Grrl Power #473 – Exiguous couture
Icon is a suit of sentient armor “cursed to wander the Earth, forever in search of a hero” Or something like that. It’s not literally a curse, he just outlives his “pilots,” or at least outlasts his partners’ useful adventuring career.
Though he (I say he for simplicity even though Icon is obviously genderless) can benefit from The Veil and walk about in the mortal world (as long as he stays away from MRI machines) he’s fairly content to just stand around like an empty suit of armor when nothing is going on. Having no biological processes or urges, he is largely indifferent to the passage of time. Obviously the days of walking around in full plate and taking on the world is long past, so lately he busies himself with affairs of The Council and advocates for the interest of other Sapient Animates. Although he does occasionally resume adventuring with the Semper Vigilantis when the case is suitable.
I’ll make another mention of Wearing the Cape: Team-Ups & Crossovers. Sydney’s first Crossover! (It’s just one section of the book, but this is a canon story for Sydney and co., set just in the future of the events of the comic. If you haven’t read the Wearing the Cape, <- there’s a link to the first book. It’s one of my favorites. (Along with Confessions of a D-List Supervillain, the Renegade-X series, Kid Sensation, and others.)
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It’s “a succubus’ style” not “a succubi’s style”. Succubi is the plural of succubus.
Personally I think Dabbler just likes the sound of “bi” better. The sexual connotations would appeal to her.
Funny, I thought she was trisexual–as in, willing to “tri” pretty much anything sexual! {rimshot}
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‘Tri’, a succubus does not try! Dabbler is successfulsexual. Although Dabbler might call it ‘sucksexful’.
The “tri” prefix means three. So that could mean “I will have sex with only 3 genders”. If think if you want to define “someone who will have sex with anyone or anything that has a hole” in a single word it would be called omnisexual because “omni” is the prefix for “all”. Though I imagine that may give some people the wrong idea because they may think that person sees themselves as all genders as opposed to that person having sex with all genders. I bring this up because Dabbler obviously sees herself as distinctly female.
In her case one should rather seek a definiton to “someone who will have sex with any animate object big enough to fill a hole or with an extension to do it”
I want an entire series (comic) dedicated to Icon now… I have a soft spot for that sort of stuff.
We can add that to the same list as Grrl Power after dark, Super Real World, that show about the Semper Vigiliantis and the two or three other ones I’ve forgotten.
Nice little subtle touch how the crest changed. I assume that he takes on symbology appropriate for any wearer?
That certainly appears to be the case. I would guess that his magics ensure that if they have a formal crest it is displayed (that would have been very very important in the era that he was likely created). Failing that they probably use some kind of divination magic to select something appropriate with how they present themselves and their attitudes to the outside world.
For a soldier that would normally be to indicate their allegiance, to the state they serve. However Dabbler is only a civilian contractor, and clearly rates her own personal activities as being the more important, in any event. A covert operative, needless to say, would not wish to have any allegance announced openly, on a shield. So an alternative would need to be sought, giving similar results.
If Maxima had to wear Icon, for some reason, her crest would probably be the Archon logo or the Stars and Stripes. Likewise for the other career soldiers, in Arc-SWAT.
Sydney? I think the crest would cycle through those, a bunch of super hero logos (such as Supermans) then explode! Or if it is resilient enough to cope with her varied passions, it may choose the Halo orbs superimposed over the Archon logo?