Masterplan Lad
| Masterplan Lad is a trickster archetype net.hero and ex-cosmic being created by Jeanne Morningstar. | |
| Alter Ego: | Dee Xauriel McKenna |
| Aliases: | None |
| Primary Writer: | Jeanne Morningstar |
| Status: | Member of the LNH (Classic Team), member of The Liminals |
| Usability: | Usable With Permission |
History
the individual who calls himself Masterplan Lad has a largely unrevealed history as a member of the posthuman protectors of time and space known as the Knights Temporal. It's known that he encountered and fell into a relationship with the time-trickster known as Chaos Theory, and helped resolve the conundrum of the 2000 Ame.rec.an Presidential election.
He was first seen in-story on a mission to protect Ultimate Mercenary from the Knights Temporal's sworn enemies, The Centre, as well as from the Anti-Moderator's Headhunter servant. He shepherded UM through various alternate timelines, but the story got too confusing for even the writer to follow, and UM and MPL fell into Limbo along with the Headhunter. There, Masterplan Lad maintained continuous consciousness for six years, regaining some memories of his mortal self.
After Beige Midnight, the Crossover Queen captured them and revealed that the Knights Temporal had been erased from history. She asked Masterplan Lad to help her revamp the Looniverse, but he rejected her, and helped UM, Victoria Arden, Net.Access and Manga Girl II escape. Together, they used the power of the Crossover Citadel to leap from storyline to storyline; while visiting the Infinite Leadership Crisis, Masterplan Lad joined the LNH and briefly lead the team. Finally, they won the freedom to exit Ultimate Mercenary altogether...
...sending them into the Sixniverse, and Just Imagine Saxon Brenton and the Writers of RACC in: RACCies the Final! Symphony of Genesis. MPL's adventures there haven't been told yet, but it's known that he lost his status as a Knight Temporal and became mortal.
Masterplan Lad arrived in Just Another Multi-Writer Cascade That Will Probably Never Have an Ending, having lost UM and his memories of the intervening time. There, the Saviors of the Net were plotting to destroy the Looniearth to end the rift crisis. With some help from Chaos Theory, MPL offered an alternative strategy – throwing a chunk of pure Beige Midnight into the rifts. This worked; it also resulted in MPL tripping and falling into a rift himself...
...which dumped him out two years earlier, sans even more memories, in the midst of Legion of Net.Heroes Volume 2 #50. He reconnected with the LNH proper, helping in the fight against the Dorf invasion, and worked with them until the point where he caught up with his previous timeline, where he managed to rejoin his team after all of the excitement had ended.
Afterwards, he, Victoria, Net.Access and Manga Girl formed their own subgroup, The Liminals, and had adventures in metafiction and identity, including making a connection to alluring trenchcoater Maria Hart that nudged his sense of identity in a new direction.
During the sabertooth crisis, he worked alongside Chaos Theory to keep the complex continuity of the story together and hold back emanations of anxiety from the Real World. But in one branch of continuity, his Plot Device was destroyed; and he was drawn inevitably thru the other branch, to the moment when he would catch up with it. He willingly made the choice to let it happen, in order to save Manga Girl; and in the end, the Real World Minus One version of his Writer sacrificed their authorial power to bring him back from the brink of death.
Personality
Initially, he was aloof, distant and intellectual. Over time – especially after his six-year ordeal in Limbo and the discovery that his order was dead – he gained more sympathy for his human charges, and built up a lot of anger towards his Writer. After meeting Maria and his near-death experience, he resolved much of those dark feelings
Listens to a lot of really arcane progressive rock; the Peter Gabriel era of Genesis is his favorite band.
Powers and Abilities
Masterplan Lad wields a Plot Device (in the shape of an umbrella) which possesses various spatiotemporal and perceptual abilities, such as shifting between dimensions, tracking the source of energies, recovering memories lost to retcons, and cloaking himself and others from anyone's perceptions (including their own). He possesses cosmic senses that give him an awareness of the deeper structure of time, space, continuity and the universe.
As a posthuman Knight Temporal, Masterplan Lad had continuous consciousness of every moment of his life and did not require sleep, along with other abilities. He has lost these and become mortal.
Appearance
A handsome young man in distinguished, old-fashioned suit. He grew a beard during his six years in Limbo. Has a British accent.
Relationships
Has had an on-again off-again complicated Thing with Chaos Theory.
Appearances
- Ultimate Mercenary #1-7
- Just Another Multi-Writer Cascade That Will Probably Never Have An Ending #4, 6, 9, 11, 13
- Legion of Net.Heroes Volume 2 #50-54, 58.5.ENDING
- WikiLull #3, 7
- The Liminals #1, 3.5, 4-9, 11
- Cover Gallery #1004i, 61i
- Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths! #10, 14, #ERR_19834_ASKDAFJKADSLF, 6pi III, 24, 32, 50, EPILOGUE (Side B)
- Another LNH Title? Really? #11
- Legion of Net.Heroes Volume 3 #3
- Leadership Cry.sig: Net.ropolis 2023 #8
