a lot of you really need to internalize that acting avoidant isn't cute at all and that it will cost you experiences and life outcomes if you don't change course
Hi guys time for me to drop a huge ramble on all my 20s Mysterion lore for my AUs 😋 starting with his main ref:
I've got a lot more in-depth lore no one asked for below so let's go!😁
(Warning for Ken Doll style nudity on one of the images under the cut)
Here's a diagram of his powers and my take on how he got them.
The origin of his powers is still the same in my AU, I really love the angst of his origin being something completely out of his control and tying in to his parents' usual lack of thinking about anyone other than themselves. Attending cult meetings just for free beers and to fuck around, I make the lore be that they got in trouble one night with the dark forces and ended up swearing off their next child to Cthulhu and having blackout no memory of it the next morning. This also is an explanation for why Kenny had seen R'lyeh before, because his soul was born into there in a shadow-like form before it was placed in his body and he was born as an actual human. His memories weren't fully developed, but it did feel familiar, which would make sense if it was during a stage where time passed differently and he had a different form of consciousness.
His shadow powers all originate from being connected to Cthulhu. He can summon shadows from the ground to fight for him in different ways: tentacle-like ones that grab and trip enemies or grab him objects, sentry shadows that he can see through or just send and have report back to him, and simply just the shadows around him that he can use to attack with like in TFBW.
Here is more information on his body type.
Whenever he dies, his body is taken by the shadows in order to revive him and his soul returns to the ball of shadows it originated as. He has a weird non-human consciousness in this state, again resulting in R'lyeh being a strange, fuzzy memory. When the dark forces take his body to repair or replace depending on the severity of the injury they take it to R'lyeh. It's considered as the place "dead Cthulhu waits dreaming" in actual Cthulu lore so it makes 100% sense for that to be where Kenny goes once he dies. Once his body is patched up/replaced his soul reinhabits it, and for a small amount of time he's in a not-quite-physical stage while it adapts. He emits a lot of purple shadowy energy/aura stuff in this state and he's free to wander and visit Hell (like in BLU). Then, as his body slowly becomes more physical, once it's ready the shadows forcibly return him through the ground back to the surface of the earth.
Because I could just talk about every detail of him forever I also have notes on how his belt looks and works. The "M" is a sharp shiny emblem and Multiple people asking No he cannot turn it to Wumbo. Or maybe he can because Kenny would love a SpongeBob reference. Who knows. Anyway he's got storage pockets to hold all his stuff in like some money, tools, sentimental motivation, etc. It's a bit of a complicated mechanism to get on and off but surely that's fine, a slightly hard to reach button that lets him move the emblem over enough to unbuckle it like a normal belt after. He usually keeps handcuffs dangling from it to use on enemies and his radio to contact his team with clipped on there too.
Mysterion is very prideful. He takes his job as a hero very seriously and has a strong desire to protect the town and he doesn't want anyone to get in his way. He also truly believes in his ability to save and help people, which is why he isn't shy to often give Chaos the 'you don't have to be the villain' speech. He also really hates how easily Chaos can make all of his strong morals waver by just tilting up his chin, smirking, and saying how much he'd love to have him on his side while their faces are inches apart. The way Chaos can completely fluster and break down his facade drives him insane.
He lives in a shitty apartment with Stan and Kyle and they're all part of the Freedompals team (I make it so CAF and Freedompals are all joined as one; Timmy runs the team, Tolkien is second in command and funds a lot especially the base, and Cartman thinks hes second in command but really isnt even close). Outside of it, he works like 2 jobs at shitty fast food restaurants or movie theaters or whatever he can find, because unfortunately being a hero doesn't get them much more than government grants for tools and barely any actual salary. The elation that comes with getting recognized for his services a huge bonus (jokes like 'Yeah I carry condoms in case anyone hot wants to thank me for saving them', I stand by saying Mysterion is more like Deadpool around his friends and more like Batman around everyone else LOL), but it truly is just that, a bonus. He genuinely wants to protect the town and the people in it, and almost everything he does is with his little sister in mind, just wanting to make the town a better place for her and everyone, keep the city safe out of the goodness of his heart and maybe juuust a little bit of a savior complex.
