Kelenar

Please! I just want to be able to have characters with tattooed arms who are wearing actual clothes!

Player Name: Kelenar

Character Stats: Well, uh. Kelenar was my first main in City of Heroes (Level 50 Storm/Elec Defender) but I deleted him years and years ago. I have a handful of characters I split my time about equally between these days.

1) What’s in a name? : “I see your name is “...”. What is the story behind it? Where did you get it? What other names have you used in the past”
Long ago, in a distant land, I (AKU) bought Baldur's Gate, the first RPG I ever owned. And I made me a wizard. I said to myself, I said, "What would be a good name for a wizard? Uhhhhhhhh. Kelenar. Sure." And then I used that name for my EverQuest character. By time I got to CoH, it was just habit.

2) What’s in a job? : “Why do you play a “race/class/occupation? Do you find you play that a lot? Do you like it or would you play others? Do you have other characters with other race/class/occupation”
I've played every AT in the game except Peacebringers to at least level 30, so I've tried darn near everything. I tend to focus on Defenders, Brutes, Dominators, and Scrappers, in about that order. The specifics of my likes and dislikes are kind of complicated (I can't stand some of the most popular Scrapper/Brute sets), but it generally comes down to 'I like to be able to do good damage, but doing nothing but damage is boring.'

3) What’s in a game?: “What do you like about this game? What would you change or improve?”
The fighting looks good--and I don't mean that it has triple-filtered quadrilinear omnivoxels or whatever the big thing is these days. It just looks like fighting instead of guys swinging weapons vaguely in each others' direction, like most MMOs. And it's fast-paced, and above all, makes your character generally feel powerful.

4) What’s in a story?: “Do you have any funny anecdotes from playing this game? What is the greatest adventure you’ve been on in here?
Not sure on this one. Most of my fondest memories of the game have been roleplaying moments, which don't tend to make good anecdotes if you aren't personally invested in that time my character had a fist fight over the last sandwich or whatever.

5) What’s in a friend?: “Do you play alone or with a group? Are you a member of any guilds? What keeps you playing alone/groups? Do you have lots of friends in this world? Do you talk to them often?
Had a lot of good friends in the game back in The Day, but most of them have quit MMOs altogether. I dated one of them for ten months and ended up living about three miles from another one, though, so I'd say I got my money's worth. These days, I mostly solo, group with strangers, or team with the few people I still know in the game.

6) “What got you into MMOs?”
A lot of my friends got hooked on EverQuest when I was in middle school (1999. I've been doing this crap for 11 years, it would seem.) They dragged me in.

7) “What new MMO are you looking forward to?”
Not much. The Old Republic is about it. For the most part, the vast majority of MMOs bore me now that I've gotten tired of the reward grind.

A pretty similar list of ideas I had a while back. Some of the commenters had some pretty nifty stuff.

Now I want to make a brooding vigilante character who is out to murder Mystic Fortune for killing his (parents/wife/dog.)

Don't forget beating up the groups in Croatoa, most of whom (except the Red Caps) are relatively innocent when you get down to it. The missions are mostly justified, but that doesn't stop you for beating them up for standing around in the forest.

Oh man, I thought this was going to be about the hilarious blast-from-the-past hardcopy manual, from the days when nukes stunned the user and Gravity Control's level 32 power was Team Teleport.

I bet there are some cannon-based RP groups for pirates or Napoleonic War characters.

In no particular order:

Sorrow-Weave: Thinks she's the daughter of Ruladak, so she enjoys testing her strength against people. Probably my most stereotypically villainous character, she has no real limits short of destroying the world. Still, she doesn't beat people up for no good reason--she has a bit of a code of honor about it. If you put on the cape, you're accepting anything she might throw your way, but she has no interest in hurting the weak unless she has to, and gets annoyed at those who go out of their way to do so.

Jessica Reid: Brainwashes people, sells illegal substances, and pretty much murders indiscriminately. She's evil, but it's the small-minded 'hey, where's my money?!' evil, not the 'mwahaha, how I am invincible!' evil.

Silead the Lament: Has a completely screwed up nervous system, and she's sort of a reverse-empath, so she's usually in horrible, mind-numbing pain... unless she's around somebody who's unhappy or in pain, which is the only time she feels okay. Put simply, she isn't a nice person to be captured by. When you get down to it, though, she's just a lonely kid who's doing the best she can to cope with the fact that she was horribly screwed up when she was young, and she does her best to do good with her, er, abilities as an assassin.

Liora Kate: Is going to be invincible! Yaaaaaaaay! She just needs a few more parts to finish up, and that's why she had to steal everything from that store. And then throw a brick through the window. And then set it on fire. But she gave like ten thousand (stolen) dollars to some orphans yesterday, so it's totally okay, you guys.

And this would let me get other people's opinions on costumes before committing to them! As it currently is, if I'm designing a costume with somebody's help, I just have to pay for it and hope they don't have much feedback.