#geneverse

Prayer in C - Robin Schulz & Lilly Wood & The Prick

Want You Gone - Jonathan Coulton

Smooth - Neil Cicierega

Now I Am An Arsonist - Jonathan Coulton and Suzanne Vega

Don’t Worry, We’ll Be Watching You - Gotya

Thus Spoke Carly Rae - Riley Redgate

New Soul - Yael Naïm

The Great Curve - Talking Heads

Every Breath You Take - The Police

Hardest of Hearts - Florence + the Machine

Ode To My Family - The Cranberries

Anything At All - Crosby, Stills and Nash

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Headlock - Imogen Heap

He Won’t Go - Adele

You Belong To Me - Jason Wade

Despite totally being a self-insert, Shade is still a pretty important character to me, so I have fun thinking about him. As a result, he’s bound to change a bit as I think, so here are a few of them.

I’ve aged him up to 18 to account for my age change since I’ve made him (he’s still totally a slightly-different self-insert), although “in universe” he’s only gained his powers 9 months ago

He was still TOTALLY a nervous wreck when he first gained his powers, but it’s been 9 months and he’s adjusted a lot. Still quiet, still stutters a BUNCH, especially when under pressure, still would rather NEVER be in the spotlight, but he’s comfortable about being a hero and is a lot more confident talking with his friends (mostly nondescript heroes in the same nondescript area).

I mean this was the case before,but being in-costume really gives him a lot of confidence? He barely stutters and carries himself a lot more confidently. Although he still gets awkward if asked a personal question, he’s a lot better at not focusing on himself when a superhero

I’m thinking of changing his power from “phasing through SOLID objects” to simply straight up intangibility. The “solid object” thing originated in me trying to make the power more unique, but honestly the more I think about it the more complications there are, and I sort of just don’t want to bother with that any more? He’s not part of anything canon, and the power originated from me misunderstanding k2′s writing in the first place, so it’s probably alright to make such a minuscule change.

This isn’t really a change rather than a specification, but he can make only parts of himself intangible and his whole body stays together, so as to be able to stick an arm through a wall without falling through the floor. In order to stand the bottom of his shoes have to be tangible at the very least.

In a similar strain, his intangibility can extend to objects he touches (and objects those objects touch) up to a certain distance, and a certain size of object. This explains how his clothes come with him. He can also make another person entirely intangible if he’s touching them and they’re close, but objects bigger than that wouldn’t be effected.

He doesn’t need air if fully submerged in an object, which is really just a fail-safe to prevent him from passing out and dying for phasing in an object for too long.

Using Shade’s power, if Shade becomes tangible again inside another object, the object is destroyed wherever Shade comes back in. This applies to anything he’s making intangible. Other similar powers may work differently in this circumstance. Just a part of his powers.

He still has increased hearing, which he uses to determine the distance and location of objects when he’s phased in an object and cannot see. Sort of like echolocation, but he’s not quite as good at it.

(all of this is the case unless k2 says it’s impossible for an obvious or spoiler-y reason, in which case oh well, disregard all of this, strike whatever doesn’t work, but this seems more possible than a person opening tears into other worlds and someone can totally do that, so problems are unlikely, if still possible, in my mind)

The spines that sprout because of his side-effect are more concentrated, and cluster on the “tops” of his limbs. I’ll draw a sketch soon.

Another story thing: a few weeks after gaining his powers, the League convinced him to contact his parents. Shade still hasn’t told them he’s a superhuman— the story is that Shade got kidnapped by a low-level villain and was rescued by the League. He’s “working as an intern” to thank them, until he goes to college. His parents disapprove, but he figures that’s better than them knowing he’s a superhuman or thinking he’s dead. He still visits.

Most things are pretty the same with only small differences, and some of this is just restating what was already “canon” for him, but I fell like it’s nice to state a lot of it.