Play the Seer Marino arc, Ghost Widow's own Patron arcs and check out Paragonwiki's entry on her: Ghost Widow
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Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
Belladonna Vetrano was a lowbie Blood Widow who didn't even take Maneuvers, teamed with Paolo Marino, a newbie Huntsman himself, who got pwn'd by an ambush while doing a Family mission
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Originally Posted by Silverado
Belladonna Vetrano was a lowbie Blood Widow who didn't even take Maneuvers, teamed with Paolo Marino, a newbie Huntsman himself, who got pwn'd by an ambush while doing a Family mission
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My Widow would get gunned down by the Family in a second if it would grant her Ghost Widow's mag: ridiculous hold.
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the previous red widow was IO'd out and her perma mindlink was totally sweet for Lord Recluse's Bane army and he still talks about how much they pwnt. but then castle nerfed her and she quit the game.
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Ghost Widow is the main reason I play CoH! I worship her!
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Originally Posted by theduke24
I think Ghost Widow is the coolest character in the game, but theres barely any lore for her? how many of you here love ghost widow
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Necrophilia much? 
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Love? No, not really. I'm done falling in love with fictional characters. However, Ghost Widwo IS pretty much the only one of the Patrons who's at all sympathetic, so it makes sense for people to look on her favourably. Plus, she's a spindly mysterious woman, so yeah. Obvious connotations there.|
Originally Posted by theduke24
I think Ghost Widow is the coolest character in the game, but theres barely any lore for her? how many of you here love ghost widow
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And I know the game tries to present Scirocco in a favourable light, but he just comes off as a self-righteous, whiny backstabbing *******. Maybe I'm just cynical, but his puppy-eye version of a good world just feels insultingly simple-minded to me.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Me, too. My last girlfriend turned out to be fictional enough. |
Samuel_Tow's eye is not hit like a big pizza pie: Love? No, not really. I'm done falling in love with fictional characters. |
Psycho turned into a whole different person!
Dec out.
One of my early-ish memories of the game is playing through Oh, Wretched Man one afternoon and being rather star-struck by my first in-game encounter with one of the big name NPCs.
I'm not surprised Ghost Widow is popular. She's a great looking character; is introduced in an arc which is still my absolute favourite in the entire game; and she has an utterly awesome signature ability in Soul Storm.
Mind you... sympathetic? I'm a little less willing to call her that since reading the bio of Veluta Lunata, the unlockable Port Oakes contact at Fort Hades.
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So she's really just as much of a psycho as the rest of the Patrons.| Formerly one of Ghost Widow's personal aides, Veluta Lunata fell out of favor when she was discovered having an affair with an Arachnos soldier. As a test of Veluta's loyalty, Ghost Widow ordered her to kill the young man. Veluta did as she was bidden and slew the man she loved. Impressed, Ghost Widow took pity on her and told her how to bind the soldier's soul to herself for all eternity. Currently, Veluta is tasked with monitoring the Arachnos ghost research program on Port Oakes. She hopes someday to work her way back into Ghost Widow's good graces. |
Still my favourite though
She's my favorite patron as well yeah, I played my original stalker as one of her personal assassins (and Soul Storm was nice to help a squishy stalker!)
Of course she probably has the most developed background of all the signature villains, not counting Recluse (though most of that is part of the CoH novels I think).
Just look at all her diary entries from when CoV was launching: Ghost Widow.
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Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree
Mind you... sympathetic? I'm a little less willing to call her that since reading the bio of Veluta Lunata, the unlockable Port Oakes contact at Fort Hades.
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Just in comparison with the other Patrons. Mako is a dick and proud of it, Black Scorpion is an idiot and apparently MORE than proud of it, and Scirocco is has his head so far up his *** he can't actually see what he's doing for what it really is. The game keeps suggesting that Scirocco's "curse" might not actually exist and that he might well be evil because he couldn't cope with the allure of power, and having done his arcs, I can believe it. The man is obsessed with power, to the point where he manages to turn me - a generally good person - against his ultimate goal which should have been overall good. You don't take away people's free will and re-write their minds just to force them into whatever your arbitrary vision of good might be.Ghost Widow, on the other hand, is treated very kindly by the narrative. She's trapped in her fate and more or less coping with it without going emo (unlike Scirocco), and while she IS very much an obvious villain, she doesn't seem to exhibit the kind of sickening glee about it that Black Scorpion and Mako seem to share.
I'd probably include Recluse in this, but the way the game treats him, he may as well be a stand-in bad guy. All we really know about him is he's big, he's bad and... He's the big-bad. His patrons get plenty of characterisation, but Recluse is sort of kind of there, I guess because SOMEONE had to and Recluse drew the short straw. That's a running problem with signature characters in general. They act like there is this deep, intricate storyline around them and like they have complex, interesting characters... And while they probably do, that's not in the game. So what we're left with when Positron says Manticore will never let him hear the end of it... It feels like an insider reference I don't get, and insider references bug me more than most things.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
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Pretty much Sam, Recluse and States' backgrounds are both focused on in the "The Web of Arachnos" novel, and possibly in the following CoH books (I only read the first one).
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Indeed... There was nobody more disappointing to me than Black Scorpion. It's like being ordered around by a stereotypical football jock.
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Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
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I'd just like to add, people still worship a guy thats been dead for about 2000 years. |
Originally Posted by Tal_N
Necrophilia much?
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A shocking revelation |
Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree
So she's really just as much of a psycho as the rest of the Patrons.
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So I betray him, beat him up...a few more levels go by and I get even more powerful, I call him again...|
Originally Posted by Mr_Grey
Indeed... There was nobody more disappointing to me than Black Scorpion. It's like being ordered around by a stereotypical football jock.
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Originally Posted by David Nakayama
Belladonna Vertrano returns in GOING ROGUE.
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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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I'm pretty sure suggesting that the people who love him would like to have sex with him will get you burned at the stake.
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Originally Posted by ebon3
I'd just like to add, people still worship a guy thats been dead for about 2000 years.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Yeah, I know, but this is one of those aspects of gaming that really gets on my tits in a BIG way. Insider references for things that aren't related to the game, like all the Oban: Star Racers characters in Gaussian's arc is one thing. It bugs me, but it doesn't detract from the game... Much. But characters that are pivotal to the game's plot and whose background actually matters should be given characterisation IN the actual game.|
Originally Posted by Knightslayer
Pretty much Sam, Recluse and States' backgrounds are both focused on in the "The Web of Arachnos" novel, and possibly in the following CoH books (I only read the first one).
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I realise it's comic book tradition to not know what the hell is going on unless you're reading twenty spinoffs and ten tie-ins, and there's a reason Linkara uses his Continuity Alarm, but one would actually think those would be BAD things in need of fixing, not good things in need of perpetuation. I bought City of Heroes for the game, not the written novels, so I would appreciate it if game-important information were put in the actual game. Is that too much to ask for?
To be honest, the real reason signature characters get so little characterisation is because they're almost entirely used as TF contacts, and TF contacts don't get much characterisation, anyway. I don't see why Positron, for instance, can't give out slightly less epic (read: forced teaming) missions in addition to his TF. Might be nice to get to know the guy first, especially since doing a TF and following a story seem mutually exclusive in this game.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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The who in the what now?
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Insider references for things that aren't related to the game, like all the Oban: Star Racers characters in Gaussian's arc is one thing.
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Well, there is always Rule 34. |
Samuel_Tow forgets how the 'net works: I'm pretty sure suggesting that the people who love him would like to have sex with him will get you burned at the stake. |
Dec out.
I think Ghost Widow is the coolest character in the game, but theres barely any lore for her? how many of you here love ghost widow
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