Question: Looking to convert one of my Champions characters to Masks..
Name: Ava DuPois
Hero: Majestic Ocean
History:
Originally, a mean girl cheerleader/surfer girl, she had gotten sucked into being part of a ‘Pig Party’ having invited twin obese girls to a pool party, fitting them with string bikinis to ‘fit in’ with the other girls.
Once the girls were embarrassed and ran away, Ava felt guilty and went in pursuit to apologize and make amends, only to find they had been captured by a Mad Scientist known as Dr. Pygmalion. He was in the midst of transforming the girls into twisted ideas of beauty, one of the girls had already been transformed.
To save the other one and to make amends, Ava volunteered to take her place. Dr. Pygmalion, for twisted reasons of his own, transformed her using chemical procedures to give her water absorption and projection powers channeled through her fat cells. She gains weight the more she uses her powers, plus gain weight on her own normally. When she resisted, he went as far as to similarly brainwash and transform her parents with a desire to let themselves grow to over 500# apiece themselves and encourage her to grow to her full potential, which Pygmalion set to 1000# for reasons of his own…
My idea was she started as a Doomed. With her final form, post-conquering her doom being a Transformed.
Conceptually, how would you work a Transformed with this power structure using the Playbook?
Main reason I ask, is the Transformed seems very “Monstrous Appearance” based in their move set and just being hugely obese isn’t exactly a frightening concept as such…
^^ I’m also getting some weird vibes.
If this were my game, I would ask you to drop the concept. The Transformed is meant to be a normal person trapped in the body of a monster, and fat people are not monsters. Even really fat people.
Actually, I’m not replaying this character in MASKS, just theorizing on how I would do the concept. The character already overcame her oppressor. I was debating the new playbook as being a Nova, but I don’t know how you’d do a Nova with Water Powers…
Jim Crocker Actually, I was basing the powers concept on the Sponge from DP7, as she didn’t enough play in the comic. My version used water projection to also ride a collapsible surfboard…
In DP7, other than being cured in the end, they really never gave her a way to overcome the negatives/accept her powers. I gave my version a nemesis.
Transformed with whatever power you want. The key is the mindset.
John Taber Mindset? Got it.
Jim Crocker that was my thoughts too. the concept is just generally… imo not appropriate as a thing.