Phoenyx and I were talking about the wannabes yesterday. It was fun to remember those times and those stories.

The Wannabes is a story where we have powers like the X-men. We often did paradies of X-stories and things like that.

The Wannabes started with a topic from Jae. Jae made a topic titled something to the effect of "Magneto coming to kills us with the sentinels we sent to kill him" (it was a topic about Ultimate X-men I believe).

Nick (PhoeNickx) posted and started fighting back with the sentinels. And I'm not sure in what order, but angler, Sean Thack (JoshuaChayne), Meghan, and myself joined in and it turned into the beginning saga of the Wannabe Adventures.

Of course it grew and others started posting to it also (Lost Goddess, Bass, DaveX, Dini, Lisa, Nick Oracle, etc) People would continue the story, introduce their characters, and soon it became a board staple.

It went on for a while and then I think there was a hiatus of about two years or so. In that time Phoenyx started a new continuity called Wannabe Evolution. There have also been Wannabe One-Shots, Mini's, What-If's, and a Christmas special.

Recentely Nick Oracle planned a Wannabe Reunion, and we are still waiting on that hehe.. =p

The stories range from the really weird and absurd to more serious.

What I liked about it was that anyone could join in. I'm not a wannabe-writer at all. I don't even read fan fiction of any kind, but I always felt comfortable joining in.

Wannabes have been around since the Coolboard days (before the Jean board was on ezboard). This was when the board had only one forum.

But when the move was made to ezboard, the administrator at the time, made a fan fic board (I think Lost Goddess requested the 'Astral Plane' forum). So the Wannabe Adventures were put there.

And that's a brief history of the wannabes. There are others that know more about the continuity and what adventures happened in the original continuity.