## [RT][HF] The Maker's Ark, Chapter 25: Monsters

* Author: u/DocFuture *
* URL: http://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/147228622396/the-makers-ark-chapter-25
* Score: 8

* Created: 2016-07-11T07:37:59

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> **u/DocFuture** [+2]  (4 minutes later)
> 
> Sola, like the Volunteer, was inspired by two separate characters, one well known, the other obscure.  It will be interesting to see who, if anyone, figures out the obscure one.
> 
> Incidentally, for those who remember the Xelian's Oblivion Projector from Skybreaker's Call--Sola was the target they had in mind when they built it.

>> **u/eaglejarl** [+1]  (20 hours later)
>> 
>> Well, I'm guessing that Phoenix is the well known one.  The other I'm not sure...Sola didn't get a lot of screen time, so there aren't a lot of characteristics to key on. Fire, maybe?

>>> **u/DocFuture** [+1]  (a day later)
>>> 
>>> No, Fire isn't the obscure one, though you are right about Phoenix--the wings ref was a bit of a giveaway.  The scene with the Merionians is, among other things, my answer to X-Men 135 (original series).
>>> 
>>> The key for the obscure one is that Sola spent most of her time inside the sun--she couldn't safely land on Earth or get very close to people because she can never cool down far enough.

>>>> **u/boomfarmer** [+1]  *Trying to be helpful* (a day later)
>>>> 
>>>> Celestia?
>>>> 
>>>> That thing in Effulgence where one of the Jokers who could burn/regenerate teleported into the middle of a sun, and was forcibly teleported back, and when he returned he was so hot he flashed the room on fire until he burned-in-place to regenerate?

>>>> **u/eaglejarl** [+1]  (a day later)
>>>> 
>>>> I've got nothing.  Spoiler it for me?
>>>> 
>>>> Also, I'm guessing that Blue Sentinel is Green Lantern + Blue Beetle?

>>>>> **u/DocFuture** [+1]  (a day later)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sunswift, from 'The Futurians' by Dave Cockrum, who , not incidentally, was the co-creator of Phoenix.
>>>>> 
>>>>> No Blue Beetle--Blue Sentinel was inspired by a specific vision of Hal Jordan as Green Lantern:  There was a very brief cameo by him in I think the second Dark Knight series, where he has turned rather alien after losing everyone he really cared about on Earth.

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