LAST UPDATED: April 15th
Basic idea behind this is to list PotDers, in alphabetic order, and give a summary of their characters, mainly as a means to easily write them, and ideas about them. I'm starting off small now, will get more descriptive. Some of the older posters are their original descriptions from my text file. Suggestions welcome. I suppose this could be a sticky too... I don't know.
And I know I forgot a lot of people, whatever. That's why everyone else is here.
Aburnett - A troll, but kind of baseless. Like a villain who comes up with evil schemes but doesn't think about if the scheme would even apply(something like, "Mwa hahaha! I'll lower the sea level! Harbors around the world will become dry! My revenge against the Netherlands will be complete!"
Ail(deceased) - Lunatic. Nationalistic. Paranoid. Fear-monger. Really over the top. Takes herself way too seriously, actually takes everything too seriously. Ultra competitive. Motherly. Good intentions, but comes off like a deranged and comically bad movie villain. Claims she can cast magick, but doesn't actually believe it... just uses it as a means to feel superior, like she's the member of a super special club. Calls all her friends by their first names.
Alice_19th - Typical college floozy. There's a bit of a "repressed high schooler being exposed to college and easily succumbing to its ills" in her.
AlteredBeast - Pothead. Hedonist. Tries to better himself, but lacks the willpower. A little wacky. Has an "evil twin" (UnABe) and a secret identity (Captain PotD), though both those jokes might be obsolete now. Has a penchant for banana bread and trapping people in his anus.
AngusYoung93 - A bit of a God-hater. Loser with women. Shares Ryuhi's insane Fallout fetish.
Billy Joel(honorary PotDer) - Drunkard. Racist. Just a terrible human being. Has a special connection with BTB, maybe his dad?
Blight family - Guy who acts mean, but he secretly wants everyone's affections. I imagine he would shove someone into a puddle of mud, and then scamper to his cabin and write about if his action would get people to like him.
BTB - Drunkard, talks about his personal life way too much. Misogynist. Oblivious to any self faults. Giant wuss, but talks big. May be a repressed homosexual, definitely some sort of psychological issue. Has clear Oedipal issues, and actually fits some of the criteria for pedophilia, at least as far as PO is concerned.
Breasticle - I think he's a troll. So I don't know if he should even be included.
Darmikau(also known as RedFox and Sir Yiffsalot) - Desperately craves recognition. Furball. God-hater. Drama queen. Takes PotD a little too seriously, a wannabe-elitist. Hates Foxx with the burning passion of a thousand suns, which, of course, reveals the fact that he probably wants to fuck her while they're both wearing bunny suits.
Dragon Kazul - Asexual. A little hokey.
Foxxbox - Bossy mother vibe to her. Goes on crusades for the truth. A little full of herself, likes to think the respect PotD affords her is because of her talents and not because she has big tits.
Gamerunknown - God-hater. Misses the point a lot. Tries hard, but fails. Young, finding his way. Has recently started to view himself as a scholar and master debater, though makes any number of elementary logic mistakes, and is occasionally incoherent.
Jimbo Jones - Obnoxious. A bit of a paladin. Definitely a "you go girl" mentality to him -- I called him a "walking fat chick convention" for a reason; but I suppose "walking pack of fat chicks" would be more accurate.
Korruptor - I'm not doing the terrorist gimmick. It's too dumb and would be a damn homage to the dork. Although, maybe I could mock the dumb gimmick in some way. (PO NOTE: Could always have him plant his C4 in the background of various scenes, only for some "newbie" character to ask about it, and one of the established characters mention that it's just Play-Doh, effectively emphasizing his inherent uselessness. On the other hand, he's sort of dropped that gimmick lately, so it might not be worth dealing with at all)
Kure - Trouble-maker, but dorky. Thinks he's clever but really isn't. (PO NOTE: I'd agree - definitely the sort of person who considers himself an villainous mastermind, but who is grade school evil at best. Might even be funny to have him dress up like an old-school silent film villain with curly moustache and black cape, only to have him attempt incredibly pointless pranks that are barely annoying, let alone evil. He, of course, acts as if everything he does is amazing. Though this might be too much of a rip-off of the Professor Chaos concept from South Park...)
Leo0820 - I've always imagined him having webbed toes, for some odd reason. Does a lot of jokes that no one gets. (PO NOTE: I've always sort of seen him as being the real life version of my own exaggerated Professor PotD joke account - a vaguely confused scholar from a more civilized time, who tends more towards Oscar Wilde in his influence than the Three Stooges - and thus, tends to confuse the more primal PotDers. Almost like a Dr. Watson sort of character, with Holmes nowhere to be found. Also, mutton-chops. Must have mutton-chops.)
LightHound - Retarded?
Lord_Kimbo - Retarded?
Magus 10 - Talks about his personal life. Oblivious to his own faults. Girly. Paladin-type. A loser, but pretty arrogant about things, changes his perspectives on things to constitute such arrogance(for example, if he isn't getting laid, he'll claim he's waiting for marriage and that other people are sexless pigs). Personal, yet sort of distant... like he's talking at you and not to you. Somewhat of a God-hater.
Monkey26something - There's some sort of weird wannabe-archivist thing to him. Really wants to be a part of PotD or something. I don't know.
Natemac - Bigot. Really shallow and extreme. All attitude, no thought. (PO NOTE: Much like many others before him, tends to enjoy getting involved in the various debate topics that crop up, clinging desperately and confidently to his point-of-view, without any substantial evidence to really back anything up.)
nudojudo - Aloof. Acts like he's better than everyone else. A little weird, like he's been trapped in a basement for too long. I have no idea why his belly is so big. Aggressive, but backs down quickly like a pansy coward. Something weird going on with him and PO. Even though he wears the ninja mask and has "judo" in his name, I'd like to think that he doesn't really know any martial arts skills and is generally useless. Just stands around and comments on things, kinda like a wife or girlfriend when you're doing manly work("Oh, you're using THAT hammer? Why not the other one?"; "It's been 15 minutes already, I thought you would've dug a deeper ditch by now."). (PO NOTE: To go with the view some people on PotD seem to have, it might almost be worth having him appear and disappear like a ninja - just sort of appearing out of nowhere to make a pithy comment, before disappearing again. Maybe playing up the "here and never seen again scenery" idea mentioned in the other topic, as he slips into various trap doors, secret panels, and other passageways that no one else seems to ever find. Maybe he has smoke bombs and does the cliched ninja vanish. Or maybe he just moves off the edge of frame and vanishes without explanation or attention called to it, with the implication that he might still be there the whole time, just out of shot)
omgarm - Very European. Perhaps SO European that he tries to be gay, but he's really 100% straight, as if somehow by not being gay he's violating Europe's pompous tolerance(imagine if some hippies were angry that their son didn't end up gay, that they didn't have a chance to prove that they were supportive of alternative lifestyles, so they end up disowning him anyway).
Orochi Roll(also known as Protect) - (PO NOTE: I can't think of him being notable for ANYTHING other than his odd "(possibly offensive)" topics... which I can only think of portraying as having him just look slightly creepy, walking up to total strangers at random times, asking strange questions. Sort of like the SNL Harry Caray bits, except less hyper and insane, and just more creepy. Like kid-toucher/flasher creepy)
ParanoidObsessive - Windbag. Miserly. Gothy. Pompous, yet there's a puppy-like craving for attention/appreciation/acknowledgement... like, you could imagine him wagging his tail in happiness when someone acknowledges that he's smart. That was basically it, until I saw Wydrah's Magnificent Seven and the hoverchair inspired me. See, I once contended that no one understands what PO is saying and that they only think he's smart becuase his posts are so long. So the idea is that he makes these impressive inventions that really don't do anything, yet everyone sincerely thinks that they work and that PO is a genius. For example, his hoverchair is just a normal chair that he lifts off the ground with his legs, and makes this "Woozsh woozsh woozsh" sound as he pretends to hover around; and everyone else just marvels at this even though his Goddamned feet are touching the ground. (PO NOTES: Hey... ;_;)
(MORE SERIOUS PO NOTE: I don't think anyone other than you would consider me to be GOTHY, though I really can't argue with most of the rest. Feel free to take any piece of dialog from PO and put random words from it through a thesaurus, picking the longest possible word choice in any given situation. NEVER say "hot" when you could say "sweltering". Never say "cute" when you could say "devestatingly attractive" - and then make some reference to Adonis or Aphrodite or something (like THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su9daHxMX_c ). And so on. Could easily play off the PotD perception that PO is like 117 years old, and have him all old and gnarled, but even if you don't, the personality should be that of some old bastard who fought in The War (YOU know the one), and who is crotchety, curmudgeony, and generally knows that everything was better in the Old Days, and everything that's wrong with the world is the fault of these stupid, lazy kids. Also, keep off my damned grass. But, to go with the old motif, trailing off into various long-winded stories that all start with "In my day" or "When I was younger" fit as well. Sadly.)
ParanoidObsessive's Time-battling Sons - They'll probably just be referred to by their names. Since they're coming from alternate universes, they should have different names. There's at least two versions of his son: A good version that is a successful inventor in his own time, inventing things like genetic therapy to give women larger boobs with longer-lasting perkiness. And a bad version, who is probably a criminal mastermind or something. The good versions of his son all have goatees, a reverse of the general sci-fi scenario where evil versions have facial hair, implying that PO is inherently evil. (PO NOTE: My mother would agree. Also, if you're looking for names, try something horrific and classical - I've said for years that if I ever had kids, I'd give them names like "Mervin" or something worse (like Sophocles or something), solely so that they'd have worse childhoods than I did. Though this is assuming, of course, that in your reality, PO was allowed to name his kids in the first place, since you're basically playing me up as being secretly whipped. Incidentally, if she DID get to pick their names, there's a fair chance one of them might wind up being named Trevor. Or Simon. Or Heinrich.)
PretzelMe - Woman. Attention whore. I get a sense that she flirts with a lot of the desperate PotDers, but is never really that interested. Basically, your typical evil woman. But she's young, so she's a blossoming typical evil woman. Probably needs to need have her head cut off to be killed.
Seabutcher - A bit of a loser. A little god-hate mixed in there. Very angsty with women. Oh, hey ANOTHER god-hating loser.
SimuLord - Old. Right-wing lunatic. Braggart. Really into tactical games. There's a wannabe-PO vibe to him; occasionally(not really anymore) tries to butt in on Nudo's and PO's gay relationship. Really, really, really oversells his achievements. (PO NOTE: Part of the reason why that one aspect of his personality has died down as of late probably has less to do with his growth as a person, and far more to do with the fact that the other two people don't post together as much as they used to (at least, not on PotD), and PO's relative absence (comparatively speaking) has effectively opened the door for him to consider himself the "winner" in any such battle over who gets to be the official "intellectual" of PotD)
Slurpee Man - Kind of trollish now. Strong and buff, but he's a little on the pudgy side. A teensy bit of paladin in him.
SpeedDemon20 - God damn fucking creep. Obsesses over women, no matter how obscure they may be. Cheerful, to a point, sometimes like a PAX television show.... but because he's a paladin, he takes the Internet a little too seriously and can get pissy.
SpeeDDemonRandomNumbers - Very similar to the other SpeedDemon. More of a drama queen vibe to him.
Syco - A cross between Eminem and Opie. Yeah, that's it. Desperately craves recognition and authority. Aggressive, as if he's overcompensating for feeling of inadequacies. Makes fun of people for things he's guilty of. But he never learns. Prime candidate for one of those over-the-top self-realization monologues while sitting at a bar, "Maybe... maybe I'm just not the man who I thought I was. I hurt inside. I hurt. But sometimes... sometimes you just have to tuck that hurt inside and live for the next day." And the best part is that after the monologue, he'll act like the speech never happened... so I can repeat the ridiculous speech as many times as I want. (PO NOTE: As part of his MO, he seems to feel the need to latch onto an "enemy" against which he can joust to prove his awesomeness - with Ail, he probably succeeded as a third-tier annoyance (I doubt she would ever have listed him in her top 10 most hated PotDers at any point, if he was on her radar at all), though to hear him tell it, he was probably nearly single-handedly responsible for shattering her will and driving her away from PotD. Apparently toyed with casting PO into the role of his villain at one point, only to be somewhat thwarted by PO's general lack of caring (though he still likes to play the martyr when he can. Probably somewhat pointless, but it's worth noting that part of the reason why he likely formed his own spin-off was because most of Paradiso dislikes him - though even if this wasn't the case, he might have formed a spin-off anyway just so he could feel the glorious rush of power that comes from owning a free Invision board.)
TerraIce - I don't know, she's ending up kinda normal. We might have to introduce some amphetamines into her system.
TheDarkCrusader - He's kinda like Monkey, in the sense that he's trying really hard to fit in. Seems to suck up to the older posters. (PO NOTE: Or, at the very least, certain older PotDers. Personally, I wonder if the fact that he's never getting my AIM gnaws at him at night, because that would bring me a measure of joy.)
Timmy Duncan - Mexican. Very evasive. I might exclude the Mexican thing because I think I'm the only one who knows that about him. Sports nut. (PO NOTE: If you only went with what people know about him, you'd be left with a name and the uncanny ability to get the 500th post in 500 topics. Might be worth just basing his appearance on the actual basketball player, and treating him as if he IS the basketball player in question.)
Triforce Wisdom - See TerraIce. Sometimes he's a little too serious. (PO NOTE: Recently found out he's not a native English speaker, which explains a few things (and the lack of humor at times can be explained by the fact that he's apparently German, and everyone knows Germans lack souls). There's definitely a bit of the Paladin to him (though I'm tempted to call his version of it The Templar, because it doesn't quite fit the traditional stereotype), but he definitely tries to be intelligent and even-handed in his posts.)
Wario vs Moo Chicken - He's making a comeback, right? Unfortunately, he's kinda normal now, he used to be a super stupid kid; so stupid that everyone thought he was a joke account. Burgeoning singer/songwriter. (PO NOTE: As many people predicted, the rampant retard personality was more or less just as mask (a la Oreon), and once he got bored and people stopped paying attention to his hijinks, he basically dropped the mask and started acting like a fairly normal teenager. Paradiso doesn't hate him nearly as much now, but that also means he's much more boring.)
WisePitFighter - Furry. Ridiculously elevated opinion about himself... which could be said about most people on this list. Appears to be the Man in his relationship with Darmikau. (PO NOTE: Like a few other PotDers, in that his personality now is somewhat different than it was when he first appeared - either his initial timidness stemmed from being new to PotD and not really wanting to unleash the full force of his personality until he had "tenure", or he was a fairly nonedescript personality that was turned into a raging tool by the Internet, or life in general. Like gamerunknown, seems to be of the opinion that PO's relative abandonment of the debate arena in PotD means that a master debater is obligated to take his place - and clearly has designs on the position. Tends to be more coherent than gamerunknown, but also resorts to personal attacks much faster.)
Wydrah - Harbors a bitterness towards Ail that may mask a playground crush for her. (PO NOTE: May? Almost certainly does.) But when Ail isn't around, he's generally playful in a really gay way (seriously gay, not lame gay). In episodes where he's directly conflicting with Ail, he comes off as very light-hearted, mostly meant to contrast with Ail's super seriousness. (Oddly enough for someone who is self-professed to be more or less afraid of social situations or the outside in general, he doesn't spend even as remotely as much time online now as he used to, not even on his own board (which he turned over to Frozen and dot months ago). When he DOES show up, the topics tend to be some of the gayest things you'll ever see. And don't forget, there's definitely a gay man-crush on nudo vibe there - even his Magnificent Seven picture had nudo in bondage gear.)
Zangalus - Fat. Has the beginning of a skullet. I think he's in his late 20s and he already looks 40. Trollish, but there's some sort of compensation behind it... like he's not trolling to piss people off, but trolling to make himself feel better. (PO NOTE: To build on the last part, it's almost as if he fully realizes just how pathetic his life is, but is trying (and failing) to lie to himself to make it seem better. His marriage to Moonjay goes hand-in-hand with this, playing up as totally awesome what many PotDers would find somewhat icky. Speaking of Moonjay, the fact that Zang is always around now while she seems to be completely missing makes me wonder if they broke up. Or if he killed her.)
Zikten - Paladin. Loser. God-lover. Obtuse... like really, really, really obtuse; things just FLY over his head.
Zucafa - Work-out fiend. Very vain. Bit of a drunkard. Sports nut. (PO NOTE: Immensely enjoys the fact that PO is a Redskin's fan.)