I am looking for superhero/supervillain stories. Preferably where they are beginning their journey to become a hero/villain and have to develop their powers/tech and build their base of operations.
I am looking for superhero/supervillain stories. Preferably where they are beginning their journey to become a hero/villain and have to develop their powers/tech and build their base of operations.
I actually created a universe where that is a major part of the stories. And each of the three main stories revolves around a different hero, discovering their powers, and their starting and evolution to becoming heroes.
https://storiesonline.net/universe/1122/night-of-madness
And there are other stories I wrote in the series, revolving around more minor characters, but some of them are indeed villains.
https://storiesonline.net/s/69067/some-kind-of-hero by Sea-Life, although be warned that it is self-edited and the editor had an off-month. The review - https://storiesonline.net/library/get_review.php?id=69067 - also touches on that.
Sea-Life's other series Worlds of Light can also be viewed as a superhero story. Saint Luke by Reluctant Sir can be viewed as such - warning, a bit dark. Also some of Howard Faxon's stories can also be read as superhero.
Good Hunting, limab
Dragon Chronicle — a series by Samantha K.
The origin and growth of a very unusual superheroine.
Stultus has a tongue-in-cheek supervillain,
https://storiesonline.net/s/59103/and-soon-my-evil-plan-will-be-complete,
and there is a superheroine, too!
Not an origin story I'm afraid, but I'll still suggest my own Reflector.
Two others I really enjoyed and recommend are:
The Gadgeteer by Sea-Life (this one checks all your requirements)
Chances Are by Stultus
Also And Soon My Evil Plan Will Be Complete, also by Stultus, but TITC.
https://storiesonline.net/s/59103/and-soon-my-evil-plan-will-be-complete
I can usually perform nearly everything just as well from my bio-implant connection inside my skull to my real master control center, which is under a glacier in northern Greenland.
Is that why someone wants to annex Greenland?
This is a very common story type in the Progression Fantasy and Harem Fantasy genres, which are semi related to GameLit.
Not a lot of this on SOL yet, but it's all over the self-pub spaces like Kindle and Wordpress (and thus on the shadow libraries).
Not sure whether y'all would count this, but...
Shaddoth has a number of "gamer" stories where the protagonist, through "real-life" gaming, acquires superhero-like powers. Transitional Adventurer, Server Change and Axeman all come to mind.
Sine Qua Non and Biomancer actually are superhero stories. Biomancer is a dark one, though.
Knew all about The Smith - I just didn't know that I'd classify him as a "Superhero." lol, even if he was a god.
It's not on here but Industrial strength magic by Macronomicon http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206312708-industrial-strength-magic
I humbly submit, for your consideration, my only story on SOL: Discipline and Reward: a Love Story
It's rather different than your preferred parameters, but so are many of the other respondents mentions. It features an ancient heroine and an even more ancient villain, who wants to use her as a pawn against his enemies.
Suffice it to say, things do not go exactly according to plan.
It does not focus on the origins of either hero or villain at the outset. But it does explore many characters' origins throughout the story via Highlander-esque flashbacks.
I hope you enjoy it.
I've read "Small Deaths". It's not much like D&R, but it's a pretty good yarn.
It's not so much a superhero story as an urban fantasy, though.
There was one story - not a superhero story, but one where the guy develops an insanely good hypnosis program via computer. It is called Program Alpha-Omega. One part I loved is where the protagonist befriends a very wealthy elderly man and convinces him (through hypnosis) that the Protagonist basically deserves a wonderful college education and beyond, including insanely expensive computers. The old man, in essence, becomes the protagonist's "full-ride-with-generous-stipend scholarship" source.