Everybody was kung fu fighting
Player name:Arach
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Character name: Sarah Daniels
Source canon: Dirge of Fate
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Notes: Maverick Firestorm and Tsunami Desperado, due to copyright issues, were the star of dozens of chinese knockoff toy lines. Other than that people would know it from the news, or not at all.
Background: Born to normal parents, Sarah is the reincarnation of an ancient general who battled the forces of darkness. She saved the world when she was a teenager, and has been regretting it ever since. She was married to Percy for some time, and had a child by him-but his devotion to his job meant they eventually split up, so now she tries to lead a normal life while being able to bench-press a car. Until, that is, the Knights call her in to save the world, one last time...
Original canon background: Most of this won't come up./FLAGRANT LIES
10,000 years ago there was an ancient kingdom which flourished across the earth. It fell under attack by the Dark Empire, evil forces from another dimension, and created powerful Relic Armors to help defend the realm. Flash forward to 10-20 years ago, the Dark Empire shows up again from the alternate dimension they'd been sealed in. They're much weaker at this point, but still a global threat-and all but two of the relic armors have been destroyed!
Teenage Sarah, the reincarnation of one of the most powerful heroes from the Ancient Kingdom, meets up with an ancient librarian (reincarnated in the form of an adorable hedgehog) right around the time her powers start manifesting in hilarious ways. Meanwhile another girl meets up with her own mascot, an echidna. The two become fast friends as they work to protect the world from the forces of the Dark Empire!
They were helped in the background by the Knights of the Guiding Hand, especially Percy. Eventually Sarah was given a rather dark warning by him in a private moment-that the Tapestry said either her partner would kill her, or she would kill her partner. If the partner won, what would follow was a world of Order; if Sarah did, what would follow was a world of Chaos.
Things didn't go quite so smooth as they do in cartoons. Neither Sarah nor her partner could "purify" people, just put down the monsters they had become. Some of the "monsters" weren't that evil, and as time went on her friend got more and more into vigilante justice, suggesting that they start taking on normal criminals or use some of the relics left behind by the monsters to up their own power. The echidna was all for this plan, the hedgehog all against it. Eventually things came to a head in the ruins of the Dark Kingdom's fortress, not long after the two vanquished them all and Sarah had married Percy; Sarah's partner had started using the powers of darkness to enforce Justice, Sarah was opposed, violence ensued, and Sarah was the only person present to walk away alive.
Some of this is public knowledge, but not the important parts. It's known that [#of years] ago there were monsters attacking the world, and two super robots-one red, one blue-fought them, off, but not who piloted them, how old they were, or what their final fates were. As far as the world is concerned, the superheroic robots and their pilots beat evil and retired, everyone living happily ever after. Common media accounts even got the name of the robots wrong-since neither Sarah nor her partner went public, people made up their own nicknames, "Maverick Firestorm" and "Tsunami Desperado".
Personality:Sarah spent a good three years having the fate of the world on her shoulders when she was a teenager, and she's still tired from that. Not extremely bitter or sad, just...tired. Right now she'd rather spend time with her son or just chilling than get involved in world-saving.
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Sarah has superpowers! How handy. They're themed after wuxia stuff, fire, and raw strength. She's real fast, can generate heat in excess of a blast furnace from her body, and bench-press a car. If she calms down and focuses she can try detecting enemies by their spiritual presence, but she's not the greatest at that sort of thing-Sarah was always more of a raw power than technique person. That's been tempered by years of experience, but is still fairly strong.
She heals quick, and can summon Tiankui wherever she is. While getting shot would still hurt her, and massed automatic fire will kill her, she's fast enough to dodge or catch a lot of bullets and tough enough that one or two strays won't put her down.
Her fighting style tends to revolve around highly aggressive attacks using her patently ridiculous strength; with a light blow she can shatter bone. She can fight mecha with her bare hands, but because their weapons tend to render people bloody smears on the ground it's not a great idea-even a weak attack would seriously injure her if it connected.
See also: Alberto The Shockwave.
Type: Enemy boss unit/Worthy Opponent
Unit Name:Maverick Firestorm The Red Relic Armor-Tiankui, Protector of Justice
Pixiv Danbooru #1
Unit Description:A fairly standard humanoid super robot, clocking in at 18m. It's quick on their feet, similar to a mobile suit. In place of normal manuevering verniers it has vents that Sarah can focus her heat powers through; using these takes effort, though not a lot of it, so they're best used sparingly. Tiankui is amazingly durable, to the point that [number of years] years ago it and Tsunami Desperado were immune to anything short of a strategic nuclear weapon. Times have changed, weapons have gotten more powerful, so it's only really, obscenely tough now.
Terrain compatibility:
Air: no
Ground: Yes
Water: Yes
Space: Yes
Favored terrain: Ground
Upgrades:
Mission requirement: Quite a few!
Suggested Event List: See Volya App. I'll want to do something really short after Sarah joins team hero, either a post with her writing to percy or a log where she hands her kid back off to him.
Ten Powers is first used by Percy in mission 5 and obtained by Sarah after they make up. Percy can draw it 'cause as far as the sword knows Sarah's turned evil.
Sample post: Here's a thing
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Alternate contacts:
Character name: Sarah Daniels
Source canon: Dirge of Fate
Community tag:
Do I want a HMD:
Notes: Maverick Firestorm and Tsunami Desperado, due to copyright issues, were the star of dozens of chinese knockoff toy lines. Other than that people would know it from the news, or not at all.
Background: Born to normal parents, Sarah is the reincarnation of an ancient general who battled the forces of darkness. She saved the world when she was a teenager, and has been regretting it ever since. She was married to Percy for some time, and had a child by him-but his devotion to his job meant they eventually split up, so now she tries to lead a normal life while being able to bench-press a car. Until, that is, the Knights call her in to save the world, one last time...
Original canon background: Most of this won't come up./FLAGRANT LIES
10,000 years ago there was an ancient kingdom which flourished across the earth. It fell under attack by the Dark Empire, evil forces from another dimension, and created powerful Relic Armors to help defend the realm. Flash forward to 10-20 years ago, the Dark Empire shows up again from the alternate dimension they'd been sealed in. They're much weaker at this point, but still a global threat-and all but two of the relic armors have been destroyed!
Teenage Sarah, the reincarnation of one of the most powerful heroes from the Ancient Kingdom, meets up with an ancient librarian (reincarnated in the form of an adorable hedgehog) right around the time her powers start manifesting in hilarious ways. Meanwhile another girl meets up with her own mascot, an echidna. The two become fast friends as they work to protect the world from the forces of the Dark Empire!
They were helped in the background by the Knights of the Guiding Hand, especially Percy. Eventually Sarah was given a rather dark warning by him in a private moment-that the Tapestry said either her partner would kill her, or she would kill her partner. If the partner won, what would follow was a world of Order; if Sarah did, what would follow was a world of Chaos.
Things didn't go quite so smooth as they do in cartoons. Neither Sarah nor her partner could "purify" people, just put down the monsters they had become. Some of the "monsters" weren't that evil, and as time went on her friend got more and more into vigilante justice, suggesting that they start taking on normal criminals or use some of the relics left behind by the monsters to up their own power. The echidna was all for this plan, the hedgehog all against it. Eventually things came to a head in the ruins of the Dark Kingdom's fortress, not long after the two vanquished them all and Sarah had married Percy; Sarah's partner had started using the powers of darkness to enforce Justice, Sarah was opposed, violence ensued, and Sarah was the only person present to walk away alive.
Some of this is public knowledge, but not the important parts. It's known that [#of years] ago there were monsters attacking the world, and two super robots-one red, one blue-fought them, off, but not who piloted them, how old they were, or what their final fates were. As far as the world is concerned, the superheroic robots and their pilots beat evil and retired, everyone living happily ever after. Common media accounts even got the name of the robots wrong-since neither Sarah nor her partner went public, people made up their own nicknames, "Maverick Firestorm" and "Tsunami Desperado".
Personality:Sarah spent a good three years having the fate of the world on her shoulders when she was a teenager, and she's still tired from that. Not extremely bitter or sad, just...tired. Right now she'd rather spend time with her son or just chilling than get involved in world-saving.
Sarah's a pretty serious, determined type, though she's not completely without humor. It's just that by the standards of Judau Ashta and Kouji Kabuto and friends she's a hella boring stick in the mud. When compared up against the Knights-notably Percy-she's got more of a sense of humor and a higher chance of sarcasm.
Sarah's got an extremely strong sense of justice, and isn't the sort of person to let a disaster happen just because she's "retired". The mission to kill Volya isn't the sort of thing she likes, it feels too much like being an assassin-but she'll do it if she has to in order to keep the world safe. She will, however, be very...chivalrous, almost. She wouldn't kill him if she met him randomly on the street, for instance, and she'd do her best to make sure there's no civilians around. She'd even try her damnedest to avoid hurting his allies, because Volya is the only one that matters, and because taking human life isn't something she likes to do.
Capabilities and Resources:
Sarah has superpowers! How handy. They're themed after wuxia stuff, fire, and raw strength. She's real fast, can generate heat in excess of a blast furnace from her body, and bench-press a car. If she calms down and focuses she can try detecting enemies by their spiritual presence, but she's not the greatest at that sort of thing-Sarah was always more of a raw power than technique person. That's been tempered by years of experience, but is still fairly strong.
She heals quick, and can summon Tiankui wherever she is. While getting shot would still hurt her, and massed automatic fire will kill her, she's fast enough to dodge or catch a lot of bullets and tough enough that one or two strays won't put her down.
Her fighting style tends to revolve around highly aggressive attacks using her patently ridiculous strength; with a light blow she can shatter bone. She can fight mecha with her bare hands, but because their weapons tend to render people bloody smears on the ground it's not a great idea-even a weak attack would seriously injure her if it connected.
See also: Alberto The Shockwave.
Type: Enemy boss unit/Worthy Opponent
Unit Name:
Pixiv Danbooru #1
Unit Description:A fairly standard humanoid super robot, clocking in at 18m. It's quick on their feet, similar to a mobile suit. In place of normal manuevering verniers it has vents that Sarah can focus her heat powers through; using these takes effort, though not a lot of it, so they're best used sparingly. Tiankui is amazingly durable, to the point that [number of years] years ago it and Tsunami Desperado were immune to anything short of a strategic nuclear weapon. Times have changed, weapons have gotten more powerful, so it's only really, obscenely tough now.
It's key gimmick is the manipulation of the pilot's internal energy (Qi/Ki/whatever you want to call it), making the robot highly reliant on willpower and physical constitution. Basically, it kicks up Sarah's power levels to be capable of fighting grunt mecha as easily as she fights Shocker (or equivalent group) grunts with her bare hands. It's far more durable in comparison to mecha weapons than she is on foot, too. In terms of SRW machines, it's most similar to Coutsewell. Fast, melee-focused, and tough.
The Relic Armors do not have a cockpit, as such-rather, the pilot fuses with the machine itself in a flashy cool transformation sequence. This means 1) no cockpit hits to kill them super easily, but 2) the pilot feels pain when their mecha takes damage, and crippling injuries to the mecha will leave the pilots in the hospital.
While Sarah can't use her heat powers for ranged attacks on her own, in Tiankui she can focus her spirit into destructive, firey laser beams of death. These are generally shot from fingertips or some other extremity, and can be either light and easy to use or charged up into a full on finisher. A sweeping motion will let her send out a blade of energy, a punching one goes for a beam, that sort of thing. It's not too hard for her to put out something on beam rifle levels, but if she goes up to full mountain-breaking firepower it's gonna wear her out enough to knock her out of the fight after that.
Tiankui can vent energy from vents placed on its back, arms, legs, and around its body. This is more unfocused, and while the backblast hurts it's best used as a propulsion method. Through this method it can move around in the sky a little bit, side-dash, or double jump. If Sarah throws everything she's got into it, Tiankui can move fast enough to be a missile and kick things with good ol' finisher power.
Tiankui is durable even under attack from things like beam sabers; it should probably treat them like a really cinematic kung fu guy would treat getting hit by swords.
Size: MTiankui is durable even under attack from things like beam sabers; it should probably treat them like a really cinematic kung fu guy would treat getting hit by swords.
Terrain compatibility:
Air: no
Ground: Yes
Water: Yes
Space: Yes
Favored terrain: Ground
Upgrades:
Shishenli, or perhaps more easily The Glory Of Ten Powers/Ten Powers, is Sarah's sword from the war against the Dark Empire. It's a Jian, and is meant for human hands, not mecha ones-it's no larger than any normal sword. Though that's a weird thing to say-see the end of this explanation.
This sword is expressly and obviously magical. First off it's about as indestructible as you can get, which is good, since it's more or less impossible to repair. The sword is also extremely sharp, and can be used as a focus for the wielder's Ki to make it even more sharp-in the hands of someone like Sarah, it operates as good if not better than a beam saber. With someone like Sarah (or alberto the shockwave, or Taiso the magical traveler), it can also be used for projectile attacks, either slices of energy or stabs.
As good as it is as a sword, Ten Powers' real ability is the power to protect. It can project a large, dome-like energy barrier, shielding the wielder and allies from harm. This shield is durable as all hell, and can be used without drawing the sword.
Ten Powers has a will and mind of its own, and can see and hear though it cannot communicate back in kind (or doesn't want to). It has a lock on its sheathe, and the sword will not knowingly allow itself to be drawn for an unjust cause-cutting down children, fighting good people, etc. It is not omniscient, and can be misled or lack complete information-if it accidentally is used to kill innocent people or do morally questionable things, you can expect the sword to become depressed and lock itself up until it is talked down. As an example, Ten Powers would refuse to allow itself to be drawn against human militaries, until the military involved starts racking up an atrocity count.
While Ten Powers insists on a fairly high standard of certainty before it allows itself to be used as a sword, it is very free and giving with its powers as an energy-shield producer.
What makes Ten Powers even more obviously magical is that whoever has it as their personal weapon gets it equipped on their mecha or powered armor, sized to fit, for free. So when Sarah gets it, she can use it on foot, then summon Tianxui, then use the same sword-sized up-over there. It can't be easily traded between mecha though, and Ten Powers is somewhat picky about accepting new users.
Mission requirement: Quite a few!
Suggested Event List: See Volya App. I'll want to do something really short after Sarah joins team hero, either a post with her writing to percy or a log where she hands her kid back off to him.
Ten Powers is first used by Percy in mission 5 and obtained by Sarah after they make up. Percy can draw it 'cause as far as the sword knows Sarah's turned evil.
Sample post: Here's a thing