#Barry to the new recruit: don’t worry this happens after every mission

[arkangelo-7]

Bruce, to the Justice League after a botched mission: You deliberately disobeyed me! And worse, you put Clark in danger!

Clark, who is legitimately indestructible: :(

[aion-rsa]

What to Expect From DC's New Legion of Super-Heroes

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Don't call it a reboot. Brian Michael Bendis tells us all about the new version of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the DC Universe.

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The Legion of Super-Heroes have been absent from the DC Universe for far too long. The team of youthful heroes from a variety of worlds around the galaxy has long been an essential piece of DC and Superman mythology, but every now and then, they need a fresh start. After all, as our present changes, so must the future. And DC's Legion of Super-Heroes is in the process of a high profile fresh start courtesy of Brian Michael Bendis and Ryan Sook. With a story that began in the main Superman title and continues through the "future history of the DC Universe" limited series Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium, and finally in a brand new Legion of Super-Heroes ongoing series in November, DC fans are about to meet the Legion again...for the first time. Brian Michael Bendis told us what to expect.

Den of Geek: Why was it important for this to be a reboot for the Legion?

Brian Michael Bendis: Well, it's not a reboot in the technical sense. I didn't even realize when I came in to DC that things had kind of maneuvered in continuity where there wasn't actually a Legion of Super-Heroes yet.

I whispered "Legion", they go, "Oh, yeah we're on the path towards the Legion, but we haven't made our plans yet." And I raised my hand. Being that there isn't a Legion, the job got even more exciting. So not only am I introducing the Legion of Super-Heroes, but really it's the first Legion of Super-Heroes. It's the first time anyone's ever going to meet them.

read more: Who Are the Legion of Super-Heroes?

Then I realized this job is absolutely very similar to what Ultimate Spider-Man was when I first got it which is... let's step back and let's think about the Legion of Super-Heroes is and cherry pick the stuff that really worked and zoom in on it to tell the most modern cool version of it. So that's what we have, not a reboot of Legion, but the very first appearance of Legion of Super-Heroes to these characters, and kind of the “ultimate” version of them.

Does this give you the freedom to kind of tell some familiar Legion stories in a new way if you want to?

It's really focused on the things that we absolutely loved about the Legion. Not in the, “let's do an exact duplication of Keith Giffen” way. But the spirit of it is connected Mike Grell's work, to Dave Cockrum’s work, to Keith Giffen and Mark Waid and Barry Kitson. There's a genuine spirit. So let's zero in on that spirit and then zero in on the story choices that we think makes the most sense to the DC Universe we're writing towards, to the theme that we're writing towards which was the premise of these kids looking at us and making choices.

read more: Inside DC's Legion of Super-Heroes Relaunch

So based on those premises, it's very easy to cherry pick very cool, exciting ideas. But the storylines like “ooh we're going to do The Great Darkness Saga again” is never as potent as a brand new story. We're going to be doing brand new stories that are attempting to reach the heights of Legion's greatest stories. The reason people like The Great Darkness Saga is that they did not see Darkseid coming. Again, spoilers if you haven't read it, it's been about 40 years, but there were things in that story people didn't see coming and connective tissue to the DC Universe they did not see coming.

I can see there's already connective tissue kind of in place, and not just because of Jon Kent. You're going to introduce a Gold Lantern and a new Doctor Fate. These are characters that aren’t usually associated with the Legion. What can you tell us about Gold Lantern? Because this is way more than just putting a Green Lantern in the Legion because it's a new kind of Lantern entirely.

We're going to unveil that in story. If you think about it for a second, it's more than just a character. There's a whole legacy that comes with it and now we're going to find out what happened to the Green Lanterns. That is definitely going to happen in the story. 

Every Legion roster that I loved had the classic Legionnaires plus a couple of new characters that were very much in the same vein. So we thought it was definitely our obligation to not just introduce all these other characters, but to drop a couple of new ones in as well. Doctor Fate and Gold Lantern are perfect examples of how there's a whole story there on top of who they are.

Doctor Fate isn't usually a character you associate with the youthfulness of the Legion. How do you balance that ancient power of Doctor Fate with the spirit of the Legion?

Again, a thousand years has gone by since you last had an update on Doctor Fate. A lot can happen in a thousand years. I don't mean to blow off the question, but you're going to find out who's behind the helmet, where did they get it from, where's it been for a thousand years. All of these things are going to be answered, and those answers tell the story of the history of the DC Universe.

Remember that the history that the Legion has is not unlike the history we have of Ancient Egypt. We hear a version of the story as kids and then you hear a different version of it as an adult and then if you want to dig in further, there's real detail there that sometimes reflects a completely different truth than the one you grew up hearing. That's how we hear history. So imagine the stories of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman being told over a thousand years after the collapse of civilization a couple of times. How does history continue on or how does it work in the public consciousness through things like that.

There's an optimism that's baked into the concept of the Legion that I think was pretty clear just from their introduction in Superman #14. What is this Legion’s mission statement and how do they view us? The reason I ask is because there have been three incarnations of the Legion in continuity before this. Two of them were relatively similar in their worldview I think. And then Mark Waid did one that was a little bit more radical. 

I found Waid's radicals so very hopeful.

I love that take on the book. It was just their very particular kind of youth movement approach to things. Where does this Legion fall on that spectrum? How do they view us? Obviously they worship our heroes but what does the 31st century think of the 21st century?

You're right in that the general tone of the Legion will be optimistic and positive and forward thinking, and their view of us is all funneled through that premise. They've come to Legion going "Love Batman, love Superman, going to rise to that occasion." But to be very clear, there's a lot of characters on the team with a lot of different histories and a lot of worldviews. And part of the Legion is to have all these people come together with different viewpoints, different histories, different experiences and perspectives and help each other bring the universe together. That's how they see us. They go, "You know what really, really made the universe of what it is was when everyone was working together." They look at the Justice League and Jon Kent, all that as people who brought unity. That's all they're thinking about. 

So even the characters that are worried about the future or don't see it with as cockeyed optimism as some of the characters do, they do believe that we need to try to get there. Complete optimism, which I think a lot of our readership is eager just to feel for a while. People want to visit a future that's hopeful and that has people in it that are fighting for it. That is going to be the backbone of what we're doing here.

I love that this team emerges fully formed. How long has this Legion been in existence before we met them meeting the Superman family?

Not too long. So what we've done, you'll see in the first issues of Legion is that they're pretty much still freshmen, for lack of a better word. And they're still making freshman mistakes. Maybe recruiting Jon Kent might've been one of them. We're going to introduce ourselves and then we're going to find out how the world or the universe perceives them a little bit more.

How big is that roster?

It's pretty big and we haven't even unveiled of all of it yet. I had a moment in my childhood, I'm looking at a Legion of Super-Heroes poster, and there's Keith Giffen and Larry Mahlstedt poster with all the Legionnaires on it. Hundreds of characters who are very, very famous. That poster meant a lot to me. That poster inspired a great deal of my creativity and desire as a storyteller.

My ambition in this here, and I know I speak for Ryan [Sook] on this as well, is to achieve the magic of what that poster was. Which was it not only just, “wow, look at all those superheroes” but just look at them working together. And every one of them just speaks to imagination and creativity. Every one of them, wants you to hear their story. So we're diving into the Legion at that energy level and then we're going to break it all apart and introduce you to all of these characters. And then on one of the premises is that they've prepared an orientation presentation for Jon Kent, which is going to tell us all of this information and he just doesn't get to it right away.

Let's talk about Ryan for a second because these new designs are amazing.

I'm very in love with Ryan's stuff. It's so exciting to be at the launch of a book and to be just that in love with your collaborator as I am with what Ryan has done and the energy in which he's done it.

Did he just away and come back with these costume designs or did you work with him on any of them? How did that come together?

A mixture of everything. We were truly blessed. DC gave us almost an entire year headstart on trading this book. That is unheard of in mainstream comics. It's unheard of in film and television. I didn't even wrap my head around what a blessing it was until we started making the book and it was over and I go, "Oh my God, we had so much time to develop that was such a lovely thing." But that was DC taking what needed to be done here very seriously. We're really building a future and we're building something that's not retro, that's not leaning on other people's designs. We're heading towards the premise of Legion through as modern eyes as we can.

I said, "Ryan, go draw the first things that pop into your head when I say the following things or just draw whatever's in your head or I'll send you things." Hundreds of things of references to others people's material and other illustrators and things like that and a lot of looking at one of the premises we put forward to each other and then to say this out loud it's a little scary.

If you look at a lot of mainstream sci-fi, most of it is very wrapped around Jack Kirby, Moebius, or the illustrator John Berkeley. You see a lot of John Berkeley's work in things like Guardians of the Galaxy. And it's all gorgeous and it all affects me greatly and I said, “wouldn't it be wonderful if we at least attempted to push past all that influence and towards a new kind of sci-fi?” Just to say that out loud and see what happens. It’s very exciting and nerve-wracking and it has inspired a great deal of cool work that you'll see in the pages coming forward. Because I've seen the intricate detail of the first issue. I know that's kind of a like a dick thing for a writer to say, "Hey, how about let's take away all the things that people like and are popular and see what else we can do.”

I didn't know Ryan at all. I'm just a big fan of his. When I came to DC and I always thought we'd make good comics together, just just looking at his choices and stuff. But the minute we started working together on Action Comics and I saw that my theory about us was true I jumped on him. It was like if making a comic is like making a baby, this is like, "You want to have quadruplets with me?” on a second date. And he said yes.

Do you remember which characters you started with to help point the way?

It's always the core members and then Timber Wolf and Wildfire. Everyone feels like if we nailed Timber Wolf and Wildfire as all the other pieces will fall into place. And Timber Wolf got this new look. There's always been this weird influence between Timber Wolf and Wolverine going back over the years, right? They've always kind of had some kind of back and forth influence and I thought using that premise, my favorite Wolverine is actually Darrick Robertson's Wolverine. I put that out as the basis of our Timber Wolf and that's where we are.

You talked about wanting to break away from popular conceptions of sci-fi right now, but in terms of Legion mythology, was there anything that you specifically felt that you had to shake up or break free of in order to make sure this book was able to distinguish itself?

I made a loud proclamation that I really wanted “no retro.” I thought really the opportunity here is to surprise and delight ourselves as creators. Push ourselves as hard as we can into this, just like all of our heroes did, right? What did Kirby and Moebius and all these greats, what were they trying to do? They were trying to blow everyone's mind! Instead of doing them, let's just try to do that. Let's learn from the example of our heroes by trying to blow the roof off the place. 

I guess when you start putting retro, it's retro on retro. Now you're retroing something that was already retrofitted. We thought, no, let's go as future forward as possible. Some people are going to see the designs right away and their not going to be the thing they loved in 1970 and it's going to take a minute. But then if you step back, you're going to say to yourself, Oh this is all reflects the stuff I love. It just reflects in the way that a new audience can wrap their heads around it and really embrace it. As a Legion fan, isn't that what we all want? As many people to hop on board as possible?

One thing that I always felt about Legion was it was so dense in its own mythology. And even though it takes place in the DC Universe, it’s also kind of like its own corner of the DC Universe. So how tied to the wider DCU is this book going to be, especially with some of the other wheels that are in motion across the line?

Well, I'm very involved in all the wheels. This wheel is very much in concert with the other wheels. Does that make sense?

Yes.

We're all being built around the same premises and ideas were very in tune with each other. That one I'm excited for that level to reveal itself in about a year from now. We are building towards something. So I'm excited about that. That's coming. 

read more: Justice League, Crisis, and the Future of the DC Universe

The other part of your question is something I really focus a lot on because you want the Legion, this team on its own, but the book is about how they reflect the entire DC Universe. So you're torn because you don't want to do a book about other books because that can always be death. That's never good news. In this instance, I definitely want connective tissue and MacGuffins of some sort. I definitely want MacGuffin that really speaks to the DC Universe that we haven't seen in the, in the Legion books before. 

I was literally sitting in my office going, "hmm, what am I going to do?" My son, six years old, burst into my office holding his Aquaman Trident toy and he goes, "Dad, this is the most important thing in the entire universe!" And I go, Hey, he's got a point. If you’ve seen the cover of Legion #2 and Superboy holding the Aquaman Trident, it’s because my son convinced me that is the most important thing in the DC Universe. This actually opened up an idea for a storyline that was completely unique to Legion but connects us to our path in a completely fantastic way. That is our first story.

How far ahead are you planned? How far out do you have this book mapped right now?

Again, I've been working on this since I walked in the door in DC, so I'm good. I have so much to get to. I'm like there's not enough pages in the world. My high class problem is getting to all of it. 

You said something very exciting to me before about the density of Legion and the complexity of the storytelling. You're right and it's something we're leaning into hard. It's why I wanted to do the book. Some of my greatest heroes in comics and outside of comics have dealt almost exclusively in this kind of a multi-layered and multi-generational storytelling.

I have been studying this my entire life. I was telling Dan Jurgens, because he was talking about some stuff that he did with Paul Levitz and I was completely blown away by Paul's organization skills as a creator and a writer. Sometimes when you take a book you go, "wow, there's so much here." I have some experience in this field and I am completely blown away by the organization and power of his ability to tell the Legion story as clearly and cleanly and as excitingly as he did all those years. 

Was it a coincidence that Superman #14 hit the same day as Doomsday Clock #11, where the previous Saturn girl was, was kind of, you know, disintegrated from the timeline?

Ah, yes. Because we had a printing error and we had to go back to print. The elements of the story are not a coincidence. All of this is done in connection to each other. But the actual shipping scheduled time, they were supposed to be a week apart. They ended up being out of each other, but it didn't really matter. The truth is still there.

All of the pieces of Doomsday Clock, all of the pieces of Superman, all of the pieces of Event Leviathan will all land to connect together in a beautiful way. This has all been planned.

Legion of Super-Heroes #1 arrives on Nov. 6.

Mike Cecchini is the Editor in Chief of Den of Geek. You can read more of his work here. Follow him on Twitter @wayoutstuff.

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THIS WEEK IN SCHADENFREUDE, where Oklahoma State fans call for Mike Gundy’s mullet’s job

Also in the weekly roundup of post-Saturday internet angst: a dying man wishes for Arkansas to fire Bret Bielema, and Florida State fans want their .800-winning-percentage coach gone.

College football’s Week 4 was busy. It didn’t have any colossal upsets, but it had some surprises and a few brushes with chaos. Here’s how the internet responded, seen through the lens of five defeated fanbases whose online scenes I’ve toured.

Oklahoma State

Lost to TCU, 44-31, in a home upset. Someone proposed drastic consequences: the cleaving of head coach Mike Gundy’s immaculate mullet, a fixture since last year.

Let’s begin at the OrangePower.com message boards.

Thread: Time To Cut The Mullet, Coach

Okay. We get it. The Mullet took started as a joke, then took on a life of it's own.

That's great marketing --- when you're undefeated and riding the crest of a popularity wave.

But now you've gotten you a** kicked on national tv. You were beotch-slapped by a better game day coach that took you and your team to the woodshed.

The score was closer, but the game was a disaster.

But this isn’t strictly punitive. The poster thinks Gundy could stand to focus more on other things more productive to OSU’s mission if he gets rid of the haircut:

So, it's time to take a new focus -- one on the team not on your current media popular hairstyle.

Trim the mullet. Put the attention on improving the defense instead of your hair and lifestyle. The public loves it when you're winning, but when you're losing -- it doesn't care.

It was fun while it lasted, but now it's time to cut the damn thing.

This suggestion was met with widespread agreement. One poster couldn’t believe Gundy had lost to “a stupid visor wearing mf’er” like TCU coach Gary Patterson.

Someone sums it up:

Time to be business in the front, and back.

Another Pokes fan thinks Gundy needs to stop hunting turtles.

We’ve known for a while that Gundy hunts rattlesnakes:

Rattlesnake hunt in Okeene, OK with Todd and Wild Bill. http://pic.twitter.com/0SqWb9LxFk

— Mike Gundy (@CoachGundy) March 17, 2017

But a few weeks back, Gundy said he likes hunting turtles, too.

“They’re really good. When they know you get around them, they jump in the water,” Gundy said. “And so you got to kind of sneak up on them a little bit. At my place, we have quite a few of those off-road vehicles, called Gators. And so they’re accustomed to the sound of the Gator. So if you drive a Gator by, they won’t move. They’ll stay there. But if you walk up on them, you can’t very close to them because they’re too smart. They’ll jump in the water. So we used the Gators as our friend and try to keep as many turtles as we can out of the ponds because they eat your fish.”

Thread: How about a little less turtle hunting

and a lot more team preparation.

I wanna circle back to the mullet thing. So many OSU fans are directly reaching out to Gundy to tell him it’s time to get a haircut.

Cut the mullet @CoachGundy

— Emily Falkenberg (@Emilypfalk) September 23, 2017

Time to cut the mullet @CoachGundy #osuvstcu #ridiculousgame

— Jill Kimbrough (@jillkimbrough) September 23, 2017

Here’s Gundy getting told off by a couple of fans after tweeting appreciation for a group that brings seriously ill children to sporting events:

Cut the mullet

— Shane Wilde (@noShandlebars) September 24, 2017

Time the let the mullet go. Business in the front & back!

— Manscape & Massage (@ManscapeMassage) September 24, 2017

Cut your hair and donate half your salary back to Oklahoma teachers. Be a man. You are over paid

— My Info (@shirlmatlock56) September 24, 2017

“Be a man,” on the 10-year anniversary week of the “I’m a man” rant, no less.

Florida State

Lost 27-21 to NC State, falling to 0-2 and out of the AP Poll while the other team’s best player stopped to drop a loogie on the Noles’ logo.

The loss dropped Jimbo Fisher to a measly 78-19 at FSU, and he still just has one national title in eight-plus seasons, and there might be one, two, or even three coaches in the country slightly better than him.

Let’s see how Noles fans responded!

Here’s a gentleman screaming that Fisher’s overpaid and that his defensive coordinator, Charles Kelly, should be fired:

Can we fire jimbo fisher please! @FSUFootball

— Jonah Pate (@PateJonah) September 23, 2017

Jimbo Fisher is garbage . Fire him @FSUFootball

— Brad Dozier (@b_dozz) September 23, 2017

Let’s scoot on over to the message boards at Noles247.

Thread: Fire them all

Thread: Jimbo is a JOKE

So soft..not a Bowden bone in him.He’s just becoming noise.When u have more talent just play ball.why does he think he can win games 17-14 with this OL,DC and his play calling??...u just get tired watching this.

Thread: Fisher and whole staff need to be fired.

Totally inept and we will never be back to Playoffs with him. Only way to retain him is if he does what Dabo does, go get great coordinators, and then get out if their way and just be a cheerleader and recruiter. But, dumbo is to stubborn to do that,

FSU has made one of the three Playoffs that have ever been played. It’ll miss this year’s, which will drop Fisher to a mere .250 all-time Playoff participation rate.

Some people had a more pensive, chill attitude about everything.

Thread: I Don't know why Everyone's So Pissed Off That We Suck

So we suck. Who cares? Grow up.

Same:

Thread: I'm just here for the meltdown.

Love reading all the meltdown threads. My favorite part is when another team has a meltdown and everyone is so quick to point and laugh like it's beneath them. Who should we fire today fellas??? Maybe even shut program down at this point.

Boise State

Lost at home to Virginia, 42-23. Virginia! 42-23!

How does the commentariat feel about head coach Bryan Harsin, an alum who’s now fallen all the way to 40-16 all-time as the Broncos’ head coach?

To Boise’s Scout.com message board we go.

Thread: What does the buyout look like

Thread: Is this the darkest moment.........

for Boise State football in the 21st century or has it been worse? I am just not accustomed to seeing what I am seeing.

One message board poster, screen name zagco, had a specific demand.

Thread: Fire Brian Harsin!

Zagco is going to start a website!

Merely a half-hour after that plea, zagco said zagco was signing off altogether.

Thread: Goodbye BroncoCountry

Zagco is totally done with Boise State football until Harsin is gone. No more posts.

A short while later, another board poster was offering to buy the domain name firebryanharsin.com (for 25 percent off!) if someone else on the forum agreed to help manage the page. But another poster suggested a simpler solution:

Just create a fire Bryan Harsin Facebook page. It's free

To which the solicitor replied, “Good call.”

The Fire Harsin Facebook page doesn’t appear to be active yet. But!

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Fire Bryan Harsin! Hire Les Miles!! Boise State so not the same

Posted by Nick Olsen on Friday, 22 September 2017

That is, if they can keep Les Miles away from the Nebraska AD job.

Kentucky

Lost 28-27 to Florida when its defense literally forgot to cover a receiver. That made 31 consecutive losses to UF, many of them in painful fashion.

But was this crushing to the program?

On the one hand, there’s a thread on UK’s Rivals board that’s titled, “Last Night Not Crushing to the Program.”

On the other, there’s another thread that’s titled, “Hard to overstate how crushing this is to the program.”

Here’s an exceptionally dark metaphor about Kentucky football in general.

Thread: Kentucky Football Reminds Me Of

The fable of the turtle and the scorpion. The gist of it is the scorpion wanted to ride the turtle across the river and promised he wouldn't sting the turtle if he gave him a ride. The turtle reluctantly agreed to take the scorpion. Halfway across the river the scorpion stings the turtle. The turtle asks, "why did you do that? Now we will both drown." The scorpion replies, "it's just my nature."

The Kentucky football fans are the turtle. The football team is the scorpion. No matter how much you expect something bad to happen, you reluctantly believe everything will be fine. So you go along for the ride and get your hopes up only to have it sting you and you sink to the bottom. That is how Kentucky football feels to me.

Here’s a Reddit thread I just figured I’d drop in full.

Slightly NSFW:

Arkansas

Lost to Texas A&M in overtime, like it does every year.

One fan says his near-death grandfather wants Bret Bielema fired before he dies.

@ClayTravis From Arkansas message board.. Amazing #hogs http://pic.twitter.com/nWzdQioLzM

— Jared Roll (@jroll918) September 23, 2017

Arkansas fans are less than stoked about their head coach and athletic director.

Let’s peruse Hogville.net for a few minutes.

Thread: Economical Solution to Our Problem

Replace AD Jeff Long with Wisconsin’s Barry Alvarez, who has worked nowhere other than Wisconsin since 1990. It’s an airtight plan.

Fire Long. Hire Barry Alvarez. Alvarez is making $1.125 million at Wisconsin. BB can be Alvarez's boy again, do as he is told, and regain his former level of highish mediocrity.

Thread: Go away BB

BB please go away. You are the worst coach we have ever had. Our program and state deserves better and Ws matter.

Also, there are multiple people worried that Arkansas will lose next weekend to New Mexico State. Yet another overtime loss to Aggies?

Is there a GoFundMe to pay Bielema’s massive buyout, currently north of $15 million?

Hell yeah there is.

The fundraiser, Austin Johnson, writes:

It's safe to say that Bret's time here should be over, however, Jeff Long has made this difficult with the lucrative 15.5 mil buyout, let's end this misery ourselves

Does the GoFundMe have any actual donations?

No, of course not.

So, any other solutions to make Arkansas competitive in the SEC West?

None better than this:

@jefflongUA How about Jimmy Johnson! Played for Razorbacks, won National Championship and also Super Bowls.

— Todd Naccarato (@todd_naccarato) September 24, 2017

[winter-is-ending]

The detailed headcanon meme?? ALL OF THEM

Of course you would make me do this... God I hate you.

What does their bedroom look like?

I’ve never thought of these before, I probably won’t go into full detail on each room but some basics. Maybe one day I’ll post pictures to give ideas.

Tracey: it’s pretty clean. She and Bucky keep it clean compared to her work area which is a mess with files and other things for the team with the occasional misplaced paintbrush.

Barry: clean (only because of Darcy) and has a stack of movies and video games in the corner next to his game system at the TV.

Do they have any daily rituals?

Besides work and missions they just do their own thing.

Do they exercise, and if so, what do they do? How often?

Every day. There’s a gym in the tower and compound so they use that to their advantage. Tracey likes to take the dogs for a walk in Central Park; Wanda Sharon or Bucky sometime joins Barry does his own thing.

What would they do if they needed to make dinner but the kitchen was busy?

They both have their own floors in the tower so they’d just make dinner in their own kitchens, but the compound has probably at least two kitchens (maybe I’m making this stuff up), probably one for the team and another for the recruits that we see at the end of AOU. But I think they’d just try and find room to make their own dinner or just wait.

Cleanliness habits (personal, workspace, etc.)

Tracey: Clean around house/floor/room/wherever she lives, but her desk is a slight mess.

Barry: Clean with the occasional mess here and there.

Eating habits and sample daily menu

Barry eats a good bit during the day and Tracey eats regular meals with snacks here and there.

Favorite way to waste time and feelings surrounding wasting time

Tracey: Painting or reading

Barry: Video games or movies

Their thoughts on wasting time is they either hate it because it’s honestly wasting time they could be working or they are really happy because it’s actually free time from work.

Favorite indulgence and feelings surrounding indulging

Tracey: She loves to snack on either something salty or something sweet. Some days it’s pretzels with peanut butter and other days it’s chips.

Barry: He loves to keep his mind going. He either

Makeup?

Tracey varies on makeup and it depends on the occasion. She can go from no makeup to light makeup on a casual day or full face of makeup for parties or something.

Neuroses? Do they recognize them as such?

None that I can think of.

Intellectual pursuits?

I guess to challenge themselves at small things every now and then? I’ve never thought about it.

Favorite book genre?

Tracey: Fantasy and romance

Barry: Scifi and mystery

Sexual Orientation? And, regardless of own orientation, thoughts on sexual orientation in general?

Both are straight and they support any sexual orientation.

Physical abnormalities? (Both visible and not, including injuries/disabilities, long-term illnesses, food-intolerances, etc.)

Tracey has a scar from where Bucky stabbed her in the abdomen, but that’s it. Probably going to get one on her leg from where he shot her too.

Biggest and smallest short term goal?

Get their to do lists of the week done without being stopped by missions/work.

Biggest and smallest long term goal?

I guess have a family for both really. Tracey has always wanted to be featured in an art gallery though.

Preferred mode of dress and rituals surrounding dress

They wear just whatever they like and are comfortable in. I think Barry is more of jeans and shirt kind of guy, but Tracey likes to look cute/fashionable every now and then.

Favorite beverage?

Tracey: Any kind of tea

Barry: Soda

What do they think about before falling asleep at night?

Depending on what’s going on in their lives. Tracey might be thinking of a new project to work on whether it’s with her computer or a painting or if Bucky is out on a mission (or in this current case missing) she thinks and worries about him. Barry if he has a mission the next day keeps going over the details and plans in his head or if he is out on a mission he thinks of his family.

Childhood illnesses? Any interesting stories behind them?

None.

Turn-ons? Turn-offs?

I’m not sure if we are talking sexually or not.

Given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen?

Tracey: Draw

Barry: Doodle

How organized are they? How does this organization/disorganization manifest in their everyday life?

Tracey can be organized. She makes sure to clean up any messes she makes while cooking or something else and she makes sure the house/floor/room/whatever is clean. But when it comes to her “art studio” (which is actually just a spare room) it’s messy and then there’s her desk where she works on her computer. It’s like a organized chaos.

Barry is pretty clean, but if he’s in a hurry he will be pretty messy.

Is there one subject of study that they excel at? Or do they even care about intellectual pursuits at all?

Tracey: Art and computer science. With a bit of literature.

Barry: Math, science and history.

How do they see themselves 5 years from today?

Back together with the entire team and happy. Possibly (hopefully) with families.

Do they have any plans for the future? Any contingency plans if things don’t workout?

Tracey is looking for Bucky and depending on his mental state and how long it might take to recover him she will wait to marry him.

Barry plans to propose to Darcy soon.

What is their biggest regret?

What happened during Civil War.

Who do they see as their best friend? Their worst enemy?

Tracey: It’s a tie with Wanda, Sharon and Nat. Best guy friends would be Sam and Steve.

Barry: Clint.

Worst enemies: All the villains they fight?

Reaction to sudden extrapersonal disaster (eg The house is on fire! What do they do?)

They usually have a game plan, but they’d be a little shocked. Barry would be a little more calm than Tracey though.

Reaction to sudden intrapersonal disaster (eg close family member suddenly dies)

They’d be devastated and a little closed off at first.

Most prized possession?

Tracey: Bucky’s dog tags.

Barry: A keychain his dad got him from Germany before he died.

Thoughts on material possessions in general?

Understandable if it has meaning.

Concept of home and family?

They want to live a somewhat normal life with a family despite their jobs and who they are.

Thoughts on privacy? (Are they a private person, or are they prone to ‘TMI’?)

They like to keep their privacy to an extent. Being a part of the Avengers means tabloids will want interviews or write some scandal on them. Paparazzi will follow them. But when it comes to their friends/family/team they might share some stuff depending on what that stuff is.

What activities do they enjoy, but consider to be a waste of time?

Basically anything that is their hobbies or a way anyone wastes time on a day off. The team sometimes has movie nights when everyone isn’t out on a mission or have competitions in sports or games/video games.

What makes them feel guilty?

Depends on the situation like if they feel it’s their fault or something of that nature. Civil War for sure because they end up fighting each other and their friends/family.

Are they more analytical or more emotional in their decision-making?

Barry: Analytical

Tracey: Emotional

Would they consider themselves a Type A or Type B personality?

I guess they are a bit of both. Barry’s definitely competitive with the guys and Tracey isn’t as much, but she gets competitive with Barry but they are twins so that’s a given after growing up together.

What recharges them when they’re feeling drained?

Napping, small snack and maybe doing something that they find relaxing like reading, painting, watching Netflix. Something that just lets them be in their own world for a bit.

Would you say that they have a superiority-complex? Inferiority-complex? Neither?

Neither. But I guess Tracey had an inferiority-complex when she first joined the team since she couldn’t fight or anything besides hacking.

How misanthropic are they?

Not really. I mean they both have their thoughts on some issues and people.

Hobbies?

Tracey: Painting and reading

Barry: Video games

How far did they get in formal education? What are their views on formal education vs self-education?

Tracey: Completed college, got her bachelors in computer science with a minor in art (shocker)

Barry: Finished college but was recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. by his senior year. so my headcanon is that S.H.I.E.L.D. has some sort of school course or something for those who didn’t complete college or were recruited at a young age. Or something.

Religion?

I’ve never thought about it for them. I’m Catholic so I guess they’d be Catholic? I never really put religion into any of my characters. I might mention going to church in future chapters or stories with them, but not in full detail or anything.

Superstitions or views on the occult?

None

Do they express their thoughts through words or deeds?

Both depending on what the situation is.

If they were to fall in love, who (or what) is their ideal?

Tracey: Bucky

Barry: Darcy

How do they express love?

Dinner, gifts, small things here and there. I’m too tired to give full descriptions of this.

If this person were to get into a fist fight, what is their fighting style like?

Tracey: Throw punches. She can barely fight.

Barry: He calculates the opponents

Is this person afraid of dying? Why or why not?

I think everyone is afraid of it at some point.

Em, I hate you for this. Also I’m sorry it took so long to answer. I’ve been busy helping my parents with moving furniture to a house they built for the past week and hardly had wifi or time to do anything. And this just took way too long that I just gave up on answering some of these.