Chapter #3Wonder-City by: Yote   Here are a few of the many roles you may find yourself playing in the sleek metropolis of Wonder-City:
Captain Capable; the archetypical ‘flying brick’ with a cornucopia of other Plotline-convenient superpowers and one of the founding members of the ‘Utopian Alliance’, he’s a bit of a boyscout: humble in his accomplishments but steadfast in the face of the evil. His civilian identity is Chet Tompkins, a mild-mannered insurance salesman.
The actors that are chosen to play him usually aren’t nearly as humble or kind, however. It’s one of the most sought-after positions for many a reason: the well-muscled athletic physique, the uncountable female Guests hanging off their arms, and the center-stage focus in many a storyline.
Of course, all this means that the actors for the Captain are easily shunted off to other roles, what with all the eager mummers in queue behind them…
Mighty Maid; She’s also a founding member of the Utopian Alliance, though you’d never guess it. In her civilian identity, she goes by the name Margot Marseille, a young thing who has earned the dubious honor of the cities’ top maid with inconspicuous use of her ‘super-cleaning’ powers. With an auburn bob topped by a ruffled headband, a ridiculous French accent, a nigh-physically-impossible hourglass-figure, and a penchant for getting caught in the most basic of traps, her detractors claim that she sets feminism and the reputation of a certain Western European country back fifty years.
Wonder-Land, of course, dismissed these opinions outright. Hundreds of trust-fund teens and lecherous old men paid out the nose for a chance to ogle the ‘Servant of the People,’ with the Writers and Technicians eagerly obliging: the former managing to get a checkbox for ‘Mighty Maid romance,’ on the Wonder-City guest application, and the latter designing intentional flaws into her corset for more wardrobe malfunctions.
In fact, Mighty Maid was the focal point of one of the company’s few legal losses : the sight of a sniffling young thing tearfully telling tales about mincing around for the hungry eyes of the elite was a bit too much for the public and courts to stomach.
The financial loss was relatively minor, in the scope of all things, but Wondertainment vowed to never let it happen again. So now, if you carefully watch the graduation ceremony of the Actor Training Program, you can see one or two young men goggling at the contents of their enveloped assignment. If you choose to follow them to the auto-surgeon, you can watch them wobble out of their appointment looking markedly different; a good amount of their former mass flushed down the medical waste chute, save for a specially preserved piece. Even if they talk after their contracts are up, who would believe them?
Only the actor, direct coworkers, and management are privy to this secret, the former two threatened with immediate severance without pay nor form reinstitution if they disclose the secret to any guest or refuse to play their part. Despite this, you can find quite the number of red-tressed doppelgangers in nearby cities. To this date, no one outside of Wondertainment has quite connected the dots.
Black Sable; real name: Carmilla Yahontov, a rich heiress who moonlights as a super-villain, pilfering the contents of vaults with usage of her super-intangibility (Which is realized in the park by cleverly hidden secret passages.)
Though many female actor aspirants try to snag the role of the Sterling Scoundrel with the hope of being the full-fledged badass she is on the silver screen, most are disappointed by the steady stream of moneyed masochists who come to be degraded by the near-amazon.
Some are fine with it, of course.
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