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ROUND 2 LOCATION: The Louvre in the 31st century; Earth OBJECTIVE: Famous art critics from around the UP have assembled at the Louvre as judges for the Legion's next assignment! Using whatever media they wish to use provided by the museum and local art school-a-trons, all Legionnaires have one-hour to paint/draw/sculpt a self-portrait. The portraits will then be judged by the panel of art critics and first place given to one male and one female, second given to one male & female, and so on & so forth. Ferro is going to be upset he missed this one!
The Female Contenders: Saturn Girl, Apparition, Triad, Spark, Andromeda, Kinetix, Violet, Umbra, Sensor, Kid Quantum II, Thunder, Shikari, and Dreamer.
The Male Contenders: Cosmic Boy, Live Wire, Invisible Kid, Chameleon, Brainiac 5, Star Boy, Gates, Ultra Boy, M'Onel, Karate Kid, Wildfire, Gear, and Timber Wolf.
So, rank the Legion gals and then the Legion guys from who you think can craft the best portrait to who has no artistic talent at all! Round 2 will end a day earlier than usual on Sunday, September 12th.
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Hmm. I can't recall ever seeing any of the characters actually being artistic off the top of my head so I'm just gonna go with who *I* think might be artistically inclined. Starting with the ladies:
01 Kinetix 02 Dreamer 03 Triad 04 Violet 05 Umbra (who would think the whole thing stupid, but do it anyway. And would depict herself kicking arse) 06 Spark 07 Sensor 08 Shikari 09 Apparition 10 Saturn Girl 11 Kid Quantum II 12 Thunder 13 Andromeda
aaand the boys...
01 Invisible Kid 02 Karate Kid 03 Chameleon 04 Star Boy 05 Cosmic Boy 06 M'Onel 07 Live Wire 08 Gear 09 Gates 10 Timber Wolf 11 Wildfire 12 Braniac 5 13 Ultra Boy
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Bevis, thanks for playing! I think half the fun of some of these events is deducing who really does have the skills needed from their background, personality, etc. That and I also want to make sure every challenge isn't just a physical one.
& Gentlemen... 01. Gear 02. Chameleon 03. Karate Kid 04. Star Boy 05. Invisible Kid 06. M'Onel 07. Live Wire 08. Cosmic Boy 09. Gates 10. Brainiac 5 11. Ultra Boy 12. Wildfire 13. Timber Wolf
Thanks to EDE, Miss T, IB, KGZ, & Drake for their participation in round one. Since KGZ didn't modify her list from the initial misconception, I left it as is.
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& Gentlemen... 01. Invisible Kid 02. Chameleon 03. Karate Kid 04. M'Onel 05. Star Boy 06. Cosmic Boy 07. Live Wire 08. Gear 09. Gates 10. Brainiac 5 11. Ultra Boy 12. Wildfire 13. Timber Wolf
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Ladies....(I'll actually try to justify my rankings here:) 01. Violet - still waters run deep and I can imagine her surprising people by the depth of her artistic ability and willingness to be honest. 02. Umbra - dark, moody art always strikes a chord and she's used to having to create shadow-forms 03. Triad - Carggites must have a strong enough sense of self to offer an insightful self-portrait 04. Spark - I imagine the beauty of her farmland home will come shining through in hers. 05. Dreamer - Anyone in touch with their dreams and dream imagery will doubtless come up with something interesting. 06. Apparition - I see her as technically more adept and having a good eye which will give her high standings. 07. Kinetix - she'd do something pretty, but lacking depth 08. Sensor - has some skills because of her powers, but doesn't know her new self enough to give us something interesting 09. Thunder 10. Kid Quantum II 11. Saturn Girl - too emotionally closed off from herself to offer an insightful or interesting portrait 12. Shikari - lack of practice 13. Andromeda - lack of practice and appreciation for the arts.
& Gentlemen... 01. Chameleon - knows himself well and is used to reshaping his own body so scupture would be a natural 02. M'Onel - sould of a wanderer, all those years and wisdom and depth will provide a fascinating portrait 03. Karate Kid - a great martial artist is a great artist - his soul will shine through in almost any action he takes, especially art. 04. Live Wire - same with Ayla 05. Ultra Boy - his rough upbringing coupled with his mellowing and softening with Tinya and Cub have brought depth and honesty to Jo that's been waiting to get out having been unexpressed on Rimbor. 06. Wildfire - angsty art always strikes a chord. 07. Invisible Kid - just cuz he seems good at everything, he'll do well here. 08. Gates - he's a thinker and feels things deeply. He'd be just as expressive in his art.
I see a drop-off starting here with the rest due to lack of experience with art and expressing themselves and their vulnerability in general. The first three being more physical than artistic the latter two, too technical and not self-reflective. 09. Star Boy 10. Cosmic Boy 11. Timber Wolf 12. Brainiac 5 13. Gear
Well, that was interesting. I first thought these ranking would seem kinda random, but I managed to find some justification for the rankings based on what I (think) I know about them (if it turns out one of them has been shown to have artistic ability and I missed it, I might have to re-evaluate before the round is over).
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Drake, I love your explanations! When we have a few less Legionnaires in a few rounds I'll probably try my hand at rationalizing the choices as well. You did an excellent job.
Believe it or not, on the ladies I actually ranked Triad and Andromeda fairly high because I recall them drawing as kids in flashbacks. That doesn't mean they have much talent now, but I'll take that as a nod they potentially could.
For the guys, I went with Gear because of his computer brain probably being able to map out something beautiful, and the rest I figured as being artistic as wanderers, balanced people, etc. I also figure Star Boy (ever the Dungeon & Dragons fan) surely doodled a bit as a kid looking up to such fantasy.
I forgot about how musical/talented Shady traditionally has been, preboot. I may edit my ranking of Umbra to reflect that if I feel real guilty later.
Thanks to Bevis, Vee, and Drake for participating this round. I promise I'll stop interrupting my own game now.
Shikari slips and loses her first place heavily, giving Dreamer the lead...barely. Karate Kid faces lots of competition now. Last minute voting broke the tie among the ladies, so that now WILDFIRE and ANDROMEDA leave us today as the lowest scoring of their gender.
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ROUND 3 LOCATION: Yod University of Colu OBJECTIVE: Whip out your thinking caps, Legionnaires! All contenders are situated in a 31st century classroom in the prostegious Yod University on Colu. They will be competing againt each other in the galaxy's most unusual spelling bee! All members will stay in the game as long as they spell their given word correctly. Misspell it and they're out! The Legionnaire for both genders who stays in the longest, thus spelling all their words correctly, shall win first place!
The Male Contenders: Cosmic Boy, Live Wire, Invisible Kid, Chameleon, Brainiac 5, Star Boy, Gates, Ultra Boy, M'Onel, Karate Kid, Gear, and Timber Wolf.
The Female Contenders: Saturn Girl, Apparition, Triad, Spark, Kinetix, Violet, Umbra, Sensor, Kid Quantum II, Thunder, Shikari, and Dreamer.
ALSO: Something new to the game. It isn't Battle of the Sexes drama without hook-ups, break-ups, and domestic squablles! So this round, pick two numbers between one and twelve. The boy & girl who are ranked at the average of everyone's two seperate numbers will be our surprise new couple! For example: if everyone selects between 4-6 and 7-9, then whichever hero is ranked 5 (for the boys) and 8 (for the girls) will be our couple! No questions asked, even if they're dating someone else! Remember, boys first this round, ladies second. We'll switch next round.
So, rank the Legion guys and then the Legion gals from who you think is a flawless speller to who can't comprehend spelling at all! I'm shortening the rounds by a day, so now Round 3 will end on Thursday, September 16th.
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I'll kick us off, in case my throwing in the new hook-up concept throws anyone off.
The Gents: 01. Brainiac 5 02. Gear 03. Invisible Kid 04. Cosmic Boy 05. Live Wire 06. M'Onel 07. Gates 08. Star Boy 09. Ultra Boy 10. Karate Kid 11. Chameleon 12. Timber Wolf
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Well I think for the boys the top three are probably going to be much the same for everyone so it's gonna be the bottom of the tanle that's going to show the most interest here. Anyhoo...
the boys:
1) Braniac 5 (duh) 2) Invisible Kid 3) Gear 4) Chameleon 5) Gates 6) Karate Kid 7) Cosmic Boy 8) M'onel 9) Star Boy 10) Live Wire 11) Timber Wolf 12 Ultra Jock.. uh... boy
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