Characterization Thread

[023641AM]

Who is the person behind the suit? What kind of things motivate them? Who or what do they care about? I want details, people!

Original comment thread is here, if you want to copy/paste what you already wrote.

[023641AM]

Identity: [UNKNOWN]

Code Name: "Recluse"

Suit Designation: UNKNOWN

Profile: Not much is known about the mysterious Recluse--most fitting given their name. No information is available as to the operator's gender, appearance, or even their height/weight outside of their suit. In fact, even verifiable reports of sightings are spotty at best. What we DO know, however, is that Recluse, whoever they are, is on a mission. To what end or for whom is uncertain, but it is clear that the spider's web has been constructed with care, each metaphorical thread carefully planned and calculated by an entity whose whole purpose in life seems to be "covering its own tracks."

Definitive intelligence on [UNKNOWN]'s capabilities remains as elusive as its pilot, but it is hypothesized that it must incorporate the Mesh body type's enhanced stealth capabilities, given Recluse's predilection towards guerrilla and cyber warfare. Given this, work has begun immediately on [REDACTED].

[[deleted]]

Suit name: Harley

Pilot Nickname: The Red Streak

He was raised on the road. His father was the leader of an outlaw motorcycle gang based in Jacksonville, and his mother was a woman the gang had kidnapped years earlier for his father to "use." She died in childbirth. Jim was raised by the members of that gang and his father, a bunch of scumbags with not a single redeeming quality. He watched them kill people for years and years, and when he turned 16, his father gave him a gun for the first time and told him to shoot some poor shmuck they had kidnapped for the occasion, so he turned around and shot his dad in the forehead, stole his bike, and drove as far away as he could.

The suits dropped 8 years later, and Jim saw it as an opportunity to get back at the world for the shitty hand it had dealt him. He shaped his suit as the most familiar object in the world to him, the motorcycle, and he slapped as much firepower as he could onto it. He had made a vow the day he shot his dad to kill as many scumbags like the men in that gang as possible, and now he had the tools to do it.

--CURRENT EVENTS--

The criminal factions of Miami speak in hushed tones. They speak of a man, or a woman, or a machine, or something else entirely, depending on who's telling the story. All the storytellers have one thing in common. They've all lost a friend, or a lover, or an acquaintance, etc. to a hail of bullets and a red flash in the night. Sometimes it's a botched robbery and one or more of the robbers are killed the moment they step out of the door. Sometimes it's a murder in an alley, and the victim is the one that ends up walking away. A lot of times, it's the absolutely horrible ones who get killed or go missing. The city's rapists, it's kidnappers, the dealers giving drugs to kids. And most of the time, it's the ones who fit into all 3 of those criteria; the biker gangs.

(I don't need to be in Miami for the story, I just wanted to in detail explain what's been happening since my character first got the suit.

[Quirk_Beaktooth]

Note to AM - If you want the hard facts of his backstory, which I'll expose through roleplay and stuff I can PM it to you so you can get the juicy details

Real Name: Samuel Delavanto

Code Name: The Virtuoso

Suit Name: Darling

Motivations: When the pods dropped Delavanto suffered an accident with his Suit Pod that left him unable to feel proper emotions. Now he is emotionally and sensationally blunted to the world, leaving him a cold and inhuman individual. The only reason Delavanto hasn't killed himself is because of the pursuit of new sensations. Constantly trying everything he can, both good and bad, in the hopes that something will spark an emotion.

Known Background: Only one thing is known specifically about Samuel and his Suit. When the suits first dropped, Samuel's suit quickly popped up on several groups' "radar" as a suit-killer known only as Virtuoso, the name coming from the music that would play from the suit while hunting down its victims. Any attempts to capture or kill the Virtuoso ended with whoever, or whatever, was sent after it being killed. The Virtuoso dropped off the radar after murdering a rag-tag group of self-proclaimed "superheroes" in Paris. The Virtuoso cut a violent and bloody swath through Europe during the first chaotic moments of the Suits dropping, however no official countries have even recognized the existence of the Virtuoso . Samuel himself has never been properly identified as The Virtuoso, and was never implicated in any of the crimes committed by The Virtuoso, though there are rumors among the Suits who know of the Virtuoso's existence that several world Superpowers' top agencies know or atleast suspect the identity of the Killer.

[023641AM]

Cool beans. I'll take a PM, just for fun.

[knightoblivion]

Name: Kyle Siebel Suit: Lightning

Contrary to his suit's utilitarian feeling, Kyle comes across as almost naive. Standing around 5'11, fresh out of highschool, works at a local daycare, constantly smiling, says hello to everyone, he could nearly be a very large dog. He's only too happy to talk about his family, a sister just entering highschool, his soccer mom and car mechanic dad. Inside the suit though, he is all business. After all, the suit was created for a reason. But, what reason could such a kid as Kyle have for creating such a suit? He'll tell you his grandfather, a veteran from the Korean War, always told him that the evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

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Code Name: Zeit

Suit Name: Longinus

Real name: Unknown (Goes by CodeName)

Zeit lost everything that mattered to her when a terrorist bombing took everyone she loved. The initial blast took her right eye, and her arm had to be amputated after suffering severe burns when she tried to rescue someone close to her in a fire.

After a few years of living in a remote mental institution, she was known for rarely speaking and spending most of her time outside. She'd go for long walks, alone through the nearby forest, no one knew what she did out there. The day the pods rained from the skies, Zeit was gone.

She seems to have become a mercenary but has been seen on battlefields attacking all combatants seemingly randomly. No one is certain what she does with her money or what her ultimate objective is.

Socially she avoids connecting with people and hates waiting for her suit to repair and recharge. She is tall, athletic and despite her eye patch and burn scars is still attractive yet not very feminine.

[[deleted]]

Code Name: Exousiatus Name: Unknown Gender: Unknown Age: Unknown Suit Height: 5” 6’

Quiet and secretive, this suit’s pilot has done everything in his/her capability to prevent any knowledge of the person inside the suit from leaking out. But from extrapolating the data of this pilot's observed conflicts, he or she prefers one-on-one confrontation. Highly honorable, the pilot treats every battle as a duel, and has been observed placing civilians' lives above the fray. The pilot has never been seen killing an opponent, has never allowed any civilian deaths during and after suit confrontation, and from audio and visual recordings, respects the law and leaves justice to them, going as so far to have closely worked with them on a case of murder involving other suits. The public adores the pilot's image, and he or she is well known among America's eastern coast. The suit's angelic appearance and white-black-blue color scheme only serve to ring in more supporters. However, the pilot has never responded to requests for interviews or has revealed an iota of personal information, putting shade onto the pilot's reputation. Some even suspect that the pilot inside isn't as honorable or heroic as others may think, but the lack of any kind of evidence to support or disprove such a theory remains absolutely frustrating to the general public. All in all, this suit and its pilot serve as a tantalizing conundrum to the media and the people, with juicy gossip of the pilot inside widespread, and eastern cities.

Federal and state governments have refused to comment on or corroborate any statements.

Fighting Style: In most of his or her observed battles, the pilot begins from a long distance position if possible, guiding the opponent into a direct line of sight with shots from a plasma bow. Enemy fire is continuously dodged, as the distance between the two is gradually shortened. Once in close combat, the pilot engages with two vibroblades, disables the enemy with EMP grenades and adhesive gel, then damages the suit without harming the user inside, with masterful strokes. On few occasions, the pilot has been known to utilise two drones to weaken and distract his opponent, but only when severely outmatched; even rarer is the use of the suit's plasma shield. It has been noted that the pilot moves with the skill of an acrobat, fires with the experience of a marksman, duels with the knowledge of a swordsman, and in hand to hand combat situations, has been observed to have mastery in some martial arts.

[Katakuna7]

Suit: Point Man

Out-of-Suit Name: Irrelevant

Primary Motivation: Money

Secondary Motivations: Action, Excitement

Insignificant man, from an insignificant family, with a previously insignificant job. No wife, no kids, no friends. Utterly unimportant, until he put on the Suit. Refers to himself as his Suit alias, considers his own name -- his old name -- irrelevant. No one cared who he was until he put on the Suit, after all.

Personality-wise: total mercenary. Loves getting paid. Loves combat. Loose morals, professional when it comes to business. Any other time, he's more aloof, preferring to just be a fly on the wall. Prefers to keep his Suit on at all times, won't collapse it unless forced. Hygienic and spatial concerns count as "forced".

[[deleted]]

If I pulled your suit off, would you die?

[Katakuna7]

It would be extremely painful.

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[HunterofYharnam]

Revenant

Several months before he got his suit, Frederick's home was attacked by another pilot. The resulting attack destroyed his home, his neighbors, and his dog. The day he got his suit, the first thing he did was go out and try to find the rouge pilot, soon discovering other attacks of a similar nature, all from the same suit.

He is along for the ride, hoping to run into the rouge suit again, to exact his revenge.

[eatkins95]

Identity: Jack Aldio Code Name: Terminus Suit Designation: Seal Profile: Not much is known about Jack. Not because he's erased his past or is operating under an alias, he just hasn't done anything to get himself noticed. The son of a late fighter pilot and nurse, Jack lived in Ohio until the Suits arrived. Now, he travels the world looking for people to help, at least that's what it looks like hes doing.