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(NOW CLOSED:) Marvel RE: Imagine - A Marvel Comics Roleplay

I want to ask if I can apply as Dr. Doom, but as an anti-hero? I will probably have to change his canonical relationship with Reed Richards from rivals to friends, and might even kill off Richards in Doom's backstory for dramatic 'oomph'.

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I also assume that Cybertronians have not yet encountered this specific alien life, or if they have, records do not exist?

retired RP

Ari

Ari/Aki

Name:

Ariel Akira Ogata

Date of Birth:

June 6th, 2007

Gender:

Male

Sexuality:

Bisexual

Faceclaim:

Alexander Sho Lubba

Dialogue Color:

A187BE

Personality

Though Ari is not arrogant, he does believe that the people of Moon River are ignorant and uncultured, and this is a bias that he will have to overcome. He has a sharp and philosophical mind, but though he tries to be a good person, mixed messages from his father's culture, his mother's religion, and the norms and laws of a secular nation have somewhat muddled his concept of what 'good' even means. Having faced his fair share of prejudice and microaggressions, Ari is wary of others, choosing to judge them silently before determining if he can trust them with his respect and friendship. Having been distanced from his old friends, Ari is dealing with a profound sense of loneliness. Raised with discipline and self-control as his primary virtues, Ari may be too mature for his own good, and finds it difficult to indulge in the normal but impulsive joys of youth.

Life Experiences:

Ari was born and raised in California's Bay Area. His father, Gai Ogata, is a highly-educated Japanese immigrant who worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the US Department of Energy, who was relocated to Wyoming to contribute to a major geothermal energy project. His mother, Francine Ogata nee Meyer, is primarily a homemaker, although she does offer private piano lessons. Ari's father often has to spend whole weeks working away from home, so Ari spends most of his at-home time with his mother. Ari only moved to Moon River last year and had a miserable time trying to fit in, having to transition from an urban life to a rural one, from a cosmopolis to a hole in the ground. The idea had crossed his mind to just suck it up and focus on his studies until he could graduate and enter a prestigious college in a major city where he could engage with like-minded colleagues, but the thought of two years without any friends seemed too depressing, so he would try again this coming school year to socialize more and build connections with his peers.

Hobbies + Interests

• Classical music and playing the piano
• Japanese media, specifically anything to do with giant robots
• Electronic media, ie. video games
• Religion and philosophy
• Running

Trivia

• Because people made fun of his full name as a "girl's name" Ari prefers to shorten it to "Ari" or to just go by his middle name, "Akira", but also often just shortens it to "Aki" since Americans tend to mispronounce it as uh-KEE-ruh
• Ari is on the spectrum but doesn't realize it

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Can we assume the ship controls are back online?

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Septishock

"If you're willing to discuss terms, then you are not so illogical as I thought, Predacon," Septishock replied, mistaking Wingwraith's demand for surrender as a desire for compromise and negotiation. "Very well, state your..." Septishock stopped suddenly as he no longer heard himself on the intercom. Looking back at his console, he noticed that all systems were unresponsive. Did the Predacons sabotage the ship before he could? He doubted they could work so fast and disable so many systems simultaneously; they so far had not demonstrated that level of competence, their only advantage having been the element of surprise.

"Slag..." Septishock cursed as he turned away from his console and aimed his gun-arm towards the door. With no way to carry on the discussion (and no way to carry out his threat of jettisoning their fuel), it seemed he was forced to resort to violence, though the aberrant nature of the ship's malfunction still troubled him.

Septishock had an unusual form when it came to Cybertronians. He had developed a penchant for self-modification, and in preparation of this mission, replaced his entire forearm with a beam weapon, knowing full-well that combat was going to be a factor. He had also deemed long ago that a 'face' was an unnecessary luxury, and replaced his own with a simple voicebox and a sophisticated scanner that looked like a single, recessed cyclopic eye taking up most of his head. Some of his fellows found it unsettling, but he only wanted to improve his function by modifying his form.

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Was Septishock bluffing?

Hider

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Septishock

Septishock's single eye twitched in annoyance. The ruckus had not yet been taken care of, and if blowing up the door was the next plan, then it certainly was not de-escalating either. Of course, he couldn't really blame anyone for ineptitude as the Predacons had successfully cut off their metaphorical head, leaving them to flounder without leadership. Furthermore, the others, at least, were trying; Septishock had not yet lifted a finger to help. Wordlessly, Septishock began soft-hacking the ship, first by letting it know that the captain had died, and then quickly subverting himself, as a science officer, into a leadership position with levels of command and access that normally exceeded his station. They were in disarray, and someone had to take control. Keeping his eye on the sensor readouts, his sole point if interest, Septishock routed control of the ship's reactors as well as the intercom system to his console.

"This is Science Officer Septishock speaking," his voice reverberated throughout the ship through the many emergency communication speakers, "Predacons, please state your demands and we will consider them. Your current violence is disruptive to my concentration, so I ask that you desist. I am currently poised to jettison the ships energon fuel reserves. Doing so will leave us all stranded in space, sentenced to drift aimlessly for an indefinite period of time, during which we will probably all kill each other until not a single one of us remains. I am sure this is a fate neither of us wants. Though our mission was to find the missing Maximal ship, doing so would inevitably give us clues as to the location of this so-called, 'Megatron', who I assume you are looking for. But we have reached our destination and the trail has run cold. So if you don't settle down and allow me to scan for our mutual objectives, we may never end up finding what we want."

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Nice! Good on you for supporting an independent artist! God knows they need all the help they can get nowadays what with the advent of AI.

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Does this ship have a captain?

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OK, post has been edited.