Where is Citizen Dusk?

[Redacted] has a whole new meaning in the Legalverse.

Yeah, it's not just a playtester being a smartass, it's an actual gameplay mechanic!

As for what it does... Well, that's [REDACTED]

Like Fish and Cushion?

I wish Chip and Pin had been as successful.

EXACTLY like Fish and Cushion :smiley:

And everyone overlooks the citizens in charge of making the installation on Insula Primalis comfy. The citizens of the sun would just not be the same without citizen Bed and citizen Breakfast,,,

Citizen Hammer, Citizen Anvil and Citizen Stirrup go into a bar...

It was really loud.

 

that's quite an earful

Then Fanatic joined them, and made it a holey experience.  

There's a response I'm looking for.  I hope someone spots it.

Why is no one talking about the most important Citizen of all, the one who produces the weekly news letter, Citizen Kane...

Because he's incapable of walking without assistance.

With a little help from Citizen Limp?

It is possible that when Expat's dad was "killed" he was stripped of his citizen status, therefore leaving the mantle of Citizen Dusk available for Expatriette to possibly step into one day. Honestly, I just want her to walk up to Citizen Dawn and be all "Hey mom, you know how you thought I was worthless? Well I have guns AND superpowers now!" (Insert epic fight here)

I got hooked on this Expatriatte father Citizen dusk speculation and I noticed that Ambuscade happens to have some features that would be consistent with Citizen Dusk.

1. He is good with guns (not that this is neccesarily heritable) it is the same power source as expatriette. Consider that pride and predjudice are wielded in a similar way to ambuscade's hand cannons and her RPG launcher is his explosive launcher. There weapon choice has parallels.

2. As an actor he was probably quite a looker and I imagine Dawn would insist on a fine specimen

3. We never actually see his face (christopher said we haven't seen him)

4. But maybe we do see his face...in the healing light artwork Dawn is healing a Citizen but it isn't one of the citizens in the cards. It looks a bit like Dare/truth but wait the uniform isn't quite right and this unnamed dead citizen has brown hair not black. Dawn killed the father but did she bring him back once her rage died? She has a tendency to bring her citizens back.

5. Ambuscade is 45 Dawn is 48 and Expatriatte is a very young 22. The math works.

6. The birds man, Ambuscade has white birds on his character card and expatriatte has them all over her cards. That has to be worth something. Ambuscade also has some black birds in charged attacks, not sure how those relate to the white variety.

7. The setting, Ambuscade is always fighting in a jungle, I originally thought he was stalking Haka in the south pacific but maybe it is insula primalis. Maybe he is an exiled citizen not far from his old home.

8. The french connection. Why Expatriette? She was born in Insula Primalis and none of them are obviously french. She fights in rook city. She is evidentally paying some tribute to her French heritage, perhaps on her father's side.

Well we can do the math and find Dawn tried this progeny strategy at a fairly young age. Considering some time for wooing and the typical 9 month gestation...25 year old Dawn may have been young and naive enough to be decieved by a world famous french actor who was secretly getting augmented powers. She wasn't just mad the kid didn't have powers she was mad that Ambuscade tricked her with his fake nonheritable powers.

Lets also consider why Ansel was going to such length to have these powers. He didn't need it for the hunting, he needed his energy manipulation to fit in with the Citizens of the Sun. He needed to keep up with Dawn and he couldn't.

Also lets consider Ambuscade is not a villian with such a bad motive. He finds the heros and villians alike dangerous and he would hunt and stalk either I suppose. He is just unfortunate to have Haka as his white whale he should probably move on... He is just barely bad and expatriate who also distrusts these hero types is just barely a hero.

I save the biggest evidence for last. Expatiette saves Ambuscade by "accidentally"  setting off his sonic mine. Expatriette is a tactician, she does not accidentally set-off the sonic mine. She can choose between a variety of weapons, she only sets off the mine if she wants to. She wanted to cause the heros to be unable to deal damage. Can't imagine why she might want that...

Sorry for the length...

 

 

Dawn's Canadian, which might explain the French, n'est-ce pas?

French Canadian is even worse than French.  

This makes so much sense that even if it's not what they had planned, it should be now. The key to me is Ambuscade convincing Dawn (or I suppose, just letting Dawn think) that his powers are innate and thus heritable. She certainly would be ticked off when she found out that he had not only lied, but that that lie had resulted in a baseline child. 

Brilliant bit of speculation!

Citizen Dawn doesn't care where the powers came from, she only cares if they have them. Several of her Citizens were not innately born with them.

I do constantly wonder why Ambuscade is always everywhere since his release. At least it feels like I'm always seeing him everywhere in Sentinels, whether it be the cards, Tactics, online updates for Villains...there's no where to turn that doesn't have Ambuscade's silly face on it. If he's got such a direct tie, one that would pull many emotional strings, it would make sense to keep him so focused in the public eye. Or, they just likeh him.

Dawn is from Manitoba and has a very English sounding last name. Probably an anglophone. As a Canadian she might be able to speak french a bit.