JonxlatheLion

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Deadpool looks at the dragons being slaughtered, now back on the platform. "Oh yeah, almost forgot!" He chops off his mangled hand, so he can regenerate it without the bone being fused together. "Now for the next part!" He takes out a small device, and taps his foot as if in thought. He opens out to look at the whole known land of hyrule, and guesstimates the coordinates to the roid rage piggy. He enters them and the current coords into the device, then presses a button, showing up right on top of ganon... "Hello, all! My name is Deadpool and i'm here to prevent a rather unfortunate turn of events that may or may not happen in the near future!" you sounded just like Cable there LALALALALALAA! Not listening!~ Deadpool leaps down from the giant man-pig and waltzes (no literally dances over) to Ajax, and leans on his shoulder like they're old time pals. "So, honey, how are the kids?" He slaps himself "I mean, how is the battle going, fellow avatar? Report, Soldier!" He flings into a position of attention, and makes an officer's pose.

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hm... i can see what kind of tech i can pump into his HEV to allow for better survival chance...

The Outsiders (DC comics based OC Superhero RP)

oh and guys, just a tip, i'd prefer you not call Josh by his said Alias juuuust yet IC It has plot importance. For now, you can call him Stalwart (which i will put into the CS)

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It worries you that i consider the thoughts of my fellow roleplayers and do not wish to tread on them by creating a character that they disagree with?

JonxlatheLion

It worries me that the natural reaction to discussion, in an environment that gives you time to sit down and think out your replies, is to consider it a direct attack on your person, get pissy, threaten to storm off and generally fail to defend your point of view by providing arguments and counterpoints to those presented by others. This isn't just you, mind. Also the general wavering and inability to stick to one's guns, such as talking about seniority in the roleplay then dropping it in a huff, talking about how it's time it died when people continue to discuss things, or saying "I'mma do this because it's not against the rules" then giving in because people present valid criticisms, that nevertheless hold little weight as far as the actual rules go, and they can't find it in themselves to refute them effectively yet are too stubborn to admit that maybe they were wrong. Technically Gordon Freeman's good to go. Same could be said of Ghost Rider. They're well within the rules, and you could've still used either of those, if you'd just stuck to that bit about them being fine by the rules then there was very little anyone could say to bring them down. It also would've meant that you stubbornly refused to acknowledge that perhaps your take wasn't the best despite being presented evidence to the contrary and that you were unable to argue against the criticisms offered against you, making you look like a dolt. The point of whether they should be used if they're just going to be meaningless replicas where everything that doesn't suit you just gets ignored or tweaked until you're left with something that looks like the character, but isn't really, is entirely another. I feel they shouldn't, it's why I'm pointing out what I feel are mis-representations of your take on Gordon Freeman and continually suggest just creating a character of your own instead of taking one that exists and saying you're playing that except for all those bits you dislike. Hell, Gordon solves the problem of mishandling a personality since he has none, the only real "issues" are the completely unexplained, sudden inability to age, which is completely pointless for the sake of the roleplay, and your take on G-Man interference that I feel does not match up to what actually happens in the games at all, which you seem to acknowledge because your only defense was "Well I can do things different because multiverse". Do you get what I'm trying to say here?

Zero Hex

yes, i do. I still want maxwell back in the game though... lol. I can understand the why of making an arugment. But, without the interference he's kind of... underpowered for the multiverse. Gordon Freeman as he is in the game even at his most powerful would be slapped aside by the first mini boss we come to.

The Outsiders (DC comics based OC Superhero RP)

Name: Joshua Keyes Alias: Ω (Omega) (to be known as Stalwart by other team members til further notice) Age: 27 Personality: He has unstoppable determination and a will as strong as steel. Beyond that though, he's a fun-loving guy and a great big goof. Powers: He has immense strength at his disposal, being able to lift at his best five thousand tons of sheer weight. He is able to control how gravity affects his mass, allowing him to weigh almost nothing or how much he normally would; five hundred tons. Due to his super-dense muscle, bullets and other physical damage do barely anything to him. He can shrug off more brute force than any modern tank could. At max density his muscle is as tough as adamantium. Weaknesses: If it can cut through metal, it can cut through him. In other words, energy and heat-based attacks. Magic will work too. Appearance: Joshua has skin as dark as midnight, and is bald. He has bright green eyes that can either look extremely menacing, or as kind and kind can be. He is seven foot nine with a huge chest, and shoulders 2.2 feet wide. And as said before at max weight he is five hundred tons. But he keeps his weight at around 340 pounds. BRIEF Bio: Joshua grew up as an ordinary kid as far as anyone could tell. Didn't know his father, and no one he knew did either as his mother refused to talk about him. But at puberty, it was seen that he was no regular kid. He reached 7'9" when he was sixteen, and was just as big and strong as he is now. He doesn't even know how these powers showed up, or where he got them from. One thing's for sure he intends to find out. What they bring to the team: He's a tank; slow, heavy hitting, and able to take heavy hits as well. He's the one to walk in front and soak in the damage so the other members can work. Notes: Derp?

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I have returned. Did you miss me, dear Avatars? Ah well, it makes no difference. The show is about to begin anew. And your souls will quiver to my Shadow

The Agent, The Virus, Maxwell Sanders Gender: Male Appearance: Can change his form as he pleases, but prefers the appearance of Maxwell from Don't Starve in a black and white checkered suit. Personality: Dark and cold, hardly feels emotions other than contempt and rage. He treats most as a inferior being, and acts with immense confidence. His goal is unknown to anyone but him. Alignment: Antagonist, but likes to mess around with the protagonist group. Skills: Before is same as deadpool After: Master puppeteer Master Actor Amazing Dancer Master Swordsman Powers: Darkness: Creates and controls anything he can imagine out of solid shadow. This shadow can be easily removed with light sources. Light: The polar opposite of Darkness, he can also create things out of solid light. This is easily removed with shadow based attacks. Fear: Can instill horrible fear in non-plot NPCs and non-boss enemies. Unholy Will: He is extremely durable, and does not take much physical damage from most attacks Born of Shadow: When in an area with lots of shadow, his power increases. Darkness Prevails: He is able to turn into shadow himself, moving among the walls, unable to be harmed physically. Teleportation: He can shrink into the ground and come out at any other location he pleases. But, it creates a loud BANG when he does so, and as such cannot be used to sneak up on anyone. Freak Show: A spin of his cape will allow him to turn an item (or small living being) into smoke, which is then stored within the cape. Another spin will make it reform. Puppeteer: He can create frail and physically weaker copies of himself made of wood and metal. These could be controlled from a distance away to ensure he is not actually hurt. Master of Puppets: Can make puppets of almost anything he can think of, preferring carnival-based puppets like strong men and clowns. These puppets are actually much more durable than maxwell's personal ones. Dimensional Being: Is able to bring things to and from dimensions much more easily using his shadow/light hands. He also is able to easily move between dimensions, and is aware of every dimension in existance. Equipment: A sword made of pure shadow, keeps to his waist even without a sheath. A cape made of fine black silk. Other: Password: Draco Ignis

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I don't have to set him to the limits he had in the game. Things change when you enter the multiverse, for the player and the character. But, if you really want me to create an OC, i'll bring back a multiverse native.

JonxlatheLion

You don't have to set him to the limits he had in the game but if you're going to disregard or modify aspects of a canon thing to your leisure then I can't see why you'd actually want to play the character beyond name value and possibly sone level of laziness since it lets you coypaste most stuff without having to think about it. I'd love to see OCs, you say you like to write, you have several stories in development n shit, practicing on creating original characters is good stuff. Even creating obvious ripoffs or fanfiction characters would be better than taking a canon character then just kind of tweaking it at will, because then there's no real point in playing the canon character. Honestly I'd be thrilled if you actually made a new character rather than bring back something you've already done for a previous iteration of the game, but do keep in mind I'm not actively forcing you to do, well, anything. You could still use Ghost Rider or this Freeman or whatever as far as I'm concerned. I'm not the GM, I don't have any kind of authority and no real expectations of people doing what I say, but I can still sit here and discuss things when I feel like it or I'm prompted to and express my own opinions as to how things could be done better or how I disagree with this or that. That you and others take this with vitriol and just throw your arms up, scrap things entirely and threaten to leave instead of having a discussion and presenting arguments is kinda worrisome, at least it is to me.

Zero Hex

It worries you that i consider the thoughts of my fellow roleplayers and do not wish to tread on them by creating a character that they disagree with?

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Which means in the multiverse he does not age. The destruction of the Nihilanth did not put him into a timeless limbo, it put him into a state of unaging. Plus, he does have a personality that i'm going to put into his CS, just because it was not made note of in the games doesn't mean it's not there. I can write him a personality based on his history (WHICH THEY DID WRITE DOWN) Plus, this is not gordon freeman from the games, this is gordon freeman from the half life universe. Meaning, all the lore applies and the lore is that G-Man is stacking the fates to gordon's favor because gordon is the most able human he can find in that universe. After becoming unaging, he's even more valuable to G-Man. I'm not saying G-Man held his hand, i'm saying he made sure that Gordon fulfilled his future by tweaking what happens here and there (even reversing time when gordon freeman happened to die) Personality: (This should, ideally, be your real life personality, though we have had instances where the character partially, or completely, takes over, whether instantly or over time. Sometimes the character and the player mixed, and the player took over after a while. And, sometimes, the personalities split apart and become separate. However, personality is also entirely optional and we could always find out in play.) This means that you CAN put your personality into the character, and it is actually preferred to!

JonxlatheLion

I'm not sure how you're getting "oh he doesn't age" from "was shunted into stasis until the next game came out". Like, all you're saying is "well he doesn't age in multiverse". Freeman might have a given backstory and some NPC reactions to his supposed interactions, but Valve has been very specific that it's the player's experience that determines Freeman's, well, everything. Freeman is just the player, he's an avatar used by the players to enter the world and Valve has made sure that the player and Gordon are interchangeable, their experiences are one and the same. It's why Gordon has no real personality nor a single line attributed to him. As for the lore, it can be taken differently as I expressed in my previous post. It could very well be the G-Man just keeping an interest in Gordon, he might even lend a helping hand here and there, but he still won't overly tip the scales, such as when you trigger the Evaluation Terminated game over screen in the original game by "failing to effectively utilize human assets in pursuit of goal". This shows that the G-Man would abandon Gordon if he were to fuck up, and won't do things such as alter reality so he doesn't ever die. In fact, dying in order to refuse the G-Man's employment was very much a choice. It's canon that he didn't, but it was still an option. As for the personality aspect, yes, I'm well aware that the roleplay actively caters to self insertion. Doesn't mean it's a good thing. But, I suppose I might as well congratulate you? I mean, you found a way to jump in with a canon "character" who's literally a blank with a bucket of weapons, allowing you to play them as you will since they're just a non-character, entirely a player-surrogate. Why you would go to these lengths to play something canon when your choice is devoid of all meaning beyond the particular weaponset instead of making your own FPS reference character I may never know. Doesn't mean I can't or won't discuss aspects I feel you're mis-representing, however.

Zero Hex

... I don't have to set him to the limits he had in the game. Things change when you enter the multiverse, for the player and the character. But, if you really want me to create an OC, i'll bring back a multiverse native.

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*cough cough* check out my new CS *cough cough* This one you should like better

JonxlatheLion

Well since you're opening the floor like that. The moderate marksman thing is arguable, depending on the player Gordon Freeman can perform absolutely ridiculous, impossible shots, doing things like engaging in long distance sniping duels with a pistol that isn't built for precision shooting and whatnot. The high intellect and PHD might be a thing on paper so hey, technically not wrong, but let's not kid ourselves, Gordon is an errand boy. He carts shit around, he pushes buttons, he plugs stuff in and turns valves, he doesn't do science, he does basic puzzles and serves as muscle for the actual scientists. The crowbar thing's fine. Gordon Freeman can indeed age and he's not perpetually protected from death. He doesn't age between games because, you know, he's been stuck in a timeless limbo since destroying the Nihilanth. He can also die and fail, it's just that to actually see the end of the game you must keep trying, but Gordon can indeed die. The G-Man might stack the deck in his favor on occasion, but things imply that yes, Gordon did the shit he did on his own and had he failed the G-Man would've likely found another subject. Being unable to decide what happens to him, fair enough. The weapons are okay, missing out on some fun stuff but I'm sure they'll come with upgrades. Of course we could start arguing about whether actually bringing in Gordon himself is a good idea given his status as a non-character with zero given dialogue and personality whose everything, far and away, is ultimately determined by the player in a range most games that tout player choice cannot match. Even the iconic Doomguy had a given personality and mindset in his game's manual, while Gordon Freeman's everything is the player behind the screen. And while this might allow you to technically play something canon as you like, if you're going to self-insert that hard I feel as though making a Half Life fan who got sucked in and got Half Life related powers would be a better idea. Can't say the same thing about Samus because she's been given a manner of personality and sense of self, however slight.

Zero Hex

Which means in the multiverse he does not age. The destruction of the Nihilanth did not put him into a timeless limbo, it put him into a state of unaging. Plus, he does have a personality that i'm going to put into his CS, just because it was not made note of in the games doesn't mean it's not there. I can write him a personality based on his history (WHICH THEY DID WRITE DOWN) Plus, this is not gordon freeman from the games, this is gordon freeman from the half life universe. Meaning, all the lore applies and the lore is that G-Man is stacking the fates to gordon's favor because gordon is the most able human he can find in that universe. After becoming unaging, he's even more valuable to G-Man. I'm not saying G-Man held his hand, i'm saying he made sure that Gordon fulfilled his future by tweaking what happens here and there (even reversing time when gordon freeman happened to die) Personality: (This should, ideally, be your real life personality, though we have had instances where the character partially, or completely, takes over, whether instantly or over time. Sometimes the character and the player mixed, and the player took over after a while. And, sometimes, the personalities split apart and become separate. However, personality is also entirely optional and we could always find out in play.) This means that you CAN put your personality into the character, and it is actually preferred to!

The Outsiders (DC comics based OC Superhero RP)

I'm thinking of basing a charecter off of this:

22xander

But... the GM's character is already a werewolf?

Lord Wraith

Werewolf doesn't equal furry lol