Anyhoo, whilst I was asleep a bunch of people shared their character bios and such. And to my profound despair I discovered that I don't have a copy saved of the one character bio that I was proudest of.
I know exactly where it is, buried somewhere in the "Show Off Your Best Costumes" megathread, which I can find on Archive.org, but without settings applied, there are nearly 600 pages to look through.
Ghost Window and Sister Psyche were two of my favorite characters, so I kind of made an homage to both in the form of Spectre Psyche, in the form of a Marvel Zombies-esque dimension of undead-ified versions of the lore characters.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/HellkatPredator/CoX/SpectrePsyche.jpgI've probably spent an unhealthy amount of time creating the lore surrounding the one character, which I had big plans for but could never quite get her feeling fun enough to play for the long haul to level 50. I tried her as Defender, Dominator, Corrupter, Controller, and Mastermind, but compared to my main, she felt slow and squishy.
Then again, compared to the SS/Fire/Mu brute purpled out to the gills that was Infernal Infested, everything feels slow and squishy.
The overall origin involved one of the Portal Corp alternate dimension designated Rho Omega 2-0, essentially using the in-lore designations to spell out "ROT."
I think I had it as being a more magically prevalent world than Earth Prime or Praetorian Earth, where their 1960 Shiva meteor event actually smacked right into the planet, though instead of heralding the eventual arrival of the Coming Storm / Battalion, it was the equivalent of a nuclear reactor that pumped out huge amounts of negative energy.
Said negative energy interacted with electricity to create rapid breakdowns of all technology that utilized electricity, so pretty much everything got thrown back to the 1800's tech-wise.
So all that negative energy makes the dead rise, weakens and kills living things, and so on. The world's Statesman analog, dubbed the Corpsman, is the first casualty of the meteor, having flown into space to try and destroy or move it.
I admit that I named most of them something pun-y.
Thus Corpsman becomes Corpseman.
I use alternate spellings and pronunciation to make Raymond Keyes Raymond de Quays, so I can call him Dr. Decay.
Tammy Arcanus is essentially the last living sentient on ROT-Earth due to her command of necromantic energies.
Synapse's counterpart is female and after she dies is brought back Frankenstein style. Bride of Decay.
Citadel's counterpart is a golem named Portcullis.
I never managed to come up with a good name for a Manticore analog.
And Spectre Psyche was the only one I made a really in-depth backstory for.
Up until the parallel to the Rikti invasion, the human race was managing to survive and then one day it didn't.
The folks that had sent the meteor arrived to claim their army of the undead, and overloaded the original meteor, the catastrophic event killing and reanimating everything from blue whales all the way down to the microbial level.
A lucky few managed to survive behind erected barriers, Sister Psyche managing to put up a forcefield enough to cover most of one of the Etoile Islands with a few survivors.
Of course that took a great deal of power to do, and she couldn't hold it forever.
As zombie movies show us, the biggest danger to people is not the undead, but the people themselves. And in time the survivors, with limited resources and no way of safely getting more, turned on one another. The depths to which some people stooped in order to cling to a few more days of life were abhorrent. So in the end Shalice Tillman let her barrier fall.
The thing that arose in her place tells the experience as "In one agonizing, excruciating, horrible, wonderful moment my soul was ripped out and I was reborn." In her last moments she had been filled with loathing, disgust, filled with murderous intent.
As Ghost Widow says, the dead do not change, and in death this version of Sister Psyche remained perpetually locked in the mindset she experienced moments before her death. Her personality similarly has been altered by the powerful necromantic force called the "Still Shadows," that infected her world with the intent of creating an undead army. Likely why she is particularly gleeful in creating yet more undead.
I could never quite seem to capture Spectre in the CoH game mechanics. She was somewhere in the midst of Control, Ranged Damage, and Support, and I couldn't quite decide what combination of Smash/Lethal/Dark/Fire/Toxic/Psi damage she'd do.
In my head she played like some Frankenstein's Monster of Fire Armor, Dark/Psi Blast, and a Warshade.
She... kind of inspired me to write up a whole friggin' Epic AT to try and capture how I imagined her to play, the Hellfire Elementalist. I made a whole AT down to the Real Numbers based off the Kheldian chassis and incorporating my own ideas for something that I would absolutely love to play.
Spectre'd have fit in perfectly as a Hellfire Elementalist with some Dark procs slotted in her attacks and taking the Cognitive Interface once she reached Incarnate level.
In the process of doing this, I went over the Kheldians with a fine toothed comb. I turned up quite a few oddities, copy/paste errors, and lack of copy/pasting on powers that had been altered and been cloned for Kheld purposes, as well as attempted to track down the origin of each Kheldian power, so as to better understand how to make my own AT.
Interestingly enough, several of the things that I'd pointed out where fixed shortly thereafter, or had been fixed in the beta that was just on the precipice of going live.
I have those uploaded at the following addies if anyone wants to have a read:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42230002/CoH%20Stuff/Kheldian.dochttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42230002/CoH%20Stuff/Hellfire%20Elementalist%20Revised.docI rather like the Epic/Tertiary powersets I made for the HE, allowing to have glimpses of other AT's at epic levels.
That was another idea I had and worked into that, Kheldian Epic/Tertiary powersets based on the idea of having aspects of a superpowers creep in from the host's side. Essentially allowing a former Brute or Defender or something of the link that had acquired an energy being buddy to play a bit more like their "former" AT.
Yeah. All this stemmed from my little mental mashup of Sister Psyche and Ghost Widow.
If anyone has access to an easily searchable archive of the CoH forums, I would really like to get Spectre's proper bio back.
