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yarol_2075Since I'm home ill, I thought I should take advantage of it.
Well, this looks like it’s turning out to be three parts instead of two, big surprise. This part is personality and costumes.
Family Addendum: Forgot that if Zealot is Winter’s mother, than Savant is his half sister; yes, Savant is usually said to be Zealot’s sister, but she is really her daughter (and her father is the unaware Mr. Majestic which makes things a little squicky albeit innocently so, given the mutual affection between the two.). Also then Zealot has to be incredibly fertile for a female Kheran; they usually can only have one child, Zealot apparently has had three children (Savant, Emma Blaize, and Winter.) And after re-reading WildC.A.T.S Team One, I’m more convinced then ever that Nikolas is Zealot and John Colt’s son.
Personality: It’s canon that Winter suffered from clinical depression, and given all that’s happened in his life, not surprising. He’s also a man searching for redemption, again due to events in his life. He loves his homeland, and will do anything to protect and nurture Russia, including some back alley vigilantism. Yet Nikolas also has a curious optimism about him as well, he firmly believes people, even just one man, can make a difference, and so strives to practice what he preaches. He also occasionally demonstrates almost child-like enthusiasm for ideas (sometimes very odd ideas) – the whole nukes for religion concept, and his unheeded plan to save Jack Hawksmoor’s Stormwatch (Really, when Christine finally tells him she thinks they have no right to save JH’s Stormwatch, he looks like a puppy who just got his nose thwapped with a rolled up newspaper). Finally, Nikolas is loyal to his teammates, since they are essentially the only family he has.
Costumes:
Costume One: Winter originally wore a very dark blue “spandex body condom” to quote Jenny Sparks, with a high open collar and iridescent white plastic/metal squareish segmented armor on his arms. Normally the legs of his suit were white, up to his upper thighs, the pattern however seemed to change from issue to issue and leg to leg. Sometimes he had the then Stormwatch symbol, other times on one leg there was a band of white connected by a stripe to the main section of white, while on the other it was simply solid white all the way up and sometimes the white “boots” would just disappeared between issues as happened in issues two and three. He also wore a army green vest, which so far I can see served no purpose beyond breaking up all the dark blue, make him look like he was raiding Cable’s wardrobe, and providing the artists with a chance to see how silly they could make it look (really, sometimes the poor man looked like he was wearing an inflated life jacket.) Winter wore costume one from issue one through issue twenty-seven.
Custome Two: This one, unfortunately, seemed to change issue to issue (more than his original costume), so this is just a general description. Again, a mostly dark midnight blue body suit, with steel flexible armor running up from the side of his right thigh to part of the right side of his chest to his right shoulder and down his arm to form a glove, he also has additional armor on that side that resembles the iridescent stuff from his first costume, occasionally framed in brass coloured metal, but what it looks like varies from issue to issue like everything else about this costume (and no, there’s really no time for costume changes on Winter’s part.) On his left side, no armor, but the Stormwatch symbol in white over his heart. He wear a brass coloured metal glove on his left hand. As for his feet…do you know they never show his feet in all the issues he wears this costume? Not once. Believe me, I checked. But what little we do see of his lower legs leads me to believe that it’s simply dark blue all the way down. This was also when he started growing his hair out in earnest. He wore this costume issues thirty through the beginning of thirty-seven.
Costume Three: This costume was very basically composed of a black body suit, a pale greyish blue motorcycle-style jacket with his Stormwatch fetish on the right side near his shoulder, metal gauntlets, and metal mesh gloves. Any boots must have been built into the body suit. Occasionally he had metal shoulder-guard and a metal belt. Winter wore this costume from the middle of issue thirty-seven to issue fifty.
Costume Four: I dislike this costume. It has Winter wearing grey “moon-boots.” It’s white, grey and green, the pattern of which depends mostly on the whim of the colourist. They made him cut his hair, and start shaving on a regular basis. And that’s really all I’m going to say, beyond saying once again I really dislike this costume and that he wore it from the preview of volume two to issue five of volume two.
Costume Five: Final costume. Basically two piece, a top that somewhat resembles his old blue-grey jacket, the main body of it is dark green, but the side panels are black/darkgrey, as are the inner panels on the sleeves. This colour pattern is followed on the trousers, the black/dark grey of the top lining up with the same on the trousers. He also wore black gloves, and black boots. Winter wore this from issue five of vol. two to issue 10, and the WildC.A.T.S./Aliens crossover.
The Authority: Scorched Earth: Nothing at all, the poor man was burning alive like a torch.
Well, this looks like it’s turning out to be three parts instead of two, big surprise. This part is personality and costumes.
Family Addendum: Forgot that if Zealot is Winter’s mother, than Savant is his half sister; yes, Savant is usually said to be Zealot’s sister, but she is really her daughter (and her father is the unaware Mr. Majestic which makes things a little squicky albeit innocently so, given the mutual affection between the two.). Also then Zealot has to be incredibly fertile for a female Kheran; they usually can only have one child, Zealot apparently has had three children (Savant, Emma Blaize, and Winter.) And after re-reading WildC.A.T.S Team One, I’m more convinced then ever that Nikolas is Zealot and John Colt’s son.
Personality: It’s canon that Winter suffered from clinical depression, and given all that’s happened in his life, not surprising. He’s also a man searching for redemption, again due to events in his life. He loves his homeland, and will do anything to protect and nurture Russia, including some back alley vigilantism. Yet Nikolas also has a curious optimism about him as well, he firmly believes people, even just one man, can make a difference, and so strives to practice what he preaches. He also occasionally demonstrates almost child-like enthusiasm for ideas (sometimes very odd ideas) – the whole nukes for religion concept, and his unheeded plan to save Jack Hawksmoor’s Stormwatch (Really, when Christine finally tells him she thinks they have no right to save JH’s Stormwatch, he looks like a puppy who just got his nose thwapped with a rolled up newspaper). Finally, Nikolas is loyal to his teammates, since they are essentially the only family he has.
Costumes:
Costume One: Winter originally wore a very dark blue “spandex body condom” to quote Jenny Sparks, with a high open collar and iridescent white plastic/metal squareish segmented armor on his arms. Normally the legs of his suit were white, up to his upper thighs, the pattern however seemed to change from issue to issue and leg to leg. Sometimes he had the then Stormwatch symbol, other times on one leg there was a band of white connected by a stripe to the main section of white, while on the other it was simply solid white all the way up and sometimes the white “boots” would just disappeared between issues as happened in issues two and three. He also wore a army green vest, which so far I can see served no purpose beyond breaking up all the dark blue, make him look like he was raiding Cable’s wardrobe, and providing the artists with a chance to see how silly they could make it look (really, sometimes the poor man looked like he was wearing an inflated life jacket.) Winter wore costume one from issue one through issue twenty-seven.
Custome Two: This one, unfortunately, seemed to change issue to issue (more than his original costume), so this is just a general description. Again, a mostly dark midnight blue body suit, with steel flexible armor running up from the side of his right thigh to part of the right side of his chest to his right shoulder and down his arm to form a glove, he also has additional armor on that side that resembles the iridescent stuff from his first costume, occasionally framed in brass coloured metal, but what it looks like varies from issue to issue like everything else about this costume (and no, there’s really no time for costume changes on Winter’s part.) On his left side, no armor, but the Stormwatch symbol in white over his heart. He wear a brass coloured metal glove on his left hand. As for his feet…do you know they never show his feet in all the issues he wears this costume? Not once. Believe me, I checked. But what little we do see of his lower legs leads me to believe that it’s simply dark blue all the way down. This was also when he started growing his hair out in earnest. He wore this costume issues thirty through the beginning of thirty-seven.
Costume Three: This costume was very basically composed of a black body suit, a pale greyish blue motorcycle-style jacket with his Stormwatch fetish on the right side near his shoulder, metal gauntlets, and metal mesh gloves. Any boots must have been built into the body suit. Occasionally he had metal shoulder-guard and a metal belt. Winter wore this costume from the middle of issue thirty-seven to issue fifty.
Costume Four: I dislike this costume. It has Winter wearing grey “moon-boots.” It’s white, grey and green, the pattern of which depends mostly on the whim of the colourist. They made him cut his hair, and start shaving on a regular basis. And that’s really all I’m going to say, beyond saying once again I really dislike this costume and that he wore it from the preview of volume two to issue five of volume two.
Costume Five: Final costume. Basically two piece, a top that somewhat resembles his old blue-grey jacket, the main body of it is dark green, but the side panels are black/darkgrey, as are the inner panels on the sleeves. This colour pattern is followed on the trousers, the black/dark grey of the top lining up with the same on the trousers. He also wore black gloves, and black boots. Winter wore this from issue five of vol. two to issue 10, and the WildC.A.T.S./Aliens crossover.
The Authority: Scorched Earth: Nothing at all, the poor man was burning alive like a torch.
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Date: 2005-11-14 09:39 pm (UTC)I'm going to have to share space with you on that wagon. I've been reading through WildC.A.T.s, and Winter seems considerably more powerful than the Kheran hybrids. Their powers tend to be useful, but I don't get the impression you could drop them into the sun and have them "survive".
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Date: 2005-11-14 11:09 pm (UTC)*nods* And so far as I know the only other being, naturally born (Apollo and the Engineer were "built" superhuman), to go into the heart of a star is Majestic.
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Date: 2005-11-15 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-15 01:19 am (UTC)I think he has aged a little, and considering in the false future Bendix had shown to Midnighter in Revolutions Apollo had aged considerably, I think both Apollo and Midnighter beleive that they can age.
So he could, at least temporarily, throw down with a full-blooded, very powerful, old Kheran, which I don't think I've seen a hybrid do.
Yep, and Winter did "swallow" the destructive power of a full complement of nuclear misiles, which I kinda doubt a hybrid or a seedling could do either.
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Date: 2005-11-15 02:53 am (UTC)Point. I've got the idea stuck in my head that Midnighter is on the wrong side of 50 and not showing it, but I've got no basis in canon for that at all that I can discern. (I also work on the assumption that all seven of the 'Justice Stormwatch of America' were American military before Bendix got them, and there's no basis for that, either, though I could probably argue it more compellingly than I could argue age.)
Winter did "swallow" the destructive power of a full complement of nuclear misiles
Useful trick, that. Wonder what Spartan would have to say upon learning of the offspring of who-he-kinda-was. (Not that I know if Spartan's even operational right now. I'm starting at the beginning of the series.) Winter would probably consider it par for the course.
"You're not Russian."
"..."
"Your mom's an alien."
"..."
"Oh, and your dad's a robot."
"..."
"He wasn't at the time!"
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Date: 2005-11-15 03:36 pm (UTC)Not spoiling anything in saying this: Spartan is indeed still around.
Winter would probably consider it par for the course.
"You're not Russian."
"..."
Nikolas thinks: this explains the occasional bouts of optimism I've never been able to shake off.
"Your mom's an alien."
"..."
"Oh, and your dad's a robot."
"..."
"He wasn't at the time!"
There would be much vodka and beer after this converstion, and, depending on who's telling him all this, possibly bloodshed.