I am looking for superhero/supervillain stories. Preferably where they are beginning their journey to become a hero/villain and have to develop their powers/tech and build their base of operations.
I am looking for superhero/supervillain stories. Preferably where they are beginning their journey to become a hero/villain and have to develop their powers/tech and build their base of operations.
I actually created a universe where that is a major part of the stories. And each of the three main stories revolves around a different hero, discovering their powers, and their starting and evolution to becoming heroes.
https://storiesonline.net/universe/1122/night-of-madness
And there are other stories I wrote in the series, revolving around more minor characters, but some of them are indeed villains.
https://storiesonline.net/s/69067/some-kind-of-hero by Sea-Life, although be warned that it is self-edited and the editor had an off-month. The review - https://storiesonline.net/library/get_review.php?id=69067 - also touches on that.
Sea-Life's other series Worlds of Light can also be viewed as a superhero story. Saint Luke by Reluctant Sir can be viewed as such - warning, a bit dark. Also some of Howard Faxon's stories can also be read as superhero.
Good Hunting, limab
Dragon Chronicle — a series by Samantha K.
The origin and growth of a very unusual superheroine.
Stultus has a tongue-in-cheek supervillain,
https://storiesonline.net/s/59103/and-soon-my-evil-plan-will-be-complete,
and there is a superheroine, too!
Not an origin story I'm afraid, but I'll still suggest my own Reflector.
Two others I really enjoyed and recommend are:
The Gadgeteer by Sea-Life (this one checks all your requirements)
Chances Are by Stultus
This is a very common story type in the Progression Fantasy and Harem Fantasy genres, which are semi related to GameLit.
Not a lot of this on SOL yet, but it's all over the self-pub spaces like Kindle and Wordpress (and thus on the shadow libraries).
Not sure whether y'all would count this, but...
Shaddoth has a number of "gamer" stories where the protagonist, through "real-life" gaming, acquires superhero-like powers. Transitional Adventurer, Server Change and Axeman all come to mind.
Sine Qua Non and Biomancer actually are superhero stories. Biomancer is a dark one, though.
Knew all about The Smith - I just didn't know that I'd classify him as a "Superhero." lol, even if he was a god.
It's not on here but Industrial strength magic by Macronomicon http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206312708-industrial-strength-magic