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prettycoolguy) wrote2016-07-17 12:57 pm
prettycoolguy) wrote2016-07-17 12:57 pm
App for The Legion
APPLICATION
Player Name: Zita
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Other characters: Grif (whyarewehere)
Character Name: The Master Chief (John-117)
Fandom: Halo
Character Journal:prettycoolguy
OU, AU, or OC? Original universe
If canon, canon point: Post Halo 4, before linking up with Blue Team again
Superhero Name: The Master Chief (because he is super creative right)
History:
Here
The extreme tl;dr version for people casually glancing: The Chief was kidnapped as a child and trained to be a super soldier to fight human space terrorists. Then an alien war broke out and he fought them instead. Then they accidentally discovered an ancient alien superweapon that would blow up all life in the galaxy and a super parasite, and those two things had to be stopped three times. Then he got frozen in space for 4 years, woke up, and accidentally unleashed one of the ancient aliens that built the superweapons and he had to be stopped too. To top it all off the Chief's best friend, a computer, died to save his life and he feels pretty bad about that. It's all kind of sucked a lot.
Personality: The Master Chief’s job is to protect humanity, and everything else is supposed to be secondary. His personal feelings don’t matter. His life is nothing but a resource to be spent in this mission, and he has accepted that it is his fate to one day die on the battlefield so that many others do not have to. He had no childhood, and has no future.
Despite this, John (though he’s uncomfortable with anyone using his real name these days) is still in there somewhere. He’s a calm, quiet, and steady person, which helps him mask most of his feelings, and years of fighting a losing battle against an alien juggernaut have left him emotionally exhausted anyway. He’s quick-witted and does have a sense of humor, but it comes out extremely deadpan when it does at all. He can care about others (especially his team) very deeply, he’s just not good at expressing those feelings and considers it to be a bad idea.
He prefers to keep others at arm’s length, but John’s not really a loner. There’s no reason for him to be harsh with people if they’re not trying to push their way in, it’s tough to honestly piss him off, and as long as you’re doing your job and not threatening the mission he probably has your back. Spartans are meant to work in teams (though he’s been separated from his on several dramatic occasions) and the Chief has been leading one for most of his life. As the leader, it’s his job to be the pillar of stability around which the whole thing turns. The Chief can’t afford to be anything but unshakable to the team. They have extremely important work to do, and nobody should be distracted by worrying about him. His needs are the least important, and as long as he can keep fighting and keep them fighting, nothing else matters.
As a result, the Chief bottles up his problems and doesn’t really deal with them constructively. He’s been doing this for years, and continues to function mostly because he is extremely stubborn. The competitive streak and obsession with winning he had as a child has carried through into adulthood as an unflagging determination to do what must be done at any cost. If there’s a gun pointed at the head of the universe, there is no stopping the Chief from trying to disarm it. He'll sleep when he’s dead and face the physical and emotional consequences of how hard he drives himself after everything is safe again. While he is loyal, he will not turn his back on this most sacred duty for anything, be it the chain of command or someone he might even love. The entire galaxy could be wrong and point all weapons at him and order him to stand down, and he’d keep fighting to save their lives anyway. And if his good luck holds, he might just manage it even then. Doing the impossible is his job, and he was made to be sacrificed.
Without a mission, the Chief doesn’t really know what to do with himself. He’s accustomed to being treated more like a tool or a weapon than a person, and has treated himself in the same way. He doesn’t really know how to unwind anymore, mostly because he hasn’t had that kind of free time in decades. Growing up in the Spartan project has socially stunted him and he lacks a lot of normal experiences, and though he is good at hiding this, it sometimes shows painfully that John’s life has never quite been his own. He doesn’t want anyone’s pity, he knows he can never have these things and put those regrets to bed a long time ago. (Or at least, so he is determined to believe.) He just wants to keep doing his job. It’s all John really has.
Canon Powers: Surgical augmentation and powered armor. The Librarian also "activated" something hidden in his genome or something to manually advance his evolution as a human, but we still don't know what that means. So basically he's human, just slightly weird in the details somewhere so the Composer couldn't turn him into an AI.
The effects of the augmentations:
- Improved vision
- Ceramic-reinforced skeleton
- Increased muscle mass and bone/muscle density (heightened strength and running speed)
- Reaction time 3x faster than baseline
- Increased growth, which is why he's huge
The MJOLNIR suit:
- Environmentally sealed, shielded against EMPs and radiation
- Refractive coating helps disperse energy weapons fire
- Gel layer regulates temperature and can change density (especially in water)
- Neural interface capable of working with an AI
- Onboard computer monitors wearer's status/can do comms stuff/has a motion tracker
- Further increases to strength and reaction time
- Energy shielding, powered by a fusion pack on the wearer's back
Game powers: The Chief's canon abilities translate well as a two-power set: Power armor and enhanced physique. Out of the suit he's freakishly strong and fast and tough to kill, but it's the suit that takes him to truly on-par-with-your-average-superhero levels.
Abilities: The Chief is a super soldier. He's resilient, brave, and uses whatever resources he has creatively. He's been trained to fight human insurrection and alien invasion, and has a good head for leadership. He can pick up even weird and unfamiliar weapons and vehicles very quickly. He can also handle himself in formal situations pretty well, even if he doesn't like them and would rather be out there working.
He's also really, really, really good at capture the flag.
Setting: Saving the world is just another tuesday for the Chief. Not having to kill people is a (though he won't say anything about it) somewhat refreshing change, honestly. It might frustrate him at some point, but after fighting so long to protect people it does kind of suck when you have to kill them.
Saving the world isn't new. Being surrounded by more normalish people than him is. I'm looking forward to him having to deal with this fish-out-of-water situation with the rest of the Legion, and maybe do some decompressing and healing from all the crap he's been through. He doesn't want to, but it will be good for him if he does.
SAMPLES
Prose Sample: Here from previously playing him here, this is a re-app.
Network Sample:
Welcome to the Legion, rookie. As a way of helping your character cope with their circumstances and have an optimistic outlook towards the future, the existing Legionnaires want them to record a message to their future self with their thoughts on their current situation, what they hope to accomplish in their time with the Legion, and the first thing they want to do when they get sent safely home or to the dimension of their choice.
[ This is a waste of time, and the Chief always objects to wasting time. But then, he actually has time to waste for once. There is no crisis at hand here, no world burning, no parasite, no alien juggernaut. He exhales heavily. ]
The people here need my help. So do the ones back home, but if this world falls it's going to spread to all the others. Helping the Legion stop it is the only choice I can make, here.
[ It's not that he's reluctant. Far from it, actually. It's here he can do the most good. But.. ]
I'm a bit out of my depth. Culturally.
[ Nobody else is going to see this recording. They want him to talk to himself? Fine. He can be honest about that. ]
I'm not a superhero. I'm a soldier. I have a duty to protect humanity, and if the Legion is right about this, I can to protect this humanity without losing time on my own.
[ ...Not that the situation is especially dire at home. For now. He can't help but feeling like they're on the edge of disaster, though, some unforeseen complication that's going to throw everything into yet another fire. He's not sure what it is. An instinct. ]
I don't think they understand it, but it's not my job to make them understand it. There's a threat. I'll do what I can to take it out. I know how this works.
[ And, for a fleeting moment, he wishes Cortana were here to say something flippant about it. But he pushes that thought aside, it's useless and she is gone. ]
One-one-seven out.
[ That's all he really has to say. ]
Player Name: Zita
Plurk Handle:
Other characters: Grif (
whyarewehere)Character Name: The Master Chief (John-117)
Fandom: Halo
Character Journal:
prettycoolguyOU, AU, or OC? Original universe
If canon, canon point: Post Halo 4, before linking up with Blue Team again
Superhero Name: The Master Chief (because he is super creative right)
History:
Here
The extreme tl;dr version for people casually glancing: The Chief was kidnapped as a child and trained to be a super soldier to fight human space terrorists. Then an alien war broke out and he fought them instead. Then they accidentally discovered an ancient alien superweapon that would blow up all life in the galaxy and a super parasite, and those two things had to be stopped three times. Then he got frozen in space for 4 years, woke up, and accidentally unleashed one of the ancient aliens that built the superweapons and he had to be stopped too. To top it all off the Chief's best friend, a computer, died to save his life and he feels pretty bad about that. It's all kind of sucked a lot.
Personality: The Master Chief’s job is to protect humanity, and everything else is supposed to be secondary. His personal feelings don’t matter. His life is nothing but a resource to be spent in this mission, and he has accepted that it is his fate to one day die on the battlefield so that many others do not have to. He had no childhood, and has no future.
Despite this, John (though he’s uncomfortable with anyone using his real name these days) is still in there somewhere. He’s a calm, quiet, and steady person, which helps him mask most of his feelings, and years of fighting a losing battle against an alien juggernaut have left him emotionally exhausted anyway. He’s quick-witted and does have a sense of humor, but it comes out extremely deadpan when it does at all. He can care about others (especially his team) very deeply, he’s just not good at expressing those feelings and considers it to be a bad idea.
He prefers to keep others at arm’s length, but John’s not really a loner. There’s no reason for him to be harsh with people if they’re not trying to push their way in, it’s tough to honestly piss him off, and as long as you’re doing your job and not threatening the mission he probably has your back. Spartans are meant to work in teams (though he’s been separated from his on several dramatic occasions) and the Chief has been leading one for most of his life. As the leader, it’s his job to be the pillar of stability around which the whole thing turns. The Chief can’t afford to be anything but unshakable to the team. They have extremely important work to do, and nobody should be distracted by worrying about him. His needs are the least important, and as long as he can keep fighting and keep them fighting, nothing else matters.
As a result, the Chief bottles up his problems and doesn’t really deal with them constructively. He’s been doing this for years, and continues to function mostly because he is extremely stubborn. The competitive streak and obsession with winning he had as a child has carried through into adulthood as an unflagging determination to do what must be done at any cost. If there’s a gun pointed at the head of the universe, there is no stopping the Chief from trying to disarm it. He'll sleep when he’s dead and face the physical and emotional consequences of how hard he drives himself after everything is safe again. While he is loyal, he will not turn his back on this most sacred duty for anything, be it the chain of command or someone he might even love. The entire galaxy could be wrong and point all weapons at him and order him to stand down, and he’d keep fighting to save their lives anyway. And if his good luck holds, he might just manage it even then. Doing the impossible is his job, and he was made to be sacrificed.
Without a mission, the Chief doesn’t really know what to do with himself. He’s accustomed to being treated more like a tool or a weapon than a person, and has treated himself in the same way. He doesn’t really know how to unwind anymore, mostly because he hasn’t had that kind of free time in decades. Growing up in the Spartan project has socially stunted him and he lacks a lot of normal experiences, and though he is good at hiding this, it sometimes shows painfully that John’s life has never quite been his own. He doesn’t want anyone’s pity, he knows he can never have these things and put those regrets to bed a long time ago. (Or at least, so he is determined to believe.) He just wants to keep doing his job. It’s all John really has.
Canon Powers: Surgical augmentation and powered armor. The Librarian also "activated" something hidden in his genome or something to manually advance his evolution as a human, but we still don't know what that means. So basically he's human, just slightly weird in the details somewhere so the Composer couldn't turn him into an AI.
The effects of the augmentations:
- Improved vision
- Ceramic-reinforced skeleton
- Increased muscle mass and bone/muscle density (heightened strength and running speed)
- Reaction time 3x faster than baseline
- Increased growth, which is why he's huge
The MJOLNIR suit:
- Environmentally sealed, shielded against EMPs and radiation
- Refractive coating helps disperse energy weapons fire
- Gel layer regulates temperature and can change density (especially in water)
- Neural interface capable of working with an AI
- Onboard computer monitors wearer's status/can do comms stuff/has a motion tracker
- Further increases to strength and reaction time
- Energy shielding, powered by a fusion pack on the wearer's back
Game powers: The Chief's canon abilities translate well as a two-power set: Power armor and enhanced physique. Out of the suit he's freakishly strong and fast and tough to kill, but it's the suit that takes him to truly on-par-with-your-average-superhero levels.
Abilities: The Chief is a super soldier. He's resilient, brave, and uses whatever resources he has creatively. He's been trained to fight human insurrection and alien invasion, and has a good head for leadership. He can pick up even weird and unfamiliar weapons and vehicles very quickly. He can also handle himself in formal situations pretty well, even if he doesn't like them and would rather be out there working.
He's also really, really, really good at capture the flag.
Setting: Saving the world is just another tuesday for the Chief. Not having to kill people is a (though he won't say anything about it) somewhat refreshing change, honestly. It might frustrate him at some point, but after fighting so long to protect people it does kind of suck when you have to kill them.
Saving the world isn't new. Being surrounded by more normalish people than him is. I'm looking forward to him having to deal with this fish-out-of-water situation with the rest of the Legion, and maybe do some decompressing and healing from all the crap he's been through. He doesn't want to, but it will be good for him if he does.
SAMPLES
Prose Sample: Here from previously playing him here, this is a re-app.
Network Sample:
Welcome to the Legion, rookie. As a way of helping your character cope with their circumstances and have an optimistic outlook towards the future, the existing Legionnaires want them to record a message to their future self with their thoughts on their current situation, what they hope to accomplish in their time with the Legion, and the first thing they want to do when they get sent safely home or to the dimension of their choice.
[ This is a waste of time, and the Chief always objects to wasting time. But then, he actually has time to waste for once. There is no crisis at hand here, no world burning, no parasite, no alien juggernaut. He exhales heavily. ]
The people here need my help. So do the ones back home, but if this world falls it's going to spread to all the others. Helping the Legion stop it is the only choice I can make, here.
[ It's not that he's reluctant. Far from it, actually. It's here he can do the most good. But.. ]
I'm a bit out of my depth. Culturally.
[ Nobody else is going to see this recording. They want him to talk to himself? Fine. He can be honest about that. ]
I'm not a superhero. I'm a soldier. I have a duty to protect humanity, and if the Legion is right about this, I can to protect this humanity without losing time on my own.
[ ...Not that the situation is especially dire at home. For now. He can't help but feeling like they're on the edge of disaster, though, some unforeseen complication that's going to throw everything into yet another fire. He's not sure what it is. An instinct. ]
I don't think they understand it, but it's not my job to make them understand it. There's a threat. I'll do what I can to take it out. I know how this works.
[ And, for a fleeting moment, he wishes Cortana were here to say something flippant about it. But he pushes that thought aside, it's useless and she is gone. ]
One-one-seven out.
[ That's all he really has to say. ]