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suicide squad things, hero version

it’s uncomfortable and embarrassing for the villain in question so of course heroes have two options

act like nothing is out of place

mock them

in the interest of teamwork, usually the first

waller is scary, ok? waller is scary. task force x SUCKS.

plus, it seems like villains know if you fuck with one of them. if you let your exobytes swing that way you’ll never walk outside safely again.

villain version

it starts with a tranq dart and ends with a bomb collar

just kidding! it ends with being dunked into a group of heroes with only the vaguest idea of what you’re supposed to do

the bomb collar is just a facet of how strange, uncomfortable, and fucked up of an experience being recruited into the squad is

it’s really unfortunate if you’re into fighting heroes. how do you recover from that?

you don’t.

#fluff #heroes #villains

task force x things hero version

OK, maybe you’ve gotten pretty high up on the leaderboards or maybe you like fighting villains a little TOO much

Congratulations, you’ve been enlisted!

Less likely to get weird looks the higher the stakes are; lines blur between heroes and villains when the fate of the world is on the line.

but then sometimes you’re tasked with being the moral leash for a bunch of pre-murderers and that’s... yeah

other times you get shoved in the line of fire and you really can’t forget that these are VILLAINS

villain version

FRESH MEAT

sometimes

Honestly if you fuck with a TFX hero too hard there’s a 90% chance you’ll end up with a bomb collar by the next month because karma occasionally goes by Amanda Waller

The one exception to the punking are healers. Nobody messes with healers.

Sometimes

#fluff #heroes #villains

speckeltail

little dcuo things™ that i like to imagine happen, hero version. villain version.

oracle has just been handed an exobyte-empowered thirteen year old. on the search to find her parents and return her to them, they find that she’s currently up for adoption. bruce wayne, a staunch ally of earth’s new protection force, finds her a foster family at waynetech where she can grow up safely.

oracle has just been handed an exobyte-empowered ninety year old. despite protests that you really shouldn’t be risking your life for us, ma’am, the newest superhero is determined to kick brainiac butt and tells oracle as much.

oracle is amazed at how many kids without parents were snapped up by brainiac. bruce wayne helps the justice league to fund a wing for barracks that the kids can stay in until they find foster families.

found families, of course.

wonder woman tries to teach a class of sixteen-to-twenty year olds how to use their respective bladed equipment.

someone has a crush on the phantom stranger.

someone has a crush on the martian manhunter.

someone has a crush on doctor fate.

nature-empowered heroes no longer allowed to use their powers in the aquacultural area.

electricity- and atomic-empowered heroes no longer allowed to use their powers indoors.

batman tries to teach a class of twenty-to-thirty year olds advanced martial arts, sans powers. in the first hour alone he is strangled by vines, sent back in time briefly, exposed to a life-threatening amount of radiation, and gives a crash course on how to safely heat a frostbitten limb.

naptime in the central hub.

#fluff #heroes

speckeltail

little dcuo things™ that i like to imagine happen, villain version. hero version.

calculator has just been handed an exobyte-empowered thirteen year old. confused and also kind of scared, he directs them towards oracle.

lex luthor is in charge of mentoring a teen who would much rather have circe as his mentor. yes, lex says, me too.

mick rory has just been attacked again. it is the fifth time today. it is the same person. he knocks them out and relocates. an hour later, he is attacked for the sixth time today.

do not use the phase shifter to trick your mentor into entering pvp mode. you will be kicked out to learn how to swim.

do not drag vanquished heroes into the hall of doom.

do not make out with vanquished heroes in the hall of doom.

spars and duels must now be overseen by an impartial arbitrator, preferably with time-empowered exobytes.

calculator has just been handed an exobyte-empowered fifteen year old who immediately tries to punch him. he’s keeping this one.

someone installed a trampoline in the pit. poison ivy… kind of approves.

an acrobat uses the trampoline to snag a flier out of the air and break his wrist. poison ivy no longer approves.

riddler has struck up a friendship with a twenty-something who makes up the worst riddles in the world.

captain cold is in charge of mentoring a group of people from keystone, half of whom heckle him ruthlessly.

“i don’t need to wear clothes. the stuff we’re doing is way worse than public indecency.”

the kids get homesick sometimes and lex doesn’t know how to deal with it.

#fluff #villains

#powers #memeing

league heirarchy

Assuming there is at most 15-20 people in a leadership/management role at a time, that leaves areas for organization.

There is one Subleague Rep; this is the person who relays large-scale information to and from the Subleague, and can be considered the highest role.

Three officers, one from each exobyte subdivision; Magic, Meta, Tech. Considering that leadership =/= mentorship, they probably have assisting officers who can also take over in the event of an emergency and act as mentors to newer members. Should the Subleague Rep vacate, whoever has seniority gets the slot.

That's seven so far! That leaves room for other official mentors, two from each exobyte subdivision, bringing us up to thirteen officers. The remaining slots are filled with record-keepers or any other important roles that need to be filled, making empty slots extremely versatile. I do imagine some sort of Treasurer is needed, because explaining exactly WHY you need so many trinkets can't be fun.

That's the general setup of a Subleague! It can vary, but there is always someone who reports back to the main League/Society.

#leagues

speckeltail

little dcuo things: leagues

Leagues in DCUO probably popped up as a way for both Justice League and Secret Society of Super-Villains to quickly, efficiently get task forces up– in-game it’s much more of a clubhouse, but it definitely makes sense that certain Leagues are deployed on certain Alerts/Missions etc… instead of casting a wide net and getting a very unbalanced group (eight dps lol), there can be big umbrella leagues for, say, tanks, healers, controllers, and those who hate the role they chose which the Big-L League then polls for specific roles.

I think that there’s… your primary league, which you can choose. This is the clubhouse. It’s a friend group, or those with similar goals. Then you have your class league, which is where Alert/Mission roles are filled from if you don’t have a premade.

Would class leagues narrow down even further? Possibly. For now, I imagine that you have your Founder-esqe figures, who make sure all of their league members are in line and doing alright, not going off the rails etc. Villain class leagues operate roughly the same, but each class league is different.

#leagues #organization

speckeltail

Yeah here I go

Little DCUO Things: Class Leagues

Highly organized from the outset on the heroes’ side. Oracle PREPPED for this, okay? She knew that Brainiac’s lost children would need somewhere to go. Calculator followed not soon after, dragging his feet and yelling the whole time once he realized that if he didn’t get other people to babysit these helpless new villains, HE would have to do it.

HENCE.

Total population of DCUO is ~20,414,035. As of 2014, there are 13,439,374 hero PCs (roughly ~66%) and 6,974,661 villain PCs (roughly ~34%). Assuming that I’m focused on America rn, and America contains roughly 5% of the world’s population, that’s 671968 (.7. we don’t talk about what happened to the other .3 of a person). heroes and 348733 (and .05!) villains! The .05 is probably Gizmo. The world population is roughly 7.7 billion; world population clock as of now says 7,651,535,412! According to this data, roughly 0.2% of the world population was empowered by Brainiac’s exobytes– this information will come into play later.

Keep reading

#leagues #organization

Exobyte Disposition

Exobytes: The type of Exobytes a person was infected with determines what powerset they get. The ratios of Exobytes in a person is called Exobyte Disposition. Three types of Exobytes are classified as ‘dominant’; those Exobytes determine which class a person gets, while ‘subordinate’ Exobytes determine which powerset within a class is chosen. Internal factors can change which power someone gets, but these combinations below provide a general template.

Assuming that the ‘classic’ powers are the base combinations, and other powers are subsets that sprung up as more ‘free’ Exobytes were available to fuse:

#exobytes

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