The thing that gets me about making my character for the korps is that I will always think of the art of them all roleplaying at a table, and one of them comes out and they rewrite her character arc for the campaign. It's touching, and it helps cement my feelings that we are just all nerds playing in a sandbox with toy action figures.
Whenever I say to myself "Is this not a litlle too much?" I think back to that, and to the comics I read and what inspired me to write Yvonne the way I did. Sure, ex-military and organized crime connections sounds a little too much but for some Scottish Veterans (both after WW2 and the Falklands) they couldn't fit into civvie society, and used their talents to crack safes and commit robberies. I've also read my share of dead tree superhero comics and know how zany character biographies can get.
Its just... its a kind of self-indulgence I had when I was a kid, being young and not caring how people judged my tabletop characters. No matter how ridiculous I feel it might be seen, it makes feel free, and youthful once again. It's a soft fuzzy feeling just seeing this all as an elaborate LARP, and being okay that its just that. Its not going to be some ground-breaking pulitizer prize-winning art scene where people are getting film deals. I've seen on bird site how fame and money rots people, and I'm fine spending my days with my silly little action figures. Pushing the button on Slate's back to fire a plastic shadowbolt from her palm at you Heheheh.