Promotions! [hider=Rika, the ascended NPC] [center][h1][color=Aqua] Rika[/color][/h1][/center] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/YS0zaGy.png[/img][/center] [color=Aqua]Game Origin:[/color] Kancolle [color=Aqua]Personality: [/color] Rita started as something of a blank slate, containing blind military obedience and little else. Work from her friends and the influence of fusion has filled this out somewhat. Her main defining trait that is all her own would be curiosity, the ship girl always eager for new experiences and information. She also has developed quite the sweet tooth for candy and desserts, but when it comes to main meals will actively try to taste test anything and everything she can. Rika cares deeply about her friends, a fair bit about other former abyssals, but is a bit dissociative when it comes to strangers, and has basically zero qualms about using violence against them. Generally won’t jump to said violence without orders or a direct threat however. After absorbing Brachydios her personality has gotten more assertive with a hotter temper, and an always-outdoor voice. After absorbing Mikuma her personality has gotten more quiet (basically evening out with Brachydios) and obliging. After absorbing the Pacific Princess, she has become somewhat more solemn and strict. [color=Aqua]Appearance:[/color] Rika started out as an average young woman with pale skin, a black bob cut, and eyes whose colors are hidden by an orange flame aura wafting off of them when calm, and a streaming streak of neon blue when she is exerting herself. Her arms have two large head-like gauntlets strapped to them, which are connected by cables to ports on her upper back. These used to be unremovable, but work with a fusion cutter freed her from them, and now they are held in place by clasps. Rita started off with a bear minimum black bikini, but swiftly acquired an [url=https://i.imgur.com/a7KoHZH.png]actual outfit[/url] from Limsa Lominscuttle Town consisting of a sturdy pair of black buckled boots adored her feet, while her legs and waist were covered in a red knee length skirt, while her upper half was wrapped in a black jacket studded with brass buttons [url=http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/monsterhunter/images/e/ef/MHSP-Brachydios_Render_001.png]Brachydios[/url]: The host has gotten taller and more muscular, with more pronounced fangs, a large and bright green tongue, and red eyes. Her hair is dark blue and very spiky, enough so that it’s hard to wear hats, and from the left side of her forehead rises a single, thick horn, flanged like a mace.The black parts of her outfit now feature blue scale padding, and the skirt exhibits equidistant blades. Her gauntlets resemble Brachydios heads, complete with slime horns for punching, inladen mouths of freaky human teeth, and built-in cannons within the mouths. [url=https://i.imgur.com/u9XglmF.png][b]Mikuma[/b][/url]: The host’s spiky dark blue hair has gotten longer and more flowing with pronounced streaks of white, with a single bun in the back on top of her hair. Her skin tone is no longer Abyssal pale. From the right side of her forehead extends a conical, flesh-colored horn. Her padded black jacket is now undone, and rests over a white halter top and elegant white sleeves. Her skirt is shorter and the blades are smaller. She also has white stockings and red ship-shaped sandals. One of her gauntlets has become a heavy Brachydios-head rifle with an underslung blade. [url=https://imgur.com/dA43tVS]Pacific Princess[/url]: The host is still taller yet more slender, with shorter hair that’s become white throughout except for a few inches of dark blue toward the tips. Her red eyes now have lavender splashes around the pupils. Her black jacket has become more of a blue-bladed cape and has gained a white interior, which is a design duplicated as coattails that descend from her shirt, which is now more of a formal tank top. Her sandals are now heeled shoes, as well. Then she acquired a [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/xenoblade/images/1/17/Fancy_Sundress_Nia.png]Fancy sundress[/url] which she has donned while keeping her jacket and boots equipped. [color=Aqua]Background:[/color] Once a member of the Abyssal Fleet, Rika has barely any memory of her time as a nameless grunt among their ranks, either before the world of light or after. Her first real memories are from after the magikoopa Kamek captured her and then freed her from galee’s influence, and by extension the fleet’s indoctrination. The koopa had intended to interrogate her on the nature of the fleet’s forces and ability to resurrect their fallen ships, but Sakura having freed the comparative and more knowledgeable seaplane tender Bella at the same time made this rather redundant. She ended up being more or less just adopted into the Koopa Troop, with first Kamek and then also Bowser taking responsibility for her wellbeing as a new and valued member/minion of their crew. She’s been palling around with them ever since. [b][color=Aqua]Specialty:[/color][/b] Battle Cruiser: On the water, Rika is a highly maneuverable weapons platform, gliding across the surface of the waves while unleashing vast amounts of firepower. On land she is much the same, though her mobility is limited to foot slogging. [b][color=Aqua]Level:[/color][/b] 5 [b][color=Aqua]Experience:[/color][/b] [color=Aqua]-[/color]////////////////////////////////////////////////// (0/50) [b][color=Aqua]Powers:[/color][/b] [list] [*]Deployable Reconnaissance Planes: Rika can deploy a pair of remote control plane sized [url=https://i.imgur.com/DepMuNJ.png]Abyssal Reconnaissance Planes[/url], one from each gauntlet. While these little planes do have a weak pistol grade gun on them, their main advantage is the fact that they relay scouting and targeting information back to Rika. The gauntlets can repair/build replacement planes if provided relevant components, such as from a dispenser, but only have the housing and coms bandwidth to support one each. [*]Blastscourge(Brachydios): allows her to exude a slime from her horns and gauntlets. Once activated by her saliva, the slime will explode after a few seconds if parted from her, or if she’s very angry, on contact with a target. [*]Ship Shaped(Mikuma): gives a set of rigging in the form of two arms that terminate in hull-blades, with a tri-barrel cannon emplacement on each elbow. As long as the rigging is equipped, the host can skate across the surface of water. [*] Moby Dick(Pacific Princess): allowing the host to spend a great deal of life force to summon a White Whale. The White Whale is very strong, especially its jaws, and can follow basic orders, including firing its cannons. The White Whale, once summoned, is a physical being and will only disappear if killed or a new one is summoned. It also must move around manually. [/list] [b][color=Aqua]Strengths:[/color][/b] [list] [*]Arm Cannons: Rika has a set of massive gun gauntlets strapped to her arms. Despite their weight and her less than muscular arms she can still hold them up thanks to antigravity modules built into them and powered via cables attached to her back (she also uses these to help walk on land and get some floaty jumps too). One houses a 8inch Triple Gun and the other a 6inch Twin Rapid Fire Gun. They also have impressive ammo stores that defy their conventional size. As these are functionally part of her, they can be modified by fusions. [*] Ship Girl Physiology: Rika can glide across, or rather just above, liquid surfaces, able to hover to and fro via just her will. She also has the inhuman vitality and resilience needed to be able to take at least a few hits from ship girl grade weapons. [*] Military Subordinate: Rika was a more or less unthinking soldier as part of the abyssal fleet and while she is her own person now, she still has the instincts from back then. Rika is a decent enough fighter at even just an instinctual level, and has a knack for following orders and plans swiftly and efficiently. [*]Stronger Together(Maw): The experience within the Maw has brought her closer together both with those that shared the experience with her. She gains increased confidence and constitution when in close proximity to other survivors of the Maw, knowing that they can trust their backs to be watched, and going the extra mile to make sure they can do the same. [*]Famine(Maw): While hungry, gain speed boost and stamina regain that ramp up the hungrier you are [/list] [b][color=Aqua]Weaknesses: [/color][/b] [list] [*]Born yesterday: Rika has only been an actual person for a handful of days and is as a result currently going through a crash course on how to be a person. Her main mentors being the self declared bad guys of the Koopa Troop is probably skewing her perspectives and priorities quite a bit too. Very susceptible to being tricked and outmaneuvered in social situations. [*] Beached: Rika is a ship in the shape of a girl, and was not built to be on land. She is relying on the antigravity in her gauntlet’s to keep herself upright while on land, and those failing will massively cripple her maneuverability. [*] Aqua Bane(Brachydios): giving her a mild weakness to water-based or aspected weapons and attacks plus a more severe one to ice [*]Little Sister(Mikuma): making her more susceptible to intimidation and mental attacks. [*]No Surrender(Pacific Princess): Rika is unwilling to accept defeat [*]Supernatural separation anxiety (Maw): If unity is strength then separation is weakness and the Maw has taught that weakness will not be tolerated. Those with this curse become increasingly agitated, nervous and jumpy without someone around to watch their back as the horrors of the Maw supernaturally claw their way out of the depths of their memories to assail them with reminders of their vulnerability and visions of false horrors in the shadows. Most extreme when out on their own, but even becoming separated slightly in a battle can cause the fear to start creeping in. (Minions, such as summons or pokemon, provide only a coping mechanism rather than a solution to this problem). [/list] [b][color=Aqua]Strikers:[/color][/b] [list] [*] none [/list] [b][color=Aqua]Kindred Spirits:[/color][/b] [list] [*] John Bradford Aka Central: Head of Logistics and right hand man of the Commander of Xcom [*]Anatoly Cherdenko: Time traveling assassin, Premier of the Ussr, probably presently escaping to the one place not corrupted by capitalism. [*]Kane: The enigmatic leader of the Brotherhood of Nod, self-proclaimed prophet, and most magnificent of bastards [/list] [b][color=Aqua]Inventory: [/color][/b] [list] [*][b]Souls x 400[/b]: A sort of ephemeral quantity bound to oneself, immaterial and conferring no burden. Souls, sen, runes, echoes, scrap, geo, widgets, haze...whatever you call them, they are a universal currency that, if not usable outright, can at least be exchanged most anywhere. But beware: death will drop one’s whole sum on the ground for others to collect [*][b][url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kidicarus/images/5/57/Poisoncardart.png]Poison Card[/url][/b] - [i]When applies to a weapon, allows the weapon to build up and then inflict poison on struck targets.[/i] Applied to her rifle, causing it's bullets and bayonet to inflict a stacking poison dot. [*][b][url=https://imgur.com/9Zo9qhE]Antidote[/url][/b] A dependable cure for poison, if you can get past the taste [*][b][url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/xenoblade/images/1/17/Fancy_Sundress_Nia.png]Fancy sundress[/url][/b]: exactly what it says on the tin. No special properties other than being cute. [*][b][url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wizardoflegend_gamepedia_en/images/4/44/Dated_Sunglasses.png]Dated Sunglasses[/url][/b]: a pair of dark sunglasses reminiscent of those from a certain fill series. When the wear dodges these produce an invisible field 5ft around the user, which slows hostile projectiles by 30%, making it easier to avoid getting shot. 500 souls remaining [*][b]Treats[/b]: assorted goodies for the sweet toothed ship girl [/list] [/hider]