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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: Cham tends to pal around more with whom he considers the fun-loving Legionnaires like Triad, Phantom Girl, Bouncing Boy and Matter-Eater Lad but he can also be frequently found in the company of Brainiac 5 and Invisible Kid, especially if there is a mystery or problem going on.
And there's the secret with Cham. He chums around with almost everyone, at different times, as his interests are as chameleonic as his flesh.
When it's mystery-solving time, he's chummy with Vi and Tinya and Lyle. When there's fun to be had, he's hanging out with the 'fun people.'
There are some people he doesn't seem to 'get,' like Projectra, and is rarely seen with.
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quote:Originally posted by Set: Loving MLLASH's profiles.
Thank you Set, I'm enjoying reading yours and everyone else's takes too... this may be the most fun thread in a while for me!
Continuing the Shooter/Bierbaums format...
INVISIBLE KID
Lyle Norg, boy genius. As a child, Lyle would often scandalize and worry his parents with his tinkering around with everyday items and the inventions that resulted, such things as antigrav ice cubes and laser kittens. Still, it didn't take a genius to know that Lyle was quite gifted. The Legion's scientist prior to Brainiac 5's arrival, Lyle was actually relieved when Querl joined the team. Because as incredibly smart as Lyle is, he also likes to have fun, and labwork had grown tiresome for him by his preteens. Lyle is extremely humble about his accomplishments but has grown particularly close to Brainiac 5 through a friendly rivalry. Though Lyle is extremely likeable and affable, there are ways to earn his ire, chief among them being looking upon his powers or scientific abilities as "weak". Though close with many of his teammates, once Lyle was brought in to assist on the case of Condo Arlik, he let many friendships slide to devote the bulk of his time to helping Condo.
Easily dismissable upon first glance as a typical jock, those who know Star Boy better would likely describe him as a "doofus". Very athletic but never brash about it, Star Boy is a good-natured and reliable friend. He's the one who will "have your back". Thom's good nature is what enabled him to forgive his teammates who voted to oust him even after he was cleared of murder by the Science Police. Unfortunately, his laid-back good nature tends to rub some of his more serious-minded teammates the wrong way, and the Legion's unofficial "Good Time Posse" (consisting primarily of Triad, Bouncing Boy and Matter-Eater Lad) wouldn't think someone as 'jocklike' as Thom would hang out with them. These notions tend to limit Thom's relationships with his teammates, so he spends the bulk of his time with his girlfriend.
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Anyone else like to offer their assessment of the personalities of the Legionnaires, or want to lean (AHEM....) heavily on MLLASH for some more awesome reviews)?
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This thread is great. I'm enjoying reading everyone's thoughts so much that I'm skipping my own for now
Lash--love, love, love your personality bios. Some like Tinya's and Gim's, are so simple yet insightful that I smiling at myself for not thinking of them that way before. All the more reason you should be co-writer of the Legion with EDE.
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MON-EL Distant is the word. He has trouble making connections with people, and has yawed between 'trying too hard' and retreating back into the quiet 'observer' mode that he was trapped in for ten centuries. Ten centuries. Forty generations of humans lived and died, and Lar just sat there and watched. He has the unsettling confidence of someone who knows that he's invulnerable, combined with the jaded reactions of someone who has watched a million people live and die, in real time, and has no fear of death whatsoever. He's not in the Zone now, and he *can* stop bad things from happening, and one of the few times he'll show his anger is when someone attempts to hurt someone near him, because, for the first time in a millenium, *he can do something about it.*
Despite being freed from the Zone, he's never felt like he's 'come home' and he will *always* feel disconnected, a 'stranger in a strange land.' His home died a thousand years ago. His home planet has changed in that time, and he feels little connection to it, visiting it rarely. Right now, the Legion is 'home,' and few of his teammates realize exactly how alone he feels, even in the middle of a crowd.
He's the Legion's big gun, and knows it, carrying himself with an almost unconscious air of unshakable confidence. Superboy (or Girl) comes and goes, but Lar is always there. Ultra Boy can mimic some of his power, for brief times, but that barely counts. Wildfire and Star Boy have both had his level of power, but both lost them relatively quickly. Dev-Em once expressed interest in joining the team, and Mon-El flat out lied to him about whether or not he would be welcome, and then misled his teammates about whether or not he was interested!
Mon-El is very comfortable being the Legion's 'big gun,' and, his friendship with Superboy aside, isn't looking for competition... The Legion is his home now, and he's not going to give up his place for anyone.
The only fear he has, the only terror that speaks to him in the night, is returning to the Zone. These are the times when the presence of someone near him, someone he can touch and hold, is the only thing that keeps him sane. Shadow Lass is one of a rare few that he is willing to share these moments of weakness with, and, for all her warrior bluster, she'll never give him reason to regret this trust.
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alrighty i have a bit of time today. I'll do five for now.
The legion when they came together is like that first day in the dorm of an elite college that recruits the cream of the class of the high schools all around the country. In this way its different than all other teen superhero teams who are thrown together by virtue of age family relationships or other circumstances. Because of this coming together, they find themselves in roles and situations where they are not the big fish in their little ponds.
- Rokk is what you'd see as the ideal teenage guy in school. Athletic, well-spoken and handsome he is a complete package. His working class origins on Braal make him work hard to meet the standards of the snootier members of the team and the Legion's governmental/financial contacts who he fears think him beneath their social circle.
- Garth is the country boy. He's also emotional, impulsive and a man of action. Gets on well with Cos because his family worked the land. Of the founding three he's probably the least pretentious and most free of guile. Whereas Rokk and Imra know how to lead through stroking of egos and subtle systems of rewards and manipulations, Garth is very straightforward to a fault giving him much trouble when he's in charge.
- Imra is literally the girl that could be anything when she grows up. She's brainy, even better spoken than Rokk and naturally very pretty. She does lack a bit in physical strength but her willpower is unmatched on the team. She is very emotional but her telepathic training has taught her to keep emotional barriers up. This is a reason she's always been paired with Garth. Having very similar ideas she lets him project emotions to others that she feels. Saturn Girl should also have at least a comfortable middle class background in contrast to the other founders.
- Would have been a leader amongst her peers on Carrg which I see as a sleepy planet, a bit behind the times. This is not because she wanted to (because she's naturally unassuming) its simply because she was so talented and likable her teachers and peers thrust responsibility on her. When she comes to the Legion she finally gets what she wants a place with people so talented she gets to blend in a bit without being front and centre on the stage. A very details oriented person, a great manager of plans but not a leader amongst her team-mates.
- Fun loving and adventurous. Naturally popular amongst boys and girls alike. Her early membership and outgoing personality makes her one of the leaders of legions social groups especially amongst the girls. This status makes her a rival of Imra. Imra and Tinya have had contrasting family backgrounds in every version of the pairing, to emphasize their differences in world views. Her outward personality belies the fact that she has to work to overcome what she sees as challenges, such as living in her mother's shadow in the reboot and cartoon. I would say that Tinya is not as naturally pretty as Saturn Girl but her vanity makes her spend much time in the make up, hair and wardrobe whereas Imra doesn't care.
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I was always a fan of the Introverts Squad -- Ferro Lad, Invisible Kid, Chemical King. They were never part of the inner circle, never the popular person in the room. Their powers were the result of mutations or the self-testing of an experiment, and so didn't especially feel 'heroic'. They might have had friends but the friendships were either the result of amiable competition or due to their being someone others found it was easy to talk with.
That introversion was why each of them felt that they had to go out of the way to prove their worth to the team, and probably contributed to their deaths.
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PHANTOM GIRL Some portrayals play up her aristocratic background, whether her mother was a President or a Queen. In the threeboot, on the other hand, her parents are just average schmoes.
Going with the aristocratic background, she seems to be very much the 'preacher's daughter' who hangs out with the bad boys to give her parents agita. Her people, in general, tend to stay in their home dimension, and she's something of a 'free soul' who explores the greater universe, has joined a team of people in another dimension and is dating someone that her mother might charitably describe as a 'no-account hoodlum.'
And yet this isn't just 'teen rebellion,' because Tinya's kept it up consistently across her portrayals. She actually does want to be a part of the greater universe, an explorer, an adventurer, a woman-of-action. Like Mon-El, Tinya hasn't just come from another planet, she's come from another dimension to be a Legionnaire. Also, like Mon-El, she knows that she's pretty much invulnerable here, and her attitude could be interpreted as oblivious to danger and devil-may-care by a detractor or incredibly brave and selfless to someone who she's pulled out of harms way.
She's left behind a cushy life, one that she finds unutterably boring and mundane, to be a superhero. She's risked her life, time and again, not as some jaded thrillseeker or spoiled princess-playing-at-hero, but because she genuinely loves being a hero and doing the right thing as a person of action, and not just a legislator, like her mother.
She's very much the opposite of a jaded thrillseeker, no matter her background, and can be deeply intuitive, when she wishes to be. It's too easy to look at her wide-eyed enthusiasm and her 'nothing can touch me' powerset and think that she's skating through life without a deep thought in her head, but she comes to the Legion with the purest of intentions, and her actions speak louder than her words.
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She is the Champion of her home world. This is a hereditary role, but one that she has embraced. IN the Adventure era she was a bit more girly, in that she first tried to latch onto Brainiac 5 as a boyfriend and then when that didn't work, set her sights on Mon-el. However, the relationship did develope into a solid one. She sometimes gets annoyed with Mon-el when he become over protective.
In the reboot, Shadow Lass was portrayed as being somewhat xenophobic. In both the reboot and the threeboot, she is much more of a fighter than in the preboot days.
In all eras, Tasmia is very self-confident about her powers and abilities. She is aware of the limitations of her power, but that does not stop her from being the champion that she is.
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Mon-El and Superboy are as far apart as omni-powered guys can be. Mon-El is a lot more like Jor-El than he is Superboy, and that similarity to his father is why Superboy instantly looked up to him as an older brother. Mon-El respects Superboy and admires the way he wears the hero mantle so easily, but it is not something Mon-El is seeking for himself.
Mon-El is a scientist and explorer, not a never ending battle type. That is his heroic nature. A thousand years in the Phantom Zone devoid of intimate human contact or any battles to fight would have driven Superman insane. Mon-El OTOH simply waited for the PZ criminals to lose their mind and found it easy to occupy himself. The solitude didn't bother him that much and he liked being able to watch history unfold to an extent, especially since he was watching it unfold in a way few people had ever seen. What really scares Mon-El about the Phatom Zone is not that being in the Zone bothered him, what scares him is that it didn't bother him enough. He could see himself easily getting lost in there forever.
Mon-El is a traditional hero because at his power level, his sense of duty requires him to be one. He is smart enough to do it and he knows he really has to. Just as he knows that at times he has to lead and set an example. But it's not his first love, no matter how well he does it. It's not what he truly wants to do. If Superboy lost his powers, he would truly feel like he has lost a part of himself. If Mon-El lost his, a part of him would feel liberated. The best part about the powers for him is that he can basically go where ever he wants at the drop of a hat.
Mon-El is not envious of Superboy at all. If there's any Legionaires he would like to be more like it would be Bouncing Boy or ME Lad and their way of immediatley connecting with everyone, or Brainiac 5 for his brilliant scientific mind.
The thing he loves about the Legion is that it provides him with the Adventure and journeys into the unknown that he truly loves. You tell Mon the Legion is going to a planet no one has ever been to before and he is genuinely excited, you tell Mon it's time to go round up some criminals around Metropolis, and he is meh.
If there was some dark hole in the ground, no one wantd to go into, Superboy would volunteer first because it's what heroes do. Mon-El would volunteer first because he wants to know what's in there and be the first one go inside.
Mon-El is fiercely in love with Shadowlass as she is the person he has connected with the most in his life and he knows when/if she is gone, he will likely never connect with anyone again. He feels similarly about the Legion, this is really the only family he has ever had and he knows when it's gone it will likely be the last.
Mon-El doesn't struggle with being detatched, he struggles with remaining attatched.
IF someone tried to stick a name like Valor on Mon-El he would immedaitely tell them no thanks, Columbus or Magellan-El, yes, Valor? No. And if he were the seeder of planets, he would do everything in his power to erase his role in doing it. Mon-El doesn't want attention or to be in the spotlight, to him that sort of thing is a chore.
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quote:Originally posted by Set: . . . Mon-El flat out lied to him about whether or not he would be welcome, and then misled his teammates about whether or not he was interested! [/QB]
. . . is this from an actual story or is it your interpretation of events?
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quote:Originally posted by He Who Wanders: Interesting take on Mon-El, Set, but . . .
quote:Originally posted by Set: . . . Mon-El flat out lied to him about whether or not he would be welcome, and then misled his teammates about whether or not he was interested!
. . . is this from an actual story or is it your interpretation of events? [/QB]
Same issue where Quislet, Polar Boy, Magnetic Kid and Sensor join the team. He runs into Dev-Em saving a chunk of coastline from sinking and Dev-Em says that if they are looking for new recruits, maybe he should sign up and Mon-El, with a fairly sour expression says, 'Maybe that offer isn't open anymore.' or something. (It sounded like Dev-Em already had an open invitation, and wasn't just any old schmoe.) Back at the headquarters, either Cosmic Boy or Element Lad (I don't recall which) noted that the team had run into Dev-Em, and that they really could use someone with his power. Mon-El's sitting with his arms crossed and pipes up saying that 'He's happy where he is.' and the one who asked him made 'Aw, too bad' type noises and Mon-El conceded that he didn't 'try too hard' to recruit him. (As opposed to what really happened, where he actively discouraged someone who asked about joining...)
I thought it was a neat character moment, because it was too easy to see Mon-El as some monolithic figure that never thinks at all, a clone of Superboy or 'the strong, silent type.' The notion that there was something going on under there intrigued me.
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PG, sorry about my absence here... I was writing these at work but that is not an option currently. I'll just do 'em from home now.
Cobie, thanks for that, it made my day. I'd love to see Eryk participate here, he writes AWESOME character bios.
Continuing the Shooter/Bierbaums format...
BRAINIAC 5
Massively, nearly incalcuably intelligent, Brainiac 5 may have in fact moved beyond his last recorded intelligence level of 12. Though seemingly unflappable, Brainy is rather easily prone to mortification, though his "cold, computer mind" actually hides this from his teammates well. When he reached the point that he was comfortable with himself for being the decendant of evil 20th-century villain Brainiac, his invention of the deadly Computo matrix threatened to unravel him. Secret therapy with Saturn Girl helped him deal with the disastrous outcome of creating Computo, and Brainiac 5 trusts only her with the knowledge that he is more emotional than he lets on. A friendship/rivalry with Invisible Kid has unearthed a hidden though very dry sense of humour in Brainiac 5. Though his heart will always belong to the mysteries of science, his finds himself attracted to his intelligent peers such as Dream Girl and Invisible Kid (even though it seems unlikely he would ever admit to these attractions).
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Great job everyone. I'll give Dream Girl a try.
DREAM GIRL - Her powers are as much a burden as a blessing. Frequently her visions of the future are tragic. Sometimes they are vividly detailed. Other times they are fuzzy and hard to inerpret. She probably knows the details of how those she loves most will suffer and die. Most of the time she dares not tell them. The visions sometimes come suddenly while she is awake, but come most clearly while she sleeps. This makes resting difficult. We all know how important rest is for mental health. The visions sometimes pack both a physical and emotional punch causing fainting spells which make her appear weak. Actually she is anything but weak. She withstands these emotional blows much better than most people could.
Nura has developed a fun and flirty personality to balance out the seriousness of weight she carries. She loves to tease the boys and be the center of attention. Brief and fun interludes into the here and now mean a lot to her. She wants to enjoy her time in the present. She isn't nearly as promiscuious as her flirting makes some assume, but she isn't going to care too much what others think or hold back too much if she sees an opportunity she may enjoy.
Nura has also learned the importance of pampereing herself. She loves spas, beauty treatments and the finer things. Again representing her need to get the most out of the present because she knows what the future holds. She feels no guilt and makes no apologies for her indulgances.
She is also quite smart and deeply caring. She challanges herself contstanly. She is always learning and growing. Whether that means dabbling in science, magic, battle strategy or exploring a new freindship. Her complex nature makes it difficult for her to maintain many close friendships, however.
Many think she takes her relationship with Star Boy for granted. She doesn't. He is as simple as she is complex. He loves her unconditionally and she knows it. He is always there. He helps keep her grounded and does so in a way that doesn't further complicate her life. She appreciates that and knows how important it is. Some of the other team members think that Thom would be totally justified in stepping out on her, because of Nura's flirting and high maintenance personality. They think it would serve her right. In actuality, she pretty much agrees with that assessment and would be the last to judge him if he did, and also the first to forgive him. She admires his loyalty and considers herself lucky to have a man like Thom in her life.
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- Rokk is what you'd see as the ideal teenage guy in school. Athletic, well-spoken and handsome he is a complete package. His working class origins on Braal make him work hard to meet the standards of the snootier members of the team and the Legion's governmental/financial contacts who he fears think him beneath their social circle.![[Lightning Lad - Re-Imagined]](graemlins/LightningLad3.gif)
- Garth is the country boy. He's also emotional, impulsive and a man of action. Gets on well with Cos because his family worked the land. Of the founding three he's probably the least pretentious and most free of guile. Whereas Rokk and Imra know how to lead through stroking of egos and subtle systems of rewards and manipulations, Garth is very straightforward to a fault giving him much trouble when he's in charge.![[Saturn Girl - Re-Imagined]](graemlins/SaturnGirl3.gif)
- Imra is literally the girl that could be anything when she grows up. She's brainy, even better spoken than Rokk and naturally very pretty. She does lack a bit in physical strength but her willpower is unmatched on the team. She is very emotional but her telepathic training has taught her to keep emotional barriers up. This is a reason she's always been paired with Garth. Having very similar ideas she lets him project emotions to others that she feels. Saturn Girl should also have at least a comfortable middle class background in contrast to the other founders.![[Triad]](graemlins/Triad.gif)
- Would have been a leader amongst her peers on Carrg which I see as a sleepy planet, a bit behind the times. This is not because she wanted to (because she's naturally unassuming) its simply because she was so talented and likable her teachers and peers thrust responsibility on her. When she comes to the Legion she finally gets what she wants a place with people so talented she gets to blend in a bit without being front and centre on the stage. A very details oriented person, a great manager of plans but not a leader amongst her team-mates.![[Phantom Girl - Re-Imagined]](graemlins/PhantomGirl3.gif)
- Fun loving and adventurous. Naturally popular amongst boys and girls alike. Her early membership and outgoing personality makes her one of the leaders of legions social groups especially amongst the girls. This status makes her a rival of Imra. Imra and Tinya have had contrasting family backgrounds in every version of the pairing, to emphasize their differences in world views. Her outward personality belies the fact that she has to work to overcome what she sees as challenges, such as living in her mother's shadow in the reboot and cartoon. I would say that Tinya is not as naturally pretty as Saturn Girl but her vanity makes her spend much time in the make up, hair and wardrobe whereas Imra doesn't care.
