May
29
2007
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Hi again. I spent the last night working on trimming down posts I’ve already made. Now, the postings on the sidebar (particularly under the New Here? heading) are a lot more concise and useful.
A few people told me to do a character profile for Lash. Voila!
I’ve got the chronology down. Sweet.
- Year One:
- Jacob Mallow starts grad school and starts to go evil.
- Year Seven:
- Everything with Courtney/Lash.
- Jacob is now an accomplished bioengineer.
- Agent Orange and Oliver get screwed with indefinite guard duty.
- Year Ten:
- Mallow finishes the mutagen and zaps Dr. Fox.
- Oliver’s “son,” Rusty, is now three years old.
- The plot to stop Mallow takes shape.
May
29
2007
Purpose to the Plot
Superhero Nation begins with Lash’s fairly banal problems about growing old and having no superpowers. Then he gets Agent Orange’s blood, which “fixes” both problems. When the blood gets entirely out of hand, Lash decides that he has to get rid of it. His attempts to do so lead to him being anesthesized by the good Dr. Mallow, who assuredly is not bound by the Hippocratic Oath.
Traits
He is quite self-assured of his mental abilities. He starts out defensive about lacking superpowers. On the job, he is methodical and prepared but can wing it when he has to. He loathes idiots (pretty much everyone). He is notoriously unlucky. He’s more than willing to use the government, isn’t on remarkably good terms with them, except for Captain Carnage.
Superpowers
None to start. By end of Best Investigator, he has superstrength, regeneration and self-combustion. The blood is unusually receptive to his body. His body doesn’t know it’s foreign and the blood doesn’t even know it’s out of Agent Orange’s body. It begins to add on Orange’s abilities. By the end of Stockbroker to the Slaughter, Lash gains superhearing, super hops and the ability to randomly sift through the minds of government employees. By the end of Grim Prognosis, he gains supersmell, felony-sense, supersight and a sensitivity to light.
