Meet The Pale American!

Hello heroes! Well, my altitis is acting up recently but I may have just found my next 50.

This character came about from a few different sources. The first is the weekly costume contests that have just started (TYTY Green Regis ). I was pondering the topic of restrictions in these contests and how they limited people to using certain costume pieces etc. In an effort to put some sort of restriction on a contest but NOT restrict the choice of pieces I hit upon the idea to limit the CONCEPT not the costume. Meaning one week you could host a contest to creat your best Atlantian, the next week you create an animal hybrid etc. This would allow all the costume choices but still put some restraints that the creator had to work under.

"So what's that gotta do with your new scrapper Dru?"

Hehe, weelll. I asked myself what type of concept I would like to see people develope. I think Patriotic heroes are cool but I'll be the first to admit that they are prolific to say the least. So I thought, What about your best patriotic VILLAIN. It has been done yes, (insert George Bush joke here) but it's still a pretty fresh idea.

I have also been wanting to play around with Dark Armor a bit. I can't really get into the villain mindset though. Just not my thing being evil. I can get into those heroes that walk the line between good and bad though (Moon Knight).

So there you have it! That's how

The Pale American

was born. And I love him! No bio as of yet but I'll work on it. I kinda wanna stay away from the whole military thing. That has tremendous synergy with patriotic heroes but it's been done to death,from Cap to Spawn to the Patriot. If anyone has any ideas to get the old creative juice flowing please don't hesitate to post!

and thanks for looking!

Neato

I love the use of the top with circl emblem plus the star inside.

Oh that's very good, very good indeed.

Great look, love it. Hope he works out for you

As for bio ideas, how about a guy falling in with the wrong crowd. Like an over patriotic person who joined in with an extreme militant group. A tragic event makes him realize the errors of his way. Confronts the militant group, he gets beaten and left for dead. Manages to survive and then dons a costume to fight back the evil that he almost became.

He could be someone who believes fantically that America is the best country on earth, but that it's sick with crime and evil, and it's his job to clean it up the hard way. That's kind of a punisher/cap cross for ya there.

That costume looks fantastic, btw.

As awesome as that is... it reminds me too much of Marvels TaskMaster...

Awesome toon though!

Thanks for the nice replies guys! I have a bio firmly in mind now but am running a bit short on time tonight. I'll get it posted soon though .

As for the Taskmaster. it's funny you mention him. I have always really dug his and Deathstroke's costume ( I always seem to lump those two together conceptually). It occured to me that he looks a lot like him also but it was entirely accidental. Just sorta developed that way.

More to come!




P.S. Unknown User, please change your avatar. It keeps me up at night.

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Well I guess seeing a visage of death would be unsettling. How about clowns, everybody loves clowns

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Well I guess seeing a visage of death would be unsettling. How about clowns, everybody loves clowns

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GaaahhhHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*runs out of thread screaming*

Isn't that Heath Ledger as the Joker in the upcoming film?

/threadjacked.

Well todays maintenance has given me an extra minute to finally get this bio down. Ill have to shorten it considerably to get it in game but what the heck. Hope you like it.


Edison Ballard was hardly a hero.

But then, King's Row doesn't breed a lot of heroes. It does breed con-men however, which is exactly what Eddie was. Eddie discovered at an early age that he had a very small talent with shadows. He could darken a room, thicken the air, and generally make himself seem a bit more intimidating. With no father to speak of and an often absent mother it wasn't long before Eddie started to use these meager abilities to entertain his younger sister Carolina and neighborhood children with frightening tales.

This gradually developed into a livlihood for him as he got older. With no real way to put food on the table for himself and his sister, Eddie began to claim he could contact the spirits and talk to them. Billing himself the Uncanny Edison he became a medium and started conducting seances out of the basement of the apartment building where he lived.

All this would take an amazing turn on the night of May 27. Eddie had received a request from a family in Talos Island to contact a member who had passed away. This was the big time for him! The Parkers were obviously very prosperous and would pay a premium for his little show. Now if he could just turn down the lights and crank up the dark he was gonna be rich!

At midnight the stage was set. The family members huddled around Eddie's small table. Crystal ball in place, candles flickering, they looked expectantly through the gloom at their conduit to the spirit world. Eddie played his part better than he ever had. The room darkened. Shadows seemed to dart and dance around the room. A chill wind ruffled the hair and stirred the clothing of the Parkers as they sat spellbound. Then as Eddie's show neared it's climax an amazing thing happened!

Eddie contacted the spirit world.

With a startling rush a spirirt entered Eddie's mind. Claiming to be the ghost of a hero known as the American this spirit begged Eddie for aid. Shocked but trying to keep control of the situation Eddie demanded the spirit vacate his mind immeadiatly. Confused the Parkers watched as the Medium argued with himself. But the American wasn't going anywhere. He had a tale to tell and Eddie was going to hear it. As Eddie tried desperately to maintain his composure the American told his story.

"I have seen the destruction of America." His chilling voice whispered. In the year 2027 America will be betrayed by it's greatest hero and before it's over the entire east coast will be in flames."

"What are you talking about?" whispered a near frantic Eddie. " It's 2007."

"Yes, but time is more malleable in the shadow realm. So I have returned to the one person who can prevent the disaster that looms over this great nation in twenty years."

"That's insane! I'm nobody! I can't help you do anything for anyone!"

Eddies charade quickly disintigrating, the Parkers begin to have serious doubts about Eddies sanity, much less his ability to contact there dearest Nana.

"You are much more than you realize Edison Ballard. You can stop this catastrophe."

Seeing his paycheck preparing to walk out the door Eddie snaps!

"Listen to me you..you..whatever you really are! I don't believe any of this for a second now GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"

With an indignant hiss the voice in his mind responds. "Fine, if my words won't sway you perhaps my memories will."

A spectral hand reaches out through the darkness and grazes Eddies forehead.

Hell opens before his mind's eye. A horrific vision of America in flames. Buildings burning. Bodies...burning. A terrifying laughter that fills his ears and scrapes the inside of his skull like a switchblade. It's too much for Eddie. With a cry he passes out.

When he comes too his patrons have fled, daylight is slipping through the blinds and Eddie Ballard believes America will burn in 2027 if he doesnt do something to stop it.

So begins his life as a hero. With the guidance of the American, Eddie begins to explore his abilities more fully. A pale reflection of the hero from the future he enters Paragon City fearing for all of America.

What Eddie doesn't know, what the spirit from 2027 hasn't told him, and what will soon shake Eddies very world, is that HE is the American, and that the American is also the traitor who is responsible for the scorching of the country. Unless he can do something to prevent it.

Nice Bio, kind of interesting to see a future Pale American somehow go back into the past to make up for some tragedy that he had a part in.


And yes, my new avatar is a pic of Heath Ledger as the Joker