Name: Alexis Voll
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Appearance: Long brown hair blue eyes an light skin. Alexis stands about 5 11 is in general just average looking in terms of build and looks. She general keeps her hair braided and
wears glasses for reading or building due to poor 'close' vision.
Clothing wise she is very 'jeans and t-shirt', though she generally wears pants a size or two to big so she doesn't feel like she's being choked by them. She also has a plain black leather jacket with 'Celestial Being's emblem embroidered on the shoulder that she got as a gift from her brother.
Nationality: American
Backstory: Alexis got her start with Gundam thanks to her brother, Damian, who got introduced to it via the legendary first run of Toonami, with Gundam Wing, 8th MS team and G-Gundam, as well as Gundam SEED later, and kept following it off and on over the years. Damian, while still a fan eventually drifted from it due to life getting in the way and just gave the DVDs he'd gotten for Wing, SEED, 00 and several 'spin offs' like 8th MS team, Stardust Memory and War in the Pocket.
She was initially annoyed her brother just dumped at those DVDs on her, being 14 and all, she just tucked them away until one Friday night after getting stood up by her now Ex-Boyfriend who turned out to have been cheating on her with a now Ex-Friend, pulled the back out and binged on them, starting with Gundam 00, expecting little more then mindless explosions. By the following Tuesday she'd burned through everything her brother had given her and started looking for more.
Still, while she'd become a fan of the anime, buying and building a Gunpla was something she'd hadn't considered, even after a local mall got a battle system. She'd watch the battles from time to time but felt that Gunpla building and battling weren’t for her. At First.
Naturally, curiosity got the better of her and she walked into the hobby shop that specialized in Gundam kits and supplys. Her first reaction to all the kits, many of MS and Gundam she'd never seen before was 'holy crap' in that surprised 'this is really this big?!' way, she wandered the shop a bit before grabbing a plain old HG Zaku II, as she generally had a thing for Zeon MS. The kit turned out to be the first of many, though she usually just went for 'show accurate' rather then any kind of custom build.
By the time she was 16 she graduated to battling, just casual matches with the damage set to the lowest
setting with friends she'd made with the regulars at the hobby shop, or the occasional shop run local tournament. Her brother encouraged her to take part in a more serious tournament, after seeing one of her more intense battles. She didn't hesitate like before on this though, she did how ever no enter the first tournament to come around though. What she did instead was talk to, and learn more about customization and tuning for higher performance. Plus she had to pick a Gunpla to 'trick out' and get really combat ready.
The answer to that present it self fairly quickly. The process she used was simple she'd look over her now, impressive collection of Gunpla and pick the one she liked best. Exia got picked becase she had like 5 of them, with a 6th in the form of the newly released RG Exia, which sat unbuilt in it's box still.
With her Gunpla chosen, she still had 2 problems to deal with though. She didn't know what she wanted to do far as customizations went, all offical tournaments in her area all conformed to 'World Championship' standards, which meant Model Damage Level A, a setting she'd never fought on. She'd seen others fight on that setting, and even seen the aftermath of those battles. Still she steeled her self for the ass kicking she was about to get and asked if she could join a game with one them. A couple of them teased her a little, the 'fresh meat' joke being tossed around, but they where generally helpful and one in particular, another girl fighter named Rachel offered advice on how to improve her game.
Mean while Damian suggested she make Exia a 'sleeper', A plain looking model that is hiding a much higher performance level then its looks would imply, Alexis liked this idea, Rachel thought it was underhanded, and she loved it and Alexis set to work building her Exia, field testing it on Level A with her friends, though Exia wasn't ready in time for the first tournament and family issues caused her to miss the one next year so she didn't make her debut till she was 18.
She made it all the way to the first round of the Semi Finals before what amounts to bad luck took her out of the tournament her first year, next year she made it to the finals, but lost to an Eypon after a long fight. Alexis took State on her third try but it was a narrow victory.
It's been a few years since her first State title, since then she collected a few Regional titles and even made it as far as the top 16 in the country. Though lately she's feeling like she's hit a wall, as she's not sure what else she can do to Exia to get more out of it with out. Which is what lead her to apply, and subsequently get into Nielsen's Academy/Lab.
Main Gunpla:
Gundam Exia
Scale: 1/144
Based from: 1/144 RG Gundam Exia
Exia a 'Sleeper' as Damian calls it. Past being well put together one could easily mistake it for a show accurate build, when its really a high performance Gunpla. It is very faithful to the Exia's appearance in 00 but it has been tuned and tweaked a little here and there to eek out a much high performance level then it should other wise have.
Such modifications include; The GN Sword and Blades have have the plastic blades replaced with metal ones, and the Beam Rifle mode for the GN Sword also has been bored out slightly to accommodate a metal lining for the barrel. Metal reenforced shield (molded to fit under the plastic), Tweaked GN Drive and 2 added GN Battery’s to allow for longer Trans-Am time, and replacing the standard Vulcan's with Beam Vulcan’s and the Beam Daggers.
Weapons:
GN Sword (converts to Beam Rifle) x 1
GN Long Blade x 1
GN Short Blade x 1
GN Beam Saber x 2 (stored on the back-skirt armor)
GN Shield x 1
GN Beam Vulcan/Beam Dagger X 2 (Hard-mounted where on the arms where the Vulcan's would be)
Equipment:
Enhanced GN Drive
GN Battery X 2 (back of the shoulders and uses the Beam Saber parts to throw people off/she likes how they look)
Trans-Am System
Other Gunpla:
Straight Build RG Strike Freedom;
Tweaked and tuned to be more on the level of her Exia
Fixed armaments:
2 x head mounted Vulcans
Troso mounted Beam Cannon
2 x Beam Sabers
2 x Rail Cannons
2 x Beam Shield Generators (fore-arm mounted)
2 x Beam Rifles, that can combine for higher output.
Remote weapons:
Super DRAGOON System with x8 bits, all with Beam Rifles as fixed weapons.
Side note: Alexis actually dislikes the Strike Freedom due to all the 'plot related BS' surrounding it. But uses it anyway due in part to it being a gift from Rachel and to practice with remote weapons like Funnels and the DRAGOON system.
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Appearance: Long brown hair blue eyes an light skin. Alexis stands about 5 11 is in general just average looking in terms of build and looks. She general keeps her hair braided and
wears glasses for reading or building due to poor 'close' vision.
Clothing wise she is very 'jeans and t-shirt', though she generally wears pants a size or two to big so she doesn't feel like she's being choked by them. She also has a plain black leather jacket with 'Celestial Being's emblem embroidered on the shoulder that she got as a gift from her brother.
Nationality: American
Backstory: Alexis got her start with Gundam thanks to her brother, Damian, who got introduced to it via the legendary first run of Toonami, with Gundam Wing, 8th MS team and G-Gundam, as well as Gundam SEED later, and kept following it off and on over the years. Damian, while still a fan eventually drifted from it due to life getting in the way and just gave the DVDs he'd gotten for Wing, SEED, 00 and several 'spin offs' like 8th MS team, Stardust Memory and War in the Pocket.
She was initially annoyed her brother just dumped at those DVDs on her, being 14 and all, she just tucked them away until one Friday night after getting stood up by her now Ex-Boyfriend who turned out to have been cheating on her with a now Ex-Friend, pulled the back out and binged on them, starting with Gundam 00, expecting little more then mindless explosions. By the following Tuesday she'd burned through everything her brother had given her and started looking for more.
Still, while she'd become a fan of the anime, buying and building a Gunpla was something she'd hadn't considered, even after a local mall got a battle system. She'd watch the battles from time to time but felt that Gunpla building and battling weren’t for her. At First.
Naturally, curiosity got the better of her and she walked into the hobby shop that specialized in Gundam kits and supplys. Her first reaction to all the kits, many of MS and Gundam she'd never seen before was 'holy crap' in that surprised 'this is really this big?!' way, she wandered the shop a bit before grabbing a plain old HG Zaku II, as she generally had a thing for Zeon MS. The kit turned out to be the first of many, though she usually just went for 'show accurate' rather then any kind of custom build.
By the time she was 16 she graduated to battling, just casual matches with the damage set to the lowest
setting with friends she'd made with the regulars at the hobby shop, or the occasional shop run local tournament. Her brother encouraged her to take part in a more serious tournament, after seeing one of her more intense battles. She didn't hesitate like before on this though, she did how ever no enter the first tournament to come around though. What she did instead was talk to, and learn more about customization and tuning for higher performance. Plus she had to pick a Gunpla to 'trick out' and get really combat ready.
The answer to that present it self fairly quickly. The process she used was simple she'd look over her now, impressive collection of Gunpla and pick the one she liked best. Exia got picked becase she had like 5 of them, with a 6th in the form of the newly released RG Exia, which sat unbuilt in it's box still.
With her Gunpla chosen, she still had 2 problems to deal with though. She didn't know what she wanted to do far as customizations went, all offical tournaments in her area all conformed to 'World Championship' standards, which meant Model Damage Level A, a setting she'd never fought on. She'd seen others fight on that setting, and even seen the aftermath of those battles. Still she steeled her self for the ass kicking she was about to get and asked if she could join a game with one them. A couple of them teased her a little, the 'fresh meat' joke being tossed around, but they where generally helpful and one in particular, another girl fighter named Rachel offered advice on how to improve her game.
Mean while Damian suggested she make Exia a 'sleeper', A plain looking model that is hiding a much higher performance level then its looks would imply, Alexis liked this idea, Rachel thought it was underhanded, and she loved it and Alexis set to work building her Exia, field testing it on Level A with her friends, though Exia wasn't ready in time for the first tournament and family issues caused her to miss the one next year so she didn't make her debut till she was 18.
She made it all the way to the first round of the Semi Finals before what amounts to bad luck took her out of the tournament her first year, next year she made it to the finals, but lost to an Eypon after a long fight. Alexis took State on her third try but it was a narrow victory.
It's been a few years since her first State title, since then she collected a few Regional titles and even made it as far as the top 16 in the country. Though lately she's feeling like she's hit a wall, as she's not sure what else she can do to Exia to get more out of it with out. Which is what lead her to apply, and subsequently get into Nielsen's Academy/Lab.
Main Gunpla:
Gundam Exia
Scale: 1/144
Based from: 1/144 RG Gundam Exia
Exia a 'Sleeper' as Damian calls it. Past being well put together one could easily mistake it for a show accurate build, when its really a high performance Gunpla. It is very faithful to the Exia's appearance in 00 but it has been tuned and tweaked a little here and there to eek out a much high performance level then it should other wise have.
Such modifications include; The GN Sword and Blades have have the plastic blades replaced with metal ones, and the Beam Rifle mode for the GN Sword also has been bored out slightly to accommodate a metal lining for the barrel. Metal reenforced shield (molded to fit under the plastic), Tweaked GN Drive and 2 added GN Battery’s to allow for longer Trans-Am time, and replacing the standard Vulcan's with Beam Vulcan’s and the Beam Daggers.
Weapons:
GN Sword (converts to Beam Rifle) x 1
GN Long Blade x 1
GN Short Blade x 1
GN Beam Saber x 2 (stored on the back-skirt armor)
GN Shield x 1
GN Beam Vulcan/Beam Dagger X 2 (Hard-mounted where on the arms where the Vulcan's would be)
Equipment:
Enhanced GN Drive
GN Battery X 2 (back of the shoulders and uses the Beam Saber parts to throw people off/she likes how they look)
Trans-Am System
Other Gunpla:
Straight Build RG Strike Freedom;
Tweaked and tuned to be more on the level of her Exia
Fixed armaments:
2 x head mounted Vulcans
Troso mounted Beam Cannon
2 x Beam Sabers
2 x Rail Cannons
2 x Beam Shield Generators (fore-arm mounted)
2 x Beam Rifles, that can combine for higher output.
Remote weapons:
Super DRAGOON System with x8 bits, all with Beam Rifles as fixed weapons.
Side note: Alexis actually dislikes the Strike Freedom due to all the 'plot related BS' surrounding it. But uses it anyway due in part to it being a gift from Rachel and to practice with remote weapons like Funnels and the DRAGOON system.
