Reds fanfic

Bulldoggus

Banned
Samantha: Oh they were fun to work with. We all had our little games of little references to each other or small games of one upsmanship. We all loved to take the piss out of the trash coming out of Cuba though. Stardust the Super Wizard was a favorite target of ours, God was Fletcher Hanks upset about betting on the wrong horse and having to peddle his trash in Cuba, Britain, and Canada. I still keep that issue where Stardust congratulates Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito, and Salgado for their heroic anti-communism, and the one where he congratulates Sanjurjo for stopping Spain from falling into "the darkness of America, Russia, China and Latin America." What's the word people like now? "A tool", that described him pretty well.
FLETCHER HANKS OH HELL YEA!
 
TBH, it seems like he was a bit of a weird dude even without the Rand stuff (although it would be awesome if he were like a DRP/TDP type guy who was very controversial- Maybe he and Frank Miller started a co-op?)

I had Ditko, while still being reclusive and anti-social, embrace Eastern philosophy instead and incorporate that into his works.

 
Maybe he and Frank Miller started a co-op?

As for Frank Miller, being that he was from a rather conservative Irish American background (which is reflected during his Daredevil run), I'm guessing he's more a (TTL) William Buckley style conservative Marxist.
 
Jello and I have been talking a bit and well, you people have this habit of taking flaming in these in universe threads way too far. And there's the further issue that a lot of the characters created for here are basically either "do no wrong" paragons if they agree with the creator's viewpoints or are screechy straw men who would have been kicked out forever ago. Even the canon characters that are generally portrayed as being in the wrong generally have some attempt at giving them more nuance and politeness since after all, people who are just dumb jerks don't tend to last too long on a forum. See Rule Britannia's character development or my attempt at making Ritterstahl more than just a Wehraboo; he's actually kind of a contrast to MyHonourIsLoyalty who *is* a Neo-nazi but hides it very well and makes sure to never get involved in discussions where his real political beliefs would get him banned. Ritterstahl is primarily a medievalist and a german nationalist and a christian. He's well versed in medieval history and german history as well as the history of his faith but gets pretty weak the farther you get from that comfort zone. His wehrabooism is more born out of the slant that the historical texts available to him have and his own biases from being raised in a nationalistic german culture. You can have a reasonable conversation with him about religion and politics even if you're way to the left of him.

Meanwhile even our straw nazi; MyHonourIsLoyalty, makes sure to avoid outing himself as a nazi directly. He can pass himself off as just someone with a fondness for the Axis war machine who likes to ask a lot of what ifs that seem to lead to things going better for the Axis powers. And I mean, even our straw Capitalist in CyberDoctor resorts to directly insulting people rather less than often goes on in these role play threads. Like when he was talking to Lenin's Beard about why he thought that people could go through with the massacres in Spain so easily he never once directly personally insulted Lenin's Beard, he just threw around the usual Randroid buzzwords about how collectivism makes it easy for someone to turn to evil. Hell even Cheka refrains from insulting anyone personally, just getting mad and in a huff about the honor of Stalin being besmirched, and take it from us; we pretty much hate Stalin (especially me). Like, you can have characters you disagree with and characters you agree with but you really need to work on your nuance.

Also, here's what would would probably happen for planning a board invasion.

Rear Admiral Jingles said:
Good golly grief what do we have here? A bunch of ninnies planning to invade another forum? I'm sorry gentlemen but there are rules for a reason.

Each and every one of you involved in this invasion is getting four and yes, count them all, four long shifts in the salt mines. So enjoy your four weeks off the forum and think long and hard about breaking the rules.

Be very glad I did not simply permaban you all because I would have been entirely within reason to do so.

And if you people carry out your attack while kicked that quadruple shift in the salt mines gets upgraded to a lifetime shift free of charge. So think very carefully about what you do if you don't want to be permabanned.
 
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KathoeySaloey said:
Thank God, the cavalry's here. I was just about to come in and say this: this kind of negative attention is exactly what they want. They want to feel persecuted and oppressed to justify their own prejudices--especially since most of us are lefties! This would fit perfectly into their narrative.

Remember: don't feed the trolls.

RuleBritannia said:
I agree with Kat. (Is it okay if I call you that?)

I speak from experience, lads. These people remind me of when I was younger, and thought that 'British pride' meant 'IT IS MY SACRED DUTY AS AN ENGLISHMAN TO LOOK DOWN ON ANYONE ELSE'. I'm glad I snapped out of that--I feel like I'm a much better person these days.

I hope they get out of it too. And if they don't, let's leave them to their miserable, pathetic existence.

KathoeySaloey said:
Wise words indeed. Yes, you can call me Kat. "Kathey O." just so happens to be my stage name. Or, as I like to call it, my nom de amour.

Anyways, sorry I've been away. Spring break is always a busy time here in Saigon...that's all I can say right now! :winkytongue:
 
Skaelingking said:
Did it ever occur to them to, you know, ignore them? I mean, why continue to bait trolls, and feed into their paranoia. I mean, I have to deal with far-righters at school. You know how I deal with them? I ignore them entirely. They simply aren't worth my time, and continuing to engage with them simply is not productive in anyway.

Janetheadmin said:
And that's a wrap. Thread is now locked. Please take the advice given into consideration. It is not worth anything to bait trolls.
 
I'm going to be honest a part of me is annoyed about having the essential mod of the thread come down on me for using my fanon character as a way of de-stressing. You want to know why I have RC act the way he does? Well its largely as a way for me to act out my bottle feelings for reactionaries and for reformists without actually getting in trouble with my fanfic character. Is he nuanced, probably not really, but I don't really care a lot since I use him more as a way to vent out how I often want to act before I put my brakes on online to ensure I don't actually get in trouble. Maybe the fact I need a way to vent out my prickish tendencies makes me a prick for having those tendencies in the first place but that is simply true. As I stated before he's a darker version of me with his filter largely turned off on how I deal with life and with how much life sucks I need vents like that. Otherwise I become really prone to taking out my frustrations in real life and being a dick.

Sorry, I understand @The_Red_Star_Rising your point but I also want to at least lay down why I have RC act the way he does, as he is what I see how'd I'd act without me deliberately avoiding arguments online and even then I've been a dick occasionally (not on AH.com but on SB where being a dick is remarkably more ok in my opinion). I don't know if Deleon's Crew has his character act the way he does as his own destresser but I certainly do with mine.

Edit: Also the way RC acts online is very likely his way of distressing and taking off steam like how I use him to let off built up steam. Though he, unlike me, is not as much of a coward of consequences to be willing to blow it off himself instead of using a fanfic character take the consequences for him.
 
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Well, you can yell at me in my DMs if you want to vent at reformists...
Sorry, I didn't mean to insult you, I'd had to post that post and well I needed to go explain why I have RC act the way he does and I didn't completely think through the post on some details. And when I posted it I refused to allow myself to delete it as I view that as me be cowardly and Orwellian, to delete the evidence of my fuck ups so that it would be impossible for me to face backlash for those fuck-ups.
 

Bulldoggus

Banned
Sorry, I didn't mean to insult you, I'd had to post that post and well I needed to go explain why I have RC act the way he does and I didn't completely think through the post on some details. And when I posted it I refused to allow myself to delete it as I view that as me be cowardly and Orwellian, to delete the evidence of my fuck ups so that it would be impossible for me to face backlash for those fuck-ups.
You didn't insult me, bro, I was joking. And I think they were more us having our stand-in characters constantly lancing straw men on these fake chats.
 
I'm going to be honest a part of me is annoyed about having the essential mod of the thread come down on me for using my fanon character as a way of de-stressing. You want to know why I have RC act the way he does? Well its largely as a way for me to act out my bottle feelings for reactionaries and for reformists without actually getting in trouble with my fanfic character. Is he nuanced, probably not really, but I don't really care a lot since I use him more as a way to vent out how I often want to act before I put my brakes on online to ensure I don't actually get in trouble. Maybe the fact I need a way to vent out my prickish tendencies makes me a prick for having those tendencies in the first place but that is simply true. As I stated before he's a darker version of me with his filter largely turned off on how I deal with life and with how much life sucks I need vents like that. Otherwise I become really prone to taking out my frustrations in real life and being a dick.

Sorry, I understand @The_Red_Star_Rising your point but I also want to at least lay down why I have RC act the way he does, as he is what I see how'd I'd act without me deliberately avoiding arguments online and even then I've been a dick occasionally (not on AH.com but on SB where being a dick is remarkably more ok in my opinion). I don't know if Deleon's Crew has his character act the way he does as his own destresser but I certainly do with mine.

Edit: Also the way RC acts online is very likely his way of distressing and taking off steam like how I use him to let off built up steam. Though he, unlike me, is not as much of a coward of consequences to be willing to blow it off himself instead of using a fanfic character take the consequences for him.

I don't really use him as a stresser, I just use him as a way to channel my OTL self into a Socialist society. If we're being completely honest, I'd probably be in the FBU in the world of Reds!
 
On a somewhat brighter note...

Is anyone familiar with French actresses of the '70s and '80s who might be able to pull off the 'bad ass, harrowed survivor' routine? I'm completely out of my element here but that's the peril of wanting to do an international (FBU-centered) cast for Star Beast.

Oh, and Peter Cushing and William Shatner will be in it.
 
The War That Time Forgot

The War That Time Forgot is an anthology comic feature, created by Robert Kanigher, Ross Andru, and Mike Esposito, published by R&B Comics and its successor Marvel Comics, primarily as the back-up feature of Two Fisted Tales, from issues #93 to #137.

The story initially centered around American soldiers during the Pacific War becoming stranded on an island, full of Dinosaurs (aptly named "Savage Island" later on), and having to fight them off, as the soldiers attempt to find supplies to survive and leave. They sometimes lose some of their ranks. Since there was little continuity between stories, this was the standard of most of the early stories. The editor of the Marvel war books, Al Feldstein, felt that the stories were becoming increasingly repetitive, an opinion shared by Marvel senior editor Julius Schwartz. Thus, towards the latter half of the book (Feldstein writing some issues himself) focused on more on overarching storylines (with cliffhangers and the like), continuity (the same characters would appear multiple times), and also focusing on other soldiers. Some issues had international volunteers being the victims. One classic issue had Eastern Front Red Army soldiers retreating during Operation Tectonic in the Urals finding a similar place tucked deep underground, accessible by a tunnel, and ends the issue with one lone survivor barely escaping back up the tunnel, and forced to wander back in a blizzard, not know where he is going. Another, more controversial storyline had a Japanese battleship towards the very end of the War getting shipwrecked, and after many casualities, end up ruling part of the island, which is found by an American pilot, whom they hold hostage, because they believe the war is still going on. Another had a group of British and Indian soldiers trying to reach Indochina, being blown way off-course to Savage Island. However, it was discontinued in #137, replaced with another WWII set character, Commander Fury and his Wild Commandos.

Despite the cancellation, Savage Island would make later appearance. An alternate version of the Island became a location in the Mutantverse (the separate universe where the stories of the Mutant Liberation Front take place). It would be visited by the Fantastic Four on occasion, as well as the Avengers and Adam Strange. Commander Fury would visit the island in 1975 to rescue a downed pilot. The 1996 Kurt Buisek miniseries Marvels briefly mentions Phil Sheldon covering surviving soldiers telling of an island inhabited by Dinosaurs. In the first issue of 2005's Captain America: Generations, the first story (a crossover between the original Rogers-led Captain America team and the original Justice Society) had them go to Savage Island to pursue the Red Skull.
 
As Highland Jack is far more detailed and political than OTL Samurai Jack, I'm going to be adding more characters to the fray. Motoko, Jack, and Balor are still the three main characters, but there's a lot more reoccurring characters than OTL. They're going to make an appearance in a video game peice I have planned.

Partially inspired by @The_Red_Star_Rising's waververse character posts.

Major Reoccurring Characters of Highland Jack

Lethona
: A brave warrior woman from "The Central Jungle" (heavily implied to be rural South America) Lethona is a survivalist, a powerful tracker and hunter who is the only survivor of a brutal attack on her homeland by Balor's Superhuman Shock Troopers. She is hardened because of this, and is not incredibly friendly to those she allies with. She is also incredibly put off by Jack's brashness and vulgarity, calling him "the stupidest man she's ever met". Jack reciprocates this feeling, calling her "a hard-hearted she-devil". Despite their mutual dislike of each other, Lethona and Jack often work together if their goals require their cooperation. She is clad in camouflaged leather armor and is equipped with twin hunting knives and a recurve bow that fires explosive, acidic, and fire arrows.


Designation-13A
: A Secret Agent from a parallel universe, transported to Jack's current universe by Balor when 13A discovered a Balorian Cult attempting to sacrifice innocent people. It is revealed in later episodes that he is a modern day American Section 9 Agent and an ardent Communist, trying desperately to defend the common citizens of Earth against the unending hordes of Balor's Barbarians. While initially portrayed as a Sadistic Bandit and Highwayman (sparking a half-episode long conflict between him and Jack) he quickly becomes a trusted ally of Jack, assisting him against a force of Balor's Robotic soldiers (known as "Blue Bloods" because of the blue oil they spout). 13A resembles the traditional "Commando" archetype, equipped with a suit of powered armor, a Pulse Rifle, High Yield Explosives, and tracking systems, whilst utilizing a combat style resembling that of real-life special operations forces.


Blackhawk: A Native American warrior turned vigilante assassin, Blackhawk is a master marksman and melee combatant, and often stalks the alleyways and streets of the slums of various cities. Originally a pacifist, Blackhawk became a vigilante when her father, a tribal leader, was murdered by Balor's Mercenaries. Despite making several appearances in the series, Blackhawk rarely speaks, only speaking when she is giving a command to her allies or making a demand. Despite this coldness, Blackhawk does show appreciation for Jack's assistance, even if she does not stick around for long, as her dark demeanor does not suit lengthy periods of social cooperation. She is clad in Kevlar armor and Native American war paint, and she is equipped with a heavy caliber Marksman's Rifle and a wickedly sharp tomahawk.


Infernus: A Native African man who was a subject of one of Balor's many supersoldier experiments, the man who would become "Infernus" was subjected to incredibly painful operations by Balor's scientists, ultimately gifting him with Pyrokinetic powers. He used these newfound powers of Pyromancy to escape from Balor's prison, and now wreaks havoc on Balor's Forces on several continents. Despite his rather sinister sounding name and reputation, Infernus is actually a gigantic jokester, coming up with several hilarious and awful puns, jokes, and remarks while he combats the forces of Balor. Because of his personality, he is one of Jack's closest friends in the world of the future, and the two frequently come to each other's aid. Clad in a modern-day HAZMAT suit (minus the helm) Infernus can call upon great geysers of flame or fireballs to destroy his enemies, and, if he channels enough power, can summon giant Fire Tornados to destroy everything in their path.


Odin: Odin is a Jarl of a technopunk Viking Warband and a common antagonist to both Balor and Jack. A hyperviolent bloodthirsty man, Odin cares not who he attacks or when, only that he kills many and pulls a large amount of plunder. It is this callousness towards innocents that makes Odin a sworn enemy of Jack, despite his consistent attacks on Balor's forces. In addition to his bloodthirsty nature, Odin also shows a sinister love of sexual violence, often taken as many sex slaves As he can on his raids. This horrifying desire becomes the plot of a major episode, where Jack, Motoko, Designation-13A, and Infernus rescue a large amount of captured women from his heavily fortified stronghold. Odin is clad in heavy plate armor and a horned helmet, and carries a large Pulse Cannon and two razor-sharp Battle Axes.


Mars: A God of Battle and one of Balor's Lieutenants, Mars is a tertiary antagonist of Jack, often planning the massive assaults on Jack and his allies. An arrogant, prideful God, Mars is a racist, sexist, bigoted noble who attempts to control the "barbarism" of Jack and his allies, and tries to destroy any attempt at dismantling the status quo, no matter how small or miniscule. Despite his ranking, Mars is not very intelligent, and it is conveyed clearly that even Balor has an intense dislike of Mars. Mars resembles a Roman Legionnaire clad in Gold/Red Armor, armed with a Roman shield and short sword.


Nemain: Nemain is a Celtic Goddess of War, symbolizing the aspect of war as a conflict of Chaos and Havoc. She often plunges into the thick of the fight, killing soldiers on both sides at her whim. Due to her love of chaos and havoc, Nemain hates Balor with a passion, viewing his authoritarian control as the antithesis of freedom. Despite being predominantly ambivalent to Jack, she assists him but his crusade against Balor, gifting him with heightened senses, quicker reaction times, and the ability to shape-shift into a Bloodthirsty Werewolf. Nemain is portrayed as an ancient female warrior with clawed hands for tearing apart enemies.


Badb:
The Angel of Death, Fear, and Confusion, Badb is Balor's most trusted Lieutenant and a sadistic destroyer of towns, cities, civilizations, and entire planets. She is an ancient Celtic Goddess, striking fear into anyone she meets, paralyzingly them with her stare. Even Jack, despite not being paralyzed nor seriously effected by her spell, finds himself unsettled by her. Even though Jack is not paralyzed by her stare, Badb is more than a challenge for Jack in close combat, and is one of the most difficult opponents Jack faces during his quest. She is clad in Dark Robes and a hood and is armed with an Iron sword and her glowing, pure white "eyes of terror".


Neit: Neit (pronounced Night) is the Celtic God of War, symbolizing the aspect of war as one of Berserk Rage, Agression, Honor, Martial Skill, and Slaughter. Neit was once the greatest of the Celtic Gods: destroying armies with his might and attracting many worshippers. However, he was put into an eternal slumber by the dark magic of Balor, and thus never appears in his real body: rather, he communicates through conduits for his energy, one of which happens to be the magical Claymore Broadsword Jack owns. Through a Rune in his sword, Neit can communicate telepathically in Jack's mind, offering him advice, giving him directions, and teaching him new combat skills. Neit also reveals that Jack's sword can leach energy from every target he kills or destroys, giving more power to Neit's Rune and consequently, to Neit himself. Should enough energy be consumed by Neit, he can offer more direct assistance to Jack in combat. Should Jack agree (and he always does) Neit unleashes a small fragment of his true power as his and Jack's mind unites as one and the energy Neit unleashes transforms Jack into a 30 foot-tall literal Avatar of Neit, portraying Neit as his true form: A warrior clad in heavy glowing armor the color of fire, a glowing masked helmet, and a Pitch Black Kilt, equipped with a gigantic glowing Claymore Broadsword . In this form, Jack/Neit are quite literally unstoppable, carving through entire armies in showers of viscera with thier Claymore Broadsword, and utilizing a Giant Beam of Energy from thier chest to mow down oceans of enemies or destroy entire planetary systems should they see fit. (This beam, a Multicolored Three Ringed Beam of overwhelming power with a red beam in the center, a black beam in the Second Ring, and a yellow outside beam is a reference to the waververse, of which Tartakovsky is a fan of.) It is said that even though this avatar is only 1/1000th of the true power of Neit, Balor would be annihilated by the Avatar, which is why Balor goes to any length to avoid direct confrontation with the beastly entity of war that is the combination of Jack and Neit.

Though he is a unforgiving, incompassionate God, Neit looks favorably on his human charge, respecting Jack's martial prowess and his extensive battle record. His honorable side also respects Jack's conduct in battle, as Neit looks down upon barbarians like Odin or corrupt nobility like Mars. Thus, it can be claimed that Neit is Jack's most powerful ally in the dark world of the future.
 
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