Back to Basics, Part-3: Hunks

"Tribe" being very much a visual medium made it easy to determine who the HUNKS were from season to season. But for this girl, I always found it hard to beat the ones we met in S-1, Bray & Lex.

Bray started out as the broody, loner type until he fell for Amber & they became the stellar couple in the series. Then there was Lex, who even referred to himself as "Sexy Lexy," the ultimate bad boy. Every season, these guys just got better and better. The show's writers & casting dept. finally got it right again when Pride came on the scene. This "child of nature" was very tall and very... natural. (Can any girl forget the great ep where Lex challenged Pride to fight & they BOTH took their shirts off? Probably the most-watched ep for anyone taping the season...)

In KTDARPG? Well, since our role-play is text based, and since most of our players are a bit reluctant to put too many details out there (thinking a person's imagination is best), it's left to the individual to decide who's a hunk & who isn't. Going out on a limb here, I'll give you Chyna's picks. Some will disagree--each to his own imagination!

I'll start with "Xeno" (usually referred to as psycho-Xeno, so consider him a Lex-type), who was never better than when he was paired in-game with "Chyna." Then there's "Prince," a dark Misfit/Reaper who's as unpredictable as they come and hates to miss out on a fight (and is a really flashy dresser!). "Creed," your classic sensitive tall-dark-n-handsome, is a Traveller as much at home in the wild as in the wild city.

Then there's 2 I'm not real sure about. My vision of them changes from one scenario to the next. "Sid" could be a hunk but he keeps changing on me. First he's the Ghost of the City & then leader of the Travellers & then leader of the Reapers (and his clothes as well as his personality change with each incarnation). There's also that infamous capitalist "Tom-F" who started out as the fat man everybody loved to hate. But then along came "Jade," and suddenly Tom-F was losing weight and changing his ways. Hard to get a handle on either one of these, so who knows?

Anyway, my theory continues to hold. The character types from the tv show are just as important to our rpg, and tend to show up just as frequently. Let's see who I can find to explore next time... -Chyna

Photo source: copyright Cloud-9 "The Tribe"