WRITEFAG, BABY!

That's right, it's all for me. Besides, it's not like porn of characters you knew nothing about'd be appealing anyway.

Yeah, because porn usually has a deep lore and lengthy continuity with a large and diverse ccast of characters, each with their own unique backstories and histories.

You just want free porn, user, admit it. Don't you have enough of that already? Is the fact that I've got a couple bits I haven't shared really bothering you?

I got one.

A friend a while back wanted me to flesh out a setting for a vidya he never made. It was going to be a contemporary-tech/high-fantasy Western RPG with some extremely deep party interaction system where you'd pick one character, and how you conflicted with other characters would determine how their classes evolved such as if you could cure the Engineer of his hatred of magic, he'd become an Artificer who could support the mage and vice-versa, but if you made it worse, he'd become a "Troubleshooter" and specialize as a mage and monster hunter that revolved around silver bullets and arc gauntlets. I dunno if my friend is still using this or not, but he hasn't said anything and dodges questions on it now, so fuck it.

The idea was, in the near future, an alien world with magic has some bad guy try to merge their world with some demonic plane, but a band of heroes fucks it up, causing the ritual to instead eat the Earth. Portals open up, and elves, orcs, dwarves, cat-people, dragon-people, and other high-fantasy races begin to interact with humans. It doesn't go smoothly at first, with the fantasy people thinking humans are demons, and humans blowing them up in retaliation. The heroes that fucked up everything at the start can't stop the ritual in time because of the war, and Earth gets absorbed into the magic world. Humanity doesn't adjust to fighting magic very well and 80% of them are wiped out in the conflict before the elves realize what's happening and they call off their crusade. Humans bitterly band together, start a handful of countries based on common languages, (Britannia, der Fünfte Reich, and a Francophone empire I don't got a name), and begin claiming the new land that the planet gained by absorbing Earth.

The players started around the time Britannia decided to get one back on the Elves by inciting slave rebellions among the cat-people, causing the cats to kick the elves out of a breadbasket region near the humans and form their own nation, causing a huge strategic shift in the continent as the cats now get actual rations and the humans get the surplus instead of the elves. Meanwhile, humans are getting used to dealing with magic and discover that electricity is a bit of an Achilles Heel for magic users, causing a kick-up of weapons like tasers and stun gloves, to advanced things like arc casters. Additionally, the common knowledge that silver weapons are devastating to evil things is shared with humans, and development begins for a recipe of silver alloys that are inexpensive yet do the job.

There was going to be mentions that Dwarvish and Elvish states allied with the Germans and the French, respectively. Additionally, the dragon-people were going to be seen as denizens of dragon god-kings that each governed their own kingdoms. While some of the dragon-people offered their blood to humans as a way to gain magic abilities, and some humans did accept the offering, many humans were understandably extremely raw about losing 4/5ths of their population. A strong anti-magic sentiment formed, and many humans see accepting magic as a betrayal to humanity. This rejection of magic earns the ire of the dragons, and in turn, the dragon-people and elves, but earns respect from the cat-people, who culturally see magic as the tool responsible for enforcing their enslavement, causing a similar sentiment among their people.

Since my friend isn't doing anything with it, I started doodling around it and some characters have formed:

This is really my first go, so it's about 90% spit-balling.

Self-aware is what I'm somewhat trying to go for.

At this point it's pretty difficult to do something fresh and original with capeshit that doesn't involve tearing down all the tropes that make capeshit fun.

Take Mark Millar's Kick-Ass for example. While the movie ended up being reconstruction under Matthew Vaughn, Millar's original work was a cynical scathing look at masked vigilantes.I loved the movie, but hated the book for those reasons.

As for BvS, I'm in the camp that enjoyed it but can understand why the people who hate it feel the way they do.

As someone who is accepting of different interpretations of long-lasting characters, I can appreciate what Zack Snyder was attempting to do in BvS. However, with these icons placed so far out of their comfort zone, I can easily see how that can turn people off.

Yes

well, to be honest, I do like some introduction to my porn.
Also, what you said is basically the reason I go for r34 more often than for real porn - because I enjoy seeing characters that I know in sexual situations more than random boobchicks

I might post some if you're well behaved.

Also this, the reason r34 is so appealing is because it's characters I know and find attractive being displayed in pornographic situations.

Well, I am all for different interpretations. If we were being nitpicky, technically every Batman or Superman or any superhero comic after the original creator is just a glorified fanfiction since other writers will never try to recreate what the original writers made exactly, and they probably don't want to.

I don't mind the dark, brooding, grimdark Batman, especially since I did enjoy Bale's performance in TDK.

It's just that this whole movie had this conflicted sense of pretentiousness but also had moments where it tried to be a fun, popcorn flick.

Didn't hate it, didn't really love it. Again, just kind of mediocre.

DINGDINGDINGDINGDING

Yes, I need some world building and lore establishing before I see a chick getting creampied.