Sorry for the delayed response, but I am also down with the Shock Boys.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=271353.msg13368820#msg13368820">Quote from: PerpetuallyAnnoyedCleric on 23-07-2017, 07:14:37</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>pdragon: Who was fighting who for the climatic showdown?  Does she blame either or both?  Is Madam Zabini actually psychic?  If so, how well known is she in the community?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>As of now Roxanne doesn't actually know who was even fighting at the time. She had been on her way back home from school when she noticed the echoing booms and dust clouds being thrown up by the fighting. Seeing how regular an occurrence big hero fights are in the city she didn't pay much attention to who was fighting and just hurried to clear the area, when the fight got sent over her way and she ended up getting caught by some errant debris. In lieu of everything she's had to deal with since she hasn't given the fight much mind and doesn't really hold much of a grudge towards it. She knows she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, though that can leave it open as to who's fight it was if anyone wanted to tie in some of their own characters/background there.<br/><br/>Madam Zabini is psychic and was a hero herself back in her day, The Silk Siren (http://i.imgur.com/6RWYVGl.jpg?1). However like Superbus she was a Doomed hero, with her coming Doom linked directly to how frequently she used her powers. She ended up retiring early before she had to face her doom, and now lives as a humble store keeper, choosing to help out others in indirect ways, and has sworn to never use her abilities again, since tapping back into her powers would put her and everyone else at risk. Due to her secretive ways and relatively short lived hero career she manages to fly under the radar without being recognized for the most part, though there are probably some older heroes and villains who would remember her.<br/><br/>I think I have an idea for Q3 and 4 that might work in tandem with each other.<br/><br/>Perhaps in the process of tracking down the Shock Boys' hideout/figuring out their master plan/insert vital piece of information here, one of the heroines had to seduce the information out of one of them, and not just flirting and a little strip tease, going all the way, thus breaking the "rules" of how a proper role model hero should act. And as such the cost for victory could have been the heroine's innocence/virginity/dignity. Sort of an early taste of the kind of sordid stuff they'll find themselves involved with, though on a smaller, more consensual scale. I wouldn't mind Superbus being the one to have done it, as she's already a more sexually charged character in general, though if anyone else thinks it could add a nice bit of drama/characterization to their heroes that could work as well. If you wanted to go one step further we could have the whole team infiltrate the Shock Boys' base under the guise of being prostitutes, and ended up getting swept up into the act before finally springing their trap on them. Though that might be a bit far for an off camera event.<br/><br/>Alternatively if we didn't want any sexual elements involved right away, perhaps as a way of getting closer to the Shock Boys so they could figure out how their operation worked, they end up setting up a deal with them, selling them some of Lyrica's alien technology. Obviously they intended to take it right back after storming their hide out, but some of it managed to get shipped out somewhere else before they could stop them, and thus now several other villain groups can start popping up with variants of Lyrica's people's tech. They managed to beat the Shock Boys, but in the process unwittingly armed a bunch of other groups and made it harder for themselves in the future, both breaking the rules and a heavy cost for victory.