What Would Your Character's City Be Like?

[Hermit]

Assume, for a moment, that like grim Gotham reflecting Batman, or shiney Metropolis echoing Superman, your character is placed in a brand new setting (or retconned into it if you prefer) where he or she is the only or at least main super hero of the city. While said character might like the city, or hate it, it is in sync with him or her some way. If your character is dark and brooding, so is the city. If your character is frantic and a show off, this city would be fast paced and very glitz.

 

Think of it as both an 'ideal enviroment' and as a city built on similar themes to your character his/herself.

 

If a real city already fits, feel free to use that one and say any changes you'd have to make to make it fit even better.

[Dr. Anomaly]

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Bright, new, cutting-edge tech, yet liberally mixed with old brownstone neighborhoods with cozy coffee shops and cafes, new-age bookstores, tarot readers, and similar "mystic" things. People would have or use all the latest tech, yet also believe in magic. This would range from out-and-out superstition to those who practice various types of meditation and conciousness-expanding disciplies to those who practice "practical magic". Overall a bright and pleasant place.

[Blue]

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Uncle Slam is pretty well suited to working Washington DC, though he tends to dislike politicans. Irony.

 

Anthem works the low-level crime and streets of her current city because that's where her skills fit. So accordingly, any city she wound up in, would likely not have uber-criminals, but likely a lot of low-level supervillains, lots of agents to fight, etc. The mood would definitely be Gothamy, because I think she's brighter for working in the darkness.

 

Audra Blue is a technophile. Any city which is heavily automated, computerized, monitored and likely dealing with hackers, white collar crime, etc, is where she'd be. Not the distant future, but a place about twenty years head of anywhere we have now.

[Cancer]

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A city that mirrored Mr. Terrific would have lots of medium-to-small-scale glitzy high-tech stuff in the visible transportation corridors, but significant tracts of ugly, dirty, squalid mess. Strangely, the city would have a very good education system, and be home to some breathtaking research institutions, but as an entity the city would lack the will to bring the standard of living up for the bottom 30% of its population. The seeds of hope are there, but it seems that too many of those seeds fail to germinate.

 

That may be due to a profound mistrust for anything that seems to be Big Money; in the city's repeated, painful experience, dollars times conscience = a constant, and there is a profound mistrust of large corporations and charismatic executives: no corporate welfare tax breaks here. By far the worst characters in recent history have been the rich guys trying to own everything, not the desperate poor (and the psychotics that rise from there) wanting to tear stuff down out of jealousy.

 

More than half the population would have the old Eyebeam bumper sticker on their vehicle: "Happiness is Planet Earth in your rear-view mirror."

[mikesama]

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Snap Dragon Her city would be a wild combining of a modern city and mystic china, possilby with lots of high tech buildings built to strongly resemble ancient chineese buildings.

 

Heaven's sword He'd be in a slightly tweaked version of Tokyo.

 

Quantum ttal city of the future with skyways, miles tall skyscrapers and computer teminals on street corners.

[Enforcer84]

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Enforcer high tech city, shining and glorious to behold. Pragmatic citizenry who simply work to keep the city running smothly. With a rather large, and well run Red Light district.

Grand Mantis A clean city, melting pot population, up to date but with a timeless and traditional quality as many cultures grow together. Various ethnic neighborhoods.

[assault]

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For Assault: Brisbane, Australia.

 

OK, that doesn't help if you haven't been there, but he was pretty much built for it.

[TheRavenIs]

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Nightshade A gritter Chicago, one that is modern but has the feel of the 30's. The mob/yakazu/tongs are in charge, the city government just does as it's told. A grim, sad, city but with some communities of hope.

 

Cosmic Blue A ultra-modern city, Earth after the rebuilding of WWIII; Star Trek. A true multi-cultural city, also beings from other worlds.

 

Storm Shard A New York that is both gritter and brighter. The darkness hides in the places it always hides in NYC. This NYC is the real center of culture and finance. It has the same old probleams but the government is run like a bussiness and does work to make it a better city.

 

Ca'Rom Holt A far future city that has all the nice tech you'd expect of the level of Star Wars w/ hints of Bab5.

[Lumbering Ox]

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Surfer dude: A beach with narly waves and lots of pot dude. Lots of acceptance, really laid back, probably without much economic potential, but its warm year round, and needs are minimal... except for the pot which grows and is sold everywhere.

 

Liberator: Downtown, financial center of the world/nation/universe whatever. Tall buildings, lots of old and new money. A government that sticks to the utter infrustructure basics. A city populated by hard driving people who work hard, basicly a place that in real life I would not fit in with. Where ability and ambition are valued but so are honesty and integrety. I suppose the honesty would make sure that siad city would not remain a financial capital for long [evil!]

[Zeropoint]

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Special Agent Trent's city would be a middling large city, probably a state capitol with a lot of government buildings. The city would be clean and efficiently run, with a good mass transit system. Streets are laid out in a sensible grid pattern. The real character of the city would be reflected by the city center: row after row of skyscrapers, all in the architectural style of "black glass monolith". Despite the relatively low crime rate, armored police cars can be seen cruising slowly, almost menacingly, anywhere in the city at any time of day or night. The message is simple: crime Will Not Be Tolerated.

[ghost-angel]

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I fear what Flesh's city will be like

 

Jessica - dirt, grime and tall elegance mixed together in a weird harmony. Slightly anacronistic, few cars but lots's of public transportation, the outskirts would have a very rural feel. There would be a sort of "together" mentality amongst the population, like a massive family. And the blues bars would replace nightclubs, and be the best there is.

 

Silence - A necropolis where she safeguards the souls of the recently dead as they pass to the Afterlife. Architecture and layout vary and don't hold to physics.

[Karma]

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Fore-Eyes: An old world city with a deep sense of history. Side streets filled with cosy cafe's and bookshops. A huge main library that you can get lost in. Most importantly a city edict that requires that a clock tower be visible from every outside point in the city, at least during the day.

However along with these positives would come an equally old world criminal empire whose fingers stretch throughout the globe and who only a man with the ability to see the future will be able to stop controlling it.

 

Hardball: Harsh, modern, a city whose glitz and glamour hide a rotten underbelly steeped in the worst humanity has to offer. The kind of place that's great to visit if you keep to the tourist traps and don't go exploring. Where the police are either too corrupt or too incompotent to care about the disappearances that happen daily. The kind of city that needs a hero who as harsh and unforgiving as it is.

 

Caress: Beautiful and glamourous, but rotten at the core. A city ruled not by those who publically do so, gaining the public's trust with 'beautification projects' and 'civic improvement' but by those who pull their strings, their mistresses. Where the "women of the night" control their own trade. Sin City with less violence and *no* misogyny. The kind of city where she who controls with a touch can rule from the shadows.

[Zed-F]

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Soulbarb: I shudder to think, since a demon of Hell would probably get some say in the city's creation...

 

Think of a mystic Gotham, only the misery of the people is even worse. There are some rays of hope, but they are few and far between, and not entirely incorruptible. And that's a best-case scenario.

[Manchine]

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Manchine, who needs a small city when you have a moon.

 

Animal Teen, Los Angels, something with a little bit of everything. As long as its got hot looking women and a fun night life.

 

White Knight, an english castle with a Small town nearby.

 

Sonic Soldier, any military base. Would stay away from DC and the polticians.

[Hermit]

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Thanks to all those who responded.

[Chuckg]

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Starguard: -- she's not really a 'worldly' person, so imagining a city that reflects her and yet still actually looks like a place where Earth people live is kinda hard.

 

Wherever it is, it would be clean, full of happy people, and have parks. Crime would be low, the economy would be prosperous, and the politicians would be honest. But it wouldn't be some incomprehensibly dull Utopia -- there would still be human beings and fun. At the PG-13 level.

 

 

Dr. Pain: -- take the city of Chicago, lose the corrupt city administration, and he's happy as a clam. Leon is from 'Little Warsaw'.

 

 

Baron von Darien: -- an Eastern European theme, but not archaically non-functional -- Gothic architecture and landmarks would be seamlessly blended in with gleaming black monoliths. The mood of the city would be purposeful, and vigilant, and a little grim: there would still be evil, and things that needed fixing, but the population would be tackling those things with steady purpose and clear-headed pragmatism.

 

Oh, and justice would be swift and certain.

[Zeropoint]

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Sounds like Baron von Darien and Special Agent Trent would get along.

 

Zeropoint

[Badger]

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Badger, Gotham might be a bit of a good example. He is dark in a lot of ways. It'll rain a whole lot there. I hear Seattle get a lot of rain;) It would probably be a smaller city or even just a large town as Badger does like his solitude. He tends to stay in the forest area outside city limits where his cave/home is in down time.

 

Frosty Bob- Well I have brought him back from the realm of long ago cast aside PCs. He was my favorite PC that was not my own. So I am kind of experimenting. Anyway, Las Vegas would be a good place. Though he would never get anything done with all the showgirls around.

[Dr Archeville]

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Dead Head -- Gotham would work, as would Transylvania. Or the city Baron von Darien described. Something with lots of shadows so he could easily get around (he's got Invisibility to Sight, Only In Darkness, and Teleport, Only to Vanish When No One's Looking At Him).

 

Doktor Archeville -- Futurama's New New York

[Whitewings]

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Faye: Vancouver, but with some tweaks: Every single building would be at least up to code in every way, every last one, right down to the poorest sections of the downtown east side. No exceptions. And the Vancouver City Council will be interested in making the city into Funcouver instead of Nofunvancouver. Buskers, street artists, sidewalk vendors, all of the which the Council has been trying to shut down, would be encouraged instead.

[SirLordCoake]

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Psicho: Techno Gothic... very strong traditional gothic themes where the technology is hidden and in-obvious. Fairly gritty, a place where the heroes and vigilantes are the only upholders of justice, because your average Police Officer is afraid of the place. Industrial music is the popular music of the city, and you can find a rave any night of the week.

 

SLC

[rjcurrie]

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For the members of SuperSquad America from my convention event (www.supersquadamerica.com):

 

Rick Davies the Resilient Rubber-Man and Swift Kick (his wife): Probably some place like Astro City, a city full of heroes fighting the good fight with lots of different neighbourhoods providing the full range of the superhero experience.

 

Fast Track: A high-tech city of learning but with a hint of darkness in its future.

 

Diva: Definitely a media center where she is one of the city's biggest personalities.

 

Silver Bow: A birght, shiny, and optimistic city on the surface but with an underbelly of crime and corruption that is eating it away.

 

Challenger: A modern city that has never forgotten its past. In fact, maybe some people live in the past a little too much.

 

Crimson Fist: A city that isn't sure whether it wants superheroes around or not. It's tough being a hero there.

 

Nightingale: A bright shining small city that lives almost entirely in the present with little thought given to the past. It's the kind of place where it's good to raise a family.

 

Forethought: A dark dangerous city full of secrets and conspiracies.

[Werehawk]

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The Global Defense Initiative is over 60% Russian personel. Moscow and St. Petersburg are not the main hangouts for the players, however. That falls on the Siberian city of Novosibiersk. The blueprint for a Russian "Boom Town".

 

(Find and rent "Siberia:How the East Was Won" from the History Channel to learn more)

[McCoy]

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Millennium An ultra modern high tech city, but with echos of neoclassical in the architecture. Skyscrapers with columned facades rather than glass & steel boxes, with the monorail running between them.

 

Cheeta A place as fanatical about sports as Green Bay, but where a soccer riot is the constitutionaly approved way of changing governments.

 

Iron Will Thinks that his reflection would be the capital city of the Republic from Star Wars, but the more accurate reflaction would be Bladerunner.

 

Snow Leopard Gotham, but with green belting.

 

Dolphin A costal city, very ecologically friendly. San Diego with more public transportation and bicycles.

[Marcus Impudite]

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Devilfire's city would be much like Sunnydale (a.k.a. "Sunny-Hell") from the Buffyverse; sunny and superficially peaceful during the daytime, and a hotbed of bizarre and dangerous supernatural activatity at night.