If you could have your way with Azazel...
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:10 am
Innuendos and murderous fantasies aside, I'm talking about writing authority.
(Wasn't sure if I should have posted this in the off-topic forum since Azazel...isn't Nightcrawler. So feel free to move this, admins!)
A friend and I are making a fan continuation of X-Men: Evolution and I plan on incorporating Azazel into it (the whole thing is going to be very Kurt-centric and...well I just like Azazel.)
Thing is, I'm completely rewriting him. I've never read the Draco arc, and all I know is what I've read from Wiki articles. My Azazel is going to be heavily influenced by his First Class version (though elements from the comics will be kept since...well he didn't really get a whole backstory in First Class. Appearance, uh, apparent Russian accent? will be kept. As probably will be his association with the Hellfire Club.)
My Azazel is going to be a tad more sympathetic---instead of wanting to take over Earth, he instead was exiled to earth decades ago and is trying to find a way back to the Brimstone dimension (and since his type of teleporters BAMF through it quickly, that's why he needs them--to get back by doing that. WHY he needs a bunch of kids to do it I haven't quite fleshed out yet but...didn't make much sense in the comics, either, from what I've gathered.)
In the Brimstone dimension he was more or less a ruler--not like a king or anything, more like a dictator (?).
Think sort of like Lucifer from Paradise Lost.
I also want to unwrite Abyss as his son since he
1) doesn't fit with my story like that and
2) doesn't look a damn thing like him. (Neither does Kiwi Black but it just seems a bit overgratuitous to me. Besides, wasn't Abyss Mystique's son in some continuity? Not sure but anyways...)
I'm a tad hesitant on not making Abyss related to Kurt for the storyline ( I'm going to be using a character of my own to fill the "sibling" role, which I know will upset people, but eh.)
tl;dr I'm not all confident with my ideas and I wanted to know what you guys would do (aside from writing him out completely) if you could write a backstory for Azazel and maybe bounce some ideas off me. You guys know more about Kurt and Azazel than I do, and I'd like to hear what you guys think!
(Wasn't sure if I should have posted this in the off-topic forum since Azazel...isn't Nightcrawler. So feel free to move this, admins!)
A friend and I are making a fan continuation of X-Men: Evolution and I plan on incorporating Azazel into it (the whole thing is going to be very Kurt-centric and...well I just like Azazel.)
Thing is, I'm completely rewriting him. I've never read the Draco arc, and all I know is what I've read from Wiki articles. My Azazel is going to be heavily influenced by his First Class version (though elements from the comics will be kept since...well he didn't really get a whole backstory in First Class. Appearance, uh, apparent Russian accent? will be kept. As probably will be his association with the Hellfire Club.)
My Azazel is going to be a tad more sympathetic---instead of wanting to take over Earth, he instead was exiled to earth decades ago and is trying to find a way back to the Brimstone dimension (and since his type of teleporters BAMF through it quickly, that's why he needs them--to get back by doing that. WHY he needs a bunch of kids to do it I haven't quite fleshed out yet but...didn't make much sense in the comics, either, from what I've gathered.)
In the Brimstone dimension he was more or less a ruler--not like a king or anything, more like a dictator (?).
Think sort of like Lucifer from Paradise Lost.
I also want to unwrite Abyss as his son since he
1) doesn't fit with my story like that and
2) doesn't look a damn thing like him. (Neither does Kiwi Black but it just seems a bit overgratuitous to me. Besides, wasn't Abyss Mystique's son in some continuity? Not sure but anyways...)
I'm a tad hesitant on not making Abyss related to Kurt for the storyline ( I'm going to be using a character of my own to fill the "sibling" role, which I know will upset people, but eh.)
tl;dr I'm not all confident with my ideas and I wanted to know what you guys would do (aside from writing him out completely) if you could write a backstory for Azazel and maybe bounce some ideas off me. You guys know more about Kurt and Azazel than I do, and I'd like to hear what you guys think!