#and no im not going to trans meetings bc that shit is usually toxic as hell anyways bye

[snekdood]

saw a post yesterday that was like "if you dont have trans women as friends u gotta think about why that is" and i really had to restrain myself from saying "it goes both ways my friend!". if you dont have any trans men as friends, ya gotta think about why that is also!

[irorny]

defenders of tomorrow headcanons bc im trash

(or just my ideas for a dystopian novel ill never write feat. voltron characters)

Defenders of Tomorrow

small bull city-based guerilla rebel force

goal: take down the three main monopolies exploiting humanity

SendTech Communications, Zarco Energy, L Motors, but more on them later

members: silicut, akira, leandro, heartbleed, ping, alzina, andrés, rowan, shuri, and ig corneilus? maybe?

methods: attack where tech companies can’t protect themselves, the real world. main method of travel is old abandoned subways. use “old-fashioned” weapons like guns, grenades, even a tank. L Motors is the biggest challenge since they’re more real-world-oriented

Ohmen

group of hackers, much larger than DOT but with less success

aim to take down monopolies by destabilizing the whole G.A.L.R.A.

name comes from ohm, unit of measuring electrical resistance

sorta rivals with DOT before eventually working together

akira, alzina, silicut, mendel, and ping have all worked with them in the past

symbol is basically BOM turned on its side bc it... vaguely... resembles an ohm symbol

G.A.L.R.A.

technically stands for Globalized Asset Legitimacy Rate Appraisal but we both know that’s gibberish, pretty much just the stock market

The Honorable Virtua is president of the GALRA

manipulates stock value so the rich get richer and small businesses never gain traction

SendTech collects, monitors, and abuses almost all human interaction to increase profit. products microphones are always on and sending data back to company, which uses the data to find people with revolutionary ideas and eliminate them. also makes designer babies.

Zarco Energy is the parent company to end all parent companies. main product is EnerGenius, marketed as a clean energy source that “runs on life, to help life run right.” To public knowledge it runs on the user’s own energy, and it does partially, but the majority of EnerGenius is harvested by abducting homeless youth and draining them of their life force (you know that scream extractor machine the purple lizard dude from monsters inc had? yeah its pretty much that)

L Motors is a transportation company that designs spaceships, drones, and operates several underground expressways, produces some short-distance vehicles for the military and the elite. restricts mobility and ability to travel for common people

akira

bastard son of zarco ceo (zoltar) and ohmen spy (kyung-hu) who was killed on a mission when he was little

silicut and ohmen took him under their wing after he narrowly escaped being abducted for EnerGenius

kyung-hu was a “defect” designer baby, usually die of genetic disorders before age 4, akira is the first person to have a “defect” parent. part of the changes in akiras DNA allow him to control tech with his mind (if you watched the last season of the flash, think killgore bc i have no original ideas)

wears silicut’s old jacket. for some reason it glows red when he wears it

ill have actual art for all these guys eventually i swear im just a really shitty artist so it takes forever

leandro

natural-born human (aka poor), extremely resorceful, adaptable, quick-witted, and hella sharpshooter

doesn’t like to talk ab his past, always plays it off well

trained to be an assassin for zarco from age 11 to support his family when he lived in cuba, mom was a sex worker and helped him hide on the underground express train of a wealthy client to get him away at 14. he hasn’t seen his family since.

wore same few outfits from when he first got to bull city for years, alzina eventually buys him new ones

old soul, loves 21st century pop culture

formed DOT bc he cant hack for shit but wanted to help somehow, team sniper

silicut

defect designer baby thrown away by parents

SendTech included listening and tracking devices on him at his parents request, used them to track ohmen, silicut willingly cut off his own arm so they wouldn’t be discovered

hardest-working and best-trained member of ohmen

part of his hair is naturally bioluminescent and violet

heartbleed

yes thats his name. his parents named him after a computer bug, but hes never been particularly good at software, just hardware. 

only one on the team with a family, kinda becomes the mom friend by default

wears grandfathers old garrison jacket and “primitive lumis” (theyre literally sketchers light up sneakers but dont tell him that)

team muscle and engineer, often poses as a security guard with shuri to complete missions in secure areas

ping

honest-to-god android, used to be human girl but experimented on themselves to try to find a way to level the paying field bewteen humans and designer babies, but became really sick from being around toxic chemicals so much. after meeting shuri, becomes inspired by 21st century comics and builds arc reactor type thing that made them lose much of what makes them human

imperative that theyre not discovered by tech companies, would be killed for research in a heartbeat

team leader and software engineer, directs missions from base camp by using own tech so team can’t be tracked

the worlds first jewish robot

lost brother, mendel, to EnerGenius which their father helped create

has glowing circuitboard-looking veins!!!! 

alzina

useless senator in an obsolete government by day, super DOT spy by night. got into politics back when she believed in the system, but has since realized that all of her colleagues have been bought out and now shes willing to do whatever it takes to restore peace and justice.

afro-south asian designer baby, parents opted not to put tracking and listening devices on her, but hair and parts of her skin are purple and bioluminecsent. married to rowan.

originally worked with ohmen to bug sellout government officials, silicut introduced her to DOT and shes now team spy/liaison to big companies

comes from a rich, well-respected family and ends up using much of her money to buy nice things for the team

rowan

born into one of the few remaining middle class families, parents sold L Motors products for a living and hoped they would have a son whod be able to climb through the ranks and make a better life for himself. got a trans lesbian revolutionary instead. 

trying to bring back journalism, met wife alzina by interviewing her for her work. the instant chemistry made more than a few readers cringe.

team’s go-to for recon missions since shes highly observant, asks all the right questions, and can blend in with a crowd easily

shuri

named after black panther character, comes from family of miners in the mountains

hijabi, and often smuggles contraband or conceals a small weapon under hijab

sometimes heartbleed sits next to her when she prays in public to make sure no one walks in front of her

really sweet, but also the team muscle and could kill a man with her bare hands if she chose to

corneilius

representative of planet earth

sold out to zarco when he was younger in exchange for being reelected every term

supposed to have a lot of power in his position but is really just a huge bobblehead

cant take anything seriously, as a result most of earths problems go neglected by the government