User:Thirty7
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Characters
Below is a full list of all of my current characters broken up first by server, and then further seperated into 50s and non-50s. Each character that has its own page here will be linked to it below.
Justice
On Justice, I only play Villains and help to maintain a VG there called The Legions of Fate. All of my characters on Justice are a part of that VG, and I am in close contact with the active Super Leader of that group. I began playing on Justice after moving our VG there from Guardian, which seemed just a bit too slow on red-side for our tastes. After Hanging out on Justice for a good while and getting involved in some of the global channels, it became clear that Justice was going to be my new home server and that Infinity would begin to play second fiddle. As such, I payed to have my main badging character move to Justice where he was able to team with my significant other's main badging character, Agent Inhakos (who happened to be the Super Leader of the VG).
Level 50s
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Level 1 - 49s
Infinity
On Infinity, I only play Heroes and maintain an SG there called The Strands of Fate. All of my characters on Infinity are a part of that SG, and I am the active Super Leader of that group. Infinity had been my main server since I started playing City of Heroes around the release of Issue 10. It wasn't until recently that I essentially switched focus from considering Infinity as my home, to considering Justice as my home. Mainly, this was due to my liking of Villains more than heroes, and the ability concept-wise, of my hero to transition to being a Rogue without much issue.
Level 50s
Lost Emissary was my second 50, and the first character I played in tandem with my significant other. I discovered by playing him, that if I am going to play a Defender, I really enjoy when its powers are enemy-focused (i.e. Debuffs) more so than when they are teammate-focused. So, it is fortuitous that Lost is a Dark/Dark/Dark Defender.
After reaching 50, my significant other's character fell to the wayside, and that gave me the opportunity to re-invent Lost's bio. He went from a scientist working against the Family and the Marcone family in particularly, into a somewhat amoral scientist who meddled with inter-dimensional travel and crossed into an alternate reality. When he got back, he found he had little to no memory of either world.
- Truepath
Ahhh, Truepath. He was born as a vigilante cop out to take down the man who killed his family... cliché to the max, I know. And he is an MA/Regen Scrapper... which I found out around Level 30, is not really my cup o' tea. Compound this with the fact that I got bored with the character concept. It took years for him to hit 50. And, now that he has, he was given a name change (from Jon Zander), and a complete biographical overhaul. He is now an honor-bound Native American using his somewhat unwanted mystic gifts to fight crime on behalf of the Great Spirit who bestowed his "path" upon him.
Level 1 - 49s
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Taking the immensely creative name from the numbers found on the Bar Code chest detail, Eighty-Three is another robot in my stable of characters. It was created by Mantis Engine, and is a Traps/Psi Defender. Mostly I thought that having an underused damage type, and a debuff Defender set would assure that I enjoy him. And, while I played him, I liked him quite a bit. Unfortunately, I believe he will be one that sits around for a good while collecting dust. Eighty-Three formerly was going to be named according to the Morse Code for the word "bar code" taking the form of a lowercase L for bars and a lowercase I for dots, resulting in something like "iiillliliilli," or some similarly impossible to type name. It looked cool, but in practice, was untenable. And so I hit upon using the digits on the barcode symbol that I had intended to use for the character all along.
Eighty-Three is the only character of mine whose name is only a number, which might seem odd to some considering my global. In fact, the only character that uses the numbers three and seven together is Helix Black!
- Chrysophract
Chrys is someone who was created on a whim for both the desire to team with a friend who was playing some lowbies at the time, as well as mess around with Earth Control and Thorny Assault. Chrys is a character who got left-behind in First Ward and got converted into a Devouring Earth creature. Somehow he maintained his personality, and instead of trying to destroy humanity, joined the Resistance to fight those who had all but quarantined him... only to get Devoured. He sees Cole's entire regime as evil, and would rather the DE win and kill everyone than see Cole remain in power. Fortunately, he also has a somewhat unique perspective on the DE, making him useful to the Resistance.
- Dr. Sikuliaq
Doc here was born from the desire to have one of the capes from the Origin Pack be the source of someone's abilities. In this case, the ability to weild the forces of arctic storms. Thus the good doctor was born.
I found that I wanted to play Storm Summoning as well... but wanted to make sure I could immobolize enemies to counteract some of the KB in the set. Which is why I picked a Controller and not a Defender. He does not get played much, but I like his look and powers well enough.
- Duneshadow
Duneshadow will be re-made as soon as Staff Fighting comes out. His costume struck me, almost fully formed (colors and all) from looking at the Circle of Thorns hood! From that point on, I needed to figure out how to use the costume. Finally I struck upon the idea of him being Middle Eastern, and his real name sprang into my mind... it was not soon after that his code-name occurred to me. In the meantime, he waits.
- Fulgent
My second homage to Green Lantern. This time, purple and not yellow. I just loved Electric Armor when I played it briefly, and realized that I didn't have an Axe character anymore. So, Fulgent appeared. Another thing I realized that if I play a Tanker, it must be one in which some risk of death is involved... it just gets too boring for me otherwise. Which I suppose is why I kinda hated playing my Invuln/SS Tank.
- Geocore
Geocore has gone through a lot. Grant Houser, has been named a few too many things as well. I believe he began life as a Stone/Mace Tanker named Palissade. That didn't last too long. He re-started life as Palissade a Shield/Stone Tanker. And now, he has been re-born yet again as a Shield/Stone Tanker with the name Geocore. As Geocore, Grant is an every-man type of character. A guy who made his own costume to fight crime and uses his mutant powers for good. I especially like about him the fact that his costume is totally feasible and made from bits like goggles and some belts that could be found most anywhere. I also like that his burly size is just this side of normal... and matches his past as a mechanic oh-so-well.
- Helix Black 3-7
I absolutely adore this character. He is a TA/Sonic Defender, and I think he has cemented the idea that I really do like Debuff sets. I like how little Endurance he uses, how he looks, his past and I love that I don't have to mess around with toggles, and teammate focused powers. He is all about turning the enemies into paper-thin cutouts of something that used to be intimidating.
Helix is an ex-Malta member who moved on into heroing, but keeps his old designation out of habit. He is in his mid 20s and moving through the First Ward arcs with my significant other's Tanker.
- Mantis Engine
After hearing for a long time just how glorious an Ill/Rad can be, I finally convinced myself to make one. He is a robot created to fight crime on behalf of his inventor. Mantis sits at somewhere around 24 due to my attention being split across far too many characters. Illusion seems to be a great set, and I really love his look and bio. Not to mention the fact that I created a "cousin" robot who was created by Mantis Engine itself to also fight crime.
- Mender Cocytus
He's icey! Mender is an Ice Cubed Tanker (Ha ha, a pun... and an accurate description, he will definitely be using the Ice Epic). He is also my first try at making a character look like a Mender of Ouroboros. At the time he was created, I didn't do much in the way of borrowing game lore to add to characters I have created. This dude was the first, and though he isn't played a ton, I definitely like him now that he has gotten over the "hump" if you will, in Ice Armor.
Kyren Legathe as he is known in his home reality, Ærth. Kyren is a friend of Aarik's and seeks to find his friend and defeat the villainous Corridor. As soon as I heard that Poison was coming to Controllers, I knew that I had a perfect opportunity to create a Plant Control character. And so I did. It also gave me an opportunity to run through the newer arcs on hero-side.
This character was inspired by Gambit... and finally fills the role of Cold Domination user that I have been lacking for some time. It is also one of the few times that I have made a character using the Assassin pattern.
With a bit of luck, he will get above Level 10... which is one plateau a lot of my characters reach. And then I hope to get him above 20, which is the second plateau where my characters very often get stuck.
This character is like Joker crossed with Rorschach. He had an accident in the printshop he used to work at in Praetoria. This shop was responsible for creating pretty much ALL of the propoganda material used by Cole's Regime. It also printed the newspapers. Slashblot got caught in such a way that all he could see for hours were the pages of propoganda that were running through the press.
After that, he went a bit nuts and got taken out of a Psych Ward and experimented on by Neuron. At this point, he is seven shades of crazy and very fanatical in his devotion to Cole.
All of Slash's powers are colored to resemble ink, as well as being a perfect way to make use of the Clunker Path Aura. Plus, I loved writing his bio, rarely do I get to think in such an off-kilter way while interspersing my dialgoue with noises from a printing press! Great fun!!
Slashblot will very likely be re-rolled once the somewhat inkier version of Dark for controllers gets created: Darkness Control and Dark Affinity. In order to do that, though, I would have to drop the fun of Dual Pistols... my final decision on that is up in the air at the moment.
- Soulforged
Essentially, he is the Praetorian version of Geistlos, except with Kinetic Melee and Fiery Aura (two sets I hope to play more). Soulforged died, and had his soul bound to the armor and chains that he wears by his crazy sorceress fiancée at the time. He is somewhat of an automaton... and is scarred permanently by the fact that the chains and armor were essentially forged around his corpse!
Soulforged began life as a poem I got inspiration to write called "Soulburnt" and that became his bio when he was made into a character of the same name. That character had a horrid costume, and became one that I just wasn't attached to. As such, he fell into disuse, and was shelved indefinitely. Later, I tweaked the poem, created a backstory that is told in his fiancée's bio and became Soulforged.
The most interesting part of this character, to me, is picturing the exact ritual that his fiancée at the time performed... she litterally took his soul, bound it to chanins and armor and put them onto her lover's corpse while they were still nearly molten. The smell must have been intense.
Aarik Targreve, otherwise known as Spiritglass, was the first character I made who resides in a parallel Earth called Ærth. His world is one in which magic and sorcery developed instead of technology, and where we use physics chemistry and engines, they would use mysticism, alchemy and magical artifacts. There are a few other characters in my stable that hail from the same location, and are in fact directly interrelated to Aarik. In his world, another key detail is that America is called not the United States, but the Vesprian Union (taking Amerigo Vespucci's surname instead of his first name to name the continent).
Whiptech almost became my first Petless Mastermind. But, I felt that such an endeavor might overly gimp my character, so instead of being Whip/TA he is a proper Demons/TA MM who plays his Demons as though they were all powerful illusions generated by holographic imagers. In fact, I will take advantage of the fact that the I and L are mostly indistinguishable when used together to name all of his pets Illusion.
Guardian =
On Guardian I play both Heroes and Villains. At one time, I used Guardian as the base for the now defunct VG, The Tendrils of Fate. But, as mentioned above, it became clear to me that red-side was no where near as active on Guardian as it was blue-side. I loved the community of folks there, but it seemed just too hard, sometimes, to get together the activities I wanted to do. And so it was that the VG was dumped, and we re-located to Justice during one of the periods where Paragon Studios was offering free server transfers.
Now, Guardian has been re-purposed as the RP server for me and my group of in-game friends. We have made several themed RP teams and related SGs and VGs on Guardian, and play over there a fair amount. But, it is by no means a "home" server in the same way that Justice and Infinity are. Also, it has become a sort of graveyard for unplayed 50s who are then used to create the various SG/VGs for the RP characters to play in.
Level 50s
Ora was created the very next day after my first hero hit 50. And, then, was named Last Grula'ak, which was meant to be more like a title or designation then a name. But, for whatever reason, he stagnated for me and sat at something like 31 for a long time. I am not sure what broke me out of my funk with him, but I presume it had to do with discovering some binds that helped his playability and one change or another to the AT. But, I dusted him off and played him almost everyday for a while to get him to 50. When that finally happened... I, totally unexpectedly, stopped playing him. I think it was the fact that his "goal" had been attained that caused it...
Finally, when the free server transfers were offered I used them to give him a name and move him to his current home on Guardian.
- Drachenblut
This character began as an Archery/Energy Blaster and got up to the lofty level of 15 not that long after I began playing the game. I deleted him from not having touched the character in a long time. Then, I convinced myself that I needed a Fire/Kin Controller and re-created this character with the idea that he would start human, ans slowly become more and more draconic each time he recieved a new costume slot. Unfortunately, since his progression directly tied to his in-game story, I didn't have any justification to switch his costumes... which I found disheartening, and I lost interest as soon as the push to 50 was complete.
I forced myself to farm with the character a little... but hated it. As such, I didn't really enjoy playing him and moved him from Infinity where he was born and put him on Guardian where he became the founder of one of the RP SGs. Now he gathers dust.
Level 1 - 49s
- Ariath'el
- Araxes
- Operative Bulwark
- Sangarios
- Vergiz
Exalted
I have but one lonely character on Exalted, who is a member of a themed Time Manipulation RPSG. This one, like the ones on Guardian was created specifically for my in-game friends. I doubt that I will voluntarily make anymore characters here... but, it is always a possibility.
Level 1 - 49s
- Archon Pfahler
