WWYCD: Your hero needs your help

[AdamLeisemann]

This Situation is written with the following assumptions:

 

Long ago, when your character was a child, s/he looked up to a hero, but the hero has since dies in mysterious circumstances. It is now a cold case. It has been one for at least a decade.

 

Phase 1:

 

Now, your character is receiving visions in his/her dreams: The hero you so were enamored with in your youth is now trying to get you to investigate the murder. Who is this hero? What would your character do? Would you be able to get your companions to help?

[Sundog]

Re: WWYCD: Your hero needs your help

 

Oh, boy. For this to work with Terminus it would have to be someone who was either from his own universe (such as an exceptional earlier model Terminus Soldier) or someone who had counterparts in both unverses (Ironclad, for instance, exists in both universes, though in Terminus' universe he's a member of the NYPD). That would give him a double push to find the truth - not just to find out what happened to his old hero, but also as a link to his home.

 

Frankly, he'd go for it in a microsecond. And he'd simply ask his friends to help him out - they almost certainly would, unless something else was going on that needed their input.

[Lord Mhoram]

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The only character of mine that really fit is Terminal Velocity (And Mordecai* If you read this, and like it, then go ahead and run with it).

 

He idolizes his Dad. Now while his dad was a superhero he "was only human" as the saying goes and made mistakes, and had an affair with a supervillianess (TV's mom) but he really looks up to the legend of his father. Now his father's wife ended up setting up his death when she found out about the affair - killed in a fight with Eurostar, and things on that team went to heck, and it broke up. Mom went strait and kept TV hidden, untile he became a super himself - and although the events of the death are common knowledge, his connection to it isn't.

 

If he was getting dreams about his dad asking for help - he would first make sure he isn't having his mind tampered with to set him up for a trap. Then he would do everything in his power to find out exactly what happened, and he woudl badger his teammates to help - although they would likely do so just on asking.

 

As a side note - Terminal Velocity is a speedster, and his mom is Shrike out of European Enemies - so in my life I can actually say I used that book.

 

* That's the GM. He lurks here but never posts.

[Marketeer]

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Blackberry: it is difficult to conceive of a reason why she wouldn't take up the case.

 

She has decent investigation skills, but she would start by calling up some old friends to get some mystic mojo going--it is always easier to search for the truth if you have at least a few leads.

 

Ephemeral (Working name) would have some reservations. Her identity is well-known, and there are many groups and powers who would like to manipulate her. That being said, she would feel obligated to investigate the situation--anybody she respects is entitled to a certain amount of deference, even if just a dream-shade.

[Zed-F]

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Soulbarb: The person in her life this would most apply to would be her father, though he is by no means a hero. In fact, quite the opposite; Soulbarb's power origin has her father summoning a demon and binding it to her in a ritual sacrifice designed to give him infernal power. As far as she knows, her father is dead, and his soul has since been captured by a supervillain group known as The Choir, about which she knows relatively little other than that they are much more powerful in aggregate than she is. They claim to need her father's soul to ward off some great catastrophe at some point in the future, but Soulbarb doesn't trust them. If her father started appearing in her dreams and asking for help, it would probably be to free him from The Choir, rather than to investigate the circumstances of his death. Soulbarb would use whatever information he could give in furtherance of her own investigation into The Choir, but would always keep in mind the possibility that things might not be as they initially seem, and would proceed extremely cautiously. She would probably endeavor not to involve her friends, unless and until it became apparent that a direct confrontation of some sort would be both required and winnable.

 

Sylph doesn't really have anyone to whom this applies. Perhaps Colossus would be the closest fit, though she didn't grow up in New Constantinople. If she started getting dreams that Colossus needed her help to investigate the circumstances of her death, given the amount of weirdness she's had invade her life recently, she'd be inclined to believe the dreams had some basis in truth, and would do what she could to investigate them. Of course, she has no particular training or skill as an investigator, so she'd have to hope that whatever needed investigating was something anyone looking in the right place could uncover, which after 10 years seems unlikely. To further complicate matters, this might well annoy Colossus, who is, unbeknownst to her, quite alive and enjoying his retirement away from the public eye, having retired for health reasons. He would probably not be pleased if the city in general found out he didn't die after all...

[Ghost Archer]

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I've never really though much about it but Ghost Archer has never had a hero. It wouldn't be his father as the man was pretty hard on the boy and never really displayed any interest that didn't involve teaching him how to fight. On the other side, his mother wouldn't have anything to do with him since he never displayed any aptitude for her magic. His older brother disappeared before he was born and returned to try to kill the whole family. His older sister has the same wanderlust Archer has and disappeared while he was about five. By the time he was eight, all that remained of his family was his younger sister and they were on an entirely new world.

Now on this new world, his adoptive parents WHERE killed and he did hunt down the Viper agents that did it and then the Nest leader that ordered the hit. Since he is a detective not only at heart but as a profession, he'd surely help anyone in this situation.