#the mib

[aftout]

CT characters as John Mulaney quotes because I am exhausted (part 2)

Gef

Noko / Tsuchinoko

Helvetti / Texas Goatman

Leeds / Jersey Devil

Clara

Joseph

Mark

Sir Verming

Owen / Popelick Monster

[geminiagentgreen]

9/8/2019: A very rough, very crude Paragon Avenger plot outline:

-- Prologue?

- Introducing the audience to Alex, his life (try to make this as mundane and relatable as possible)

- The Paragon crashes down in its small form (box, sphere, just has to fit in a pocket), Alex finds it. How does he deal with it from the night he finds it, who does he tell, how does he deal with his father, and when does the Paragon awaken and what do they discuss? (And then again how does he deal with this)

-- There should be chapters from/for the Tabaan, just as Star Wars has scenes for the Empire. - The Tabaan should learn rather quick that something much more than a meteor crashed down, and as there are often following "real" ET reports there come next encounters with the MIB, ergo, and not giving Alex time to breathe, the MIB should show up. -- This is when Alex and the Paragon should become one to fight the MIB, thus confirming for the Tabaan that the Paragons are back, and for Alex confirming that his life and the lives of those around him are now in danger. How does Alex (attempt to) secure his father's life?

- Alex sets out to get answers (though just simply running through vast amounts of UFO and alien encounters would definitely show some cigar-shaped UFOs that the Tabaan were known for), some distance. This time alone could be a good time for some introspection, that he really did throw himself into a whole ocean of danger all because a wild fantasy came to life. This period is when he should encounter the Pursches, but immediately after leaving his small desert town? I don't think they'd be so far south. Perhaps he would find an excuse to go north?

- Pursches found (maybe a fun-dumb little superpowered tussle as this genre is opt to have), he reluctantly reveals what he knows and what has happened to him. The Pursches...take him back to their place? They'd most likely have fantastic anti-surveillance set up, ergo they are much safer there. Maybe Ed (Alex's father) could be kept here? However, the Tabaan wouldn't be truly frightening if they couldn't eventually destroy this safespace. Abigale and Nathan are of course involved, brought into the fold. As well, we learn of what the Pursches and co. did some three years ago within their home city, and perhaps there is some tensions between Abigale and Eva? Anyway, is this where the history of the Tabaan is told in full? Like, previous chapter, their name is dropped to Alex, but we fully go into it with the crew as an audience?

--- Events happen between these here and Blasphomet, especially moments where they clash and bond. And we have to encounter the Dog-Men of Michigan (though maybe not specifically Michigan) and Dog-Thing ("Retarded Dog").

- Blasphomet happens after the team, travelling, comes to a small forest town and Alex  inadvertently stumbles upon a girl running through the woods escapes cloaked men. He finds her friend after what has happened to her, rounds up the cult, takes them and the girl to the police (the other girl is there, too). This would bring up an uncomfy conversation about how doing good may not be the best thing to do if it risks exposure, but what Alex did was absolutely the right thing to do. Then the Tabaan find out and decide to punish Alex for being a hero and transforming the cult leader into Blasphomet and his cult into monsters (maybe he also has a biological weapon with him, too?). The fight is grueling, everyone jumping back and forth putting out literal and figurative fires, they're working with emergency responders and civilians to take the town back, Alex maybe even gets stabbed by Blasphomet's stupid trident, but in the end the team save the town, the day, and Alex gets the two girls and their families to leave, find someplace secure for the time being. He also gives the brutalized child (who'd been held up in the hospital) knowledge of the Paragons and what awaits the future to give her a greater sense of hope and recovery.

------ Somewhen there needs to be a big fight with the final Old Model of the Men in Black. Has the Paragon been re-purposing tech recovered from their bodies? Has he had the chance?

------ Vegkan shows up, fights Alex and just about beats him? ------ Round 2, Alex beats Vegkan. ------ Mars???

It seems as though we could do a "Part 1" that ends with Blasphomet, not sure if that Old Model fight is incorporated into Part 1 or starts off Part 2...

[thenightling]

[aftout]

The MIB

Iolite, Banks, Camber

[geminiagentgreen]

8/26/2019: the MIB

I must apologize here for introducing more faceless names, but I figured that it was important to include characters who will be part of a story set about three years before Alex's adventures (and included in them) as what I have of my own MIB, I feel, is both a good tie-in and catalyst for certain parties.

Without further ado, the MIB:

They were made by the Tabaan and serve them exactly as the urban legends say they do. Back in the day, they weren't human: machines with a prototype human skin-replicant and frightening abilities (such as being able to remove an object from space with just a short amount of time focusing on it - like a human heart). These early models half no hair and hardly passed as human.

As time went on, the MIB became fewer and fewer due to field damage and effort of maintenance (despite being a race with psychkinetic and other advanced alien technologies, their limited resources were and still are a massive issue). With models coming back severely damaged or not at all from recovery/assassination missions increasingly becoming a severe issue towards our 1960's, the Tabaan turned to their human resources on earth, which led to the MKUltra experiments (formerly Project: ARTICHOKE, which was formerly Project: BLUEBIRD), then from these were born Project "Stargate" and the "Knights" Program. These new MIB would be human: less powerful, but far more plentiful; as mentioned before but elaborated further upon now, they work with Albright to mindlessly serve the Tabaan, and are made up of soldiers both MIA and "KIA", mercenaries who were nameless even in the world before, and even the disappeared youth. With this said, the Tabaan still have the old machines active, though new models have not been produced and instead these old models have been receiving improvements. Now they are practically indistinguishable from human beings, are stronger and faster, and have a "biomechanical adapter" that repairs injuries and helps them to extend their limbs in an "elastic-tensile" fashion (limbs do not perform like Mr. Fantasic, but more like Mrs. Incredible). As well, they are all connected by an AI that is constantly learning -- in a way, the more of the old models that are destroyed means the last one standing will be the most sophisticated and dangerous.

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More on the Knights Program:

This operation was developed from what was learned out of MKULTRA and its predecessors, which was more than what was ever disclosed. The program, just like its predecessors, was intent on making the perfect killing machines out of men. Two men, "Midknight" and "Iconoclast" as history would come to know them, were both part of the Knights Program, whom behind it was Daniel Albright's private operation. Midknight was flushed out for reasons yet to be determined, but his humanity was restored to him (his memories were not), while Iconoclast escaped with a devastated psyche while retaining all of his tactical and martial knowledge - perhaps he could no longer stand the abuse? The conditioning? Or had it all been bottling up then exploded out upon learning the truth - OR during the final procedure - one that would render him completely inhuman from a mental standpoint - was there an accident that allowed him to cause some damage and escape?

Whatever the cause, the escaped Iconoclast took on the persona of a revolutionary as his mind had been so jumbled with killing, truths, and power that destroying the elites and leaders is all he can live for. He used his knowledge to remain hidden while amassing his own personal army which he eventually used to assault a large United States metropolitan city (that is super-relevant yet lacking an identity as I cannot decide between a fictional city or a real one).

Notes:

the MIB aren't the only field agents the Tabaan have, but more on the Dog-Men later...

I will have the old machines dwindled down to one last "man". I also believe that Alex's first confrontation will be with MIB agents in his hometown.