In a not-too-distant future, on a not-too-distant planet, the human race will have to fight for its survival, against an army of dinosaurs and giant insects and humanoid reptiles. When all seems lost, when the handful of survivors are holed up in their last fortress, she will show up....
...to ask for their surrender.
(Based vaguely on a dream I had, except she wasn't quite so pretty in the dream!)
Falingard on 11.30.06 @ 18:47 PM EST [link]
I originally considered this character concept for one of the space opera protagonists, but it also has a lot to offer to the villain side! Created by Oboe, this robotic damsel is plugged into the ship at all times (or is she?!) via wires in her head - her hair! He called her GLIDA, for Good-Looking Interactive Diagnostic Accessory. He uses her to find out when there's something wrong with the ship. More details are not known! Maybe she gets tired of being used and takes over the ship? Maybe she sees the rest of the crew abusing her beloved creator and unplugs herself and goes on a killing spree at night!
This was an interesting challenge, designing a robot more or less made out of junk, trying to make it look like a perverted old man's fantasy. Seems like all the important parts are padded with what seems like pieces of an old leather couch!
Falingard on 11.22.06 @ 18:14 PM EST [link]
Johnson Caesar... uncontested lord and emperor... of sports! Picture it if you will... a famous and talented professional athlete... most valuable player in a score of popular sports... adorated by legions of fans across the galaxy... made fabulously rich by his skills and advertizing contracts... he goes from planet to planet, honouring his fans with "friendly exhibition matches"... offering to make it more "fun" with "friendly wagers"... soon he ends up owning everything on those planets he visits... yet people flock to him, fanclubs form, gyms are organized... he trains his followers, and they go challenge people for "friendly wagers"... his wealth, power and influence grows... his face is everywhere in the media... the whole galaxy bows to his rule...
Falingard on 11.16.06 @ 23:50 PM EST [link]
No, he's not a doctor. But it rhymes! He's a debt collector! Poor Mickey Maddox was always bullied for his nerdiness as a kid, so he grew up into socially inept and bitter young man, who joined an intergalactic debt agency, giving him cyber gear and weapons and allowing him to vent his pent-up anger with the full support of the law!
Obviously he'll come after the excentric Marquise Cherie. For some reason I see them ending up in bed. Maybe he busts into her room to "collect", and finds her dead drunk, then she turns over and accidentally smothers him, and poor Mickey doesn't know what to do, because he's never been glomped by a half naked and completely drunk woman!
Falingard on 11.14.06 @ 18:31 PM EST [link]
Back in the Space Operator groove now! To start off the villains, young Jaz Martingale. Working as a casino dealer, she found she could predict the outcome of games, and later affect said outcome with her MIND. I haven't figured out the specifics, but she loses everything dear to her, and goes insane with psychic power. Everytime she loses, she just puts it all the line again, increasing her wager, hoping that when she finally wins, it'll make up for all her previous losses. Each time she does this, her powers increase accordingly, and so does her insanity. So the good guys have to keep putting her down, but it's tougher each time! Recurring villain material.
She'll probably have something to do with the captain, just because..... his name is Spade. Haha. Spade. No, I hadn't planned this at first! She'll probably psychically create evil duplicates of him called Heart, Club and Diamond.
Falingard on 11.13.06 @ 22:31 PM EST [link]
Okay! I think that's it for the space operators - the protagonists, anyway. This here is Leo Angelo, another old buddy of the captain. He's brought on board to take care of just about everything that doesn't fall to the captain, scientist, or engineer (the owner and mysterious kid don't do much). He cooks, does minor repairs, navigation, security, laundry, etc. etc. He's good-looking, charming, courageous, skilled, and gay. Everyone realizes he's gay, except his old buddy Captain Irons. Dun dun dun. Hilarious situations arise!
Especially since they've been through countless (nonsexual) adventures together, and are really close. Poor Spade might think the chicks will dig his younger, prettier second-in-command before him (!) but they won't. Oh well, he's always got his booze.
Falingard on 11.09.06 @ 23:54 PM EST [link]
Every good story needs a crzzy old guy! Maybe?
In this case, the crazy old guy is the ship's engineer. But it wasn't planned that way. While the boy, Vertigo, was found in space, this geezer sort of... came with the ship. He's been living in the engine room and doesn't want to leave! Surprisingly, he DOES keep the ship running smoothly. He is a little crazy, a little perverted, and totally filthy. Sometimes he'll talk to you while casually waving around his buthane torch... sometimes he'll holler and run around like a madman... sometimes he'll just hide in the maintenance ducts for weeks on end. Despite all this, there's no denying his technical prowess!
I gave him the name of Scurrinson Oboe, which has layers of meaning somewhere.
Falingard on 11.06.06 @ 18:54 PM EST [link]
In continuation of the space opera theme... a mysterious kid from beyond the stars! Picked up somewhere by the ship, with no memory or knowledge of anything at all, probably not even how to speak at first. It's probably a boy. He just hangs around the ship smiling and stuff... getting into trouble and getting rescued. prof. Maya is probably the one who takes care of him. Usually.
But who is he really?!
EDIT: I realized I forgot to give him a name! He probably doesn't have one, but I figure the crew would find one for him. So I decided they would take to calling him Vertigo.
Falingard on 11.05.06 @ 17:40 PM EST [link]
More space operators! This is the Marquise Cherie Dune, an old drinking buddy of captain Irons. While he's constantly a bit tipsy, she's often totally passed out. She comes from a ancient noble line, who has been mostly penniless for a few generations now. She goes by on her family's rapidly-waning good name and credit, avoiding debt collectors, indulging her passion for expensive yet extremely tacky things. ...like her pet alligator slug right there.
Technically she owns the ship these people travel on, but she doesn't do anything to help run it, except come up with the occasionaly hair-brained moneymaking scheme. BUT, she provides romantic tension! Who does the Captain really like? Will he go for Maya's boobies, tight abs and brilliant scientific mind? Or will he go for the old friendship, laidback personality and REAL KISSABLE HUMAN FACE?
Falingard on 11.03.06 @ 22:57 PM EST [link]
Second character in this space opera theme... the brilliant and beautiful alien scientist, who cannot under any circumstances take off her gas mask, because our air is toxic to her. She also needs a cool name... something alien, but not too much... something like... Maya Apple.
Falingard on 11.02.06 @ 20:40 PM EST [link]
I thought I'd start a set of Space Opera-type characters. Because everyone loves Space Opera! Me, for example. To start off, a captain-type. I like him, he's got a pretty unique concave face. He's probably the kind of captain who's addicted to every substance known to man and never sleeps, eats or mows the lawn, but obsesses over the ship and everything. He's a hardass, a louse, a renegade, but he still manages to perform heroic deeds and epic maneuvers. He's got a robotic hand, because it is prerequisite for coolness. It has six fingers, because it was made on an alien world where people have six fingers, so naturally their prosthetics would have six fingers as well.
I thought of giving him a unique weapon, something different from the usual blaster pistol or energy sword... but I don't know what yet. Or maybe he has an energy sword... a DESTINY sword... which was given to him by a group of mysterious priests, so he was all "I'm destined for great things!" but then the energy blade, which is powered by destiny, turns out to be this tiny switchblade in his hands. So he gets depressed at his lack of destiny and turns into a drunken bastard!
Anyway, he has to have a cool name. Something like... Spade Irons. Captain Spade Irons.
Falingard on 11.01.06 @ 22:46 PM EST [link]
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