Piper is a masculine noun, but I have a little back story where she's feisty and hotheaded and Marcus ends up giving her a guy-ish nickname because she's not your traditional definition of feminine. :) Plus, it balances out the fact that her real name is Kore for me, which is just about as girly as you can get. I actually started sarcastically using 'Jarvus' as a placeholder for Jarvis while trying to think up a name for him, and now he's that in my head, so I'm afraid that may be what he finishes the fic as, haha.
I ended up going with an ambiguous thing for Titus, like you get the feeling that he may have come from a family that used to be better off, but he's been hanging around with Marcus long enough to essentially be part of the upper class at this point, and he is a high enough rank that he'd have a decent amount of money on his own. He's not as true to Steve as I would have liked, but his personality doesn't transfer super well to upper class Rome (Tony's sure as hell does, however.)
And I may or may not have included Carol in the story as an ex-Vestal Virgin. I'm using "authoritative handwaving: or, the Gods did it" as an excuse for everyone's powers. And I HAD to have Thor somehow, so along came Mars. Because, again. This is as cracktastic as possible.
And I threw in Jan, and now it's just become an origins story. And less emo. But still full of senatorial insanity! Because, as you said, it's ancient Rome. Nothing says Rome like the senate acting behind everyone else's backs, assassination plots and crazy Emperors! (Dude. I totally should move this forward a few decades and have like Nero or Caligula as the Emperor. I love me some tyrannical/psycho Emperors.)
I may post the drabbels, we'll see. They are, honest to god, the crackiest things ever that are over the top ridiculous.
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I ended up going with an ambiguous thing for Titus, like you get the feeling that he may have come from a family that used to be better off, but he's been hanging around with Marcus long enough to essentially be part of the upper class at this point, and he is a high enough rank that he'd have a decent amount of money on his own. He's not as true to Steve as I would have liked, but his personality doesn't transfer super well to upper class Rome (Tony's sure as hell does, however.)
And I may or may not have included Carol in the story as an ex-Vestal Virgin. I'm using "authoritative handwaving: or, the Gods did it" as an excuse for everyone's powers. And I HAD to have Thor somehow, so along came Mars. Because, again. This is as cracktastic as possible.
And I threw in Jan, and now it's just become an origins story. And less emo. But still full of senatorial insanity! Because, as you said, it's ancient Rome. Nothing says Rome like the senate acting behind everyone else's backs, assassination plots and crazy Emperors! (Dude. I totally should move this forward a few decades and have like Nero or Caligula as the Emperor. I love me some tyrannical/psycho Emperors.)
I may post the drabbels, we'll see. They are, honest to god, the crackiest things ever that are over the top ridiculous.