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Random Character Thoughts II
Joe: is high on the list of underdeveloped characters.  The son of the Juggernaut, he has almost no interest in being a super-hero himself, instead being quite happy to be the all purpose mechanic, handyman, and gardener for the Xaivier's Institute.  He's well liked by everyone, flirts heavily with Lyta, has a solid friendship with Misha, and has generally been an all-purpose background character and spear character.

He'll be making the move to Excalibur in order to get more screen time.  Originally moving just to help get the team set up in their HQ and all
their gear and such, he'll be pulled along into the adventures and wind up staying to provide some much needed muscle and slowly find that he likes being in the limelight.

But he won't be wearing a costume.

Needs to happen: Develop greater interest in using his powers and acting as a hero.

Plots: Excalibur formation


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Asleif: The Goddess of Being a Bitch and go-to sorceress for the Defenders.  Also the hardest of my characters to write, simply because between the necessary speech patterns and her general dislike for everyone and everything, her voice needs to be quite exact.  Asleif is also being shifted out of the picture in favor of Dawn, partially, because her character arc is largely done.  She's gained respect for her siblings, recognized her own shortcommings, made friends (Vincent), and gained real appreciation for a mortal (Zoey).  There's not much further for her to go, and I don't want to stagnate.  So the last thing she needs to gain is appreciation for humanity in general, which she'll gain by being temporarily subsumed within Dawn, while retaining all the memories after their split.  This will allow her to go off (put return as necessary).

Dawn's own arc is partially that of the inexperienced and reluctant hero.  Didn't ask for any of this, doesn't have a clue what she's doing, but just might turn out to be good at it.

Needs to happen: Outlined above.

Plots: her own personal plot/Dawn's plot of development, involvment in Dormamu. Offenders/Defenders War.

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Andrea: is something of a fixed position character, though I think that's reasonably common to any of the FF.  The comic versions are certainly some of the more static characters of comicdom.  But Andrea perfect fills the Thing role, of the slightly different outsider but with considerable warmth.

There will, however, certainly be consquences and reactions to Vincent's decisions in Asgard, as well as fall out from the brief time spent as a human.

Needs to happen: Continue to question the nature of her existance (she wants to be accepted as human without actually being human, physically), see what happens with her relationship with Vincent.

FF in general, want to see Mole Man and Negative Zone and Microverse stuff.

Plots: Frighftul Four plot, eventually.


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Toni: Anya's best friend, but is slowly developing into something more than that.  Will be dealing with extremely trauamatic fallout from the Horseman thing, as well as developing new energy based abilities to replace her lost metalkinesis.  She's also going to have to deal with what was a very promising relationship with Charlie being cut short and probably going quite out of her mind with worry.  There's also her continuing anxiety over her status as a mutant, especially being an "outed" one.  It already cost her  a boyfriend and kept her out of proper school for the remainder of her senior year.  College will give her some break, but how big...

Though neither powerset was actually developed with that thought in mind, both her original and her second set (manipulating energies in the EM spectrum) make Toni ideal for taking down a Stark gone rogue.  I keep coming back to the idea that that's intentional, on some level.  I certainly wouldn't put it past comic versions of Tony Stark to set something like that up.

Needs to happen: Develop relationship with Charlie so his absence hurts more.  Work through guilt over time as a horsemen.  Develop and master new powers.

Plots: None specific.


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Abigail Hawk: is my newest acquistion.  A sass-talking, sharp-shooting, hard-drinking, tough as nails woman.  And a time traveler.  She's well adapted to the future, so should have no problems interacting with the other independents, especially since she strides the line between super-hero and regular PI.  She's the "Two-Gun Kid" out of honor to her father and because a catchy name and identity gets her more clients than just being a regular PI/Bounty Hunter (hey, it worked for Luke and Danny).  

She's also, from her relative perspective, met the Young Avengers a handful of times.  Likely will appear during the wild west bit of 12 Steps, and will definitely appear during Steve and Charlie's Excellent Adventure, where she'll hint that something happened between the two of them (though it might be in Charlie's relative future).

Though the two will never likely meet, she dislikes Andrea and Andy quite a bit.

Needs to happen: be introduced, get invovled in independenty stuffs.

Plots: Probably at least some participation in the upcoming independent plots of gangwar, appearances in any wild west stories.