What would your character do VII?

[Hermit]

(Been awhile since I've seen one of this put up, I THINK we're on #7, but if I miscounted, my apologies)

Your character is in a battle with a relatively new super villain, one that has been around for only a few weeks. In your latest battle with him/her, their mask comes off... revealing the face of your characters love!

What would your character do? And what would your character think?

[Vanguard00]

Originally posted by Hermit
What would your character do? And what would your character think?

One of my GMs did this a few years back. My character was relatively new to the scene, too, and this villain was being touted as his nemesis. She didn't know his identity, either, until he said something about her identity. She figured it out, and they stood there arguing like an old married couple while people started to gather around. By the time they'd worked out their relationship issues (and realized they really cared for each other) the police and SWAT were on scene. She blamed my character for being caught, went to prison, escaped, pulled one more job just to spite him and left town before my character could catch up to her.

The GM had her send postcards from just about every city she was in after that.

[lemming]

We'll just pick the characters that this could come up for. Though Scales did catch his god daughter stealing stuff once... Well, catch is a strong word for it, she got away...

Calico: Beat the crap out them. How dare they!
Blazer: Probably be in a bit of shock. They'd probably be able to flee easily, but Blazer would have words. Of course it depends on the crime as well.
Sp ectrum: Would be rather upset. Would probably knock them out with some mind blasts and take them somewhere for "interogation".
Nighthawk: You know, after the fifth time this happens, one of his questions on asking someone out is "Are you a supervillian?"

[Brandi]

Irving would be hopelessly confused on account of he has no lover and suspects that anybody who fell in love with him probably has a strange set of fetishes.

[McCoy]

Most of my characters would assume metamorph or disguise, and that the mask came off deliberately to either play with the character's head or frame love interest. Evil twin or duplicate from alternate reality are possibilities. Yet there is a non-zero possibility (in a superhero universe) that this is the love interest, time traveled from the future. In any event, gloves are on, killing attacks softpedaled, and would make every effort to subue the villian with non-lethal force.

[Zed-F]

"Daddy, what are you doing here?"

My character is an 8-year-old. And no, she doesn't love him that way, you sicko! :)

[OddHat]

My current character is dating a supervillain...

Best line of the relationship, shouted over the ruins of Shibuya Ichi-Maru-Que department store as the bad guys are fleeing;

"Honey, is there anything you'd like me to pick up before I get home?"

[Enforcer84]

WOW.


My latest creation Skybreaker would be mortrified.
He's relatively inexperienced and this goes against his worldview on many levels. She'd easily be able to take advantage of the situation and give him the slip. He'd make every effort to capture her but would take her somewhere and try to work out what was going on. Letting her go to think on it and then turn her in if she couldn't keep from commiting crimes.

[Lupus]

Originally posted by Hermit
What would your character do? And what would your character think? Hmm. I haven't had this happen in a Champions game. Have had it happen in a fantasy game, though not in quite this way. My character (on his way to becoming a paladin) predictably fell in squooshy love with an elf maiden, who turned out to be in the entourage of the campaign bad guy. Who turned out to be a dark elf. My character kept after her anyway, ending up getting her to leave the bad guy and join up with them. That game never finished, but she was, of course, going to stab him in the back (probably literally) and go back to her former master. Brainwashing over love, and all that. I could see it turning out tragically, but it was just so cool that I kept on going with it. ;)

[Farkling]

In Lightning's case...which love?

If it's his dead wife he's going to pretty shocked...and reality denying hopeful that it really IS her. He'd try to short out her powers and talk to her...he never did get over her death, and is mostly immune to her powers.

If it's Descant...it'd be a question hissed in her ear during a staged moment, "Are you undercover? Or have you gone back to your old ways?"


FlameJet on the other hand would probably be upset enough to vaporize her unless she talked pretty fast. Impulsive Plasma throwing playboy with nothing but RKA's...there are far more fish in the sea than the flawed one he is confronting.

[Syberdwarf2]

Stingray, my wife's character would start eating right and undergoing extensive dieting. She would also change health providers and pray to God that she never needs to go to the hospital.......She's dating the area's leading independant Cardiologist.

[Supreme]

Originally posted by Hermit
(Been awhile since I've seen one of this put up, I THINK we're on #7, but if I miscounted, my apologies)

Your character is in a battle with a relatively new super villain, one that has been around for only a few weeks. In your latest battle with him/her, their mask comes off... revealing the face of your characters love!

What would your character do? And what would your character think?
You must be a great GM. I've got to use that one.

Well, my current character is the Freedom Fighter, a GA martial artist (boxing). I guess he'd go into a dodge with all levels on DCV (he gets up to a 17 DCV) and try to think. If he tries to talk to her about what she's doing, she'll likely guess that he's secretly Mike Morgan. He could try and defeat her, but who could hit someone they love? Of course he might also get angry that she was concealing a criminal life from him. He could try and talk her into surrendering by telling her that he can now identify her and track her down. From there I think it would depend on what she did.

[Pteryx]

Due to his large suite of Enhanced Senses and his outstanding skill at determining one's honesty, it'd have to either really be her or be a duplicate with roughly the same composition (robotic if a robot, a clone if human) and darned good Acting and Persuasion rolls to have any effect. It's not impossible to fool him, but it's certainly not easy.

Provided it wasn't a ploy he could easily see through, he'd probably do exactly what the supervillain likely wants -- collapse into a crying heap, making good use of the tear ducts he had installed because of the pain living and working the supervillain family he came from had caused him (and the pain that their continued activities still do). Now, upon finally having experienced what romantic love is and how fulfilling it is to his soft heart, he finds out that his girlfriend is evil, too?... At least he's ready for whatever his family does.

Unless someone else were with him, divine intervention kicked in (he'd have 3d6 Luck in HERO), or the GM were kind enough to consider his crying to be the equivalent of a Presence Attack in this situation, he'd probably be in deep trouble. After all, it'd take him a couple of Phases to get over it enough to try to capture her. And if he got that far, he wouldn't take her to the authorities... he'd take her someplace private to speak with her (which he could do effectively; he has a good bit of self-control when actually prepared). There'd be a lot of questions, attempts at understanding, and looking for opportunities to subtly convince her to change. -- Pteryx

[eepjr24]

I think my current concept would say something like:

"Oh, yes. Next up should be my sister as your side kick, si? You danced well last night, shall we tango?"

You might say he is a bit bitter about life. lol.

- Ernie

[ch0wyunf47]

I'm pretty sure any anger in my latest character's head would cause him to do some things right off the bat:

1) Try and subdue her so she can't get away. Thankfully he has an NND, and can try to cause as little BODY as possible. He's got a DF describing how stoic and calm he is, so I doubt he'd completely lose his cool.
(though if she <i>does</i> get away, he would hunt her relentlessly)

2) Try and figure out how in the hell he missed it (he's a detective-type with a very high INT).

3) Try and figure out/solve the mystery of how his wife, a beat cop, became a super villain.

Now, if it were <i>me</i> I might say "cool" and join her ;)

That is, until she stabbed me in the back as any super villain is want to do.

[GenreFiend]

It depends on what character I was playing. But, the character I am currently designing in my head, Blue Sentinel, would be shocked for a moment (consider it a presence attack), but would then become determined to get to the bottom of this. He'd try an Entangler to immobilize her, and then probably start asking her questions about why she was doing this, and doesn't she love him (yes, he has a secret identity, but he's a little careless with it)?

[assault]

A lot would depend on what she had done/was doing.

Most of my characters wouldn't be too stressed if she wasn't leaving a trail of corpses behind her, or working for anyone nasty like VIPER.

A typical approach would be to let her escape without her finding out my character's identity, and then gradually suss her out about what is going on. This would, of course, include careful investigation that it was actually her, and not someone pulling a scam.

Not coincidentally, several of my characters devote quite a bit of energy to helping villains reform, or at least select more appropriate targets.

I've always liked the Batman/Catwoman thing. The pre-Crisis Huntress was one of my favourite DC characters too.

Alan

[Hermit]

I suppose I should mention how my own characters would react:

Lone Star: He'd be surprised as heck. You see, the lady he's smitten by is involved in Law Enforcement. He'd wonder how she got super powers (if she had), or if it was even her. If it was sure it was her ...he'd worry that whatever gave her those powers had driven her insane. He'd take her in for help....IF he could ever make the ego roll to hit her and knock her out.

Slammer: Rhapsody is a super hero(And mentalist), and the closest thing Slammer has to a true love (though he's a bit dense about admiting it to himself). He'd be totally off guard and she'd get away easily. He just wouldn't believe she was evil now, but at the same time, is still 'new' so the options of clones etc wouldn't occur to him.

Surge: Surge is currently dateless... poor guy. ;) If it he DID have a lady love and this happened though, he'd probably blame it on demonic possession.

Wildcard: "not AGAIN... I didn't even mess with the freaky magic words this time... honest!"

[championsguru]

I had a Spider-Man rip-off that had a thing for super-villainesses. He fell for and had affairs with both Bluejay and Scorpia in his first incarnation. In a later incarnation he helped reform a villainess named Saving Grace, fell in love and eventually married her, he later learned she was already married (she didn't know it at the time she had amnesia). That storyline was never finished and was left hanging.

I had another character who was a combination of a agent of order and green lantern, whose lover turned out to be an agent of chaos. They both worked as a balance against the other and couldn't interfere with each others work.

And they lived happily ever after...

Da Guru

[zornwil]

Originally posted by Hermit
(Been awhile since I've seen one of this put up, I THINK we're on #7, but if I miscounted, my apologies)

Your character is in a battle with a relatively new super villain, one that has been around for only a few weeks. In your latest battle with him/her, their mask comes off... revealing the face of your characters love!

What would your character do? And what would your character think?

This one I can answer with ease. He'd consult the spirits for guidance. If he felt based on their feedback that she had a good reason to be a villain, he'd discuss it with her, probably leave her alone - heck, maybe help her out. If he felt based on their feedback this was a lesson he was supposed to learn and she was bad, he'd give her his infamous chop to the throat. If they didn't give any feedback, he'd try to talk with her, but if she wasn't talking, hed' go into combat mode.

[lemming]

Originally posted by zornwil
If he felt based on their feedback this was a lesson he was supposed to learn and she was bad, he'd give her his infamous chop to the throat.
Bastard! :D

I'm the GM for zornwil's character. And yes, it's the infamous "chop".

[Powerhouse]

"Most of my characters would assume metamorph or disguise, and that the mask came off deliberately to either play with the character's head or frame love interest."

Really? Do they have Public ID's? Otherwise, my characters would have taken it at face value, no pun intended.

[Mayday]

This depends a bit on what the villain has been up to. The more hard core the crime the harder to accept. Either way it is definately time for a talk on our next date.

[WhammeWhamme]

Originally posted by Powerhouse
"Most of my characters would assume metamorph or disguise, and that the mask came off deliberately to either play with the character's head or frame love interest."

Really? Do they have Public ID's? Otherwise, my characters would have taken it at face value, no pun intended.

Uh, even if they have a Secret ID, no ID is free from discovery. Imagine if what was going on was they were trying to pinpoint the character by doing this...

[assault]

Originally posted by Powerhouse
Really? Do they have Public ID's? Otherwise, my characters would have taken it at face value, no pun intended.

Superman has a Secret ID. Is it impossible that someone might use Lois Lane against him?

At least some DNPCs are associates of a hero in his/her heroic form, not just in her/his normal identity.

Besides, it is quite possible that a snoopy reporter or some other reckless DNPC busybody might well have blundered into the real villain's way, and thus "volunteered" to be the subject for their latest mind control experiment.

This kind of one in a million chance happens nine times out of ten where DNPCs are involved. That's why you get points for them. :)

Alan

[The Watcher]

Warp: Being a billionaire playboy, the person he'd be going at with at the time is likely someone rich and famous. So the revelation would be doubly surprising.

"Cameron Diaz?!"

That said, he'd keep enough of his wits about him to try to capture her and turn her into the authorities. Then he'd try to visit her in jail in his Secret ID and ask what the hell is going on.

Spectrum: Doesn't have a wife or girlfriend currently, but if he did he'd still try to subdue her and turn her in. He takes his duties as an Air Force Officer and government sponsored super hero seriously.

Mystic: Will try to subdue her and then use magic to determine whether it's really her, and if so, had she somehow been ensorcelled to be a villain.

Proteus: Doesn't have a girlfriend currently, but if he did wouldn't be as shocked as other people. He's a biodaptive shapeshifter himself, so he's been in these situations before, albeit ususally from the other side.

[Vondy]

Anthem: would do his job.

Midnight: would yell out in shock: "(name of favorite porn star)?!" I don't know any actual names myself, but the character is into it and has a favorite one (I'm sure). Actually, he'd probably be so stunned (presence attack) that he would get himself knocked out. Later he'd have to go find a place to think.

Pinstrip: kill them. then swear once.

Doc Micro: shrink them down to size and get them some counseling, durnit.

[farik]

Husky and Kenneth both have a stunted and immature concept of love so if it's Husky's love then the villain is apparently one of many famous lingerie models and he'll hit on them while "hitting" them. If it's Kenneth's idea of love then the villain is probably a vapid highschool cheerleader and in his secret ID he'd probably try to figure out how she got powers and then awkwardly try to approach her as an equal trying to sound like they have something in common but never revealing what ultimately resulting in annoying the girl most likely.