Christmas Present from Mumsie

[Mothers_Love]

Fellow Heroes,

I just thought I'd pop into Cohtitan.com, say hello and wish you all a Happy Christmas and a prosperous new year.

For my American cousins who may not know me, I was predominantly active pretty solidly on the EU servers 2004 through 2010 and then infrequently for the last 2 years up till sunset.
I was on the EU server 'Union' and played (for the most part) as my main 'Mother's Love (points to avatar) as an Empathy / Psionic / Psionic Mastery Defender with 4330 hours on active duty.

I am a graphic designer by trade and it was my absolute honour and priviledge to be able to contribute to the magnificent community we built up, shared and enjoyed.
I enjoyed contributing self-directed CoH projects, in-game event posters for players (which through great community representitives we used to get featured on the main website), player-meet badges, and on the rare occasion we managed to get advertisement for the game - the magazine ad, (I won the EU competition to do the concept and art for the official EU game magazine advertisment which ran in print across the computer and games press).

City of Heroes was (and is) a fantastic community.  It was my first real experience of an MMO community and although I have been a part of many since, CoH has always been the gold standard to which I have held the others.

To my 'little ones' on Union over the years, collegues on the Defiant server, and Forumites across the EU servers especially.... thankyou!.
Thankyou for making my time in Paragon City a very, very special one.  If we can come close to building that again in another MMO I will consider myself fortunate to share it again.
I am (and have been) in Champions-Online also on-and-off since closed Beta, and although (in my opinion) it is far from fulfilling it's potential as an MMO and doing the Champions licence justice - it does have blood-ties to certain aspects of CoH and my suite of toons now call Millennium City home. (@Mothers_Love in-game if you wish to contact me in-game / Eastgatewidow on the forums / mothers_love@hotmail.co.uk).



Anyway, here is a small selection of artwork and a link to my photobucket account;
http://s115.photobucket.com/albums/n291/Mothers_Love/

Here you will find in the public folders; everything from the competition posters, to some in-game event posters, to the aborted 'Forumite Shop' - (Sorry guys but NCsoft legal dept really did not want any merchandise even if all the work was done for them for free. I certainly would of loved to have enabled you to have it all), - anyway....also the 'City of Kittenz' tribute artwork (based on player's toons and the re-badging of Forumite Shop stuff through a mixture of copyright concerns and downright having creative fun), - and finally some screenshots of Union's heroes from my personal golden age year of 2006/7.  The EU community was amazing and always rose to the occasion to help out with things like humourous suggestions for t-shirt mottos.
I hope there will be something from yesteryear my fellow European Heroes will recognise, and perhaps some other stuff everyone else can enjoy in the meantime from one fan to another.
If any of you would like high resolution files of the posters (for printing and personal use because of stock photos) , or indeed of anything in the photobucket albums, please do feel free to contact me and I will do my best to see you get it

So farewell Paragon City, fly free, and perhaps I'll see you alongside and on-duty also in Millennium City.
Once again, and from the bottom of my heart - Thankyou.

Sincerely,
Mumsie.



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[Victoria Victrix]

I'm very honored to "meet" you, Mother.  I've heard such wonderful things about you!

I'm not giving up the fight for our home.  Keep buffing Team Wildcard!

[cohRock]

Wow, that is a nice present!  Your work is equal to any professional ads I've seen, and superior to many.

[FatherXmas]

I love it.

[Artillerie]

Great to see you here Mother - merry xmas :)

[Cryfire]

great art, thanks for sharing, have a happy holidays.  ;D

[healix]

PURE awesome, and this one is genius:

https://i.imgur.com/UNTsJ.jpg

[Riff]

Happy Crimble Mumsie! :)

[Ashen Fury]

this stuff is amazing. That scrapper shirt...I may need to have one made.

[Lady Luck]

Great stuff!
The blaster logo: "Debt free since....ah, never mind"
made me laugh since that's my fave AT.

[srmalloy]

The blaster logo: "Debt free since....ah, never mind"
made me laugh since that's my fave AT.

Although "Debt free for... what time is it?" works well, too.

[Reiraku]

I want that stalker shirt.

[Mister Bison]

Although "Debt free for... what time is it?" works well, too.

Personnally like "Glory Comes - Face Down", so much fitting the old Defiance inherent it's just factuel :-)

[houtex]

"Imp My Ride" made me LOL.  :D