Well, I figured you knew your own character :P<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Although while I'm talking about everybody as a group; I'd like to humbly (and subject to GM approval) suggest the following course of events in the interest of a unified timeline.<br/><hr/>-WWII-<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Doctor Goldman uses Doctor Frankenstein's journal to create Eve Frankenstein (Ruby's character) in an effort to protect his people from the Nazis. </li><li>Doctor Goldman dies; Eve presumes Doctor Frankenstein's journal is lost. </li><li>The U.S. government/military seizes Doctor Frankenstein's journal. </li></ul><em>-1960s-</em><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>The House of Cards form as a meta-human friendly mafia and begins to clash with the original Cadre of Guardians. </li><li>Mickey Blue-Eyes begins his career as the second Mr. Blizzard. </li></ul><em>-1968-</em><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>House of Cards members, and interracial couple Black Panther and Luna Moth are assaulted and raped by the members of the original Cadre of Guardians. </li><li>Mickey Blue-Eyes hunts down and kills the entire Cadre of Guardians one-by-one.</li><li>Mickey Blue-Eyes surrenders himself to authorities and confesses to the murder of the Cadre of Guardians. Authorities are uncertain of what to do with him.</li></ul><em>-1970s-</em><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>As a result of the actions of both Mickey Blue-Eyes and the Cadre of Guardians the U.S. military beings the classified "Project Stein" using Doctor Frankenstein's journal with the intention of creating soldiers who could contend with super-powered individuals.</li><li>A small start-up company, Dark Water Industries, wins the bid and oversees Project Stein. </li></ul><em>-Project Stein-</em><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>During the course of project a number of U.S. soldiers are subject to various treatments intended to give them super-human abilities. The project is deemed a failure as test subjects exhibit uncontrolled abilities.</li><li>One subject of project Stein develops uncontrolled enhanced intelligence and, unknown to both the U.S. Government and Dark Water Industries, repeats the experiments of Project Stein on his daughter: Ally Rodriguez (Ixy's character) with successful results. </li><li>The U.S. Government abandons genetic research/experimentation and contracts Dark Water Industries to search for alternative, more stable, methods of creating super-powered soldiers. </li><li>The "Comet Girl" TV show begins airing, financed through a shell-corporation, Dark Water Industries uses the show as a means of gathering data on super-powered individuals. </li></ul><em>-Some Time Later-</em><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>A former test subject of project Stein now calling himself Maestro brutalizes Comet Girl, Meredith Winter (Pumpkin Seeds' character) on live television.</li><li>Dark Water Industries uses the data gathered from Maestro (a cruel but ultimately talentless 'Shadow' energy manipulator) begins research into the Shadow Dimension. </li><li>Dark Water Industries contracts Daniel Black (Crash's character) to research the Shadow Dimension, under the guise of researching alternative energy. </li><li>Daniel's research results in a means of breaching the Shadow Dimension; the resulting prototype explodes granting Daniel, Milly Nocturne, and Lucas Shrike shadow-based powers. </li><li>Lucas Shrike titles himself "The Master of Shadows" and forms a criminal organization known simply as 'The Shadows' <br/>Maestro attacks The Shadows out of jealousy and is defeated by Lucas Shrike; who then recruits Maestro as his lieutenant. They maintain an uneasy relationship with Maestro being the original, and Lucas the more powerful. <span class="bbc_u">Alternatively:</span> Maestro is captured by Lucas Shrike after his defeat, and is held by Dark Water Industries as a tortured lab-rat in an attempt for Lucas to study his own powers and become more powerful.</li><li>Dark Water Industries reports none of Daniel's research to the U.S. government and continues its search for a means of creating a stable super soldier. </li></ul><em>-Some Time Later-</em><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Dark Water Industries purchases several designs pertaining to cybernetics from Roselin Cooper (my character). </li><li>Dark Water Industries approaches the former Comet Girl, Meredith Winter regarding cybernetic enhancement. </li><li>Using Roselin Cooper's designs, Meredith Winters is cyberneticly enhanced and becomes the Midnight Angel.</li><li>Dark Water Industries begins the search for test subject for more significant cybernetic enhancement. </li><li><del>John Howe (PhantomPistoleer's character) is identified as an ideal test subject, and Dark Water Industries contracts Maestro to cause John's 'death.' </del></li><li><del>Dark Water Industries oversees experiment resulting in the Citizen android. This experiment utilizes refined versions of Roselin Cooper's designs, data gathered from the Comet Girl, the creation of Midnight Angel, and (if she gets in) software designed by Blake Technologies (Ghostraven's character's company.) </del></li><li><del>The results of this experiment are reported to the U.S. Government, the circumstances of the experiment and John's death are falsified.</del></li></ul><br/><hr/><br/>I can't figure out how to work in Muse's or tracyfreegirl's characters, what with Atemi's origin story just kinda being 'got magic sword.'<br/><br/>If tracyfreegirl'd be up for it, it might be cool if the extradimensional being her character fused with was actually Milly Nocturne after the accident. All she'd really need to do is add the 'Shadow' descriptor to her powers; although I might also change the name from Copycat to Echo.<br/><br/>~<br/><br/>With more regard to the villains. I kinda picture Mickey as the 'old school' while Lucas is the 'new blood' things escalating due to them butting heads while Downshift just kinda chills out with hookers and coke as a free agent.