Origin Blurbs

[rowyn]

City of Heroes/Villains has a space in the character generation process for you to write a blurb about your character.

Somehow, I almost never manage to use this space. Fairly often, I don't even have background ideas for my characters. My character-creation process goes "okay, this costume looks cool, I'll start beating stuff up now".

But I'm trying to be a little more creative and personable with my CoH avatars. To that end, I actually wrote up blurbs for a couple of them, which I will share here in honor of Pixel-Stained Techno-Peasant Wretch Day (or something). They're kind of long for CoH blurbs but still better than nothing, I think.

Li'l Terror is a villain and Jade Winds is a hero. Jade Winds's blurb is subject to change if Six Demon Bag (ltwarhound) or Foo Fires (terrycloth would prefer something different.

Li'l Terror
Lily loved the darkness more than life itself.

So when her forays into dark magic killed her, she couldn't exactly complain. Mostly because she was dead.

But even in death the darkness did not forget Lily. It had destroyed her once but wanted her still, and would not give her up. From the tiny bodies of rats and roaches and other things that thrive without light, the darkness formed a strange new shape in the memory of its lost love. Darkness imbued its creation with what it understood of Lily's personality. It sought to put Lily's soul into this new body. But souls are beyond the reach of darkness -- aren't they?

The new being was born a tabula rasa, without knowledge of where she came from or what she was. With darkness as servant, guardian, mother, and perhaps lover, she grew quickly in the shadows of the Rogue Isles: a little terror preying on the fears and weaknesses of the human and inhuman monsters of the world around her.

But as she grows in power, Li'l Terror begins to remember ....

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Jade Winds
Jade Winds is the daughter of a Tsoo sorcerer and a woman of the Fair Folk that the Tsoo had captured whose power they hope to tap for their own line. While Jade was still an infant, her mother escaped with her from their Tsoo captors. Jade grew to adolescence among the Fey, but her half-human ancestry meant she never fit in among them. And the The Tsoo did not forget her.

Once every year, on All Hallow's Eve, the Fey lands come into contact with the mortal realm. When Jade was thirteen, she ventured back to the mortal realm on Halloween, and her father's magic instantly located her. He tricked her into coming back with him to live among the Tsoo, rather than returning to Faerie. Already she showed great aptitude and the Tsoo had many plans for ways to use her growing powers.

For some months she believed the lies and promises the Tsoo told her. But even so, Jade Winds missed her mother and her friends among the Fair Folk. When the next Halloween neared, she asked her father to let her visit them. He refused. When she tried to leave on her own, the Tsoo imprisoned her.

Miserable and angry and afraid, Jade Winds remained a captive until her rescue by a Celestial canine called Foo Fires and a renegade Tsoo who goes by Six Demon Bag. Halloween is long passed and she cannot return to Faerie now. Instead, she studies under Six Demon Bag's tutelage and fights against evil and tyranny with her new companions, hoping someday to be worthy of the help and friendship they've shown her.

Comments

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Good descriptions, and yeah, I do look at people's descriptions (or lack thereof) from time to time.

I got some compliments on Lagkitten's description from time to time. Succinctly: "When the scientists powered up their new supercomputer for the first time, they forgot to check where the lab cat was. Hyper-quantum forces fused with lethargic felinity to create a new avatar of the Internet, Lagkitten! Sadly for them, their experiments determined that she actually had detrimental effects on the performance of computers. While they were puzzling over how to put her to good use, she made her escape."

[rowyn]

Heeheehee! Yes, I remember Lagkitten's origin story. I was looking at Tsoo Nami's when you had her on the other day. Hers was neat too -- definitely different from Jade Winds. :)

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

I've forgotten her desc. <_< I'll have to look at it sometimes, I guess!

[rowyn]

Hee! I was wondering if you'd remember or not. I wrote a blurb for Justin Ashe and forgot I'd done it, too. I was thinking "oh, I should do a blurb for him. I already know his backstory.' And then I clicked to start one and -- oh! Already done. :)

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Okay, I looked it up.

"As a young girl, I was fascinated by the sorcerers who came to pay courtesy calls to my father. They would show me a trick or two, conjure up a dust devil, and then pat me on the head and send me away. Training, they said, would be wasted on a mere girl." Nami sniffs distastefully.

"They reckoned without the Tsoo blood in me. I sneaked after their students, watched their lessons... But there came a time I was caught. My father vowed to marry me away before it became a scandal, to see me settled with a Tsoo husband." An elegant painted eyebrow raises.

"I think not. So. America. Land of the free, home of the brave. Where else should I go?" A tiny smile.

o_O .....and I thought _I_ was the goth-fellow-traveller

[tahkhleet.livejournal.com]

Well written, now you just have to write 100 pages of story about her (L'il Terror) and you'll beat out Alice and Sam. (or I forget how long their story was but you know what I mean...)(looks thoughtful) tough act to follow breyda but I'll see what I can do (impish grin)

Re: o_O .....and I thought _I_ was the goth-fellow-traveller

[rowyn]

Heh. I actually decided my orignal concept for Li'l Terror's origin was too depressing to play out, so I revised it to this more upbeat, happy one. >:)

The vast majority of Alison and Sam's story never got written out in detail. You just got the 110-line summary based on my fantasies. I played it out in my head a lot, but I didn't want to spend the time to write it down. Because it would have been way more than 100 pages. There might be 10 or 12 pages of it that I wrote out for fun.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't that be 'warmth and friendship'?

[rowyn]

Yes. Yes, it should.

(I need to chop it down, in fact; it's about a paragraph too long to fit.)