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Life and Light: Shadow-Force Reborn (Updated May 8, 2019)
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<blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 4951878" data-attributes="member: 16760"><p><strong>Shadow-Force Files: Super Slang</strong></p><p></p><p>Two big new posts over at Shadow-Force Files, on the slang used by supers to refer to <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/plots-places/264838-shadow-force-files-m-m.html#post4951874" target="_blank">each other</a> and to <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/plots-places/264838-shadow-force-files-m-m.html#post4951876" target="_blank">norms.</a></p><p></p><p>Note that Photon himself is not wholly conversant with these terms. He's only been a super for a year; and more importantly, his role-models in Shadow-Force didn't tend to use them much.</p><p></p><p>Erebus and Bazooka, the oldest members of the group, disdained the newer, youth-Super terms. They stuck to tried-and-true terms like "cape" and "mask" (which go back to the days of the Mystery Men), and to terms like "Sid", which is too darn useful not to make use of. Erebus was willing to pick up any term he could squeeze maximum snark out of, though - he was fond of sarcastic Golden and Silver Age terms like 'our blue brethren'.</p><p></p><p>The Phantom was raised by P.S.I. who were, as SP puts it, "a bunch of intellectual snobs" - they didn't go in for slang. Plus, of course, he had Erebus for a model himself. Finally, he was far too diplomatic and polite to ever use pejorative terms for people.</p><p></p><p>The result was that Shadow-Force was fairly conservative as far as terminology went, and this was only reinforced by their constant work with the Freedom Squad - American Eagle ran a very tight ship, and Black Phantom was a pretty no-nonsense guy himself.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, as you can see in our sessions, a younger hero like FAQ is much more free with Super lingo.</p><p></p><p>We anticipate there will be a third Super Slang post in the near future, but it isn't quite ready as yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Shadow, post: 4951878, member: 16760"] [b]Shadow-Force Files: Super Slang[/b] Two big new posts over at Shadow-Force Files, on the slang used by supers to refer to [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/plots-places/264838-shadow-force-files-m-m.html#post4951874]each other[/url] and to [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/plots-places/264838-shadow-force-files-m-m.html#post4951876]norms.[/url] Note that Photon himself is not wholly conversant with these terms. He's only been a super for a year; and more importantly, his role-models in Shadow-Force didn't tend to use them much. Erebus and Bazooka, the oldest members of the group, disdained the newer, youth-Super terms. They stuck to tried-and-true terms like "cape" and "mask" (which go back to the days of the Mystery Men), and to terms like "Sid", which is too darn useful not to make use of. Erebus was willing to pick up any term he could squeeze maximum snark out of, though - he was fond of sarcastic Golden and Silver Age terms like 'our blue brethren'. The Phantom was raised by P.S.I. who were, as SP puts it, "a bunch of intellectual snobs" - they didn't go in for slang. Plus, of course, he had Erebus for a model himself. Finally, he was far too diplomatic and polite to ever use pejorative terms for people. The result was that Shadow-Force was fairly conservative as far as terminology went, and this was only reinforced by their constant work with the Freedom Squad - American Eagle ran a very tight ship, and Black Phantom was a pretty no-nonsense guy himself. On the other hand, as you can see in our sessions, a younger hero like FAQ is much more free with Super lingo. We anticipate there will be a third Super Slang post in the near future, but it isn't quite ready as yet. [/QUOTE]
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