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Post by Kronos 'Aspara Arti' on Jan 21, 2024 16:47:50 GMT -5
"I'm done living in the world you people created. Hear me? HEAR ME?! I'LL MAKE IT MYSELF!"
"And it'll make you proud...I promise."
GENERAL INFORMATION
NAME: Goes by the name 'Kronos', because he thought naming himself after a greek titan was cool!ALIASES: Aspara Arti, the names he was born with.
AGE: Almost exactly sixteen years old.
GENDER: Male.
SPECIES: Half-Saiyan, Half-Tuffle (Mechanically Tuffle).
- Strategist: Choose Light, Medium, or Heavy Techniques (Medium). The first Standard Variant you take when creating that level of technique has its TP cost reduced by 1.
- Salvage: You are able to purchase items in the XP shop at a 20% discount. The SMM contribution is adjusted for the new price as well.
- Armed and Ready: Your items that have a once per thread limit can be used an additional time. Does not apply to healing/restoration items or Super Items.
GENERAL TRAITS:
- Ambidextrous: You may use up to two items per turn instead of one. You may not use more than one Super Item per turn, however.
- Wealthy: Zeni-Per-Word is increased by 0.3
STARTING PLANET: Namek.
HOME REGION: Saiba Wastes.
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
APPEARANCE: Kronos is relatively short, standing at 5'4" with a fairly scrawny build and plain, yet relatively clean face. The halfling has gone to excruciating efforts to compress, cut and shape his hair into something non-saiyan or tuffle-like. and wears relatively goofy clothes to make good sure of this (Kronos's hair is infuriatingly resistant to dye). Faceclaim is
{Kronos Gallery}
PERSONALITTY: Kronos is a funky little Saiyan, that's for sure. From a glance, they appear to be a stubborn, naive and fiendishly impulsive person with a bigoted streak and an erratic temper. Look a little deeper and you'll find a shockingly empathetic, outright kind teenager whose wit is only matched by their determination and work ethic. And if you go even deeper than that, you get a nervous, self-hating, grief-ridden wreck who never runs out of energy to do what's right--even if it kills him.
On a less dramatic note, the Tuffle's a funny guy! A decent amount of his more exaggerated behaviors are because he thinks he'll make people laugh; in general, they're extremely susceptible to peer pressure and hugely desire the approval of others. Additionally, he simply likes having people around and suffers from crippling bouts of depression as a result, likely born from isolation from their parents.
Despite his audacious, confident outlook, they are an extremely nervous and expressive person, falling to pieces in the face of even light embarrassment. Kronos experiences emotions with his entire body; when focused he's unshakeable, when happy he bounces off the walls--and when angry, he's merciless. This is not to say he does not have moderate or minor emotions: what it does mean is that where most people turn it up to eleven, he goes to a hundred.
At the end of the day, lying behind all of his gusto and goodwill is a sad, lonely and regretful teenager; a heart of gold beating against the heat of everyone close to him either dying or leaving. One of Kronos's few adult skills' is keeping his angst under wraps, but it's easy to find the Saiyan in a place he thinks no one looks, staring at his tail like it were a cancer.
But hey. It's nothing that a good fight can't fix, right?
BACKGROUND: "Fine. But don't expect somethin' short! Ya know how old sixteen is?"
"I was born in the Saiba Wastes. Pretty fittin' considering that my mom was a Saiyan, my dad was a Tuffle and I didn't fit in anywhere. I haven't a clue what made 'em think that having a me would be anything but a terrible idea. But...whatever."
"All I adults I ever knew growing fell into one of two categories; douchebags who hated me for things I couldn't choose, and people who wouldn't stand up to the douches--aka, bigger douches. And the reasons why were always the same. The Saiyans didn't like me 'cause I was a 'parasite', and the Tuffles didn't like me because I was a 'monkey'."
"If I was lucky, all they'd do is talk shit about my mom, my dad and everything surroundin' them. If I wasn't, I'd be home with a black eye and a bad tooth—and don't get it twisted, sometimes I was the one starting those fights, haha. Once I was about nine, I learnt to never mention my species unless I had to...which was honestly a little worse. You ever hear someone talk about you like you're a slug while they call you a friend? Now 'magine if that was everyone you fuckin' knew!"
"Well, almost everyone. I had a few friends and relatives who looked past it sometimes. Hell, my parents even liked me...but not enough to do much. Remember what I said about the bigger douches? My friends didn't hate me, but they'd look the other way when I get bullied. My relatives didn't say shit, but they'd tell me to get a thicker skin. My parents..."
"Well, one day, they got mad. Really, really mad. Maybe I came home bruised one too many times. Maybe they got harassed for simply having a child a bit too much. Maybe they saw that I was beginning to...accept my lot in life. It'd been 14 years of everyone I ever knew telling me that I was terrible. I think I started to believe it. And that was the last straw for them."
"It's kind of ironic! The one fuckin' thing I'd always wanted them to do--stand up to the whole world for their kid--is what I was begging them not to the day it finally happened. And of course, of fucking course, for once in my life, I got what I wanted."
"They fought hard. And they never. Came. Back."
"You'd think reading about your parents getting murdered in a newspaper would be enough to teach you a lesson. But I guess I'm just thick."
"I never quit. Started training, really training, trying to figure out every single thing my parents had ever learnt. I took up after my dad's martial arts! Studied mom's textbooks day and night until I could build a fucking spaceship! Finished the sword that they were building together and turned it into a signature weapon. It'd take days to list all the shit I've been up to, but rest assured, I became awesome. More awesome than they ever could've been! More awesome than my entire damn planet!"
"But I don't think it's enough. This universe is terrible, top to fucking bottom, and there's not enough awesome in any single person to fix it...but whose to say I'm the only one like myself out there? So I've made up my mind. Fuck the Saiyans, fuck the Tuffles--I'll make my own faction! My own team! Because they can talk all they like about being the ones in charge, the wise ones, the adults, but the only thing they can do is make things worse or die trying to fix them."
"Well NO MORE! We're gonna be the Teens of Tomorrow--and we can do anything. I'm going to fix things. I'm going to be so damn strong and cool that..."
"...that they'll forget I'm a freak."
"They gotta."
COMBAT INFORMATION
TECHNIQUES: You start with Three Standard Technique Slots and One Sparking Slot that you can use any way you like. Some species start out with additional slots, or access to certain slot-based abilities for free. You also start with two additional Utility Technique Slots.Heavy Offensive || Archslash!ADDITIONAL NOTES: Transferring XP and Zeni from Cherry Boxa.
Setting his sword almost literally ablaze with ki, Kronos swings it with enough force that a huge wave of energy bursts out from it at a result, a ki construct that can track opponents while keeping the cutting powers of a blade. "You get the name? Archdemon, Archangel...Archslash!"
Power: 90% (70 + 20)
KP Cost: 6 KP
Variants: Bleed (2 TP) Homing (2 TP), 2 Power Upgrades (2 TP).
Medium Defensive || Phaseshift
His mom had a device that allowed him to dematerialize for a few seconds at a time, and Kronos thought this was so damn cool that he retrofitted it for combat. The problem is that should too much energy, kinetic or otherwise, be in the user's body...well, you blow up a bit.
Power: 70%
KP Cost: 3 KP
Variants: Evasive (1 TP), Cost Reduction (2 TP), 1 Power Upgrade (1 TP)
Light Defensive || Atomic Ball
The earthlings had a lot of ball games, and some of them seemed pretty fun, but Kronos always wondered why kicking the balls into your opponent's groin was an illegal tactic, so now it's a technique--not for groin-takedowns, but defense!
Power: 20%
KP Cost: 2 KP
Variants: Sustained (2 TP), 1 Power Upgrade (1 TP).
Medium Offense Sparking || THE WORLD I MAKE!
In spite of his love for theatrics and goofy antics, sometimes a simple, ultra-powerful punch burning with the memory of his parents is what you need to do the job, filled with enough ki for the Tuffle's hair to stand on end. Bonus points if he channels the energy into his sword.
Power: 80% (40 + 40)
KP Cost: 3 KP, 4 MP
Variants: Preparation (2 TP), -1 KP Reduction (1 TP), 5 Power Upgrades (5 TP)
Utility Technique || Flight
"I can fly. Not bad, right?"
Utility Technique || Ki Sensing
"I can sense ki, too!"
Utility Technique || Great Ape Kronos.
After an encounter with Yangcong's experiments forced his tail to regrow, Kronos gained the ability to transform into a great ape (for cosmetic purposes). If completely changing size would destroy his surroundings, they can opt for a 'partial' form that makes him look a bit like Sun Wukong. [x1 Ki Guidebook.] [Learnt 2/12/2024.]
"I...I really hate that this is a thing I can do. But I handled it better than most. I think. Whatever!"
STARTING LOADOUT: Keeping all my zeni. Spending 16,000 EXP to buy a Z-Sword.
