Playbook Spotlight: The Janus
“Wake up. Breakfast. School. Work at the coffee shop. Home to make dinner for your little brother. Homework. Sleep. Repeat. Day in, day out. It burns you up. You could get out there and make a real difference. Help people. But instead you’re stuck, here in this life. Trapped in this cage. That is…until you put on the mask. And then, you’re free. Or at least, so you pretend.”
The Janus is the only playbook in Masks that is absolutely required to have a secret identity, because it’s all about the tension of living two lives and balancing them. Often unsuccessfully. The Janus has a number of obligations in their civilian life, anything from schoolwork to jobs to taking care of family to dating someone, and those obligations have a way of interfering with their superheroic exploits. But the Janus can draw strength from their duality, in a way other playbooks can’t.
The Janus is inspired by such characters as Spider-Man (both Miles Morales and Peter Parker), Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel, Artemis (Young Justice), and Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle (Young Justice).
This is my favorite one so far.
This art is just amazing!
This is the one I used at Origins, and it was pretty great.
I think this might be my favorite playbook. But maybe I’m biased because I’m in love with my current Masks character. She’s so brave!
This just gets better… Come on, release it already! :p