Decided it'd probably be useful to keep a thread with everyone in one place for my own personal convenience, but while I'm at it, may as well have some fun with it. So here are all of my characters, taken out of context and made fun of for your amusement, with brief "in a nutshell" descriptions of each. Also, they'll be organized into tiers, based entirely on top-of-my-head evaluations of their power levels, because why not? Making fun of overpowered bullshit is just good fun. Lastly, each tier will have characters organized by their creation, with the newest characters at the top. A small handful of these characters are [i]fossils[/i] from my cringeposting days. The pictures and names of these characters have been changed, because I could write entire "let's not meet" stories about some players and communities I've left in the dust on my way to [s]greatness[/s] where I am now. So, if you're one of the few people on the entire internet who might recognize some of these; no, I didn't steal them—also, I have to kill you now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

	With that out of the way, here's my forbidden book of horrors. My confluence of creative sewage, congealed for your convenience.

[hider=D Tier]Characters in D tier are non-combatants, plain and simple. They need to be protected to be useful.
[hider=Raffaella Struna][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/original/83/60/__original_drawn_by_hito_komoru__8360947c8d7e6c64d3ed7a39ac201360.png[/img]

Character Sheet: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5459541

OoC Notes: A desperately shy, physically underdeveloped and frail young girl with a saccharine and girly personality, a uniquely fantastical underlying heart condition, and a terrible hidden power. She can see the spiritual connections between people, visually represented as lines of thread, indicating the nature of their relationship with various colors, textures and thickness. Like the Greek Fates, she can manipulate these threads, up to and including creating and severing the connections. She also has a second ability that allows her very existence to be removed from the conscious perception of others. With these powers, she would be one hell of a tool in the hands of any would-be ruler of a shadow government, and despite what her sweet exterior may lead one to believe, she's smart enough to know it. The knowledge terrifies her. There is a way to be rid of these powers, but the operation is dangerous and can result in being socially ostracized, so for now she tries to keep her secret. Unfortunately, she shares a class with mind readers, which isn't good for her stress, because having two powers is also something that can result in being a pariah. Why, you ask? Well, having two powers makes you a beacon that attracts the world's major evil bad guys, of course! The poor girl just wants to be normal, but no matter what she decides to do, she'll probably lose some friends...[/hider]
[hider=Emmeline Gabrielle Constance MacFhionnlaigh][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/sample/80/de/__exosister_martha_yu_gi_oh_drawn_by_shichigatsu__sample-80de7a47e4410a20b1c4f4957f1ac303.jpg[/img]

Character Sheet: None yet

OoC Notes: With a name like that in D tier, you already know where this is going. A duke's daughter frustrated with her idiot father and his incessant attempts to arrange an undesired marriage result in her running away from home to become... what exactly? She'll figure that out later, it's fiiine. Despite being in D tier, she actually can defend herself. The problem is that she's a one-trick pony. She doesn't have much in the way of magic resistance, but that does mean that she gains insanely high benefit from buff spells compared to most people. She, for her part, knows exactly one, which increases her physical strength. With a little warmup, she can become strong enough to bat a turtloid into the air and send it flying [i]miles[/i] away. Just, y'know, gotta get that blood pumping first. ...If only bandits were so considerate.[/hider]
[hider=Rebecca Park][img]https://i.imgur.com/kzBoAJa.png[/img]

Character Sheet: None yet

OoC Notes: Fun fact, this character's image is blank because my partner for this RP is blind! Crafting her appearance from scratch was a new exercise for me. She's an FBI agent, so you can imagine that her manner of dress is very boring. She's got one neat little accessory though, an earring with a mini razor blade on it. Conversation starters are useful in her profession, you see. Yes, she's a consummate professional. Outside of work, though, she's very bubbly, and nerdy cute, despite her goth appearance. That'll be a trend with my characters, you'll see. Girls in suits, sneaky stealth agents, and nerdy cute witches. Edgy-looking characters who are secretly awkward dorks. They're my favorite. Rebecca, for her part, is a bit of all of the above. She's secretly very interested in supernatural high strangeness, and sincerely believes that she had an encounter with a werewolf as a child. As to why she's in D tier; well, ultimately, she's just a girl with a gun, and escape and evasion techniques only help so much when dealing with the supernatural. She's nerfed by the setting, basically. I like her though.[/hider][/hider]
[hider=C Tier]Characters in C tier are simply good at what they do. No more, no less.
[hider=REDACTED][img]https://i.imgur.com/kzBoAJa.png[/img]

Character Sheet: N/A

OoC Notes: This character does not officially exist. Neither does their RP, for that matter. Information on them is something to be earned by fulfilling some specific conditions. They have a very particular set of skills, and demonstrating some of those skills might help you get somewhere. That's all you'll have from me.[/hider]
[hider=Felicia Vespa][img]https://i.imgur.com/p6ww1MJ.png[/img]

Character Sheet: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5284509

OoC Notes: What if a real-life Karen used her powers for good instead of evil? That's Felicia. A former Wall Street baby, Felicia turned her back on the rich girl lifestyle to become a quiet landlord in Tennessee and make the lives of the elderly living there just a bit easier. It was an unlucky turn of events, then, when suddenly a bunch of people got a variety of plant-based superpowers for some reason, and Felicia happened to be one of them. So much for her quiet life. I'm noticing that "secretly kind bitches" is a running theme of mine. You could be forgiven for thinking that it's a self-insert trait from me, but nope. Maybe it's a trait I wish I had, being cunning like that.[/hider]
[hider=Ashley Wycliffe][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/sample/f5/5b/__original_drawn_by_domi_hongsung0819__sample-f55b7be861d5da8c4332a6cbcc22669c.jpg[/img]

Character Sheet: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5239988

OoC Notes: Formerly a nun, and the daughter of a marquess and high-ranking member of the church, her childhood would end in tragedy when she learned about her family's illicit activities, and foolishly gave the knights captain incriminating information. Believing that God would look after her and her family for doing the right thing, she unwittingly condemned them all to death with her decision and now has to live with the survivor's guilt and crisis of faith that ensued. During the raid on Wycliffe manor, all of the men were killed while the women had escaped into the night—only for Ashley to emerge as the only survivor years later, having become a dark mage herself, leading to rumors that she'd killed the others to save herself. Nowadays, she uses the art of cursemaking to reverse curses, turning what would be a forbidden art meant to promote suffering into a healing practice. She believes she can use the dark arts to help others, but must be careful to hold on to what's left of her stunted emotions and loosened sense of humanity, lest she lose her sanity along with it and become something she'd fought to destroy in the past. Cursemaking itself is a lot like magical hacking—not the exciting, hokey Hollywood hacking, though. Boring, tedious, real-life hacking. Accordingly, she's a major coffee addict with caustic wit—but secretly nerdy cute, and a bit of a hopeless romantic.[/hider][/hider]
[hider=B Tier]Characters in B tier are best described as super-soldiers. They'll dominate a more realistic setting, but might come off a bit weak in something more anime-inspired. The difference in A and B tier could perhaps be illustrated by the difference between Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2, and Raiden in Metal Gear Rising.
[hider=Salomé Xiuyáng Solari][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/original/02/4e/__kohari_original_drawn_by_shichigatsu__024e55beae21a6637acb3bcc595ef6ef.jpg[/img]

Character Sheet: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5462983

OoC Notes: A mysterious young lady with a unique blood-mana virus that lets her perform a magic called Facemimicry, which does exactly what it sounds like. A savvy businesswoman with a silver tongue, she projects the personality of a slimy used car salesman with a sardonic sense of humor, but she's actually a big softie with strong moral fiber who got tired of being played, and decided to become the player. She's got plenty of secrets to hide, though, and does so mainly by spreading so many rumors about herself that nobody really knows what her deal is. In battle, she's a sneaky combat medic with the fighting style of a shinobi, complete with optical and aural illusions to draw her enemies' attention and waste their time and energy while saving her own, as her biggest weakness is very slow drawing of magical energy. She fancies herself a big bad bitch who's always one step ahead, but is being moved by outside forces that she's only dimly aware of. Gotta say, girl, ending up in the pockets of the Chinese Vampire Mafia in your [i]second-ever[/i] post is pretty high-key embarrassing. Granted, that was a massive collab post that nearly hit 1/3rd the maximum length that a post can be, but still. The girl definitely needs a drink after that.[/hider]
[hider=Claire][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/sample/fc/54/__original_drawn_by_shiroi_suzume__sample-fc54640467504c344b10e14445fe1758.jpg[/img]

Character Sheet: None yet

OoC Notes: A homunculus—a magically animated doll of clay that follows a predetermined list of magically programmed instructions. At least, that's how a homunculus is [i]supposed[/i] to work. They're not supposed to be able to kill humans, but regardless, she seems to be living a life of crime just fine. Homunculi are usually made-to-order by magicians to serve the nobility, and are easily identifiable by the silver hair, so generally, nobody questions their actions too much—best to stay out of the official business of the rich and powerful. This serves Claire's purposes quite well. Nobody really knows how Claire broke free of her programming, and she generally isn't keen on letting anyone who finds out live for very long. She's definitely not a human in disguise, however. She's got some very strange ways of thinking that are definitely reminiscent of an AI, and some unique mental processes at her disposal. Though, they can make her a bit stiff and short-sighted. Imagine living your real life with an Ubisoft HUD, complete with minimap and objective reminders and markers in your field of view at all hours of the day. Sure, your general routine would become braindead easy, but you might just forget how to "live" after a while.[/hider]
[hider=Maji Nyeusi][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/sample/04/1a/__original_drawn_by_hc_user_tem2272__sample-041aa82f85aeab09d08bde4e44687a4c.jpg[/img]

Character Sheet: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5354401

OoC Notes: A girl from an amphibious alien race called Sapishte who use their epidermal mucus to shapeshift. Formerly a medical technician or researcher of some kind, though nobody knows what she was working on, and nobody really cares after the incident. Her epidermal mucus got contaminated with experimental nanomachines that have enhanced her shapeshifting abilities to include non-humanoid races through real-time, adaptive gene editing. She's being held in quarantine and studied by a shady intergalactic government, obviously attempting to weaponize her and the experimental nanomachines, SS-GEN. The linguistic center of her brain has been suppressed with an implanted chip so that she can't go telling her secrets to everyone if she were to ever escape containment. Despite her dire situation, she's warm, friendly and playful.[/hider]
[hider=Axelle Leroux][img]https://i.imgur.com/nk444rl.png[/img]

Character Sheet: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5252981

OoC Notes: Yes, her theme is roses, and her name is literally "Axel the Red" in French. Very on-the-nose. The character application process for this one was a bit unique. It was a magical girl RP with limited roles available, and each one had a prompt. The GM admitted they would be picky about the "Rose" role whose prompt was "denim jackets, cassette tapes, polaroids, pretty handwriting, freshly baked cinnamon rolls, candid photos, warm laughter, ethereal, outwardly shallow hiding a deeper character." Honestly, I think I knocked it out of the park with this one. Unfortunately, real life stuff got in the way and the RP ended before she could really shine. She definitely needs some love.[/hider]
[hider=Yoo-Roh][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/original/56/87/__original_drawn_by_ganesagi__56876733519132b9bea5f6ef54b94f1b.png[/img]

Character Sheet: Lost to the cringevoid

OoC Notes: An AI-driven technological archive of a person long since deceased. Her body is mostly a projection, with the device being a tiny floating spherical object. Essentially, she had a Touhou hitbox for a long time. She appeared alongside other more relevant characters who simply couldn't be allowed to die. She served a kind of "anti-cheat" role for a while, her digital archive possessing a massive database of magic to draw upon, including some extremely "unique" spells to say the least. She was treated as useless in most fights, but any bad actors in the playerbase would find that Yoo-Roh always had an extremely specific counter to their unfair godmodding antics. As the players either improved or dropped out, her design changed such that her body was made of non-newtonian fluid held in place by electromagnetism instead, giving her a physical body that could actually take damage so she could participate in fights "properly." Her magic also became more water and ice focused, limiting her capabilities. This version of her is B tier. The "anti-cheat" version isn't really worth ranking.[/hider][/hider]
[hider=A Tier]Characters in A tier are borderline superheroes. In terms of power level and theatrics, imagine Devil May Cry's cutscenes. They won't win any wars by themselves, but they can probably solo carry a minor boss fight or side mission. A comfy spot for combat-focused anime protagonists.
[hider=Sabrina Gronchi][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/sample/28/7b/__original_drawn_by_guweiz__sample-287b035954fab842d45a78673a12f83b.jpg[/img]

Character Sheet: None yet

OoC Notes: An heir to a mafia boss, and a skilled assassin. Has a Yakuza-inspired, superpowered "fighting style" called Smoking Gun. Wields dual pistols and disappears like a shinobi when firing. Her human fragility ultimately keeps her in A tier, though. As you can imagine, she has a tragic backstory, and complex emotions about it that she buries along with the bodies. There was some kind of incident, and the result is that she's stuck training the newbies. Gross. Ultimately, she betrays her father's organization when they get a bit too involved in her love life. That is, she discovers that her lover has ties to their enemies, by way of them ordering her to kidnap them. She's sick and tired of her father taking away everything she loves, though, so she "kidnaps" them for their own safety. A girl's gotta do what she's gotta do.[/hider]
[hider="Rika" Simonova][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/original/be/49/__original_drawn_by_shiomachi__be49ae9763f6f5fbc803dbf09519beb9.png[/img]

Character Sheet: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5453800

OoC Notes: No relation to Frederica Simonova, I'm just creatively bankrupt when it comes to naming characters. Rika is a one-armed Russian girl living in Tokyo, so she's pretty out of place in-character as well. She has something called a "Shadow Contract" with Azazel, scapegoat and fallen angel of Book of Enoch infamy. As for why someone would voluntarily enter into such a thing, she's on the hunt for a high-level demon that massacred most of her friends and neighbors and disabled both her mom and herself. Despite the dramatic backstory and goth vibe, she's only creepy when she's in battle, tanking the enemies like a chew toy and transferring the damage back to them with curses. Outside of battle, she's downright chipper and friendly to a fault. She's a "Tonka tough" girl who's kinda awkward and dorky, with low self-confidence.[/hider]
[hider=Frederica Simonova][img]https://i.imgur.com/0t70Ynh.png[/img]

Character Sheet: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5292305

OoC Notes: Yup, I tried my hand at being an anime protagonist with this one. Unfortunately, I was simply way too ambitious with my concept for the RP. I made an attempt to devise my own combat system and it became pretty obvious during the very first fight that it was broken on a fundamental level, and I simply didn't have the time at that stage of my life to actually sit down and fix it. My process of doing a boss fight with dice rolls on Discord and then later writing posts about them on the RPG forum was also unwieldy and redundant. Nobody opted to actually do the latter part, and for that matter, nobody ever asked me if the RP was still going. It instantly and quietly died as soon as the first boss was defeated, with everyone collectively assuming that nobody else was interested in continuing. The server's still up today, as there's still important lore stored there and I do hope to someday revive the concept when I have the time. Unfortunately, I still don't. ...Oh yeah, the character. She sure exists. I actually do like her, though she clings tightly to shounen anime tropes. Unabashedly good, big on food, goofy and loud, feels like she has to be the strongest to be a good leader. Characters like that are, to me, like water—tasteless but necessary. I had fun playing her, despite generally preferring more complex characters with less straightforward motivations. If I ever revive the RP, it'll be my [i]third[/i] attempt at using "corrupt-a-wish" as a character ability prompt, so you know it'll work, right?[/hider][/hider]
[hider=S Tier]Characters in S tier are highly coveted warriors who can easily dominate battlefields by themselves. Think Dynasty Warriors.
[hider=Anangikwe Böskr][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/sample/aa/07/__original_drawn_by_sho_sumika__sample-aa079ef0421fb7509680feda1604d144.jpg[/img]

Character Sheet: None yet

OoC Notes: A spiritual medium with the rare ability to see spirits with the naked eye—the first to appear with the gift in 200 years. This power can't be allowed to fall into the "wrong" hands, so her marriage is arranged accordingly, but it doesn't quite go as planned. The girl has an unassuming appearance, but don't be fooled: the spirits love her, and mischievously conspire to help her in ways that require comical levels of foresight. Basically, she's the "lucky" character in a slapstick comedy. That's not an exaggeration. It's... it's literally true. Her RP is a slapstick romcom. Honestly, it was one of my weirder ideas. As for personality, the girl is an unmitigated disaster. Airheaded, clumsy and forgetful—at least when it comes to "things." When it comes to people, she's thoughtful, sweet, and kind. She's the "unreliable older sister" trope turned up to 11. Not amazingly original, I'll admit, but tropes are fun to play with sometimes.[/hider]
[hider=Cynthia Schovajsa][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/sample/3c/ac/__original_drawn_by_koonsane__sample-3cac66f7c340c8c75969cff42dff92ad.jpg[/img]

Character Sheet: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5454574

OoC Notes: What do you get when your reptilian overlords merge their DNA with those of apex human specimens? You get hybrids who are strong enough to kill off the former and emotionally manipulable enough to be convinced by the latter to betray their parent species and run them into extinction. Then, the humans start calling [i]you[/i] reptilian, as though you were the same thing. How rude. The history of Cynthia's race may be mired in conflict and tragedy, but you won't hear her complain about it. It's made her [i]strong[/i]. She occupies an unofficial but nonetheless respected title of "War Queen." The only authority it offers her is to press prisoners into service in the Great War, but it also drew the attention of the god of war, who chose her as his champion to save the multiverse from a mysterious new threat. It's given her no small amount of infamy, and many think she holds a secret ambition to become Queen. No. She'll settle for nothing less than to be Emperor of her home world, and if she can manage it, she'll claim the throne and title of goddess of war for herself. That's much cooler than being Queen and having to listen to political prattle. She'd rather not have to debate. She has an... embarrassing speech impediment.[/hider][/hider]
[hider=X Tier]Characters in X tier are extremely overpowered monstrosities who could single-handedly wage war against an entire solar system of united military might. Outside of multiverse RPs, this tier is reserved for major NPCs, boss fights, and non-serious characters only.

[hider=Baba Yaga (Kali)][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/original/ac/34/__original_drawn_by_tamu_tamurarucaffe1226__ac34b7f44ee72a5dd531b46ac38d1e55.jpg[/img]

Character Sheet: None, yet

OoC Notes: An immortal witch who has lived some 21[s],000[/s] years or something. The weird hat with eye holes is called the Stargazer, and looking through it gives her infinite remote viewing of anywhere across space and time, provided it's a place that exists sometime between the creation of magic and the heat death of the magisphere. At that point, does the limitation even [i]matter?[/i] Sure, she could conquer the kingdom if she wanted to, but why bother with that when there's research to be done? Immortality can always be sweeter. Like eternal beauty that doesn't rely on a constant supply of magic, for example. That's pretty high on her list. Those damn humans are a pain though, so she hides away in the Impenetrable Bog, surrounded by magical creatures who will do her bidding. She's also the only human to ever perform a hero's summoning by herself, which also makes her the only character I've made whose [i]sideshow antics[/i] created an entire RP.[/hider]
[hider=Ba'al-Kirin][img]https://i.imgur.com/r3ZkTDJ.jpg[/img]

Character Sheet: Lost to the cringevoid

OoC Notes: A being known as a dream demon, her entire existence is composed entirely of electrical signals. Because of this, she can easily transport herself just about anywhere in any technologically advanced world instantaneously. She can also travel along the thoughts that any two people have about each other, warping from one sentient being to another, because why not? Mind control is also not outside her grasp. Her body cannot be harmed by physical means; she's vulnerable only to magic that affects electrical signals, which she's also a master of. It'd be a real shame if any characters more skilled than her in those arts ever existed. Fortunately, a goddess of life and love basically blackmailed her into joining the good guys, so at least she's tentatively benevolent. Really though, she already [i]has[/i] goddess-level power. She also puppeteers a small army of giant mechas that were built [i]specifically[/i] to destroy demons. Irony's a bitch, huh?[/hider]
[hider=Yem'eht][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/original/11/24/__add_and_diabolic_esper_elsword_drawn_by_jtlo123412__112457daa50be3bd3c021c33903a807d.png[/img]

Character Sheet: Lost to the cringevoid

OoC Notes: A being called a quasi-demon, their body is made entirely of metals. Even their blood is silver and runs like mercury, and destroys organic matter anywhere it is spilled, turning battlefields into wastelands. Their signature ability also drains life force and converts it into mana for use with their magic, most of which is oddly defensive. Organic beings simply don't stand a chance against them unless they can nullify this drain in some way. Even then, their barrier abilities are overpowered. You might think [i]some[/i] of this may be excusable; it's clearly just a boss fight, right? Nope, they were a protagonist. In my defense, being overpowered was basically required for self-defense back then. Moderators on the forum I played them on were like parental figures in most JRPGs. They were simply nowhere to be found.[/hider][/hider]
[hider=Ω Tier]Multiverse-ending threats, these were used as main villains in stories with protagonists in S or X Tier, or to nuke players who were bad actors during my moderator days on various forums (different usernames, so don't go looking). These were comically overpowered, but taken seriously in-universe.

[hider=U̮͕̝̗͇̮̘̓͋ͨͭ͆ͥ͝͞n̺̻̩̮̙̲͙̱̤̋́ͣ̿͑͠ḇ̴͉̼̟̠̗̠͖̰̔̈́̇̈́ǒ̡͎̙̬̞̌ͧͣ̀̄̅u̷͍̟͙̩̩͛ͫ̄ͧͮ̔̍̄͟n̶̴͔̱̫̥̺̱̺̏̃̿ͪd̡͖̝͍͚̯̰̹ͦͭͪ̃͂͑̌][img]https://cdn.donmai.us/original/37/c0/__original_drawn_by_kahadu_kawazu__37c0ea009864925b29bb2d93a5cfaed3.jpg[/img]

Character Sheet: Lost to the cringevoid

OoC Notes: The gods who wrote the laws of nature exist on a plane beyond that of mere mortals. Residing outside the bounds of linear time, they are not limited by 3 dimensions. They appear all-powerful, but are they? What if something existed beyond the sight of the gods? While other gods sought to secure their immortality by binding themselves to their own laws and concepts they deemed irrevocable, such as love, war, or time itself, Unbound sought instead to peer behind the veil of the gods' own simulated reality. Would she find an all-powerful "One God" who created the rest? Would she discover absolute power, or infinite wisdom? No. She found nothing but an endless abyss, and remained trapped there for millennia until another foolish god also sought to peer into the abyss and sate their lust for [i]more[/i]. Upon being released, she waged a brutal war against the gods, who had forgotten her name and history, with a primordial magic lost to time that drove them mad and caused them to destroy their own creations. She turned mortals and the gods against one another and aided the mortals from behind the scenes, aiming to destroy all gods and abolish immortality itself, believing it to be an affront upon the face of creation. Her own path to immortality had driven her mad... Whoops, I think I took this entry too seriously for a moment there. All of this backstory is new and exciting stuff, but truthfully, the character has existed for far longer and in far cringier iterations. Basically, she was a goddess of chaos and entropy who could do anything. Her posts abused bbcode and were very "meta" about the whole "outside of our simulated reality" thing. Entire attacks were noped out of existence by quoting them and putting them in a spoiler tag with strike-through. It could have been a cool idea if I'd had the storytelling chops back then. Maybe someday she'll be given the justice she deserves.[/hider][/hider]