WWYCD: Attraction Loop

[Hermit]

(forgive me if this one has been done before)

 

The night before, your character went about the city (patrol if standard superhero, theft if said character is a villain, etc) after a set of seemingly random encounters at a science lab, a mueseum, and a seedy comic book story open way too late at night, your character calls it a night and heads home to hit the sack.

 

The next day, your character awakens and goes about his/her business as normal. However, those your character is attracted to, or desires, begin to reciprocate even if they've shown NO interest before. It begins as casual flirtation on their part, and grows increasingly bold the longer your character is in their prescence. It is clear, given their behavior, if it were up to them, the comic book code would be out the window. Even normally reserved or happily attached NPCs seem unable to resist your new found animal magnetism, a magnetism you can't seem to turn off.

 

Suffice to say, details depend on your own character's desires or curiousities (If he she doesn't have ANY sexual attraction to anyone, they won't have it to him/her/it).

What NPCs in your character's campaign would be affected?

What would your character do? (Resist? Enjoy it now, feel guilty later? Investigate, all the above?)

[Dust Raven]

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Dr. Phenomenal: Initially wouldn't even notice. Phen is a brainy scientist, and a litterally blind one at that. It might take a few days to realize what's happening. Needless to say that he wouldn't have a clue should one of his students turned up at his office naked...

 

Once he figured out what was happening, it'd probably be so far along there would be nothing he could do about it except hide and try to figure out how to stop it.

 

Chandra Blue: This would really freak her out. Chandra is highly attractive, assertive, athletic and not in any kind of romantic relationship at the moment. All of these tend to make her attractive to the men she hangs around with anyway. If they all suddenly started to come on to her, and continuously don't take no for an answer (everyone takes no for an answer from Chandra, who's effectively a female mystic Batman), she'll want answers.

[Hermit]

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Well, just a reminder, Your character has to be attracted to THEM first for the NPCs to be affected. Not everyone will be hitting on your characters (Unless your character is attracted to everyone)

[Zed-F]

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In this respect, Soulbarb is your typical teenaged girl, so there's definitely at least a few people she's thought about in that way around. She's never attracted that much attention in a social sense before 'cause she's way too prickly, but now with anyone she's ever so much as considered good-looking starting to hit on her... she might enjoy the attention at first but it would soon make her quite nervous, to say the least. Not to mention how this could affect her relationship with her boyfriend, Nocturne, or what her girlfriends would say, seeing as she's just helped one of them out of an ill-considered match and into a (hopefully) better one. She'll probably wind up cutting class just to get away from the whole scene, find out the effect isn't limited to her school chums, and head home to figure out what could cause this sort of thing. Did someone slip her some love potion #9 or something? After doing some research at home, she'll head out to do some serious investigation before her mother gets home... and hope to heck that she doesn't run into Hype.

 

Diva: "I thought I had this problem under control." She checks into a Galactic Federation clinic to see if her recently-manifested mental abilities are undergoing a new power surge or something. She really doesn't want to seduce a planetary president by accident again.

 

King Of Pain: Wouldn't notice anything different. The story of his life is measured in the number of crazy broads who need his help or who think he needs to be 'saved' somehow, the number of relationships he's hesitantly gotten into, and the number of heartbreaks when things inevitably fall apart. He'd assume this is just more of the same.

[Blue]

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So... "What if your characters was suddenly irresistable?"

 

Well, Anthem has a mild attraction to a member of the Sentinels who is her age. She'd be fine with getting attention, provided he didn't lay it on thick. She kind of likes that he's the shy type. She also admires Uncle Slam, who is her idol; If he hit on her she'd find it weird and try to look into why.

 

As for Uncle Slam himself, his only attraction is to a member of the sentinels whose husband died in the battle of Detroit. He would probably go out with her once, and want to go out with her more, but since he's responsible for installing her in the team, he'd feel a conflict of sorts.

 

Auddra Blue spends much of her day plugged into the net and tries to have as little contact with outsiders as possible. To this, she's got an attraction to almost random people for various reasons, and none of them are aware of it. But being a loner, she is somewhat sexually repressed so she'd probably be inclined to take at least one of them up on offers of sex, but only those she deemed aren't a security risk. (You see, she finds a few villains attractive as well).

[AliceTheOwl]

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The Greek's reaction would be, basically, "About freakin' time! But aren't there social conventions about this sort of thing that most of them are ignoring? Oh, well." In other words, she'd be unsurprised, but curious.

 

Beacon wouldn't notice. At all. She has Asperger's Syndrome, and emotional reactions make absolutely no sense to her. It's not that she doesn't feel emotions, though; she just can't identify them when they happen. She'd eventually start mind controlling the person to leave her alone.

 

Weather Girl would hide. She'd realize the pattern pretty quickly, and, being slightly phobic about human contact, would just fly off somewhere to be alone and ask the team to look into whether this was happening elsewhere.

 

Vivian (who might be disqualified, considering she's Fantasy, but what the hey) would eventually break down into tears, either figuring they were making fun of her, or wondering how in the world she could bend her easy-to-please nature around THIS conundrum. Either way, she'd be upset. (Having a great capacity for fondness and Psych Lim: Curious, she'd end up with quite a few reciprocations.)

[TheEmerged]

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The Disruptor (my GM-PC) has a COM of Zero, an Extreme Reputation 14- as one of the most hated novas in the continuity (the campaign equivalent of Superman/Captain Marvel named him as one of three figures in history he could justify the death penalty for), a PRE of 30, and an INT of 45.

 

As such he'd immediately be suspicious of the motives and/or sanity of any woman that showed an interest in him.

[Duke Bushido]

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Of my characters, only these would be worth noting:

 

Venus: as this is essentially the basis of her powers anyway, she really wouldn't notice. If it became an issue, her mind control would certainly put a stop to it. It's how she deals with it now anyway.

 

Martin Power: Since it requires the character to be interested first, there would be no affect on anyone around him. The only person in the world he has any emotional interest in is his little sister (another player's character), toward whom he is extremely protective. If that translated into any 'romantic' reaction on her part, he'd spring for her counselling, and probably start to whale on her former foster parents.

 

Mark 2: Have a psychotic breakdown. This would be the ultimate reminder of his lost humanity, and his sense of touch is the thing he misses the most. Without it, he feels any relationship, even friendship, loses a great deal of meaning.

 

The others react in more or less 'predictable' ways based on their personalities; these three would stand out as most unique.

[Dust Raven]

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Well' date=' just a reminder, Your character has to be attracted to THEM first for the NPCs to be affected. Not everyone will be hitting on your characters (Unless your character is attracted to everyone)[/quote']

 

Ah.

 

Well in that case, neither of my character will be affected in any way. At least not at this time.

[Lethosos]

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Queen of Spades currently doesn't have any specific individuals that she'd have an eye for, but... in Secret ID, she's been eying the other ladies she'd worked with on her usual photo shoots/auto show circuits. (She does appear in her world's Lowrider rag, so some interests would match.) Since she makes a note of doing some minor research on her compatriots (for purely scientific purposes!), she'd be suspicious if the straight ones want to get into her pants. A follow-up review of what she'd done recently will be in order, before she makes a solid move on any would-be ardour.

[caris]

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Adonis would either end up pretty worried or unaware of the change depending on GM interpretation. Adonis has some issues. Given that he was raised by a cold, distant and unaffection man, Adonis has developed a somewhat intense desire/need for affection, which he fuels by being a ****. Adonis being a shapeshifter since birth really doesn't understand beauty, and is equally attracted to almost everyone. There are a few people that he is emotionally attached too, but that is a seperate function from physical attraction for him. So either, almost literally everyone starts becoming attracted to him, or there is absolutely no change.

[OddHat]

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Style - Would notice imediately, cast a few divinations, and if that didn't work he'd cast an emotion-moderating spell on himself and consult a more experienced mystic.

 

Flesh Gordon - "Whoa. Viperia's giving me the eye. Better flex." This sort of thing happens to him all the time. If he did notice (probably because a team mate pointed it out), he'd look for a mad scientist and ask for a cure. Inevitably, this would end with yet more ex-girlfriends trying to kill him.

 

Sam Houston, the Tick-Tock Man - He'd figure it out fairly quickly, and examine himself for evidence of any strange medical or psychic conditions. As he only currently knows one other metahuman, a ROM type, he'd probably be in for a long hunt through Houston and Texas for a psychic or mystic who could help.

[nightbringer256]

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Paper

would notice and not care at all. he is a reclusive nerd at a super hero high school. he would how ever only return the affections of one. Laironess, an evil metalist who he has "fallen" for.

[McCoy]

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Millennium feels that he is a role model, and chooses to remain celibate. He does not allow himself to be too deeply attracted to anyone. Iron Will is 13, a quadroplegic, and doubts that he is going to live to puberty. Neither of them will notice.

 

Cheeta is a horn-dog. He is used to picking up groupies. He may not notice if it gets easier.

 

Snow Leopard Would very much like to be a mother. But she is aware that her life expectancy is at least 200 years, and she will not consider anybody under a century old as the father of her child. Maybe one of the immortlas she knows will give her a second look now.

 

Dolphin, despite being a brick, has almost a fettish for telepaths. Maybe some heterosexual male telepaths will suddenly consider a walk on the wild side. Or maybe their higher egos would be able to resist this.

[Lord Mhoram]

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Meeb - non issue. He isn't attracted to any human.

 

Blackcat - She'd be happy that Chuck was spending more time with her, but he is as reserved as she is, and she'd realized pretty soon something was up - especially when Thunderstrike (a teammate she is mildly attracted to and loves to tease him by flirting occasionally, just because it embarreeses him) responded. Or when Capt Murcaldi (the local police contact) started talking to her (especialliy because Thunderstrike is actually married to Murcaldi's Daughter). Then she would use her ch'i senses to find out what was going on with her and fix it.

 

Terminal velocity - a teenage hero with a "Good looking and knows it" quirk as well as a "ohh he's a dreamboat" DF. He would be completely freaked out when all of attractive (or even semi attractive) females he knows started falling down to get to him.

[ghost-angel]

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Jessica - would be stuck, her pack is very open in regards to attraction and she is certainly physically attracted to a great number of people. She is pshycologically attracted to only one person though and this would result in a bit of conflict... she'd resist her urges and try and figure out what is going on.

 

Silence - would be effectively immune to this problem. She doesn't think in terms of romantic or sexual attraction, it would have to be initiated by someone else and she may not return it even then.

[sinanju]

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Hell's Angel -- With COM and PRE both at 25, this pretty much par for the course for her. In her heroic identity, that is. If it starts happening to Gayle Roark, mild-mannered novelist, she'd be surprised and a little alarmed. She'd also want to find the cause, and would enlist her fellow heroes in doing so. But in the mean time, being something of a hedonist, she wouldn't be averse to letting those attractive men have their way with her...as long as they're single (no homewrecker, she!).

[Dr. Anomaly]

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Dr. Anomaly might take a little while to notice if it were happening to him in his secret ID, since being wealthy and unmarried he's used to "dodging" women in any case. When he realized there was something more to it, though...perhaps when the base's live-in staffer, a fully-functional android named Julie, made a pass at him...he'd look into the causes and try and find a counter to it very quickly. He doesn't like the idea of people's actions being influenced like that without their knowledge.

[Manchine]

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Animal Teen, who is a normal 18 year old teenager would love this. Since he is attracted to pretty much any pretty girl. The problem would be since he already releases a pheromone that makes women attracted to him. This might be to much for the women. Think of a Riot. He would have to try and figure out what the heck is going on.

 

Manchine and Seige, who have just started to be in a relationship. Wouldn't know what to think and possible wouldnt see anything until things went to far. Which then would cause them to wonder if it was effect that made them like each other or if they really did.

[nexus]

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Tao only knows about the reproductive urge second hand. She isn't really attracted to anyone sexually/romatically at all at the moment

 

Eve is a kid and might develop crushes later but is a bit young for them now. "Boys are icky!"

 

Ivy would be intrigued and quite confused by the matter. Suspecting she's unconsciously releasing some sort of plant based pheromones, she'd examine the situation and try to resolve it.

[Ghost Archer]

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Ghost Archer: This might be a huge problem for him as he is attracted to women in general. The fact that he is married and would be disgustingly loyal to Raven, would lead him to investigate what the heck was going on. If he were single, it might take a few years before he began to wonder about it.

 

Icehawk: There would be only one woman that would be attracted to him under the circumstances, his wife. The guy is so blindly in love with her, the only one he ever thinks about is her.

 

Probe: Jake is a hedonist. The more, the better and only his natural curiosity would make him question the reasoning of every female he encountered. Since he sees everyone nude, all the time, and any attractive woman would catch his notice, he might find himself in the middle of a problem or an orgy.

 

Psion: Kyle would be so embarrassed he would probably hide in Everith’s tower and hope it would go away. The guy still doesn’t believe Everith is in love with him and is very insecure about her. To have other girls coming on to him would confuse hell out of him.

 

Goliath: Nat’s already had this problem, or at least ONE girl throwing herself at him. He didn’t handle that very well and I doubt he’d do any better a second time, let alone more than one girl. His biggest fear would be losing the girl he does love, Wren. He would probably want to get as far from San Diego as possible and pray Wren would go with him and that she’d believe it wasn’t his fault.

[BcAugust]

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Cyrande would be surprised, there's really only two males she's been interested in, one the Superman anolog for her campaign. And everyone would be shocked if he started returning the interest, though Cyrande would definitely act on the attraction. This is where it gets wierd. She wouldn't see anything wrong with it at first, then be horrified she actually victimized someone unwilling.

 

Nox... wouldn't have this problem. She's not attracted to anyone, though the gm might have her teammates start flirting with her... which given two of them have fiancees, would make things very ackward. Sherry is very much the "little sister" of her team.

[mikesama]

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Quantum would immediatly realize something is wrong as the only person who he's really attracted to is currently happy with someone else and he knows it and hasn't said a word about the attraction to her.

 

Snap Dragon Would find a bevy of older college students she finds herself attracted to hitting on her and freaking her out a little but would happy that all of the "nice Chineese boys" her family is trying to set her up with show the same appeal to her.

[Dr Archeville]

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Dead Head: Is an undead and feels almost no emotion, and gave up on ever being with anyone long ago. He does, however, still occassionally flirt with others, so it is possible someone might have some odd necrophilial attraction to him. However, dead Head also has no heartbeat, and so no blood flow, and so certain... things simply don't work, so he couldn't really reciprocate. He'll try and get to the bottom of what's going on.

 

Doktor Archeville: Is a hyper-brainy scientist, and so likely wouldn't notice anything at first. Eventually he would see something's up, though... and it's not outside the relam of possiblity that he'd take advantage of the deal, though if he did he'd feel fairly guilty afterwards. He'd work on making some Mental Shields for his female teammates (or a cloaking device for himself so they can't sense him), then work on figuring out just what's what.

[SatinKitty]

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Firestorm The B Movie actress, probably would notice nothing out of the ordinary for some time. This sort of thing is part of her business. When the men got too bold, she would sweetly remind them that her heart STILL belonged to THE Harlequin . That usually works to cool things down REAL quick. (She's hot and sexy, but she's not "loose".) If that DIDN'T work, she'd know something was up and pay a visit to her friend and former teammate, Mind Flair.

 

Mind Flair, on the other hand, would probably be called on by Invictus first. If the usual gentle mental taps didn't send would-be suitors on their way, she'd tap a bit harder. If still no luck, she'd peek "inside" to see what was up. If she saw the familiar signature of one of her Hunteds or Arch-Foes, she'd sigh, roll her eyes and move immediately to take care of the problem.

 

Tabby Cat would send a Thank-you note and probably a bunch of flowers to whichever of her neighbors had been kind enough to set up this convenient "Free Delivery" Service.