@BrassOtterYou've not been forgotten, but Eve was the first bro, and is also important to see if Reggie's going to be a bit of a social recluse or not when he meets Carmen.
@PathfinderI know it's a bit of a stretch, but I figure that if Gem tech is just lying around, human society has to be a little bit more advanced then what we're given on the show(you know companies and governments would be all over that stuff) and I wanted to play around with this, but not make him a full half gem. Like, I know it'd be easier, but I like the dynamic that comes from Reggie being not only created and lid to about it, but also a surrogate for his father in place of his real son, one that he spurns the more he shows off his talents due to the fact that it reminds him of the fact that he isn't the son the man last.
@PathfinderYeah, he was a shitty dad before too, focusing more on work and his company then his son, which is why his son went away. It's not that he doesn't care for him, but the way he thought he showed it was through providing for his son and giving him the best of everything he could want. . . except his time. Now it's like the professor Dad from Astro-Boy, where he takes in a creation to act as a surrogate, only to realize the surrogate can't replace what he's lost, and instead of accepting it, he pushes them away or gives them empty praise that amounts to nothing more than a "good job Reginald".
I dunno, it seems to me that a lot of Gem tech is gem activated only, plus while they got hella science they also have a bunch of magic going on as well. Unless humanity finds a way to data mine Gem computers I don't think they'd get much out of the actual stuff that was left laying around. Besides weapons, don't see why humanity didn't find all of this Gem weapons and be like, "Hey, let's turn this impossibly sharp weapons into bullets to fend off the Monsters that show up to wreck our families every once and awhile."
@PathfinderTrue . . . but I like this idea, and it doesn't work the sam way if they're a regular half-gem. *Sigh* Guess I'll just have to wait to see what Kronshi says. He's got the final verdict and everything.
Seraphinite" "I don't need a paternal or maternal figure. I'm well enough on my own, thank you very much." *walks off in random direction, smacks right into a tree* "I meant to do that!"
@Raijinslayer As soon as Eise gets over the shock of waking up 5,000 years later she's going to be the best Old Tired Sad Dad, she freakin loves kids and will do pretty much ANYTHING to protect newborns.
@KronshiOkay, no problem. I figured it was a bit of a stretch, but still wanted to float it by, see if it could be worked out in someway. But if it's a no-go, it's a no-go.
Ever since she was a young child, Eliza was fascinated with old fables, myths, and the paranormal. some ranging from mostly fantasy to a tad morbid. One old fable she read upon was about aliens that weren't like the ones in sci-fi movies and novels, but we're just like humans, called gems. Fascinated by them, she began research on them for a few years of her life.
Eliza did have two eyes once, but an incident with a knife caused her to need an eyepatch for who-knows-how-long. In the aftermath, she once accidentally mistaken a blood-pack for a juice box in the hospital. She wasn't fazed by it and went away to continue research, growing a bit of a habit of drinking blood packs.
When she was 18, she moved to Crystalisis and finally encounters some gems..well, more like she fainted..not a good first 'hello'.
Reggie: "Um. . . please tell me that's just a really morbid Caprisun pouch? Otherwise I think i'm going to either vomit or faint. . . actually, I'll probably do both."
Reggie: . . . Not Caprisun . . .got it. If anyone needs me, I'll be off inventing a UV emitting cross that runs on Garlic powder. Oh, and vomiting in that trash can caose THAT'S FUCKING DISGUSTING, OH MY GOD!!!!!! *Reggie goes off to emprty the contents of his stomach.*
Here's the base with Eve not in it, as I realized that most of the change in behavior will be in the I.C. and in interactions with Marcus.
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Name:Reginald Alexander Dorvain Age: 21 Appearance:
Bio TBW, as I have to talk to Loony a bit to see if we're still going with #1 brOTP of Eve and Reggie.
Reggie is the super-genius son of the current technology mogul, Marcus Dorvain. He was born with a almost super-human talent for understanding, redefining, and conceptualizing technologies, one that grew more and more prominent as he grew. In the early stages of his life, there were little, if any problems. While his father was rather distant and played little into his son's life, Reggie's elder brother Percival(or Percy, as he liked to be called) filled in the role well enough. An army man, he was somebody who Reggie absolutely idolized in his youth, and such made it all the more heart-wrenching when he heard about how his brother died while on duty in the middle east from an I.E.D explosion. Struck with grief, 8-year old Reggie went to his father for comfort, only to be rebutted with a cold look and dismissive turn. Ever since that day, Reggie has tried desperately to get his father's attention and praise with his inventions, trying day after day to gain something from the old man. However, all he got was empty words and money thrown his way, never any of the love of affection that he so deeply craved. To this day, Reggie has never heard his father even him address him as 'Son', not once, and while he likes to act like his father's attitude doesn't bother him, it was the original driving force for his inventing and will always be a thorn in his side. Speaking of inventing, Reggie is great at it, great at reverse engineering gem-tech as well. He has a knack for figuring out how the systems work, especially after he used a dusty old gem fragment he found to produce his Gem Interface matrix, a glove that he always wears which allows him to trick the system's into think ing he's a gem by using the energy signature of the shard. Early renditions of the device were finicky, however, and even nowadays, it's a bit of a crap-shoot as to whether or not the thing will even work at all. This device, which won his father national prestige and fame because you can't say that a 16 year-old was able to make such a thing, is something that he keeps the plans to locked away tight in his head, no matter how much people ask him for. Reason? Gem Tech is some scary shit, and he doesn't trust any of the corporate head honcho's all over the world to gain access to it. That being said, he still helps his dad with integrating these systems into American Military. He does this because A)if he's cooperative, he doesn't have to worry about getting kidnapped by our government and other governments, and B) daddy issues. He really does this all to please his dad in some way or another, though in recent years, he's kind of grown detached from this desire, beginning to see how pointless it all really is, as well as how much he's kinda suffered as a human being because of his obsession.
Which brings us to Reggie's school life, which was terrible whenever he went almost all the time. You see, being as smart as Reggie was, he was often ahead of everyone else in the class, and goofed off a lot because of boredom. This caused teachers to think he was begin difficult and to instantly dislike him. It also led to him either getting bullied a lot by other kids who felt inferior or felt that he was using his daddy's money to get by in life, or to get used by others. Throughout his school career, he was often either the butt of some cruel joke or prank, or being led around by some cheerleaders or muscle heads who said they wanted to be 'friends' but just stuck him with their homework and were waiting for him to inherit his father's fortune. School sucked and, by entering middle school, he was about ready to just drop-out and go work in his lab forever. . . that is, until he met his friend Carmen, a fellow inventor of things, as well as a fellow outcast because of him being an albino, among other things. It started off with Reggie making what was likely some offensive comment about how Carmen looked like a Gem, and spiraled into life-long friendship. Carmen, being more social-grounded then Reggie could ever hope to be, helped him come out of his shell and gradually ge tmore comfortable talking with people, though he never quite lost his quirks. In return, Reggie gave Carmen lot's of advice, resources for building cool shit, and connections to cool intern ships, as well as first dibs on trying out some of his cooler stuff. Said stuff also comes with the propensity for exploding and or back-firing a bit or causing strange, usually temporary side-effects, however, so it was something best left denied when whatever gizmo he worked up seemed a bit fishy. Any way, with both of them now in college, Reggie more so he can hang out with Carmen then anything else, they compete in all manner of cool projects together. One of the latest was using old gem-tech Reggie had found in a nearby kindergarten to make an improved hover-board of sorts. It's still in the testing phase, but results have been promising and the need to wear safety gear diminishing. Unfortunately, Reggie still needs a few things to make the hover-board really work right, and that going to require more forays into the Kindergarten. Eh, what's the worst that could possible happen, these places have been dead for centuries, if not millennia. The chance of anything bad happening on this trip were just overwhelming miniscule . . so why did he still have a bad feeling in his chest. Other:
Gear:
Gem Interface Matrix: Let's him use Gem stuff around 45-50% of the time
Hover-board prototype: Good for short distance travel or when you need to make a jump, but still a bit finicky at the best of times, so relying on it to run from a monster, not a good idea.
Gem-boosted Taser gun: Take Taser gun, plug in Gem Power crystal, watch as watermelons get blown to bits, wonder why you haven't destroyed it yet, remember that popping watermelons is fun.
Can of Pepper-Spray: Because the Taser is out of the question for any non-fruit/vegetable he comes across.
Cutting Edge gaming laptop: Top of the line with graphics so fine
Handy-haversack: Not a real handy-haver sack, you've yet to invent that. However, it does auto-organize things for you, so that's cool. Full of books, various tools for scavenging gem tech, and a book on gem identification, so he can see if he can identify any loose shards he finds.
@PathfinderSleep is for the sane. Anyway, since I just got a talking to from my Grandpa, that'll be enough computer stuff for me tonight. Hope sleep comes to you Path, really do.
