<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=347850.msg16371539#msg16371539">Quote from: Outcast on 03-01-2023, 13:30:49</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>@TFCommando: Daughter and parentage: Settling on how old the daughter is wanted to be might help in identifying potential fathers.<br/><br/>In terms of age, I was thinking that it might perhaps make sense for her to have fairly recently 'flown the nest' (within the past few months or perhaps as much as a few years ago) - either as a student in Emerald City, or somewhere farther afield: this might leave her mother feeling somewhat at a loose end... and could certainly tie into the mother seizing the chance to mentor other young women of her daughter's age.  If the daughter's not one of the initial PCs, she could still perhaps be a possible future swap-in should someone want to change characters or the like.  I'm not <em>encouraging</em> swapping PCs in and out... but I'm not the only newbie to the system and the setting, and I accept that people might discover that they don't find their initial character a good fit (for the game mechanics, or for Emerald City, my GMing, or whatever else).<br/><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I had tossed some ideas out along those lines last time, that she was now an empty nester after having devoted her life to raising her daughter for 18 years, then there's this emergency and some attractive young heroes...<br/><br/>A few pieces fell into place.  She'd have been a foil to the strait-laced, aloof Centurion, like a cheerful, outgoing cheerleader, cute and flirty.  And which Roman myth suits that?  Venus!  So, she was Miss Venus then, and Ms. or even Mrs. Venus now that she's back in action.<br/><br/>Why is her daughter going to college out of state?<br/><br/>"Mom, would you stop hitting on my friends when they come over?!"<br/>"One of them REALLY wants to get into your pants, you know..."<br/>"MOM!  ...Who is it?"<br/>"That'd be telling, try flirting with all of them and see!"<br/><br/>It also suggests that she could be a romance novel author, writing books about historical superhero romances.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=347850.msg16371539#msg16371539">Quote from: Outcast on 03-01-2023, 13:30:49</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">For the father... I'll try to have a poke around in the Freedom City stuff to see who might have been active in the city's super-scene 20+ years ago and have been a potential candidate.  It's far enough back that many of the established figures of 2014 weren't actually <em>active</em> at that point - though some definitely were.  And some, of course, died or disappeared during the Terminus Invasion: a deceased (or even a comic-style '<em>there's no way he could have survived that!!!</em>') spouse or lover could certainly have provided a powerful reason to leave Freedom City's battlefields and bad memories and start afresh thousands of miles away!<br/><br/><hr/><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>A few options come to mind, one is Daedalus, who had just returned to Earth before the invasion, though that would be a bit tricky... he's an aloof immortal and still traumatized by the loss of Icarus, and still around, so not being in his daughter's life would be awkward, so would mom not telling him.<br/><br/>"No one could have survived that" is another option.  She might have told her daughter who her father is, but no one else, so it can be a placeholder for the future.<br/><br/>Another, and the most inspiring at the moment. is the Slayer, the Travis Morgan Warlord expy who lives in the Lost World.  Ms. Venus might have spent some time there with him and left to raise her child in modern civilization.  Portals to and from there are infrequent and tricky, so he can be alive but not around.  Time itself can be wonky there, giving some flexibility with specific dates, and a few years there would have further eroded her sense of modesty.  Plus it has a lost Roman city, which plays on her Venus motif.  She could have been there during the Terminus Invasion and missed it, so with Centurion dead and her pregnant, she'd have moved to avoid confusion, as above.<br/><br/>Muse expressed interest in a connection between my character and their parents, Caspar and Kuroneko, which I like.  She could be a friend-of-the-family aunt for Mephistopheles, who is around the same age of her daughter and they knew each other growing up, especially when they were younger.  So Mrs. Venus could have a close, familial bond, but not a blood one, I'm thinking.  Getting knocked up twice is harder to stage manage with all the superhero stuff. :)<br/><br/>A spot for playing as her daughter is still open, if it appeals... an incestuous relationship developing is possible, but fully optional, as I know that's not everyone's cup of tea.<br/><br/>For reference about the Lost World, see the Atlas of Earth Prime - The Lost World, the Justice League Unlimited episode Chaos at the Earth's Core.  Also see the very sex-positive Super-MILF from the webcomic Spinnerette and the Eighth Wonder from the manga Don't Meddle With My Daughter.<br/><br/>