Hello there! I was recently inspired by the new Stellaris Paragons DLC. It's hard to write Stellaris fanfiction, as you're not dealing with characters you can relate to or imagine, but faceless civilizations. With Paragons, you finally have Leaders with real personality that you can work with in writing.
This new project is similar to my earlier oneshot series, The Arkham Investigators, where I reimagined my favorite characters as investigators in the Arkham Horror/Elder Sign games. Here, I will be doing the same, except the characters will be Renowned or Legendary Paragons, special Leaders in the interstellar setting of Stellaris.
My first Paragon is Uzi Doorman, the main character from my current favorite show on YouTube, "Murder Drones" (which I very much recommend). For this, Uzi escaped from Copper-9, but was unable to go to Earth to begin wiping out JCJenson and/or Humanity. Thus, she begins looking for other benefactors among the stars to fund her research, and to sate her thirst for revenge (and oil or blood).
Re-edited as of 5/19/2023
Re-edited as of 5/21/2023. Added Expertise: Psionics at the suggestion of Auroras_Archive on AO3
Renowned Paragon: Uzi Doorman (Murder Drones)
Class: Scientist
Veteran Class: Researcher (Once free of Copper-9 and JCJenson, Uzi would be free to unleash her ideas upon the world!)
Destiny Trait: Great Researcher (Her intelligence, energy, and psychic abilities have made Uzi into a researcher above par)
Positive Traits: Synthetic, Spark of Genius ("Uzi Doorman was able to build this (sick-as-hell railgun) in a bunker! With a box of scraps!"), Maniacal (Uzi is very much a mad scientist), Expertise: Psionics (Extensive practice and study into her AbsoluteSolver has made Uzi an expert in Psionics), Psychic (AbsoluteSolver)
Negative Trait: Volatile (Uzi is emotionally unstable, a side effect of her upbringing and the AbsoluteSolver)
Ethic: Materialist (Uzi knows that to create something, you need to know how to build it, and have the components for it)
Age: 18
Summary: A unique worker drone who has somehow acquired psychic abilities. The survivor of a doomed planet, CPU buzzing with both genius and madness, she hides a strange, dark, and traumatizing past. She and N are a package deal.
Now, I know it's short, but I'm using a similar format to what we see in Stellaris when the opportunity to recruit a Renowned Paragon comes around. Thoughts?
I hope this sparks your imagination, and I look forward to continuing with more characters. Have a good one, everyone, and happy writing!