Canons: XMCU (etc), THG, Severance, The Handmaid's Tale, Fallout/Wasteland/Mad Max
Shades of Discovery spoilersXMCU, X-Men, The Gifted
A Brotherhood-minded, human-passing mutant with the ability of controlled power negation. Always active on himself (to the point of concealing his X-gene, shh it doesn't have to make sense it's X-Men) to prevent telepathic interference and tracking. Nullifies offensive powers on contact, similar to Sebastian Shaw without the absorption or redirection. He can expand his radius of effect or target it directly, the latter skill used exclusively on people who won't live to tell about it.
Retired military, off-record SENTINEL consultant. Exploits high-level government contacts to advance his own agenda. His end goal is to exacerbate hostilities between sides to the point of all-out war, radicalizing mutant pacifists into abandoning Homo Sapiens' rules of engagement. And then rule over everyone, obviously.
Case by case: Secretly able to amplify other mutant powers through direct contact.
Hunger Games
Option 1: A 1:1 Coin analog. Head of District 13. Eyes on Snow's job. Capitol traitor with a made-up tragic backstory. This was really just the quickest path to the throne.
Option 2: A turncoat or resistance-aligned Peacekeeper pending defection. Highly ranked in both the Panem military and the rebellion. Subtly working his way up, won't be happy til he's at the top.
Option 3: District 2 victor and mentor. His tributes have a high rate of survival and he maintains a close relationship with them afterwards. Cultivates their dependence, mollifies their angst and unrest with promises of resistance. In which he is involved (truth), but won't allow anyone "below" him access to, as a means of protecting them (lie). Anyone who gets fed up with that and goes behind his back mysteriously finds themselves in worse circumstances than before, how odd.
Severance
Good innie, corpofascist outtie wip
The Handmaid's Tale #1: Mirror
High Commander, secretly engaged in Eyes affairs
Wife: Ellen Landry, who does not like to share. But does like to go to Jezebel's and get her bisexual on
Guardian/s: Ash Tyler, whoever else
Not religious, just used/is using religion as a tool to achieve and maintain power. And get all the gross perks that come with that.
Not a complete dirtbag to anyone that isn't receptive to it, still manipulating on main all day every day, because he's not content with a once a month Ceremony arrangement.
#2: Prime
Guardian, Angel or Commander; Mayday agent in all three cases
Wife: Katrina Cornwell, also Mayday
Genuinely a good dude. This is basically the "lovers in a dangerous time" option.
Can either fulfill a Nick Blaine-like role or, as an Angel/Commander, have been strong-armed into getting a Handmaid after failing to conceive with Katrina (which he didn't really want to do either but you gotta do what you gotta do).
Fallout, Wasteland, Mad Max
Thinks like the Legion, conducts himself like the Patriarch because living in tents 24/7 is not fucking winning
Prime: Paramilitary leader who will try and keep people alive as long as he is. Not otherwise interested in a governing role. Suffered some serious losses in the past that make him difficult to get close to, emotionally, though he'd put his life on the line for total strangers. Nonetheless, his manner isn't dour or severe.
Crosscanon AU's.
Shades of Discovery spoilers
XMCU, X-Men, The Gifted- A Brotherhood-minded, human-passing mutant with the ability of controlled power negation. Always active on himself (to the point of concealing his X-gene, shh it doesn't have to make sense it's X-Men) to prevent telepathic interference and tracking. Nullifies offensive powers on contact, similar to Sebastian Shaw without the absorption or redirection. He can expand his radius of effect or target it directly, the latter skill used exclusively on people who won't live to tell about it.
- Retired military, off-record SENTINEL consultant. Exploits high-level government contacts to advance his own agenda. His end goal is to exacerbate hostilities between sides to the point of all-out war, radicalizing mutant pacifists into abandoning Homo Sapiens' rules of engagement. And then rule over everyone, obviously.
- Case by case: Secretly able to amplify other mutant powers through direct contact.
Hunger Games- Option 1: A 1:1 Coin analog. Head of District 13. Eyes on Snow's job. Capitol traitor with a made-up tragic backstory. This was really just the quickest path to the throne.
- Option 2: A turncoat or resistance-aligned Peacekeeper pending defection. Highly ranked in both the Panem military and the rebellion. Subtly working his way up, won't be happy til he's at the top.
- Option 3: District 2 victor and mentor. His tributes have a high rate of survival and he maintains a close relationship with them afterwards. Cultivates their dependence, mollifies their angst and unrest with promises of resistance. In which he is involved (truth), but won't allow anyone "below" him access to, as a means of protecting them (lie). Anyone who gets fed up with that and goes behind his back mysteriously finds themselves in worse circumstances than before, how odd.
Severance- Good innie, corpofascist outtie
The Handmaid's Talewip
#1: Mirror
- High Commander, secretly engaged in Eyes affairs
- Wife: Ellen Landry, who does not like to share. But does like to go to Jezebel's and get her bisexual on
- Guardian/s: Ash Tyler, whoever else
- Not religious, just used/is using religion as a tool to achieve and maintain power. And get all the gross perks that come with that.
- Not a complete dirtbag to anyone that isn't receptive to it, still manipulating on main all day every day, because he's not content with a once a month Ceremony arrangement.
#2: Prime- Guardian, Angel or Commander; Mayday agent in all three cases
- Wife: Katrina Cornwell, also Mayday
- Genuinely a good dude. This is basically the "lovers in a dangerous time" option.
- Can either fulfill a Nick Blaine-like role or, as an Angel/Commander, have been strong-armed into getting a Handmaid after failing to conceive with Katrina (which he didn't really want to do either but you gotta do what you gotta do).
Fallout, Wasteland, Mad Max