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Code Name: Desert Scorpion File Name: Various Primary Military Specialty: Desert Operations Secondary Military Specialty: Concealment and camouflage Birthplace: Various Rank: Cobra Trooper Mark 3 (Specialist) Once upon a time, Desert Scorpions were considered the punishment unit in Cobra, where...

Y'know, if every organization I've ever worked with was paying for the same product three times because nobody fucking talked to each other before paying for it, Cobra ABSOLUTELY would have three types of vipers doing the same thing but not communicating with each other. I legit stressed...

Yeah, I'm not gonna try to do this as a formal thing cos then I also have to try to add in cool new shit like Ghost Vipers too while also hacking out lame old stuff. I think I'm going to stick with Trooper>Specialist>Super-Specialist>Officer and Viper>Specialist>Super-Specalist>Officer and call...

Okay I just banged out a rough draft and honestly, Cobra can go fuck itself, their structure is worse than a startup Viper Neo-Viper (officer track) Air Air-Viper Astro-Viper Land Specialist (Environmental) Alley-Viper (urban) Street-Viper (undercover specialist) Desert-Viper...

Holy shit, there are so many Troopers and Vipers, dudes. And like, Sand Vipers vs. Desert Scorpions, Hydro-Vipers vs. Eels (Hydro-Vipers are actually noted to be advanced Eels!) Aero-Viper - Condor Z25 pilot Air-Viper - Cobra Air Force trainee Alley Viper - Cobra urban assault trooper...

Shit, now I want to make an org chart! What's the most idiot-proof program I could use to build that out? Now that we're talking about it, I do think Army/Marines is pretty solid as a divider for Trooper/Viper, but that throws off my system since I think Trooper > Eel > Snow Serpent vs. Viper...

Also we don't really argue about our lists on here. Everyone's doing the old Skurge thing: BEHOLD: MY STUFF

I think I'm devising an unofficial tier system for Cobra troops. Viper Mark 1 (standard ground troop) Mark 2 (distinct specialization) Mark 3 (advanced specialization - Snow Serpent file card specifically says they are upgraded EELs, whom I think are probably upgraded Vipers... Code Name: Snow...

I gotta believe Clutch is on their list to get the Breaker treatment. I actually like the modernized version that came with the Vamp but I'd be thrilled if they made a more Sunbow-y version of him instead. I always thought the original Chuckles figure was so dumb looking, but Classified...

Yeah, I think on here we're really like "this is the coolest shit I bought this year, this figure made me so happy." So I like the lists on here. but the ones people push out as influencers are a bit dicey. And maybe it's the trauma of being an author who has ended up on and more pointedly NOT...

Alt, that question is going to have my brain spinning the rest of the night. Writing the file card project has RUINED me for narrowing down my core team. Though if I just went with "who lives on your desk 24/7 forever" it's Snake Eyes (some version of him with the knight's visor) + Timber...

As someone who regularly, for work, writes about the emergency department, the shift (damn, it was like 20 years ago) from calling it the emergency room to the emergency department and swapping ER for ED is to my healthcare writing what calling Logan James Howlett is to my comics writing. It is...

I still hold out a mild, ancillary interest in this line and while doing some last minute shopping for gifts I saw that there was a seller with some of the Jedi Interceptors for under 10 bucks (Mace WIndu and Saesee Tinn). Figured for under ten bucks sure hey why not. In perhaps the TINIEST of...

That's the kind of personal, human interaction that makes those local stores just invaluable and irreplaceable. The statue is rad, too!

I hate that the world we live in actually requires you to be the "bad" guy just to survive. I saw someone say the other day "I believe in universal basic income not out of generosity but because I want to be able to fire a fucking idiot and not ruin his life or put him out in the street...

They originally called it Hemingwrite, too, but got in trouble with the Hemingway estate.

These are three guys who have been on my radar for a while. I actually know exactly where Croc Master is but just haven't written him up yet! (And I do want to do some arctic stuff as Damien and Ru point out - I have an idea where Cobra sent its extreme cold troops...)

I wish I didn't understand the world as as much as I do. I'd rather be blissfully ignorant. There's a new writing tool kicking around. "FREEWRITE!" It proclaims itself to be something to help you write without distraction "so you don't have those 17 tabs open with their AI-free tool." It's...

The lead actress from the last feature film I directed before I moved over to novels reached out to ask me if I'd read her first script. I always worried if, because the film didn't make a ton of money, the folks who worked on it resented me, but she's checked in every so often for advice about...

I LOVE a medic character. I think Med Alert (I keep wanting to type medi-lert for some reason) would need a costume improvement to set him apart a bit from Lifeline, but one character role I'll always say yes to is a medic.

Code Name: Scar-Face File Name: Classified Primary Military Specialty: Courier Secondary Military Specialty: Intelligence Birthplace: Classified Rank: E-6 (Cobra Equivalent) Subject is employed as Rexford Lewis's body man and personal attaché. How he came to become one of Lewis's go-to agents...

I was actually going to ask for some Viper-level character requests since that day I did a bunch of generic troopers was a lot of fun. Speaking of, Scar-Face incoming momentarily.

Any new requests? I think I caught up with the last round!

There's temptation to go in so many different directions with him. Is he a genetic experiment? Is he just some dude Mindbender CONVINCED is an experiment? He there a supernatural element to him? Does Dracula exist in this timeline and resent some meathead claiming to be him?

I love the Resolute design. It's like a more combat-functional variation of the dress uniform he was first released wearing in Classified. That's a fantastic look for him.