Scarlet by Scarlet

I’ve always been a bit of a nerd, I guess. I grew up reading science fiction and superhero comic books (a form of science fiction as I’ll point out below), both of which held little interest to my friends. While attending university studying geology, I became aware of the adult superheroine genre through Mr. X’s homepage, which I soon learned took comic book characters into new, sexually perilous situations. I found a superheroine role-play chat channel through a post at Mr. X’s site and found I enjoyed the joint creation (writing) of adventures—adventures doing things I would never dream of doing in real life—with the channel villains. I also discovered other websites, such as the ‘Mike’s Supergirl’ website that included a section for ‘The Wizard’s Lair’. Much to my surprise, Vladi the Wizard also participated in the superheroine role-play chat channel as a chaotic neutral adventurer (a villain with good manners, I suppose).

Affiliated with the role-play channel was a website where you posted your character’s bio, in this case Marvel’s Scarlet Witch, modified of course due to the adult nature of the role-play channel. Well a bio requires a picture, so I took a Photoshop short course, even though I’d not tried to make art of any kind since Junior High. After the photo manipulated bio pic, I did other photomanips, mostly to produce Scarlet Witch images, but I began doing other superheroines from the mainstream comic books as well. Mr. X began using Poser, so I bought the program, and began what has become a very expensive hobby. I created a website of my own, which was shut down because my work was too risqué, and Vladi, who had his own website by then, took me in and gave me my own guest section at ‘The Wizard’s Lair’. I’m still there!

I still didn’t, and to this day don’t, consider myself an artist. I’m more of a writer, and a science fiction writer at that (which isn’t to say that I’m any good at it). Well, if you create a world populated with handsome, muscular men who can fly, outrace bullets, stop speeding trains with their muscles, and such, and beautiful, athletic, buxom women with similar abilities to boot—superheroes and superheroines—and you explain why those fictional characters logically exist and do what they do, your writing a form of science fiction. When you add those new, sexually perilous situations into the mix, you have the adult superheroine genre. That’s the form of science fiction that has become my niche.

What perils are involved in the adult superheroine genre? Well, the list is ever changing, and I suspect the list will be never ending. One thing is definitely true though, the girls are the ones facing those perils (from supervillains and supervillainesses), and the superheroes are supporting characters. In general, the perils the girls face in the adult superheroine genre has become ever more sexually sordid as the genre has gained in popularity. At the beginning the more common perils included straightforward bondage while the bad person laid out his/her plans for world domination, identity unmasking, embarrassment by being stripped of clothing leading to public nudity, and naturally the complicated and ineffective death trap (the bad people didn’t really seem to have murder in them).

Let’s bring a bit more science fiction into the mix, something that might have unconsciously spurred the creators of adult superheroine stories and art into new and more risqué directions. If a morally corrupt bad person has a beautiful sexpot of a superheroine helpless and at his or her beck and call, is he or she really going to strip her and leave her to be found by the police or the general public without first taking advantage of her, well, to put it bluntly, available orifices. That would be rape and/or sodomy, which isn’t very nice. But wait! The bad people are morally corrupt, so now we’ve added forced sex into the genre. Those morally corrupt bad people probably wouldn’t mind ruining our sexy female protagonists life by impregnating her; well men have been using forced pregnancy as a weapon since before writing was invented, so let’s add that element to our genre’s growing list of perils. Finally, the bad people probably do have murder in them, so let’s make the death traps more inescapable in our art and stories.

When I became aware of Mr. X’s homepage, he definitely had the forced pregnancy thing in his tool kit. Mr. X (and probably others I’m not aware of) also had added breast milking to the list of perils. I’m pretty sure some of Mr. X’s heroines got themselves sold to Middle Eastern slavers, if they didn’t actually get auctioned off to the highest bidder (and they may have, but I’m not sure). Okay, let’s add superheroine slave auctions to the perils our sexy protagonists might face. The most risqué thing Mister X did (in my own opinion at least) was to bring the G.O.T. (Galaxy of Terror) genre into some of his stories and artwork. Now we have our superheroines being inseminated by inseminoid plants or alien monsters (or scientifically generated mutated creatures) with the resulting impregnations being fearfully short in duration; yes our superheroines are becoming mothers to inhuman spawn. If some of his fans thought this was taking things a bit too far, no one noticed—Mr. X is definitely the figurehead of today’s adult superheroine genre (and deservedly so).

Like I said, the list of perilous situations available to the writer or artist creating works in the adult superheroine genre is pretty well unlimited. In my artwork and, especially, in my stories, I’ve tried to include all of these perils in my work, and I’ve added perils from other genre’s I’ve come across. You’ll find some of my work has been inspired by Dolcett (gynophagia), and, as people have been doing to girls since time immemorial, forced circumcision and debreasting.

I’ve tried to use scientifically valid (or, at least, scientifically valid sounding) explanations for how these perils are logically possible. For example, even superheroines are not going to lactate without having a baby first, so I’ve tried to come up with the list of chemicals that might be injected into a girl to make her begin lactating. Another example, if in some future time period girls are more or less voluntarily being used as livestock (there’s the Dolcett element), then it must be because a plague has wiped all of the farm animals (and killed most of the male population), and the survivors have voted to legalize gynophagia because they just can’t imagine a life without meat. I do admit that, when you combine art with stories, sometimes you have to stretch the science to make what’s depicted in the pictures at least seem possible.

I’ve tried to use scientific explanations for my stories and art, therefore I’ve been creating science fiction. I’d try to say that my childhood friends should have paid more attention to my raves about the sci-fi books and superhero comics I was reading, but, the truth is, I haven’t made a dime doing what I’ve been doing, and the doing has been a lot of work (as well as fun).

My intention in this short dissertation is to point even more people to the work I and others have been doing at ‘The Wizards Lair’ in hopes of increasing our audience (and also hoping that some folks will want to see the professional work at our host’s [Superheroine Central] pay site). I also want to make sure folks know in advance that my work includes elements that may stretch their comfort zones. Read or look at what you like, and ignore what you don’t. Don’t complain if what you don’t like stretches your moral sensibilities. Finally, I don’t get paid, so if the timelines for the stories jump around or Poser serials have long periods of dormancy, don’t complain about that either. Be patient. I’ll get in the mood to get back to everything eventually (if I live forever J).

Excelsior