"This labelless individual is really annoying."
Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic super known as The Lavender Scare. Hero or villain, friend or foe...even her gender runs to the feminine side of androgynous. Her powers (if she even has any) are a mystery, and her only weapon is a plastic bubble gun that appears to be a child's toy. However, as Prodigious Girl discovered, her ability to sow confusion seems to be unparalleled.
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So here's a little real-life background behind this story because trust me, it's even funnier if you know this. This all started when my friend Paul and I were contemplating costumes to wear for DC's pre-Halloween High Heel Race, and he suggested I wear my Prodigious Girl costume I'd made based on my Identity Crisis story. Good start, right? We then decided to invent a new super (either hero or villain) in the same universe for my friend to dress up as, which I thought was fun even if we were the only ones to get the joke. (And now, you!)
I proposed the name Lavender Scare, and we worked out some concepts for the look of the costume, which came together nicely. But when it came time to work out poses for the two characters together, it became wildly obvious that we knew literally nothing about the character. Zip. Nada. Zilch. I probed Paul for details. Would he like Lavender Scare to be a hero or a villain? Or maybe a vigilante? What about background, personality, powers, abilities? By the way, are we even settled on the freaking gender?
Maddeningly, Paul was not forthcoming with answers. Or even preferences. Or vague leanings.
In fact, he was so focused on the look of the costume that he responded to my inquiries with the suggestion that we incorporate a light-up bubble gun into the costume after seeing a little girl in my apartment complex playing with one. (Which we did, and--God help me--the people at the race were highly entertained. "Ages four and up," indeed.)
To get him back, I wrote this story featuring the Lavender Scare and based the character's personality on a (slightly) exaggerated version of Paul. I'm not certain he found it as hilarious as I do, but there’s a lesson here: don't piss off a writer or we'll use you as a character in one of our stories!
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Powers and Abilities
- Unknown. Possibly none, although she has a seemingly preturnatural ability to confuse and confound a situation.
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