HERE IT IS, THE PROMISED MEME

[rocksforbrains]

LWOC DNA EPAC
CLOAK AND COVER
(AKA C&C-2)
(AKA FRANKY STEALS FROM SILVER AGE COMICS AND STAR TREK)

Imagine a world just like the one in which the City resides, except everything is ever so slightly...off. One degree, one minor shift in reality, that alters everything. Changes lives, destroys cities, sets heroes down the path of villains and vice versa.

This is that world.

In short, this meme is a lead-up to an open RP, much like C&C2020. But unlike that setting, C&C-2 is in the present day on a parallel version of the C&Cverse. The AI Decima operates the Prisoner, which brings in people (the imPrisoned) from worlds that are like that of their counterparts stuck in the C&C setting, but just off by one major change in their personal history.

So, y'know, this is an alternate universe meme with setting fluff basically.

Oh right, and everyone lives in the HIVE. And the City is a smoking nuclear crater. And crime is rampant enough to make the US one gigantic lawless clusterfuck. It's not a pleasant reality if you're not an evil jerk.

NOW THAT I'VE GOT THE SET UP OUT OF THE WAY, go nuts! AU up your characters! Establish how their CR would change when instead of spending three years as a hero stuck in not-New York they spent three years as a supervillain stuck in not-LA. The open RP will be this Saturday so plenty of time for everyone to get around to this!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME(ME)

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[hacktivist]

I...am placeholding too

[nottheanswers]

oh shit placeholder

OKAY LET'S DO IT UP VEITCH STYLE

[nottheanswers]

Lady Shiva and Richard Dragon were never friends. So while Vic did eventually find a teacher after she pulled him out of the river, it wasn't one so concerned with his emotional health, and he instead fell under more spiritual influences.

The result was a merciless urban shaman, a self-styled Warrior for Truth who does not give pause to regarding his foes with brutality. After retooling Tot's gas to include a hallucinogenic element, he walks in two worlds through visionary trances, allowing him to perceive spiritual energies and collect information through various coincidences a city provides him.

He was still a TV anchor in Chicago before his arrival at the HIVE. He has a schoolboy crush on Lois Lane and is a bit of a creeper? Writes long manifestos and internal monologue about TRUTH and JUSTICE and that he is a WARRIOR for both.

He's kind of a massive tool.

He itches terribly against imPrisonment and fights the HIVE establishment at every opportunity, seeking to expose its wrongs, its weaknesses. He will not be the one to eventually bring it down, but if he can provide a way, then that will be enough. He's probably died a few times since his arrival just as a result of general recklessness.

tl;dr : philanthropic sorta-cult-leader

[backatthehotel]

A.J. Pinkerton didn't die in WWII. Instead, he returned home to his wife and son, young Floyd. With both parents, Floyd grew up a bright, confident young man with an incredible gift for music, a gift nurtured by his arts-loving father. Without his mother dying, and better able to cope with the pressure of fame, Pink remained front man of his band even after 1968. The Pink Floyd were a phenomenon, equally well-known for their wickedly catchy pop songs and their fantastically strange experimental music. As the years went on, though, the songs came less easily, and the fame began to lose its appeal. He broke up the band, and struck out on his own, seeking a higher purpose.

He found it, he feels, in his transport to the HIVE. With the power to compel people to act one way or another with his singing, he does what good he can, in this terrible place. But a power like that is a corrupting thing, even -- especially -- for someone with good intentions and a great deal of passion.

Perhaps not all of his followers would approve of his methods if they knew some of the sources he took donations from, and in exchange for what; if they could step back and look at the situation objectively. But why should he let them do that? He knows best, anyway. He's helping. Together with his Hammers, Pink will build a sanctuary of light in this awful place. A wall to hold back the dark.

tl;dr, v2:So basically, a 'philanthropic' sort-of-cult leader, who is a lot nicer, more pleasant, charming than regular!Pink, and seems on the surface to be a good guy trying to make some difference in this awful world. Buuuut he's also a mind-controlling bastard who believes the ends justify the means, and will and has helped out unsavoury sources in exchange for his shelters/centers/whatever not being touched. Guns and drugs smuggled in and out in food donations? Using the people who come to him as drug mules? Selling off troublemakers to people who need human experiments? Sure. All of it. Whatever it takes to keep doing the good he does do.

[tridentkind]

may not end up doing this after all but PLACEHOLDER WHY NOT

[eugenides]

placeholding until such a time when ideas exist

[shotyoudeadbang]

Floyd Lawton sold his soul to Neron for more bullets. But when he was under that direct demonic influence, he was never stopped from actually bombing a school.

There's no coming back from that. There's no 'anti-hero,' there's no 'moral gray' after that. He is evil now.

Not the diabolical conqueror type, but rather the utterly nihilistic FUCK ALL OF YOU FOREVER type.

No one stopped him from killing the Pope either.

He will not be offal in some demon's latrine when he gets to hell. He's doing everything right to become hot shit down there.

As for now... he's kinda New 52 Deathstroke these days. The goddamned best and he kills anyone who might come close.

[machinis]

SO I AM SUPER LATE, I DON'T CARE.

There's a universe where Mitchell isn't interested in politics. It's sad, but true. This is a universe where the earth was blackened, and a battle rages between a force of machine/men hybrids, and the forces of Ed Witten, (yes, the theoretical physicist who helped develop string theory, I can't even make this up this is canon) and in this world, there's something different about Mitchell.

You know, not much, except that he's pretty much the spearhead for an alternate-universe invasion force that uses weird machines to give random people (and his alternate universe counterparts) powers to help prepare the world to be taken over while they figure out how to do it, as the transfer of organic matter is a bit dicey from one world to another, apparently.

And then Mitchell, the evil flavor, is brought to the HIVE. Which of course is the wrong thing to subject a man like this to, because not only is he good at giving people powers, he's good at taking what he wants. He can blow half of your face off and imbue you with the power to command armies, or destroy crops, because the world he comes from continues to consume, and can't stop. It's wholly anarchistic, with the single goal of consumption, and the rest of the worlds can fuck off, because they always win. And, you know, this world isn't too bad, it'll do, once he figures out how to either steal the porter, or bring his armies crashing through the bridge.