content coming relatively soon (?!) to Wincustomize
Okay, I was pondering the other day upon what "theme" I could use for skins that wouldn't get me in trouble with the RIAA/MPAA/CIA/UNHCR or anyone else with a scary acronym. I decided to create my own not-so-wonderful superhero, The Green Streak. I was inspired by the computer game series Freedom Force, Ben Edlund's The Tick, and DC Comics' The Flash. I've loved these two characters for a long time, and if anyone is reading this with even a hint of a background in Silver Age comics and hasn't played Freedom Force, do it now.
Enough background about that--now for some background on The Green Streak. Born Jensen Hannings in 1971 in Central City, he had a fairly typical white, suburban upbringing and a rather average, seemingly-pointless childhood except for the fact that you have to have one if you plan to become an adult someday. He graduated from Central High near the lower middle of his class, and he was voted Most Likely to Move Into His Parents' Basement. It is without a trace of irony, therefore, that he proceeded to move into his parents' basement. Jensen had no desire to go to college and continued his career as an Inventory Arranging Specialist at his local Stop'N'Save Value Center.
One day, while warming a TV dinner in his toaster oven, a short circuit opened a pandimensional vortex and bathed the hapless young stockboy with mysterion particle radiation. To his considerable dismay, his salisbury steak was completely ruined and also smelled a bit like a used Kleenex. However, as an unexpected benefit of his dose of otherworldly radiation, Jensen soon discovered that he could move really, really fast. In light of the fact that he had no real hobbies, and thus nothing to do with his free time anyway, he vowed to use his power to fight crime wherever it reared its ugly head.
As he was inordinately fond of the color green, he created a verdant-colored costume and hood for himself and called himself The Green Streak. As he discovered on his first attempt to foil a bank robbery, his exposure to mysterion particles had only granted him enough of a friction shield to prevent dust motes from shredding his skin; it did not provide any protection from friction for anyone else or even, say, his clothing. Thus was born the main reason most of the public began referring to him as The Green Streak. In retrospect, it is probably just as well that this occurred, as he had rather carelessly sewn the initials "J.H." into his first costume.
It soon became obvious to Jensen that, embarrassing costume problems aside, he was not really needed; as a resident of Central City, he lived in the one city in the world under the protection of The F----. As it turns out, The Flash's speed force made him quite a bit faster and more able to manipulate his molecular structure than Jensen's mysterion exposure. Resigned to being not particularly valuable in his hometown, Jensen moved to New Iberia, Louisiana, where his Uncle Bartholomew had a very spacious basement and a brand-new toaster oven. Soon, he was working as the world's fastest shelf-stocker and fighting crime in the somewhat more subdued environment of New Iberia. For his part, Bartholomew Claiborne harbors some suspicions about his young nephew's proclivity for sewing. (Of course, I live in Louisiana, so I know people don't really have basements here!)
His motto: "The Second Fastest Man Alive!"
His battle cry: "Spork!"
If anyone's still paying attention, there will probably eventually be some skin content related to this little diatribe, after I hunker down and play with SkinStudio for a while.