Press Nickname

[Super Squirrel]

Okay, one of my players has a character who is 19 year old girl who looks 13 in actual age. She wants to have Secret ID but has yet to come up with a name yet. The press has been assured that she is, infact, 19. She has a press released photograph of her in costume (not yet designed).

Knowing only this tiny bit of information, what nickname would you think the press would give her?

[Agent Escafarc]

Does she have any visible powers and where does the campaign take place?

[Storn]

Legal?

no... just kidding.

How about "Princess"? Knowing nothing about her skill/power set... since we have the Princess of pop.

or "Engenue"

[Super Squirrel]

The press has not been informed of what her powers are yet other than she helped the group stop some ninjas robbing a museum. The campaign city is tenatively called Harbor Port and is a made up city in the Northeast part of the United States.

[Super Squirrel]

Originally posted by Storn
"Engenue"
Just what does this mean? :)

[Acroyear]

It'd be silly, then... like Ninja Busting Teen or Powered Museum Patron

[Super Squirrel]

We are going with Prodigy Princess

[Law Dog]

Jailbait.

Heh.

[Derek Hiemforth]

Originally posted by Super Squirrel
Just what does this mean? :) Ingenue: An ingenuous or naive girl or young woman.

(Ingenuous: Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; lacking in sophistication or worldliness.)

[Uncle Shecky]

Originally posted by Law Dog
Jailbait.

"Jailbait" was my first thought too. The media knows she's actually 19, but I could imagine a newspaper running her picture with the headline "JAILBAIT?"

So it's technically incorrect, but I think it would stick.

[The Mad GM]

Powers and appearance would be the two biggies, but in their absence:
The Girl Scout (I have enough trouble resisting the cookies as it is...)
The Grrrl Scout
New Kid in Town
Coed Supreme - or Kid Supreme
Ms. Tery (Mystery, get it? Actually, there was a comic by this name long ago)
Prima Donna (means 'first lady')
The Babysitter from Hell
Generation Z
Little Miss Muscles
Got in a tussle
Beating up ninjas in spades
Along came a hero
Who mistook her for a zero
But look who saved the day (more like an editorial cartoon)
Ninja-Whackin' Power-Packin' Mama
The (Pre- ) Teen Titan (I think this was a comic somewhere, too :D )

Got a little silly there, but that's all I could think of.

[Law Dog]

Originally posted by Uncle Shecky
"Jailbait" was my first thought too. The media knows she's actually 19, but I could imagine a newspaper running her picture with the headline "JAILBAIT?"

So it's technically incorrect, but I think it would stick.

And that's all it takes to get the media stuck on something.

[Blue]

As a rule, the media love a) Aliteration (The repetition of sounds like Teen Terror), and b) adopting pop-culture references (like "Girl Wonder"), and c) something demeaning to the individual like "Lawdog Lolita" or "Guardian Gidget".*


*= Before I'm asked who the heck Gidget is, it's an old TV series about a teenage girl (Played by someone in their twenties), and YES it was befoe my time too.

[Super Squirrel]

Originally posted by The Mad GM
Little Miss Muscles
Got in a tussle
Beating up ninjas in spades
Along came a hero
Who mistook her for a zero
But look who saved the day
I'm going to put this up on my webpage if you don't mind. :)

[Dr. Rune]

Originally posted by Blue
As a rule, the media love a) Aliteration (The repetition of sounds like Teen Terror), and b) adopting pop-culture references (like "Girl Wonder"), and c) something demeaning to the individual like "Lawdog Lolita" or "Guardian Gidget".*


*= Before I'm asked who the heck Gidget is, it's an old TV series about a teenage girl (Played by someone in their twenties), and YES it was befoe my time too.

That someone was Sally Field....and, yes, it was before my time too. :)

Doc

[Law Dog]

Originally posted by Dr. Rune
That someone was Sally Field....and, yes, it was before my time too. :)

Doc

But the New Gidget from 80's syndication wasn't. :p

Oh, the Horror!

[Dr. Rune]

Originally posted by Law Dog
But the New Gidget from 80's syndication wasn't. :p

Oh, the Horror!

D'oh!!! I had forgotten about that one....(though I do remember she was MUCH hotter than Sally Field :) )

Doc

[Klytus]

Originally posted by Blue
As a rule, the media love a) Aliteration (The repetition of sounds like Teen Terror), and b) adopting pop-culture references (like "Girl Wonder"), and c) something demeaning to the individual like "Lawdog Lolita" or "Guardian Gidget".*


Lord knows the press can be cruel when they assign names. In one game I was in, we had a tiny lady brick named "Dynamo" who was good in a fight, only she had a nasty temper and had a rep for being a tad brutal. Plus on of her disads was Unluck with regards to the press. As her most frequently heard battle-cry was 'I'm 'onna THUMP you!" she got stuck with the nick-name "Thumper."

Heck, even we started calling her that ;)

[ZootSoot]

Originally posted by Dr. Rune
That someone was Sally Field....and, yes, it was before my time too. :)

Doc

'Twas in the movies first (without ms. Fields), sixties surfing stuff. Supposedly based on the writer's teen daughter getting that nickname when she was learning to surf, a contraction of girl and midget (she was short); Big Kahuna on meeting her "Look, a girl midget, a Gidget!" (Oh, God, am I ollld!).

[Law Dog]

Originally posted by Blue

c) something demeaning to the individual like "Lawdog Lolita" or "Guardian Gidget".*





Hey, now. Law Dog is nobodies Lolita. :mad:

[Thirdbase]

Buffy, or Miffy, or Susie, or Anglecakes.

Sorry about that but I work at a hotel and we just had the Highschool Drill team competition and they all had names like these.

[Zaratustra]

Puni Puni Poemi.

[Superskrull]

Originally posted by Zaratustra
Puni Puni Poemi.

Nabeshin would be proud. :D

[Tamashii2000]

Originally posted by Blue

*= Before I'm asked who the heck Gidget is, it's an old TV series about a teenage girl (Played by someone in their twenties), and YES it was befoe my time too.

Sure it was....;)

[The Mad GM]

Originally posted by Super Squirrel
I'm going to put this up on my webpage if you don't mind. :)

By all means, feel free!

Am I a published poet now?