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So I've been thinking about a couple of things with Vixen. Get ready for a long winded exposition of my thoughts and ideas for Mari.
The first being Vixen powers and some ideas from her old appreciation thread. Some mention that her focus on her powers should be more spiritualist in nature and that she should have a more shaman aspect. I feel like that is a cool idea especially since in different media she has been able to talk and summon animals. I would say this could go a little farther and use the animal spirits in the totem to attack as well. Also she could have an Avatar like state where she compiles all the spirits in her at the same time. She could even communicate with Tantu (is that his name?) the first totem bearer.
In the old thread it was stated that Animal mans daughter is supposed to be the best Avatar of the red. How about instead of being connected to the red Mari is connected to a force called Celestial which would explain why she can use the abilities of Mystical Animals. Anansi had tricked an evil Ancient Celestial that had the ability of using the spirit of every creature and sealed it inside Tantu. Anansi then gave Tantu the totem so that the power of spirits wouldn't drive him mad. I'm still kind of working on that a little.
On to supporting cast, since Mari lost her family at such an early age I feel like she should be the opposite of Bruce amd surrounds herself with people she likes and cares for instead of being distance. Her reformed Sister is now someone she is close with. Her spirits would lead her to a boy about 14 in need of mentorship with his new found magic powers. He would be her literal support character like a white mage. This goes back to how someone wanted beast boy to be her sidekick and would give a chance for a female hero to have a male sidekick. Her love interest could be Bronze tiger or someone new entirely. Someone mentioned having Animal being her mentor, but I say have Tantu or some other previous totem Bearer be her mentor to keep it in her own world. Basically flesh out her own characters and world. I do like the idea of her being friends with Donna, Starfire, and other female heroes.
For her adventure I would say go full out on magic. Personally I feel like she wouldn't fit in spy stories like many suggestions on her previous threads, but magic and spirits would well with her and her ties to Anansi. Create an enemy like Sin from final fantasy X. Allow Vixen to travel the world meeting different spirits that she will be able to summon once a day for help. Allow her to go to a spirit world.
I feel like she can be such a big character with some imagination and break out of the trend of having Black characters centered around neighborhood clean up. She can still send positive political statements, without being tied down. Sorry for the rambling but it just sucks seeing such a good character go to waste. While granted not being used at all is better than being written poorly or character assassinated, is still sucks she only appear in cameos.