#sentinels of the multiverse
So since it’s October, I think I’ll post about Biomancer who’s one of my favorite villains in Sentinels of the Multiverse, since he’s also by far one of the creepiest villains in the game.
Biomancer is a mad scientist and arcanist who was born in Greece… and by that I mean a bit closer to Ancient Greece than modern Greece, since he’s been alive for at least three centuries and probably much much longer.
His main thing is having some sort of magical control over biological matter, which he can use to create strange beings called “fleshchildren” either as foot soldiers or to impersonate people and infiltrate places for nefarious purposes, as well as healing his own body to grant him effective immortality.
And meddle he has, whether it’s stealing the powerful instruments of the Virtuosos, making strange duplicates of the heroes to set them against each other, muckling with dormant malevolent AIs, and hijacking other AIs trying to fix the timeline to bend things to his own purposes. And what are those purposes? Only he knows for sure, and all signs point to them not being good for anyone but him.
He’s also dabbled in a lot of other “dark sciences” over the centuries, with his strange eldritch inventions sometimes being strewn about the world whenever he gets tired of or annoyed with them, where they likewise tend to meddle in and mess up people’s lives.
So if there’s some creepy plan going on, if your friends aren’t acting quite like they should, if you encountered some bizarre freaky magical object in the middle of nowhere, there’s a pretty good chance it’s Biomancer’s doing, and there’s an equally pretty good chance that you’re screwed. Sleep tight.
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So my half-joke that in the Sentinels fandom that the fangirls are gay for NIghtmist and the fanboys are gay for Argent Adept just got 5000% more funny/interesting after finding out that the alt-universe-Virtuoso who looks like Nightmist on “Quando? Ahora!” is actually “Angela Drake”.
So what I’ve picked up from my stay in the Sentinels of the Multiverse fandom is that the fangirls are all gay for Arataki or Nightmist and the fanboys are all gay for Argent Adept and I feel like there’s probably a sociological study lurking in here somewhere.
So the more and more we hear on the podcast about how Christopher and Adam lovingly created their own fictional history of comics in addition to their own giant comics story, the more I feel weirdly fascinated that they somehow successfully anticipated the whole SW arc BEFORE it happened.
Like in 2011 we get SotM as a game with an already developed arc that involves a weird cosmic being that wants to destroy everything by collapsing the realities, a group of superpowerful beings who are aiding that destruction, heroes who sometimes think they have to do the same thing to save reality, a character who wants to steal that cosmic being’s power for themself, and as part of the whole mix a random nobody who accidentally becomes a chosen one who has reality-warping powers by channeling a strange universal cosmic force. In the end the force is defeated but as a result the multiverse essentially reboots into only a couple major timelines.
Then in 2012 we get… pretty much the same overall thing out of Marvel. Including that chosen one character. (You just can’t tell me that the Starbrand and the Superflow don’t feel similar in basic concept to the Virtuosos and the Void.)
The specific details involved obviously vary quite a bit to put it mildly, but the situation of two writers completely independently coming up with similar-feeling arcs at close to the same time has always bemused and amused me greatly. (As well as the coincidence that I ended up liking that “chosen one” character best in both stories, albeit for obviously very dissimilar reasons.)
We can has a full set of Sentinels of the Multiverse RPG Starter Kit looks!
We’ve got Tempest, Proletariat, Visionary, Anubis, Baron Blade, Miss Information, Arataki (the alt universe Haka), Argent Adept, and Fanatic.
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Since it’s Friday the 13th in October and all, can we just sort of appreciate how ridiculously over the top Adam went with Dark Conductor Argent Adept’s creepiness level in the digital game?
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So Christopher graced us with a pic on the GTG forums of Argent Adept for the Sentinels of the Multiverse RPG.
I think I’m in love send help.
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I like how the official artist behind Sentinels of the Multiverse decided he liked “Swaptober” better than Inktober and decided to gender swap his own characters. (Be sure to check out the rest of his Twitter too, as he’s been doing more of them!)
I also like how Fem!Bunker still has a buzzcut and Guy!Tachyon still has a ponytail.
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*TOKUSENTAI INTENSIFIES*
Drew@chopperiv’s and my Sentinel Comics OCs all together for once and. Come on you know I had to make them Ginyu Force
Here we have Sprout/Jacqueline “Jackie” Stock(hat),Riptide/Josh Olmstead (shark teeth), Ersatz (blue Thorathian), the Chivalrous Champion/Charlotte (cape), and Jukebox(robot).
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I drew some of my Sentinel Comics OCs the other day…Sprout and Riptide are always my faves for goofy meme shenanigans and I just really like drawing Champ.
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You know what? Fuck you (nonbinaries your Thorathian)
I think the concept of Ersatz wearing a lot of science/math meme shirts is very funny. Riptide buys them for them.
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Sprout (mine) and Riptide (@chopperiv’s) reenacting the burning building scene from the Incredibles is one of the first things we came up with when we made them. I love drawing these two <3
Tried a different shading style than my usual. Not sure how I feel about it yet but really wanted to go for a more simplified style.
ALTHappy Valentine’s Day fellow SotM fans!
Lucky Shots wedding event when
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Played SotM: Definitive Edition yesterday and remembered how much I love my sweet alien boi
@ GTG be nice to him. Let him walk along the beach in the rain and smile and be happy
