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Septishock

Septishock stood, seemingly calm, at his station, though that was only how it appeared. Inside, his mind was racing. He had decided to stay here in the ship, not out of a sense of loyalty or bravery, but because how else was he going to study anything without the ships impressive array of sensors and research equipment?

"I will stay here and attempt to minimize the damage from the landing," Septishock declared, "If anyone wishes, you may evacuate, but do try to reconvene at the ship as soon as possible. There is research to be done." He then strapped himself in and tried to regain some semblance of control over the ship.

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Septishock

As the doors burst open, Septishock fired into the group, aiming at limbs in an attempt to disable the mutineers rather than than kill them, not as an act of mercy, but that they were probably more useful alive than dead. However, the fighting was soom interrupted by the appearance of what looked like a talking skull.

As the image finished it's announcement and dissipated, Septishock called out triumphantly, "I knew it! Previously undiscovered sentient life!" but his victory was short-lived, as an external force seemed to grab the ship and fling it into some sort of space anomaly. However, control seemed to return to the consoles, so Septishock braced himself and quickly set the scanners to make a comprehensive sweep of the portal as they passed through before the g-forces became too much for him to resist and he collapsed to the floor; no point wasting this opportunity to study a subspace event first hand.

As the shaking finally stopped and the ship stabilized. Septishock pulled himself back up to the console, only to see a warning: "Starmap not found, calculating position."

"We're lost," Septishock declared out loud, with only a slight hint of concern, "We should cease our belligerence for now. In an emergency situation, a full crew is better than half a crew. Destroy us, and you lose half the skill necessary for running this ship, and my previous threat of being stranded in space forever will most likely come to fruition. You seem like a reasonable, though misguided lot; what say you?" Septishock pointed his gun arm at the core group of Predacons still huddled around the door, ready to resume combat, staring at them with his single, inscrutable eye, which, while incapable of expression, appeared threatening nonetheless.

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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

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

Again, Luke Cage is a pretty well established character in his own right so I'm going to have to veto that like She Hulk and Kamala. If the goal is just to have a character with a similar powerset to The Thing, I would think that the easiest choice would be to just use The Thing. I'm not entirely sure what these changes really bring to the story beyond power sets.

@ErsatzEmpress

No, you're right. I should just focus on the primary difference and catalyst for change, "what if the Fantastic Four didn't have a Mr. Fantastic?" My initial thought was that The Thing really always wanted to be cured, and despite Reed's best scientific efforts, Ben Grimm always remained The Thing. I thought that if Doom aided the FF instead of fighting them, he could provide a solution with magic, but I should consider the fact that Reed is considered the "smartest man on Earth", so a solution to The Thing's problem should not be trivial, even via magic, so I'll keep The Thing in the roster and supplement with one of the inhumans more closely tied to the FF lore like I originally planned. Thanks for regulating and keeping my "what if" ideas from running too wild.

My next post will probably be the application (finally), though I am currently traveling and will probably not get the sheet completed for maybe a week or two.

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@ErsatzEmpress

Ok. I did just come up with another idea, since the FF building is in New York, they might interact with New York heroes quite often. That being the case, Luke Cage has a power set similar to The Thing, so I think it might be a good fit to recruit him as an FF member. Let me know if this is acceptable, if not I'll go back to looking for an Inhuman to fill the spot.

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

So, I'm not going to be able to okay Jen and Kamala as members of the F4, sorry.

They're too popular in their own right to be bundled together as one "character". I know Jen has appeared in incarnations of the Fantastic Four but so have half the Marvel cast at this point.

@ErsatzEmpress

This is reasonable. However I would still like to keep the number of members around four, so I think I'll poach some members of the Inhuman Royal Family (House of Agon), since I don't think they're that popular, and although they were former enemies of the FF, they soon became allies afterwards and collaborated often. Let me know if this is acceptable.

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In regards to Doom, I would be inclined to see how you put this idea forward in the application; to my tastes a heroic, socialist Doom does seem less a reimagining in keeping with the core of the character and more bordering on an OC with a shared name. However, I fully hold my hands up and say I may just be being unnecessarily precious. As long as the idea is developed well there shouldn't be a problem

@ErsatzEmpress

The main inspiration for "Based Doom", or "Dr. Fantastic", as I have started referring to my reimagining as, are these pages, conveniently analyzed in this article, which show that ultimately canon Doom's goals are for the benefits of humanity, but he is too willing to sacrifice others to achieve these goals, believing these as necessary. I feel the main impetus for Doom's villainy lie in his arrogance and vanity, as well as his hatred for Reed Richards. So the main difference in this reimagining is what if Reed and Victor had become friends instead? Of course, I am not trying to convince you right now, and will start working on an application once I get adding some Inhuman Royal Family members to the FF roster approved, and will let the application hopefully do the convincing.

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

Yeah, more than welcome to apply for Sue, or to apply for the team as a whole.

@ErsatzEmpress

Okay, I just wanted to make sure the current roster I have in my mind will be acceptable.

1. Sue Richards The Invisible Woman is the leader of the FF
2. Johnny Storm The Human Torch is the second member
3. Jennifer Walters She-Hulk replaced Ben Grimm The Thing when he regained his human form and retired
4. Kamala Khan Ms. Fantastic (canonically Ms. Marvel) fills in for Reed Richards' missing stretching powerset.

In my reimagining, Reed Richards died saving the other founding members in the space accident that gave them their powers. Reed Richards also previously befriended Dr. Doom, who was inspired by Richards' death to turn a new leaf and become one of the founding members of the FF. Over the years, the size of the FF has fluctuated, and it made sense when it was the Fantastic Four or the Fantastic Five, but if it ever fell to 3 or went to 6, the alliteration didn't work, so the team eventually got renamed to the Fantastic Force. Due to Doom's increasingly socialist views, NATO labels him a threat to global peace, so he eventually officially leaves the FF to focus on running his nation of Latveria, but still continues to support the FF through finance and intelligence. So I will be including Doom as a supporting character, but will not apply for him until villainous/anti-hero slots open up.

Is this all acceptable? If so, I will start working on the application sheet proper.

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

Hiya, thanks for your interest. This isn't really the kind of application we would be looking to accept at this time sorry. We may be open to accepting villainous concepts later down the line but not at this stage in the game. Doom as an Anti-Hero would be too significant a departure.

@ErsatzEmpress

Ok, let me flip this around instead, my original idea was that Doom ends up becoming a member of the Fantastic Four, so I could instead just apply for the Fantastic Four, while including Doom as part of their supporting cast, and apply for him later when villain slots open up. Would I be allowed to apply for the entire team, or would I have to pick one of them? I would pick Susan Storm ie. The Invisible Woman if I can only pick one.

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I'm traveling this week and probably won't get a reply in until next week. Apologies for the delay.