Finally….
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Is that Busybody? 
I am in love.
Ahh, there finally is a bear with them, at long last. That’s what you call a payoff. 
Dang, what a cool backstory. 
So, a San Alonzo environment deck would just be Champion Studios? Ah, there we go.
Hilariously, I was just sitting down on my own couch as Christopher read “sit down on a couch”.
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Love this character. We don’t have enough cyborgs. Wouldn’t be surprised if at some point she gets some kind of demon-magi-tech upgrades, too.
Also, I’m reminded of a rule of mine, first codified back in my D&D days when I first encountered a marilith: Never go hand to hand with someone with more hands than you.
(Yes, the corollary to that is “Unless you’re Obi-Wan Kenobi.”)
As for the couch thing… I think Fanatic, if she sits on a couch, will actually lay on her stomach.
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I could see Fanatic breaking the back of the couch off before ever doing that…
I also think this character is sweet! Really hope we get to see some art of her within the next few months for DE Disparation!
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I figured Fanatic would be a crouched-in-the-middle, ready to spring sort, myself.
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You’re thinking of Alpha.
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Not allowed on the couch. Nobody wants to vacuum all that hair off!
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That’s an incredible design, a great idea, and the name is amazing. Well worth the wait.
Except one thing: what’s with the, um… well, I can’t think of a diplomatic way of saying it… the boob support? Not only do they look like the least effective support imaginable, it’s a V-shaped piece of metal attached to nothing that looks like it would puncture her abdomen if she bent over. It’s like Adam started to design some kind of cyber thing and then forgot to finish it and make it make sense.
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From the name and nemeses alone, I figured Busybody was a psychic body-jumper, a la Vertex Apostate. Interesting way to be wrong!
@MindWanderer that reminds me about reading how fantasy plate armor with “features” is shaped such that it would actually concentrate the force of a relatively blunt impact to a point located right over the sternum. So in addition to its misogynistic appearance it would actually function as “anti-armor:” +damage dealt to this target.
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That purple bodysuit looks like metal (compare it to her right leg which has the same texture), so I wonder if it’s just metal on metal.
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It does look the same, but if that’s all metal, she wouldn’t be able to bend or twist her torso in any direction.
Having to bend and twist is inefficient. She bends and twists the world around her.
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Practical is not necessary in comics.
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True enough. It’s amazingly impractical, it’s just arguably consistently impractical, lol.
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Finally finished, and I think this might be the first time I’ve disagreed with something Christopher and Adam said about one of their own creations: Fanatic, yes, is probably not a couch-sitter, but, if pressed to, this person was raised by nuns. She would sit in the most prim and proper way it is possible to imagine, haunted by the idea that if she does anything else, nuns.
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Good catch. I was trying to anticipate their answers every time, and was privately thrilled that I got them all “right” except one, but you might be right about the nun thing.
The one I missed was Argent Adept. I always got the impression he was a little too stiff to just drape himself over the furniture like that, especially someone else’s. Maybe he’d do that in private, on his own sofa.
AA strikes me as pretty casual, and well, not really caring that much about social conventions. He often hastily departed from Prime Wardens meetings without explaining anything to anyone because something’s going down in the Void, remember?
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Wow, that was one stellar bear impression… But conversely the thing Christophers’s voice did during “barelytheendofJanuary”, that was beautiful. He like smashed the instrument of his voice into a twisted wreck with a rock, then blew into it and magically played a glorious baritone clarion call.
Well they kept the trolling up as long as possible, and as of writing this, I still don’t know what Busy body’s deal is, past having seen the cover. But Amber Cunningham is super cool.
“well now you can’t give us crap about it anymore!” Only now is that actually true. For three solid years, we were still giving them crap about Busybody, they were just ignoring it. Only now that Christopher isnt at the company are we actually incapable of reaching him, if he were so foolish as to actually read the messages we’ve been free to bombard him with this whole time.
“That’s not an A, it’s an Aesh! Wait, don’t–!”
–Bloodletter
The Bunker-Busters concept sounds like the Terrorform to me, especially the adventure they made up just before this which had multiple Terrorforms combining. Whatever contractor company was selling Bunker Suit pieces to the Army could start collecting defeated pieces and trying to perfect their design, and eventually they start building them to break on purpose in order to ensure future business.
The couch discussion is moot if you remember that Fanatic’s powerset includes the ability to stop having wings when necessary.
I think you mean non-Vertex Apostate. Multiverse Apostate reanimates various bodies to inhabit; Vertex Apostate inhabits the sword and then creates a false human body which he pretends is himself.