Superheroes of The Trust OOC Thread (Accepting Alts)

[kirinke]

Matt? What's your stance on immortality? If at all possible, I'd like to buy it in increments if at all possible (depending on how things fall out). I'm getting a glimmer of an idea on Hope's possible parents, though if you guys have any ideas, i'd be willing to listen to them.

Um... active agent? Isn't Hope an active agent of AEGIS? They don't have a problem with that, though they do know that she is an Aegis agent.... I mean, if the aliens aren't hostile, I don't think that would be a problem persae as long as he was up front about it. Look at the original Green Lantern character concept, he was an active alien agent, but that didn't stop the justice league from accepting him. I dunno, just my two coppers worth.

 

[Shayuri]

Re Hope: Is she a child of Zeus the Thunderer?

Re Green Lantern: The Trust isn't the Justice League...it's way more cloak and daggery. What if someone just -finds- a "power ring" from an ancient civilization? Perhaps a suggested chariots of the gods thing, where a character visits some ancient ruin on Earth and stumbles onto a secret room or something in which is preserved an alien sarcophagus, containing a clearly inhuman body and this way cool gizmo (whatever form it may take). Or it could be an ancient UFO crash site, or...all sorts of things.

 

[kirinke]

Lol. Actually, I was thinking of Hera. I mean, it's the 21st century, you'd think she'd get tired of his infidelity and have some fun of her own occasionally. Be funny if she got it on with her husband in disguise in order to trick him.

And that would put her at odds with Hades and the Labyrith.

 

[Victim]

Money? We've got an exceedingly rich foundation backing us, and at least one of the members (Myself, of course) is independantly wealthy, so I think abusing Transmute would be a bit redundant, I doubt we have to worry about the GM having a problem with it.

Yes, the impact of Transmute on our overall resources isn't really significant. However, the Trust hasn't exactly offered our characters a salary at this point, IIRC. And, to Shooting Star at least, asking for a handout of some value (ie, money) would feel different from asking a quick favor that ends up producing value.

I can't remember if Hera was ever unfaithful in the myths; you'd think that if Zeus's actions in those stories didn't provide sufficient justification then they never would. As a goddess of marriage, hearth and home, her nature might be sufficiently set that changing to better fit current times is basically impossible.

Changing from a alien to a normal guy who found an alien artifact is a pretty big shift in concept, I think. If the alien civ destroying his home was jamming communications, then it seems reasonable that he'd have an incomplete picture of events. If part of the final message was garbled or blocked, then maybe he only gets the "you're on your own now, have fun on whatever planet you were last stationed at and try to uphold our values" part and the not "this is our final message, the evillians launched a surprise attack and are bombarding our cities. We can't hold out long." But really, with a name like evilians, they should have seen it coming.

 

[DM_Matt]

Matt? What's your stance on immortality? If at all possible, I'd like to buy it in increments if at all possible (depending on how things fall out). I'm getting a glimmer of an idea on Hope's possible parents, though if you guys have any ideas, i'd be willing to listen to them.

Um... active agent? Isn't Hope an active agent of AEGIS? They don't have a problem with that, though they do know that she is an Aegis agent.... I mean, if the aliens aren't hostile, I don't think that would be a problem persae as long as he was up front about it. Look at the original Green Lantern character concept, he was an active alien agent, but that didn't stop the justice league from accepting him. I dunno, just my two coppers worth.

But it is already clear that the Trust has someone in the same chain of command as Hope and above her, who feeds her Trust-related cases. She is a necessary part of the Trust's secrecy operation that allows them to cooperate with AEGIS without AEGIS actually knowing bout them.

Regarding immortality, I'm not so sure about humans being able to get it without a real price. Note that from Barrington's origin story, his immortality and his evil came from -- essentially, though the race that built it in this universe remains unspecified, a Goa'uld sarcophagus.

Additionally, note that I have said no gods, since I want to leave religious controversies as open questions (which is not to say that things with powers cannot claim to be gods and try to get people to worship them...such as, say, a wolf-like mutant who got the Aztecs to worship him).

Some aliens might have really long life spands though, and immunity to things like disease or not needing to breathe can work for some concepts. Basically, though, its the lack of aging and the ability to return from death that are going to be conceptually difficult to justify.

 

[kirinke]

Yes, the impact of Transmute on our overall resources isn't really significant. However, the Trust hasn't exactly offered our characters a salary at this point, IIRC. And, to Shooting Star at least, asking for a handout of some value (ie, money) would feel different from asking a quick favor that ends up producing value.

I can't remember if Hera was ever unfaithful in the myths; you'd think that if Zeus's actions in those stories didn't provide sufficient justification then they never would. As a goddess of marriage, hearth and home, her nature might be sufficiently set that changing to better fit current times is basically impossible.

True, very true. But Hope could still be an anomoly, being an actual child of both Zues and Hera, I think of all of the greek gods, only Hephestus can claim that. Perhaps she was stolen as an toddler by unknown enemies, her immortality somehow subdued and weakened to the point where it was virtually useless (thus resulting in her being found tortured with no memory) and somehow being rescued, perhaps by some superhero or even regular humans. The cops who worked on her case could have lied where they found her in order to protect her.

Her protectiveness towards children could be a trait inherited from her mother and accentuated by her own trauma.

 

[kirinke]

But it is already clear that the Trust has someone in the same chain of command as Hope and above her, who feeds her Trust-related cases. She is a necessary part of the Trust's secrecy operation that allows them to cooperate with AEGIS without AEGIS actually knowing bout them.

Lol. True again.

 

[Shayuri]

I dunno...a demigod is one thing, but a full goddess?

Well, to the extent that the Greek pantheon are "gods" in the modern sense of the word, I suppose...

 

[kirinke]

More like a potential one, she is mortal right now and vulnerable to all of the mortal ills. Plus, she has no idea that she is one. As far as she knows, she's just a traumatized foundling without a memory of who she was. She's made a life for herself though, doing something worthwhile. In Hope's view, her father is Alexander Winters, with her old teacher Henry acting as an 'uncle' figure. Her family is the FBI, AEGIS and now the group she's working for/with.

 

[DM_Matt]

Reposting this, sincew there were a bunch of posts while I edited this in:



Regarding immortality, I'm not so sure about humans being able to get it without a real price. Note that from Barrington's origin story, his immortality and his evil came from -- essentially, though the race that built it in this universe remains unspecified, a Goa'uld sarcophagus.

Additionally, note that I have said no gods, since I want to leave religious controversies as open questions (which is not to say that things with powers cannot claim to be gods and try to get people to worship them...such as, say, a wolf-like mutant who got the Aztecs to worship him).

Some aliens might have really long life spands though, and immunity to things like disease or not needing to breathe can work for some concepts. Basically, though, its the lack of aging and the ability to return from death that are going to be conceptually difficult to justify.