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The Koi Dragon is a mutant who only possesses cosmetic mutations, but the legend of the Dragon Gate inspired him to become a hero anyway through extensive training and sheer willpower.

It's already been said in the thread, but the wiki page for Talos states that he was active in the 50s and 60s. It's possible he could've been involved in the tail end of WWII, but I would say he most likely wasn't. Which is a shame, really - Ally propagandists would've loved his presence on the battlefield against the Germans due to the parallels they could draw between Talos and Atlas's massive size. There'd be propaganda posters with Talos stomping Fifth Columnists with labels like 'Atlas's Retribution' or 'Atlas's Second Coming' all over the place. As for the Teal Serpent, according to one of the Pupil history plaques, it states that Atlas defeated him after rescuing the citizens from the Teal Serpent's poison gas bombs, but 'It is unknown whether or not the Teal serpent survived.' Which implies it was an extremely violent beatdown from Atlas, and no one would be surprised if he was dead. Either way, that ID was retired since he was never seen again after 1939. This doesn't necessarily preclude his presence from WWII, though: we've seen villains come back from the dead before, like when Blue Steel murdered the Clockwork King. Since the Teal Serpent's death was merely presumed, one could make a case that he simply rebranded due to injuries making his former combat style untenable. Life support armor, maybe? There's no in-game evidence of anything in this paragraph, just my speculation, but the Teal Serpent would certainly have an increased motive and desire for Atlas's death following his final battle. From a plot standpoint, you could easily tie his new ID into collaborating with the Axis, biding his time for two years, and having direct involvement in the Invasion of Independence Port. Atlas's death defending the bridge could certainly count as the Teal Serpent finally achieving vengeance.

The wiki page for the canon timeline has some details if you check the 1930s to 1950s range, but tends to only mention the leaders of organizations. The various pages tend to lack pictures or powers information, so you're still going to be making a lot up. Regardless, here's a list of the groups I'm aware of: Axis: The Storm Korps, lead by Eisensturm (Ironstorm), who kidnapped the King of England, but was defeated by the Dawn Patrol The Imperial Wind, lead by The Lord of Frosts, who were Japan's Pacific strike force and refused to accept Japan's surrender. He was ultimately killed years later by Captain Volcano. Edit: I misread the wiki page while skimming it. The Lord of Frosts actually killed Captain Volcano months after Japan's surrender, after years of fighting each other. His current whereabouts are unknown. The Fifth Column, with Requiem, Vandal, and Nosferatu as the original leaders. Colleen Nelson's arc goes into Requiem's backstory and has names of some heroes he tangled with. Arakhn, who told Requiem where to find the Shadow Cyst to become a Nictus, though I'm uncertain if she was an active combatant in WWII. Leader of the Nictus, most likely in charge of the 1920s secret society The Path of the Dark The Center, who was mostly Mussolini's lapdog at the time. I can't recall which arcs expand on his past at the moment, unfortunately. Allies: The Dawn Patrol, England's equivalent to the Freedom Phalanx The Freedom Phalanx, who joined the war after Germany and Japan respectively attacked Independence Port and Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 The 1st Hero Brigade, which includes Captain Volcano and M1 Atlas, who died defending Independence Port on December 7th. War was declared the next day. Thunderhead, who fought in Europe and North Africa. Retired now, but kidnapped by the Fifth Column in the arc Ubelmann the Unknown. The Sand Kings, as Cranebump mentioned above. Lead by Dream Doctor, saboteurs against the Nazis, a strike team of the 1st Hero Brigade 'Neutral': President Marchand, leading the Rogue Isles. Though neutral, his armies fought the Fifth Column to placate the Allies. The Historical Heroes and Villains page has some more characters you could use that I haven't listed. I think Arachnos was involved in WWII, but I can't remember for sure. Edit: I somehow forgot about Lord Nemesis becoming Emperor of America. Although it happened after most of the action was over, it's still probably pretty relevant in Primal Earth's WWII history classes

I tried to do a sky based design with sun and cloud coloration/theming. Color balance didn't want to work with me, so that and the chest emblem could use some tweaking. First costume is the light blue one, second is where I tried to incorporate night sky colors. It looks off, but figured I'd include it anyway. Guardian Angel2.costumeGuardian Angel4.costume

Maestro prefers lip-reading to sign language, and initially refused to even learn sign because he considered it an admission that he'd never regain his hearing. Even after grudgingly learning to read it (because everyone in the Fifth Column kept their entire face covered and you can't exactly lip read through that, can you), he refuses to sign himself.

When using the Elemental Order pants (Male > Lower Body > Tucked In > Pants > Elemental Order) with Leather Armor boots (Male > Lower Body > Tucked In > Boots > Leather Armor), certain animations cause a gap between the two. It's also present on the female version of the costume, albeit less obviously. Screenshots are taken from the Eagles Claw animation on Blaster's Martial Combat set, but I first noticed the issue while sniping while hovering with Energy Blast's alternate animation customization. Might apply to other boots as well, though I haven't done any testing to that effect.

Spines or Savage Melee with Bio Armor that's been recolored bright red, paired with a costume with extensive use of the Bio-Organic pattern (pink and red) can give a nice base layer for a horror game style of biological flesh monster. For a ranged/Sentinel option, Storm or Water blast lets you have nasty looking mist spraying attacks that can give a real disease-spreading look when recolored.

Aside from the helmet? Not very, in my opinion - lots of unique parts. Here's my attempt anyway. Buckled Leather is to try to represent all the straps restraining Mu Mystics' limbs, while his actual belt was taken from Archmage Tarxius's outfit. Mu base2.costume

This is Noanne Aesthetic; she's a back alley surgeon shamelessly inspired by this Surgeon Simulator 2 fan song.

Psionic Melee/Electric Armor/Soul Mastery Scrapper. The concept was of a Primal Earth hero who is essentially an Awakened Mindstorm. Due to her refusal to stop using her powers to help others, she's slowly losing physical form and becoming a living storm of psionic energy (an Immanence, in other words). I initially used Power Surge for the effect (the crash even fits thematically!), but it's become an emergencies only thing now that I've managed to get Shadow Meld down to 30 seconds of recharge with haste. She spends about half her time incorporeal now, which is good enough for me. Swinging psi blades around has been fun, and she still does pretty well despite the mistakes I made slotting her build.

My first thought of how time and sound intersect was the Doppler Effect. Diagrams of it often look like the Optic chest detail, so I combined that with the fact that both sets' animations consist mostly of spirals to make the top. She's vaguely urban fantasy because a lot of the more typically magical chest options exclude the clock belt entirely (looking at you, Bolero.) and it felt like an integral piece for displaying her time powers. Black and white because color theory is hard. Doppler2.costume

Storm Blast/Poison Corruptor. The plan is to present the combination as an aerosolized biochemical weapon, with the lightning attacks being explained away as some sort of tech stolen for use against things immune to the toxins.

For the Atlas Park Safeguard mission to trigger the robbery when I approach the bank's entrance (like the other safeguard missions) instead of making me wait several minutes.

Controller - Darkness Control/Electrical Affinity Not a big fan of controllers, but alright. Made a suit of power armor that electrocuted its wearer, then slowly developed shadow powers due to the death energies trapped inside the armor. It wasn't until a hero knocked the helmet off while it was robbing a bank that anyone realized the pilot was dead.

Chainmail is good at breaking up some of the less sharply defined patterns, but it's unfortunately difficult to get a good white and grey contrast with. If you want total static, Psych, Circuitry, or Cheetah 1 seem to work alright. For partial, I liked the looks of Arctic, Baroque, and Layer Stripe. Malaise can work too, if you want mild rainbow static - white primary, medium grey secondary. Mesh blends into it too well - no contrast - but might work with things that aren't chainmail. Can't say I'm completely satisfied with any of them as static, though.

She's very loosely inspired by two characters in Spread Your Wings by Araceil. It's a fanfiction story set in a Chinese Fantasy about a human cultivator who time travels back to his teens after he died. Rather than try to redo his frankly terrible life, he flees to the demon realm to live in peace. Due to his skill in craftsmanship (making silk from the cocoons of a rare species of moth whose life cycle is a single night, amidst other talents) he gets mistaken as a reclusive moth demon who only comes to town every few months to sell his wares. He even made a pair of fully functioning wings from the silk at one point, which really helped sell the moth demon thing. He's friendly with a spider demon who is also a silk vendor in the village (who eats her husbands, not humans) due to both of them being insect demons and silk weavers. I remember he wore lots of pure white silk, which was a threat display than signaled a quick death to any demons that attacked him. And a lot tried kidnapping him due to skilled crafters being a rare and prized commodity. No actual human hunting in the story as far as I remember, though. My character's just a jerk. I would have provided a link instead of a summary, but the author appears to have made the story private (probably to deal with the writing AI bots that scrape the site for training data without the author's consent).

Wanted to do something with the Spider Web wings, ended up making a Chinese spider demon that likes to hunt humans.

I had a hard time balancing the colors to look good, so I just split them into two outfits. Red: LIthe Spectre4.costume Blue: LIthe Spectre5.costume

I basically just took a bunch of stuff you'd see on metal album art (skulls, chains, fire, demons, etc.) and combined them into one guy. The corpse paint makes it kind of hard to see the skull's metallic shine - I probably should have gone a couple shades darker, but oh well. The power customization is from an old, shelved attempt to make a metal manipulator (couldn't come up with a proper character concept) - this variant was a Seismic/Bio Sentinel. Not sure it fits your concept, but tossed it in anyway. Metalhead1.costumeMetal Sent.powerCust

Venetian Maskbreaker Fashion Foe Pas Masque-Raider

Here's my take along with a list of what parts I found cephalopod-y: Full Helmet > Elongated Skull (Squid-shaped head) Chest & Legs > Tights Pattern > Malaise (Cephalopods color-shifting abilities. Also a nod towards psychedelic/hypnotism. Blend pattern is also useful on hands/feet when paired with Malaise in this regard) Chest Detail > Symbols > Eldritch Back Detail > Wings > Celestial Wings - Always Open (Looks sort of like reaching tentacles when in motion) The glowing blue is mostly due to me listening to Darkest Dungeon's Color of Madness soundtrack while working on it, but I felt it fit. The costume could still use some work to look more overlord-y, but I ran out of inspiration so it's more of a base layer. Cephalopod1.costumeCephalopod1-M.costume

The first costume is based off in-game PPD SWAT; it's mostly a mixture of Equalizer and Officer with a bit of Praetorian PD since the bulletproof vest is unavailable in the creator. The second outfit's my attempt to make it a medieval mix. Swat Knight1.costumeSwat Knight2.costume

This is the Crystal Missile, an extradimensional magi-tech foot soldier who got sent to explore a dimensional rift. It closed behind her, trapping in Primal Earth. Rather than approach Portal Corp to go home, she treated it as a chance to freely engage in mad science without her superiors breathing down her neck. She's spending her 'vacation' as a gem thief; her goal is to test out the harmonic frequencies of all of Primal Earth's crystals-- and to see how well they can be weaponized. Unarmored: Armored:

Zone/Mission: V_Arachnos_45_Layout_01_03p Position: [148.1 14.2 -289.1] From the mission to defeat Operative Dominic from Willy Wheeler. There's a hole in the map that allows enemies (and the player) to go out of the base - I only noticed it because one of the patrols walked into it while I was fighting another mob. Hop on top of that red-ringed pipe above my character's left wing, and you see the hole. Go in, and you'll drop down to the floor below. I'm using flight for this picture so you can get a better look: This is only occurring in the bottom left corner - I tested the top corner since the geometry repeats, but that one had an invisible wall.

My latest character, Hewer Skewer, is a low level Freak who stole a stop sign and a sharp slab of metal, then went to town with both. His goal in life is to earn his Excelsior port so he can hack his arms off and replace them with his weapons.