Soul Star's Diary

[DoctorNorth]

PAGE ONE — FULL SPLASH PANEL
Paragon City at midnight. The skyline seethes beneath a violet thunderstorm. Black lightning tears across the clouds, swallowing light rather than casting it. At the center of the chaos stands a young man with charcoal skin and yellow eyes blazing with solar fire.
 

NARRATION (top-left):
They say I’m a freak of nature.

NARRATION (bottom-right):
Aren’t we all?

 

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PAGE TWO — THREE PANELS

 

Panel 1: A prenatal scan bathed in distortion — a fetus outlined in a flicker of dark light.
NARRATION:
They call it a mutation.

Exposure in the womb — dark matter, neutronium, a quantum flux that struck me shortly after conception.
It rewrote my DNA before I ever took a breath.
 

Panel 2: Microscopic view — twisted helix glowing with black plasma, particles orbiting like trapped suns.
NARRATION:
Now I can attract dark matter particles and weave lightning from the void, I can even see neutrinos slice the night sky.

Panel 3: Close-up of Soul Star’s eyes — tiny solar eruptions flare within them.
NARRATION:
So yeah — “Mutant.”

And proud of it.

 

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PAGE THREE — KING’S ROW

 

Panel 1: Soul Star striding through rain, mohawk sharp against the glow of a flickering streetlight. A worn paperback copy of Camus’ The Rebel sticks out of his back pocket.
NARRATION:
I wear a mohawk. Cuz' I figure I might as well double down on the freak card. 
 

Panel 2: He confronts the Skulls in a graffiti-stained alley. Lightning arcs from his fingers.
NARRATION:
You might see me around Paragon.
Picking fights with the SKULLS. 
Don't ask why. One must imagine Sisyphus vengeful. 

Panel 3: He gets slammed against a dumpster, grinning through blood and static.
NARRATION:
Hey, I said I was a freak.
Didn’t say I was powerful!

((Everlasting Roleplayer, new toon, combination of the old Marv Wolfman Teen Titans meets Gaiman's Sandman. George Perez art, but only after he'd listened to Disintegration by the Cure and used it as a muse. Come say to me. I go by @DoctorNorth or for this toon Soul Star. 

I like to RP old school, in local, a very low-level hero, naive, angry about something, favorite anthem is "Don't Believe the Hype" by Public Enemy. 

Hero side, looking for RP friends! ))

 

Edited October 18 by DoctorNorth

[Living_Hellfire]

Thunder rolled over King's Row as brilliant white lightning wove its way down between the arcs of black electricity and an alabaster card fluttered down to land at Soul Star's feet. Upon it were scorched the words "The Legendary Living Hellfire". A burnt orange streak of flame seared its way across the night sky and was gone. 

 

((@Living_Hellfire. I can usually be found in Pocket D or in whatever pick up group needs my help))

[DoctorNorth]

Soul Star - Issue 4
Killed by Death!

Synopsis: In this issue: Sol is being hunted by the Marcone family, on a "kill order" that has all of Independence Port hunting for him. 

REVIEWS:
Issue 4 of Soul Star tries a little too hard to pay homage to the author's love of Marv Wolfman and Motorhead. Great influences, just not sure they should be mixed together. -@IndieCoutureComics

So I'm supposed to believe a kid has so much neutronium in his body, a vial of his blood is worth 1,000,000 influence? And he's hunted like a rat every day because of this? Ok, I'm in. -@GuyLovesComics

I read it when I went to the bathroom on a Tuesday morning. Kinda glad I did. 3-stars. -@MangetoutComics

((OOC: I earned the "Gangbusters" badge! 🙂 ))

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KILLED BY DEATH:

Independence Port is long past its prime. Riddled with black markets, Freakshow goons and the territorial Tsoo, the foghorns here echo across hollow urban sprawl. The tale of ghosts and dirty sailors mingling with the salty air of a rusty pier. 

Each street corner is marked, owned and requires a toll. Longbow helicopters fly far away to solve the latest crisis, while getting to work without paying at least two extortion fees per city block is impossible. 
 

You don't come here lest you got business or worse, are forced to work an d live here. 

Hospital workers some of them, allies of Yin and her constant need for heroes. Or the array of monster hunters here to bag another giant squid that grace us with their presence at every blood moon. 

But I'm not here for glory, or the spotlight or another task force. I'm here because I got beef. 

Like I said, you don't come here lest you got business. 

My business is with the Family.

Actually, more accurately, their business is with me...

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((OOC: I'll be trolling Talos Island now from level 22 to like 27. I think the Freakshow will be prominent in the next issue, as Soul attempts to make a renegade wing of this gang into allies. Please if you see @DoctorNorth and want to RP a little, say hi. Each issue will try to pay "homage" to a classic City of Heroes mob.))
 

Edited Saturday at 08:12 PM by DoctorNorth