Re: The Official SSF Custom Figure Challenge III, Summer 08 PICS thread
Got a couple of entries this time. First up:
Batman: Legend of the Sea Bat
Edward T. Wayne led a charmed life of luxury and ease until the fateful day of his 18th birthday. Setting sail with his family and new bride fromEngland to an isle in the Caribbean, his boat was set upon by pirates. Barely managing to escape the flaming remnants of the pirates aftermath, Edward was left floating adrift at sea, watching his loved ones whom hadbeen slain by the pirates burn with the ship and sink into the sea. Distraught and almost without hope he was rescued by the crew of the Lazurus, under the command of Captain Ras Al Ghul. Seeing the burning thirstfor justice within Edward, Ras took the young man under his wing and beganto teach him the ways of the League of Shadows, a group of cast-aways andsurvivors of the sea that had sworn to fight piracy and evil. Edward learnedquickly and became a cunning warrior of the high seas, yet strife arosebetween him and the crew of the Lazurus because Edwards noble heart simplywould not allow him to kill. He sought justice... not revenge. Ras made him anultimatum; fulfill his destiny with the league by embracing their waysunquestionably, or die. Edward chose the noble path and fought his way fromthe ship. Ras, disgusted and thinking Wayne would die at sea, left himbehind. Returning to England after 8 long years away, Edward claimed his family's wealth and used it to fund his personal war on the pirates of thesea. Setting to sea on his new boat, and crewed with men seeking the samejustice he sought, Edward adopted the guise of the Sea-Bat, a menacingcreature waging a never-ending war on piracy...
Reginald Alexander Napier was for many years of his life a talented up andcoming thespian in London. After being set-up for murder by a rival actor,Napier was forced to flee the country. Desperate and penniless, he joined aband of brigands setting sail to the Caribbean. Becoming a cutthroat pirate, he quickly worked his way through the ranks and within several years was thecaptain of his own boat and men. But pirates are a vicious and backstabbinglot and soon Napiers men turned on him. Poisoning him and dropping him overboard, he managed to survive, but the ordeal and the toxins coursingthrough his body left him insane. When he was found a year later on a small island by rum-runners, he killed them and set-off in their ship. Amassing asmall crew whom he ruled through fear, he began a tyrannical reign of theseas. Adorning his face in the grease paints of his acting years, he becamewell-known as The Harlequin. Years have passed and the sun and toxins haveslowly baked the make-up into his face and weathered his skin into atwisted, leathery visage of death. He knows no rhyme nor reason, he existsnow only to kill and torment on the high seas...
