When the nuclear powered hero known as Atomic’s powers became unstable, he tried his best to reach an unpopulated area. He managed to avoid killing anyone in the explosion caused by his eventual death but the fallout poisoned the inhabitants of a small town.
Only four people survived the exposure to the radiation but they gained bizarre powers and became twisted both physically and mentally.
Fat Man, Little Boy and Black Betty, under the leadership of Mind Wave, formed The Children of the Atom, a radical group that initially sought to end the use of nuclear energy but eventually shifted their goals due to Mind Wave’s growing megalomania.
Mind Wave’s body has become atrophied and is now all but useless. His mind, on the other hand, has only grown. He now has vast psychic and telekinetic powers which more than make up for his lack of physical strength.
With a rampant ego growing alongside his brain, Mind Wave likes to think of himself as a mastermind. Despite being a hugely powerful psychic though, Mind Wave isn’t nearly as intelligent as he likes to believe. In fact Little Boy is the real brains of the operation. He is far more crafty than anyone realises. Mind Wave included. Little Boy often whispers his ideas to Mind Wave, who is so narcissistic that he often believes the ideas are his own. In fact it’s probably for the best that Mind Wave is being manipulated because without Little Boy pulling his strings, the reckless and impulsive Mind Wave may have caused another catastrophe.
Pride is a character that I played briefly in DC Universe Online before I lost interest in that game in general. I still really liked this character and I’ve been meaning to recreate him here for a while now.
This is basically how he looks in game with a few minor tweaks.
Low-level Mystique / Elastigirl, but male and villainous. Here, he conceives of a lotto scam.
Remember how I mentioned that Alpha Dog originated in a roleplaying game? Well so did these two.
Girl Scout and Grandma were the comedy villains that the GM threw at me (or, more specifically, at Alpha Dog) and while I’m pretty sure he did it just to mess with me, I still love them because they’re so ridiculous.
They may look cute but they’re evil to the core…Well, Girl Scout is. Grandma is actually a nice, if rather demented, old lady who’s really just happy to be spending time with her darling granddaughter…Even if their time is mostly spent robbing people and punching superheroes in the face.
I just loaded a character I had been working on yesterday only to learn that the save file had messed up all of my layers and masking.
Now I’m going to have to sort through hundreds of layers to fix this or start from scratch.
I love Heromachine but sometimes I hate Heromachine.
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My entry for CDC #368.
Hearing the description for Max “Maxsquerade” Darque brought to mind The Question, so I took inspiration from that more polished, dapper look. Of course, to add an air of mystery and sass, I had to include the brim tip/swipe!
It turned out a bit simpler than I wanted and I had to take artistic liberty with some of the anatomy, but I’m still satisfied!
Man, if Square Enix comes knocking on my door wanting to buy the rights, I’m not gonna say no, but until then we gotta work with what we have.
Here’s my Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader character, Nicodemus Holt, again!
This is from a bit later in our adventures. He got a new suit made in the colors of the lord-captain’s new Narses dynasty, and inherited a blessed suit of armor from the poor chaplain Helena who died saving his life. Very touching. He doesn’t really wear this suit on a daily basis, it’s a bit too flashy for his tastes.
Clothing-wise, he seems to be kinda like if Prince was a heavily armored space pirate. In terms of his physical appearance, I wanted him to look kinda like if Frederick Douglass played hockey professionally.
CDC #368 – Team Building – Part 8
Maxsquerade
I was going for androgynous, but I’m not sure I succeeded.
This character is the result of a roleplaying game with some friends. The game was set in The Red Brain’s testing facility as he attempts to create superhumans from willing test subjects.
We were each given a random code name and challenged to make a character based around it. I was given Alpha Dog and this is the result.
Parker Austin is a nice guy. Some would even cal him a boy-scout. A former marine with a surprising heart of gold, he sees the world through rose tinted glasses, despite having seen things that would destroy most men. Everyone loves this good willed young man.
But after he gained a healing factor as a result of The Red Brain’s experiments…After he put on the mask and became Alpha Dog…something changed. Parker Austin is still the sweet farm boy but Alpha Dog is a ruthless, hard-nosed fighter who doesn’t think twice about breaking bones to get a job done.
Alpha Dog has become something of a split personality in the mind of Parker Austin. A personality he wears to fight for what he believes in and he fights for those things with a passion that is frightening.
Alpha Dog may be knew to this whole superhero thing but he has already established himself as a tough and determined fighter who has left a trail of broken bones and bruised egos behind him.
