I have been wanting to stick my toe into the Super Hero genre for a while, but never found the right, existing, universe to join. I even wrote my own universe into existence but, for one reason or another, never really felt comfortable forging ahead. It was missing that special... something.
There are many stories out there in existing universes (Fanfic) like the DC or MCU, but I am not a fan fiction.. um... fan?
There are a lot of stories in unique, created universes, but very few are open universes that allow other authors to join. The couple that I especially liked, Shaddoth and Mushroom, hadn't even considered the issue until asked, and both were very gracious and invited me to contribute.
So, shortly, my first foray into the genre will be posted. Not an epic novel, just an idea I had when reading Mushroom's BOHICA. I wanted a Chameleon-class Paladin of my own!
I am working on a story for Shaddoth's universe as well, but that is going to be a while. I am feeling upbeat and his universe is definitely darker.
While those are fun, and I can see playing in their sandboxes again, it all covers up my original intent for this blog.
My own superhero universe is going to be launched as well. Not that theirs were lacking in any way, but I had worked on the backstory and was more comfortable playing with no rules but my own. I am selfish that way.
It is nothing ground-breaking, I wouldn't think, and uses the usual hand-wavium BS to explain how "It came from outer space!"
Though I tried to stay reality-adjacent with the science, don't expect miracles from someone who never graduated high school. Google is my bestest friend.
It will be an open universe that anyone can contribute to and will have very few rules. I want it open and loose so people feel comfortable letting their freak flags fly in both style and content.
I want to point out here, and I will reiterate in the first story, that I am stealing Mushroom's Control idea for super hero support. Okay, not stealing, exactly, because I totally told him ahead of time I was doing it.
And I didn't so much steal it, as adopt it. I changed it and shaped it and refocused it and made it a big corporate entity with a government charter that is... um... nevermind. Wait and see.
Still, I loved the idea of an organization that helped out Paladins, that supported them and paid them to patrol; that protected them as they protected their cities. I let Mushroom know I wanted to use it and he had no issues with it, thankfully!
Any other similarities are unintentional and probably because I was writing the Paladin story, as well as a couple of my Hero stories, at the same time.
Anyway, things is happ'n'n and I wanted to give ya'll a heads-up.