Alternate Earth Characters #18

[Mayday]

Part 1: What if the world was run by religious authorities rather than secular nations? With the US a colony or state under Vatican or Church of England control (or divided between them)...

Part 2: What if the religious authorities deemed your power type as Evil? (Technology/Science corrupts our Youth and undermines Faith in the Bible, Aliens not among those created in Genesis, etc)

[Mayday]

Mayday grows up even more religious than before. When the voices begin whispering in her head she fears she is Possessed or that Satan is talking to her, and either hides her condition or seeks a Priest. When the Exorcism fails she is probably burned to save her soul.

Sabre is an armored tech suit character. If technology is considered a threat by the Church such a suit may not even be possible. So she has to channel her ambition in another direction and joins the Inquisuition to fight those nasty heretics and occult menaces such as Vampires.

[Mayday]

Wraithe attempts to join the Templars as her father and brothers have done. The PRIMUS Cyberline process may not exist (technology) and so she trains as a warrior the old fashioned way.

She is from what is probably a Protestant area.

Marjorie being first a sorceress then a vampire has a harder time with the strength and larger numbers of the Inquisition, and the populace more aware of the supernatural rather than dismissing vampires as myths until proven by science.

Akhen'Isis has a problem on her hands. As an archeologist/Linguist who has the 4000 year old soul of a former Priestess of Isis grafted onto her brain by ancient magic, she's automatically a heretic and will have a hard time rebuilding the Cult of Isis without being captured and killed.

[Bengal]

Hummingbird will probably be a pirate or something, you know, sailing the oceans in something akin to the Nautilus instead of being a science hero.

Bengal probably ould not venture out of the jungles of his native Cambodia, so he's not going to really become a superhero but rather stay the guerilla protector of his village and those nearby.

my version of Nighthawk doesn't use too much in the way of gadgetry, so he probably just changes to a religious-themed vigilante rather than a bird-themed vigilante. The few pieces of tech he does carry are kind of ancillary to his character conception anyway, or are very simple, so I don't think he'll be too different. In his secret ID, he's a litigator, so it seems appropriate he'd be in the church hierarchy somewhere.

[farik]

Originally posted by Mayday
Part 1: What if the world was run by religious authorities rather than secular nations? With the US a colony or state under Vatican or Church of England control (or divided between them)...

Part 2: What if the religious authorities deemed your power type as Evil? (Technology/Science corrupts our Youth and undermines Faith in the Bible, Aliens not among those created in Genesis, etc)

Since Kenneth's mutant IQ and science are heretical then the Husky form probably has feathery wings and claim to be a celestial servant (whatever the bestial angels from In Nominae were called). Husky would defend the people but the little part of Kenneth inside of him would defend technology and mutants as well as the populace at large probably pointing out that anything man creates is first concieved by God and man serves only as an instrument.

[WhammeWhamme]

Wraith:
No matter whether it's Mutants or Mystics persecuted, Wraith could sneak into the ruling camp. (No, no. I do it with spells. No, no. Of course I'm not an evil satanist. I'm a PSYCHIC)

With that in mind, once his powers activate, he joins some kind of official group. Dedication ahoy!

Flippant:
If he'd be persecuted, he's gone. I'm sorry... but Dimension Travellers don't HAVE to live in horrible worlds. He'd be firmly religious anyway, of course, and he'd have lived in PRW until his (mutant) powers kicked in.

Robot:
Option A) He's dead. His first self never created a robot body to live longer, so there is NO Robot.

Option B) He created a perfect synthetic human (which he did)... and has blended in perfectly. Although not truly religious, he's taking the role of a Mutant Superhero... after all, genetically he *was* superhuman.

[Drhoz]

Vitus is a non-human spellcaster and prophet from a polythiest slave-keeping society. And he's worked for (and against) multiple gods. Monotheism is laughably quaint, and it wouldn't take much for him to go on in this theme, at length.

He'ld probably have torch-waving mobs after him before lunchtime. Even without his arrival story - accidentally summoned by demonologists who were hoping for a murderous denizen of hell. Some would say they succeeded.

[input.jack]

Part 1: What if the world was run by religious authorities rather than secular nations?


*Looks at who is in the White House, and who rules the Middle East*

It isnt?

[mikesama]

Jaguar Pequino is in a bit of a pickle as she has always been at least reasonably devout in her Catholicism but her powers stem from a very shamanistic source. There would be attempted exorcisms and the like which would turn out badly as the people doing it would only be angering the Jaguar spirit that has been linked to her family for generations.