[monotoy]

name's is one of a few I use online, mangled from the name of an art project I was working on thirteen years ago and the name I used as part of that art project.

avatar ... I was tired at looking at the black on orange medallion, so I put a pic from Mr. Nik Fiend that I had lying around somewhere on my comp. not very original, but it's the singer of one of my fav bands for more than 20 years, so ...

[Veleda]

Guy N said:

Guy N'wah was a silk buyer with the East Empire Company, with a silver tongue and a weakness for the fairer sex. Seeking an escape when caught out by a servant during one of his trysts, he executed a perfect vault over the windowsill, only to make his landing in the quad of the Legion garrison. A "prisoner born on a certain day to uncertain parents", he was paroled to a land where it seemed everybody knew his name. Any similarities to "Guy Noir, Private Eye" are purely coincidental /> ›››

I love this story.

[cmdr_silverbolt]

Veleda said:

The avatar is a snip of a painting called "Mina" by Lynne Cerro. ›››

Thanks for sharing this info, your avatar is quite mesmerizing

[slimgrin]

Veleda said:

My login name is taken from my main Skyrim character, who as a Stormcloak battlemage was named for the Germanic priestess who "gained fame by predicting the downfall of the legions." She's an interesting figure, if only because so few women of the time are named, moreso as a representation of how central female elites were to the cohesion and planning of a war band, and to political negotiations, in Germanic (and Celtic) practice.

In the DA fandom I ended up taking over my husband's login due to Bioware's policy of making you register your games in order to post on the forums, but on other gaming forums I tend to use my character's names. Obviously I wasn't going to register as Geralt here.

The avatar is a snip of a painting called "Mina" by Lynne Cerro. I don't know why, but her paintings mesmerize me, and I've used them numerous times as avatars or inspiration for writing. ›››

I wrote a short story roughly based on Veleda. I was surprised to see her as your forum name, as she seems an obscure figure. I also name my RPG characters after her, or some variation on the name

[Vankash]

Heya, nice thread Secondchildren !

I made this name up when I was Younger about 7-8 Years Ago. Back then I was playing Lineage II and thought about a long time about a nickname for me. I always wanted a another name as a child i was very jealous that my Brothers all had such cool names. Well Vankash sounds cool for me..at least the way i pronounce it
The name didn't had any original meaning.
After some time I researched some history of my homecountry and I found out that my country was once part of a kingdom roughly translated in Kash..
I love it how my nickname sounds when people pronounce it correct

My avatar:
just my character from APB:Reloaded (awesome MMO) with a girly pumpkinface and some might recognized the face from K-ON

Yea..thanks for reading *waves*

[Veleda]

cmdr_flashheart said:

Thanks for sharing this info, your avatar is quite mesmerizing /> ›››

Here's the full painting.

slimgrin said:

I wrote a short story roughly based on Veleda. I was surprised to see her as your forum name, as she seems an obscure figure. I also name my RPG characters after her, or some variation on the name /> ›››

I didn't know this! She's not obscure to me. There are very few Germanic women named in the sources, and her name is easier to pronounce than Thusnelda or Amalasuintha. /> I'd love to see your story.

[ReptilePZ]

Username: ReptilePZ - I think it sounds cool. Added PZ at the end because "Reptile" is usually taken.

Avatar: A picture of Reptile from MK, since it's cooler than a picture of a random animal.

Fascinating information, I know.

[Csàszàr]

My name: Csàszàr.

It means Emperor in Hungarian. I guess the first reason I chose it is because I'm a huge history buff when it comes to old states, kindoms, and empires, and the highest you can go in a monarchy is emperor.

I also started calling myself the, "Emperor of Produce" when I was promoted to Produce Manager at work when that happened.

And the second part, I learned German while in high school but I wanted to get a eastern European language under my belt, I don't know why still I chose Hungarian, but I did.

Avatar: Still too lazy to put one up.

[HomemComH]

My nickname comes from this song:



Edit: I picked it because it's slightly ironc. "Homem Com H" means "Man with capital M" in portuguese and neither the guy who sings the song nor me are very masculine.

My avatar is due to the fact that I'm very grumpy.

[Mihura]

My nickname came from the Japanese Miharu, I just change it a little. As for the avatar, Isabela from DA 2 is in my opinion a unique character that is very hard to find in a more mainstream media. There are of course other reasons for me to like her but overall she is at the top of my list.

[cmdr_silverbolt]

Mihura said:

As for the avatar, Isabela from DA 2 is in my opinion a unique character that is very hard to find in a more mainstream media. ›››

I don't want to send this thread off course, but I can think of at least six female characters similar to Isabela without even trying. But I guess since you want to see certain attributes in females, you will feel a lack of such characters regardless *shrug*

[Mihura]

cmdr_flashheart said:

I don't want to send this thread off course, but I can think of at least six female characters similar to Isabela without even trying. But I guess since you want to see certain attributes in females, you will feel a lack of such characters regardless *shrug* ›››

I take the bait and say, name the six characters. About the last statement, wut? I said she was unique I never said I want to see that in everyone LOL

[cmdr_silverbolt]

Haha, sure. You asked for "mainstream media", so here it is: Asha (ASOIAF), Samantha (SITC), Pam (True Blood), Nikita (Nikita), Emily (Revenge), Salandar (GWTDT), Lara Croft (TR), The Bride (KB), Madison Paige (Heavy Rain), Inara (Firefly), Starbuck (BTG), Andrea (Walking Dead) There are more, but you get the gist.

Some of these are American TV shows, so I don't know how familiar you'll be with them.

[ReptilePZ]

I have to agree with cmdr_flashheart here. Isabella is probably the most uninspired character in DA2 (not that any of the others were great). And this is coming from a person who actually enjoys BioWare games (apart from the last couple of slip-ups).

[Mihura]

cmdr_flashheart said:

Haha, sure. You asked for "mainstream media", so here it is: Asha (ASOIAF), Samantha (SITC), Pam (True Blood), Nikita (Nikita), Emily (Revenge), Salandar (GWTDT), Lara Croft (TR), The Bride (KB), Madison Paige (Heavy Rain), Inara (Firefly), Starbuck (BTG), Andrea (Walking Dead) There are more, but you get the gist.

Some of these are American TV shows, you I don't know how familiar you'll be with them. ›››

I know some but I do not see what they have in common with Isabela, well Inara (Firefly) came close but that is not really a mainstream show. Nikita, Starbuck, Emily was a strange option I mean how are them even anything like Isabela? and most of the characters that you put there have fair skin and are skinny, even the one that is Latino, some are clearly straight and none of them sleep with people they like because they enjoy sex (Pam and Inara sure), without given two shits about other people, do not forget that none of them are captain to their ship or could hold their ground alone(Starbuck comes close). Also most of that characters are in a "good side" Isabela have almost no morals, she is selfish to the point to provoke a war because her life was in danger, she lies a lot and likes money and her independence more then anything, she even kills a ship full of slaves. I am sorry but it is really rare to see anti-heroines like that, that are not kill in the end or pay some kind of price or try to change. Of course this is my opinion and the way I see the character.

[ReptilePZ]

Since when are sexual preferences/race/body structure defining traits for types of characters? And I refuse to accept "anti-heroines like that, that are not kill in the end or pay some kind of price or try to change" i.e. no character development as a sign of a good charcter. That's one of the reasons why Isabella's a weak NPC. But I guess if that's what you look for in a character, then Isabella's one of 'em.

Anyway, examples of strong, selfish, anti-hero and overly flirty females: Pretty much every female mage in The Witcher, Black cat(Spider-man), Catwoman(Batman), Morrigan(DA:O), Jack and Miranda (ME2 & 3), Silk Fox (Jade Empire) to name a few.

[Mihura]

ReptilePZ said:

Since when are sexual preferences/race/body structure defining traits for charatcers? And I refuse to accept "anti-heroines like that, that are not kill in the end or pay some kind of price or try to change" i.e. no character development as a sign of a good charcter. That's one of the reasons why Isabella's a weak NPC. But I guess if that's what you look for in a character, then Isabella's one of 'em.

Anyway, examples of strong, selfish, anti-hero and overly flirty females: Pretty much every female mage in The Witcher, Black cat(Spider-man), Catwoman(Batman), Morrigan(DA:O), Jack (ME2 & 3), Silk Fox (Jade Empire) to name a few. ›››

"Since when are sexual preferences/race/body structure defining traits for charatcers?" Are you asking this really? they are part of the character as much as their personalty if that was not true then people would not have complain in this same forum about Geralt pretty face in the beginning. I am not going to argue because not everyone is going to like the same things and that is ok. Since this is going off topic I am just going to say that comics are not that mainstream nor Jade Empire and every mage in the witcher can be persecuted and torture, you have Sabrina and Philippa as an example or Triss, Ves even.

[cmdr_silverbolt]

I focused on some core defining characteristics- self-interested, independent, wily, and more masculine than feminine characteristics. I put the original six I though of first, and they also sleep around. Your idea of what makes Isabela unique is strange, though. If you're going to get that specific, then every character ever made is unique.

Firefly has been mainstream for at least three years now. And I am surprised to learn that they show Revenge in Portugal. I apologize, it's a pretty stupid show...a friend made me watch it >.>

Wait, wait, if you're saying comic books are not mainstream, then I hate to break it you, but DA is not mainstream either then. Well, actually, in American audiences neither video games nor comic books would count as mainstream unless they were featured in a movie or show. But I don't know about Europe.

[Mihura]

cmdr_flashheart said:

I focused on some core defining characteristics- self-interested, independent, wily, and more masculine than feminine characteristics. I put the original six I though of first, and they also sleep around. Your idea of what makes Isabela unique is strange, though. If you're going to get that specific, then every character ever made is unique.

Firefly has been mainstream for at least three years now. And I am surprised to learn that they show Revenge in Portugal. I apologize, it's a pretty stupid show...a friend made me watch it >.>

Wait, wait, if you're saying comic books are not mainstream, then I hate to break it you, but DA is not mainstream either then. Well, actually, in American audiences neither video games nor comic books would count as mainstream unless they were featured in a movie or show. But I don't know about Europe. ›››

Actually it is not that strange many people share my opinion but I guess we move on different groups of people.

Revenge is on Fox Life, it is cable and I do not like the series that munch. Hum mainstream as in where I live, even in Europe most of the people I know do play games and see TV series but Marvel or DC comics is more rare but that is my experience, I would not take that as a fact.

[ReptilePZ]

Mihura said:

"Since when are sexual preferences/race/body structure defining traits for charatcers?" Are you asking this really?they are part of the character as much as their personalty if that was not true then people would not have complain in this same forum about Geralt pretty face in the beginning. I am not going to argue because not everyone is going to like the same things and that is ok.

Those are traites that define individual characters, not a type of character. Those things are too descriptive and make sure no 2 characters are exactly the same. I am talking about the things that seperate the different types of characters - personality, general looks.

Think PC, Console, Handheld as types of devices.

PC running on Linux, PC running on Windows, XBOX, PS3, PS Vita, 3DS as a more exact way to describe devices. Of course there's going to be only one XBOX360, that's the whole point of those extreme details but the general idea is the same as the PS3.

Mihura said:

Since this is going off topic I am just going to say that comics are not that mainstream nor Jade Empire and every mage in the witcher can be persecuted and torture, you have Sabrina and Philippa as an example or Triss, Ves even. ›››

Spiderman or Batman are not mainstream? Come off it.

And again, a character doing whatever they want and there being zero effect on them because of this is a sign of bad writing and something that drains the excitement out of a story/character imo. No character development is usually considered a bad thing.

Anyway, this really is getting off topic. My point is, a flirty female character with big boobs is not unique.