This was the completely random squad I drew for the first mission.

Yes, that's Lucchini, The Mighty Jingles off the YouTubes, Gordon Freeman, and the Templar version of Victor von Doom.

As an aside, Doom works really well as a Templar. That blend of Ambiguous Euro Accent, Rrrrrrighteous Fury, and Empowered Dude Arrogance really works for the character. "YOU WILL ALL LEARN TO FEAR MY POWER!" he screams as he chops a Sectoid's face off. Totally, totally Doom.

In this test campaign, unlike the OWaW one, I didn't manipulate the bonding process so as to make the canonical pairs; I just let it happen according to RNG-established compatibility ratings and happenstance of mission squad makeups.

Still, this one isn't wildly out of character (even if the limitations of the character creator do make that a pretty poor likeness of Nipa). The motto is supposed to be a translation of the old motor racing maxim, "If you want to win, employ a Finn," except I only noticed after I made the poster that Google Translate rendered "employ" with the verb for "to use" rather than in the sense of paying someone to work for you.

Another thing I only noticed after the fact was that this particular poster pose preset makes Gryph's goggles-and-flight-helmet rig make him look like he's wearing schnoz glasses.

Some of the bonds ended up being pretty much canonical anyway:

You can't have tripartite bonds, so one of the Hats is always going to be the odd man out.

Others aren't really canonical, but make a certain amount of sense.

And still others are completely random.

Meanwhile, although I set this randomly assigned Skirmisher's nickname, voice, and bio, that is the name he came with. Wow, guys. (As Matt noted when I showed him this shot, "Hey, when all you have to work with is a weird phonetic alphabet and like two books...")

I was tinkering around with this stock Templar's character model when I realized, hey, with a Reaper hood on, she looks kind of like Kasumi from Mass Effect 2.

Similarly, this combination of soldier class, face, and accessory happened and the rest was automatic.

And also this guy.

A little while later, Clark made a friend.

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