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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 5313474" data-attributes="member: 4936">Okay, my ideas are now diverging in two directions...particularly since between Franklin and Sentinel, we're getting more than our share of mad geniuses. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Argh, rethinking this...[sblock=1) Susan Von Doom - Gamma Activated Clone!]In this version of the story, the feud between Richard Reed and Victor Von Doom takes a tragic turn. The two men start out as friends and rivals. This lasts until mid-college, when they both fall for Susan Storm. Sue likes them both, and is unwilling to commit until Doom's "accident" that scars him and deforms him. By the time Doom is out of the hospital, Susan is Reed's girlfriend, and future wife.This does not end the rivalry, however. And Richard, despite having 'won,' or perhaps because of it, becomes increasingly possessive and paranoid about Sue. Confused by his growing irrationality, Sue turns to Victor, whom she still considers a friend. Reed spies on Sue and discovers her confiding in Victor. Although the circumstances are purely innocent, he interprets them in the worst way possible and finally decides that the only way he can protect his family is to destroy Doom once and for all.He does this by using an experimental gamma-ray laser that he's been developing at the university. Unfortunately, he makes two mistakes. The first is that Doom's armor is powerful enough to block the radiation. The second is that he isn't alone when the device is turned on. Susan is there as well, and has no such protection.In the ensuing fallout, Von Doom washes his hands of Reed entirely and retreats to Latveria. Richard, stricken with grief over what he's done, could either become a supervillain or similar to his canon self, depending on whether the experience shocks him back off the dark path, or destroys his capacity for empathy. Insight should have a say in this. Doom does one more thing though...he manages to sneak a sample of what was left of Sue home with him.A few years pass, and Latveria celebrates its ruler's new daughter! Susan Von Doom's mother's name is not publically released, for privacy's sake...but the truth is simpler. Susan Von Doom is a recreation of the original Susan Storm! However, the intense gamma rays that killed her wrought changes in her genetic structure that Victor could not filter out and still have a viable organism.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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