From OtherSpace: Encyclopedia Galactica
These are application concepts that we get often enough here at OtherSpace to make them cliché. While it isn't a certain guarantee you'll be rejected for using these, it will often make it harder to be accepted.
- Parents are killed by pirates.
- Black trenchcoats or gunmetal gray jumpsuits.
- Goal: to learn lots and explore the galaxy.
- Values: friends, loyalty.
- Lost a loved one in a tragic accident.
- Seeks vengeance against the people who killed his/her parents.
- Was hit on the head and lost his/her memory. Has no idea what his/her background is, but has killer combat skills.
- Demarian nobles who defy noble culture.
- Beaten by father, and as a result, grew up to be an unfeeling killer.
- Castori who are supergeniuses, even for Castori.
- Sivadian who rebels against the use of Specialists.
- Humans who rebel against their parent(s) xenophobic natures and go to seek their futures off of Mars.
- Humans whose parents are freedom fighters or are otherwise involved in politics and through that, the family relocates.
- Playing a psionic member of a non-psionic race.
- Rogue/Combat/Fighting Monk/Kung Fu Mystics.
- Female character that's sexually assaulted as a child, and grows up to hate/kill men.
- Sivadian cyborg or genetically-enhanced supercop.
- Orphaned in early to mid-teens, and left to fend for yourself.
- Eyes that seem to look into your soul/bore into you.
- Kicked out of the military for a crime s/he didn't commit.
- Unexplained scars on the face.
- Parents were killed in the explosion of Earth, but s/he miraculously survived because s/he was somehow off-world at the time.
- Teenage hacker without parental guidance that cracks a major site and becomes an overnight millionaire.