What If Your Character Were Aware of YOU?
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Posted on: 2010-10-28 09:22 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Some day you'll get an imagination/empathy module installed.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I don't have a "character" - so my avatar is just me - so I'm already aware of me
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And then the rest of us will be in deep, deep trouble.
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As for my characters being aware of me.... interesting question. i suppose it depends on how much of their personality is determined by what i imagined them as being. Several would probably be very resentful, several would think it's hilarious, some would shrug, and few would probably be curled in a fetal position in the corner, gibbering.
Then again some of my real life acquaintances react similarly. i have one friend (a rather well known web comicker) who used to say "You frighten me." every time we ran into each other. We'd then hang out for a while. Strange lad that one. Now we only occasionally run into each other at cons and he's stopped saying that. i'm almost disappointed.
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I don't think many of them would be happy.
Naraku no Hana - I really hope she never becomes aware. That wouldn't end well for -anyone-.
Doctor Domination - Would probably have some choice words for making him so ineffectual as a villain.
Protocol 9 - After about a minute of "wai- wha- how?", he'd eventually settle for simply flipping me the bird and going about his merry way.
The Overlooked - Would spend the better part of an hour in a profanity- and threat-laced rant at my existence, and it wouldn't be unearned. (I put him through some -serious- misery a couple years ago with the Second Rikti War.) Would likely be unuseable afterwards due to a refusal to cooperate.
Lil' Ray of Gloom - Being a meta-humor character, would simply sigh and say "I *****ing knew it.".
By a strange coincidence, all of my characters are irresistibly attracted to me.
Oh, my characters would almost certainly want me brutally murdered. Many of their origin stories are tragic or sad, and more than a few of them have had some bad **** happen to them over the years.
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They would love me for creating them. I am a benevolent god, after all, and all their backstories are awwwwesommmme.
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See my sig for what happens when her imagination DOES work.|
Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Some day you'll get an imagination/empathy module installed.
... And then the rest of us will be in deep, deep trouble. |
We're much safer without it.
But yeah... I'd probably be dead, and worst of all, my defender would just keep rezzing me so that EVERYONE could have a piece of me.
Well, except for my necronomicon in human form toon and my main villain. They'd probably try to shoo everyone back behind the forth wall and try to repair the damage done it it.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.
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Golden Girl: Ahem. Hey. You. On the other side of the computer screen. Yeah. You with the animated hair. Yeah, I'm talking at you. Now take that razer-blade over there and cut it off. Now. I mean it. If I can't have my hair animated, you can't have your hair animated. Don't make me break through this monitor and feed you to Hamidon!|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I don't have a "character" - so my avatar is just me - so I'm already aware of me
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and with that deathwish out of the way, what would happen if my own characters were aware of me... I don't know really. I think most of them would be happy with their names, power-sets, and situations. I don't generally do horrific back-stories for any character. I think only one might get mad because I made her an Archery / Fire blaster. She might be tempted to talk to Manti about that enema-arrow upgrade.
The question would be "Which of the 200+ characters would that be?"
One, created specifically when some costume parts were going away, would probably react along the lines of "Yes, I STILL have these pants! But I still have this face, too.... It's a wash."
A few are just insane and would probably consider me a delusion. Hopefully.
Two or three would probably ask just *how* many versions of them I planned on making.
Overall, though, I don't think they'd complain. Even those with someone bad beginnings tend to have been RP'd through to one sort of better place or another. (Good people or filthy rich and powerful. *shrug*)
I'd get mugged by half my characters.
Hmmm, my main Giborah (formerly Hidden Hero) would probably yell at me and have a hissy fit for giving her a sob story of a life and then maybe hit me. Then we'd probably watch anime or go to Hot Topic.
They would call me father and the light that guides them!
Sometimes they'd ask, why the frick did you me give that useless power you moron, and WTF with my slotting!!!!
@MARTy McFly
Yeah my main...Psycho Sarah...yeah bad things would be done to me.
No one pays attention to me, cause I listen to the voices in my head.
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While I'm thinking about it, would Dominatrix and Silver Mantis have a bidding war on the film rights to character's creations doing bad things to their creators?
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Originally Posted by Psycho_Sarah
Yeah my main...Psycho Sarah...yeah bad things would be done to me.
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I try not to think about it. I've made a fair few villains who, while cool to play as because of their class, would be utterly terrifying to even consider their real existence.
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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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They all know about me which is why I hide! 
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Originally Posted by Jophiel
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Heeellllooo.... hello? Level five here with 92 days since last played! Hello? Come on! I could at least be picking up Day Job badges! *tap*tap*tap* You there? I'm bloated with patrol experience here. Don't make me wait for Issue 19... Guys? Anyone?... Yeah, that's cool. Pick the level 50 again. Jerk. |
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
[The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."
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Dude, for my health, it has to never, ever happen. Remember that whole quote from me about how debt doesn't matter? I doubt the ones who are getting set on fire and shot to generate that debt feel the same way.
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For those of you who may not have seen it, he means this one:|
Originally Posted by Kelenar
Remember that whole quote from me about how debt doesn't matter?
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Originally Posted by Kelenar
Debt barely slows down levelling these days. It's just a little bar that measures how much awesome you've generated recently. (If you're not getting debt, you're just not trying to generate awesome hard enough.)
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Kelenar, for your sake, I hope no City of Heroes character ever becomes aware of you.
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Some day you'll get an imagination/empathy module installed.
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@Golden Girl
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"Oh hey, I got this good lead on a Malta-
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You want me to do what now? It's not even Halloween yet, and I don't have a costume!
*sighs*
Fine..."
Claws would be just a LITTLE annoyed. I hate to imagine what he might do.
Return to Cinder IS aware of me. He's a little.....off. Imagine Deadpool with fire powers, that pretty much sums up his personailty, he's a freakin' nutball.
Tespes, my brute, would probably thank me.
There are a bunch more that would be pretty ambivilant about it.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
KJ would tell me that if he was ever forced to play an MMO about regular people doing everyday things, he'd roll me.
BTW - That's roll as in "roll a character". 
My main dominator:
Where will we go today? Why am I just sitting around, doing menial day job badges? Why am I redoing the same SF's/TF's? I want to go somewhere new!
My brute:
Why am I just sitting here? Why am I not out killing things? Why haven't you found a way for me to kill NPC's yet? You're working against me, aren't you?
My mastermind:
Why am I not filthy rich? Why haven't you gotten more robots for me? I WANT MORE BOTS! I have all these temp powers, WHY HAVE YOU NOT CRAFTED THEM FOR ME? I can carry an army's arsenal in my pocket, WHY AM IN NOT CARRYING AN ARMY'S ARSENAL OF WEAPONRY? Oh, and... I WANT MY NUKES!!!
My corruptor:
*snores, enjoying the amount of time I let him alone*
My Tank:
*Fiddles with his stock of invention recipes, agitated that I haven't completed upgrading him*
Scrapper:
Why am I not out striking villains with JUSTICE?! My hands barely remember the feel or a good pummeling! How can I serve JUSTICE my becoming a shopkeeper? Justicejusticejusticejustice....
My cyborg defender:
*Looks around Rome in confusion*
The 43+ others:
So YOU're the reason we can never go out and do anything fun!!
I tend to wonder sometimes if imagination is simply a glimpse at an alternate reality. In which case, I'm not really responsible for their suffering, I'm just witnessing it.
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