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This is another of my City of Heroes characters. (I've probably made over 300 of them by now. This well goes deep.)

Gyrfalcon Prime ("Gyr" for short) is an homage to the Silver Age of comics, but he can go Golden Age if the need arises. (It's a blurry line, after all.)

I deleted the original version, called simply Gyrfalcon, and by the time I got around to recreating him, the name had been snaked out from under me. Perfidy! But that's why that line exist in his bio, explaining the name change.

Freezing a hero for decades was good enough for Captain America, so it ought to be good enough for Gyrfalcon Prime. As with other toons I've made, I incorporated the game lore into his bio.

Another thing I like to do when creating characters is to come up with something thematic to fit their abilities. In Gyr's case, he is an Ice Blaster, meaning he can freeze people in a block of ice, chill them with frost breath, throw pulverizing snowballs to knock them down... all kinds of fun things. I also knew I wanted him to have the power of flight. (Two of the flight emotes are featured in this collage. I loves me the flight emotes.)

Anyway, I figured "Ice Man Who Flies" was too long, plus "Iceman" is a Marvel character, and I'd rather be original. So maybe "Ice Bird?" Nah, kind of corny. But I remembered from my days watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins (I'm old) that there was an arctic raptor. A quick search and I turned up information about the Gyrfalcon, largest of all the falcon species. Cool looking bird, fits my theme, awesome name. Sold!

And just to drive the point home, I named the fictional man behind the mask James "Rusty" Falco. The gyrfalcon's scientific name is "Falco rusticolus." "Falco" is Latin for falcon, and "rusticolus" means "one who lives in the country."

We have to make our own fun. Otherwise it's just entertainment.

Description
This is another of my City of Heroes characters. (I've probably made over 300 of them by now. This well goes deep.)

Gyrfalcon Prime ("Gyr" for short) is an homage to the Silver Age of comics, but he can go Golden Age if the need arises. (It's a blurry line, after all.)

I deleted the original version, called simply Gyrfalcon, and by the time I got around to recreating him, the name had been snaked out from under me. Perfidy! But that's why that line exist in his bio, explaining the name change.

Freezing a hero for decades was good enough for Captain America, so it ought to be good enough for Gyrfalcon Prime. As with other toons I've made, I incorporated the game lore into his bio.

Another thing I like to do when creating characters is to come up with something thematic to fit their abilities. In Gyr's case, he is an Ice Blaster, meaning he can freeze people in a block of ice, chill them with frost breath, throw pulverizing snowballs to knock them down... all kinds of fun things. I also knew I wanted him to have the power of flight. (Two of the flight emotes are featured in this collage. I loves me the flight emotes.)

Anyway, I figured "Ice Man Who Flies" was too long, plus "Iceman" is a Marvel character, and I'd rather be original. So maybe "Ice Bird?" Nah, kind of corny. But I remembered from my days watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins (I'm old) that there was an arctic raptor. A quick search and I turned up information about the Gyrfalcon, largest of all the falcon species. Cool looking bird, fits my theme, awesome name. Sold!

And just to drive the point home, I named the fictional man behind the mask James "Rusty" Falco. The gyrfalcon's scientific name is "Falco rusticolus." "Falco" is Latin for falcon, and "rusticolus" means "one who lives in the country."

We have to make our own fun. Otherwise it's just entertainment.