Alien Bonding

[jkwleisemann]

One day, a fairly normal one by most standards, a flying saucer comes crashing to earth, doing a significant amount of damage on the way down. Government forces quickly quarantine and capture the saucer, and its occupants... two aliens, one alive (if barely), the other dead.

 

Later that day, one of the doctors approaches your team (assuming, of course, that your team has suitable connections/relationship with the government to be approached in this manner). The survivor has come around, and almost immediately started reacting very, very badly, like he already knew that his shuttle-mate was dead despite them having been separated for some time already. They would like some super-powered backup, in case the situation gets Really Really Bad.

 

When the team gets there, the distraught alien explains his situation (found here under Personality/Motivation). In brief: his species is highly psychically active, and group-oriented. They need a mental bond with somebody in order to stay sane, and his bond-mate died in the crash. They can control the information they share across the bond, and obviously the death of one member of the bond doesn't kill the other, but the bond can't be broken or reassigned without one of them dying or serious psychic surgery (which he isn't capable of).

 

He's hoping that one of the team will be willing to let him bond, but the medical staff is reluctant. He won't force the bond on somebody... it probably wouldn't work, and even if it did, he'd never forgive himself.

 

Would your character believe him? Would s/he accept, either way?

[Amber Nytstar]

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The Flying Kittens would believe him and all three would probably volunteer... as soon as they got the details of it's limitations.

[Badger]

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Badger-would hope one of the others volunteers. He doesnt particularly like the idea of someone else in his mind. Even if the info exchange can be controlled.

 

frosty Bob- total wildcard on what he would do.

[Zed-F]

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Soulbarb would not be called in on this as she normally doesn't work with a team, avoids publicity, and tries to remain as much an unknown as possible as far as the government is concerned.

 

Sylph is, however, on a team and likely to be called in, especially if the alien's injuries are severe, due to her healing abilities. She's quite empathetic of his situation and would very likely agree to the bonding on the spur of the moment, without really considering the complications this would cause in her already turbulent life.

 

It would be quite interesting to see what would happen the first time she goes Maenad, however, especially if the alien is at all humanoid...

[OddHat]

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Style - Is called in under his capacity as an expert on the strange and unusual. After carefully setting up the best compartmentalized mental defenses he can, he cautiously scans the alien's aura and mind. Finally, he agrees to the bond.

 

The Alien is of course under the control of the Shadow Wraiths, space traveling horrors hostile to Earth. Now that Style has fallen into their trap, they steal his knowledge of the Amaratsu Gate hidden on the moon, then order their pawn to destroy him. Style barely survives the battle; the Alien, a manipulated innocent, dies. Style goes on to face the Shadow Wraiths on the moon, gathering what help he can in the form of other space-worthy Supers and mystics. After an epic battle, the gate is destroyed before it can fall into the hands of the Wraiths.

 

Which was just what the Wraiths ultimately wanted. Now, cut off from the power flowing through the gate, Earth's pantheons are seriously weakened. The mystic heroes of Earth who relied on their power and support are nearly helpless, and the Shadow Invasion begins.

 

Earth's remaining heroes, governments, and even villains fight saliently, but without the power of their mightiest mystic heroes, the many Avatars and godsmen, they are losing. Style, desperate to rectify his mistake, makes a deal with the deeply untrustworthy mystic families of Earth to forge a new Amaratsu gate in the mountains of the moon.

 

The forging is a success, despite heavy losses, and renewed power floods Earth's pantheons. The Shadow Wraiths are driven back into the outer darkness.

 

But now the existence, nature, and location of the gate is known to many of Earth's mystic bloodlines, bloodlines dominated by the most ruthless of sorcerers. The Divinities of Earth are flush with new power, and the interventionist factions among them have fresh proof that Humanity needs their active, forceful guidance. How long until one of the families decides to try to claim the power of the gate for themselves? How long until the Gods decide to bring "peace" and "order" to their Earthly flocks?

 

And, far out in space, a race of Alien telepaths felt the death cry of two of their own, on a small, hideously blue planet, known as "Earth". How long until they take their revenge?

[hfergus]

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All this assumes they think he is a good guy and believe him. Olorin could check it out, and would tend to believe him.

 

Volt would be sympathetic, but would probably not bond because it is just too odd for him. He might if the bond could be tranferred later to someone else.

 

Olorin - Step one. Put the alien into stasis so he would not lose it. (would take less than a day to do this, actually only hours) Step two. See if he could remove the need for a bond. (would take at least a month - may not work.) Step three. If he had the spell, he'd remove the need. Doubtful he could do this. Alternate step three. Travel to Faerie. Find a good, willing recipient. Would not be too hard. Step four if he had to go to Faerie. Have them bond. Can we say two new heroes? (or one and a DNPC?) Olorin lives in weirdness, so this would be a "Problem solved. NEXT!" situation as far as it boggles his mind.

 

Black Tiger. Not going to happen, sorry dude.

 

Futurian. "Uh, what does this entail in detail?" He'd do it if the bond could be tranferred to someone else eventually. If not, he'd probably do it anyway, but he'd want extreme detail first.

[Blue Jogger]

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Most of my characters aren't very sane to begin with, so they would be rather poor choices.

 

Captain Power - Spent most of his career bonded to a demon that gave him superpowers. When he finally expelled the demon, he realized that he was just as monstrous as his counterpart.

 

Ultimatum - Has the remnants of an entire alien civilization already inside of him. Probably not a good choice for a bondmate.

 

Starlight - Probably a good choice, but she's not around anymore.

 

Starlight 2 - She's a teen hero, and can't make that choice.

 

Candy (a.k.a. Squid girl) - She is a shapeshifting squid and although she likes to pretend to be a little girl, she is actually much older and would (out of all my characters) be able to deal with bonding with another lifeform.

[OddHat]

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Flesh Gordon - "Wow, I'm honored. I don't know what to say. You're a fine, good space alien, decent, intelligent, beautiful, everything an Earth Man could want; but I'm just not ready for that level of commitment."

 

"I knew this would end with me running from laser fire."

[Metaphysician]

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Hermes: realistically, before he could even consider the request, Artemis would have probably already bonded with him ( given she's probably who was doing the talking to him, anyway ). Once he was stabilized, though, Hermes would probably be busy pestering him for details about his society and star-faring technology, and perhaps trying to rebuild his space ship.

 

And then come the romantic complications, for which the space ship might be useful for running from.

[Badger]

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Most of my characters aren't very sane to begin with, so they would be rather poor choices.

 

 

 

Didnt think of that. Yeah, Bob is out. Not sure if anybody wants to take a visit into his mind.

 

(Course, Badger is a little too vengeance-obsessed to make for an ideal either)

[AdamLeisemann]

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Well, here's the take with each of my characters, based on how I think they would handle it.

 

Sonic Eagle, would undertake the telepathic bond. Not only would it keep the alien sane, but he might be able to use the information provided to get in on any good scoops for the paper he works for.

 

Lab Rat would also undertake the bond. His black-and-white veiw essentially dictates that he can't just do nothing when there's the opportunity to act. Of course, this bond might open new doorways for technology, yet LR wouldn't quite realize that yet.

 

Reinard The Fox wouldn't be in this situation normally. He lacks the connections. But if we say he'd have snuck in in listened in on everything out of curiosity, He would decide not to go with it. He's not into all that psychic stuff, and even if he did go with it, he would only be delaying the inevitable crash to insanity, as once he gets back, he might as well be dead to this dimension.

 

Kitsune Would take up the bond. To a creature of spirit such as her, it's not a big deal.

 

And for his Debut, Anubis* would take up the bond in order to keep the other alien sane, for much the same reason as Lab Rat. It would be wrong to do so. Of course, this would probably wind up disturbing the alien to some extent. Afterall, when you realize your new buddy sees no moral problem in using the old one's animated corpse for any reason (like, say, to stop an intruding villain), you would be creeped out too.

 

*Anubis (Real name: Siri), in this case, is an alien mystic (his culture, the Anpu, considers Necromancy an acceptible practice) from the Pesedjet star system. Having interfered with a slave route, he got noticed by the Galactic Guardians and they have him training on Earth in order to learn tactical skills and how to work with others drastically different from himself.

[CrosshairCollie]

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War Wolf is in applicable unless the alien can bond with robots, in which case he'd probably accept.

 

Vixen would find the entire concept too icky and vehemently refuse.

[BcAugust]

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Hermes: realistically, before he could even consider the request, Artemis would have probably already bonded with him ( given she's probably who was doing the talking to him, anyway ). Once he was stabilized, though, Hermes would probably be busy pestering him for details about his society and star-faring technology, and perhaps trying to rebuild his space ship.

 

And then come the romantic complications, for which the space ship might be useful for running from.

 

*Goes and reads the original link, ahs* Yeah. Artemis is basically a telepath with only animal(And technically plant) class minds, and tries to be very helpful. Plus, she's the one who'd most likely understand the pack bond. Hmm...

 

On the other hand, he'd likely find her mind fairly alien, and there's a slight chance he can't perform the Mind Link with her. (Noting the Human Class of mind part) If he can, well...she likes being around people she likes, and likely wouldn't even note his devotion going too far. Which means, yet again, romantic complications would blindside her.

[Enforcer84]

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Take him out to drink?