#sidestep: Maryam Qadir

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Made a mock album cover for @fallenhero-rebirth Character Playlist for my Sidestep, Maryam Qadir, depicting her old Sidestep persona and her new villan persona, Revenant.

Either Die a Hero

•"A Little Death" by The Neighborhood

•"Enter Sandman " by Metallica

• "Forgiver I Am Not Yours" by Feminasgûl

•"Harder to Breath" by Maroon 5

•"I Am A Revenant" by The Distillers

•"I Whisper In the Ear of the Dead " by Nile

•"Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones

•"Secret Face" by Death

•"We Will Rise" by Arch Enemy

•"Zombie" by The Cranberries

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Gave my Sidestep, Maryam Qadir, the villain name Revenant, because it's a resurrected corpse that haunts and causes problems for the living. Seemed fitting considering Sidestep was technically considered dead, and Maryam is definitely causing problems as an anarchist.

What is a villain without a proper name?

Hero and villain names convey a lot about who they are, what their goals can be, what their powers are like.

A difficult decision, what is the name of your sidestep?

if you let the public decide please look for the related poll that will be reblogged/attached to this poll.

For those with multiple sidesteps please pick your 'main' sidestep or your favorite sidestep for the purpose of this poll - but feel free to tell us about the rest in the tags/replies!

Sidestep and Heartbreak have been included as the most common unique names because they have special dialogue tags.

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The Happy Sidesteppy project featuring 63 Sidesteps enjoying a nice weekend. This is my present and love song to Fallen Hero: Rebirth, it's fans and it's author.

(Also, my tiny computer and me weren’t smart enough to add sound to it so everyone has to be their own DJ with this. Textures from Pixabay site.). Under the cut are all the Sidesteps with the creators.

@fallenhero-rebirth - Fallen Hero: Rebirth and Ricardo Ortega

@naddaya - Riley Becker @blanketempress - Daze Becker @unitbravo   - Insoo Choi @mauvemacabre - Finnegan Winfield @spell-struck  - Minerva Wolfram @meiralitch - Eril Worgan @echoise - Keith Kwon @asra-memelord - Lupe Costa remy - Aidan Basri @sanguinemori - Magnus Brown @sodaboitellem  - Ezenaiah Still @prepareforfeels - Cyrus Castillo @inquizzie - Eden Gray @not-today-solas - Eugene Young @acuriouscorvid - Ves Vallenhaus @shiftyarchfey - Aiden Terrell @smuteczekbiczo - Jed Hayes @auroriane - Leighcya Saldena @jpriest85-blog - Maryam Qadir @shinyhaunt3r - Kalaziel Vi @tinta--branca - Leandro Acosta @lukeskywalkersbutt - Teigue Brennon @gayromansionis - Eckhart Baines @rockboci - Logan Gray (Twig) @awkward-screeching - Chris Basri @seph-scribbles - Keiran Basri @themostmagnificentgoatee - Angelina Marshall @cisbasher - Brin Basri @scarysticks - Cassandra Bayne @depressed-sock - Kiyo Basri @ratastrofiend - Marco Amato @thunderingstorms - Dimitri Sol @wardenchampion - Cassandra Basri @sangiin21 - Jane Morrigan @saturnsage - Jie-Sun Park Independent unknown Sidestep @sulkcubus - Clover Beckett @bittersweetale - Brandi Yeo @technologicalnoiz - Cyrus Burke @silajis - Seihoon Sin @panicfast - Nora Berry @wolfmarrow - Ira Lloyd @softproko - Kara Emerson @nln4 - Mikoto Uehara @o0seapancake0o  - Aiko Lee @butterymiststake - Cam Velasquez @kissingagrumpygiant - Ana Basri @pmk-n - Caleb Black @czokokokospoko - Su Vega @tristatt - Victor Swarovski @kruk-art - Awan Cormac @cacticouture - Alex Hart @phoenix-wulf - Ashlyn Kenee @croc-in-crocs - Luka Silver barelydwarven aka me - Lyuba Voronina @cheion-writes - Lovelle Aw @padparadscha-stells - Stell Sutherland @mademoisellegush - Solana Birchwood @barakoodra - Morgan Rivera @ladyshivs - Lydia Becerra uuu965 - Cyrus Brennan @hullomynameistrash - Ronin Basri @caprithebunny - Carrie Bessari

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Some @fallenhero-rebirth art of Los Diablos elusive Queen of the criminal Underworld, Hollow Ground, Nocturne and Jake.

It's funny how much HG and Sidestep can potentially mirror and contrast each other. Not just physically with the uncanny resemblance. My own Sidestep, Maryam Qadir, is an anarchist villain who wants to reveal the truth and has a complicated relationship with both Ortega and Dr. Mortum. HG, meanwhile, is a feared mob boss who prefers her privacy, and while running her criminal empire can be challenging, she still manages to have a loving and functional open poly relationship with Nocturne and Jake.

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Some more Fallen Hero art of my Sidestep Maryam Qadir posing in photos with friends both in her Sidestep days and in the present as her puppet John Doe.

The Outsider scar is a hell of a thing because as much as Maryam hated her past self for being so naive as to believe she could have her own life and relationships with people. She's still trying to connect with people, even if it's only through her puppet. Befriended Rosie and even daring to date Dr. Mortum as John, it's still repeating the same bad habits lying and keeping secrets from people she cares about instead of a costume and mask she's using a coma patents body.

Doesn't matter that her feelings for Dr.Mortum were genuine, or if she was more honest with her than she ever was with Ortega, the relationship was still founded on false pretense. Maryam isn't even sure she could keep lying due to guilt, even if she is a villain now. She thought she could keep her crush on Ricardo quite for nearly a decade, but she still visited and even kissed him at the hospital after beating him as Revenant.

Dammit Maryam you were supposed to be smarter than this!!

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My sidestep Maryam Qadir based on @unitedrussia template.

Going to include a close up of her in game stats for accuracy.

aint no rest for the wicked

(here’s the psd template for yall’s sadsteps, no need to credit me lads)

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Been playing Fallen Hero Retribution and basically freaking out about it with my online friends in Discord. It's been inspiring me again, so I've made some art of my Anarchist Sidestep, Maryam Qadir aka Revenant, and my talented friend @puggart Hero Hunter Carter Krane aka Mastermind, posing as a villainous power couple.

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Carter telepathically communicating: Why? I'm not damaged enough to require fixing?

Maryam, while bandaging Carter's injury: Because you are hurting (gives Carter peck on cheek to help him feel better), and I want to make it hurt less.

(Maryam smiles up at Carter while he blushes in confusion but starts smiling back)

Some more @fallenhero-rebirth fan art of my Sidestep Maryam Qadir and my talented friend @puggart Sidestep Carter Krane. Some concept doodles of the two of them back when they were wee baby Farm Cukoos on assignment together.

Considering Maryam has such high empathy, it makes her useful for gathering Intel and blending in with other people to mimic them. The downside is that she also feels when others are hurting. Sure, Carter was injured, but it wasn’t badly enough to trigger his pain gate or require replacing limbs or organs. As long as the mission was successful and he's not bleeding enough to leave behind evidence or a trail, the Handlers don't care.

Still, Maryam can't ignore that Carter is in pain. So she mimics something she saw a couple of kids on the playground do when someone got hurt. Bandage the wound and kiss it better. Such an innocent little gesture ment for comfort it's a shame she gets pushed so severely for the act.

It's dangerous for Cukoos to learn compassion. Can't have them thinking they're people or risk getting attached to each other.

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It's been awhile but I see that the @fallenhero-rebirth Fandom has been active again recently. So I've decided to post a fashionable picture of my Sidestep Maryam Qadir wearing a black leather jacket and sweater.

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Was playing around on Hero Forge while I was bored and finally came up with a villainous armor design I liked for my Sidestep, Maryam Qadir. So I took screenshots of Maryam in her Reverant armor both with and without the helmet, and even included a version of younger Maryam in her Sidestep costume.

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Some more Fallen Hero art this time I finally got around to drawing my Sidestep, Maryam Qadir, in her full body hero costume. I used images of Gwen Stacy for both the action pose reference and to help with the costume insperation.

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Fallen Hero fan art of various hair styles my Sidestep, Maryam Qadir, tried throughout the years.

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A little Fallen Hero fancomic staring @ratastrofiend Sidestep Jace Paris and my Sidestep, Maryam Qadir. Based on a screen shot from Srubs. Hope this cheers you up rat get well soon.

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Some more Fallen Hero art featuring my Sidestep Maryam Qadir as both her civilian and villanious persona. As well as Hollow Ground with their crew Jake and Nocturne.

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Been seeing a lot of monster Sidestep's in the Fallen Hero tag. A bit late for Halloween but finally finished a Gorgon Maryam Qadir, both with and without sunglasses.

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Something a bit darker based the Heartbreak incident flashbacks from Fallen Hero: Rebirth. Featuring a younger version of my Sidestep, Maryam Qadir, and her nightmarish encounter with the unstable telepath Heartbreak.