[hider=Lucas Ryder] [center][img] https://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/b3RmLjYwLmY1ZTIwZi5USFZqWVhNZ1VubGtaWEksLjAA/smoothy.regular.png [/img][/center] [center][img]-place character reference here[/img][/center] [center][h2][b]Head developer of Sowerberry[/b][/h2][/center] [h2][center]18/481 R.C║Zern Empire║Venusian║Male [/center][/h2][h3][b]Physical Appearance [/b][/h3] Lucas is tall and somewhat lanky for his age at 6 feet tall but is noticeably thin and devoid of both muscle and fat. His dirty blond hair is usually unkempt and sticking up, but before important events such as meetings he will at least wash and brush it. He has bright green eyes and somewhat sharp facial features that might make him look intense if he didn’t have a perpetual grin and easygoing personality While working on designs Lucas likes to wear plain shirts and shorts under a white lab coat, of which he owns several (it makes me feel like a scientist.) He has a nice white button-up shirt and pants for any formal events. He wears large circular glasses because of his poor eyesight [h3][b]Personality Traits: [/b][/h3] Somewhat socially awkward Easily distracted Creative History lover Animal lover Very friendly Easily stressed [h3][b]Biography:[/b][/h3] [color=fff79a]Hello fellow Martian Institute of Technology Education students! I’m Lucas Ryder. Let me tell you a bit about myself, and wish you luck in your endeavors. I was born in the year 481RC on Venus. My parents ran a family machine shop that worked on mobile workers in the area. It wasn’t very big or exciting, but it was the family business you know? I thought my destiny was to inherit it when I became an adult, and I was happy to. The neighborhood had all these documentaries and books on old earth in our library. Not many people seemed to want to check them out, but I loved them. I learned all about the animals that went extinct there and old earth history. I think that’s what inspired me to try and make my first creation I started helping around the shop when I was about six or seven years old, just retrieving parts and carrying messages from Mom to Dad and back. But the longer I was in the machine shop the more interested I became in all the machines that constantly surrounded me. One day I asked my parents if I could try and make something with some of our spare parts, and they agreed as long as they could keep an eye on me. It was like a budding artist getting their first easel and buckets of paint. All of these ideas came to mind, stuff like replicating bone structures and making my own sort of robot. It took a week before I decided that I wanted to make a quadruped. It took a few months and a lot of beta testing before it could even walk. Honestly, the robot was no use to anyone. It was too weak to lift anything and it didn’t have any of the equipment that would make it an effective miner, or repair bot. But it was baby’s first robot you know? I was proud of it, and from then on when I wasn’t repairing something I was happy to sit down and draw up designs and mess with spare parts. When I was eight, the machine shop closed down. We were in the way of some new factory or something, so the government stepped in, paid us a pittance for our machine shop, and then evicted us from it. A huge chunk of our money was gone the very next day getting us somewhere to stay. The rest withered away on food and amenities before we knew it. This was probably the darkest period in my life. I was too young to work but Mom and Dad could barely earn enough money to support all three of us. If it was just the two of them they would have been alright, but they had me to support as well. Sometimes one of them would go hungry just to make sure I was fed. When I was about twelve years old a mining company put out a request for a new servomotor design, with a huge prize for whoever made the best. I remembered my old tinkering days and decided to enter in secret I lost obviously. Since I was just one kid competing against teams of designers, but I did pretty well. Fourth place. I thought that would be the end of it, no monetary reward and I would return to the grind of living in poverty. Until I received an offer from the Outreach program, who had heard about me from the mining company: There wasn’t much to consider. I was going to be headed to top schools on Mars with unique research opportunities. More importantly, I would be cut off from my parents financially and they could support themselves without worrying about their leech of a son. So I got on the ship and set off I knew that the princess was sponsoring the program, but I didn’t expect to meet her soon after arriving on Mars. That only made it stranger when we touched down on Mars and she was there to greet all the new arrivals. Meeting her was a huge honor. Saying that I like the princess would be a huge understatement. She’s really kind and supportive, and you would think a princess would want nothing to do with the common folk but she seemed.... pretty personable. She asked everyone what our dreams were, and when I said something like “improving life for the people on Venus” she smiled and told me that was a wonderful dream Compared to my old life MIT was amazing. I had three meals a day, a comfortable room to call my own, and a database full of information at my fingertips. MIT wasn’t all fun and games though. I was homeschooled growing up, so I needed some remedial courses in some subjects, and the classroom setting stressed me out. If your grade drops too low on a merit scholarship it’s possible to lose it. This scholarship was the only thing keeping me from becoming a leech again. I took school pretty seriously. A few months ago I put in my Magnum Opus. The top robotics students were given grant money and more or less given free reign to put our minds to the test and design a tool or component for a mobile worker. I created a heavy-duty servomotor for mobile workers. It took some work but I think I did one of my best jobs yet. But there’s something that kinda bothers me…. They were walking about how my servomotors would be perfect for use in mobile suits, weapons. The princess always said violence wasn’t the answer but... The offer for the project is too good to pass up. I’ll do my best this one time, even if it is for a weapon. If I make something good enough to patent, I won’t have to worry about money anymore, I can send some home to Mom and Dad. I won’t have to accept projects unless I want to... Anyways sorry for talking everyone’s ears off. I just thought I would send this out to all the new and returning students before I set off for my project. Let’s all do our best to study hard and create a good future. From Lucas Ryder.[/color] [h3][b]Skills and Abilities[/b][/h3] Mechanical affinity: Lucas has an affinity for all things mechanical, mobile workers, mobile suits and all of their smaller components. He can easily work with them in order to repair and construct similar mechanical objects, although his specialty is in the direct weight and movement of such pieces. Martian Institute of Technology Education: Lucas has been educated by one of Mars’s top schools in the fields of engineering and mechanics. His base affinity and knowledge of mechanics has been enhanced by this education to make him a truly talented designer Unorthodox designs: Lucas has a certain… talent for designs that on the outset make little sense or are mostly unrelated to previous designs. According to him, his first leg was designed after extensive study on the bone structures of people and animals from old earth. Apparently he likes turning to the past to come up with ideas for the future... [h3][b]Personal Items and Equipment[/b][/h3] Personal Laptop: Lucas’s personal laptop holds a lot of information about all his projects old and new. It’s also what he uses for a lot of his design and research work. It’s very important to him and it would be a real shame if it got stolen or hacked... [h3][b]Strengths and Weaknesses[/b][/h3] Lucas is a mobile suit designing prodigy with a lot of very unorthodox ideas and designs that might lead to revolutions in mechanics. In particular, he’s already produced an extremely powerful servomotor and design for Sowerberry Gundam’s armor bared around mechanical movement. After all, that’s his specialty Lucas’s main problem when it comes to design is his tendency to start with an idea, and then have to do extensive testing to get it to even remotely have a chance of working. It’s not unusual for him to run through a dozen ideas before he strikes one that has some promise. Aside from that, Lucas is a tall and scrawny nerd without most of the traits that make someone an effective pilot or soldier [h3][b]Chosen Mobile Weapon[/b][/h3] None [/hider]