The newly christened Frank moved as if he was making noises at the growing crowd, though of course no sound came out owing to his lack of vocal chords. The skeletons had odd habits like that, adopting general mannerisms of the animal they had once been even when it made little sense. "I like that. Frank it is".

Ah yes, here was the bit Menagerie had been nervous about. It wasn't that she was especially shy, as she wasn't, but that it was rather an odd feeling to walk out and have literally everyone look at you. She couldn't really blame them, even in a city with a very active Hero Program, actually seeing Heroes never failed to be rather impressive, though she still failed to understand the celebrity hero craze. Not that she had ever understood the concept of celebrities in the first place.

Menagerie took a quick look around giving a little wave before returning her attention to Paladin. Frank clenched more tightly to her costume as she slipped her own gloved hand into Paladin's "I suppose I will". Menagerie hadn't a clue what the other Hero was going to do, but she most certainly planned on finding out.

Megan certainly still needed to get used to spending time around other people with powers. The armor-clad hero literally vanishing into thin air caught her very off guard. She made a little 'eep' sound before recovering to get into normal clothes, returning to the lobby in athletic pants and a rather faded purple t-shirt. There were a great many people milling about so she started looking around.

Her searching the lobby was rather fruitless for a quite simple reason- there were a lot of twenty-somethings of average height with brown hair, whereas in her entire time in the building she had only seen two others with red dyed hair, both entirely different reds as well. Fortunately, the other hero still managed to find her alright, and while she could have spent hours flutily staring at people with similar features to Celerity, from this close it was a fairly sure identification. The smile was certainly the quickest identifier, she had one of those faces that it was hard to picture without a smile plastered across it.

Giving an impish grin she replied "I'm Megan, and I do believe I asked someone who looked rather like you about that. Have to say I'm not really much of a coffee person, but there's plenty of places around here with both that and the kind of things I usually go for. It's good to meet you Kathy."

Megan certainly knew some people with the sort of exhilarated energy Kenzi had- the was one of them in fact. But absolutely nobody she knew took it to the extent this teenager did, quite this level of boundless enthusiasm. The effect of being around it was like being injected with caffeine.

"All true. Certainly some people can do a lot with very few words, but there's a lot of value in letting your train of thought go on and see what sorts of sights it takes you to, so to speak". She was correct that talking to her felt like the verbal equivalent of a machine gun, but unlike some people who did that there was no real malice, she simply had a great deal to say and wanted to make sure it all was said. "Everyone sees the world at least a little bit differently, and most people you meet will have seen and done some things you never had, so it makes sense."

She gave a soft smile at being asked about her work, answering the questions in order. "I did voices for a couple minor characters on some animated shows and for some video games. As for the rest of the questions they kind of are all part of the same answer. Yeah it was kind of odd not being physically present, but I felt like that may have helped me get into character more because it didn't matter what I looked like, because the end result would be me looking perfectly like the character. I do have to admit I kind of waved my hands around like crazy while doing it even though I don't normally gesticulate,"

Megan laughed at the explanation Kenzi gave for her ability "I will repeat, that is very cool. I'm really glad you don't want to have a career in stealth because you would be terrifyingly good at it. What kind of art do you do? I have to confess to not being an expert in visual arts but I do know there's a lot of variety within it." her laugh came back instantly at the admission of 'bulldozing' "It's alright, I was warned and right now you have a lot  you want to say- I'm not going to get upset about that."


Having mostly been sitting still the whole conversation, the skeleton stood up as Megan turned back to it, giving it her signature sort of impish grin "A Dire Wolf if I'm not mistaken, feel free to pet it. Can it think or feel? That's actually quite a good question. I can't just manipulate bones, I can only put them back together into these skeletons, and they follow my mental or verbal instructions without fail and just sit there idly if I haven't given them any, but on the other hand they do seem to choose the best way to follow my instructions if they're not that specific and otherwise act like they were a living animal that I was controlling. My best guess is they do have a bit of a mind, but it's sort of an unconscious extension of mine rather than a totally independent one". she had the wolf take a few steps to close the remaining distance between it and Kenzi. "Well since I've had him, or her its hard to tell most of the time with skeletons, for all of a few minutes no name yet. I don't usually get to hang on to them for all that long so I usually don't name them."

She had certainly walked out to quite the sight. Even if you didn't really follow the news, the Hero who Menagerie had walked out to find standing there was unmistakable, there simply was no avoiding the name Paladin these days. Though the iconic Hero was fairly tall and only seemed to fill even more of the room from the excited buzz she seemed to have, from this close up even with a mask covering a lot of her face Menagerie realized she couldn't be much if any older than she was, which felt a bit odd.

Menagerie tried to return the wink, quickly realized that a mask covering everything from her lips up made this a poor idea, and settled for a playful smile instead. "Join you for what? The answer will probably be yes but it'd be rather foolish to agree to something if I didn't know what it was". She vigorously took up the offered handshake. Then despite the fact that Paladin was one of the most recognizable people In the nation and couldn't possibly have been oblivious enough to not know that, she still introduced herself. This certainly brought up the new Hero's opinion of her. She had of course previously held a positive opinion of Paladin on a more general level, but knowing how somebody acted around others from personal experience was another matter.

"I... did sort of recognize you, but great meeting you regardless. I'm still rather surprised that I'm here, but I'm certainly glad for it. What brings you to be here seeing me Paladin?"

As I have huge amounts of concepts for characters from my own in-progress superhero story I've decide to put in a list of characters I think would be interesting to have on this site but that I'm not interested in playing. If you want to change any part of what's written here please do tell me, I'll probably allow it. Anything I don't write is fair game for you to pick. I may add to this list over time, for now I'll start with a pick of some varied sorts.

Last Updated: 6/19/21

All Face Claims are your pick.

[NAME AND GENDER OPEN] / Palisade (Vigilante) - Spike Creation

This is the character with the most freedom, it's their story that's got a bit of detail. Their power to cause surfaces to reshape in a way that effectively is equivalent to forming a spike of any size projecting from any flat surface. They originally were a villain under the name Shrike, but after some bad encounters with others villains they chose to become one of the vigilantes that had been causing them so many problems before. Getting an entirely new costume and renaming themselves Palisade still hasn't prevented many people from realizing the truth however, and their past as Shrike seems determined to continue haunting them. ( I have some more specific ideas, so feel free to contact me).

Catherine Gautier (Student) - Energy Absorption

A relatively friendly but troubled young woman with a habit of stealing things (usually she gives them back because she didn't need them to begin with). Catherine's body can absorb most forms of energy, slightly enhancing her physically for a time. It works best on electricity and radiation (which includes wireless signals, radio waves, and similar forms of signal), she's in EMBA after a few too many times of losing control and causing a blackout.

Hannah [Surname Undecided/Open] (Civilian) - Predictive Modelling

A young member of one of the more minor less-involved-in-politics groups of the Families, Hannah comes across as very detached like many members of the Families, but in an entirely different way. Hannah's mind is almost constantly running complex simulations of potential futures, she can more accurately predict large scale events and is generally more accurate about the nearer future, though communicating the results of this is challenging for her. Able to see almost everything that could happen, she has a tendency to refer to events that never happened, act like she's met people before when she hasn't, and generally seem slightly removed from what actually is happening.

Also see Headcanon Space for more

Megan wasn't the most obvious choice for the Hero Program and she knew it. She was easy to distract, had low respect in authority, and a power that most people found terrifying. However it did seem that Dominic and whoever it was in the program that first noticed her though she had the right qualities, and that wasn't the sort of opportunity to be passed up on without a very good reason. She hadn't lived in California long, knowing of only a few heroes here outside those famous throughout the country. Still from what she did know the sheer range of powers in existence was quite remarkable, and she did of course still have to conduct more research or her noting that most metahuman's powers compliment their personality.

For all these reasons Megan was quite interested in taking a tour of the building, not even mentioning the practical need to know where things are. "Still not used to being called Menagerie and I'm the one who thought of the name" she mused after Dominic gave his assistant instructions. The next room looked like something out of TV show, with people watching what very well seemed to be every broadcast in the city. the sight was dizzying, albeit not quite as much so as the costumed man who approached them next. He clearly had either never heard of the concept of an inside voice or he regarded it as some sort of joke, by volume alone his words fit the bill of shouting, though she also strongly suspected this was his normal speaking voice. The costume was it's own sort of odd... was that a speaker? She though maybe it would be better not to focus on that for now.

Whatever Megan had expected him to want to talk to Dominic about, headphones would not have made her list. To be honest his suit kind of looked like a fancy pair of headphones somehow expanded to cover the entire body. She was introduced gave him a wave saying "Hello there. As stated I'm Megan, good to meet you?" the last part ended up sounding more like a question. He was looking at her in a way that she didn't quite recognize but definitely made her uncomfortable "Oh yes, most definitely something"