Class Project

E-mail your work to professor.trevelyan@gmail.com with Heroes - Class Project - HOL Name (e.g. Heroes - Class Project - Maxim Trevelyan) in the subject line.

Attachments will NOT be opened. If you include any images in your assignment, please upload them to a site such as Imgur, Tinypic, Photobucket or other and send me the link.

Include your HOL name and House in the body of your email.

Part One - Hero Design

It is time to create your own superhero! I give you free rein in this part since the only limit is your imagination. However, following information must be included:

• Real name
  
• Codename
  
• Gender
  
• Team, if any
  
• Area you protect (can be as small or as big as you want)
  
• Superpowers
  
• Costume design
  
• Backstory or origin story / How you got your superpowers
  
• Other special abilities
  
• Other possible distinguishing details about your hero

You need to write 300 words in this part. This gets lowered to 250 words if you draw or graphic your costume.

Part Two - Scenarios

Pick four (4) of the following eight scenarios and write a short story about how your superhero would react in that particular situation. For each scenario, you need to write 100 words or more. 

• You are sitting on the bus on the way home when you overhear two men sitting on the seats in front of you plotting what sounds like a bank robbery. They are talking in whispers and you do not hear everything they say, but it sounds like they will be executing their plan tonight in your city.

• You put on the mask to make your city a better place. Let the other teams deal with saving the world, your job is keeping the streets safe. However, an alien invasion is occurring and the big team cannot be everywhere at once. Now you have got to save your city from space ships and giant robots. Can you help your city hold out long enough for the big heroes to save the day?

• After years of neglect someone (a rich business man/a major corporation/a mysterious investment group) is investing big bucks to turn the city around. At first it seemed like a good thing but now, local residents are getting forced out of their homes to make room for trendy developments. Criminals are getting forced out as well as some new force begins a brutal takeover of the criminal underworld resulting in a more orderly city. Is there a sinister motive behind all this?
  

• Your hero has a prominent secret identity where they also do good, like a philanthropist, crime reporter, crusading lawyer and so on. Someone wants them dead for that. Can they stop the assassins without revealing their secret?
  

• The city has constructed a new super-prison to deal with the explosion of super-crime. In order to test the facility, they have asked several local heroes (yours included) to serve as 'test inmates' to see how difficult it is to escape, as well as how hard it is to break in. But a local politician who hates superheroes does not want the heroes to succeed and would rather trap them instead.
  

• Due to various less-than-perfect cover stories, someone close to one of the heroes has figured out their secret identity. And it is someone young and kind of irresponsible who would not go to the police...but might decide this hero job looks like fun.
  

• During your normal superhero duties, you have managed to catch a criminal. While you are waiting for police to take them away, they tell you a compelling story about committing crime to support their family. Do you let them go?
  

• An outspoken political candidate is campaigning in your area. He is specifically anti-vigilante and is mostly anti-metahuman. So on top of the normal protesters, you have "civilian metahumans" (people with powers that do not wear costumes and fight or commit crimes), occult subspecies (weres, vampires, gargoyles) and imported supporters of the politicians from other states. The police are stretched thin deal with all of this. However, this is also the man who wants to repeal the laws that allow you to be a superhero. Do you help, do you help in secret, or do you not interfere at all?