[OOC] To be or not to be (Heroes)

[c3p-0h]

ok i will be less dead either late tomorrow or monday. look forward to it!

[StarBoi]

Yay for being less dead. I'll be looking forward to ur post whenever ur ready:)

[c3p-0h]

badaboom. post.

so i'm thinking lexa and jack are eventually gonna need some kinda motivation later on to not horribly murder each other (besides falling in love or whatever) and it's gonna need to come down to having a common enemy i figure. lexa's backstory is pretty vague, so i have plenty of wiggle room to make things work however i need them to. so how about lexa's powers are somehow tied to whatever group messed up jack and the crew? either they gave them to her or she had them prior and they used her genes as a base to alter the others. she's younger than the program, but i figure they coulda already been messing up kids in different ways before she came along.

thoughts? ideas?

[StarBoi]

I like that idea! My only thoughts are how does that involve them totally not killing each other? also u doubt they'd ever fall in love but I'm sure they'd care for each other at some point. Jack isn't a total ass hole and Lexa I know cares deeply for people maybe even murderers with a cause.

In any case I'm trying right now to contribute to the idea pool it'll just take a moment to figure something out....

Holy shit it just came to me. What if they end up being related??

[StarBoi]

Or is is that too cliche?

[c3p-0h]

idk it's like something to bond over? they messed with both of us let's kick their ass? you are useful to me and we both want these people gone so i guess i won't kill you yet giving us time to form a strong, complex bond? but yeah i get what you mean that they both already have potential to really care for each other. i totally dig the idea of them being siblings! don't be so hard on yourself your ideas are rad! ^.^

ok ok so they be siblings. big bro and little sis. jack's first interaction with his long lost little sister was to find her hot and hit on her. nice. well actually, it was to try and kill her lol.

ok so here's my idea for lexa's backstory: jack was taken as an infant, right? so how about for one reason or another they snagged his mother, too. they tortured and ran experiments on people as evil organizations do, permanently screwing up jack's psyche in an attempt to make him a killer or give him powers or whatever. while they were doing that, they were also running tests on momma, as well as maybe other women to see if giving powers to a developing embryo was more effective than inducing a change in children.

(this likely means that lexa and jack are half siblings since the scientists weren't super concerned about who fertilized what eggs as long as there were results. i'm p sure lexa doesn't know the parents she grew up with aren't her birth parents, and her backstory hints that she grew up in a french-vietnamese household. so she's likely some sort of mixed-race to look like she at least plausibly came from her parents. idk tho, east asian/white kids rarely look like either parents. i know from experience, lol. she'd probably kinda look like her little brother though, who was the parents' birth child)

so something finally stuck when lexa came around and she was the first live subject to be born with powers. scientists were super stoked. then they used her genes as the basis to give everyone else their powers. somehow someone got baby lexa out her parents adopted her, and all the shit went down back at the lab with the other kids and jack.

how does that all sound? feel free to suggest alterations.

[StarBoi]

So she wasn't tortured at all? But her mum was. And jack and the card gang were tortured for a long time. Jack was for 16 years, obviously not too heinously or else he'd be dead. But enough to damage his psyche a bit. In any case I wonder who it was that rescued Lexa

[c3p-0h]

i mean they probably did plenty of shitty things to her but she was a baby. you can only get so rough with a baby. but yeah she doesn't remember it because she was so young. it probably had some unknown psychological effects on her though. loud noises, white coats, and needles might set her off.

finding out this other person working against the scientists and rescuing babies can be part of the mystery lol! but does all of this sound ok? anything to add?

[StarBoi]

I don't rly have anything to add. I like the idea that you've come up with a lot. n_n I'll post as soon as possible

[StarBoi]

sorry it's not very long.

[c3p-0h]

Cool post! I'm at work so I'll post either during my break or when I get home.

[StarBoi]

Thx! Can't wait

[c3p-0h]

i have no excuse for this post.

[StarBoi]

O.O
Beautiful and yet so terrifying. You're amazing.

[StarBoi]

yessss we made it to page two!!

[c3p-0h]

Nice! Also I was trying to imply this in the post but idk how clear I made it – the visions and sights lexa had were a result of 9's power, but the pain she felt was memories of her own trauma when she was a baby dredged up again. All that fear and pain and self preservation hit her like a freight train and she needed the person who hurt her to not be able to hurt her anymore. She didn't go through as much shit as the others, but it was still pretty traumatizing for a baby. She was freed when she was two I think.

I work for 11 hours today so a post might take a while lol

[StarBoi]

Ohhh ok. So should I edit my post?

BTW take ur time on a post, I understand the importance of life things. Thanks for the heads up tho. Hope ur having a good day

[c3p-0h]

No no, your post is fine. Jack wouldn't know those things. I've got a post like half written so I might finish it on my lunch break. My day is ok lol. How's yours?

[StarBoi]

Good. I just finish sewing up a cosplay. I've never sewn much in my whole life so it looks pretty funky. Lol but everything is dandy. Watched spirited away and howls moving castle while I worked on it.

[c3p-0h]

Oooooh what character?