Brainstorming CU Fan Fiction, 2: The Paradigm Pirates

[Lawnmower Boy]

Self explanatory. Professor Paradigm strikes me as a natural evil Professor X. He is convinced that our reality isn't really real, and wants to penetrate under the facade, reveal the phonies, expose the power structure, open up new possibilities and infinite dimensions. It's all drama, all the time, and sounds like a teen magnet to me, but his existing followers are adults.

 

So I'm looking for teens who might join the Paradigm Pirates.

[steriaca]

Humm...none comes to mind...your going to have to create some of your own.

[steriaca]

Oh, and he and his team are a slight homage to the Doom Patrol villian group The Brotherhood Of Dada (with Profesor Paradigm makeing a pore Mister Nobody).

[Lord Liaden]

I'm not much into the Teen Supers subgenre, so if you were looking for original characters I'm afraid I have none to offer you. As for official Champions teen supers, most of those are described in Teen Champions. Most of them already belong to some type of group, and few would seem to have the truly odd temperament and worldview to fit with the Paradigm Pirates.

 

One exception to the above is Janus (Teen Champions pp. 137-140). As a child of a father from Right-Hand Earth and a mother from Left-Hand Earth, Janus is unique and belongs to neither. His conflicting inheritance of Right- and Left-Handed morality has left him amoral and disconnected from humanity, but he's also desperately lonely and desirous of finding or creating a world where he belongs. He's scientifically very adept, particularly in Dimensional sciences, making him a valuable potential collaborator for Prof. Paradigm. And "Doorway," Janus's base between the two Earth's dimensions, would make a splendid hideout for the Paradigm Pirates.

[Hermit]

Humm...none comes to mind...your going to have to create some of your own.

 

Might I suggest borrowing one from Past Editions, and then tweaking him severely?

 

Seeker- This Austrailian Teenager refuses to answer to any other name. He has been obsessed with martial arts since he was six years old. But he quickly grew frustrated with his inability to fire bolts of Chi, or race up walls, or vanish in plain sight. Many told him that was just in the comic books or movies, even respected martial artists told him there were limits. Then, he witnessed on TV various superheroes doing those impossible things. The young obsessive realized that while many mentors he'd talked to didn't seem to have that power, most of them SHOULD Have. The only solution? Something was wrong with the universal Chi! It was out of whack! There was some sort of imbalance, not just on personal levels, but through out Dream Time, or the Jade Kingdom or .or some @@@@. Refusing to accept the impossible, he took the name of one of his favorite comic book characters, and sought out someone who could help him in his quest to balance the spirituality of the universe.

 

That's how he encountered the professor. When Pr. Paradigm told the boy there was no such thing as magic, Seeker agreed, saying Chi was a scientific FACT (that most scientists just didn't get yet) and even cited some Bio-Feedback and other pop culture science references that , while often dubious, made the Prof. re-Think. He gave the boy a month or two of help, and new abilities surfaced...about half the time.

 

Seeker has been serving the Prof ever since.

 

Seeker has developed his own chi abilities, unfortunately, they only work about half the time. He's just as likely to burn his fingers as fire a chi-bolt. And when your iron skin seems to kick out half the time, you learn dodging period is a good course of action. Sometimes it seems he can run all the way up a building, and other times he ends up on his butt if h goes more than 10 feet. He can flip pretty good though. It's just sometimes he has trouble stopping it.

 

Seeker envisions a world where everyone who studies martial arts can harness the Chi of the world, and within themselves. It's a dream of his, to live where everybody is kung-Fu fighting with moves as fast as lightning.

[Lawnmower Boy]

Humm...none comes to mind...your going to have to create some of your own.

 

Might I suggest borrowing one from Past Editions, and then tweaking him severely?

 

Seeker- This Austrailian Teenager refuses to answer to any other name. He has been obsessed with martial arts since he was six years old. But he quickly grew frustrated with his inability to fire bolts of Chi, or race up walls, or vanish in plain sight. Many told him that was just in the comic books or movies, even respected martial artists told him there were limits. Then, he witnessed on TV various superheroes doing those impossible things. The young obsessive realized that while many mentors he'd talked to didn't seem to have that power, most of them SHOULD Have. The only solution? Something was wrong with the universal Chi! It was out of whack! There was some sort of imbalance, not just on personal levels, but through out Dream Time, or the Jade Kingdom or .or some @@@@. Refusing to accept the impossible, he took the name of one of his favorite comic book characters, and sought out someone who could help him in his quest to balance the spirituality of the universe.

 

That's how he encountered the professor. When Pr. Paradigm told the boy there was no such thing as magic, Seeker agreed, saying Chi was a scientific FACT (that most scientists just didn't get yet) and even cited some Bio-Feedback and other pop culture science references that , while often dubious, made the Prof. re-Think. He gave the boy a month or two of help, and new abilities surfaced...about half the time.

 

Seeker has been serving the Prof ever since.

 

Seeker has developed his own chi abilities, unfortunately, they only work about half the time. He's just as likely to burn his fingers as fire a chi-bolt. And when your iron skin seems to kick out half the time, you learn dodging period is a good course of action. Sometimes it seems he can run all the way up a building, and other times he ends up on his butt if h goes more than 10 feet. He can flip pretty good though. It's just sometimes he has trouble stopping it.

 

Seeker envisions a world where everyone who studies martial arts can harness the Chi of the world, and within themselves. It's a dream of his, to live where everybody is kung-Fu fighting with moves as fast as lightning.

Ooh.... That's a very personal challenge to a protagonist who is all about martial arts as spiritual journey....

 

What can you do with a magic girl and a Robin clone?

[Hermit]

Humm...none comes to mind...your going to have to create some of your own.

 

Might I suggest borrowing one from Past Editions, and then tweaking him severely?

 

Seeker- This Austrailian Teenager refuses to answer to any other name. He has been obsessed with martial arts since he was six years old. But he quickly grew frustrated with his inability to fire bolts of Chi, or race up walls, or vanish in plain sight. Many told him that was just in the comic books or movies, even respected martial artists told him there were limits. Then, he witnessed on TV various superheroes doing those impossible things. The young obsessive realized that while many mentors he'd talked to didn't seem to have that power, most of them SHOULD Have. The only solution? Something was wrong with the universal Chi! It was out of whack! There was some sort of imbalance, not just on personal levels, but through out Dream Time, or the Jade Kingdom or .or some @@@@. Refusing to accept the impossible, he took the name of one of his favorite comic book characters, and sought out someone who could help him in his quest to balance the spirituality of the universe.

 

That's how he encountered the professor. When Pr. Paradigm told the boy there was no such thing as magic, Seeker agreed, saying Chi was a scientific FACT (that most scientists just didn't get yet) and even cited some Bio-Feedback and other pop culture science references that , while often dubious, made the Prof. re-Think. He gave the boy a month or two of help, and new abilities surfaced...about half the time.

 

Seeker has been serving the Prof ever since.

 

Seeker has developed his own chi abilities, unfortunately, they only work about half the time. He's just as likely to burn his fingers as fire a chi-bolt. And when your iron skin seems to kick out half the time, you learn dodging period is a good course of action. Sometimes it seems he can run all the way up a building, and other times he ends up on his butt if h goes more than 10 feet. He can flip pretty good though. It's just sometimes he has trouble stopping it.

 

Seeker envisions a world where everyone who studies martial arts can harness the Chi of the world, and within themselves. It's a dream of his, to live where everybody is kung-Fu fighting with moves as fast as lightning.

I'm not sure to be honest. I'd have to think about it

[Lawnmower Boy]

Humm...none comes to mind...your going to have to create some of your own.

 

Might I suggest borrowing one from Past Editions, and then tweaking him severely?

 

Seeker- This Austrailian Teenager refuses to answer to any other name. He has been obsessed with martial arts since he was six years old. But he quickly grew frustrated with his inability to fire bolts of Chi, or race up walls, or vanish in plain sight. Many told him that was just in the comic books or movies, even respected martial artists told him there were limits. Then, he witnessed on TV various superheroes doing those impossible things. The young obsessive realized that while many mentors he'd talked to didn't seem to have that power, most of them SHOULD Have. The only solution? Something was wrong with the universal Chi! It was out of whack! There was some sort of imbalance, not just on personal levels, but through out Dream Time, or the Jade Kingdom or .or some @@@@. Refusing to accept the impossible, he took the name of one of his favorite comic book characters, and sought out someone who could help him in his quest to balance the spirituality of the universe.

 

That's how he encountered the professor. When Pr. Paradigm told the boy there was no such thing as magic, Seeker agreed, saying Chi was a scientific FACT (that most scientists just didn't get yet) and even cited some Bio-Feedback and other pop culture science references that , while often dubious, made the Prof. re-Think. He gave the boy a month or two of help, and new abilities surfaced...about half the time.

 

Seeker has been serving the Prof ever since.

 

Seeker has developed his own chi abilities, unfortunately, they only work about half the time. He's just as likely to burn his fingers as fire a chi-bolt. And when your iron skin seems to kick out half the time, you learn dodging period is a good course of action. Sometimes it seems he can run all the way up a building, and other times he ends up on his butt if h goes more than 10 feet. He can flip pretty good though. It's just sometimes he has trouble stopping it.

 

Seeker envisions a world where everyone who studies martial arts can harness the Chi of the world, and within themselves. It's a dream of his, to live where everybody is kung-Fu fighting with moves as fast as lightning.

Fair enough, dude. I'm totally going with Seeker Boy, BTW.

[Matt the Bruins]

I can't be the only one envisioning Professor Paradigm & Co. sailing an office building down city streets like in The Crimson Permanent Assurance, can I?

[Lord Liaden]

I can't be the only one envisioning Professor Paradigm & Co. sailing an office building down city streets like in The Crimson Permanent Assurance, can I?

Well, not any more.

[bigbywolfe]

I can't be the only one envisioning Professor Paradigm & Co. sailing an office building down city streets like in The Crimson Permanent Assurance, can I?

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