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Post by johnreiter902 on Feb 10, 2024 1:29:03 GMT
No need for those "real-world" explanations when super-powered people have an advantage when it comes to aging in comics. This is a demonstrable fact if you look at the JSA and other golden age heroes who have appeared past the golden age on Earth-2 (I'm not counting '90s comics at all). Sure, there's the Ian Karkull radiation keeping them young explanation, but it doesn't cover all the golden agers. Johnny Quick, for example, looked pretty young and spry even in the late 1970s despite being active since 1941. I think the metagene actually retards most effects of aging. Agreed. In fact, it's very possible that Baron Blitzkrieg's powers would actually allow him to slow his ageing process
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Post by redsycorax on Feb 10, 2024 23:19:26 GMT
Okay. I did think having a Baron Blitzkrieg II wanting revenge for the death of his parents could be useful. However, the fact that one of the characters I'm using isn't canonical at the moment could provide BB/ Ernst Reiter with the same motivation.
However, Horned Owl and Midnight Angel are ageing realtime in my stories, as is Usil, who'll appear in one of my upcoming stories.
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Post by redsycorax on Feb 19, 2024 23:56:44 GMT
I love writing this version of the Ace of Blades, too. She's a brilliant pilot and every bit Midnight Angel's equal when it comes to aerial combat. I think I might have Annaliese training at the Leipzig Institute so that she and Rosalie can have a really all out hand to hand fight scene coming up. As I've established, Rosalie/Midnight Angel trained with Wildcat and Black Canary when it came to hand to hand combat, but the air dogfight I've just written gives them both motivation to best one another.
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Post by dans on Feb 21, 2024 16:38:56 GMT
oohh... a cat fight!!!!
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Post by redsycorax on Feb 27, 2024 4:45:31 GMT
Annaliese Baader is what Paula von Gunther would have been like if she'd never reformed- the mortal nemesis of a female warrior. Basically, Midnight Angel and she hate each other's guts.
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Post by dans on Feb 27, 2024 11:23:36 GMT
Annaliese Baader is what Paula von Gunther would have been like if she'd never reformed- the mortal nemesis of a female warrior. Basically, Midnight Angel and she hate each other's guts. I really like your images of the two!
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Post by redsycorax on Mar 8, 2024 3:20:01 GMT
Right. Finished. I was almost sorry to have to end my story the way I did, but Baron Blitzkrieg has escaped from the aerial combat site at the conclusion of this story. However, I've inflicted a major psychological loss on him, which is sufficient to recharge his motivation for revenge. And he knows about his accelerated healing factor and slower ageing already. Essentially, he's now mourning the loss of someone significant to him, enough to wreak vengeance, perhaps more so than merely through bitterness at the downfall of the Third Reich.
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Post by redsycorax on Mar 8, 2024 3:30:55 GMT
I've also provided a Paraguayan sanctuary for Baron Blitzkrieg and Ace of Blades so that there's a sufficient interval of time for the two of them to get up to mischief and subversion (about eight years worth) should anyone else want to use the characters. They're deeply in love with one another, husband and wife, each with mutual respect at each other's intellect and combat prowess. They're quite deadly as a team and would suit a noirish story set in South America from the late forties to the early fifties.
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