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Character: Suki
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Age: 15
Canon: Avatar follows the adventures of Aang and his friends in their quest to end the tyrannical, imperialist conquest of the Fire Nation before the summer ends. They have only their magical elemental martial arts powers (“bending”), witty dialog, and colorful cast of mixed-up animals to see them through. They are not without the occasional guest, however.
Suki is the leader of the Kyoshi warriors, a band of women who have practiced the art of fan-fighting for hundreds of years. Theirs is a proud warrior tradition, complete with warpaint and battleskirts, and Suki is quick to prove its worth with her fists, fans, or her sword to chauvinistic naysayers. While doubting her prowess in battle may push her snark buttons, she is an amiable teenage girl, a competant leader, and one who is willing to help those affected by the war.
Note: Suki is being apped from before the events of “Appa's Lost Days.”
Greetings, residents of Si Fu Di. Thank you for the enthusiastic invitation to your humble village. Taking too much time off from my patrol isn't something I can risk for long, but with the Fire Nation armies on the move, even small swampland villages like Si Fu Di are in danger. At the very least, I can offer some tips so you may better defend yourselves. I see you have already established some unique and really weird defenses, but not even snaketrees and trained gorillas can stand up to a Fire Nation raid. You could say that your village has a sense of whimsy, but whimsy won't cut it when the armies arrive. This is serious business. In that case, I would be honored to share a few Kyoshi Warrior techniques with you today.
With that in mind: gorillas, show me your fighting stances!
...Well those are decent, but there are still a lot of holes in your defense-and those holes are made for people like me. If I get inside, can have you flat on your back and seeing stars before you know it-and trust me, when a Fire Nation warrior gets inside your defenses and on your back, it burns. So always be prepared. Bring your arms in and close your legs a little, or you'll just be inviting trouble.
At its most basic, the Kyoshi Warrior style uses the opponent's own strength against them; so your resistance only makes my fighting form grow stronger! Loosen up at the joints and be prepared to move with me, not against me. Now when I throw this punch-
-You grab me and sling me over your back just like that! G-great. You guys learn real quick. Congratulations. Now you're ready to put on a dress and really fight like a girl! I think now's the time to put me down so that I can be on my way back to my fellow Kyoshi warriors. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but please. I'm afraid I can't accept gifts right now, and I already have my own pretty battle dress.
Poll Vote!
Character: Komatsu Nana, also known as "Hachi" or "Hachiko"
Series: Nana (manga)
Character Age: 20, from the point I'm taking her in canon (chapter 24).
Canon: Nana is the story of two girls with nearly opposite personalities and the same first name becoming room mates through FATE and DESTINY. Love, drama, heartache, and plenty of Shoujo Bubbles™ ensue as they go through their lives, together and apart in this sometimes-melodramatic manga. It has everything from hot guys, nearly-lesbians, nude scenes, and Hachi's suspicions of the demonic number 7.
Hachi herself is often compared to a dog (her nickname is taken from a famous dog statue in Japan.) She's obedient to a fault and incredibly innocent. She's a fickle, naïve girl who always searches for her one true love among the many men she falls in love with at first sight, even going as far as to change her hairstyle to suit theirs. She's immature and not that smart; of all the colleges and universities she applied for in the beginning of the series, she wasn't accepted into one, so she just works odd jobs in retail like a video rental clerk or furniture saleswoman. She has a dreamy adorability, though, that makes up for her faults, even if it does make people go "wtf" at her sometimes. Example: Her dreamt-up love rival "Sachiko", who she makes references to without any of her friends knowing who she is. And she's incredibly paranoid about the number seven, thinking she was doomed from the start because of her birth name, which is seven in Japanese. In canon, Nana also assigns ages to people when she talks/thinks about them, like John Smith (23).
Sample Post: Wow, this place totally seems awesome for a college. I didn't even have to send an application in or anything, I was just sent a letter telling me to come! I'll tell you, that raises this place up in my books, even if I did have to raise a lot of money up to pay for the plane trip. This place must be Halloween-themed! A college with themes is a neat idea, don't you think, Student in Zombie Suit (??)? All the costumes are really realistic. I can tell you worked on the… exposed bone make-up. Even if it is really gross-looking. I wonder what kind of guy you are when you're not pretending to want to eat my brains ♥ I have to snatch you before Sachiko transfers here to do it herself!
Oh, but I'm supposed to be working! Right, Salesperson Nana is ready for her-umm… Demonstration of Skills! This is is a business school, right? I'll be showing off three fine, CFUD-made products today: the "Put it In" trash can, a Make Your Own Tentacles Kit, and an Iyaan and the Dame special-edition director's cut two-disc DVD set! … Is this a perverted store or something? Really, I've never seen stuff like this before, seems weird that people'd buy this - ah, are you interested in the Make Your Own Tentacles kit, Gorillasuit-san (??)? What a weird Halloween costume. There's five kinds of dye for the tentacles, including Rick Astley Red and Marcy's Lake Green! And if you buy it now, Lubeo Gloss will be included, guaranteed to give your tentacles the genuinely cheap H-game look! Should you really have that on the back of the box a product you're trying to sell?
Make Your Own Tentacles Kit SOLD to the man or lady in the gorilla suit for twenty dollars! At least, I think that's what five pieces of grass and a fake duck are supposed to be worth here. My first kind-of sale already! This'll be a breeze to get a degree in! Now, where are the dorms and which one's mine-Dog House 707?
I should have known from the start! Why else would the acceptance letter have came in Unmarked White Van 77, my flight here being seven minutes late, me taking exactly seven steps to exit the plane, and this camp being a seven kilometers drive from the airport?! And that took seven minutes! The Demon King must have been horribly offended by my birth name today--!
… I still think the dog house part was really unnecessary, though.
Poll Vote!
Character: Chi
Series:Chobits (manga)
Character Age: Unknown, appears 18
Canon section:
In the near future, there are realistic male and female androids known as 'persocoms'. The plot revolves around Hideki, a poor working student who finds a mysterious, memoryless persocom in the trash and begins to look after her, a task more dangerous then one might think as the persocom (named Chi) might just be one of the legendary chobits- A persocom with a true AI, not reliant on programming. Chobits is a story about human interaction with machines, soul mates, true worth, finding happiness and the nature of love in a plastic-wrapped cover.
Chi is a memoryless persocom found in the trash by the main character Hideki, who she adores. At first she is only capable of saying 'Chi', hence her name, but quickly learns how to talk and begins to socialise with the world, displaying a kind and caring personality as well as a desire to help people. She is mostly cheerful, although prone to moments of quiet introspection when thinking about Hideki, or matters related to love. She is quick to adapt and learn despite having no memories, but she still has little knowledge of what is socially appropriate, leading to some... Awkward situations.
Note: Chi refers to herself in third person almost constantly and also uses 'chi' as an interjection.
Sample Post:
Chi is in a new place. There are trees, and people, and tentacles, but there is no Hideki. This place looks like the place in Hideki's shows, only Chi is the only girl here, and the tentacles are far away. This does not look like where Chi lives, not at all like where Chi lives. There are no big buildings, or roads, and the big trees don't move like that at home. Maybe Chi has been kidnapped again, and this isn't home? Chi must find the way home... Otherwise... Hideki will be sad if Chi is gone, and it will hurt here, inside Chi. It would be very bad. And Chi has to go to work at the bakery with manager Ueda soon! Chi must get home quickly.
First, Chi needs to find where here is, then Chi will find her way home. Home to Hideki. Chi will ask people where 'here' is, and how to go back to Tokyo.
Hello! It is a pleasure to meet you! Where is this?
Brains? Is Brains a place in Tokyo? Brains? chi... Does brains mean yes or no? Chi does not know what brains mean... Is all you can say brains? Chi will call you 'Brain', then. That is how Hideki named Chi. Chi did not know how to talk, either, but Hideki helped Chi learn. Chi will help you learn what things are. Then you can tell Chi what brains are, and what your real name is, and where Chi is. It is very important to know how to talk, so you can make friends. Chi will be friends with you.
Chi is Chi, that is a tree, that is a flower, that is water, that is bad touch, and that is green. It is a pretty green. Who are you?
I know you are Brain, chi... You are still asking for brains? Chi does not have any brains, but you really want brains. Please don't be sad. Chi will help you! We will find some brains, together. Then Chi will find a way home to Hideki. If we go around asking, someone might have brains!
Does anyone have brains?
What is it, Brain? No... Chi is doing it wrong? Oh, Chi knows!
Brrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiins?
Poll Vote!
Character: Layla Williams
Series: Sky High
Age: 15-16. high school freshman!
Canon: Sky High is about a bunch of kids who just started high school. They have to deal with all the normal high school stuff: cliques, bullying, hot senior girls and tough classes. They also have to deal with laser vision, fireballs, and gym class games that end in the death of many innocent 'citizen' dummies, because Sky High isn't just a normal high school. It's a high school for kids with superpowers, or not-so-superpowers, as the case may be. In this school, nerds don't get picked on by jocks--sidekicks get picked on by heroes, and the social ladder is based on how cool your power is.
Layla Williams has known for most of her life that she had a special connection with plants. She can make trees grow, flowers bloom, raep her enemies with vines and bring that under-watered houseplant back from the dead. An environmentally conscious vegetarian raised by a mother who can communicate with animals, Layla isn't afraid to express her beliefs on recycling and animal cruelty to anyone, even one of the greatest superheroes in the world (and her best friend's mom). She's also unafraid to speak out about the unfairness of the hero-sidekick dichotomy, to the point of being grouped with the sidekicks despite her powerful abilities because she refuses to demonstrate them. If only she had been that upfront with her best friend and long-time crush, Will Stronghold, he might have gotten over his fit of obliviousness sooner.
Note: Save the Citizen is a fun-time gym class game wherein the players need to rescue a citizen dummy from Certain Doom before a timer runs down.
Sample Entry: When Coach Boomer said that today's gym class was going to be more intensive than the normal games of Save the Citizen, I didn't think he was going to drop us off in a forest filled with... stuff. Isn't this more like a seniors-only field trip? How am I even supposed to find the citizen all by myself, out in the woo--
Speaking of, what have they been doing to the trees? Poor things, all twisted and sick. And burnt. Was there a forest fire? Accidental fireworks explosion? Supervillain attack? Leather-jacket wearing pyromaniac? At least they're all still alive; that's one up on some of Mom's houseplants.
There, I bet they feel much better now. Principal Powers is going to hear about this. There's no reason that the environment should have to suffer just for hero training. Or sidekick training. Either way, I can't blame the vines for being a little clingy, even if they are kind of literally holding me up a little.
...but there has to be someone I can blame for sick trees and roasting zombies. What did the handbook say about zombies? Oh, right. "Hand a weapon to your hero and let them take care of it." Because that's really helpful right now. Oh well. There's nothing wrong with a little improvisation, even if I didn't mean for those vines to be poison ivy. At least zombies probably can't have histamine reactions, right? If they don't mind being on fire, they probably won't need any calamine lotion. That's an obstacle down, and something glowing up ahead...
Okay, that has to be at least ten health violations right there, so of course that's where the citizen dummy would be. I'm sure it'll be a horrifying death, over the glowing lake with the... enormous... tentacle monster. This is so not sidekick territory. Um, h-hello, enormous tentacle monster thing? Sir? Ma'am? Ah, madam tentacle monster! Would you mind giving me that dummy? Don't worry, it's totally worth your trouble, I'm going to tell my mother about how you're living and she'll come down and address all your grievances, and we'll get you moved to a lake with more hospitable conditions and less toxic wast--ow! These dummies look a lot lighter when the super-strong kids are playing.
But hey, I won, didn't I? I won Save the Citizen, even if she's. Er. Partially digested. Oh well! When life gives you lemons... I can still only make apples. Close enough?
Poll Vote!
Character: Warren Peace
Series: Sky High
Character Age: about 16-17
Canon: Sky High is the story of an aspiring hero and his friends (and enemies) as they face the dangers of a hero/sidekick high school. Which is sort of like any other high school, except the likelihood of property destruction is greatly increased. Like in the classic jock-nerd system, heroes still give the sidekicks swirlies and shove them in lockers. But during a fight in the cafeteria you could wind up facing twenty people who are all the same. Cloning yourself must be a really useful power.
Enter one Warren Peace (lol his parents), the school's badass son of a villain and archenemy of one Will Stronghold, the movie's protagonist. He's cranky, wears leather, sets things on fire, and glares about twice as much as he talks (intimidation is an A++ social skill). You should be terrified. Yes, you. Even if you just happen to see him dispensing relationship advice after school in the Chinese restaurant where he works, or changing deaged baby diapers. I promise they're being done in the most misanthropic manner possible. Really, he is a big scary... fluffball who wants the best for the people around him. Sekritly. Also did I mention the setting things on fire? It makes him grunt a lot. Raaaaugh!
Note: Save the Citizen is a training exercise where heroes save mechanical 'victim' dummies.
Sample Entry: Setting zombies on fire is a mistake, check. Why was that not in my heroing textbook? Radioactive zombies, sure. Zombies with heavy artillery? That they covered. But the fact that decaying barbecue is something to avoid? Not a word. Clearly pyros are an underrepresented minority... we don't even rank being dropped off at training with the rest of the group. Not that I mind being alone, but as orders go, 'track down the citizen' is pretty vague. How? I start fires. I don't pull rabbits out of hats, or tracking skills out of my ass... which is still wet. If this is a 'drowning citizen' exercise, then they're out of luck, I'm not going back into that mess. It's too bad, really. I'm sure they'll lose out on some quality machinery. 'Save me! Saaaaave meeee!' Right. Very realistic.
...okay, that one is sort of realistic. Don't tell me they've started using real citizens again. Not that it wouldn't still be a dummy, to agree to this. But fine, fine, I'll save it anyway. Anything that gets me out of here faster. We're following the screams like a good little hero, yes we are. And then we're torching whoever picked this place as the field training location. Yes we are. What's the next obstacle? Hopefully something that's still alive.
Huh. You're not what I meant by 'alive', but I guess you've still got your roots in the ground. That doesn't mean they're safe from me. I'll turn you to charcoal, so keep your branches where I can see them. That means out of my pants, thanks. I can't see you there, and honestly? I'd have better uses for x-ray vision.
Yeah, 'rapist oak tree' definitely counts as an obstacle, and obstacles mean I'm headed in the right direction, so I'll keep going this way. I think there's a clearing up there, and... great, more water. I guess a toxic lake is a good place to dangle the citizen, but I don't know how much danger she's actually in. Dad said people never actually die from toxic waste, they just get powers that are probably better than ours. Whatever. This is stupid, let's get on with it. Hey there. Yeah, you, with the tentacles, holding my grade point average. You'd make one gigantic house special. No, not--get off the leather--raaaaauuuggghhhhh!
..................roast tentacles, somehow worse than zombies. Got it. I'll make sure they stick all of this in the textbook -- no, screw the textbook. Screw heroing, I bet villains don't have to put up with this. I'm switching sides. Let the heroes flambé the undead, I'm cluing in the people who don't think my homecoming date should be a cephalopod.
And if anyone ever asks me why I dropped out of Sky High, I'll just tell them that this one time, at hero camp...
Poll Vote!
Remember!
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Now VOTE. CLOSED
Character: Suki
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Age: 15
Canon: Avatar follows the adventures of Aang and his friends in their quest to end the tyrannical, imperialist conquest of the Fire Nation before the summer ends. They have only their magical elemental martial arts powers (“bending”), witty dialog, and colorful cast of mixed-up animals to see them through. They are not without the occasional guest, however.
Suki is the leader of the Kyoshi warriors, a band of women who have practiced the art of fan-fighting for hundreds of years. Theirs is a proud warrior tradition, complete with warpaint and battleskirts, and Suki is quick to prove its worth with her fists, fans, or her sword to chauvinistic naysayers. While doubting her prowess in battle may push her snark buttons, she is an amiable teenage girl, a competant leader, and one who is willing to help those affected by the war.
Note: Suki is being apped from before the events of “Appa's Lost Days.”
Greetings, residents of Si Fu Di. Thank you for the enthusiastic invitation to your humble village. Taking too much time off from my patrol isn't something I can risk for long, but with the Fire Nation armies on the move, even small swampland villages like Si Fu Di are in danger. At the very least, I can offer some tips so you may better defend yourselves. I see you have already established some unique and really weird defenses, but not even snaketrees and trained gorillas can stand up to a Fire Nation raid. You could say that your village has a sense of whimsy, but whimsy won't cut it when the armies arrive. This is serious business. In that case, I would be honored to share a few Kyoshi Warrior techniques with you today.
With that in mind: gorillas, show me your fighting stances!
...Well those are decent, but there are still a lot of holes in your defense-and those holes are made for people like me. If I get inside, can have you flat on your back and seeing stars before you know it-and trust me, when a Fire Nation warrior gets inside your defenses and on your back, it burns. So always be prepared. Bring your arms in and close your legs a little, or you'll just be inviting trouble.
At its most basic, the Kyoshi Warrior style uses the opponent's own strength against them; so your resistance only makes my fighting form grow stronger! Loosen up at the joints and be prepared to move with me, not against me. Now when I throw this punch-
-You grab me and sling me over your back just like that! G-great. You guys learn real quick. Congratulations. Now you're ready to put on a dress and really fight like a girl! I think now's the time to put me down so that I can be on my way back to my fellow Kyoshi warriors. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but please. I'm afraid I can't accept gifts right now, and I already have my own pretty battle dress.
Poll Vote!
Character: Komatsu Nana, also known as "Hachi" or "Hachiko"
Series: Nana (manga)
Character Age: 20, from the point I'm taking her in canon (chapter 24).
Canon: Nana is the story of two girls with nearly opposite personalities and the same first name becoming room mates through FATE and DESTINY. Love, drama, heartache, and plenty of Shoujo Bubbles™ ensue as they go through their lives, together and apart in this sometimes-melodramatic manga. It has everything from hot guys, nearly-lesbians, nude scenes, and Hachi's suspicions of the demonic number 7.
Hachi herself is often compared to a dog (her nickname is taken from a famous dog statue in Japan.) She's obedient to a fault and incredibly innocent. She's a fickle, naïve girl who always searches for her one true love among the many men she falls in love with at first sight, even going as far as to change her hairstyle to suit theirs. She's immature and not that smart; of all the colleges and universities she applied for in the beginning of the series, she wasn't accepted into one, so she just works odd jobs in retail like a video rental clerk or furniture saleswoman. She has a dreamy adorability, though, that makes up for her faults, even if it does make people go "wtf" at her sometimes. Example: Her dreamt-up love rival "Sachiko", who she makes references to without any of her friends knowing who she is. And she's incredibly paranoid about the number seven, thinking she was doomed from the start because of her birth name, which is seven in Japanese. In canon, Nana also assigns ages to people when she talks/thinks about them, like John Smith (23).
Sample Post: Wow, this place totally seems awesome for a college. I didn't even have to send an application in or anything, I was just sent a letter telling me to come! I'll tell you, that raises this place up in my books, even if I did have to raise a lot of money up to pay for the plane trip. This place must be Halloween-themed! A college with themes is a neat idea, don't you think, Student in Zombie Suit (??)? All the costumes are really realistic. I can tell you worked on the… exposed bone make-up. Even if it is really gross-looking. I wonder what kind of guy you are when you're not pretending to want to eat my brains ♥ I have to snatch you before Sachiko transfers here to do it herself!
Oh, but I'm supposed to be working! Right, Salesperson Nana is ready for her-umm… Demonstration of Skills! This is is a business school, right? I'll be showing off three fine, CFUD-made products today: the "Put it In" trash can, a Make Your Own Tentacles Kit, and an Iyaan and the Dame special-edition director's cut two-disc DVD set! … Is this a perverted store or something? Really, I've never seen stuff like this before, seems weird that people'd buy this - ah, are you interested in the Make Your Own Tentacles kit, Gorillasuit-san (??)? What a weird Halloween costume. There's five kinds of dye for the tentacles, including Rick Astley Red and Marcy's Lake Green! And if you buy it now, Lubeo Gloss will be included, guaranteed to give your tentacles the genuinely cheap H-game look! Should you really have that on the back of the box a product you're trying to sell?
Make Your Own Tentacles Kit SOLD to the man or lady in the gorilla suit for twenty dollars! At least, I think that's what five pieces of grass and a fake duck are supposed to be worth here. My first kind-of sale already! This'll be a breeze to get a degree in! Now, where are the dorms and which one's mine-Dog House 707?
I should have known from the start! Why else would the acceptance letter have came in Unmarked White Van 77, my flight here being seven minutes late, me taking exactly seven steps to exit the plane, and this camp being a seven kilometers drive from the airport?! And that took seven minutes! The Demon King must have been horribly offended by my birth name today--!
… I still think the dog house part was really unnecessary, though.
Poll Vote!
Character: Chi
Series:Chobits (manga)
Character Age: Unknown, appears 18
Canon section:
In the near future, there are realistic male and female androids known as 'persocoms'. The plot revolves around Hideki, a poor working student who finds a mysterious, memoryless persocom in the trash and begins to look after her, a task more dangerous then one might think as the persocom (named Chi) might just be one of the legendary chobits- A persocom with a true AI, not reliant on programming. Chobits is a story about human interaction with machines, soul mates, true worth, finding happiness and the nature of love in a plastic-wrapped cover.
Chi is a memoryless persocom found in the trash by the main character Hideki, who she adores. At first she is only capable of saying 'Chi', hence her name, but quickly learns how to talk and begins to socialise with the world, displaying a kind and caring personality as well as a desire to help people. She is mostly cheerful, although prone to moments of quiet introspection when thinking about Hideki, or matters related to love. She is quick to adapt and learn despite having no memories, but she still has little knowledge of what is socially appropriate, leading to some... Awkward situations.
Note: Chi refers to herself in third person almost constantly and also uses 'chi' as an interjection.
Sample Post:
Chi is in a new place. There are trees, and people, and tentacles, but there is no Hideki. This place looks like the place in Hideki's shows, only Chi is the only girl here, and the tentacles are far away. This does not look like where Chi lives, not at all like where Chi lives. There are no big buildings, or roads, and the big trees don't move like that at home. Maybe Chi has been kidnapped again, and this isn't home? Chi must find the way home... Otherwise... Hideki will be sad if Chi is gone, and it will hurt here, inside Chi. It would be very bad. And Chi has to go to work at the bakery with manager Ueda soon! Chi must get home quickly.
First, Chi needs to find where here is, then Chi will find her way home. Home to Hideki. Chi will ask people where 'here' is, and how to go back to Tokyo.
Hello! It is a pleasure to meet you! Where is this?
Brains? Is Brains a place in Tokyo? Brains? chi... Does brains mean yes or no? Chi does not know what brains mean... Is all you can say brains? Chi will call you 'Brain', then. That is how Hideki named Chi. Chi did not know how to talk, either, but Hideki helped Chi learn. Chi will help you learn what things are. Then you can tell Chi what brains are, and what your real name is, and where Chi is. It is very important to know how to talk, so you can make friends. Chi will be friends with you.
Chi is Chi, that is a tree, that is a flower, that is water, that is bad touch, and that is green. It is a pretty green. Who are you?
I know you are Brain, chi... You are still asking for brains? Chi does not have any brains, but you really want brains. Please don't be sad. Chi will help you! We will find some brains, together. Then Chi will find a way home to Hideki. If we go around asking, someone might have brains!
Does anyone have brains?
What is it, Brain? No... Chi is doing it wrong? Oh, Chi knows!
Brrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiins?
Poll Vote!
Character: Layla Williams
Series: Sky High
Age: 15-16. high school freshman!
Canon: Sky High is about a bunch of kids who just started high school. They have to deal with all the normal high school stuff: cliques, bullying, hot senior girls and tough classes. They also have to deal with laser vision, fireballs, and gym class games that end in the death of many innocent 'citizen' dummies, because Sky High isn't just a normal high school. It's a high school for kids with superpowers, or not-so-superpowers, as the case may be. In this school, nerds don't get picked on by jocks--sidekicks get picked on by heroes, and the social ladder is based on how cool your power is.
Layla Williams has known for most of her life that she had a special connection with plants. She can make trees grow, flowers bloom, raep her enemies with vines and bring that under-watered houseplant back from the dead. An environmentally conscious vegetarian raised by a mother who can communicate with animals, Layla isn't afraid to express her beliefs on recycling and animal cruelty to anyone, even one of the greatest superheroes in the world (and her best friend's mom). She's also unafraid to speak out about the unfairness of the hero-sidekick dichotomy, to the point of being grouped with the sidekicks despite her powerful abilities because she refuses to demonstrate them. If only she had been that upfront with her best friend and long-time crush, Will Stronghold, he might have gotten over his fit of obliviousness sooner.
Note: Save the Citizen is a fun-time gym class game wherein the players need to rescue a citizen dummy from Certain Doom before a timer runs down.
Sample Entry: When Coach Boomer said that today's gym class was going to be more intensive than the normal games of Save the Citizen, I didn't think he was going to drop us off in a forest filled with... stuff. Isn't this more like a seniors-only field trip? How am I even supposed to find the citizen all by myself, out in the woo--
Speaking of, what have they been doing to the trees? Poor things, all twisted and sick. And burnt. Was there a forest fire? Accidental fireworks explosion? Supervillain attack? Leather-jacket wearing pyromaniac? At least they're all still alive; that's one up on some of Mom's houseplants.
There, I bet they feel much better now. Principal Powers is going to hear about this. There's no reason that the environment should have to suffer just for hero training. Or sidekick training. Either way, I can't blame the vines for being a little clingy, even if they are kind of literally holding me up a little.
...but there has to be someone I can blame for sick trees and roasting zombies. What did the handbook say about zombies? Oh, right. "Hand a weapon to your hero and let them take care of it." Because that's really helpful right now. Oh well. There's nothing wrong with a little improvisation, even if I didn't mean for those vines to be poison ivy. At least zombies probably can't have histamine reactions, right? If they don't mind being on fire, they probably won't need any calamine lotion. That's an obstacle down, and something glowing up ahead...
Okay, that has to be at least ten health violations right there, so of course that's where the citizen dummy would be. I'm sure it'll be a horrifying death, over the glowing lake with the... enormous... tentacle monster. This is so not sidekick territory. Um, h-hello, enormous tentacle monster thing? Sir? Ma'am? Ah, madam tentacle monster! Would you mind giving me that dummy? Don't worry, it's totally worth your trouble, I'm going to tell my mother about how you're living and she'll come down and address all your grievances, and we'll get you moved to a lake with more hospitable conditions and less toxic wast--ow! These dummies look a lot lighter when the super-strong kids are playing.
But hey, I won, didn't I? I won Save the Citizen, even if she's. Er. Partially digested. Oh well! When life gives you lemons... I can still only make apples. Close enough?
Poll Vote!
Character: Warren Peace
Series: Sky High
Character Age: about 16-17
Canon: Sky High is the story of an aspiring hero and his friends (and enemies) as they face the dangers of a hero/sidekick high school. Which is sort of like any other high school, except the likelihood of property destruction is greatly increased. Like in the classic jock-nerd system, heroes still give the sidekicks swirlies and shove them in lockers. But during a fight in the cafeteria you could wind up facing twenty people who are all the same. Cloning yourself must be a really useful power.
Enter one Warren Peace (lol his parents), the school's badass son of a villain and archenemy of one Will Stronghold, the movie's protagonist. He's cranky, wears leather, sets things on fire, and glares about twice as much as he talks (intimidation is an A++ social skill). You should be terrified. Yes, you. Even if you just happen to see him dispensing relationship advice after school in the Chinese restaurant where he works, or changing deaged baby diapers. I promise they're being done in the most misanthropic manner possible. Really, he is a big scary... fluffball who wants the best for the people around him. Sekritly. Also did I mention the setting things on fire? It makes him grunt a lot. Raaaaugh!
Note: Save the Citizen is a training exercise where heroes save mechanical 'victim' dummies.
Sample Entry: Setting zombies on fire is a mistake, check. Why was that not in my heroing textbook? Radioactive zombies, sure. Zombies with heavy artillery? That they covered. But the fact that decaying barbecue is something to avoid? Not a word. Clearly pyros are an underrepresented minority... we don't even rank being dropped off at training with the rest of the group. Not that I mind being alone, but as orders go, 'track down the citizen' is pretty vague. How? I start fires. I don't pull rabbits out of hats, or tracking skills out of my ass... which is still wet. If this is a 'drowning citizen' exercise, then they're out of luck, I'm not going back into that mess. It's too bad, really. I'm sure they'll lose out on some quality machinery. 'Save me! Saaaaave meeee!' Right. Very realistic.
...okay, that one is sort of realistic. Don't tell me they've started using real citizens again. Not that it wouldn't still be a dummy, to agree to this. But fine, fine, I'll save it anyway. Anything that gets me out of here faster. We're following the screams like a good little hero, yes we are. And then we're torching whoever picked this place as the field training location. Yes we are. What's the next obstacle? Hopefully something that's still alive.
Huh. You're not what I meant by 'alive', but I guess you've still got your roots in the ground. That doesn't mean they're safe from me. I'll turn you to charcoal, so keep your branches where I can see them. That means out of my pants, thanks. I can't see you there, and honestly? I'd have better uses for x-ray vision.
Yeah, 'rapist oak tree' definitely counts as an obstacle, and obstacles mean I'm headed in the right direction, so I'll keep going this way. I think there's a clearing up there, and... great, more water. I guess a toxic lake is a good place to dangle the citizen, but I don't know how much danger she's actually in. Dad said people never actually die from toxic waste, they just get powers that are probably better than ours. Whatever. This is stupid, let's get on with it. Hey there. Yeah, you, with the tentacles, holding my grade point average. You'd make one gigantic house special. No, not--get off the leather--raaaaauuuggghhhhh!
..................roast tentacles, somehow worse than zombies. Got it. I'll make sure they stick all of this in the textbook -- no, screw the textbook. Screw heroing, I bet villains don't have to put up with this. I'm switching sides. Let the heroes flambé the undead, I'm cluing in the people who don't think my homecoming date should be a cephalopod.
And if anyone ever asks me why I dropped out of Sky High, I'll just tell them that this one time, at hero camp...
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