"Propaganda First Edition"
"Bras Bas -- Alternate 1"
"WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO ME -- Alternate 2"
So, I used to play Mutants and Masterminds. Hated the game system (no disrespect, I'm just terrible at coding), and the party I played with imploded via forces entirely out of anyone's control before we even got to session 4. However, I liked my character a lot.
The concept? "Mitt Romney's Freak Gay Son"
The result? Hyrum Holiday III, better known to the people of Vermilion City (through a political failsafe his mayor father put in place to pitch him as the City's New Great Superhero À La Superman, in an attempt to quell dissonance after his literally explosive outing as metahuman) as Sunspot.
Except he is much less like Superman and much more like... say, John Constantine. Full of magic, and self loathing. Putting on a front to *look* like A Superman (and not a heretical warlock in a leotard, because it's harder to imagine a kid with super strength being coerced into using fate magic to rig a mayoral election) with the help of a slapdash team of actual Mutants who are being paid-off (and blackmailed) by the mayor's office to keep the whole act convincing.
In their first fight, Hyrum got shot. And went down. In their second fight he drained the lifeforce of all nearby plantlife to create horrible, esoteric tendrils of cold death that held down a robot gorilla from a safe distance while his teammates punched it. A lot.
Anyway, I really liked him.
"The team's first fight, uncolorized" 2025