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Published: 2015-09-09 00:21:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 704; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 1
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Side Comic forCharacters Appearing: Samantha Grey - DU Hero (c) , Centauri DU Handbook entry (c)
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Slight heads up. If folks hadn't guessed, Samantha's story is going to be getting increasingly "Ideologically Sensitive." After all, Samantha's storyline includes an actual version of "Hell," much like Omega's, and so at points we're going to have awkward and deeply uncomfortable moments like this.
Centauri is a simple girl, raised among good old farming country folk in Kansas. After a check-in with Kost, yes she was born and raised Christian, and likely still self-identifies as such to at least some extent, though like any character in a fluid, super-hero world where things like the Einherjar, Thresher, Deadboy and Omega have walked the earth, and with her background in the Centauri League, she likely has at least a somewhat more open perspective than some. Still, it's getting a bit more pointed here, what Valefar actually is and what Samantha is dealing with.
The clarification requires a little repetition from page 10. After all, for most people, even super-heroes, the very idea of a person's 'personhood' being trapped inside of a gem is the stuff of fantasy and science fiction. The idea of a literal 'hell' where souls are tormented is a lot to deal with, hard to completely buy. But after things like the Omega War, it's impossible to completely put aside.
Their conversation finally begins to move on, as something in Centauri's suit warns her that her bodily functions are a little out of whack. It's probably nothing, or is it really? After a bit of initial plotting, it almost sounds like Centauri might be thinking of working in a bit of collusion? Oh don't worry. The girl's still a girl scout. Her 'help' will always be by the book, as you'll see soon enough...
But what is going on?
(Small edit: Reduced the 'percentage' on the pheromone layer. It was dominating the image too much.
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Uhoh, Centauri's suit is gonna deduce those pheromones sooner or later. Ah Centauri, a little cosmological education isnt pleasant conversation.
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The suit's deduced that there's an air-born agent causing a physiological reaction. Problem is that it's not life-threatening, and so Centauri's ignoring it, and each time, the effects are building up.
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Its just my Chanel Number 5 baby!
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This brings a nice chance to the all-action life of the Thunder Force. Life's never that simple, is it?
While Centauri might not think herself as a shrink, listening alone makes her an adequate one 
I like where this is going, looking forward to read more.
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Sometimes, all that's needed is a listening ear. Admittedly, there's a bit more to it than just that, but still it's what Sam needs most in this sequence.
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Really loving this - it's great to see some 'down time' with the Thunder Force team rather than just seeing them fighting the latest villain. Apart from that some great dialogue too - you've really got a good grasp of Sam's character and Centauri is well written too. I love the red light as the suit alarm goes off...
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*laughs* I just had to use the suit alarms. It only made sense it would react at least a little. And good. I'm trying to keep Centauri semi-casual, as despite her military background she's not formal in her speech patterns.
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Maybe it's time for yet another crossover.
They sure could need a hand from someone, not in the heroic place in the spotlight
I'm through with what you have so far and I really like this little side quest
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It's good to see the audience is catching on. Unlike the Renegades, Samantha is willing to play ball with AK and keep things "by the book" mostly. However, she's not willing to sit on her hands either. What the current Thunder Force team is severely lacking is strong investigative tools. (Magical research they have covered, but Firebird, Tanook, Samantha and Goyle are their most dominant counter-intelligence and investigation tools. Goyle is more the research arm on this, which leaves Firebird, Tanook and Sam to pull the lion's share of the weight. Sam has to take a back-seat on investigation, and Tanook's a great choice for a stealth mission, but not necessarily true counter-intel.)
I generally assume that TF is treated as the "Hammer" in the equation of anti-villain maneuvers. Allies of the team, and its human logistics force do the research with assistance from the stealth operatives like Sam, but it's when the problem is sighted, identified and targeted that the team is sent into action (or as a response to global threats). They aren't sent to investigate near as often as they are to hammer a problem to the ground once it's identified.
Valefar/Daniel Smith and the New ARES represent a problem that TF itself isn't immediately prepared for: Someone who is working through almost completely legal channels, whose motives are unclear and who is very good at playing his games subtly. It demands that they find allies willing to back them up, as traditional human tactics will fail them here (otherwise, there would have been forewarning of the danger Daniel posed long before.). So, yes, you're going to be seeing the next couple of side-comics reflecting "Cross-Overs" where Samantha is being teamed up with other heroes intentionally or unintentionally, usually for related investigations that all spiral in on Valefar. The goal, which is lofty, is 3-4 side comics after this and a NaNoWriMo project in November to play out the spiral to the confrontation.
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Yeah, I wouldn't go anywhere near Sam while she's spreading any kind of purple aura.
"I know how you feed. Oh funny aura, hehe, oh my heartbeats' rising..."
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*snicker* Technically, the pink aura isn't actually visible to them. It's their for our convenience. ^.~ and it's more like vapors than an aura. And I don't think Robin has aaaanything to worry about this stuff. She's a robot after all.
But yes, there is that element of "She understands technically, but not in practice" what's going on.
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Pff, if ever Sam falls into the darkness and starts to feed on everyone around, Robin would be one of few able to get close to her thanks to that just to redirect her urges and kill everyone anywayXD
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Yeeeep. Mind you, she can still probably get close to her anyway depending on the circumstances. It's not like Sam doesn't flirt with the edge of "Acceptable Hero Practice" on an almost daily basis.
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Yeah, I always liked that aspect of balancing on the red line of morality in everything Sam does. Also nothing good can come out from flirting with a pure psychopath such as Robin. She wouldn't hold back from using it for her own advantage. Hmm, I would say flirt with robin is like trying to lick a Venus fly-trap.
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There's pictures somewhere on the internet that says Samantha has had bad experiences getting close to dangerous flora and fauna... heh.
And yes, part of the game with Samantha is a dual focus. On the one hand, she's meant to clearly straddle the line between hero and villain, while being obviously on the side of the heroes. But on the other, she's not meant to be an antihero for antihero's sake. It's actually a lot more black and white to her than most people realize when speaking with her. Where she appears on the surface to be morally gray, she is in fact reasonably strong in her moral values (if at times hypocritical about them... which is ironically appropriate in her belief system.).
The thing is that Thelema and old-world paganism, particularly as taught by a questionable character like her mother, Naomi, are NOT western value-sets. Thelema was developed by a drugged out opium addict with delusions of godhood during the height of existentialism around the late 1800s and early 1900s, with the rebirth of occultism. It was a forerunner to the infamous "Satanist" movement of the modern era (though Anton LaVey took things in a very different direction than Crowley did, and the religion is far more intentionally self-serving than Crowley's original self-important "Find your own Path" perspective.). And so, while she's on the side of the good guys, and she's coming to understand more traditional Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman perspectives that are foundations of Western thought (even in athiestic and agnostic circles, they serve as foundations of virtually all western philosophies and the starting point of most discourse that is not intentionally separate from them.), she doesn't see the world the way that most of the heroes she works with do.
A good example was Psi-Void. She actually felt a lot of empathy and sympathy for him in the end, moreso than most, though her sympathy was more for Psi-Void's people than the dictator himself. She could appreciate that his 'path' dictated that he needed to do whatever he had to to save his people. She was only furious with him that he was too nearsighted in his pride to consider other approaches than the one he took. In the end, opposing him was a no-brainer. It's what the good guys were there for. Fight him, or face extinction. But she couldn't bring herself to hate him, other than for being what she perceived as a near-sighted, self-blinded fool. He wasn't an enemy, so much as a force of nature to be opposed, and if beaten, proof that hers was the path meant to succeed.
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Ah, if only DU had more deep characters like that instead of one dimensional heroesXP
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Well, we hail from the glory days of the Golden Age, so I expect many characters to have a 2-dimensional flare at times. Truth told, though, I'm grateful how many layers most of the TF members and Sam's closer relationships have.
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Hm, I don't think Sam is used to having a kind of 'aura' around her. Somethign is certainly up.
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*snickers* It's always there, to a lesser extent. However, if it's not having an effect, I don't usually draw it in.
But it's also worth noting that Samantha generally doesn't like to stay in an enclosed space with individuals for long periods. She usually prefers to be around them in the open air... you know, where a stiff breeze blows the worst of those away.
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I think I know what you mean. If its what I think it is, it would make sense why she prefers the wide open spaces.
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*nods* It's not exactly a 'power.' Everyone has them. They're just a little more ... uh... potent? So, yes, she tends to prefer to avoid enclosed regions or groups, or just being alone.
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Well, it looks like Sam and Centauri be doing some bonding
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A bit, yes. Sam's not an easy teammate to work with for a military girl like her. *idly ignores that wink like there's nothing unusual going on here*
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