OPTIC BLAST!

[evenslimmer]

Hi everyone! Fresh meat here. I'm Glass, and I'm bringing in Scott Summers, aka Cyclops, from Marvel Comics.



100% the real and original Scott Summers, quite literally, since he's the 18-year-old version just starting out as leader of the X-Men. Stiff guy, kind of serious, idealistic. Then his whole life was derailed because it's a good idea to break all of time and space just so you can stick it to your ex-friend by making him confront his younger self (thanks blue furry Hank) and he got dragged into the present. So he's left getting up to speed on why bottled water costs so much in the future, why did I grow up to be someone everyone hates, etc. For those unfamiliar with X-Men mythos Scott's mutant power is the ability to blast bright red concussive force from his eyes, with a catch— he can't ever turn it off. He's immune to himself but the rest of the world isn't, so he has to constantly keep his visor or glasses made of ruby-quartz on to keep from demolishing everything he sees, or go around with his eyes closed forever.

I am generally available on plurk at ohmygodbees or available through PMs to Scott's journal. Looking forward to playing with you all!

Comments

[winces]

ahh yay, i'm so happy you got in! :D it's nice to meet you, glass, i'm lena! i really enjoyed our thread, so i'm excited to continue their cr in-game!

[evenslimmer]

Ah so did you! It's nice to meet you Lena. I thought that thread was incredibly adorable, it was only missing a moment where he tries to awkwardly hug as though this will somehow make her feel better (which has not worked the one time he tried it in canon.)

I will hit you up in-game first opportunity I get!

[winces]

OH MY GOD i am so sorry that never happened... you owe me this now, i need it. olivia will be so awkward about it BUT IF IT MAKES HIM FEEL BETTER she will roll with it lfmskks what awkward cuties, tbh.

yes, yes, pls do!! i plan to toss olivia in the jailbreak log when i wake up tomorrow...!

[evenslimmer]

He tried really hard, okay.

Cool, cool, I will see you there!

[winces]

oh my god that has to be the most precious thing.... scott!! how dare you

[selfimage]

he's so glad scoot doesn't remember him. tiny scoot, full of blasts.

[evenslimmer]

tiny scoot didn't even know mystique was a bad guy so like...sorry loki he's never even heard of you?

[selfimage]

slowly takes scoots arm

RUBS UP AGAINST HIM

[evenslimmer]

no thnx still in love with jean grey

or wolverine's clone

or hot space girls

[selfimage]

hot space loki?

[evenslimmer]

unsure if want

[burdenoftruth]

OH YAY I'm glad to be in a game with your Scott again :> I'm sorry i wasn't able to continue our TDM thread. The holiday ended up distracting me and then I got sick. ;; But I am looking forward to threading with you in game.

[evenslimmer]

Oh man it's totally fine! I've been caught in the slog of trying to grade and get all my work done right down to the wire and I was also incredibly busy and distracted.

I will kind of miss that they can't have serious conversations about wtf Starbucks, though. I mean I'm pretty sure there are no lattes here.

[burdenoftruth]

hahaha yes that is true

though on the other hand I'm sure they'll find other things to wtf about here.

[strictdiscipline]

i'm hella behind on anxm but baby scott, what a cute. gently smushes his cheeks.

but welcome to futurology! :D i'm val, i play riza hawkeye from fma, and i super look forward to seeing scott around and tagging with you!

[evenslimmer]

Oooh where did you stop? I feel like such a loner sometimes keeping up with the ongoing X-Men stuff, a bunch of people I know refuse to read it. (They just restarted the book too, it is full of Scott Summers angst, I was deeply amused.)

It's nice to meet you Val! Hopefully we can get some threads going soon.

[strictdiscipline]

after the first few issues, unfortunately! so like....not far at all, whoops. i took a break from dc and marvel for a while since i wasn't happy with the direction they were taking most of their comics but i've been slowly picking things here and there so maybe i'll be able to catch up on some older stuff i gave up on during my inelegant ragequit.

[evenslimmer]

Having ragequit a couple of series myself and totally walked away from DC after they fucked up Batcontinuity, I completely understand. Though I think ANXM was pretty good and largely free of some of those issues (unless you are super opposed to Teen Jean, which I did not realize was a big deal before I read the series and then realized there's a vocal hatefandom for her)

But I personally appreciate not having to read a billion issues to play a version of Scott that I like because I get tired of reading 1000+ comics just to be canon-fluent for some of the characters I like. I am not even going to pretend it's not nice to not have 50 years of baggage for once.

[strictdiscipline]

i'll have to dive back into ANXM then!

also i feel you on continuity - i played barry allen from preboot dc comics awhile back and trying to even skim through all the stuff he'd been in was torture. i pretty much decided afterwards that i'd never play anyone from comics with more than about 100 issues of canon to their name.

[evenslimmer]

Holy crap Barry Allen would be such a huge mountain of comics, I don't blame you in the slightest.

[strictdiscipline]

haha i had a good time with him and a great cast but yeah, never again

[kamiizumi]

Hi, I'm Sam! I enjoyed Scott on the test drive and I would love to continue some sort of CR with uptight mutant leaderguys.

[evenslimmer]

Hell yeah we can do that! Sorry I didn't get back to our thread, but it's been a busy week for me. Scott will not hold the stalking against Leo.

[kamiizumi]

It's cool, November kicked my butt so I totally understand. (And Leo will appreciate this. No harm meant, but he absolutely was raised in a barn. Sewer. w/e.)

[whereismypie]

hello! so our tdm thread was short but cute, i hope we'll be able to pick up cr where we left off :3 and IDK, GO PLACES.

[evenslimmer]

Well at the very least Dean needs to explain Harry Potter and Scott has to tell them one of his professors was a mutant sorcerer who was queen of Limbo

[whereismypie]

ngl he will not know what to do with that information

[evenslimmer]

Professor Illyana is a cool person, don't hate Dean. She has good taste in hamburgers

[whereismypie]

if she knows what makes a good hamburger, then ...

she might be of interest.

[evenslimmer]

so I recognize Supernatural has some crazy ass plot armor because they have no show if Sam and Dean can't come back from the dead and angst about it twice a season but Dean Illyana Rasputin would eat you alive

[whereismypie]

(pls, everyone would eat Dean alive if not for his uncanny ability to make Very Powerful Frands who prefer him not dead for idk —look this is Spn making sense was never in the plot description)

[evenslimmer]

I also just basically described the plots of half of all X-Men arcs too come to think of it

[whereismypie]

points at you and laughs

[jamminshield]

Welcome to the game! I'm Gore, and I currently have Steven Universe here. I'm glad to see a Scott around and I hope that you have a great time here!

[evenslimmer]

"Cinnamon biscuit", not "cinnamon roll"?

I'm super excited to be here! This is my first game since I took an RP break for work-related reasons. Also from my limited understanding of Steve Universe Steven is a super cutie, so I hope you won't mind if I hit you up for some CR somewhere down the road.

[jamminshield]

Haha yes, it's because of an episode in the show where he compares himself to a biscuit IT MAKES MORE SENSE IN CONTEXT

Ooh awesome! Well I hope this works out for you. And CR would certainly be awesome! I actually happened to check your Permissions post, and since Steven seems to have some familarity with a lot of modern day media, would it be okay for him to know some X-Men? He won't really let on that he knows out loud, he'll just.. silently fanboy.

[evenslimmer]

OH YEAH TOTALLY. Scott is used to being recognized by now because of the relative fame (or infamy) of his older self, so as long as it's not like "hey did you know you're a comic book character" to his face I am cool with it!

Though to be fair "hey you're a comic book character" would probably not even be in the top ten of the weirdest things that have happened to the X-Men

[jamminshield]

Sweet! And yes, I'm totally fine with that. I was thinking of playing it low-key and having him keep it mostly to himself anyway!

And haha yes that is a very good point in itself

[adoube]

........you know, I always wondered, like. Do Scott's laz0r beams ever get reflected back at him.......... /squints at dat physics

OTHER THAN MY BRIEF FORAY INTO FAUX SCIENCE, hello, friend, welcome to Futurology!

[evenslimmer]

I mean they can be reflected but he's immune to his own powers, so he can't be hurt with them. Which is why closing his eyes when he loses his glasses works to keep it contained! They established at some point that he just sort of...reabsorbs the energy...

FAUX SCIENCE IS FUN I'm a geneticist so actually playing an X-Man is kind of a headache for me sometimes BUT IT'S NICE TO BE HERE I'M SUPER EXCITED