DCU by Bluedirb

Hernan Guerra

“The Champion of the Oppressed, the Man of Steel, the Last Son of Krypton”

I’m building a team…

some WIP character designs for the storyline surrounding the Elizabeth Arkham Memorial State Hospital within my DC Alt Universe

•••Character Bios•••

Tatsu “The Huntress” Yamashiro

A prime asset for the “Task Force X” initiative within the Agency, Daughter of a Yakuza lieutenant who was murdered in a power struggle in post-occupation Japan. She witnessed her father’s death and her mother’s suicide, then was shipped to live with a distant relative in Los Puertos, California, in the early 1950s. She learned kenjutsu from her Uncle Fujiwara and became a sword-for-hire in the Bay Area’s criminal underworld before the Agency recruited her in 1960. She carries her family’s ancestral blade, claiming it “holds the souls of those it kills,” but whether she believes this literally or metaphorically is unclear.

Mark “Blockbuster” Desmond

A prime asset for the “Task Force X” initiative within the Agency, Mark was a longshoreman from Gotham’s docks who got involved in union organizing in the late 1950s. When the unions started making real progress, LuthorCorp needed to break them. They framed Desmond for a murder he didn’t commit, then offered him a choice: life in prison, or participate in a “rehabilitation program.”

The program was hormone therapy and experimental augmentation, derived from Project Ultra-Humanite research. Desmond underwent severe limb-extension gaining and chemical conditioning, gained immense strength and durability, but in the process damaging his cognition. He’s not stupid, but he’s suggestible, following orders without questioning them while not seeming to retain long-term memories well.

The Tweed Twins (Deaver & Dumphrey)

James Corrigan and Waylon Jones, circa 1962, from my AU storyline with the working title “Ghosts of Arkham”

SUPER-MAN: AD ASTRA

1938, rural Kansas. An incubation vessel of extraterrestrial origins crashlands in the midst of the great prairies alongside a smaragdine meteor shower, leaving a crater in the barn of Eben and Sarah Kent. What survived the crash was humanoid, a newborn infant by the sign, but strong. The Kent’s, aging lovers as they were, believed the Lord had answered their prayers and delivered them a child. Wrapping the infant in the scarlet velvet blanket interior of the pod, the aging farmers loved him from the day he arrived, and took an oath to themselves and the stars to protect him and raise him as they could. The spacecraft would be buried beneath the rebuilt barn, while the Kent’s used local associations in the nearby community of Smallville to forge adoption paperwork for “the child left in a basket on their doorstep.”

1944. Smallville Elementary School. During Clark Kent’s first day at school, he would become enraged at the relentless taunting of another student, Pete Ross, until an accident would injure the other child, the teacher unable to explain what she saw, the other children, including Lana Lang’s report to the authorities, said that Clark “threw Pete like a baseball.” That night, while Eben Kent attempted to make a lesson out of the experience and Sarah worried over what would come of it, men in black would swarm the Kent’s Farmhouse, attempting to apprehend the “extraterrestrial threat”, Clark barely having time to unwrap himself from the scarlet blanket. After three federal agents were critically injured by the child’s emotional outburst to the threat, the commanding officer calls for them to turn to lethal force, their bullets reflecting off of Clark’s blanket and instead piercing Eben, killing him. The men in black would subdue the child with an syringe filled with an experimental green substance, the crashed pod would be excavated from beneath the rebuilt barn, while Clark would be taken into custody and transported to a black site facility.

The Agency is an off the record US government entity that was founded by Director General Wade Eiling with the purpose of researching and utilizing extraterrestrial intelligences, and was further developed under Dr. Alexei Luthor’s theories on the biological anomaly of what he referred to as “Metahumans”, believing that the study of their anatomical existence was the key to creating an army of what would be essentially super-soldiers, Project Ultra-Humanite. One of the many black sites under the jurisdiction of the Agency is “the Orphanage”, the personal experimental laboratory of Dr. Luthor. The primary objectives of “the Orphanage” would be the containment and study of extraterrestrial and interdimensional lifeforms with the intent of utilizing, returning, and/or disposing of them, the extents of those descriptions being left to Dr. Luthor’s own morality.

CLAYFACE

Some concept art of the JSA and influential characters to the 1930s-1940s era of my DC Universe. The Themyskyrans are heavily influenced by Scythian and Ossetian culture with the idea of their isolation being a process of occult technology.

Excerpts from my work-in-progress worldbuilding doc

“The Justice Society is an alliance of patriotic heroes from across the allied forces having come together under a U.S. directive to end the war in Europe in 1940. The team consisted of;

Guāng Lǐ(The Emerald Sentinel), a gay railroad engineer bonded to an experimental verdant energy source. OSS files refer to him as “the living reactor.” These experimental procedures would be later studied by Cadmus.

Jay Garrick (The Crimson Comet), a chemist working in the early stages of the Manhattan Project alongside Oppenheimer before his atoms were rushed at an incredible speed after an accident with an accelerator, making him a living blur.

Diana of Themyskyra (Wonder Woman) a mysterious foreign ambassador with little to no historical record or official explanation, though witness testimonies report “inhuman strength” and an incident with a “golden lasso.”

Carter Hall (Hawkman), an archaeologist having discovered the ancient vault of Pharaoh Khufu in the dunes of Egypt, harboring technologies made out of an alien mineral known as Nth.

Inza Nelson (Doctor Fate), a theosophist who claimed to own a helm possessed by “extra-dimensional entities” and an amulet carrying the spirit of her deceased husband, though many believe her to be America’s first state-sanctioned schizophrenic.

The team is most notable for their storming and destruction of Wewelsburg Castle (currently under the occult-psychosis reign of Baroness Paula Von Gunther) in 1942, a fierce battle with the Reich Commander of the SS, Vandal Savage, who apparently committed suicide to escape justice in 1944, as well as the execution of Adolf Hitler before he could commence the release of the catastrophic doomsday-weapons known as War Wheels in 1945.”

“By 1951, the JSA was investigated by HUAC and brought before a committee for interrogation, resulting in the team officially disbanding. The Hall of Justice would be built in Metropolis, Delaware, in 1973, both a shrine and a sanitization effort by the Eisenhower administration; it presented the Justice Society as mythological patriots, sanding down the trauma into noble nostalgia. Today it stands as a museum dedicated to the heroes, attempting to display the history in all of its ugly glory.”

“The Themyskyran Isles are an isolated matriarchal Scythian warrior civilization in the Black Sea having survived into the modern day through their pagan/occult technologies. They are governed by a legal council of Enaree who advise Queen-Enarei Hippolyta, an equestrian noble warrior who brought life to a clay child through divine prayer to the Old Gods.