All Too Human
All Too Human
  • Blog
  • Red Hood Rider

Rambles, Rants, and Musings

Knowing my luck, still not original.

12/19/2014

0 Comments

 
So not much of a blog post, but I feel like posting at least something more light-heated, and this is sufficient enough. Basically, remember that story idea a while back with the Batman expy? I decided I'd go ahead and give him a hero name. I decided that 'Ordeal' would best fit him, as in, he puts criminals through the worst ordeal of their lives. It also ties (very, very loosely) into primordial, which is something he also associates himself with: the fundamental driving forces of a person, and controlling them. (Batman expy means Batman Gambits, natch.) I decided that his logo would be a small silver crescent surrounded by black, and on his helmet, he has two, which are seen as the white eyes of death, since the crescent faces downward.

I also decided on his backstory a bit. When he decided to create his civilian identity, he didn't want it to be a polar opposite of his heroic persona, fearing that anyone smart enough could make the connection, nor did he wish for his civilian identity to be too close. He carefully crafted an identity, then, which he was reasonably certain would fool everyone: different enough that nobody would make the connection between the two, yet similar enough that the thought of "he'd be the total opposite" throws them off the scent, and being imperfect enough a balance to not seem suspicious, while having enough of a balance to hold some consistency.

To this end, he formed a corporation that's closely contracted with the government, to such an extent that he has basically the same amount of power as a lesser politician, whereas he has the fame and fortune of a billionaire. He maintains this company fairly effectively, albeit notably not as efficiently as possible, because he treats people humanely and is actively involved in humanitarian aid. In short, his company helps the people, and does so legitimately rather than as an investment or as a publicity stunt; they do it because it's the right thing to do, not the profitable thing. In spite of this technical-business shortcoming, he does still make profits, and it's off of these that he is able to fund his private affairs.

However, he is still frustrated with the corruption in the world and all the crime running rampant about, thus his double-life. Having been trained to fend for himself since childhood relentlessly by his mentor (and eventual publicly-known butler), he learned how to fight in multiple fighting styles, maintained his peak physical fitness, and began studying the criminal mind. After doing this for a few years and building enough connections, he had what he needed to begin his transformation.

So soon enough, there he was, and instantly he began to wipe away the corruption that bureaucracy had left unchecked. He exposed people's darker secrets to the world, many of them illegal, and even those that aren't were once made public available to basically reveal the corrupt's dealings, sabotaging their PR. The ruthless beatings he gave certainly didn't harm, and soon most traditional crime was falling apart. Not only organized, but vastly-reduced rates of muggings and whatnot were occurring, because the criminals kept on being caught--after the fact if they were lucky.

Enter the supervillains with their super-criminal networks. Most organized crime might have fallen apart, but the remaining organized crime was now in the hands of people he'd struggle to fight. Of course, there was also psychos to fight, real crazies. Even superhuman individuals that legitimately had superpowers. He managed it all, all while keeping his civilian life safe.

And I think you get the picture from there. Started a family, fought crime, he eventually dies. The C-list supervillain modifies his old costume to be more like that of Ordeal's, ultimately replacing him. I played around with the idea of a rename, though looking into secundus and the definition of ordeal, nothing struck me as a clever name. Ah, well. Definitely nice to have done something productive today. (Also, obviously, no family night.)
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    rBree2

    AKA:
    RangerBree2
    ​rangerbreenew

    Just your average blogger. Can't be more than that safely anymore.

    Twitter
    Twitch
    ​​YouTube
    ​TikTok

    Threads
    Bluesky
    Mastodon
    ​Instagram
    Cara

    Ko-Fi 
    Patreon
    Throne

    ​Reddit

    Alt-Blog​
    Facebook
    Steam

    Archives

    June 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014

    Categories

    All
    Adhd
    Adulting
    Affirmation
    Anxiety
    Apology
    Art
    Autism
    Consumed Entertainment
    Content Creation
    Dancing
    Deleted
    Depression
    Dream
    Family Night
    Farn
    Food
    Friendship
    Games
    Gender Dysphoria
    Health
    Love
    Mafia
    Misophonia
    Past Midnight
    Pets
    Philosophy
    Phyrra And Cyrus
    Plural
    Ramble
    Red Hood Rider
    Religion
    Rider
    Rubyverse
    Saturdays
    School
    Sleep
    Song
    Story
    Sundays
    Tae Kwon Do
    Technical Difficulties
    The Descended
    Tired
    Trans
    Work

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.