The TDT were, as I stated in an earlier A/N (Author’s Notes), just a team name that I came up with on the fly as I was writing the story. I thought it would be fun to flesh them out in a Mutants and Masterminds game. Appy and Rose were both my creations, my brother created Cobalt and Balefire. He picked out the powers and then had trouble picking names. I found a list on the internet and he decided those names were cool. I was thinking about adding a fifth member, but couldn’t decide on a power set.
Balefire’s power set is based off of ‘Hellfire’, which is like fire, only not hot, and can be shaped to the wielder’s will, creating objects and such. It’s from the Mutants and Masterminds game, I wanted to make it personal, and decided she just made it into threads,to make things simpler for her. With practice, I’m sure she could make complex objects.
Rose’s ability is to absorb natural abilities (including mutant powers). Arachnophobia’s powers come from another source (which will be revealed in upcoming issues). It’s not a radioactive spider-bite though.
Aperture was a super I’d been looking for an excuse to use for months. He’s basically a living portal-gun. I figured he’d make sense as a teenager, and made him a member of the TDT. And yes, there will be more Portal jokes when I use him.
Cobalt was the result of my brother and I deciding it would make sense to have a psychic on the team. Names for psy’s are hard, so he just picked a cool sounding word, and decided he’d wear cobalt blue.
Hyper Girl was being sarcastic, pointing out that even if Fissure was right, they’re leading half of the future’s only hope into battle with one of the world’s most powerful villain groups. There’s a good chance Mr Universe, Mr Perfect and the Richards’ could die, and where would that leave the future Rebels?
The thing about Cobalt showing promise was also sarcasm, Mr Universe had just said that even if the three of them die fighting the Order of Darkness, the other founders of the Rebellion will still be around. Fissure said that Cobalt was one of said founders, Hyper Girl was just putting him down more.
I chose Cobalt because I didn’t want to just make the Rebellion into the Brat Pack with a couple of extra dudes, and I wanted a psychic. I guess Cobalt will just have to grow into his powers…
Anyway, I hope those answers were to your liking, and I also hope y’all are here for Issue #010. Same Brat-Time, Same Brat-Channel.
Later Days,
The Author
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