Favorite Homage?

[Seed22]

My favorite homage I have is Iron Apostle, who is meant to be a homage to Invincible from well..Invincible. She’s got a totally different story and costume(in fact, she’s only an homage insofar as having a cobbled together starter costume, invulnerability and super strength, and having to fight to get stronger instead of just being like superman.)

 

Another lovable homage I have is Doomsinger Warlock who is basically a love letter to Dresden files and John Constantine. Once again, completely different story and costume but loved the spirit of both works and tried to capture that in him.

 

 

Homages are wonderful fun if done from the viewpoint of not wanting a direct clone 

[Captain Fabulous]

Oh, way too many to pick just one.

[MistressOhm]

On 11/22/2023 at 12:04 PM, Uun said:

I have an homage to the character Geoffrey Holder played in the 1970s advertising campaign for 7-Up named Uuncola.

 

Great minds think alike. Mine is Baronessa Samedi (the Rule 34 version of the Live and Let Die character he played).

[Gorgar]

I have a few homages to favorite DC characters, but they're *very* loose allusions for the most part.  No one has ever commented on picking up on the allusions.  For one thing, the costumes tend not to match, and I don't name them after the original character.  Generally they're named after songs, and their concept/personalities are a loose homage as reimagined for the name.  In general I mostly came up with an AT and powerset I wanted to play, and the homage developed as I got to see how they played.

 

Princess of the Dawn - inv/axe tank, mace/shield brute, kat/inv brute.  Wonder Woman at heart, but just in white armor.  Only visual cues are a tiara, dark hair, and the Hellenic Beauty badge title.  Even in her brute forms, she's a tank at heart, and always takes leadership.  Named after a heavy metal anthem by Accept.  She started out looking more like Hawkwoman and always had wings, but the Princess thing sort of took over and she did start as a tank, so embraced the WW thing.

 

Chord of Souls - dark/sonic defender, dark/dark controller.  Nightshade from Shadowpact, but just looks gothic elegant.  Named after a Fields of the Nephilim song, with pets named after a Sisters of Mercy song.

 

Xiberia - mace/dark brute, db/will scrapper, db/will stalker, kat/dark brute.  Hawkwoman (specifically from Hawkworld, where she's not as cheery).  Another Nephilim song on another black and purple goth, with wings.  Dark armor doesn't fit Shayera, but it goes great with mace, and I wanted her to fly, and she kind of developed from there and felt like the darker version of Shayera.

 

Standing Horse - ill/storm.  Phantom Stranger, but named after a guy who claimed to remember an alien abduction.  Hawkwind put a clip of a speech about it in a song, and this is "what if that really happened, and it gave him strange powers?"  He plays kind of like the Stranger: no buffs, goes off on his own a lot, doesn't team all that much.  He lacks the signature hat, though.

 

Shadowpaws - savage/sr stalker.  Probably my most obvious homage, she looks more or less like Earth-2 Catwoman (the one that reformed and married Batman), back when she wore a purple dress and boots.  

 

Perhaps not coincidentally, these are some of my strongest characters, because I spent a lot of time on their builds, and it bothered me a lot when any of them didn't do well.  I can't be playing a wimpy Amazon princess in spirit, now can I?  Etc.

[Scarlet Shocker]

like I said in other places. I don't much like homages - I prefer to plough my own furrow.

 

That said, this thread did inspire a new character. 

 

I give you "The Blessed Cheesemaker"

Having broken out of his china clay pot and his waxy coating he's there with his strong odour and crumbly gloopiness to bring evildoers to justice

[Healix]

[Scarlet Shocker]

1 hour ago, Healix said:

 

[blackhand]

An homage to my wife actually who is an archaeologist…if that counts as an homage. 

 

plant/dark/dark Dom

Early Life

Samarkand will tell you she is not actually from Samarkand. But her home town is no longer on any map. When she was born around 1200 A.D., she lived outside what is now Samarkand in southeastern Uzbekistan. After the Mongols invaded the Khwarezmian Empire in 1219, she was buried alive as a witch. She doesn’t remember a lot from that time.

 

 

The End of a Long Sleep

She was unearthed by archaeologists in 2018. What they thought they found was an intricate face carved into a massive tree stump. But after they brought in lighting to begin carefully excavating the carving and massive root system, the face began to speak. It kept repeating a single word - the old Persian word for water. 

 

The Persian language has changed a lot over that time. That largely is why she doesn’t mind being called Samarkand. Farsi speakers don’t pronounce Firuzeh as she remembers. Although she has been acting in all respects as a proper hero since getting reoriented, authorities still have her under observation due to initial instability.

 

Firuzeh never studied magic formally. It was always something that came naturally to her. The fact that all her power is ultimately drawn from the Netherworld was a complete surprise to her. Though her memory is deeply fragmented, her earliest memory of her magic was simply being upset that a flower her father had given her mother had died. She looked at it lovingly and dark tendrils came from the ground and healed it. 

 

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Firuzeh can photosynthesize and ‘eat’ through her skin. For her own rapid healing, she essentially rapidly stitches her own wounds with plant based fibers. These eventually seem to return to something more like skin.

 

Perhaps not for the faint of heart, while she prefers to empower the growth of plants in dirt to ensnare those she is sent to arrest, she can grow plants from within a foe. 

 

Edited January 11 by blackhand