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Character Switch: Zangya --> Crimson - Juno - 06-14-2008

Quote:Name: Crimson
Race: Android
Starting Planet: Earth
Fighting Style: Vicious, but calculated
Bio:

Forty years ago, the Red Ribbon Army hired a team of expert scientists to work on their latest creation: a literal "killing machine." There was lots of animosity towards the Red Ribbon army back in that day, so of course, none of the superiors of the research division objected to creating a bit of extra manpower.

A Red Ribbon scientist who was currently working on how to create a special forumla to make people stronger named Crimson was working in the lab, quite peacefully and undisturbed as always, when an accident happened that caused him to get caught up in his own experiment. The failed experiment caused him to be close to death, and so the ART (Android Research Team) took him in and assembled him into their 'prototype killing machine,' codenamed Android 1.

Crimson (or Android 1) was wiped of his memory; they didn't want him to know of this change. Instead, he truly saw himself as the prototype killing machine. The original -- and he excelled at his job. However, one day, his circuits went haywire. They subdued him, and froze him in time, leaving him dormant at the North Pole, where he could never interefere in their plans again.

However, forty years have passed, and a pair of unsuspecting archeologists have recently awaken him from his slumber -- they are dead, but Crimson lives on, and has just recently discovered that Earth's technological advancement has led people to make copies of him. He has not discovered of Red Ribbon's treachery in this matter, but instead is looking to them for assistance, trying to discover why the world has tossed him aside when he was so perfect. He is systematically killing every robotic machine that he finds, making sure that in the end, only the original remains to rule the domain of android.

General Description:

Blood-red hair, tattoo on forehead meaning something as of yet unknown, wears tan clothing, Caucasian skin color, mechanical insides, save for brain, which is human but lacks the capacity to feel any emotion besides anger.

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Starting Moves:

Atomikku Senkou (Atomic Flash): Crimson aims his palms at a target and shoots a large golden beam of ki that upon impact with a target, creates an explosion of low power (he is rusty) and makes a mushroom cloud blast.

(4 Open Spots)

Roleplay Sample:

No fear, no regrets.

The shot rung throughout the night air. The holder of the weapon, of this pistol, smirked as the serving robot collapsed to his knees, his circuitry pouring out through the bullet wound that had been shot in his abdomen. The murderer, or destroyer, or whatever he could be called stood there, looking down at his prey, satisfied that another one of these pathetic copies was gone from the world.

Dropping the weapon, he spun on his heel and walked from the place, not ever caring about the feelings that cyborg could have had—but he assumed that they couldn’t have feelings. After all, he didn’t, so why should any other android be able to express those pathetic human reactions to circumstantial stimuli? He hadn’t been created that way, and he was superior, so why should anyone else of his kind have that advantage over him?

The break in the chain link fence was exactly as he’d left it, and by crouching ever so slightly, he was able to fit through and find himself on the other side. The killing machine looked about him—the mechanical feel of it all was disturbing. The sounds of car horns blaring in the night irked him to no end, and the flashing lights—God, it killed him inside to think about it. So pathetic, so useless, so wasted…

Perhaps that was the answer to the puzzle. Something had always been missing; perhaps cars were the form of copy he had yet to have the pleasure to slaughter? These ‘automobiles’—had they been around in his day and age? Forty years ago; he couldn’t remember such a minute detail from that far back. So, it was upon this thought that he made the decision that just perhaps, cars needed to be disciplined as well, and he took it upon himself to be Death itself, to command the fate of these innate replicas.

The streets did not expect him. He walked slowly out into the middle of the paved road, and the cars swerved to miss him, occasionally hitting each other in the process. Upon further inspection, it seemed that they were, indeed, being controlled by humans; these bags of flesh that strived for ultimate control, they were the things that perhaps made him the angriest. After all, nothing could really make him happy—anger was the only emotion he’d been programmed to feel.

And he was feeling it now. These cars, their lights blaring in his sensitive retinas, they fought with him for dominance, and he was the original—he was the one who should be in control. The prototype no more—he was perfected. In all his years of dormancy, when the world had betrayed him, he knew what perfect life awaited at the far end of the tunnel, but when he finally reached that place, the situation had already shifted, the tide had already turned—and it was not in his favor. So in his mind, his robotic, one-track mind, he was in the right. These copies had robbed him of his kingdom, of his power, and now pretended to be superior?

Well, he would put them in their place.

He grasped the hood of the car nearest him and tossed its racing red shell towards the nearest skyscraper. “TERRORIST!” he heard someone yell from a nearby car, and so, with the greatest might, he kicked off from the ground and flew up into the air. The incantation was already prepared, now he just had to speak it.

“ATOMIKKU SENKOU!” he yelled.

A giant blast of golden ki flew from his outstretched palms, and when it touched the ground, the entire block was disintegrated in a second, leaving nothing more than a crater where it had previously stood. The copies were gone, and Crimson was feared.

Redistributed Stats:

Strength: 152
Constitution: 154
Agility: 152
Insight: 152
Technique: 152
Willpower: 152
Total: 914
Stored: 7

Note: I would like to save my four best move slots for later. As far as the -20 goes, I took away two best moves. That's equal to 20 TP.


Character Switch: Zangya --> Crimson - Alura - 06-14-2008

You can't just take away best moves. You have to actual take it from your stored TP. You don't just cash in best moves.


Character Switch: Zangya --> Crimson - Kaden - 06-14-2008

After all the nonsense you went through to get Zangya back, you're just going to switch?


Character Switch: Zangya --> Crimson - Juno - 06-14-2008

@Burter: Alright, I'll redistribute my stats and add those best moves back in.

@Raditzu: Honestly, I never saw why that "nonsense" was neccessary. First off, I was under the impression that I had the right to switch back to the canon I was previously with a stat penalty, but secondly, it wasn't even, from my point of view, a switch. Switching to Zangya was meant to be a temporary thing in the first place. I would have simply rejoined as Zangya had I had the password to my old account. But I didn't, so I made a quick little custom named Julius that I could possibly roleplay for a bit till I had one in mind. Rad, I remember sending you a PM on my first day back asking if it would be possible to switch back to Zangya that you never responded to. Julius was an option for a custom, but I didn't like him, so I switched to Zangya, for purposes of having something to RP as while I put work into a custom character. I've put work into that custom, developed him, thought about it, and I've gone back and forth on the decision several times. I've asked for outside help in helping me decide, and the people who I've gone to have been very supportive and helpful. I understand that I have a problem with switching, but that's because previously, I've been impulsive in my switches, which is a problem I'm attempting to heal by putting work into Crimson. I enjoy RP'ing as him. I enjoy RP'ing as Jezebel. I enjoy RP'ing as Zangya. But there's nowhere that I can go with these characters that I can see myself enjoying in the long run. I got bored with Zangya in DA, and I betrayed my team. Sure, I had fun in DA, and it was one of the better experiences I've had in my RPing years, but it wasn't enough to convince me that Zangya was the right character for me, even though for a time, I thought she might be. I may be making that same mistake with Crimson, I may not. But I don't think I am. I think I've built a solid character that I can find pleasure in developing. The problem I found with Zangya was that she couldn't ever change realistically, and realism (to an extent) is something I can't live without in my own writing. The only way I could change her was to completely erase everything that had happened to her. The traumatized girl just wasn't enough, and so I came up with Odd, an NPC that I had never liked anyways, Jezebel, a female Buu who I realized, in the end, would end up like Zangya no matter what I did, and Crimson, a vicious, unique (at least for me) character that I could possibly have fun with. I've designed him to where he suits my interests and can help me in my times of indecision. Androids are easy to convincingly change, and so if I ever get tired of him, I have storylines in my head that will allow me to RP him in a different fashion, that will allow me to get anything I want from him. He's a character that I have worked very hard on creating and learning to RP over the past few weeks, and I believe that he would be a good choice for me. If I'm wrong, oh well -- I'll stick with him anyways and try to work through it in some way.

EDIT: If you really think I shouldn't switch, I'll stay as Zangya and try to get her back to my liking. I'll be willing to, if you truly think I have no viable reason to switch.


Character Switch: Zangya --> Crimson - Kaden - 06-14-2008

Zangya Wrote:The problem I found with Zangya was that she couldn't ever change realistically

That's a cop-out that I never have, and never will, take with any amount of respect. Look at Eighteen. She was tired of her character, she found a way to change her into something she liked. And then she went on to win DA.

Not only is it possible to change a character (Rad has been through, at least, four different "incarnations," as I call them), but doing so often brings out more energy, motivation, and creativity than you thought you had. (When I say "you" in this case, I don't mean Zangya, personally, I mean whoever is reading this) It also brings you closer to the actual character.

I read your post and see a lot of excuses why you should be justified in giving up on Zangya instead of stretching yourself as a writer and creating something that you didn't have before.

The bottom line is that you're free to change if you want to. We won't say "no, you can't switch," but I think you stand to gain a lot more from sticking it out and I think it would really bring out a lot of the potential that you have. But, at the end of the day, it's still your choice no matter what anyone else says.


Character Switch: Zangya --> Crimson - Juno - 06-14-2008

I respect you as a writer, Raditzu. I respect you as an administrator, as well. So I'm going to take your advice. I'm going to try this one last time, and if I'm not satisfied, if I can't stretch myself into enjoying Zangya, then I'll switch.

I do really enjoy writing as Crimson, though. Can I still post some of my work as him in the Workshop, just to get that urge out to play his story?


Character Switch: Zangya --> Crimson - Kaden - 06-14-2008

Zangya Wrote:I do really enjoy writing as Crimson, though. Can I still post some of my work as him in the Workshop, just to get that urge out to play his story?

Absolutely.

Also, feel free to ask if there's something you think I could help with. Bouncing ideas off of someone, coming up with a storyline that works, whatever. I'm happy to help.


Character Switch: Zangya --> Crimson - Alura - 06-14-2008

Basically a complete agreement of what Raditzu said. If you switch now, you're taking the easy way out. Then you'll probably do it again. And again. And again.


Character Switch: Zangya --> Crimson - Juno - 06-14-2008

Thank you guys. Really, though I may get frustrated with you all at times (I was very flustered with you, Rad, when I posted that gargantuan paragraph, xD) the Chubbs staff and admins are perhaps some of the most helpful staff I've seen.

Thanks to both of you, I hope not to see you in one of these types of topics again, xD.


Character Switch: Zangya --> Crimson - Kaden - 06-14-2008

Zangya Wrote:(I was very flustered with you, Rad, when I posted that gargantuan paragraph, xD)

Ha! I kinda figured. S'all good, though. Not the first time someone's been flustered with me.


Character Switch: Zangya --> Crimson - Juno - 06-14-2008

Thanks =]


Character Switch: Zangya --> Crimson - Alura - 06-14-2008

I'd like to point that I was Burter when I joined four years ago. I switched briefly to Burter Jr, and it was the least active few months I've ever had on Chubbs. Ever.