Help me salvage my werewolf
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Posted on: 2010-11-06 09:55 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by Symar
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Meet Mage-Killer Po. Po was just an ordinary house cat until evil wizards took her from her loving owner and used her for animal experimentation, attempting to create a magical army of were-people. Their experiment was a complete failure, as most of the animals they used either died or went insane, and Po fared little better. Surviving horrible cellular degeneration and spectral terrors, Po escaped and returned to her owner.
Randy Lipowitz - her owned - turned out to be a technological genius, unbeknownst to his pet cat. With the help of his futuristic technology and her own feline agility and strength, po has made it her mission to eradicate magic from the world.
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I liked the pink tech sword from a previous suggestion, and that list of concepts I was asked to make reminded me I didn't have a catgirl, yet. So, why not? Tech catgirl stalker
It makes sense for a cat, at least one made from a house cat, to want to be stealthy and prefer precision strikes over brute force combat, and I'm pretty happy with the tiger stripe pattern I managed to work in.The astute among you will have noticed that I used both a cape and a tail. They clip, yes, and a lot. However, the cape is intended to be more of an energy field - and that particular one looks the part - so clipping with the tail actually makes sense.
The one point I'm still not completely sold on is the hair. I like the pigtails, but they give me four sets of ears. There are other options, but I'm not sure which I want to go with. And, yes, I want to keep the hair the same colour as the fur. Wouldn't you?
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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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In fact, I'm so confident in this costume, concept and name that I'm willing to look at finishing touches, such as picking a better hair. As such, here's a collage of the four other hairstyles that at all looked like they could work.
The first one is my favourite
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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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If you REALLY want a ingame reason for his/her transformation, whichever you decide to go with...
Costume slot 1 - human form
Costume slot 2 - werewolf form
Pick up Elude
Play in human form (yes, this sounds stupid already) for the general game, and when you want, hit Elude (this gives super defence, and super unsuppressed speed), and change into wereform costume using costume emote. Now your werewolf form is stupidly fast in combat and doesn't need to Parry hits due to way over softcap from Elude. XD When three minutes are up, turn back into human form and recover from turning into a werewolf, haha.
Of course, now you've picked a catgirl, so maybe this is all moot, haha.
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I like it!
I'd go with the 3rd hairstyle, but the 1st is pretty good, too. I'd say the 4th but it exposes the human ears.
Another option is to go with the floppy ear design instead, if you want a shorter hairstyle.
And I understand about the tail clipping. Sometimes, you just gotta do it, but it's not always horrible.
OK, hairstyle 1 it is, then. The third one isn't bad, but it still shows human ears from the back, which is where I'll be looking from the entire time. I don't think I can go with floppy ears on this one, as I'm looking for a cargirl and I'm not aware of cats with floppy ears
Tail and cape clipping bugs me, but I think this cape is just cool enough to ignore it with. It IS transparent, so I can't really tell when it clips because I'm seeing through it anyway, and I can claim it's just light and not an actual physical object.
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I'll be using the Werewolf concept on another character entirely. Probably a Brute, from the looks of things.
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Here's one last question, though - do I use custom SR colours, or do I go with the FX in PvP Only option? On the one hand, I want to use effects in pink or purple to denote mystic ward forcefields. On the other hand, they kind of make the costume too fruity and they take away from the impact of the sword, itself. I currently have her with effects, but I'm likely to pop down into the D and change that. I have a bunch of veteran costume tokens to use for that.
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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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Well I know floppy ear isn't perfect, but it's still an animal ear option. And one I'll use if other ears won't work based one head options.
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Originally Posted by Symar
Well I know floppy ear isn't perfect, but it's still an animal ear option. And one I'll use if other ears won't work based one head options.
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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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Oh daygonit (who knew a reboot would solve my issues) but back when you were wide open on the character's appearence, this crossed my mind based on a character I call Fated Ancient.
Maybe it will help somebody out???
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I like this a lot as it has a Thunder Catish feel (My favorite cartoon of all time). If you do re-visit your werewolf stalker try using dual blades.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
In fact, I'm so confident in this costume, concept and name that I'm willing to look at finishing touches, such as picking a better hair. As such, here's a collage of the four other hairstyles that at all looked like they could work.
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Go with FX in PvP only, then maybe change just one of the powers to colored FX.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Here's one last question, though - do I use custom SR colours, or do I go with the FX in PvP Only option? On the one hand, I want to use effects in pink or purple to denote mystic ward forcefields. On the other hand, they kind of make the costume too fruity and they take away from the impact of the sword, itself. I currently have her with effects, but I'm likely to pop down into the D and change that. I have a bunch of veteran costume tokens to use for that.
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"I do so love taking a nice, well thought out character and putting them through hell. It's like tossing a Faberge Egg onto the stage during a Gallagher concert." - me
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Agreed, probably one of the earliest ones so you have it soon.
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Originally Posted by Rabid_Metroid
Go with FX in PvP only, then maybe change just one of the powers to colored FX.
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That's not a bad idea, actually. I used to have a character called Elder Swordsman (old guy with a beard and a sword, but no story) whom I deleted for... Some reason, I don't remember. He wasn't blue, but he did have kind of a similar motif. Doesn't look like a Stalker, though. Your ancient is really cool (love the blue with the red face paint), but he looks like a stout fighter, the kind who would yell "But you cann'a take our freedom!"|
Originally Posted by ebon3
Oh daygonit (who knew a reboot would solve my issues) but back when you were wide open on the character's appearence, this crossed my mind based on a character I call Fated Ancient.
Maybe it will help somebody out??? |
Cool concept
I should do a revisit of that at some point. Probably gonna' wait for new powersets, though, or more proliferation.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Gemini_2099
I like this a lot as it has a Thunder Catish feel (My favorite cartoon of all time). If you do re-visit your werewolf stalker try using dual blades.
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Still, I've seen a lot ABOUT the thundercats, and it looked like a cool premise. It looks like one of the very few shows out there - and that includes shows even now - with an actual strong female lead, and that's always a plus. That, and I will always like shows with unusual characters. Humans are boring
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Originally Posted by Rabid_Metroid
Go with FX in PvP only, then maybe change just one of the powers to colored FX.
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That said, I'm having a LOT of fun with this Stalker
I don't know what it is about her, but combat just FEELS awesome, as opposed to being a means to an end. I think it's the tech sword, personally.
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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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Gald I could be of help!
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