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Real world Promethean possibilities

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illiterati Posted: 12 Aug 2009 1:47 PM
I'm sure this might have come up before and I missed it, but I just saw on an episode of "Life after People" (where they talk about what condition the world would be in without humans around to do upkeep/ruin everything) and they mentioned that Eva Peron (Evita), former first lady of Argentina, was thrice dipped in a plastic polymer, at the behest of her husband, that essentially mummified her forever. Supposedly she hasn't decayed and her body is in the same exact state it was in in the 50s, like some sort of immortal doll.
My ears perked up instantly. 
How many other real world people, celebrities, royals, eccentrics, etc.. have been mummified in unusual ways? I mean Eva, for all sorts of reasons, would make an amazing Galateid. How does the world respond to you if you bear a startling resemblance to a famously dead person?
Some celebrities I'd love to pop-up in the flesh, if not the spirit:
Elvis
Michael Jackson
Walt Disney
Marilyn Monroe
what others?
also, what famous pets (Trigger, Lassie, Morris the Cat) that could have been/or were preserved by their eccentric fans would make awesome pandorans or other scary adversaries?
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One could even use real life villians and recast them as ridiculously nice people.

Imagine the sensitive and caring Promethean who just happened to inherit Richard Nixon's body.

Or even worse, imagine inheriting Jeffrey Dahmer's body.

Or even better, a Promethean kills a still living celebrity and makes a promethean. Imagine having a high profile body like Brad Pitt's.
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Or even Lennon!
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Hitler! I pity the Prommie walking around in that body.
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Malek Tsepesh:
Hitler! I pity the Prommie walking around in that body.


Particularly ironic if said Created was raised via the Tammuz lineage, with all the Jewish folklore surrounding the nature of the Golem.
"If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock. I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flower person, and I spent the next six hours watching my hand move." - William "Spike" Pratt, AKA William the Bloody
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Malek Tsepesh:
Hitler! I pity the Prommie walking around in that body.


Particularly ironic if said Created was raised via the Tammuz lineage, with all the Jewish folklore surrounding the nature of the Golem.


Hitler was a strictly mortal pawn of the Seers of the Throne, once removed (his handler answered to a Seer).  They were looking to start some shit with the Silver Ladder in Europe, and things got a little out of hand.

Looking back at the old Wraith book about the Holocaust, Europe during that time must've been a really terrible place to be a Promethean.  When things are going to shit, then everyone starts looking for someone to blame, and stage one Disquiet can go rocketing up to stage four in the blink of an eye.  Then there's that business discussed in Saturnine Night (strokes his chin as he considers Oleg Wormwood as an antagonist, again).

Then again, the first half of the twentieth century was the cresting wave of the Industrial Revolution.  Lots of change, lots of companies cutting checks to anyone who can get them a profit.  Including independent labs that might be working with notes of a nontraditional nature.  Hmmm.  Damn it, I hate WW2 as a setting, but there're so MANY good ideas just laying around.
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Looking back at the old Wraith book about the Holocaust, Europe during that time must've been a really terrible place to be a Promethean.  When things are going to shit, then everyone starts looking for someone to blame, and stage one Disquiet can go rocketing up to stage four in the blink of an eye.  Then there's that business discussed in Saturnine Night (strokes his chin as he considers Oleg Wormwood as an antagonist, again).

Then again, the first half of the twentieth century was the cresting wave of the Industrial Revolution.  Lots of change, lots of companies cutting checks to anyone who can get them a profit.  Including independent labs that might be working with notes of a nontraditional nature.  Hmmm.  Damn it, I hate WW2 as a setting, but there're so MANY good ideas just laying around.


As a friend of mine said once, "The World of Darkness could never be our world - we humans are too monstrous for those 'monsters' to ever be needed here."
"If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock. I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flower person, and I spent the next six hours watching my hand move." - William "Spike" Pratt, AKA William the Bloody
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