Long explanation but here goes. I just got out of college for summer break and quit my job (I wasn't going to be able to make the drive back to where I worked for the summer, and a co-worker was harassing me anyways), so I recently decided that I'm going to use these next 4 months to become successful at streaming. I've done my research and have come to find that the most important thing that twitch wants in partners is branding, and entertaining characters they could sell. At the PAX East town hall, the staff very clearly loved /u/FutureManGaming (and who wouldn't?) so I've decided to make a character of my own.
Rather than starting with a character and letting that dictate what I can and cannot play, I decided to reverse engineer it. I play a lot of competitive games, but tend to not stick to any one for any long amount of time. I also really enjoy learning about these games, and teaching other people how to kick ass as well. I can get frustrated, but I try to keep the commentary upbeat, funny, and between games insightful. So I started to think about what sort of character would be like that? Who enjoys triumphing over other people, and showing others their ways, essentially creating an army? A viking or warrior might be appropriate, but most of those themes are taken by popular streamers. Plus, I wouldn't be able to really have my tongue in cheek, factious sense of humor fit any of those themes.
So in the coming weeks, Austin is going to start streaming. Austin's a pretty young guy who's just been hired by the Illuminati. Kids these days don't really listen to the lyrics of songs, much less bother playing them backwards anymore, so the illuminati has hired Austin as an intern to stream to twitch, and really re-capture the attention of a new generation. This allows me to focus my steam around world domination via PvP games, allows me to RP world domination as a goal via stream and viewer growth, and promotes my tongue in cheek humor. (I'm the kinda guy who gets a kick out of something as simple as the illuminati being so up front about what they're trying to do.)
I'm currently in pre-production right now. I'm working on talking to people about green screen work, developing my own visuals for the stream decorations, as well as writing down conceptually what the illuminati would be like in this fictional setting. What is their real end goal? Are they actually evil, or are they all about equality and happiness? Stuff like that.
If anyone's interested in this project, go ahead and drop a follow at www.twitch.tv/IlluminatiInc and follow my current stream (which I'll be leaving soon!) over at www.twitch.tv/sgtfunshinebear