fandomhigh | Superheroing 101, Thursday, Period 4

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!]

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Heroically!

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.]

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.

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

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

FIRST. \o/

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

Lex Luthor

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.

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.

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Luke Castellan

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.

Butters Stotch

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.

Stephanie Brown

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 . . .

"Can't go wrong with a classic domino mask," Electroclash commented. Lazily, but look! She was actually paying attention to her students! "Looking good there, Invisihair."

A beat, then, "Oh would you look at that, your hair actually is invisible!"

Sensitive, she was not.

That's okay, it just meant Lex felt completely justified in seeing how long he could keep her thinking he actually had invisible hair as opposed to none whatsoever. "Ever since I was nine."

What, it's not like he was going to end up a supervillain because of it or anything.

"Any significance to the colours?" Electroclash wondered as she surveyed their work. What, she wasn't interested, it kept her from getting bored. "Actual Excelsor's costume is white and gold because he's a ponce."

Oh, Lex, don't count too hard on her not asking to touch your head. She was so the type to do it.

"Mmhmm," she replied. "And how's that power going for ya?"

Lex would cross that bridge when he came to it, but he was already thinking of possible reasons why she shouldn't. ~~The Justice League were going to be so grateful for her getting him into the habit of trying to out-think superheroes, really they were.~~

"Aesthetically, mostly."

Kate Daniels

"But not much with heroing?" Electroclash checked. "Well, that's okay, kid, you can always be a sidekick."

Or a villain. Bald was kind of a villain thing, wasn't it?

"I'm actually planning on using my mind to be a hero, not my hair." If there was one thing Warrior Angel comics taught him, it was that you didn't need hair to be a hero.

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.

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.

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