“ | Bite my lip and close my eyes,
Take me away to paradise |
” |
–Green Day, Longview |
Longview is an alien slated to appear in both Sol 10 and Starlight's Soliloquy.
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Owner | Sol |
Species | Autodefenestrata |
Body | Humanoid |
Powers | 'Spirit imagery'
Portal-planes |
Status | Undebuted |
User(s) | Sol Masquerade, Xiphos |
Namesake | Green Day's song "Longview" |
Appearance[]
Longview has a tall, rather thin but still slightly muscular man's frame. Most of his body's skin is black, and he wears green (or white, in Sol 10) gauntlets, angled green (or white) spaulders, and long medieval-ish knee-high boots with greaves, knee pads, and combat boot treads.
Bundles of cables, some as thick as pipes, are attached to various plugs and outlets all over his armor and some of his skin.
(this is still kinda incomplete sorry)
Abilities[]
Longview's main ability revolves around generating "windows", which are actually just planes (think geography, not vehicles) superimposed onto regular objects. These windows are mainly viewpoints, as if you're watching a livestream but without a monitor and only a screen. Longview's windows can also be used as portals if they're the right size, allowing people to enter the planes and come out on the "other side" of the viewpoint. For instance, if Longview poofed up a plane that livestreamed space, you could jump into the plane and suddenly you would find yourself in space, suffocating and dying because you're only a meager human, dammit.
Longview is also capable of projecting his images inside of televisions or any other device with a screen.
Longview is considerably athletic.
Weaknesses and Limits[]
In Sol 10, Longview's ability is relegated to viewing across space and timelines.
Longview's cables are able to be cut, which can cause him great pain.
Longview's planes can obviously be used against him, if he doesn't remove them (and knowing Sol, this is very likely to happen).
Longview cannot control what travels through his planes. For instance, if he put the plane in space like I mentioned before, the air would leave through the vacuum and you would once again suffocate and die because you're only a meager human.
Appearances[]
- (debut)
Trivia[]
- Longview was initially inspired by Joseph Joestar's Stand, Hermit Purple.
- Longview's ability to create "windows" to travel through was inspired by windows and fenestrated planes from Homestuck.
- Longview's ability to "travel" and move things through the planes/portals he creates was inspired by the Spider-Man villain Spot.
- Longview's species is named after autodefenestration, which is the act of throwing yourself out of a window. This is opposed to fenestrating (the act of cutting something open and therefore giving something windows), autotransfenestration (the act of throwing yourself out of a closed window), and defenestration (which is the act of throwing somebody else out of a window). Isn't the English language so specific and lovely?
- Initially, Longview was going to be scrapped in favor of an alien named Third Eye Blind. They were obviously then separated into two separate aliens. Longview was developed from a concept for MOTU where an alien was capable of traveling through fenestrated planes.