G.I. Joe Head Canon & Fanfic Filecards

Damien said:
Do the Dreadnoks have the most compelling narrative in Disavowed? If they don't, they're a very close runner up, that's for sure.
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I kinda hope they do. Something about how I thought they were kinda just gross canon fodder as a kid and now I see them
Chooch555 said:
Zarana's self-awareness is my favorite part of all that.
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I don't know why but Zarana has become one of my favorite voices to write in this series. I think I see some storytelling genetic lineage between her and Jack in Mass Effect who is one of my all-time favorite characters, too. Like, she's a dangerous train wreck, but she's THIS CLOSE to figuring it all out.
 
Code Name: Mara
File Name: Mara, last name classified
Primary Military Specialty: Underwater Demolition
Secondary Military Specialty: Marine Engineering
Birthplace: Classified
Rank: Cobra Trooper Mark 3

Subject was part of an advanced program using DNA samples from the Hydro-Vipers in test subjects not originally exposed to the supernatural energies which mutated the original crew of Eels. Mindbender, with the assistance of Rottclaw, was convinced the experiment would result in superior amphibious soldiers without the negative effects and disfigurement witnessed in the Hydro-Vipers. Mindbender was half-right - the initial test subject did not experience some of the less... visually unappealing aspects of the Hydro-Vipers, though her skin tone shifted to an unearthly blue. The downside to the test is that the subject was now fully aquatic and no longer able to remain on the surface for more than a few moments at a time. She was declared legally dead and payments were made to her family for her "service" to the military while she remained under guard for further study. A recent incident involving a crew of former GI Joe operatives resulted in her... liberation from our labs. Test Subject Mara is currently at large. Ideally, she will be recaptured for further study, but if necessary, termination is acceptable to prevent the public from learning about our experiments.

"I'll never see her again, I think. We got her out of there, out of that cage, that fishbowl Lewis kept her in. I felt stupid asking the boys to help me get her out of there, but for a bunch of lunkheads, the Joes are a crew of romantics at heart. I have a thing for mermaids, I guess, and Mara must have a thing for morons, because I think she cares about me, too. I couldn't leave her locked up there forever like some lab sea monkey. So we shot our way in and blew our way out and set that mermaid free. You know she only joined Cobra to get out of poverty, right? I mean, I joined the Navy for the same reason. I guess a lot of us sign up to kill people for money so we don't starve in the street. I wish we lived in a better world. I wish I was a diver instead of a sailor so I could dive below those waves and see her again. But the best stories are tragic, and the strongest hearts are broken, and I guess that's the destiny the sea is willing to give me."
 
Alright, there's a lot. My first thought when I saw who it was about was "oh!!! She was kinda a proto-hydro viper". You know as much as I always enjoy the classic Joes, I'm such a fan of when you go after the expanded characters, the ones without any figures ever, and this has to be among the best.

I love tying not only Mindbender into this but Rottclaw too. Building a squad of mad scientists! And I love love love that Shipwreck did a commentary. Was this his first? It's so fitting. And it was just perfect. Just perfect. And was it purposeful that he wishes he was a diver with how his later figure was a diver? Outstanding foreshadowing, and knowing he becomes a diver was fucking beautiful. Reminds me of Kyle Reese always wondering what Sarah Connor was thinking about in the picture John gave him.... And it was Kyle Reese all along! Hector became a diver... For her!

Shot our way in and blew our way out, awesome. And that's not even a navy/blowjob joke!
 
Ru1977 said:
Alright, there's a lot. My first thought when I saw who it was about was "oh!!! She was kinda a proto-hydro viper". You know as much as I always enjoy the classic Joes, I'm such a fan of when you go after the expanded characters, the ones without any figures ever, and this has to be among the best.

I love tying not only Mindbender into this but Rottclaw too. Building a squad of mad scientists! And I love love love that Shipwreck did a commentary. Was this his first? It's so fitting. And it was just perfect. Just perfect. And was it purposeful that he wishes he was a diver with how his later figure was a diver? Outstanding foreshadowing, and knowing he becomes a diver was fucking beautiful. Reminds me of Kyle Reese always wondering what Sarah Connor was thinking about in the picture John gave him.... And it was Kyle Reese all along! Hector became a diver... For her!

Shot our way in and blew our way out, awesome. And that's not even a navy/blowjob joke!
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It's funny how these cards work out - if I hadn't done the Hydros first she might have been the proto-Hydro-Viper, but now that we know they were created by exposure to some supernatural element, she's the test subject as Mindbender tries to REPLICATE that mutation with science, so technically? She's maybe still a proto HV?

In the cartoon Alpine leads the dive team, bizarrely, and Shipwreck knows little about diving, so I stole that from the Sunbow episode. And one of my favorite things with these cards is rehabbing "joke" characters as complex personalities so making Shipwreck a heartbroken romantic was fun in the same way making Bazooka badass was.
 
I think that's been my favorite aspect as well. You've made joke characters into complex, interesting people I actually want to know more about. Heck, you've fleshed out many who are barely even characters to begin with!
 
TheGillMan said:
I think that's been my favorite aspect as well. You've made joke characters into complex, interesting people I actually want to know more about. Heck, you've fleshed out many who are barely even characters to begin with!
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I know it's a silly fan fic project, but trying to find the core of a character who only got two paragraphs and a birthplace on the back of a toy has been super fun.
 
Code Name: Over Kill
File Name: Various, Skelton, Robert
Primary Military Specialty: Squad Automatic Weapons
Secondary Military Specialty: Heavy Machine Gunners
Birthplace: Miami, Florida
Rank: Viper Mark 3 (BAT Division Liaison)

President Lewis is proud to announce the latest development in both military and medical science - a first-of-its-kind advancement that represents both the future of medicine and the future of warfare. Robert Skelton is a war hero, a veteran, and a brave man who risked his own life to keep America safe. After he was tragically wounded in a brutal attack by a member of the renegade GI Joe Unit, it looked like Skelton's career, and perhaps even his life, was over. But using advanced cybernetics, the latest in artificial intelligence, and the efforts of the greatest minds in Western science, Mr. Skelton has been given a new lease on life and a chance to take back what was taken from him as OVER KILL! An ominous name, but one befitting a warrior who has risen up nearly from the dead to fight once more. Mr. Skelton uses the state-of-the-art bio/mechanical interface to lead squadrons of Battle Android Troopers on the front line. He is the last, best defense against the threats of the future and today.

"Skelton might be Snake Eyes' only mistake. Skelton mowed down a team of greenshirts in Trucial Abysmia a couple of years before Cobra Commander decided to create a fake identity and run for president. One of the most cold-blooded, bloodiest incidents in all our time fighting Cobra. He lined them up, told them their release had been negotiated for and they were free to go and as they started to walk away he opened fire. Even the twins were disgusted by it. Hell, itr was the twins who told Snake Eyes where to find him. Maybe they thought it was a peace offering. Maybe they thought it would set us up to look like the bad guys. Anyway, Snake Eyes tracked him down out there in the desert and did everything BUT kill him. He should've finished him off. I don't know why he didn't, but that's Snake Eyes for you. Nobody knows why he does anything. Anyway, Cobra found Skelton short a few limbs with his guts hanging out and put him on ice until they needed him. And now they've Anakin Skywalkered this scumbag into Robo-Cobra-Cop. And yeah, Snake Eyes knows. Skelton better pray they never meet again, because Snake Eyes never makes the same mistake twice."
 
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