Category:The Washouts
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
| The Washouts | |
| Founder: Zema Alston, High Jinks | |
| Basics | |
| Side: | Heroes |
|---|---|
| Motto: | "Try not to die." |
| Leader(s): | Zema Alston |
| Logo: | N/A |
| Group Colours: | Dark Blue + Dark Green |
| Playerbase | |
| Levels: | All |
| Play style: | Regular |
| Roleplay: | Required |
| Timezone(s): | (all welcome) |
| Recruiting: | Casually |
| Contact: | Zema Alston or High Jinks |
| No additional information available. | |
Contents |
The Washouts: Paragon City's Underdogs
The Washouts is a fictional City of Heroes superhero team. Created by Art and Keepsake, they debuted in City of Heroes #11, of January 2008. The Washouts features a group of heroes who fall under either untrusted, second-rate, or comical superheroes sponsored by a hoax celebrity socialite that is using his "fake" blindness to live the star life.
A mix between such comic book series such as Heroes for Hire, Nextwave, GLA, Defenders and even the Illuminati. Fronted as a private business in Paragon City for "Under-developed Heroes" to be hired for private, and public (federal) work, they bare far more under the surface than known to the public. To the reporters and world wide they are perceived as nothing more than a Hero mercenary group, saling their "goods" for "good" pay.
The Washouts also have a forum made by High Jinks.
Early Days
Much of The Washouts birth is shrouded in mystery and mystique. Dates taken from secret files have claimed that the original group's name was called the Olmecs and were formed at the dawn of the 20th century. In private the team of metahumans faced unknown enemies that have been erased from database and records with only scraps of information on the original team pieced about by few researchers only to be barred under federal closure.
In the wake of Paragon City and it's growing force of metahumans the Olmecs were kept a hidden team that faced perils that extended beyond some of the brightest new heroes reach. Assignments and mission were never made public matters and with the construction of the Metahuman Registration Act the team disbanded and was thought to be gone for good.
Resurrection
After the Olmecs disbandment, a rise of many Hero Companies and Corporation were formed, centered mostly in Paragon City. However, in New York federal attention turned with interest on an unspecified group of superhumans. It is unknown how, why, or when exactly the team was (re)formed, but sometime in the 80s the C.I.A cited The Rogues, as they were called, for accomplishing missions in the same fashion known to the Olmecs. Too similiar to differentiate, investigation were spawned only to unravel little more.
From the outside in, the grouping seemed to be a rag-tag bunch of mutants, magicians, tech geeks, of wide array of origins that were endowed with superhuman powers. Confusion rampaged the private investigations on the organization as to how such a group was well networked enough to work incogneto, and unbeknowest to the public, while they also managed to handle incredible threats with unherald talent.
Months went without documentation on their activities, while weeks were flooded with overwhelming amounts of citings until eventually the operation was shut down in a small funding cut. Before the investigations ended the agents resolved that a man named Stanley Kirby put together the grouping. Little else was revealed afterwards.
In the late 90s the team was cited once more in a small investigation for an operation that eventually was used in reference for work on the Rikiti War. Little is in file about their operation's roster at the time.
New Rogues/The Washouts
Pages in category "The Washouts"
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