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Bishop, Shard, and Cable from Marvel got me thinking of an H1er/aligned vigilante who marks Pretty mutants with a viable mark that they can't hide. In Marvel's case this is an M, but what might it be in the WU?

Cryptic wrote: Bishop, Shard, and Cable from Marvel got me thinking of an H1er/aligned vigilante who marks Pretty mutants with a viable mark that they can't hide. In Marvel's case this is an M, but what might it be in the WU?

G for Genescum?

Well, if you're not going to mark the mutie scum with a good old fashioned bullet hole or thirty, I suppose a frayed double helix would serve as a good language-agnostic warning sign.

Cryptic wrote: Bishop, Shard, and Cable from Marvel got me thinking of an H1er/aligned vigilante who marks Pretty mutants with a viable mark that they can't hide. In Marvel's case this is an M, but what might it be in the WU?

hummm but would it 'stick'...a pretty mutant is a good bet a exemplar and might heal that damage or tattoo away in hours days or a few weeks???

It could be some sort of cursed brand, you know. There ARE baseline mages around... why not one who is a member of H1?

Isn't that part of the MO for The Triangle from Gen 2?

They were using badges that gradually started to affect the people wearing them, as a way of recruiting/indoctrinating members.

As they were using Gadgeteers to make their technology, a Wiz-class mutant wouldn't be unexpected.

Add in the Cult-style approach towards recruitment/indoctrination, they would be a good fit as a cover-organisation for members of The Grand Hall of Sinister Wisdom.

Mister D wrote: Isn't that part of the MO for The Triangle from Gen 2?

They were using badges that gradually started to affect the people wearing them, as a way of recruiting/indoctrinating members.

What Gen 2 story were they in?

I thought Triangle just used regular indoctrination techniques? Isolate, sympathy, induced dependency, love bombing, providing them a purpose, and so on.

They're like the very opposite of Paradigm. She was using supernatural means to indoctrinate followers for a noble purpose (in her mind, but many might actually agree with her). Triangle is using standardized techniques (for cults) to use mutants against other mutants and ultimately "enslave" them for "humanity's" gain.

Katssun wrote:

Mister D wrote: Isn't that part of the MO for The Triangle from Gen 2?

They were using badges that gradually started to affect the people wearing them, as a way of recruiting/indoctrinating members.

What Gen 2 story were they in?

I thought Triangle just used regular indoctrination techniques? Isolate, sympathy, induced dependency, love bombing, providing them a purpose, and so on.

They're like the very opposite of Paradigm. She was using supernatural means to indoctrinate followers for a noble purpose (in her mind, but many might actually agree with her). Triangle is using standardized techniques (for cults) to use mutants against other mutants and ultimately "enslave" them for "humanity's" gain.

As far as we know (Unless things change) Triangle first appears in the Imp stories which mostly take place in gen 1, Y 2... Whether they are around for Gen 2 or not is yet to be seen. I suspect they run afoul of someone who stomps them flatter than yesterday's road kill before that though.

Katssun wrote:

Mister D wrote: Isn't that part of the MO for The Triangle from Gen 2?

They were using badges that gradually started to affect the people wearing them, as a way of recruiting/indoctrinating members.

What Gen 2 story were they in?

I thought Triangle just used regular indoctrination techniques? Isolate, sympathy, induced dependency, love bombing, providing them a purpose, and so on.

They're like the very opposite of Paradigm. She was using supernatural means to indoctrinate followers for a noble purpose (in her mind, but many might actually agree with her). Triangle is using standardized techniques (for cults) to use mutants against other mutants and ultimately "enslave" them for "humanity's" gain.

D'Oh!

Sorry you're right. it's a Gen 1 Year 2.

If i got that wrong, i may be mistaken. (I don't need much of an excuse for an archive trawl... )

I thought that the Triangle badges were used as a focus for low-level mind-control magic/Gadgeteer-based low-level mind-control tech, making the wearer more susceptible to the rest of the techniques that the Triangle are using.

Other techniques being similar to the ones used here,

I wrot H1 and relized after I'd logged off that I had, I'd meant Triangle. And I was using the Triangle in a G2 setting.