r/TheBirdCage

Provide as many or as few details about a cape as you like - their names, some costume ideas, maybe a bit of backstory. Someone will come up with the rest. Or not; you could make up your own cape, previous thread here.

Today’s prompt is Mech; this one is pretty straightforward: giant mechs with lasers! The most obvious answer is a tinker who builds a mech, but you could also have a master who summons a whole mech as a projection. Mech is also short for mechanised, so you also have more options with tinker.

See no evil is a duel specialization tinker; they can build a simple frame like power armor. But their main specialization is light base cognitohazards, IE a puke light.

KAT is basically a tinker version of Bitch. She’s a Protectorate member who builds mech suits for her cats, but being cats, they often just lay around not working.

BIG SHOT is a blaster. Her shots have one big caveat: their HUGE self-knockback. But with a thinker rating, she makes very good use of it; fighting her is a huge pain.

Pool wasn’t seen as a big threat, being a water tinker. Until they took off Behemoth’s arm with a water cutter, somehow…

. Personal I like Amy in most fandom but the drives me nuts in Canon.

i've heard rumors that "deltarune" is "today". is this true❓

also i just noticed Why the hell am I a top 1% commenter on this sub

How This Works:

>You make one (or multiple) prompts, describing one or more parahumans. Somebody else might decide to respond to your prompt(s), building on what you've provided, to create a full cape.
While you may do so, you are not required to stick with just prompting or responding; feel free to do both.
Prompts are usually formatted using PRT Threat Ratings, but this isn't a hard rule and never will be. Get more esoteric with it, if you want.
And, if you're having trouble coming up with prompts, do feel free to look at other people's prompts for pointers or inspiration or some such.

Threat Ratings have the potential for hybridized and sub-ratings:

>Hybrid ratings are denoted with a slash between categories, e.g. [Blaster/Trump]. These are cases where two or more powers are inherently linked to each other, not working without the other rating.
Subratings are denoted with parentheses after a parent category, e.g. [Stranger (Brute)]. These are the side effects, or possible applications of a power from some other category.

No. 172's Top Comment: Miscellaneous Prompts, by bottomofthewell3 (return of obama giving himself a medal image)

Top Response: Tragedy I/A/1, by Legitimate_Fly9047