ChairKicker

There are dozens of us! Dozens! I know one very active VG, The Conclave.

HAXXadecimal, Bot/Sonic MM villain, in her "raw", virus form.

Antoine de Caunes?! Crap, I didn't recognize him in that pic, he looks so young there! Don't know about Eurotrash, when did it air. Likely before I was born. *wikipedia-fu* What. I could have stumbled on it had it aired here. Oh crap I'm old too.

The real name of my villain Unperson is Manon Parson.

We'll see each other at the next Altitis Anonymous meeting, then.

I'm very flattered by the attention! I'm half on Reunion (French being my first language and still holding on to the hope I'll find more French speakers to play with), half on Everlasting. Global handle is the same as my first toon: Skathi the Huntress. I have dozens of alts, most of which I play regularly, and none of them have reached level 30 yet. So, yeah, we might have come across each other at some point, and I might very have done so with different characters. ... help me.

... I was about to type a small essay about how, with Praetoria, one of the main draws is the society that is sufficiently different from ours, and so you'd naturally be more drawn to play a character who's been significantly shaped by this world yadda yadda words. But you know what, you made a good point, and I've made the first Praetorian version of one of my characters. Primal Earth(-ish) version, Celaenian (see icon), is an eldritch thing from a parallel dimension that was recently summoned, outfitted with prosthetics for survival, and unleashed on the world to "show them all", only it/she doesn't know what it means and just wants to figure out the world as she wanders the Rogue Isles. So far, she's made very good progress in learning English, but has made some very interesting interpretations of what's going on. Praetorian version, name to be decided, is the same eldritch thing, but brought 15 years ago on Earth in an attempt to find an answer to Hamidon in a parallel dimension, raised by a mad scientist that at least had the good senses of teaching her human values and wholesome stuff. She physically adapted better to her new world too since she was brought in as a toddler abomination instead of as a fully developed adult. Now she's an eager Loyalist only passing for human because she stuffed her tentacled self in a ridiculous suit. If the two met... the latter would be very embarrassed and confused by the former. The former would be happy not to be alone anymore, and try and convince her, in broken English, to gather together more units of that ultimate power called "money". So thanks for the inspiration!

An ohgoddamnit of Seers. I'll probably keep being the only one to use this, though...

1080 Steps, Magic Staff/WP Scrapper. A bronze statue of an obscure deity or figure that was animated by a reincarnating soul seeking ultimate enlightenment. Besides her default look and her bronze look, I'm probably going to make what amounts to palette swaps with the extra costumes, with other materials and minor variations.

Made a blueside toon that's a huge powersuit, with a little grinning goblin piloting the whole thing, its head popping up the top. It's the Not-a-Goblin Gigabot.

Science and Mutation in particular can be particularly fuzzy, I find. Sometimes, all powers don't fit neatly in a certain category, but it still can be hard even if you focus on the main set/theme. I try to think in terms of enhancements if I have any hesitation: would a character benefit more from selected exposure to Macguffinium, or additional Unobtainium plating? Enchanted relic, or genetic splicing with animal genes? Do genetics even make sense for this character? If they would take the relic, is it because of its inherent power, or because they understand how it works, or because they want to study it? The fuzziest character in that aspect that I think I have is the Voodoo Dollmaker. Voodoo doll part comes from her being a Spines/Regen Brute. At her base, her Origin is Mutation: her body is weird and resilient, and so, she can store inside herself metal spikes without an ill-effect to herself; because she could do it since she was a child, she was ostracised for it, which contributed to her misanthropic personality and current role as a Villain. That's the voodoo doll part, but then there's the dollmaker part. Well, she makes voodoo dolls, obviously. Except she wants them to be her servants. So she steals or makes dead bodies, and uses them in the process of making obedient, human-sized voodoo doll minions. She doesn't have any background or reason to be knowledgeable in technology, so she uses voodoo-esque magic to that end; makes more sense since her "day" job is that of a mystic/medium (not necessarily a very legitimate one, mind). The process likely involves the same metal spikes she uses to attack. All in all, she dabbles in magic, and might learn a few powers relying on it rather than her base mutation, but Magic is not her main source of power; it's more of an additional trick or background element. I could have made her a Magic Origin, but 1, I have way too many of them already, and 2, Mutation still makes sense, works better with the background of being rejected by society since childhood, and she would certainly benefit from genetic enhancement. It's like the Hulk being outfitted with a special-made armour to face specific threats or Doctor Doom learning and practicing magic on top of his technological prowess 'cause you can't tell him he's not good enough to master both (or you can, but he doesn't listen, and you'll die first for even thinking that).

Dunno, it's a lot like convention season. Or maybe I'm biased because I tend to be one of the weird people during that time of the year.

Probably the same guy who sold all those solar panels a decade ago here in goddamn Belgium.

The French version of the Rogues gallery is going to be amazing and terrifying all at once.

Was it, by chance, inspired by Dwarf Fortress? Because at some time in that game, carps were deadly freaks.

3 or 4. I'm right-handed, for what it's worth.

Are you saying that even NPCs have to deal creatively(?) when they want a name that's already taken?

I might have a couple. Somewhere in this pile of a dozen or so toons. Excluding the Peacebringer, doesn't count. Somewheeeeeere... Well yeah, when you've got alt-itis, it's statistically more likely to get a theoretically good build at some point. Just gotta figure out which. ;D

You know what, if I'm gonna have to deal with corporate ladder BS in the professional world anyway, I might as well aim for the endgame of volcano lair and attack sharks.

Sometimes, I come up with the concept, then the powerset. Sometimes, I notice a powerset I haven't tried yet, and develop a concept using it. In either case, RP absolutely affects my build, because to my knowledge, I've never made, even accidentally, an optimal build. Still, even when it is painstakingly slow, or fragile, or I'm struggling with an archetype I'm not used playing, no regret. I've only remade toons from scratch because I realized other powersets fit the concept better, not because I found a more powerful one. There are likely builds I'd have more fun playing from a strict gameplay standpoint, but I can't divorce the RP side from it, it's just that important to me. That's how I operate in all MMORPGs I play, too, it's just that CoX is THAT good about customization; when my choice is limited to whether I develop the pyromancy or summoning tree, it must be less obvious to observers I'm just doing whatever, though the limitation feels also more frustrating. (Yes, I'm also that player who slightly favours gear's appearance over their stats. FFXIV's glamour system is a godsent in ensuring I don't get killed every 5 minutes by random mobs omg.)

Okay, I just made a Beast/Trick Arrow MM. She's the granddaughter of a werewolf. She fruitlessly tried to rescue him when he was kidnapped by mysterious villains, and he's now presumed dead. Now, she's out for REVENGE. Her name is Wolf Down.

As somebody who tried out CO, I've come to the same conclusion. I've spent an awful long time in character creation for the costume there, much, much more than I've actually played it, but it was not due to the common curse of alt-itis. It's just that the game itself really lacks in something that I find hard to quantify objectively, best summed up as a "soul". A vague mix of gameplay, storyline, NPC characterization, etc, most likely. The only NPC I can remember from CO is Fruitbat and his machines, and I played it recently enough (when it went F2P). I really, really have a hard time remembering even basic enemies besides that. I think there were generic undead at some point, somewhere, for all I care. Whereas, before playing CoH again, I could remember Hellions, and Ghost Widow, and Statesman, and Sister Psyche, and Nemesis, and the Freakshow, and Hamidon, and a bunch others. And I'd stopped playing well before live was shut down. I should remember CoH far less clearly. Isn't it weird? But that's a good illustration of the difference. It's hard to point down why, but many parts of CoH are much less forgettable than CO. Hell, I'd even forgotten about the latter's Nemesis system until it was mentioned here, even though I remember being kinda hyped up about it. It has good parts, or at least good ideas, unmistakably, but they weren't made into anything really worth remembering.

Just made a Spine Brute. She's the Voodoo Dollmaker. Current costume is emphasizing the voodoo doll part, her next costume the dollmaker part. But with voodoo.

Don't worry too hard about American culture fading away. Here in France, we've been dealing with Halloween for roughly two decades, and we're also discovering the wonders of Black Friday. There's no such thing as Thanksgiving here, mind, but we still are getting Black Friday. Name stays the same, too, the average French doesn't really know how to translate it, let alone where the hell it comes from. I don't know how it's like, over there, in the USA, but if you ever feel like your culture is being oppressed in your own country, may I suggest you move to France? Give the French a couple years, and they might learn about Thanksgiving! That would be a huge improvement over Black Friday, at any rate.

Honestly, I was about to say "no", but then I remembered that the last thing I've come up with for most of my toons was their name, and I've got roughly half a dozen concepts waiting because I can't decide on a name (sometimes, but not always, in addition of fiddling unnecessarily with their costume as if I couldn't modify it in-game for free anyway). So. Very yes, actually.