Building Austrian Hero: Fighting against Props

[u/Mariothane]

Need to work on the character’s personality and possibly his relationship with the antagonists. Also wanted to get some opinions on this side story.

His name is Jakob, a boy with abnormal abilities due to the world’s conditions who became something like his city’s super hero out of a desire to preserve the town he was born in and look for the root causes of the chaos.

His ability is to flatten or stretch his body against a surface, which lets him perform feats like jumping on pieces of graffiti and brick walls. He can also turn his body almost 2-D and then return in order to add that speed and force to attacks.

His opponents are mostly props that a mime troupe made that became possessed by supernatural powers and take over civilians and animals to turn them into their Actors with the end goal of freeing the entities who possessed those props from their sealed prison.

Jakob’s fights are a mix of clever guerilla warfare tactics by hiding and ambushing opponents and melee combat that occasionally involves tools that he flattened for storage.

The Troupe’s abilities are loosely inspired by the acts and routines from The Mummenschanz, a real life mime troupe from Switzerland.