Characters You Enjoyed Playing
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Hrm. This is difficult...
I suppose I'll go in list of games that I have the fondest memories of.
Aftershock, Predacon, Demolitions Specialist with an ankylosaurus alternate mode on Beast Wars: Transformers MUSH. He was my second PC on that game, after playing a Maximal, and was my longest-lived on that game. He started out pretty standard in the villain angle, but as things went on, my capability for the genre and setting got more viable. He spend a lot of time working with a variety of Predacons and involved in a great number of plots. My most memorable plot was directly involving his concepts for weaponry; he used sonic weaponry like a sonic cannon and sound wave explosives. So we RPed out the development of a subtle sonic weapon that, when turned on, deactivated energon dampeners by messing with their frequency. It turned into a really fun plot where we put two of those in the Maximal base, which made them essentially stuck in beast mode for a while. The plot ended in a pretty epic one-on-one fight between a Maximal player and me (the player was a pretty bad twink I realized after, but the fight was fun). He eventually was killed by sabotage and getting blown into a lava pit.
Rock on Megaman MUSH. I played him on and off for years, and I really loved the idealistic young man that was his default mode. He was in even measures childlike and youthful, commanding and with a great leadership bent. He was also the first character I ever actually cried during RP through. Two of my favorite plotlines that Rock was involved in was the first Stardroid TP, where at the end, Rock's human girlfriend was killed freeing the Stardroid Terra from his prison. There was a LOT of emotional and great RP with the player of that PC. Second was the Repliforce Coup TP, where we had our first actual PC in-game death on the consent game. I didn't know it was happening OOCly, the players and staff worked it out and there was a hugely emotional impact of Rock killing a few actual PCs that he'd spent time with, worked with and generally had great emotional ties with.
On Beast Wars: Transmetals, I played too many characters with too many great things to remember. But overall, I think running plots for everyone was my favorite. Out of all my PCs, Imp, my Starscream-alike, short statured Predacon who transformed into a dragonet was fun. I totally Starscreamed that shit up, working behind the scenes and in a vampire-familiar MO in order to usurp Megatron. I got blown up for my trouble, and my spark fed to Rampage.
On TF2k5, I think I had the most fun with Geo, my cassette-bot Decepticon OC. She started out as a gag PC, with the function of Geologist, but eventually grew into her own. And when I bothered to actually do stuff, I got involved in some fun RP. I think one of the best memories was one of the Galactic Olympics events, and a Science Fair event where we got to freeform build stuff. That and the 'Decepticons find Martian civilization remnants underneath an EDC base on Mars' plot, where I got to be a huge central point for the plot in unearthing the facilities and getting them in working order.
On Megaman X, I think playing iX/Return X was the highlight of my PCs. This is very much the 'troll character' I talked about in the other thread, where I got to be a smarmy immortal asshole. But he wasn't without his faults, and some of my favorite scenes were just... doing regular Maverick raid stuff, and pissing off (ICly) other characters so that slagging him over and over and over, in new and creative ways, was never a dull moment. I did enjoy playing him during the Assault on Orthanc, when the three other factions attacked and wrecked the Maverick home city. He was running around in defense of the city and had a fucking flying Ride Armor (giant robot) crashed into him, and all of its munitions detonated ALL AT ONCE. Being immortal, he survived... but damn if the things that other PCs went through to disable him for long periods of time wasn't epic.
On X-Men Evolutions MUSH, I played Gavin/Portal, a sixteen year old mutant with teleporting powers based around opening portals from Point A to Point B. He was a weird experiment, as he was the first gay character I played on a game (I'd primarily played very FC-heavy games, or games where I played OCs their sexuality really didn't matter). I built him to get some play with the concepts of the X-Men genre and Xavier's 'dream'. Gavin was really fun and I got a LOT of awesome RP out of his character. Particularly, I ran a Genosha plotline featuring the 'Genosha as mutant slave country' for the game. It wasn't the smoothest TP that I ever ran, unfortunately. BUT, afterwards, I became very close to the then-Wanda player and a number of other Brotherhood players and got to play out a 'faction switch' in game, with all of the attendant drama of losing faith in Xavier's dream and betraying the Xavier Institute. Was hella fun. And the long-term Pietro player was super cool about Gavin's 'crush' on him, which brought no end of hilarity from Wanda and Avalanche and the version of Boom-Boom that was Brotherhood at the time.
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I miss Fallon on SerenityMUSH. I played her 2002-2004ish (or somewhere in that window). Her background was she had been a pilot for the Browncoats who was the sole survivor of what was supposed to be a run on an Alliance base and the intel got leaked. She woke up in a hospital, years later, with a cybernetic leg and was salty af about it.
Through a lot of work and with a couple people I recruited to the game, plus a couple I met on the game, I got a ship and crew going. I was also really good at that iteration of H-Space (the .txt file I wrote of a 'how to fly' guide made it to their website last I saw: when I played, the game had no site, I just emailed the file around to interested parties) which helped us get there.
I've told the story before of the how & why I left. But until I did, I loved my crew. I loved the stories I told. I loved the fuck out of that character. She's what really set off my joy for playing pilots. I'd had another on WNOHGB prior to her, but Fallon... Fallon left most of the duties of running the ship to HalfJack, but they really ran it together. She really only cared about flying. When they were groundside, she spent most of her time in some bar drinking, smoking, and bitching about how much her leg bothered her. She had no fucks to give, but she was fair to her crew and loyal as fuck to them, too.
I remember one day the 'game' on the WHO list got set to 'pick a song for the character below you' and the two songs I saw that day for Fallon were George Thorogood's One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer and Flogging Molly's Factory Girls. Had a 'hell yes, that about sums it up' moment.
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Here are a few who I really enjoyed playing as and miss a lot:
Alessandra@BSCerberus: She kind of got to be something of a Mary Sue/Starbuck kind of character for how much of almost everything she got involved in, but I wouldn't change that about her for anything. Of all the characters I've RPed as over the 18 years of mu*ing, she is one of the few I really was able to get into the head of and really got to experience a lot of good character development and immersion as a result.
Kitty@Serenity Mush: Again, a character I had a lot of fun RPing as. She was kind of my way of thumbing my nose at staff for not letting me RP as Kaylee! She wound up being her in spirit if nothing else. Again, another character I really had a lot of fun as.
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I pretty much adored my ghoul on Reno1. She was the strangest creature. Down on her luck former socialite/artist, scraping by. But she had manners and knew how to socialize. Her regnant was a suit-averse Bruja.
This combination was hilarious and led to her essentially becoming The Worst Disney Princess Ever.
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She learned about Animalism by yelling at the pigeons roosting in her as-yet-renovated loft to 'fuck off', then ran screaming, recoiling in sheer horror.
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She once mowed down a zombie with a mini-cooper, which is sort of like monster-murder by Hello! Kitty-mobile.
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She felt very, very bad for shooting a bear after forgetting she could just tell the bear to go away. Oops. "Bear? <nudge nudge with point of boot> Bear? Wake up bear... OH GOD I'M A HORRIBLE BEAR MURDERESS!"
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Her actual vice was Bitchy. She lived up to it. She was more fun when she knew she could absolutely not under any circumstances live up to it, slowly letting the cattiness build until she'd politely excuse herself and go punch holes in things... like walls. Because she was eventually more or less murder ghoul.
She was great fun when she succeeded at something, but far, far more entertaining when she failed at things, because wow, did she ever fail in spectacularly amusing ways.
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Olivia @Darkwater. She is probably the WoD character I am most proud of. Completely uninhibited, she was nobody's first choice for Spring Monarch, and yet when she was Crowned, the freehold's number of oathsworn rose dramatically, and then when her second season came around, the number sworn to the freehold was again higher than any other season. She wanted the Crown because she wanted to serve, and I've never quite been able to capture her essence again.
Ygraine @BSO. Another free spirit, Yggy was a tall, freckled, blonde braided farm girl who became the best damn ECO (fite me) on Orion, who often ended up giving people life advice. She was so insanely adorable - genuinely so, rather than being annoyingly cloying, and was given a LipWobble skill of 10 by staff. She took no shit, had a stash of condoms she used for trading goods, had inappropriate relationships and appropriate ones, and took about a year to a year and a half to get around to being with the fella who arguably would be the one the fans fanatically shipped her with if Orion was a tv show. (Other players shipped them. It was hilarious). Attacked by wolves, threw up after being forced to pilot a raptor, and one of the first to pull a gun on a skinjob. Epic.
Umai @St. Petersburg and HM. Gentle and loving and kind and a phenomenal chef. Had an /amazing/ cabal on St. Petersburg and I was incredibly sad when the game closed. Umai on HM became a Spirit Master that even the Uratha were willing to work with. I never felt like she accomplished nearly as much as she could have, but by the end of things she'd created at least one Level 5 Talisman and that's something, yeah?
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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Portia on Firan. She had history, in that her mother had schemed and her dad was a war hero and was awesome, and there were all these shenanigans that went on so long before she even existed that by the time she was played she had a legit backstory and travails, man. Obstacles to overcome. I loved overcoming them, one by one - meeting her goals, letting the RP shape her, reaching out and shaping those around me. My favorite moment (aside from duck gifting shenanigans) was when, a year and a half AFTER SHE WAS DEAD, a plan I'd put in place to obfuscate something and lay the blame on someone else TOTALLY WORKED without me having to lift a finger about it. Glorious.
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I really enjoyed playing Hien@M3, I basically got to write my entire repressed id, both online and in real life, into a singular character. Every car trip stuck in traffic translated to a dickhead comment and every interaction with a rude classmate translated into a ninja stunt. He was compared, in personality, to the comic book character Deadpool, so I think I did a good job at writing a child overman.
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Sywin Billard.
Asexual Virtual Adept. Not in-your-face asexual, nor "Forever Alone" in-vir...in...those people who band together because they're not having sex and insult everyone. I mean, Virtual Adept, so insulting was on his list of things to do that day, but because he wanted everyone to be better and the end of the world was coming and shit needed to get done. His played-by, in the days before played-bys, was literally the image of the Virtual Adept in the original Mage book, and I thought: How would he be as a person? How many people would mistake him for a woman in the wrong light? How would he take this? And I thought: He'd be aware, and annoyed about it, but in general tell people to get over it. And in turn, people got over it.
I should note that I can't tell if the image is supposed to be a woman or a man, but I think that's the point. Data doesn't care.
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Honestly/weirdly, the characters I miss, the ones I yearn for, are characters i played in MMOs. Alarice in EQ2. Lianhan! I played a banshee who was creeping on a total party wipe and a mass res brought her back to life into a magical body and she was corporeal and pissed off and WEIRD and creepy.
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@kanye-qwest said in Characters You Enjoyed Playing:
Honestly/weirdly, the characters I miss, the ones I yearn for, are characters i played in MMOs. Alarice in EQ2. Lianhan! I played a banshee who was creeping on a total party wipe and a mass res brought her back to life into a magical body and she was corporeal and pissed off and WEIRD and creepy.
Oh, man, if we're bringing MMOs into things, I still have a deep and abiding affection for all my WildStar and Secret World characters, even as obnoxious as Google Docs and forum RP can be to try to keep a scene going.
a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)
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Oh, I don't know.
Back on CDI? Aramais. Human folk called him that. His people called him A'ra-maa'y-sadis s'mron y-Jasaad'i. Translates all roughly to Ballad of the Twilight Stream, Son of the Mother, of the Hunters. Murder-elf. Kinda grouchy. Looked down on people. Fell in love with a human. Looked at people differently, but often, required his human to translate.
Eternal Nights-- anyone remember Isabella? I played a Verbena woman celt named Danyelle, half her body covered in tattoos. She had an interesting but challenging relationship with the local sidhe court.
On Armageddon. Belial, Baron of Hell, Prince of Lies, Lord of Shadows. He was a builder, for Hell. He made alliances, he plotted. Despite 'prince of lies', he didn't often lie. He spoke well, and kept his word. He was so very dangerous but hard to ignore; a true power in Hell, a master of illusions initially and later of granting power. I also had Rachel, a cherub, an angel of knowledge in the afterworld.
Los Angeles: a House Divided. Oh, many. The balancing act my white gang-banger, Graydon, Gangrel did between Rachael, the wild elder, and Erin, the sociopathic urban elder, was so much fun. Li Wei Lin, a Toreador who had a fragrance-bar and played big politics but held her sword at bay. I had others: some NPC's were notable. Emerson's blandness as a guise that covered his unfathomable power. Emory's rage that he almost couldn't contain and was a Really Big Issue, city-wide (he was technically Emerson's Sheriff, but what good is a Sheriff who casually rips heads off if they say the wrong thing? Emory's almost-lost-control-of-the-beast was a big deal.). PC-wise, my favorite was the Rabbi, Levi Kaufmann. A nosferatu elder, looked like a desicated corpse, went out of his way to be a teacher. Did not take offense lightly, explained why vampire society was the way it was, helped and actively supported neonates. He limped from place to place (dex1/str1). A certain neonate coterie once took him for weak, though. And he pumped a ton of blood and they were all 'oh shit'.
Anytown. Oh, this game hurt me, but. Bradin, gay werewolf (WTF was new still), I had a cool pack, only time that ever happened. It was a fun situation.
Let's see. Just rambling now, timing is totally off.
The Reach. Chance was my main. Asian sociopath party kid. Not to be clear, in almost all ways, he wasn't a sociopath. But he was a Sin-Eater, of the Reaper variety, his particular draw was killing 'abmortals', immortals, which he morally ended up deciding as those who 'corrupted life to serve death', and as ghost-cop, he ended. (He was also big on ending people who made ghosts: molesters, abusers, etc. But he'd try to not be fatal if they weren't fatal, in his 'corrections') But this wasn't absolute. He didn't hate all immortals. Eternals are fine! Blood bathers need to die. Vampires... big, big, big problem. But. What's fun here is there was a major personal arc where Chance and Mira became friends, respected eachother, and it made Chance re-evaluate his thing. He would never be all like, 'vampires are okay', but.. he evolved.
That's also where I met @Sunny.
Let's see. Oathcircle. Godric, unseelie Baron, I had fun until life ended. HE was a dynamic, passionate leader who was as much freedom fighter and politician as fighter, but he had a dark side.
I'm missing so many chars, so many games. So many.
Recently, M1963? Billy. He's irreverent, non-magical in every way, a sci-fi nerd from the future, but he's quirky and makes jokes and is hyper loyal and is learning wisdom. Johnny is cocky and confident but a team-player.
And so on.
Gah, so many.
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Overall: I don't have a "type". I enjoy a variety of characters. I tend to latch onto a detail or two, to start with, then... grow. I enjoy discovering where they grow to more then planning where they will end up.
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@sparks said in Characters You Enjoyed Playing:
Oh, man, if we're bringing MMOs into things
I don't see why not! The topic's about discussing favored characters you've enjoyed playing. So MMOs are fair game too, I'd say!
I don't really do MMO roleplaying. I just find it often clunky and the immersion just feels off to me. In my head though? Oh, yes, I'll definitely come up with a story in my head, while playing a game. See: Avantyr the Paladin of the Silver Hand in WoW that has been deleted and given a redux every other expansion. Or Darth Murdros(mur-der-ous, get it?!?!) in SWTOR.
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Ianthe at Arx. She was a charming disaster that started out as this free spirit until she finds out a pretty crushing secret that completely broke her. RPing that out was difficult but it was one hell of a story with her making mistake after mistake because that revelation wounded her deeply enough that she couldn't figure out who she was supposed to be anymore. I would have loved to see more closure for her, but I think a tragic ending fits for how that story arc went. Not every story should have a happy ending.
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Shout-out - though their stories (and characters) in Arx are nothing like they were when they were played in MMOs, I miss Pena, and Ylaria, and Ayllish from the original EQ so much, some days. Those stories were great and horrible and wonderful and terrible and all of the above together.
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@cupcake said in Characters You Enjoyed Playing:
Ygraine @BSO. Another free spirit, Yggy was a tall, freckled, blonde braided farm girl who became the best damn ECO (fite me) on Orion, who often ended up giving people life advice.
Yggy! She was a great deal of fun, and I really enjoyed Yggy/Phin. Them as buddies (loooooooong before they ever hooked up) really helped me hook into the character.
Phin@BSO is definitely one of my favorite characters, in a way that sneaks up on me every time I think back on how much I enjoyed him. He started as kind of a toss-off generic Viper pilot Lee Adama riff (with Zac Efron's face, for lulz). I wasn't sure if I was in the mood to MU right then, and I apped him because I wanted to play with a handful of people/because staff had let me and a buddy of mine create twins on a BSG game, which was low-key trolling that sort of amused me. I had no real expectations. I ended up getting really into him, and he slowly came to life inside my head in ways that were really rewarding to play. If I were to try and rank my favorite characters, he'd easily make the Top 5 (maybe higher, some days), well above characters with backgrounds I liked more initially, or who had concepts I was more excited about. That doesn't happen for me often (false starts with concepts I'm jazzed about are much more frequent) and it was an experience I look back on extremely fondly.
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William Fletcher@The Reach and Wyatt Fleet@Bump In The Night
I have to thank @Sunny for helping provide the spark that lit William on fire. While discussing character connections, something just clicked. William came alive. William was a handsome and funny former high school bully who made out with the wrong woman one night and ended up a paraplegic who taught high school. He was a psychic at first. Lord forgive me for forgetting his powerset. He ended up dying of cancer and came back a Sin-Eater. He was fun and charismatic with a dash of moodiness and angst. I had a lot of fun in his brain. He ended up getting married to the wonderful Nakesha and lived on until he stopped talking to me. (The muse fled. I couldn't connect, whatever. I just sorta lost him.) He had a nice send-off with loose ends tied nicely so Nakesha could continue while I iced him. I thawed him just before TR ended with the intention of picking him back up but he was just gone. I miss him and I thought no one could match that kinda love until...
Wyatt Fleet. Wyatt was a Deaf single father who very much believed that aliens had abducted him. Three times, if my old notes are correct. His belief in aliens was so deep that he had no problem bringing it up in normal conversation. "So yeah, I was doing good until the aliens abducted me. sips coffee My hearing was fine!" (It wasn't, Wyatt. STFU.). He was dead serious about anything supernatural being alien based and would argue with you about it. He was convinced they would invade and enslave the human race and it was only a matter of time. This made him into a gun nut doomsday prepper. Taking something so ridiculous and playing it very straight was the most fun I could have for free at the time. And that's what he was. Just straight up fun. He was Gone Too Soon, as BITN closed. I will miss that crazy SOB.
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@goldfish said in Characters You Enjoyed Playing:
Wyatt Fleet. Wyatt was a Deaf single father who very much believed that aliens had abducted him. Three times, if my old notes are correct. His belief in aliens was so deep that he had no problem bringing it up in normal conversation. "So yeah, I was doing good until the aliens abducted me. sips coffee My hearing was fine!" (It wasn't, Wyatt. STFU.). He was dead serious about anything supernatural being alien based and would argue with you about it. He was convinced they would invade and enslave the human race and it was only a matter of time. This made him into a gun nut doomsday prepper. Taking something so ridiculous and playing it very straight was the most fun I could have for free at the time. And that's what he was. Just straight up fun. He was Gone Too Soon, as BITN closed. I will miss that crazy SOB.
Wyatt was so much fun to play with! I loved him to death. Really, I just loved BITN to death and the people there.
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I once played a dapper Hutt who was hunted by the Cartel for stealing his boss's clothes and freeing his slaves. He once outran an imperial army. They still wonder to this day how that was physically possible.
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