Re: Disturbing Character premises...
Worst one I ever had even try to get past me was in a convention game, at Castlecon, about five years ago. I was running a GURPS Traveller game (forgive me... the system wasn't my idea!), set in a mercenary company. The whole concept was right out of something like Hammer's Slammers, crossed with the Dirty Dozen. At different cons, I would advance the timeline and run different adventures, but at this one series of cons, there was a specific player who would always show up. He only played in one of my games, but he tried to edge in with his 'personal' character even though the game outline stated that pregens would be provided.
The player was in his forties, overweight (like I can talk!), and obviously out of breath, wearing REALLY tight, REALLY short shorts, a camouflage wifebeater about three sizes too small, and flip-flops. He always showed up to cons in this apparel; I assume it was an 'outfit' of sorts. Anyway, he brought the character to me, and I decided to pay him lip service by looking at it. Big mistake.
She was a thirteen (!!!!) year old lesbian nympomaniac assassin who specialized in striptease and sexual means of eliminating her targets. He even had a special plastic character sheet made up, complete with pictures of the character (not pornographic, thank god). It took me about a minute to pick my jaw up off the floor before I had to blurt out, "Um, no... this... this won't fit. This is a mercenary company." He actually tried to defend it by saying that she could have been a paid whore working with the company... he even said, "Well, it happened in history." At that point, I just said no. He finally relented, and played a simple soldier, for about an hour, constantly whining about how his 'favored' character would have been through the adventure in no time flat, before he got bored and wandered off. I still shudder when I think about that character, and that player.
