Character Creation, Relationship Map

I was thinking of having the gang be something more... ;) If could be a branch or the remains of a corporation that funded secret military research on supersoldiers, and are now trying to unite them. Is Malachi a defector that is trying to protect the supers from the HQ, is he trying to build a secret army of supersoldier, or is he just using supers as guinea pigs for their secret research?

The way this is going, he is clearly squad's clone and father who is researching on his original and son just to seduce Will because he was dumped by Elizabeth :o

Cloning Veronica sounds like a good idea. There's not enough of her for everyone who wants to bang her...

I was thinking Elizabeth is getting older, she has at least one clone running around... maybe she wants to make a new "sleeve" body into which she can download her mind. Who better than the software developing, AI-friendly, sultry lounge singer?

Is that a good or bad jaw drop?

Am I going too crazy transhumanist AI/digitized mind/new body/clone crazy? With Will's bride being a clone of his mother, I might have got a little overexcited.

Sorry, I just love the idea of characters struggling with identity, humanity, and reality. What makes a person an individual? Will Elizabeth still be herself if her mind is digitized and downloaded into a Veronica body? Will she be someone entirely new? How much of who you are is based on your mind, and how much on your body? How will others reconcile their feelings for you, your body, your mind? What if Will ended up in Veronica's cloned body? Would he still be Will? Would the people who are physically attracted to Veronica still be attracted to Will in Veronica's cloned body, or would the fact that it's a male mind inside the female body change how they feel? What are they really attracted to then, if they are no longer attracted to the same physical body because there is a different mind inside of it?

I love seeing characters grapple with these kinds of issues.

I'm really loving this. And it's the kind of stuff that we wanted to cover but that got a bit lost when I wrote up the setting summary so it's good to put more of it back in the game now in my opinion

What I was going to say... even the plague could be an experiment for all we know!

Well I look at these games as if they are TV shows and I don't really like shows with nothing but villains.

Ah, makes sense.
I'm picturing Richard as a kind of antihero. He has creepy and "evil" powers and is forced to cooperate with groups that he doesn't like or agree with but he himself is a good person who's just trying to help his friends and family, even if he's not perfect.

Like there are several Vampire drama shows where everyone is trying to screw over everyone and it works as far as drama tv, but it's kind of like real life. I want escapism where there are heroes.

I'm being screwed over by Jack but I think only screw over NPCs. And not even any of the ones our characters are attached to. Just the unimportant ones xD

I get that. I used to be super into the everyone is only out for themselves, grimdark stuff as a teenager but nowadays, it's much more interesting if people actually care about each other.
Makes for better drama, too

I think Belladonna is going to go Rebel. It seems to fit more with her character than Foil.

I'm planning on giving Will "Hero". He seems like a perfect tragic hero - crushing on his best friend, being used by people for his money, trying to get out from under his mothers' thumb and foiling her plans, only to end up marrying her clone (the more I think about that, the more yucky it seems.)

Elizabeth's reaction when Will pulls back his bride's veil at the wedding