Agent B52

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So flavour text like this Sixsmith? Gilgamesh: The first known legendary hero, supposedly the first hunter as well. Clay tablets from the earliest known settlements partially reveal his story as it was told around the campfires thousands of years ago. He had feats ascribed to him beyond even the most powerful hunters today such as sundering a mountain to test out his sword, smashing the great evil heavenly boar into separate pieces that would become the Grimm and founding the first city. - From the Great Encyclopidia Litanica, 4th edition, Schnee Press Group ltd.

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Marcus took a deep breath as his own name was announced. Team leader. Ostensibly responsible for the four of them. Admittedly it made sense, given his team composition and his personal capabilities. Next to the monstrous gun on the Elegantly Unsubtle his greatest weapon was a combination of sharp observation skills and a map. Yet at the same time he had only barely passed the physical entrance exams. Not to mention it was mostly him responsible for waking the Datura in the first place. He just had to go and run over parts of it’s constituent forest when driving around trees was ‘too slow’ for some. He broke out of his reverie when people started to get up. Time to stop thinking and start acting. Briefly he glanced around, met the eyes of a small girl, and after a moment settled on a greeting nod. A fellow team leader, Ragna or something? Later. For now, team matters. "Well gents, now what?" Diamond asked. "My guess would be to find where we'll be staying while we're here." Oswald replied. “Agreed. I would also like to get to know all of you a bit better. Likes, dislikes, hobbies, dreams, basic knowledge so that we can avoid annoying each other too much. On top of that I feel we also need to train together so I won’t come as close to shooting any of you again.” Marcus added. After a second pause he remembered social convention dictated the use of some private space for such personal matters. “Right now though, our priority is our room.” he said. He stuck his hands in his pocket, briefly brushing against his scroll. 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110100 01101001 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101110 01100101 01110101 01110010 01100001 01101100 00100000 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01110011 01101000 01100001 01101011 01100101 … > C:\Users\MGStein cd programfiles > C:\Users\MGStein\programfiles run maps.exe Half a second later he marched forward with purpose. “This way.”

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Marcus Goldstein

Name: Marcus R. H. Goldstein

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Weapon:Elegantly unsubtle

A custom Century Mark I medium tank, rebuilt from the treads up as a platform for the enormous L7A1 cannon. A single shot is designed to knock out Goliaths, and outright vaporises smaller Grimm. As secondary weapons, the tank carries 2 heavy machine-guns and 12 single shot grenade launchers.



Marcus needs close quarters fighters to keep Grimm at bay if the beasts manage to close the distance. While Unsubtle has tough armour it is not impenetrable and neither does it carry unlimited machine-gun ammunition. The tank's mobility is very poor compared to a hunter on foot, although in a straight line it can go at a decent clip. Because it is impractical to bring the tank with him everywhere, Unsubtle is normally airlifted to where it is needed and otherwise resides in a hangar at Beacon.

A fact that is often under-appreciated is that Unsubtle can carry an absolutely ridiculous amount of gear. Among other things a functional stove, a generously stocked field medicine kit, plenty of spare ammunition and parts for both itself and teammates and a portable hot water shower all come standard.

Speciality: Long range to extremely long range. Marcus is the quintessential sniper and artillery support character. The raw damage output of the Big Gun can best be described as ‘apocalyptic’ and the two machine guns are also punchier than the normal man portable designs. On top of that Marcus is surgically precise with his shots and can accurately hit targets up to a kilometre and a half away with just his machineguns. Double that with the cannon.

However all this firepower comes at a price. While not a delicate flower by any stretch, Unsubtle is difficult to repair in the field and possess practically no melee ability. It has a long reload time on the main gun, and great care must be taken with shot placement to avoid friendly fire.

Marcus is highly thoughtful when he fights, as is befitting of a sniper. He prefers to wait in ambush and will abuse any terrain to his advantage. While he does have the muscles of a blacksmith, he is a poor combatant outside of his tank, with only a revolver for self defence.

Currently he has several shells available for the L7 cannon:
High Explosive Anti Tank (HEAT): A general purpose round that explodes in a specific way to pierce through armour. Good for most things though it specialises in knocking out heavily armoured targets at long range.
Canister: Turns the cannon into a giant shotgun. Excellent against crowds of beowulfs and the like as it shreds soft tissue, but in return heavily armoured foes can just ignore it.
Armour Piercing (AP): Bog standard big heavy bullet. At short to middle ranges it pierces armour better than HEAT, and unlike HEAT it can batter through walls, trees, small buildings and other soft cover to reach it's target.
High Explosive (HE): Tiny little organ parts for everyone! Not good versus anything with armour. It is a big block of high explosive wrapped in a fragmenting case, used for crowd control when canister doesn't have the range.
Incendiary (HEI): Special explosive shell that spreads around white phosphorous on impact. This is what killed the Datura in the introduction. Usually for area denial or instantly clearing out fortified positions.

Semblance: Technological - Marcus can become partially a digital existence, fusing his consciousness to sufficiently advanced computers he touches. His aura extends to whatever machine he is merged with, fuelling and protecting it. Primarily he uses this to merge his mind with the central system on the Unsubtle to be the driver, gunner, loader and commander at the same time.

Personality: A straight laced officer and a gentleman, very organised and clean. Marcus is stoic and has difficulty expressing his emotions normally. His biggest drive is a need to prove to himself and his family that his idea for a long ranged support unit is a good one. While most of his family are front line hunters, he was always more of an engineer. When it was finally discovered that his semblance was practically useless in a fight he very nearly got cast out completely, until he came up with the schematics for the Elegantly Unsubtle.

Resources: 2 credits, - lien

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Appearance: Marcus has a stern angular face with a hawk nose. His sharp golden eyes are usually hidden in the shadow of his peaked cap. His neatly combed light brown hair can occasionally be seen underneath it. Over a standard green coverall goes an officer's greatcoat in standard Goldstein reddish brown. It is decorated with small lines of gold. A short and broad build is the result of long hours spent carrying heavy parts around on his own. Calloused, deft hands go clasped behind his back when they are not fiddling with one device or another. A toolbelt lined with many, many pockets and tools goes around his waist, over the longcoat. A simple, elegantly crafted revolver rests on his right hip. Basic, sturdy steel toed boots are on his feet.

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*boggles at the sheer amount of stuff peeps put out* I'm working on something though. *types furiously*

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Awesome artwork is awesome. Anyway I am limited to my phone for the next 8 hours, but I will get a response out fairly quickly once I have access to a computer.

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I feel sort of flattered one of the perks mentioned was 'gets to cheat with Marcus' girlfriend'. Anyway I have no intention of following myths to the letter so if anything happens between him and the Athene expy I intend to keep it clean. Maybe a rebound thingmajig at best/worst, ok? Also dat foodporn. I have not had breakfast nor will I be able to get lunch you sadists :(.

Agent B52

I think we've generally agreed to leave the weird stuff out of the tropes! There is quite a bit of weird shit in Greek Mythology so I think it would be better to leave that sort of stuff out!

NarcissisticPotato

Agreed. It is just something I wanted to be clear on because the internet can get weirder still at times. Also I am on my phone and thus cannot post dance gifs. This makes me sad.

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I feel sort of flattered one of the perks mentioned was 'gets to cheat with Marcus' girlfriend'. Anyway I have no intention of following myths to the letter so if anything happens between him and the Athene expy I intend to keep it clean. Maybe a rebound thingmajig at best/worst, ok? Also dat foodporn. I have not had breakfast nor will I be able to get lunch you sadists :(.

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I just finished writing a piece about a grimm that literally eats babies and thought that was pretty horrible. Then you come in and apparently take it as a challenge. *is scared now*

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I'm glad I have such an easy time coming up with a theme. It's fairly obvious given his arc with his family. Also for funsies I've added a section where you can post original ideas for Grimm at the bottom of the google doc. Add your own form of horrible soul destroying abominations there for maximum funtimes inspiration!

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Alternatively he is an extremely capable engineer. Make her a street racer. He gives her some help during a day off and turns her car into a proper race monster. Things can progress (downhill) from there.