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I was inspired to make a "Space Force" costume, but have no character concept for it.

This game is an outlet for my creativity. I love everything about the process from creating origin stories, designing costumes, character RP and leveling up the character. I'm a great writer and I cannot draw at all, so the character creator and the supportive community here allow me to express my creativity in a way that I couldn't without this game. I am fortunate enough to be part of a couple of SGs on Everlasting who welcome and accept my severe case of Alt-Attention Deficit Disorder. I am always creating new characters and bringing them to RP, in addition to continuing to develop long-time existing characters.

Hell, I've just started to make different AT versions of the same character and have had to come up with unique names for a name that I am camping myself. I wish it were possible for the policy to be that if you encounter a name conflict, it could check to see when was the last time this character was in-game using the same parameters as the name release. Then, depending on the results, the name could be released for the new player to use. Figure this way, it's not a mass release of names that maybe nobody actually wants and is specific only to those names that are in conflict. This doesn't prevent anyone from logging their characters once-a-year, but neither does the current name release proposal.

I've got a bunch of names, some of whom were alternates after finding that their original intended names were not available. I've also surrendered names when a player reaches out to me and asks if I would, in those instances, I've come up with alternate names for said character. Of course, I'm biased because I've got a ton of characters, which I never really get around to playing. I spent a lot of time creating characters in Icon during the Hiatus.

I finally have a Miraculous-inspired team that I'm happy with, my daughters used to watch the show and I thought that the various heroes and villains were pretty inspired. Following the Chinese-themed heroes already in the show, I based mine on the "Four Symbols" of Chinese mythology. Here are the "Miraculous Four"

Thank you for the kind words, I have not posted Citizen-X over there, but perhaps I should

Two of my more recent bios:

In this particular case, I edited a demo file to get the NPC costume parts and to pose the characters. I remember that if you did not specify a map in your demo file, the background was just endless blue sky.

The All-American Family defending holiday cheer in Atlas Park

IIRC, it's an Oni NPC costume piece.

I am just such a masochist. Back during the hiatus, I created a bunch of demofiles to showcase all the characters that I thought I would never see again (at the time). Demoediting let me do all sorts of neat tricks like FX, using NPC parts, size changes, etc. I used these demofiles to stage screenshots and had a lot of fun doing it. I've forgotten most of what I've learned since then, though I'm sure the mental muscle memory is in here somewhere. I'd be interested in getting back to it, but I was sure that there was no way to playback demo files anymore. Can we do this now in HC? Also, I'm going to use this post as an excuse to show off some of my demo screenies:

That is brilliant, loved how you used the color options on the horns and helmet to look like they are burning hot and pairing it with the aura effect. This is so good.

While I love all of Operetta's look, this one blew my mind. Glam, sinister and elegant all in one!

Androgyny is genius. Brilliant use of jacket/chest piece combo.

No, they were made in Icon back in the day. Though, I have a vague recollection that we can use NPC parts in Paragon Chat now?

Here is my first Zodiac Team decked out in their Lunar New Year's finery. Happy New Year! Wishing you all a healthy and prosperous new year!

I used the Egyptian headdress for my Order of Our Lady of Righteous Vigilance. And most of them don't even have guns.

I used demoedit to create something to show off all the Zodiac characters I have created. My inspiration were the wraparound connected covers from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. I only got as far as making one for Rat characters and one for Ox characters. I really should finish this, but will need to update some roster changes. Also, loved that in Demoedit, I could create giant-size characters like Maxi Mouse below:

Love his lucky human foot

An amazing overall design, very visually stunning. And I am totally stealing the Chest Symbol combo.

All of your costumes are really nice, but I especially like this Ulala inspired look. Spot on and so much fun!

Another fun thing I learned to do in demo editing was using FX features. The sequence below looked good in demo playback with the Celestial Dragon hovering in the air and raising her hand as she cast her munificence upon her Army. The FX would cascade through the assembled kneeling ranks, as each wave hit, the soldiers would rise and feel the power of the Dragon coursing through them. This series of screenies is the best I have to try and illustrate this:

During the hiatus, I learned how to manually edit demo files to create specific scenes with my characters posed just so. Since Homecoming, however, I have lost that skill and I think the tools I used no longer work. To make matters worse, the demo files and original screenies are on a hard drive that I can't quite access anymore. Still, I've got a copies of a few of these images and wanted to share them here. They are compressed and not as hi-res as the original screenshots, however. This is the Army of the Dragon under the command of Tian Shang Lung, the Celestial Dragon. She's the BIG BAD in my head canon and having an army befits her quite well. I used the Romulus portion of the ITF map to stage the review of her army. She is flanked by the Fallen Zodiac, her closest advisors and lieutenants. Behind her is her personal guard, Terracotta Dragon Warriors. Leading her army is the Dragon General and his Swordsmen. The army itself is comprised of Soldiers, Pikemen, Archers and Axemen, supplemented by a cadre of Dragon Sorcerers.

Wow, excellent work in grayscale. I've tried to do the same with a noir robot detective, but it's not as convincing because metal already looks gray.

I am considering rerolling Sarkophagus with the new Seismic Blast option for Controllers. Earth Control was the power I wasn't crazy about on him.