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AdamWithers β Vizhul Colu, Jedi Knight
Published: 2007-09-25 15:12:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 20416; Favourites: 241; Downloads: 1382
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So, for the first time, here's an actual Player Character from the Star Wars RPG I run. His name's Vizhul, which is a play on the word 'Visual,' I think, since he's a Miraluka and so has no true sight-- think like Daredevil with the Force.Anyway, the guy's crazy... like a fox! And he's only 24, but the silver hair makes him look a lot older. That and the Baltar-beard. But that was his request: the player (Josh) specifically said that Vizhul looked like Prophet-Baltar from the end of BSG Season 3.
And if any of you out there STILL aren't watching the new Battlestar Galactica... well, shame on you. Shame.
Read more on Vizhul here (he's got some fun history): [link]
And see some of his compadres here:
Master Xion Tel [link]
Master Horath [link]
Master Gamgalon [link]
Keli Dontus [link]
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Great character I would love Β to see him meet Luke actually.
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HA! Unintentional, but hilarious.
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yep i thought so too.
still <3
keep up the good work
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Sort of. He has no sight like normal people, but he can "see" through the Force. It's kind of like a mystic Daredevil kind of thing, if you know that character at all.
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Nice to see some other Miraluka chars out there! I play one on a SW RPG site, haha. I quite like how you color lightsabers!
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Thanks! It's surprisingly easy to get the Lightsaber effect once you know how.
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he looks like aged anakin if he didnt get crispy xD nicely done! love the vuray of colors and textures
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Thanks! Yeah, the player specifically asked for a costume that was reminiscent of Anakin. It reflected some of his character development at the time.
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your welcome and i see well its very interesting.
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wow you good, can you draw my charecter for me? plz 
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Awesome! Who says white hair can't be cool?
The glasses, they're some kind of glasses right, are really cool. And I like the saber alot too. Yeah, a white one! The hilt is really pretty too. Great job!
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Yeah they're glasses - like liquid metal that flows over the eyes. Glad you dig it
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Very nice.
I have a question? How do you choose a background? I always have issues with backgrounds.
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Depends on the character and the scene and the mood I want to create. For this series of illustrations, I went simple. I figure it's Star Wars, they're hopping through space, so a simple starfield background fit nicely. Also, since it was all about the characters, the background is dull enough not to stand out or draw attention away from the figure.
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I can never seem to match characters and background. *sigh* Really bugs me.
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Give it time. I'm telling you, the two most important things when picking a background are Location and Contrast.
Location: Where's your character from, what do they do, and where do they do it? Find something that matches their style. You wouldn't put Superman in a back alley, and you wouldn't put Robin Hood on a skyscraper. Captain America doesn't need to be holding a flag on a WWII battlefield, but would fit in any well-lit, modernesque cityscape just as well.
Contrast: More important than location is that the foreground figure stands out from the background image. You can have a background that's just swirly lines and abstract shapes, and if the color and light/dark contrast pops then you'll be fine. Look at Vizhul - he's all in browns, blacks, and silver, but all his colors lean towards warm shades (that is, colors that are more red than blue). His background is then a cold cyan blue that stands in contrast with the colors of his clothes.
Contrast and location, baby. That's all it is.
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...Wow...just, thank you so much. I really REALLY appreciate that.
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Very nice detail. He looks extremely casual and serene.
I donβt think he is going to fall down he looks like he is moving (fluidly even)
Nothing wrong with the Baltar look, that is one rocking show!
And no offence after seeing another show whenever I see this picture I hear the line βRed October standing byβ. Donβt hurt me my brain works funny.
Neat substory about using the portal to the past to send a message to the other character.
I donβt normally like timetravel but that sounded like a fun rpg night.
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It had only been my intention to play up a really wierd, scary, horror kind of session as a one-off, and the idea of a ship trapped between hyperspace and realspace was really interesting to me. Playing with time was fun for the head-trips I gave the characters, but I definitely wouldn't keep going back to that device over and over - it made MY head hurt!
Glad you like the pic and the character. I'll have to tell the player that his character's been well received!
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I blame it on the beard, the hair may make him look bishounen XP.
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It's true - beards add a lot of age to a character.
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to everyone in general (pats his beard)
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nice picture im down with the blind wigga jedi's
btw whats battle star galactica
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A sci-fi television show. And it's awesome. Go rent the first season and prepare to have your socks rocked off.
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sigh...if i only had the money
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lol,yeah he defiantely looks alot "older" than 24...but awesomely done
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Cool! I'm not a huge fan of Star Wars, but this guy is pretty awesome.
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You're welcome pal
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something about him looks oddly familiar
i can't put my finger on why
he is quite the funky guy nonetheless
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Hmmm... major influences in the design: Gaius Baltar of Battlestar Galactica, prequel Obi-Wan, the big bad-guy from Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, and he's pretty much just wearing the same outfit as Anakin Skywalker in Ep. III.
The player said he was going to be dressing just like Anakin, now. As the group had discovered just who Anakin had become, naturally Master Tel was curious as to WHY he'd do that. He said it covered a few bases - it created a diversion (dressing in darkness to hide the light), it took the fear away from the image of Anakin Skywalker (dress like him to depower his image), and it redeemed the good of the man he WAS while also striking a moral victory over the man he's BECOME. I mean, if Vader sees Vizhul on the field, dressed just like he used to, it could easily give a slight (if brief) psychological advantage to Viz.
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O_________O Woah
sorry i'm a newb at starwars.....
but i think i get what your saying
viz is dressing like anakin to ridicule and surprise him
but i'don't think its his outfit that makes him familiar
maybe it is
i dunno, i swear i saw a face like his some time ago
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Woah, dude, his glasses. They're like awesome. And the pose is kick butt too.
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Awesome! I've been waiting for you to start on your PC's. The master's were cool, but it's always somehow a bit nicer to see what your players have come up with. I really like this guy's force-sight thingy that you wrote for the race. And the back story? Sheesh! How can one man take all that? I'm hoping the rest of your pc's have had it in the neck as much as he sounds like he has. And props for the whole fortune telling thing. It's impossible to do well, but it sounds like you nailed it.
As always, I'm green with envy that I don't share your game and all the coolness it seems to involve.
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The player, Josh, just always seems to send Vizhul right into the middle of some serious crap. Of course, we've been playing the game for nearly three years, so that helps
But the coolest so far was when the team was trapped on a ship that was half in Hyperspace and half out, and there were all kinds of bizarre time-warps happening from room to room, and he found a place where a datapad floated in the air. After investigating stuff, he found out that that space was a bridge between the '
So he realizes this wormhole to the past thingy, sits down so his head is right in that spot, and uses telepathy to call out to a character that had left the group over a year ago (in-game time). She had been a Jedi Padawan, but was so torn and terrified that she would fail that she left the team and the order never to be seen again. So Vizhul sends a message to her through the wormhole to the past (when she'd be, like 9-10 years old) and tells her where they are, and if she's still alive that she needs to come to these coordinates to save them.
So just when things are at their darkest, she shows up to save them all... but it's her from six years in our future! And Vizhul's message to the past was the very thing that placed the seeds of the self-doubt and certainty of failing the Jedi in her that led to her leaving the Jedi and eventually being where she needed to be to come back to those coordinates and save them all.
*whew* Now THAT was an awesome night, and the whole idea for contacting her was totally his. I played the rest of it off the cuff, but it was just too cool an idea not to use.
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You're right, that's awesome! Sheer genius! And I'll say it again - if one man can be that much trouble I am almost close to exploding with curiosity to hear what the rest of your players have come up with. Sundays just don't come often enough for me, I've decided.
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Oh, you've got NO idea. We probably won't be posting a new one this Sunday, but NEXT Sunday we're posting 'The Bastard' - a Mandalorian PC who went from being a drunken louse with itchy trigger fingers and a lust for carnage to naming himself Mandalore... and maintaining his itchy trigger finger and lust for carnage. The attempts by Xion Tel and the Jedi to keep him under control has been... well, that's the story you'll be reading.
Amazing character development, but I can only take the most marginal credit for it. I've got fantastic players, and if you've been part of a fun, exciting gaming group, you know how it requires both players AND GM to make it that way. I'm a lucky guy
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See now you're just a tease. Dangling a little bit of deeply cool sounding PC info in front of this here donkey and then telling the ass he's gonna have to wait an extra week? Not fair I tell you! Not fair
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great stuff, love these original character you've been showing!
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Very nice! The character sounds cool and I like the swirly background.
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Yeah, I liked the format so much when I did Keli Dontus that I decided to make it standard for all these Star Wars characters. I like standardization of format! Makes it feel like a series of trading cards or something neat like that
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