Oliver Queen
Dec 29th, 2012, 02:23:15 PM
I dunno about anyone else, but with some of my DC characters my brain is shouting: "Oh hey, it would be really cool if someone played <blank>". On the off-chance that other people are thinking about playing those characters, or are looking for inspiration, I figured hey, why not stick it in a thread?
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Carrie Cutter (Cupid)
Originally, Carrie Cutter (http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Carrie_Cutter_%28New_Earth%29) was a pretty badass government agent, but at some point she went a bit wacko and became obsessed with Green Arrow. She became something of a copycat, but instead of just apprehending criminals she ended up killing them, and the police thought Ollie was responsible. When it became obvious that Green Arrow didn't return her affections, she pretty much became a woman scorned.
For our continuity, it might be interesting to put a different spin on the character, and have her begin as a DEO agent who is in Gotham to capture / unmask Green Arrow. Perhaps she fails, and the obsession slowly starts to take over; she loses her job, but refuses to give up on bringing Arrow down, siding with ever worsening criminals (or with shady groups like Checkmate) as a sort of ends justify the means thing.
There are a lot of archery-themed enemies for Green Arrow: Cupid is one of the most interesting.
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Tommy Ludlow
My idea for Tommy Ludlow is sort of an amalgam / mash-up of several characters and roles: I can go into greater detail on the specifics if anyone is interested.
My spin is that Tommy Ludlow is the son of Thomas Ludlow Hallaway: a criminal who created the vigilante alias The Spider in order to take out his competition, and was so convincing that heroes from the golden age believed he was the real deal and recruited him. The Spider - an archery-themed villain - could potentially have been a partner / sidekick for the golden age Green Arrow. Both in the comics and in our version, this faux vigilante would ultimately betray his heroic allies: potentially causing or contributing to the event that caused several of our golden age characters (including Green Arrow, Black Canary, and Hawkwoman) to die.
Tommy Ludlow would be The Spider's son. He is aware of his father's crimes, and has a certain amount of family guilt over it. With his father in prison, Tommy would have gone to boarding school: being from a moderately wealthy family, he managed to go to the same school that Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen attended. Currently, he owns a nightclub in a slightly rough part of Gotham; and due to events that I haven't cooked up yet, he knows that Oliver Queen is Green Arrow.
The specifics of his association with Green Arrow are entirely open to interpretation. Perhaps he has a web of shady contacts, which he uses to get Oliver information, forged documents, and so on. Perhaps he's "Arsenal", and helps Green Arrow acquire gear and equipment in an off the books / under the table sort of way. Perhaps he'll be a vigilante himself one day. Perhaps he occasionally wears the costume to act as a decoy, or to allow Oliver to do something extremely public and give himself an alibi. Perhaps he's agreed to go "under cover" for Ollie to gather information, as a way of making amends for his father's actions. Perhaps he is secretly working for Checkmate, and Oliver has absolutely no clue.
There's also scope to include Lucas Ludlow, a somewhat more villainous elder brother. Someone playing Tommy might also want to play The Spider in flashbacks and what not: they're likely to play a fairly pivotal role in a whole bunch of people's backstories.
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Carrie Cutter (Cupid)
Originally, Carrie Cutter (http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Carrie_Cutter_%28New_Earth%29) was a pretty badass government agent, but at some point she went a bit wacko and became obsessed with Green Arrow. She became something of a copycat, but instead of just apprehending criminals she ended up killing them, and the police thought Ollie was responsible. When it became obvious that Green Arrow didn't return her affections, she pretty much became a woman scorned.
For our continuity, it might be interesting to put a different spin on the character, and have her begin as a DEO agent who is in Gotham to capture / unmask Green Arrow. Perhaps she fails, and the obsession slowly starts to take over; she loses her job, but refuses to give up on bringing Arrow down, siding with ever worsening criminals (or with shady groups like Checkmate) as a sort of ends justify the means thing.
There are a lot of archery-themed enemies for Green Arrow: Cupid is one of the most interesting.
* * *
Tommy Ludlow
My idea for Tommy Ludlow is sort of an amalgam / mash-up of several characters and roles: I can go into greater detail on the specifics if anyone is interested.
My spin is that Tommy Ludlow is the son of Thomas Ludlow Hallaway: a criminal who created the vigilante alias The Spider in order to take out his competition, and was so convincing that heroes from the golden age believed he was the real deal and recruited him. The Spider - an archery-themed villain - could potentially have been a partner / sidekick for the golden age Green Arrow. Both in the comics and in our version, this faux vigilante would ultimately betray his heroic allies: potentially causing or contributing to the event that caused several of our golden age characters (including Green Arrow, Black Canary, and Hawkwoman) to die.
Tommy Ludlow would be The Spider's son. He is aware of his father's crimes, and has a certain amount of family guilt over it. With his father in prison, Tommy would have gone to boarding school: being from a moderately wealthy family, he managed to go to the same school that Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen attended. Currently, he owns a nightclub in a slightly rough part of Gotham; and due to events that I haven't cooked up yet, he knows that Oliver Queen is Green Arrow.
The specifics of his association with Green Arrow are entirely open to interpretation. Perhaps he has a web of shady contacts, which he uses to get Oliver information, forged documents, and so on. Perhaps he's "Arsenal", and helps Green Arrow acquire gear and equipment in an off the books / under the table sort of way. Perhaps he'll be a vigilante himself one day. Perhaps he occasionally wears the costume to act as a decoy, or to allow Oliver to do something extremely public and give himself an alibi. Perhaps he's agreed to go "under cover" for Ollie to gather information, as a way of making amends for his father's actions. Perhaps he is secretly working for Checkmate, and Oliver has absolutely no clue.
There's also scope to include Lucas Ludlow, a somewhat more villainous elder brother. Someone playing Tommy might also want to play The Spider in flashbacks and what not: they're likely to play a fairly pivotal role in a whole bunch of people's backstories.