#cters

First off, we have the villain family.  Basically, the idea that @callistochan87​ had involving Frostbite’s mother stuck with me enough that I started to ponder it more and more until it stuck with me.  I had planned on her father being the Big Bad villain who bit it during the fight that ‘killed’ Cosmic Star, and not her mother, so originally, I was just going to take Black Hole’s design and make it the daughter instead.

But things kept churning, and I guess I didn’t really like the idea of the main villain of the story being Black Hole, because I ended up changing pretty much everything.  Going by @callistochan87​‘s idea, it is her mother who dies in the blast, although the character is vastly different from what she envisioned.  See, the Big Bad rival of Captain Steel is actually her father, who doesn’t have an alter ego (or a name at the moment, for that matter).  He does have powers, which is called Intelligence, which...well, you can probably guess what it does.  ;P  So yeah, the legacy character are, in fact, in an never-ending battle between brains and brawn.

Now, Black Hole (again, no name) was the professor’s research assistant.  She was sort of neutral about the whole superpower thing, not really being able to become a hero because her power was rather..unstable and dangerous.  She didn’t care.  But the more time she spent with the professor, the more she realized how right he was about everything, and the more she wanted to help him fight back. So she does end up donning a- uniform and a name - Black Hole.  She wears a device her on belt that regulates her powers built by the professor.

And. ya know, romance eventually blossoms between the the two, and they eventually get married, and have Frostbite and all that.

Now, the interesting thing is that the three of them are actually a loving family.  Unlike the Wolfharts, neither of them give two shits that their daughter didn’t inherit either of them powers, and celebrate her difference instead.  Like her mother, Frostbite initially has no interest in the villain/hero play, but after her mother’s death, she changes her tune.

Granted, neither Frostbite or her father blame Cosmic Star for what happened.  For one thing, the rivalry between the professor and Captain Steel is still great for him to blame anyone but him.  For another, they both know that Black Hole’s power became far too unstable, and Cosmic Star was just just trying to stop it.  Their main goal is simply bringing down the Guild because they feel like they try to regular those with powers too much.

In any case, I liked the idea of Frostbite taking something from her mother.  While her hair is inspired by her mother, I instead have her wearing her glasses, because I guess that’s all that was left of her or something?  Somehow, it works, even with her blue.  I like Black Hole’s design, because she sort of looks like an empowered Black woman from the 70′s, but at the same time, not?  I figure the high-low hem Frostbite has under her jacket was also inspired by her mother.  And yes, I always had the plan to have Frostbite be mixed race, because I just see the professor being white and looking like this.  ;P

The next design is of a sixteen year old Cosmic Star from when she first started out.  Like, I definitely saw her wearing a more homemade costume in the beginning, but then I had the idea of, well, what if, instead of her parents buying her a costume that looked similar to her sister’s, she actually just cobbled something together from her old uniform?  No one was really paying attention to her for, like, the first year she was doing this, mostly because she was still in school and could only do so much.

I also wanted to show her off with longer hair.  After all, her current hairstyle is for convenience, not style.

The last two are just WiP I threw up here as maybe a way to hold me accountable for finishing them.  ;P  First one’s kinda old, and it’s just Nova and Gabe in their civvies because I wanted to see how they looked together.  Also, I wanted to draw her casual outfit again, since it’s so cute and cozy.  Second one’s of the three Blackborne sisters.  I wanted to draw Nova in the first dress I designed her in (because I do like it), and then just thought it’d be fun to add her sisters.  So I could, ya know, design Soleil.)