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<blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 5703140" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>Edit: Really, I was writing this while Jemal posted his character ideas.</p><p> </p><p>Okay, I'm thinking a battlesuit type. The idea is that my character was part of a team at a start-up company designing its battlesuits with an eye to winning a military contract; just before the contract was awarded, a group of supervillains attacked the company headquarters, killed many key personnel, and made off with or destroyed all but one of the prototypes. He found himself the only surviving stockholder, and so owned all the assets the company had left (and a lot of debts, but fortunately they did have insurance). He sold off what he could make himself part with (as there was no chance of getting things back together before the bidding period was over), but kept the suit and enough equipment to support it. Still, his public response was to take the insurance money, invest enough to give him an upper middle class living off of his investments, and then start a new start up outside of the defense industry making video games (he was the lead programmer for the suit's control software and built a lot of simulations to test it).</p><p></p><p>But privately he sought out Metal Man. He knew there had been at least three previous heroes by that name -- or at least three different suits over sixty years. And he figured there must have been different men underneath them. He'd been right.</p><p></p><p>The first had been a soldier in WWII, part of a top-secret project to stop Nazi super-science. After the war, he'd managed to keep the suit somehow. When a troubled young Vietnam vet had stumbled into the first Metal Man's path, he'd somehow ended up training the man and conning one of the super-scientists he knew from super hero circles into building a new suit. The third had been the scion of a major defense contractor, who after his parents had been murdered by super-villians had wanted to fight crime on his own, and had his company build him a suit to do it with. The second Metal Man had taught the third a lot about the limits to what one guy in a battlesuit could do. And the third was just beginning to think of what to do when it was time to hang up his suit when my character showed up at his door. He'd kind of been expecting it; the third Metal Man's alter ego had been an angel investor in my character's company. After a few years of training and practice -- as much on how to run a major company as to fight in a battlesuit -- the third Metal Man retired and my character assumed the role.</p><p></p><p>He has a wife and a child; his wife is the only one other than the third Metal Man that knows his alter ego, and not many people remember the original start-up. He's managed to put those directly responsible for destroying his first company in prison, though he's always worried there were bigger players in the shadows.</p><p> </p><p>Out of suit, he looks like a not particularly athletic white guy in his 30s (though one with expert-level computer programming skills). He's often in a business suit for corporate functions, but it's very clear that he's far more comfortable in jeans and a t-shirt.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drothgery, post: 5703140, member: 360"] Edit: Really, I was writing this while Jemal posted his character ideas. Okay, I'm thinking a battlesuit type. The idea is that my character was part of a team at a start-up company designing its battlesuits with an eye to winning a military contract; just before the contract was awarded, a group of supervillains attacked the company headquarters, killed many key personnel, and made off with or destroyed all but one of the prototypes. He found himself the only surviving stockholder, and so owned all the assets the company had left (and a lot of debts, but fortunately they did have insurance). He sold off what he could make himself part with (as there was no chance of getting things back together before the bidding period was over), but kept the suit and enough equipment to support it. Still, his public response was to take the insurance money, invest enough to give him an upper middle class living off of his investments, and then start a new start up outside of the defense industry making video games (he was the lead programmer for the suit's control software and built a lot of simulations to test it). But privately he sought out Metal Man. He knew there had been at least three previous heroes by that name -- or at least three different suits over sixty years. And he figured there must have been different men underneath them. He'd been right. The first had been a soldier in WWII, part of a top-secret project to stop Nazi super-science. After the war, he'd managed to keep the suit somehow. When a troubled young Vietnam vet had stumbled into the first Metal Man's path, he'd somehow ended up training the man and conning one of the super-scientists he knew from super hero circles into building a new suit. The third had been the scion of a major defense contractor, who after his parents had been murdered by super-villians had wanted to fight crime on his own, and had his company build him a suit to do it with. The second Metal Man had taught the third a lot about the limits to what one guy in a battlesuit could do. And the third was just beginning to think of what to do when it was time to hang up his suit when my character showed up at his door. He'd kind of been expecting it; the third Metal Man's alter ego had been an angel investor in my character's company. After a few years of training and practice -- as much on how to run a major company as to fight in a battlesuit -- the third Metal Man retired and my character assumed the role. He has a wife and a child; his wife is the only one other than the third Metal Man that knows his alter ego, and not many people remember the original start-up. He's managed to put those directly responsible for destroying his first company in prison, though he's always worried there were bigger players in the shadows. Out of suit, he looks like a not particularly athletic white guy in his 30s (though one with expert-level computer programming skills). He's often in a business suit for corporate functions, but it's very clear that he's far more comfortable in jeans and a t-shirt. [/QUOTE]
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