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One Shots: Welcome to character week!

As always, Monday kicks off a brand-new theme here on One Shots! We're taking a look at your favorite characters, beginning with reader Teranu:

Setsujinneko is the product of excessive dabbling in Champions Online's remarkably robust character creator. She's a flat-chested, gun-toting, naked, furry catgirl - and she's one of the less out-there characters I've made in the game! (Others include a tattooed demon-like little girl with super strength that fights in her skivvies, the "creator" of Setsujinneko who turned herself into a part-wolf anthromorph and fights with a tech-bow, and a magician lady cursed into the form of a bipedal jackal with goat legs and bull horns.)

Though she looks superficially cute, I tend to think of her as a hard-nosed, humorless mercenary who only takes advantage of her preternatural feline reflexes and flexibility -- as well as the tech provided by the aforementioned wolf-girl -- to more easily attain what she wants. And what she wants, naturally, is moolah. She's also genre-savvy and makes sure to side herself with whomever is most likely to make it out of a given encounter alive, and with their freedoms intact.

I absolutely love the fact that the game gives me the ability to create such outrageously outlandish character designs -- the kind of stuff you'd never, ever see in an actual comic book (or anything, really) because it's just too niche or unmarketable. I hope to see plenty of MMOs in the future follow suit -- maybe not quite as ridiculously variable, but at least giving me the options I need to create characters that no developer would risk having as a major part of the story.

We've taken a look at all of your accessories over the past weeks on One Shots: weapons, armor, mounts, and pets, but now it's time to turn the spotlight on the star of the show. We want to see you -- well, your character. Snap a screenshot of your favorite character in your favorite MMO. Let us know about him or her by sending the screenshot, your name, and some information about the character to oneshots@massively.com, and we'll feature it here on One Shots!
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