My Ice/Ice Tanker (my namesake) is an ancient ice demon from germanic legends. Makes perfect sense for him to be covered in ice. 
However, you can also color it green and pretend that you're covered in a giant emerald, or bright blue and go sapphire.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus
My ice character has sorta two possible stories, not explained totally by her bio.
One she is a ghost. I got the idea from Ghost Hunters or one of those shows where they say ghosts make the rooms cold. I figured a more powerful haunt could make the room really damn cold.
Second she might just be some mutant, who's mutation manifested after being frozen.
Full story as i remember it..
'Lotti' was the daughter of a 'Family' Capo, while running from the RIP they hit an oil slick in Port Oakes and crashed into the river. Being January, they were presumed to have frozen before emergency responders could fish their car out. Her father's body was found but she was not. Someone matching Charlotta Varsalona's description, though blue and icey, was months later in and near Port Oakes.
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At one point, I made an Ice/Ice tank who was a pirate that was lost at sea and frozen but came back for whatever reason. I guess it wasn't a permanent condition because I deleted him to make room... but it was one of my more interesting character concepts.
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Various assorted alts
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How do you explain why your character is covered in giant blocks of ice?
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Secret identities are for wusses. Staff Sergeant Daniel Frost is a soldier's soldier. He was with a team of Army Rangers on a covert operation in Central America. Intel said the base was a terrorist training camp. Intel was wrong. It was a Crey installation. Most of the Rangers were killed. Several were captured.
The Crey scientists decided to use the soldiers in their experiments. They had several research projects ongoing and, based on his name, decided to subject Sgt Frost to the 'popsicle project'. He was given the ability to freeze the water in and around his body, and the strength to move his frozen limbs. But they made him a little too strong, and he was able to break free of the restraints and do a little re-decorating - first the lab, then the scientists faces.
Given an honorable discharge, Staff Sgt Frost isn't finished serving his country.
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My ice tanker is in a powersuit originally designed for fire/rescue (it has a hard light hologram of Santa to disguise the origin of the powersuit, he initially swiped it). The ice swords (I'm ice melee as well) are a reconfigured Halligan Bar the suit can generate on the fly. It's also why I've taken the Medicine Pool as well.
I have one costume slot of the suit with the hologram off.
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My ice tanker was born with a mutation that caused his skin to draw heat from the environment around him, so the moisture in the air that gets cooled turns to ice. (Sad story: He unknowingly killed his mother when he was born, as the stress of childbirth activated the mutation and literally froze her inside as he was being born.)
...I forgot what experience means.
I'm originally from the Great White North, so half the people down here in the South think I grew up covered in ice anyway. So it's not a big stretch for me to play the game covered in ice....
My Elec/Ice Stalker uses the Thunderhead aura, and I've used the color options to basically make both the ice and the cloud to all sort of look "fused" as one single point of armor. Hence, the ice crystals are just part of the cloud around him that's being used for defense.
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I'm originally from the Great White North,
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
Thanks for the help all. It would be nice if in the future, alternate animations allow for a "only shows in PvP" thing, haha, but I'll have to live with it.
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-- High-Roller
All my controllers are, or will be, Ice Mastery. They all explain it as part of their magical nature:
The ice/cold/ice is a mage whose magic is specifically attuned to ice and cold- it only makes sense that she can sling the same cold shield on herself that the rest of the team are wearing.
The illusion/time will be /ice, she is a faerie of the Winter Court (the illusions and time warping are faerie glamours).
The earth/storm will probably go /ice as well. He is a god-spirit of a mountain who has been bound by a powerful wizard into a mortal body.
A player in my SG has a bs/ice stalker, he has a snow leopard costume (using the Animal Pack) and the Vanguard broadsword coloured blue/white so it looks like another ice construct.
Magic origin is quite easy to explain due to the elemental nature of Ice... for a Technology character, I would give them power armour and say that it is coated in a superscience material that is ultra-hard when frozen, hence the armour incorporates cryogenic systems to keep the outer layer cold.
So, I've been meaning to try out Ice Armor for years on end, and with the upcoming changes to Stalker, figured I could try making an Elec/Ice Stalker.
The only problem lies in... concept.
How do you explain why your character is covered in giant blocks of ice?
To those who have Ice Armor alts, be it Tanker, Stalker, or even Blasters or Dominators etc who have Cold/Ice Mastery with Ice Armor powers?
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Arc: 60092 - Supa Rumble in the Park
"Keep living the dream, and never let any jerk tell you what to do."
-- High-Roller