Ye Olde Collection

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I'll just mention having a new Cobriza piece by Bakart over on DA, as well, since I don't have a second click to add and I'm not sure how picky our mods would be about it.

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I really like that rooftop piece by Taclobanon; it's quite evocative. Is the fight over and she's watching the enemy retreat? Is she looking at an approaching threat? Is she sad her helium balloon got away? So many choices!

Oh, one it looks like I missed before - Fire controller, "Home Fires." Another Playworkart piece from earlier this year:




(I should also mention I'm finally getting around to actually *putting* these commissioned bits in my DA gallery. I'd been just faveing them and saving locally, but this way I can fire links over to the artists, too. COH gallery here, with a few pieces missing from the thread. Some for obvious reasons.)

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I love the Playworkart piece, MB!! Gratzzz!!!

Wasn't sure I'd added this.

My Stalker-turned-hero, Sang - aka Redwraith, depending on when (RP) or where (server, as she's also an MA/Regen Scrapper elsewhere) we're referring to:



He does seem to have given her somewhat larger tracts of land than she has in game, though. >.< which I should have caught earlier. Still, overall, happy with it.

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New bit from Taclobanon -



... I'm preparing something else for this character, as well, since everyone seems to be so focused on her "earth control" side. Something a bit more fun to deal with the force fields.

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I love the new additions, MB!! Keep them coming!

Not only is the art fantastic, I love seeing your character concepts, MB. You really have some lovely designs, which is only too well showcased by these fantastic artists. Can't wait to see some new stuff

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New piece showed up (and yeah, I have others in queues... hitting an "art crazy" phase, apparently.) Little backstory and insight into altitis, though.

So, perhaps my fourth or fifth character created when I started the game was Therra Arcson. She nearly got deleted early on because I felt bad about "kill stealing" someone accidentally... glad I didn't. An Elec/Elec blaster, she became (a) a real RP outlet - one I did well enough, apparently, to have people who knew better forget who was behind her, actually confusing her for me, and (b) my first 50.

Issue 4, and I get to make what I saw go flying by in the Hollows "way back when" - a Kheldian. With backstory. Essentially, she's captured by the council (and presumed dead by her friends.) Council plans to implant her with a Nictus as a sleeper agent. She's rescued by a Peacebringer and her family's patron goddess (not directly, for the second, but she did direct the first on where to find her.) Unfortunately, her partner had given her up for dead, and - long story, but the nanobots that gave them their powers took over. She ended up with the supergroup leadership on her shoulders, and changed her last name to reflect her *own* mission of redeeming him. Thus, my first Peacebringer (and I think 5th 50,) Therra Paladina.

While that's going on (and COV is released,) the Circle - who have had Therra as a thorn in their side (pun not intended) for years - whip up a plan of their own. They take some of her blood and tissue from her wounding and treatment at the hands of the council and use it, with other rituals, to create their own "Therra," to discredit and disgrace the original, eventually to kill her. Therra's patron steps in, though, and blocks them from being able to copy her powers. In frustration, they turn to the infernal... which also alters their creation (she's a Dark/Thermal corruptor.) Therra's strong willed enough as it is - the fake, Therra Malevola, is just as strong willed, and now angry, having a vendetta against Circle mages and Therra Arcson/Paladina.

(These also branch off to the Erin/Caitlyn Snow, who is her daughter, and other-dimensional versions of her... several, actually. Essentially, if there's an Electric set, there'll be a Therra of it. Two more blasters, a tank, an elec/elec dom, an elec/elec brute, a mercs/storm MM, an electric/nin Stalker... )

With all that aside, I figured it was time Therra Paladina and Therra Malevola meet, and while it can't be done in-game, it *can* be depicted by Taclobanon:

(One of these days, when I decide on just the right person, get far too ambitious and, oh, win a few hundred bucks that aren't needed elsewhere I've considered having a group shot of all her variations done.)

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It's hot out, and life's not all fighting!



(Wraith, my Ice dom taking full advantage of the pool and her abilities. And semaj007 is quite obviously back from his trip!)

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Gratzzz on your newest additions, MB! The piece by Taclobanon, looks great! And the piece by semaj007 I find to be quite interesting. I keep looking at the background and wonder what that little boy is doing there.

And, keeping with the "It's summer!" theme - and finding a way to show off the force field side while having some fun - my Earth/FF under water balloon attack from her daughter and an SG mate.



(Credit to Taclobanon.)

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I've seen this before...the crab is about to take her top!

Nice pic

Another fine piece you have there, MB! Gratzzz!!!

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So. While I do tend to keep going to the same few people (semaj, taclobanon, separino) fairly frequently, I do try to branch out and give other people a try. I think I was contacted by this guy - normally something that puts them on an "avoid" list, but his pieces looked fairly good, so I gave him a shot.

Don't think I posted the fic about this lady - then again, it's fairly long. Short form, she had an inoperable condition, and volunteered to by cryogenically suspended when the technology was new. When the Rikti attacked, the cryo-vault being a source of energy, it became a target. The Rikti pulled out from the "vault" when they saw it wasn't worth the troops that could be used elsewhere - but Regina's "casket" was damaged, and they had to do an emergency resuscitation. Unfortunately, it left her essentially blind and turned her blue - and didn't do anything for her condition (which left her mostly paralyzed.

Crey stepped in, looking for a test subject. She now has a nervous system, but also was a prototype for some new armor and sensors (which let her "see.") When she found out what they really planned (and found out about the Protectors,) she started gathering evidence - which led to her house being destroyed and her (fairly new) husband murdered in front of her when she walked in on a Crey "cleanup crew" trying to plant evidence.

In any case - she's had one quick sketch done long ago by Alex, and another piece done (a bust, basically) a few holidays ago. Not 50, but I still like the character quite a bit. (I really have to run on Infinity more and get her to 50.)

Regina Arctus - artist, jazz carmona. (Ice/Elec blaster.)



(And since he's fairly new to me - yes, he gives a preview sketch, and this took about two weeks from initial commission to sketch to final piece, which IMHO isn't bad at all.)

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And it is all kinds of awesome.

Can never go wrong with Jazz.

And, with some delay thanks to hurricane >.< one of two pieces I've been waiting on by Separino. Clair de Lune.

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And a bit more summer fun - this with two of my spines scrappers (same home world,) one just enjoying the sun, the other... not quite enjoying the frisbee stuck on him as much.



Materra (l) and Seeker209 (r) (who's also seen flying around several pieces up.)

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Annnd... the other one I was waiting on from Separino. Bots/Traps mastermind (and former racer,) Lady 302. Apparently working on one of the Transformers. (Well, that's what the 'bot part looks like to me!)

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