I find that if you give a character a terrible color treatment, people tend to assume you're a scrub, a troll, or both. So I simply color my character weird, and people get all antsy thinking they will be trolled.
Then I play them straight, and they have to adjust to the clashing expectations. They are then untrolled.
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