"We don't have to finish this duel you know." Dan said as he drew a card signaling the start of his turn. The bully from his younger years decided to have a rematch in the center of the cafeteria after 'buying a bunch of strong cards', but he had been loosing and the duel in total had taken about 15 minutes. Truthfully Dan was kinda hungry and wanted to finish his lunch, but at the same time he didn't want someone to be embarrassed so completely. "You have a chance to save some face, if you surrender before even more people arrive.."
"Shut the fu-" The bully had started to yell back but Dan quickly interrupted him with his own shouting.
"I'm sorry but I can't let you finish that!" The card he had just pulled was O-Oversoul, he could use this to bring back Elemental HERO Neos from the grave, but his opponent only had once face down and only 1900 life points left, Daniel could use Elemental HERO Neos Alius to finish him instead since he was already on the field. The face down could be a trap, so I'll use mst to trip it to make it safe for my monsters. "I'm not taking any chances with you, I activate Mystical Space Typhoon!" Daniel shouted as he placed the card down onto his generic duel disk. A giant storm of lighting and thunder swept over the holographic field destroying the trap card, it turned out to be mirror force. Good call Daniel. Daniel kept the O-Oversoul in his hand and continued his turn. "Elemental Hero Neos Alius, attack with solar flare finish!" The monster let out a loud grunting before flying over to his enemy and smashing a giant orb of light on him.
"Nnnoooo!" The former bully had lost all his life points, but with no extra damage.
"Hey look at Daniel's hand, he had O-Oversoul!"
"So?"
"So he coulda smashed Jason with even more damage by bringing back his stronger Neos!"
Various expressions of surprise and awe passed around the two spectators and those around them, eventually spreading through out the room. But Daniel quickly rushed back to his seat, lunch would be over in 5 minutes and he hadn't finished his chicken nuggets, he quickly scarfed them down, completely forgetting about the duel.
3 Hours later, after school ended Daniel returned home, his brother had been strangely sick for the last few weeks so Dan decided to skip his after school activities to tend to him.
"You always had the stronger body, if I g-"
But Dan was interrupted by his brother Diego. "Don't worry about it." Diego let loose a series of coughs before continuing. "Listen, I-I got an e-mail earlier last week about a tournament, I had already agreed to join it but..." Diego intentionally paused, but it seemed as though Dan hadn't noticed and continued for him.
"I'll go in your place, I'll fulfill your obligation for you!" Dan shouted, his concern was very obvious, after hearing this Diego smiled on the inside.
"Thank you, according to the time they should be here soon." And as if on cue the Doorbell rung. "Be safe, Daniel." Diego said after coughing again several times.
"I will." Daniel left after tucking in his brother and answered the door. In front of him was an older woman holding a folder in front of her, she was a little bit taller than him, but she showed him a polite smile as he answered.
"Hello, Is there a Diego Cooper in the house?"
"Yes, that's me."
The woman looked at a photo in her folder, becoming confused.
"I look older in photos."
The woman still looked as if she doubted him, but after a minute she closed her folder. "Alright come with me, I'm here to escort you." After she said that she led the way to a white suv, and Daniel followed in after her.
Back inside the house Diego stood up, completely ignoring the sheets, and began to apparently speak to himself. "Do you think they'll televise this?"
@Raddum Well, like I said, I can cope; I have about 4 cards in the deck for effect destruction. (Not a lot, I know. But it works decently.) So I'm not TOO bothered. It's just that it'll be a pain to get rid of xD (Which I guess kind of makes sense for a guardian card)
(And of course our 2 hero players have their guardians as hero monsters, so what with the whole born to do this thing. But I'm not going to start that again.)
Well excuuuuse me princess.
I'm going with the whole "Hero is just a title" excuse, also we have machine guardian monsters. I know you said you were done but I have to defend myself too ya'know
Alright so I know I was just joking about the whole heads/tails thing, but I went and did it. I got 2/3 heads, which means Dan becomes a gentleman, or as best as I can do.
I like @Raddum's idea of Japanese characters speaking with honorifics(-san, -sama, -chan, etc.) and Americans/English/Whatever speaking normally, so let's go with that.
I wasn't really being serious but I'm glad we got that out of the way anyways, they say poor communication can be your downfall.
I'm mostly just here to talk about people's submitted shit, but you guys mostly do that before I get around to it anyways, so it doesn't really mean anything. It really doesn't mean shit because Garland has the final say regardless, so...
*shrug*
Listen man, I appreciate what you do.
Also while we're waiting let's establish some things. Since some of us have "foreign" characters, like mine, let's decide on a language. Are we all speaking japanese, english, yugioh?
Age: His new body is about 3 years old, but he has been around since the later years of the Era of Peace
Sex:Attack Jet Male
Height:6’5
Weight: 310
Alignment: Chaotic neutral
Character Personality: Astra takes up a friendly attitude around his fellow steelwalker’s, presenting himself as a cheerful being with a good sense of humor, personality traits that have evolved with his own kind’s evolution. Shortly after his reformatting he attained an impulsive edge to his personality, along with a slight sense of insecurity about just how well his body will perform in the field and desires to prove himself.
Casual Appearance:
Battlefield Appearance: Varies, in aerial combat it transforms into a jet, the blade becomes the nose, and the feet rotate around to become a part of the boosters. If he wants to use his gun his blade splits down the middle to reveal the cannon.
Origin Story:
Unit L1AM-77, Astra, was originally a support unit sent out to repair and to study their warp tower. This faction of steelwalkers wanted to experiment and replicate warp technology for their own use. Although they are unable to replicate the technology as it is in a cost effective way, they have been able to invent new technology because of it. Thanks to Astra’s efforts they were able to revolutionize themselves with a new found power source; they used this to enhance their factories, and themselves past any standard before. But after the Era of Strife increased volcanic activity and disasters of all kinds plagued the land these steelwalker’s decided to leave the land behind and sought to roam the skies instead of being left to uncontrollable conditions on the ground.
Using their new power source and the technology that came with it they constructed a massive air-ship to reside upon, although it was not as fast as the members onboard it would be fast enough to traverse continents and to avoid incoming disasters, and with it being airborne they weren’t as vulnerable to the unstable land beneath them as they once were. Astra worked extensively with his fellow construction and support units to help construct it, during the process newer more efficient units were introduced in order to help service this new vessel. With many steelwalker’s finding themselves outmatched and underperforming the upper echelon of this faction, known as the Source Council, decided to reformat and retrofit most of their most outdated vehicles and units.
Astra was one of the steelwalker’s chosen to undergo this new technique; instead of producing more of the many newer support units they instead decided that they would need a new force to explore the world. With this in mind L1AM-77 was chosen to become a part of the new scout class, keeping in line with their ideals of upgrading, they decided to experiment and gave Astra a variable transforming body. Along with his nimble “robot” mode, he would also be given a fast attack craft as his secondary mode to help him avoid trouble zones and traverse the planet more quickly. Now Astra fulfills his role with the same vigor as any of his other model mates and accompanies this new air-ship as they roam from one resource spot to the next.
Transforming: Due to his new experimental body Astra can change forms; from “man” to “jet” he has an advantage not many can boast about.
Attributes: (All Traits are at Maximum Effort, keep this in mind.)
Strength: With the more nimble scout body Astra cannot lift or hit as hard his others of his kind and can only manage about 5 tons.
Speed: In his robot mode he can accelerate to about 60mph, and in his hover mode he can “ski” with the rockets embedded in his feet and move to 100mph. In his jet mode he can reach top speeds of about 700mph, but reaching such speeds was not the intended purpose of his body and will need to recharge and repair afterwards depending on how long he spends going at these speeds.
Reaction Time: His reflexes can reach up to 50x normal levels
Endurance: Astra prefers to perform maintenance and recharge every 24 hours, but his Bridanium power source will let him operate in harsh conditions for 48 hours.
Agility: 50x Human levels
Intelligence: He can enhance what he knows at any time by using the central data net hub back at his mother ship, but outside of that his purpose is to record and explore and therefore only has average intelligence levels.
Combat Skill: Skilled, performed combat simulations back on the mother ship.
Technical Skill: Skilled enough to operate his own systems, perform maintenance, and limited repair knowledge. He also has a vague knowledge of other machines due to his experience as a support/repair unit earlier in his life.
Equipment:
Mechanical Body: Thanks to Astra being a steelwalker his body can withstand punishment and conditions no other living thing could, it also possesses more than 96 points of articulation thanks to its Variable Alternating Transfer System, or VATS
HF-Blade: Astra has a mounted blade on his arm that vibrates at high speeds that lets it cut through even his fellow steelwalker’s with some effort; the blade also becomes the nose of his “fighter” mode.
Plasma Cannon: A rapid-fire plasma cannon embedded inside the HF-Blade, it reveals itself by splitting the blade in half. It fires bolts of energy that melt down his targets, but it’s power is weaker than his more offensively orientated allies and would take a few shots to take out a fellow steelwalker.
Booster Jets: Booster jets on the bottom of his feet allow him to swiftly cover ground in his humanoid form, and they become a portion of his main thruster power in his fighter mode.
Alternating Identifying Distinguishing System : His sensor module has multiple “visor’s” ranging from night-vision to infra-red to help him identify trouble spots and resource rich areas to report back to the mothership.
Detailed Identifying Concentrated Scanning System: The advanced sensor modules the L1AM class scouts possess need a minute of concentration on the target to scan and upload to the mothership.
Low Grade Forcefield: A force-field generator powered by Bridanium, the power source discovered from their warp research. The force-field isn't as strong as the motherships but it can repel low tier attacks like stone throwing, but it mostly serves to soften blows.
Resources: Minimal, he can use his body and whatever he takes with him
Supporting Characters: Source Council, Central Computer/Unit 1-0, fellow steelwalkers from the mothership.
Do you know how to post pictures?:Probably
What is best in life?:Something about maiming your enemies and the lamentations of women? Sample Post (Minimum four paragraphs, doesn't have to pertain to the roleplay.):
The corridors of the mothership were big in order to service the many different types of steelwalker’s within, from tiny maintenance workers, to larger tank like beings that needed to move around occasionally, but it never seemed cramped. And the crew wasn’t made up of mindless automatons, the steelwalker’s had advanced ai’s that have been evolving ever since they were created, emerging with their own varying personalities.