Today I began to roll up a character for Mekton Zeta, an anime mecha role playing game.
They have a great background system called Lifepath, where you make some die rolls and it fleshes out your character’s background.
I was going to make a mecha pilot, male, professional level.
As I started going through the Lifepath system, I rolled 5 friends, the first being male, and… an ex-lover.
My first thought was to keep with the male character, for a same-sex relationship (Pride Weekend in SF may have influenced that thought), but I decided to go with a female, based on something else that I’d been watching lately.
She’s going to be based on Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop.
But still a mecha pilot.
And I’m going with the ‘Anime Babe’ rookie template instead of a professional.
Of course, who knows if my group will ever get around to playing Mekton Zeta.
