by Tecknophyle » August 8th, 2012, 1:38 pm
Well, the whole point of the story was to show her like she hadn't been seen before, namely proactive and doing stuff. I've been one of the most vocal people here complaining about "superhero" characters not actually doing anything to justify that name, and in my mind she was the worst of the bunch.
Her major appearances (in chronological order, not necessarily the same order as the stories were released):
Original Sin: origin story, accidentally absorbs an energy blast near the start but does absolutely nothing else heroic. In her origin story.
Flashback from Hypnotica: Captured by Giolla
Twisted Tales and Superheroine Squad: either a maid, a Sentius drone...or another Sentius drone. Doesn't do anything else.
Tough Love: mind controlled masturbation courtesy of her daughter's powers
Adult Toys: scanned by Petto to create LISA, doesn't do anything else
Tasty Treats/Mad Science Annual 1: mind controlled by a greentooth, captured and mind controlled by Lambda, mind controlled and used as a milk source by Dairy King, only escaped because of her breasts (with no active role on her part)
Halloween Havoc 2: captured and controlled by Gothikka
King of Hooter County: Brown Sugar and Silver Satin do the actual superheroics. But she does turn off a machine to save her sisters, so that's something.
Forbidden Fantasy: mind-controlled by LISA
Sex Pets of the Wild West (currently incomplete): captured and mind-controlled.
To Love and Obey: brainwashed.
Halloween Havoc 3: she does something! she does something!...and then she's mind controlled again by Gothikka.
Tinkering With Nature: mind controlled, captured, experimented upon, escapes due to dumb luck, but at least it involves her powers.
That's what I talked about in the thread over in Trishbot's forum: I didn't want to do a story where she's no more than a semi-animated sex toy prop, but to do that meant I had to go into areas where other writers hadn't taken her, and show her doing things that hadn't been seen before. There are 13 stories up there (or 15, depending on how you count), and in a grand total of two of them she's actively used her powers non-passively, and only one of those intentionally. Of the major Metrobay characters, she's been by far the most passive when it comes to doing stuff aside from being sexually molested and mind controlled. LISA and Mechana, the two freaking robot based on her, have been far more proactive and less victim-like.
What I wanted to explore was the concept of someone who had, until fairly recently (as seen in the preceding stories) been an active and successful heroine for decades, of what she was possibly capable of. Who says she isn't an acrobatic fighter to compensate for her relative physical weakness when confronting stronger threats, used in combination with her powers?