Masters of the Universe: Head Canon and Fanfic

Damien said:
Oh wow, I really like that. What a great take on the character. I think, probably largely informed by Filmation, I've always really seen her as a more grounded, motherly figure. This version is so much more detached and otherwordly. This version of Sorceress isn't revered by Eternians because she is the infinitely kind and nurturing Grayskull Mom. She is revered by -both- sides because she's the Oracle of Delphi and Cassandra rolled into one.
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I was really trying to hone in on that idea - it's kind of funny to figure out where the Sorceress belongs in a franchise that by the creators' own admission is a "boy's power fantasy." Where does a font of wisdom and insight exist in that setting?
 
BTW, taking suggestions for this series of bios. I'm kinda picking away at them when I get inspired but if you have a favorite, drop it in here.
 
I feel like King Grayskull is an obvious choice right now. But personally, I would love to see how you handle my two favorite characters (besides the big two) Tri-Klops and Extendar. They seem compliment each other well as warrior guys with techno-body horror stuff going on.
 
Damien said:
I feel like King Grayskull is an obvious choice right now. But personally, I would love to see how you handle my two favorite characters (besides the big two) Tri-Klops and Extendar. They seem compliment each other well as warrior guys with techno-body horror stuff going on.
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Oh, I have THOUGHTS on Extendar for body horror. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
That was fantastic! Love your take on Sorceress as a benevolent being both blessed and cursed in her position. An eternal optimist with a deep sadness...what a perfect way to depict her.

As far as takes I'd like to see, I agree about the body horror of Extendar & Tri-Klops, but would like to add Trap Jaw & Two-Bad to that list. Oh, and I'm dying to get your take on Scare Glow and Webstor.
 
I know there was a reference in one of the DC comics to "Scare Glows", implying there is a whole race of these ghost-like beings lurking in Eternia, with the one made into a toy as their leader.
 
Man-E-Faces:

Stories are eternal.

He has as many stories of where his tale began as he has faces, this man of many masks. Some say he is a monster, warped by magic, haunted by the drives and desires of versions of himself he cannot control. Others say he was a great actor who rose too far, who embodied the roles he took so much that he became them, that those characters were forever part of the man.

But This man of many faces has been here before. His story has been told and retold so many times even he cannot remember the true version. And if there is no true version, then all stories are true.

Perhaps the truth is that he is a spirit of trickery. Trickery need not be malicious; for without it there is no playfulness in the world. All stories are true, but all stories are lies, and a good actor can make all stories both things at once. This man of many faces is a truth, and a lie, and through him our own stories are told and retold, throughout eternity.

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“Ask him his story once he’ll tell it to you. Ask him again, he’ll tell you something different. It’s not his fault, though. He is a cursed creature, like nearly all men who call themselves heroes or monsters in Eternia. Behind his many masks are an endless string of worlds, a galaxy of lives, and he has lived through them all. Man-E-Faces will tell you the story of who he is, but that’s all it ever is, a story. He lies with the ease of a man for whom the truth is merely a suggestion that has no sway over his destiny.”
 
Again, you keep managing to kind of go off in a different direction than I expect with these characters. The standard 'well, he's an actor PLUS other stuff' thing can be fun and I was definitely interested in how you'd spin that. But you kind of... didn't spin it? You ignored it a bit and made it something different and more like.. I don't know the word. Liminal? Like he exists at the furthest edges of reality somehow. I really dig it.
 
Damien said:
Again, you keep managing to kind of go off in a different direction than I expect with these characters. The standard 'well, he's an actor PLUS other stuff' thing can be fun and I was definitely interested in how you'd spin that. But you kind of... didn't spin it? You ignored it a bit and made it something different and more like.. I don't know the word. Liminal? Like he exists at the furthest edges of reality somehow. I really dig it.
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I was tempted to lean into the trickster god thing with him a little bit, because there's sort of a coked out pantheon to the structure of MOTU cast. But they all also have that kind of out of control body horror thing so I kind of split the difference. I like the actor idea, I like him as a sort of sci-fi spy, but thought what if he doesn't even know who the real man is under all those faces?

NORM said:
Great "spin" on the character.
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*ba dun TSH!*
 
Webstor

Darkness is eternal.

This pallid thing, this skittering, unblinking creature, crawled up out of that eternal darkness, more human than the monstrosities who shared that underground world with him. There is poison on his breath and malice in his eyes. He puts on the veneer of civility, but catch him watching you when he thinks you can’t see him and you’ll see it, the gleam of an ambush predator, sizing you up, drinking you in.

Fools see him as simply a thief and assassin. But no creature who thinks in the geometric eternity of webs is simple. He is from another place and another time, where creatures like him lay traps in the darkness, where they feed on the living juices of their victims. To put morality or ethics on a creature of the web is a fallacy. His aims are far more primal than that.

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“It’s easier if you think of him as just another of Eternia’s mutant lackeys. There’s so many vague monstrosities running around, what’s one spider-like blue humanoid compared to the rest? But the way he looks at and through you… Webstor is always hunting. He is always stalking. I’d say he’s always thinking, but it’s both more and less than that. I once saw him with a palace guard trapped in one of his webs. Struggling. Panicking. Unable to scream with his mouth gagged shut. And Webstor just… stared at him. Waiting for him to die. Wondering how he’d taste…”
 
I always thought, despite his goofy name, that Webstor had the potential to be a truly terrifying character. I absolute love your take on him! It's is perfectly creepy, in the very best way!
 
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