Ms Blue (SS-bA judge background)
Of course - it always was me me me with you wasn't it Amanda?
Well let me tell the citizens of Paragon MY side.
It's true Amanda, Leo and I were at school together, and yes we worked well together. Amanda's little devices helped to keep some of the bullies away, and my chemistry knowledge meant that those who did get close very soon wished they hadn't. Leo's calming influence helped to stop me getting any backlash. Yes I suppose they were good times, but Amanda... I mean she really was a know-it-all, and such a goody two shoes. Even Ghandi would have had difficulty putting up with her!
Anyway, after Leo left I just couldn't cope with her holier than thou attitude and I snapped. It could have happened to anyone - really! So, what does a chemistry major do to get his own back at someone who's upset him? That's right - poison!
It wasn't my fault she lived in a huge apartment block, and that the only water source was connected to all the flats... And how was I supposed to know that there were a number of elderly residents? Anyway - they were old, and it was probably near their time.
So Amanda made it her mission to track me down, of course this was only after she'd reported me to the authorities meaning that I was a fugitive. I've used the money that I made from our first business to set up a couple of holding companies and using the money from that I've started to hire myself some muscle.
So, as you can see, Amanda and I have a little bit of, background. When Leo called me I thought the SCQ sounded like a good idea, but it's been so long since I took orders that I just couldn't do it. Hence the birth of the BRPE.
The Leo dropped the bombshell, he'd invited Amanda along too! Well, she couldn't be outdone by me now could she? So she set up HERO. As if that wasn't bad enough, Leo hadn't come up with the idea by himself, nooo - he'd been working with another bloody hero - Lady Leprechaun, so there I was, outnumbered 3 to 1 by heroes. We'll see how things go tonight shall we?
xxx Ethan xxx
Yes, I'm one of those sad folk on twitter!
"Do not underestimate the power of Shiny�" - Mothers_Love
Once I find time I'll post Mr. White's side to this. If I get time.
Was a lot of fun working with you on this though
The following is a transcript of an interview conducted by Anne Masters for AMD Business news.
Anne: Hello and welcome to AMD. I am here at the Cobalt Corporation head offices in Skyway City with business extraordinaire Ms Amanda Blue.
So Amanda, you are the founder of Cobalt Corporation, a number of charity organisations and most recently H.E.R.O. as well as being a well known crime fighter. Could you tell me how is it that you became the founder of so many successful companies as well as finding the time to lead a heros life?
Amanda Blue: Well it all started early on in my childhood with my only friends Leonard White & Aloysius Red. We were the freaks, the ones that no-one wanted anything to do with. Leo with his power to absorb emotion and Aloysius and I, the child geniuses with an aptitude for chemistry, technology and business. In school we used to work together to outwit those that picked on us, often getting them into trouble with the teachers and on one or two occasions made the bullies feel quite unwell [Amanda laughs slightly].
The year after we left school we set up our own company together. Together we were more successful in one year than most are in a lifetime. With our combined passions and abilities we were able create a business that was massively profitable, virtually from the moment it began. For the first time we were all happy with our lives and were constantly filled with new ideas for the future. However, it seemed fate had ideas of its own for us. As the year came to an end, so did our happiness together. Leo, who was always the smallest and quietest of the 3 of us, had changed over the year of our success. Whenever he was around us he seemed to grow irritable, bad tempered and irrational. Physically he seemed to explode, the once diminutive child was lost forever replaced by the hulking, almost beast like frame of Mr Leonard White, the man Leo had become. Eventually even being in the same room as me and Aloysius was too much for him. One night Leo vanished, leaving us on our own.
Once he had gone things quickly fell apart. The business collapsed as Aloysius and I bickered almost constantly over all the decisions that could have saved our company. It did not take us long to decide to sell out what was left of the company and go our separate ways. From then on it was clear to me that I should put my intellect, money and technology to better use than just for my personal gain.
I set up a number of charitable non-profit organisations and funded research into new technology to help the blind. Eventually I began to work with the scientists whom were putting my money to good use and together we successfully created a wonderful piece of technology that could enhance the senses of any visually impaired person and in the case of those that still had some limited sight it even allowed them to see clearly again.
Following this success I had relatively little to occupy my time. Out of boredom I ended up founding a new company, Cobalt Corp., the first profit making business I had founded since Aloysius, Leo and I had gone our separate ways. I used strategies that the 3 of us had devised together and they worked as brilliantly as they had the first time around. I sold technology I had created myself via Cobalt and it was not long before someone spotted their possible military uses. I received many offers to buy the rights for my inventions so that they could be used in the army, but this was not what I had envisioned for them. They had always been made to help those needier than me and I refused to sell. However the propositions did open my eyes to new possibilities; despite the fact that I had always watched heroes with awe in my youth, it had never occurred to me that I could be one myself. It now seemed clear to me that the best way forward was to continue running my business selling my technology to those who needed it by day and by night use the technology myself to fight crime in Paragon City.
About a month ago I received a call from Leonard, asking me if I would like to go into business with him again. Of course I was ecstatic at the proposition and leapt at the possibility of meeting with my old friend again. That is until the day actually arrived...
In all the years that passed between the collapse of my first company and the reappearance of Mr White I only ever came directly into contact with Aloysius once, that however is another story that shall be told in good time. However, the event that occurred during that brief encounter was the reason that I was so angry when I met with Leo; He had also called another old friend, Dr Aloysius Red. Mr White wanted the 3 of us to play happy families and start up a new organisation together. Damn Dr Red! He was the reason I was stuck with this god awful scar. I would gladly send him to the Zig again if only I thought hed actually stay there this time and if it would mean I could be in business with Mr White without him...
[Amanda clears her throat] Anyway, eventually I proposed that I found a separate organisation, H.E.R.O, in order to work with Mr Whites company, S.C.Q.. Unsurprisingly Dr Red had had the same idea and had founded B.R.P.E..
This allowed us to work on Mr Whites proposed project (The Supreme Super-being Award Ceremony) together whilst at the same time keeping a comfortable distance between us.
I later found that the project was in fact the brain child of a fellow hero named Lady Leprechaun, whom I have met with on many occasions now and I am very happy to be working with her along with Leo... and Aloysius. And that is really all there is to it.
Anne: Amazing. I would love to hear more from you Ms. Blue but unfortunatly that is all we have time for. This has been Anne Masters talking with Amanda Blue. Back to you Ted.
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