Character Concept: Ellen and Danielle/Nelle
Okay, quick summary, just taking the concept of "my high school self-insert OC Yar Kramer updated as a trans lesbian": two transbians for the price of one. Rambly, just getting this thing out there
Ellen Kramer: Black disheveled hair around shoulder-length, brown or blue eyes, possibly glasses. Likes to wear a red jacket, a black shirt, and blue jeans with a skirt over them. Her heroic name is probably "Stopwatch" or some such, if this is a setting where people have those. Personality is basically Sonic the Hedgehog but add a bunch of trans stuff and anxiety. Has some kind of psychic powers or superpowers, probably. Whatever setting-specific thing. Usually super-speed, but this might turn out to be an expression of time-space manipulation if that's allowed in a particular continuity(/RP setting); in those cases, when she gets really good at it, she can stop time and probably teleport, but also there may be some setting-specific contrivance so that neither one is a win-button. Like, especially if she's inserted into an existing setting that already has other heroes with similar powers, I mean, she's probably not going to be as good as, say, Sonic the Hedgehog at being fast, or as Sakuya Izayoi at time-manipulation. Also, if she becomes sufficiently isolated, or other factors come into play that outright prevent her from being heroic, there's a possibility that she becomes "Villain Kramer", a truculent jerk who is full-tilt, well, villainous, but "there's no throne" for her -- while she is allowed to win from time to time, she never ultimately gets what she wants in a satisfactory manner even when she does nominally win, as in, she can't positively answer questions like "Was it all worth it?" or "Did you get what you really wanted?", kind of thing. Unless she ends up wanting redemption, and even then it goes off the rails from precisely what she expected. Basically, Villain Kramer either dies unhappy or lives long enough to see herself become a hero, because, like ... "being a hero" is pretty much Ellen's whole deal.
Nelle Remark/Danielle Lancaster: Ellen's rival/nemesis/evil twin. If she's some sort of artificial being created specifically to oppose Ellen, or she's just going that far to imitate Ellen, her name is "Nelle Remark"; otherwise, she's "Danielle Lancaster". The edgy high school self-insert OC, though I was no good whasoever at being edgy in my teenage years, so Danielle doesn't have to be any good at it either and doesn't even go anywhere near Hot Topic. Brown hair (longer than Ellen), brown or red eyes, more likely to have glasses than Ellen if she's not artificial, dresses in blues and grays, less human than Ellen on average. Nom de guerre may be something like "Watchstopper". Similar personality, but more cynical at best. Her deal is that she really loves being Ellen's rival/nemesis. Like, imagine if Shadow the Hedgehog smiled all the time and his rivalry with Sonic was his number one priority, and you're in the right ballpark. Invariably some kind of homoerotic tension, outside of things where they're Actual Girlfriends. Has functionally similar abilities to Ellen; nominally, whatever differences they have cancel out such that they're on equal terms, unless it's a better story if one or the other is stronger. As a villain, unlike Villain Kramer, she is much more successful at what she does in general; where Villain Kramer is a study in the downside of a "yes" answer to "Aren't you tired of being nice? Don't you just want to go apeshit?", Nelle Remark is making that actually work. She can probably also get a redemption arc herself, though.
(One day, I joined an IRC channel with "Yar_Kramer" or some such as my username; someone promptly pointed out that "Yar Kramer" backwards is "Remark Ray", and the concept of an evil twin-or-at-least-rival named "Ray Remark" wrote itself. I actually chose the name "Ellen" specifically to make it reversable to get "Nelle". Meanwhile in one unfinished and barely-begun story, "Yar Kramer" was the character's witness-protection alias, and "Daniel Lancaster" was his original name.)
What am I actually going to do with these character concepts? Excellent question! Anyway.
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