Thorin TheArbolester

Yes, gentle readers, you did in fact read the title of today's post correctly.




Thorin Thearbolester. Or so it would seem. In fact his screenname is capitalised to become Thorin TheArbolester! Cunning. Despite having been born into a medieval world and gone to "Paladin School" (aah, good old PSU. I remember it like it was yesterday, the halls, the armour clad lecturers, the first-day hazing being burnt at the stake... Good times) Thorin was not quite old enough to know the difference between good and evil. Precocious child, apparently. Not QUITE precocious enough to not join up with a bunch of snake-men who slaughtered his schoolmates...

Then again, we are talking about a schoolchild here. Once he found out the cult were going to eviscerate his teachers he was probably chomping at the bit to join up.

Additionally, despite a medieval upbringing in a school for zealous warriors of God and childhood in a snake-worshipping cult, he has found time for a strong background in science. God knows MY interest in science was first sparked by insane snake cultists. It's like a rite of passage, really.

All in all a well developed, strong and well thought out bio.qw

Bloodshade

A double update today in celebration of the holiday season, and also to pad my blog post count before I send it to people.

Sending "hay look at my blog" to people when you have 2 actual content-bearing posts is rather embarrassing. It tends to result in a lot of "... and?" coupled with light punching.

So in celebration of the time of ham, tinsel and terrible CoH bios comes Bloodshade.

Let us take a list, shall we?

• Truebreed Wampyre, purebred Kindred. Now, I like a game of World of Darkness as much as the next socially-malajusted Goth kid but come on.
• Bloodsucking demon BUT SHE'S GOOD HONEST. Guardian of humanity, not like those other vampires.
• A Daywalker. Not only do we have a WoD fanboy here, but one who has watched too much Blade. Business as usual, then.
• Godwin's Law. Nazis = drama!
  
• Not only is she a purebreed Daywalker vampire, she's a Japanese ninja girl. Now, I adore ninja girls. My dreams of a night are haunted by the soft bounce of black-jumpsuit clad breasts, the glint of moonlight reflecting off shining steel and silent eyes, the dark spectre descending in the middle of the night for ancient rites... Umm. Ninja girls. Yes. Nice but overplayed.
• Seeks revenge on the Council. Now, there's nothing wrong with the blending of the CoH mythos into a backstory, but here we encounter that most dastardly of clichés - the bad guy who is really, truly good, honest, just utterly misunderstood.

Now, any one of these on their own does not a bad bio make. Not necessarily a brilliant one, either, but it doesn't truly offend the sensibilities. Here, though, we have a purebreed Daywalker Nazi-hunting Japanese ninja girl vampire. When your character's synopsis includes more than 2 or 3 adjectives it may be time to step back and beat yourself soundly across the temples.

As an aside, here is the character in question.

The Jury rests.

Post-script: You know, I just happened to notice. Bloodshade. Heart of Darkness. Ultimate Rumble Time Gang Rogues. If you're going to attempt to drench your goth-culture chimaera of a creation in fabricated drama you could at least be consistent about it.