[member="Kredis Valor"]
I used to write a character who had Rodney McKay from SG Atlantis as a playby. Imagine this guy with perpetual stubble.
[member="Fabula Caromed"]
1. Well, the whole Mara Corridor project didn't start out that way. It started as random salvage operations and other adventures. Then the idea took root and we ran with it. Alna and I both have a taste for doing things that nobody else has done, not to be the best but to step out into uncharted territory. I think this was something along those lines.
2. I'm definitely not at 110% percent, and haven't been for ages, but Chaos has been useful at some of the busiest times of my life. I used it to burn stress all through grad school and our first pregnancy. Our daughter had some extremely stressful health problems for about the first year, so when I wasn't taking care of her or helping my wife or writing papers or trying to sleep, I used Chaos to get some time to myself. I staged some dumb stunts and annoyed some people and generally stomped around, but it worked.
3. Tough question, but I'll have to go with the second one. I've seen a metric fethton of subs that mine influenced directly or indirectly. A lot of'em kind of exist in a space that my creations and mistakes helped define. First example that comes to mind: when I kicked off Akure (private sector witch alchemy) a few years ago, people raged about how I was ruining Star Wars. Those exact same people promptly got on the alchemy/business bandwagon, for better or for worse.
...oh wait, you said
positive effect. Uhh...in that case, staffer. It took me a while to get the knack of it, but I'd like to think I did a decent job of contributing to a culture of impartiality: friends held to standards just as strict or lax as people I didn't know or didn't respect. I never learned to enjoy cutting a friend's overpowered sub down to size, but yeah. If I've got to pick a choice and a reason, that's what I pick.