The Merge: Young Hero Initiative (OOC-transfer from Roninarmy)

[Bladewind]

Pondering where to spend my points as well... for once though, I'm going to keep my character.

[Doctor Malsyn]

I did know what GG was, though I hadn't read it in maybe... Five years? Ryou just isn't very knowledgeable about non-Japanese culture. Honestly, I'm thinking it needs to be a complication with how often it shows up...

[kirinke]

Some of it I'm just making up to be honest. Like the heart.

The squirrel pajamas are a thing though.

Here's a link

http://girlgeniusonline.com/

Since the Merge and the War though, it has become a refuge of sorts for anything that needs it. As long as they swear loyalty to the House Heterodyne, follow her laws and don't cause too much trouble for Agrippina (The current Heterodyne), she wouldn't care much about what the refugees were or have become. It's also one of the reasons why Helena is so odd. She's been exposed to that weirdness so much it seems normal to her.

Link to Aggie's sheet
https://roninarmy.com/forum/atomic-thin ... viewfull=1

[pathfinderq1]

And that last post, in a nutshell is why I'm thinking about petitioning to switch characters when we get to a convenient narrative spot.

I think I've made Anna just a little TOO prickly, and she has sort of set that way in my head. Trying to soften her, even if she was less pointy and a better teammate, wouldn't feel right for the character in my head.

Just thinking out loud a bit. Don't mind me.

[Doctor Malsyn]

I think that pricklniess really does add an interesting dynamic to the team actually, like we don't have to be all buddy buddy with one another. I don't mind it personally, while to Ryou the girl just seems like your typical juvenile delinquent type that you read about in manga. Probably rescues lost animals in the middle of the rain too but won't tell anyone she does.

Now, if you yourself don't like playing her that's another matter entirely.

[kirinke]

Helena is weird enough that Anna's cranky isn't a real problem for her. She'd just consider it a challenge and 'bat her tail' until she weakens and becomes friends with her. She knows it's mostly for show anyway.

Hmm. If you want to gradually soften her, maybe have a few heart to hearts with the other members of the gang, let the mask crack a little once Anna realizes that hey, they actually have some common ground. All of the kids have had some sort of shit happen to them and they all deal with it in different ways.

Helena acts weird and cheerful, while still having screaming nightmares about her family's deaths for example. It's one of the reasons why she doesn't take Anna's prickles to heart, because Helena knows the other girl is hurting too and she's seen the attitude and behavior in other orphan kids. So she knows it's a mask and a defensive coping method.

[kirinke]

I always did wonder why they just didn't tranq the big guy with a load of cannabis or some other drug, or just light it on fire and envelope him in the smoke. I know, tough skin, but with all of the impossible metals in Marvel, making a needle from one of those wouldn't be hard. Put enough dope or tranq in a delivery item and strong needle and nighty-night Hulky.

[Doctor Malsyn]

I don't know if it's states anywhere, but a guy that physically enhanced I'd expect to, at the least, have a very high resistance to natural toxins and poisons.

[kirinke]

Not necessarily. I've never heard of it ever being tried in any official cannon. Granted I'm not a big Hulk fan, but I did look. I mean, he's been stomped on and defeated, but I've not found if he's ever been tranqed.

[jmucchiello]

Imagine the Hulk with the munchies. That would cost more than rebuilding the headquarters occasionally.

[kirinke]

Still better than the property damage he causes. Plus, it's funny.

[pathfinderq1]

I'm going to be mostly out of pocket for a few days- car shenanigans are eating my brain and my free time.

Assume Anna tags along (with appropriate dramatic sighs and eye-rolling disdain), staying as far from the group as she can without ACTUALLY wandering off.

[kirinke]

Allooo! Is there life down there?!

[Neo-Paladin]

Yeah, I'm here...last days were a bit stressful and I am suffering from writer's block a bit

[kirinke]

It happens. Glad you are okay tho.