Where is Citizen Dusk?

General GTG Sentinel Comics Lore
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So, I was reading this:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IAmNotLeftHanded

And was thinking, what if Expat does have powers that she's voluntarily holding back...? Some thoughts:

-Citizen Dawn has the power over light and life force. Citizen Dusk then should have powers centered around darkness and death? Ok, then;

 

-Expat is missing an eye. She can't see the light with her right eye. So there's darkness there... no? Ok, then what about;

 

-"Dark Watch". Darkness again! BOOM! Not enough? Ok;

 

-Citizen Dawn is blond, Expat's got purple hair... You don't need a degree in genetics to know that... "hair dye" you say? Well, maybe, but then;

 

-Expat is missing an eye... And is still a goddamn good shooter. You know you lose perspective when you lose an eye, and this makes gauging distances immensely harder... Expat looks like she's perfectly comfortable with that. Practise? Or she just doesn't need light...!? Better? Now;

 

-Expat uses guns. A lot of guns. And she actually kills people... Heroes are known for their kind heart, usually putting bad guys in jail, incapacitating them. Expat is described in her bio killing a psychic dude right off the bat. Connection to death? A little bit at least...? This one;

 

-Hammer and Anvil. Blood, Sweat and Tears. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Assault and Battery. Truth and... ehrm... Truth or Dare. From Dusk 'till Dawn...? Convinging, right? Another one:

 

-Wager Master's "Unwise Wager"... Do I need to add more? OF COURSE I DO! Look at it that way:

---Dawn's hair are blond and she's producing yellowish glowing energy with her hands. Expat's are purple and she's making dark purple thingy. Note how her powers seems to NOT produce any light at all... So dark... :)

---Also, Dawn's eyes are turning gold when she uses her powers. Well, Expat's eyes (well, her MISSING eye...!?) seems to glow purple... Maybe it's not hair dye after all...?

---The symbol for the citizens of the sun is like a rising sun casting its rays upward. Look at Expat's belt... That's right! The symbol is upside down! Look like a sunset to me! :O

 

-One last thing: Citizen Slash (and presumably the citizens of the sun as a whole, but I might be wrong...) wants Expat's back (I assume Slash is talking to Expat, but again, I might be wrong). The question is why would those "Gods among men" would want a "normal" back (instead of merely dead...)? You could explain this last part in a lot of ways, but I still thought it was interesting... (Thinking about it, who could be Citizen Hack!?)

Calling it: Expat is super powerful.

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I think Citizen Dusk, if there is one, would more likely be Expat's father.  

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I think Expat's power is not dying, or incredibly hard to kill. She was 'killed' by her mother, but instead lost an eye. She seems to be shot bloodied in her Incap, but the Scholar talks to her later. She booms in her second Incap, but is still around kicking. And it would be ironic that Dawn cast her out for not having powers and those powers are what kept her alive.

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I've had a theory for a while that Expat has an intrinsic "Return with the Dusk" power of some sort.  I wrote it up in more extensive detail in one of the other posts around somewhere, but the gist of it is this:

1. Expatriette has the ONLY card in the entire game that prevents infinity damage.  The flak jacket protects her from any amount of damage, no matter how high.  She could get punched by Iron Legacy, shot point blank, or get Anubis thrown at her by Fright Train, and the jacket would take it.

My theory is each time she dies, she gets back up (Probably night/dusk/moon related).  The Flak Jacket is her comfort blanket- it keeps her from recognizing the truth about what just happened.  So when (for instance) the chairman's thugs gun her down in a hail of fire and she dies, she wakes back up and figures that the Flak Jacket must have kept her alive.  Her initial incap shows her down and out at nighttime, and she seems to be back on her feet in one of the Scholar's cards (though he might have healed her, I like my theory better).  We know that she gets back up from her DW incap, thanks to Tactics.  

I think that pretty much the only thing she can't recover from are wounds inflicted by Citizen Dawn.  Though if she ever regrows the eye...

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Rebounding Debilitator, just to name one that can prevent damage.

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Yeah, she isn't the only hero tht can do that, but still. . .

I've thought the whole time Expat has to have powers.  Not because she can't do what she does without them, but the storyline begs for it.  Citizen Dawn tries to murder her own daughter and fails.  Not likely.  Dawn is insanely powerful and she didn't send a lackey to do it, she did it herself.

Expat is a survivor, and she regularly takes out super-powered targets to the extent that she mocks them and thinks less of them (read her bio)

I love the idea that Expat is really powerful in a subtle way that she doesn't even realize.

I love the "we want you back" reverse prodigal son angle.

 

As for Citizen Dusk.  Citizen Dusk is only her father if her father is important to the story past his death.  Otherwise it could be Amanda.

Amanda as Citizen Dusk would have a Truth/Dare relationship with her mother, they can't co-exist.

I am super pumped to play a real Expat vs. the Citizens of the Sun.  I made my own, and she is fun, but I expect GtG to have an even better version of her.

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I like the whole "return with the dusk" notion. It's fitting for a character that doesn't show any outward powers like strength, flight, or energy beams. It also makes me wonder how many times Setback may have off-ed her by accident, maybe she is the only girlfriend he could find who can put up with constantly being struck with lightning bolts, rocket propelled grenades, falling pianos, etc.

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Yeah, but the Debilitator doesn't block the damage, thematically, it prevents the attacker from making the attack. Very different concepts. One stops a bullet, the other stops a trigger.

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A lot of very interesting points, thank you guys...! I really like the "Return with the dusk" thing too. I also noticed her being seriously injured by the citizens on her incap and then talking to Scholar shortly after and it really does make sense...

Fun theory: Perhaps it's her death that triggers her powers. What I mean by that is that she can't access her powers until she died and then she grows stronger each time she passes out...? That would at least fit her connection to death as opposed to her mother's connection to life...

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I don't know if this is a good theory, or if someone has already mention this. 

But let's say that Citizen Dusk is Expat's dad. When Citizen Dawn decided to kill Expat, Dusk intervened and that's why Expat only lost her eye. While this whole battle broke out, a weird series of events made it to where Expat got some of Dusk's powers in the battle. (This is me assuming the Dusk's power is to survive heavy hits). That's why Expat can survive the battles she faces when we meet her in the card game. 

Of course this is just my crazy theory that might make sense only to me...

 

Also, if she had the "Return from the Dusk" power that makes her stronger each time she gets knock down, then she would have a very similar power to Haka's abilities.

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So you're saying Expat is Saiyan? I LIKE IT

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Haha, I didn't even think about it that way.

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In a way, Haka is also Saiyan.

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It was a few years ago, but I'm fairly sure Christopher said that Dawn killed Dusk, and implied the main motivation was because he didn't provide her with a super-powered child.

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Yeah, that sounds familiar. I don't remember the name being mentioned but definitely Dawn killed Expat's father because of Expat's (apparent) lack of power(s).

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In the Something Special thread, I asked if Expat's father would be introduced and be relevant to the story, and Christopher answered yes.

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Y'all know I posted a consolidated transcript of that thread at BGG, right? (For the sake of reference)

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I personally think Expat getting powers in some way would be a rather stark and thematically unsatisfying validation to Dawn’s superhuman eugenics stuff with her citizens.

I’m perfectly fine with her just being superheroic with her gun-toting skills due to dedication and practice rather than “My mom bred selectively with another superhuman so that I would have superpowers. She thought I didn’t have them, took my eye, and kicked me out of her compound and our family. Except she was wrong and I’m actually superhuman. Boy, does she have egg on her face, eh? Probably from all of that selective breeding away from the normals.”

It just seems to defeat her entire premise of being a flatscan vigilante that takes down forces packing supernatural gifts with natural, trained, calculated efficiency and skill.

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But if her powers only involve her "coming back from the dead" every time she goes down, that has nothing to do with her shooting abilities (unless she has some kind of empowered eyesight and hasn't just learnt to compensate for being missing an eye), so she does still have all the trained ability and skill and stuff...she just has "can survive a ridiculously high amount of damage" added on ;).

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Expatriette comes back to life. Her guns deal death.