>born in a poor household, no real father to speak of >loses mother at 15 >probably abused by stepfather, runs away >worked as a lookout for mafia's runners >caught and put in orphanage >runs away and lives as homeless >signs up as a dancer for a talent contest, instead decides to sing 5 minutes before her turn >wrecks the contest wins 25k $ >close friend of Marylin Monroe >becomes one of the biggest voices in jazz >later years she suffers from crippling disease >got both her legs amputated, lived 3 years after that >on her last day, she asked to sit outside, stood there for an hour, then got back and said "I'm ready to go"
And that was Ella Motherfucking Fitzgerald for you. What are yours real life player characters?
Johannes Liechtenhaur spent most of his life traveling around Europe learning how to fight from the greatest swordsmen he could find.
Then he went home, taught a bunch of guys how to sword fight good, and gave birth to European swordsmanship as we understand it today.
Jayden Turner
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Lincoln Ramirez
Alexander Gettler >Born an Austrian Jew, immigrates to Brooklyn >Worked his way through City College to a PhD in Biochemistry >In 1918, at a time when every morgue is owned by criminals and autopsies are rarely performed, he takes a position with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner >Invented dozens of tests to isolate poisons from the human body >Modernized toxicology to prove innocence or guilt in cases that used to be impossible to solve >After losing a case in which cyanide is used as a poison, devotes years to perfecting the science of understand it >Became one of the first scientists to ever testify in court and make forensic evidence a regular part of the court system >After repeated budget cuts from crooked politicians under pressure and the onset of the great depression, continued his work for almost no pay despite having a family to support >Fights prohibition with scientific evidence, showing how the ethanol distillations people are drinking instead are poisonous >Stands against the entire automotive and petrol industry and the use of tetra-ethyl lead in leaded gasoline by publishing about and documenting just how terrible lead is for people >Works until 75 and inspects over 100,000 bodies
James Perry
>the nazi party
Nolan Morris
Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart. I can not adequately summarise what a monstrous badass this man was.
>What are yours real life player characters? tempted to say Louis Armstrong
Benjamin Flores
Sounds more like a plot-critical NPC than a PC
Daniel Morales
Beat me to it.
Do single-act guys count, or is an entire career of badassery needed?
Pic related, Lachhiman Gurung, VC, Gurkha:
Rifleman Lachhiman Gurung was manning the most forward post of his platoon which bore the brunt of an attack by at least 200 of the Japanese enemy. Twice he hurled back grenades which had fallen on his trench, but the third exploded in his right hand, blowing off his fingers, shattering his arm and severely wounding him in the face, body and right leg. His two comrades were also badly wounded but the rifleman, now alone and disregarding his wounds, loaded and fired his rifle with his left hand for four hours, calmly waiting for each attack which he met with fire at point blank range. Of the 87 enemy dead counted in the immediate vicinity of the Company locality, 31 lay in front of his section, the key to the whole position. Had the enemy succeeded in over-running and occupying Lachhiman Gurung's trench, the whole of the reverse slope position would have been completely dominated and turned. Although surrounded and cut off for three days and two nights, the unit held and smashed every attack.
Ugh, goddammit Frank, nobody cares about your tumblr account, roll a goddamn male like a normal person
Mason Anderson
Julie d'Aubigny, real life bard. >In Villeperdue, still wearing men's clothing, she was insulted by a young nobleman. They fought a duel and she drove her blade through his shoulder. The next day, she asked about his health and found out he was Louis-Joseph d'Albert Luynes, son of the Duke of Luynes. Later, one of his companions came to offer d'Albert's apologies. She went to his room and subsequently they became lovers and, later, lifelong friends. Jim Steranko, rogue and comicbook artist. >Eventually they caught me and I had to give up my guns. I had many guns. A complete arsenal. My two pearl-handled .38s, 30 pistols, and countless rifles, we had .45s and a submachine gun that shot nine millimeter parabellum shells. I carried that gun home, walking along the streets of Reading with it over my shoulders, across my back, like you carry a baseball bat when you're a kid. And nobody noticed me, I guess, 'cause they didn't stop me. I was only in jail until my trial, about a month, and they had me in solitary with a 24-hour guard because of my history as an escape artist. They knew all it would take me was three minutes and I'd be out. I was placed on probation--I was still a juvenile delinquent at the time. But I had to pay back what I had stolen, make restitution for whatever stuff I had done. It took me a couple of years to do that.
Eli Butler
Diogenes >Claimed to be a "citizen of the world" >Slept in a giant jar in the marketplace by choice >Minted obscenities into Greek currency >Walked around with a lantern during the daytime claiming he was "looking for an honest man" >Urinated on people frequently >Was offered a place as an advisor to Alexander the Great, responded by telling him "out of the way, you're blocking my sunlight"
>he noticed the location where airlines and car rental businesses, such as United Airlines and Hertz, would drop off their daily collections of money in a zip up bag and then deposit them into a drop box on the airport premises. >Using a security guard disguise he bought at a local costume shop, he put a sign over the box saying "Out of Service, Place deposits with security guard on duty" and collected money in that manner. >Later he disclosed how he could not believe this idea had actually worked, stating with some astonishment: "How can a drop box be out of service?"
Jonathan Watson
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Jonathan Baker
I'd say that Georgory Constanovich Zukov would count. >Born into a dirt poor village, his family literally didn't have a last name, Zukov was the name of the village > join the imperial army and rise to a low command position through skill >Join the reds for the civil war, going up the ranks even higher > Be sent to the east during the purge, both saving him from the paranoia and fucking DESTROYING the japanese at Khalkin Gol > be stalins fireman throughout the 2n'd world war, being sent to all the worst spots and winning >being marshall of the second strongest armed forces on earth
Colton Sanders
>wanted to be a spy and asked the british for work >they refuse >approached the nazis instead who accepted him >his mission was to set up base in London >he moved to Lisbon instead >"using a tourist's guide to Britain, reference books and magazines from the Lisbon Public Library, and newsreel reports he saw in cinemas" >"created seemingly credible reports that appeared to come from London. He claimed to be travelling around Britain and submitted his travel expenses based on fares listed in a British railway guide. A slight difficulty was that he did not understand the pre-decimal system of currency used in Britain, expressed in pounds, shillings and pence, and was unable to total his expenses. Instead, he simply itemised them, and said that he would send the total later." >creates a network of spies that work for him and all report back to the nazis, the british find out and shit their pants, start a full on spy hunt >his spy network doesn't actually exist, he made it up to seem more credible to the nazis >british finally found out about him and started cooperating >along the way he kept feeding the nazis information that was always just enough off not to be helpful or came just a little bit too late >the nazis were paying him the salary for all his 7 "agents" (his "network" consisted of 27 people in total including misc. informants), he just pocketed it >at one point tells germany that an agent has died and left behind a widow, they send him extra money as compensation >played a major part in winning the war >nazis later on awarded him a medal, never found out >the british gave him a medal too making him the only known person to receive medals from both sides of the war This motherfucker right here is Revolver Ocelot in real life, just look at his smug fucking face.
Thank you for this, holy shit. I had no idea such a man could exist.
Mason Green
Bass Reeves
>born into slavery in Crawford County, Arkansas in 1838 >During the American Civil War, escapes, "because Bass beat up George after a dispute in a card game." >fled Indian Territory and lived where he hung out with the Cherokee, Seminole, and Creek Indians >moved to Arkansas got married had 11 kids > becomes the first black deputy west of the Mississippi River after he's hired by U.S. Marshal James F. Fagan >worked for thirty-two years as a federal peace officer but is never was never wounded, despite having his hat and belt shot off on separate occasions >tracks down his own son to bring him to justice in for murder of his wife > arrested over 3,000 felons including some of the most notorious outlaws of the day like Belle Starr, the "Bandit Queen of Dallas," and notorious bank robber and murderer Bob Dozier . Has killed at least 14 outlaws >at 68, became an officer of the Muskogee, Oklahoma police department when Oklahoma became a state walking the beat with a cane and a revolver.
>Julie d'Aubigny jesus, I just read her wikipedia page. She wasn't just a real life bard, she may be the ur-bard imprinted onto our racial memory that gave rise to all subsequent bard-stereotypes that we know today.
>Eventually, she grew bored of Sérannes and became involved with a young woman. When the girl's parents put her away in the Visitandines convent in Avignon, Maupin followed, entering the convent as a postulant.
>In order to run away with her new love, she stole the body of a dead nun, placed it in the bed of her lover, and set the room on fire to cover their escape.[3] Their affair lasted for three months before the young lady returned to her family. Maupin was charged in absentia—as a male—with kidnapping, body snatching, arson, and failing to appear before the tribunal. The sentence was death by fire.
>>Fights prohibition with scientific evidence, showing how the ethanol distillations people are drinking instead are poisonous
Intentionally tainted to be poisonous by pro-prohibition government regulators.
Robert Watson
>Julie d'Aubigny Came to post her, complete bad ass. She also had herself a lesbian lover who got sent to a convent over it, so she sprung her lover and set fire to the room after leaving a stolen nun corpse in there to make it look like she died in the fire.
Dominic Howard
and totally missed someone had already mentioned the nun thing because I just searched the name once.
Brandon Price
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Aaron Baker
yep... guess we're just going to have to deal with this now
Anthony Green
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Chase Edwards
That's some mixmaxed charisma shit.
Also what the fuck kind of class-oriented lynch mob was this? >We're not racist, we just hate how uneducated blacks are! So we'll kill them all! >Oh you want to be a teacher? God bless you, nigger.
What??
Ian Torres
Prosthetic legs
Landon Perez
How do you get a belt shot off and survive?
Xavier Nguyen
It skims the side, cutting through the leather and probably fucking up your hip a little bit.
I'm sure he wasn't walking for a few weeks afterwards, unless he's literally the luckiest person in history and it managed to hit the belt but none of his flesh.
Zachary Cox
I now know why people write smut about real people.
Kevin Brooks
>"He stepped out into the open, 500 yards away, and commenced shooting with his Winchester rifle, his first bullet cut a button off my coat, and [the] second cut my bridle reign in two. I shifted my six-shooter and grabbed my Winchester and shot twice. He dropped, and when I picked him up I found that my two bullets had hit within a half-inch of each other."
he had the devils luck, the man supposedly never got hit once despite having his belt shot in two, his hat brim shot away, a button on his coat shot off, and his bridle reigns cut in half by bullets.
Christopher White
I worked in the hospital where and when she died. Met her son. Drove his classic tbird
Dylan Ross
Wait, did you steal his car?
Unless you were a valet or something, but I don't know many hospitals that have those.
Xavier Carter
>reigns
Reins. The one with a g is what royalty does while alive. Without a g is the thing you hold to control a horse.
Gavin Nelson
Valet.
Eli Lopez
Oh good. Had me worried for a second then.
Bentley Hall
She did fight three men in a rose garden because one of them saw her getting a little too touchy-feely with his paramour at a party.
Brayden Young
Wait. Wait. I got Ella Fitzgerald confused with Etta James. My bad.
BBEG confirmed. Next time yout PC's ask "Why would the locals allow an asshole king/wizard/whatever to rise to power?" Point to this fuck.
Ethan Evans
Leo Major
>Riding on truck in Netherlands, 1944 >Truck hits landmine >Wakes up in hospital with a broken back in three places, four ribs, and both ankles >Flees the hospital and back to his unit before he could be sent home >Unit about to launch operation to liberate the town of Zwolle >His squad gets sent in on a recon mission >Encounter Germans, friend dies, rest of squad runs >Continues his mission alone >Gets into the city and goes Rambo, firing his machine gun everywhere, throwing grenades and making so much noise the Germans think the Canadian army is attacking >Captures 10 German squads throughout the night, escorts them to friendly soldiers outside the city >Burns down the Gestapo HQ >Breaks into the SS HQ, guns down SS officers >4 hours after he started, the entire German garrison has retreated from the city >Recognized as the single hero of Zwolle, made an honorary citizen, street gets named after him >Served again in the Korean War, where he and a 20-man platoon held a hill against two Chinese divisions for three days >Survived the war, died in 2008
Josiah Gutierrez
Good ol' Teddy Roosevelt >Too much shit to list, just look him up. he was a total badass, and even volunteered to lead a unit in WW! at 58 years old.
Austin Myers
Former tank batallion commander. Former SAS. Baronet. Fired FROM the SAS for blowing up a film set, with explosives obtained from training exercises by efficient use of less explosives. Former mercenary. First man to circumnavigate the globe north to south. First man to navigate the Nile by hovercraft. Discovered a lost city in the desert, after chasing rumours he heard while a mercenary. First unsupported trip to the south pole. Seven marathons, seven continents, seven days, one heart attack. Got frustrated with the process of getting his frostbite-afflicted fingertips amputated properly, and sawed them off in his shed. Many other feats I just can't remember because there's so many of them.
The man's a professional adventurer. He goes and does cool things, then gets paid to write books about them and talk about them. And he's a damn good storyteller.
Gabriel White
>TR
my brother of African American descent
Eli Evans
To play devil's advocate though, there are a lot of stories about Teddy that had more to do with his friends in journalism wanting to sell papers via stories about him than with anything he actually did.
Colton Morales
You know it, m'negro >doctors told him he had a weak heart, and thus couldn't do much >said fuck that shit, Took up boxing >Graduated with honors from harvard too >Got into politics, rose through the ranks, but left to join the military >Formed and led the rough riders in a charge at San Juan during Spanish-American war, and recieved medal of honor (posthumously, like in 2001) for his service. >came back, more politics >Was hated by politicians due to his strict enforcement of rules and dedication to reform >Youngest president ever >Modified American Football to what we know it today >survived an assassination attempt, but gave a 90 minute speech before seeking medical attention, all while running for president of a political party he started himself >Retired, went and killed animals in Africa >also, somewhere along the line, he went blind in one eye from boxing There's a lot of awesome shit there, regardless of what Yellow Journalism may have followed him
Aiden Reed
Dumbfounded
Juan Anderson
things like this makes me believe the world is westworld and that these sort of people are guests
Jaxson Lewis
Simo Häyhä, known as "Valkoinen Kuolema", the White Death. A legend. >just google him Greetings to all Finnish people, you're awesome, guys.
Evan Morris
10/10 would take the A train.
Ryan Lopez
>>the british gave him a medal too making him the only known person to receive medals from both sides of the war
I should point out, he may not have been the only one in WWII to win medal on both sides, but he won the Iron Cross, Germany's highest honor, while working as a double agent.
Guy was the DM of Germany's WWII spy shenanigans.
Mason Cox
Not very many female PCs out there.
Jose Collins
Sort of. Notice that there's a pretty strong theme of military stories here, which biases the set a bit.
Robert Baker
I actually like the trombone-and-plunger version of that song better than the scat version, but goddamn, her rendition was amazing.
Gabriel Jenkins
This lady kind of counts.
Her mother was a slave, yet she had enough business sense to overcome a lot of the prejudice of her time and become one of the wealthiest self-made woman ever up to that point. A lot of people call her the first self-made female millionaire, which is inaccurate by a few hundred grand, but she was fucking loaded anyway.
Noah Perez
Cry more libcucks, your tears are delicious.
Samuel Jenkins
>lose popular vote >claim popular uprising ok
Isaac Johnson
Witold Pilecki
Volunteered to go into Auschwitz, killed Nazis while in the camp by infecting them with diseases he obtained working at the infirmary. Escaped the camp when he decided he couldn't do anything more there
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Magnus_Sprengtporten#/search >get sent to a Crinean war to observe, never get there in time, because spent too much time drinking in inns >meets Benjamin Franklin, decides to found a new nation >fought on both sides between Russia and Sweden, wounded in a fight against an unit he himself founded
Something about his story just makes it very PC.
Josiah Fisher
>Became utterly broken after one of his sons died in the war Ain't nothing good about WWI
Leo Diaz
What is the point of the VC if not a PC identification badge
David Robinson
People will often defer to leaders when in mobs and large groups. If you can bamboozle a leader of a bunch of fuck wits who were just following a crowd, you can pretty much turn them to whatever you want within reason.
It is the entire premises high school football teams work on. Convince your socially inclined, popular players to get worked up about something and they will have the entire team ready to rip dicks off to get it.
Elijah Rodriguez
It's still way more of a popular uprising than it should have been.
I've said it for years now, if I was the type to believe in conspiracy theories with out any real evidence then I would think that the whole SJW movement was a conspiracy to discredit progressivism. Surely it can't just be a closely they mirror conservatives in many ways
Ryder Hernandez
>PC identification badge
Do you have some kind of brain damage? It signifies that he won a Victoria Cross.
Nathan Williams
No, he's That Guy with a scat fetish.
Levi Ortiz
I'm assuming that he was specifically being lynched for some sort of crime (that he probably didn't commit, but he was black AND and outsider so they didn't care)
He didn't just convince them that he was trying to raise money for black education, but that he didn't commit the crime.
Blake Ward
Not a PC, but quite possibly the greatest animal companion that ever lived.
Aaron Mitchell
If you genuinely believe the main reason for Trump's rise was SJWS and not decades of it being established that the establishment was cocks, there's no helping you.
The Apostle Paul comes to mind. Dude was imprisoned, beaten, and shipwrecked on multiple occasions.
John Johnson
>that session where the DM forgot the Jew Paladin wasn't born in Jewish territory and is actually a legit citizen of the Empire He's also clearly a villain repurposed as a PC for a new player.
Cooper Roberts
Pier. Gerlofs. Motherfucking Donia.
>Got married and had two kids >Family's village is caught in the crosshairs of a civil war in the Netherlands >The Habsburgs hire a landsknecht band called the Black Band, who were notoriously violent, to go crush the rebellion >The Black Band attacks his village, rapes and murders his wife, burn down the village church, and burns down his home >Pier sweats revenge, leads a guerrilla war campaign against the Habsburgs in retaliation >Is believed to have been 7 feet tall, and was allegedly so strong he could behead multiple people with one swing of his greatsword. Said greatsword is now in a museum, measuring 7 feet long and weighing 14 pounds. >Fought with much success both at land and sea (yeah, he was a pirate too), even capturing an entire war fleet that was sent to deal with him. >Unfortunately, the Habsburgs were simply too rich and too powerful, and won the war. He ended up retiring in 1519, disillusioned with the world. He died peacefully in bed about a year later.
Jeremiah Ward
Don't forget the time he masturbated in public, or the time he heard Plato classify man as "featherless bipeds", and Diogenes came back with a plucked chicken and said "Behlod! I have brought you a Man!"
Jose Thompson
Sad story, that. When the soviets rolled in they had him executed as a traitor. A swedish metal band wrote a song about it.
I don't know man, there's strong competition for that
Logan Lee
>you're being interrogated about your nazi connections >make a diplomacy check >1
Benjamin Fisher
Anyone know anyone who is/was probably a PC? I know some of you got some badass grandparents or some shit
Leo Young
>when the pc backstory just keeps going and going
Soong Mei-ling >born in the qing empire in 1897 >daughter of a chinese methodist businessman of all things >move to the us >start college at age 15, get major in literature and minor in philosophy >move back to china, meet and marry chiang kai-shek, make him convert to christianity >become engaged in chinese politics in the 1930s >join the executive committee of the kuomintang >husband becomes generalissimo, become translator and adviser >hard work through the entirety of world war ii >become involved with the republican candidate for president >"You know, Mike, if Wendell could be elected, then he and I would rule the world. I would rule the Orient and Wendell would rule the Western world.” >travel the west to rally support for the war against mao >husband dies, retire from spotlight >still politically active with influence in taiwan >move to the us >get cancer twice, survive >get involved in art >die in 2003, at age 106 >Life magazine called Madame the "most powerful woman in the world >Liberty magazine described her as "the real brains and boss of the Chinese government." >Clare Boothe Luce compared her to Joan of Arc and Florence Nightingale. >Ernest Hemingway called her the "empress" of China.
Charles Hill
Wow, another thread that gives me a reason to feel really shitty about myself.
Aaron Price
what the hell was it with Austria at that time and brilliant scientists?
