I am a unicorn! My real name is Christabellbethabell and I appear only to Marvel RPers that are pure of heart--
Just kidding. Seriously, though, I think all four of us NW players are some of the only ones that play these characters. We're all elusive mystical creatures.
And I know which ones you're talking about! With the Nova appearance, I totally agree about the Thunderbolts fight. I kinda figure that Robbie being Penance just reinforced Rich's feeling that the world had gone irreparably wrong, because any world that would beat someone like Robbie up that badly couldn't be right. (Especially since Rich thinks the fault lies fully on Nitro and that it's just superhero hubris for the other heroes to think everything would've magically been okay if the NW had done something different. Sometimes the bad guys win and good people die, because the bad guys were stronger or smarter -- or unexpectedly juicing. Shit happens and it's tragic but what're you gonna do?)
As far as that one, Rich fully forgives Robbie for the fight because he knows he was bonkers and he kinda just mentally checked out himself. But naturally he refuses to forgive himself for leaving Robbie like that and not just kidnapping him and dragging him to get mental help or something, because even though Rich was also really mentally ill he won't acknowledge he had any mental anything going on. So Rich will probably be (annoyingly) overprotective and vaguely guilty in game sometimes.
As for I am an Avenger, I figure after Robbie and Rich were like "whoooooooo" over Vance and Angel disappearing, that they went barhopping and goofed around the whole night. And that Robbie was one of the last friends Rich ever hung out with on Earth before he died. Which was a kind of comforting thing when he bit it. His last time home on Earth he got to hang with his friends and actually have fun for a night. And got to see that Robbie was vaguely okay..er. Okayer than he'd been before.
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Just kidding. Seriously, though, I think all four of us NW players are some of the only ones that play these characters. We're all elusive mystical creatures.
And I know which ones you're talking about! With the Nova appearance, I totally agree about the Thunderbolts fight. I kinda figure that Robbie being Penance just reinforced Rich's feeling that the world had gone irreparably wrong, because any world that would beat someone like Robbie up that badly couldn't be right. (Especially since Rich thinks the fault lies fully on Nitro and that it's just superhero hubris for the other heroes to think everything would've magically been okay if the NW had done something different. Sometimes the bad guys win and good people die, because the bad guys were stronger or smarter -- or unexpectedly juicing. Shit happens and it's tragic but what're you gonna do?)
As far as that one, Rich fully forgives Robbie for the fight because he knows he was bonkers and he kinda just mentally checked out himself. But naturally he refuses to forgive himself for leaving Robbie like that and not just kidnapping him and dragging him to get mental help or something, because even though Rich was also really mentally ill he won't acknowledge he had any mental anything going on. So Rich will probably be (annoyingly) overprotective and vaguely guilty in game sometimes.
As for I am an Avenger, I figure after Robbie and Rich were like "whoooooooo" over Vance and Angel disappearing, that they went barhopping and goofed around the whole night. And that Robbie was one of the last friends Rich ever hung out with on Earth before he died. Which was a kind of comforting thing when he bit it. His last time home on Earth he got to hang with his friends and actually have fun for a night. And got to see that Robbie was vaguely okay..er. Okayer than he'd been before.