#and the follower cape... i haven't actually given any thought to that one

[queensparklekitten]

people with multiple capes how do you picture your elytras

[tgirlblogger]

My OC trump team that I'm posting here because I'll forget it if I don't write it down somewhere and also because I need encouragement to write something for once in a while

Team Name: Trump Card

Inner Beauty:

Inner Beauty is a trump/master that can create a projection of a shard from a cape. Remember Cradle's Mr. Hugs? They can just make a smaller version of one of those. They have rough control over it, and have to give direct order for the thing to follow. However, if a cape has a strong enough bond with their shard, then the projection may refuse or even outright disobey the commands given, instead opting to help their cape.

Purviewer:

Purviewer is able to see "statistics" from any given cape, and can change these on a scale from one to one hundred. It is a zero sum game though, as he must give away the same amount of points they take. So imagine if they were to fight Skitter, then they would maybe be able see Range, Control, and Complexity, where they could set the range to an extremely low number, and ramp up complexity, essentially creating maybe a touch-based Khepri.

Mockery:

Mockery has four "base" powers that she cannot access naturally. She has a thinker power, a breaker power, a master power, and a stranger power. Whenever she sees a cape, she is able to try to mimic their power by changing one of her core powers to act like that. She can only hold on to one power at a time, and the power disappears after a week. This one's a bit unclear because I haven't really thought it through but imagine if there was this changer that was actually just a breaker you know? Or this tinker who was just a thinker? I'll think this one through later.

New Deal:

New Deal has gains 5 "slots" that hold powers, that change every month along with blaster power she always has. She can fire a beam from her hands that, when it hits, essentially slows down time for her. During this slowed time, her entire field of view is replaced with a black screen divided in two. She can see her five powers represented by icons, names and small descriptions, and aspects of her enemy's power represented like that. She can choose to transfer one of her powers with one of her enemy's aspect of their power.

Handbasket:

When Handbasket triggered, her body was physically changed. She got four extra sets of arms. She can detach her hands easily, the hands skitter around on the floor at her command. When the hands come into contact with the DNA of another cape, they absorb it into themselves. The hand then gains a weaker version of the power they absorbed.

anyways yeah so thats my OC team I was thinking about for the majority of today but I know I'll just forget about it if I don't write it down somewhere so uhh yeah.

[crowsister-archive]

Whatever you haven't answered out of 1-10, 16-19 for Kyra off the sidestep ask meme?

Questions here (x)

1. what is their secret identity? do they have any nicknames? what is the meaning behind them?

Kyra Kithairon, also known fondly as “Bitch” (Jed @smuteczekbiczo​) and Ky-a-Bye. She gets “Bitch” from Jed for being a bit of one (“The world’s a bitch and now so am I” “For once, in your life, try to win a conversation by not quoting Catwoman”), since they aren’t initially on good terms (this is what happens when you try to declaw a cat, Jedrick). Ky-a-bye she gets from Julia, for always vanishing and for the most common word out of Kyra’s mouth being “bye” before Julia got her to sit still long enough for longer conversation.

2. what is their sexual/romantic orientation and gender?

Kyra’s bisexual and a demigirl! Kyra’s got a lot of issues revolving around her gender, having been pressured into traditional feminine imaging for manipulation purposes. She’s been figuring out what of it she likes and what of it makes her skin crawl since, piecing together her gender. It makes her feel better to label herself as a demigirl for that reason, giving herself an opening to communicate that sort of feeling better right off the bat.

3. what is their villain name? why did they choose it?

Kyra’s villain name is Macavity, chosen for the TS Eliot poem! She chose it because she was angling to be a cat burglar from the get go and thought it was very fitting that she declare that openly via the usage of Macavity.

4. what does their villain armor look like? what is their typical style of dress?

The way I’ve been describing the Macavity suit is “the result of Catwoman blackmailing Tony Stark for a personalized Iron Woman suit”.

It’s matte black, with gentle charcoal low-lights and electric lavender highlights. The eyes glow purple softly, like cat eyes reflecting light in darkness. There are retracting claws in the gloves, though the left glove is bigger and bulkier due to the nanovores. 

Dr. Mortum talked Kyra into adding a cape, which goes just down to under Kyra’s ass in the suit (not a full cape, but something of a half-cape. Something akin to this look x). It’s the same matte black as the suit and adds a softer appearance to Macavity. The suit has telepathic boosters, part of which is housed within cat-ear like apparatuses on the helmet (they also house part of the secure com units in the helmet). There’s also the jump-jets, which Macavity uses when speeding along rooftops around the city. But when she’s dealing with verticality in spaces she has to be silent, I headcanon that there’s an extensive grapnel system in the armor that’s similar to Black Cat’s from Marvel’s Spider-Man. Said grapnel system can sometimes double as a whip.

Kyra’s typical style of dress is that “she was born in leather jackets, she’ll die in leather jackets (probably, maybe)”. This is from the first gift she was ever given was one of Julia’s old leather jackets (which Kyra lightly swam in, being a lanky fuck, with Julia being a beefcake). Kyra typically wears a brown leather jacket, a long sleeve t-shirt, a pair of jeans, and black ankle boots with low heels.

5. what is their zodiac sign?

Kyra’s self-assigned birthday is June 22nd, because she’s such a bleeding heart Cancer that I couldn’t not give her my own birthday.

6. what is their mbti type?

INFJ who tries really hard (too hard) to be INTJ.

7. what is their dnd alignment?

Flips between Lawful Good and Chaotic Good like nobody’s business. Like, normally has Resting Chaotic Good Face, but there’s moments where she springs right past Neutral Good right into Lawful Good (especially when civilians are in the picture).

8. are they more calculating or more sincere in their interactions with others?

Kyra hates how sincere she is in interactions with others. It’s unsafe, but she just cannot help herself in how sincere she is. But she’d hate herself more if she was more manipulative.

9. how honest are they?

Kyra’s as honest as she feels safe being. If she feels safe with a person, like one hundred percent safe, she’s an open book with very few secrets. But if she doesn’t feel safe with you for reasons (Julia: bad Re-Gene opinions and difficulty not charging into things, Chen: doesn’t know where he rests on the Lawful Good-Lawful Stupid line, Herald: unsure if he’s in love with her-her or an idea of her, Argent: “what even is your deal???”, Dr. Mortum: “you’re definitely lusting after Bruce, you’re a mad scientist for hire, I don’t even know how I can begin to trust you with more than I have”, Mia: “...my story would make you pretty famous if it didn’t make you super disappeared”, Anathema: didn’t have enough time to figure out how true the cheerful/joking mask was), she’s gonna keep some secrets.

10. are they a leader or a follower?

Kyra’s a cat, is how I’d answer this one. There’s times where she leads, blazing her own path and hissing at people who tell her otherwise, metaphorically (and rarely, literally) knocking things off desks for telling her what to do. But there’s also times where she’ll step back, let someone else lead because she knows she’s out of her depth or that she’s not in any actual position to lead or just doesn’t feel like it.

16. what is their best virtue?

Kyra’s best virtue is her patience. It can sometimes manifest as an over-patience or hesitation though.

17. what is their ultimate goal?

To reveal the truth in such a way that it tears down everything that was built by those who hurt her and are hurting so many other people with their lies and their facades. 

18. what is their greatest fear?

Hm. The idea that her personality, her “humanity”, the little things that make her her are fake. Pre-programmed. The like of cats, the touches of kindness, the empathy, the puns, the nicknames, petting dogs when their owners aren’t watching, the way the scar on her left hand itches whenever she’s stressed: that all of that is fake.

19. what scarred them the most about the heartbreak incident?

Remembering that she is an outsider who will truly never fully fit in. That those who know her know a constructed image of her, not dissimilar to the image built by those who hurt her for themselves. That if the people she cared about knew, that they’d leave her in an instant.

[duanecbrooks]

Media Impact     It's time to once again let you in on what is My All-Time Favorite. And to remind you once again that I am not nor have I ever been a high-culture maven nor an aesthete nor even a real and true intellectual but am and all during my adult life have been a geek of the Meghan McCain stripe.       Got all that? You do? OK, so My All-Time Favorite Media is...Heart and Soul magazine's 2003 cover story on my girl Robin Givens.               Literally everything about said article shines. The cover of this particular Heart and Soul issue features Robin sporting an especially dazzling smile and is emblazoned with a particularly ingratiating headline: "Robin Givens: On Mike [Tyson], Money, and Being Misunderstood." Open up the magazine and flip through a few pages and there's Robin again, again wearing a notably uplifting smile and bent over rightward in a quite fetching manner, with the words "Robin Redux" on the bottom of the page. Flip through a few more pages and on the "Contributors' Page" there's a pic of the (as shall be demonstrated, very talented) writer of the Robin piece, Janice R. Littlejohn, who is shown to be a not-bad-looking woman, probably (then) in her early-to-middle-40s, herself equipped with a highly beguiling smile. In her space she engagingly compares meeting Robin to "[c]oming face-to-face with the most popular girl in high school. 'It was like meeting up with the girl who you thought you knew everything about, but [then] realizing how much you have in common.'" We're then let in on the fact that Littlejohn is "[a] freelance television, entertainment, and lifestyle writer in California" and she appealingly reveals that she's attempting to make her life more pleasurable with "food, travel and trying to find the perfect couch for my new house."             Now to the Robin piece.               Let it be said first off that my lady looks positively stunning throughout, first giving yet another stunning smile while lying upon her stomach with her legs up in the air and outfitted in Maroon pinstripe pants, a beaded Chaiken tank top, and metal Mare olive heels. Turn the page and there's Robin again, this time wearing a L'impasse white floral gown and a Elisabetta bracelet. Turn the page once again and there's my woman once again, this time decked out in an Anja Flint olive jersey dress, a Stephen & Co. gypsy-like necklace, and a Barry Cord cocktail ring. And in all--all--of the photos Robin has an enticingly cheerful expression.           Here's where we come to the actual Robin article.             The aforementioned piece begins with a rather appealing quote from the subject herself ("I feel okay now. I know what I want instead of what you think you're supposed to have. I know what makes me happy"). Then Littlejohn paints a sensitive picture of the two of them agreeing to eat at this one restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and her expectation that "[s]ince the media has been less than flattering to Givens [that's a considerable understatement]...I expected her to be guarded." (As it turns out, she was all the while "relaxed and friendly"). Eventually Littlejohn deftly captures, as the two of them walk along, "fans [of Robin] beginning [sic] to take notice--gawking, waving and doing random drive-bys, yelling, 'You look good, girl!'" From there Littlejohn skillfully depicts where Robin was at that point in her life ("At 38, Robin Givens is a woman reborn, clearly revelling in a new sense of self outside the Hollywood spotlight--a nascent inner tranquility that comes from embracing life's simpler things. She divides her time between Maryland, Kentucky and New York...fancies herself a connoisseur of fine Italian and French food, frequents American diners and loves chitlins and pig's feet"). Littlejohn proceeds to stylishly sketch where Robin was professionally (the latter "is no longer defined by the trappings of a box-office-driven career. Acting is simply what she does") and offers up some insightful words from Robin's Boomerang/Head of State co-star Chris Rock ("I'm clicking through channels and see Boomerang and think, 'Hey, what's Robin Givens doing? Haven't seen her in a while.' When I met her for lunch, I said, 'You should get back out there.' It was kind of a pep talk. 'Get out there. You can act'").               Littlejohn's article continues. She elicits from Robin some admirably searching words from her subject concerning how it was like for her growing up without a Dad ("[Y]ou just feel this sort of unworthiness, and the pattern begins there...If you're not good enough for the first man in your life to stay, then why should any of them stay?"), incisively delineates what was Robin's public image pre-Tyson ("Givens has long been known for her love life, beginning with a romance with a Saturday Night Live comic named Eddie Murphy. She's had public romances with Brad Pitt and tennis pros Murphy Jensen and Svetozar Marinkovic, whom she married and quickly separated from") and draws from Robin some telling observations regarding Tyson's words during that infamous 20/20 interview they did by Barbara Walters, which was responsible for Robin's 20-year reign--especially, sad to say, as crowned by blacks--as The Most Despised Woman In America ([Tyson told Walters] "'The best punch I ever gave, she went from that wall to that wall...and she was out.' I thought. 'This is definitely not going to be acceptable.'"). Following are some intensely perceptive words from Robin's good buddy Tiffany McLinn, one of the Lifetime network's Intimate Portrait executive producers ("[Tyson] was really popular, and people were completely on his side...[A]t the time he was married to Robin, and so people really vilified her...She didn't have any rep before [hooking up with Tyson]--it's just because of that marriage [emphasis mine]"). From there there is a deftly-done sketch of my lady's professional standing during that period ("She starred in TV projects such as The Women of Brewster Place and The Penthouse, and she was on her way to box-office stardom with critically applauded roles as Imabelle in 1991's A Rage in Harlem and the next year as Jacqueline Broyer in Boomerang").           Going forth: Our portraitist gets Robin to present some genuinely moving recollections concerning her then-emotional/psychological life ("I had gone through hurt, and I mean it really hurt, and it hurt me and it hurt everybody close to me and it was serious for me, the pain that I felt. So it was interesting to have agents going, 'Yeah, but you're on the cover'"). After pointing out--and this is a fiercely individualistic statement, considering the fact that it's being made by a black writer about a black celebrity/entertainment figure in a black-oriented magazine--that Robin realized "that she was just another cog in the Hollywood machine," Littlejohn's probing gets Robin to freely acknowledge: "At that point I realized I wanted to be a healthy, happy human being, not just have a successful career. That's what I realized was the most important thing to me." Littlejohn, to her great credit, also gets Robin to own up to the fact that "I'm not looking for vindication. I'm not looking for people to go, 'Aha!'"                 And there's more. Littlejohn, with laudable journalistic professionalism, paints a picture of Robin as an absolutely hands-on mother, quoting her as asserting: "Nothing makes me happier," then quoting McLinn as contending that Robin and her sons are "like the Three Musketeers...[Being a single mother is not without] its challenges. But [Robin] is first and foremost a mom, not an actor." Robin then movingly tells of her renewed spirituality ("[Y]ou can call it anything. I mean, I now have a relationship with God") and in time laughing and "carefree," (Littlejohn's description) claims: "I have no ambition for a career." (To this Littlejohn adds: "At least not a career outlined by Hollywood's terms," going on to delineate the sporadic work Robin had done around that time [periodic television series like Courthouse, periodic independent pictures like Book of Love, her then-current work producing the Uninvited series for the Heritage Networks]). Following is a quite sprightly portrait of Robin doing a photo shoot, wherein she's "wearing jeans, flip-flops and a white tank top under a black salon cape" and "[h]er hair is in spiral pin curls, and she's wearing no make up." Littlejohn effortlessly captures Robin's admirable good humor during this shoot ("I think we shoot me just like this, whaddaya think?").                 And the conclusion to the article is honestly uplifting. Littlejohn makes the exceedingly perceptive observation that "while Robin Givens may not have always been in fashion, she has always been popular. Now with age and life experience, she has an outlook that matches her newfound confidence." (Robin afterward shares said outlook: "I know that if you hang in there, He'll work it out for you"). And the absolute end of the piece is outright heart-melting. Here Robin "smilingly" says: "I've been through enough to know some stuff, but [I] still have a lot of living to do. You know when little stuff would bother you? Now it's like, 'This is me. Take it. Leave it.' It's feeling comfortable in your own skin. As a woman."             In sum, Littlejohn's Robin profile certainly, definitely proves the aptness of the title this one IMDb-message-board-post writer bestowed upon Robin: "The sexiest black woman in entertainment" (actually, she shares that title with Paula Patton)--and proves that she's a highly articulate, intelligent, thoughtful person to boot.               Heart and Soul magazine has long, long, long since stopped doing cover-making celebrity interviews. Too bad. Janice R. Littlejohn's Robin Givens article should have won the aforementioned publication a National Magazine Award. Hands down.