Haha! Way to take the rat idea and run with it, Lookie :P
Anyway, here is my second character, but based on Shard’s answer to my question, I absolutely think our characters could co-exist and even compliment each other in the roleplay.
Regardless, I actually got quite attached to this character as I wrote out her profile so I’ll leave it up to you, Phantom. I now feel sad that one of them will be left out
Name: Gwendolyn 'Gwen' Gildermoore
Alias: Gwen n' Richard
Age: XVIII
Gender: Female
Personality: Gwen is a young woman who has seen much pain, giving her an almost saddeningly cynical and mature outlook for her age. She is worldly, knowledgeable on many topics and, at times, coldly logical, causing her to be an excellent strategist and tactition.
She can be selfish, because she has often been forced to ambitiously grab for what she wants to get anywhere and the habit has stuck with her, as has her focus, ambition and drive to succeed.
Despite the weight of all that has happened to her, however, one can still glimpse the brash, impulsive and exuberant young woman underneath, the little girl begging for freedom and adventure, even if it is somewhat muted by the fact that her only ability to communicate is through Richard's somewhat dehumanising vocaliser.
Richard himself is more than a suit of armour. He is a fully functional A.I. and an entirely separate entity to Gwendolyn, with thoughts and feelings of his own, simulated as they may be. He is stoic, logical and determindedly focused on his prime directive, keep Gwendolyn safe at all costs. Any thoughts beyond this base directive have stemmed from Gwendolyn’s influence over him.
Persona: When threatened, Richard's priority shifts from 'Defend Gwendolyn' to 'Eliminate all hostiles' and, while Gwendolyn is the 'commander' and generally issues Richard's orders, she has no direct input. What this results in is lethal balance between a machine's cold logic and computerised accuracy and a human's judgement and problem solving capabilities.
At least, that's the way if works when both want the same thing...
Appearance: Nobody knows what Gwendolyn (if that is indeed her real name) actually looks like, or even if she is more than a programmed apparition within Richard’s systems, though a police portrait of the girl who disappeared at fourteen that she claims to be shows a pale faced young woman with dark, wavy hair and pale green eyes. The only testimony suggesting her continued existence is an audio feed from inside the ten foot tall chassis of a battle robot.
Richard, the aforementioned mech is a vaguely human shaped, sleek and dangerous looking construct formed mainly from black brushed metal with glowing green lines highlighting trimmed areas around the armour plating.
His height and broadness clearly didn’t take day to day living in to account as he would bust the frames from the doorways of the average house.
The visor that makes up Richard's 'face' is V-shaped and similarly glows green, it is otherwise featureless, cold and inhuman.
Richard's entire torso area is a prism shaped containment unit in which the comatose and heavily damaged body of Gwendolyn Gildermoore is thought to be sealed while undergoing slow but steady treatment in a self contained life support facility.
On Richard's right shoulder is a two meter long, fully articulated cannon that can fold down flush against his back, in between two massive, backwards facing shoulder guards that also act as a form of jet propulsion for the machine.
Overall, Richard is built for one purpose, to defend Gwendolyn and to eliminate her enemies with extreme prejudice. To this end, his design is decidedly war-focused and suited for little else.
Costume: The only difference between Richard's defensive and offensive modes are that, when attack mode is activated, his thruster engines start burning, his missile ports open, his shoulder cannon activates and every glowing green line on his body turns crimson. As extra armour plating slides in to place and his loadout of weapons activate, he generally just looks bigger, scarier and more intimidating, if that were even possible.
Powers/Skills and how they came about: Gwen herself is little more than a comatose corpse being kept alive by a ten foot tall powered battle suit named Richard who in turn owes his existence to the financial investment of August Gildermoore, Gwen’s father.
On her own, Gwen is weak and frail but from safely within Richard’s battle chasis, she has access to great power and abilities, such as:
Increased strength and durability.
Near endless endurance.
Jet powered flight.
A massive, rotating, shoulder mounted missile launcher.
A hand held, high powered rifle with which she has computer aided accuracy.
Wrist mounted blades.
Machine guns that fold out of Richard’s forearms.
A translator for various languages used on Earth.
The ability to interface with other machines.
And an Mp3 player.
Rise to Fame: Gwendolyn, or more, Richard as not everyone recognises the claims that Gwendolyn Gildermoore is infact sealed in the combat chassis of the mech, came into the public eye by arriving at the house of August Gildermoore's widow and laying seige to the mansion, claiming that the current residents were usurpers and that Gwendolyn Gildermoore was alive and the true heir to the Gildermoore fortune.
Naturally, without proof, this didn't go over well and a laborious bunch of beaurocratic nonsense took place given that the 'criminal' was infact a machine and thus technically free from standard legal ramifications.
In the end, Gwen 'n Richard were able to avoid being 'put out of service' by agreeing to pay their debt to society as heroes defending the city.
Arch Nemesis: Matilda Whitlain, Gwendolyn's step mother who is in control of all of her late father's assets and, for fear of losing it all, is constantly making attempts to destroy or hack Richard and, by extention, any possibility that Gwendolyn may truly exist within the mech.
Personal Arc: Whether she actually exists or not, Gwen believes that she is not only being stabilised by Richard's systems, she is actually being slowly healed by them with the intent that she will one day awaken. At this point she will be able to prove (or disprove) her existence and have many decisions to make.
Her battle of wills with her keeper, Richard.
Her mission to take back her father's estate from her stepmother.
So there you are, I managed to slap it together after all! To summarise, in case it is confusing. Gwen is from a wealthy family and was seriously injured at fourteen. Ever since, she has been contained inside Richard who is protecting her, providing life support systems and gradually restoring her to health. The containment unit cannot be opened or she will die and, as she is comatose and only able to do anything via a neural link with Richard, she cannot confirm that she actually is human even to herself and thus, while she staunchly believes she is the real Gwendolyn Gildermoore, could possibly be just another A.I. within Richard. Hope you like her.
