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I looked, and sure enough, Night and Fog were striding into the alleyway. Night sported high heeled boots that clicked as she walked, and there was the gender difference, but the two were otherwise very similar. Cloaks, cowls, no logos or other decoration. Gray for him and black for her. --> | I looked, and sure enough, Night and Fog were striding into the alleyway. Night sported high heeled boots that clicked as she walked, and there was the gender difference, but the two were otherwise very similar. Cloaks, cowls, no logos or other decoration. Gray for him and black for her. --> | ||
<!-- https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/buzz-7-10/#comment-990 Comment by Wildbow on Buzz 7.10 | |||
Depends on the character. | |||
As I’ve mentioned in previous comments, there’s two ways to approach character design. Top-down and bottom-up. Top down is when you have a name or concept in mind and everything else flows down from there, until you’ve got an established background. Bottom up is where you have the background and individual in mind and everything develops upward, with the name and overall concept being developed last. The latter (bottom up) is more organic and developed, but the former (top down) is easier. | |||
Night and Fog, for example. I was searching for terms and symbols related to white supremacists, nazi Germany, the KKK and so on, when I came across the term ‘Nacht und Nebel’, German for ‘Night and Fog’. That was my starting point. The idea behind the term was that Hitler issued a directive to suppress dissent by having enemies in occupied territories disappear, spirited away in the night with no records or messages passed on to the family about their fate. The fear and concern over what happened to these individuals served to cow the local population into submission. | |||
Mental process: | |||
1) That’s horrible. | |||
2) That’s something I could fit into Purity’s role as an ‘enforcer’ for EEE/E88. | |||
So I developed them from that concept/naming scheme in a top-down approach. I dismissed the original ‘Nacht and Nebel’ naming for the English translation as I know there’s a character in another work called Nacht. Fog is self explanatory, and his powers flowed from what I had. | |||
Night, though, the thought process was something like: | |||
1) I didn’t want a Grue parallel… | |||
2) The name Night is definitely vague. Maybe I could use that. A character that (developing a concept from a past discussion in the comments section of Worm) has a name that doesn’t give away his/her abilities or powers. | |||
3) What if I reversed Grue’s concept? Someone that benefits from darkness? (I like reversing common ideas or if I see myself going down a road commonly taken, design-wise, I take another direction). | |||
4) I wanted to make her powers complimentary with Fog. | |||
I had all this in mind from the first time they were mentioned, but I didn’t really develop the idea and have stuff ‘click’ until I wrote the bit earlier in this arc where Purity orders them to murder the cameraman to demonstrate just how serious she is.--> | |||
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Geoff Schmidt, usually known as Fog, was a member of Empire Eighty-Eight and the husband of Night.
Appearance
Fog wears a gray costume with a hood and mask, largely a gray masculine version of his wife's costume without her other equipment.<ref name="Cast2"/>
Out of costume, Geoff dresses a little too well for the situation, wearing a shirt, slicked-back hair, and blazer.<ref name="18.y">Interlude 18.y</ref>
Abilities and Powers
Turns into living fog that causes harm to those within Schmidt has the ability to shift as much of as little of his body into a gaseous entity, with varying solidity dependent on his whim.<ref name="Cast2">Cast (in depth)</ref> He has the separate ability to erode living matter that is in his radius while in this form.<ref name="list">Wildbow's Parahuman List</ref> Can deliver horrific internal damage should a subject inhale the mist that comprises his other form.
The only avalible case study for the effects of inhaling 'him' is the animal Angelica, who never recovered from the damage that
History
Background
Fog was created by Gesellschaft as a "weapon"<ref name="18.y">Interlude 18.y</ref>, supossedly trained from childhood. Geoff first appeared as Nebel in Hesse, Germany, he was sent to Brockton Bay by Gesellschaft where he and his wife joined Empire Eighty-Eight. They left for Boston shortly after Purity split from the group, but Kaiser thought he would gladly rejoin the Empire if Purity did<ref name="5.1"/><ref name="3.5B">Interlude 3.5 (Bonus)</ref>.
Story Start
He and his wife were seen with the newly whole Empire Eighty Eight during the meeting at Somer's Rock.<ref name="5.1">Hive 5.1</ref>
After Kaiser's death during the battle against Leviathan, they split off and joined the Pure.
When the E88's were revealed they took part in a rampage through the city following Child Protective Services removing Purity's Daughter from her mothers care. They humbled The Undersiders when they fought, only letting them go when Tattletale offered to take their leader to her daughter. The encounter left one of Bitch's dogs permanently disabled.
Post-Leviathan
After Kaiser's death during the battle against Leviathan, Fog and his wife followed their former leader kayden into forming the Empire splinter group named the Pure.
Post-Slaughterhouse Nine
Fog was eventually forced to leave Brockton Bay, with the rest of the Pure, due to pressure from outside Villain groups.<ref name="16.5">Monarch 16.5]</ref>
Post-Echidna
Provided helpful tips on inducing a trigger attempt for Theo.<ref name="18.y"/>
References:
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