I know I'm a little late to the party... but I just had an image of an Allomancer who somehow winds up in the Scarlet Empire... and discovers that they're able to burn the most dramatically obvious native metals for the most dramatically obvious (though temporary) effects. Mmmm. Tasty, tasty starmetal. It lets you do such *interesting* things.
Also...
The surprising thing is how *familiar* it all is, really. He's in charge of a powerful multinational organization, tasked by shadowy and not entirely trustworthy paymasters with the task of saving the world. He has uncounted agents, amazing information-gathering and computing resources, a main base that looks on paper like the sort of thing a mad scientist might use for a secret lair, and technology that does seemingly impossible things and costs ridiculous amounts of money to maintain. In spite of the world-spanning nature of the threats he is to face, for some reason he has to work through a relatively small number of individuals with their own psychological dysfunctions. It really is familiar ground, in a way... but somehow, he's still finding it all a little NERV-wracking.
Nick Fury, Agent of Seele.
Also...
The surprising thing is how *familiar* it all is, really. He's in charge of a powerful multinational organization, tasked by shadowy and not entirely trustworthy paymasters with the task of saving the world. He has uncounted agents, amazing information-gathering and computing resources, a main base that looks on paper like the sort of thing a mad scientist might use for a secret lair, and technology that does seemingly impossible things and costs ridiculous amounts of money to maintain. In spite of the world-spanning nature of the threats he is to face, for some reason he has to work through a relatively small number of individuals with their own psychological dysfunctions. It really is familiar ground, in a way... but somehow, he's still finding it all a little NERV-wracking.
Nick Fury, Agent of Seele.