Radiance: Directory

Back issues, character sheets, playlists, covers, & bonus illustrations

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Action! Romance! Friendship! Quippy banter! The Millennial struggle with coming of age! Moral quandaries! Severe psychic trauma! Falling in love with your nemesis! Good and pure heroes! Complicated supporting characters! Sympathetic antagonists! Villains you’ll want to kick into orbit! MUSIC! Yes, there just might be something here for everyone...

Radiance is a lighthearted fiction serial about one of Earth’s darker timelines. It takes place around 2013 in a world where atypical abilities have become increasingly common, with the storyline following a group of minor-league superheroes based in Washington, DC. Our protagonist is Lady Radiance, former teen sensation, aka Christabel Jones, professional ray of sunshine—or, at least, she's trying her best.

Can Christabel and her friends handle their new double lives as celebrity vigilantes? Will they be able to track down and defeat the mysterious villain behind the One-Winged Army? Who keeps taking Dr. Marissa’s pizza rolls? And how can you find your place in the world when you're no longer even sure what it means to be human?

The main story posts every 3 weeks, with other entries haphazardly in between.

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Character Sheets

Radiance Character Sheets

Stories

• Radiance #1: The Babe With the Power
  The One-Winged Army attacks a lab studying the strange rise of superpowers, and the local heroes are up to bat.

• Radiance #2: Nobody’s Baby, Everybody’s Girl

  The mysteries of the One-Winged Army deepen, and not everyone’s sure what Lady Radiance’s role in fighting them should be.

• Radiance #3: Someone To Tell Your Troubles To

  Lady Radiance and Lord Hades clash—and so do the facts on the ground and her insistence on looking for some good in him.

  • 3.5: This Is Halloween

    The heroes take the night off in this slice-of-life story told by Christabel’s brother Jacob.

• Radiance #4: Lonely Hearts Club

  Christabel wishes it were possible to be loved for something more than what Lady Radiance can do.

  • 4.5: Pretend To Be Nice—aka Science! Girl & Chained Lightning

    Good news: Marissa found a date for her sister’s wedding. Bad news: It’s Sebastian, and he’s really more of a bodyguard. Worst news: her family likes him.

    (Part One) || (Part Two) || (Part Three) || (Part Four) || (Part Five) || (Part Six)

• Radiance #5: Master of Puppets

  Lady Radiance joins a vigilante league, and glimpses the truth about who’s behind both Lord Hades and the One-Winged Army.

• Radiance #6: Where the People Are
  Lady Radiance commits to freeing Lord Hades from the grip of evil, but she’ll have to learn to keep secrets—fast.

  • 6.5: You’re My Lady, I’m Your Fool
    The piece that started it all: Lord Hades and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

• Radiance #7: I Just Come Here For The View

  Lady Radiance convinces Lord Hades to go out with her, as their secret identities. Will that be enough to protect them both?

  • 7.5: Something Between Us

    Christabel is in trouble, and Marissa is in way over her head.

• Radiance #8: The Devil In Me

  Lady Radiance must confront the full scope of Archangel’s plan, and follow through on a hard choice about who she can save.

  (Part One) || (Part Two)

  • 8.5: Stay Under Glass

    <Jan. 9>

• Radiance #9: Lion-Hearted Girl

  <Jan. 16>

• Radiance #10: Until She Saves My Soul

  <Jan. 30>

• Epilogue¹

  <Feb. 13>

Playlists

Radiance Title Songs: The evolving playlist of songs used for story titles.

Lonely Hearts Club: Vibes for dancing around your fears.

I’ll never be like your kind of girl / Never be right there in that world / But I’ll entertain the notion / That I could live there too.

Can’t You Just Pretend To Be Nice?: Ship mix for Baz & Rissa-Rae.

Why do you do what you do to me, baby / Shaking my confidence, driving me crazy? / You know if I could I’d do anything for you / Please don’t ignore me, ’cause you know I adore you.

I’m Your Fool: In-universe mix, compiled by 8tracks user itsliam. Referenced in ‘You’re My Lady, I’m Your Fool’.

Call me good, call me bad, / Call me anything you want to, baby / But I know that you’re sad / And I know I’ll make you happy / With the one thing that you never had.

I Just Come Here For the View: Ship mix for Liam and Christa that also happens to be a story mix for Radiance #7.

Your body is a weapon, love / And it rips me up inside / My body is a temple of doom / Doomed not to be by your side / Someone protect me from the one I love…

Art

Cover: Radiance No. 1.

As seen in Radiance #1.

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1. “Magic Dance” (David Bowie)

2. “King of the World” (First Aid Kit)

3. “Apple Blossom” (The White Stripes)

   • “This is Halloween” (Danny Elfman)

4. “Lonely Hearts Club” (Marina and the Diamonds)

   • “Pretend to Be Nice” (Josie and the Pussycats)

5. “Master of Puppets” (Metallica)

6. “Part of Your World” (Jodi Benson)

   • “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” (Wham!)

7. “Your Body Is A Weapon” (The Wombats)

   • “Something About Us” (Daft Punk)

8. “A Girl Like You” (Edwyn Collins)

   • “The Passenger” (Iggy Pop)

9. “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)” (Florence + The Machine)

10. “Until She Saves My Soul” (The Fratellis)