Customs!

[Rem-13]

Discuss them!

I have so many delicious character I want to play with, the only thing is picked the one that works best as a protagonist that can interact on an RPG. So I have it down to three, ironically the first three I cam up with.

Name: Goes by Shen. Once Joseph Poring, changed to Erlang Shen.
Age: 20
Weight: 143 lbs
Race: human
Appearance: Lanky, thin shaggy haired youth with a blindfold.

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9568/...lersl4.jpg only thiner and dark haried.

Rough outline History that will be explained through flashback:

-Born with hemophilia and an abundance of Intelligence. Parents were terrified of letting him outdoors so he spent nearly all of his time on the internet or reading books, and the rest conducting minor experiments with household items.

-In his early teens he happened upon an ancient Chinese text on Qi(ki/chi). It becomes his new obsession, and he scores internet sources for all books and other sources of knowledge on it.

-On his seventeenth birthday he disconnects himself from his family permanently and adopts the name Erlang Shen, a figure in Chinese myth with third "Truth Seeing" eye on his forehead. He scours the earth for all knowledge pertaining to Ki and similar powers.

- By the time he is nineteen he is in the mountains of China studying under an order of Monks devoted to Erlang Shen and the spiritual eye. Our Shen is shocked to find the masters have a third eye as well. He studies with the masters but betrays them and reads thier forbidden texts. The sun rises with him now having the third eye. Not receiving the proper training he sees visions of thing not truly there, but that were once there or will be there at one time, along with periods of blindness and dizziness. He is so wracked with frustration at not being able to use the Third Eye properly that he carves his two normal eyes out, so they would not interfere.

- It works but his hemophilia will not let them stop bleeding so he covers them with a bandage. He learns of a meditation that will restore lost blood and uses it. His master claim it is not the hemophilia, but the punishment of the gods. Bansihed from thier monastery he continues his search for knowledge.

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Name: ?
Age: 28
Weight: 190 lbs
Race: human
Appearance: An average green-eyed brown haired man

Suffers from a mild form of OCD. The compulsions are a constant annoyance that can only be forgotten when he is fighting, so he does just that.

Short but sweet.

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Name: Pinocchio
Age: 11
Weight: 730 lbs
Race: Android
Appearance: terminator-esqe skeletal robot.

Pino is an abandoned robot with an unfinished body and mind that feels next to no emotions, and what he does his extremely glitchy. He would become inexplicably obsessed with the living. Long story short, after each PC or major NPC I kill I would carefully cut off a bit of flesh and add it to his skeletal frame. Now, he wouldn't be evil, not even neutral, because labels imply choice. His mind is not finished, so he will steal bits of personality the same as his body.

Obviously I'm leaning towards Shen.

[Dehan]

Pinocchio would probably be one smelly guy...bit of flesh would be rotting away *shivers*. The first one sounds pretty neat though, makes me angry I delted my custom bio *has to start from scratch*.

[Kaden]

Shen sounds, by far, the most interesting of the three. I have to say, though, that ? could provide for some very entertaining -- if not particularly deep -- RPing.

[Blue]

Pinocchio reminds me of a character I'm working on.

Name: Cris (Cadaver Reanimation System)
Age: 1
Height: Varies (Currently 5’6”)
Weight: Varies (Currently 176 lbs)
Race: Android/Hodgepodge
Appearance: A male Saiyan torso and right arm, a Namekian left arm, a human female head, robotic legs and right eye.

I obviously don't have a picture for this character. The basic premise is that Cris was created as a means for a despotic military to keep soldiers on the battlefield. By using electrical charges, the machine restarts the body into a sort of half-life. Cris runs through a form of hive mind, using the body's nerve passages as a way to transmit information from and to each individual bot. As well, the nanobots travel through the corpse's bloodstream to transverse the body. As such, both the brain and the heart are as important to Cris as any living creature. Through experimentation, the hive mind has also found that it can attach seperate pieces of an individual to its current frame. As such, its trying to build itself the perfect body. The secondary goal of Cris is to assimilate as much knowledge as possible.

Obviously, this character could use a great deal more personality development.

Also, I like Tien's first idea.

[Rem-13]

wow some of my grammar up there was atrocious. You'll have to forgive me Im delirious with a fever and sleep madness.

Yeah, shen's who I'm heading for. I think I will make Pinocchio a fairly permanent NPC in my storylines though. Maybe even ?.

Your sounds like an interesting premise Lil' Boy Blue.

[Blue]

If I decide to get back into roleplaying here regularly with Cris, Pinocchio is gonna be my best friend.

[Pikkon]

Name: ??
Build Date: Unknown
Weight: 168
Height: 5'8
Race: Android

Appearance: Rather short in stature for a cyborg, ( ) has medium length, off-white hair and a set of Onyx eyes to boot. Usually sporting lighter shaded clothes such as his gray pants and a white jacket. The black, sleeveless vest being the only exception. A silver necklace hangs from his chest with an odd design unfamiliar to him.

Build: Though he is short, his build in muscularly toned with a light complexion.

Traits: Unknown to ( ), he suffers from a type of mechanical bi-polar disorder that often conflicts with his original programming.


http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/3435/10795579ug6.png


-- History --

An Android without a purpose. ( ) was discovered by accident in an abandoned warehouse which later proved to be a laboratory. Seto, the scientist who first found the discarded cyborg, collected the mechanical organism in secret from his comrades. After months of reconditioning in his private estate, the lone scientist completed work upon the now 'friendlier' android.

A close, family-like bond, was formed between the two and as was such until one month ago. Seto was murdered by an unknown assailant in the night. The only problem; ( ) was the only one with access to his quarters. After coming to terms with his only friends death, the android is left with only two purposes. To find out who killed Seto and who his original creator is.
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Just a start...

[Ruhiel]

Name: EU 003, "Ruhiel"
Age: 8 months
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 160 lbs
Race: Android

Appearance: Ruhiel's body type matches the exact specifications of a standard Combat Oriented (CO) android. Standing at exactly six feet, he is neither remarkably short, nor tall, and is neither shockingly underweight nor overweight. His physical appearance is that of a male human. His artificial hair is white, with a slightly blue tinge to it. His face is rather angular, and he has a fairly small, but sharp nose. He wears navy-blue and black attire, standard issue for CO androids.
Image: http://randomc.animeblogger.net/image/Bl...himaru.jpg

Bio: EU 003, codename "Ruhiel" is a modified Combat Oriented android. He was designed by several of the top engineers of a political-military organization known as the Basis League for a United Earth (BLUE), as an "EU" android, or "Evolutionary Unit" android. What exactly this means is yet unclear, as there is no evidence of an EU 001 or EU 002 ever existing. For all intents and purposes, EU 003, "Ruhiel," is merely an upgraded version of a CO android. Equipped with an optimized internal generator and vision capabilities, Ruhiel is designed for combat at high speeds. As with all androids, he possesses no detectable life signature, but he has also been outfitted with sound dampening devices in order to mask the sound of his movements. Ruhiel serves as part of the "influential" arm of BLUE, responsible for "removing" any problems or persons that might interfere with BLUE's goals. He is armed with a steel wakizashi for combat purposes.

Unlike most androids, Ruhiel was programmed to have a "personality" and a "conscious mind," or at least as far as a machine can have. These aspects are a small part as to why he was given the specification of an EU, but his designers also did so in order to allow him to appear more "human," which would be beneficial in the more covert missions he would embark upon. Regardless, despite his capability for personality, Ruhiel does not seem to have much of one. He acts very one-dimensionally, and places the completion of his missions above everything else. He does not seek to know his "greater purpose" in life, nor does he seem to care, as other androids given a "conscious mind" tend to do.

Ruhiel has proven to be very successful on the field, having successfully "removed" three targets that were proving to be a nuisance for BLUE, without leaving behind any traceable evidence. He is now on his fourth assignment, tracking his target in East City.
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Pretty straight-forward, but I intend to make a lot of changes to Ruhiel through storylines.

[Blue]

Nice.

[Kaden]

Way more androids than I was expecting.

Intriguing.

[Sage]

Cris and Pinocchio are very similar to Earl.

...That's kind of cool.

[Sullivan]

xD

And I was thinking of something similiar, that I was going to call Frank.

Kidding.

I like Shen. He's a pretty fresh concept, since most of us just magically have extremely adept use of ki from the start of our roleplays. Showing insight on how he gained the ability is pretty unique.

[Ander]

Android is the new saiyan. Where've you been?

[Tamsin]

Name: Amadeus Phoenix
Age: 21-25
Race: Human/Non-Transformer
Appearance: Most likely something like this

http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/...hiroth.jpg

History: When four fighters made the wish for a planet, Shenron did everything to make sure the planet would florish. It was thanks to this that Kajin Rala was capable of being terraformed into a natural paradise and that it enjoys peace and prosperity. But these actions resulted in a large mass of dark energy being gathered which was essentially the negative elements that the dragon god purged. Shenron sought for a way to get rid of this bulk, but thought it unwise to let it roam freely across the universe. In the end, he decided to release it all in the shape of a violent storm on Kajin Rala while the planet was relativly uninhabited. Although the god felt relieved to get rid of it, he felt great unreast when the storm ended all too quickly.

This abrupt ending had something to do with a certain boy. Amadeus Phoenix was born to a human couple on Earth. With his long hair and almost feminine beauty, he found it impossible to include himself in the often backwater society on the planet. But his own home wasn`t a safe haven either. His father was an alcoholic who beat and insulted him often while his mother was too weak both physically and mentally to protect her only child.

Plagued by enormous debt, the Phoenix family was among the first people to move to Kajin Rala. But life on the new planet didn`t turn out to be any better. Infact, a small community and a rationed living which were typical for the early civilised days of the planet made things even worse. Not being able to withstand further suffering, Amadeus ran out of their new home despite the storm that began raging at that time. He blindly ran into the unterraformed wasteland when he was struck by a lightning. But instead of immediatly stopping, it kept hitting the boy over and over again. After the storm has ceased, they found Amadeus unconscious and emitting smoke...but alive.

After days of recovery, Amadeus woke up and things soon returned to their regular ways. But that was quick to change. During one of his father`s abusive moments, the boy suffered a nervous breakdown and unwillingly unleashed the dark powers that were hid within him. The incident resulted in the deaths of both of his parents. Although the community took him in, they were still suspicious of the boy regarding the event since people were well aware of how the boy`s father treated him. Their fears were later confirmed. When a group of Saiyan boys decided to pick on him, the incident repeated itself. Although only one of the boys got hurt, the settlement grew to see the boy as a bad omen. Trying to avoid more aggresive options, they decided to send him back to Earth. He thus became the first person to be exiled from Kajin Rala.

Since the authorities on Earth were too busy with handling of colonist transports, Amadeus was left to his own devices. He traveled around, trying to survive as best as he could while regaining bits of self esteem that he lost due to his difficult life. Fate finnaly turned to his favour when he encountered an old martial artist by the name of Jackie Chun. The elderly human felt sorrow at the sight of the weak and broken person that he had encountered and decided to help the boy. Chun took Amadeus to his home on a lonely island. Besides offering him food and a home, Jackie made him his pupil and taught him the ways of martial arts and Ki. Over time, Amadeus grew both physically and mentally. The weak and shattered child grew into a strong and confident man. Suprisingly, Amadeus turned out to be very talented in the ways of martial arts and soon he was already capable of learning the hardest of techniques.

But his growth went over another path as well. While staying with Chun, he thought of the powers he unwillingly unleashed against his parents and the Saiyan bullies. Secretly, he attempted to release them by his own free will. Soon enough, his efforts finnaly brought results and the boy realised he wielded dark magics of incredible strength. To his enormous suprise, this new source of power excited him and he continued to experiment with it. The more he delved into these dark powers, the more his own personality was affected. Combined with his past experiences, he became a cruel and cunning mind which trailed further and further from the mindthough of his Sensei.

His period of training finnaly ended when he came to a realisation. The powers he had gained were given to him for a reason. This brought his mind back to the planet he was forced to leave from so many years ago. Kajin Rala was (in his thoughts) weak and decadent, but he had a gift. A gift to change the large planet and put it in it`s rightful place in the universe. With the help of his cunning and dark magic, he was capable of making Kajin Rala truly flourish.

This realisation created the final barrier that appeared between Chun and his pupil. Amadeus, determined to follow his new found goal, left the man who had helped him climb out of the wreck he was trapped in. Although the young man was grateful for this, he felt he was destined for greater things. And so he began his journey back to Kajin Rala. The peaceful and flourishing planet that things were about to change and nothing would remain the same ever again.

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Sorry for the long history. To make it short, I`m planning to make a wizard-like character who posseses both fighting skills and magic. As you see, I had given quite some thought into him. Hopefully, I will be much more succesfull with him then I was with Jackie.

So...what do you think?

[Celena]

Is that Sephiroth from FF? If it is, I don't know if you'd be able to use him. He's too big of a character. It's the equivalent to asking to use cloud strife as an image, which I did and was told "No" by a SM. So going off that, I don't think you'd be allowed. Let's here from others.

[Tamsin]

Is that Sephiroth from FF? If it is, I don't know if you'd be able to use him. He's too big of a character. It's the equivalent to asking to use cloud strife as an image, which I did and was told "No" by a SM. So going off that, I don't think you'd be allowed. Let's here from others.

The appearance isn`t final, really. I myself have doubts about using him as he is a bit too warrior-like. The reason why I was thinking of using Sephiroth pics is beacuse he would fit the DBZ universe more and has the wizard-fighter combo feel when you look at him. Plus, he preety much fits to the character I had layed down and has loads of pictures.

Were you asking that for Kirano? Beacuse Rad said we are preety unrestricted when it comes to customs. But if I still get rejected, I won`t complain. I wasn`t exactly set in stone on the issue myself.

But I would like to hear opinions on the character himself, not just his currently intended appearance. Any thoughts on that?