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Wow, that's a lot of Rainbow Girl love. I like the idea that any expansion to her powerset will come with it's own downside and new threats and challenges.

My own funky fanwank with Dori revolves around how her power keeps changing, from being able to create a red aura of heat and fire, a blue aura of cold and ice, a yellow aura of light or a green aura of kryptonite radiation, in one appearance, to emotion control in another appearance, to green lantern powers, in her latest appearance. In my head, she's quantum-entangled with six other rainbow girls, in six alternate universes, all of whom have different 'rainbow' related powers (one is a strong, tough rainbow-bridge-riding descendent of the Greek goddess Iris, another wields a 'rainbow' that shoots arrows of lightning, thunder, wind, fog/clouds, rain, etc), and she not only switches between these seven different persons uncontrollably, but *no one else notices* (with possible exceptions like Dream Girl, whose precognitive powers immunize her to alternate timeline stuff in some way).

Dori herself is aware that her powers (and history) may or may not change to an extent when she wakes up, and has grown used to nobody else remembering that yesterday she was flying around on a rainbow bridge in sandals and a toga, or that it's odd that today she's an Aurakle, like the Outsider Halo.

Thank you, Set.

I'm impressed with your ideas for Rainbow Girl. Should you decide to make a fan fiction of them, I'd like to offer the suggestion that the most natural team-up for your interpretation of Dori would be none other than Retroboot Luornu/Duplicate Damsel. Heck, make it a DC/Marvel crossover and turn it into a bizarre love triangle with Dori, Jamie Madrox, and Lu.

Cast of thousands, indeed!!

I just thought of another story possibility, as a sidebar to the search for Infectious Lass...the search is interrupted when the group of Legionnaires exploring the timestream encounters none other than Douglas Nolan, whose presence in the alternate timeline he was sent to at the end of LSH 300 didn't quite take, and now he's adrift again, with possible consequences for the entire time-space continuum. So, despite some strong disagreement among the group, the "yeas" outweigh the "nays" after it's proposed that they should at least see if maybe he belongs in the prime timeline after all. What this all has been leading to in my mind is that Douglas could be the final piece of the puzzle in Harmonia's quest to create new elementals to form the Wu Xing cycle -- Douglas would be the metal elemental.

I've requested library copies of all the trades from the final phase of the Retroboot, for research purposes.

It'll probably be rough going, but I'm prepared for it. I've got the Pepto-Bismol handy.

And, at the very least, it'll be nice to see how Kevin Maguire draws a semi-traditional-looking Legion in the final issue.

Chinese tradition has five elements, earth, fire, water, metal and wood.

Harmonia, on the other hand, has been shown using air powers, which, IMO, is just a brain-fart on the part of Levitz, who is generally better at researching such things.

So you can go in several directions;

Western - Air (Nightwind), Earth (Stone Boy, Blok), Fire (Fire Lad, Sun Boy, whoever), Water (Lamprey)

Chinese - Fire, Earth, Water, Metal (Ferro), Wood (Chlorophyll Kid?)

Japanese - Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Void (Night Girl? Shadow Lass?)

Or any combination of the above, as it's been 1000 years, and one of the 'traditional' models might have expanded. (And / or be totally irrelevant to the 'natural' model, which manifestly includes a plant elemental of 'The Green' and an animal elemental of 'The Red!')

That's the silver lining of something inconsistent like Harmonia's elemental schtick, is that you can use it to justify using whatever you want.

Aha. Much appreciated, Set. I'll go with the Chinese Elements:

FIRE: Staq Malven (Fire Lad)

EARTH: Dag Wentim (Stone Boy)

METAL: Douglas Nolan (Ferro II)

WOOD: Ral Benem (Chlorophyll Kid)

WATER: Tayla Skott (Lamprey)

I figure Tayla's upgrade to not only an Elemental, but also the heiress apparent to Atlantis, will make her BFF, Berta Haris/Nightwind, who has shown pretentions to a higher status before, quite jealous. And, of course, their friendship will survive in the long run, but the fun is going to be all in the drama during the voyage towards renewing their friendship.

I'm also considering the possibility of giving their mentor, Harmonia, a nemesis. The first idea that went off in my head was that she has an evil sister named Pandemonia.

Too on-the-nose?

Disso Nancy.

I don't get it.

Dissonance, I believe, as another sister for Harmonia.

Eris, the Greek goddess of Discord and Strife (and bestower of the golden apple entitled 'for the fairest' that ended up starting the Trojan War and destroying a nation), daughter of Ares (and sister to Phobos and Deimos, gods of fear and terror), sounds like the sort of person who would consider Harmonia Li, and her so-called 'Planet of the Wise,' to be practically begging for the sort of 'playful pranks' that lead to conflict and misery.

An evil version of Harmonia, Discordia Li, perhaps, might have elemental *uncontrol* powers. Her presence causes tremors and violent windstorms and choppy seas and other weather disruptions, and she's a walking pocket of entropy, causing things to fall apart around her, including directed energy attacks against her. (A laser beam shot at her would decohere into a flash of discordant multicolored light, dazzling, but harmless, for instance. A bullet would take on a random trajectory and veer off, as laws of controlled linear motion take a vacation.) She couldn't control the effect enough to shoot a blast of bad weather at you, since that sort of control is the antithesis of what she does, but she could focus her entropic effect at you directly, and cause your body to spasm and suffer from vertigo and disorientation, adding her own special touch of chaos to the orderly systems of your body.

Thank you, FC and Set.

Discordia sounds good.

OR we could do like Marvel's Frost Clan mutant dynasty and have THREE sisters:

Harmonia, Pandemonia, and Discordia.

I hope Thoth won't be too upset about me once again getting way ahead of him, but I've got my first Retroboot Redux story-arc plotted, cast, outlined, and ready to go!!

I've even got a title:

As per usual for me, the story has already gotten a re-thinking and a new title:



That said, I do have a new rule:

I will not start doing the actual writing of a story until I've got a final, incontestable plot with a beginning, middle, and end, nailed down.

BEHOLD!!

A NEW BEGINNING

Behold!


Another New Beginning!

Retroboot Legion? That's so last week!

"Those 70s Titans" is the latest, greatest hype timeless exercise in loving homage to yesteryear.



See the Titans forum for details (yes, I am one of the Titans forum moderators -- AND?)

Bah! I have my Pulsar Stargrave disco pants! Beware '70's Titans thread!

ROTFLMAO



Who needs disco pants when we've got gorgeous half-dressed, long-haired men like the look Golden Eagle had in the late 70s? All's fair in love (for an idealized past) and war!

(We really should continue this discussion in the Titans forum. No, not because I'm a moderator there, but because we dare not risk the wrath of...On-Topic Angel!)