THE 31 CHARACTERS 31 DAYS CHALLENGE DAY TEN

Later this year, I will be starting a project tentatively called Strikeforce: Liberty on my Patreon page.  To generate characters that will interact in this project, I have taken 31 names from the Public Domain Super Hero Wiki as prompts and will create one each day for the month of May.  If you donate to RAINN here, you may ‘sponsor’ one of those names and will get a chance to put your own spin on the character, or you may give me a name of your own devising for me to make a character instead. 

You’ll notice these characters are all female, some transgendered.  I do this because I like women, and like seeing women in hero costumes.  You’ll also notice that these characters are going to be from very diverse backgrounds racially.  I do this because I like reading about characters from backgrounds other than mine own--Hell, I would find it boring to write only about white guys in late middle age.  If you find this objectionable, then this month is not for you.

I am still looking for artists who are willing to donate a little time to make a sketch--it doesn’t have to be an elaborate finished product--visualizing these guys.  I don’t want to present a parade of Hero Machine’d lookalikes.  If you’d like to participate, please DM me through Twitter (@NocturneTomDeja).

If you are a Domicile of Dread Patreon, you’ll get a short podcast discussing the creation process for each character.  If you’d like to hear these podcasts and can spare at least a dollar a month to support my efforts to Make The World Stranger, go here to sign up.

Please enjoy, and please donate.

I am borrowing this piece of art fromBob Katzen.
Please check out his Deviant Art page!

MADAME ZERO
Name: Evangeline Boyle
Location: New York, NY
Occupation: Actress

There are countless human trials being conducted across the country.  Many artists and performers, starving for their art, commit their bodies to these trials.  Evangeline thought the trial she signed up for was going to be like every other she did...sure, the forms seemed sketchy and the facility was unlike any she’d been in before, but her rent was coming do soon, so....

She did not expect the curiously glowing material that was injected into her would give her super abilities.

For a while, she struggled to come to terms with her power to leech off other people’s ability and aspects to ‘level the playing field.’*  It seemed that the ‘trial’was sponsored by Serpentine, and she kept having to fight off frequent attempts to abduct her---which made living a simple life problematic.  But then she decided to follow her mother’s advice and turn her burden into an advantage.

So exit Evangeline Boyle and enter Madame Zero--Superhero, Stuntwoman and All-Around Celebrity.  With a new group of publicists, agents and lawyers, Evangeline has turned her new identity into something of a cash cow, even to the point of starring in a reality series on Tru TV.  She’s hit the big time, and she’s not planning on retiring from the limelight any time soon.

*--Evangeline is surrounded by a bio-psychic field that transfers physical strength and any biologicals powers to her, but only to the point where she and the person she’s leeching off have equal levels of that strength and powers.

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