CITY OF COREAN HEROES
These are a few reasons I haven't been updating lately.
Courtesy of a little online game called City of Heroes. Or in my case, City of Corean Heroes. I love games where you have detailed control of the character's look or costume. This is why I will never play an online game like Lineage or Lineage 2, despite the fact that Lineage came straight out of the Motherland herself. I just gotta express myself. One of the coolest parts of the game is seeing all the other players' lame, interesting and funny character motifs. I tend to recreate characters from my own Medea Sin pantheon.
Meet Coreana Venger (above pic) - she's my main hero. Just a regular girl who got trapped in a cave during a trip to the Umma-land (Mother-land). Courageously, she survived for weeks on mugwort and garlic. For her shining example of Corean perseverance, the godly Tan'gun granted her the ferocity of the tiger and the power of the bear (and a 6' frame of pure muscle). She also sprouts tiger claws from her fists when it's time for a Corean Smackdown. Her mission is to bring honor to her people. The headphones are for listening to K-pop. Of course.
Battle Cry: GO COREAN TIGER GO !!
This is Coreana's casual outfit (above). I liked the triple yin-yang symbol over the usual yin-yang because you tend to see the triple swirl on the older Corean relics and architecture.
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This is my next favorite, drunken boxer ETHAN OH. She's also in a torn T-shirt and faded jeans (with flame motif) because I just like the sub-heroic understatement. Ethan's parents wanted a boy. Years of trying to prove her worthiness resulted in a girl with a bar brawlin' attitude and a haymaker of hurtin' (and a bit of alcoholism). She wears fire-resistant pants and will frequently douse herself in soju and fire - for dramatic effect. She's five feet of super Han ("anger").
Battle Cry: "YOU SPILLED MY DRINK !!"
Original concept drawing here.
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I actually got Amy to make a character of her choosing, above. Her alter-ego is ... the AJUMMA! (Ajumma means "married woman with kids".) Amy designed the whole costume and look. She was very particular about the brown boots too. I got a big kick out of seeing her choices. Amy got bored after making her character and hasn't played since._________________________________________________
Battle Cry: "UMMA (mom) SAID NO!"
This one is SUE DEMONAS, an evil mutant with the powers of the multi-drug resistant killer bacteria known as Pseudomonas (most Pseudomonas bacteria are harmless by the way, but the resistant kind can get pretty medieval on your ass if you're susceptible). She's a bad girl._________________________________________________
Original drawing concept here.
Finally, we have the namesake of this very website, my original Corean/medical super character:
MEDEA SIN.
Like all of my characters, she is decked out in the colors of the Corean flag (red, blue, white, black), although she prefers hanboks. Born of a long line of shamans, Medea rejected her lineage to study modern medicine. It wasn't long before her colleagues realized that not only could she diagnose and cure disease almost beyond explanation, but in some cases she could predict or possibly cause it, through sheer recital of probability and literature data. Whether her abilities are due to keen insight, trickery, and suggestion or actual patho-kinesis (the ability to manipulate pathology) is known only by Sin.
Oh, and by the way, if you play City of Heroes and are on Victory server, send me a message (to Coreana Venger). We'll layeth the smack down upon the evil of the world.
... Yeah, yeah, this is all very silly and ethnocentric (as usual). But I figure if I can create a powerful and upstanding character that actually helps other players online rather than griefs them or cheats them, then this might counteract some of the bad rap that many Corean netizens get online. Superheroes are supposed to be idealistic. Plus it's fun.
Besides, when's the last time you saw four Asian superheroes in a row.
Sometimes you need a break from saving lives all day at work.
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REAL SUPERHERO
So I was checking the tracker on my "Why I Spell Corea With a C" page, just to see what new friends I had or what fools were arguing with powers that they don't comprehend, when I find a link to this real-life Corean superhero. Goddamn that is one awesome hulk of a Corean. Good thing those guns aren't illegal there.
Welcome to the Corean Corps, true believer!
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