LoupGarou

I ran with it. There's been a lot of people combatting in Pocket D of late; yeah okay it's impossible theoretically, and wouldn't have been my choice to distribute things (why not just get a sellout "hero" to hand out free food or samples or something on the street?) My character has met Prof. T and didn't trust him anyway. However. it give my character a chance to run to Galaxy City and actually get some of the rpers there to talk to him, which is rather like pulling teeth any other time, not to mention a chance to do something which isn't an insular inter-guild sort of thing.

So maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, but it sure beats the usual bad pickup lines and dichonomy of good and evil stuff which tends to go on regularly.

Jean-Luc wasn't in the bigtime as far as Paragon Heroes were concerned; there were those who wouldn't call him a hero at all - his methods were brutal and unorthodox. He wasn't interested in saving or rehabilitating; he went in for the kill if need be, and never looked back.

The one good thing about being the new kid on the block is the big hitters didn't seem to notice you; Jean-Luc had listened in on more than one conversation, and done some digging as well. When Hector had first approached him for blood, he'd been suspicious; he didn't like the man's smell, and Jean-Luc had been around enough low life in the Ring, he knew better than to think he was being given a merely innocent request. That some of the NHU had been watching Hector's movements didn't surprise him - but it still rankled they had felt it smarter not to tell anyone, as if Jean-Luc himself couldn't be trusted. It had caused a bit of a schizm between himself and the Supergroup he belonged to, but such was the way of things.

When he witnessed the battle between Dr Edward - a man he was learning to admire and look up to - and Battle Unit Omega, Jean-Luc began to put the pieces together. Even so, it wasn't something he was confiding in the NHU. They don't wanna trust me, I ain't gonna trust them was his rather stubborn reasoning. And now, with Amy missing - presumably under cover while performing a heroic and potentially futile gesture on her own someone was going to have to rescue her from - Jean-Luc was gathering the information together...but he wasn't sure where he should take it. He hadn't been able to find the Doc in the past few days, and he didn't know enough of the heroes of Paragon to get them to look at him twice.

Bloody cliquish nonsense, when what we need is to put our heads together!

Loup spent his time in Pocket D more and more often, and was even prepared to go into the Ring once more, to see what he could overhear from the big kingpins of the villian world who made the Death Ring their own personal past time for betting vast sums of money and making connections. This would however require him to essentially take a few steps back into the person he was...and that was something he wasn't sure he was willing to do anymore. He'd changed...changed more than he'd realised at first, and while he still struggled with fitting in Up Top, his perspectives now were a bit different, different enough he might hesitate in the ring before dispatching an opponent - something he couldn't afford to do.

Either way, Jean-Luc was looking for his old connections again...trying to find a way to get more information on what was going down. After all, he was nobody. Just the perfect person for the job.

Consider yourself bumped into! Glad to have caught you, mate! I'm still poking people for arrpee regularly so keep it coming

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I find myself now screaming out in silent frustration to find some decent roleplay, so the next time I see you Nether, I definately want to get some roleplay done.

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I welcome it! I do warn in advance Loup is in a bit of a strange headspace but it's getting better, mostly due to how many different people he talked to last night - he's a feeling a bit less out to sea.


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I did enjoy the sparing and then the all out fight (Ed told him not to hold back) between Loup and Ed, though thankfully it didn't last as long as my other vs Claws/Regen battle record (35 minutes before the other guy just gave up) still looking forward to a more training session in the future that are on more even ground

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It was very useful ooc for me as I realised what skills I really need to upgrade. That's proven difficult as low level characters seem to be all twinks and therefore can afford the 300,000k+ influence upgrades (boggle) but at least I know what direction I need to go. It's useful for Loup to have someone to fight he knows he can't kill even if he gets angry. Looking forward to having another go!

Thanks kindly! I actually did want to try and catch more people ingame tonight but I am only just now logging off after roleplaying my guts out - thanks kindly Dr_Mech, you're a bloody roleplaymagnet!

I hope to meet more of you ingame with Loup Garou. And by all means, grab my character for rp when you can - I'm playing this game for a lark and I don't level much, but I'm certainly enjoying myself.

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Have you asked yourself what motivation is there for people to bother with your character to that degree? Is he a joy to spend time with, or is conversation more like pulling teeth?

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The one thing I really didn't want to do was create a "standing in the corner looking filled with angst and woe" type of character. Loup isn't as grim as his Wiki describes. He has moods, but these tend to be rather brought on by him trying so desperately hard to figure out what he's actually supposed to be doing as a hero. I do attempt to let people know my character is there looking to roleplay by dropping emotes whenever I can, and that sometimes gets things going in the right direction though there have been times when even that didn't work (probably everyone talking in SG chat or something). Loup doesn't just growl and loom at people; he does tend to hold conversations and always has several people he watches over like a big brother.

I had a really great bit of rp a few evenings ago where a character roleplayed having watched Loup fight in the rings, and he had a pretty fair idea what it must have been like for Loup, coming from that sort of life trying to come up top and learn to care about being part of society. He spent a hour or so trying to explain things to Loup, and Loup sucked it up as fast as he could, with interest. My character has even gone to the university to start reading as he was told to do, as his education stopped rather short.

Unfortunately, Loup does make mistakes - he beat one of his team-mates in the base dojo because he didn't understand what a "friendly spar" actually was, and no one explained it to him. That caused for a rather tense moment but it also brought some brilliant rp out of it as people realised Loup didn't come from a background any of them had ever dealt with before. If he's just gone from a rather ebullient ball of laughs to turning and walking away, it's so much of a character shift some people do tend to wonder what's happened. He has a certain mode of thinking which is rather different to the way regular humans think. Again, that's something maybe only a small amount of people are going to pick up on. But there's always a reason for Loup's anger these days - thankfully a few people have figured that out.

When I set up the character I imagine he was going to be dismissed by a good portion of the "hero" population for one reason or another - but I also rather hoped there would be that small sliver in the population that might actually look at this rather hairy fellow coming out of nowhere in the middle of a Rikti invasion and putting himself into the thick of things, nealy getting himself killed, and then getting right back up again because he "made a promise".

Like I said, there's a lot there. There's nothing about Loup when he's first around someone which would hint to him being a feral beast looking for a fight. Most of the time he's looking at everything around him as if he hasn't seen it before (which for the most part, he hasn't). The main thing is trying to find someone who has a character who can "talk Loup's language", if you see what I'm saying.

Hm...well there's the thing. He should be an anti-social jerk, but he isn't. He's just bewildered, like a wild animal who is essentially let loose to try and fend for itself. I would actually imagine any hero who is worth their salt might try and figure out what the issue is, rather than get self-righteous and label him before he even starts - though I imagine there will be a fair few people who do, and that's fine. I'm not asking for every hero to drop what they're doing to interact with my character because some people just won't like him. But there's probably a few floating around who would (Chaotic Good, you're the man!). I've actually seen a fair few on the edge type of heroes because I was steering for something which wasn't a stereotype or completely black or white. And I am part of a supergroup but it does rather seem unless I'm playing a major emo-boy or a cutiepie girl there's no chance of rp - and I don't do anime-rp.

My character is nowhere near as cut and dried as the Wiki describes. I know roleplay in CoH is a bit two dimensional, which was why I decided to create a character with layers. Perhaps I was overestimating people's willingness to bother to dig into a character to see how they tick or to understand WHY he does the things he does. It might be I have to dumb down my rp, but I'm not willing to do that yet

It would be a bummer to think I have to play a total complete goody two shoes who is only looking to find his next wife in order to get rp. So for people who aren't playing the stereotypical hero-planning-a-wedding, here's your chance to get some roleplay going!

I've been kicking this around now for a week and I've finally just decided to send out the call. I have a rather...complicated...character who just isn't getting as much roleplay as I'd like. He's not typical Hero material and doesn't follow many of the typical storylines (he only looks half wolf, he's not actually anthro; he doesn't like cutesy-kid type heroes and has a tendency to tell them to go home, he's got issues but he's not the type to go on angst-ridden about his woeful past). At the moment, he's sort of like someone who goes to a foreign country and comes up against all the different, strange customs - trying desperately to fit in, but no one really seems willing to give him a hand with that. He's got other issues as well but that really depends on how it gets played.

I'd really like to be able to roleplay him more, but I'm having a difficult time doing that as most people don't seem to roleplay outside their own cliques (and I've tried, believe me). In any event, if anyone wants to have a go at this character as a mentor or guiding light and also be able to talk his language (which is bordering on 'not a hero at all, really') then by all means, give a go.

More information on my character is here. My global is @Loup Garou.

Cheers.

Right, I'll bite:

Global Name: Netherwitch
Server: Union

Characters:
Netherwitch: Magic Defender - Dark energies A voudoun priestess from Haiti who is now working for Paragon City's heroes division.

Loup Garou: Mutant Scrapper, Claws/Regeneration - my "living on the edge of heroic" type of character whom I'm playing more and more of. Got his wiki done http://union.virtueverse.com/index.php/Loup_Garou