Post by Gehn on Aug 5, 2017 5:10:52 GMT
Name: Gehn
Species: Saiyan
Gender: Male
Age: 49
Appearance: Built for neither great agility nor raw power, Gehn's frame is somewhere in the middle. He, like all soldier Saiyans, has a physique that Humans might compare to a Greek god. Incredibly low body fat and a healthy case of hypertrophy has resulted in a lean, mean fighting machine. He packs all of his into his 178cm tall body.
Visually, Gehn has dark, bowl-cut hair and sharp, angular features. He tends to wear tight, white shirts and looser, gray pants held on by a clip-style belt of similar color. On common trait between all of his outfits, however, are sturdy, black boots. Even after decades on Earth, his "always be prepared to fight" Saiyan upbringing still affects him in many ways -- so he very rarely wears anything that might impede life-saving battle.
His biggest departure from other Saiyans is his lack of a tail after losing it due to his transformation into a cyborg.
History:
The combat obsession of the Saiyan race can sometimes be as much of a weakness for their people as it is a blessing. With so many Saiyans, men and women, fighting constantly, many never manage to have children. The family that Gehn was born to was not one of those. Gehn came into the world as the youngest of three children, behind his older sister, Ollis, and their older brother, Celerus.
Even in their early years, as Gehn entered training with his older siblings, the hierarchy was apparent. Celeurs led the packed, followed closely by Ollis. Gehn, however, lagged far, far behind his older siblings. While they excelled in raw power, combat skill, and ruthlessness, Gehn faltered in every area except, perhaps, tactics. Even that single area of decency did nothing to stand him apart from his older sister and brother. Faced with this overhwhelming gap in ability, Gehn quickly turned into the black sheep of the family, bullied by his siblings and ignored by his parents.
As the trio progressed into their teenage years -- each of them, except Gehn, with enemy lives to notch into their proverbial belts -- the situation only worsened for Gehn. The more his family and his peers alienated and excluded him, the more he delved into his own mind to think, to retreat. Worse yet, he grew colder and colder towards everyone around him.
All of this reading and self-reflection resulted in two things: Gehn caught wind of mythical objects in the Universe called the Dragon Balls, said to be able to grant any wish. He also began to question the efficacy of the Saiyan Solar Empire, its leadership, and their role within the grander cosmos. The Saiyans seemed to spread unnecessary destruction everywhere they went and Gehn quickly decided that their had to be a better way.
Of course, when the weakest member of the family brought any of this up, he was shouted -- and beaten -- down. There would be no grand adventure to find the Dragon Balls, no push to try to change Saiyan society for the better. It would always, he discovered, be his family mocking him for his shortcomings as a warrior without acknowledging his mind. This very quickly crawled under Gehn's skin and became a perpetual irritant for him towards a family he already despised, deep down.
Gehn's self-appraisal as a bright young man was, however, short-sighted.
In his early 20s he departed Planet Vegeta secretly, as an outcast and renegade, for Earth -- one of the supposed locations of the mythical Dragon Balls. He began a search that lasted for years before, finally, around the age of 25, realized all along what the reality of the situation was.
This entire time, he had been naive. He clung to what he thought was a redeeming factor in himself -- his mind -- only to realize that it was all delusion. He was no genius, he held no great wisdom that exceeded his family. Despite all the angry thoughts alone in bed at night about his parents and siblings, the bitter reassurances that he was at least smarter than them, it all meant nothing.
He wasn't smarter than them at all. He was weaker and, since they were the ones not foolish enough to throw their lives away for some absurd legend, they were probably smarter than him.
This shame and embarrassment ruined what was the left of the sparkling-eyed young man full of hope, promise, and vision. Unable to face his family and his people yet again, Gehn exiled himself to Earth, hid his tail, and began to blend in with the local populace. He made money working in construction or using his strength as a fighter -- there were more and more of them among the Humans as of late, he noticed -- to make himself a living.
After just about a year, he found he had settled down with a beautiful, young Human woman around the age of 19. She was, in Gehn's estimate, truly brilliant. Her name was Calculi and she was a University student in one of the major metropolitan Capitol cities on Earth. In her, and because of her, Gehn's imagination and love for getting lost in his own thoughts was reignited. By the time he was 26, Gehn was celebrating the birth of his first son: Talon.
From there, his life took a turn he never would have expected. At the age of 27, his second son, Kincha, was born. Calculi, going to school to be an author, began to publish novels that she dreamed up with Gehn, enthralled by the stories he shared when she discovered his Saiyan heritage. Gehn himself couldn't get enough of being seen as a nigh-divine entity by his young "wife" -- they never officially married -- and his growing boys.
By the time he was 29, they also had a daughter, Parena. At 31, his youngest and last son, Caul, was also born.
Growing up, his son Talon was perhaps the most balanced of them all. He embraced his Human home and heritage, but also thrived due to the aggression and ambition his Saiyan genes afforded him. He trained hard and fought harder as he grew up, and quickly passed his father in raw power. Unlike anyone else in Gehn's family, he took to using a katana in combat. He also served as the peacemaker for the siblings and their father -- a role the others made very necessary.
Kincha had none of his older brother's tolerance for his Saiyan heritage. As far as he was concerned, he was a Human, through and through. Although Talon's tail was removed as a precaution by the new parents, Kincha insisted his "disgusting primate appendage" be amputated. Although his father insisted that he fight and grow stronger, Kincha did everything at the very bare minimum. While all his other siblings eventually surpassed their father, Kincha did not, and could be found listening to music far more often than training his body.
Parena was the breath of fresh air that the still-young parents didn't yet know they'd need. Whereas Kincha would regularly cause conflict within the family, mostly directed at his father and his Saiyan heritage, and Talon would act as peacemaker, Parena played the role of confidant. Everyone in the family felt comfortable expressing themselves to her, and she took a middle-of-the-road approach to handling the controversy Kincha created about their Human and Saiyan cultures.
It was Caul who brought peace to the family. By the time he was 16, his genuine and unending love for the Saiyan lifestyle he heard so much about ultimately caused Kincha to drop the matter. He embraced every aspect of it, and lived to test himself against other fighters on Earth -- and even his older brother, Talon, who he never once defeated.
This family existed in a way that was entirely unremarkable for Earth. They had their issues, their ups and downs, but were never spectacularly bad or exceptionally idyllic, either. What stood out most was that Gehn never did regain the fire and enthusiasm for life he once held as a young man. It remained a doused flame, never to be brought back agian.
At the age of 49 -- still in his physical prime and looking as youthful as ever, as Saiyans were -- and unbeknownts to Gehn, his brother and sister were up for promotion within the Empire. However, the subject of their lost, renegade younger brother put a black mark on their records that neither wanted. Nor, however, did they want the same and dishonor of having to hunt him down themselves.
So the two, together, hired an Arcosian mercenary by the name of Axar to find and kill Gehn for them.
One fateful day, while Gehn wasn't home, Axar found his family house. Inside, the family was gathered for a dinner they were all to share later that evening when Gehn returned home. Among them was Kincha's wife, Storme -- the two married mere months before.
Feeling the power of the Saiyan-Human children within, Axar was impressed enough that he refused to take any risks. He immediately pushed himself into his final form, his True Form, and crashed through the ceiling. Therein, he slaughtered Gehn's children all at once -- taking the life of Storme while he was at it -- and painted the walls of the half-sphere home with their blood.
Gehn returned home to find the roof of his round home caved in. In the center was a primarly orange skinned -- with the usual white, natural body-armor of their race -- Arcosian, complete with two black horns jutting out from the sides of his head. Underneath him was a twisted throne of flesh. The man sat atop the corpses of Gehn's family that he bnet and warped into some horrific seat for himself. Legs acted as armrests and arms acted as the legs of the chair. Purena's chest acted as the back of the seat, with her head snapped back until the back of it touched her shoulder blades.
At his side, with his alien fingers running down her cheek, was Calculi. Axar teased Gehn for a moment for picking a human woman he had aged so finely, unlike the rest who tended to age more like milk. As the shuddering, sobbing woman struggling to retain even a little composure while the alien touched and felt her, Axar snapped her neck with a single finger.
What happened next defined why Gehn proved to be such a failure as a Saiyan: Confronted with this situation, he ran. He remembered where he stashed his pod from all those decades ago and used an explosion to cover his retreat.
He escaped the planet and, for the next few months, ran through space, away from Axar. The Changeling gave an unrelenting chase, pursuing Gehn through nebulae, ion storms, dense comet fields, crumbling moons, and novae. When the pod finally lost power, it was en route to the only habitable world that Gehn's computer new: a forested world deep in free space. It had little more than plants and simple animals, so it was of no interest to most anyone.
Driven to the very edge, Gehn's body barely made it to within the gravitational sphere of influence of the planet before losing power. The pod crashed, horrifically, to the surface, while Axar watched from orbit.
It was on this planet that Gehn's body, mangled and near death, was found by two men. Unconscious, he was dragged away to the lone building on the surface.
When Gehn awoke, he found himself tied down by powerful, metal restraints. Next to him sat a thin, relatively young man who looked perfectly human. He quickly introduced himself as Doctor Xavier, the man who just saved Gehn's life. As the confused Saiyan man struggled in futility against the metal restraints, Xavier explained what he had done:
He was a "refugee" from Earth, as he described himself. He had spent the past two decades, nearly, building his own brand of Cyborg-style Android. He believed he could use artificial technology to merge with the organic components of natural bodies in order to create new, exciting things -- and discovering what those were was his interest and obsession.
Gehn, he revealed, was the first Saiyan he ever had the opportunity to work on; that was something he simply could not pass up. So he had a couple of his worker Androids retrieve his body and he saved the man's life. Like all of his "Subjects", as he called them, most of Gehn's muscular system was enhanced with a tissue-invading, silvery, metallic fiber that greatly increased strength and energy-efficiency. Everything from his toes to his shoulders were enhanced, but with an additional piece added:
Gehn's left eye had been damaged beyond the regenerative power of any of Xavier's equipment on this backwater planet. Instead, he attached a neural interface into Gehn's brain and replaced it with a green-glassed "Scouter Eye". Simply to add insult to injury, this also included the permanent loss of his tail -- the physiological changes made him incompatible with it.
Horrified by what had been done to him -- a Saiyan turned into a bucket of bolts was enough to make even the most apathetic, like Gehn, turn into frothing mass of rage -- he furiously tried to escape. Of course, Xavier laughed these attempts off. He calibrated Gehn's restraints to his Power Level. There would be no escapes.
Until Gehn, empowered beyond Xavier's wildest expectations by his cybernetic, semi-biological enhancements, shattered one of the arm restraints. As Xavier scrambled from the exam room, a single, crimson blast blew open a hole in the man's back and ended his life.
With his family lost and even his Saiyan body stolen from him, corrupted into a monster, Gehn reached the absolute lowest point of his life. Unable to control anything else, he set about destroying the entire, considerable facility. First he obliterated the worker Androids, and then went about destroying all the ones kept in various pods and tanks, along with the building itself.
Until he came across the room full of rejected specimens, labeled "Failure-##". At first, he blasted these pods and their contents without hesitation, until he came across Failure-64.
Within was a woman -- supposedly human, like the rest -- with strangely dark skin that was neither tanned nor outright black. Stranger yet were the two horns that turned black at the ends within. Upon accessing the personal console attached to her unit, Gehn saw two pieces of information that shocked him back into thinking.
The first was a Power Level far beyond the other specimens he peeked at prior to finding her. The second, however, was a designation he never saw in the other Subjects.
"Project: Apotheosis"
Unknown to Gehn, as his finger reached out towards her release switch with great hesitation, was that Axar never left orbit in the weeks after Gehn's crash. He stayed and searched the planet, slowly and methodically, instead of merely assuming Gehn's demise as a lesser mercenary might have.
Not much of the planet was left to check and the flaming facility would, no-doubt, draw some attention. Gehn only began to think of these things after he flipped the red switch and released the woman in the pod from her induced coma.
Starting Planet: Xavier's Planet [Interplanetary Space]
Techniques
Species: Saiyan
Gender: Male
Age: 49
Appearance: Built for neither great agility nor raw power, Gehn's frame is somewhere in the middle. He, like all soldier Saiyans, has a physique that Humans might compare to a Greek god. Incredibly low body fat and a healthy case of hypertrophy has resulted in a lean, mean fighting machine. He packs all of his into his 178cm tall body.
Visually, Gehn has dark, bowl-cut hair and sharp, angular features. He tends to wear tight, white shirts and looser, gray pants held on by a clip-style belt of similar color. On common trait between all of his outfits, however, are sturdy, black boots. Even after decades on Earth, his "always be prepared to fight" Saiyan upbringing still affects him in many ways -- so he very rarely wears anything that might impede life-saving battle.
His biggest departure from other Saiyans is his lack of a tail after losing it due to his transformation into a cyborg.
History:
The combat obsession of the Saiyan race can sometimes be as much of a weakness for their people as it is a blessing. With so many Saiyans, men and women, fighting constantly, many never manage to have children. The family that Gehn was born to was not one of those. Gehn came into the world as the youngest of three children, behind his older sister, Ollis, and their older brother, Celerus.
Even in their early years, as Gehn entered training with his older siblings, the hierarchy was apparent. Celeurs led the packed, followed closely by Ollis. Gehn, however, lagged far, far behind his older siblings. While they excelled in raw power, combat skill, and ruthlessness, Gehn faltered in every area except, perhaps, tactics. Even that single area of decency did nothing to stand him apart from his older sister and brother. Faced with this overhwhelming gap in ability, Gehn quickly turned into the black sheep of the family, bullied by his siblings and ignored by his parents.
As the trio progressed into their teenage years -- each of them, except Gehn, with enemy lives to notch into their proverbial belts -- the situation only worsened for Gehn. The more his family and his peers alienated and excluded him, the more he delved into his own mind to think, to retreat. Worse yet, he grew colder and colder towards everyone around him.
All of this reading and self-reflection resulted in two things: Gehn caught wind of mythical objects in the Universe called the Dragon Balls, said to be able to grant any wish. He also began to question the efficacy of the Saiyan Solar Empire, its leadership, and their role within the grander cosmos. The Saiyans seemed to spread unnecessary destruction everywhere they went and Gehn quickly decided that their had to be a better way.
Of course, when the weakest member of the family brought any of this up, he was shouted -- and beaten -- down. There would be no grand adventure to find the Dragon Balls, no push to try to change Saiyan society for the better. It would always, he discovered, be his family mocking him for his shortcomings as a warrior without acknowledging his mind. This very quickly crawled under Gehn's skin and became a perpetual irritant for him towards a family he already despised, deep down.
Gehn's self-appraisal as a bright young man was, however, short-sighted.
In his early 20s he departed Planet Vegeta secretly, as an outcast and renegade, for Earth -- one of the supposed locations of the mythical Dragon Balls. He began a search that lasted for years before, finally, around the age of 25, realized all along what the reality of the situation was.
This entire time, he had been naive. He clung to what he thought was a redeeming factor in himself -- his mind -- only to realize that it was all delusion. He was no genius, he held no great wisdom that exceeded his family. Despite all the angry thoughts alone in bed at night about his parents and siblings, the bitter reassurances that he was at least smarter than them, it all meant nothing.
He wasn't smarter than them at all. He was weaker and, since they were the ones not foolish enough to throw their lives away for some absurd legend, they were probably smarter than him.
This shame and embarrassment ruined what was the left of the sparkling-eyed young man full of hope, promise, and vision. Unable to face his family and his people yet again, Gehn exiled himself to Earth, hid his tail, and began to blend in with the local populace. He made money working in construction or using his strength as a fighter -- there were more and more of them among the Humans as of late, he noticed -- to make himself a living.
After just about a year, he found he had settled down with a beautiful, young Human woman around the age of 19. She was, in Gehn's estimate, truly brilliant. Her name was Calculi and she was a University student in one of the major metropolitan Capitol cities on Earth. In her, and because of her, Gehn's imagination and love for getting lost in his own thoughts was reignited. By the time he was 26, Gehn was celebrating the birth of his first son: Talon.
From there, his life took a turn he never would have expected. At the age of 27, his second son, Kincha, was born. Calculi, going to school to be an author, began to publish novels that she dreamed up with Gehn, enthralled by the stories he shared when she discovered his Saiyan heritage. Gehn himself couldn't get enough of being seen as a nigh-divine entity by his young "wife" -- they never officially married -- and his growing boys.
By the time he was 29, they also had a daughter, Parena. At 31, his youngest and last son, Caul, was also born.
Growing up, his son Talon was perhaps the most balanced of them all. He embraced his Human home and heritage, but also thrived due to the aggression and ambition his Saiyan genes afforded him. He trained hard and fought harder as he grew up, and quickly passed his father in raw power. Unlike anyone else in Gehn's family, he took to using a katana in combat. He also served as the peacemaker for the siblings and their father -- a role the others made very necessary.
Kincha had none of his older brother's tolerance for his Saiyan heritage. As far as he was concerned, he was a Human, through and through. Although Talon's tail was removed as a precaution by the new parents, Kincha insisted his "disgusting primate appendage" be amputated. Although his father insisted that he fight and grow stronger, Kincha did everything at the very bare minimum. While all his other siblings eventually surpassed their father, Kincha did not, and could be found listening to music far more often than training his body.
Parena was the breath of fresh air that the still-young parents didn't yet know they'd need. Whereas Kincha would regularly cause conflict within the family, mostly directed at his father and his Saiyan heritage, and Talon would act as peacemaker, Parena played the role of confidant. Everyone in the family felt comfortable expressing themselves to her, and she took a middle-of-the-road approach to handling the controversy Kincha created about their Human and Saiyan cultures.
It was Caul who brought peace to the family. By the time he was 16, his genuine and unending love for the Saiyan lifestyle he heard so much about ultimately caused Kincha to drop the matter. He embraced every aspect of it, and lived to test himself against other fighters on Earth -- and even his older brother, Talon, who he never once defeated.
This family existed in a way that was entirely unremarkable for Earth. They had their issues, their ups and downs, but were never spectacularly bad or exceptionally idyllic, either. What stood out most was that Gehn never did regain the fire and enthusiasm for life he once held as a young man. It remained a doused flame, never to be brought back agian.
At the age of 49 -- still in his physical prime and looking as youthful as ever, as Saiyans were -- and unbeknownts to Gehn, his brother and sister were up for promotion within the Empire. However, the subject of their lost, renegade younger brother put a black mark on their records that neither wanted. Nor, however, did they want the same and dishonor of having to hunt him down themselves.
So the two, together, hired an Arcosian mercenary by the name of Axar to find and kill Gehn for them.
One fateful day, while Gehn wasn't home, Axar found his family house. Inside, the family was gathered for a dinner they were all to share later that evening when Gehn returned home. Among them was Kincha's wife, Storme -- the two married mere months before.
Feeling the power of the Saiyan-Human children within, Axar was impressed enough that he refused to take any risks. He immediately pushed himself into his final form, his True Form, and crashed through the ceiling. Therein, he slaughtered Gehn's children all at once -- taking the life of Storme while he was at it -- and painted the walls of the half-sphere home with their blood.
Gehn returned home to find the roof of his round home caved in. In the center was a primarly orange skinned -- with the usual white, natural body-armor of their race -- Arcosian, complete with two black horns jutting out from the sides of his head. Underneath him was a twisted throne of flesh. The man sat atop the corpses of Gehn's family that he bnet and warped into some horrific seat for himself. Legs acted as armrests and arms acted as the legs of the chair. Purena's chest acted as the back of the seat, with her head snapped back until the back of it touched her shoulder blades.
At his side, with his alien fingers running down her cheek, was Calculi. Axar teased Gehn for a moment for picking a human woman he had aged so finely, unlike the rest who tended to age more like milk. As the shuddering, sobbing woman struggling to retain even a little composure while the alien touched and felt her, Axar snapped her neck with a single finger.
What happened next defined why Gehn proved to be such a failure as a Saiyan: Confronted with this situation, he ran. He remembered where he stashed his pod from all those decades ago and used an explosion to cover his retreat.
He escaped the planet and, for the next few months, ran through space, away from Axar. The Changeling gave an unrelenting chase, pursuing Gehn through nebulae, ion storms, dense comet fields, crumbling moons, and novae. When the pod finally lost power, it was en route to the only habitable world that Gehn's computer new: a forested world deep in free space. It had little more than plants and simple animals, so it was of no interest to most anyone.
Driven to the very edge, Gehn's body barely made it to within the gravitational sphere of influence of the planet before losing power. The pod crashed, horrifically, to the surface, while Axar watched from orbit.
It was on this planet that Gehn's body, mangled and near death, was found by two men. Unconscious, he was dragged away to the lone building on the surface.
When Gehn awoke, he found himself tied down by powerful, metal restraints. Next to him sat a thin, relatively young man who looked perfectly human. He quickly introduced himself as Doctor Xavier, the man who just saved Gehn's life. As the confused Saiyan man struggled in futility against the metal restraints, Xavier explained what he had done:
He was a "refugee" from Earth, as he described himself. He had spent the past two decades, nearly, building his own brand of Cyborg-style Android. He believed he could use artificial technology to merge with the organic components of natural bodies in order to create new, exciting things -- and discovering what those were was his interest and obsession.
Gehn, he revealed, was the first Saiyan he ever had the opportunity to work on; that was something he simply could not pass up. So he had a couple of his worker Androids retrieve his body and he saved the man's life. Like all of his "Subjects", as he called them, most of Gehn's muscular system was enhanced with a tissue-invading, silvery, metallic fiber that greatly increased strength and energy-efficiency. Everything from his toes to his shoulders were enhanced, but with an additional piece added:
Gehn's left eye had been damaged beyond the regenerative power of any of Xavier's equipment on this backwater planet. Instead, he attached a neural interface into Gehn's brain and replaced it with a green-glassed "Scouter Eye". Simply to add insult to injury, this also included the permanent loss of his tail -- the physiological changes made him incompatible with it.
Horrified by what had been done to him -- a Saiyan turned into a bucket of bolts was enough to make even the most apathetic, like Gehn, turn into frothing mass of rage -- he furiously tried to escape. Of course, Xavier laughed these attempts off. He calibrated Gehn's restraints to his Power Level. There would be no escapes.
Until Gehn, empowered beyond Xavier's wildest expectations by his cybernetic, semi-biological enhancements, shattered one of the arm restraints. As Xavier scrambled from the exam room, a single, crimson blast blew open a hole in the man's back and ended his life.
With his family lost and even his Saiyan body stolen from him, corrupted into a monster, Gehn reached the absolute lowest point of his life. Unable to control anything else, he set about destroying the entire, considerable facility. First he obliterated the worker Androids, and then went about destroying all the ones kept in various pods and tanks, along with the building itself.
Until he came across the room full of rejected specimens, labeled "Failure-##". At first, he blasted these pods and their contents without hesitation, until he came across Failure-64.
Within was a woman -- supposedly human, like the rest -- with strangely dark skin that was neither tanned nor outright black. Stranger yet were the two horns that turned black at the ends within. Upon accessing the personal console attached to her unit, Gehn saw two pieces of information that shocked him back into thinking.
The first was a Power Level far beyond the other specimens he peeked at prior to finding her. The second, however, was a designation he never saw in the other Subjects.
"Project: Apotheosis"
Unknown to Gehn, as his finger reached out towards her release switch with great hesitation, was that Axar never left orbit in the weeks after Gehn's crash. He stayed and searched the planet, slowly and methodically, instead of merely assuming Gehn's demise as a lesser mercenary might have.
Not much of the planet was left to check and the flaming facility would, no-doubt, draw some attention. Gehn only began to think of these things after he flipped the red switch and released the woman in the pod from her induced coma.
Starting Planet: Xavier's Planet [Interplanetary Space]
Techniques
Offensive
- Thyym Cannon [N1 Ki Wave]: A family technique. Gehn brings both of his arms back, hands open, as crimson energy is gathered in them. When he thrusts them both forward, the two separate sources merge into one and a wave is fired straight ahead.
Support
- Afterimage [SU1]: A momentary burst of speeds that allows Gehn to leave behind a single, static image of himself.
Utility
- Flight [UT]: By projecting his energy beneath himself, Gehn is able to take the sky.
Special
- None
Items
- Built-In Scouter
- One-Use Pod
