Comic Brainstorming

[Quadhouse]

Will their powers be kinetic as well?

[Prophet Tenebrae]

Might I suggest a Dark Organisation Agent?

Nexus:

Female, 19,

Normal: 5'4", plain, pale, black hair, green eyes, scrawny, undersexed, kind of creepy (think girl from FEAR when she's finished high school)

Powered: 6'4+ (varies), striking, tanned, eyes are entirely yellow, yellow hair, emits a visible aura that is (gasp) yellow, very pneumatic figure, extremely sexual and very toned.

Nexus was one of the first subjects to join the programme voluntairily. She was eager to receive more power... but the results of her treatment didnt' go quite as planned. Instead of regulation powers, she gained the ability to draw on the sexual energy of those around her.

With practice, she was eventually able to harness this energy and use it to augment herself physically and mentally. The process works by Nexus (real name Viktoria) sending out gentle waves to stimulate arousal within all of those in a 10km radius (that's her current limit, it may increase further). She is then able to harvest the subsequent arousal and uses it to grow to her powered up form.

Powered up she enjoys increased speed, strength, durability and limited telekinetics. Her greatest ability though is a psychic attack that can incapicitate an enemy by sending them into their own dearest sexual fantasy.

Just a suggestion.

[Grumpy]

I have an idea that could work but that depends on how you think of violence in comics and how much you want to work with it. So far it feels like there's mostly story and more positive elements for the reader. Ain't it better to add some negative things to wager so it doesn't get boring in the long run? For example (not the best way to compare), I'll give you a plate with some really hot and tasty mexican food. You'll eat and eat but after a while it starts to feel bad because you don't have something to drink. Add a coke and it feels as deliciously as from the start. In this case the mexican food is your comic as it is now and the coke is what wagers it up.

So what's the coke you might ask? So far you guys have been talking about this Biokinesis and all the positive possibilities around it. What do you think of her powers getting out of hand sometimes. A really overused but still working way of doing it would be when she's in a life-threatning situation or when she's overly confused.

So in short; Subi might be cornered by an enemy or the like and have no way to get out. By all the emotional flow and such the power gets out of hand starting to expand, mutilate, drain and transform the body of the enemy in horrible ways. Some might be drained to just skin and bone, some might implode or even explode etc. etc. etc. It's a really gross way of adding that 'coke' but the coke is still needed sometimes.

Well, that's my ideas so far. I've been too lazy to read this thread through before but now I did. Hope the tip might come in handy.

Over and out~

P.S.
If you would consider adding that coke, please add it a bit away from the more 'arousing' parts. It's not fun having something 'good' one page and the next page have material that make you puke. ;P

[Sutibaru]

I don't think I am going to pull an Akira with Subi's powers going out of hand, but she will probably get out of hand at least once because she doesn't have full contol over it.

Yes I think I will have violence in it. I haven't thought of how much there will be yet though. I suppose I will tone it down a bit so that it doesn't turn too many people away.

I haven't thought too far of how Subi will fight off her enemies. Whether she will maniputate them with her powers or she will change herself in a way to fight them.

Perhapse Subi will steal the powers of the enemies...

[Sutibaru]

I thought that I might as well post my final character design of Subi-Chan. Full body shot. ^_^

(Still working on drawing so the structure is still not perfect)

[SoylentOrange]

If you're talking Combat, biokenesis could have an extremely wide variety of applications. If we're talking self-enhancement, there's the standard muscle growth, or if you wanted to get creative, you could just give subi the ability to selectively grow certain parts- an extra-big arm could pack quite a wallop (Think fiddler crabs) or maybe extra-big legs to make for exra-long strides when running away. As for using biokenesis directly on a foe, she could stimulate fat growth, literally pinning her enemies under their own weight, or if you really wanted to lay down the hurt she could physically boil their blood- not a nice way to go, but quite effective.

Of course, you can adapt this to the cliches of the genre- telekenetic orgasms, BE'd to immobility, etc.- but you could really put up a good fight with well-applied biokenesis if you wanted to, that's for sure.

EDIT: Oh, and nice pic of Subi. Can't wait to see what comes of this...

[SoylentOrange]

Oh, one thing you need to know about Emeralds, Suti- They're very susceptible to cracking and shearing. Even though the emerald itself won't be destroyed easily (It's an 8 out of 10 on the Mohs scale of hardness, and Diamonds are 10) it is very possible to wind up with emerald pieces if it gets hit the wrong way. Even the best cut emeralds usually have cracks in them if they're over a carat. (Even the most valuable emerald in the world, the Hooker Emerald at the SMithsonian, has an inch-long crack running through the lower left.) So if emeralds are the source of her power, that could make for a nice dramatic moment- Subi takes a tumble in a fight, and finds out her powers are weakening. To her horror, the fall cracked an emerald out of some piece of jewelery and the stone fell out of the setting, causing her to have to recover the emerald in order to get power from it. Also, Columbia is the largest exporter of Emeralds, if that might be useful.

Good luck on the comic, hope that helps!

[TGJunkie]

I have a couple questions that I thought I might pose to you Subi, since I think that thinking about these things might help develop the story.

Who is this evil government organization? Is it part of a conspiracy reaching up into the highest levels of the military +/or government? Or is it that the Research director has taken the project in a direction it was never meant to go? Personally, I would've made it a privately owned research facility, not a government one. What I'm really asking here, is what is their motivation for performing these "evil" experiments? Presumably they have some kind of objective.

The other question is: "What is the setting for this story?" Will it be in recent past, the present, the near future, the distant future? Will it take place in an imaginary world, or will it be earth? If it's Earth, then will the story take place in America, Japan, Canada, Europe, or somewhere else? I feel like bashing the Japanese and US governments has been done to death. Personally, I'm picturing an unspecified country and a fictional city set in the near future of a planet that might be Earth, but might not be and is never specified in the story. This would allow the maximum creative possibilities, but at the same time the story might end up seeming a bit unrealistic.

The more bizarre/foreign/unusual the setting is, the better (in my opinion). That's why I love medival/ancient settings and futuristic sci-fi settings, and stories set in other countries where things are different. After all, the grass is always greener somewhere else.

[Prophet Tenebrae]

How about one time she's fighting, her opponent works out/knows the emerald is enhancing Subi's power so they shatter it.

Unfortunately for them, the shards go straight into Subi and make her even more powerful than before.

[Sutibaru]

TGJunkie, to answer your question, the world is probably be in a futuristic world. I like originality, so it is not going to take place in a place that we know. I am not going into any government. They will not have to do with the story. (Plus I cannot stand the government)

The organization she is against is going to be a bit of a mystery. Remember I am going to have a story here, so I cannot ruin everything right?

All Subi knows is that she is getting powers and people are appearing to capture her.


I have not thought of what kind of future it will be. Post modern, cyberpunk, post-apoalyptic? I am going to sketch down some visuals of buildings and landscape.

[Grumpy]

I understand what you mean by 'not pulling an Akira'. ;P

Nice design there as well Subi. I almost want to do a fanart already. xD;

[Fake_Name]

I dunno, but i am a big fan of cyberpunk type novels.