Saying Goodbye to Our Other Selves...
By
2short2care,
Posted on: 2012-08-31 14:15 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Quantum Evil - 50 Rad/Rad Corr. A superenergetic particle of the force of evil. My namesake and my most favorite "evil for the sake of evil" character ever.
Latvian Lass - 50 Ice/Eng Blaster. I made her to look just like my Latvian girlfriend. Not a gamer, she thought I was just being a dork. A cute enough dork to marry, thoughm so I won in the end. :P
Riga Terror - 50 Ice/Psy Dom. Easily one of my favorite alts. Though not my most powerful, storming into a mass of enemies and laying ruin to them with confusion, knockdowns, and -rech never got old.
Night Widower Hume - 50 Night Widow. The recipient of most of my ill-gotten gains from being an ebil marketeer, he is my most tricked-out and most powerful character. Having an attack chain for every circumstance and maxed def just never gets old.
I'm A Crab Mon - 44 Crab Spider. Two friends and I decided to make Jamaica-themed Crabs on a lark and give them all Beast Run. Some of my most hilarious teaming experiences were with people either getting "into da ting of being a Crab, mon!" or not getting the joke AT ALL.
.5 M Over V Squared - 50 Kin/Energy Defender. He was a Crey robot made to teach physics to all of the recruits they kept having to hire, and went bonkers from how bad they all were at science. Only one person ever commented that his name got the equation wrong. THAT WAS THE JOKE, PEOPLE.
God dammit, I'll miss this place. 
@Quantum Evil Rad/Rad Corruptor
Making the world safe for maleficent particles since 2004.
UGH do I have to write them down?
I have deleted a great many characters as well but these have been with me since Coh Beta and will be there till the end.
Thor's Assassin - elec/elec/elec blaster. He still has the original outfit on his first costume slot. (will miss him the most)
Assassin of Thor - Ninja/Dark/Mu MasterMind. My first villain when COV landed.
I have quite a few more that I am fond of but these two will just be so hard to see gone into the ether...
@Quantum Evil Rad/Rad Corruptor
Making the world safe for maleficent particles since 2004.
Lady DuBois - 50 Dark/Dark Corrupter. My first 50 toon.
Lily' (formerly was Red Hot123)- 50 - MA/Regen Scrapper. My first 50 hero.
Lady Nora - 50 Triform Peacebringer.
Blue Kiss of Death- 50 - Night Widow/Fortunata.
I started playing on protector over 5 years ago I remember teaming alot with 2 toons, Hot as Hell and Slick as Ice, we did alot of Hollow missions and I always faceplanted. I moved to Pinnacle then ported my toons from protector to pinnacle and changed Red Hot's name to Lily and found the Unforgiven Realm sg redside for a while and sadly that sg died out and found the current group I am in The Inner Circle and got to know them even in real life, but sadly never got to meet in real life just on facebook. I am sad to see this game go and after all this time I still consider myself a noob in this game.
(when I say found I don't mean I made the sg I just mean I ran into them)
Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
The characters I will miss the most...
Buttercupocalypse/Beyn Winters. I loved the name, and Cold/Sonic taught me a whole new respect for debuffs.
Ebonstryke. Fire/SS tank, and not because of the powerset, but it was this character with which I made the most friends in City of Heroes, after I made the change from Freedom to Virtue. Everyone still calls me 'Ebon' even though I haven't played the character in forever.
Loam Neeson. Yeah, I didn't get much of a chance to play my Earth/Nature controller, but I had a ton of fun playing and in coming up with different costumes to fit Liam Neeson's film roles.
Urban Malicious. Elec/Fire Scrapper, the character with which I started the Paragon Urban Militia personal SG which I then turned into a whole host of stories which are yet to be posted online, and probably never will be now. :/
So many others... so many.
I have... oh, so many...
All the versions of my forum-namesake.
The "Therra tree." Therra Arcson - first 50, elec/elec blaster. Therra Paladina, her continuation as a Peacebringer, also 50. Therra Malevola, creaton of the COT, meant to damage her reputation and cause chaos before taking her down - didn't quite work for them. Dark/Therm. 50. Therra Cena, Elec/Elec Dom, Praetorian... need to finish that one. Therra Vindicta, other dimension, "if just one thing changed...." - namely, getting a thirst for vengeance and order after her partner died. Elec/elec Brute, 50. Mortea, stalker. Halsturm, Merc/Storm, just because. And more...
Voidbane, PB, hunter of voids...
all the ones I've had art done of. All the ones I've RPd with and made friends with...
oh, so many who will never get to finish their stories.
I have all too many to even count. 4 accounts worth of alts, mainly for sg padding, but at least one of those accounts stayed paid because I didn't want to lose those toons.
I only have a small number of 50s, though. I wanted to play up so many more. I never even got through a small portion of powersets. So unless we all find every character has enough to level to 50 before the end, it looks like most of my characters - beloved ones - will never make it to see the level cap.
Please read my FEAR/Portal/HalfLife Fan Fiction!
Repurposed
I've deleted more characters than most people have ever made.
Bye, all my little friends.
The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction
ChernobylCheerleader - 50+1 Rad/Rad Defender - The first character I really grokked with, my first to 50.
T-34 - 50+1 Elec/TW Tanker - My first tank to 50 and he was just hitting his stride...
Dyre Woof - 29 TW/WP Brute - I wish I had rolled him earlier, the world needs more big dumb brutes.
Flamethrower Ferret - 24 Fire/Fire Dom - Originally a blaster that I got to 50, got disillusioned with, and then re-rolled. With i24 coming I had kinda regretted nuking his first incarnation, but now... yeah.
But most of all:
Night Widow Ricki - 50+3 Night Widow - My first real main, my first real RP alt, and the one that got me in with the crazy kids in the Entropy Legion.
Tide Shifter - 50 DP/Kin Corruptor - And to think I finally got into regularly RPing with him and with all the stories he and the Hyperion Force have fallen into too.
Opposite Reaction - 50+3 StJ/SD Scrapper - Isabella had many iterations before I finally settled on her current form, and I was never happier than watching her keeping her friends amused or leading the way on iTrials.
Somewhere, out there, there will always be a dashing red-haired pirate flashing dual pistols with his friends and loves by his side. A giant of a young man wielding the heroic heritage of Mother Russia. A meter maid with a riot shield who never let anything stop her dreams. A classy quiet woman who played no game she couldn't win.
... I need a drink.
Blood Widow Ricki * Tide Shifter * T-34 * Opposite Reaction * Shaolin Midnight * ChernobylCheerleader
1400 hours on Vox Populi! That's almost two straight months worth of time playing one character.
Goodbye Captain Lightning, I've always played her with an optimistic can-do personality. No matter how bad things seemed she would do her best to press on and fight. If pulling the plug on the servers was the universe ending comic event. All I can say is that she wouldn't be brooding in a corner some where. She would try and cheer those close to her up and face it head on with a smile.
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A salute to all my toons and others folks toons.
My two mains countess and emberdyne i have deleted hundreds probably but those two always stuck with me *salutes*
The end is just a new beginning, Goodbye all my coh friends and even the enemies, its been a blast I will miss you all. Thank you Paragon team, you gave me a home from home I will always appriciate it.
Oougel - Fortunata, built for melee/AOE damage. A horrible, twisted hybrid of human and Soldiers-of-Rularuu DNA, escaped from her Arachnos creators who viciously defends Primal Earth, HER world.
The Illumineer - Ill/Rad/Primal Controller. A woman scientist, displaced in time from before the 19th Amendment, settled into modern day life perfectly.
And lastly, The Hour Thief - Grav/Kin Controller, with alternate Time/Sonic Defender version. A Midnighter from the Squad's early days, immortal by tricking criminals lifespans away from them. Farewell, Edmund... of all the characters I have ever made in any game, you are the one I most wanted to bang.
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Mine can all be seen/read on Faces.
Magician - Was my very first character, an Ice/Fire blaster who I abandoned in the 30s somewhere. I picked him back up eventually, after gaining more experience in the game, got him to 50, then deleted and re-rolled as a Fire/Storm Controller, now also 50.
Molecule Misfit - My first 50. Energy/Ice Blaster. I always hated the /Ice, so he was eventually re-rolled as an Energy/Energy. Also 50.
John Leviathan - 50 Spine/Invuln. Another victim of deletion, but no remaking this time. A victim or server space capped at 12.
Ugh, I have too many and don't have the time now. We'll just go with a listing off the top of my head:
Ghost Shiva
Power Glove
Phaezon
Ace Gambit
Babel
Summit
Testosterone
Monkey Wrench
Project HERO
Cosmonaut
Gaia Guardian
Fear Noir
Icarus Isotope
Ifrit Isotope
Last Leviathan
Aeon Blade
Mercury Avenger
Molecule Marvel
Silent Prophet
And many other non-50s. I'll miss them all.
Thanks for eight fun years, Paragon.
Lots. But most of all my Ultra Woman. Lvl 50 inv/ss tank.
Rest in peace girl. Job well done.
I have it easy. I played for the story, through the eyes of just one character, most of the time. Doctor Leo, Illusion/Empathy Controller, all around good guy, and complete badge *****. I WILL keep his costume/character data saved, because I'm very good at demo editing. If I'm ever feeling too nostalgic, I know exactly what to do to make him run around Faultline once again. He also has a shiny badge he obtained by figuring out how to use Reward Merits to buy things from the store without actually getting the Reward Merits taken, thus getting infinite LOTG 7.5s for 200 merits...
Blazing Leo, my Fire/Kinetics controller, built in Issue 4 before they were farming machines. An army of imps, and enough Fulcrum Shift to crash the entire game when things got messy. A minor badge *****, he stayed a Hero his entire career. He would have been deleted if it weren't for the shiny badge he obtained after figuring out how to make a TF give many, many times more Reward Merits than they were supposed to...
Radioactive Leo, Radiation/Sonic defender. Deleted long ago. His main accomplishment was soloing the Imperious Task Force when it was new. Took six hours. Without the shiny badge to shield him, he got deleted when I decided his story was over.
There have been others, but their stories were short and lost in the crowd of heroes that is Paragon City. Many of them brought into the City just for specific purposes, when someone needed a specific build for a Task Force or whatever, and then gone when no longer needed.
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really, a thread like this cannot be done by me unless i talk about the two real characters that I fell in love with. My namesake, Aether Crash, and his friend/foe, Kinetic Impact.
Aether Crash originally was a joke character that i made because i thought itd be funny to make a tiny mexican construction worker imbued with the powers of an aboriginal lightning god. Eventually i actually gave the concept a chance, and Miguel actually grew into his own, became a character with loves and hates, a family, and eventually, friends. He never really came of much in the game itself, but outside of the game, in the character development portions, he became somewhat of an extra persona for me.
Soren Holst, Kinetic Impact, was my idea of "what if Aether Crash's good intentions backfired?" Miguel's former best friend would eventually see his family wiped out by arrogance and a need to over-extend oneself, to the point of losing control. To date i dont think ive ever made better characters than i did with Miguel and Soren. And it will be a shame to see them disappear.
other honorable mentions
The Husky Siberian
Congo Jack
Upper Management
Squallshot
The Iron Grave
Katsuo Tentei
The Badassitron
i will miss all of you terribly. Except for Carmine Comet. i hope you live long enough to see 1300 days since last played.
Chat Handle: @Aether Crash -- Guardian
Heroes:
Zkorva the Exiled (50) , Squallshot Maiyamin, Aether Crash, Vhogge the Skyshaper
Villains: Katsuo Tentei (50), Lumilian Dhosan, The Cobalt Tempest, Executioner Adan
Over the years, I've gotten quite a few level 50s.
Heraclea (Victory), tanker
Daisy May (Victory), tanker
Toxotes (Victory), blaster
Melaena (Victory), tanker
Androphonissa (Victory), tanker
Grignr (Victory), scrapper
Baroness Munchhausen (Victory), scrapper
Yansan (Victory), tanker
Omphale (Victory), tanker
Androphonissa (Victory), tanker
Maiden Heaven (Victory), scrapper
Wolf Witch (Victory), controller
Betsy Ross (Victory), scrapper
Jade Emperor (Victory), defender
William Shakespeare (Victory), defender
Mayahuel (Victory), blaster
Camilla (Virtue), tanker
Damage Cushion (Champion), tanker
Ekphobippe (Champion), tanker
Beata Beatrix (Victory), brute
Anactoria (Victory), brute
Madame Nhu (Victory), widow
Camilla (Virtue), tanker
Xinnia (Freedom), tanker
Firemullet Groupie (Freedom), scrapper
I played a few tankers. I played every tanker primary and secondary to 50. My favorite combination was invulnerability/dark melee.
I'm going to need to make a bunch of screen shots soon.
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"At what point do we say, 'You're mucking with our myths'?" - Harlan Ellison
I would like to dedicate this thread to all the wonderful characters we, as CoH players, have made over the years. These little bits and pieces of our souls we have created here digitally should not be forgotten.
I have deleted a great many characters over the years... but these are the ones who were here with me at the end...
D'Shan Steelclaw... 50th level Claws/Regen Scrapper
Edie Wyldfire... 50th level Fire/Devices Blaster
Mistress Monolith... 50th level Willpower/Super Strength Tank
Guardian Edge... 50th level Broadsword/Willpower Brute
Lord Gravenheart... 50th level Necromancy/Dark Miasma Mastermind
Razor's Whisper... 50th level Ninja Blade/Super Reflexes Stalker
Passive Aggression... 50th level Empathy/Psionic Blast Defender
Farewell, my friends... You have been true companions and only the end of your world could have torn me from you.
My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw