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themselves) wrote2014-07-28 12:11 pm
themselves) wrote2014-07-28 12:11 pm
Application for SRWU
Player name: Prof
AIM contact: ZebulonCrispi
Alternate contacts:professorprof
Character name: Gjerke
Source canon: Infinite Legion (OC)
Community tag: gjerke
Do I want a HMD: No, I don’t want a HMD
Notes: Two characters played together, a pilot and a mech AI. Details in the spoiler section.
Background: In the spoiler section.
Personality:
Gjerke is not what one imagines when they think of a humanoid AI-driven robot. She's impulsive, upbeat, and shouts like a true super robot pilot. When strange or confusing things happen around her (and this happens a lot), she rolls with the punches quickly and effortlessly, accepting the current state of affairs without stopping to think about what led to it. Especially if the state of affairs is awesome. Suddenly waylaid by a giant robot that tells her she must pilot it to save the world? No further questions, sign me the hell up!
Her personality and identity are very fluid - the program that seeded her mind was designed to evolve quickly to adapt to changing circumstances, and so it does. Everything from her name to her gender was selected more or less on a whim, and she wouldn't mind changing them at a moment's notice (although her name will remain static during the game, to avoid complicating infoposts and CR). She cycles through emotions quickly, often getting hit hard by tragedy but recovering from it very quickly. Good at adapting to unusual situations, but easily distracted. Can change through experience, but doesn't have much of a foundation underneath it all.
One of Gjerke's notable quirks is her lengthy Bucket List. She has a long, constantly expanding list of things she wants to do at least once before she dies, many of them dangerous or outright crazy. She likes exciting things, and is willing to go through a lot of risk and mayhem to, for example, defeat a powerful enemy by beating it in the face with one of its own minions.
Gervasius is a contrast in some ways, and similar in others. He's methodical, cautious, and often reluctant to go along with the crazy antics that Gjerke thinks up, leading to a lot of arguments. However, when the cards hit the table and the stakes are high, both of them will take dramatic, reckless action without worrying about the consequences to themselves. Because they’re both AIs, Gjerke and Gervasius feel a strong kinship, not unlike a pair of (often quarreling) siblings.
Outside of battle, Gervasius is polite, curious enough to make up for Gjerke's easygoing attitude, and prone to waxing philosophical or rambling about old historical figures. His self-image as an intellectual generally outpaces his actual breadth of knowledge, which can lead to him frantically running internet searches to make sure that he actually knows what he's talking about, or outright making things up on the spot. His memory banks are heavily damaged, which takes the form of a number of holes in his knowledge about himself, his past, and the world in general, so he compensates by latching onto what he DOES know as being fiercely important. The primary clue he has is that he knows he came here to protect Earth from a great impending danger, and that finding Gjerke is key to this.
Capabilities and Resources: Gjerke is a robot, which gives her a number of mildly useful abilities: She’s about 40% stronger than the average human, can lose all sorts of body parts without dying, and requires no sleep, food or drink.
Position in Unity Group: New recruit
Type: Combatant
Unit Name: Gervasius
Unit Description:
Gervasius is a sentient mech, but when it first appears, it is badly damaged and its combat capabilities are greatly reduced. It fights using martial arts, and is reasonably fast but overall not competitive. However, once it unites with Gjerke, its true powers awaken, giving it the ability to temporarily turn parts of its body into energy.
Using the energy conversion system, Gervasius can turn a limb into energy for a laser punch/kick and create thin sheets of energy to skate along for high-speed movement. In addition, it can charge up energy to radiate out a sphere of lightning, or launch waves of dozens of homing energy missiles, but the damage inflicted by both of these attacks is fairly low, making them useless against heavily armored targets. Gervasius is, at its core, designed for fighting large numbers of weaker enemies, and is a bit out of depth against single powerful foes, especially small ones.
Whenever a part of its body turns into energy, then turns back, there is a cooldown of about ten seconds before it can be converted again. During this time is when Gervasius is at its most vulnerable.
Image: http://i.imgur.com/3fLt5iu.jpg
(I’m pretty sure Torkaizer won’t be released in time to be appable, since it still doesn't have so much as a release date, but if you feel otherwise, I’ll find a new image.)
Size: M
Terrain compatibility:
Air: Y
Ground: Y
Water: Y
Space: Y
Favored terrain: Ground/Space
Upgrades:
Gervasius’s upgrades come in the form of repairs, since it’s badly damaged initially and needs parts that can only be obtained by defeating Infinite Legion’s units. The lightning sphere and energy missile attacks described above can’t be used until an IL Commander is salvaged for parts.
Once a certain secret is revealed, Gervasius gains the ability to turn its entire body into energy for a single strike like a bolt of lightning. This is powerful and lightning-fast, but also very difficult to aim, leading to a lot of misfires.
Wingmen: None.
Mission requirement: Sort of - Gervasius can join but won’t participate in any missions until the first one, and Gjerke won’t be present until then.
Suggested Event List:
Mission 1
A battle wholly unrelated to the Infinite Legion breaks out in the city where Gjerke lives. Gervasius deploys to help, as a favor in return for the repairs it receives before the mission, but fares very poorly due to difficulties with energy regulation. However, during the fight, he spots Gjerke, and flags her down, telling her that she must become his pilot in order to save mankind. Gjerke aggress immediately, and as soon as she’s piloting, the energy regulation issues disappear, and Gervasius fights at full power. The cockpit takes a hit near the end of the battle, after which it is revealed by the damage to Gjerke that she’s a robot.
Other events in spoiler section.
Sample post:
http://testrun-box.dreamwidth.org/98736.html
AIM contact: ZebulonCrispi
Alternate contacts:
professorprofCharacter name: Gjerke
Source canon: Infinite Legion (OC)
Community tag: gjerke
Do I want a HMD: No, I don’t want a HMD
Notes: Two characters played together, a pilot and a mech AI. Details in the spoiler section.
Background: In the spoiler section.
Personality:
Gjerke is not what one imagines when they think of a humanoid AI-driven robot. She's impulsive, upbeat, and shouts like a true super robot pilot. When strange or confusing things happen around her (and this happens a lot), she rolls with the punches quickly and effortlessly, accepting the current state of affairs without stopping to think about what led to it. Especially if the state of affairs is awesome. Suddenly waylaid by a giant robot that tells her she must pilot it to save the world? No further questions, sign me the hell up!
Her personality and identity are very fluid - the program that seeded her mind was designed to evolve quickly to adapt to changing circumstances, and so it does. Everything from her name to her gender was selected more or less on a whim, and she wouldn't mind changing them at a moment's notice (although her name will remain static during the game, to avoid complicating infoposts and CR). She cycles through emotions quickly, often getting hit hard by tragedy but recovering from it very quickly. Good at adapting to unusual situations, but easily distracted. Can change through experience, but doesn't have much of a foundation underneath it all.
One of Gjerke's notable quirks is her lengthy Bucket List. She has a long, constantly expanding list of things she wants to do at least once before she dies, many of them dangerous or outright crazy. She likes exciting things, and is willing to go through a lot of risk and mayhem to, for example, defeat a powerful enemy by beating it in the face with one of its own minions.
Gervasius is a contrast in some ways, and similar in others. He's methodical, cautious, and often reluctant to go along with the crazy antics that Gjerke thinks up, leading to a lot of arguments. However, when the cards hit the table and the stakes are high, both of them will take dramatic, reckless action without worrying about the consequences to themselves. Because they’re both AIs, Gjerke and Gervasius feel a strong kinship, not unlike a pair of (often quarreling) siblings.
Outside of battle, Gervasius is polite, curious enough to make up for Gjerke's easygoing attitude, and prone to waxing philosophical or rambling about old historical figures. His self-image as an intellectual generally outpaces his actual breadth of knowledge, which can lead to him frantically running internet searches to make sure that he actually knows what he's talking about, or outright making things up on the spot. His memory banks are heavily damaged, which takes the form of a number of holes in his knowledge about himself, his past, and the world in general, so he compensates by latching onto what he DOES know as being fiercely important. The primary clue he has is that he knows he came here to protect Earth from a great impending danger, and that finding Gjerke is key to this.
Capabilities and Resources: Gjerke is a robot, which gives her a number of mildly useful abilities: She’s about 40% stronger than the average human, can lose all sorts of body parts without dying, and requires no sleep, food or drink.
Position in Unity Group: New recruit
Type: Combatant
Unit Name: Gervasius
Unit Description:
Gervasius is a sentient mech, but when it first appears, it is badly damaged and its combat capabilities are greatly reduced. It fights using martial arts, and is reasonably fast but overall not competitive. However, once it unites with Gjerke, its true powers awaken, giving it the ability to temporarily turn parts of its body into energy.
Using the energy conversion system, Gervasius can turn a limb into energy for a laser punch/kick and create thin sheets of energy to skate along for high-speed movement. In addition, it can charge up energy to radiate out a sphere of lightning, or launch waves of dozens of homing energy missiles, but the damage inflicted by both of these attacks is fairly low, making them useless against heavily armored targets. Gervasius is, at its core, designed for fighting large numbers of weaker enemies, and is a bit out of depth against single powerful foes, especially small ones.
Whenever a part of its body turns into energy, then turns back, there is a cooldown of about ten seconds before it can be converted again. During this time is when Gervasius is at its most vulnerable.
Image: http://i.imgur.com/3fLt5iu.jpg
(I’m pretty sure Torkaizer won’t be released in time to be appable, since it still doesn't have so much as a release date, but if you feel otherwise, I’ll find a new image.)
Size: M
Terrain compatibility:
Air: Y
Ground: Y
Water: Y
Space: Y
Favored terrain: Ground/Space
Upgrades:
Gervasius’s upgrades come in the form of repairs, since it’s badly damaged initially and needs parts that can only be obtained by defeating Infinite Legion’s units. The lightning sphere and energy missile attacks described above can’t be used until an IL Commander is salvaged for parts.
Once a certain secret is revealed, Gervasius gains the ability to turn its entire body into energy for a single strike like a bolt of lightning. This is powerful and lightning-fast, but also very difficult to aim, leading to a lot of misfires.
Wingmen: None.
Mission requirement: Sort of - Gervasius can join but won’t participate in any missions until the first one, and Gjerke won’t be present until then.
Suggested Event List:
Mission 1
A battle wholly unrelated to the Infinite Legion breaks out in the city where Gjerke lives. Gervasius deploys to help, as a favor in return for the repairs it receives before the mission, but fares very poorly due to difficulties with energy regulation. However, during the fight, he spots Gjerke, and flags her down, telling her that she must become his pilot in order to save mankind. Gjerke aggress immediately, and as soon as she’s piloting, the energy regulation issues disappear, and Gervasius fights at full power. The cockpit takes a hit near the end of the battle, after which it is revealed by the damage to Gjerke that she’s a robot.
Other events in spoiler section.
Sample post:
http://testrun-box.dreamwidth.org/98736.html