If one of my heroes was on Omega team...
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Posted on: 2009-12-04 10:31 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
OMG, Obscure Blade - your letter is so deliciously EEEEEE-VIL, with capital "E"s.
Now that's an excellent reason for a villain to go with Omega Team - kudos to you for an "inspiring"RP backstory!
Altoholic - but a Blaster at Heart!
Originally Posted by SpyralPegacyon
"You gave us a world where we could fly. I can't thank you enough for that."
To Myself (Astragalus )
By the time you receive this letter I will be dead, at least in this time. Time travel has that effect.
You’re probably wondering why I would write to myself but I’m only passing the letter on as it was given to me several years ago.
We travelled from the future to this era to study the heroes of the past and I became one myself.
We always said that ‘The warriors of tomorrow were forged in the battles of today’ but I now know that they are also forged in the battles of the past.
That’s why we have to go just like before.
When the time is right and you’ll know when take that last step through the mists of time back to this fateful day.
Take your wisdom, your magic and above all your knowledge that what they strive do is not in vain. Douse the flames of despair and sow in them the seeds of victory for you alone know it to be true.
Hero 1 and Omega Team are waiting for you, again.
Astragalus
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Dear puny earth creatures, By now I have betrayed the Omega Team to my superiors and all hope has been lost for your foul planet. If by some random chance that I do not succeed and this letter falls into the hands of anyone but the superior rikti race, then I have one thing to say to all of you. We will not stop. We are the rikti, we are a race bred to be the pinnacle of all creation. We are the unstoppable force that will remove your race from the annuls of time. Though I may fail and though I may fall the Rikti are eternal! For the glory of the Lineage of War, Not a Rikti Spy (P.S. I was a rikti spy.) |
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Sure, you can just turn on your damage aura and /em newspaper... but what happens when you've finished the newspaper? You're out of reading material and you have 5,999,623,566 Rikti to go.
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The excellent thing is, her optimism isn't entirely unreasonable... as a heavily IOed Electric Armor Brute, her odds against a limitless horde of Rikti aren't all that bad.
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Dear Hero 1,
My powerboots have suddenly become disfunctional, and as such, I will not be able to make it to Omega Team Rikti Raid. I apologise for any inconvieniences this may cause.
Sincerely,
Fritz Reinfaust - Alphion Flux
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I was wondering when someone would make a thread like this. 
Dear T'Shalla, it I, your beloved Gwon D'ar. The last time I saw you, we were both being herded into separate Rikti Motherships after they invaded our world, the majestic Theolin.
As a peaceful race we had no weapons to combat them. There were only 8 of our people to be enslaved, for we had possessed enhanced abilities, thanks to the symbiotic alien race called the N'gardir. The rest were annihilated.
I know they wanted you for your ability to translate the human language. And mine for the ability to enhance their shields.
I vowed to escape enslavement and rescue you, but another opportunity presented itself. A way to stop the Rikti invasion of this other dimension. A place called Earth.
Oh, you should of seen their race. so much variety and uniqueness. The human race has such compassion and resilience. The Rikti Have no idea what they are up against.
It was a confusing time, when the heroes of this dimension carried my body away the wreckage of the downed Rikti mothership. It was a plan amongst myself and J'ahago.
I knew it may cost me my life, but to sacrifice myself for the greater good is worth it.
I dropped the Rikti shields in just enough time for the human's to provide a counter attack.
2 days later, a particular hero named Hero1 approached me and although I couldn't understand his language, I could sense his despair.
No one on this world was prepared for an invasion of this magnitude. Nothing could prepare them for the Rikti technology, backed by their hated of anything non-Rikti.
Hero 1 knew that I had valuable information on the Rikti, but our lack of communicative interaction was greatly aggravating to us both.
It would of been nice to of had my beautiful translator wife beside me then.
although we could not breach each others language, we did manage to converse the universal way, through pictures, and drawings.
I knew of his plan to defeat the Rikti, even at the cost of his own life. Back in theolin, suicide is shunned upon, but we Theolins do know about self-sacrifice.
I knew he wanted to recruit me into this self sacrificing group. I considered the insanity of losing you. Of never seeing you're shining ebony eyes, or the soft glow of your golden skin again.
But I had him promise, at least the best way I could under the circumstances, to have someone find you when the war was over.
I have no doubt you'd live through this. You're T'Shalla the nagger...haha.
So my beloved, please understand I do this not to be a hero. But to stop the madness of the Rikti from conquering other beautiful races. I do this to perserve life and enable freedom.
I do this to honor our home world, Theolin and pay tribute to all those who have fallen.
I do this to honor my love and devotion to our bonding.
Oh and one last thing. I know you tried to keep the pregnancy a secret, but you told H'karn...Haha, you must never tell him anything.
Let my child know of this desperate act so he can mourn only my lifeless body, but cherish my life,I once lived.
All my love and blessing to you and our child. May the golden light of Theolin shine eternally.
NCSOFT may take away our servers and beloved dev team, but they can't break our spirit and community. with all your power, NCSOFT, your victory will be bitter-sweet. I, personally will be there to laugh at you when you face-plant into the ground.
Dear Bob
Please remember to let the cat out and change your underpants every day.
Hilda
Thelonious Monk
*written on a blank copy machine paper, with doodles of surfboards and stick men surfing*
Dudes!
This is seriously like, flashbacks of high school writing class - he was all like "Write a letter to the future to remember you, as you may not return." All serious n stuff. Pff - like theres a chance of that! Me n my buds on Team Vanguard - we've faced otherworldy wanna be gods and so called world killing supervillians so many times i've lost count. Oh that reminds me - To Patriot, Ha! i'm going to save the world again - i'm one up on you dude! Hehe he hates that. He might be all Golden Avenger n stuff but the games the thing. Had to use a tome i picked up to disguise my origin so's i could go - they won't make it without me. I'm Stellar!
*crude drawing of girls surrounding stick man with surfboard*
*nerf* Darn! Oh well.. I will just have to rebuild. Ah.. this works *nerf*
Darn it.. well I will rebuild again.. oh this might *nerf*
Grr.. this is getting annoying.. rebuild agai- *nerf*
I wasn't even finished rebuilding the las- *nerf* But.. *nerf* I *nerf* ......*nerf* *nerf* *nerf*
Using my magic-based alts (since, you know, it is Omega Team and all, which was basically restricted to magic origins only), and also pulling them from an alternate Primal Earth where they existed before the first Rikti War...
Lyrical (teenaged girl, Empath defender), and Iceblink (young adult male, ice blaster)
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Dear Reese, Every since you became Ideon, everyone in town looked up to you. We were no exception, you know? Being able to save people using super strength, shrugging off bullets with invulnerability, the ability to fly... I admit I was a little envious, but even so, I was still so proud of you, our eldest brother, doing what's right in this world which needed superheroes. I'm sorry we didn't tell you we signed up to get powers when the call from the government came out. But you and all the others around the world... you were all so outnumbered. Every allied country had their own drafts, voluntary and involuntary. And because our country used magicial means for us to gain our powers, it also meant if we survived long enough with our almost Rikti-immune powers, it would mean we'd get asked to join the Omega Team. We don't have much time, so I'm trying to write up our thoughts as quick as possible for the time capsule. It was Hero 1's idea, so that we would leave a little of ourselves behind. Philip is with me; he didn't want to write anything, because his ice powers have destroyed the nerves in his hands so he can't even hold things with fine motor control anymore, and he didn't want to ask someone to help write out his letter for him. He's so silly like that, but then, he's always been one to look after us and not himself. As I'm writing this, I'm sure you're with the Alpha Team, fighting to ensure that the world survives. We'll do our bit too from the other side. I'll protect Philip and everyone from the Omega Team, and they'll look after me. I'm sorry we won't make it back. By the time you read this, you'll already know of the outcome and purpose of the Omega Team. But that's okay, because we're doing our part too, for this Earth we love so much. It's time, I have to go now. Sorry I can't write anymore. Love, Aria |
And from Lady Aufeis, ice/cold dominator, from another alternate Primal Earth
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To my students Icedrop and Antarctic Arrow (such names, I half-regret the day when I made you throw away your names and take up new ones), I do not regret the day when I took two shivering, inexperienced, incompetent youths in from the cold. I do not regret the day when I offered to teach you both the rudimentaries of my skills in Ice magic. Do you regret the many months it took to find me, only to discover I was some 'evil villain', disgruntled with humanity? Still, I find it comforting to know in the years which followed, I regained some measure of liking for the human race again. Enough to halt your studies and to join the world against the foul alien invaders. When the British gentleman Hero 1 approached me with a request, I had thought to turn him down, and return to you. After all, my newfound liking for the human race was not that great, and in truth, I missed the company of my two foolish students. But then, if the alien Rikti won, what world would there be left for you? There was no choice really, it was something I had to do. For this blue Earth, for all of humanity, for you two, my finest, and only students. I do not regret the path I take. There is no time for regrets, of things we could have done, of what may be and what will never happen. Lady Aufeis P.S. I already knew you two would choose the path of heroism. Nevertheless, I bless you both in your chosen paths. Had I survived... well, who knows, perhaps I may have joined you both. I would have regretted it at first, but in the end, who knows? |
And some letters from NPCs who might have joined (even if against their will)...
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Dear Paragon City, Since the day I put on the wretched mask, I have been conflicted in thoughts, many of which is not my own. The mask possesses me from time to time, and with more frequency. Still, the power it, or rather, the entity inside holds is great, and increases my own, steadily improving potential. I do not know if I want to live anymore. I don't know if it is even possible for me to live anymore, even if we win. But I know now what I can do. I will be joining Omega Team, to reinforce the whole team against the Rikti. With my magically enhanced psionic might, I can prevent the whole team from straying off-course and do what must be done. I only hope I have enough strength to do it. --Vanessa DeVore |
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WHAT. If we make it out of this alive, the world will burn. --Giovanna Scaldi |
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Dear His Majesty Mr Lord Pope Emperor Recluse the first, If we get out of this alive, can I have a statue of me inside your tower's main reception area? It doesn't have to be as big as your lieutenants' statues, of course. Oh snap, my allotted time for writing was used up eating KFC with Hero 1 and Ruin. Nice people. I would have enclosed photos, but Ruin accidently broke my camera when he said something about Hero 1 and used it to block a punch. Let's do this. Operative Jenkins |
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Honestly, if my main (Oathbound) were to have been on Omega Team, He wouldn't have bothered leaving a letter.
He's Telepathic, he'd just "say" goodbye to anyone that mattered to him, and march of into obscurity without a second thought.
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Nice thread with some nice (or even funny) letters.
None of my characters were heroes at the time of the war, but one could have been of use...
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Mystic, Funny at a time like this my first thought is 7 years is an awful long delay in calling in dead for work. I hope you figured out what happened years ago. You know I've spent every moment since the war began working to outfit the heroes with the enhancements they need, and of late, Omega Team. Its been nice having my one gift put to such good use for once. I even managed to perfect a few new ones. You've surely found my notes by now, if not Azuria has a copy... Which probably means it was stolen before I started writing this. Damn. My Aunt Petunia just died of a heart attack, and no one else is available to replace her on a minute's notice. Thankfully, the barrier spell is mostly within my one talent of enchantment. I only hope I can do the job, gods help you all if I can't. ...It occurs to me the Old Warhorse probably foresaw this coming. Why else would she have insisted I go with her when I could work better in the shop? She knew it was the only way to get me to believe I could be more than a magesmith, after all I never even managed to master the Apprentice Charm. This war has made heroes out of the most surprising people, and that just might include me. Ah, time to go! Check out the Hellions, they've been getting into things they shouldn't. Unto the breach- Eric Magnusson. |
Inspired by Fargo, of Flintlocke fame, and DoktorMechaniker, I could see this:
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Dear Hero 1, Recently, you invited me to join your Rikti Homeworld Invasion TF on Nov 27 of this year. Sadly, in the intervening time I was invited to mentor on a PL BM Farm in PI and I have now outleveled this task force, thus I will not be joining you, as I have no interest in any of the drops from the TF, and I have more than enough influence to sustain me through any coming changes to this world. I also have no interest in the badge, as this is not my badger and the accolade from the TF will not help me in the least. I do wish you and your team the best of luck, and my condolences on your upcoming tragedy and the subsequent /ragequits of the players who will be frustrated on the unwinnable final AV. They really should betatest these things more before posting them on the live servers. However, if you ever need PLing for any character, please contact me and I'll run you through farms for a mere 2.5 Million influence a run. Sincerely, Generic000002752075 |
Fenian Girl was too young to participate on the Omega Team, in fact her powers were just beginning to manifest at about that time. But going on the "What if" theory that she was born about 5 years earlier but the rest of her life history held true, her letter would have gone something like this:
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I'm scared. Really, truely scared. Why am I the only one who's scared? They're heroes. Real, true heroes. The rest of them... Not me. I'm just a runaway who finally woke up one day and decided to stop running, stop hiding, and do what little good I could. I look around me and I see Hero 1 and all the other famous superheroes he's recruited and I know I don't belong here. The rest of them want to go save the world, I want to go home, put on my robe, snuggle up with my dog Baron and cry until this is all over with.They've always wanted to do what was right... I never knew what I wanted and just did what it took to get by. Maybe I should have stayed selfish. Maybe I never should have decided to do "my part" in cleaning up the streets. After I beat down those family guys who were trying to make me and Kelly make dirty little films for them (and worse) I should have just kept looking out for myself... But no, I decided I should do more. I decided to play at being a hero. I decided to make sure the family never muscled any other runaways into doing that kind of thing... Kelly was right - I am an idiot. God, writing this thing is taking forever. I'm trying not to cry but... Why am I the only one who is scared to tears??? Hero 1 spotted me taking out one of the families illegal casinos on the docks in Indpendance Port. I have no idea how he knew my powers were magic based... I registered as a natural since I don't study books or cast spells or chant or anything... But somehow he knew. He told me how important magic was going to be to his mission... To the war... to humanity... He asked me to help. I wanted to say no! I wanted to run away. I wanted to scream that it was all too big for me! I take down the riff raff, the small timers. The family are my "arch enemies." I take down some Sky Pirates or Freakshow if I'm feeling ambitious and spunky. I'd probably wet myself and faint if I ever actually glimpes a real super villian like Nemesis or Lord Recluse. I'm too small time for this crap! How could Hero 1 not see that???? What the hell was I going to do? Say no to Hero 1? I don't think I said yes... I mumbled something though. I think I faintly bobbed my head up and down a bit but maybe I was actually close to fainting? Anyway, he smiled a big toothy smile. He put his arm around my shoulders. He told me he was proud of me and that, come what may, we would stand together... That was then. Now? Now he's saying to write a letter to the future... A future we're unlikely to see. I want to see that future! Dammit, this is so unfair!! Anyway, I hope you can read this through all the smudges and wet spots. I try to only cry when I'm alone but sometimes I can't help it. I don't really think this is the kind of letter he wanted us to write... I think he wanted something brave and profound and inspiring... Screw him. Whether this works or not I think whatever future there is should know that at least one of us "heroes" were scared and afraid and wanted nothing more badly than to just see her dog again and to hug him and to give him biscuits and scratch his tummy and to love him... Sorry, had to take a break there. I'm going to do what I can. I'm going to try to be brave. I will do my best. That's all I can promise though. Kaitlyn O'Connor aka Fenian Girl p.s. I swear to god almighty and all the saints in heaven that if Calvin doesn't take Baron in and take care of him I will come back and haunt him to hell and back!!!!!! |
From Calash, a Cyborg hero who at the time barely had a grasp of his human parts. The communication is to a contractor working for DATA who had been helping him for several months at this time.
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To: Dr. Susan Veil C/O: D.A.T.A Attachments Enclosed Dr. Veil, As the calculated probability of our return to this world is less than 1% I am terminating my service contract with you. Attached is the final payment for services rendered. Current status reports show me functioning at 98.322% efficiency. One anomaly still exists within my organic components, but I hope to resolve the issue before the Omega Team leaves. Anomaly Analysis: There is a chemical shift within my organic components centered in the primary cortex. As I calculate the effects of this I have observed reactions in the other team members that I can identify as similar to my current anomalies. A detailed search calls this “Fear” and “Sadness”. A more detailed analysis will have to wait until our return. As these functions are not needed for my primary mission I will isolate them until such time as I am able to further study them. Observation: I am finding the prospect of no longer working with you to be of particular concern to my organics. I have cataloged these observations and attached them to this document. I assume that this is a result of familiarity with you as well as your consistent and exemplary performance during my system maintenance cycles. I feel the need to state that I have enjoyed our time together. You are very skilled and have resolved all of my system errors in a efficient and accurate manner. While I disagree with your assertion that my organic anomalies, or feelings as you call them, need to be explored I respect your motivation and overall goal for the betterment of my function. Attached is a recommendation letter that you may use for any future endeavors as well as a catalog of all service up to this date. Final preparations for our departure are completing. I have observed others on the team leaving letters in the “Time Capsule”. In an effort to mimic human function, as you have requested me to do, I will leave this communication in that location as well. While not as efficient as direct transmission via email perhaps it holds some value that is still currently beyond my capability of understanding. I am finding it difficult to close this communication. All calculations indicate that we will not return, and such actions are necessary for the greater good. This is part of my design and no part of me is rejecting this decision. Yet I find my organics express an anomaly during this final communication with you in particular. Is this Love? Anomaly will be stored for future analysis. Calash EOF |
Some amazing stuff in here, guys. I no longer regret making this thread. After the really awesome villain letters in here, I realize my thread title is flawed. Here's a badguy letter to make amends:
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Hello Earth, Most of you will remember me as a villain, a label so liberally applied, its appalling. I have committed many crimes for reasons I wont get into, but Im not some monster. Ive tried explaining my actions countless times, only to have some hero rush in, and force-march me to jail. Of course all this is suddenly water under the bridge because I happen to be useful now. You fickle dolts. I really despise you. Actually, thats not fair. I despise what youve let yourselves become. I hate your whole system, and now it looks like Im here to save it. Let me assure you that this is not the case. I dont want to be restricted by your ridiculous laws, ruled by your hopelessly flawed bureaucracies. Why have an appointed leader speak for me, when he never says what Im thinking? If I had my way, the world would be much better. So you can understand why I dont want to be a slave to the Rikti anymore than I want to be your slave. So here I am at your request I should add to save the world. Well, I will. Not for your reasons, which are too sniveling and embarrassing to repeat, but for mine. The Rikti did what I never had the power to do, and thats wipe the slate clean. So a grand opportunity has been bestowed upon you. In your eyes I must seem like some kind of sociopath for thinking such a thing right now, but how about you, future reader? Are things better? Did this tragedy bring about a better understanding of things, or did the world continue to cower in fear? Are there still ridiculous labels of hero and villain? My sincere hope is that you can start over from this horror. Build a better society. Its all I ever wanted from you, humanity. No one really understood that before, but I hope you will now. Besides, now you owe me one. The Dystopian |
This would be the letter from one of my alts, Oversear...
Hello.
My name is Melissa-Keiran Bloom, but I am better known as Oversear, The Champion of the Flame. Ever since I discovered that I was one of the few born with the power to control the flame, I have felt compelled to put my ability to the use of good. I learned to control my powers and eventually became what you all call a superhero.
Into my adulthood and well into my career as a hero, I was tapped to take on a mission. This mission involved my traveling to an alternate version of Earth. I was to find and neutralize a threat from this dimension that was posing a threat to my own dimension. I succeeded in my task, but remained in this dimension when I saw that it was much more in need of my help than my own home world.
And now, this dimension has reached a greater crisis than I could have ever imagined. I have once again been tapped to partake in a mission that would take me to another dimension. Only this time, I would not have the option of returning.
As a woman who has strove to do the right thing for my fellow man, I did not flinch at Hero 1's proposal. I am not thrilled at what fate awaits me, but I am even less thrilled by the prospect of the destruction of mankind.
All that I wish is that if we are successful, please do not allow us to be forgotten. Please honor our sacrifice and our lives.
Yours truly
Melissa-Keiran Bloom
a.k.a. Oversear
Really good writing in here..I'd love to see a panoramic picture of Omega Team(with our added toons), gathering before the war.
NCSOFT may take away our servers and beloved dev team, but they can't break our spirit and community. with all your power, NCSOFT, your victory will be bitter-sweet. I, personally will be there to laugh at you when you face-plant into the ground.
To my Boys and my Daughter...
I guess it goes without saying that we've put up one Hell of a fight. I never thought the power I was granted would have to be called upon again, but now these aliens are on our streets and they've been killing us all, or at least trying to.
A call has gone out for volunteers. The fact that you're getting this means two things, I volunteered and I never came back.
I'm not doing this because I want to save this world. I'm not doing this because I think I'll find your mother. They took her. She's gone.
I'm doing this for one simple thing... Revenge. I'm going there to kill as many of these bastards as I can. They took Charlene away from me. I can't forgive them that. If I die with my hands squeezing shut the windpipe of one of their soldiers, I'll die a happy man.
I'm an old man. Your mother and I helped raise three of the best kids I could have ever hoped for. Cedric, I know you'll go on to great things. Sarah, I hope you and Joe stay happy together. Roland... There's more of me in you than I ever thought possible. You each have made me extremely proud.
Farewell.
-Randall Alexander Grey
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Dad, Nester,
Gone to kill aliens. Be back in two weeks.
-Kipland Durj
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Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
A page ripped from the Journals of 1st.Son
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This I believe will be my last entry to this journal. My existence began long before the dawn of recorded time, So the concept of personal death is new to me. For the last several years I have been busy in the Shadow Shard Studying and re-enforcing the existing magical barriers there so I have missed most of this war with the Rikti. This I regret as I believe my knowledge and mastery of the primal forces that shape the arcane arts would have been a great boon to the resistance. This I intend to correct. The Omega Team is probably arriving now at the portal to the Rikti home world. I am not a part of this team but my innate abilities to gate to any Realm/Dimension or World I choose allows me to follow. Tho it will make me vulnerable, I am leaching portions of the primal power that makes up my very soul. This will allow me to augment the potency of the magics used by the Omega Team ten fold. As I cast the last few incantations on myself, I stop and wonder, where will my death will take me? Is there an afterlife for those who were born in the pre-existence, Or will I enter the void and become one with the nothingness? Either way I embrace my decision. Paragon is my new found Eden and the Rikti will taint my Paradise no longer! 1st.Son (The Unbroken spirit) |
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This letter is to Peter Marks from Mentax.
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Hey Pete, Yeah, I know what you're going to say... which is why I aint telling you what's up. You'll have found out by the time you read this anyway. You already got an inkling, and sometimes I wish we weren't twins. Listen, I don't blame you for what happened. That thing was going to kill you, so I took the hit. I'm just sorry you didn't get this rad power like I did. I wish you knew what it feels like to fly and rip things apart with your mind. One thing I want you to do. Make peace with Dad. Yeah, he's a jerk. We both know that, but he and mom are going to need you in the coming months. Don't ask me how I know, but he feels terrible for what happened. It wasn't his fault. That woman made him think she was mom. All right, fine. I'll tell you. She's on this gig with us because she can use her mental hoodoo voodoo to smack or block those alien douchebags. It was either that or the chair. I will say this... She personally apologized to me for what she did to dad. I want to thank you for bailing me out four months ago. I don't know what would've happened to Jenny if you hadn't made them think you were me. I still laugh at the face Killa made when he saw the two of us together. Twins, eh? Which brings me to my last request. I know you two don't get on, but please take care of Jenny for me. And if something sparks between you, do NOT feel guilty. You got my blessing. Take care of her. My last thoughts will be of you, Jenny, and mom and dad. I love you bro. Simon |
Since there's an official letter from Ruin and at least one villain letter in this thread, I though I'd add another. From my Dual Blades/Fire Armor brute Burning Blood:
Greetings, whomever reads this. I am one of the few of those called villains who has chosen to aid the one called 'Hero 1'. As for why I do so; to understand that you must understand me.
I have long forgotten my true name. Ages ago I was executed for terrible crimes, my soul plunging to the netherworld. But I was not like my fellow damned souls; something, my nature or the blessing of some dark god allowed me to draw strength from that unholy place. I waxed powerful, broke my bonds and went forth into that terrible place of terrible beings, to show them I was more terrible still. I went back and forth across the burning lands, committing crimes and atrocities even more hideous than those I died for. Demons, the damned, all suffered when I came upon them and none could stop me.
Finally in the end my presence was more than even they could tolerate, and the masters of that realm banished me back to this mortal world. Less powerful for I am far from the realm from which I draw power, but still forever wreathed in the hellfire I have earned and with a world of victims before me. And so while some would call my state damnation, I call it paradise; what is the pain of hellfire compared to sating my dreams of blood? And here too in this strange modern world I have committed atrocities, and none have stopped me for long. Again and again the heroes have struck me down, but I am already dead and the lands of the dead reject me.
And then the Rikti came. I fought them along with all the others; blood is blood, whether that of mankind or its enemies. They suffered and died as my victims always do. But I saw how strong they were, and so when the call went out from Hero 1 for volunteers I came.
Are you expecting some tale of how the courage of humanity inspired me and at last I wanted redemption? No. I have chosen to follow Hero 1 because I expect humanity to lose. Even if this plan succeeds, it will be only a matter of time before they gain access to Earth again. And there are too many other dangers...if the Rikti are not the executioners of humanity, something else will be. And then I would be left alone, wandering the dead Earth eternally burning with no sweet blood to bask in. But the Rikti...the Rikti are strong. The Rikti will live, where humanity will not. So, I will go with Hero 1, and I will kill Rikti alongside the others. And then the Rikti will cut us all down.
I will slaughter them as I have slaughtered so many, and they will strike me down as a thousand others have before, and I will rise again as I always have. They will strike me down thinking they have won, not realizing until too late that they have merely inflicted me upon their world instead of yours. I will walk across their lands as I have yours, torturing and murdering, glorying in their blood. And when Earth dies, I will still be there, still killing. I will write the histories of Earth into the flesh of the Rikti, so it shall not be forgotten.
Farewell, and may all your dreams be bloody ones.
Burning Blood.
Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth