The author wants you to know this universe is open for anyone to write more stories.
This is the last part for this story, and I guess tomorrow we'll be posting the epilogue for Double-Up Experiences. Other than that, we can start with October's category, which is The Role Exchanger.
A New Heroine (Part 3)
by BLZBub
by BLZBub
Living as an adult wasn’t so hard for Lora, especially with the
aliens providing her with the impersonal knowledge she needed to know.
However, the aliens weren’t able to provide her with money, partially
because of the unstable nature of the economy but mostly because Lora
needed to learn how to manage for herself. But the aliens were able to
get her a college education, which allowed Lora to get any job that she
wanted.
Given that Lora’s talents lay in
perception, she was curious if that could be applied to art. She had
picked up plenty of painting techniques and she thought she was
reasonably talented. Of course, most painters were seldom able to
survive on just the income they get for selling their paintings.
However, Lora was able to use her powers to affect the paint as it was
being applied to the canvas. People who saw the painting will find its
design impressive, even those who don’t care much for art. Lora made a
couple of unenhanced paintings that went well, but her enhanced ones
were what really sold and paid for her flat.
Lora’s
budget allowed her a comfortable flat with plenty of room. She hadn’t
built up enough money for expensive furniture and electronics, but she
was quite comfortable with what she had. She had made quite a few
friends in the artistic community who were impressed with her work. More
importantly to Lora, they liked her unenhanced paintings, which
comforted Lora in that she had had some artistic skill of her own and
wasn’t completely reliant on her powers. She had thrown a couple of
parties for her friends so they can come and enjoy viewing her latest
works. Lora was quickly learning how to interact like an adult.
Speaking
of which, Lora had been actively exploring the physical sides of being
an adult as well. Naturally, Lora had been instructed on what changes
her body went through when she progressed in age. Lora had been curious
to try out sex and there were a couple of new male friends who were
interested in her. Of course, Lora had to be careful when she was in
bed. She was able to lift up to 500 pounds and she could have crushed
her lover too easily. Fortunately, she had mastered self-control of her
strength. Her fun in bed were no more than one-night-stands, but she was
ok with that. If she was going to have a boyfriend, it was going to
have to be one who could understand and accept that she had superpowers.
Chances were she’d had to find another of the aliens’ enhanced
subjects, but that wouldn’t be too far in the future.
Her
career and social life aside, Lora was still a superheroine, gifted
with incredible powers. Those powers were put to use when she protected
the city from crime under her alias Gone Girl. (She was aware that she
was not being very creative with her superhero identity. Maybe there’s a
sort of super-talent agency that’ll help her think of a better image.)
And the aliens hadn’t seeded Earth’s population just out of curiosity.
They weren’t the only alien race out there and some of them were not
friendly. There was a good chance that some other aliens will be
arriving in the solar system with the less than subtle intention of
conquest.
Lora will be needed for when the
alien invaders come or if some of the enhanced subjects will use their
powers for selfish reasons and become supervillains. Lora’s super
strength, flight, and sensory manipulation made her a formidable
opponent, but she was still only one woman. Sooner or later, more
superheroes will start forming teams to make themselves a more effective
force. Lora could function as a solitary hero, but she was curious to
meet others who have been made into new heroes like her.
Nice. I've thought about making a superhero story eventually.
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Blagh. A perfectly good story ruined by the use of ugly Uma Thurman. Particularly disappointing as you used such cute girls for her former forms.
ReplyDeleteI used the best pictures I could find of her and there aren't many generic superheroine photos that can be used.
DeleteExactly. BLZBub needed a superhero costume and that's why he used her. There's not too many of those.
DeleteRight, but there are hundreds of hot superheroine cosplayers. I agree, Uma is too ugly for this kind of story.
DeleteHot superheroine cosplayers of COPYRIGHTED superheroines. This is a universe where those comics either do not exist or are the legal property of big companies. If it's the former, than there would be no logical reason for them to be dressing up as those characters to go fight crime. If it's the latter, then they can't just start dressing up like said characters and not expect a lawsuit. This isn't the same universe as DC Girls and therefore it requires superheroes who AREN'T copyright-protected.
DeleteUma is the only one I could find that has a photo of a suitably generic-looking superheroine as well as other photos. You won't find many photos of women dressed up as original superheroes. In fact, you're more likely to find generic superheroines in 'how-to-draw' books. If anyone could do better, I'd like to see them try.