Most of you have probably seen this from Rebecca Capowski's Translation Junk Drawer page:
http://www.sceneryrecalled.com/trans/pswps2.htm
The page contains preliminary bios for all of the main PSII characters. It's easy to tell from reading the bios just how different in many ways the characters ended up being from what their creators originally had in mind, but I'd like to take a moment to summarize those differences and give everyone some visuals as well.
Rolf/Eusis
Date of birth change: 20-25 years old (no specific date) to 17 Sep 1263.
He is given no physical description in his bio.
Interesting things in his prelim. bio:
His parents were wealthy and from Paseo. He was raised in an orphanage after they died in the spaceship accident. He doesn't know any attack techniques (seriously, it says that).
Nei
Date of birth change: 28 Aug 1283 to 30 Aug 1283 (not a huge change)
Eyes: violet to red
Hair: red to violet (hmm... Reverse Nei?)
Also in prelim. bio:
She was supposed to have buck teeth. A pair of married researchers (Rolf's former teachers) broke her out of the laboratories once she was born and cast aside, then she was raised by the couple (I don't know how this fits in with Neifirst). Four months later the couple is killed by an anti-biomonster mob. Nei escapes and is almost killed again by an evil hunter (presumably Darum) and is rescued by Rolf. She's just as fond of (if not more) Rudo as she is of Rolf, perhaps because Rudo smells like Rolf (I swear I'm not making this up).
Rudolf/Rudger
Modeled after Rutger Hauer, the text references two specific movies: Blade Runner and The Hitcher (Rutger is the antagonist in both movies). Here's Hauer's character (Roy Batty) from Blade Runner:
http://images.art.com/images/products/r ... 103925.jpg
Here's his character (John Ryder) from The Hitcher:
http://iconsoffright.com/news/Rutger%20 ... itcher.jpg
Hair color change: silver to blond (Though, as I'm about to demonstrate, someone's idea of silver is not all that accurate.) According to the text, Rudo has silver hair and blue eyes like Commander Straker from the British television show UFO:
http://ufoseries.com/photos/strakerJumpsuit.jpg
Ohhkay, then. "Silver" in this instance is really platinum blond.
Also in prelim. bio:
He's of German descent. He's muscular but not macho. He wears a long gray coat (à la John Ryder). He lost his parents at the age of 20 and then enlisted in the military, then his wife and daughter were killed by biomonsters and he became a hunter (good grief, his whole family is gone!). He once rescued a little girl from a biomonster nest (I wonder if this is in his text game). He has suicidal tendencies, and secretly wants to die from one of his hunting jobs (poor Rudo ).
I'll start a new post; this one's getting long. More to come; stay tuned!