Y'know what, I'll just add to this post with wikicrap links later tommorow and see how big it gets.

[gizzybiscuits]

Have a Night elf Dk who's the only one to know this type of draining magic evar
A guy who survives an attack by Sylvanas and a heap of other Forsaken despite being shot by arrows twice by running around and dodging (And holy crap is it long),
A character who started teaching themself to kill things at 10 and should of been friggin' hung already,

Comments

[mmyesidosay]

Im rather high atm, so this was way funnier to me than it should have been. I lovelovelove the 2nd one - actually read it all, and hot damn that was a mess

[blazecheetah]

1. "Drakthuran Shadowbane has close to no memories of his previous life" Why is this such a common theme? Did your DK die from blunt force trauma to the head and have brain damage? Come on, wasn't part of the whole "DK's who broke free and are super mad at Arthas now" thing that they remembered themselves and what he'd done to them? If you don't remember your past then what's to stop you from just siding with him again once you've been 'freed'. Ugh.

2. Tolerated it up until Scarlet Crusade. I was going to skim the rest of it but what the butt it's long.

3. I'm sure a 10 year old would be able to secretly train itself to steal and kill people without getting caught. Right.

4. Just. Wat.

5. Experiment baby dropped out of a plane, found and raised by a troll who gives her ~SPECIAL POWERS~? No thanks.

6. I don't.....really know what to say about this one either. So....wat.

I'm glad I found this comm, it makes me feel so much better about some of the sue-ish things I have for my characters. Ugh. lol

[blazecheetah]

whoops I missed the high elf

but it's a teenage high elf, that's bad enough isn't it?

[rhianyablack]

I agree with you on the first one (and all the others, but the first one stands out the most). Next to Omgsuperspeshuleyepatches, the amnesia is the most annoying.

All three of my DK's remember pretty vividly what was done to them to make them dead in the first place. All three of them take varying degrees of 'pissed off' in regards to it. All three of them want Arthas' head on a platter (one of them is close to getting that).

Every single time I come across one of these idiots who "magically can't remember what happened", yet remember shit from prior events in their life, it makes me want to /facedesk so hard I get a J stuck in my forehead.

[blazecheetah]

Yeah man, my nelf DK would be more than happy to cleave Arthas in half. My belf one too, but he's uh, a lot less likely to do it. He's gotten back too much of his lax nature, and meeting back up with his lazy ass friend only gave him a +20 to laziness so....he'll help out but he's not doing anything too difficult. lol

[izhara]

I like how half of the names look like they were ripped from Lord of the Rings, the other half are gloriously Weebalicious, and then there's the one guy with the alphabet soup title and faux-Irish/Scottish (forgive me, I've got genes from both sides and I get confused as to which naming conventions go to which side) last name who, of course, takes two arrows from one of the world's greatest archers and can still run and dodge like a rogue popping evasion while on enough PCP to drop a horse.

[izhara]

Alphabet soup name, I mean.

[foolishtyphron]

I'm surprised nobodies taken "Celebrindal" anywhere.

[rhianyablack]

One of the guys on my server I know, has that as his last name. -.- Brb, going to go give him shit.

[foolishtyphron]

2) Valcore's Neck muscle looks like it'd fuckin' hurt.

6) You're a human.

[izhara]

2) Oh man, I totally just realized Valcore's player has to be like thirteen, tops. Hence why his backstory reads like a really, really bad Chuck Norris wankfilm. I DID THIS AWESOME THING, THEN, THEN, I DID THIS ONE. AND THIS ONE TOO. AND I DID THAT WITHOUT BREAKING A SWEAT. AND JUST BEFORE DINNER, I BROKE OUT OF A HEAVILY-GUARDED PRISON AND A CITY FULL OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD LOVE TO KILL ME AS A EFFIGY FOR GARITHOS BY WEARING CLOTHING SIZED FOR SOMEONE WITH HALF MY BODY MASS. THEN I KILLED A TON MORE PEOPLE WHILE LISTENING TO LIKIN PARK. AREN'T I AWESOME?

[foolishtyphron]

Mine reads like that too, I'm just less subtle about it.

Then again, realism is a hard concept for some to get. And that's saying something, coming from me.

[izhara]

I've got nothing against playing a badass, but when I read a backstory I don't want a string of "I DID THIS BECAUSE I'M JUST THAT DAMN AWESOME" events, if I wanted that bullshit I'd read the comics centered on Varian Chynn, talk to Garrosh more in the beta, or read a Knaak Attack. Subtlety is key, so is including the bad with the good--show the times your character didn't wear a gigantic red S on their chest and run around wearing fire truck red panties on top of their tights with some brightass yellow belt wrapped around their waist for God knows what reason. Nobody will think less of your badass for him having a few pride-crushing failures that keep him humble.

[deadborder]

Its like these guys haven't even heard of "lore" and just shove cool ideas into a randomiser and see what happens.

Also, yes, WTB less amnesiac DKs. Personally, I think a chracter coming to grips with what they had become and done would make for a great RP hook. But then, "Death Knight" and "Good RP" seems to be mutually exclusive.

[lurkythespork]

Rather, they shove the ideas into a meat grinder. They come out as lovely Mary-Suesages.

[theevil_chie]

ROFL @ "suesages"!!!