About the Author: Why this character?

[Gildarts]

This topic is just about you, the author, feel free to voice some of the reasons you chose your character, or characters you would like to play in the future as well as how you relate to them or don’t.

Short example: I chose Gildarts because he’s badass and I thought it would be fun to give him a whirl with an Omniverse-esque spin on his character.

I can relate to him because he inspires me. Plain and simple, he’s a cool guy with hella confidence and in the anime and manga he comes from and he reminds me of what a retired protagonist from some of the most popular and well known mediums might become. His intrigue is rather ambiguous and he is usually left unspoken for -until the final battle- so I can explain his motives or aspiring ambition as I see fit. This makes him easier to ‘spin’ into layered story lines and I like experimenting with the endless cascades of plot.


Also if Proto happens to see this thread, it might help him display your character when DA finally starts. Who knows? Have fun!

[Darth Vader]

I think I made a similar post to this one waaaaaaay back, but it's always nice to see old discussions crop back up.

I think that main thing that sticks as to why I picked Jon up would be he's a different kind of character. A league away from the normal expectations. He's not a witty badass with a million different moves and weapon types or some chosen one who's been everywhere and done everything. He's a heroic and selfless guy, certainly, but in his own rugged and eclipsed kind of way. What made me pick Jon amongst the rest though is that fact that he's just a human being; nothing more and nothing less that that. He's just a normal guy with dreams, ambitions, hopes and wishes who was born into a harsh, unrelenting and hostile world with a less than savoury start in life (being an illegitimate child). He has a really firm set of moral codes and ethics to stand by, and it's really fun and sometimes rewarding as a writer to craft scenarios which force him to revise and even overcome his own moral sensibility and belief's. It's pretty easy to relate and step into Jon's shoes and relate to him for me since he's something out of an outcast due to being a bastard child, and I'm sure we all know how being outcasted can feel sometimes.

And for Knox, well... why not? He's my OC, my creation from my imagination

[Carn_Val]

My turn! I created Carn as a way to represent me, obviously, in a way that is lively, cheerful and in most cases, bored. All of which exist in a more twisted, mostly confusing or just plain wrong kind of way although I haven't started doing any of it yet IC. As for character progression and overall plot, it's about a being with limitless potential and the struggle of such a being stuck in 'finite form'. Troubled by how little such a being CAN do from a pool of things this being WANTS to do, this being would always seek for a better form, 'fun' so to speak. All of this relates to me since I, being a relatively creative and adventurous person, am limited by worldly boundaries such as money, commitment and responsibility, sickness, time, energy, moral and ultimately, a human body. Such a finite form to allow severely limited things to be accomplished, the human body is too frail to accomodate the human mind.

[Mami Tomoe]

I chose Mami Tomoe as my character, at first, because I was watching Madoka Magica and she seemed like the epitome of my expectations for the anime - A simple romp through girlyville with magic and rainbow hero-flavoured sprinkles on top. Then she, erm, realized she was in over her head.

Later on, she seemed like the only remaining shard of my expectations. She had managed to become arguably the most skilled Magical Girl featured in the anime (Homura doesn't count), while being oblivious to the evils and injustices of the world and her line of work in the process. This makes her stick out as a pillar of light among endless shadows, or at least that's the best way I can put it, and it also makes her the archetypal hero I've always dreamed of. Archetypal, yes, but I love the holier-than-thou-but-not-stuck-up-enough-to-outright-say-it type for some reason. Which might make sense, because I'm that myself minus the 'but-not-stuck-up-enough-to-outright-say-it' part.

In other words, I like Mami because she's the blundering veteran. She contradicts herself while being the (OPINION ALERT) best Magical Girl on the show, despite only getting three real episodes of screentime.

(Edited that quote a wee bit to remove a spoiler or two I hadn't noticed while writing.)

As of today, this still stands. As for Agnès, I was originally going for someone to completely contrast and really show drastic difference compared to Mami who was still aligned on the Good side of the moral compass. I at first was thinking of characterizing Magnolia Arch using what scraps of Bravely Second information there is out on the Internet and giving her amnesia so I didn't need to make a background (And subsequently look stupid for getting everything wrong a few months later). I decided I'd keep looking in Bravely Default for a character, and after toying about with Edea, Ringabel and then even Alternis Dim, I decided the one I used as the healer would be interesting to play. My second favourite character in Bravely Default, oddly enough, was the one I chose rather than my absolute favourite (Ringabel). As for the actual reason I chose Agnès - I thought the Omniverse could use a healer, so I made Agnès into one.

Lastly... How do I relate to Agnès? I honestly have no idea. We're both pretty Lawful Good-y, and on that topic we're both the goody two-shoes types, but that's basically the same reason I like Mami. The only thing with Agnès is she's more dependent on others despite preferring to handle things alone, and that's a good trait to have in a roleplay - It means your character will rarely be alone. And with incentive for others to keep you around ("Protect me and I'll help keep you from dying and shit"), you're pretty much set.

Thus ends my rant.

[Trixie]

Trixie in her original form was a custom demon entity from a dimension I created for her past. She was spiritually linked to Vad, her eventual husband, and resided within his mind. She later obtained the ability to take a corporeal form and move about. I based Trixie off of my 2006 to 2008 High School experience in the loosest definition of the word "based." Vad was an experiment in my head about sociopaths and remorse. I wanted to create the mentally perfect soldier capable of finding his way out of everything. As I've just created Trixie in her current form on this website with the past 24 hours I'd have to say she's based off an idea I've had for a while for a Dark Jedi who joins the Jedi because they have no other choice when it comes to seeing through the dark side. I've always had qualms with the logic behind certain Star Wars lore and I had some ideas for creating an ex-Sith who really didn't want anything to do with the life anymore.

[Blink]

She can teleport.

[Galel Baraz]

Many reasons, I'll list them.

First, I absolutely love Warhammer 40k lore. It's grimdark 'there is only war' attitude is something I find fun, and the rich history that the setting provides is just excellent. It was natural for me to want to create a character from the Warhammer 40k galaxy.

Second, I love dark characters. I enjoy playing as them and exploring them a lot more than I like exploring a white knight. The world weary veteran, the haunted coward, and the psychotic survivor are some of my favourite concepts to explore. Galel is a combination of all of them, in one form or another.

Third, while I myself am an atheist, the concept of a faith-driven character has always been alluring. It's something I myself am incapable of, and it's fun to explore the good and evil that someone can perform in the name of a higher power.

Fourth, I absolutely LOVE magic, and in 40k, Psychic powers are essentially magic. Creating a sorcerer is perfect for me, and I get to explore 40k's special brand of magic with omni-physics applied.

Fifth, I already had the character concept thought up and ready for a theoretical game of Black Crusade.

Galel's all about devotion to a cause. At first, his cause was the Unification of Mankind under the Emperor's leadership. When the Primarch Magnus was found and cured the Thousand Sons of their mutations, Galel's devotion shifted to Magnus. Finally, after the Fall of Prospero, he became devoted to understanding Chaos, to learning of and serving Tzeentch, the God of Change. I chose Tzeentch over the other chaos gods because of his nature as the most unpredictable of the Ruinous Powers. His schemes are legion, and his plots often contradict one another. This gives me a great breadth of freedom for how Galel acts in accordance with his God's nature. Galel would just as readily topple a powerfulentity as he would aid it, so long as there is great change and upheaval to be found as a result. And so, despite serving the 'Ruinous Powers', Galel doesn't always have to act as a cackling evil maniac.

[Violet]

When I first started playing as Violet over on Chubbs almost 10 (!!!) years ago, she wasn't even my first choice. I wanted Pan, but she was already taken by a girl named Amy, who was one of the first people over on that RPG and had had her for quite some time, even though she was pretty much inactive. Heffers (HF17) thought I was some some douche named Bon Para (who I guess had been causing trouble before I came) but Becca (18) cleared me after I made another roleplay.

I didn't expect Captain Violet (who is probably one of the most obscure characters in DBZ, appearing in maybe two episodes very briefly) to become who she is now. As I started writing her and finding her voice, I just started to become deeply connected with this character and inspired some of her life events off some of my favorite things, such as The Bride from Kill Bill. Eventually, she just continued to evolve into this character that had a really fucked up life and just wanted out of it, but despite what she tried, the life just kept dragging her back. Eventually, she obliged, and decided that if she can't get out of the life, she'd change it to something that better served her.

In a lot of ways, writing this character was my therapy for my own fucked up real life. I would rather not divulge details other than to whom I've already shared about it. I feel many people misunderstand my obsession with wanting to hold on to her, why it is so difficult for me to "let go". Violet is, in a sense, my release from a lot of things. She's helped me deal with my issues with love, friendship, and relationships in general, which I tended to shy away from because of my issues with the people and environment I was around at the time. For example, when I felt weak, I helped get through it by being strong in character. It was like that for a lot of scenarios I had difficulty working through.

Violet is my baby. She's the character that I took from being this obscure canon character and made into a custom before customs were even permitted on Chubbs. I formed a lot of great friendships with people there both in character and out of it, and a lot of them were facilitated by this character.

I've done a lot with her, and I look forward to doing even more awesome stuff with her, especially in this new setting where I have a bit more freedom to explore elements that I would not have been able to mess with over there. It's been a while since I've written more stories for her, and I look forward to writing many more here.

[Omni]

Samus Aran is one of my favourite video game characters. She is interesting from many perspectives, I feel like a lot of people don't 'get' who I see to be the real Samus. I guess on one level I didn't want to see her done wrong I've written as her before but it never quite clicked. I have a hard time writing characters who don't flip out and act irrationally. This time around she has become not only my best iteration of the character, but possibly my best well written and balanced character that I have written to date. There's a lot of things I still want to do with Samus.

Oh! And I finally get to continue the story from Metroid Fusion that I have been waiting for TWELVE GODDAMN YEARS. It's like after doing something really dramatic with the story they just pussied out and decided to do a bunch of midquels. WE WANT A FUSION SEQUEL

I wanted my second character to be both a contrast to my main character, preferably a villain, and someone who I would legitimately enjoy writing. Given how much I love One Piece, that series was top of my list for a villain to pick from. Enel is my favourite One Piece villain and it helps that lightning is my favourite element. His powers gave me a lot to fool around with – unlike Samus who is a kind of fixed, moddable robot, he is elemental in nature and can re-form his body as the element of lightning. He has a lot of places to go in terms of powers that will keep me busy for years.

I also decided that I wanted a real villain who didn't slowly become more of an antihero. I don't regret at all the route I took with Super Buu on Chubbs, but it made me realise that I have a really hard time writing evil characters and keeping them that way. And I want to constantly get better at writing. Enel literally believes he is God and has the right to do whatever he wants. In One Piece, because of the tone, despite him being fully willing to commit genocide this never actually happens (at least on screen; he's done it in the past). Bringing him into the Omniverse allowed me to put that character in a realistic setting without the limitations on horrible stuff that I could actually let him carry out. It's a test for me to see how far I can push him and how convincingly I can write his character and make him believably abhorrent.

[Illidan Stormrage]

Legend of Zelda has been my favourite series since I was 12. I've always been attracted to the good vs. evil story, and nothing gives me goosebumps like a powered up good guy going up against a world ending bad guy. Ocarina of Time captured that perfectly with Link vs. Ganondorf, and the series has never disappointed since. Thus Link to me is the quintessential good guy, and for the most part, I'm going to keep him that way. Some people like to take a straight shooting goody and give him some dark morally grey issues to deal with, which usually end up turning them a little jaded or more world weary. While I intend to expand Link's character, I won't be going into that. It's just a little boring to me.

I was a huge fan of Warcraft 3, and the night elves were always my favourite. I loved the idea of druidism, but I always liked Illidan as a character more than Malfurion. In fact, in an earlier iteration of AD, I was Illidan if he had become a druid. However this time I chose Illidan because 1) I really like his history and 2) I'm fond of the whole 'fight fire with fire' power set/attitude he has. Instead of going villain to anti-hero, I'm looking to see if I can go the other way. It'll be a test for me, since I would usually go evil > good or at least evil > neutral (I believe Orion was a good example of the latter), but I think I can do it.

[Mickey Mouse]

I have loved Mickey Mouse, as many people have, since I was a very young boy.

In some ways, I never really connected with any of the other Disney "stars" the way I did with Mickey. Even when I was young and watching House of Mouse, I always preferred watching a Mickey cartoon rather than Goofy, or Donald, or Daisy, etc. This is gonna sound lame, but I think I saw myself in him a little, a plucky little guy who's always trying to be the hero.

When I was trying to pick a character for here, I didn't originally pick Mickey. I chose the Jedi Exile, because she had a clear jumping off point to go from in her canon and had a lot of customization purposes. But as I was writing up my joining app, it didn't really click with me. So, I decided that I wanted to play a hero. A character that was sort of a beacon of hope, and would try his best to survive in a rough world with good ideals. Mickey sprung to mind, especially since I had fallen in love with the badass adaptation of him in Kingdom Hearts. So I based my Mickey off of that Mickey, and here we are.

So far, he has succeeded in making me happy. The Omniverse is being crueler to him than I expected, but he's taking it all and will hopefully rise from the ashes a stronger character, even more dedicated to his code than he was when he came in. I like the idea that I can take someone who is a cartoonish character (no pun intended) and maybe turn him into something engaging and very real. So, yeah, that's why Mickey.

Also, he's fucking adorable.

[Raina]

Raina is, by definition parts of my personality and spirit all in one. She is ever never afraid to stand up for what she believes in and looks damn well doing it. Her angelic heritage came from my love of mythology and fantasy and made me think, why should angels answer to only a christian god? I created her years ago when I was going through a lot of self discovery, figuring out who i was, what i wanted to do and wanted to believe. She is my answer. A powerful sorceress with a heart of gold.

I am a practicing witch. I study Wicca and do attend a meeting for a coven where i live, so magic has always been a part of my life and beliefs. The elements themselves bring life and love to our very world, so why not let the girl who loves the world control them for good?

[Trixie]

Raina is, by definition parts of my personality and spirit all in one. She is ever never afraid to stand up for what she believes in and looks damn well doing it. Her angelic heritage came from my love of mythology and fantasy and made me think, why should angels answer to only a christian god? I created her years ago when I was going through a lot of self discovery, figuring out who i was, what i wanted to do and wanted to believe. She is my answer. A powerful sorceress with a heart of gold.

I am a practicing witch. I study Wicca and do attend a meeting for a coven where i live, so magic has always been a part of my life and beliefs. The elements themselves bring life and love to our very world, so why not let the girl who loves the world control them for good?

Good to meet a fellow pagan.

[Deadpool]

I chose DP because he makes fart noises.

[Thaal Sinestro]

Anyone who knows me knows I FUCKING LOVE Green Lantern shit. My love of the power set and mythology with Justice League Unlimited, and then ask the wikis on the internet ever, and finally Geoff John's run with the title. God damn Sinestro Corps War, man. Good shit.

I've always sided with villains, ever since I was a kid. They have a tendency to be more interesting characters with more depth, and usually they kick way more ass. That on top of the fact that most villains are just people who want to make a better world through extreme measures, or are good people who, through abuse and misunderstanding, have stopped giving a crap.

Sinestro has a lot if things I really look for in a character, and Geoff did a really good job if fleshing him out as a character. He is a man who wanted to make a better world, he wanted to be the best, and he had the power to do both of those things. Pride failed him. His friends failed to help him. His only compatriot, Hal Jordan, is a HUGE fucking asshole who only made things worse. Sinestro has the will to fight, the mind to lead, and the mastery to do great things. I really do believe he is the Greatest Lantern, despite his inability to straight up kill the "good guy" in the comics. It's like, him and Atrocitus, man.

There's a lot if fodder to play with there. The death if his wife, the fact that his child estranged him, the death of his mentor and the brother of his wife? Tragic stuff, plenty to pull off of.

And his powers? Holy shit his powers, guys. The creativity and fun that can come with a power ring is awesome.

Anyways, /rant

[Dr. McNinja]

Uhhhh excuse me?

Needs my character an explanation?

I saw this place, saw how serious (emo) a lot of characters were, ('cause the first ones I saw chatting were Retane, Sasuke, Okor, Vincent, etc.) I wanted to bring a twist into it by picking the most ridiculous and outrageous character I could find. I like the juxtaposition of the "worlds of horror, pain, and emotionally scarred people" idea next to "literally my superpower is that I don't make sense at all".

And (unlike many's impressions of it) the comic actually has several non-humorous moments, that are random and funny when described out of context. [spoiler]For example, (in a dream sequence, albeit, but this actually happens later) zombie Benjamin Franklin and his army of zombie ninjas all dance to Thriller by Michael Jackson. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p3/">http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p3/</a><!-- m --> True McNinja fans know, however, he's suffering from the guilt of failing to save Ben, and killing all of those people.[/spoiler] I thought that could fit here.

[Okor]

I saw this place, saw how serious (emo) a lot of characters were, ('cause the first ones I saw chatting were Retane, Sasuke, Okor, Vincent, etc.) I wanted to bring a twist into it by picking the most ridiculous and outrageous character I could find. I like the juxtaposition of the "worlds of horror, pain, and emotionally scarred people" idea next to "literally my superpower is that I don't make sense at all".

That emo thing hurts me deep. Okor's perfectly happy, and he's glad to share his happiness with you via the medium of disease.

Anyways, I suppose I'll do this...

I picked Okor, as, depending on your point of view, he's either a valorous villain, or a very, very, anti-hero. Due to my familiarity with the 40k universe, my love for survivable characters, and Nurgle being my favourite chaos god, a plague marine was one of my first choices. The Death Guard have always been a favourite 40k faction of mine, having followed their king into the service of the Emperor, and later, rebellion. The plague and sickness aspect was something I wanted to investigate, as I was curious to see how disease would work in the Omniverse (And I'm not disappointed). All in all, I felt like Okor was a character with a wide array of motivations, feelings, and potential plotlines, not to mention his geniality serving as a counterpoint to the wide array of characters that seem inclined to go through every day feeling sorry for themselves.

[spoiler]I also felt like I couldn't do a canon character justice, so I just made my own.[/spoiler]

[Kenpachi Zaraki]

I saw this place, saw how serious (emo) a lot of characters were, ('cause the first ones I saw chatting were Retane, Sasuke, Okor, Vincent, etc.)

I actually don't really play Vincent as emo as he is in FFVII. He still has some baggage, but he's mostly just homesick. At the end of the FFVII canon (where I pulled Vincent) he 'forgave' himself and became less brooding. He even has an adopted 'child' and keeps in touch with his AVALANCHE buds. He still looks like he loves the Cure, but he's not big on appearances. =P

I chose Vincent because he had a good amount of emotional depth and I just like his backstory. Love, loss, and eventual redemption. He's darker than a stereotypical hero (I'LL FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT = boring) but not as ambivalent as the typical antihero despite all the fucked up stuff that's happened to him. He lives his life for those he cares for, because it's all he knows.

[Tearen Wover]

Nealaphh has a pretty long history, and is basically my oldest OC. He first became a thing when I kept seeing this weird creature in my dreams, and after doing some automatic writing, I determined that his name was Nealaphh. For a while, Nealaphh was just sort of this entity that I had inside my head, and as a result, I got very deep into dream theory.

As I got older, I brought Nealaphh onto the role-play scene as a sort of otherworldly agent of murder. Having developed an obsession with H.P. Lovecraft and advanced physics, I turned Nealaphh into my ideal eldritch abomination. His personality and nature has changed over time, but he's always been otherworldly, and is often a mysterious patron to other characters.

Ultimately, when the site I had him on died, I chose to bring him (now an 'it') here because I wanted to see where I could take its character next. The old role-play site I was on let us basically have UNLIMITED POWER, so putting it in a situation where it was relatively powerless seemed like an interesting character thread. I've also wanted to play a psychic character, and Nealaphh was heading in that direction anyway pre-omniverse, so I solidified it here.

[Zack Fair]

Back when I played FF7, when it first came out...I loved the concept of Zack. Of course you didn't see much of him, but that mystery only made him a more interesting character to me. He was connected to everything, and yet absent, so you couldn't help but wonder about him. Zack made a couple of appearances in an RP I was involved with at the time, and I really enjoyed fleshing him out. Fast forward a few years, and this NPC that I got attached to gets his own game. I loved what they did with Crisis Core for the most part, and it actually changed the way I viewed FF7. They connected him so well to Cloud, Aerith, Tseng, and a lot of other FF7 characters that the next time I played through FF7 Zack's absence stood out tremendously. Which, given the plot of the game, is I guess a good effect. Either way, I was left with this feeling thinking that Zack had a lot more to do and give. So, here I get to play with him in the sandbox.

Also, I really like giant swords.