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Prometheus said:
In the summer of 1989, a strange electrical storm erupted over the outskirts of Rome. It flared and flickered for nearly twenty-minutes, before culminating in a single flashbulb-impact on the hilly countryside. There, lying in a single smoldering crater, a infant boy was found. He bore no hint to his origin, except for a strange birthmark riding the center of his sternum in the shape of a lightning bolt. Tiny heiroglyphics, written in a language dead before the dinosaurs, stretch through the interior of the shape itself....spelling out a single name....

--That's the beginning. After that, I would skip to the present, with him first coming to America. It wouldn't be the "immigrant in awe" version, either. It would be the realistic side. Hassled by immigration (how long does it take him to get in?). Searching for a job, maybe? A place to live? What's he here for? (HINT: I don't know, and I'm not going to put massive amounts of effort into thinking about it for the purpose of this thread)

He ends up meeting archaelogists Carter Hall and Daniel Garrett. Through them, the means to translating the word on his chest are found. He says the word....which of course translates to...

SHAZAM!

Boom.

Enter the first new god of the 21st Century.

Seems the old gods (Solomon, Hercules, Zeus, etc.) are dying. Their existence is coming to its very long end, as universal entropy is finally catching up with them. So, in a last ditch effort to save their "species", a mad godlike orgy produces a single heir. A mortal champion that has the blood of the gods running through his veins.

They also made sure he would be able to tap and house the essence of their power, when the time came. They created a quasi-accoustic locking mechanism that was encoded within the sound of their names being called out all at once (or, as an acronym). Thus, "Shazam".

He'd look pretty much the same, except, he's Greek. And, the material of the outfit would have to be some type of metal. A sort of modern, crimson gladiator's armor, with a white, gold-trimmed cloak adorning.

From gawky, lonely teen to a majestic god ina single word...



I love this shit, 'specially the "Shazam " part and the words are cool, too. You get really drunk and come up with it yourself?