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I have a new idea for a story character (not for video shoots, at least not right now) that I'd like to run by this audience to see if it's interesting to you.
This character was inspired by two things that seemed to come together for me today:
1) I've noticed at Comicons that amongst the few very shapely cosplayers, there are a lot more average-looking women who, admittedly, don't look superheroic in their costumes but they try like the dickens anyway, and they look they are having lots of fun. I'm imaging an average short 20something female, maybe with short mousy brown hair and some slight physical impedances (nearsighted and needs to wear glasses, chunky around the middle, crooked teeth which make her reluctant to smile) who works a boring, unfulfilling menial service job just to put food on the table, but she diligently saves up every extra penny to put towards her nerdy pursuits like making webcomics, watching anime, playing RPGs, and making her cosplays for the Comicons, which she awaits with excitement and bated breath so she can interact as her character alongside the other nerds similar to her who converge from hours in every direction.
2) A certain character called Silver Osprey, created by DA user Caniac89 (aka Brent) https://www.deviantart.com/caniac89 has popped up in my DA recommends for quite a long time, sometimes in conjunction with another OC called Red Valkyrie. After re-examining this Osprey character recently, I noticed her appearance has a very nice classic appeal to it, kind of like a silver Mrs. Incredible. A design that would lend itself to camp and misadventure straight from the Silver Age, and nothing that would seem edgy, dark, or 'alt' as today's costumes sometimes feel. (see the costume below, worn by well-known cosplayer Ivy Cosplay from Florida).
So, my thought is: what if I combined the tale of this nerdy underappreciated Comicon girl with a suit that (in the reader's imagination) would look somewhat similar to this Silver Osprey one, but have a different name and different logo?
I'm thinking of calling her Ultrina (there's no other character by that name anywhere on Comicvine, and it's only the name of some products in India). And she would be the alter ego of this mousy Comicon cosplay veteran Trina Spencer. She could pick another name, but she just can't resist calling herself Ultrina because it goes in line perfectly with her superheroine fantasy.
Her alter ego would look nothing like her, so there'd be no chance that anyone could connect the two simply by sight (unless they connected 'Ultrina' with 'Trina'). But, she has a very special way of transforming that makes her vulnerable and exposed, which can lead to many misadventures and make it hard for her to keep a steady job, so she has to keep moving around like Bill Bixby with his backpack down the road, except that she is bouncing from gig to gig in her own home county (the new job she gets every couple months or so will becoming a running gag).
There would also be at least two important supporting characters in the story:
1) She goes regularly to a D&D game where she has a huge crush on the DM. He's smart and funny and shares almost all her interests, and she really wants to be with him. But because she is so mousy, he doesn't really look at her except as a fellow nerdy player. However, he has a thing for superheroines, so she can use her alter ego to change her luck, but that could endanger her safety in her secret identity. How can she get him interested in her? And furthermore, is she now 'out of his League' when in her Ultrina identity and more suitable to a stunningly attractive man instead...like, say, the handsome superhero from the big city who flies in to court her?
2) There is a local female reporter in her area whose obsession is finding out the secret identity of Ultrina as she makes her crimefighting appearances. This reporter is very beautiful and also has an ulterior motive for her pursuit - she has a crush on Ultrina that she wants to consummate, while at the same time breaking the story of the year that will get her a Pulitzer like Iris West. So she is looking carefully for connections, to see how Ultrina is linked to a possible civilian identity. However, Katrina (Ultrina) has never had a lesbian experience and doesn't know how to react to a woman's interest in her, so she keeps flying away and being such a tease.
Of course, along with all of this great sexual tension will go plenty of action and adventure. Again, here is the basic costume below of the Silver Osprey which would form some of the inspiration for the Ultrina character.
It already sounds like it could be a fun premise for a mature streaming TV show, since it's a bit like the unrealized Nahnatchka Khan concept for relaunching Greatest American Hero as a female character (specifically, an Indian-American 20something in Cleveland) which was dropped by NBC in 2017 and never produced.
What do you think? Let me know your thoughts, and also if you have any suggestions for directions you think this scenario could go.
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( I don't know if this is spelled right, I mean bars where people of low morals go) . It could be because she grew up in a dangerous neighborhood. But that doesn't stop her from being a relentless heroine.
. As for the second weakness you mention. If she has alien powers, her planet must have another gravity, another environmental condition.What about radiation? This may influence the performance as a heroine. Maybe the power will not last long.