Characters that have been: Siege

My hero for today is one by the name of Siege. He is one of the longest running characters I have ever played, rivaled only by Alto.

The Year was 1998. My friend had recently bought StarCraft, and I was playing 7th Legion. As with most of our geeky hobbies at the time, these were included in the characters that we were playing in other games. My friend decided that he wanted to make a protoss for his new character. I decided on a super soldier. I designed his armor heavily off of the 7th Legion soldiers, with a few pieces taken from a 40K Eldar Avatar. His name Siege came from the siege tanks in StarCraft.The idea was simple at first. He was a genetically engineered super soldier with the ability to control the trajectory of his bullets, even moving them after they had been fired. He had two assault shotguns that fired plasma charged diamond shards, yeah expensive. The first time I played Siege I fought my friend’s protoss. Two controlled shots later, and said protoss found himself with diamond shards tearing through his thin waist. My friend’s character never made another appearance, and I went on to continue using Siege.

During the years he became part of the watcher's council (a group made up of other characters of mine) and was one of the watchers for the gateway of skill.

in 2004 I moved Siege to Cybercon and The Keep. His real name was Seth, with Siege being a code name: Second Inception Engineered Genetic Experiment (I needed to match the letters ok). Siege started off as a pretty laid back character. Like most of mine, he was relaxed and liked to make jokes. His story began to flesh out more as he interacted with other characters in more than just combat. He was bitten by a vampire, the first time I started to deal with ‘hunger’ in my characters. He fell in love with a different vampire, getting more involved in other people’s stories. They ended up engaged, but real life scheduling led to the two characters drifting apart.

One of the most important changes was when Siege gained to ability to incorporate genetics from other lifeforms he encountered. This was the beginning of his rise to power. He eventually incorporated so many different traits that he had an answer for everything. Where most of my characters have been cybernetics heavy, Siege and his relatives have relied heavily on bio-technology.

At one point he lost a fight and was sucked into the void by the gods of chaos, the Warhammer 40k versions at the time. He ended up getting split into a spirit form and a physical form. These two forms were forced to fight each other. I played on the Seth name and made him an aspect of Chaos. He then became the god of Chaos when his two forms merged again. He changed from being just a vampire to a creature that was more. As I put it during RP:

“He was a drinker of blood, a drainer of years and eater of sins, a consumer of souls and a devourer of bodies. When he consumed a victim he consumed them wholly, leaving nothing of their being on this or any plane of existence.”

Seth became one of the darkest characters I have played consistently. His morality was extremely twisted, due in large part to the chaotic influence and his hunger. He would often play knight in shining armor to a damsel in distress, only to turn around and eat a similar damsel the same day. He was staunchly loyal to those he deemed as peers, but treated everyone else as playthings unless they just happened to catch him in the right mood. He randomly made friends, when he would have been attacking the same person on any other day.

His story became extremely complicated, in large part due to people getting heavily involved and then disappearing from the RP. I had to rewrite his background several times trying to consolidate what had happened before with what was currently going on.

He had several children, most of them evil. Eventually a few of those people he deemed as peers started to curb his chaotic nature. He made real friends, and had actual relationships. As he was becoming more humane, his oldest son took the opportunity to strike and steal the chaos mantle. Seth was left once more as a genetically engineered soldier, and no longer the god of chaos.

He eventually retired to a fringe world to live out his days with the woman he loved. He would no longer be directly involved in events, but he occasionally passed down advice and training to family and other seekers.

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