Since The Reach comes up… fuck it.
Tank. Stephen ‘Tank’ Dunlin. Tank was my PC built for fun, a caricature in action made for a few reasons. He was my first Family PC on the game. So I picked one that was busy, examined the theme of the family, and built it specifically for that theme. (Unlike others, I never bought out the nightmares flaw). Said flaw occurred for attending a Fire Science Program in Massachusetts, hold that thought.
For those unaware, Tank was a Firefighter, see not all Dunlins had to be cops or military!
Not just any firefighter, I stole borrowed from Backdraft, and essentially remade Stephen ‘Bull’ McCaffery the Fuckin’ Lieutenant for Life. I upticked his alcoholism, and added on more balls and bravado, a lot more bulk of strength and partying. Tank was a Partier. Tank was not a complete Manwhore. Tank was fun. There was a purpose though.
Speaking of that nightmares flaw… for those curious, the reason Tank was considered to be mister party times was simple. It was the perfect cover to looking like shit the next morning after dealing with a night of spirits fucking around with you, and the nightmares such can create. Not to mention some issues from his youth
He was a Cryo/Pyro, now the only reason for the pyro powers is to have better cryo powers. Tank was immune to fire itself, however, the night the powers came to be was the nigh his old man died in a fire on the job. Waking up to your own room on fire, and finding out the next morning your old man died to fire is a bit of a mind fuck. Anyways, with cryo powers he could keep people from dying in fires directly, and some other neat abilities. Oh and why Tank as a nickname? Well it was close to Bull, the source material, and he had a habit of breaking through walls like the goddamned Kool-Aid man to save people. (Kool-Aid Man was a later nicknamed applied to a PC in the FD)
Tank became hard for me to play though. When I made him I was very much NOT a firefighter, just related to them. Work stuff happened, I needed to move closer to my folks, I ended up volunteering as a FF, got my national certification. Tank is… not a safe firefighter. Suddenly that mindset became anathema to me. In fact Backdraft as a whole is a documentary on HOW TO NEVER FUCKING FIGHT FIRES!! So unfortunately, all that fun, and I had to stop playing him for a while. When I was able to pick him back up, fun times were still had and I got to meet some more amazing players and their PC's.