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What would be your RED NAME?

Angryellow

By Angryellow,
Posted on: 2010-05-26 09:29 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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I'd be the creepy little Mutation SO vendor from Founders Falls, Penny Preston.



Imagine her dull, lifeless eyes, staring at you at ever proclamation I posted.
*SHUDDER* That's pure win. :-)

 

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I'd just use my name

But if it had to be a canon one, then I'd pick Ms. Liberty.
Runs her own militia...stick up her backside...
Sounds perfect, dear

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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Fusionette

H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
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Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD

 

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If not I, than me shall be: Lughebu.

 

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then I've always been fond of Maelstrom.
Lol, your IO set would suck, it grants DEBT PROTECTION!

But for me I would either choose Spark Blade or Scirocco. I'd need to take prozac for the latter of course.

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I don't see what I could do in the company that other, more competent people wouldn't be able to do better, though I guess there's always some grunt work for an intern to take care of.

That said, I wouldn't trade my name for anything. I've managed to keep my sig unchanged since the day I registered my account and have not swapped my name or my avatar (other than for a higher-res version of the same pic). I see no reason to not keep in such a case.

If I'm outright forbidden from keeping my name and identity, I'd probably go with the name of my current game account, presumably requiring me to rename my game account since your forum handle can't be the same name.
I would think you would explicitly want to make your red name something different from your regular game account name, because there are limitations as to what you can do in-game with your actual red name game account. I would keep my existing game account separate, and make up a totally new red name account specifically for Paragon Studios purposes, which is more or less what the other red name devs have done.

The rules surrounding this that are relevant to this intellectual exercise are:

1. Paragon Studios employees cannot stealth post anonymously: they must post on these forums with their red name account only. The only exceptions that I've seen have involved forum glitches where devs posted with temporary non-red name accounts and in those cases they explicitly identified themselves as such.

2. Conversely, you can't just play around with your red name game account. There are limits to what you are allowed to do with your signature characters, and the rules governing what you can do with any character in your red name account seem to lean in the direction of conservatively not creating the appearance of impropriety (although I don't think those are set in stone). So if you simply convert your current name into a red name, there might be issues that require you to occasionally use another anonymous account in-game. Which you'd have to start from scratch. That might not be ideal.


As for me, well if I ever became a red name there's no hope at all for "Arcanaville" to be an anonymous name, so I might consider just using it anyway. But if I was asked to pick an in-game avatar as my red name, it would depend on what I was doing for Paragon Studios: I would want the name to be appropriate. So if I was working on powers under Synapse, say, I would want to be Siege. If I was working on special projects with Positron, I might want to be Nightstar. If I was working on datamining or the reward system, I'd be Pither.


Although the notion of assuming the role of Dr. Brainstorm and mixing it up with Dr. Aeon and Television in the technology run amok crazy-person triumvirate arena has a certain appeal regardless.

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Viridian

Viridian is a very dangerous man who works subtle deals that can change the course of world history. The core of his job is influencing other villain groups through manipulation, sabotage, deal brokering, or collaboration, as it suits the needs of Arachnos.

 

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Scirocco, by far.

 

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Azuria. Dear god am I Azuria.

If not her, I'd push for canonization of my grav/rad troller Unstar, and take his (its?) name.

 

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I'd have to go with my first character, Guardian Lion. There'd be all these nice tribute statues to me all over Paragon. Signature power: a stone version of Hibernate. Backstory hasn't ever been worked out, but I always imagine it involved one of those stone lions, a wizard, and a bad idea.

If I had a canon redname, it'd be Eochai. I started just before the first Halloween event, and I still remember how amazingly cool and eerie it was to be fighting the pumpkin-headed giant.

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There is only one name I would ever be satisfied with, assuming I couldn't keep one of my original character names. And I've called dibs on it ever since I first had delusional fantasies about working at Paragon...

... Amanda Vimes.

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RASIL...I play her more often the LISAR.

 

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Probably would use Ace Barnstormer, 'cause I love WW1 biplanes and old school pulp fiction so much. If I had to go with a lore-based character, then either Alistair Sutton, founder/leader of the Dawn Patrol (again with the WW1 flying aces), or maybe just simply M1 (again with the WW1 theme)

 

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Seeing as some of our Devs and community reps are former community members (and are still community members I guess :P) and appear to have been given the option to choose their own redname etc, what would you choose if you could?

Name? background? roll in game? Powers (including a signature one )? Any other interesting information?

Of course, feel free to steal an existing cannon character, either from the books or the game, but tell us why, and give us your take on their back story.

I'll give it a think over and do mine shortly.
Would have to make it my main. Then make it a must to have a foxtail (still refuse to give her foxears untill I get the foxtail), with a RotP clone, but instead of the phoenix, it'd be a fox in flames (whole fox or just the head).

Roll in game...hmmm...I'd have to think on that. I think as a TF giver for a new TF which would appear in.

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Because I'm Canadian, I'd have to go with Detective Frasenbacker.

 

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I'd go with "BOSS_DISPLAYNAME"...

Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound

 

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Easy. Holsten Armitage.

@Demobot

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I'd want to be Captain Petrovich from Sharkhead so I can say "Arrrr!" a lot.

 

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Probably something less common like Evil Scientist.

Edit: Or Pohsby! Yeah!

 

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Rouge Angle has its appeal.

 

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I'd go with "BOSS_DISPLAYNAME"...

Haha, that made me laugh. Great responses. I'm thinking I'd be Mender Lazarus. He stikes me as just weird enough to be interesting.

Otherwise I think I'd roll a robotic mastermind and have them give a tutorlial to new MM's as thats lacking at the moment.

 

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"A Nemesis Plot"

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