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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 4297140" data-attributes="member: 130">I got into the bad habit of not reading the parallel plot threads that didn't involve Mark directly, originally so I wouldn't slip up and have him being more informed than he ought to be and then just because I'm lazy. I remember the broad strokes, mostly.The Overseer was born on the cyclopean highlands of the big bang, a few billion years ago, but he is still alive. He is an immortal Endless entityish thing, the personification of law and order. He often manifests as a posterior-mounted shaft several miles in length.The Cardinal created elites to fight the Overseer, but she and Ryan are actually not elites and rather hold some fraction of the Overseer's power. He needs to take their heads and with them, their powers, so there can be only one. Tommy was aware of her nature, and his. He's at least somewhat older than he lets on and may or may not be a conventional elite. I'm foggy on how exactly Kelly fit into all of this. The Cardinal is of the opinion that elites are her property and to be disposed of if they do not serve her will. Bishop is less sanguine about this whole slavery to the Cardinal business and has split from the Cardinal's movement over it. Cassie is a non-elite, but some kind of genetically engineered supersoldier from the future that was built to battle what might have been Tommy's army of Starbots without personality. They were definitely Star models. I think at some point we discovered that in this future elites and baselines had gone to war and wrecked the planet in the process. I recall an implication that Cassie was created by the Vanguard company, which might have had ties to that bad dictator from Zaire that was recently overthrown.The Overseer sent to our world some of his major lackeys and I think we were in the process of taking down or had just taken down Genocide on behalf of the Red Witch because we needed to save Kelly's soul. She sent some kind of arcane doppleganger for Yoshi to fight us, which was very upsetting to Mark since he sort of saw Yoshi as where he could have been if he'd done things differently in his life.Anika appears to be a real-for-real elite, but it seems that her powers actually do involve putting her in touch with something that answers to the names of the Norse gods. When her powers were sitting in Ryan's body they were quite upset to see him on the caller ID.Mark is the only person that knows him who isn't convinced that he's gay, largely because he has a bit of a block pertaining to things sexual. He's recently noticed that he feels "differently" about some of the guys around the school but so far his Platonic filter is intact. He's an awful leader, as always, given to trading on his personal appeal more than any sense of authority, but damn is he pretty. He's lately realized not only that the UN has done some dirty things like sterilizing elites and working on a way to get rid of them permanently, but also that he's not taken especially seriously by field commanders who are in theory his peers. A few times in recent missions the local UN field command was on an entirely different mission that they didn't bother to tell him about. He came out as an addict, at least to his closer friends and Jun Min put a temporary block on his cravings. There were plans to make a big event out of his coming clean and turning it into a positive for the UN. "Buy my shoes and stay away from drugs, kids!" I don't remember exactly what Gilden was involved in (save for it not being Anika) or who Anika was currently dating (save for it not being Gilden).Oh yes, and on Gilden's silver age home world Tommy is a perfectly nice boy that has a dog named Star.That's all I can remember right now.</blockquote>

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