Member
Name: Oscar Gibson
Age: 50
Gender: Male (frog genders tend to get wonky, but I'll keep it simple here)
Race: Frog-Human Hybrid (don't ask)
Homeworld: Chrono Trigger
Key-Weapon: Herald of the Gilded Age
Magics: Silence, Confuse, Fire, Thunder, Blizzara
D-Links: Jafar
Job: Red Mage
Appearance: Oscar is the result of years of frogman-human breeding that I'd rather not get into. Being a hybrid, he has traits of both humans and frogs. He is mostly bipedal, though like a frog, he can walk on fours if he wishes to. He has big eyes and a wide, gaping mouth, but in place of a human nose he has two external nares (holes air goes through). Also, he has webbed feet and slender limbs that somehow support his bipedal form. He wears whatever formal suit strikes his fancy.
This'll get longer as I learn more about frogs. Heck, I might even write a paper on them someday!
Brief History:
Oscar's story is a long, convoluted, and overall screwy one. It's no surprise that he doesn't like talking about it himself. It starts with a young man named Chrono. Chrono, a mute swordsman, finds himself in charge of saving the world from an evil being named Lavos. Along with his companions Lucca, Marle, Frog, Robo, Ayla, and (if you will) Magus and some time travel antics, he defeats Lavos. However, with time travel being one of the screwiest tropes in fiction, you never know what can happen. Offshoots of the main timeline can occur, each either caused by a little detail or massive screw-up. Our story truly starts in a world where Frog mates with a woman named Queen Leene, and the royal line becomes populated with frog people.
But Shoddy, you might say, the ending of Chrono Trigger is the canon ending, and the other endings shouldn't exist!
Well, I want to write about time shenanigans. I (and the GM, who may be confused by now) make the rules!
After some time, frog people became common throughout the lands. At the same time, word got out about Chrono's chronological crusade (haha, get it?) and people began to gain interest in Lucca's oddball inventions. The problem was that Lucca had died long ago, and the people needed a mechanical genius to be her spiritual successor. That successor would be Oscar.
Oscar was born to a royal family in a duchy resulting from the splitting of the Kingdom of Guardia into duchies. Oscar, having inherited some of Frog's magical and combat prowess, was set to become a proper noble who would rule over the people in his land. However, he saw such a role as empty and looked for more. During an escapade on his, he came across a hidden group of tinkerers, trying to replicate Lucca's time machine. However, a genius like Lucca only comes once in a blue moon, and success was nowhere to be found. Oscar, ashamed at seeing what he saw to be a pointless pursuit, decided that he'd make something practical with the machines.
He studied for days. Days became weeks, weeks became months, and months eventually became years. Oscar's fellow nobles forgot about him, and he came to be known as a reclusive nobody, one who had denied the throne in pursuit of some useless trivialities. When Oscar began using what little wealth the other nobles could give him to build odd metal trails around major cities and capitals, nobody really cared. That changed when during a knighting ceremony, the nobles saw Oscar riding a giant metal box towrds the venue.
Oscar had invented trains!
Trains weren't as mind-blowing and reality-breaking as time travel, but they did get resources from place to place fast. Merchants and traders began making deals with Oscar. His invention made them to business much more quickly, and more business meant more profit. The Merchants shared their yield with Oscar, and before long, he was the richest frog in the entire world.
Oscar didn't stop there and began creating other wonders of the Industrial Era: factories, automobiles, and more. The problem was that, while he was a good inventor, he wasn't a good businessman. Other frogs began using their royal wealth to build trains and factories, and before long, there was an entire industry to be run. Very rich nobles, with their immense wealth and influence, held more power than kings and queens, which began to serve as figureheads rather than authority figures. Oscar, being the much-respected creator of most of the new technologies, was blind to all of the conflict between these businessmen. It dawned upon everyone that there needed to be a new energy source to run everything, as coal reserves began to deteriorate.
Oscar began studying the properties of magical artifacts, such as the Masamune, to hopefully find out how they gathered magical energy. He eventually succeeded, creating crude if not functional Magitek powered by various artifacts he'd find around the world. Other businessmen, witnessing the conflict present in unregulated capitalism, used such energy to create mechanical weapons that dwarfed them in size. Eventually, wars were fought over trade routes and natural reserves of resources. To top all of that, another means of gathering energy was discovered: through Lavos, the destroyer of all life.
At one point, the humans, being tired of being ruled by frog men (they were once nobles and now powerful businessmen who pretty much dictated all of the rules) rebelled. They were crushed by the mechanical weapons, even with their mastery of swordsmanship and the use of other now obsolete weapons. As one of the last humans was about to be killed, Lavos decided to end the world. It began raining blasts of fire, and everything was decimated even more than it was during the war. Furthermore, the Heartless, attracted to all of the pain and suffering, began entering in droves. Not even Magitek could destroy them.
Oscar, watching everything unfold from afar, decided to just wait for himself to get burned alive. After all, this was his fault, wasn't it? However, a rift opened under his feet, and he found himself in the middle of who-knows-where.
From there on, he found a job, and began creating building Gummi Ships using his remaining knowledge of Magitek. He found out that his timeline wasn't the world's "main" timeline, and that it was doomed to fail from the beginning. Too old and tired to get to the botton of such a mystery, Oscar decided not to mind it and continue building ships.
But Shoddy, you might say, the ending of Chrono Trigger is the canon ending, and the other endings shouldn't exist!
Well, I want to write about time shenanigans. I (and the GM, who may be confused by now) make the rules!
After some time, frog people became common throughout the lands. At the same time, word got out about Chrono's chronological crusade (haha, get it?) and people began to gain interest in Lucca's oddball inventions. The problem was that Lucca had died long ago, and the people needed a mechanical genius to be her spiritual successor. That successor would be Oscar.
Oscar was born to a royal family in a duchy resulting from the splitting of the Kingdom of Guardia into duchies. Oscar, having inherited some of Frog's magical and combat prowess, was set to become a proper noble who would rule over the people in his land. However, he saw such a role as empty and looked for more. During an escapade on his, he came across a hidden group of tinkerers, trying to replicate Lucca's time machine. However, a genius like Lucca only comes once in a blue moon, and success was nowhere to be found. Oscar, ashamed at seeing what he saw to be a pointless pursuit, decided that he'd make something practical with the machines.
He studied for days. Days became weeks, weeks became months, and months eventually became years. Oscar's fellow nobles forgot about him, and he came to be known as a reclusive nobody, one who had denied the throne in pursuit of some useless trivialities. When Oscar began using what little wealth the other nobles could give him to build odd metal trails around major cities and capitals, nobody really cared. That changed when during a knighting ceremony, the nobles saw Oscar riding a giant metal box towrds the venue.
Oscar had invented trains!
Trains weren't as mind-blowing and reality-breaking as time travel, but they did get resources from place to place fast. Merchants and traders began making deals with Oscar. His invention made them to business much more quickly, and more business meant more profit. The Merchants shared their yield with Oscar, and before long, he was the richest frog in the entire world.
Oscar didn't stop there and began creating other wonders of the Industrial Era: factories, automobiles, and more. The problem was that, while he was a good inventor, he wasn't a good businessman. Other frogs began using their royal wealth to build trains and factories, and before long, there was an entire industry to be run. Very rich nobles, with their immense wealth and influence, held more power than kings and queens, which began to serve as figureheads rather than authority figures. Oscar, being the much-respected creator of most of the new technologies, was blind to all of the conflict between these businessmen. It dawned upon everyone that there needed to be a new energy source to run everything, as coal reserves began to deteriorate.
Oscar began studying the properties of magical artifacts, such as the Masamune, to hopefully find out how they gathered magical energy. He eventually succeeded, creating crude if not functional Magitek powered by various artifacts he'd find around the world. Other businessmen, witnessing the conflict present in unregulated capitalism, used such energy to create mechanical weapons that dwarfed them in size. Eventually, wars were fought over trade routes and natural reserves of resources. To top all of that, another means of gathering energy was discovered: through Lavos, the destroyer of all life.
At one point, the humans, being tired of being ruled by frog men (they were once nobles and now powerful businessmen who pretty much dictated all of the rules) rebelled. They were crushed by the mechanical weapons, even with their mastery of swordsmanship and the use of other now obsolete weapons. As one of the last humans was about to be killed, Lavos decided to end the world. It began raining blasts of fire, and everything was decimated even more than it was during the war. Furthermore, the Heartless, attracted to all of the pain and suffering, began entering in droves. Not even Magitek could destroy them.
Oscar, watching everything unfold from afar, decided to just wait for himself to get burned alive. After all, this was his fault, wasn't it? However, a rift opened under his feet, and he found himself in the middle of who-knows-where.
From there on, he found a job, and began creating building Gummi Ships using his remaining knowledge of Magitek. He found out that his timeline wasn't the world's "main" timeline, and that it was doomed to fail from the beginning. Too old and tired to get to the botton of such a mystery, Oscar decided not to mind it and continue building ships.
Other: Battle Theme!
