The 42nd Gecko

"THE MONSTERVERSE" - (A Kaiju Gijinka Roleplay)

Will you be Orisa, the Bear, or Both?

The War of the Three

@Lmpkio Indeed.

The War of the Three

@Lmpkio I should still get everyone else's responses written up so I don't have an enormous post to write, instead just one fourth of an enormous post.

The War of the Three

Most players Ira seems to run into seem to be not so talkative. Save Apia.

I should probably get to writing up my reply now that the only person I'm waiting on is Lmpkio, so I'm not the one keeping people waiting.

"THE MONSTERVERSE" - (A Kaiju Gijinka Roleplay)

Lăohŭ

Lăohŭ

Kaiju Form

Name:
Lăohŭ, 老虎

Gender:
Female

Age:
28 Years, known and active.

Race:
Kaiju

Kaiju Size:
35 M tall, but quite long.

Faction:
Earth Defender ?

Personality:
Lăohŭ is an exceptionally social creature, spending as much time with humans as possible on Monster Island. She looooves modern luxuries such as spas, hair stylists, pedicure, and generally being pampered in any way possible. She considers herself the epitome of an Earth Defender, valuing Earth and it's creatures (and their lovely inventions), protecting them from all threats. Unfortunately, she also considers herself a very intelligent trickster, who best serves the world by scheming and plotting the safety of the world via convoluted gambits. She is not intelligent, however, and usually ends up causing more damage to her beloved planet than the threats her plans fail to stop. At which point she just goes Kaiju and tries to maul their face off for "being responsible" for destroying her favorite hotel. She's even accidentally double and triple agent schemed herself into accidentally joining the monsters rampaging against Earth on occasion, until eventually realizing that she's got no part of the plan in place to betray them to the good guys!

History:
???

Powers/Abilities:

• Flow of Life: Lăohŭ's signature ability is her ability to manipulate life energy. In gijinka form, this is usually a subtle and precise buff or debuff that Lăohŭ could use to cleverly help her allies, while in Kaiju form, it is typically mindlessly destructive. Unfortunately, none of these abilities tend to work on mechanical beings.
• Kaiju Transformation: Lăohŭ's kaiju transformation turns her into a giant 35 meter tall tiger-like kaiju, as her pink coloration turns to red, and everything else to ashen black. While fast, she's lacking in almost every other category, but she's still an exceptionally tricky opponent with all her esoteric abilities.
• Flow of Life- Gijinka: Lăohŭ's base ability to affect Kaiju scale fights without transforming herself, is to grant, hinder, or assist regeneration abilities. A few agile pressure point strikes, and a pulse of life energy, and Lăohŭ can impact a creature's natural healing in a dramatic faction for the next few minutes.
• Flow of Life- Kaiju: Lăohŭ's Kaiju form (and her Gijinka form, honestly), in comparison to most others is severely lacking in raw power, defense, and endurance. It's fast, but that's little advantage to counterbalance all those weaknesses. This is Lăohŭ's main trick, that she drains the vital energy of all biological beings around her to empower herself. Against another Kaiju, this generally still isn't enough to put the raw balance of power in her favor, but can be devastating if she's got robot allies to take advantage of a weakened Kaiju, or if it's a really big team brawl. This ability does however make it an absolutely horrible idea for her to use her Kaiju form in populated areas (even more so than normal for Kaiju) as most humans will die if drained from for too long, where other Kaiju will just be a little bit weaker.
• Enlightenment of Life- Gijinka: Lăohŭ is capable of pressing the temples of most beings to put them in a state of enhanced learning, or of extreme suggestibility, making them easy to deceive and trick. Out of combat, someone can learn in a week what would normally take them a year, or be fast-talked into betraying those they have sworn loyalty. In combat, someone could learn their opponents moves with extreme speed or repeatedly fall for the same feint over and over again. However, it seems Lăohŭ has tasted a little bit too much of her own medicine with this ability, or perhaps mixed up the two a few times, as she herself seems to be overwhelmingly gullible and easy to persuade.
• Enlightenment of Life- Kaiju: Kaiju are not typically thought of as stealthy beings. Certainly not in comparison to a human. But Lăohŭ is surprisingly stealthy. Because she clouds everyone's minds around her, seemingly shrouding the area around her in ferocious storm of ash that cannot be dispelled by even the mightiest wind or explosion (because it's all in your head).
• Seal of Humility: Lăohŭ can, again with a few pressure point strikes, interfere with another gijinka or kaiju's ability to transform. They still can, but it takes significantly longer and more effort, rendering them vulnerable to interruption. However, if the Kaiju has a variable strength form, they will get a stronger transformation if they make it through the vulnerability period.
• Dragon Destroyer Claw: Lăohŭ, while she lacks in pure striking power unless she's drawing from multiple Kaiju or immense amounts of humans, is capable of charging up her claws or particularly teeth, with armor piercing reversed life energy, which pierces even the heaviest of scales or armor and deals.. some damage. Not all that much, but it's consistent, regardless of how strong the defense is.

Theme ???:

"THE MONSTERVERSE" - (A Kaiju Gijinka Roleplay)

@Dead Cruiser I think (I am not 100% sure) what Lmpkio means by that is, you can make a Cthulu-ish monsters, and maybe even call them Cthulu, but you can't have the full power suite that a proper Lovecraftian monster should have. Because if you did, the world would already be doomed, the moment you sent one of your avatars to the world. Basically, I think the real gist of the requirement is "you need to balance around Kaiju/Giant Robots, not Great Old Ones, but you can totally be Great Old One themed/backstoried".

"THE MONSTERVERSE" - (A Kaiju Gijinka Roleplay)

Still needs a song and a history section.

Lăohŭ

Lăohŭ

Kaiju Form

Name:
Lăohŭ, 老虎

Gender:
Female

Age:
28 Years, known and active.

Race:
Kaiju

Kaiju Size:
35 M tall, but quite long.

Faction:
Earth Defender ?

Personality:
Lăohŭ is an exceptionally social creature, spending as much time with humans as possible on Monster Island. She looooves modern luxuries such as spas, hair stylists, pedicure, and generally being pampered in any way possible. She considers herself the epitome of an Earth Defender, valuing Earth and it's creatures (and their lovely inventions), protecting them from all threats. Unfortunately, she also considers herself a very intelligent trickster, who best serves the world by scheming and plotting the safety of the world via convoluted gambits. She is not intelligent, however, and usually ends up causing more damage to her beloved planet than the threats her plans fail to stop. At which point she just goes Kaiju and tries to maul their face off for "being responsible" for destroying her favorite hotel. She's even accidentally double and triple agent schemed herself into accidentally joining the monsters rampaging against Earth on occasion, until eventually realizing that she's got no part of the plan in place to betray them to the good guys!

History:
???

Powers/Abilities:

• Flow of Life: Lăohŭ's signature ability is her ability to manipulate life energy. In gijinka form, this is usually a subtle and precise buff or debuff that Lăohŭ could use to cleverly help her allies, while in Kaiju form, it is typically mindlessly destructive. Unfortunately, none of these abilities tend to work on mechanical beings.
• Kaiju Transformation: Lăohŭ's kaiju transformation turns her into a giant 35 meter tall tiger-like kaiju, as her pink coloration turns to red, and everything else to ashen black. While fast, she's lacking in almost every other category, but she's still an exceptionally tricky opponent with all her esoteric abilities.
• Flow of Life- Gijinka: Lăohŭ's base ability to affect Kaiju scale fights without transforming herself, is to grant, hinder, or assist regeneration abilities. A few agile pressure point strikes, and a pulse of life energy, and Lăohŭ can impact a creature's natural healing in a dramatic faction for the next few minutes.
• Flow of Life- Kaiju: Lăohŭ's Kaiju form (and her Gijinka form, honestly), in comparison to most others is severely lacking in raw power, defense, and endurance. It's fast, but that's little advantage to counterbalance all those weaknesses. This is Lăohŭ's main trick, that she drains the vital energy of all biological beings around her to empower herself. Against another Kaiju, this generally still isn't enough to put the raw balance of power in her favor, but can be devastating if she's got robot allies to take advantage of a weakened Kaiju, or if it's a really big team brawl. This ability does however make it an absolutely horrible idea for her to use her Kaiju form in populated areas (even more so than normal for Kaiju) as most humans will die if drained from for too long, where other Kaiju will just be a little bit weaker.
• Enlightenment of Life- Gijinka: Lăohŭ is capable of pressing the temples of most beings to put them in a state of enhanced learning, or of extreme suggestibility, making them easy to deceive and trick. Out of combat, someone can learn in a week what would normally take them a year, or be fast-talked into betraying those they have sworn loyalty. In combat, someone could learn their opponents moves with extreme speed or repeatedly fall for the same feint over and over again. However, it seems Lăohŭ has tasted a little bit too much of her own medicine with this ability, or perhaps mixed up the two a few times, as she herself seems to be overwhelmingly gullible and easy to persuade.
• Enlightenment of Life- Kaiju: Kaiju are not typically thought of as stealthy beings. Certainly not in comparison to a human. But Lăohŭ is surprisingly stealthy. Because she clouds everyone's minds around her, seemingly shrouding the area around her in ferocious storm of ash that cannot be dispelled by even the mightiest wind or explosion (because it's all in your head).
• Seal of Humility: Lăohŭ can, again with a few pressure point strikes, interfere with another gijinka or kaiju's ability to transform. They still can, but it takes significantly longer and more effort, rendering them vulnerable to interruption. However, if the Kaiju has a variable strength form, they will get a stronger transformation if they make it through the vulnerability period.
• Dragon Destroyer Claw: Lăohŭ, while she lacks in pure striking power unless she's drawing from multiple Kaiju or immense amounts of humans, is capable of charging up her claws or particularly teeth, with armor piercing reversed life energy, which pierces even the heaviest of scales or armor and deals.. some damage. Not all that much, but it's consistent, regardless of how strong the defense is.

Theme ???:

"THE MONSTERVERSE" - (A Kaiju Gijinka Roleplay)

Hmm... I'm having difficulty resisting the urge to play a kitty kaiju. Is that alright?

The War of the Three

Alexi, Knight of Winter

Somewhere within the eternal war and battle lines of the Nexus, on a contested Machina border.

Alexi immediately perked up, her hunkered pose against the cold straightening, as she located the source of Wolf's voice. Apparently happy and surprised at Wolf's approach. "Ah! You are .. Um... Sorry... They say we've met before, but I'm terrible at remembering swords." But as she finally spotted him, she squinted hard, before finally concluding that she sadly couldn't remember him, despite how he seemed to acknowledge her. "The only sword I'm good at recognizing is ours. We'll never be parted with each other." She patted her unsheathed blade that lay across her lap lovingly, as if stroking a beloved pet, despite how it probably was radiating her heat away. Still, as an ice mage, she probably wasn't in any real danger, even if she still preferred being warm.

"You've met a lot of souls in Hyperion? Let's see.. Hyperion... We definitely remember the cold and bright one.. Then.. There's... Um.. Hmm... The watcher of time was very soul-like, I think it had potential.. Let's be generous and count it as one, shall we?" Alexi tilted her head curiously, before attempting to count on her fingers how many souls she remembered meeting in Hyperion. She holds both her fingers before her, only reaching the count of two, "Do you remember any more?" She looks back up at Wolf, still holding her fingers out.

@Awesomoman64

Zyata

"Heeee-y, how're you doing? Haven't seen you since that event at your lab. Did my team end up winning?" Zyata's voice awkwardly transitioned from "Hey! You're insulting my skills as a hunter and my totem animal in one go!" to "Hey... You're that insanely powerful person who could probably replace my arms with snakes. I should make small talk." Still, unlike Zyata or Titanica, who had gone into the pool naked out of utilitarianism or exuberance, Hohenheim seemed to be flaunting herself.

~Great, at first everything was just chill, but now Hohenheim has to make everything awkward. Hot springs are for relaxing, not getting wound up!~ Zyata's eyes dragged themselves away from Hohenheim's intentional framing of herself over to Titanica. Titanica, who before had simply seemed imperious now had other connotations now that Zyata's mind was already in the gutter. So she again wrenched her eyes away to stare intently at the water below herself. ~Time to shut up and let the grown ups talk and try not to embarass myself further I guess..~ Zyata submerged herself to all but her nose, as if to hide herself. Sigh, someone had been eavesdropping on her, so she had revealed her secret to not only who she intended, but also Hohenheim.. Who was... Difficult to think about... Zyata felt her mouth getting a bit dry and decided to take a gulp of the water. Probably wasn't sanitary, but meh, her stomach could handle a few germs. Even Debruda germs.

Of course, keeping her mouth shut for any period of time was NOT one of Zyata's skills. She could manage it for short bursts, not unlike holding her breath to get the perfect shot, but in the presence of someone to talk to, she was going to open her big mouth again. Now she rested her arms against the edge of the pool, and laid her head against it, showing her back and not her face, hopefully "Er.. One of us? You two don't exactly look like siblings. Though, I suppose I don't look much like mine either anymore." At the word siblings, she was stealing a glance over her shoulder at their respective sizes. They were pretty much each a paragon of a completely type of woman.

@KoL@Lmpkio

Miyu

Happyverse

"Well.. This was fun for a little while, just exulting in my newfound power.. But now that that's worn off, fuck, this is boring." Miyu finally stopped her dash across the world. She'd crossed quite a distance, but the world seemed exactly the same. Well, not exactly, there wasn't Lillian or that girl or Ananta around, who all seemed nice. And the buildings were different. But still filled with cats. "I suppose I'd just ask. Hey, anyone, is this universe and the dominion of cats infinite or near enough?" After receiving an answer to the affirmative from a 40 meter tall fish serving fish to cats, she considered her options.

"Eh, that Lillian seemed nice, and the girl that warned me about not ticking off the cats seemed on the level. Guess it's plan find a job and meet back up with Lillian for beach house. Well, I hope we can find jobs that get us that. Maybe at least beach apartment. Or apartment close to a nice public beach. Or, damn, how am I still being pessimistic when my life's on such an upturn? I'm finally out.." On the verge of perhaps some painful introspection, Miyu instead distracts herself with heading back. She didn't need to get all the way there, just close enough she'd be able to sense Lillian once she found a job.

As she began making her way back, she decided to spice things up by stepping off of things that couldn't support her weight, such as signs, windows, and other fragile things, for each leap, using her Mantle on each stepping point just before she landed so her weight was spread across both it and something plenty sturdy enough nearby. "Ok, heee, there's still plenty of fun to be had just experimenting with the limits of these powers." Miyu smiled as she made her way back. "I feel like one of those Wuxia action heroes, stepping on leaves and the tiniest of branches! I wonder if I could step on clouds... Wow, I'm an idiot. I have wings." At which point Miyu simply flew back. And decided she'd find Lillian first anyway.

"Well, my scientific analysis shows the plane is at the very least, very big. So, I'm gonna go with plan find a job to not annoy the cats as that girl said. Say, did you catch her name?" Miyu asked.

"Anyway, we best get looking. Hopefully we'll be able to find something nice. Who knows, maybe this cafe is hiring?" Miyu raised the ticket, to check if there were any now hiring signs on it. She knew her pizza coupons back home always had "now hiring managers" on them, bragging about how much of a family their pizza establishment was (which was certainly why all the managers kept leaving, no doubt).

@TheWindel@Banana

Sapphire Pink

Fluffy Woof

Pink did her best to avoid paying attention to the other people in the room. Most of them seemed to be viable targets as well.. Particularly that Chen had a few flashes of negative emotions she would have been happy to eat. But with a prize like Ruxen in front of her.. Well, that was all the motivation she needed to put her best face forward. “Oh for fuck’s sake, just leave me along you goddamn hippie! Why don’t you go hug a cactus or something barf for brains. I hear it’s the exact same if you actually hugged me,” "But no cactus could be as beautiful and as in need of a hug as you!" Pink pleaded, "Pleaaase, just this once? I won't bother you again.. Unless you want me too. Pleeease please pleease? :3" But before her "this is the last time I'll ask if you give in this once" argument could be responded too, "Whoo!?" Pink exclaimed as her leg was suddenly pulled out from under her, sending her toppling towards Ruxen, arms alright seeking out for a hug, now seeked for something to grab and steady herself. Unless Ruxen dodged, contact between them would be inevitable, Pink clutching ont Ruxen's leg.

If that came to pass, and if Pink could indeed eat the barest slimmer of Ruxen's immeasurable negativity, Pink's eyes would open magnificently wide, literally weeping sparkles, as the junkie hit the ultimate jackpot. "So.. Delicious.." She'd deliriously moan, clutching Ruxen's leg around the knee as tightly as she could. More, more, she absolutely needed more, as much touch as she could get, pressing her head against Ruxen's inner thigh, nuzzling her forehead and cheek against Ruxen. Naturally her ear tips were thus tickling those ever so rarely touched nooks and crannies between the legs. Even this was not enough, as Pink would then begin licking her way upwards, seemingly oblivious of where this would eventually take her. Of course, again, such events would only take place presuming Ruxen didn't simple dodge the falling Pink and let her smash against the ground.

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The War of the Three

Alexi, Knight of Winter

Somewhere within the eternal war and battle lines of the Nexus, on a contested Machina border.

"La de doo.. Ha ha.. Hmm.. Doop de dee.." Alexi sung to herself as she played an improptu game of hopscotch, or perhaps "the blood is lava". She little jumps and skips threaded the needle between sheets of frozen blood, soon to be covered be fresh snow. Her blade outstretched like some mere balancing tool, its edge was clean. Alexi had either cleaned it and herself fastidiously, or she had not taken part in the battle she now danced to.

"Mmm... You have an interesting story." She peered over at a corpse of a machina soldier, or the half of it that was left, smashed underneath a smoldering mech. "You'll have to tell us all about it! We love a good story. And I love to hear them with a warm fire crackling! Though don't be alarmed if we turn away. That's just me warming our nose!" Alexi hopped up onto the mech, resting her back close to the remains of the ammunition fire within it. She listed with rapt attention.

"What, really? Amazing! We would have never expected the bananas!" She clapped for the deceased, as the story apparently concluded. "I'm sure the nice lady will love your story just like we did. She'll probably reforge you to make a sequel. No way she'd let a mighty warrior like you go to waste! Have fun with the rest of your rest, don't hurry back too soon."

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