Superheroing 101, Thursday, Period 4

[electrocynic]

This week, Electroclash was actually there when the students filed in. Progress! She still didn't look like this was her favourite place in the world to be, but then you shouldn't expect too much of a good thing, anyway.

"Okay, my name's Electroclash," she drawled, once everyone was settled. "I can control machines, and I'm apparently teaching this class on superheroics." Eyeroll. "No one bothered to tell me this was supposed to start last week, so... sorry about that, or something. Anyway, this Kaplan kid – who's my new sidekick for the class as of right now – took some notes about you." She waved a handwavily acquired and horribly modded paper at them, then looked down at it. "Not that it was that much good 'coz I'm only interested in your cape names, and you insisted on giving your civilian ones. But I took the liberty of renaming you!" She smirked at them, smugly, as she retrieved another piece of paper, then called out each of their names in turn, and told them their new aliases. Which were non-negotiable as far as she was concerned, though you were welcome to try.

With a few unnamed people left, Electroclash trailed off. "And then not everyone did IC introductions I got bored reading this thing, so the last few names are to be announced." Actually, there was probably just the one. "Right. The SPA tells me today's topic is costumes and gimmicks. It's pretty simple. I give you a bunch of bright spandex and you design yourselves costumes, which you'll be wearing for the rest of the course." Or not. She was fickle. "Design shit and the Flying Sycophant will get the actual costumes for you for next week. And if you don't have a superpower that gives you an obvious gimmick, you might wanna think about that, too."

She didn't really care, just flopped down into the chair behind the desk, gesturing at a few boxes of fabric nearby. "Well, up and at it, kids, you haven't got all day."

[OCD up, go!]

Comments

Sign In [Heroing 01/12]

[electrocynic]

Heroically!

Re: Sign In [Heroing 01/12]

[hasadestiny]

Lex Luthor

Listen to the lecture [Heroing 01/12]

[electrocynic]

Or boggle at/object to your new capename, which are as follows:

Billy Kaplan – Flying Sycophant
Sam LaCroix – Ghost Hotline
Lex Luthor – Invisihair
Kate Daniels – Magic Slicer
Shane Gooseman – G.I. Blast
Raven – Emotion Taxi
Stephanie Brown – Average Girl
Karla – Magicka
Luke Castellan – Excelsor Jr.
Squall Leonhart – Guardiangifted
Tony Stark – Slightly Less Average Boy
Elphaba Thropp – Flamemover

[And Butters is yet to get one. I think he's the only one, correct me if I'm wrong.]

Re: Listen to the lecture [Heroing 01/12]

[hasadestiny]

And Lex was regretting his quip about his hair last week. Though 'Invisihair' had more of a ring to it than some of the others, albeit the kind of ring you'd get in an advertising jingle.

Re: Listen to the lecture [Heroing 01/12]

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke had no idea who Excelsor was or why he was apparently his son but he wasn't going to complain about it. It could've been worse.

Re: Listen to the lecture [Heroing 01/12]

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

Stephanie stuck her tongue out at her capename. Really, "Average Girl?"

Well, at least it was better than "Mediocre Girl" or "Always-Screws-Things-Up Girl," she guessed . . .

Re: Listen to the lecture [Heroing 01/12]

[withasword.livejournal.com]

As superhero names went... Kate's could've been worse. She could work with it, provided she didn't have to use if after she left this room where everyone was saddled with one.

Some of the others? They earned a smirk.

Re: Listen to the lecture [Heroing 01/12]

[whateverknight.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. A stupid nickname.

Squall shrugged.

Re: Listen to the lecture [Heroing 01/12]

[selfhelphero]

Billy had turned bright red, and was sinking lower and lower in his seat the more she talked, trying to hide until he heard his new nickname and gasped. He'd just been trying to help!

Re: Listen to the lecture [Heroing 01/12]

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

'Flamemover'. Elphaba looked at that one and shrugged. It was a lot better than 'Flying Sycophant'. She was half wondering if she could get away with somehow switching her name with Karla's...

Re: Listen to the lecture [Heroing 01/12]

[trigons_child]

Raven ordinarily would not defy a teacher, but Emotion Taxi? No.

Re: Listen to the lecture [Heroing 01/12]

[notagoose]

Goose figured he could at least work with the name he had been given and really, it could have been worse.

Re: Listen to the lecture [Heroing 01/12]

[necroslacker]

Sam...thought it could have been worse for him so he wasn't gonna object to being called Ghost Hotline. He just hoped no one thought he was a psychic.

Design a costume/Think up a gimmick [Heroing 01/12]

[electrocynic]

There are a couple of boxes of moddable spandex and equally moddable things to decorate with. Try to reflect your superhero persona in your costume if you can.

Or not. Electroclash doesn't care.

Re: Design a costume/Think up a gimmick [Heroing 01/12]

[hasadestiny]

Despite a sudden and unfathomable urge to go for a green and purple spandex look, Lex's design looked remarkably like what he usually wore.

Plus a domino mask. Black, of course.

Re: Design a costume/Think up a gimmick [Heroing 01/12]

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke had worn skirts a'plenty during his whole "Grr look at me, I'm so classically Greek" phase of the war, so wearing spandex didn't seem like that big of a deal. Like he gave a crap what he wore, he was the person that thought those bright orange camp shirts were awesome.

So he grabbed some blue looking fabric and some yellow looking fabric and tried to throw something together that was fairly covering and didn't look like it was designed by someone who had no idea what he was doing. Which he didn't.

Re: Design a costume/Think up a gimmick [Heroing 01/12]

[withasword.livejournal.com]

Spandex. Really? Kate wouldn't argue it was easy to move in, but it... really made you stand out, something she'd usually go out of her way to avoid.

"Why do superhero costumes never include jeans?" That was her ideal.

Re: Design a costume/Think up a gimmick [Heroing 01/12]

[whateverknight.livejournal.com]

Squall shrugged. He went with a mostly-black outfit that had a wide stripe of white from his neck to his waist, with a large red Griever (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Griever) logo on the chest and two red beltlike stripes around the waist.

It looked remarkably like what he was wearing, except it sadly wasn't leather.


After some thought he also added Rinoa's wings (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/97945968/24756776), in red, to the back of the costume.

Re: Design a costume/Think up a gimmick [Heroing 01/12]

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

Elphaba took some time and came up with something that she liked and managed to give her some modicum of modesty.

In the end, it turned out pretty okay (http://i42.tinypic.com/24l9ef6.png).

Re: Design a costume/Think up a gimmick [Heroing 01/12]

[trigons_child]

Raven's outfit was boring. It did not, in fact, look much different from what she arrived to class in. She'd found a long spandex skirt and slit the sides so she could move in it, a black top and opera length gloves, and of course her cloak over it all.

Raven had no pants. Raven needed no pants.

Re: Design a costume/Think up a gimmick [Heroing 01/12]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"...is spandex really necessary?" Look, armor was just a better idea. For everything.

Ever.

Re: Design a costume/Think up a gimmick [Heroing 01/12]

[notagoose]

Goose had considered just going for an all black outfit, similar to what he usually wore. Instead he found military green spandex, blaster holsters and a cowboy hat and so his end result looked very similar to the Galaxy Rangers uniform back home, with the exception that it was made out of spandex .

Talk to the teacher [Heroing 01/12]

[electrocynic]

She's sitting around, and contemplating things like the fact that ordering people around is actually pretty nice.

Re: Talk to the teacher [Heroing 01/12]

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

Once everyone had broken up and started getting to work, Butters realized that his name had not been called, and, thus, he had no superhero name. He figured this wouldn't be a problem if this were supervillain class; he already had one of those, and he could probably think of one for himself, but Miss Electroclash probably wanted to give them ones specifically for the class.

So it was a nervous, finger-tapping Butters who came to find the teacher once everyone started to work. "Er, gee whiz, ma'am, I don't think I got myself a superhero name...."

Talk to the TA [Heroing 01/12]

[electrocynic]

Who did not know he was one until just now, and is now tasked with getting costumes made. Fun!

Re: Talk to the TA [Heroing 01/12]

[selfhelphero]

On one hand, being a TA would look awesome on his transcripts.

On the other hand, oh god, what had he gotten himself into? Maybe if he focused on drawing his own costume (which looked suspiciously like the one he already had), he could calm down a little.

OOC [Heroing 01/12]

[electrocynic]

FIRST. \o/

Most of the time it took to write this went into coming up with stupid superhero names, ngl.

Re: OOC [Heroing 01/12]

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

I'm just gonna link here (http://www.ugo.com/games/superhero-generator-heromachine-2-5) what I used to do Elphie's costume.