Post by Porshen on Aug 15, 2016 3:32:25 GMT
Name: Porshen [Means Piston in Russian]
Alias: Porsh, Piston
Species: Bio-Android
Gender: Male
Age: 5
Appearance:
A picture of Porshen taken just before Tycho's death.
Porshen has the build of a heavyweight fighter, standing just over 6'4" tall and weighing in at just under 270 lbs. After his intimidating build, his other features are no less striking. His skin is clearly unnatural with a tanned and yet too grey cast, he's covered from head to two in heavy scars, and a Saiyan-like tail peaks out from his lower back. His more normal features are his unruly black hair, slate grey eyes, and face that seems more suited to a warrior's scowl than a smile.
His current clothing is a dark green sleeveless button down shirt worn open without any undershirt with a pair of tan cargo pants and black combat boots. He doesn't currently own any other clothing due to his history.
History:
It is impossible to talk about Porshen without telling a little about Tycho, his creator. So let's start with him.
Tycho (A play on Takoyaki) was a lowborn Saiyan warrior who came to hate the class system holding his people back. Through hardwork, effort, and determination he dragged himself up the social ladder leatning to speak and act like a highborn Saiyan to better fit in. Once he was there he hoped to start a quiet revolution but nobody wanted to change something that benefitted them.
Frustrated he took to wearing a mask and targetting the worst offenders among tge higgest classes. He fought against the system for a time and won some battles but when the system fought back he wasn't strong enough to win. He was beaten, unmasked, and his profile showed him for the low-class Saiyan he was.
Not content just to kill him or throw him in prison his captors crippled him breaking his body and removing his tail. They took most of his wealth and sent him to the slums as a wretch. Broken but not beaten Tycho started to work on his way back to the top.
Porshen is a cybernetically enhanced Bio-Android created by a crippled Saiyan warrior who wanted to reclaim the power that his injuries stole from him. The intention was to have his creator's mind uploaded into this new body but Tycho was too weak and died while the years-long process was only partially complete. Due to this, Porshen inherited most of his creator's personality along with some of his memories as well as his own basic programming. He knows that he is not Tycho but he has yet to discover who he truly is.
His beat-up bio-synthetic skin, a result of much testing of the new body, was meant to be replaced before the upload was completed. The death of his creator put an end to this. However, in spite of this cosmetic damage, his underlying bio-synthetic body is still sound. This is a very good thing as Porshen doesn't have his creator's skills and isn't able to fix his body the way Tycho almost certainly could have.
His training and testing have revealed a few strengths and weaknesses of Porshen versus his creator's skills prior to his injuries. Strengths are that he's surprisingly tough and, surprisingly, able to launch a more powerful than expected attack that has been dubbed the 'Piston Punch'. Once he gains more ki control and realizes that he can absorb defeated foes, he will become even more dangerous. The downside is that he has limited ki control and even with Tycho's memories he can't use any of his creator's techniques. As such he has created his own signature move, learned to dodge fast enough to have his creator seeing phantom images, and mastered flight using his own methods.
Porshen has buried his creator and left the lab where he has spent the first five years of his life in a near ceaseless series of tests and calibrations. He has little but the clothes on his back, he can pass for a Saiyan warrior, and he's conflicted about trying to use his creator's memories to seek out somebody to train him. What he does know is that he must be as strong as his creator was as even the crippled Saiyan was still a being that many races would struggle to best. To this end, Porshen seeks allies to train with and masters to teach him the skills that his creator's fragmented memories tell him are possible.
Porshen shares Tycho's sense of justice as well as his desire for strength. This will lead to conflict when he realizes that absorbing people is the path towards true power for a Bio-Android. He also lacks his connection to the lowborn Saiyans and hasn't yet found what he does feel a connection to.
Where will his conflicted mind and jumbled thoughts take this newly created warrior?
Starting Planet: Vegeta
Techniques
Offensive
Piston Punch [N1]
Porshen draws back to punch and, before slamming the attack home, he fills his fist with energy empowering his punch with energy that most would fire off as a beam or orb of energy. The power stored in this fist can be used to cut through, or clash with, other techniques of similar power.
Mad Piston Punch [UP1]
A powered up version of his ki infused punch. With this technique, his fist glows with a pale blue aura as his body can no longer contain his ki.
Support
After Image Technique [SU1]
Through a sudden burst of speed, you leave behind a static image of yourself to distract your opponent, this technique allows you to completely dodge techniques beneath 100% of your PL. This technique uses 1 KP in KP Battles and cannot be charged.
Utility
Flight
Porshen can fly.
Special
None yet.
Racial Abilities
Tripple Threat
Bio-androids have various characteristics, either emulated or directly inherited from other races. Some examples might include Namekian regeneration, durability, zenkai, or other beneficial traits. These act as 'hybridized' traits, slightly weaker than a pure species would be, but still very useful. Players may pick up to three. Majin abilities are not available to Bio-Androids.
Zenkai - On taking serious, life-threatening damage in battle those with Saiyan blood can gain a zenkai upon recovering from these injuries, which can cause rapid increases in power. Nietzsche would be proud.
Namekian Regeneration - Porshen can regenerate wounds and even lost limbs at the cost of some energy. However, he cannot regenerate brain tissue or from decapitation, and a powerful enough attack can still kill him. Porshen can regenerate his body to restore himself to health; limbs bursting forward from an amputated stub or gaping wounds suddenly healing. Mechanically operates as a Senzu Bean without the KP renewal. Once per fight.
Red Ogre - Porshen begins with a bonus technique slot that can only be used to upgrade an Offensive technique or create a new Offensive technique, he cannot use this to create a variant to an Offensive technique.
Absorption
When absorbing for their two major transformations, they may take 33% of their targets base PL (up to 33,000) and add it to their own. Absorbing a player character prior to the requirements of their two major transformations will fill Bio-Metabolize to x8 immediately! If your absorption would boost your Base Power Level to within range of either of your major transformations you'll instead unlock it! (Absorptions may happen mid-thread)
Bio-Metabolize
An empowered state which can be enhanced through absorption either of other player characters, or by the much less efficient method of spending a technique point on it the Bio-android metabolizing the excess energies into a wicked aura and intense strength, channeling it alongside their natural proficiency. Each use will digest this excess energy and reduce the multiplier back towards it's minimum by -2x, so Bio-androids must use it tactically to secure key objectives.
Catalyst or Cocoon
At 120,000 PL the Bio-android faces a challenge. Their evolution reaches a biological ceiling, and they must either absorb an enemy to ascend to great new heights, or form into a cocoon and concentrate their energies to progress. The Catalyst option is stronger and faster, but requires two player absorptions.* The Cocoon option is slower and weaker, but no player absorption is required. Whether or not the Catalyst or Cocoon is chosen has an irreversible effect on the Bio-Android's overall PL progression.
Items
Built in Scouter
One-Use Pod
Alias: Porsh, Piston
Species: Bio-Android
Gender: Male
Age: 5
Appearance:
A picture of Porshen taken just before Tycho's death.
Porshen has the build of a heavyweight fighter, standing just over 6'4" tall and weighing in at just under 270 lbs. After his intimidating build, his other features are no less striking. His skin is clearly unnatural with a tanned and yet too grey cast, he's covered from head to two in heavy scars, and a Saiyan-like tail peaks out from his lower back. His more normal features are his unruly black hair, slate grey eyes, and face that seems more suited to a warrior's scowl than a smile.
His current clothing is a dark green sleeveless button down shirt worn open without any undershirt with a pair of tan cargo pants and black combat boots. He doesn't currently own any other clothing due to his history.
History:
It is impossible to talk about Porshen without telling a little about Tycho, his creator. So let's start with him.
Tycho (A play on Takoyaki) was a lowborn Saiyan warrior who came to hate the class system holding his people back. Through hardwork, effort, and determination he dragged himself up the social ladder leatning to speak and act like a highborn Saiyan to better fit in. Once he was there he hoped to start a quiet revolution but nobody wanted to change something that benefitted them.
Frustrated he took to wearing a mask and targetting the worst offenders among tge higgest classes. He fought against the system for a time and won some battles but when the system fought back he wasn't strong enough to win. He was beaten, unmasked, and his profile showed him for the low-class Saiyan he was.
Not content just to kill him or throw him in prison his captors crippled him breaking his body and removing his tail. They took most of his wealth and sent him to the slums as a wretch. Broken but not beaten Tycho started to work on his way back to the top.
Porshen is a cybernetically enhanced Bio-Android created by a crippled Saiyan warrior who wanted to reclaim the power that his injuries stole from him. The intention was to have his creator's mind uploaded into this new body but Tycho was too weak and died while the years-long process was only partially complete. Due to this, Porshen inherited most of his creator's personality along with some of his memories as well as his own basic programming. He knows that he is not Tycho but he has yet to discover who he truly is.
His beat-up bio-synthetic skin, a result of much testing of the new body, was meant to be replaced before the upload was completed. The death of his creator put an end to this. However, in spite of this cosmetic damage, his underlying bio-synthetic body is still sound. This is a very good thing as Porshen doesn't have his creator's skills and isn't able to fix his body the way Tycho almost certainly could have.
His training and testing have revealed a few strengths and weaknesses of Porshen versus his creator's skills prior to his injuries. Strengths are that he's surprisingly tough and, surprisingly, able to launch a more powerful than expected attack that has been dubbed the 'Piston Punch'. Once he gains more ki control and realizes that he can absorb defeated foes, he will become even more dangerous. The downside is that he has limited ki control and even with Tycho's memories he can't use any of his creator's techniques. As such he has created his own signature move, learned to dodge fast enough to have his creator seeing phantom images, and mastered flight using his own methods.
Porshen has buried his creator and left the lab where he has spent the first five years of his life in a near ceaseless series of tests and calibrations. He has little but the clothes on his back, he can pass for a Saiyan warrior, and he's conflicted about trying to use his creator's memories to seek out somebody to train him. What he does know is that he must be as strong as his creator was as even the crippled Saiyan was still a being that many races would struggle to best. To this end, Porshen seeks allies to train with and masters to teach him the skills that his creator's fragmented memories tell him are possible.
Porshen shares Tycho's sense of justice as well as his desire for strength. This will lead to conflict when he realizes that absorbing people is the path towards true power for a Bio-Android. He also lacks his connection to the lowborn Saiyans and hasn't yet found what he does feel a connection to.
Where will his conflicted mind and jumbled thoughts take this newly created warrior?
Starting Planet: Vegeta
Techniques
Offensive
Piston Punch [N1]
Porshen draws back to punch and, before slamming the attack home, he fills his fist with energy empowering his punch with energy that most would fire off as a beam or orb of energy. The power stored in this fist can be used to cut through, or clash with, other techniques of similar power.
Mad Piston Punch [UP1]
A powered up version of his ki infused punch. With this technique, his fist glows with a pale blue aura as his body can no longer contain his ki.
Support
After Image Technique [SU1]
Through a sudden burst of speed, you leave behind a static image of yourself to distract your opponent, this technique allows you to completely dodge techniques beneath 100% of your PL. This technique uses 1 KP in KP Battles and cannot be charged.
Utility
Flight
Porshen can fly.
Special
None yet.
Racial Abilities
Tripple Threat
Bio-androids have various characteristics, either emulated or directly inherited from other races. Some examples might include Namekian regeneration, durability, zenkai, or other beneficial traits. These act as 'hybridized' traits, slightly weaker than a pure species would be, but still very useful. Players may pick up to three. Majin abilities are not available to Bio-Androids.
Zenkai - On taking serious, life-threatening damage in battle those with Saiyan blood can gain a zenkai upon recovering from these injuries, which can cause rapid increases in power. Nietzsche would be proud.
Namekian Regeneration - Porshen can regenerate wounds and even lost limbs at the cost of some energy. However, he cannot regenerate brain tissue or from decapitation, and a powerful enough attack can still kill him. Porshen can regenerate his body to restore himself to health; limbs bursting forward from an amputated stub or gaping wounds suddenly healing. Mechanically operates as a Senzu Bean without the KP renewal. Once per fight.
Red Ogre - Porshen begins with a bonus technique slot that can only be used to upgrade an Offensive technique or create a new Offensive technique, he cannot use this to create a variant to an Offensive technique.
Absorption
When absorbing for their two major transformations, they may take 33% of their targets base PL (up to 33,000) and add it to their own. Absorbing a player character prior to the requirements of their two major transformations will fill Bio-Metabolize to x8 immediately! If your absorption would boost your Base Power Level to within range of either of your major transformations you'll instead unlock it! (Absorptions may happen mid-thread)
Bio-Metabolize
An empowered state which can be enhanced through absorption either of other player characters, or by the much less efficient method of spending a technique point on it the Bio-android metabolizing the excess energies into a wicked aura and intense strength, channeling it alongside their natural proficiency. Each use will digest this excess energy and reduce the multiplier back towards it's minimum by -2x, so Bio-androids must use it tactically to secure key objectives.
Catalyst or Cocoon
At 120,000 PL the Bio-android faces a challenge. Their evolution reaches a biological ceiling, and they must either absorb an enemy to ascend to great new heights, or form into a cocoon and concentrate their energies to progress. The Catalyst option is stronger and faster, but requires two player absorptions.* The Cocoon option is slower and weaker, but no player absorption is required. Whether or not the Catalyst or Cocoon is chosen has an irreversible effect on the Bio-Android's overall PL progression.
Items
Built in Scouter
One-Use Pod