HHShetland

The Hidden People

Huh, I remember this RP. Didn't get into it the first time, but now I think I have a nice little idea.

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This was getting rather boring. Which was quite something for a man in this situation. Any man in this situation, let alone one like Rugal.

One would think he'd be right at home doing this. He had been ordered by his TEMPORARY superiors (that he was, of course, playing for fools, because to do otherwise would just be stupid) to just sit around doing nothing. In the middle of this deserted cafeteria that had been converted into a throne room-slash-fighting arena of sorts.

He sat at a chair which seemed to resemble a very expensive desk chair, taken from elsewhere on the site, with his usual slouch of confidence, though it was edging into a slouch of boredom, the way he was resting his head on his fist. He quite frequently found himself reaching down to pet his Panther, Rodem, only to remember that Rodem wasn't there. Whatever happened to Rodem, anyway? They better not have put him in a zoo, he thought. They would pay with their lives if they put him in a zoo.

This wasn't to say he had no pets. Just ahead of him were a pair of strange worm-colony creatures packed into vaguely humanoid armour and toting large, glowing cannons. Earlier, he had tried to get these creatures to shoot something, if only so he could gauge what kind of weapon it was and how valuable they might be, but they didn't listen. The fools. This was precisely why he preferred fighting solo; so he wouldn't have to put up with temperamental and unstable and betrayal-happy henchmen. Just like those two dirty secretaries he had hired. The thought of them made him grip the side of his seat in irritation.

@Sodium

Thankfully, however, this was soon broken very suddenly. The faint but distinct muffled sound of an explosion went off... somewhere else in the facility. The noise made Rugal sit up in his seat, and the two worm creatures started stirring. They started communicating with each other, in some low-pitched garbled 'language'.

Rugal was about to sit up and demand that they both investigate at once, but then he remembered two things: one, the book he'd been reading told him that backup is a valuable thing, even when you're as capable a man as he. Two, there were multiple cameras lining the room, giving the audience a good view of the eeeeeevil level boss sitting and plotting on his throne, flanked by eeeeevil alien bodyguards. It wouldn't look good if any of them left. It would ruin the atmosphere.

He sat back and smirked to himself. He had this all figured out.

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Name: Rugal Bernstein.
Universe: The King Of Fighters.
Canon or OC: Cannon, with some AU elements personality-wise.

Appearance:

Rugal Bernstein: The Original Cheap-ass Fighting Game Boss.

Age: ???
Personality: Unlike quite a few of the villains of his universe, Rugal is, quite simply, a very cruel man. He holds little, if any, value in human life, enabling him to casually murder anyone who provides even a vague sense of annoyance towards him. He has no noble goals, only wishing to attain as much power as possible. He's also very big on personal combat, to the point that, on two occasions, he held a worldwide fighting tournament just so that he could prove he was more powerful than the winner.

However, things have changed a bit since his in-prison epiphany. He's realised, for a start, that needlessly executing one's own servants for minor goofs and being very up-front and shameless about the whole 'villainy' thing tends to go down badly with higher peacekeeping authorities. He's also realised that being such a sore loser that you're willing to blow up your own (ludicrously expensive) aircraft carrier and draw upon so much forbidden power that you nearly die, all because you got beaten by a Teenager (who you invited to beat you up in the first place), is also not a very good idea. Thus, he has resolved to act a bit nicer; the key word being 'act'. That being said, he hasn't lost his sarcastic streak, and will always poke fun at his opponents' various flaws with glee. As far as bad guys go, Rugal considers himself a barrel of laughs. :V

Abilities: After his second loss to the Kusanagis and subsequent 'death', Rugal has lost all of his stolen Orochi powers, meaning that he is no longer the embodiment of a ludicrously overpowered Fighting Game Boss. However, even without the Orochi power, he is still a master hand-to-hand combatant, being capable of handily defeating squads of soldiers with his bare hands. He also possesses a superior tactical sense, enabling him to closely analyse his opponent's fighting style and counter their attacks, which makes up for ordinary human weaknesses you'd have when outnumbered against armed opponents.

Befitting a character from a fighting game, he has access to a selection of special attacks, including:
Reppu Ken: A ground-bound projectile which takes the form of a purple blast of Ki energy which skittles along the floor; this was a technique he 'appropriated' from Southtown crimelord Geese Howard.
Dark Barrier: A green energy-based shield of sorts, this enables him to reflect certain projectiles back at their sender, or outright destroy them if they're made of solid materials, like bullets. He also has an offensive variation, the Dark Smash, which is an airborne attack.
God Press: A more 'mundane' attack, as far as Rugal goes, which has him dash at the opponent at great speed and grab them by the face before slamming them into a wall on the opposite of the stage room with a small explosion. He also has access to a more powerful variation.
Genocide Cutter: Rugal's signature move, this has him jump and perform a very wide circular Axe Kick which creates a sharp 'blade' of air in its wake, cutting all who come in contact, hence the name. He is capable of performing two in a row, plus a follow-up flip-kick which for some reason I can't find a gif for.

However, due to the loss of his Orochi power, using these attacks too much will leave him famished, and he's lost (or perhaps wilfully discarded, it's unclear) some of his more power-intensive moves, such as the Kaiser Wave and Rugal Execution.

Incidentally, on the non-combat front, he has a good business sense: good enough that he can spot which wars will last the longest and thus, which ones are the best to throw arms contracts at.
Equipment: Despite being a former arms dealer, Rugal is not one for weapons; he much prefers doing things up and close and personal. Of course, if push comes to shove, he does at least have basic weapons training. What kind of arms dealer wouldn't? Most significantly, though, his right eye is actually a bionic implant, which aids with his tactical analysis.

Faction: Factionless; not that he hasn't tried dealing with the Sentient Milieu before.
Background:

This Was Longer Than I Was Expecting...

Very little is known of Rugal's early life; the earliest event that can be recalled is an incident when he was 25, when he was attacked by an 18-year-old Goenitz, one of the servants of the sealed ancient monstrosity known as Orochi. Goenitz handily defeated him with a single strike that took out his eye, but was surprised he survived the attack in the first place; thus, he granted him a portion of his unholy Orochi power.

At some point, he and his younger brother got involved with the Arms Trade, though his brother eventually deserted him over a disagreement on proper procedure. Disregarding this, he ultimately became very successful in his trade, amassing enough money to afford his own personal Aircraft Carrier, the BlackNoah. He also made a habit of inviting over powerful martial artists (and this being the SNKverse, these people were in no short supply) so that he could beat them up, kill them, and them turn them into trophies by covering them in liquified metal. He also, at some point, fathered two children: Adelheid and Rose. He was quite a distant father-figure, though, sending them off to live elsewhere. He also murdered the family and mercenary squadron of Colonel Heidern, the leader of the Ikari Warriors, purely because he was a little uncomfortable with Heidern looking into his business.

His cockiness seemed to eventually get the better of him, when he took over the aforementioned Geese Howard's King Of Fighters tournament and hosted it so he could prove how powerful he was; which, of course, managed to backfire horribly. After defeating one Saisyu Kusanagi, Rugal was confronted by his son Kyo, who, against all possible odds, managed to beat him down. Instead of accepting defeat, he blew up his ship and fled. He returned the next year, hosting the tournament again under the alias 'R' in the hopes of getting revenge. Of course he was defeated again, only this time he drew upon his hidden Orochi power to transform into Omega Rugal. But then he was defeated again, and when he attempted drawing upon even more Orochi Power, it got out of control and seemingly killed him.

However, due to his own strength, he managed to survive the extremely painful process of having the Orochi Power extract itself from his body, and he went into hiding to recuperate. He first learned about the multiverse when he heard about his various enemies gathering to fight a tournament with people from another universe, such as Ryu, Chun-Li and M. Bison. He entered the tournament to practice his fighting skills, but vanished again soon afterwards, leaving everyone scratching their heads. Eventually he found his own path to the wider multiverse and chose to try and get back into arms dealing; to this end, he approached the Sentient Milieu, but before he could talk to them, people claiming to be members of the Immaculate Order ambushed him and had him thrown into a multiversal prison to stop him upsetting the balance of his home universe even more.

It was while imprisoned that he found a book in the rehabilitation library (stocked by former enemy Kim Kaphwan, no less); the so-called 'Evil Overlord List, or: What Not To Do If You Ever Crave World Domination Pie'. Thus, while serving his sentence, he spent most of his time reading this book, and had a variety of epiphanies which basically told him that he was approaching this whole 'power-hungry villain' thing the complete wrong way. His captors often got suspicious, but he always 'justified' it by saying that the book emphasised how much more successful you can be if you're not a huge jerkass.

Very recently, though, he and a few of the other prisoners were carried onto a strange shuttle in their sleep and taken to another prison, albeit a completely deserted one, where he was forced into participating as a 'Boss' in some kind of multiversal horror reality show thing; apparently he was at the top of their list due to all the complaints made about how 'cheap' and 'overpowered' he is. Taking offence to being called 'cheap' (I mean, tuxedos like that don't come 'cheap'), he's decided that he may as well establish a good and popular presence on multiversal TV if he wants to attain notoriety in the multiversal arms-dealing community.

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@Scrapula

Nice!

Anyway, I think most people are signing up to one particular faction because it makes it easier to interact, including with the factionless.

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Okay, here's my submission to the mission. I thought to myself 'let's take an unrepentant villain who's so evil that it works against his best interests, and have him learn from the Evil Overlord List.' This was the result.

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Rugal Bernstein: The Original Cheap-ass Fighting Game Boss.

Name: Rugal Bernstein.
Universe: The King Of Fighters.
Canon or OC: Cannon, with some AU elements personality-wise.

Appearance:

Age: ???
Personality: Unlike quite a few of the villains of his universe, Rugal is, quite simply, a very cruel man. He holds little, if any, value in human life, enabling him to casually murder anyone who provides even a vague sense of annoyance towards him. He has no noble goals, only wishing to attain as much power as possible. He's also very big on personal combat, to the point that, on two occasions, he held a worldwide fighting tournament just so that he could prove he was more powerful than the winner.

However, things have changed a bit since his in-prison epiphany. He's realised, for a start, that needlessly executing one's own servants for minor goofs and being very up-front and shameless about the whole 'villainy' thing tends to go down badly with higher peacekeeping authorities. He's also realised that being such a sore loser that you're willing to blow up your own (ludicrously expensive) aircraft carrier and draw upon so much forbidden power that you nearly die, all because you got beaten by a Teenager (who you invited to beat you up in the first place), is also not a very good idea. Thus, he has resolved to act a bit nicer; the key word being 'act'. That being said, he hasn't lost his sarcastic streak, and will always poke fun at his opponents' various flaws with glee. As far as bad guys go, Rugal considers himself a barrel of laughs. :V

Abilities: After his second loss to the Kusanagis and subsequent 'death', Rugal has lost all of his stolen Orochi powers, meaning that he is no longer the embodiment of a ludicrously overpowered Fighting Game Boss. However, even without the Orochi power, he is still a master hand-to-hand combatant, being capable of handily defeating squads of soldiers with his bare hands. He also possesses a superior tactical sense, enabling him to closely analyse his opponent's fighting style and counter their attacks, which makes up for ordinary human weaknesses you'd have when outnumbered against armed opponents.

Befitting a character from a fighting game, he has access to a selection of special attacks, including:
Reppu Ken: A ground-bound projectile which takes the form of a purple blast of Ki energy which skittles along the floor; this was a technique he 'appropriated' from Southtown crimelord Geese Howard.
Dark Barrier: A green energy-based shield of sorts, this enables him to reflect certain projectiles back at their sender, or outright destroy them if they're made of solid materials, like bullets.
God Press: A more 'mundane' attack, as far as Rugal goes, which has him dash at the opponent at great speed and grab them by the face before slamming them into a wall on the opposite of the stage room with a small explosion.
Genocide Cutter: Rugal's signature move, this has him jump and perform a very wide circular Axe Kick which creates a sharp 'blade' of air in its wake, cutting all who come in contact, hence the name. He is capable of performing two in a row.

However, due to the loss of his Orochi power, using these attacks too much will leave him famished, and he's lost some of his more power-intensive moves, such as the Kaiser Wave and Rugal Execution.

Incidentally, on the non-combat front, he has a good business sense: good enough that he can spot which wars will last the longest and thus, which ones are the best to throw arms contracts at.
Equipment: Despite being a former arms dealer, Rugal is not one for weapons; he much prefers doing things up and close and personal. Of course, if push comes to shove, he does at least have basic weapons training. What kind of arms dealer wouldn't? Most significantly, though, his right eye is actually a bionic implant, which aids with his tactical analysis.

Faction: Factionless; not that he hasn't tried dealing with the Sentient Milieu before.
Background: Very little is known of Rugal's early life; the earliest event that can be recalled is an incident when he was 25, when he was attacked by an 18-year-old Goenitz, one of the servants of the sealed ancient monstrosity known as Orochi. Goenitz handily defeated him with a single strike that took out his eye, but was surprised he survived the attack in the first place; thus, he granted him a portion of his unholy Orochi power.

At some point, he and his younger brother got involved with the Arms Trade, though his brother eventually deserted him over a disagreement on proper procedure. Disregarding this, he ultimately became very successful in his trade, amassing enough money to afford his own personal Aircraft Carrier, the BlackNoah. He also made a habit of inviting over powerful martial artists (and this being the SNKverse, these people were in no short supply) so that he could beat them up, kill them, and them turn them into trophies by covering them in liquified metal. He also, at some point, fathered two children: Adelheid and Rose. He was quite a distant father-figure, though, sending them off to live elsewhere. He also murdered the family and mercenary squadron of Colonel Heidern, the leader of the Ikari Warriors, purely because he was a little uncomfortable with Heidern looking into his business.

His cockiness seemed to eventually get the better of him, when he took over the aforementioned Geese Howard's King Of Fighters tournament and hosted it so he could prove how powerful he was; which, of course, managed to backfire horribly. After defeating one Saisyu Kusanagi, Rugal was confronted by his son Kyo, who, against all possible odds, managed to beat him down. Instead of accepting defeat, he blew up his ship and fled. He returned the next year, hosting the tournament again under the alias 'R' in the hopes of getting revenge. Of course he was defeated again, only this time he drew upon his hidden Orochi power to transform into Omega Rugal. But then he was defeated again, and when he attempted drawing upon even more Orochi Power, it got out of control and seemingly killed him.

However, due to his own strength, he managed to survive the extremely painful process of having the Orochi Power extract itself from his body, and he went into hiding to recuperate. He first learned about the multiverse when he heard about his various enemies gathering to fight a tournament with people from another universe, such as Ryu, Chun-Li and M. Bison. He entered the tournament to practice his fighting skills, but vanished again soon afterwards, leaving everyone scratching their heads. Eventually he found his own path to the wider multiverse and chose to try and get back into arms dealing; to this end, he approached the Sentient Milieu, but before he could talk to them, people claiming to be members of the Immaculate Order ambushed him and had him thrown into a multiversal prison to stop him upsetting the balance of his home universe even more.

It was while imprisoned that he found a book in the rehabilitation library (stocked by former enemy Kim Kaphwan, no less); the so-called 'Evil Overlord List, or: What Not To Do If You Ever Crave World Domination Pie'. Thus, while serving his sentence, he spent most of his time reading this book, and had a variety of epiphanies which basically told him that he was approaching this whole 'power-hungry villain' thing the complete wrong way. His captors often got suspicious, but he always 'justified' it by saying that the book emphasised how much more successful you can be if you're not a huge jerkass.

Very recently, though, he and a few of the other prisoners were carried onto a strange shuttle in their sleep and taken to another prison, albeit a completely deserted one, where he was forced into participating as a 'Boss' in some kind of multiversal horror reality show thing; apparently he was at the top of their list due to all the complaints made about how 'cheap' and 'overpowered' he is. Taking offence to being called 'cheap' (I mean, tuxedos like that don't come 'cheap'), he's decided that he may as well establish a good and popular presence on multiversal TV if he wants to attain notoriety in the multiversal arms-dealing community.

Search For The Multiverse -- Sandbox Mega Crossover

Huh... my interest in this has been raised even further by that opening post. A prison for multiversal monsters that doubles as a horror attraction? Awesome idea.

I wonder, would they also imprison various villains there? I had a nice idea for something relating to that.

Character Crossover Crisis City (C4 Reboot)

Well, it's been a while. If you don't mind me asking, how crowded is this RP at the moment? I'm starting to feel as though I may be able to do something here after all.

PS: Someone had a sheet on the last page, in case no-one else saw it.

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Hallo. Just thought I'd bump this, since it seems like a pretty good idea. That, and I'm also interested, but that doesn't mean very much given my track record. Did have a good idea, though. For a character, I mean.

TNT - The Nameless Tavern. (Always Open)

I think I may join this one. I've said that in about five other threads now so it doesn't mean much, but may as well say so people know. :V

A Moonlit Hunt

I may very well be potentially interested. Question: do female Werewolves Lycans look any different from males in their wolf-person form?