rheasilva
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Post by rheasilva on Feb 12, 2014 21:43:53 GMT -5
I think I'm getting a bit lost in the board forum layouts...and so far didn't see a thread in regards to "what if" currently so I just thought I'd go ahead and ask. If I'm missing it somewhere, please forgive me for this redundancy.
I was curious if anyone's been working on "what if" tangents for character developments from key moments in their story-line development. (i.e. if deaths in their history didn't occur would they have pursued the life they know now?) I think this usually falls under a kind of trope like the "grass seems greener on the other side" kind of thread. I'm sure there's probably something and I'm missing it - there's a lot of areas to go through as a new board member. *chuckles*
It'd probably be more like a one-shot story...since I don't know how well the effect of the quantum theory of the many-worlds interpretation would play out on a long-term scale when writing about these tangents. It makes for an interesting flip-side observation for a shorter side story.
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Post by mockingbird on Feb 12, 2014 23:14:33 GMT -5
Well, there's always Elseworlds for titles like that. I don't think we have a designated alternate-universe board or anything like that.
Somewhere in the Earth-5 archives is an alternate universe I did when we realized that no one was going to write Superman. in Last Sun of Krypton, Kal-El has reached adulthood by the time Jor-El makes his fateful discovery, and tries to deal with the death of Krypton as a regular Kryptonian. If you're into what ifs and alternate universes, maybe you'd enjoy it!
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Post by rheasilva on Feb 13, 2014 14:58:46 GMT -5
Thanks mockingbird, I'll check that out and focus on that area of the boards for a bit. As much as I'm a sucker for not wanting to see favorite characters die or change too much - I have to admit that without that drama edge...the story would just feel too safe. It's been making me ponder a lot of "what if" scenarios for established characters and a creation of other characters. The more light heart-ed stories could trend on having simple mundane issues fluster a character, but not sure those would make for more than the equivalent of a running gag of sorts. I've been in a weird literary mood as of late. *chuckles*
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Post by Susan Hillwig on Mar 4, 2014 11:10:26 GMT -5
I've played around with the "what if" scenario more than once in my Jonah Hex fics under the Elseworlds section. Bit of spoilers here...
In "The Long Road Home", I proposed that the nuclear wasteland of 2050 (as seen in the 1985-87 HEX series) was an alternate future, spinning out of a timeline where Hal Jordan died at the hands of Mongul during the end of "Reign of the Supermen". It was a cascade effect: Hal dies, so he can't stop Mongul from detonating the War World engines, which in turn obliterates Superman along with all the other heroes and villains present at the remains of Coast City. With no Superman to explain what really happened in Coast City, the public begins to lose faith in superheroes, leading to a general ban like what happened in the 1950s (there's also no Parallax or Zero Hour since Hal's dead). With no superheroes to publicly protect the world, things begin to escalate, and then...boom. It was kind of horrifying when I realized how easy it was to unravel recent DC history by removing one person.
In "Shades of Gray", I added a person, bringing them back to life after a century of being dead. By dropping Jonah Hex into the Modern DCU and giving him a Black Lantern ring, I created an unknown element, someone whose presence will end up skewing history away from the what we know in the "New 52" era (a bit of serendipity that DC decided to abandon their old universe just as I decided to start messing with it!).
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Post by HoM on Mar 9, 2014 6:42:52 GMT -5
I've played around with the "what if" scenario more than once in my Jonah Hex fics under the Elseworlds section. Bit of spoilers here... In "The Long Road Home", I proposed that the nuclear wasteland of 2050 (as seen in the 1985-87 HEX series) was an alternate future, spinning out of a timeline where Hal Jordan died at the hands of Mongul during the end of "Reign of the Supermen". It was a cascade effect: Hal dies, so he can't stop Mongul from detonating the War World engines, which in turn obliterates Superman along with all the other heroes and villains present at the remains of Coast City. With no Superman to explain what really happened in Coast City, the public begins to lose faith in superheroes, leading to a general ban like what happened in the 1950s (there's also no Parallax or Zero Hour since Hal's dead). With no superheroes to publicly protect the world, things begin to escalate, and then...boom. It was kind of horrifying when I realized how easy it was to unravel recent DC history by removing one person. In "Shades of Gray", I added a person, bringing them back to life after a century of being dead. By dropping Jonah Hex into the Modern DCU and giving him a Black Lantern ring, I created an unknown element, someone whose presence will end up skewing history away from the what we know in the "New 52" era (a bit of serendipity that DC decided to abandon their old universe just as I decided to start messing with it!). I've always been a fan of this kind of thing, and a few of my DC2 stories have lent on the premise, but I've never been able to follow through, I think. Wonder Woman #25 was a big one for me that I followed up with in Nemesis, something I was really proud of. Little threads of "what if this character went missing", "what if this character died", etc, culminating in a hellish dystopian reality. I got into comics by reading Marvel's What If book, and this was the first issue I read:  Because I mean, honestly, C'MON GUYS. |
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