Inspiration
My inspiration to my charecter (How am i writing now), stories (When iam Playing RP with friends) and real life

Theodore Rossevelt, 26th President of USA
Jesus
James Bond
Obi- Wan Kenobi
J. Robert Oppenheimer

If i said i wasn't inspired by something i would be lying. Unconsciously most of our characters are inspired by something... I gave it a long 5 second thought to figure out what character are mine inspired by. Strangely both of them are inspired by the same one person...

guess who?

A mentally-damaged sociopathic killing machine that makes random comments? Yeah sounds about right

For my character Lilin Hylo my initial idea was to have a character I would definitely be able to play when the game gets released. So that made her human and a force user.

I had a (fairly) straight-laced neutral character in Redwatch and was working on a jovial good guy (- more to come on him) so to be able to fully flex my role playing muscles she had to be a she, self-indulgent and a bit evil. But to give her some saving graces I came up with the background I did (ie; it's not her fault).

So looking back my character probably is most like:


Elle Driver, Kill Bill


and Bridget Fonda's character from The Assassin

Fuza 'Fuze' Macoy

Influencing my creating Fuza Macoy, these characters play a significant and an almost thoroughly allegorical part making Fuze into the archetypal character that he is.

Robin Hood, in that he steals from the rich and gives to the poor. Diverging to be more practical for the universe by have a wealthy adopted father.

With Lando Calrissian's personality. Also his inclination towards gambling in the verse.



Odan-Urr, a great Jedi from the Great Hyperspace war (From which the Dark Emperor hails), shares Fuze's appetite for knowledge, influencing his scholarly pursuit.

Haysh Waadas

I haven't finished his page yet but, reading it, my allusions are quite evident.

Chodo Habat, leader of the Telos Restoration Project, inspired his parents. Their adopted mother Aaysha is based on a healer in the Darth Bane books, named Jacob. And his entrance into the academy is based on really any Jedi.



Anakin's owning those Sand People who killed his parents for Haysh's first signs of the dark side.



And of course, Jolee.



And of course, Kreia.

And Frank Abignale Jr. from Catch Me if You Can, the guys from the Sting, Matchstick Man, a couple of those shows they have about cons, for his inspiration for his profession.

My second alt (well actually my first, having been put together before Lilin) Palu Stris was almost a knee-jerk reaction to all the super special highly trained toughest, cleverest, strongest self-assured angst-ridden killing machines out there in RPG Land.

Palu is uncomplicated to the point of almost being simple. He's not overly bright. He's open, honest and friendly. He'll go out of his way to help you and is therefore easily taken advantage of. He's had an unremarkable childhood and adult life thus far and is your average guy down the pub. The one you get stuck with who you wish would shut up but can't hold anything against cos they're nice - just annoying.

The thing about Palu is that he's more than happy to play the supporting actor role in his life's movie when he should be playing the leading man.

As there aren't (at the time of writing) many support character classes in the guild I've gone down a multi-class mechanic/medic role for him and woven the reasons into his background.

Definite inspirations for Palu come in the form of Firefly's Kaylee and LotR's Samwise Gamgee.

Sam rocks, but Kaylee is just increible. Interesting fact? Jewel (who plays Kaylee) is pretty much like that in real life, a hottie AND a sweetheart. What a combo!

My character Jens Jutoon, I sort of think of him a cross between to Mal Reynolds, Indiana Jones, Lando Calrissian and a bit of Rick Deckard thrown in.

Vivaa Uko'od, she's got a little bit of Asajj Ventress a bit of Elle Driver and some Budd from Kill Bill as well. I'm still really working her out, but I sort of picture her with those type of character traits.

Edit: I didn't read the thread before I posted and so didn't realize Redwatch had also a character with a bit of Elle Driver in her. I wasn't copying, honest!

Great to see this post getting some attention! (Cheers Nosyd!)

I should really update my chars here...

Hollister
Is a mix of the following:

Dwayne Hicks


Sin City's Dwight


Xen
Is a mix of the following:

Riddick


Supernatural's Azael


and Preacher's 'Saint of Killers'


And lastly Valik

For When he's lucid...

Kratos from God of War / God of War II


and for when the drugs run out...

The Incredible Hulk

CREED DEKKAR

Creed is a bit of a down and out, overworked and underpayed yet loyal agent and his inspiration was mostly based around a rather awesome character from Blade Runner (I even stole a bit of the name and changed it!):

Rick Deckard



Being a bit of a risk-taker he is often finding himself in situations a bit beyond his control, so naturally inspiration for this came in the shape of yet another Harrison Ford character that we all know and loved from the original Star Wars trilogy:

Han Solo



The third inspiration is a bit odd but it just goes to show that it's just an awesome concept, I speak of course of one my favourite bands mind.in.a.box. Throughout all of their albums they tell a rather dark, cyberpunk tale of an agent thats lost his memory and he's trying to find answers. Not that Creed has lost his memory but he certainly would rather not remember some of things he's done, so the inner turmoil comes from the character simply known as.....

Black

Eamonn Keel

For this character I decided to make a complete ba***rd. Haha! A bit of a departure, as so far this character has yet to display any redeeming features. He's very much a violent thug, if a skilled and focussed one. The recent Voice of the Old Republic video doccumentary made me decide to make my Bounty Hunter fit the "I'm just here to cause damage" ethos.

Main inspirations come from Daniel Craig's take on Bond and the Comedian from Watchmen.



His background Wiki can be found here, and though this will soon become out-dated, I made him for the express purpose of appearing in Darth Mynock's up-comming cross-over RP Knightfall.

Sovay Sovair

This one presented me with a lot of problems which is why her background wiki (found -here-) is my longest to date!

Since nearly every SWTOR forumer and their dog are jumping on the Imperial Agent bandwagon I wanted to take my character for this class in an unexpected direction. I also wanted to play a very different character in RPs to the ones I'd built so far, all of who have been fairly articulate and a bit wordy.

The solution was (or became) to make her a bit of a retard. Her social and linguistical inadequacies would be fun to RP (don't judge me) but she needed to work in-game too. So I gave her an idiot savant edge and made her great with computers and the fact that autistic people often have short tempers, once I'd given her a desire to live up to a freedom-fighter/roguish father figure (in her head anyway), played well into the whole guns-and-orbital-strike in-game combat necessity.

My inspirations were this song: 'Sovay' by Pentangle (it's sort of who in her mind she'd like to be if she could), and trying desperately to avoid her becoming River Tam from Firefly! lol