Justice League: The New Wave (OOC - Interest Check)

[ChasNicollette]

That's why I asked about if I needed to change that last ling since I didn't know for sure if that would have happened. Ok changing it now.

Thank you for being flexible!

Obviously, Jon is canny enough that he can quickly realize that this is *a* Superboy from *an* alternate reality who is psychotic, but he wouldn't know a precedent.

 

[LuckyVic]

One thing I hate about my days off is that at times I get really bored and then can't stop my brain from thinking up things in hundreds of different directions.

 

[ChasNicollette]

One thing I hate about my days off is that at times I get really bored and then can't stop my brain from thinking up things in hundreds of different directions.

Write 'em down!

For me the hard part is having a brain that won't stop multiple directions WHILE I'M WORKING AND CAN'T STOP TO WRITE AAFJKAJDKL

 

[LuckyVic]

Write 'em down!

For me the hard part is having a brain that won't stop multiple directions WHILE I'M WORKING AND CAN'T STOP TO WRITE AAFJKAJDKL

For the most part I do. It's just finding away to implement them.

 

[kizkiz]

I have ran through so many novels in my brain and never written them down; I mourn for their loss daily.

 

[ChasNicollette]

I have ran through so many novels in my brain and never written them down; I mourn for their loss daily.

They'll still live on in Lucien's Library, I believe that deeply.

But the important thing is to make sure the good elements live on in other projects.

I-- may be doing that a lot with these interconnected storylines, as I'm sure you've noticed a lot of unfinished threads popping up as Earths in The New Wave.

 

[ChasNicollette]

Just curious if anyone else has ever had the feeling that by not writing about a particular character or story they were actually, literally leaving the characters stuck, stranded, and lost. For me it started after I read the Dark Tower and some of King's fictionalized (perhaps real life) thoughts about the characters needing the writer, almost like we the writers are seeing some alternative reality and somehow helping it along by writing about it. You see something similar to that in Fables and a few others comics I've read...imagination given life.

I was writing a story for a character and I left off with him hiding in piles of snow beneath a pine tree and kind of lost interest in the story...but the thought that I had left him stuck there beneath the snow and trees freezing to death haunted me for some time until I moved the story along more and dropped him off in a better place. It's happened a few more times since.

With all the exploration of alternate earths in these threads, I thought others might have had a similar experience.

I've wrestled with this in various forms for basically my entire life.

To the point that I would run home from the school bus in 2nd Grade to make sure my GoBot and Transformer friends could move around to fight The Renegades and The Decepticons-- some ongoing mission to save The Moon, it seemed important at the time.

I still believe that Narnia is a real place, and no amount of Lev Grossman deconstruction can tell me otherwise.

Everything got-- sharpened-- and heightened-- about stories being real once I read "Sandman." I tell people that that story changed my life but that phrase is weathered enough to have lost some of its meaning-- it really. Did. Change my life. Having actually had religious experiences, that's the closest possible analogue I can describe.

And I panicked. For a long, long, time. About abandoned stories left to rust and mildew and gather dust. That they were locked in stasis for eternity until I could come back to them. And of course-- I couldn't always come back. Sometimes I lost notebooks with stories almost completely written in them-- back before cloud storage, this was. Sometimes I reached a bluescreen deadlock and couldn't get past it. Sometimes other stories would override my brain and I couldn't turn back the clock to the previous inspiration-- that happens a lot on Lit, I'm afraid, hopefully it doesn't with this.

But here's what I understand now.

Story is a two-way link. Yes, we help to build worlds with our imaginations. But those worlds are alive. They don't just petrify when we put our pens down, they keep going with or without us. Maybe they were there before we ever picked our pens up, and we just informed how they unfolded-- but they'll keep unfolding, and it's up to us to chronicle those events to the very best of our frail human ability.

When we are able to get back to a story that has been set aside for some great and disappointing length of time, it may feel like we are moving the character again, but at least in part we are simply following in the footsteps, finding out what happened while we were gone.

So don't mourn for characters left stranded. They'll be all right.

I do sometimes mourn that I don't always get to find out how everyone ended up, but that's how life is sometimes. Friends drift apart, and you wonder "whatever happened to...?"

But they'll be all right.

 

[Varshanka]

I tried my hand at actually writing when I was 16-17. My mother found my novel and read it. I got to spend a forced three day psychiatric evaluation. Psychiatrist said I was pretty good. but not crazy. When they released me - back into my mothers custody - she burned my novel and said it was the devils work.

I never tried again.

 

[ChasNicollette]

I'm so sorry, dear.

But I'm glad you're here.

Can't stop the signal.

 

[Varshanka]

I'm so sorry, dear.

But I'm glad you're here.

Can't stop the signal.

yeah. i'm over it. mostly.

not even angry at her anymore. much.

 

[kizkiz]

I've never hit novel lengthy on my own, despite trying for 20 years... I took 2 years off from reading and writing, I was so annoyed at my own procrastination and lack of focus. Kiz is like 8 years old.

 

[Varshanka]

300 plus HANDWRITTEN pages this is pre computer times. I had like six spiral notebooks

 

[kizkiz]

I always have a romantic notion of hand writing a novel, but my RSI would clober me if I tried. Damn shame you lost those spiral bound notebooks. What was the novel about?

 

[Varshanka]

Deamons. Revolt. Possession. Torture of the innocent. Mayhem. Khao.

Typical teen rebellion

 

[LuckyVic]

Deamons. Revolt. Possession. Torture of the innocent. Mayhem. Khao.

Typical teen rebellion

and that's just the high school years

 

[kizkiz]

Well, I've always been a child of Dream. I slept walked and had horrible nightmares as a child, until I learned to lucid dream and destroy my nightmares. All my best ideas have been born in dreams, and day dreaming allowed me to get through my first 17 years of life. So as much as Sandman blew my brains out of my ears, something about what King said in those final three novels when he inserted himself into his own book... That resonated.

I almost question if imagination exists and instead if we aren't just doing something like quantum entanglement with another universe... Which to me could explain why some stories ideas grab so tight but fade away and might never return. Like two ships in the night, the two universes passed each other... But this doesn't explain why so many universes have vampires...

I've wrestled with this in various forms for basically my entire life.

To the point that I would run home from the school bus in 2nd Grade to make sure my GoBot and Transformer friends could move around to fight The Renegades and The Decepticons-- some ongoing mission to save The Moon, it seemed important at the time.

I still believe that Narnia is a real place, and no amount of Lev Grossman deconstruction can tell me otherwise.

Everything got-- sharpened-- and heightened-- about stories being real once I read "Sandman." I tell people that that story changed my life but that phrase is weathered enough to have lost some of its meaning-- it really. Did. Change my life. Having actually had religious experiences, that's the closest possible analogue I can describe.

And I panicked. For a long, long, time. About abandoned stories left to rust and mildew and gather dust. That they were locked in stasis for eternity until I could come back to them. And of course-- I couldn't always come back. Sometimes I lost notebooks with stories almost completely written in them-- back before cloud storage, this was. Sometimes I reached a bluescreen deadlock and couldn't get past it. Sometimes other stories would override my brain and I couldn't turn back the clock to the previous inspiration-- that happens a lot on Lit, I'm afraid, hopefully it doesn't with this.

But here's what I understand now.

Story is a two-way link. Yes, we help to build worlds with our imaginations. But those worlds are alive. They don't just petrify when we put our pens down, they keep going with or without us. Maybe they were there before we ever picked our pens up, and we just informed how they unfolded-- but they'll keep unfolding, and it's up to us to chronicle those events to the very best of our frail human ability.

When we are able to get back to a story that has been set aside for some great and disappointing length of time, it may feel like we are moving the character again, but at least in part we are simply following in the footsteps, finding out what happened while we were gone.

So don't mourn for characters left stranded. They'll be all right.

I do sometimes mourn that I don't always get to find out how everyone ended up, but that's how life is sometimes. Friends drift apart, and you wonder "whatever happened to...?"

But they'll be all right.

 

[ChasNicollette]

Special thanks to Vic for calling out Ruby's Dials for me in this post.

Certainly made for interesting choices!

 

[LuckyVic]

Special thanks to Vic for calling out Ruby's Dials for me in this post.

Certainly made for interesting choices!

I was wondering when She'd use it

 

[ChasNicollette]

And I think we've finally gotten bios for all our PCs and (at least) establishing posts for all our NPCs. Feel free to take a look.

If you have any questions about these folks, please let me know!

In case you hadn't noticed, my signature currently links to all the JLNW ICs are in my bio, as are links to this OOC, The Map of The Multiverse, and this roster. Should make a handy reference point for anyone who gets lost, rather than having to run searches.

How's everybody doing, are we good?

The New League

A2: The Legacy - Nightwing/Batman
A3: The Big Gun - Wonder Girl
A4: The Lightspeed - Velocity
A5: The Phoenix - Martian Manhuntress
A6: The Chameleon - Renegade
A7: The Ironheart - G.R.I.D.
A8: The Night Errant - Ghost Rider
A9: The Wild Card - Hotline
A10: The Ranger - Green Arrow
A11: The Tesla - Static
A12: The Dark Angel - Raven
A13: The Animorph - Beast Boy
A14: The Veteran - Wildcat
A15: The Dream Hunter - The Sandman
A16: The Rock Lord - Braggock
A17: The Legionnaire Lost - Rebel (Earth-24)
A18: The Waterbearer - Aquagirl

The Outsiders

O1: The Warded Man - Kiz the Summoner
O2: The Secret - The Ebon Glider
O3: The Iceman - Captain Cold
O4: The Hothead - Heatwave
O5: The Occult Detective - The Hellblazer

The Worlds' Finest

WF1: The Bird of Prey - The Huntress (Earth-2)
WF2: The Megaton Bombshell - Power Girl (Earth-2)

The Challengers from Beyond

C1: The Shaman - The Doctor (Earth-14)
C2: The Visionary - Kyle Raynor (Earth-33)
C3: The Heir - Superman (Earth-0 by way of Earth-247)
C4: The Sole Survivor - The Martian Manhunter (Earth-25)
C5: The Troublemaker - The Essential Major Girl (Earth-7)
C6: The Good Shepherd - Boy Blue (Earth-27)
C7: The Valor - M'Onel (Earth-11)

The Titans (East)

TE2: The Wonder - Red Robin/Batman
TE3: The Boisterous Bruiser - Superboy
TE4: The Nova - Starfire
TE5: The Mercurial - Kid Flash
TE6: The Dark Angel - Raven
TE7: The Wild Card - Hotline
TE8: The Smart Guy - The Atom
TE9: The Walking Armory - Red Arrow
TE10: The Earthmover - Terra
TE11: The Lightshow - Solstice
TE12: The Absorbing Man - Grunge
TE13: The Shieldmaiden - The Knight
TE14: The Cadet - Teen Lantern

The Titans (West)

TW1: The Speedball - Silver Bullet
TW2: The Prime - Captain Marvel
TW3: The Witchy Woman - Zatanna
TW4: The Cadet - Teen Lantern
TW5: The Chosen One - Aztek

The Reserves

B1: The Mightiest Mortal - Captain Thunder
B2: The Talented Tenth - Rocket
B3: The Cyborgirl - Bishop
B4: The Champion - Aquaman​

 

[kizkiz]

Looking good

 

[LuckyVic]

I'm in love with death.

 

[Varshanka]

I'm in love with death.

She is Raven's. And Raven is Her's.

 

[LuckyVic]

She is Raven's. And Raven is Her's.

Same goes with Raven.

 

[Varshanka]

Same goes with Raven.

She's mine too.



You can have... beast boy...

 

[LuckyVic]

She's mine too.



You can have... beast boy...

Na not my type lol