Almost everyone has a charater that they think of when they think of their favorite charater or their first. In many cases e-mail address or screen names are based off of a beloved charater or a nickname developed from a game. Or prehaps you have a fun moment in D&D with a charater that your friends will never forget... if you would, share your story and tell us a bit about this/these charaters.
My story is simple enough. At the age of 16ish I had asked my mom if I could play and she said no because she thougth it was a cult. Being rebellous and working a night job as a babysitter I would call my fiance (then boyfriend) after the children went to sleep and play with him over the phone. His random elf name generator came up with the name Celiwyn. I think three years later we came up with her last name.
Celiwyn is a elf-ranger with an overwhelming and just crazy fear of frogs. I played her as having the mental age of about a 14 year old girl, who had just gone out on her own for the first time. She had long braided hair down to her lower back and brown eyes, her dress was green and frayed at the ends a bit from traveling and she carried a sheild with a large leafy tree on the front of it. At her waist she carried both a long and short sword.
Her first night in an inn by herself, while sitting in her room, frogs began to rain on her head. Myself, not completely understanding that elves don't sleep, roleplayed a cranky tired girl who was freaked out. This contiuned for hours on end until she snapped, pull out her sword and started to kill the frogs. In the end it turned out the patron in the next room was a wizard whose familiar had knocked over a bag of tricks.
There's much more, I think I have a 24 page story floating around on my harddrive about her first few days travel. She was my first ever D&D charater and among my friends got me the nick name of Celi or Lady Alondra. A few people with a sense of humor called me Celery, but it was all in good fun. Even more oddly, since we didn't have a system for awarding XP for roleplaying at the time and Celiwyn never actually fought anything that was real or a challange, 5 years later she is *still* a first level ranger. A 3.0 ranger at that.