Mental Covers: Captain Heidi.

Fighting crime is a tough job. Not so much when you have super powers, but when crime also has super powers, things can get painful. So what happens when you run out of stories and your superhero needs a break? Invent a new power that lets him give them to his girlfriend of course.

Back when I was planning out the original series, Mental's powers were in his mask. If he took it off, he'd lose them and revert to his old personality, and stop breathing. Nowadays he's got his own super powers, and the mask is pretty much grafted to his face. Back then his powers also included reality manipulation because he was a rip-off of The Mask, I have cured this, though he can still grab weapons from nowhere due to his TARDIS-like hoodie. In this case Mental gave most of his powers, and she goes nuts with them and they eventually break up over it. Looking back, this wasn't a very good idea.

Mental Covers: Love Shape.

For the super powered, love is rarley easy, something Mental and Heidi don't experience a lot since she more often than not helps him out. But occasionally something comes up. For example, here we have him being smothered by an ooze girl. But she's not alone. There's also a plant girl in tow, a fairy and something eldritch in the sewer. Neither Mental nor Heidi seem to be taking this very well.

Mental originally started out sharing his spotlight with his brother Mike, who was essentially an alternate sane personality of sorts, so when I brought in Heidi I eventually cut him out of it. With that I also made their relationship somewhat lovey dovey, because at least one superhero deserves to have a good relationship. One might think it's odd to give a character based on oneself a really good relationship, but I assure you, shut up.
The premise itself stems from the childhoods of many people who have had crushes on cartoon characters, mostly weird ones. Here's that happening in real life, except reversed and with the main character in a loving relationsip.

Mental Covers: Ultra-Heidi. Also, the history of Heidi.

Dating a crime fighter can really strain tour relationship, so what better way to make yourself a bigger part of your partners life than becoming their teammate with the use of a super suit?
I dunno, but just make sure you find a super suit that isn't EVIL!

This is Heidi's first appearance on the blog I think. Originally my ideas for Mental had him usually by himself, but I eventually added in Heidi as a love interest, and now the concept might as well be Mental and Heidi. She has quite a history actually. Originally me and random_fan planned on creating a TV show entitled, 'Hyper-Force' which starred usm, two friends (and his brother) as a monster fighting team in the city of Parasail. It was horrible. I think that it could be retooled into a good show, but what we had planned just wasn't very good. Especially since I was the only one getting development, and even then it wasn't GOOD development. One characteristic is that my character had an animated girlfriend who most people thought was imaginary until her first appearance. Originally this was going to be and aged version of Alice from Alice in Wonderland (Disney) but soon I realised how stupid that was and how they'd never let us do that. So, I replaced her with Heidi, who was also animated and was inspired by some fanart of Yumi from Code Lyoko.

A personal thing I've developed is to try and balance things out. If I write a short film or something that features me being awesome or doing something that will obviously be fun, I try to even it out by doing something negative. For example, in my idea for the short film The Sick Room, I play a psychotic homicidal ghost who performs kick-ass villain songs. He also is a nurse who wears a dress throughout the whole thing.
Here, though Heidi is pretty attractive and nice, she also has a huge eating disorder which makes her eat a lot. This is also a role flip for gluttonous male characters like Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin.

Anyway, I eventually thought that Heidi could be the default love interest for any character based upon myself. This hasn't come up that much, since that included Mental and really I've been focussing on him for a while.

I have another jab at the hungry man characters named Mia, whose an ogress and is thus fat, unlike Heidi who has a high metabolism. Surprisingly, I thought of them on completley seperate occasions and for different reasons. I put them in the same universe due to their similarities, obviously they'd make good friends, right? I'll give her history another time.

Chronicles of Mental: Diary.

I've previously mentioned that I've created a few of my own characters. This is a HUGE understatement. My main career goal is to become a director, but I'd also like to publish a comic book series, or maybe even start a small comic business, but anyway, I have a crapload of characters ready in the event I have to use them. I'm not going to talk about all of them in great detail in the event I get to use them ne day. One of them, and my possible favorite is Captain Mental. He started out a a basic The Mask rip-off, but has since evolved into his own character. Though often more than a match for anyone he comes across, Mental also tries to have a good relationship with his girlfriend Heidi. This is hard because he is insane. Oh, and she has an eating disorder.

So, anyway, I used to play The Sims 2 a lot, so I went as far as making some Sim Stories with Mental. He dosn't look as I planned him because of the resitrictions, but it's close enough.


"Dear Diary, today I was attacked by a large blue man who kept shouting the name of a utensil which escapes me at the moment. I didn't like him, so I left. Then I got ice cream. Hurray Ice-Cream!"

I promise they'll get better.