Guild Wars 2

First up is Myrra Sparkclaw, engineer. The surname I’m not 100% on at this point, but I’ve yet to come up with something better. All I know is that “Spark” is part of it, likely the warband name.

There’s a lot to be done to establish her history; previously, most all of it came directly from the Personal Story, as she’s been my main for as long as I’ve played the game. What I have right now is that she comes from a fahrar in the Fields of Ruin, near Ebonhawke. Brilliant Charr, but not particularly fierce by the Legions’ standards, and she has an empathetic quality many of them would see as a weakness, perhaps offensively so. She has leadership potential, overshadowed by guilt over mistakes made as a cub that still follow her.

Names and personalities of her warband are still nebulous, but their leader was turning into an exceptional one. That changed one night when a young human taken prisoner got loose in their camp, Myrra went missing, and he got killed looking for her. Myrra wasn’t the same after that, and neither was her warband – the cub who took on the leadership role was a powerful personality, but he was more reckless, and he never quite grasped the concept of effective teamwork.

They made their way to Ashford shortly after moving on from the fahrar and were made quick work of by the ghosts within their first few assignments. Two, maybe three of them survived, Myrra included. Myrra saw a development in her leadership abilities as she tried to piece the warband back together, and they enjoyed some success with her at the helm. Unfortunately, emerging friction between her and her surviving warbandmates (partially regarding the circumstances of the loss of their leader when young) saw her pushed out, and she struck out on her own.

Her status as a Vigil member helps hide the fact that she is essentially a gladium, but it’s a truth she can’t hide from herself. Her current work gives her enough sense of purpose day-to-day, but she struggles with feeling lost and dishonored and in trying to make up for that. She has to face and work with certain demons from her past before she can really get over that.

Certain things to establish:
Names of the warband and who survived
The course of events that led to her splintering off from the warband
Her assignments in and contributions to the Vigil
What leads her to encounter the other two characters and start working with them

I’ve got ideas down for their interpersonal dynamics and what happens as they learn to work with each other better, but it’s still a work in progress, especially if I don’t intend to follow with the in-game storyline.

A couple of images to start follow. Her facial design in-game looks like it was derived from caracals, so that’s what I’m using as reference.

I have ideas for putting together a story with some of my characters, and with the concepts I’ve played with over time and a need to develop a portfolio, I figure having a place to put them where people can see might encourage me to work on it more. I’ve got more doodles and vague ideas than anything else at this point, but I’ll see where this goes.

I’ll be adding to this thread bit by bit, more for my sake, so I don’t guilt myself into feeling like I have to put up something big every time and thus shying away from it completely because I feel what I have isn’t big enough to share. Also, work gets in the way right now, so updates will happen as they happen.

I suppose I’ll start over the next few posts with a screenshot, drawing, and blurb for the characters I’m currently working on. More to come.

Based on a prior character concept. I love this girl, though I need to play her more.

Purple’s her thing.

Also, Anet, could you please put out a short, tight, curly hairstyle for female humans, please? I’ve never been happy with the options available. None of them fit her.

This guy keeps going through a lot of changes. I’m mostly happy with his character design now (he looked waaaaay different when I made him, with a completely different name, and I came to hate it all), but it’s hard to settle on a look for him with clothes and dyes.

Here’s his current appearance. I keep flipping between the “dress” and “not dress” looks depending on my mood.

Here’s mine. I loved the wedding attire for the Charr, so that’s what she wears most of the time right now.

I apologize if this is the wrong sub-forum; please let me know.

Anyway, a long-standing disappointment of mine in regards to character customization has to do with the hairstyles available for characters. Please don’t get me wrong; I appreciate what you guys do in putting out new customization updates periodically. However, at least in regards to humans, I feel like I should make a specific request at this point, because I feel let down every time I check the makeover and hairstyle kits when they get updated.

I’m looking for a hairstyle like this lovely lady’s for human characters (especially female):

[img]http://hbr.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/lupita-nyong_o.jpg[/img]

(If I need to use a different image, please let me know that also.)

Some of the available styles are close, but not quite enough. So may I please ask that this style be added in a future hair kit update?

I guess, if anyone wants to request other styles for characters, feel free to use this thread. Or, if there’s already a pre-existing thread for this kind of thing (I didn’t find one?), please re-direct me there?

Thank you for your time!