Nowhere to Run
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To canonize a running OOC gag for
Anakin Stormrunner
- Image Credit: Doppelgager (via Deviantart), Jarvisrama99 (via Deviantart), photo manipulation by me
- Canon: No
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Anakin Stormrunner, Aftermath: Tonight the Tap Pours Blue
- Media Name: The Legend of Bird Man!
- Format: A limited-run comic printed on recycled newsflimsi.
- Distribution: Rare
- Length: Minuscule
- Description: Bird Man is a short comic series detailing the rise and heroics of a local superhero on Denon.
- Author: A group of former slaves and admirers on Denon
- Publisher: Self-Published
- Reception: Readers in the Midnight Zone or Twilight Belt of Denon.
A comic printed, likely just photocopied with questionable quality, on recycled newsflimsi that is thin and sometimes still shows a ghost presence of the news articles from its former incarnation. The comic series is a limited run, appearing in short stacks and distributed by hand, it was explicitly made not for sale. Nigh impossible to find outside of Denon.
EVENTS (Optional)
- Event Name: First Flight
- Links: Aftermath: Tonight the Tap Pours Blue
- Participants: Anakin Stormrunner, Discrete and CorpSec on Denon
- Overview: In which Our Hero discovers his true inner identity and might in a valiant struggle against the oppressive claw of CorpSec.
CONTENT INFORMATION
[The comic is mostly hand-drawn, with some text to guide the story. It has been converted here into a legible format for posterity.]
Among the discrete of DENON, there is no greater deception than that of FREEDOM. Freedom is a CHAIN, freedom is a LIE, freedom is just A WORD. Wages and contracts and prices make functional slaves out of many, not just unwilling but UNABLE to rise above their station. On Denon, fortune RAINS from the skies. Down here the rains turn to ACID, eating away at everything and everyone until someone puts a STOP to it.
Until someone STANDS UP.
In a lone tavern, on a rainy night, ONE MAN did the unthinkable. His wings BATTERED by windless air, his hind-talons DULLED by inflexible duracrete, the man had DONE NOTHING but mind his own business. His night, his life, his FUTURE would never be the same.
That was the night that CORPSEC decided to raid the tavern. To assault the GOOD BEINGS of the Belt, the devious THUGS masquerading as lawbeings spilled into the tavern. This man had NO DEFENSE against CorpSec, falling to their VICIOUS tactics, bleeding to their BRUTAL blows. At his lowest, ON HIS KNEES, this man found a VOICE inside him.
It told him to STAND UP.
It told him to SPREAD HIS WINGS.
It told him to FIGHT.
That night, BIRD MAN took his first flight. FREED from the chains of servitude, REBORN with a burning purpose, Bird Man fought against the OPPRESSION of CorpSec. He fought for the LIVES of all on Denon, with FISTS of justice, with HIND-CLAWS of truth, and with WINGS of promised freedom.
Before his MIGHT, the thugs of CorpSec fell. Bird Man caught them, not unaware but on EQUAL footing. Here is a being who holds nothing back, knowing that JUSTICE depends on everyone. Everyone must STAND UP to fight against CorpSec, even if they are afraid. Even if they are weak, or dumb, or unsure. For DENON to survive, everyone must stand up to fight. And for the sake of everyone, Bird Man will stand up FIRST.
Now we have a HERO who will fight for us. A hero to INSPIRE us. The thugs of CorpSec may beat us down, they may arrest us. They will not destroy us. We will get back UP, and we will SURVIVE.
And if ever you doubt, LOOK in the shadows. WATCH the skies. Bird Man doesn't just fight.
HE FLIES.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
After the events of Aftermath: Tonight the Tap Pours Blue, rumors spread. The iconic heroism of Anakin Stormrunner became an overnight sensation, growing stronger than the memories of his bloodied form taken away by the arresting CorpSec officers. As rumors do, it bloomed and took on a life of its own. The winged abolitionist, and sometimes shadowrunner, who resisted in the CorpSec raid of a known Darkwire enclave was now Bird Man, a hero of the Twilight Belt and an inspiration to the Midnight Zone. Even as news of his arrest spread, rumors persisted. That Bird Man lurked in the shadows and clung to the overhangs, waiting to swoop down on patrolling CorpSec or intervene in evil Corpo plans.
Eventually, a comic appeared in stacks around Seven Corners. Hand drawn, hastily printed, and with questionable quality, the comic quickly became just as sensational. It spread the legend of Bird Man from mere rumor to folklore in a matter of weeks. Even after his escape from prison, the mere presence of a real Anakin Stormrunner could not overpower the power of legend. The adventures of Bird Man continue, whether on the page or in the flesh.
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