pdragon619
Well one of my favorite characters right now is the "demon god of madness" and is a very good joke character. Its great because while he does have a near limitless amount of power, instead of using that for cliche world domination/destruction plots, he just uses his power to screw with people, like flipping all the character's genders, or making them wear silly outfits for a day. Plus despite being an "evil" character, he randomly switched from the good side to the bad depending on his motives/boredom. I enjoy it because it allows me to inject some good comedy into storylines and interactions he's in, without it being contrived. Also I believe its a good way to play a god character without god modding, as most of his actions are either harmless, or beneficial to the main cast.
Also I have another character who is cursed to randomly switch genders, which allows for some fun shenangins aswell as drama. I originally intended them to just awkwardly reveal themselves to the cast a few days into the rp, but after he/she switched one of the characters mistook him for his other form's brother, so I kinda ran with the idea of him/her keeping up a facade that they were actually a pair of siblings that by coincidence were never at the same place at the same time. It was actually pretty fun coming up with increasingly ridicolous excuses and explanations, having them constantly slip up about things they should or shouldn't know in their current form, and throwing in awkwardly timed gender switches.
Another is a character who is the sealed incarnation of Yammato No Orochi (creatively named Orochi), who's sealed in a child's body. He spent most of the rp as a creepy child trying to find a way to unseal himself, about half an hour actually unsealed, and then was resealed again and had his mind wiped so he actually believes he's a normal child. And unlike other characters who get their powers "sealed" only to have them back again in ten minutes, I have kept playing him as a normal timid child for like half a year now, with no plans to have him regain his memories or anything. I'm a big believer of permanent consequences. I mean obviously he can't just restore himself, and none of the other characters are in a rush to bring him back to his evil side, so it doesn't make sense to come up with some random excuse to have him return to normal.
Another odd character I have, and another favorite, is a normal human kid in a supernatural setted rp. His main equalizer for all the supernatural stuff is a sword that allows him to manipulate energy, but without it he's completely harmless. Also he's very "feminine" in his personality. Not like metrosexual feminine, but he prefers what are normally considered feminine hobbies: cooking, cleaning, sewing, gardening, and refers to himself as the "wife" of his relationships, especially when paired with tomboys. He also happens to be an incarnation of a demon, but until that power unlocks he's just a normal human, and doesn't even know about it (that aspect is a bit more generic of anime characters, but its downplayed for the most part as he never "goes beserk" as it is except for like one time). Plus I love that in an rp were everyone makes themselves super strong vampires, and werewolves, and sons and daughters of "the ultimate demon lord" they're just this average guy who likes to cook and happens to be more fleshed out than all of them, plus its really jarring when that guy suddenly turns demon and kicks everyone's a**.
a few quick ones are a cross dressing pop idol, A female spider demon who runs a school gang, snake demons up the whazoo (Snake demons are my preferred race to make in rps. Its kind of my answer to the over used vampires, werewolves, and nekos), an Oni character with an irish accent that gets drinks all the time (ironically he's actualy one of my most fleshed out characters, which is odd considering the stereotypical premise), and an overly sarcastic and pessimistic zombie samurai.
For the most part I like to play atypical or unique characters. I especially like using races that aren't usually used, as I play alot of supernatural rp's. Also for me its not really about being powerful, so much as interesting. I don't really need them to be super powerful or a jack of all trades, as my philosophy is that, especially in group rps, every character should have something that makes them useful to the group, without being an all purpose tool, because if your character can solve any problem, then the other characters become inconsequential. For that purpose more often than not I'll actually play less competent characters, who happen to be really good at one or two things, instead of ones with super duper awesome powers, and if I do I usually leave it to a single super duper awesome power.
Also I have another character who is cursed to randomly switch genders, which allows for some fun shenangins aswell as drama. I originally intended them to just awkwardly reveal themselves to the cast a few days into the rp, but after he/she switched one of the characters mistook him for his other form's brother, so I kinda ran with the idea of him/her keeping up a facade that they were actually a pair of siblings that by coincidence were never at the same place at the same time. It was actually pretty fun coming up with increasingly ridicolous excuses and explanations, having them constantly slip up about things they should or shouldn't know in their current form, and throwing in awkwardly timed gender switches.
Another is a character who is the sealed incarnation of Yammato No Orochi (creatively named Orochi), who's sealed in a child's body. He spent most of the rp as a creepy child trying to find a way to unseal himself, about half an hour actually unsealed, and then was resealed again and had his mind wiped so he actually believes he's a normal child. And unlike other characters who get their powers "sealed" only to have them back again in ten minutes, I have kept playing him as a normal timid child for like half a year now, with no plans to have him regain his memories or anything. I'm a big believer of permanent consequences. I mean obviously he can't just restore himself, and none of the other characters are in a rush to bring him back to his evil side, so it doesn't make sense to come up with some random excuse to have him return to normal.
Another odd character I have, and another favorite, is a normal human kid in a supernatural setted rp. His main equalizer for all the supernatural stuff is a sword that allows him to manipulate energy, but without it he's completely harmless. Also he's very "feminine" in his personality. Not like metrosexual feminine, but he prefers what are normally considered feminine hobbies: cooking, cleaning, sewing, gardening, and refers to himself as the "wife" of his relationships, especially when paired with tomboys. He also happens to be an incarnation of a demon, but until that power unlocks he's just a normal human, and doesn't even know about it (that aspect is a bit more generic of anime characters, but its downplayed for the most part as he never "goes beserk" as it is except for like one time). Plus I love that in an rp were everyone makes themselves super strong vampires, and werewolves, and sons and daughters of "the ultimate demon lord" they're just this average guy who likes to cook and happens to be more fleshed out than all of them, plus its really jarring when that guy suddenly turns demon and kicks everyone's a**.
a few quick ones are a cross dressing pop idol, A female spider demon who runs a school gang, snake demons up the whazoo (Snake demons are my preferred race to make in rps. Its kind of my answer to the over used vampires, werewolves, and nekos), an Oni character with an irish accent that gets drinks all the time (ironically he's actualy one of my most fleshed out characters, which is odd considering the stereotypical premise), and an overly sarcastic and pessimistic zombie samurai.
For the most part I like to play atypical or unique characters. I especially like using races that aren't usually used, as I play alot of supernatural rp's. Also for me its not really about being powerful, so much as interesting. I don't really need them to be super powerful or a jack of all trades, as my philosophy is that, especially in group rps, every character should have something that makes them useful to the group, without being an all purpose tool, because if your character can solve any problem, then the other characters become inconsequential. For that purpose more often than not I'll actually play less competent characters, who happen to be really good at one or two things, instead of ones with super duper awesome powers, and if I do I usually leave it to a single super duper awesome power.
I think your characters sound really cool and personally I agree with the idea. I have a character in one of the other RP guilds that is a Dark Kitsune. He had a Kitsune and a Nogitsune for parents and the imbalance between his good and evil side leaves him addle minded. He's also terrified of heights... And not too fond of water. He won't go near the top of a waterfall if he can avoid it. He is also in love with an elf named Midnight who is the male (mostly) reincarnation of a female shadow eagle. Except Midnight is actually an intersex with the full reproductive organs of both a male and a female... And is currently pregnant in the active RP they are in. This is probably one of my favorite characters to play because he will do something and then realize that he should have done it differently or that it is something he isn't actually capable of. Like once when he went running off to retrieve another character's motorcycle. He ran for the step, remembered that he was still in fox form and tried to stop but couldn't so he bounced down the steps, stumble around, shook himself, started running again, and then remembered he didn't know how to drive, so he stopped running just before he ran nose first into the door.
The demon god of madness actually reminds me of a character my girlfriend made up for one of our RPs, which is currently no longer active. She had a character who guarded the border between heaven and hell, making sure no one entered who wasn't supposed to, but when a demon god wanted to take over the world and invade heaven he was captured and his core power, which kept the rest of his power stable, was drawn out and sealed into a precious stone and drove him mostly mad. The struggle he put up to get the stone back resulted in both of them loosing it. As a result he is rarely lucid and typically the first thing he does when meeting someone new is to gab them and demand that they give back what's his... Or to turn them into a small cuddly animal that he carries around until something else distracts him. One of my favorite scenes with her character is when we did a "Random Event Role Play" which is kind of an add lib but with throwing characters into a situation instead of words.
In this one my Dark Kitsune was set to marry a Weretiger of a friend. The god was presiding and started the whole thing off with "We are gathered here today, in the name on me and what's mine, to marry these two whether anyone wants to or not!"
Back to my characters though. I have Cassyn who is my elf in the Vampire Role Play of this guild. He was recently partially turned vampire through magic and he isn't handling the change very well. Which is promising some amusing times in the future of the role play... I have others but listing them all would probably take a page all on it's own and many of mine are intertwined with the characters of friends and family.
