Curious about non-Arachnos, non-Kheldian EATs.

Largely because I have one.


So what I'm getting at is how many people build EAT characters who conceptually aren't EATs, and the EAT power sets just happen to do the best job of representing the character's abilities? I've seen a couple, but they don't seem to be common - someone in the SFC forum posted their Spider, who instead of being Arachnos personnel, is a sort of an evil drum major, using the Arachnos mace as his baton. My Crab Spider is a Freakshow Meat Doctor with stolen Arachnos tech, and I've got an idea for a Widow who is a ninja from another planet.

How many people do this?

I've done the opposite. I have a dark/dark tanker who I wanted to be a warshade, but since I hate kheldian gameplay so very much but love the lore of them, I decided that when the joining happened there was a genetic anomaly that had some unforseen side-effects.

That's pretty awesome. I've never even heard of someone doing that.

There were a LOT of Peacebringer "Angels" before power customization was put in. Now, just about any power can be white, but before then, it was all Peacebringers.

My PeaceBringer was a mutant "living light" shapeshifter and compulsive liar who registered with HERO corp as a PeaceBringer, just to see if he could pull it off.
He'd have telephone chats with Sunstorm using his "Kheldian" voice (ie Mr Spock style voice) and then hang up and laugh about it.

I've got plans for a Warshade and a Crab who aren't related to the canon at all - just "non-baryonic matter powers" and a robot with multiple arms. I've never really been that immersed in the CoH lore, to be honest, and prefer to make up my own.

I'd love to be able to customise the Kheldian forms...

I once made a Warshade who was a completely normal man that had an almost "Mr. Rogers" style costume (sleeveless knitted vest, tie, dress shirt, dress pants, etc.)

But he wasn't actually a Warshade. He got all of his awesome powers from a HELMET possessed by a Warshade. He only had access to powers while wearing the hat.

Of course, the helmet was ridiculous looking. SUPER bright neon colors, with the long half-helmet, the samurai facemask that has the teeth on it, and huge "ear style" wings coming off of it.

It looked so strangely natural together, as one piece, that a couple of people told me they did a double-take because they thought I was using some sort of weird now Monstrous head. Got a lot of chuckles out of that character.

I think he may have been called Helmet Man or something similar. I ought to dig around and see if I still have him.

I'll admit I can't stand the Kheldian lore. It smacks of super goofy "cosmic" comic book plots from way back. Also there's a rather shocking amount of similarity to D&D's Kalashtar race. Which I also find a bit dumb.

So my Warshade is simply a sorceror who became infused by powers from the great beyond. I find that sort of idea vastly more palatable when it's not explained in too much detail, because that always makes it start looking ridiculous.

So basically I pretend Khelds don't exist because I don't like them.

My VEATs on the other hand are cadets who escaped the training program.

My Peacebringer is non-standard. I've never really established what he is, but it's not impossible that he's simply a robot housing a Kheldian inside him.

On the other hand, my Warshade has nothing to do with Kheldians and is rather a goo-girl made of living ink.

I play my Crab Spider as a Cthonic being of the void. More Octupus then spider, though he uses the misunderstanding to his advantage and co-opted the Arachnos mythos as a foundatin of his new religion. So far I've kept my Khelds pretty standard but I'm sure that will change should a concept strike me.

My not-a-Warshade, the Benthic Avenger, is a channeler, psychopomp, and SCUBA enthusiast. She fights crime with fish ghosts.

My Human-Form-Only warshade was one of the Council captives used to house the weakened Nictus (ala one of the early arcs) where something had gone wrong.

When the Nictus attempted to possess him, he fought back. Rather than being able to expel the Nictus though, he somehow wiped out the Nictus personality matrix leaving him untouched mentally, but with full Nictus powers.

I rp him as working with the warshades, but that they are rather frightened of him as he's a full human without any of the loyalties or memories of the Kheldian race.

I've done the stereotypical angelic PB (still have her; it may be a cliched concept, but I don't plan on tossing her anytime soon), and have been using a Widow as a Predator-style alien hunter (not too sure how long that one will last). Once GR goes live, I'm planning on making a red-side, single-form 'Shade occultist (although lobster mode might make for an interesting summon/possession; we'll see).

Kheldians are about the only bit of the City of Heroes universe that I do not like. I'd play a human form Warshade, just not as a... whatever they are in CoH Lore. >.>

That in mind, I have an NRG/NRG blaster who's pretty much the same thing as a PB, just without all the alien/shapeshifting silliness.

I had a Bane Spider a while back who was thief that specialized in stealing power armor and weaponry.

Sitting on a Crab "black widow" type character that got her suit of armor from her last husband, who was an Arachnos scientist.

Heh, now that I think about it, sitting on a Fortunata that's the same character as my Mind/Psi Dom (and namesake here, fwiw) who started trying to adopt their techniques.

Quick sidenote: Huzzah! 1000 posts!

good luck D.B.B.