#goatguy

“This hero crap is easy.”

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Something I’m guilty of with OCs is focusing so hard on making them a character that could stand on their own, that I tend to isolate them from the very rich fictional universe they are a part of. So I gotta force the OC to go play with others.

Here, Goatguy comes across an alien experiment that crash landed outside of Hub City. The Lilo and Stitch vibes are strong with this one, but the alien (currently named Squiikins, I’m working in that), comes off harmless until it morphs into a monstrosity.

Enter Kyle Rayner, who forces Goatguy to ignore his Prey Instinct to run, and reminds him they are heroes, and need to face adversity, not flee from it. Kyle would be a good friend to Goatguy’s alter ego Owen, as they’re both imaginative artists.

Let me introduce you to my boy:

Goatguy a.k.a. Owen Flynn

Owen was born and raised in Hub City. Despite living in one of the most miserable cities in the DCU, Owen is proud of his home and espouses what little virtues it has to anyone who will hear. He’s glad Hub City has a dearth of costumed heroes because Hub City “will figure it out on our own”.

Owen is stuck as a cog in the machine office drone, but he dreams of being a professional comic book artist. He becomes a victim of circumstance in the unlikeliest of ways. While riding to work on the subway, a desperate scientist surreptitiously injects Owen with a prototype formula. The scientist owed gambling debts and promised his criminal bookies he’d give them an edge in the criminal underworld by providing them with superpowers. His formula was derived from the common mountain goat. The scientist stalks Owen waiting to see if his formula works. The bookies murder him before he can offer proof of concept.

Either way, Owen, having the best sense of humor, decides to become a superhero and goes by the name of Goatguy. Fast, strong, and able to climb surfaces with even the most minute of footholds, he quickly discovers why Hub City has so little in the way of defenders: a lot of the city’s problems can’t be punched away. So Goatguy tries to blend the showboat-y spectacle of a superhero to bring awareness to the corruption and bias of the systems that keep Hub City the way it is.

He’s my special guy, guys. Fun facts:

Goatguy has a Prey Instinct, similar to Spider-Man’s spider-sense. It doesn’t necessarily help him avoid damage, but does warn him of impending attack.

He’s been pitching a sword and sorcery book to Blaze Comics for years.

Criminally incapable of being serious, an anomaly amongst denizens of Hub City.

Completely ignorant of the superhero community. Recognizes the luminaries, but that’s about it.

Can not stand people from Gotham City. “Oh, our city is so bad! So much crime, help us please!” Bitch, you’ve got like sixteen different superheroes to come save you, cry me a river.