Overview
created during
Issue 5,
City of Heroes, 2005-08-31
- Name:
- Full Sneeze / @cohRock
- What:
- level 50 mutant hero on the Virtue server
- Archetype:
- blaster: sonic attack / energy manipulation
- Created:
- ~ September 2005
- Super Group:
- My Other Toon Is A Debtinator since 2007-06-20
- Battle Cry:
- choo 'em up!
hits since 2012-12-30
last modified 2013-02-14
Commentary
I had had an in-game "joke" for quite a while. (Quotes because I may have been the only one who found it funny.) The Tsoo were a large villain gang of Hmong who gained their powers from magical tattoos applied to their bodies. My joke was, "a Tsoo here, a Tsoo there, and pretty soon you have a full sneeze." Get it? "a tsoo" ... "atchoo" ... <sigh> I guess not you either.
Well, *I* thought it was funny, and eventually created Full Sneeze as an actual character. Although he originates from the American Hmong, he was a mutant and the Tsoo gang kids mistrusted and even hated on him. So he had a lonely path growing up, and gravitated to the good guys. (We found out during the Mot (God of Death) arc that the Tsoo weren't only a gang of thugs. They had been actively trying to prevent Mot's return for years.)
When creating him I knew his name and that he'd be of Asian descent. I quickly decided that Sonic Attack would fit his name well, and that Energy Manipulation gave him some nice melee skills as well. I went sterotypical Asian fighter on his costume, although the tiger stripes on his face are part of his mutation. For the pictures, I forgot to turn on his actual chest emblem; what you see is the SG emblem.
There was one more aspect to his name, the "Full" part. His power choices made him very flexible. Like a defender, he could heal and buff teammates with more damage and accuracy. Like a controller, he had the ability to disorient foes, cause a group of them to sleep, and occasionally knock them back. I've already mentioned his scrapper-like melee attacks. The guy was the whole enchilada (well, whatever Hmong food is closest to enchilada). He was my first blaster.