Heroid

This ominous looking fellow is called Aspect of Might.

I don't get very many requests for male figures. I'm a little rusty at it.

New Superhero of the Month contest starting and I have two entries posted. It's Birds of Prey this month -- one of my all-time favorite titles when Gail Simone was writing it.





And be sure to go to Superhero of the Month to check out all of the entries!

Thanks for the kind words!

And on this next post, be sure to click the link at the bottom after you check out the drawing.

I did this one because someone has a Vanguard character and wanted an MVAS with a little bit of customization...



Notice on the shoulder, there's some art, sort of like you'd find on the nose of a WWII airplane.

That art would be this depiction of Vanguard beauty Bluskrene. Putting in the link instead of posting the pic here because it has a bit of skin showing...

Thanks!

And a new one!



Chaste Virtue -- battling babe!

I have more Virtue character art coming as soon as it gets approved by the people I'm doing it for. But it's been a while since I posted anything in this thread, so I'm posting a recent "Superhero of the Month" (http://www.superheroofthemonth.com/) submission just to let people know I'm still drawing. Also, this Starfire redesign is partially inspired by some of the newer costume pieces from CoH.

Very sad. My heart goes out to her friends and family.

I've played on Virtue since 2004, but I know that a lot of the people I currently play with played mainly on Infinity until this year.

Thanks! And if you want to see how far I've come over the past couple years, check out my deviantart page! http://heroid.deviantart.com/

New art for my friend Peripheral of her new character, Ingrid.

And thanks for the nice compliments guys (and gals)!

Before he was "John", Sulphurous was "Jane".

Tiberinus and Baphyras. For Bullet Barrage.

I love this! And Happy Halloween Woot!

New art!

Sulphurous -- the demon-summoning vigilante!

She's not as scary as she looks. At least, I hope not!

Thanks for the nice words everyone!

And...



It's Friday Night and the Westbrook Mustangs are facing off against the Delmont Spartans! Or... is it the Westbrook football team facing off against the Westbrook cheer squad? How embarrassing!

This is a depiction of a scene from a Westbrook Academy for Metahumans forum rp.
http://www.westbrooksg.com/forums/vi...hp?f=12&t=1228

Thanks for the kinds words everyone!

Bullet Barrage!

This is the second drawing I've done of this character. The first one is up the thread a little bit.

And check out my devart page! Link in my sig!

I'm back too! It sucked being unable to read the forums.

First, I think this is an appropriate time to do something that people have asked me about for years. I’m giving up the (( )) in my posts. I used to post in-character a lot. A good many of us did. But I don’t post in-character these days. I don’t think anyone really does. So... no more (( )) from me.

Now, on to the real post...

I got stupidly sentimental during my short time in Gemini Park last night, to the point that I had tears in my eyes. I'm sorry I didn't stay around longer, but, as much as it was great to see the park full, it was hard to think that it will never happen again. Sure I can go to Gemini Park via Ouroboros any time, but events like tonight? Or the much wished-for-but-never-quite-happened Gemini Park Revival... Nope.

But I'll have the memories. The first time I logged on to Virtue (in July or Aug 2004) I created a character in Galaxy and wound up in Gemini Park. It was wondrous. I was amazed! The entire park was a sea of superheroes! Blue names for as far as the eye could see! I lurked for a month or so, drifting close enough to the Legion of Young Heroes, or the Dauntless Reverie to listen to their stories. Or Freedom Factor, or KGB Special Section 8. If it wasn’t for Gemini Park and the role-players there, I wouldn’t have played City of Heroes past the first year, because I wouldn’t have found out about role-play and the interactive fiction-writing and world-building we all do together.

I feel sorry for the players who started the game after City of Villains came out with its bases and killed the Gemini Park scene. There was some crazy stuff back then, and crazy characters like: Dueling Dervish, whose player eschewed travel powers for his natural origin character; Killer Whale, the fishy-eating, lovable orca-man; Cog Sprocket, the rogue Clockwork hero; Mrwrk the magical kitten who played at the feet of broodingly serious darkity-dark characters; Billy, the goat boy who was lonely for a mommy; Jessie, the near-powerless little orphan who lived in the underground home of the (possibly insane) Insectoid Knights, Shinsektor and Krickette; Swamp Bug, the giant water bug who talked with a gruff, halting voice, but whose philosophizing ran deeper than the river he swam in. There were so many stories going on. So many BIG stories. You can keep your Marvel and DC “events”. I’ll take the stories woven by Smersh and Red-eye, Pill Bug/Phantom Soldier, Troubadour, Vagabond Mage, Darkfang and Ravenbane, Vangelus, and so many others... stories rich and well-conceived, and yet flexible enough so that the other players who participated in them could actually have an effect on the outcome. And you cared about these characters and about their stories.

And there were many, many people I missed last night. I wish Maggie had made it back. I wish I had caught Ascendant when he was there. I wish Shae Firewarder (and oh, how I wish Creyon) could have been there. And Glory and Valor. And Lord Paladin. And Ms. Independence. Haley’s Comet. Tessarae.

I had intended on Roy Kirby (HEROID, my global and forum namesake character) to come by and spend some time catching up with old friends like Jake (Flea) and Parz and Reiki and Brian (Sea Hawk), but I just couldn’t do it. I got all choked up. It was the same, but it wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong – my short time spent in Gemini last night was great, and it was quite a reunion, even though some of family didn’t make it. But going back to the old home place for the last time is always hard. You realize that you’ll never have what you had back in the day. That you’ve moved on to other things, another (virtual, imaginary) life. Gemini Park was wonderufl last night, but it wasn’t quite... home anymore.

So, goodbye to Galaxy City. More to the point, goodbye to Gemini Park. It wasn’t a place. It was a moment in time. I’m glad I didn’t miss it.

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