Mostly a joke thread but I thought it might be interesting to see the thought process and inspiration behind certain characters. I'll go first as an example of what I mean.
Shannon: Semi based off Positron from the mmorpg, City of Heroes. The game was getting less fun for me and I still liked Shannon and wanted to be able to play her in more depth and not just on an rpg server. So I ventured back into the world of IRC and searched out a superheroish genre rather than fantasy. She went through a massive overhaul going from lab accident to mutant to fit her into Cobalt's theme.
Zamora: She was going to be a batty looking mutant with sonic powers, but on the day I started typing her I was beaten to the concept. Instead of scrapping Zammy I designed her with the most outrageous powers I could think of that had not been chosen.
Kenneth: Character from Shannon's background I fleshed out for fun. He deserves better :/
Edmund: Felt I needed a baddie on my repertoire, and the result was Pathogen. Loosely based on a combination of two characters from a book series I was reading at the time, though the disease affected magic users and not supers.
Shandi: She's a funny one. Shandi was originally an altered Shannon I made to play in a Harry Potter themed channel. She drifted away from her source and became her own person. I then got bit by the mutant idea bug once again and remade her into a mutant.
Ember: Created on a whim and want to play one of my oldest characters. The original Ember was a runt of a dragonette who adored shoulders.
Kevin: I was browsing around on comicvine and came across a little known Spider-Man villain named The Squid. I thought his appearance was a perfect concept of such a radical alteration that would be great for the Pathogen storyline. He was originally going to be a one-shot NPC bad guy named Dwight. I switched his name with another NPC baddie and decided to change his alignment to a good guy. I then got attached to him and voila! The squidman you all know and love <3
Julie: Still not sure what I was thinking when I made her. In some ways she has the soul of my first attempt of a bad girl character, a metamorph named Cynthia.
JJ: Not originally my idea but the very rarest of the rare. A character earned via RP. I've since grown attached to him <3
Zachary: Data about this mutant is completely confidential. So much in fact that not even Sho knows what he is.