Indigo. IIRC the Texas indigo snake has distinctive silver bands on their scales (?). Also holy does that head do a real pop and swap? I have dupes of the SHIELD set and would go crazy doing head swaps if they do.
Debating between Marlin or Dogfish for my diver's code name. I'm also writing him up as a trained eco-activist instead of standard military. "We send him in to cause problems in non-standard ways. The Navy guys hate him, but nobody complains when he draws fire."
Indigo. IIRC the Texas indigo snake has distinctive silver bands on their scales (?). Also holy does that head do a real pop and swap? I have dupes of the SHIELD set and would go crazy doing head swaps if they do.
Debating between Marlin or Dogfish for my diver's code name. I'm also writing him up as a trained eco-activist instead of standard military. "We send him in to cause problems in non-standard ways. The Navy guys hate him, but nobody complains when he draws fire."
So this is a new character I made from the Haslab Baroness because I didn't need a fourth Baroness. Cobra is also one big sausage fest and needs more ladies.
She is a pilot and her codename is Cockpit. One because she's a great pilot but also because she's a bit "free-spirited" when it comes to...bedroom activities with the Cobra dudes. She and Wild Weasel also have an on again/off again relationship.
Some of you talented folk feel free to flesh that out a bit if you want.
The weirdest thing I've done with the file cards is... I make one for every figure I get (and have several waiting for a figure to be made), but obviously I still have the card for the figures I had but changed my mind and sold off. I realized I could have an inactive file for those, and the last few days I made file cards for several Classified figures I've never owned as well. That actually really helped me with any FOMO I have on several of those guys. The card was good enough. Makes me wonder how much my enjoyment of making these cards has driven some of my purchases. But I also did a ton for Vipers and troopers etc, which was a nice way to cross off a ton of names I've been saving up to use but probably never would.
With Joes, I remembered one of the biggest changes I did was going with the Action Force places of birth for several of them, making the unit more international. I also adopted bios for some COD: Modern Warfare characters. Heavy Duty is now born in Flint, Michigan, like Terry Crews.
Here are some of the Cobras. Again, I've gotten a lot from Call of Duty stuff, real life military people I've read up on, genuine Hasbro file cards etc. I rarely 'write' these, but more just kinda take bits and pieces and put them together into a story. I was doing one this morning that merged a few different Cobra character bios into one more rounded character (I thought). You also may notice, if you look harder at them, figures like "Frag Viper" are now specific individuals, and the specialized position of 'frag viper' is just a role in the Viper squad. 'Saw viper' is another role, but the characters are wearing a standard Viper uniform. They are divided into two squads, alpha and bravo. Some are silly, none are too original, and all are rampant with stolen ideas so I'm not trying to pass these off as my work aside from the layouts and story arrangements.
Edit: GODDAMN TYPOS!!!!
Edit 2: Ah screw the typos. These are basically government documents; maybe that makes them more true to life damnit. It's not like there's an editor chasing after them on all these files.
As a small bit of headcanon, if you can even call it that; both as a kid and collecting the 25A figures, I've almost always treated armored CC as a separate character; sort of Cobra's answer to Sci-Fi; a Cobra Trooper wearing experimental armor, experimental HUD-in-helmet, and experimental laser weapons.
The funny thing is I was just going to make her like a plane mechanic or pilot or something since she came with the Rattler and I was naming off parts of a plane to come up with a codename and the only thing that remotely sounded like a codename was cockpit and I decided I liked that and then it hit me....
As a small bit of headcanon, if you can even call it that; both as a kid and collecting the 25A figures, I've almost always treated armored CC as a separate character; sort of Cobra's answer to Sci-Fi; a Cobra Trooper wearing experimental armor, experimental HUD-in-helmet, and experimental laser weapons.
The funny thing is I was just going to make her like a plane mechanic or pilot or something since she came with the Rattler and I was naming off parts of a plane to come up with a codename and the only thing that remotely sounded like a codename was cockpit and I decided I liked that and then it hit me....
Now I feel like we need a whole flight squad with plane-themed names:
Leading Edge, First Class, Speed Break, Strut. Throw in an air traffic controller named Pylon.
Now I feel like we need a whole flight squad with plane-themed names:
Leading Edge, First Class, Speed Break, Strut. Throw in an air traffic controller named Pylon.
The power of ADHD. I know a giant pile of worthless stuff about way too many topics. But not enough about any one topic to actually be useful at anything.
The power of ADHD. I know a giant pile of worthless stuff about way too many topics. But not enough about any one topic to actually be useful at anything.
Codename: Dogfish
File Name: Dealy, Faolán
Primary Military Speciality: SARC
Secondary MIlitary Specialty: Unconventional Warfare
Birthplace: Kinsale, Ireland
One of the few members of the unit without previous formal military training. Recruited as a freelance operative utilizing his background as an environmental activist for which he was known for highly effective, improvisational acts of sabotage - originally intended as a deniable asset but after fomenting a food riot in Sierra Gordo, causing a useful supply chain disruption, was recommended in an ongoing role going forward and assigned a codename. Currently undercover with an environmentalist group based in Portugal; comms back to command have been sporadic and concerns about his loyalty remain an issue, though he has thus far been a useful agent when called upon.
"Most of us are in this for the right reason, but Dogfish NEEDS the right reason. He doesn't give a damn about what country he's working for. 'Freedom' doesn't sell him. You've gotta give him a cause. But put him in the right situation and he'll have a whisper network set up on the ground in a week and at least three key targets rigged with improvised explosives just waiting for the right moment to torch them. Chuckles LOVES this guy. But whatever you do, do not get him talking about saving the whales. Once he gets going you'll never shut him up."
