Sandbox / Spottedleaf

A place for me to plan out stuff I want to write.

Specifically:

Earth- 58

Tropes describing Earth 58 are as follows:

• Action Mom: Moira Queen, who's this world's version of the Green Arrow.
• Amazon Brigade: Moira Queen's team consists entirely of women: Helena Bertinelli/Huntress, Thea Queen/Red Arrow, Nyssa al Ghul, Cindy/Sin, and Laurel Lance/Black Canary.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • In Arrow, Moira Queen is an ordinary woman with no particular combat prowess. Here, she's a vigilante and is in peak physical condition.
  • The Earth-1 Felicity Smoak isn't even a Badass Normal- she essentially serves as Team Arrow's Mission Control. Her Earth-58 counterpart, on the other hand, is a powerful Technopath.

• Adaptational Heroism:
  • A weird recursive example. In the comics, Helena Bertinelli, while ruthless at times, is still a heroic character; however, Arrow portrayed her as a villain, albeit a sympathetic one. Here, she's once again on the side of good, and a member of Moira Queen/Green Arrow's team.
  • Nyssa al Ghul, aka Nyssa Raatko, is typically cast as an extemist who hates her father, Ra's al Ghul; at one point, she repeatedly killed and revived her sister Talia, in hopes she could get Talia to kill Ra's. Arrow made her a more sympathetic character, though she still had villainous traits. Here, Nyssa genuinely believes the League is evil and is trying to disband it- but has a genuinely good relationship with Talia, has a strict moral code, and is unambiguously good-aligned (though she falls under Good Is Not Nice and Good Is Not Soft). Interestingly enough, despite having been fully trained as an assassin, she only kills in self-defense or to protect others.
  • Siobhan Smythe, aka Silver Banshee, is a much more heroic character here. However, due to her specific power set (a sonic cry that can cause instantaneous death), she's often feared, and she's still not exactly the nicest person.

• Adaptational Sexuality: In the main Arrowverse continuity, Nyssa al Ghul is a lesbian. This version of her is bisexual.

• Adaptational Villainy: In the main series of Arrow, Felicity Smoak is a nerdy IT girl and an ally of the Arrow. Here, Megan Smoak is a villainous Technopath who's out to exact revenge on people who made fun of her. Downplayed, however, as she's later Reformed, but Not Tamed.

• Adaptational Wimp: In Arrow, and in most of the comics, Oliver Queen is in peak human physical condition, and is the vigilante known as the Green Arrow. Here, he's just a regular dude.

• Bad Powers, Good People: Siobhan Smythe/Silver Banshee's cry can instantly kill you if she knows your real name. She's still a heroic character, though like the aforementioned Huntress, she's a definite case of Good Is Not Nice.

• Five-Man Band: Moira's team fits this quite well, with:
  • The Leader: Moira Queen/Green Arrow
  • The Lancer: Thea Queen/Red Arrow
  • The Big Guy: Helena Bertinelli/Huntress
  • The Smart Guy: Cindy/Sin
  • The Heart: Laurel Lance/Black Canary
  • The Sixth Ranger: Nyssa al Ghul

• Horrifying Hero: In addition to her previously mentioned powers, Siobhan Smythe also has permanent markings on her face that resemble a skull, ghostly white skin, messy silver hair, and sometimes speaks with the Voice of the Legion.

• Horror Hunger: Caitlin develops an intense craving for organic heat, which she drains from her victim's bodies. The process ends up being fatal to the people who captured her, though she later learns that all the time she spends huddling with Cisco for warmth is enough to keep her sated.

• I Call It "Vera": Sin has dubbed her baseball bat "Lucille."

• An Ice Person: Caitlin Snow becomes this after an "accident" turns her into a heat vampire. She can absorb heat- in fact, she has to in order to survive- and create and manipulate ice.

• It's All My Fault: Caitlin blames herself for the death/stillbirth of her first child.

• Make It Look Like an Accident: A group of people from HIVE try to kill Caitlin by making it seem like she accidentally froze to death in her own machine. It doesn't end up working out very well for then, as it instead turns her into a heat vampire.

• Mama Bear: Like her Earth-1 self, Moira Queen is fiercely protective of her two children, Oliver and Thea. However, the Earth-58 Moira's also her world's version of the Green Arrow, and has extensive combat training- which means anyone who hurts her babies will have hell to pay.

• Official Couple: Several, including:
  • Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow. They were even expecting their first child prior to the accident that turned Caitlin into a heat vampire.
  • Nyssa al Ghul and Tommy Merlyn, much to the dismay of their respective fathers.

• Pair the Suitors: Nyssa and Tommy both harbor affections for the Earth-58 Sara Lance. Eventually, they fall for each other instead.

• Reformed, but Not Tamed: Even after she stops targeting those who she believed wronged her, Megan Smoak still carries a lot of resentment. Though she becomes an ally of Cisco and Caitlin's, her methods are often more extreme than they'd like, and she can still be petty and vengeful. However, they still regard her as a valuable ally and, more importantly, a friend, and she's making a genuine effort to be a better person.

• Shout-Out: Laurel at one point trains two young teenage girls who both have sonic cries. Their codenames? Green Finch and Linnet Bird.
  • Sin's weapon of choice is a baseball bat. She calls it Lucille.

• Team Mom: Moira is rather motherly to her team members, essentially taking troubled souls like Helena under her wing. Justified, as most of them are younger than her and one of them, Thea Queen/Red Arrow, really is her daughter.

• Technopath: Megan Smoak, who can hack any internet-connected device with her mind.

• Tragic Stillbirth: Caitlin and Cisco's first son is stillborn; her internal body temperature was no longer warm enough to keep him alive, and he froze to death. Caitlin blames herself, insisting she should have been able to do something to save him.

For characters and teams, see Earth 58 Characters.

Bloody - The Mary Tudor Musical

A musical biography in the vein of Hamilton or Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson- specifically about "Bloody" Mary Tudor.

• Abusive Parents: Henry VIII serves as this to Mary, as in real life.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience:
  • Mary's signature colors are black and dark purple, with the former making up more and more of her wardrobe as the show progresses.
  • Catherine of Aragon is usually shown dressed in gold.
  • "Five Stepmothers" gives the wives of Henry VIII their signature colors from Six: green for Anne Boleyn, white for Jane Seymour, red for Anne of Cleves, pink for Katherine Howard, and blue for Catherine Parr.
  • Lady Jane Grey is associated with ...gray.
  • Elizabeth I is usually dressed in lavender in contrast with Mary's darker purples.
• Death Song: Several:
  • "Above All Things" for Catherine of Aragon, which also acts as a Distant Duet between her and Mary.
  • "I Understand" acts as one for Lady Jane Grey as she is led to the chopping block.
• Innocent Soprano: Played with. Mary starts off innocent but it's a Foregone Conclusion that by the end of the show she will be anything but. Lady Jane Grey, on the other hand, is portrayed as an alto and as something of The Ingenue.
  • Downplayed with Catherine of Aragon, who's also a soprano. She's portrayed as Purity Personified but she's headstrong and certainly not naïve.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: After Catherine of Aragon's death, Mary begins to see her ghost- or possibly a hallucination of her ghost. It's deliberately left ambiguous, with some evidence pointing towards the latter (Mary is the only one who ever sees Catherine's ghost) and some pointing to the former (as Catherine tells Mary that she's taking things too far in her persecution of Protestants.)
• List Song: "Five Stepmothers", which serves as a crash-course on... Mary's five stepmothers.
• Parental Love Song: Early in Act One we get one from Catherine of Aragon to a young Mary entitled "Little Pearl". It later gets a Dark Reprise when Mary experiences a phantom pregnancy.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain : The musical begins with her as a sweet young girl and shows how her trauma eventually shapes her into the infamous "Bloody Mary".
• Shout-Out:
  • To Six:
    • The queens are nearly always dressed in their signature colors.