Cute reference from “Appy”.

Now, about the teeny-boppers:

1- If you grace TDT with a French foreign exchange student, Aperture’s diminutive will really open up possibilities for ‘happy’ puns.
2- The subtle expliciting of the team’s immaturity (relative to the Brats or Cal Richards’ team) is nicely done. The name would just be cute, if it weren’t for their ineptitude, which just exemplifies their delusions of grandeur. And the Teens’ hang-ups on their image, with 2 or 3 or the heroes’ names relating to their costumes… Good!

Which segues into questions about your process as the Author.
- Most of the time, how do you work the code-name/powers/costume trifecta? Do you think of powers and build a character around them and suit the costume to overall? Do you get a visual in your mind and try to fit the name to it?
- SO! As a general, do the names refer to the costumes, or are the costumes a reference to the code-name?

An example as an explanation: how did you “build” Balefire?

Back to the plot.

Tarantula says that his (and his teammates’) “powers aren’t natural.” Are we talking Spiderman radioactive/genetically modified bug-bite origin? (I’m assuming so, as they’re all spiders.

Power Girl states that the Brats “want to take out half the founders of the Rebellion in one fight?” Um… weren’t the founders of the Rebellion the good guys, according to Fissure? Why would you want to kill them? (I think I’m just suffering a momentary bout of stupidity and simply not getting your meaning.)

As a final note, I find it slightly odd that Cobalt is the one who shows promise, even though Aperture is the one with the less blatant, more symbolic ID. Then again, we’re led to believe him a nerd (with a certain stigma of psycho-social retardation) and it is a pretty obvious reference for geeks. (How did you stick on “Cobalt”, anyways?)