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Posted by: Witness Jun 14 2006, 08:42 AM

Following on from http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=13377&st=25&#entry411431, I'd love to hear your ideas for badly messed-up characters. In as much or as little detail as you like.

Stuff like:


Posted by: rlemansky Jun 14 2006, 10:50 AM

Oddly, I was just getting ready to post something like this. It's been on my mind a lot, recently.

How far have you pushed character creation? What's your most off-beat character? How badly can you break Archetype molds?

Very curious to see what follows.

R

Posted by: Ophis Jun 14 2006, 11:02 AM

extreme graphic designer.

The look on the last player join my games face when he heard that.

"well she's doing and ex ganger sammie, she's doing a stealth adept hacker, he's doing a rigger."
"What's she playing?"
"A graphic designer."

Posted by: Tattered~Seraphim Jun 14 2006, 11:08 AM

Calling him an 'extreme' graphic designer is almost an understatement. The more you poke him, the scarier he gets.... biggrin.gif

Posted by: Ophis Jun 14 2006, 11:12 AM

Teach her to play an amnesiac, my favorite type of whipping boy.

Posted by: Witness Jun 14 2006, 11:17 AM

Ooh ooh.. a dwarf elf-poser!
"Aren't you a little short and hairy to be a faerie prince?"

Posted by: Cang Jun 14 2006, 11:41 AM

I have a friend who always plays elves in his games and dresses like one for ren fests... so when he played shadowrun for a bit and played an elf poser, we all couldn't stop laughing. cyber.gif

Posted by: Ancient History Jun 14 2006, 12:02 PM

The aggressive yet sexually-confused ork-poser elf with crotch-mounted cyberhorns.

A street samurai whose special weapon is an Ares Squirt installed in his phallus.

The beginning sorceror who designed all her own spells and has to explain their effects.

A laser and crossbow-wielding troll with quickened shapechange (Sasquatch) spell.

Posted by: nezumi Jun 14 2006, 01:44 PM

I made an overweight, 5'2", pimply faced decker who was an elf poser. He always wore a long cape (that he regularly tripped over), carried a katana he didn't know how to use, shades that framed his face wrong, and loved making 'dramatic poses'.

He wasn't a bad decker though.

I had a friend who wanted to run a decker who is constantly hounded by a mentor spirit trying to turn said person into a shaman.

Posted by: Pendaric Jun 14 2006, 04:55 PM

I played a Decker with no deck, had to do runs to pay off his former employers and buy an abbacus deck to get started with. Did have some other skills like programing to fall back on. The idea was that it would be tough not impossiable.... smile.gif

Posted by: Catsnightmare Jun 14 2006, 05:57 PM

A rent-a-cop security guard who has the cyber-rejection flaw was crippled in an industrial accident on the site he was guarding, the shock of which awakened his magical talents. The trauma of being unable to walk in a day and age of cybernetic miracles has affected his magical outlook, his spells center around pain inducing, physical/mental manipulation and physically debilitating spells, and of course levitaion for his own mobility to free him from his hated wheelchair.

Posted by: Lagomorph Jun 14 2006, 06:03 PM

A full mage with spirit bane on every type of spirit available, he didn't ever astrally project cause the astral hated him so much

Posted by: Foreigner Jun 14 2006, 09:13 PM

QUOTE (Witness)
Ooh ooh.. a dwarf elf-poser!
"Aren't you a little short and hairy to be a faerie prince?"

Witness:

To which the aforementioned individual pops his triple Dikoted titanium steel spurs and says:

"You wanna MAKE somethin' of it, Bub?!?"

nyahnyah.gif

--Foreigner

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Jun 15 2006, 03:08 AM

I think someone should write a bunch of NPCs who are porn stars; make a story arc that involves porn stars and porn studios. It would be interesting to base the NPCs on real-life historic porn stars, such as Traci Lords and Linda Lovelace.

Posted by: Toptomcat Jun 15 2006, 03:19 AM

I had a shapeshifter who was originally a Fox shaman and her pet fox who got trapped in Bug City. She managed to rig up a powered glider and was on her way to escaping the Quarantine when the Cermak blast went off directly underneath her. Little-known fact: the reason the blast's radiation was muted is because the wards channeled most of it straight upwards.
She underwent a magical mutation that fused her with her pet, and left her psyche nearly shattered. It also made her incredibly powerful, though it had the nasty side effect of driving anyone who examined her aura too closely insane and making every one of her spells emit a not-insignificant quantinty of radiation.
I played her a bit like a magical Megaera- always sort of out of focus, never sure why her friends wanted to confuse that guard or battle this spirit, but a primal force when she descended from her near-permanent light daze and actually decided to do something.

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Jun 15 2006, 03:23 AM

Well, that's certainly a unique character design but the character sounds way too powerful for my taste as a GM. Shapeshifters are bad enough, but add to that extra-powerful radioactive shapeshifter?

Posted by: Glyph Jun 15 2006, 03:55 AM

My most messed-up character would probably be Rat, although that's mostly because he was created for a 40 build point game. He had two of the most crippling flaws, computer illiterate and uncouth, but I picked them because they were very fun flaws to roleplay. Especially the uncouth flaw, since he was the self-described "face" of the group. biggrin.gif

Posted by: Squinky Jun 15 2006, 04:00 AM

I wanted to make a Troll Swordsman Adept with a horrible case of Tourettes. Thought it would be a "good roleplaying challenge" heh. Never got around to playing him though.

Posted by: HalloranElder Jun 15 2006, 06:08 AM

One of the players in the game I'm about to run has created a Porn-Mage.

Background of the character is that he was having a bit of financial difficulty paying his way through university, so the Mob gave him some loans. He's paying off those loans by assisting the Mob in the porn industry, casting "appropriate" spells for them! biggrin.gif

These spells include Antidote, Cure Disease and Detox (to make sure the stars are clean), Heal (for fairly obvious reasons), Increase Body (Body = Endurance, so...), Resist Pain (also fairly obvious), Physical Mask and Trid Fantasm (to make the stars and locations look however they want), Control Actions (lets not go there) and Shapechange (lets also not go there!).

Posted by: Crusher Bob Jun 15 2006, 06:38 AM

So is it still bestiality if it's really a shapechanged mage that you are, erm, having relations with?

Posted by: Vaevictis Jun 15 2006, 06:50 AM

Paraplegic rigger in a JIM suit?

(I mean, if it's okay to have a 1000lb troll running around, why not a paralyzed dude in a supposed-to-be-underwater-but-now-it's-not power suit?)

Posted by: Witness Jun 15 2006, 09:15 AM

QUOTE (Wounded Ronin @ Jun 14 2006, 10:08 PM)
I think someone should write a bunch of NPCs who are porn stars; make a story arc that involves porn stars and porn studios.  It would be interesting to base the NPCs on real-life historic porn stars, such as Traci Lords and Linda Lovelace.


Interestingly I just had an NPC who was kind of like that.
He wasn't a total mess-up; in fact he was very good at his job (which was a Face)- charming guy, Brad Pitt-alike, pheromones, voice modulation & retinal duplication etc, went by the name Baldur. He and a female (middle-aged dwarf) PC were to go into a very swanky hotel as guests (to help others get in less visibly), and it was only as he was going in that he bashfully admitted that the fake SIN he was using had him down as a porn star. You should have seen her blush. Though charming he had an air of sadness about him, sometimes. As if he could have been a real star, but it was never quite explained what drove him to the shadows.
Still that doesn't really qualify as a properly messed-up character. But...

QUOTE (Vaevictus)
Paraplegic rigger in a JIM suit?

One of my players' characters (in the same game) is a quadraplegic rigger (& drone rigger) + medic (using drones), whose meat body moves around in a slow clunky anthroform 'wheelchair' (with built-in life support). It must be said that despite this he is a pretty fucking versatile and dangerous Shadowrunner.

Another PC (the aforementioned female dwarf) started out as a mad old homeless dwarf woman who fed and talked to the pigeons in the park, while wheeling around a knackered old shopping trolley full of trash. Turns out she was a Pigeon shaman (in fact in my game world she is the only Pigeon shaman), and in the first part of the campaign, boy did she play up the madness! It was great fun. She's since had a bit of road-to-Damascus moment with her Totem, and has become a bit less mad and oblivious (the game has moved on to higher levels and it wouldn't have been fitting any more).

And yet another PC in the same game was/is also majorly messed-up: he was a high school jock who was failing badly in school, so Wealthy Dad got one of his clients to install some special headware (Mysterious Cyberware flaw- a prototype called the 'Inner Beauty' Neuroencephalon) to give him a leg up academically. Unfortunately it totally screwed up his mind. He became like an autistic savant (with psychotic qualities) and had heaps of fun freaking out the other PCs. One of them woke up one night in the safehouse to find this guy standing over him just watching him- and on other occasions he kept on scrawling weird mathematical shit on the walls and mumbling to himself. He too has had to pull himself together a bit (with some personafix help), and has become a pretty fearsome decker. He recently found out that his headware was a prototype for the Node technology used by Deus. (And that's just a weird coincidence: we talked about that character and the cyberware long before reading about the Nodes, but in terms of what the headware did, it turned out to be an almost exact match for the stuff built into a Node).

What's been interesting here is watching these last two characters (who both started out really messed-up) grow and develop through a really long campaign. Both are pretty awesome now, but because of their messed-up origins they remain really interesting memorable characters, I think.

EDIT: The rigger is cool too, although he joined the campaign more recently and at a higher level, so he doesn't have that messed-up history.

Posted by: Digital Heroin Jun 15 2006, 09:26 AM

QUOTE (Glyph)
My most messed-up character would probably be Rat, although that's mostly because he was created for a 40 build point game. He had two of the most crippling flaws, computer illiterate and uncouth, but I picked them because they were very fun flaws to roleplay. Especially the uncouth flaw, since he was the self-described "face" of the group. biggrin.gif

Does my addled memory fail me, or was the the game where I played Jimmy "Underfoot" the 40BP decker?

Also created with the same amount of BPs was Mr. G, the Ghoul Pimp... sad, how my brain works at times...

Posted by: Witness Jun 15 2006, 09:26 AM

QUOTE (Ancient History)
The aggressive yet sexually-confused ork-poser elf with crotch-mounted cyberhorns.

I should also mention an enemy NPC that the players once found stalking young women in the depths of the Ork Underground.
A massively cybered troll freak with a giant retractable blade that slid out of his crotch. Now he was messed-up. And I'm happy to say he got what was coming to him. In spades.

Posted by: Tiralee Jun 15 2006, 11:38 AM

QUOTE
I think someone should write a bunch of NPCs who are porn stars; make a story arc that involves porn stars and porn studios. It would be interesting to base the NPCs on real-life historic porn stars, such as Traci Lords and Linda Lovelace.


Sorry Ronin, done it. With players.

Male Porn-Star Dwarf Adept.
Female Cybered Porn-Star Minotaur Enforcer
Female Satyr Porn Star Face

-Lets just say that the Pron industry of 2060 has a lot of..."Niche"...interests.

Sadly, the boxes had to undergo a wipe about a year ago, so much of the sheer insanity was lost.

One of the things that HAS continued is the use of in game "music" to indicate a player is strolling down a street/into a mall/into the meet...


"Ha ha ha ha, Stayin' alive, Stayin' alive....Ha, ha ha ha, Staying Alliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiveeeeeeeeeeee......"

or:
(Imaginary Wah-wah pedal)
Wokka wokka woooooow, baw-wow wow....
<For those who haven't experienced old-school 60's-70 pron, there is a thing called porno music. And it's a lot more fun to listen to than you'd believe.)

-Tir. (Good times:))

Posted by: Kalvan Jun 15 2006, 12:21 PM

I haven't actually played them, but

The human http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarfism dwarf poseur.

The elf poseur Elvis shaman.

The burned out blood mage who SURGED into a demonic form.

The Troll Rat shaman-who has developed Rat's sense of self-preservation.

The multiply initiated Adept (Athelete's Way) who goes on runs in a football uniform complete with helmet and pads.

The Dragonslayer Shaman, who's currently gunning for Ghostwalker, Masaru, and Soņador.

The Gunslinger Adept who carries around bananas in his/her holsters.

Posted by: Witness Jun 15 2006, 12:46 PM

QUOTE (Kalvan)
The Troll Rat shaman-who has developed Rat's sense of self-preservation.

I do like that one, I must say!

Posted by: Toptomcat Jun 15 2006, 04:14 PM

QUOTE
Well, that's certainly a unique character design but the character sounds way too powerful for my taste as a GM. Shapeshifters are bad enough, but add to that extra-powerful radioactive shapeshifter?

It was legal under starting rules. Initiated three times with Spell Points bought with nuyen, combined with custom spells and Edge-boosted high mental stats to make a holy terror..

Posted by: hyzmarca Jun 15 2006, 04:57 PM

You can get really low by creating characters who try but fail to immitate 80s cartoon characters.

Mum-Ra the Everliving

An infirm and physically disfigured magician who surrounds himself with vaguely Egyptian trappings. He augments his unimpresive physical abilities by channeling "Ancient spirits of Evil" which are neither ancient nor evil. He would be slightly less comical if not for the fact that geasa require him to run screaming back to his lair if he ever sees his reflection. Unlike his namesake this Mum-Ra is completly mortal and can easily be killed by any idiot with a gun.

Copper Kid

A human-looking Dwarf mime with 4 copper-colered cyberlimbs, a matching cybertorso and a cyberskull. He forgoes the classic physical pantomime and instead communicated with electronic whistles produced by a cyberimplant in his mouth. Copper Kid is an expert with throwing weapons, specializing in the discus. He has several throwing disks attached to his cyborg body.

Posted by: Moon-Hawk Jun 15 2006, 05:20 PM

QUOTE (hyzmarca)
Mum-Ra the Everliving

An infirm and physically disfigured magician who surrounds himself with vaguely Egyptian trappings. He augments his unimpresive physical abilities by channeling "Ancient spirits of Evil" which are neither ancient nor evil. He would be slightly less comical if not for the fact that geasa require him to run screaming back to his lair if he ever sees his reflection. Unlike his namesake this Mum-Ra is completly mortal and can easily be killed by any idiot with a gun.

You know, if he were voodoo than his loa really could "transform this decayed form to Mumm-ra the everliving! WRAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa"

Posted by: mfb Jun 15 2006, 06:44 PM

there's always the http://www.shadowland.org/Shadowland/21/objects/page1728.html.

Posted by: stevebugge Jun 15 2006, 06:51 PM

How about a Dwarf Face who has surged so that he has an elongated snout and is covered in tan fur, has special dietery requirement: cats, a brutally sharp tounge, and the hunted flaw.....

Name: Gordon Shumway

Posted by: Witness Jun 15 2006, 07:22 PM

I feel we are perhaps just one step away from this already, so I'll go ahead and burst the dam:
Shamanic Drop Bear paratrooper with dikoted Wombat ally spirit. rollin.gif
EDIT: No wait... Shamanic elf-poser Drop Bear paratrooper with dikoted Wombat ally spirit. And a BTL addiction.

Posted by: Platinum Jun 15 2006, 07:24 PM

we were no where near it .... now you have to go back and edit that trash out.
"Potty mouth" sarcastic.gif

Posted by: winterhawk11 Jun 15 2006, 09:56 PM

QUOTE (stevebugge)
How about a Dwarf Face who has surged so that he has an elongated snout and is covered in tan fur, has special dietery requirement: cats, a brutally sharp tounge, and the hunted flaw.....

Name: Gordon Shumway

Oh...an ALF Poser! biggrin.gif

Posted by: Witness Jun 15 2006, 10:43 PM

*smacks head*

Posted by: stevebugge Jun 15 2006, 10:50 PM

QUOTE (winterhawk11)
QUOTE (stevebugge)
How about a Dwarf Face who has surged so that he has an elongated snout and is covered in tan fur, has special dietery requirement: cats, a brutally sharp tounge, and the hunted flaw.....

Name: Gordon Shumway

Oh...an ALF Poser! biggrin.gif

Bonus Karma Awarded biggrin.gif

Posted by: Tiralee Jun 16 2006, 01:09 AM

QUOTE
How about a Dwarf Face who has surged so that he has an elongated snout and is covered in tan fur, has special dietery requirement: cats, a brutally sharp tounge, and the hunted flaw.....


The Gods are watching what you do stevebugge...

And they are most displeased.


-Tir smile.gif


Posted by: Glyph Jun 16 2006, 03:15 AM

QUOTE (Digital Heroin)
QUOTE (Glyph @ Jun 15 2006, 03:55 AM)
My most messed-up character would probably be Rat, although that's mostly because he was created for a 40 build point game.  He had two of the most crippling flaws, computer illiterate and uncouth, but I picked them because they were very fun flaws to roleplay.  Especially the uncouth flaw, since he was the self-described "face" of the group.  biggrin.gif

Does my addled memory fail me, or was the the game where I played Jimmy "Underfoot" the 40BP decker?

Also created with the same amount of BPs was Mr. G, the Ghoul Pimp... sad, how my brain works at times...

Yep, I remember him. Ironically, Cage Fight was a pretty long-running game, and Rat was actually pretty successful within that low-powered setting (well, low-powered other than Ehran the Scribe wink.gif).

Posted by: Sahandrian Jun 16 2006, 08:03 AM

So I had an idea for a ghoul catholic priest... That might be awful enough...

There's a joke about transubstantiation in there somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it.

Posted by: Toptomcat Jun 16 2006, 12:09 PM

How very Nightcrawler.

Posted by: nezumi Jun 16 2006, 12:45 PM

One thing I've been wanting to do for a while is a magic user with no magic. A master of prestidigitation and ledgerdemain. While the awakening lead to a new age for mankind, for him it mostly just emptied seats. But being a con artist means never having to give up a wacky scheme. As such, he's decided to continue using his skills, this time in a slightly less legal venue.

High social and chemistry skills, quickness through the roof, perhaps a little cyber and bio to give him that edge, but ultimately a character with no chrome more obvious than a datajack, absolutely adamant that he is magically adept, but without the slightest trace of awakening ("I'm just an initiate with masking!")

I'd love help making him, if anyone is up to the challenge smile.gif

Posted by: Lebo77 Jun 16 2006, 07:09 PM

QUOTE (nezumi)
One thing I've been wanting to do for a while is a magic user with no magic. A master of prestidigitation and ledgerdemain. While the awakening lead to a new age for mankind, for him it mostly just emptied seats. But being a con artist means never having to give up a wacky scheme. As such, he's decided to continue using his skills, this time in a slightly less legal venue.

High social and chemistry skills, quickness through the roof, perhaps a little cyber and bio to give him that edge, but ultimately a character with no chrome more obvious than a datajack, absolutely adamant that he is magically adept, but without the slightest trace of awakening ("I'm just an initiate with masking!")

I'd love help making him, if anyone is up to the challenge smile.gif

We had a physad like that in a game I ran. He was called "The Amazing Goldfield" and was one of the best charicters I had ever seen. He had active and knowledge skills that backed up his profession and could sneak and shoot competently (plus thrown weapons mastery). One of his highlights was hideing a car in an 18 wheeler so that when a customs inspector opened the rear door, the container looked empty.

Posted by: Lindt Jun 16 2006, 07:17 PM

QUOTE (Tiralee)
QUOTE
How about a Dwarf Face who has surged so that he has an elongated snout and is covered in tan fur, has special dietery requirement: cats, a brutally sharp tounge, and the hunted flaw.....


The Gods are watching what you do stevebugge...

And they are most displeased.


-Tir smile.gif

*shakes head sadly and walks away*

...

Posted by: stevebugge Jun 16 2006, 10:07 PM

What I will say here is when you ask for the worst I can think of expect to get it.

Posted by: Sahandrian Jun 17 2006, 03:02 AM

Nightcrawler doesn't eat people.

And ghouls aren't usually furry.

Posted by: Ancient History Jun 17 2006, 03:38 AM

QUOTE (Sahandrian)
Nightcrawler doesn't eat people.

Usually.

Posted by: Foreigner Jun 17 2006, 04:21 PM

Sahandrian, A.H.:

You could probably create Kurt "Nightcrawler" Wagner as a SURGED Night One Elf.

(IIRC, there's a variant with dark-blue fur.)

Of course, there'd have to be some method of explaining his OTHER unusual physical characteristics--namely his pointed tail, fangs, solid-yellow eyes without pupils or irises...

I have NO idea how you'd account for his teleportational ability, though.

(Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that there is a canonical teleportation ability in SR. I suppose a spell that would temporarily allow him to move faster than can be tracked by Metahuman senses and electronic means *might* work.)

In the comics, he was the son of a mutant shapeshifter (Raven "Mystique" Darkholme) and an otherdimensional demon whose name escapes me.

Edit: A.H.: Now that you mention it, I recall him saying something to the effect that his father was a mutant from Biblical times, or something of the sort. I'd forgotten it.

--Foreigner

Posted by: Ancient History Jun 17 2006, 05:51 PM

The "Demon" was actually another mutant.

Anyway, it's obvious. Nightcrawler is an acrobatics adept, skilled in fencing, and possesses the Fading faerie power that allows him to quickly move into another plane and then reappear in our own. The cloud is the result of his love of Saeder-Krupp "Brimstone" brand sausages, an unintentional byproduct everytime he uses his ability.

Posted by: JongWK Jun 17 2006, 06:05 PM

QUOTE (Ancient History)
The "Demon" was actually another mutant.

Anyway, it's obvious. Nightcrawler is an acrobatics adept, skilled in fencing, and possesses the Fading faerie power that allows him to quickly move into another plane and then reappear in our own. The cloud is the result of his love of Saeder-Krupp "Brimstone" brand sausages, an unintentional byproduct everytime he uses his ability.


Nah, he's just using the teleportation spell from the Xbox game...




















... I'm going to Hell for that one, right? nyahnyah.gif

Posted by: Telion Jun 17 2006, 07:58 PM

how about a sam who woke up with cyber fangs and had a mental health issue to believe they were a vampire? they still tried to drink others blood.


Posted by: NightmareX Jun 18 2006, 08:05 AM

QUOTE (Ancient History)
The "Demon" was actually another mutant.

[ Spoiler ]

Posted by: Ancient History Jun 18 2006, 12:40 PM

QUOTE (NightmareX)
QUOTE (Ancient History)
The "Demon" was actually another mutant.

[ Spoiler ]

0o What? No. He wasn't Wolverine's father either.

Posted by: Foreigner Jun 18 2006, 01:13 PM

NightmareX, A.H.:

Sabretooth's real name is Victor Creed. His son by Mystique was the late Graydon Victor Creed, a non-mutant, and the leader of a rabidly anti-mutant group called "Friends of Humanity."

In addition to her foster daughter Anna-Marie (surname unknown, a/k/a "Rogue") and Nightcrawler, she has two daughters by a Senator Brickman, in her guise as his wife, Mallory.

As far as is known, neither girl is a mutant.

--Foreigner

Posted by: Trax Jun 18 2006, 01:30 PM

She really gets around.

Posted by: hyzmarca Jun 18 2006, 06:01 PM

Nightcrawlers father was Azazel, the immortal leader of a race of demonic mutants that fought a war against a race of angelic mutants during Biblical times. He and his entire race were exiled to another dimension but he can teleport so that wasn't a problem for him. He had hoped that his children would be able to free his people but Archangel ruined everything. OF course, if there's a 5,000-year-old race of them I don't think they really qualify as being 'mutants'

Posted by: Rock Jun 18 2006, 08:09 PM

After Shadowbeat came out, I had an investigative reporter that used to go on runs to find out what the corporations were really up to.

After she got wacked (who knew getting a datajack and video camera eyes wouldn't be as useful on a shadowrun as wired reflexes) I used an elf ex-basketball player that was once drek-hot, but slowly slid down hill after getting hooked on 2XS chips. The best part was I had it worked out with the GM so my guy would either have to use a chip during the game or stat getting the shakes. He was using a chip when he was supposed to be watching the back door incase some cops showed up, didn't let the team know the law was on the way, and ended up blowing the run.

The Street Samurai in the group took offense to his lackadaisical work ethic and turned his skull into a pretty interesting cereal bowl.

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Jun 18 2006, 10:47 PM

QUOTE (hyzmarca)
Nightcrawlers father was Azazel, the immortal leader of a race of demonic mutants that fought a war against a race of angelic mutants during Biblical times. He and his entire race were exiled to another deminsion but he can teleport so that wasn't a problem for him. He had hoped that his children would be able to free his people by Archangel ruined everything. OF course, if there's a 5,000-year-old race of them I don't think they really qualify as being 'mutants'

Good to know that Marvel is still supplying us with down-to-earth empathetic backstories.

Posted by: Ancient History Jun 18 2006, 10:56 PM

The X-Men family trees are nasty things with fractal roots. The worst of the lot are the Summers clan and the House of M/Mystique clan.

Posted by: hyzmarca Jun 18 2006, 11:09 PM

Hi, I'm Sven Summers, you're alternate-reality future third cousin twice removed from the plane of Limbo.

Posted by: Ancient History Jun 18 2006, 11:18 PM

Hi, I'm Talia Josephine Wagner. In an alternate reality, my mother is the Scarlet Witch (which means my uncle is Quicksilver and my aunt if Polaris), and my father is Nightcrawler (which means grandma is Mystique). Both of my grandfathers are powerful, evil, megomaniacal mutants (Azazel and Magneto), my cousin Luna is half-inhuman and half-mutant, which makes her a human. Go figure, huh?

Hi, I'm Vulcan, the third Summers brother no one knew about. My dad is a space pirate, and my brothers are Cyclops and Havoc. My nephews include Cable (son of Cyclops and a clone of Jean Grey), Stryfe (clone of Cable), X-Man (deceased in vitro son of Cyclops and Jean Grey from an alternate reality), and my neice is Rachel Summers (daughter of Jean Grey and Cyclops from an alternate future...er, reality. Something) who in an alternate reality married Franklin Richards and gave birth to my great-nephew Hyperstorm, who is currently being used as a power source by an alternate Galactus. One big happy family.

Posted by: Witness Jun 22 2006, 04:37 PM

QUOTE (Ancient History)
Hi, I'm Talia Josephine Wagner. In an alternate reality, my mother is the Scarlet Witch (which means my uncle is Quicksilver and my aunt if Polaris), and my father is Nightcrawler (which means grandma is Mystique). Both of my grandfathers are powerful, evil, megomaniacal mutants (Azazel and Magneto), my cousin Luna is half-inhuman and half-mutant, which makes her a human. Go figure, huh?

Hi, I'm Vulcan, the third Summers brother no one knew about. My dad is a space pirate, and my brothers are Cyclops and Havoc. My nephews include Cable (son of Cyclops and a clone of Jean Grey), Stryfe (clone of Cable), X-Man (deceased in vitro son of Cyclops and Jean Grey from an alternate reality), and my neice is Rachel Summers (daughter of Jean Grey and Cyclops from an alternate future...er, reality. Something) who in an alternate reality married Franklin Richards and gave birth to my great-nephew Hyperstorm, who is currently being used as a power source by an alternate Galactus. One big happy family.

Not just SR then, eh, AH? wink.gif

Posted by: PBTHHHHT Jun 22 2006, 05:01 PM

Gawd, this is why I love the restart by Marvel in the Ultimate series. We'll see how it goes before it too gets too convoluted.

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