Character Ideas

[Laowai]

Interesting thread - cool to see how everyone's minds work in different ways.

I have a few characters, Ive been trying to figure out how i came up with them:

One big happy family:


Corsair Ben Laowai - My first character on Disco. He's an indie, and fiercely so - kind of because I'm a little like that and so i worked it into his nature. But, he is, like me, fairly pragmatic - So he does what needs to be done. His name came from my "joke" Chinese nickname which was actually "Ben Laowai" which in Chinese translates pretty literally as "stupid foreigner". With a Chinese sounding name i made him a half Kusari/Corsair which gave him more of a story (Corsairs being the tolerant bunch they aren't). From there it just went - his story is by far my longest one and has the most depth.

Isabel Ren_Laowai - er... yeah, obviously related to the guy above. She came into the story through him - now with her own backstory and some fairly detailed intelligence work on her resume. The "Ren" part of her name comes from her husband who is:

Ren-Shifu - "Matthius" Ren - I needed a trader (dont we all?) and he was it. But as trading is god boring awful i wanted him to have some kind of personality, i also wanted to tie him in with my main character somehow as his transport was going to Gamma (food runs and "can you help me with a transfer" before FLhook liberated us) so i had him married to Laowai's (then non existant) sister. Ren- Shifu actually means "Ren master worker" in chinese and this was one of the drivers names who used to work for my company in Beijing. He was a funny guy and never seemed stressed, so i modelled the character on him... except he is from Planet Houston so.. he is kinda a bit southern' y'all.

Donny-Ren - Son of Isabel and Matthius. I wanted a smuggler, he became it. He is also Texan so if you meet him in game he will talk like his father. but he is a lot more devious.


They were all related... my other characters kinda just came from me wanting some variety of character type on the server.

[NLH]Ocean - Or Toby Neptune. I really wanted to play a character who was a surfer dude.. i mean like Keanu Reeves/ Bill and Ted, or as Marburg said, the evil surfers from Point break - and that meant he HAD to be a Gaian.:).

XA - Retribution - Adam Greerson. My Xeno in a GB (//ZOMG a ZNO in a Liberty GB u r so OORP! I sankshun Jooz!!) I wanted to play a xeno and i had a charismatic, educated borderline - sociopath idea for a character.... Adam is the result. He's just as likely to propogandize you in space as he is to shoot you.


Where do they come from? meh... dunno, they seem to just fit who i want them to be!

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