This superhero idea I've been kicking around...

Yeah, an Asian fetish is the number-one red flag for me when I look at white supremacists. (It's a red-flag for me in general, but given the state of America, there's a damn high correlation between "white supremacist" and "Asian-fetish.")

Also, if the white-supremacist isn't an Otaku, they swing in the other direction and basically hate Asian CULTURE—they don't want to learn Asian languages or holidays or customs, they just want to bang an Asian (most likely an Americanized [or insert-country-the-Asian's-parents-immigrated-to]) and say it makes them "not racist."

edited 12th Mar '18 6:40:31 PM by Sharysa

I am sure that is a red flag, for curiosity, you are a asian woman? Becuase it sounds like you are talking from experience.

I remember reading a really, really dreadful article from a dating site that basically define the cringe of asian fetishism. How much? The article said that only the "ones with a deep soul and analitical spirit" can have asian fetish, sorry, passion.The highschool jocks arent interesed on asians because they are too stupid and "waste their time" with the blonde cheeleaders.

Also, the deep white males arent searching asian girls because their culture, but because they defy it.

Seriously. I still want to read that article. Is amazing how it manages to offend so many groups at once.

edited 12th Mar '18 7:26:33 PM by KazuyaProta

R/Justneckbeardthings.

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Anyway, speaking of Asians, I think I finally settled on something for The Heart that doesn't play to stereotypes:

Not only is she The Empath, which is downplayed, and not only does she have Emotion Control, but she can control any feeling. Meaning she can make people fall in love, make villans have a heel realization as they're attacking, or once she masters her power, induce full on speaking-in-tongues religious fervor in anyone she wants.

...Or she could cripple you with fear. Or make you feel like fire ants are stinging every inch of your body. She just chooses not to.

She comes from a background of neuroscience (subverting the tiger mom trope, she's actually made her family very proud), and she's used her power to study emotions. Her empath traits are downplayed because, unlike the ones who fall over crying when confronted with evil, she just uses it as an early warning system, but can stay cool.

Personality would be an Anti-Nihilist Deadpan Snarker. She's researched and seen the best and worst of human nature, and is above letting a mere villain affect her too much.

I'm still not sure what her outfit design would be, but it'd change colors like a multi-hued version of Rorshach's mask according to her mood.

I also came up with the following exchange:

edited 13th Mar '18 8:14:27 AM by Wheezy

Dunno, that stills plays in the idea that asians have only two emotions, being pure cold or pure warm (either warm in a good way or rage fit Yellow Peril). Asian girl with Emotion Control still sounds too stereotypical. The history of anti asian racism is seriously amazing.

Also, I wish having found the article in r/Justneckbeardsthings, not outside of it.

edited 13th Mar '18 9:13:31 AM by KazuyaProta

Like I said, I'm not aiming at avoiding all stereotypes completely, but instead playing with them.

edited 13th Mar '18 9:17:55 AM by Wheezy

The issue is that "asians have emotional powers" is a common stereotype of the past. You can work with it, but I recommend be really careful.

Also, for curiosity, I can PM you for tips from my own work?

edited 13th Mar '18 9:21:19 AM by KazuyaProta

I've never seen that done in Western fiction before, and the Emotion Control page isn't bringing up anything, and neither is National Sterotypes/Asia. Could you name some examples?

Also, yes.

edited 13th Mar '18 9:40:28 AM by Wheezy

Is part of the Inscrutable Oriental and Asian Airhead. I think that you could use it if you had another (east) asian in the setting. Do you have more?

Side characters.

re: asian girl

seems understandable why that maybe racist ( a bit off topic but sharysa, do you hate anime? or like some that aren't overly japanese like cowboy bebop?).

i think the idea is interesting to say the least and it's nice to have some nigeria representation every now and again.

I don’t hate anime—I hate how whenever a non-Asian writes an Asian/Asian-American character, they will inevitably draw from anime for inspiration.

Unless they know actual Asians who already told them “you know, we like WESTERN stuff, too.”

Update: Names! I'm thinking of naming the Super Team "Evolution" (Or "Evolve," or "Evolv" if I want to go for an internet naming cliche parody), because I wanted it to be kind of a vauge, corporate buzzword term.

I've come up with the real names for the Five-Man Band...

• The Leader: Alex Heller
• The Lancer: Santiago Rios
• The Smart Guy: Tevon Miller
• The Big Girl: Mara Deschine
• The Heart: Lisa Yun

...But I don't have any idea what their codenames would be, or a working title for the comic itself. It's definitely not getting named after the team.

The Villain's code name is Ironside. (After the Swedish king, not the show.) Real name's unimportant, so I'll come up with that whenever.

Other side characters:

• Ashaar (A black Muslim Vigilante Man Anti-Hero.)
• The Unknown (A shapeshifting mob hitman who operates all over the metro area)
• Dana Day (née Fitzpatrick. Ironside's dragon, and Light Is Not Good in human form)

Other random super names I haven't assigned characters to yet include La Hire, Spearhead, Cujo, Liberator, mute., and an in-universe parody hero named Punchout. (He only does one thing.)

The official term for powers is "specialties," and the 1/3 of the population who's born with them are "specials." However, it takes years of training to master them^note outside of the occasional case of it showing up fully formed as an adult, like Mara, although that's why her power comes at such a high price, at which point, they're called "powers" and their users "supers," as usual.

Specialties are classed according to the Greek alphabet. Alpha = "Can move a salt shaker about half an inch with your mind before needing a nap." Omega = Reality Warper.

As a sidenote, I'm thinking of calling the series "City of [Something]" if I can find a good "something," since the setting is so important to the story. As a sidenote sidenote, one thing I'm planning to deconstruct is Hero Insurance: due to all the super violence, LA never left the early 90's, and when a super war breaks out later in the story, parts of the city start to resemble the end of Children of Men.

Working on a full plot outline, but it's pretty long, so that'll be some other time.

edited 16th Mar '18 10:48:46 PM by Wheezy

Update:

We have a full plot outline!

It's very long! (5,000 words!) It has a strange name!

If anyone makes it through, any feedback would be appreciated.

edited 22nd Mar '18 6:15:29 AM by Wheezy