u/MarcoYTVA

I mean at this point, Midas well!

I'm currently working on a story that includes a Hawkeye-style trick archer, and I was wondering if people who are more immersed in the subject than me had any wishes/ideas/input for this.

For context: It's hard sci-fi time travel, meaning everything except the time travel itself is meant to be as realistic as possible. The characters hunt and catch animals that have been displaced in time before they can hurt people, preferably releasing them back to their native period alive. The archer in question is a neanderthal whose been displaced by the same phenomenon who wanted to join the team, but due to growing up in the stone age, can't use guns. The team's tech-guy made some high-tech (but still possible in our world) archery gear to help out. Therefore, the gear is mainly used to shoot tranquilizers and other trick arrows at animals, but will sometimes be shot at human villains, such as poachers.

Anything you'd like me to incorporate or keep in mind? Cool techniques you rarely see used, struggles you are never adressed adressed in other fictional archers, missed opportunities you noticed in these kinds of characters, those sorts of things.

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Artist: Hana Al-Aride on YouTube

Basically, there's this alien civilisation, the Olympians, that uplifted humanity thousands of years ago, inspiring myths in the process. They're aren't based on any one mythology, but the most relevant thing here is that their past upliftment projects are all based on the nine realms from norse myth. I'm stumped on who lives in Svartalfheim.

Here's what I have already: Nidhavalir (the home of the dwarfes in the myths) used to be home to a civilisation of great craftsmen, but they've since been overthrown by synthetic lifeforms of their own creation, the Talux. The Olympians negotiated a truce between the Talux and their creators by helping said creators establish their own realm, Svartalfheim. They're understandably still bitter about being displaced from their ancestral home, so adopted a hateful version of the beliefs of the nature loving Na'xia, who live in Alfheim.

Norse mythology never makes the difference between dark elves and dwarfes entirely clear, even implying that Nidhavalir and Svartalfheim are two names for the same realm. I thought making them the same in the past and split now would be a clever way to work with this. There used to be craftsmen (similar to dwarfes) there, but now they are a dark mirror to the elves.

With that context who are the creator race? My two ideas are either little grey aliens, or demonic looking ones. The former could work because the setting is meant to homage to sci-fi tropes (the Nax'ia being space elves for example) and I don't have little greys yet, can't leave them out now, can I? Being little also maps well onto dwarfs, and grey onto dark elves. The latter would work with the idea that the nine realms inspired mythologies and reinforce them as a dark mirror to the Nax'ia.

I first got interested in the subject because of the Kane Chronicles (same universe as Percy Jackson, but egyptian) where the Duat was described as basically a magical, interdimensional river connecting key locations from egyptian myth to each other. I thought that was a really cool way to explain magical fast travel, so I was wondering how accurate that is to the original mythology.

What do I do about that? The doc said if I leave it unadressed, it might transition into Major Badass Disorder. Is that bad? Am I dying?

I'm not a native english speaker, so this might be obvious to others. Based on the context of the song (sublime you for your act of crime), it sounds like a verb meaning some variation of punishing. All I could find when I looked it up was an adjective meaning beauty, that just doesn't add up.

That's a spontaneous idea I came up with after seeing a meme about how superheroes are only ever interested in a problem if it's their movie.

My idea is that there's an app superheroes can use to call for backup if needed, in which case it notifies all nearby heroes until someone can help. This would of course help make team up stories more organic, your hero is in over their head and they submit a back up request, but it could also have the opposite use.

You want an organic explanation for why your heroes don't team up constantly? Showing them constantly turning down requests because they're already on a mission is a quick reminder to your audience that superhero work is a busy job, hence why *their* requests sometimes fall on deaf ears. Or maybe they're too prideful to even use the app, which would make for a strong character moment.

What do you guys think? Good idea or unnecessary?

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