated, and TNTeena was captured by the Society, imprisoned on Alcatraz until rescued by her new cellmate, Saoirse Aebischer, and whisked away to freedom in Zonn Zorr.

As the players will likely be quick to mention, Teena is a character for which I have a great personal attachment. I have tried to be very careful not to make her too gruesomely over-the-top in this regard, but Teena has been my attempt to present an autistic superhero who suffered under the "Mommie Dearest" mentality of being used and abused for a spot in the limelight by a cruel and callous mother. The truest tragedy, I believe, is that Teena does not really recognize the various social cues that would tip her off to the nature of her mother's greed and the lack of compassion for Teena's challenges. It's a sad, complicated story, and one that feeds into some really great scenes with a few of the player characters as they learn to communicate with Teena and understand her.

Honestly, in my mind, Teena has the potential to be one of Z'onn Z'orr's most brightly shining stars. She's industrious, perseverant and mostly kind, even if she is often blunt and has more than a hint of arrogance over her status as a Titan Auxiliary member. There's a sweetness to Teena's nature, but tinted with just enough spice to make her imperfect. And as for her autism, I think it brings a new perspective to every character she interacts with. It's an opportunity to explore a very different approach to each PC - and also Bart Allen now. Instead of the stories of Bart that focus on his manic approach to... everything in life, an inability to sit still for a half-second, Teena has found herself attracted to the Kid Flash, finding his own bluntness and inability to recognize social nuance as refreshing and endearing, rather than annoying.

In any event, I really, sincerely hope that Teena worms her way into the hearts of every player by the end of the campaign. In particular, I'd love to see scenes with Bloodfruit and/or Data 7 and Teena. I think their unusual walks of life would complement Teena well, and I'm curious how those relationships would form and where they would take both respective characters.

I was surprised War didn't draft this next character.

I keep needing to talk to Teena, I think she'd be a great contrast to Susie.

As for this hint...this feels like Jesse Custer!

Wow Scar, way to make me sad.

I love Teena. She's so sweet and endearing. Saoirse took a real shine to her (partially because Teena calls her smart) but also because Saoirse has a background with seeing the good in "different" people and so she thinks Teena deserves a lot.

I'm not sure when, but Teena might end up doing some field work soon. Her name was bandied about a bit at one point but nobody wanted her to help Jaime with the Bristol Township kids. I think Teena and Batgirl would be great together, too!

I legitimately have no idea how Jaime and Teena would get along! It certainly is a really intriguing pairing.

Teena is great. Big Doom Patrol energy from her.

I'm definitely looking forward to talking to Teena about Bart. Spirit has no idea how to wingman.

Teena is a lot of fun. My bias is colored based on where she operated and where we found her, but she's one of those characters that you want to see every conversation with.

#77 - Mica'kel
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Micakel, a White Martian invader that arrived on Earth with the Hyperclan, was one of several Martians captured by the United States government for experimentation. He endured a significant amount of abuse, all while persevering, all in the name of reuniting with his daughter, Miss Martian. Micakel was released from his confinement in Monument Valley by Checkmate agents who agreed to hide the truth of his white heritage from the rest of the world. Now, he has set up shop with a handful of other White Martian survivors within their rightful tower, Zonn Zorr.

The White Martians we've encountered thus far in the campaign are actually remarkably minor characters. They all only have appeared maybe a handful of times - four, five appearances - and none of them are particularly memorable in those brief issues. However, Mica'kel has become a character with an easy voice to slip into, and the complications of his presence as the leader of the band of White Martians in Z'onn Z'orr have been delectable. Just by his very existence, Mica'kel forces the party to lie to virtually everyone around them about his true nature. That alone is a delightful complexity to be sure - but then, the story of Mica'kel's relationship with Roz'etta pushes into a realm of philosophy, demonstrating the striking similarities - and dissimilarities - of the two.

In fact, I'd love to see far more of Mica'kel in the campaign. Considering his wide array of abilities, the White Martian leader is the most dangerous threat in Z'onn Z'orr, at least in theory. But his crucial weakness has demonstrated that even the powerful Martian race has its Achilles heel. Witnessing the potentially fragile nature of our White Martians was an important moment, I think, in earning them sympathy. When Kobra attacked, two things were demonstrated: firstly, just how quickly a Martian can be neutralized. And secondly, just how much of a threat even Kobra considers the Martians. There were essentially two groups that Jason decided to take down in his escape from Z'onn Z'orr - the magicians of Oblivion, and the Martians. He didn't go after anyone else in that way, and I think that shows just how high they stack against all of the other members of the growing resistance.

Mica'kel, for his part, is often rational and pragmatic. But there is a definite undercurrent of animosity that he possesses for the universe at large, for all of those races that have prevented the Burning, the original Martian race, from ascending into total godhood. I think even Roz'etta understands the injustices that her progenitor race were forced to endure, and while Mica'kel presents often as a considerate being, he also has hard lines where his own empathies and sympathies end and the vengeful nature of the White race begins.

God, it's all so much fun. It's like walking a high-wire without a counterbalance, allying with the White Martians. And yet, the alternative is bending a knee to Darkseid. The Apokolips makes for strange bedfellows.

We end the bottom quarter of the list with another undrafted character, and this one I was SURE someone would pick up!

I absolutely love Mica'kel, but I thought he might have been on the backdrop too long for him to rank in the top 100! He and Roz'etta have such fantastic chemistry, I'll get back to him shortly, I promise!

I'm so happy to see him rank, though.

T'Cha, this must be Oracle

one of my favorite little Mica'kel/Roz'etta things was Mica'kel the conqueror criticizing Roz'etta was designing human cities near what used to be the home of the White Martians, only for Roz'etta to point out that she used Saturnian, and thus Martian, building designs

Roz'etta was subtly replacing human style with her own people's, thus her own unique form of conquering a society, much to Mica'kel amusement.

Yeah, Oracle was the big not drafted. I like to think she's been involved in enough complicated relationships with the PC's to earn a place.

scarletspeed7 posted...

He didn't go after anyone else in that way,

WOW EXCUSE ME

As for Mica'kel, he's a really interesting guy. He has a lot of derision towards us, but he understands what's as stake as much as us. Really interesting is he is ready to trade himself for Miss Martian, and put himself directly in the plan to strike at Darkseid - essentially a suicide mission.

I don't know how to handle that one - it's really heavy.

I didn't even know he was planning to join the Gateway team for that

That's crazy

It was in debriefing!

#76 - Parademon
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When Toronto was inundated with a flood of Darkseids flying marauders, one such Parademon was captured by a team of Checkmate agents and dragged back to the Secret Sixs House of Secrets, where torture commenced. However, before real answers could be gleaned, Cheshire betrayed the Secret Six, and the Parademon suddenly found himself, no longer in communication with his phalanx, swept up in the escape. Eventually, at the urging of Ragdoll, KRay became a key fixture in the Sixs new membership. Ever a sucker for some good torture, he also greatly enjoys flying - he's even had a role in helping Roz'etta learn to use her shapeshifted wings effectively! Just don't ask him what his superhero moniker is - it's a little... blue.

K'Ray has really endeared himself to me, at the very least. He's a sweet but also ultraviolent brute, a strange compare-and-contrast that I greatly enjoy. His head literally overheats when he thinks too much, which often makes his conversations quite simplistic, though his origins are far from it. After all, it's been revealed that Darkseid's parademon army are all normal humans who have been cribbed from other worlds in the Bleed, brutalized, retrained by Granny Goodness and prepared for battle. There's a world out there somewhere that is missing it's K'Ray... or whatever his name might have actually been. He even seems to have some connections to variations of heroes and villains from our world, including Count Vertigo.

The Parademon is the only member of the Secret Six without an axe to grind, which makes him some of that much-needed glue to hold the group together. Ever the companion of the "clown" (Ragdoll), the "oaf" (K'Ray) provides a jovial sense of both excitement and pure happiness to any jobs involving the Six. I'd love to see him dragged along on future missions more often, just to provide some much-needed levity with his childlike behavior. Hell, just the few interactions between King Shark and Parademon, where they butted heads in an almost literal sense of the word, were delightful.

Very recently (this week, actually), Spirit hosted an event at the Flash Museum to allow the orphans who have been brought to Z'onn Z'orr as refugees to get to know one another. Advertised in the first addition of the Z'onn Z'orr Junior Gazette, dozens of children showed up - as did K'Ray. He spied a maze on the back, and that led him to read the rest of the issue. The Junior Gazette was "so much better written" than the adult one - "it makes more sense." So the Parademon read a child's news pamphlet and, realizing he must be an orphan, too, since he doesn't know his parents, the Parademon showed up. It ended up being one of the sweetest little scenes in the campaign.

God, I just love this guy. All and all, I can't wait to see how K'Ray's story progresses. He's really had some very sweet moments with characters like Roz'etta, Spirit, and Minerva. And I think he would fit like a glove with just about everyone else. A far cry from the militant monsters that normal fill the sky in the name of Darkseid, the only broken, discarded Parademon of a force of millions, freed from his connections to the armada of Apokolips, may be one of the nicest guys in Z'onn Z'orr, and a valuable ally as the war for Earth ramps up.

We're back to Honorable Mentions - and a Round 10 draftee is dropping here!

I very nearly drafted him!

This one's gotta be me. It's Aria.

I love K'Ray too! He was in contention for my last pick!

He calls Roz'etta the Red Lady and taught her how to fly. He's a sweetie.

I think this is Brutale

K'Ray showing up to the orphan mixer was a welcome surprise.

Hopefully this HM isn't Radio Tuner. I doubt it is, but there's still that bit of nervousness at the possibility

NVM I drafted him Round 9!