It’s been brought to my attention that these random character creation posts are “unreadable” and “awful”. But it’s fun for me so I’m going to do it again. I could do it and not post it but what’s the point of doing something without desperately begging for attention afterwards?
I think all RPG people would agree that the best part of any game is character creation – before the gross GM ruins everything with their stupid plot. And the other players think their characters should get to do stuff too?! It’s lunacy.
I would say half of the people that I’ve gamed with that I didn’t care for should have been writing instead of playing an RPG, they would have been much happier if they were in control of everything.
Type – Hardware, Analytical Genius
Appearance – Short, average
Disposition – Mean, suspicious
Age – Mid-20s
Origin – Europe, English speaking, small city
Background – Criminal
Powers manifested – Recently
Other – Legacy
Budget – 4 million
Analytical genius in this context means your standard super science person. I would imagine that IRL most super smart people are only super smart in a couple of areas at best – if you’re a great heart surgeon you’re probably not also a wiz at coding and can build a new kind of airplane in your backyard. But in comics, smart heroes can do everything. They get budget instead of abilities for their super-gear.
Europe-English speaking is an odd inclusion on a random chart, isn’t that just two countries, England and Ireland? I’ll say this short mean suspicious lady is Irish. Irish ladies in media always have red hair. The only Irish person I’ve met IRL had red hair. It got me to wondering how common it actually is. Per the internet no one knows really, but estimates range from 10% to 30%. Remember a few years ago when it was “news” that red hair would be gone in a few generations because we’re not all trapped on an island anymore? I do.
I don’t know much about Ireland but I don’t think they have many cities there, I’m given to understand it’s more of a small-town vibe most places. I’m not sure it matters much, but I’ll say she’s from Derry. I was just thinking the other day for a period of time it seemed like all media portrayals of Irish people were related to the IRA and/or the conflict in Northern Ireland. I wondered “is that not cool?” But if you’re going to do something involving action and violence, I suppose it would be weird to ignore it.
So I’ll cave to convention and possibly be un-PC to Irish people (sorry Irish people) and say that Maggie McGraw’s father was a Red Hand Commando. Her mother was out of the picture at a young age so Maggie was reared by her hellraising father and his secret paramilitary buddies. Having a knack for machines and the like from a young age, she was the armorer for her father’s “platoon” and if anyone had an issue with a little girl taking care of their weapons, her da would beat them senseless.
Legacy usually means that you have the same powers or abilities, but I’ll say that’s not the case here. The legacy in this case being that she followed in her father’s footsteps in the conflict. Maggie is a genius intellect inventor type, her father was not, he was a hard charging, hard fighting, tough as nails SOB. As Maggie got older she started building devices for her father and his crew to use, and eventually started participating in “operations” herself. Not the really violent stuff, but robberies to support the cause and the like. Which were still pretty violent.
When she was a teen her father’s luck ran out – he and his commandos were caught and ended up dead or in prison. Maggie was shuttled from relative to relative and hidden with various people sympathetic to the cause. This continued until she attempted an attack on her own and was caught in the process. Playing up her youth and gender, Maggie got off “merely” with a ten-year sentence. In prison she meets Mairéad Devaney, who unbeknownst to the authorities, was actually the tech-villain Complex.
Mairéad spotted Maggie turning a radio into a transmitter and the two immediately began conspiring to escape. Which they did successfully a few months later, by being smart and doing way cool tech stuff. Once they were away from the prison at Mairéad’s hideout, Maggie did away with her new friend and occupied herself building and modifying equipment with the components and materials Mairéad had stored up.
Even though Maggie was imprisoned only for a short time, she lost her passion for her father’s cause. Her goal now is to make money and live the high life. She plans to do this eventually by becoming a supplier of high-tech gear for other criminals but first she needs the seed money to get started. And what better place to make some quick cash than the wealthiest and most corrupt city in the world, Madripoor?
Maggie’s sweet gear – Armored bodysuit w/ telemental multi-optics combat computer helmet, rocket boots, wireless communication, reflex enhancers, and supercharged punchin’ gauntlets with frickin’ lasers
This is “wonderful” and “readable”! I hate her so much already.
Nothing wrong with the character skits old bean. The haters juat need a long cool glass of Clorox (that’s a thing over there, right?).
Also, English and Irish? The Scotts and the Welsh are probably going to start moaning in bit. So will the Cornish, but they can shut the hell up and get back inside the Jack where they belong. The Manx & Channel Islanders will be alright though, they’re used to it and the Gibraltans are probably too busy enjoying the weather to care.
I don’t know if the Falkland Islanders count (or even if they can), but they’re closer to us than you guys are to Hawai’i.
Anyway, I got a box to get back into.
In this alternate history the Falklands are where Peter Falk lives with his followers.
I dunno. You know that feeling you get when a comic book movie puts an easter egg character in it and all the nerds look at each other and chuckle?
These character creation posts kind of set up that same feeling. When there’s a flash of light and a somebody lights up with predator style laser scopes, those of us that have been reading can feel good and say “Ahhh, I know whats going on! I know who that is lurking in the shadows there…”