I certainly fall in to the category of people who play with a certain theme to their characters -- less because I actively strive for characters that fit it, but rather because it is a wide field of interest. Most of my characters thus either are in position of power or want to achieve it, whatever form it may take: physical strength to overpower others, political or financial power to ascertain one's hegemony, magical or psionic power to awe and influence the feebleminded.
However, the most memorable character I have played thus far was a simple 'grease monkey'-type engineer, quite powerless in all of the aforementioned criteria, who fell victim to (and -- Stockholm syndrom? -- in love with) a sadistic, sociopathic telepath. The single scene meant to break him similarly broke her, and spelled week-long RP bliss for the other player and myself.
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