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Very well, where do I begin?

My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet.

My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.

My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles.

There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking. I highly suggest you try it.

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Here's a better question...

Why in the hell was Lana Lang ever a villain called The Insect Queen? And what series of drugs led to that decision?

Because I want some of that shit.
(Which is why if there's ever an Amalgam game made, I'm gonna shoot for Batman/Daredevil. Because goddammit, I will never let the idea of a Batman who has actual echolocation go.)
Amalgamations are a tricky one. Personally, I don't have as much of an issue if it's something like Green Lantern or Dr. Fate; when the powers are tied to an object, who's to say that a Marvel character wouldn't find it before a DC character or vice versa? But I always try to keep it in the realm of "which characters run in the same circles?" Carol Danvers is a perfect Lantern, IMO, because she's already so tied to space. Many of her allies and enemies transfer over. But something like Matt Murdock GL? It's trickier.


I can see the potential with Daredevil and GL based on the nature of his powers mixed with it's power. Part of what makes Kyle Rayner a great GL is because he has a grand visual mind, leading to amazing constructs. How does a blind man take that and make it a strength, especially when his senses largely rely on nothing that exists in the vacuum of space? It's a story that feels worth telling, despite the contrast.

But let's take another amalgamation: Batman and Iron Man. Both are rich orphans who use technology to fight crime. One is a deadly serious obsessive, the other is a good natured narcissist. And combined, it's... boring. You either get Batman in an iron suit or Iron Man with a bat motif and little else to really work with. Maybe a few fun rogues gallery mash-ups, but with Batman's trouncing Iron Man's, that just seems dumb after a certain point.

My point is, you've got to think of it thematically, too. You've got to value what stories can actually be told and be excited for them, otherwise it's just a gimmick.
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Gotcha. Can the backstory – in that Ollie and Dinah were on the Island together – remain unchanged, but the actual sheet only be a Green Arrow one, for the sake of my concept? It all kinda hinges on that premise.


That's fine with me. If the CW's Arrow can retroactively shoehorn a version of Black Canary into Ollie's island misadventures, you can get by with it without much incident.
Nope. Sorry. No take-backsies.
WIP. Just have a sample left to write. I know that this technically breaches the one character rule, but given that these two's stories are so closely entwined, I hope that it isn't too big of one.



I can approve you for Green Arrow once you have the sample done, but Dinah's gonna have to remain firmly in the supporting character status. Which means that in the same way I can't technically stop anyone from submitting an Oracle CS, I can at least say that she's vital to my stories and advise against the person trying to pick her up. You'd have to do the same, essentially.

And as far as Bounce's Green Lantern app goes...



As for whether or not to apply for a GL alongside Bounce, that is now his decision, since he represents the Corps in-game. PM him if you want to sling a ring.
I think I liked it for a limited series, but there was a lot of things that just didn’t sit right for me. Bruce’s deductive ability seemed to be downplayed for plot convenience, though I did like how the writer framed the “two Harley’s” concept from start to finish. I think it'd make a decent animated film adaption if it got the proper treatment.


I agree that Bruce's characterization was a bit weird, but I took that as him being unhinged for this particular story. Murphy really wanted to go for the idea of painting Batman as the villain in a Joker POV story, and sometimes that worked, sometimes... not so much. That's always a tough line to straddle, because on one hand, you have The Dark Knight Returns. And on the other hand, you have The Dark Knight Strikes Again.

The two Harleys thing was definitely an element I thoroughly enjoyed, just because I've been so sickened by the way Harley's been portrayed ever since The New 52 between either being an outright unrepentant murderer like Joker himself, or a self-aware loudmouth that wants to be Deadpool. Dini and Timm's Harley felt like an entirely separate character, by contrast, and I liked that Murphy built in an awareness of that.
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Would writing for Deathstroke as a sort of True Neutral anti-hero character work for this roleplay? I've been replaying Arkham Origins (unfortunately on the inferior PC-port) and I'd like to eventually do some sort of similar setup to the 'multiple assassins hunt Batman over the course of a night' angle of that game, which works very well with a younger, new comer Batman.


If the intent is to start killing good guys, you might want to dial it back a little. At least at first. That's dangerously close to a PC villain if the stated intent is to hunt down a known superhero, even if my guy is a vigilante that the public fears. Maybe play around with Slade wanting to dabble in heroism a bit? There's certainly precedence for that with characters like Deadshot and Black Adam, who went down the path of the light for a brief spell.
Ah, yes. Thank you for reminding me that with the IC thread up, the 24 contesting period for apps is over.







I didn't like it at first, but it really grew on me as an alternate reality story. I'd never want it to be canonized, but I appreciate the idea of a story that directly tackles Batman as a legitimate problem in Gotham while still keeping him as a vigilante instead of making him an outright supervillain or something. And I liked what was done with Napier, all things considered.
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