I just...kinda sat down and thought about it.
And I've come to the sad realisation that most of my favourite characters - and consequently also the highest-level ones...started out as jokes. I tend not to play the outright stinker pun characters long-term, but the moderate joke ones...eventually become serious characters.
See:-
Superball ...is the name of a children's toy. Those ultra-bouncy little balls that come in fancy colours. I loved those things. So I made an invulnerable martial artist that jumps around a lot. All the backstory, with him as a reluctant successor to a historical legacy...I pulled that crap out of my rear end. =P
Glass Lass ...is just a funny name. I mean. gLASS LASS. It's awesome. It's so totally a silly Legion of Superheroes name and is awesome. And with a name like that it has to be ice powersets, y'know? 'course, now she's one of the most thought-provoking characters for me to RP, has a complex speech-pattern, and is my only character so far to have a properly expensive IO build...
Space Mage ...is a cosmic silver-age costumed elf. Her name's a pun on 'Space Age'. Hahaha. Right. Except nobody got the joke, but everyone liked her cheerful hyperactive personality, and the rest, as they say, is RP...er, I mean, history.
Obsolete ...is a 1950s atomic-powered ROBOT MAID. Er. Actually there's probably nothing more I need to say here...
...and the same goes for my newest batch of alts, the ones I'm currently levelling:-
eMage ...is an illusionist who casts spells off a PDA and laptop. The joke's obvious. But I decided to connect her to Space Mage - making her Elizabeth Casmir, Adrianne's bitchier elder sister. Now she has backstory and an RP connection to everyone who knows Spacey.
Destined-1 ...is, well, a riff on Destined One. The pun cracked me up so bad I had to use it. But I didn't know what to do with the name for the longest time; it was just a ha-ha funny joke. I kept coming up with and discarding concepts for the name. Now, though, I have it. Destined-1 is so obviously a model number for a suit of POWER ARMOR. With a core driven by the Well of the Furies. Shades of Evangelion et-all, and I refer to the character in the suit as a 'pilot'. =D
(which means that Destined-1 is also, obviously, the arch-nemesis of my Iron Man-inspired elec/elec/elec blaster, another originally-a-pun character: Circuit-3 !)
Operative Parker ...is my average joe Wolf Spider. 'nuff said.
Battery Acid ...is an electric raver brute, YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH--- o/'
-- Acyl
And I've come to the sad realisation that most of my favourite characters - and consequently also the highest-level ones...started out as jokes. I tend not to play the outright stinker pun characters long-term, but the moderate joke ones...eventually become serious characters.
See:-
Superball ...is the name of a children's toy. Those ultra-bouncy little balls that come in fancy colours. I loved those things. So I made an invulnerable martial artist that jumps around a lot. All the backstory, with him as a reluctant successor to a historical legacy...I pulled that crap out of my rear end. =P
Glass Lass ...is just a funny name. I mean. gLASS LASS. It's awesome. It's so totally a silly Legion of Superheroes name and is awesome. And with a name like that it has to be ice powersets, y'know? 'course, now she's one of the most thought-provoking characters for me to RP, has a complex speech-pattern, and is my only character so far to have a properly expensive IO build...
Space Mage ...is a cosmic silver-age costumed elf. Her name's a pun on 'Space Age'. Hahaha. Right. Except nobody got the joke, but everyone liked her cheerful hyperactive personality, and the rest, as they say, is RP...er, I mean, history.
Obsolete ...is a 1950s atomic-powered ROBOT MAID. Er. Actually there's probably nothing more I need to say here...
...and the same goes for my newest batch of alts, the ones I'm currently levelling:-
eMage ...is an illusionist who casts spells off a PDA and laptop. The joke's obvious. But I decided to connect her to Space Mage - making her Elizabeth Casmir, Adrianne's bitchier elder sister. Now she has backstory and an RP connection to everyone who knows Spacey.
Destined-1 ...is, well, a riff on Destined One. The pun cracked me up so bad I had to use it. But I didn't know what to do with the name for the longest time; it was just a ha-ha funny joke. I kept coming up with and discarding concepts for the name. Now, though, I have it. Destined-1 is so obviously a model number for a suit of POWER ARMOR. With a core driven by the Well of the Furies. Shades of Evangelion et-all, and I refer to the character in the suit as a 'pilot'. =D
(which means that Destined-1 is also, obviously, the arch-nemesis of my Iron Man-inspired elec/elec/elec blaster, another originally-a-pun character: Circuit-3 !)
Operative Parker ...is my average joe Wolf Spider. 'nuff said.
Battery Acid ...is an electric raver brute, YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH--- o/'
-- Acyl