DC CAST: NEED UR HALP

[loltraitorlol.livejournal.com]

Thanks to Toast being a horrible enabler, I've decided that yes, I am going to try to app Kyle Rayner.


Here's the problem: I have never read any DC comics in my entire goddamn life.

Well, okay. that's a lie. I've read:

- The entirety of Sandman
- The Long Halloween
- Hush
- Some scattered GLC stuff that Toast has been shoving at me.

The more I've been trying to wikibinge to get the proper information I need, the more I'm realizing that there is a huge amount of very intimidating information out there D: And I'm a bit of a perfectionist. It took me about a full year before I felt ready to play Starscream anywhere, and his canon is smaller than Kyle's. Significantly so.

falkjsd what am I, I can play people from House of Leaves, but give me comic books and I flip tables everywhere.

S-so, DC cast, what I'm looking for is this: A crash course in the DC universe. Particularly as it relates to Kyle, but anything is good. It needs to be quick, easy for me to digest, and get me a feel for how everyone knows each other and wtf has gone on over the past few years.

No worries I'm still going to try to archive binge, particularly if I can find a torrent with a lot of DCU.

okay that's out of the way ONTO ROBOT STUFF


Inspired by Alba posting about Dancitron, I'd like to clear up some things about StarWave Industries (and I'll put this on Screamerfais' journal soon orz) as I've realized that I'm way behind on CR of all kinds.

Mostly becuase I have too much shit going on in my real life grad school apps what are you.

So, first, StarWave. It's a small, independent tech company currently specializing in robotics and IT stuff. Mostly, they do contracting. The stuff they're known for are the BARK and MEOW, which are cute animals you can hook up to your iPod; robotic seeing eye dogs, and highly specialized prosthetic limbs. Yes, really. They also probably make robots that sniff out mines, robots that can stock shelves, basic utility things. In addition, they do strong AI programming for robotics, and this is something they're probably known for doing very, very well; as well as robots that are capable of multiple modes and functions. The fact that they have walking robots is Kind of a Big Deal (anyone in robotics will tell you that making the damn things walk properly and stably is a Problem.)

Somewhat more under-the-table is weapons contracting, which Starscream does under a fake name with a fake company to very shady people. This is stuff like design schematics for mech armor and laserguns. He hasn't done a large contract recently becuase of the whole incident with Korea - he's got the impression that someone is watching him, and he doesn't want their attention.

SO what I need from you guys:

- Employees. Anyone want to work for a morally ambiguous tech company that isn't the other two morally ambiguous tech companies???
- Clients. I know a while back Demona wanted laserguns (Is she even still in the game? D: [/s-so behind] and that Seto Kaiba wanted hologram disks (Starscream delivered the prototypes, btw, and they work marvelously.) Does anyone else want to do business with StarWave?

*crawls back off to do job apps*

Comments

[ajrimmer-ssc.livejournal.com]

God.

You have no idea.

How tempted I am.

To have Rimmer come back and work for Starscream. >_>

[loltraitorlol.livejournal.com]

we have a great healthcare package







not that rimmer needs it




in his case i guess we can do a debugging. extend his warranty a bit.

[out-of-beta.livejournal.com]

I DO I DO

[loltraitorlol.livejournal.com]

Babby u so gud to me :D

If GLaDOS would do IT stuff for Starscream he'd be insanely happy, particularly encrypting stuff and making sure that meddling people don't find out about the semi-illegal weapons contracting.

Alternately if she wants to buy stuff that is fine too. I'm sure the prison could do with automated guards. Also cute turrets that ask if you're still there.

...

does she want a shipment of weighted companion cubes becuase he could totally order like 400 of them if she wanted.

[nine-tries.livejournal.com]

Comicvine has lists of comics where certain characters appear. If you want, just ask for certain comics and I could put them up on my Dropbox server. (The more recent they are, the easier I could find them.)

Oh god, good luck on understanding the whole of the DCU; I'm still having trouble myself.

[ajrimmer-ssc.livejournal.com]

The Hawkman-Hawkwoman-Hawkgirl canon in and of itself is confusing as hell. I was tossed into Hawkgirl at another game and adsfka;jsklfah I spent, like, three weeks trying to figure out what the hell was going on. And even then I didn't.

[loltraitorlol.livejournal.com]

Alright, I'll see if I can figure out which ones are most relevant to Kyle specifically.

It's mostly that I posted with him on Dear_Mun and a bunch of very friendly people were like OMG KYLE and I went WHO THE HECK ARE YOU?! *wikis frantically*

Like I'm already going "HOW MANY GREEN ARROWS ARE THERE JESUS AND ARE THEY ALL MY FRIENDS?! ALSO HELLO WALLY WEST I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I AM SUPPOSED TO RELATE TO YOU"

[wantsapprentice.livejournal.com]

Did someone say ROBOTS?

[loltraitorlol.livejournal.com]

MY GOOD SIR WE OFFER A VARIETY OF WORLD DOMINATION ROBOTS AT REASONABLE PRICES WHAT ARE YOU INTERESTED IN

[enigmaestro.livejournal.com]

If I were a cruel person, I'd show you the pieces about Kyle that Ennis wrote.

[loltraitorlol.livejournal.com]

...

That is kind of how I feel right now though. XD

APPARENTLY THOUGH I DO HAVE HIS VOICE DOWN, AS TOAST SAID.

(it's all very confusing)

[punmanarmy.livejournal.com]

Oh god, how do I actually know what this is referencing?

[enigmaestro.livejournal.com]

Also. Awesome hair.

[loltraitorlol.livejournal.com]

LOL NICE HAIR

also so THAT'S connor, okay. I was pinged by one on dear_mun and felt horrific becuase I was like "I haven't read enough canon to know who you are but I am sure we are supposed to be BFFL"

[enigmaestro.livejournal.com]

Also. The most, ah, intricate part about Kyle is his Ion phase. When he was, essentially, the embodiment of godpower and could bend time, space, and reality to his will. This was all post-Hal-is-Parallax.

Also. Almost all of Kyle's girlfriends get fridged.

[loltraitorlol.livejournal.com]

this is why the two screennames I am considering are "shinygreenjesus" and "idkmydeadgfs"

[/terrible]

[hiddles]

Oh god, Kyle was in Countdown, wasn't he?!

[shinygreenjesus.livejournal.com]

I HAVE NO IDEA D: THAT IS PART OF THE PROBLEM HERE D:

[expletives]

JEN

I CANNOT CHANGE THE OLD RYUU TAGS TO THE ONES YOU WANT BECAUSE YOU MADE THEM INTO NEW ONES

WHY DO YOU RUIN EVERYTHING

[shinygreenjesus.livejournal.com]

Because I'm a failure

[dcushitkicker.livejournal.com]

AND I WILL SHOVE MORE AT YOU IF ONLY YOU ASK RELATIVELY POLITELY

or smack my ass and scream "HURRY UP BITCH". that works too.

/eeeeeeeeeeeeasy






ANYWAY

if no one else gets to you by the time I get home from work tonight, I will slam stuff at you. it will be hideous.

i can even summarize a complete list of Kyle's many fridged!girlfriends

ohohohoho

♥

[shinygreenjesus.livejournal.com]

... p-please? :Da

I'm aware of at least Alex and Jade (JADE WRY D: What I remember of her is that I was reading some random GLC trade in the comic book store as I tend to do and was like "hay that green chick is pretty cool" and then I'm reading on Blackest Night stuff and it's like "AND THEN SHE WAS A ZOMBIE" and I went "WHAT")

[notsoloyal]

/quietly kidnaps the not important employees to experiment on when you're not looking

[teal-deer.livejournal.com]

Oh so that's what happened to the janitor :|a

[iamnotthemom.livejournal.com]

Did you ever get those gl comics that I uploaded for you in August?

[teal-deer.livejournal.com]

I believe I got up through 56 (?) but then in the process of cleaning up firefox lost the link D: they were v helpful though!

[hellcommander.livejournal.com]

Oh, JENTEAL. I get it. y so clever Jen bb.

Purple and Starscream were gonna do something, but don't worry about that. I am gonna drop him prolly.

unreleated to everything in this post, I might app Axel.

[shinygreenjesus.livejournal.com]

THAT NAME WAS ZERO'S IDEA

... o-omg

hi axel :D

[ajrimmer-ssc.livejournal.com]

I love how your tealest deer in all the land tag is now cut off. :3

[shinygreenjesus.livejournal.com]

AS IT SHOULD BE

[allshock-notalk.livejournal.com]

/HELPS WITH THAT iPOD SHIT

[shinygreenjesus.livejournal.com]

slag yeah brah

... totally not the right account for this

[quinnade.livejournal.com]

TOAST IS YOUR BEST SOURCE FOR KYLE RAYNER INFORMATION

Also, I would not worry too much about where you start in comics. Comic book timelines are all over the place that seriously, you can just jump into the middle of the arc if you want. If it were me, I'd collect big DC story arcs (like the whole Green Lantern stories going on: uhhh the whole Hal thing, Sinestro, and Blackest Night right now).

[shinygreenjesus.livejournal.com]

*nods* that's my thought, really. Ping around until it makes sense.

[blk-arachnia.livejournal.com]

I thought BA was already working there on robotic stuff. Since y'know...'Con and all...

But if not...okay I guess she's unemployed.

[shinygreenjesus.livejournal.com]

afdasj She probably is, I'm just. A huge derp and probably forgot D: You can handwave that she's been helping with that.

Aside: I suggest that BA get herself involved with Andrew Ryan. She knows biology and genetics, right? It'd be a great way for her to do Nefarious Things.

Hell, if the thing with GLaDOS goes down she could be a company liaison. :D

[sparklemagpie.livejournal.com]

I know very little about Kyle Rayner myself, but I have a friend who plays him and another pair of friends who REALLY know their DCU and one of them REALLY KNOWS HIS LANTERNS cause he's a derp over all things Lantern.

I could hook you up if you're interested in talking to them for some resources/pointers? They are wicked nice peeps and the people who introduced ME into DC comics in a gentle but totally enabling way. =D