<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=347850.msg16371126#msg16371126">Quote from: Outcast on 02-01-2023, 22:49:31</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I should try to read a bit more of the Freedom City side of the setting, to learn more about this kind of thing!  :-[<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Freedom City is meant to emulate the New York of Marvel and DC comics, with a long history from at least WWII, generational characters leaving an imprint in the city, growing and changing between editions, the occasional big crossover catastrophe.  It's great, but also not the best default setting, which is why they developed Emerald City with its clean slate.  There was recently a bundle of all the 1e and 2e books that really get into the history of the setting.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=347850.msg16371126#msg16371126">Quote from: Outcast on 02-01-2023, 22:49:31</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>Artemis and Circe are certainly good, strong female presences in the Greek myths... but they were both somewhat notoriously hostile to men (Artemis killed some of her followers who so much as slept with a man, while Circe had the whole turn-men-into-pigs thing going on)... though either could certainly be an interesting supranym to adopt!  I might suggest Nike as a goddess of victory... but that has some potential real-world corporate connotations.  ;)<br/><br/>There're some really quite obscure options in canonical mythology, e.g. Bia (the female personification of force, and Nike's sister), but bigger-name possibilities would also be feasible from both Roman and Greek history and mythology.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I was thinking of the "Modern people and comic writers don't know much about mythology past the superficial level" angle.  Comic Thor being dour and Shakespeare-ian is an example of this, while "classical" Thor is the fun god, like comic Hercules.   So she might have picked a name that was Roman and related to her motif without thinking much more about that.  "Oh, I like men a lot." :)<br/><br/>The slight wrinkle is that the Iron Man expy, Daedalus, is the mythological or historical one, immortal since ancient times, who might explain the name choice.  On the other hand, he's no fun and everyone knows it.<br/><br/>I was thinking that the father of her child might be an anti-hero or even a villain... Max Mars could fit the bill!<br/>