i don't know how much i've posted about the YHA so I'm going to recap and just post what i know so far.
the YHA was created by Miss M. (Opel MacNamara) she was the head of the MacNamara corporation but stepped down in favor of her brother. She is supposedly training the future leaders of the company. in truth she is funding the Young Heroes Association. the YHA was about to start recruiting when Adam blew up a building her car was passing. she was the one to make the 911 call and she stayed to see it through. in the end the offered him a place to train and to stay and so on. he took the offer on the condition that he get to live richly and so on. she agreed and they got started. just under a month later ( and with Adam still basically in training ) Ben took a joy ride on the Hall carpet. Miss M. recruited him at once and helped cover up the incident. 2 weeks later Miss M. found Criss who had been hospitalized. she was offered membership and since she was having problems with her family and needed a place to stay among other reasons she accepted the offer.one week later Dylan accused Miss M of child endangerment and they blackmailed each other into submission. Dylan ended up joining the group and quickly became the head of the information department.
these are the senior members. later they become known as the first team.
about five months later Miss M. discovers Fey who decides to join the group on the condition that she can finish the school year first. her membership is put on hold as per her request. about a month later Criss is doing sweep of the city and seen Erin playing in a park. he is all alone and using his powers. she tries to stop him from getting himself killed and after he proves he's alright he starts asking her questions and ends up following her back to the hide out where he was recruited. 2 months later Fey joins the team officially. it was about four weeks later that Gavin helped Fey out at a bank heist and he was given the option to join a few days later he took the chance.
that's the history to the present. i do know a few things that are going to happen later but I'll save those for another post.
the reasons for the YHA some statistics:
the ratio of people without powers to people with powers is about 500:15
of those 15, 7 will die before they master their powers. in the group examples are Adam and Criss, both spent time in the hospital before joining the YHA.
3 of the rest will not use their powers because they're not useful or too weak to be any help. an example from the group is Fey. if she hadn't been trained to she would have ignored her power.
3 of the remaining would use their power for their own gain, basically turn evil to one degree or another.
1 of the remaining two would try to become a hero and help people but would fail and most likely die, Erin would have probably ended up in this category if not for the YHA.
only one out of the 15 would have become a recognized hero or use their powers successfully for good. Ben falls into this category.
the age you get the powers is also important. the 'magic age' is between 14 and 27. most people get their powers in that age range.
if you get your powers younger you see them as a part of you and use them without a thought. often people who get their powers younger then 14 use them for their own gain like a selfish child or use their powers in a public way. most people who are in the spotlight and have powers got them young. Erin falls into this category.
if you get you're powers older then 27 then you are set in your ways. most people are either afraid of their own powers and don't use them or start using them for their own gain. only a rare few turn to heroics and try to use their power to help.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Overview
OK I've meant to post more things here but have been away from the computer every time i get a brainwave. so i've been putting all the info in notebooks and such. anyway i'm going to post the profiles of my seven Heroes and Miss M. here soon
the other thing is that I've got most of their histories hashed out now and i know all their powers and today they let me in on the big overall plot-line so we are good.
several things i still need to work on are the Rogues and the City. I've decided to use an old story idea as the history of this universe. That gives the world a bit more history and heroes of the past to live up to and in one case maybe meet. it also gives me some villains to bring in that i made for the other story. keep in mind this is several hundred years later but the ideas never actually got used so i can just change the motivation and back-story and be good. there was also a cult in the original which i can easily bring back.
the old idea also has given me the name of the city.
Star City: named after one of the Heroes from the original idea. she helped bring the world back from the brink. she might still be around because of the nature of her powers but i haven't decided yet. if she does come back she will be much changed from the original. her hero name was Stardust hence Star city. it is now known as the western capital of the New U. S. A. (there is still an eastern capital but i have yet to hash out the details. )
the look of the city is what i've been working on but there are so many ideas going through my head it's been hard to stay on topic.
the other thing is that I've got most of their histories hashed out now and i know all their powers and today they let me in on the big overall plot-line so we are good.
several things i still need to work on are the Rogues and the City. I've decided to use an old story idea as the history of this universe. That gives the world a bit more history and heroes of the past to live up to and in one case maybe meet. it also gives me some villains to bring in that i made for the other story. keep in mind this is several hundred years later but the ideas never actually got used so i can just change the motivation and back-story and be good. there was also a cult in the original which i can easily bring back.
the old idea also has given me the name of the city.
Star City: named after one of the Heroes from the original idea. she helped bring the world back from the brink. she might still be around because of the nature of her powers but i haven't decided yet. if she does come back she will be much changed from the original. her hero name was Stardust hence Star city. it is now known as the western capital of the New U. S. A. (there is still an eastern capital but i have yet to hash out the details. )
the look of the city is what i've been working on but there are so many ideas going through my head it's been hard to stay on topic.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
ideas
once i get started thinking i get a lot of ideas all at once so i'm going to put some of them down here so i don't forget.
since i want to do superheroes research the publishers, as well as the distributors. see if you can interview people in the industry, make connections. possibly split the website in half, half on the heroes half on the comics and distributing and Conventions and so on. don't forget about the conventions. see what smaller publishers have to say verses the big guys.
on another note,
what does it take to make a hero: part of the site on the process, initial sketches, ideas, all that.
Plan things out then decide on how to do it. don't pull punches. this is big make it fantastic. don't settle for anything less.
since i want to do superheroes research the publishers, as well as the distributors. see if you can interview people in the industry, make connections. possibly split the website in half, half on the heroes half on the comics and distributing and Conventions and so on. don't forget about the conventions. see what smaller publishers have to say verses the big guys.
on another note,
what does it take to make a hero: part of the site on the process, initial sketches, ideas, all that.
Plan things out then decide on how to do it. don't pull punches. this is big make it fantastic. don't settle for anything less.
reserch
considering all my Senior project ideas have to do with super heroes I've been reading a lot of hero comics and watching a lot of hero shows.
I love research.
OK so what i've been watching so far is:
batman the animated series
Batman the brave and the bold
Ben 10
justice League
reading original green lantern comics
Others on my list are:
superman the animated series
superman doomsday
Green lantern first flight
Teen Titans
unbreakable
there are some others but they aren't coming to mind at the moment.
I love research.
OK so what i've been watching so far is:
batman the animated series
Batman the brave and the bold
Ben 10
justice League
reading original green lantern comics
Others on my list are:
superman the animated series
superman doomsday
Green lantern first flight
Teen Titans
unbreakable
there are some others but they aren't coming to mind at the moment.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
a friends blog
my friend just started a blog called 4th level Bard so i thought i'd link to it.
http://4thlevelbard.blogspot.com/
http://4thlevelbard.blogspot.com/
Thursday, June 10, 2010
an idea
i had an idea a while back and i've been toying with it ever since
A Website that looks like a video game, but is still a website in that it navigates like one or something see that's where it gets hazy. just wanted to post this.
A Website that looks like a video game, but is still a website in that it navigates like one or something see that's where it gets hazy. just wanted to post this.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Senior project
i've been thinking off and on about what i should do for my senior project and though i still don't really know what i want to do i thought i should post some of my ideas.
#1: an idea i came up with a while back was to create an obstical course for the YHA. there would be different obstacles that could be put in different orders. i would have different animations for each hero, and for each obstacle. the trick would be to get them to play one after the other so it looks like one unit, and having the order change depending on what obstacle is up. the thing about that would be the time to do all the animations, and the fact that it would be almost all in flash.
#2: then i got this image into my head. it's the interior of an elevator and there's a panel that asks for authorization, a name and password. i like how that would work for the CS side. that led me to remember a scene from Myst where you're in an elevator and the whole thing with looking for keys and all that. that worked. i think i could make something like that only in the YH tower. that would be more CSish, more programing at least. i could even build some of it in Maya. as well as use flash and photoshop.
right now the YHA is what i'm working on and i think i could use them in the project since they will probably still be interesting to me next winter. more on them later.
#1: an idea i came up with a while back was to create an obstical course for the YHA. there would be different obstacles that could be put in different orders. i would have different animations for each hero, and for each obstacle. the trick would be to get them to play one after the other so it looks like one unit, and having the order change depending on what obstacle is up. the thing about that would be the time to do all the animations, and the fact that it would be almost all in flash.
#2: then i got this image into my head. it's the interior of an elevator and there's a panel that asks for authorization, a name and password. i like how that would work for the CS side. that led me to remember a scene from Myst where you're in an elevator and the whole thing with looking for keys and all that. that worked. i think i could make something like that only in the YH tower. that would be more CSish, more programing at least. i could even build some of it in Maya. as well as use flash and photoshop.
right now the YHA is what i'm working on and i think i could use them in the project since they will probably still be interesting to me next winter. more on them later.
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