looking for some help with a stealth costume

okay I'm having some trouble coming up with a modern looking stealthy costume that DOESN'T make my hero look evil.

I have all of the boosters packs and wedding packs etc and up to the 21 month vet reward.

The character is going to be a dual-wielder with daggers.

still working on his bio but he is essentially a mutant with invisiblity as his main power, he does have a natural skill with daggers.

His parents were killed by Archnos and he wants to bring them down. He is an everday type guy, he holds down a job he hates till he is out of college. he fights crime in the city because it makes him feel like he is helping people.

I reccomend, and this sounds cliche, the stealth set of costume pieces, though I say mix it in with some of the sleeker/light armor sets, such as exoproto, some justice and vanguard, valkyrie, and tech sleek if you have it. The major way you're going to have to make him look stealthy yet not evil is probably going to have to be in the face. I think it will be hard to make someone who seems cheery but you could probably go for a anti hero look a la Batman if you use the right face (I'm a fan of face 4). Stay away from eye paints as it can really darken your character's outward personality look. Clean facial har can do wonders, such as the VanDyke, Beard Clean, and the goatees.

I did a sleek, light, battlesuit-ish look for my character Frozen Memories. Maybe this will help you get inspiration.

Here's what I came up with:



From what you said this is someone with very little money (college student with a job) and the suit itself doesn't need stealth capabilities since he can rely on his natural gifts.
Based on this I came up with something that looks as though it could have been cobbled together on a budget from thrift stores, hardware stores and sporting goods stores.

The suit itself is white leather because good guys wear white and it ties into a possible ghost motif. It is reinforced with aluminum plates sewn into it as makeshift body armor. The goggles are night vision capable for the inevitable times that people kill the lights to level the playing field and the gloves and boots are also white leather covered by aluminum reinforced sports pads.


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I like that

To me, "broke college student who fights crime" lends itself to more normal streetwear that he's trying to pass off as a uniform. In our world that would mean a trenchcoat, but in Paragon City I'd put him in the motorcycle jacket.

here is one version. The poor college student from thrift store version


and here is the more modern superhero version. I used stealth without all the small lines and an eye piece I've never seen before called sonic seeing.

thinking about starting out with the modern version and making the first one an alt costume.

now comes the hardest part..the name :P
edit: a lil bit a of bio would be nice as well.

Jason Alexander was a sem-normal college student, the semi comes from an unique innate talent he had. Jason had the ability to turn invisible. It was something he didn't use very often. He always knew that he could become a hero, but he lived in paragon city, they didn't need him. He was attending a local college and doing well in school. He was broke like most college student but he didn't really care, life was good. That changed one day when Jason was on his way home from a class. His cellphone rang and when he answered he got the worst news of his life.

Jasons parents had been killed by the well known villain group known as Arachnos, according to the police his parents were at the bank when Arachnos attempted to rob it, Jason's parents were caught in the crossfire and killed. He took the news VERY personally and wanted to take down the group that killed his parents. But he didn't know how, he lived in a city of heroes but didn't know how he could be one. Jason began with the basic, combat training. Spurred on by the though of avengin his parents deaths he quickly moved to the top of the class. His instructor noticed that he had a particular knack for daggers and sent him to a more advanced teacher, along with this he began using his power more frequently. one year later Jason had full mastery over his invisiblity and daggers. After a year of training he was ready to join the fight as <blank :P >

I'll probably end up throwing some tragic in there to make sure he doesn't focus ONLY on revenge (kinda like Peter Parker and uncle Ben, going down the wrong path until something tragic happens to turn him around.)

You do know Jason Alexander is the name of the actor who played George in Seinfeld, right?? Just checking.

You do know there are millions of other Jason Alexanders in the world, right?? Just checking.

A few possible names:

Knifeshade

Mr. Chalk

White Guardian


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OOooops!

Just noticed that my last reply was slightly mis-aimed. Change the "you"s to "they" and it should be good though...

Pyro - something tells my you are a double dipper....

Statistically speaking 1 person in every 454 in America is named Jason. That is roughly 473,000 of the English speaking people in the US based on a 2003 census.

There are also approximately 218,000 people in the US using the surname Alexander so there could plausibly be somewhere in the neighborhood of 480 people named Jason Alexander in the US alone.

Of course the chance of someone reading the name and associating it with one of the 479 possible Jason Alexanders that did not star in a popular prime time situation comedy are fairly slim.


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I bet the other 1,999,520 live in Tibet... Seinfeld was big in Tibet.

Oh, just got an idea for a name, might be lame/taken already though.

Smokebomb

Shillouette

Here's a great name I love if it's not taken...Chalkline.

Well - I think it's a great name anyway


Pyro - your not double-dipping in...the POOL?!?

Are you?

I did the first for some AE minions and while the second isn't really stealthy with the blue/yellow combo, switching it out for black and maroon certainly makes for a more stealthy fellow.

I'm really digging the white black combo
it look sufficiently heroic and I can imagine it makes for a really interesting picture

this is probably going to be a RP character so I've been adjusting his story a little.

Jason Tobias Alexander was an average college student. He was nothing extraordinary, and he liked it that way.

That all changed one day, Jason was on his way home from a study group when his cell phone rang. It was the hospital, his parents had been killed. They were just 2 of over 30 people killed in a botched bank robbery by a group of thugs from the villain society of Arachnos.

Jason spent the next six months attempting to track down the murderers. After finally discovering the identity of the thieves Jason hunted them down. HE thought he had the drop on them but they had been tipped of that he was coming. They shot Jason and left him for dead.

Jason awoke a few days later in a strange apartment. The hole in his chest had been treated and bandaged and the room smelled of fresh coffee. A older bald man walked out of the kitchen and handed Jason a cup. He introduced himself as a retired hero known as Phantasmia, a little known but very successful telepathic/telekintic. He told Jason that he had been passins by when he heard the shots. He heard Jasons mind screaming in pain but couldn't find the physical body. As it turn out being shot had triggered some Laten mutant abilities in Jason, at the very least he could now render himself invisible.

After hearing Jasons story Phantasmia offered to train Jason so that the men who killed his parents and shot him might be brough to justice. For the next 2 and 1/2 years Jason was trained in various martial arts and mastered the use of daggers. He discovered that not only could he turn invisible but his reflexes and senses had all been dramatically increased.

Finally after 3 years of training Jason was told by Phantasmia that his training was complete and he was ready to fight crime on his own. As Phantasmia uttered last word of encouragement the figure of wisdom Jason had come to respect vanished. Confused Jason left the apartment to Join the heroes of Paragon city in the fight for justice.


well that was a bit more long winded than I intended :P

he is suppose to be a mix of batman and spiderman, 2 of my favorite heroes. so how bad does it sound :/ oh and just so you know Jason never figures out what was up with that phantasmia character....mostly cause I just made that up and don't know what was up with it..yet O.o

We do a stealthy type uniform in scorpio:



And then of course there is my Stalker, ex-KoA.



I really like using the flack jacket for stealthy costumes and use a combo of gray and black so it doesn't seem quite so dark.