Sequelitis Part 3: Scarlet Knights

I've toyed with the idea of a sequel to the Tales of the Scarlet Knight stories but this is a different tack--maybe.

If you followed this blog from the start, then you know Tales of the Scarlet Knight is an 8-book series (plus two prequels) following Dr. Emma Earl, a brilliant young scientist who finds a suit of magic armor and becomes the titular Scarlet Knight.  At the end of Book 8, Emma is reunited with her 2-year-old daughter Louise, who was stolen at birth, and her boyfriend Jim Rizzard, aka the Sewer Rat, is returned from the dead by Merlin the wizard.  Emma also takes in Joanna, an 8-year-old girl from a parallel universe who is essentially a genetic clone of her, except Joanna has this power where she can communicate with versions of herself all across the multiverse.

The basic premise for this sequel idea would sort of follow the short-lived Birds of Prey series on the WB back in 2002-2003 that I blogged about months ago.  It's about 15 years later and Rampart City is at peace and Emma has hung up her cape.  But then a powerful new bad guy shows up and when Emma gets back in the armor to fight it, she winds up crippled.  Her daughter Louise, now about 17, takes over as the new Scarlet Knight.  

Emma then becomes like Oracle (or Bruce Wayne in Batman Beyond) in helping her daughter by providing intel and hacking computers and also being a mentor.  And Joanna gets involved too, using her power to bring back Renee Chiostro, an 18-year-old girl who was born on Emma's world but after being corrupted by Isis and using her powers for evil went to live on a different Earth.  When Renee comes back, her powers come back as well.  Her biggest power is sort of like Rogue in the X-Men where she can siphon magic from people and objects.  So the bad guy would probably have some kind of magic power or object for Renee to siphon.

Emma, Louise, and Renee have to learn to work together as a team and stop the bad guy.  They'd each have an issue to overcome.  For Emma it would be to not try to micromanage and trust her daughters and Renee.  For Louise it would be learning to rely on her mother, sister, and Renee instead of trying to do it all herself.  And for Renee since she comes back to a world she left when she was a baby, while a lot of things are the same, not everything is, like maybe on her world green lights mean stop or whatever.  After they start working together and beat the bad guy, they probably learn that bad guy was only the tip of the iceberg and so they need to keep their team together to find the Big Bad and stop him--or her.

Like the other ones there are a lot of blanks still to fill in here.  I'd have to define what happens to Jim Rizzard and some of the other players in the Scarlet Knight multiverse, though some of them might show up for other stories.  Joanna would probably go in and out of the lineup depending on what the story called for, leaving Emma, Louise, and Renee as the core.  There'd be romantic subplots and Louise and Renee dealing with regular life in high school or college or whatever.

I probably won't actually do any of these, but it's something to think about.