I love making up Martian lore that makes senseTM, but also isn't canon in the slightest. They did not evolve in environment even slightly similar to humans, J'onn and M'gann are out of place on Earth, let me push that shit further!!!
Martian demigod? Where the mortal parent is Martian Manhunter?
> [gets this ask not long after the Kryptonian demigod ask]
> [Sips morning tea and starts cracking fingers to begin furiously typing and then takes a nap]
Alright let's go, another sort of long one!
There are still limitations to speak of and yet Martian can be very OP as well, just like Kryptonians, but there’s one major downside where they’re weak to Fire. Depends on which lore you want to go with where they’re just weak to fire but there’s also a bit of Martian Lore that despite how flexible and vast the capabilities of Martian, they’re were made to be weak to Fire, not as a physical weakness but as a psychological weakness.
For those who don’t know there’s a piece of lore where the Guardians of Oa, placed a powerful psychic block within the Martians to inhibit and prevent the Martians from using their genetic talents for conquest. This happened when the Martians were they were known as the Burning Maritans, where they were constantly ablaze and inflicted suffering and torment into others; relying on the heat of an inferno and the psychic suffering of others in order to reproduce. There’s more to this lore but that’s the gist of their weakness.
Otherwise, I can see them adapting more into the aspect of the gods and oh boy, this can be very dangerous and powerful.
Out of all the gods that Martian demigods would benefit from the most are: Apollo, Ares, Athena, Dionysus, and Hephaestus
With the rest from being mid to low power.
Apollo-Martian demigods benefiting from producing light, especially when the Martians live underground, and a healing factor
Athena-Martian demigods adopting strongly from Athena and their Martian parent where their telepathic and psychic powers are immense, with even stronger intellect, and able to form telepathic bonds that are like Satyrs. There’s also the possibility of Athena-Martian demigods inheriting Athena’s quirk of how she can have children-
Anyways, Athena-Maritan demigods would be cracked at creating inventions and crafting with Martian society being so technologically advanced and with their intellect allowing them to just create things.
Ares-Martian demigods would probably be most at home and adapt into their power prowess with Ares being technically connected to Mars.
Dionysus-Martian demigods being more adept at the psychic and mental realm.
And Hephaestus- Martian Demigod would be rare since Hephaestus is a God of Fire, but if Hephaestus and a Martian had a demigod, their child would no longer have or be able to bypass the Fire Psychic Block and come into their true nature and power much more easily. Now there’s the possibility of that demigod being too powerful and dangerous and being evil, so there’s that. Otherwise, they too are at the risk of having an asexual birth, like Athena does with her own children, but with fire.
Putting that aside, the engineering and creation of a Hephaestus-Martian demigod would be HUGE since Martians are very technologically advanced and can make a lot of stuff.
In general Martian demigods will still be vulnerable to physical earthly dangers but I would say their major weakness is to magic; much like the reasons for Kryptonians but because it’s Magic then anything else.
@DC let me write an elseworlds stand-alone that’s just about J’onn and M’gann travelling across post-apocalyptic Mars, trying to escape the dying planet, and it’s nothing but me talking about weird alien biology and culture.
Revisited my DC Martians today! Up at the top are White and Green Martians- closely related species/subspecies of the Martians. Then the rest is J’onn and M’gann- J’onn finds M’gann after things get real bad, like, apocalyptically bad, and he can’t leave a child to die alone so he takes her in and along with him on his way to escape Mars.
Mars, meanwhile, is a real shitshow. Bad shit happened to everyone and now nobody wins.
J’onn is patient and reserved and hides his fears and trauma well, while M’gann is a hungry, angry child with growing pains.
(the best part about drawing a species of shapeshifters is that I don’t need to be consistent with ANYTHING!)
If anyone ever wondered, Martian Bio-ship in space moves with speed of 890 706 km/h (553 459 mph), which is... about 9,6 times as fast as Mars Science Laboratory, which delivered Curiosity rover over there, with it's 93 295 km/h
This also means that, ignoring air pressure and effects of inertia that I don't know how to account for, but would certainly affect passengers, it would take her about 14,4 seconds to go from New York to Los Angeles.
I'm both delighted and terrified by this information
Do you have any canon material/headcanons about color associations in Martian culture? If not, would you like to treat this post as a long discussion to figure it out?
I got a sudden urge to know it and I don't feel like I know enough about the Martian culture in general to make it up. Plus, I have only my European perspective to aid me and I know it varies between cultures on Earth alone so it probably be better if more people worked on it.
But, you know. I think this topic has potential to be fascinating.
My take on DC Martians- two separate species that share a common ancestor, having developed in isolated subterranean systems before meeting. A White and Green, respectively- and in the middle is J'onn and M'gann. Martians grow throughout their lives, albeit rather slowly once they reach adulthood, and J'onn is....big, in his natural form. Although related, they cannot interbreed without technological assistance, and crossbreeds were exceedingly rare for an additional number of cultural reasons. @hatepig helped with a lot of this There's also a lil doodle of J'emm, who is similarly related. Mostly I hate when they make green Martians more human than white Martians like gimme aliums. Both species are adept shapeshifters and psychics, though there is some debate as to which species is strongest in which categories...
