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Beware the Doctor
16 years ago
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I've been thinking of some things with my super hero version of Radar (and for those who comment or ask, any pic of him with the goggles over his eyes is the super hero universe version. I will and have commissioned versions of him that are more of a normal world version.) and I've come to a decision. I've spoken and dealt with some other furs like Train (who's here on fa under the same name) and Mojorover (fa username again) and I've noticed that most of the one's I've spoken with tend to put their super furs under a more golden or silver age of comics type of atmosphere. As for Dr. Nefar, he fits more under a darker image. Closer to some of the more modern comics, or a world like Watchmen, some of the more darker Batman comics, The Boys, or even Sin City. He resides in a world with shadey cops, rapists, and murderers, a world filled with visible sex and violence, where even the most upstanding hero isn't all he or she appears to be to the public. His world isn't the one of the Saturday Morning Spider-man cartoon. His main enemies try to kill him and his own past is cluttered with death. It's a very Noir setting.
Why I brought that up is that because of all this, I've been considering moving him away from the brightly colored atmosphere of the likes of Lady Liberty and the like, and moving him more into the shadows and the darkness that his world resides. This is something I'd love to speak with people about, hear inputs and basically talk about with people. And if anyone wishes to rp this, or hell, even start a group revolving around this, that's merely an added bonus. All I want to really do is expand on the mythos around him.
To better visualise him, he's a broken man with nothing really to lose. The movie Law Abiding Citizen seems to reflect on him quite well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX6kVRsdXW4 for the trailor. Heck, even Jigsaw himself is very similar to Dr. Nefar, or Ozymandias from Watchmen.
To put Dr. Nefar simply, he's a mortal man who saw the corruption and evil around him after he lost everything, and in a twisted cycle, thought he got it all back only to lose it again, then gets another chance at a semblance of a normal live, only to lose it all because of his own actions. He's a devil of his own making. He started out as a murderous vigilante, along the lines of Rorschach or the Punisher, who started to get corrupted by the own evils he was destroying. He started to decend into his own madness and see that the possible cure for all this was to remake the world, to literally take over. At the last minute, he backed out, and tried for a final attempt at a normal life. When this failed, he falls further than he ever has before.
I'm walking a thin line with him here. Make his mind crack and splinter into two personalities after he loses his friends that he had just made because of his paranoia and secret files and then realise that most of his former colleages and even his beloved mentor, a father figure for this man without anyone not even a family, turn towards the dark side and had become villians. Or, send him down the dark road himself after all of this happens, and have him succumb to his desires to save the world and his paranoia. The biggest plan ever enacted by the only one who could pull it off. The complete kidnapping of super power furs from around the world. He would attempt to remove the powers of those he felt did nothing wrong to him, to help them live a normal life, and some who stoke the fire that is his anger would be killed without thought. That is the price to pay should Dr. Nefar become a villian.
Why I brought that up is that because of all this, I've been considering moving him away from the brightly colored atmosphere of the likes of Lady Liberty and the like, and moving him more into the shadows and the darkness that his world resides. This is something I'd love to speak with people about, hear inputs and basically talk about with people. And if anyone wishes to rp this, or hell, even start a group revolving around this, that's merely an added bonus. All I want to really do is expand on the mythos around him.
To better visualise him, he's a broken man with nothing really to lose. The movie Law Abiding Citizen seems to reflect on him quite well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX6kVRsdXW4 for the trailor. Heck, even Jigsaw himself is very similar to Dr. Nefar, or Ozymandias from Watchmen.
To put Dr. Nefar simply, he's a mortal man who saw the corruption and evil around him after he lost everything, and in a twisted cycle, thought he got it all back only to lose it again, then gets another chance at a semblance of a normal live, only to lose it all because of his own actions. He's a devil of his own making. He started out as a murderous vigilante, along the lines of Rorschach or the Punisher, who started to get corrupted by the own evils he was destroying. He started to decend into his own madness and see that the possible cure for all this was to remake the world, to literally take over. At the last minute, he backed out, and tried for a final attempt at a normal life. When this failed, he falls further than he ever has before.
I'm walking a thin line with him here. Make his mind crack and splinter into two personalities after he loses his friends that he had just made because of his paranoia and secret files and then realise that most of his former colleages and even his beloved mentor, a father figure for this man without anyone not even a family, turn towards the dark side and had become villians. Or, send him down the dark road himself after all of this happens, and have him succumb to his desires to save the world and his paranoia. The biggest plan ever enacted by the only one who could pull it off. The complete kidnapping of super power furs from around the world. He would attempt to remove the powers of those he felt did nothing wrong to him, to help them live a normal life, and some who stoke the fire that is his anger would be killed without thought. That is the price to pay should Dr. Nefar become a villian.
However, I just can't see my characters living in THAT kind of environment. I attempted to create a 'darker' character (Batcur) but no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't write her into darker drama stories. I guess my creative brain is stuck in the lighter 'comic book' world. I just can't help it. I suppose I'm so used to using a bit of comedy in my fiction that I'm no good in the world of darker drama.
Radar, Dr. Nefar is your creation and you can probably write him into this kind of world. Although I would welcome readings stories of this genre you create, I probably could never write in that genre myself.
Well, that's my 'two cents' worth.
What happened here is it was a booming place during the high times for the steel industry, but since most of that's moved overseas, a lot of jobs have gone down with it. And for the drug runners, it's a great stopping point between Pittsburgh and Ohio. But there are a number of empty stores around here. I imagine If I wanted to, I could film an end of the world movie, with all of the ones I know of. It's a shame really since otherwise it would be a nicer place to live. What we really need here is some big businesses to move in. Factories and stuff, not anything retail.
Writing a character in a very dark setting can be a lot of fun as many people enjoy this kind of genre. Batman, Punisher and similar heroes being the shining example of a hero living in a world of darkness. You get to deal with a lot more serious and mature writing in this way as it can't be as lighthearted as the normal golden age superhero fight stuff... or can it?
I put this to you, I think it would be a mistake to cut away all the past associations that made Dr. Nefar who he is. Lady Liberty was a part of his life and should continue to be so though it need not be a romantic part. He lives in a world of shadows and corruption while she lives in a world of patriotism, ideals and virtues. The best thing about Nefar having a friend like her is that when she is standing around, it makes the darkness look that much uglier and the shadows all the more black from her light. She might not even understand the scope of what Nefar sees everday and would be the perfect character to use as a storytelling tool to show just how bad Nefar sees things as being.
Bottom line is, before I go too far with my own thoughts and ideas, you have to write what you feel your character would do. If you write something and you have done your work in establishing the why's for Nefar doing what he is doing and it satisfies those that are familiar with the character, then you have done a good job. So, think about all the why's about everything you are planning to do with your character and their story. You might disappoint some readers at first but if you make us believe it, it is good writing.
What happened is the two broke up because she learned that due to his paranoia, he had be making secret files on all the heroes, including information such as aliases, powers, and weaknesses, exactly the same kind as Batman did with the rest of the Justice League. As someone without super powers, he's preparing for the worst that the others don't even want to try to imagine happening. His new home will be more of a reflection on him, as Colmation is a reflection on Lady Liberty and a number of other heroes of Train's.
I ultimately ended up doing the same thing; created my own playground and gradually stopped writing for Colmaton. I suppose in the end I should have seen that coming; time and again I have proven that I don't play by other people's rules particularly well.
But I am babbling for the most part.
On a more serious note, I have to disagree with some of the things Eggplantman said. While it may be a waste to destroy all the history you built up in Colmaton; sometimes cutting all ties is necessary to build something greater. I know some of my best stuff came out of the scraps of abortive fanfics and odes to other people's characters. Who knows, Atom City might just be quite the cool place to fight evil.
Humor is also something that can come up but to be honest I have to conceed to Eggy on this; I have never been able to pull off the lighthearted bits of earlier eras. I've done cynical, sarcastic, and genre-savvy humor in spades but that's probably more a product of my personality then anything else.
And apparently I'm still babbling.