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It looks like you found your sonic mutant, so I thought I'd take a stab at "darkness powered villain." darkpower.costume

Old people SG? This looks like a job for The Grammazon!

Infernal technology? This sounds like an excuse to use that Cosmic Corsair skull backpack that's so cool, but so ungodly hard to actually integrate into a design in a way that makes any amount of sense! So yeah... glowing tech-skulls and pointy bits. Influenced by the Doom franchise, and to a point, Hellraiser, though most of the latter ended up on the cutting room floor. I tried to make the "person" wearing the tech into something you might see at a distance and say, "hey, that doesn't look so bad..." and then she comes closer and you're like "OH GAWD THAT'S AWFUL GET IT AWAY GET IT AWAY GET IT AWAY." I am only about 60% sure the belt needs to be there, and roughly as confident that a tail doesn't. hellectric.costume

People are overthinking (or maybe wishful-thinking?) it. The show was very careful to establish in that same episode that and that She HAD to because He's not really he's basically just

I agree, very clever! It also reminded me to share this guy: The Assaultin' Battery!

"I designed this costume, but the character needs a name.""I want to play a [primary]/[secondary] [Archetype] but can't think of a good name, can someone help me out?""I had [name] on live but it's taken on Excelsior, does anyone have a decent alternative they're not using?" A discussion in the "Name Release" thread prompted the creation of this one. Think of it as a sort of a companion to that thread -- this is the place to ask for help naming a character on Excelsior. Maybe you're looking for something specific, maybe the one you wanted is taken and you're looking for something else, maybe you're just drawing a blank... the fabled "best MMO community in the world" might be able to help. Obviously, don't suggest names you know to be taken. Ideally, check anything you're going to suggest in-game before posting if you're able. If you're asking someone to give up something they're already in possession of, maybe offering a trade would be nice, too (by which I mean, "offer up another name from your roster," not "offer to pay them a ton of Inf" and especially not "offer them some sort of real-world reward for it" since that's likely a violation of the Terms of Service). I'll start: I designed this character during the Blip, when all we had was the costume editor, and ever since the game came back I've wanted to do something with her. Obviously she's got Shield Defense, but her AT and accompanying attack powerset are kind of up in the air (it's Street Justice right now, but she could easily be remade to use Martial Arts or Psionic Melee or a weapon or who-knows-what). I haven't settled on a background or origin story, though I've always sort of leaned toward "cop from the future" or something similar. At the moment I'm squatting on the name "Vigilant" for her, which I recognize is objectively a very good name, but for whatever reason it isn't clicking with me. I'd be willing to trade that name for a replacement -- something that references the shield and/or protection indirectly would be most appreciated (you know, Guardian or Sentinelle or something), but I'm willing to consider others, especially if they suggest a particular attack power to go with the shield.

"I designed this costume, but the character needs a name." "I want to play a [primary]/[secondary] [Archetype] but can't think of a good name, can someone help me out?" "I had [name] on live but it's taken on Excelsior, does anyone know if the person who has it is actually using it?" Yep, I'm all for it.

Awesome, glad I could help!

Not sure exactly what you're asking for here. People do use this thread to let the community at large know when they drop names so that others can pick them up; it is a central location for that kind of thing. With a thousand slots per server and the ability to create a theoretically infinite number of accounts, people are going to squat on names they like, at least until that name-release policy that was discussed early in the days of Homecoming goes into effect (assuming it ever actually does). It's the nature of the beast, for good or ill. And really, there's nothing stopping people from using this thread, or starting another, to advertise that they're looking for a particular name, or just using /getglobalname and sending an in-game email to the owner to see if they're willing to part with it. I've been on both ends of that personally; sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't, but it's a relatively simple and totally painless process. How do you propose it be "done blindly"?

I don't know, I think that color scheme in general can work, it's more a matter of figuring out the right hues and placement -- and in the case of what I did here, setting them against a nice neutral gray to avoid them clashing against one another. I tried to make him look like a military cyborg of sorts, or maybe some kind of infantry in a light exo-suit? I shamelessly stole @Shocktacular's chest detail idea because it's a good one. I solved the problem of the back looking a bit plain in a slightly different way. Beta.costume

My first try. Might come back with others too. Not sure if this one says "Night Widow" or "Fortunata" more, so maybe there's room for a variation one way or the other. Keying off the name, I started with dark blue but wanted a "moonlight" glow to set things off a bit, so I went for the Celestial chest detail. Clicking through one at a time, I discovered that the lines of that piece flow really nicely with the Hearts pattern. Thus the Mesh legs pattern (I can't bring myself to use the Hearts legs pattern with the big ol' crotch-heart on it), which itself has a nice flow with the Fashion Tight boots as the seams running up the back of both line up near-perfectly. The Insect wings, Fairy Dust aura and big "bug eyes" goggles might be a bit on-the-nose, But hey, I had "Night" covered, those are the "Pixie" part. pixie.costume

If you think that name is good, you're going to be super jealous when you see the one I just snagged: (Costume courtesy of the "Random" button, because I care.)

Twinshot for scale.

It can be tricky working with a lot of colors, but thankfully "neutral" ones like black/white/grey make things a little less complicated because they don't tend to clash with anything. Gold is slightly less problematic too, since a lot of costume pieces have non-colorable gold accents (the hem/border at the bottom of the Patrician Toga, the pattern on the Praetoria Police chest armor, the buttons on the Victorian Steampunk corset, several Imperial Dynasty chest and leg patterns for women). In my experience, it's usually best to pick one or two "main" colors and one "accent" color, though any of those being a neutral one makes it more likely that you can work in something extra, so we're actually in good shape here with black and white plus two other colors. Unfortunately, the two-colors-per-thing limitation you mentioned means that accessories like chest and shoulder pieces are almost certainly going to be needed, if only to have somewhere to put all of those colors! Ultimately, I think this may be a case of having to settle for "similar to" rather than "actually a recreation of" -- and not just for ToS/copyright reasons. The character editor can only do what it can do, and we can only work within those limits. We can either lament not having a "spiderwebs" pattern or a "power ring" hand model, or we can look at what we do have and make something out of that. I managed to put this together, not exactly what you asked for, but based somewhat on the source character. Is it Captain Avalon? Absolutely not. Does it evoke a similar "feel"? I'd like to think so. Hope it helps! Avalon.costume

My attempt: With a name like that (plus name-dropping the Taskmaster), some kind of death/skull imagery was needed. I kept the corset but used a version with slightly more coverage; I wanted to make it look like a tactical/protective piece. Changed the chest texture underneath as a result. The asymmetry thing others are doing really works well for an archer. I armored up her left side more than her right because that's the side of her that's facing the enemy when she's firing at them (Justice gloves on both hands, one with plate, one without). Protect the side that needs it, but otherwise stay mobile for spinning kicks and the like. Shamelessly stolen from upthread: HUD + hood + eyes against a black background = badass, or at least that's what I was going for. MurDiddlyUrderer.costume

My e-e-evil new Fire/Earth dominator, the villainous Volcaniac!

Thank you! I went back and forth for a long time on a lot if different parts of the look. It's hard to show off that she's composed of energy without also having her run around nude. I'm still not 100% sure about the shoulder pieces. As for a telepathic link, I think we're safe as long as we don't start finishing each others'...

Star Soul is great! The first shot looks a lot like one of my semi-mains, Ion Maiden.

I really like the face/head here. The glowing eyes coupled with the HUD aura against a black background create a really cool-looking effect.

Like Shocktacular, for some reason my mind immediately went to something (mostly) black and white. Blue as an accent color because of the ice ancillary. Also, I had to use the the big glowing shoulder rings. "Teleport addict" made me think "adrenaline junkie," so I tried to pull off sort of an overall super-science-meets-extreme-sports vibe, thus the goggles, the open jacket (also to show off the Infinity symbol, because recursion), and the textured full-body suit. Recursive.costume

I took this idea in a very different direction based on the "living shard of Paragon" concept. What makes Paragon, Paragon? Yes, the people; yes, the heroes running around all over the place; but is there a physical feature that's unique to Paragon, that I can represent in the costume creator? (Basically I played back the "we need a symbol" scene from Ghostbusters 2 in my head.) Of course there is. Many, in fact. One of them is the first thing we see when we log in with a new character for the first time, assuming we skip the tutorial. We all gather in the shadow of one for costume contests. Positron and Valkyrie hang out at the foot of one so that new heroes know where to find them when they're in need. Improbably-huge statues of heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice for the people of their city are everywhere in Paragon. That led me here: a living statue of Paragon City's greatest and most well-known hero. I tried to keep him from looking too clean and prefect, to present something that looks like it's the city itself rising up to protect its inhabitants, Sort of a good-guy version of the Devouring Earth, rather than something created by a person intentionally -- though maybe it's a little of both, a partially-finished piece that came to life before it could be perfected. Is it the spirit of Statesman himself, knowing Paragon still needs him and refusing to cross over? Is he forever linked to the city on some existential level the same way Ghost Widow is linked to Arachnos? Is it all a big hoax, like the Reign of the Supermen? I don't know, that's for you to decide. stone-statesman.costume

I really like this design. It's awesome! The brown, I think, works well. It gives the whole costume a utilitarian, 1930s test pilot/1940s military feel. Rocketeer-meets-Ultimate-Captain-America. Personally, I wouldn't change it. Regarding the helmet, though, I'm of a mind that it needs a little something. It being so smooth and white and perfect clashes with the "function first" look of the rest of the outfit. But it's easy to go too far with something like that and end up with a chaotic, busy mess. The area over her ears, especially, felt sort of blank, so I added Side Scoops as they look like they serve a purpose other than just decoration (what that purpose is I couldn't say, but a purpose nonetheless). The Fins detail on top is to add a little texture and make the overall cranium region a bit less eggy, and to provide height that keeps the scoops from widening the head and/or looking like big Ferengi ears, but without tacking on a lot of extra points and angles and other unnecessary distractions from the overall look. I literally altered nothing except adding those two things to the helmet. Great design! freeflier-fins.costume

Honestly, it's a really solid design already, if maybe a little dated. To me it feels like something that doesn't need an overhaul so much as just a few updates. I tried to move it from looking like the Atom to looking like Solar, Man of the Atom. Don't know if I accomplished that exactly -- a lot of things I tried reminded me more of the 1970s version of (Marvel's) Captain Marvel. I darkened up the blue to make the red and yellow stand out more. The larger, more "blank" faceplate to help sell the "dispassionate" descriptor. Similar-but-not-the-same gloves because these match the faceplate a little better in my opinion, and the glowy bits, while gimmicky, imply that there's a lot of heat built up inside. Like the glowing coils in a toaster. I would have liked to do something with his shoulders, but it just didn't work with the Claws chest pattern and I 'm a fan of the way that suggests flames without literally depicting them. That "not-fire fire" look led me to add the blends in the lower body to improve on that illusion, and the overall flow from his feet to the "flames" at the top meant a belt would just break it up, so no belt. The outline on that particular chest detail is strange and doesn't play well with certain patterns and/or color schemes. This was one of them, so I just used a lighter shade of yellow to highlight it instead of a contrasting outline. Hope it helps! inferno.costume

Well, the two-color flags like Finland are definitely easier to replicate than the three-color ones. I added armor plates so he looks like a warrior, but I stayed away from horns. Other affectations say "Viking," too! finland.costume

My take: I gave him a slightly more ridiculous "cool guy" haircut. The "Johnny" name makes me think of over-the-top characters like Johnny Bravo (the one from Cartoon Network, not the Brady Bunch) or Johnny Cage and I wanted to emphasize that silliness. More cool guy stuff: aviator shades, tribal armband tattoos -- but evil tribal armband tattoos -- stylish jeans, a big ol' belt buckle, and I kept the jacket style but made it a vest because c'mon bro, why cover up guns like these? As a nod to his dark secret, I added the Ghosts aura around his shovel in combat as the damned souls try in vain to escape their horrible fate. mcstyle.costume