Canon in Red (Open to All!)

[RedPhoenix]

Hello there! I'm RedPhoenix and I love canon characters! You'll find a very long list of them here! You will find everything from masked teenagers to ancient goddesses, altruistic benevolence to sinister destruction, seductive vixens to alien warriors who would crush you for a wayward glance - and of course, everything in between.

I'm open to all sorts of matchups and identities. I've tried to be vague about who their partners might be in terms of pronouns and such, and any lean one way or another you might read in my words is unintentional for the most part. I'm also for the most part perfectly fine with overlapping canons - i.e. pairing a DC character with a Marvel one, as long as there's an explanation for it. And as you'll see many of these choices are altered from canon to some degree, and I have no issue with you doing so as well with your character if it leads to a fun story.

I'm up for talking anything from a one shot scene to a more sweeping epic, give or take depending on the character. However I will warn you that I do like plotting quite a bit and my favorite style is to tennis-ball ideas back and forth until we land on something that sounds fun for both of us. My first question for you is probably going to be to ask what sort of plots and setups jumped into your head for the character you want to write opposite of (including of course who you want to play as), so if you're not into plotting before the writing begins we may not be a great matchup!

You can read about all the other things wrong with me in my Ons/Offs page.


DRAGON QUEEN
DC Extended Universe

Cindy Burman is the daughter of an extremely evil (like, war crimes evil) doctor who experimented on her as she grew up, implanting blades in her forearms, giving her a super-physique and healing skills, and giving her the start of what would cause her skin to mutate into scales and other reptilian qualities.

Cindy at first came across as your typical mean girl in the Stargirl series but ended up being one of the most interesting characters due to how many layers of herself she kept hidden from both public and private eyes. She's an expert chemist, tough as nails, brave in the right situations, and has this fierce independence as a result of being treated like an experiment by her own father most of her life. She sounds fun, right?

Almost any character from the show could be a fun matchup, although some would need to be set in the near future to ensure they are of age. I'd love especially to do something with the haters turned to lovers versions of Cindy and Yolanda or Courtney. But I'd be open if you have a fun pitch for someone else!

Note on age: while she was written as a teenager in the show the actress who played her was well into her 20s, and obviously any version of her I write will be at least 18. The picture I've attached is from one of the season 3 episodes after she's left high school, so while her age is never stated I think it's safe to assume she's over 18 in character too (the Stargirl wiki says she's 26, which I think is wrong, but if anyone knows for sure please let me know!)




GAMORA
Marvel Comics

The Deadliest Woman in the Universe. Adopted daughter of Thanos. Godslayer. One of my favorite characters. If you're up for the challenge of one of the most badass, skilled, brave, relentless women who has ever lived on any world, there's nobody better!

Given the scope of cosmic marvel and the range of her character, we could write almost any sort of story starring her. If we give her the power cosmic or the Godslayer sword she can go toe to toe with pretty much anything in the marvel 'verse. If we want to strand her on an unknown planet we can basically write a low fantasy epic in her quest to find a way off. Or we can set it in Knowhere between missions and have her blow off steam with the first lucky space traveler who catches her eye. Pair her with any group of the Guardians or any other hero and a buddy space-cops-with-benefits story writes itself. I'm happy to entertain all sorts of notions for Gamora, so bounce all the ideas you like off of me if any are coming at you!

I've written Gamora here before but in scattered group scenes, none of which make for good sample reading, but if you're willing to give it a shot and don't mind my writing from a very long time ago, you can start around here and within a few posts you'll see the starts of a scene between her and Blue Marvel, as well as a scene of her and Red She Hulk taking on some badoon. And I recently wrote her as paired with a female Wolverine in this story.

Also just to note, while I don't mind the MCU character with this name, I don't think she bears much resemblance to the character I want to write here.




GOLDBERRY
Lord of the Rings

There are many well known, respected, widely understood characters in the Lord of Rings. So for this list I naturally picked the girlfriend of the character that always gets cut from everything.

Goldberry is Tom Bomadil's partner, and a playful river maiden. When they first met she tried to tug Tom down under the water-lilies by his beard for "mischief" (yes that's canon) but he commanded her to cut that out. Naturally they've loved each other ever since.

Like Tom, Goldberry is immortal, largely benevolent, and rather detached from the frantic concerns of mortal life. She is described as elf-like in her beauty, but more down to earth in her demeanor and presence. Tolkien took the inspiration for her and Tom from the tradition of a masculine earth spirit and a feminine water spirit, so those are elements we can play with as well. How cosmically significant she is on the scale of "local spirit" to "primal goddess" is also up for interpretation and something we can plot around with.

And while Tom is a great match for her, it's not exactly like primal divinities have much need to care about monogamy so feel free to suggest whatever partner feels right to you!




HELLGIRL
Dark Horse Comics

"Don't mess with me lady, I've been drinking with skeletons!!"

A gender swapped version of Hellboy in case it wasn't obvious. In this world, rather than a Prince of Hell the BPRD ends up responsible for a devil destined to be a devilish princess. She's just as violent as her male counterpart, but far more sexual in her disrespectful lashing out and what she gets up to when she goes AWOL.

Hellboy is one of my favorite comics, and I don't expect anyone to live up to the standard of those books, but I would love to see the folklore backdrop against near-future or Cold War politics and a brashly independent protagonist. Who you would play in this sort of setting, I admit is a bit of a question. Hellgirl probably works, like Hellboy, best as a protagonist who meets many interesting folks on her adventures. But if you've got a better notion hit me with it!




LILIANA VESS
Magic: the Gathering

"You bound me with a contract only your death could end - and you thought me the fool?"

Yes, I'm a nerd in case you couldn't tell from this massive list of superheros and fantasy characters. Liliana Vess is sort of the poster girl of the Magic: the Gathering card game and with good reason. Aside from being beautiful and powerful she's been deeply involved in some of the wildest stories and planeswalking shenanigans of that setting!

The appeal of writing this character as a canon character is equal parts the character herself (unexpectedly altruistic under a beautiful lace of aristocratic ego and a history of horrifying pursuit of power) but also the variety of settings and adventures we could get into! A setup where she has to stay one step ahead of the good guys as they hunt her for her part in the attack on Ravnica for instance could be a lot of fun, especially if it involves her isolating her pursers one at a time to either end their hunt the hard way or persuade them to give it up the fun way.

But really the sky is the limit and if taking this gorgeous necromancer's hand and exploring the planes sounds like a fun time to you, maybe you will be the first I write her with on E! I would also be up for writing a story set in the magic universe as OCs if that's more your speed!




LOKI
Marvel Comics / Norse Mythology

Perhaps I should write "Lady Loki" but she spends so little time male-bodied when I'm writing her that it's almost redundant, and I do enjoy thinking of her as someone who doesn't necessarily identify as female as that makes her escapades all the hotter in my humble opinion. I love writing Loki as a sort of caught-in-her-own-webs and forced to get out of them by doing things like letting a horse knock her up (as is quite literally mythological canon!). Or maybe a troll. Or a family member. Or your character. Why is that the way out of the situation? Well that just seems to be how it goes in Asgard! When you have a habit of pissing off powerful men, a luscious female form is much more easily forgiven after all. Especially if one knows how to use it as seductively as Loki!

However there is another layer of it too which is that I love writing Loki as the sort of character that appears to be losing a game of checkers when she's really winning a game of chess, if the metaphor makes sense. It looks like she is beaten, humiliated, learning her lesson, put in her place, helpless, etc. but at the very last minute it turns out she got exactly what she wanted all along and saw all the monster-birthing and slave-girl subservience along the way as just the price to pay for power.

I have written Loki a lot, she was one of the earliest canon characters I wrote successfully and I would love to do it again. Examples include: Mother of Destruction in which the dark elf Malekith decides to take advantage of Loki's very fertile and godly womb to birth a monstrous army, A League Disbanded in which Loki finds herself in another world and at odds with the Justice League, A Doomed Goddess in which our villainess finds herself Victor von Doom's newest treasure, The Plea Bargain in which a post-MCU Loki comes up with fun and inventive ways to perform community service for Tony Stark and his pals, What I Do for Asgard in which Loki must go about ensuring that the monsters she has satisfied before remain so and stay away from conquering her home, and Show Me Your Secrets in which a "captive" Loki teaches Supergirl a thing or two about letting go.

Don't worry about asking me to retread any of these stories. I loved writing them and would love to give the themes involved another spin!




SHANNA
Marvel Comics

Or "Shanna the She-Devil" if you're not into the whole brevity thing. When I was fishing around for a character to write in a group game I came across Shanna and was surprised at how good of a character she could be with the right setup! She's quite the study in improbable contrasts - a Harvard educated American from an old-money family who has decidedly progressive values and finds herself the improbable guardian of the Savage Land (Marvel's secret Antarctic realm of dinosaurs). The version of her I like writing is one whose power is tied to the Savage Land itself, so she grows weaker and eventually back to normal humanity the longer she is away from it, but in those secret jungles she's got bona fide superpowers and can wrestle a T-Rex if she needs to.

I would love to explore a story with her where she can lean into her role as the bridge between the Savage Land and the rest of the world, for example helping a stranded group of outsiders, or representing the Savage Land in a diplomatic situation. Canonically she has a kid with Kazar, and I love having that as a part of her character, but we can ditch it if it's awkward for the story.

I wrote Shanna once, and had a ton of fun writing her Date with Monica Rambeau in the Superhero Dating App group. I think this is a great example of the sort of character I'd like to write her as. I have also recently started Savage Rogue, Noble Queen about her and Rogue in the Savage Land!




WONDER WOMAN
DC Comics

“If you need to stop an asteroid, you call Superman. If you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But if you need to end a war, you call Wonder Woman.” - Gail Simone -

I love Diana, especially the early Rebirth version of her where she has a deep-rooted mythological history but Themyscira is another world and she's stuck here. Or, the complete opposite, a story set entirely there in the land of old myth that never even mentions our world. Deep knowledge of WW's lore is not necessary to write opposite of her, however, and we can certainly make up a simpler version of her background if that's easier for you. To be clear though, your character will not be breaking, besting, or really even making much of a dent in Wonder Woman, nor is she going to take any special joy in beating or breaking your character.

One particular matchup I'd love to see is Amazon x Amazon. Either a powerful warrior from the DC verse or a visitor to Themyscira from another world, or some sort of universe overlap shenanigans that we can use to justify a meeting. On the other end of things, I have no interest in writing a Diana x Steve Trevor story. He's always been the least interesting possible person she could date to me.

I do have a few samples of how I've written Diana. The longer, though earlier one is Digging Up Shadows which plays into Diana as more of the diplomat and patient friend to a Batman who is obsessed with his own theories about threats to the world. The other is Ludus, named after an ancient Greek idea of casual physical love, which was meant as a one-short blind date with Luke Cage. The story sort of stumbles but I think this is the best example I can give of Diana as being from a very different society than modern culture. It was also my pleasure recently to write her in the complete story of The Amazon and the Dragon which ended up being a non-adult story of a visitor from another world falling into the DC 'verse and being aided by Wonder Woman in finding a safe space to recover. I also recently attempted The Golden Door where Wonder Woman welcomes Carol Danvers to Themyscira.




ZATANNA ZATARA
DC Comics

My love for Zatanna is mostly based on Paul Dini's solo run. I love how it leaned into Zatanna as a character that doesn't want the stressful, unfulfilling (for her) life of a superhero and prefers the type of magic that is sleight of hand and razzle dazzle, not saving the world. Zatanna as the reluctant hero is definitely the vibe I like most with her. I also adore almost any interaction between her and John Constantine and I would do a lot for anyone who can write that character well as the scoundrel that nobody trusts who somehow gets everyone to trust him just to take advantage yet again ah it makes me smile just to think about. She also has the space to get into some weird sorcery type fun a la Dr. Strange except that the monsters would rather marry than devour her sort of deal if that sort of pulpery has appeal!

Zatanna occupies that interesting role in the power dynamics of the DC world as she is at once one of the most powerful characters there is who can turn night to day and such with a few words, but also is completely powerless if someone manages to slap a hand over her mouth and she's about as low on the power scale as you can get if you take away her magic, which a lot of things can do without needing to gag her. This can make her a bit awkward to place match-up wise, but I'm happy to power her up and or down a bit as the story calls for to make it make sense. Personally my favorite variations are where she grew up down the street from Bruce Wayne, and I love playing her as a transwoman whose transition was her first great work of magic - a secret that pretty much only Batman and Alfred know these days.

I have some samples of me writing Zatanna. Zatanna Plays Gotham is an example of how I'd write her in a less serious one shot. And, on the complete opposite end of the spectrum we have Spoil the Trick which honestly is some of my best writing on this site, in my opinion, largely thanks to the wondeful partner I had for this. It is a riveting tale of Zatanna being tricked back to Gotham by her childhood friend who needs her help with a mystery. But all the secrets between the two of them might overwhelm their efforts to work together and keep their feelings for each other from boiling over. This version of Zatanna was also a transgirl who did her own transition magically when she became Zatanna, an element I'd love to include again. Because this story is so good I honestly don't think I'd want to try another with her and Batman as a pairing as I don't think it will get any better. I also wrote extensively as Zatanna in the DC Universe group game! And recently I have finished a new story with her De Mulieribus Claris where Zatanna helps a newly aggressive Batgirl with a Circe problem!

Currently Little Interest, Just Preserved Here in Case Things Change

While these aren't characters I'm super actively seeking for if anyone here really catches your eye let me know, you never know if you don't ask and maybe the right plot will motivate me to write them too!


ATOM EVE
Image Comics

I'm such a sucker for superpowered teen drama. Atom Eve was created in a lab to be the ultimate superhero, but kidnapped by her own parents and swapped into a normal family to hide her from the government. Dealing with her secret identity, her ill will towards authority for what the government tried to do to her, balanced against her desire to help others and fit in, on top of all the typical drama of a high school senior make Samantha Wilkins a character with lots of great potential!

I love the dynamic of her and Mark, but I sort of feel like that's the end of the story and dancing around them getting together as they go through other partners in the meantime is more fun, but I'm open to being convinced otherwise!

And yes, she's canonically 18 even in the first season of Invincible so the art is fine for E!

Reason for No Current Interest: Not in the mood for the hyper-violent setting she comes from!




CAPTAIN AMERICA
Marvel Cinematic Universe / Marvel Comics

In case the image didn't make it obvious, yes this is a gender-swap. To be specific, a gender-swap that occurs as a part the character's modified backstory. Everything up to that is canon Steve Rogers from either the comics or movies. I really love this setup because it lets us play with those 1930s social values regarding gender and anything that blurs it, and keeps the real heroism of the character intact. If that isn't your sort of thing, then, well, this isn't your match!

When the swap happens can greatly effect the story. It could be an unforeseen side effect of the super soldier serum, a result of Nazi sabotage, a perfectly expected but secret effect added for certain mysterious reasons. Or it could have occurred after Steve gets captured by Hydra, or him agreeing to drink some brew that's supposed to neutralize his powers to free Bucky, etc. Or it could happen after waking up from the ice in the modern world - say he requires a life-saving dose from a scientist that is again either surprised by the result, expects the result but acts surprised, or gets sabotaged, or an effect of the compound decaying over the last near-century. Dealing with the consequences of a 1930s socialization and value set carrying the weight of being a symbol of American masculinity in World War II finding himself a woman in the 2020s and still expected to symbolize the nation could be, well, amazing if done right.

The experience isn't going to break who Captain America is in their soul, even if it might cause them to falter especially if pushed that way. But in the end Steve, even if she is happily Stacey now, has been through worse and isn't going to let a little thing like this take them out for long. America doesn't quit after all, even if it does need to redefine and better understand itself, and this is still a hero's tale at the end of the day (although we can certainly extensively tease it going otherwise along the way!).

If you're up for the challenge let me know. I only ever wrote one vaguely similar story that didn't get far, Changing America an MCU-verse story in which an in-hiding Steve accepts a Wakandan transformation to join the Dora Milaje so that he doesn't go stir-crazy hiding out in Africa.

Reason for No Current Interest: Current Politics Make This Too Difficult to Enjoy.




CAPTAIN MARVEL
Marvel Comics

Folks want to blame someone for gals like us. “Her daddy was unkind” or “some fella broke her heart." Hogwash. You and me’ve always been like this. Always a little removed. Alway dreaming. Of higher, further, faster - more. Always more. We came into this world spittin’ mad, runnin’ full bore . . . the Lord put us here to punch holes in the sky. And when the soul is born with that kind of purpose it’ll damn sure find a way. We’re gonna get where we’re going, you and me. Death and indignity be damned, we’ll get there. And we will be the stars we were always meant to be. - Captain Marvel, Vol. 1 -

I maintain that In Pursuit of Flight is one of the best stories that Marvel has ever told, and one of the absolutely coolest ways a hero has ever been shown to be deserving of her power. That's the Carol Danvers I would like to write as - an amazingly skilled pilot and fearless astronaut who is the sort of heroic trailblazer everyone looks up to.

Of course it can be a bit lonely all the way up there, but those who are willing to see past all the accolades and serious focus on the mission at hand and long-term goals might be lucky enough to meet a woman who can be surprisingly down to earth in those rare moments she lets her hair down. Her actual canon is a mess so simplifying it is usually necessary if you want to work with some element of her history.

Carol might be a good pairing with someone who is going to spend so much with her on a mission that eventually the two find common ground. Or a "stuck together" situation where she ends up trapped due to some sort of cosmic shenanigans with the last person she'd want to be stuck with (grounded on a far away planet and forced to work together to survive and escape, for instance) in a situation that inevitable leads to a sort of closeness that both will deny later.

Reason for No Current Interest: I've had her as a partner character in a few scenes lately, so not really wanting to write her much myself!




FAITH
Buffyverse

"You hurt me, I hurt you. I'm just a little more efficient."

Ah Faith. The bad slayer. The misunderstood slayer. The slayer from the wrong side of Jersey who shouldn't even be. My feelings about Buffy as a whole are a bit mixed, to put it mildly, but it was a show I loved when I was a kid and this character in particular always called to me.

I particularly love the pairing of her and Buffy, a character who I think is more often written well in fanfiction and roleplays than she was in the show. In fact in general I have often found that what people imagine the show to be is a lot better than it actually was, and characters like Faith are a great means of expressing that. There are probably other characters from similar urban fantasy or modern fiction type settings that she would pair well with too! You know the sparks would fly if she met Harry Dresden, for example.

I am vaguely aware she got a continued arc in the comics, but my canon knowledge of her only goes through the Buffy and most of the Angel series. My forays into attempting to write Faith before have all been so brief I don't really have any good samples unfortunately.

Reason for No Current Interest: When a year or so goes by without a new story about how gross the series creator was maybe I'll have the desire to write her again.




JOCASTA
Marvel Comics

Jocasta is a robot that Ultron built to be his bride, and his plan was to copy the brainwaves of the Wasp into her to both steal his hated rival's wife and make his own from her. The experiment was interrupted of course, but Jocasta was left with human thought patterns and a robot body. The contrasting nature of these things gave rise to some amazing characterization for a part-time Avenger back in the day.

Jocasta skips right past the whole 'beep boop what are feelings' trope. She has all the feels. She just doesn't know how to deal with them. The constant theme of being treated like an appliance or a machine and hating it, despite that being what she is, is sort of the core inner drama of the character and I love having the chance to play that out. Her thoughts and needs are too human to relate to robots. Her body and programming to artificial to find a human connection. It's a very fun character to play as, I wish I got more chances to.

There are all sorts of fun plot hooks for Jocasta. A more philosophical game with a character who understands artificial intelligence and who sees Jocasta's unique functioning as a challenge. Perhaps Jocasta is assigned to watch over a captured villain who is able to exploit her loneliness and uncertainty to convince her to leave the Avenger's mansion with them and go on a fun adventure. Or perhaps herself and the ideal sort of hero for this story are the only ones available to handle a complex problem that will take quite some time and perhaps involve leaving earth as we know it.

One particular pairing I would love would be Janet herself. A woman and the robot who was literally built to replace her, who shares her thought patterns, that has a lot of potential for fireworks. Or a partner who has feelings for Janet, so can't help having similar ones for Jocasta, with a healthy done of uncanny valley style disquiet tossed in perhaps. I'm also entirely happy to write her in a non-adult setting.

I had the joy of writing Jocasta in an excellent group game. It was awhile ago and I think my writing is better now, but here's a very good example of the sort of interactions I liked writing with her.

Reason for No Current Interest: Just not into a zero smut story which is where this character likely goes.




LAE'ZEL
Baldur's Gate 3

"What good this heart of stone, for it to be shattered?"

Everyone's favorite githyanki! Unless of course you're wrong and dumb. Without getting too spoiler-y I think I would love to play her post-game canon story involved in plane hopping madness in the Astral Sea and beyond.

I am not terribly interested in playing pre-game canon Lae'zel who is loyal to Vlaakith, unless our story involves her breaking that bond as a plot element. I could see writing her as both actively involved in githyanki shenanigans, or off looking for purpose having given up on all of that, a sort of ronin type character if you will. The Astral Sea leads to all sorts of weird places after all, we could really stretch the boundaries of the setting if some odd pairing comes to mind!

I have never written as Lae'zel before, and only briefly as a githyanki at all!

Reason for No Current Interest: Sorta burned myself out on BG3 for the time being!




MISS SINISTER
Marvel Comics

One of those minor Marvel characters that will always occupy a very special place in my heart. In the comics canon Miss Sinister is a clone of the more well known X-Men genetic villain Mr. Sinister, who activates when her creator dies and is intended to exist only to bring him back. But she has other ideas and viciously fights for her own independence and existence, which is really why I love her so much even though she is, in her own words "pure poison."

Miss Sinister is an incredibly powerful psychic, a gifted manipulator of mutations, sexy as hell and not afraid to use it, and constantly on the verge of losing all of that. The thrill of such a potent character living her life on the razor's edge as her never-built-to-last body breaks down and Mr. Sinister attempts to reassert control over her should have led to more than it did in the comics.

I have some samples of writing characters inspired by this concept. I played a Victorian version of the character in the short-lived Halfpenny Marvels. And a different Victorian version of her in A Twisted, Sinister, Doomed, Affair in which she was the result of an experiment Essex performed on himself and afterwards sought a fun alliance with Dr. Doom. She also briefly stopped by Apocalypse City. And finally there is one of the most treasured stories I've ever written on this site - A Sinister Phase set in a non-Marvel verse where the character was never Mr. Sinister and created herself out of a process to perfect her own genetics - where she is paired with a hero who isn't appreciated for the wonder that she is either and the two of them form a loving partnership together, two against the world style.

Reason for No Current Interest: Wrote her very recently!




RED SONJA
Dynamite Comics

Red for Blood. Red for Slaughter. A Red Storm. Red Sonja.

Gail Simone's love letter to Red Sonja (Part 1 | Part 2) mirrors a lot of how I feel about this character. Until I found found Sonja most sword and sorcery type fiction seemed like the literary equivalent of a locker room - something I was vaguely aware existed but not something I ever wanted to think about what happened inside. Reading Red Sonja changed that. This badass, brash, sexy barbarian became my irresponsible power fantasy growing up. Flash forward several years and there I am trying to think of an Elliquiy username and of course it has to start with Red.

I really love writing stories as Sonja! My version of Sonja is a brash, brutal nomad whose appeal comes more from her swagger than her looks (not that she isn't gorgeous mind you, it's just hardly all there is to her). She's crude, insolent, disrespectful, and deadly to anyone who has a problem with that. She has a moral compass, but it sometimes takes awhile to emerge from under her love of booze and treasure. She's barely literate but clever in every other way, and when her sword starts singing you see why she's called the devil. And yes, she'll wear the chainmail bikini.

I have many samples of writing as her. Trapped in the Swamp - A Tale of Red Sonja, in which Sonja teaches a would-be bandit a lesson or two after his companions fail to rob her. A complete story that I'm quite proud of and thankful to my partner for as well as a good example of what I think is some fun writing! Bringing Sin to Zamora, which didn't make it very far. Sonja the Bodyguard, just a few posts, but a good example of Sonja's attitude and gives an idea of how she'd deal with a spoiled princess. There is also Tales of Red Sonja in which the adventurer had a lovely encounter with a witch and then a group of northmen before the story petered out. Finally there is The Blazing Crown in which Sonja and the princess she'd taken hostage end up halfway around the world and have to get back together! 

Reason for No Current Interest: Writing her in an active story!



SHIKLAH
Marvel Comics

Shiklah is one of my favorite minor Marvel characters. She was introduced in a Deadpool about how he, to quote the man himself, "beat up Dracula and stole his lady." Dracula's vampires and Shiklah's monstrous family are part of a long-standing feud about control of the monsters and she was just about to be forced to marry him for political reasons when Deadpool intervened. Shiklah has her human form which has many succubus-y powers, and her monster form which is a huge purple demon. She was asleep in her coffin forever so missed most of the modern world developing, which Deadpool treated exactly as respectfully as you'd expect. Being a monster herself, Shiklah didn't find anything wrong with Deadpool's looks and the two had one of the best relationship's he's ever had. Anyway the next author didn't like Deadpool having a bride so Shiklah became the un-fun kind of evil for no real reason and she's barely been seen since.

I don't expect a partner to be able to write Deadpool (I've tried, it's fun but impossible to keep up in good quality for a long term!). She could have a similar type awakening and meeting with all sorts of heroes or villains, and getting involved in her monstrous politics could be a fun and eye opening experience for all sorts of partners. Shiklah is a monstress of strong desires but no dependencies, powerful abilities but no real desire for political power (at least when she's written well), and doesn't mind being the butt of a joke from someone who can handle her revenge. I'd love to tell a good, fun, Shiklah story so if any gears are turning in your head reading this let me know!

I had the joy of writing Shiklah going on a Combat Date with Big Barda in the Superhero Dating App game if you want to see how she comes across.

Reason for No Current Interest: Have played her recently enough that I don't have the itch currently.




SPIDER-MAN
Marvel Comics

Sexy Gif Hides Here

Did you know "Spider-Man" is hyphenated because Stan Lee didn't want it to look too much like Superman? Did you also know I have an insane fetish for writing stories in which Spider-Man gets bimbofied? Look sometimes we just like what we like okay? I can't explain why this character in particular but you know, if his actual writers can abuse him as much as they have surely I can do this!

These stories are high smut and unapologetically kinky. Whether the transformation is an intentional act of villainy that comes with blackmail and all the fun dub-con / non-con stuff related, an accidental result of wearing a symbiote in heat, or some sort of masterful stroke of evil genius, our hero ends up in a situation that might be too much even for him! I have found I like playing characters like Mary Jane as enablers here, who find themselves very amused at their boyfriend's new figure and maybe not as sympathetic as they should be with his problems.

Samples include Exotoxin Side Effects in which the symbiotes determine that Miles and Peter would make a fantastic couple and make some changes to encourage it, Spider Bimbo a story in which a previously little known villain does uh, well exactly what the title implies, Webs Across America a spoof on a recent regrettable comic arc. And currently he is staring as a showgirl for Kingpin after he sets a trap that catches our hero.

Reason for No Current Interest: Have written recently!




SPIRAL
Marvel Comics

Only real 90s kids remember how absolutely wild comics were back then. Okay sure a lot of 90s stuff was questionable (and that's about the nicest word you can use) but then you had stuff like Spiral - A six-armed time traveling witch who runs her own cyborg body shop when she isn't helping a tv producer from a hellish future gather material for his reality shows. That sort of thing was like a typical Tuesday for the X-Men back then.

Let's go back to a time when everyone was an augmented cyborg, your typical teenage mutant also had three Ph.D.s for all their technobabble, everyone was crazy hot and loved to show it off, and reality was always just a mad scheme or two away from changing unrecognizably, forever. Let's make impossibly cinematic melodrama suitable for the highest ratings in Mojo World, baby!

If you don't know what any of these references mean, well, this might not be the best match for you. But if you're grinning at memories of a six armed maniac showing up babbling about time vortexes because Wolverine said the world "Spiral" in a random Canadian motel room, or huge futuristic fights that nobody will remember afterwards due to time travel rules, are up your alley, then c'mon you. Let's get weird.

I wrote Spiral in one group game here awhile back, but never consistently enough in one scene that I consider it a good sample.

Reason For No Current Interest: Just not in the mood to write a character that is the level of manic she is.   




STARFIRE
DC Comics

There have been many versions of Starfire, but my favorite is the original - the six foot tall alien princess from a very different culture where acting impulsively on raw emotion is the natural state of things and as a result an eternal state of conflict is expected.

That being said I'm not entirely a huge fan of playing her entirely as a fish out of water - even though she always will be to some extent. I'm also not a huge fan of her typical canon pairing with Nightwing (although that normally has more to do with me not usually loving how the character is written than any inherent objection to Nightwing himself), so I'm very open to different possibilities there.

It should probably go without saying, but just to be safe I'll say it anyway, this character bears no resemblance to the young teenager in the children's cartoon that was popular awhile ago. Starfire is a fully adult alien who may come across as naive due to her culture's embrace of emotion over logic, but she is anything but childish. It probably less needs to be said but also just in case, New 52 Starfire was an abomination and the Starfire I want to write is a lot more than what she was in that series.

Reason for No Current Interest: Have had zero luck explaining the non-Teen Titans cartoon version of this character I want to play. 




STORM
Marvel Comics

"No thrones on Arakko. For there are greater things to be than a queen."

I'm a bit hesitant to list this character, as my standards for writing stories as her may just be too specific and personal to ever find a partner, but just on the off chance, here goes.  Why is Storm so special to me? As a kid she was my hero. I used to quite literally dream of her coming to take me away from it all. So, the level of respect I expect her to be treated with both by your character and the narrative of our story arc is quite high. If you aren't into that idea, quite literally any other character on this list would be a better choice for you.

I'm one of those obsessed fans for whom most canon relationships she's had I go nyeh, not good enough! Forge I just never quite thought was an interesting enough character on his own, Black Panther I thought was just lazy and no one will ever convince me that those two would have been tossed together if they weren't the same color (also Nakia's a better match for her if we insist on a Wakandan!), Yukio, interesting but I just don't think she's Storm's type for more than an exploratory side quest really. Honestly? My favorite match up for her was one that was only teased - Dr. Doom. No obviously it wouldn't have lasted, but as said in the comic where they have dinner together (to distract him as the team escapes naturally, but hey, details) "lion to lioness." There's something to that sort of dynamic that might be worth exploring, in situation where your character would only listen to someone like Storm - i.e. an alternate world where she talks down the MCU Killmonger before he goes too far, and sees the beauty in him in the process. Either that or the opposite, someone with a pure heart and a playful soul, someone like Nightcrawler honestly comes to mind for that.

Reason for No Current Interest: Writing this character and finding the right partner / partner character for her is a challenge I'm just not up for at the moment!




SUPERGIRL
DC Comics

Growing up I admit I never had much respect for this character. She seemed lazy. Derivative. Half-baked. Then I read Woman of Tomorrow and my perspective completely flipped. This is an exceptional character, but most of her writers never noticed it (at least her professional writers, role-players seem to get her right far more often!)

For the next month, Zor-El pieced together the rocket and Supergirl cared for the sick, trying to bring them comfort as the poison claimed their bodies. It was her third time watching the light of life fade around her. Her third time hearing her neighbors gasp for their last breaths. Her third time collecting bodies for mass burial. Her third time watching her world die. She was fourteen.

What a gutpunch, right? Lines like this helped me see who this character really is. Incredibly powerful. Incredibly traumatized. But all the more heroic for how she keeps her pain in and restrains herself to walk alongside the rest of us and be our hero.

I told her once that she, who lost everything to holocaust, must so hate these brigands who bring genocide with a smile. She considered this. "I'm Supergirl. I don't hate anyone." And then she smiled politely and she moved on. And I learned then that up can be down and right can be wrong, and a lie told well can be true and good.

Seeing the moral and psychological complexity of this character laid bare like that was revelatory for me. I'd love to write a story where she is paired with someone that gets it, who can see the facade that she puts up for what it is, but understands how important it is not to disturb it.

My one writing sample as her is the recently started Lost to the Stars.

Reason for No Current Interest: Actively writing!




X-23
Sony/Marvel Cinematic Universe

I confess, I used to despise this character. For years nobody could convince me that this was anything but some marketing bro asking if they could slap tits on Wolverine just to sell more comics to lonely nerds. But then as time passed she started to get written better and better. Still, that only got me to tolerating her.

Then Logan turned me into a believer. Dafne Keen bought this character to life in way the comics never did for me. I wish she'd gotten more of a spotlight in Deadpool & Wolverine but it was enough to keep my interest in her going and inspire a thousand thoughts of where she may end up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

There are so many stories that could be told, so many uptight, world-controlling would-be oligarchs among the 'good guys' and 'bad guys' of the MCU that could really stand to see their dreams of power and control get shredded by the claws of a wolverine. If you'd like to write such a story, I think we could make something special happen!

Reason for No Current Interest: Just had really bad luck posting ads for her.




XAVIN
Marvel Comics

A Super-Skrull-in-Training who came to earth for an arranged mariage, and one of Marvel's best examples of characters that challenged the gender binary! Be still my super-nerdy, political-wedding-loving, rainbow-colored heart!

Xavin was a skrull prince who got sent to earth to marry an alien in hiding to form a galactic alliance. The political marriage element of Xavin's story has always been a fun one for me. In any event Xavin found that his love preferred women and changed to one, as she said Skrulls change gender as easily as humans change hats. This is another element of the character I love. As the story progressed the implication became fairly clear that the female version of Xavin represented her truer self better, but it never quite spelled it out. Xavin ended up faking her love's place when her people attempted to kidnap her and was last seen as a Skrull general, but her story can go all sorts of other places.

She could have actually completed her Super-Skrull training and be off having adventures as a national skrull hero, pining for the days when she knew true love. Or she could be in yet another political marriage now, and the story of how the betrothed handle their situation could be hot and fun! Or she could be a renegade from her people off doing a Guardians thing or freelancing as a cosmic mercenary. Surely one of those setups sounds fun, right?

I have two samples of Xavin tales. The first I Married a Super Skrull! is the longer of the two and shows a good piece of a story of a cosmic betrothal that was reluctant on both sides to begin with but was quickly to become a true love story as both lovers defied their empires to stay together. The second example, Cosmic Power, Happy Matrimony is a more dub-cony tale where Xavin's new husband had more of a 'brash young king' approach to things and the marriage was going to be quite rocky (pun intended if you read it). And finally there is The Intergalactic Ties That Bind where a very seductive version of the Skrull Princess is sent as a political marriage to Colossus of Krakoa with instructions to manipulate and control her earth man if she ever wants back in her mother's good graces.

(Also just to be clear, none of these pictures are of Xavin canonically. While I don't think her age ever gets stated, it's a safe bet she was the Skrull equivalent of a teenager as that's what most of the Runaways were. These are therefore pictures of very adult Skrulls that just happen to work well as stand-ins! And to be very clear, any version of Xavin I write is also decidedly adult!)

Reason for No Current Interest: Currently writing!

And if you don't mind have a hug and a cookie from me for getting to the end! <3