An early morning musing that I thought to share to hear folks’ thoughts about it.

An early morning musing that I thought to share to hear folks’ thoughts about it.

An early morning musing that I thought to share to hear folks’ thoughts about it.

I’m currently enjoying a superhero webcomic where the protagonist, a martial artist heroine whose secret ID is a wife and mother, has discovered that her teenage daughter, who doesn’t know of her double life and idolizes her alter ego, is dressing up and emulating the heroine and vying to become her sidekick.

Now, the webcomic is written from the mother’s perspective, more or less, but it struck me whether the concept for the teen would-be hero would work as a Legacy character.

What if the previous holder of the legacy doesn’t really want you to follow in their footsteps? Do the playbook Moves still work? Would another playbook fit the concept better?

This is what my brain does to me when I wake up. 🙂

9 thoughts on “An early morning musing that I thought to share to hear folks’ thoughts about it.”

  1. Seems to me that the Protege playbook would work best, unless you really want a reluctant Legacy.

    Edit: If I recall correctly, Batman, after the death of Jason Todd, was very reluctant in taking in a new Robin.

  2. I’m assuming the comic is miss-melee.com (or an incredible match to it).

    I would say if they do end up at least kinda under the super is more of a match to protégé; though one with a less than supportive mentor (maybe pushing to the teen team to discourage their kid).

    If you do use Legacy then either you are ending up with both active and retired as judgmental/disapproving or you conflate those two different perspectives into one character and lose some of the always been aspect of the legacy. Though I guess you could do the retired as supportive by flipping the judgy one to the active member.miss-melee.com – Miss Melee

  3. Andrew Matiukas, got it in one. 🙂

    Part of the reason this crossed my mind is that my character in Masks is going through a similar issue. She’s the daughter of a single mother and recently discovered her mom was an active superhero that gave it up when she became pregnant, and is now reluctant to have her daughter join “that” world.

  4. Nestor Rodriguez remember that the Legacy playbook creates more than one Legacy member; as such, I think that oje reluctant Legacy member who doesn’t want the character to be a superhero would be super fun! On the other hand, i think that having the whole legacy, or the Protégé’s mentor (because it’s only one NPC) against them would be too much and wouldn’t work very well.

  6. The Legacy playbook only asks you to fill in two members (minimum) and your mom fits the “retired and judgmental” space. You could have put a younger sibling into the “possible future member” space but your PC doesn’t have one.

    OR DOES SHE?

    Dad could be the other Legacy character. Are you ready to be the new Agent Liberty Liberty Lass?

  8. On the other hand, you can turn it on its head: the active, frontline member of the Legacy doesn’t want you to be involved – too young, too green, too arrogant, not trained enough, whatever – while the retired and judgemental one pushes you on. They don’t do so nicely, but hey, they’re the only one who think you should be doing this!

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