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Hi Will! How did Anya get involved with ERGO? She seems kind of on the young side, is she new to the program or get involved earlier somehow? Can you be an Enhanced and work for ERGO? Is ERGO top secret or is it a known branch of the government?
Hey!!!!!! Thanks so much for the ask!!!
First of all; you mentioned the name in a rb sooooooo
What does it stand for?
ERGO stands for the Enhanced Regulation and Global Oversight department!! Aka ya boi rly rly wanted a fun cool acronym T-T
Is it known by the public or unknown?
ERGO is both known and unknown. A lot of people know of it, they know it’s a branch of the government that was made to deal with the enhanced, though no one knows exactly what it is that happens there. It’s safer that way, best to not put a target on their backs, a lot of people have it out for enhanced people.
Can you be Enhanced and work for ERGO?
Yes! The majority of ERGO’s members are enhanced!!! Including their acting director, retired hero Gray Adler (hero name placebo). Though there are a few non enhanced members, including Kyra (character in act 2 :3)
How did Anya get involved?
Okay okay so in the city where this is set (setting intros coming soon!) anti-enhanced riots are pretty common and a really bad one broke out and while trying to contain it, Gray got injured! They took a back road trying to get back to the liek main building or whatever
Enter 18 y/o!Anya, walking home from class and using that same back road to get there quicker! She’s jsut innocently going about her day and boom she’s face to face with one of her favorite hero’s who is injured.
Prolonged eye contact ✨
And then Anya goes and heals them (bc that’s her enhancement! Yippee!!)
Gray: ‘oh wow that is a very useful power uh. want a job?’
Anya: ‘…sure?’
Gray: ‘ur mine now’
And now Anya’s their second favorite recruit! (jsut behind Kyra, who Gray has been fighting to adopt for years lmao)
What made you decide to call your characters "Enhanced" instead of something like "superpowered" or "mages" or something else?
Oooooh love this question!
I knew I didn’t what to drift too far into high fantasy from the real world because I specifically wanted to have this story be more in the realistic side, which crosses of ‘mage’s’ and anything adjacent for me bc that feels like a staple of fantasy worlds
And ‘superpowers’ just feels…. overused, I guess? And it implies that it’s something supernatural (at least to me)
And in this, it isn’t! It’s more of like a… genetic anomaly thingy????? Longer lore post at it is coming soon
So I wanted something with less of a fantastical or overused connotation, I wanted something to make this story stand out
Cut to me working on a character profile for someone, and writing his powers:
‘Enhanced speed, enhanced strength—‘
HEY! That works!
And boom
Title ✨