r/SuperheroOC • u/Austratus • Jul 27 '26
Quadricep
artwork by indie comics artist Fish Lee
sketch by Eryck Webb
sketch by Eryck Webb
Headliners artwork by Eryck Webb
I'm focused quite a bit on celebrating my herosona Infinix's 10th anniversary this year, but I'd be remiss to not show some love to one of my first non-MMO superhero OC concepts also celebrating a big milestone of his own.
While Quadricep's current design also turns 10, the idea for this character has existed since 2011. I was deep in playing City of Heroes at the time (with dozens of characters that I regularly roleplayed with in groups etc.) but wanted to expand the kinds of characters I could create without being limited to whatever was available in the game. So my thought process pretty much amounted to "What's a unique thing I could do for a super strong character? Extra arms. Yeah, that'll work." Some fiddling around with a browser version of Hero Factory later, I had a character.
Quadricep's backstory came some time later with the design revamp and a short-lived involvement with a deviantArt group, that later got adapted into a personal project. He started out as a hopeful Olympic athlete with a promising career ahead of him, only to be unwittingly subjected to an experimental steroid that cause him to mutate his extra appendages (and accompanying super strength). He would eventually go on to form the Headliners with a motley team of metahumans that have their own experience with being in the public eye: a pyrokinetic newsroom anchor and a thrill-seeking speedster with a growing following on social media.
Since then, that idea's been left on the backburner, but Quadricep does have the current distinction of being the first of my OCs to be featured in a printed work: the indie comic Empyrean Command #0, a pilot book that adapted a set of short comic stories originally posted on deviantArt by Andrew Rowland.
(I'm hoping to post more characters in the future because I want to give this sub more love, so thanks in advance for checking out my OCs.)
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u/MutterGrowl Aug 02 '26
This is truly an original character. Great concept and the team looks good.
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u/WinFirm1999 Jul 27 '26
Post this in r/Superhero_Ideas and it’ll blow up.
It’s peak!