Nice stuff... It saddens me that I simply have not been able to add more for HED!
I feel the same way about
Black Hole,
Winterwier,
DC/Marvel - and sometimes even HED! during my less productive periods. I just try to wait patiently for inspiration and make the most of it when it strikes me (and read prolifically so as to acquire some potential grist for the mill!).
By the way, since India seems to be your beat, feel free to comment on The Resplendent Tigress.
Libra, I honestly do not know if I am more impressed with your Blackwing Intl organization write-up or your knowledge of foreign languages and phrases. Massively good work on both!
I thank you for your compliments Grey Crusader, but must confess that most of the foreign language elements in my article were researched on Wikipedia - and most of the names were generated by this generator, which has saved me a good deal of trouble, since names are not normally my strong point.
It's a tool worth a dictionary's weight in gold, but I must remind those of you planning to use it to look up the naming customs of a country or a people before generating a character name - you will generally have a much easier time coming up with a far more fitting name.
With that in mind:
BTW: Libra, if I may ask-what does Dewaruci translate to in English?
Your guess is as good as mine!
I confess that I took a fancy to the name when I saw it on the Wikipedia list of Indonesian Naval vessels (I've noted elsewhere that military vehicles named a country make a fine source of superhero names!) and further research on the page dedicated to the vessel in question convinced me I was on the right track.
Also, what would be a more correct German translation of Night Hound (since apparently Nicht Hund is literally Black Dog instead)?
In fact 'Nacht Hund' does literally translate into English as 'Night Hound' but I thought that I would translate the name into English as 'Black Dog' as an homage to the old English tradition of Black Dog sightings under a variety of names.
Given that these particular folkloric creatures (folklore provides another fine source of super-codenames!) are about one step removed from a Hell-hound I thought the name would fit the spirit of the character.
I don't actually speak German (although I believe that Neo-Paladin
does), so please don't accept my word without question when it comes to foreign languages!
Lavi is urging more direct intervention, as is Batin, ironically enough.
Well they can't disagree about EVERYTHING! - although they do their best, they're both only human.
His father George, on the other hand, has come out of retirement on at least two occasions to directly aid the young, brave foes of the Columbian cocaine cartels.
George remembers El Cazador as he was, a good man who did his best in a bad place and at the worst possible time. He also remembers him as he was after the House of Serpents got to him.
General Venom's Colombian assets are at the top of the Black-Wings International hit-list.
The Canuck Crusader is not much of a joiner by nature, preferring to pick out his own missions. He's too much into brawling, carousing, prowling the Canadian hinterlands, and hitting the gym between adventures to attend meetings anyway. Of course he acknowledges the Blackwing legacy (if only privately, to himself), and he would be more than happy to aid any of the others should they cross the Canadian border on a case.
The only problem would be trying to avoid his 'delicate' hints that he knows what everyone else should be doing even better than they do themselves! (also suggestions that the gang grab some steaks and even more beers to celebrate afterwards. This sounds harmless enough, but at some point after the first twenty bears or so he's going to try and replicate the Great Pancake-and-Beefsteak-Drowned-in-Syrup experiment of '84. Aristide and George, being connoisseurs of the first order, still have nightmares about the last time).
Besides, he's semi-annoyed enough about all the Hero Force One missions he gets drafted into undertaking.
No kidding - growing old disgracefully is a full-time hobby!
The Law Poet has no intention of becoming Alex Timmons' subordinate. Besides, he is involved already with both his own heroic lineage and the national Swedish superhero team (small in members but not insignificant in power).
Hmmm ... a Swedish super-team: I'll team up with you to flesh them out if you help me flesh out
o Guardioes da Independencia of Brazil and I'll throw in The Southern Cross Seven* for free.
*South Africa's premier super-team since the Collapse of Apartheid and the defeat of the Praetoria Commando (Special Service), the notorious 'Praetorian Guard' at the hands of a coalition of Superhuman Freedom Fighters and the Justicars (during the course of one of their last pre-Psychotic operations).
I may even flesh them out if you play your cards right.
She has accepted a sort of resevere member status, agreeing to the odd mission in Scandinavia in return for calling on aid whenver she comes up against a threat Valravn cannot handle.
Doubtless Vainamo is anticipating a certain increase in meeting with one of his most striking neighbours - Valravn is wondering if she should be anticipating them too.
Her aide Cendrik would actually much prefer to be mixing things up on a grand scale; the massive Inuit pictures hunting down criminals across the globe, as his storied ancestor tracked the bear-god across the Arctic Circle.
He and The Winter Watchman would make a pair - and Minsk isn't TOO far from Scandanavia ...
Night Hound is persona non grata to Blackwing Int, his methods making him almost a stain on their honor. He is tolerated (rather than hunted down) because of his guerilla war against Death Mask III, but a few of the older members still suspect him in the disappearance of Germany's Black Rider, despite no conclusive evidence.
Here's a confession - 'Der Schwarzenritter' was actually my stab at generating a German translation of 'The Dark Knight' ...
No, I'm not shameless, but I AM trying!
The Costumed Champion of Germany had no love for his far more murderous Central European counterpart, and the two clashed more than once when Night Hound strayed inside the German Republic's borders.
For some reason I imagine that these clashes would be at the instigation of the former - it would be an interesting subversion if Nacht-Hund did indeed know the final fate of German's Secret Champion, but NOT because he was the one who killed him.
I'll have to puzzle this one out.
All my best.
My best to you and yours also!
Also Mexico's heroes are kinda busy trying to prevent Mexico dissolving into a bunch of Vampire and Narco controlled states.
True, but that doesn't mean they don't need some downtime and the Big Black-Wings International debate gives them something to laugh about, which in these times is nothing to sneer at.
Amazing Libra, truly amazing. That will be hard to do and is an excellent place to end our thread. I'll start a new one tomorrow.
Compliments can get you anything you like - including more articles, at least once I've worked out which thread I want to post in next: I have a vague idea in my head to do something for Green Arrow.
Bluntly, Alex is trying to save lives.
That thought had occurred to me also; even so, one suspects that such a concentration of Costumed Crimefighters is a formidable asset indeed to the White Hats, even when not all of them are World-beaters (and some of them ARE - like Black Jaguar of Brazil, who's honestly a bit of a machine even by the obsessive standards of Costumed Crimefighters, or Batin and Lavi in the Middle East - when they're busy working together rather than shooting the breeze - as well as the 'Law Poet' lineage throughout Sweden, not forgetting The Winter Watchman and Black-Wing II himself).
At the very least PHANTOMs year isn't going to improve any time soon if these folks have anything to say about it.
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