Sparrows

Reading and watching Invincible & Resident Alien has inspired me to hit the costume creator to hash out some silly d-listers for myself. First we've got Alien Man! He's "exactly" what it says on the tin! Just a lovable space friend. Demon/Dark MM...that's just a coincidence. Next up is the ideal candidate for any recruiting Slither Societies or Legions of Lizards. For your consideration: SPIT SHOT! (Beam/Poison Corr)

I really really love this one!

A young Jetspeed was trained and outfitted by The Cruor Cloak (Arch/Ninja Blaster) who is essentially a French Batman. Cruor's partner in crime fighting is Siluet (MA/Ninja Stalker). Siluet is a Turkish ex-superspy.

The leader of my primary super team is the the speedster Jetspeed (DB/SR Scrapper). Loooong stories short, he ends up trading his soul to the devil in order to save his team which sends him down the path of being the only hero in my stable that has a resurrection plot. After he dies he becomes conscripted into the Lucifer's infernal legion under the name Hellspeed (DB/Fire Brute). As Hellspeed he's used to defend Lucifer's claim to to the kingdoms of hell from a powerful outsider (see thread pg. 60). Ultimately Hellspeed is twisted into a pawn for Lucifer's challenger and becomes the key to a successful coup. Jet's willpower is eventually strong enough to overpower his warring masters' and he finds an opportunity to absorb the energy of a fallen celestial (see thread pg. 51). He's reborn as Gods' Speed (Back to DB/SR) and he becomes the first line of defense against cosmic and multi-dimensional threats.

Okay this redesign may have gotten away from me. My initial thought was to take the post-apocalyptic raider costume and add in a single signature pink item as part of the piecemealed costume. Originally that was going to be just a cloth mask, but I decided to integrate it into the ratty cape in order to turn it into one giant torn pink scarf. I tried to keep the purple highlights but it didn't really pop with the mutations I started to give him, especially with his bioluminescent head piece. The golden yellow blends with the skin tone the best while still providing some contrast so I went in that direction. This lead to me giving him a gaseous gold combat aura with yellow/lime "dark" powers. Last Man Stands.costume

Got some brigands for today. First we've got a redesign of my misguided scam artist Soul to Keep (DP/Dark Corr). Soul to Keep's inherent power is extreme beginner's luck. Anything new he excels at, but only temporarily. Thanks to a poor understanding of his powers and a gambling addiction StK gets in over his head and murked by the mob. When a Grim Reaper comes to collect they have a customary "Duel with Death" wager. StK naturally lucks out and wins, killing the Reaper. As per Death's law, StK is now on the hook as Junior Reaper himself. In over his head once more, StK is now scamming and failing upwards on a cosmic corporate ladder. Then I've got a new toon I'm enjoying that's mostly just a punny name. This is Lion's Share (Thugs/Sonic MM). After a military-funded human hybridization project goes belly up, this ex-soldier has started his own pride of disenfranchised mercenaries.

In the minority, but I actually like this one more. That magic lines pattern is hard to pull off and I think it works with this. Great job!

Guilty as charged. Although tbf I had a Color Blind back on live so I had to get this one a passport before giving him a makeover. The monochromatic contest was actually what inspired me to give him an update.

Here's Colour Blind (NRG/Kin Corr) a super who absorbs colors from the surrounding environment and converts them into energy blasts. Teams hate him for his knockback, citizens hate him for turning the city to grayscale. The painters union loves him though!

Namesake time! Here's Sparrows (Kin/Willpower Brute) a Carebear stare come to life. Sparrows started out as a challenge to make a melee focused Cupid incarnate and evolved into a kid with a heart defect that has seen the best in humanity through his time in the hospital. That bad ticker now literally glows with the power that he draws from the love and compassion in the universe. His energy attacks send out a wave of positivity that can turn the cruelest foe into a caring friend. Brimming with cheesy and lofty idealism, Sparrows aims to reform criminals and tyrants into agents of kindness and actually achieve world peace. He's not a self insert by any means but more of my representation of the ideal hero. On the flipside of the coin is his nemesis Hate Spew (Rad/Electric Brute), a social media shock jock who gets more powerful with, you guessed it, hate and division. Not only does Hate Spew have the grim realities of human nature on his side, he's got a team of media experts that have manufactured discord to a science. It's a small detail, but something about his green shades really sell me on this design. It's like I can taste his podcast with my eyes.

Couldn't even tell! Love the switch to blue smoke and this pose is great.

Thanks! Yeah dude go for it 🙂

While checking out the costume files on my laptop for my last post I found this gem I never got around to publishing a hero's license for: Thanks! The lich aesthetic is totally what I'm going for with him!

A while back I put together this costume to test out Savage Melee, and I recently had the epiphany to repurpose the costume for a character concept I've been toying with for even longer but could never find the right pieces for. This is the Void of Dreams (Rad/Temp Blaster) the darkest part of a sleeping mutant's psyche that manifests while they are sleeping. Although the VoD is limited by the sleep schedule of his "host", his temporal abilities have allowed him to gradually slow time down so that he can master the magics of the astral plane. He's now had the equivalent of centuries of practice and with each slumber he becomes exponentially more adept at advanced magics. The original conception of this costume was for a Savage/Shield Ouroboros Mender who had spun far past his tether and bound his spirit to a magic cloak in an attempt to survive. In true convoluted comic fashion, the cloak caught the eye of a demonic spirit who would wrestle with the mender for control of the relic. This is where a lot of the gold vs black of the costume comes from, and his initial dark energy shield added asymmetry to convey the cloak unevenly slipping from the mender's control. When still the illusion of this costume portraying a floating legless spirit works fairly well, but in motion I had to play with elements to keep it consistent. Because the path aura needs time to build up a large murky cloud to hide the spectrum legs, I've found that black super speed works the best for keeping the concept believable (although obviously I tried my best to get fly/hover to work first). Switching to slide for the default stance was a must to keep the movement ghostlike...ish. The other major change I made was to swap the Valkyrie skirt for the CoT robes as they cover the legs a bit better during movement, despite being less impressive when at rest.

Here's Vorportal (Grav/Radiation Controller), a kindhearted hero whose name rings fear in the hearts of evil doers. Early in her career a lack of finesse her dimensional bending abilities led to infamy as she would accidentally dismember the limbs of criminals caught by her portals. After taking a few years off to train in solitude she's back in the spotlight to rebrand herself as a gentle and clean paragon of good. Still, she's got a lot work to do to make the tabloids forget about the time she decapitated a megalomaniacal sorcerer at age 16. Bow down to Gear God (NRG/NRG Brute) a brilliant engineer who lost his humanity in an effort to prove his intellectual superiority to the world. Despite his consciousness transcending to a digital state that's supercharged by an advanced AI, Gear God still lacks common sense and is cursed by his own ego. As a technopath GG can easily control armies of robots but often prefers using a single powersuit to eliminate heroes that dare think themselves stronger, smarter, or more powerful than the God of the 21st century. At Gear God's side is Spindle (Crab Soldier) a retired secret agent that spent her youth double crossing various nations. Spindle fancies herself a clairvoyant but in actuality only has a sophomoric understand of the astral arts. Thanks to a series of upgrades provided by Gear God, Spindle has found a new lease on life as his enforcer. Both parties are secretly plotting to sacrifice the other in their quest for greatness, which results in a running in circles dynamic. A true master of the astral arts however is The Unwoken (Fortunata) a woman born several centuries ago who has been training within the astral realm to become the next warden of the psychic flame. This "psychic flame" is essentially a psionic virus designed to burn up every mind in the universe. When a spark of the psychic flame inadvertently winds up in the hands of a modern hero, the Unwoken must rematerialize herself in the physical world to obtain the dangerous power by any means necessary.