The June-ly Fan Art Battle

HOLY RETCON, BATMAN!

We're shaking things up for our mid-year theme. In the spirit of the classic (or cheap!) comic tool, your challenge this month is to play the retcon game with City of Heroes!

There's also going to be some retconning going on with our participants! I muddled over a way to let participants win a way back in the running, and here it is. Any participant who was eliminated for any reason may use this theme to get back in the running... PROVIDED THEY WIN THE ENTIRE MONTH! Yes, if you want back on, you have got to prove yourself and take home the title with this challenge.

If an eliminated participant wins the month, they will ONLY win their right to fight another day. They WILL NOT carry immunity to the next challenge. If a regular participant wins, they will get immunity as per usual.

Due to the more open nature of the theme and how it may be trickier to pull off, I'm making this a 2-month theme. I also figure its vacation season (for many participants) and this will give everyone a little breathing room if they're getting crunched. Also gonna take out the Hot Chicks Rule for the same reasons.

For your retconning, you can either show a retcon you wish would happen with the CoH cannon, or something you pray to God never does! You may also retcon in your own characters stories, but be advised that if people don't get what you're going for from being unfamiliar with your subjects, that may hurt your winning chances. As always, feel free to ask for any clarifications.

THE RULES

1. Keep It Clean- All entries must be direct-linkable on the boards. If its worse than PG-13, you will be disqualified.

2. Use City of Heroes/Villains Elements- Your entry must somehow relate to City of Heroes/Villains either through character, setting, or some other means

3. Visual Fan Art Only- We're not taking writing, music, or interpretive dance submissions

DEADLINES
All entries must be posted to this thread or the dA group by MIDNIGHT US EASTERN TIME, SATURDAY JULY 24TH. Voting/the new theme will follow during that weekend. Its in the artists' best interest to get their pieces in early for feedback or in case there is a disqualifying element. Feel free to PM me with any questions or if you're unsure if something is within the rules.

Cheap ploys, FTW!

Plus the hot chick rule??


Also, reminding everyone...extra time doesn't mean forgetting for an extra four weeks! Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy said so!!

What about opening it to anyone that also missed their chance to sign up in the first place in January?

I'm so far at a loss for an idea for this.

C'mon, ideas are a dima a million here... What if the Ritki won? What if Statesman and Recluse got each others powers? Or if States went bad and Recluse good? What if Fusionette was really a rocket scientist? What if the little asian chick (sorry, name blockage in me brain) dug the Clockwork King as much as he digs her? What if Paragon used their statue building budget to instead seal up all those pesky tunnels underneath the city?

Ok, some of the results may be a little harder to show than others but I'd love a general city scene with all the scene written in Ritki and with Ritki pedestrians just strolling by, hawking newspapers, etc...


Anyway, as for winning your way back in... Interesting decision... Though I'll personally take a pass on the attempt. I just can't afford to buy enough votes to win a month!

Retcon is about making a change to something. Either in past lore/events/people, or in "known future" lore/events/people. Other than that, retcon is (and has been, in comics) widely used for just about everything.

Here's what I wrote in the Player Events promo thread:

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis ... theme is HOLY RETCON, BATMAN! What would happen if you retconned one or more changes into Paragon City's background? The Rikti won the first war... Marcus Cole and Stefan Richter never found the Well of the Furies... Hamidon stubbed his toe during his preparations for transforming into a giant blob, screwing up the project... the possibilities are nearly endless!

Then you show, via your art, what the consequences of that retcon would be. Rikti citizens walking down a street... Stefan Richter's obituary, listing his 231 grand- and great-grandchildren... Hamidon as a giant slab of iron instead of a giant blob... etcetc.

To use a "contemporary" retcon, Superman was originally the last of his kind. Then someone retconned Supergirl, etc., into existence to suit their new stories.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

As always, I'll volunteer to be the model for the Art Battle ....

even if it's "A World Without An Amerikatt"!

I'm not exactly blessed with the best brain when it comes to securing all the gobbets and strands of game canon and lore. If a numbskull like me were to get the base canon wrong, how serious would that be? I mean, if I drew a picture of Recluse reading the newspaper while Swan vacuums the carpet around his feet, and suggested there was a future where they had been thrown together by the waves of war, finding companionship and love in a world otherwise without pity and warmth, learning to ignore the mockery of Manticore and Mako and live together happily ever after in a fond fifties sitcom... could I be disqualified for not reading the bit of canon that says Recluse was skiing in France during the Rikti invasion and so it could never have happened?

Florid and ridiculous examples, perhaps, but does the question make sense?

Being that the theme is retconing you could just retcon that lord recluse didn't go skiiing in the first place, so kind of the whole point is to warp the games lore, the only risk you have if you don't know the lore very well is accidently creating what actually happened!

Heh-heh. Gotcha. Makes perfect sense, now

I didn't mean to get hung up on this stuff, but bearing in mind I went out by d/q thanks to my brainless failure to understand the rules in April, I had to ask the silly question.

Pyro- Aggelakis is explaining the retcons as I intended them for this battle. Since it goes along with potentially letting an eliminated player back in, I'm looking for changes to the backstory that would explain some wild new present.

Geesh, two months? O_o; That's way too much time! I kinda liked the 1 month limit, it was a decent amount of time and kept the deadline there in front of you. I'm gunna forget about this and do it at the last minute as usual, probably. And oddly, I find this one to be a lot easier to come up with ideas for than the previous ones.

I'd vote/suggest we make it the usual month limit. You'd get more art that way!

im gonna do ...recon of the Surviving Eight / Freedom Phalanx....

lets see..

1. Thors Assassin
2. Juggertha
3. Tartyrsause
4. Implicitbookcarrier

... that leaves 4 slots left if anyone wants ta recon..

..or if any I listed wants ta be taken off..

Stuck for an idea? How about ... this?!

A momcat, heavy with child, finds shelter in a cave and delivers a single live birth.

Some time later, the playful kitten is exploring the cave and gets lost, eventually finding the cavern in which lies the Well of the Furries.

The kitten laps up some water and finds herself possessed of powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal kittens.

Using her newfound powers to find her way back to her Mom, the kitten watches in horror as a freak cave-in traps her Mom. Though she eventually digs her Mom out of the rubble, she is unable to save her. The grief-stricken kitten swears a solemn oath to protect the innocent, saving others as she was unable to save her Mom.

Thus is born ... AMERIKATT!

didnt hear from thors assassin or juggy, so im assuming its a no for them..

1.dark ether ------(gonna replace backyard brawler )

2.tanks 4d memories --(gonna replace Citadel )

3.lady arete -------(gonna replace Sister Psyche )

4.amerikatt ------(gonna replace Synapse )

5.Tartyrsause ------(gonna replace Statesman (*not a good match, but the bestleaders are the ones who want it the least )

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three openings left
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6. ?????????? -------(gonna replace Numina ..dosent matter who.. numinas a forgetable character anyway )

7.?????????? -------(gonna replace Positron....need someone with LOTS of armor)

8.??????????? -------(gonna replace Manticore.. can be anyone)

Feel free to use any of my characters.

Fluffy Handcuffs could be a variation of Numina, or Iron Kitty/Sapphic Shock for Positron, or Sapphic Neko/Angel Burst Neko for Manticore.

If you don't have enough already, Tartyr, you may use my toon as well.

1.dark ether ------(gonna replace backyard brawler )

2.tanks 4d memories --(gonna replace Citadel )

3.lady arete -------(gonna replace Sister Psyche )

4.amerikatt ------(gonna replace Synapse )

5.Tartyrsause ------(gonna replace Statesman (*not a good match, but the bestleaders are the ones who want it the least )

6. Sapphic Neko -------(gonna replace Numina )

7.VexXxa -------(gonna replace Manticore)
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one opening left
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8.?????????? -------(gonna replace Positron....need someone with LOTS of armor)