#art fight - esque attacks with no expectation of retaliating attacks

[snow-system-wol]

Perhaps post-7.0 can provide a nice vacation respite for her (and her gf, of course).

( @soothingmind 's Nimda)

[salavante]

Grey Solidago!

(lol this one was from Jake but he forgot to turn anon off. I’m making ye way through these and will probably post the rest later today or tomorrow - I got Pat and Aesop to go and might just do one more headshot of my choice to make it an even number)

Full Name: Grey Solidago

Gender and Sexuality: Female & Bisexual

Pronouns: she/her

Ethnicity/Species: Grey is a half-Anubii (also known as a Zeke) and a hemilich. Her father, Jonquil, is a full blooded anubii, a race of odd, magically reanimated corpses of unknown origin, and her mother, Hare, is a human. Hare is also ethnically an Ashkenazi jew.  

Birthplace and Birthdate: Maybe sometime in September. Could have been born in either The Tidelands (ranging from coastal sage scrub to salt marshes and deltas/swamps) or The Green (temperate rainforest and boreal pines to taiga).

Guilty Pleasures: Definitely smoking, a bad habit she picked up from her dad. Not really a guilty pleasure, but I also think that her tastes in music are a lot more varied than people would expect, and she can probably find something she likes in any genre she investigates.

Phobias: Nothin really man! Grey is actually the most “normal” and well adjusted of the Solidago children, which still means she’s kind of creepy and peculiar by average standards. She doesn’t like feeling vulnerable or like things are out of her control, and she is good at compartmentalizing her doubts and anxieties. There is a certain, intense rage inside her that is kept under a cool exterior, and inflicting grievous harm on someone who she feels deserves it is not something that troubles her very much. I suppose she may fear taking things too far and doing something very cruel, because she knows she has the ability and emotional capacity to do it.

What They Would Be Famous For: Grey is a fine artist who does very big, lush oil paintings, and while not famous, is notable and has had gallery shows of her work. Grey’s usual job is accompanying adventuring parties to strange locals and then illustrating them in action and doing charcoal studies of ruins/landscapes/etc, as editorial material for the various publications on adventuring and dungeon diving. She’s become a handful of magazines’ go-to gal. Her work is mostly representational, and she seldom makes a piece without doing lots of studies first, but she leans heavy into chiaroscuro and has big, juicy brush strokes. Words often used to describe her work are “eerie”, “haunting” or “intense”.

What They Would Get Arrested For: Probably something really benign like trespassing or going somewhere without a proper permit, Grey is pretty lawful, both of her parents are in a law enforcement esque occupation. They run a very organized adventurer’s guild, effectively, that will cooperate with local law enforcement to catch run of the mill criminals in addition to tackling monsters or liches or what have you.

OC You Ship Them With: Wybjorn has a tiny baby crush on her because he gets crushes on anyone who’s moderately nice to him, but he’s a little too goofy for her, she’s not into it. Grey’s in an awkward bracket of characters because they are kind of our third gen group and there’s only so many of them in the 20-30 range (Grey is 23). She’s also kind of an intense lady, I keep using that word but it fits. Canonically, we’re going to see how Grey and Ozzy fare when we get around to Mindrunner II, the sequel to Ozzy’s original campaign. They weirdly hit it off during Godslaughter, I think they’re both very intellectual people and counterbalance one another very well. Ozzy has a partner already, their name is Rosemary, but Ozzy has two hands.

OC Most Likely To Murder Them: Jovix-Cailo, probably. He did kill Lysander and broke Grey’s leg. Otherwise she hasn’t really done anything to invoke someone’s ire. Jovix-Diocunigast might also kill her in the final fight, we shall see (I wrote this before the game was over, he didn’t!).

Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Grey likes slow burn ghost stories, psychological horror, true crime documentaries, mysteries and thrillers. She’d like “I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House”, “Twin Peaks” and Agatha Christie. She probably reads short story anthologies and paperbacks when she’s on the road for her job.  Anything with well paced tension will hold her interest, but she may tolerate poor writing as long as the visuals in a movie or TV show are good.

Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: I honestly don’t think she’d treat something with disdain or vitriol like some other characters might, I think she’s pretty good at ignoring stuff that she doesn’t like in terms of media. Not a big fan of slashers or more fantastical horror, she has pretty well defined tastes, and dislikes your usual bouquet of mainstream film genres (romcoms, action, etc). I do think that one thing she truly does not like is any cartoon with singing in it, which is probably something she has to moderately tolerate because she has a young niece.

Talents and/or Powers: Grey has a mostly utility build with a focus on stacking debuffs and interrupting other people’s attacks. She doesn’t have any really big, damage dealing abilities, but she’s meant to support more potent DPS by wearing down bosses with status afflictions. In fiction this manifests as a handiness at weaving curses. As mentioned before, she is also a pretty skilled painter, with her preferred mediums as charcoal, ink wash and oils.

Why Someone Might Love Them: Strong willed, confident, intelligent and classy - Grey has perhaps had self confidence issues in the past, she was kind of a weird looking, gangly child/teenager, but she really owns herself now. She knows what she likes and dislikes and makes her preferences very obvious, and though she doesn’t make jokes very often, has a good sense of humor (which she got from her mom) though it can be kind of dry/morbid. She’s rather private and has an air of mystery about her and a slight eeriness that some may find enticing. She also refuses to stand idly by when there is injustice in her presence, for better or for worse. 

Why Someone Might Hate Them: She can come off as uncaring or cold, and definitely has a terminal case of Resting Bitch Face. Any hiccups in her success in the art world are caused by her being uncompromising with her integrity, and a reluctance to play nice peers and art directors just for the sake of networking or getting a job. Being disingenuous feels counterintuitive to her sense of ethics. And while that’s all well and good, it makes her difficult to work with, and has made her miss out on some opportunities she may have benefitted from. Her bluntness has made her unpalatable to many, and some may see her as being stuck up. She also does not react well to people approaching her with aggression or snideness, and will retaliate ferociously.

How They Change: Honestly, not a lot, she’s pretty stable. Grey has mostly functioned in an NPC capacity up until this point, so there haven’t really been any stories focused on her. Prior to her extra dimensional shenanigans with her half-brother, she had kind of a strained relationship with her mom, who’s she’s since gained a lot more respect and compassion for. They’re on much better terms now. She also started out not liking Ozzy very much and thought he was kind of a weiner, but, they’re very good friends now after having some pretty harrowing experiences together.

Why You Love Them: She’s my only character who’s actually an artist. I don’t tend to like making characters who, well, do what I do. I love illustrating but what I do is still a lot of hard work and I like to take breaks from it. Generally speaking, I prefer to insert my creativity and drive into characters that make things with their hands but don’t make visual art per say. It’s why a lot of my characters are scientists and engineers. So I think it’s a unique connection to have.

[tigerlover16-uk]

So, here's something just for fun. Do you think you could come up with your own backstories and/or some personal life details for some of the new characters in the tournament of power?

Ooh, here‘s something different. Alright then, here‘s some ideas:

General Kahseral: Kahseral was born in a galaxy on the far edge of Universe 11, where most of the planets were being run by tyrannical governments, the Pride Troopers not really having the time to do anything about it for a time due to being busy in other parts of the universe.

A fighting prodigy and strategic genius, Kahseral joined up with an organization of freedom fighters to topple the tyrannical governments and put up new ruling systems in their place, to liberate the people of his galaxy and improve their lives. With him leading the charge, Kahseral’s freedom fighters overthrew most of the ruling governments, but on the verge of total galactic conquest the Pride Troopers finally arrived and Kahseral was confronted and defeated in battle by Toppo.

Toppo took Kahseral back to one of the planets his group had previously conquered, and revealed to him that his fellow “Freedom Fighters” had actually been setting up even MORE tyrannical governments in the place of the ones they’d toppled right under Kahseral’s nose. with the intent to betray Kahseral when he’d fulfilled his purpose for them.

Devastated at all the damage he’d unwittingly helped cause, Kahseral joined Toppo and the Pride Troopers in overthrowing Kahseral’s old organisation, as well as the few remaining tyrannical governments. Belmod and Khai would proceed to re-organize the governments of the galaxy into something more functional.

Feeling repentant and wanting desperately to do some real good in the universe, Kahseral begged Toppo to allow him a place among the Pride Troopers to repent for his sins. Toppo readily accepted, and Kahseral has gone on to become one of the Pride Troopers stand out members ever since.

Toppo: Toppo was the son of two of the universe’s most reviled super villains, and the arch-enemies of the Pride Troopers former leader (A red ranger parody). During one final confrontation with them, the Pride Trooper was forced to kill the villains in a last ditch act of self-defense, to his regret. Soon after, he discovered baby Toppo in a crib in a sealed off room in the base.

Feeling guilty about what he’d had to do, the hero decided to raise Toppo as an apprentice. Though he tried to keep some level of distance, feeling he didn’t deserve to be considered the boy’s father after what he’d done, Toppo nonetheless looked up to his master as a parent, and everyone could see that the bond was mutual.

Toppo trained under the leader of the Pride Troopers all his life. During his late teens however, a ferocious giant monster (A Goldar homage) attacked one of the universes most densely inhabited planets. Half of the currently serving pride troopers were either brutalized or slaughtered in the retaliation and evacuation efforts, Toppo himself being severely injured.

Desperate to end the carnage and save the rest of the civilians, Toppo’s master gave Toppo one last speech about the values of heroism, protecting the innocent and telling Toppo “Never let the flames of justice in your heart burn out”, before charging the rampaging monster, destroying it completely with one last suicidal attack.

Toppo was left utterly devastated by these events. But also filled with determination to uphold the values his beloved master had fought for. Toppo continued to serve among the Pride Troopers for many more years, eventually working his way up to become the teams leader, and impressing Belmod enough for the God of Destruction to appoint him his chosen successor.

Though Toppo suffered a bout of depression and PTSD from the events involving his master’s death, he has since mostly overcome his issues through intense therapy over the years. He also tends to take any kind of failure extremely personally as a result, and his greatest fear is failing to protect the innocent and those close to him.

Ganos: Ganos was an orphan on a backwater planet in universe 4. He is descended from a race of extremely powerful people who can control the element of lightning, most of whom were the victim of genocide on their planet from religious fanatics. Ganos’s parents were some of the few survivors, but his father succumb to illness and his mother died when he was very young.

As a result, Ganos mostly grew up on the streets under the care of an old Hobo, who taught him the arts of deception and thievery. When Ganos was 13, his caretaker was murdered by a gang of mafia-esque thugs embroiled in a turf war in his city. Devastated and enraged, Ganos activated his transformed state for the first time, murdering the crooks and going on to destroy their entire gang with an enormous lightning bolt that could be seen from space.

Quitela caught wind of this, as he’d been searching for remnants of Ganos’ race to use their abilities for his own nefarious purposes. His angel realising that Ganos had a special mutation that made him far more potentially powerful than most of his race would have been, Quitela offered Ganos a position as one of his chief spies, which Ganos reluctantly agreed to after some encouragement mostly as it meant a steady source of food.

Ganos has served as a top lackey of Quitela ever since. Eventually encountering and becoming close friends with several of the other people that would eventually be on universe 4′s team for the Tournament of Power.

Katopesla: Katopesla was once an average member of the galactic patrol of universe 3, and a good friend of Nigrisshi and Paparoni, who regularly provided equipment and technical support for the police. One day, while trying to apprehend a dangerous criminal with explosion based powers, things went awry and the criminal crashed his space ship on an inhabited planet, right in the middle of a city.

Katopesla chased the criminal into a burning building, but unfortunately it ended up catching fire, and Katopesla and his squad quickly changed their objective to evacuating the civilians trapped inside. Katopesla was then seriously injured when said criminal ended up blasting him with a wave of pure flame, after he pushed a helpless dog that had tried attacking the criminal out of the way of the blast.

The criminal escaped, and Katopesla only barely clung onto life as his body was severely damaged and burned. Thankfully, Nigrisshi and Paparoni worked together to save his life by turning him into a cyborg, and also equipping Katopesla with a special transforming super suit.

Katopesla immediately set off after the criminal himself after recovery, defeating him easily with the speed and strength enhancing powers of his new suit. Katopesla would then go on to becoming the galaxy’s greatest policeman, saving many lives and defeating countless supervillains, earning him the title of universe 3′s champion of justice.

Katopesla also has a younger sister, a niece and a nephew who he is very close to. Said niece and nephew especially idolizing him as their hero. Katopesla is also currently engaged, with his wife-to-be expecting their first child in 6 months.

And, that’s all I got for now. Think I might come back to this later if I’ve got anything else for anyone. I’m guessing we’re not going to get a ton of backstory on most of the characters in the current saga, maybe only the few that’ll appear in later sagas. But it’s certainly fun to make up our own ideas, isn’t it?