ChakatStreak

I'd certainly like to get in on this, though my highest-level toons might be a bit too low for the plan, especially if we're looking at 30+ as the level range:

Name: Mindora
Server: Virtue
Security Level: 22
Archetype: Defender (FF/DB)

Name: Agent Ravage
Server: Virtue
Security Level: 13 (almost to 14...)
Archetype: Blaster (AR/Dev)

I'd bring Mindy, unless others from KGB Special Section 8 sign up, in which case I'll try my damnedest to bring Ravage up to an acceptably playable security level so he can join his SG-mates (in theory, he could even be the catalyst for the KGB and anyone else from Virtue who wants in to get to the Test Server reality: his teleportation technology is from Project Rainbow, AKA the Philadelphia Experiment, and is notoriously unstable).

Looks like I have some levelling to do...

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My SG mates joke that they can tell I'm a RL female because my toons actually wear clothes! My main's primary costume is a full set of metal armor with helmet and goggles. I do have one skimpy "evening outfit" but that's for when I'm teaming with my RL husband!

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All of my characters dress according to their character concept, and according to events around them. For example, my main, Mindora, started out effectively "nude": her costume and its color choices were made to show off her fur patterning. Same thing with Chakat Streak. However, when the winter event hit, it got too cold for even my furrier characters to walk around in the buff, not to mention that they were getting sick and tired of walking through the sewers with bare feet. So Streak got heavy winter pants, a hooded coat, and thick fleece-lined boots and gloves (all still colored to match hir fur pattern), while Mindora, who had just earned her second costume slot and cape, got a more "superhero" outfit: a navy blue and purple leather bodysuit, stiletto-heeled boots, and fingerless leather gloves, plus the DVD-edition cape (I rationalize the transparency by saying the cape is actually created by Mindora herself, out of pure psionic energy).

LtCmdr T'rana has a full coverage, armored "Hazard Suit" as her main costume, and when she earns her alternates, they too will be full coverage: her Paragon City Police Department SWAT uniform, her naval duty uniform, and her naval dress whites.

Rongo wears a pale blue strapless dress of the "how does it stay on?" variety, with high heels; her alternate costumes will most likely be her secret identity, Nami Mizuno, in street clothes and her old high school uniform.

Sonnette's costume is patterned on, essentially, a BDSM-style inspired by a Final Fantasy Red Mage: leather corset, bikini bottoms, leather boots (NOT stilettos for her; she's a speedster hero, and wouldn't be able to run at superspeed in stilettos!), and a duster-style hat (lamenting the lack of feather for it). It's representative of a costume she once wore in one of her movies, and liked so much that she kept it and made it her standard adventuring gear.

Nalli Midori was actually originally designed by a friend of mine, who graciously allowed me to play her in CoH; while her original character design was "catgirl in MegaMan armor," she recently got redesigned, so that her armor was inspired more by Protoman and Zero (more accurately, it was based on Prometheus from the webcomic Bob & George), except sexier and skimpier: cheesecake armor. Her CoH design is my attempt to be as faithful to her creator's design for her as possible, which basically comes out to a sports bra with armored shoulder pads, a bikini bottom, and heavy robot-like armored boots and gauntlets, plus a helmet with a visor on it.

Virtue:
Mindora has no job. She's been buying food solely on her hero stipend, and sleeping in her Personal Force Field, hovering in midair, right up until her SG-mate Shadeburn found out about it. She now shares an apartment with Shadey in King's Row, though they're looking for better accomodations.

Rongo (Nami Mizuno) is an undeclared freshman at PCU, on a student visa from Japan. She doesn't have a job yet; she lives in the PCU dorms.

Turankusu is a business administration freshman at PCU. His parents are fairly wealthy, owning a high-tech firm, and so he doesn't really need a job. He receives $2,000 a month for rent and living expenses from his mother, and is training to take over the company. He currently lives at the dorms, as well.

Chakat Streak is a masters student in mechanical engineering at PCU, and works nights as a bartender. Shi shares a penthouse condo above the MC Louis Investments building in High Park, King's Row, with hir SG mate Tygara.

LtCmdr T'rana used to be an officer in a future space navy before being time-displaced. Now she's attending the Paragon City Police Academy, and taking special training for SWAT placement.

Agent Ravage works full-time for KGB Special Section 8, be it in heroing, constructing devices to aid himself and his SG mates, or taking care of the SG pet, the People's Puppy.


Freedom:
Sonnette Felstrom/Nalli Midori (host and symbiote, represented in game as two different characters) is a former actress, and currently a professional adventurer/hero.

I have eight characters, across two servers. Of those characters, one is male, one is a robot based on a male body and personality template, one is an hermaphrodite that appears generally feminine but whose personality fluctuates slightly from masculine to feminine as hir monthly (well, 24-day, actually) cycle, and the other five are all female. I myself am male, but when I'm in-character I prefer to stay in-character.

I've been playing females for eight years now, my very first being a Maximal raven femmebot named Nightbird on the old Beast Wars Transformers MUSH. One of my female characters was apparently so convincing that a fellow player, with no prior knowledge of my IRL gender, was fully convinced I actually was a woman, despite this character being, to my mind, my most stereotypical "girl played by a guy" character.

For me, it's the challenge and the fun of being something different. I enjoy playing female or feminine characters, and if people assume I really am a woman... then it just means I'm doing a good job.

Looks like it got even closer to the top than any of us could imagine... and will be staying there for a long time! Here's to a great guide, and the great mod who decided to sticky it! *raises a glass*