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Beau is in the role of Robert Robertson, a superhero without superpowers who is forced to retire after a fight gone wrong. Her superhero identity was a vigilante PI named Cobalt, who fought crime with a combination of her detective skills, her martial arts skills, and a series of gadgets---including a mechanical stealth suit---that she built with limited tech knowledge and her college graduation money... but in the years since she started working as Cobalt, her father's cut her off and she can barely afford to eat, leaving her with no choice but to quit being a superhero after a fight with an old nemesis leaves her suit and several of her gadgets damaged beyond repair.
After a few weeks trying in vain to find herself a regular job, Beau gets approached by a well-known superheroine named Tempest (real name Keyleth Ashari, famously married to a superhero named Raven who was also forced to retire early), who offers her a job working as a dispatcher at SDN. In exchange for managing the current members of the Phoenix Program, SDN will give Beau the resources she needs to become Cobalt again... but of course, that depends on whether or not her band of ex-supervillains can be managed, or are a lost cause.
And the members of the Z-Team are as follows (under the cut because this is gonna be long):
Lady Azrael (aka Yasha): The chosen wielder of a weapon that grants its user incredible strength and power over darkness (which includes shadow control, turning invisible, creating shadow portals, and manifesting a pair of badass shadow dragon wings), Lady Azrael---or "Azzie," as the others call her---grew up in a religious cult that told her she was meant to bring divine justice to the wicked. This led to her killing quite a lot of people for a cause she believed to be just, and it took her falling in love with an outsider to realize she was in the wrong and to leave the cult behind. Yasha retired for a few years, even marrying the outsider that she fell for, but after her wife died of cancer, she decided she still had some fight left in her, and signed up for the Phoenix Program in order to put her sword to use---for good, this time. Of course, there may be more to this story than she lets on, and she can't explain the two-year gap in between her wife's death and when she turned herself in...
Bloody Molly (aka... uh, Molly): Probably the most famous ex-villain of the group, Molly used to be the charismatic, cruel, and shadowy crime boss known only as Nonogan---but due to a series of incidents involving deal gone wrong, a vengeful sorceress, and their powers working in mysterious ways, they woke up in a hospital one day with their memory completely wiped. Once she was informed of her criminal past, she waltzed right into SDN and requested, in her words, "another go-round at this whole superpowered-individual thing." His powers are pretty body-horror themed---he can track people through their blood, form weapons out of his own blood, flesh, and bone, and even has some mild shapeshifting stuff involving some visceral reshaping of flesh---but Molly's also got a series of eye tattoos on his body that seem to have their own thing going on, and he's still figuring out how it works. Also, even though they don't really care to look into their past, it keeps on catching up with them in increasingly infuriating ways.
Salem (aka Caleb): A sorcerer whose magic comes from a spiritual bond to a family grimoire, Salem may be the only member of the team with a darker past than Lady Azrael's. From what little SDN and the Z-Team have been able to piece together of his backstory, he's a former henchman to a very powerful supervillain in Germany named The Volstrucker, and he fled to America and entered into the Phoenix Program in order to escape his influence. Being able to carve out his own identity as a superhero is new for Caleb---he didn't even have a proper alias, as he was just one of many sorcerers recruited to work in The Volstrucker's henchman army---and though he's slow to trust and even slower to tell people about his past, he genuinely loves being able to do hero work, to the point where he'll occasionally self-assign himself to more high-risk calls. That being said, he does harbor a bit of disdain for Cobalt, both due to her leaving the hero life behind... and because of an incident that occurred prior to him entering the Program, when he was still living on the streets.
Goblinoid (aka Veth): Biochemist, wife, and mother of two, Goblinoid quit her job at a high-profile science lab after she wound up being the unwitting test subject for an experimental serum. It's not clear what the serum was supposed to do, but it gave her the ability to transform into a feral goblin creature whenever she got overwhelmed---and considering she's got both anger issues and anxiety, that happens a lot more often than she'd like. While Veth retains her mind when she transforms, she's got less control of her instincts, and her inopportune transformations have caused her to get into a lot of trouble, mostly involving fights and public intoxication. SDN's giving her the fresh start she desperately needs, both in terms of getting her powers under control and giving her the chance to be more than just a soccer mom, and she's actually gelling pretty well with the team. Even if she's a little too eager to throw hands sometimes.
Void (aka Essek): An Earth-born member of a spacefaring alien race, Void possesses the standard powers of the majority of his species---the ability to manipulate the gravity of objects, usually restricted to anything lighter than oneself---with one notable exception: he is what is known to his kind as a Singularity, whose powers theoretically have no limit to what they can accomplish. Outside of making himself float and creating the occasional gravity well, though, Essek doesn't use his abilities very often, as he believes his real strength lies in his mind... and in the past, he's used that mind to aid the goals of supervillains, only really caring about the scientific knowledge that could be gleaned from their inventions and his expertise. He's in the Phoenix Program as a form of witness protection more than anything, having turned over a lot of his clients's secrets in exchange for a lighter sentence, but working with an actual team seems to be rubbing off on him.
Princess Pixie (aka Jester): A stereotypical magical girl on the surface, Princess Pixie's fairy theme goes beyond just wings, glitter, and powers themed around light---she's a fey magical girl, with all the trickery and mischief that comes with it. Though Jester has consumed a lot of magical girl media in her life, and she's always wanted to be some sort of hero, the being who blessed her with her powers pushed her to be more chaotic for chaos's sake, making her do a lot of reckless things even if she was targeting corrupt higher-ups in the process. Of course, both her moral compass and the consequences of her actions got up with her eventually, and she wound up quitting being a superhero for a while to focus on college... but a magical girl's call to adventure can never be ignored, so Jester signed up for the Phoenix program after graduating, both for a chance to start over with a clean slate and to actually work for a team. She and her mentor are still on good terms, though. He occasionally shows up during a shift to give Jester a hand.
Fathomless (aka Fjord): Probably the one with the weirdest origin story, Fathomless is a marine biologist and the former host of a deep-sea parasite that tried and failed to make him summon and release an ancient sea god... and left him with some powers that he's still not entirely sure how to control. While under the parasite's control, he wound up committing a lot of crimes---mostly theft and breaking-and-entering, though there was some grevious bodily harm involved---and aside from learning how to use his abilities properly, Fjord sees the Phoenix Program as a way for him to rehabilitate into society and get his life back. His powers range from being able to manifest gills to being able to control water to even summoning extradimensional tentacles, the latter of which is the result of some very crass jokes made by some of the other team members. Fjord's always the guy in the group who gets teased, regardless of the setting.
Spore (aka Caduceus): A tea shop owner born to a family of funeral directors, Spore is the one and only member of the Z-Team with a completely clean record. This isn't because of some cover-up, or him just being very careful about committing crimes---he just happens to be an upstanding citizen whose macabre powers involving the manipulation of dead things (mostly through fungus and mold) have caused several supervillains to try to recruit him, in increasingly disruptive ways. Caduceus joined the Phoenix Program purely as a way to get them off of his back, and once he's done his fair share of superhero work, he's planning on going right back to living a pleasantly mundane life. Of course, being a superhero is a lot more complicated than it seems, and his new coworkers all seem to be in dire need of a friend who can dispense some wisdom, calm, and kindness... so he might be in the hero business for longer than he anticipates.
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No one is doing it like Vozinha in this World Cup. 10/10 narratives, he came, he served, he is playing on the same level as the best player in the world. Even if they lose this game the guy made history. No words bro.
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There are several groups of traditionalist Catholics that have been pissed since something called Vatican 2, which updated a bunch of practices and official positions, and one group of those is called The Society of Saint Pius X. Their leader was excommunicated in 1988 for making bishops (?) without permission.
Those bishops are now hella old, so they decided to make some more, and the pope said that was automatic excommunication. (excommunication matters both as a matter of theology (sacraments performed aren't valid) and economics (the church stops giving them money, can take back property, etc))
Pope said don't, and they did, and now: schism?????
Apparently they claim not to be sedevacantists ("pope's not valid"), but idek what else you would call this.
Article from the Vatican press office (calling them Lefebvrians is apparently itself a diss, as that is the name of the founder and emphasizes the cult of personality aspect)
Excellent bluesky thread liveblogging the consecration (must be logged in, I think? Screenshots are highlights)
once again i have to say that the letter from the vatican makes it very clear that this is a christian hate group. they explicitly reject vatican 2, a series of doctrines meant to update the church's relationship with its body and the rest of the world. When the letter says that SSSX is disagreeing with the church's "understanding of and relationship to judaism", they mean that SSSX believes the antisemitic myth that jews killed jesus and ought to be held responsible for it.
in my opinion, the catholic church does not get credit for this change in policy, as it was only made in 1962 after literal CENTURIES of jewish persecution and oppression. However this is not a "root for the underdog" situation- the schismers are an extremist conservatives and should be called as such.
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