Alright! So, I'm honing in a few character ideas, but first I had an RPG etiquette question for the class:

One of my character choices is another player's (inactive) concept. I've sent them a PM about it, but it doesn't appear they've been active on the Guild in a while. How many of y'all would move ahead with the CS anyway, and how many of y'all would wait/move on to a different character? As it is, applying without permission feels a bit like hitting on a buddy's ex-girlfriend to me...

From what I saw, it was only ever an application. So continuity-wise, we'd be square, anyway. This was more a question of courtesy than anything else, really.

... Is it Iron Fist? I have a feeling it's Iron Fist.

It's Nature Boy isn't it?

I'll fight you to the end, my friend. Public domain be damned!

After finally watching Endgame and Captain Marvel...

Round 2 [+]

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L

C A P T A I N M A R V E L

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C O N T I N U I N G C O N C E P T:

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William Joseph "Billy" Batson was born in Fawcett City, Ohio in the year 1929. His parents died during an archaeological expedition to Egypt in the mid-1930s, leaving Billy to be raised by his Uncle Dudley and he started working at the age of eight years in a glass factory in order to bring home what money that he could. Then, in 1938, Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, effectively making child labor illegal. Billy managed to pick up work as a paper boy, though truancy laws coming about at the same time caused him to go to school for the first time. In 1940, shortly before his eleventh birthday, Billy became caught in the middle of a battle between Aelfrye Whitemane and the Skrulls, as the latter struggle crashed down on the planet Earth. The mortally wounded Billy was tended to by the Kymellian sorcerer, resulting in his becoming the empowered hero who emerged in the 1940s.

At first a local hero, the Fawcett Gazette dubbed the anonymous hero Captain Marvel -- though their artist reconstructions were often highly inaccurate, typically portraying Billy as some strange mix of Elvis Presley and Steve Reeves. The name was picked up by the Daily Planet, leading to nation-wide association with the hero. Billy participated in the Second World War in the European Theater, often mistaken for a mere child as he served as both a courier and a secret weapon of the French and Allied Resistance against the Third Reich. During this time, Billy was also a founding member of the Justice Society of America, an organization that he continued to serve until the early 1950s, when McCarthyism black listed him as a Communist sympathizer for his support of his fellow World War II veteran, Wonder Woman (who had made "un-American" statements regarding the use of the atomic bomb in Japan). This ultimately led to Billy leaving the Justice Society when the hero was prohibited by the U.S. Government from providing aid to the Korean Conflict.

Fifteen years passed. He battled against industrial tycoon, Thaddeus Sivana, ushered in the space race, and buried his Uncle Dudley. By the time that Saigon fell and the United States found itself embroiled in the Vietnam War, Captain Marvel had disappeared from both the media and the popular culture. A homeless vagrant, Billy traveled the world searching for answers about who he was supposed to be. The return of the Kymellians in 1975 ushered Billy into an interstellar conflict apart from Earth. Now, he returns to the planet of his birth. A little older, a little wiser, but still possessed with the courage of Billy Batson!

C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S:

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Primarily, Billy's motivation and goals are based in the Intergalactic Axis Powers conflict that formed the backdrop of his Season One story. The Skrulls are proving victorious in a war of attrition that is grinding down resistance in the Andromeda and Golden Galaxies. The Kree and the Shi'ar give no quarter to the other, as countless unsuspencting worlds find themselves caught in the crossfire. Mercenaries hope to profit, scavengers pick over the bodies for scrap, and pirates prey upon the refugees. At the same time, emerging technologies on Earth are going to bring that conflict to Billy's home, causing Billy to have to do the one thing he's been avoiding for the past 44 years -- reconcile with his past.

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

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• Billy's power comes from the Nega-Bands and the Negative Zone, not from the Rock of Eternity.

• The Rock of Eternity is an asteroid base located within the Solar System, similar in construction to Asteroid M. This is a reference to the familiar Captain Marvel mythos, but is not intended to prevent another writer from making later use of the Wizard Shazam or the comic-canon Rock of Eternity.

• As Billy is connected to the Negative Zone, where time passes differently than in our dimension, he does not appear to age. On a practical level, this prevents the cerebral hematoma that he suffered in 1940 from killing him for so long as he continues to wear the Nega-Bands.

• Other characters associated with this Billy concept: Aelfyre Whitemane, Kofi Whitemane, the Smartship Friday, Doctor James Power, Ph.D., and Freddy Freeman.

• Rogue's Gallery: Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Season 1), Mister Atom (Season 1), Captain Nazi (Season 1), Terrax (Season 1), Skratt (Season 2), Noh-Varr (Season 2), Gladiator (Season 2)

S E A S O N O N E S Y N O P S I S:

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Despite dealing a devastating blow to the Skrull armada at Jagga V, the Andromeda Galaxy is an area in which the resistance against the expansion of the Skrull Empire is failing. And threats beyond the Skrull exist, through the fragile alliance of the Kymellians, Galadorians, and the Majesdanians lack the resources with which to address them. Dispatched to Tolmera on a mission to re-establish communications with the people there, Billy encounters the herald of Galactus -- Terrax.

Using the collapsing gravity of a neutron star as a prison, Billy manages to trap Terrax and escapes with the help of Kofi's teleportation magic; however, he finds himself on the far side of the galaxy, crashing on the planet Earth.

P O S T C A T A L O G:

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Issue 1.01: The Battle of Jagga IV
Issue 1.02: A Voice in the Wilderness
Issue 1.03: Sic Transit Billy
Issue 1.04: Terrax the Pants-Less
Issue 1.05: Battle of the Gods
Issue 1.06: No Surrender, No Retreat
Issue 1.07: By Any Means Necessary
Issue 2.01: The Long Fall Down to Earth
Issue 2.02: The Return of Captain Marvel
Issue 2.03: Lieutenant Muldowney

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Coming soon.

So, assuming it's not an individual from one of the two teams that never happened (Runaways and X-Factor), that leaves Hawkeye or Nova. Technically could also be Sentry, but ew. Or Kamala Kahn, but that seems unlikely. My bet is on Nova.

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Settle down there, Monk.