Hope this is in the right spot.
So I thought I would start this topic to remember our greatest heroes, I was reading VV's reply to the Korean Journalist (Very well written by the way) and she mentioned that as a writer she was close too all of her characters. This got me thinking my main character "Taceus Jiwede" was not only my favorite CoH Character, but my favorite MMO Character. So I want to hear the stories of your characters, if you have a back story I would love to hear it, if it was just a goofy character that you made for fun that is cool too, and even people who just said "It was nothing more than a character" you still had to have one you liked to play the most, why? Ill start:)
Taceus Jiwede was created around June 2004, I was young at the time about 15, I had been playing MMO's since I was 11 starting with UO (Protip: don't let children play Ultima Online)
I often would just play what ever MMO my brother was playing at the time. One day I see him playing City of Heroes during the beta, instantly I loved it. But being 15 and having no source of income I could only share his account and play it when he wasn't. He had me use this character named "Name Theft" a Dark/Regen scrapper that was about as silly looking as she possibly could be. Eventually I wanted my own account, I went out into the world and got a job as a telemarkter (Protip: Don't let teenagers be telemarkters, yes they do hire them) Anyway, I got some money and started my own account and made my first character an Energy/Device blaster named Taceus Jiwede. Now this name probably doesn't make any sense and the reason that is, is because it doesn't make any sense. We all played on Justice and our entire supergroup was made of people with the last name "Justice." One particular AV/Device blaster played by my friend Brad, was a force to be reckoned with but as a friend it was my obligation to mess with him, so I took his name and re-arranged the letters making the name Taceus Jiwede. And so the anagram name having Energy/Device blaster opened his eyes and entered the world of Atlas park. The rest is somewhat history if you played at that time. Looking for PP groups, doing TF's and getting owned by the Clockwork King. Moving on to IP/Talos and then DA for more outside groups. Eventually we got to level 40 and fought some Rikti. The raised the cap to 50 and later introduced Portal Corp. Taceus Jiwede had found a new job as Chimera miner, all the enemies blowing up at once made me a pretty penny when you did it about 30 times a day. Now as a blaster I loved to see things blow up and I gave Taceus Jiwede the back story of a Arch Villain hunter more or less going into the portal corps and wiping out the crude copies of Paragons finest heroes. Eventually I took a break, I was about 17 or 18 at this time and had to go out into the world and make bad decisions. I later returned at the age of 20 and the IO system had been introduced, one of Paragons finest blasters (Ya I said it!) was all of a sudden worthless. A caveman if you will. I upgraded him and got him back to his full glory and better with all those fancy sets that had been introduced into the game. Taceus Jiwede was at his best, a one man wrecking crew. A blapper, a blaster, a crazy man what ever I was calling him at the time I fell in love, he was the character I had always wanted to make. When Going Rouge was released I figured it was time for Taceus Jiwedes story to change a little bit. He was never really a hero, just not a villain. He had no quarrel about wiping out an entire base of bad guys even if it was unnecessary he was a power hungry blaster. As I got him his incarnate powers I slowly moved him more to the villain side for two reasons. One I thought it fitted him as it descended into Darkness. The second being now that I had the alpha slot I was able to finally solo AV's a lifetime goal of Taceus Jiwede. Moving to the red side for more power and more AV's/Heroes to fight this is where he became an Incarnate. Sane, rational, heroic Taceus Jiwede was gone he only wanted more power so he could fight more people and display his ultimate dominance. This went on pretty much until the newest content was released. It was just a blur of soloing +1,X8 missions, doing SF's/Trials, and acting as the income for my alts etc etc and fighting the greatest enemies PS could throw at us, it fit him well. It helped my alts and it helped the story, he was rich and powerful and loved fighting any foe that would challenge him. With the release of the newest content a few months ago I decided it was time for Taceus to go home, back to blue side. He had seen the error of his ways and my friends were all on hero side. And that is where he died, standing in Atlas city where it all began except this time even the mighty and power Taceus Jiwede was completely powerless. RIP Taceus Jiwede
I created Healix on the day I purchased the game...April 28th, 2004. (Never ever played an mmo in my life.) She was sort of a joke. She was a short healer from the planet Alpha Seltzer, and I gave her that goofy cone hat because it was so odd.
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Back then, defenders and controllers were pure squishy and almost impossible to solo. I fumbled my way around. At level 3, a stranger asked me to team and I was THRILLED. He promptly tp'd me to a tall building in Atlas then kicked me. I didn't know what to do..I thought if I jumped I'd die and have to create her all over again. (Told you I was a green noob.) After 10 minutes, I jumped.
As time went by, I made some friends and joined my first sg, the Sons of Horus. They became a virtual 'family' to me. (I once accidentally hit the 'R' key, ran right into the middle of a bunch of baddies, and they wiped out the team. I felt so bad I actually cried.) I learned so much about the game from them.
Issues came and went, and my little healer became very adept at keeping people alive. It was so great to hear, "YAY, we got a healer!" when I joined a team.
The game continued to evolve and we all became more powerful. As more and more content was added, Healix became an object of pride to me. She soloed with her phantom army...she died and always came back a little wiser. The day she dinged to 50 was so amazing...what a feeling of accomplishment. She earned it the hard way without being powerleveled. My diminutive little underdog became a force of nature. I learned much about myself playing her. She will always be my favorite character.
Ah yes, the days when having a healer in a group was crucial and not just a luxury. Healix will be missed.
I suggest this thread should be transferred to roleplaying.
My first character was a tanker on Victory, pretty much a generic knight named "Neo-Templar." Boring! When our SG moved to Virtue soon before I-1, I decided to try out an alt, this time a female knight. "Sister Colette" was almost deleted in Outbreak when I saw that swords do not scale, and hers looked absurdly large. But then I realized this was the key to her character, she's insecure and overcompensating. It gave her a need.
I played variants of little "Colette Valiant" all the way to the end, achieving fifty on the final, Titan/SR version, soon after the shutdown announcement, and acquiring the "excalibur" sword about two weeks ago.
Quote from: healix on December 04, 2012, 08:25:04 AM
the planet Alpha Seltzer
*snrk* awesome :)
My favorite character turned out to be the first one I made, Triplash. I would never have suspected it back then though. For a long time I didn't really like her, she was just "the one I made, so go with it". I picked an archetype and powersets whose text descriptions seemed like they'd be well suited for solo play. See, I was extremely shy for most of my life, and though I'd largely gotten over it in the real world I was still at that stage online, so I knew I'd be spending my time soloing. Ironically I had picked Virtue as my server... what can I say? I liked the name :) (Tip: if server population in an online game is going to matter to you, do a little research beforehand, hehe.)
After about a dozen attempts at names I liked, I ended up going with the first random word that popped into my head... Triplash. At that point it had no meaning, made no sense. I hated it. But the name was available, and I was anxious to get in and play already, so... "Triplash" was born. I figured once I got the hang of the game I'd just start over with a name I liked better. Or, as had happened with WoW, I'd be gone in a few months when the later levels became too grindy and the players became too... well, grindy. Little did I know back then, that this game was in no way like WoW.
In a few months I experienced my first new issue... Issue 14, "Architect". By then I had become a badge junkie, and if you remember the list of badges that were originally included with AE... well, wow. Bring it on! And then the farmers wrecked that. Well, wow. Thanks a bunch. And I
still hated the name Triplash. So much that I made use of the global rename they offered and changed my name to some stupid thing I had been going to use as a pen name one day.
Then I took a break. I had been playing so much that I wasn't sleeping or eating right. That wasn't cool, so I stepped back for a bit. A few months later I came back, fresh and ready to go. And realized that I really did like the name Triplash after all. Liked it a lot, in fact. And now I was stuck with this weird new global I had picked that was hard to type and stupid to look at. *sigh*
And one day I learned about macros and binds (and popmenus! the joy of popmenus!). To test it out I made a bind... "
Triplash tosses $target a cookie". It meant nothing, and went unused for quite a while. And another day, while passing by a random player at the vendor, I decided to toss them a cookie. No reason, I was just in a silly mood that day. They liked it. We talked some. We parted. I had done something I'd never done before, either in a game or real life... had a random conversation with a random person that had no reason or point. I just talked to them to say hello. It weirded me out, but I liked it. Yeah... I liked talking to people. What an odd thing to discover
in a video game, of all places.
So here I was, having fun and making friends with random people... something I couldn't even do in the real world yet, at that point. I was proud of something I had created (I had written a backstory for Trip and made her a couple decent outfits, and been complimented on both a few times), which was also pretty new to me. And I was teaming up with people. Regularly. And liking it.
Me. The guy who spent his entire teenage years so painfully shy he couldn't even look other people in the eye. Here I was, willingly walking into groups of strangers and looking forward to it. I didn't know what the heck was going on, but man, I knew I was liking it, and I knew it was good for me.
Her background, her continuing story, the background and story of all my other characters... those were fun to think up and play out, no doubt. But Trip stands out as my favorite because she actually helped
me. The more I developed her as a character, the more I ended up devloping myself as a person.
Oh and I changed my global back to @Triplash the instant Going Rogue gave us another global rename token. I love that name now. :)
I got interested in City of Heroes when I first saw it because of its superhero theme. So, My brother bought me the game back in 2004 when it was first released. (I played on and off and I influenced my brother to play it as well...he struggled paying for both accounts) :P
I couldn't decide what type of AT/power I like at first (I LOVE THEM ALL!) and had tons of first toons which I kept rerolling until I've decided to make an ice magic type of character (I'm usually an ice mage) and my first official/main/favorite character is Spellcaster Hana, an ice/ice/ice magic Blaster who can teleport. She's an imaginative, shy, moody, and ambitious girl who likes to daydream and draw anime and has always believed in magic, fantasies, paranormal things, and alternative worlds. Being a fantasy magician is her biggest dream. Her uncle gave her a magical item that could grant her any power in exchange for doing good deeds. She originally came from the real world but the magical item transported her into the world of City of Heroes, her favorite game (she's also a Maelstrom fan).
I guess she ended up sort of based on myself. -_-;
It was a rainy day back on August 6th, 2011 that I went and picked up City of Heroes: Going Rogue. The fact that this expansion let me tread the line between Hero and Villian was an intriguing concept. When I created my character I did not base them off an existing character of mine; I simply took what options I liked and created someone. As I went with the "from another dimension (magic) background," I put a simple background about her being a general in a large battle, and then suddenly finding herself in an alley surrounded by towers (which was Praetoria specifically). So yes, Serkana was already from another world before she left Praetoria. Katana was a cool power set, and Willpower was very interesting for me as a new player (damage resistance, fast health and energy regen, and a self rez. yay!).
Serkana as she looked at the beginning:
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Sadly this is the only screen I have of her in this costume; October of that year I lost all of my screenshots in a hard drive crash (from all of my games, all the way back to 2002 :'().
As I played Serkana evolved to a quasi-Roman look:
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I obtained the Roman costume parts before the Paragon Market existed, which meant I ran ITF to get the badge. After spending time in Cimerora I decided to modify her background. I made her one of Imperious' generals in an alternate dimension where the Roman Empire never fell and lasted for many millenia.
Sadly City of Heroes caused me to have a severe case of Altitis and I leveled Serkana up to lvl 40 before I went and created some more.
And then Skyrim came out that November...so... :roll:
But earlier this year I came back to City of Heroes after Freedom came out. I picked up where I left off and got Serkana up to 50. She was my one and only 50, and I don't mind at all that she was the only one. Even though she was on the Freedom server, I did have lots of fun roleplaying with her and trying to always talk in character. Serkana had an intense hatred of magic users due to the events surrounding her transportation to Praetoria. As a result she spent much of her time thwarting the plans of the Circle of Thorns. It was fun to explore Serkana's personality in Tips and sometimes choose the harder path because it was what she saw to be right.
Serkana has still been my #1, even though I had several characters I would play frequently. Serkana will always be the character I think of when I think of City of Heroes.
Quote from: Colette on December 04, 2012, 05:26:14 PM
I suggest this thread should be transferred to roleplaying.
I wasn't entirely sure where to start this heh, although I would like to say this is not limited to Role Players, in fact Taceus Jiwede was the only character I even took the time to give a story and give a personality too, so for those of you who had favorite characters but weren't role players or didn't have back story's feel free to still post about your awesome Brute that literally couldn't die or your 'fender that managed to solo an ITF. Your characters fought and died for Paragon, we will honor them here.
Also thanks for sharing everyone I loved reading all of them. It is so strange a how a character you make on a wimb or even just to get into the game will quickly become the character you always wanted, even if it wasn't your intent.
Sister Collete
Triplash
Serkana
You characters will be missed but not forgotten:)
P.S Mods feel free to move this if it isn't in the correct spot but I felt it would create some nostalgia and give us more to fight for (As if we need more reasons lol)
Edited out a spelling error
Did anyone save the City of Heroes Facebook page for the "When did you pick up City of Heroes and what was your first character's backstory?" post? I'm afraid I made a PDF but it was at 1 pm on 11/30/2012 and the number of responses had almost doubled by midnight when it was erased. :(
Brawling Humiliator. My favorite. Ever. Because he taught me more about how the game worked than any other character I've ever used. And, well, it's fun to be quirky. :)
Pinnacle knows about this weirdo, and probably some of you too. But his tale can be told one more time for those who don't.
Brawling Humiliator was born out of this idea of a MAN build I heard about, which was, as I understand it, using only what would come naturally. Like a gun, or being able to punch (which would be SS) or such. Defense was shield, or perhaps Super Reflexes, something like that. But nothing 'unnatural', such as magic lightning bolts or whatever. What a real life person could use, that is what you could be.
Well, I said, "MAN build? Pfft. That's not a MAN build. THIS is a **MAN** build... Brawl only Brute. Solo. Sweeping. Right to 50. Probably take a year of casual playing to do it too."
BH (as I got to call him after a while) was born as a Heroic Brute with War Mace/Willpower. The only reason I picked the Mace was because, well, I had to choose something for a primary, even if I never intended to use it. I figured it'd be funny to use Brawl and hold a mace threatingly while doing so. And Mace had Build Up, which I kinda needed for a little extra aim/damage, and later Taunt, which I didn't take until late, as I was working heavily for Defense with Willpower.
5 months later, I dinged him to 50 in DA. Brawling +5s LTs and Bosses. He loved doing that. LTs were the best XP gains though, per second, that is. Heck, he could brawl +6 LTs, but the XP gains were no different than +5s, to my astonishment... didn't know there was a cap, so I stopped doing the +6s. He was, by then, a Vig, because he wanted to see what the Redside was all about.
I also 'naturally' after he was 50 and I heard about it, round tripped him from Vig to Villain, did the story arc to achieve the 'Army of Me' badge and title (Solo, of course!) and then from Villain to Rogue to Hero and back to Vig again. Fun times.
But THE reason he was my favorite, besides the game allowing him to solo street sweep his way to 50 using only brawl (and patience, true :) ) was the fact that he beat, solo, with Brawl, GW, Honoree, Hro'Dotz, whoever that general that's with Honoree that I can't remember, fairly easily, as EBs (there's no way to solo an AV with this one), but not only those, fought and beat Chimera after he'd +3 EB'd himself.
That took, I kid you not, 40 minutes to do. But I played Chess with him, figured out a strategy, and beat his ass. No inspirations, mind. Just BH and his fist of Doom, and WP.
Oh, yeah, and this flying FFA match he won once. Mostly he couldn't survive PvP, but this one time... that took 30 minutes or something... finally whittled down the opponent and it was like "Oh! WOW. How'd that happen? Nifty."
Gawd he was the funnest, funniest, silliest character, and I love him a lot. I miss him. And ToB (Thing of Bigness, think red giant with Armored Valkyrie Wings and a Flamin' Punkin' Head.) too. Among the many others.
But BH ruled. Bar none, my absolute favorite.
Sorry for the long. :|
Quote from: houtex on December 05, 2012, 01:56:40 AM
Well, I said, "MAN build? Pfft. That's not a MAN build. THIS is a **MAN** build... Brawl only Brute. Solo. Sweeping. Right to 50. Probably take a year of casual playing to do it too."
That literally made me laugh out loud. Also very creative I must say I didn't even know it was possible to brawl your way through the game.
BH You insanely crazy Brute. You will missed by us, but certainly not by all the enemies you shamed with auto attack.
I'll type what I can here as long as I hold up ok. I'm an English teacher, and thus a writer, and I've always had a strong love of creativity and, especially, role-playing. I put a lot of time into my characters and their stories--some of them, at least, especially the ones who were integral to my Mission Architect arcs.
Barring a short stint of making a single character on Exalted for a few levels, I was a Justice man all the way since September 21, 2008.
Tubbius, or unofficially Tubbius Claus, wasn't my first; that was Roderic Cliche, a cold/cold defender that didn't stick. Tubbius Claus is, in-game, supposedly the jolly old guy in red from the North Pole himself, come to Paragon on extended vacation. He took up residence in Atlas Park, holding a minor political official position there, wearing his usual red suit and top hat when he wasn't wearing his usual festive garb. Tubbius was my first 50, my first Incarnate, my main toon, and my favorite to play for solo and team potential. He was a Plant Control/Empathy/Ice Mastery Controller
His counterpart is Tubbius Regalis, of the Rogue Isles, a Thugs/Traps Mastermind turned hero after spending his first twenty levels or so under Arachnos' thumb. Favoring royal purple suits and cloaks to Claus's reds and whites, and sporting his signature pink-and-purple semi-automatics, he led a small army of Thugs, Posse members, Force Field Generators, and Acid Mortars. His constant companion was Salartha, a darkness-themed character of my girlfriend's and his level pact partner. They almost made 48 before the close.
My dearest character, though, was Waddle the Penguin, level 50 Ice Control/Empath/Ice Mastery. . . and a penguin, product of Crey Biotech's PENGUIN project devised by Dr. Grant Simons of Crey R&D. PENGUIN was the Polar Extraction Neutral Government Undercover Intelligence Network. It was Dr. Simons' effort to genetically manipulate penguins and other polar creatures into serving Crey as intelligence operatives and potential assassins. Waddle was one of six: a short, plump penguin of a little better than average intellect, mutated and given ice generation abilities, empathic healing powers, and extraordinary agility, leading to his signature bounciness and jumping capabilities that would usually see the flightless bird soaring over Paragon City in his own way.
But first, Waddle had to escape Crey. A looped emergency feedback message had slipped through the Architect Entertainment computers, a message from a missing Dr. Simons regarding the existence of PENGUIN and its ultimate failure during a monstrous, dangerous battle of the most notable PENGUIN operative--experiment #923353, named Waddle--and invading Winter Horde creatures. Waddle would eventually be freed from his battle with the polar monstrosities, only to almost immediately seem to go rogue.
Waddle would soon attack a Crey headquarters, baffling security guards and stealing documentation on PENGUIN. With others staying a step behind the errant penguin--who had left Crey's headquarters in Crey's Folly with a leap into the air and a cry of "Waddle HERO!"--and tracking him from Crey offices to a second Crey laboratory, and, finally, to a warehouse in Brickstown to where he'd been chased. . . a warehouse where he would find his beloved "Poppa," the portly gentleman that was Dr. Grant Simons. Simons was in mortal danger of being double-crossed and captured by Crey for continuing his genetics studies that had already destroyed one of their labs already. He was doing his best to take his methods and put them in a new direction: the creation of FISHIE. In trying to save the Doctor, Waddle found himself facing off against his goldfish-originated, musclebound replacement. . . and soundly finishing him. Doctor Simons would be taken into custody for his rogue genetics experiments, leaving a puzzled Waddle behind to watch his beloved father figure be put in a police car.
However, before he could pursue the truth about his Poppa, Waddle would have to play the hero in a moment of his own child-minded innocence. A ticket to visit a "free circus" in King's Row saw him slip-sliding into a Carnival-centered plot to manipulate and control crowds by creating secretly drugged batches of cotton candy at the factory of one Horace Craven Snow--"Mr. Snowy" to children all over Paragon. Waddle maintained reservations about this mission--Snowy's factory was at 117 PENGUIN LANE, after all--but he played the part of hero expertly before bouncing off into the Paragon night.
And thus, his final heroic mission, before the darkening of Paragon City.
Dr. Simons had contacted heroic individuals with an offer: help him recover the other five missing PENGUIN agents and bring them in for safe-keeping, and Crey would see him freed and kept out of trouble under their custody. Waddle saw himself involved, returning to the rubbled headquarters where he had first appeared to lay waste to more Winter Horde invaders, and then off into the fetid sewers nearby to find others like him. Word would reach the penguin and his companions of Dr. Simons' mysterious escape--a jailbreak orchestrated by Crey operatives who would rather have their proverbial cake and eat it, too, without working in proper channels. The hunt was on again, with Simons being tracked by a teleportation signature. . . and, ultimately, with Simons being taken in once more, this time by a heartbroken Waddle himself, who, in his childish mind, finally came to understand what being a hero could really mean sometimes: that heroes always had to stand for what was right. . . and that Poppa was, indeed, a very bad man.
. . . .
That does it.
If the game ever goes live again, I'm putting out PENGUIN Part 5 within the first week: Waddle Again.
Fantastic Tubbius, I loved reading all of it. Fantastic stories, all funny, all extensive I loved them. If the game comes back up I wanna play Waddle though that had me hooked.
Thanks, Taceus. :) I appreciate it.
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The final arc was PENGUIN Part 4: Waddle On. #554993, published at 8 p.m. Eastern time on the last night. It went out with 5 5-star ratings and a 4-star.
Quote from: Taceus Jiwede on December 05, 2012, 03:43:11 AM
That literally made me laugh out loud. Also very creative I must say I didn't even know it was possible to brawl your way through the game.
BH You insanely crazy Brute. You will missed by us, but certainly not by all the enemies you shamed with auto attack.
tex had a fanclub on PinnBadges. Seriously, every once in a while someone would ask where he was street sweeping and
then just go watch. I know I did once. It was an infectious kind of crazy. Or maybe it was the sort of thing you just had to see to believe, I'm not sure. But, yeah, he'd round up like six or twelve gray-level minions (which he'd call his "health posse," to fuel Rise to the Challenge) and then just kinda waltz around the city, completely invincible. He became the unhurried center of a busy universe. It was very zen. (In a completely violent way, of course.)
Quote from: Tubbius on December 06, 2012, 04:59:15 AM
=Screenshot of Awesome Penguin=
Not only was your story of Waddle awesome, but that your character is probably one of the most creative uses of the character creator I have seen in some time. I lol'd at the screen of that guy.
One of the few characters I actually typed out a bio for was Void Summoner; my Dark Control/Martial Assault Dominator on Beta. The last character I created. :-\
I received a lot of compliments on her from her costume, to my power choices, to her background. 8)
I had trouble shrinking her bio down to fit it all into 1023 characters. She was well on her way to being a Vigilante when the game closed.
Also, you could pretty much blame Crey for everything... the same way everything is a Nemesis plot.
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Quote from: Tubbius on December 06, 2012, 04:59:15 AM
Thanks, Taceus. :) I appreciate it.
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The final arc was PENGUIN Part 4: Waddle On. #554993, published at 8 p.m. Eastern time on the last night. It went out with 5 5-star ratings and a 4-star.
LOL...I love Waddle! I created my little Pengie and always had so much fun playing him.
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One of my fovorite toons was Lina Moonshine
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I started with her on the Rogue Isle, long before Going Rogue was out and the option to change the sides. This was a time where all this black weared "I am sooo evil" characters was around, so I just had to make something different. I think I can say that I was the first (and only) superhero on the Rogue Isles. Well, Lina was thinking that she was a hero: Fighting the evil forces from Dr. Longbow, setting bombs in buildings to make room for a supermarket (We have to go forward in the buisness you know?) and make sure that everyone will pay everything what is just the right thing. As a mastermind Lina didn't have any powers at all, she steal the robots from her dad (Well "borrow" them and I always wanted pink robots, to bad that we can't change the colour) and had a device for her "Moonshine Power" to activate "Force Fields". On the F10 key was "Full Moonshine Power!" of course and on an other key I got an costume change bind with that flash with the words "Moonshine Power Suit!". In the first time not all understand the joke ("Hey, we are on the Rogue Isles here...") but this was just fun to make something different ("I know and the Rogue Isles really need superheroes...")
Later when Going Rogue was out this joke wasn't so funny anymore, so I switch the sides and made Lina to a real heroine. She was the only one where I had incarnarnate powers and where I can solo also the hardest missions. From all my characters I lost was Lina Moonshine the hardest part, because I can't rebuild her anywhere else. She was just to special and no one have masterminds, but she is always in my heart.
Sleep well Miss Moonshine and with full moonshine power of course...
Quote from: faith.grins on December 06, 2012, 05:14:44 AM
tex had a fanclub on PinnBadges. Seriously, every once in a while someone would ask where he was street sweeping and then just go watch. I know I did once. It was an infectious kind of crazy. Or maybe it was the sort of thing you just had to see to believe, I'm not sure. But, yeah, he'd round up like six or twelve gray-level minions (which he'd call his "health posse," to fuel Rise to the Challenge) and then just kinda waltz around the city, completely invincible. He became the unhurried center of a busy universe. It was very zen. (In a completely violent way, of course.)
OMG, thanks, now I'm totally cackling and grinning like a deranged maniac. :D
Yeah. It *was* rather zen. Just running aroun with mah Heal Posse, beatin' the tar outta +3s, with Brawl on auto, and chattin' away in Pinnbadges, notching my way up to that 50. My personal best wat the time I took out, I kid you not, 24 +2 Family minions and a couple of LTs in IP that for some reason decided they were all gonna stay ticked off at me... and they all paid the humiliating price for it. Heh.
Dammit, now I'm a little melancholy. Still grinning, but.. Heh.
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Tub, I honestly wish I could go back and run your arcs. I need a comic book with Waddle, go make it. ;D
I wish I could, too, Houtex. :)
And if I had any kind of serious comic book ability, I'd do it! :)
I think my favorite was my darling, tragic Bella.
http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,7170.0.html (http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,7170.0.html)
One year of getting crap thrown at her, one year of happiness, five years of grieving and heartbreak. Hard to sum all that up in one post. And yet she kept picking herself back up and getting back in the fight. I think in her I might have had one of the best rad/rad debuff specialists on Pinn.
After this post and video though, I don't know that I will actually ever bring her back. I couldn't bear to think of her sitting alone and scared in that empty CCCP base, waiting for Nothingness to swallow her up and negate everything she had ever been, so I gave her completion and a sort-of happy ending. I'm not sure I care to bring her back after that. I'd rather think of her in Worker's Paradise, in Zach's arms again.
I had many, many favorites, but two stand out in my mind: Agent Andrea Blake (http://twitpic.com/bjrmsm) and Agent Sorina Tavarisch (http://twitpic.com/bjrn43).
Tava's story is still being chronicled in THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE, but as that's set one year behind the last in-game events of COH, there is still the matter of her being removed from the picture so Positron can get on with courting Numina.
Blake deserves a book series of her own, though... she was just so much FUN.
*sighs*
It's funny - the stories and moments that defined both of them came from external sources.
Tava was created to a) sort of fill one of the 5 leader slots for Star Patrol, and b) test the grav/kin controller power set. I sort of knew her backstory, but it wasn't until one night when I was casually RPing with a fellow SG member (where after helping to defeat Anti-Matter, she whips out her cell phone to call Positron and let him know, and agrees to meet him for coffee) that the whole "Tava's in love with Positron" thing came to life. And then the rest of her story came to life along with it.
Blake was created when a fellow SG player asked, "How well does the dark/psi defender play?" So I created one, who also became one of the 5 founders of Star Patrol. And my little "Danger Mouse" superheroine was born. I still want to commission someone to do an art piece of her dancing the tango with Statesman at a charity dance after she bullied him into it.
I miss them both so much.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Quote from: Victoria Victrix on December 07, 2012, 06:50:57 AM
I think in her I might have had one of the best rad/rad debuff specialists on Pinn.
After this post and video though, I don't know that I will actually ever bring her back. I couldn't bear to think of her sitting alone and scared in that empty CCCP base, waiting for Nothingness to swallow her up and negate everything she had ever been, so I gave her completion and a sort-of happy ending. I'm not sure I care to bring her back after that. I'd rather think of her in Worker's Paradise, in Zach's arms again.
One of my greatest regrets is never getting around to making a Rad/Rad. I always wanted one but I just had other characters I was working on instead.
And you bring up something I have actually thought about a lot. If CoH does get revived, would I recreate Taceus Jiwede? Could I even recreate him. Its too late to extract him, I was initially just going to let his story end but then I started thinking if the game does get brought back would it be best to start a whole new character, or attempt to recreate my old favorite.
Thanks for the stories so far everyone. Hope more keep coming in:) Reading about all these characters makes me miss the game and the adventures but it in a good way, hope one day we can start em all back up.
Quote from: houtex on December 07, 2012, 04:25:56 AM
OMG, thanks, now I'm totally cackling and grinning like a deranged maniac. :D
Yeah. It *was* rather zen. Just running aroun with mah Heal Posse, beatin' the tar outta +3s, with Brawl on auto, and chattin' away in Pinnbadges, notching my way up to that 50. My personal best wat the time I took out, I kid you not, 24 +2 Family minions and a couple of LTs in IP that for some reason decided they were all gonna stay ticked off at me... and they all paid the humiliating price for it. Heh.
Dammit, now I'm a little melancholy. Still grinning, but.. Heh.
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Tub, I honestly wish I could go back and run your arcs. I need a comic book with Waddle, go make it. ;D
I just want you to know IF the game gets brought back. I am making a brute brawler! Damn't it must be done!
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I can't keep away from my PENGUIN.
Waddle makes a reappearance in an ongoing serial on these boards!
http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,7205.0.html
Let me know what you guys think as it goes. :)
Quote from: faith.grins on December 08, 2012, 03:32:41 AM
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I did two on purpose
Bought the game back in june or july 2004, but didn't start playing until august. Had never played an MMO before and didn't know if I would like it. but it was about Superheroes and that brought me over.
First character was an ice controller, as I recall I wanted to name him Stone Cold but the name was taken. ended up calling him Gold Stone, from that a theme was born. All my characters had a Golden Theme. I started my First Tank, my favorite, and my namesake Golden Ace in early December 04 after my current main kept getting him butt handed to him by paragon protectors.
Invulnerable / Ice. not too many took that route but he was a heck of a lot of fun.
so much so I couldn't get into any other characters. I always came back to Ace.
*Sigh*
I miss Ace. :(