Do you remember the first time?

invul/ss made in beta and re-created on opening day. Later deleted and remade as a ss/invul brute. Still have a earth/kin and emp/ele made on opening day, although the later has been semi-retired and replaced with a re-rolled emp/dp.

The emp is my main and the troller just hit 50 last month, so my playstyle hasn't changed much at all.

My first toon was Anchor, a gravity/forcefield controller. Not being a very good manual reader, I went a little crazy with the secondary powersets trying to be a jack-of-all-trades (stuff like Aid Other, for example), and ended up being not much use to groups and not very good at keeping myself alive solo by level 12-15.

Since it was in the days before respec tokens and there was no way he was going to last long enough for a proper respec trial, he ended up being deleted and recreated as a more focused toon.

My first character I ever created was a Dark/Dark Brute!
I had been playing another game for a long while, but then SOmEone destroyed it and I wanted to try the CoV Free Trial.

I wanted to see if I could create a real monster in the costume creator. Some sort of evil creature, bent on malice, to play as a villain.

I created a black shadow demon, of sorts, named Zethustra... Chose the dark powers (decided on Brute over Corrupter, mainly because I figured he should be tough and not squishy).
And it is my global name to this day.
He's been stuck at level 42 for a long while, but I always use him when I am editing my main villain SG Base.

My first character once getting City Of Heroes activated was the Electric-Knight, Elec/Elec Blaster!

It's funny, because both of those sets are a little (or, maybe a lot) different from the rest of the powersets within those ATs. And I really enjoy them all the more for that.

Amethystine, couple of months afrer launch, still level 8, invul/mace tank.

My second character was a claws/invul scrapper that got to 50 5 years later with 30+ others hitting 50 in between. I play him occasionally.

PownUnoobs was a fire/fire blaster. He made it to about 27 I think before he was passed up by my first mastermind. After being taught by a rather kind fellow how to get the most out of the archetype, I absolutely loved having pets. He was my first 50 and I've rolled more MM's than any other AT. My main and favorite toon, however, is a crab spider named Lord Porkluse. I play him as a "crabstermind", so, in a way, he's a hybrid of my first toon and my first 50.

My very first character was technically a test character, an MA/SR scrapper who never made it out of the tutorial. A version/reroll of him lives on as my second "real" character.

My first "real" character, first main and first 50 is the defender you can see in my forum avatar. She, in turn, is based on a Champions (paper and dice) character I came up with almost ten years before. The character's powers fit perfectly into FF/Energy, and she was the obvious choice to begin with; however, the name of the Champs character was already taken, and for that and other reasons I had to make the CoH version a different person. Looking back, I'm glad - it allowed me to root her in this game and world rather than just copying what I'd done before.

I stubbornly soloed her through most of the original story arcs, wanting to see them for myself rather than rushing through with a team. Between that and alt-itis, it took me a year and a half to get her to 50. Worth it.
I still bring her out to team with friends (when she's not battling evil in another dimension), but she's not following the Incarnate path; in my mind, she's "just" a person with super-powers, not a demigod.

Heck, I even remember how excited I was when she got to level 6 and picked up Hover.

My first character was a Fire/Fire Tank named Fire Ranger. Still have him. He's on Zukunft. He's lvl 6.

My first hero was a rebirth of a Champions PnP game called Shocker (had to use Shocker Reloaded). He's a 50 Blaster now, Nrg/Elec. The only toon I would do a Powerset Respec on if we had them...as an Elec/Elec. Still love to play him too.

My first villian (and first CoH toon) was a SS/Invul Brute named Total Violence. Still one of my fave toons.

Both have tons of history and background and my story in the CityScoop was about Total Violence.

The powers and stuff are all cool but it's the RP and background that keep me coming back.

Empathy/Radiation Defender. I can't remember her name. I made a power choice mistake around level 20 and with no option to respec in those days I ended up deleting her.

First character ever was a Claws/SR Scrapper, made just after the first or second issue. At the time, both of these powersets were at the lower tier in terms of performance, and there were no respecs. I didn't really care, though. I just wanted to make Natural-style Ninja-type character.

The character had jump kick, because I thought it sounded really cool on paper. In practice... not so much. The character also lacked both Focus and Quickness, because they didn't sound all that cool. It was terrible.

I stalled at around level 33. Kept the character for years, even though the sets were still bad and I was having a lot more fun with other ATs. Eventually, I decided that they would always underperform and I needed the slot, so I deleted him. A week later, they announced buffs to both SR and Claws.

I was so mad.