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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Chris
AGE: 26
JOURNAL:milennialfalcon
IM / EMAIL: daccodacc / canadia.dayo@gmail.com
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RETURNING: N/A
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Lana Baumgartner
CHARACTER AGE: 17
SERIES: Marvel 1610
CHRONOLOGY: All-New Ultimates #06
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: RNG with housemates, please!
BACKGROUND: Marvel Wiki link
Back around 1997, Lori Baumgartner didn't have many options. She was in Ryker's Island prison after an attempted robbery went south, and some people from Roxxon Industries offered her an out. "Be a part of our new drug trial and you're free," they said. The drug? Their attempt at recreating the supersoldier formula that created Captain America. The result of the trials? Lori got explosive new superpowers and escaped. Oh yeah, and by the way? She was pregnant.
Fifteen years later, Lori and her daughter Lana are blasting their way into bank vaults as a masked duo named the Bombshells. Unfortunately for them, they're stopped on multiple attempts by New York's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, plus his friends the Human Torch and Spider-Woman. Lori is sent back to jail (to a high security SHIELD facility this time), but Lana, being a minor, is given the chance to reform herself. She goes to live with her grandmother and enrolls in Midtown High in Queens (which just so happens to be the same high school where one Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, goes). Peter recognizes Lana not by her face or anything, but by her foul mouth. She swears (hah) him to secrecy; she wants nothing to do with her old life and is genuinely trying to just be a normal girl.
A couple years go by, Peter Parker dies and his dual identity as Spider-Man is revealed to the world. A new Spider-Man arises, a boy named Miles Morales. Roxxon keeps trying to recreate the supersoldier formula, this time experimenting on two teens in comas. At some point, Lana (now living in state-funded housing) starts wearing a costume again, but not to commit crimes-- to stop them. The two (formerly) comatose teens, now calling themselves Cloak and Dagger, go after Lana, now calling herself Bombshell, because they think she's working with Roxxon. While fighting, they blow up the facade of the restaurant where Miles is eating with his dad. Lana escapes, for the moment.
The next day, Miles (as Spider-Man) and Spider-Woman find Lana and offer to help her, but the three of them are caught by a bounty hunter named Taskmaster. Spider-Man and -Woman give Lana the chance to escape, but instead she helps them overpower Taskmaster. The three of them, all having been screwed over by the evil Roxxon at some point in their lives, team up with Cloak and Dagger to take them down. Afterwards, Lana is elated, saying they should totally team up again.
Later, Lana is in trouble with her probation officer because her parole agreement states that she's not allowed to use her powers. She argues that she thinks she's meant to help people, to be a superhero, but it falls on deaf ears, so she tells him to fuck off and storms out. This is about the time that the whole world starts falling apart. A big (and I mean size of New Jersey big) purple guy named Galactus shows up and starts destroying the area in preparation to consume the planet. Lana, of course, just walks down the sidewalk with her headphones on, chewing bubblegum as people run right past her, screaming. It's not until she runs into Sid, her ex, and sees him get crushed by a falling car that she realizes what's going on. She's in shock and terrified, but she decides to put on her Bombshell getup and help. She can't do anything to stop Galactus, but she can help stop the looting and rioting going on.
In the aftermath of Galactus, Captain America is dead, SHIELD and the Ultimates (the Avengers of this universe) are disbanded, and gangs run rampant. The team that took on Roxxon, now calling themselves the New Ultimates, along with former X-Man Kitty Pryde, start to take down the fiercest of the gangs, the Serpent Skulls. The Skulls don't like that one bit, so they decide to go after the New Ultimates. In the middle of a very pleasant beach day with the NU girls, Lana gets a phone call from her boyfriend, Poey, saying he's about to kill himself. Lana hurries over, only to find Poey dead on the floor, thanks to the Skulls. They then give Lana a mind-control drug and use her to lure the New Ultimates together. When she finally breaks free from the mind-control, Lana goes crazy with revenge and ends up burning down the building where the Skulls and the Ultimates are fighting. Needless to say, she could use a break after all that.
PERSONALITY:
Lana is pretty aloof most of the time, not caring about what's going on around her (the world could be literally falling to pieces, people running screaming past her on the street and she'll just walk calmly with her headphones on chewing bubblegum). She was raised by her mother Lori, who before Lana was born was imprisoned at Ryker's Island for armed robbery, and chosen by Roxxon Industries for a genetic experiment. That experiment gave Lori (and the unborn Lana) their powers. Lori wasn't the best role model for Lana, and so she grew up with a life of crime, always being taught to look out for number one. At the time, Lana thought nothing of her villain lifestyle, because she didn't know any different, but once she was 15 and her mother was sent to jail and she went to live with her grandmother and go to high school like a normal girl, she wanted to separate herself from her old lifestyle as much as possible.
More recently, after meeting Cloak, Dagger, Spider-Man, and Spider-Woman, and teaming up with them to take down Roxxon and deal with the insanity that occurred when Galactus showed up, Lana changed her goal from 'ignore my superpowers and be a normal girl' to 'use my powers to help people and be a superhero.' In Lana's words, "I just didn't know what it felt like [...] to do the right thing. I wasn't raised to-- I didn't know." Because of the haphazard way Lori raised her, Lana's sense of right and wrong was so skewed that she never knew how good it could feel to help people, and once she got a taste of it, she wanted more. Really, it's not straying too far from the sort of selfish behavior she showed in the past because while she's helping people and being altruistic, she's doing it because of the way it makes her feel.
Lana's main characteristic is her foul mouth. In the comic, which is marketed to children and can't contain swears, half her dialogue is replaced with @#$!%es or is just "What the swear word is it with you two?!" (actual quote) In fact, Lana's swearing is so bad that it's what clues Peter Parker into her true identity when she starts at his school. It's not known who she got her dirty mouth from, because her mother doesn't swear and there's no father in the picture. It's probably just a product of the rough lifestyle she had as a developing child.
When she was younger, Lana was impulsive, always charging headlong into a fight rather than backing away from one. After she stopped stealing and started going to high school, she began avoiding confrontations in an effort to distance herself from her old life. Now that she's picked up the mantle of Bombshell again, she'll run towards the explosions and fighting rather than away, but we see her making that difficult decision, showing how she's changed as a character in the few years between her old life and now.
We don't know what happens to Lana between when she started at Peter's school and when she shows up in Miles Morales' life, but at some point she started wearing a costume again. I speculate that this is at least in part because when Peter died, everyone found out he was Spider-Man, and Lana saw that the nerdy little guy she knew from school was the same guy who risked his life again and again fighting superpowered criminals. Now, I know Lana never received the "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" speech, but she is starting to figure it out on her own.
POWER:
When Lana was young, she could only use her powers when in close proximity with her mother, but now she can use them on her own.
Lana can shoot projectile energy beams from her hands for explosive effects or shockwaves, both of which emit loud booming sounds. By directing her blast emissions she is capable of short-ranged flight.
Long story short, she has kablooie powers.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[ Lana was no stranger to having files written about her. And she'd heard about alternate universes from Spider-Man, so that part's not freaking her out as much as it could. She doesn't mind the government not only telling her she's allowed to use her powers to help people, but actively encouraging her to to do so. No, what really bothers her, and the reason she picks up the smartphone (once she's found herself some civilian clothes) to make a video call is: ]
Yo, is there, like, any sort of ...grief counseling around here? [ She looks hesitant, but she's forcing herself to ask. ] I mean, place like this, all these heroes running around, there's gotta be some kind of extreme loss ratio or something, right? Like when Galactus hit... [ Except Galactus never hit here. She digresses. ] ...or whatever. Just, uh, let me know, 'kay?
[ And she ends the feed. ]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
You've gotta figure they expect the people they're 'Porting in, against their wills, to have some sort of negative reaction upon arrival, right? So why was everybody freaking out when Lana started immediately blowing up the place? Alarms went off, reinforcements were called in, but really, she hadn't done any real harm, just thrown up a couple distracting explosions so she could go hide in a corner somewhere and have a bit of a freakout.
When the guards finally find her, she's curled up in the corner, tears streaming down her face and ruining her makeup (which you can't even see under her mask, but whatever). She raises her hands in the universal sign for "I surrender," then lets herself be brought to her feet and back over to the debriefing.
Once it's all explained to her, she nods dully and follows their instructions, hopping in the back seat of the car that's supposed to take her to her new housing. In a back corner of her mind, she wonders what sort of government has the technology and power to bring people in from other worlds like this, wonders what was wrong with this world's own heroes that they needed outside help, and wonders where she can get some real clothes. One can only walk around in pink spandex for so long. And besides, her costume is covered in soot from the burning church.
Then she wonders if her friends are okay, and she lets herself cry a little bit more. After all, no one's going to see but the driver, who should be watching the fucking road anyway.
(Or, you could have a test drive sample!)
FINAL NOTES: Lana will be arriving wearing her Bombshell costume. She'll be in a state of obvious distress and shock, having just lost Poey and just broken out from under the control of the Serpent Skull's mind control drug.
NAME: Chris
AGE: 26
JOURNAL:
milennialfalconIM / EMAIL: daccodacc / canadia.dayo@gmail.com
PLURK:
RETURNING: N/A
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Lana Baumgartner
CHARACTER AGE: 17
SERIES: Marvel 1610
CHRONOLOGY: All-New Ultimates #06
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: RNG with housemates, please!
BACKGROUND: Marvel Wiki link
Back around 1997, Lori Baumgartner didn't have many options. She was in Ryker's Island prison after an attempted robbery went south, and some people from Roxxon Industries offered her an out. "Be a part of our new drug trial and you're free," they said. The drug? Their attempt at recreating the supersoldier formula that created Captain America. The result of the trials? Lori got explosive new superpowers and escaped. Oh yeah, and by the way? She was pregnant.
Fifteen years later, Lori and her daughter Lana are blasting their way into bank vaults as a masked duo named the Bombshells. Unfortunately for them, they're stopped on multiple attempts by New York's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, plus his friends the Human Torch and Spider-Woman. Lori is sent back to jail (to a high security SHIELD facility this time), but Lana, being a minor, is given the chance to reform herself. She goes to live with her grandmother and enrolls in Midtown High in Queens (which just so happens to be the same high school where one Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, goes). Peter recognizes Lana not by her face or anything, but by her foul mouth. She swears (hah) him to secrecy; she wants nothing to do with her old life and is genuinely trying to just be a normal girl.
A couple years go by, Peter Parker dies and his dual identity as Spider-Man is revealed to the world. A new Spider-Man arises, a boy named Miles Morales. Roxxon keeps trying to recreate the supersoldier formula, this time experimenting on two teens in comas. At some point, Lana (now living in state-funded housing) starts wearing a costume again, but not to commit crimes-- to stop them. The two (formerly) comatose teens, now calling themselves Cloak and Dagger, go after Lana, now calling herself Bombshell, because they think she's working with Roxxon. While fighting, they blow up the facade of the restaurant where Miles is eating with his dad. Lana escapes, for the moment.
The next day, Miles (as Spider-Man) and Spider-Woman find Lana and offer to help her, but the three of them are caught by a bounty hunter named Taskmaster. Spider-Man and -Woman give Lana the chance to escape, but instead she helps them overpower Taskmaster. The three of them, all having been screwed over by the evil Roxxon at some point in their lives, team up with Cloak and Dagger to take them down. Afterwards, Lana is elated, saying they should totally team up again.
Later, Lana is in trouble with her probation officer because her parole agreement states that she's not allowed to use her powers. She argues that she thinks she's meant to help people, to be a superhero, but it falls on deaf ears, so she tells him to fuck off and storms out. This is about the time that the whole world starts falling apart. A big (and I mean size of New Jersey big) purple guy named Galactus shows up and starts destroying the area in preparation to consume the planet. Lana, of course, just walks down the sidewalk with her headphones on, chewing bubblegum as people run right past her, screaming. It's not until she runs into Sid, her ex, and sees him get crushed by a falling car that she realizes what's going on. She's in shock and terrified, but she decides to put on her Bombshell getup and help. She can't do anything to stop Galactus, but she can help stop the looting and rioting going on.
In the aftermath of Galactus, Captain America is dead, SHIELD and the Ultimates (the Avengers of this universe) are disbanded, and gangs run rampant. The team that took on Roxxon, now calling themselves the New Ultimates, along with former X-Man Kitty Pryde, start to take down the fiercest of the gangs, the Serpent Skulls. The Skulls don't like that one bit, so they decide to go after the New Ultimates. In the middle of a very pleasant beach day with the NU girls, Lana gets a phone call from her boyfriend, Poey, saying he's about to kill himself. Lana hurries over, only to find Poey dead on the floor, thanks to the Skulls. They then give Lana a mind-control drug and use her to lure the New Ultimates together. When she finally breaks free from the mind-control, Lana goes crazy with revenge and ends up burning down the building where the Skulls and the Ultimates are fighting. Needless to say, she could use a break after all that.
PERSONALITY:
Lana is pretty aloof most of the time, not caring about what's going on around her (the world could be literally falling to pieces, people running screaming past her on the street and she'll just walk calmly with her headphones on chewing bubblegum). She was raised by her mother Lori, who before Lana was born was imprisoned at Ryker's Island for armed robbery, and chosen by Roxxon Industries for a genetic experiment. That experiment gave Lori (and the unborn Lana) their powers. Lori wasn't the best role model for Lana, and so she grew up with a life of crime, always being taught to look out for number one. At the time, Lana thought nothing of her villain lifestyle, because she didn't know any different, but once she was 15 and her mother was sent to jail and she went to live with her grandmother and go to high school like a normal girl, she wanted to separate herself from her old lifestyle as much as possible.
More recently, after meeting Cloak, Dagger, Spider-Man, and Spider-Woman, and teaming up with them to take down Roxxon and deal with the insanity that occurred when Galactus showed up, Lana changed her goal from 'ignore my superpowers and be a normal girl' to 'use my powers to help people and be a superhero.' In Lana's words, "I just didn't know what it felt like [...] to do the right thing. I wasn't raised to-- I didn't know." Because of the haphazard way Lori raised her, Lana's sense of right and wrong was so skewed that she never knew how good it could feel to help people, and once she got a taste of it, she wanted more. Really, it's not straying too far from the sort of selfish behavior she showed in the past because while she's helping people and being altruistic, she's doing it because of the way it makes her feel.
Lana's main characteristic is her foul mouth. In the comic, which is marketed to children and can't contain swears, half her dialogue is replaced with @#$!%es or is just "What the swear word is it with you two?!" (actual quote) In fact, Lana's swearing is so bad that it's what clues Peter Parker into her true identity when she starts at his school. It's not known who she got her dirty mouth from, because her mother doesn't swear and there's no father in the picture. It's probably just a product of the rough lifestyle she had as a developing child.
When she was younger, Lana was impulsive, always charging headlong into a fight rather than backing away from one. After she stopped stealing and started going to high school, she began avoiding confrontations in an effort to distance herself from her old life. Now that she's picked up the mantle of Bombshell again, she'll run towards the explosions and fighting rather than away, but we see her making that difficult decision, showing how she's changed as a character in the few years between her old life and now.
We don't know what happens to Lana between when she started at Peter's school and when she shows up in Miles Morales' life, but at some point she started wearing a costume again. I speculate that this is at least in part because when Peter died, everyone found out he was Spider-Man, and Lana saw that the nerdy little guy she knew from school was the same guy who risked his life again and again fighting superpowered criminals. Now, I know Lana never received the "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" speech, but she is starting to figure it out on her own.
POWER:
When Lana was young, she could only use her powers when in close proximity with her mother, but now she can use them on her own.
Lana can shoot projectile energy beams from her hands for explosive effects or shockwaves, both of which emit loud booming sounds. By directing her blast emissions she is capable of short-ranged flight.
Long story short, she has kablooie powers.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[ Lana was no stranger to having files written about her. And she'd heard about alternate universes from Spider-Man, so that part's not freaking her out as much as it could. She doesn't mind the government not only telling her she's allowed to use her powers to help people, but actively encouraging her to to do so. No, what really bothers her, and the reason she picks up the smartphone (once she's found herself some civilian clothes) to make a video call is: ]
Yo, is there, like, any sort of ...grief counseling around here? [ She looks hesitant, but she's forcing herself to ask. ] I mean, place like this, all these heroes running around, there's gotta be some kind of extreme loss ratio or something, right? Like when Galactus hit... [ Except Galactus never hit here. She digresses. ] ...or whatever. Just, uh, let me know, 'kay?
[ And she ends the feed. ]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
You've gotta figure they expect the people they're 'Porting in, against their wills, to have some sort of negative reaction upon arrival, right? So why was everybody freaking out when Lana started immediately blowing up the place? Alarms went off, reinforcements were called in, but really, she hadn't done any real harm, just thrown up a couple distracting explosions so she could go hide in a corner somewhere and have a bit of a freakout.
When the guards finally find her, she's curled up in the corner, tears streaming down her face and ruining her makeup (which you can't even see under her mask, but whatever). She raises her hands in the universal sign for "I surrender," then lets herself be brought to her feet and back over to the debriefing.
Once it's all explained to her, she nods dully and follows their instructions, hopping in the back seat of the car that's supposed to take her to her new housing. In a back corner of her mind, she wonders what sort of government has the technology and power to bring people in from other worlds like this, wonders what was wrong with this world's own heroes that they needed outside help, and wonders where she can get some real clothes. One can only walk around in pink spandex for so long. And besides, her costume is covered in soot from the burning church.
Then she wonders if her friends are okay, and she lets herself cry a little bit more. After all, no one's going to see but the driver, who should be watching the fucking road anyway.
(Or, you could have a test drive sample!)
FINAL NOTES: Lana will be arriving wearing her Bombshell costume. She'll be in a state of obvious distress and shock, having just lost Poey and just broken out from under the control of the Serpent Skull's mind control drug.
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