Making a Hero, Need Costume Help
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:26 pm
I'm working on my first straight superhero in, what, 13 years of Heroes Unlimited playing (usually, I play some sort of miscellaneous superpowered being for Rifts or something...), and he's gonna be called the Silver Serpent.
Basically, he's an electrical engineering grad student who took up "heroing" when his research project was stolen. I'm thinking the project may have been to create a room temperature superconductor using an experimental silver compound. He would have been working late, when some thugs (or other such hirelings) who were hired by a corporation that was conducting similar research barge in to steal his work. He tried to fight back, but the thugs, doing what thugs do, overpower him, then force him to drink the latest version of his compound. He recovered (of course!) and discovered he had heightened reflexes and could convert himself into a being of pure silver (and maybe another power or two, still ironing it out).
He calls himself the Silver Serpent, not necessarily due to snakelike qualities, but mostly due to his fluidlike agility (I'm picturing something like a cobra that's ready to strike, and how agile the suckers can be).
I'm trying to think of a decent costume idea, something that wouldn't be idiotic or TOO derivative.
Basically, he's an electrical engineering grad student who took up "heroing" when his research project was stolen. I'm thinking the project may have been to create a room temperature superconductor using an experimental silver compound. He would have been working late, when some thugs (or other such hirelings) who were hired by a corporation that was conducting similar research barge in to steal his work. He tried to fight back, but the thugs, doing what thugs do, overpower him, then force him to drink the latest version of his compound. He recovered (of course!) and discovered he had heightened reflexes and could convert himself into a being of pure silver (and maybe another power or two, still ironing it out).
He calls himself the Silver Serpent, not necessarily due to snakelike qualities, but mostly due to his fluidlike agility (I'm picturing something like a cobra that's ready to strike, and how agile the suckers can be).
I'm trying to think of a decent costume idea, something that wouldn't be idiotic or TOO derivative.