Comic book world

Characters:

  • Seez & Da’Sis’
    • similar to Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger
    • Seez
      • male, 30+ years old
      • can create ‘redactions’ (censor bars) similar to Ghost in the Shell’s Laughing Man face, which block vision of reader, other characters, etc
        • limited in size/number?
        • can be created fast enough to create strobing effects and trigger some seizures?
    • Da’Sis’
      • child of indeterminate sex, ~9 years old – possibly sister of Seez?
      • no super powers?
  • Crimefighter
    • human female (Moxie Crimefighter Jillette), 20-30 years old
    • skills include: archery, horseback riding, escape artistry
    • no super powers
    • human skull (that of Teller) strapped to her shoulder, with a red (blood?) painted ampersand on its forehead
      • Crimefighter refers to skull as ‘Yorick’
      • skull telepathically quotes (i.e., thought bubbles) from Broadway & other theatrical productions
      • a reference to post-apocalyptic Y: The Last Man (Yorick, Ampersand)
  • Godot(?)
    • only power is that Godot can die (once?) at will
      • unclear how this power was identified by Godot, since it presumably has not been used yet
  • Refract (stylized as REf®act)
    • similar to Jamie Madrox / The Multiple Man – can create duplicates (‘Fractures’ or ‘Fractals’) of self, which in turn can create duplicates of themselves, etc.
      • re-absorbing (‘refactoring’) these Fractures can be done at will
    • some Fractures (and the ‘prime’ Refract) are hallucinated/DID/multiple personalities, and are not physically real

Setting:

  • post-apocalyptic North America, c. 2030 AD
  • an amalgamation of Idiocracy, Mad Max, Max Headroom, and John Titor’s Predictions
  • Following civil unrest and nuclear attacks, the United States has collapsed and is now known as the Divided States of America
  • Political factions / states include:
    • The Miranda Right (or MRs)
      • led by Lin-Manuel Miranda
      • highest concentration is on (former) US east coast
      • capital cities are NYC and San Juan, Puerto Rico
    • Lons Vienglos
      • southwestern region including (former) San Diego / Los Angeles / Las Vegas
      • implements martial law; mostly street gangs and scavengers now
    • Newly Risen Americans (the NRA)
      • “The South has risen again!”
      • aka New Rebel America
      • loose confederation of rebels
    • Red Classic
      • logo is stylized after Coca-Cola Classic
      • southern / southeastern region
      • capital city is Houston, Texas
      • most people in this region have been conscripted into smaller militia / factions

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