<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=347850.msg16380055#msg16380055">Quote from: TFcommando on 15-01-2023, 06:08:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Fell behind here, had a busy week or so after Xmas, work and then another family visit.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Apologies for taking a full week to respond to this.  Health really has not been cooperating... so I further apologise if this response turns out to be gibberish. :-[<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Pretty close to done.  Miss Venus was a member of the "Centurion Family," empowered with paragon powers and in Centurion's orbit, helping out, having her own similar sorts of adventures against his villains and her own related ones.  A teen hero then, a bit like a cheerleader (helped by her costume being a two piece toga setup with a short skirt).<br/><br/>I'm thinking she had an adventure in the Lost World and was stuck there when the Terminus Invasion hit and Centurion was killed.  She was also pregnant when she returned and couldn't step up as a hero since she was going to have a child to take care of, that people would think/hope was Centurion's no less... it wouldn't be fair to burden her child with that.  The father is someone from the Lost World, like The Slayer (the Warlord expy), who is alive but completely out of reach, since traveling back and forth from there is irregular and very difficult.<br/><br/>So she moved to Emerald City and raised her daughter there quietly, doing charitable work and romance writing, might have made an occasional hero appearance back east for big crossover events or maybe not.  <br/><br/>Now her daughter's gone to university out of state and she's feeling the empty nest syndrome, plus there are new heroes and new challenges in the wake of the Silver Storm who could use her help.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Sounds quite good to me, so long as you're happy for me to remain very vague indeed on a lot of the details.  ;D<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Need to fill in some details like her actual origin!<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I'm happy for specifics to be left fairly open for the time being, but at the least descriptors are needed for the powers in case anyone activates some sort of Nullify effect.  :)<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Ms (or Mrs?). Venus of the Centurion Family<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I think that I'd go for Ms... leaves her precise status a bit more open to question, which is perhaps a good thing for a super?  If she's "Mrs", it invites a lot of specific questions about whom she is wed to<br/><br/>What is her real name?  And is that different to what she is living under in Emerald City?<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><em>snip!</em><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Congratulations!  The numbers add up.  That's always a big hurdle to clear.  :D<br/><br/>Unarmed needs a focus: most likely either 'strikes' or 'grapples/trips/throws'.<br/><br/>What sort of author is she?<br/><br/>The Powers are nice and simple (I approve!), but she currently seems to have baseline human Speed.  Given her physical enhancements and her possession of other elements of super-speed, is this an oversight?<br/><br/>Do you have any ideas for her Motivation?<br/><br/>I'm surprised to see 'Repressed' as a complication: is she intended to have something of a (re)awakening when she returns to the business of heroics?