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Tell me you're joking...

Cool. Sounds good. I'll give it some thought.

Nice work, Ellen! Reads well, didn't notice any typos or grammar mistakes, and a really great bit of character development for Hannah.

And it's all cute and mushy!

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Basically, I'd like to know absolutely everything there is to know about female superheroes, and how they'd act in varying situations.

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Read comics.

Obvious answer, but what you're asking sounds like you want all your work done for you. You've given no indication of having researched this up to now. Have you actually written fiction of any kind before?

There's an old saying that you should "write what you know." If you don't know, find out. Read, watch TV, find existing material to work from.

If you have questions, by all means ask them. But asking for us to tell you "everything" is either a poor choice of words, or just plain lazy.

Incidentally, is there a reason your character is more attractive after her surgery? In Knight Rider, the main character is shot in the face in the pilot, and the people who save him give him a new face and identity to protect him. From what you've said up to this, it seems that the only reason you have to have her injured and made more attractive is an excuse to have guys hit on her. I assume she looks significantly different after her surgery?

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However, seperating the player from the character isn't always as easy as, say, water and oil. IME, unless there's a set character someone is roleplaying with a pre-set personality

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I personally have no trouble at all seperating myself from my characters. I do empathise very strongly with them, and don't like bad things happening to them. But I know that what's IC stays IC, and bears no reflection on myself or other players as people. At least, it shouldn't.

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Also...you don't RP relationships? Awww.

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Where'd you figure that from? None of us made any comment about RPing relationships. I personally very much enjoy when relationships between characters develop.

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Well, getting hit on was just an example. As, stereotypically, guys hit on girls (which, as many women would tell you, is far from the truth) just as girls shouldn't be, also for example, Super Strong, leaders in the environment, and all the old [censored] that has no place in the world, yet we still see.

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So...what are you asking about, then?

Happy to help, Fire_Guardian.

As regards getting hit on, and my own feelings when it's happened, do you mean IC or OOC? As in, male players who are actually trying to chat up players of female toons, assuming they're female in real life?

I really don't think you can use the treatment of female toons in CoH as a basis for how to model treatment of adult women in a fictional setting. Most of the people who'll want to ogle female toons are going to be teenagers, not adult characters in adult situations.

You seem to be drawing a rather large influence from how you view the perception of women on the internet. The internet allows for anonymity, which breeds ignorance and allows for the expression of very base negative feelings without the danger of reproach.

Do some research, watch some TV shows or movies based in the kind of working environment in which you want to set your story.

You stress that you want to treat your characters as individuals, but that the other characters may not. That's fine. But give a reason for this kind of treatment, thematically, and structurally, beyond "she's a woman." Even gender bias and sexual discrimination has some other foundation than a simple feeling that women are inferior.

A man in an authority position over her who takes issue with her, which can be depicted as gender bias, may feel threatened by her ability, and unable to face that, so he expresses it as a sexual bias. He may be a very dominant, forceful figure, and not broker any challenge to his authority. Maybe it was his father who was the authority figure in his youth, not his mother, and so he learned to associate the male gender with control and authority.

There also doesn't -have- to be gender bias. Not every person needs to be a victim of something to be an interesting character.

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There was meant to be a joke? Okay, can you answer this question (without a sarky response, for a change)?

Which "guys in Atlas" were you talking about?

We all know that Easgate is the Hollows. We're simply not sure what you meant by your comment about people in Atlas Park.

The first thing I'd say is, don't treat your character as a gender. Treat them as a person. Every single person is different, and trying to ascribe to stereotypes will make your character seem false and hollow. Don't think "how is she treated?" Think, "what kind of person is she, how does she present herself? How do those around her view her? What kind of people are they?"

You'll find that the best writers don't tend to try and define their characters by such things as "male" "female" "blonde" "brunette." They're defined by characteristics.

If you want your character to be treated a certain way, go for it. But don't have her treated badly because she's a woman . Have her treated badly because her boss is a jerk , or because she's insecure and can't assert herself.

See what I mean?

I believe that's a resounding "What you talkin' about RC?"

I assume nothing! All this is, is more stuff to research for now.

Like Ellie needs any help getting 200 bodies all over her, the little tra-

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Oh, you didn't mean like that, huh?

It suddenly strikes me that keeping an ongoing thread allows us to arrange stuff a lot better than each of us sending PMs.

So, head of DTR Pharmecuticals, eh?

Guys in Atlas?

I'm just wondering, what do we do if we want our characters to investigate any of the stories, like the warehouse fire or the 200 bodies?

I thought it was happening off-camera and we weren't playing it out?

Actually, the last traps were general security measures, not anything planned for us, otherwise they'd have had tougher protection.

This is a private address.

Why the door if you expect it to be trapped? In fact, why would it be trapped at all?

Personally, I'd go for splitting the window option.

It might be an excuse for Nevermore to finally tell Stargazer to get up off her lazy [censored] and help out!

Nevermore contacts the characters involved in the hospital robberies investigation.

Through information provided by Figment, Nevermore has found the address of a suspect in the robberies. Gina Pelham, one of the doctors listed on the ledger found in the Family warehouse, purchased an old New York ambulance about 8 months ago in an auction, an ambulance believed to have been seen by one of Figment's contacts leaving the hospital in the early morning after the last robbery. The driver was dressed in a baseball cap and bomber jacket, like the perp seen in Nevermore's surveilance footage.

The address listed is in Baumton, and tonight, Nevermore is going in to investigate, bringing any who want to come along. It won't be played out, rather it'll be handled in the background, off-camera, with Ravenswing telling us what we find. However, it'll basically occupy the characters for the duration of GG tonight.

At this rate, we could count as an expo all on our own! Jen and I have TravelInn booked, and the entry tickets. Anyone know when they e-mail the con tickets to you? I didn't choose to have them mailed out.

By now, the Valentine's Event has been finished, so the missions probably don;t exist anymore.

How about we wait until Jen and I have our own place, and then we can spread the load?

Damn, sorry to hear that Warlock! Get thee to Manchester!

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There's a get together in Manchester??