AmeliaHealYa

My current main, The Tranarchist, is a vampire. She's loosely based on a Lasombra I (too briefly) played in Vampire: The Masquerade (V20/4th edition). Since the tabletop version had shadow controlling powers, I originally made her a Darkness Controller. But that wound up being no fun to solo, so I've rebooted her as a Necromancy/Darkness Mastermind, which has been super fun so far. (Who better than a Necromancer to raise this thread? 😅) She started as a Hero but she'll probably go Vigilante pretty quickly. Since she's trans, she didn't start HRT until after her first puberty, and she didn't have much in the way of surgery before she became undead, I played around with the face and body sliders to try to make her more visibly trans. I started with the "Strong" face shape and then tweaked from there, made her whole head slightly larger in proportion to her body than usual, maxed out her shoulders while minimizing her hips, and cranked her physique up to the max. (I admit I also maxxed out the bust slider and that was purely self-indulgent on my part. I can have a little wish fulfillment as a treat.) I plan to periodically and indefinitely keep changing her hair color and I don't intend for it to ever be natural. She originally had a trenchcoat but I decided to give her wings, so I chose the Bone Wings, because she's a Necromancer so it made sense to me that she could graft those on. The wings are only on her second costume, which is identical to her first in every other respect, so when I hit the macros I created she does an emote and switches from one to the other, so she only has wings when she's actually Hovering. She gets around on the ground in Panther Form (feels thematic) and in the air with Hover + Teleport (taking shortcuts through the same extradimensional Netherworld that Darkness powers tap into). I used the Slime aura to make it look like she's cutting herself open and draining her own blood to fuel her powers and animate her zombies, except for Twilight Grasp and Life Drain, which she uses to drain her victim's blood from across the room like the titular protagonist of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

Oooh which boots are these?

@Virtual Green 🤓 Orange is opposite blue on the color wheel, so if you wanted to add another color other than white or black (which really exist outside of the color wheel and go with literally everything), maybe start there? Generally polar opposites look the best (which is why you see them so often in stuff like sports teams uniforms and logos), and the darker the orange (closer to red), the lighter the blue (closer to green) that's opposite, while the lighter the orange (closer to yellow), the darker the blue (closer to purple) that it's directly opposite to. But you can also get a great look by going one step off from the polar opposite in either direction. So purple, teal, or green could all work as accent colors contrasting the orange base. (😅 Apologies if you know all this color base and I'm transplaining at you, and if that's the case then I hope someone else who didn't know this gets something out of it.)

Thank you! I admit I cranked her bust size all the way out of pure self-indulgence because this character and the TTRPG character she's loosely based on are both brazen wish-fulfillment. 😅

My current main is The Tranarchist, a Magic origin Darkness Controller. I don't think the costume is anything special overall, but I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to do the anarchy chest symbol in the colors of the trans pride flag. ^_^ I hope that the black and white base isn't too monotonous, just enough that the occasional splashes of color really pop. She may or may not be inspired by a Lasombra I played in a recent Vampire: The Masquerade game. That character had hormone therapy before her Embrace but no surgeries, so to make her more visibly transfeminine, I used the "Strong" face shape as a base, moved some of the individual sliders to increase the overall size of her head in proportion to her body, increased her height and shoulder width, and decreased her hip width. I also gave her the same adjustments I always give to female CoH characters, dropping the leg length down to minimum and boosting the physique and waist sliders to maximum, so that she looks less like a Barbie doll and more like she actually has internal organs. The "Fashion" heels are amazing. I fell in love with them at first sight.

I've always tried to avoid using role-playing games to work out my real-life issues, but they always manage to leak through anyway. Before I came out as trans, my characters tended to be full of angst, self-loathing, and alienation from friends and family. They were frequently disfigured or deformed in some way, or at least saw themselves that way. They were usually atoning for some great crime and their powers often revolved around some sort of body horror. In hindsight it was so hilariously obvious. In contrast to the scarred brooding tormented but erudite paladins and fighter/mages and grim avengers of the night that used to fill my stable, my last few PCs have been hot messy bimbos charming enough to sell wool to a shepherd whose powers usually involve summoning someone or something else to do the actual work for them. It's been a lot of fun.