Question Some help with a idea...

Hi everyone!!! I'm currently working on Jayden V, which is going to feature Jayden and Co playing Shadowrun while a actual heist happens in the background with another group of students, but I'd like to discuss something else. I'm currently working on a story about team AEGIS. Not the training team from the OC. The one mentioned in the second gen story Blood Sisters part 2. I really liked the idea of the team, and If I'm correct they harken back to a mention of a team based around a 'lady lighting' in one of the Ayla stories. I wanted to write a 2nd gen canon story about a day in the life of one of the secondary teams. If you've read stories like Marvel's the Ultimates, they have multiple teams under the same name. Or (another marvel example) the East Coast Avengers and the West Coast Avengers. I'd like to write the story about a member of a AEGIS black operations team running into trouble in a everyday situation. I'd like to write it as a bit of a introspective on one of the more covert heroes handling a more mundane situation than their standard 'Raid on a Syndicate HQ' sort of activity, as well as create a original character whose presence does not interfere with the current events going on in Gen 2. Totally outside Whateley, but in a way that allows it to play true to the universe. Hell, I might even make it a series of stories about a adult hero!!! That'd be a change!!!

Anyways, the thing I need help with is getting the character laid down. I've never written a character with the sort of attitude you'd expect from a grizzled veteran, nor do I know any war vets in real life. The closest I have to info is from movies and TV shows, and they don't get the attitude right. In addition, I don't know that much about AEGIS, and the wiki is no help. In fact, the info about Gen 2 is very patchy on the wiki, as is pretty much all of it. Most of the TK pages are out of date even by the current standards, and most of the pages are stub articles. Anyway, if anyone could help me with getting some background, that'd be nice.

- Minh.

For background, you might want to start with Bek D. Corbin's "Of Masks and Marvels" in the Non-Whateley Paranormals section.

W/r/t veterans, reality includes the full spectrum of possible "attitudes". Some of the things in TV/cinema that would make a civilian go "No. That can't be right!" are the real deal. Then again, civilians also tend to focus more on the "military" similarities among officer/enlisted and a country's branches of service than on the differences which would have important impacts on a servicemember's attitude coming out. (For example, using "servicemember" vs. "serviceman" not to include women but to include Air Force personnel )

All I can recommend is that you start with what the character's personality is - what would have made them a "best fit" for their country's special forces, or was their "in" from a different angle - and how they'd be affected by what your story requires them to have gone through.

But AEGIS features in Morgana's Origin story.

Plus, there's AEGIS junior. SO is AEGIS real (as Blood Sisters seems to suggest, as well as the training team 'named' AEGIS junior) or is it a fictional entity within a fictional world?

There's the fictional American AEGIS, which is in Lady Lightning comics.
And there's the "real" Whateley-universe, British AEGIS. I imagine that Sapphire Comics lost its trademark case against the Brit team.

AEGIS,Jr. is a sort of a joke by the Sim geeks. Sim combat classes are supposed to be a team activity, but there are always a bunch of students who don't have teams. The sim people then divide those unattached students into teams for the purpose of classes. One of them apparently noticed that Electrode was heavily patterned after the comics hero Lady Lightning, and selected other unattached students who matched members of the fictional AEGIS to make up "Team 4".