I feel bad for Statesman...

no, Tyrant

This thread is about the non-obvious pairings in the game

I'll be in my bunk.

I better not find you snooping around my bunk.

Given that they focused on the hair, I'm going to guess that it's supposed to be Ghost Widow's Praetorian self, but I don't remember her being that pale.

Haha! Alright, GG, that's pretty durn funny.


....still dumb.

Like I've been saying, I think Sister Psyche probably felt States was too idealistic/running away from reality. The way I see it, being nearly as old as Statesman, but having seen the horrors of the sentient mind, she's seen it on a much more intimate level, she's peered into the heads of pedophiles, the souls of sociopaths, and minds of rapists over the decades... And whenever she pops out, there's Statesman, trying to 'set them back on the right path'.
On the flipside, there's Manticore who sees those people and says 'shoot them'.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

I had the feeling from the original lore of the game that Statesman was supposed to be romantically interested in Shalice (the whole staying by her bedside following the Rikti
War-- and didn't he blow his top when Calvin Scott endangered her life to free Aurora?),
but nowadays I don't think they'd be a good match for each other.

Shalice, like Manticore, is entirely willing to use questionable means to achieve noble results. Sister Psyche isn't like the comic book telepaths-- she's a mind controller.
She would have no problems turning someone's brains to tapioca pudding if she thought
it was necessary. (Witness the fact that she stole a mad scientist's genius in one Redside Arc.)

And her bio states that she preserves her own youth by essentially hijacking the bodies of other people.

In other words, if Aurora had not volunteered to give Shalice her body it would not have been surprising at all if Shalice hadn't "found" herself one ...

The relationship that Marcus and his wife Monica had must have been epic to last as long as it did ... it sort of makes me wish we could encounter Maiden Justice during some time travel events. She must have been one heck of a lady ...

The only character in the game that I get any kind of romantic vibe for Statesman now is Desdemona. She is basically in the same place in her life that Marcus Cole was when he first became Statesman-- leaving behind a life of crime with a possible future career as a hero.

Dammit, you're not helping my shipper's-syndrome, blue!

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Since when was this thread meant to do that?

I'm already dreading how Miss Liberty and her daughter Ms. Liberty will respond to a possible pairing between Statesman and Desdemona. XD

Get to work, Golden Girl.

Heh. Well, as far as we know, Marcus has been celibate and single ever since Monica died ... that's more than twenty years now.

Surely they'd be okay with him dating NOW ...

(Or maybe not. Maybe he's waiting for them to both die before he resumes dating.)*



*Anyone remember Night Court? There was an episode about a couple of brawling older folks. Judge Harry asks them why they haven't divorced, and they reply they don't want to upset the kids and they're waiting for the kids to die before they get divorced.

They might go for the Praetorian option.

I already told you that I don't have a model of Statesman yet

Then Maelsdromona seems the second most obvious.

You have a future in CGI. I applaud your talents again

Having shot poor Eddie down scores of times already, he's dumber than all the other dumb villains in this game if their idiocy were combined then doubled

He's almost as dumb as Speed Racer

"Hmm. Racer X. Racer Ex. RacerRex. Rex Racer!" Nope, couldn't be...