So where are your characters now?

[Sakura Tenshi]

I'm not putting this in the Champions board since this isn't exactly Champions related, but basically the question is: since the closure of City of Heroes, what have you done with some of your old character concepts?

Do they sit in your mind and play games while you're asleep? Have you re-imagined them for some tabletop RPG campaign you're in? Did you roll them back up in Champions or make them in some other MMO?

And just how well or poorly has it been working out for you?

For me, a friend and I have taken our City characters (and actually a few others) and migrated them to a story series we've been writing of the Urban Fantasy persuasion. It's worked out fairly well for me since writing actual stories frees up a lot of the restrictions the game mechanics left me with, not to mention that we've been able to build our own setting from the ground up and let our characters truly be heavy hitters in the world.

Though I personally can't help but note a lot of elements from The Secret World being involved. Though, on the flipside, The Secret World pretty much took everything from pulp novels, HP Lovecraft and other horror writers, and urban fantasy stories and made THAT into an MMO.

[Heroette]

My heroes are kept safely on my computer at home.  I have them in screenshots, videos and on Sentinel+.  Whenever I get lonely for them, I can see them again.  It's not the same as playing but at least they are not "dead".  They are alive in there waiting for a new home.

[PSI-on]

I used the Sentinel thing too, but when you said you can "see" them, you mean only visually with screenshots and vids right? Or did you mean you can do something with the Sentinel files?

My heroes are kept safely on my computer at home.  I have them in screenshots, videos and on Sentinel+.  Whenever I get lonely for them, I can see them again.  It's not the same as playing but at least they are not "dead".  They are alive in there waiting for a new home.

[Golden Girl]

I used the Sentinel thing too, but when you said you can "see" them, you mean only visually with screenshots and vids right? Or did you mean you can do something with the Sentinel files?

You obviously haven't been here yet - http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/board,174.0.html :P

[Yoru-hime]

So far, a few have scouted out The Secret World, but the Templars were obnoxious and the Dragon Lady put Yoru-hime in therapy before she made it out of the tutorial.  :gonk:

I'm considering the possibility of some of them visiting Eorzea (FF14), but I'm not sure just how pigeon-holed into a story and a look they'll be there. I can work my way around a lot in my mind, but if it's too obvious that your character's backstory is pre-canned, then Yoru-hime and company just wouldn't fit in.

Yoru-hime: Oh, just TRY and make me wear elf ears.  I've got a Dark Servant and unresolved anger issues. Bring it on. >:(

... they're still looking.

[sgtcrispy]

In my head waiting for their untold origin stories and adventures in a new world of my own making to be written down.

And some screenshots...  :'(

One did venture over to CO for a second, but was unimpressed and wandered off somewhere.

[Brightfires]

There's a version of Palrah (my beloved WP/DB tank) running around in Secret World. And, of course, he, Kestrel and Cardinal all exist in both little kid/"chibi" and adult resin forms.

The Chibis...
https://images.weserv.nl/?url=turtlehouse.domuscygna.com%2FImages%2FAssorted%2F2013%2FActionFigures.jpg

Now with added Chibi!Scirocco to keep Kes and Cardinal out of trouble!  8)
https://images.weserv.nl/?url=turtlehouse.domuscygna.com%2FImages%2FAssorted%2F2013%2FChibiIm%2FIm1.jpg

And the "grown ups"...
https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.domuscygna.com%2Fhosting%2FCityOfHeroes%2FCityPortraits%2FPalrahResinWings.jpg
Palrah

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=turtlehouse.domuscygna.com%2FImages%2FAssorted%2F2013%2FNinjatude1.jpg
Kestrel and Cardinal (Kes' wings are still in the works-)

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=turtlehouse.domuscygna.com%2FImages%2FAssorted%2F2013%2FYinYang1.jpg
Kes and Cardinal without their "ninjatude" hoods.

The chibis are 25cm LittleFee dolls from Cerberus Project, while the grown-ups are 65/70cm Iplehouse EIDs.

[Eoraptor]

they live on in the fabric of my mind. (and one in one nonCOH role-play)

[Heroette]

I used the Sentinel thing too, but when you said you can "see" them, you mean only visually with screenshots and vids right? Or did you mean you can do something with the Sentinel files?

I meant with the videos and screenshots.  But I do have the Icon program too.  I just feel too sad flying around an empty city so I don't go there much.

[JWBullfrog]

they are all safely stored in the vast, echoing, cavern that is my mind. but a few of them have made it into other games.

Let's see:

I have two that have become Starfleet Admirals.
One has become a minstral in Middle earth
Three have made their way into The Secret World.
Several pop up in my short stories.

There are a few that lurk, and sulk, and refuse to come out and play because, frankly, they really don't fit anywhere else.

they are all still with me.

now if I can only get them to stop shouting 'HELLO' and making my head ring.

[Ironwolf]

Most have "Gone Fishin"

The rads have "Gone Fission"

[Sailboat]

So far only one has made his way out of my hard drive.  The American Pit Bull, Claws/Willpower Scrapper extraordinaire, has made his way into a weekly Mutants&Masterminds campaign.  Playing in a roleplaying campaign of course offers very different challenges from an MMO -- there's much less fighting, enemies tend to be stronger and more dynamic, and almost no repetitiveness.  And any system has plusses and minuses.  M&M forces players to have roughly identical defense and offense caps, so it's not like the difference between a Fire Blaster and a Willpower Scrapper, AND certain defenses are paired under the caps -- so one cannot be "tougher than normal" against both physical and mental attacks, for example.  No "Willpower is also strong vs Psi" for M&M players.  Furthermore, our GM has sharply restricted regeneration.  On the other hand, the game allows you to buy extra chances to critically hit, which is perfect for a Scrapper, and our imagination allows him to have the Bite powerset he never had in COH.  Plus he can finally grapple.  Also, Willpower's "Heightened Senses" power, which only added typed defense in COH, can do a LOT more in a roleplaying game.

So although I have to adjust to not necessarily being surrounded by endless hordes who can't hurt him, I have been having a pretty good time with him.  Of course, I could be doing that whether or not COH was still around.

[GoliathBirdEater]

One of them went to Champions and actually came out a bit better in the long run; one went to Champions and didn't fare so well.

My main character and namesake is quite literally floating in limbo, cut off from everyone and everything in his extra-dimensional base of operations, searching for some sign that he's not alone.

Every other character is just mothballed, waiting to be used elsewhere.

[Steelclaw]

Okay... so... this is weird... but bear with me...

My characters are playing World of Warcraft.   I don't mean they are characters IN WoW... I mean they are actually playing it. 

My latest Tournament pits all my CoH characters against each other in WoW, but since it's a really unnatural transition for some of them, rather than RP them in my mind as actual WoW characters in the WoW world... I'm ... well... I'm imagining them as controlling the WoW characters and competing with each other that way.

So... my current Tournament is my old Tournament competing against each other... in a Tournament.

And, just so you know, I have a restraining order placed against the men in white coats approaching within 75 yards of me... so don't bother calling them.

[Menrva Channel]

A lot of my characters were characters that I have used in RP with some friends. We game every weekend and so when I get to play them again, it's nice. I always saw Paragon as sort of what they did in their "off" time. I always joke they all live in my "green room" in my head. They're all as real as they can be to me. But I miss playing them. I deleted every last one of them and built two for the closure, because I couldn't bear to leave any of them "behind". And it was hard enough leaving the ones that I specifically built for it. As for the two left behind, I see them lingering all shade like in Paragon and Rogue Isles respectively.

[Angel Phoenix77]

all my characters are waiting for me to be able to team with them again. my main has been taken into the champions univ. temporarily.

[Stormy Weathermaker]

For the most part, my character remains in my mind and through Icon (when I need a fix).  Other than that, the character name only has made it's way to a couple of games and they are:

The Secret World
NeverWinter
Champions

I will never be able to recreate the character I made in City of Heroes.  Took me 6 years of playing to perfect her.  Sometimes I think I can picture her tapping her foot now and again (e/waiting)as if to say "Well?  Have you figured out where we're going yet?" 

[Golden Girl]

I will never be able to recreate the character I made in City of Heroes.

Don't bet on that ;)

[FatherXmas]

There's a version of Palrah (my beloved WP/DB tank) running around in Secret World. And, of course, he, Kestrel and Cardinal all exist in both little kid/"chibi" and adult resin forms.

The Chibis...
https://images.weserv.nl/?url=turtlehouse.domuscygna.com%2FImages%2FAssorted%2F2013%2FActionFigures.jpg

Now with added Chibi!Scirocco to keep Kes and Cardinal out of trouble!  8)
https://images.weserv.nl/?url=turtlehouse.domuscygna.com%2FImages%2FAssorted%2F2013%2FChibiIm%2FIm1.jpg

And the "grown ups"...
https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.domuscygna.com%2Fhosting%2FCityOfHeroes%2FCityPortraits%2FPalrahResinWings.jpg
Palrah

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=turtlehouse.domuscygna.com%2FImages%2FAssorted%2F2013%2FNinjatude1.jpg
Kestrel and Cardinal (Kes' wings are still in the works-)

The chibis are 25cm LittleFee dolls from Cerberus Project, while the grown-ups are 65/70cm Iplehouse EIDs.

AAAAHHHHGGG!  Creepy doll people.  Don't you watch Asian horror films!

[Brightfires]

Actually, I don't. And these guys are FAR from the creepiest resin minions out there.  Trust me on that. 8)