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2012-01-05 04:10 pm
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Name Teal!
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Character name | Character Journal Aile | [personal profile] transhumanwing
Continuity Aile's story in Megaman ZX and Grey's story Megaman ZX: Advent. Note that this IS a separate continuity from Vent's story in ZX and Ashe's story in ZXA.
Canon source link http://mmhp.net/ZX/
Major events As Aile is the main character of her canon, I will try to be brief and cut this down to a few key events.

When Aile was a child, her mother was killed by an attack by virus-infected terrorists, called Mavericks, at an amusement park. This gave her a lifelong hatred of Mavericks. At the age of 15, she took a job as a courier for Giro Express under the guidance of one Girouette. She came to care quite a lot for Giro during this time. She eventually was tasked with transporting an unknown package, but as she was about to take it she was attacked by Mavericks.

During the attack, the package opened, revealing a small, strange piece of metal which then spoke to her, offering to help. She accepted, and the metal shifted into nanites which fused with her body, allowing her to transform into Megaman Model X. With Model X's help, she easily defeated the Mavericks. Then an organization called the Guardians came to her and asked for her help, saying that they were an organization of those who studied the Biometal and protected the world from Mavericks and also from Slither INC, the evil megacorp which owned their city and was behind the Maverick attacks. She was told that Serpent, leader of Slither INC, was trying to use something called Model W, the Ultimate Megaman, to take over the world.

When Serpent's Mavericks attacked the city, she and Giro went to stop him, but Serpent infected Giro with a virus that forced him to attack Aile. Aile defended herself, but then Serpent's lackeys, Prometheus and Pandora, struck them both down, heavily damaging them. Aile was dying, and they were surrounded by Mavericks. Giro offered her Biometal Model Z, saying that if Z fused with X, she could survive... but Z cautioned him that he would die if he did so. He insisted, despite Aile's protests, and gave his life to save her.

Now Megaman Model ZX, Aile swiftly defeated the Mavericks around her. She then helped the Guardians recover the fragments of four other Biometals -- L, H, P, and F. After doing that, she went to defeat Serpent. Serpent told her that she was, in fact, a pawn in a much larger game: that the Biometals were part of something called the Game of Destiny. It was revealed that she was genetically modified to share certain markers with the creator of Model W, the evil force controlling Serpent and behind the new rash of Maverick attacks. Fearing that she would then end up just as evil as Serpent, she was reassured by her Biometals that she could make her own choices.
Three years later, Aile's biometals were stolen from her by others with the same genetic markers, Chosen Ones. These Chosen Ones went to fight in the Game of Destiny, a battle to determine, by natural selection, who the strongest Mega Man was, and then to merge that last survivor with Model W, and THEN to completely destroy the world, making way for a new, perfect master race. Unwilling to accept this, Aile went to track down the lost Biometals and get them back, also destroying fragments of the massive Model W in the process. Along the way, she met a Mega Man named Grey and his biometal, Model A. At first, she assumed he was just like the others, seeking to merge with Model W and remake the world in his own image, but found instead that their goals aligned: they wished to stop this from happening and preserve the world. They then worked together to defeat Master Albert, the creator of Model W and the one behind the whole scheme.
Near the end, Aile faced down the four who had stolen her Biometals. She was nearly overwhelmed, but Model Z revealed a trick he'd known all along, paralyzing the Biometals and removing them from their hosts, then returning them to Aile.

Canon Pull Point The end of MMZXA, just after she gets her four Biometals back.

Previous Game Canon (if applicable) If your character comes with history from another RP, tell us a brief precis of the game's premise (a few sentences) and your character's history there. Consider what changes have happened both physically and personality-wise to your character.

Personality Aile is, for the most part, a stable, strong young woman. She's generally easy-going, self-confidant, and strong. She fits perfectly the hero archetype, always willing to go out of her way to help others, even those she doesn't know, and always trying to protect the innocent.
She's very driven by her memories from the Maverick attack that killed her mother, and it's for this reason that she's so driven to protect those less fortunate than herself. She has vowed to never let a tragedy like that happen to another person if she can prevent it from happening, and to that end she fights very, very hard.
Aile can, however, be a little cocky, and while she longs for a day when there is no war, she does revel in the power that her Biometals give her, and sometimes likes to show off. When angry, she can also be a little hot-blooded and demanding.

Powers/abilities/weapons
Technoorganic life form -- Aile is technically what's called a "humanoid," a term which in her universe covers both augmented human cyborgs AND augmented reploid techno-organic life forms called replicant androids, or Reploids, for short. Aile's universe has suffered through a robot apocalypse no less than three times. After the third time, the Powers That Be of her world looked at the cause (wars between malfunctioning machines and humans) and decided that maybe the better solution would be to make it so there was no longer any difference between humans and Reploids.

For the most part, they succeeded. On the surface, humans and Reploids are virtually indistinguishable, so closely have human organic functions and Reploid machine parts been integrated -- indeed, in many cases it's implied that this fusion is on a cellular level. There are two key differences, however: Reploids are still manufactured (or, in this case, grown in vats), whilst humans are still born naturally (though the level of integration means they're born with cybernetic modification, and then modified still further after birth); and human brains have a higher ratio of organic-to-mechanical than reploid brains (which are mostly mechanical)

For practical purposes, I'd liken this to technoorganic fusion on the level of the Transtechs from Transtech (or if you aren't familiar with that, from the very late season Transformers in Beast Wars 2).

The result of this level of fusion means that Aile is FAR more durable than the average human. In-game, in normal human form she survives energy blasts to the face, thirty foot falls, getting hurled through walls, giant swords, crushers, and all manner of other things that humans REALLY shouldn't be surviving -- so, basically, anything a Transformer of around her size would be able to survive! Whether or not she even needs to breathe is a bit iffy: she survives for long periods underwater, and also operates just fine in a completely smoke-filled burning building. In short: giant handwave. Her one weakness is giant spikes and lava (har har sidescrolling platform videogame!)

Biometal -- Aile is a Megaman, a Chosen to wield a power called Biometal, powerful biomechanical armor crafted from the data of heroes from the past that fuses to her body and grants her great powers. Aile is the Model X Megaman, but due to the sacrifice of her friend Girouette, she has merged Model X and Model Z into Model ZX. X can fuse with other Biometals in much the same way, giving Aile access to a wide variety of abilities. Note that each Biometal has its own AI and personality, based on a hero from the distant past (X, for instance, has the personality and memories of Megaman X, whilst Z has the personality and memories of Zero)

If having all six Biometals is too much, I'm willing to cut it down to just the two, X and ZX. Having all of them WOULD make it slightly fiddly if someone else were to app another Megaman (Atlas from MMZXA, for instance, uses Model F) but in canon sometimes two different people use the same biometal (a la the short anime commercial made for ZX), so if this becomes a conflict I suggest putting it down to Time Shenanigans. The biometals themselves wouldn't be appable characters, and they seem distinct enough from the people they're based upon as to be called different characters.
note: X is appended to each Biometal as this represents the biometal fusing with X so Aile can use it.


Aile will start with X and ZX; she will, however, be able to obtain the others via Mysterious Ways later in the game.

All Biometals: All biometals give Aile increased agility, better armor, the ability to cling to vertical surfaces while slowly sliding down them, and the ability to use jets in her feet to do short dashes, including dash jumps and wall jumps. Aile also has four sub-tanks, devices which allow her to restore her health. Each can only be used once before it needs to be recharged, but Energon would probably do it.
Models LX, HX, PX, and FX all have elemental attacks that use weapon energy. Weapon energy is limited, only allowing a few (about six) uses of each charged attack before the weapon energy is depleted and must be recharged. They can also continually drain their weapon meters to give all their attacks a slight elemental charge

Model X: Model X grants twin blasters, each with the ability to charge up to three times their normal power. Its personality, by contrast, is kind and gentle. X can, of course, also fuse with other Biometals, an ability unique to it -- normally, Mega Men can only use the power of their Chosen biometal; X's ability lets Aile use all five of the other Biometal's abilities, if she has access to them.

Model ZX: Model ZX has one blaster similar to X's, but replaces the other with a beam saber. The saber can either be charged, or used for three quick swipes. Z's personality is stern and stoic, always focused on getting the job done.

Model LX: Model LX, the Ice Biometal, isn't very useful outside of water -- it's slow, with an energy halberd for defense, and shares only the same basic movement functions as X. Underwater, however, LX can swim using a jet propulsion system, becoming extremely nimble. LX can also charge up and expend weapon energy to create ice platforms, or use more energy to create a homing ice missile.
LX has a secondary ability: a radar scope that allows it to detect hidden stores of energy, valuable minerals, and also dangerous traps.

Model FX: Model FX, the Fire Biometal, is made for heavy combat and, as such, is a bit slower than the other models, and can't fire its gun while in motion. What it lacks in speed it makes up for in firepower and adaptability -- the path of its shots can be adjusted before firing to curve around corners and at odd angles. This cannot be done mid-flight, however, and must be done before firing. FX can also charge up to shoot large fireballs, or use more energy to create a wave of flame along the ground.

Model PX: Model PX, the Shadow Biometal, is built for stealth. Its primary weapon is a barrage of tiny energy knives. It can also cling to ceilings with its climbing claws. PX can charge up to create a spinning sawblade, or to create a temporary shield against a single attack. Finally, instead of an elemental charge, PX can continually drain its weapon meter to cause it to move slightly out of phase with reality when dashing very quickly, letting it evade some attacks (but not all). This drains the meter VERY QUICKLY and thus only lasts a few seconds.

Model HX: Model HX, the Wind Biometal, is by far the most powerful of the biometals. Through a combination of air-dashes, hovers, slow-falls, glides, and double jumps, HX can get quite close to true flight. It is armed with twin sabers, which means it isn't very good at ranged combat, its one weakness. It can charge up to create a homing sphere of electricity that can stun machines, or use a full fourth of its weapon meter to create a huge tornado of lightning.

Rationale As a non-transformer and, technically, a human character who can hold her own against Transformers without needing a new body, I feel that Aile will be a unique and unexpected character in this setting who will keep the other characters on their toes. Because seriously, if you're a big honking Decepticon, are you REALLY going to believe that the 5'6" technoorganic kid has taken down dudes twice your size and four times as nasty? Nahhh. And then imagine the shock when it turns out to be true! I also feel that though MMZX can be very dark, it has a silver lining to many of the events, which may be needed in a setting as dark as this.

Roleplay Samples

1st person [Hi, have an angry videopost to the network. Shockingly, this is a brown-haired... human. Well, mostly human? There's something a little odd about her eyes, and what are those huge metal things where her ears should be?]

Hey, listen up! I don't know what the big deal is, or how I was brought here, but I want out! I've got a world to save, you know, the battle I was fighting wasn't over yet.
So whoever's responsible for this, come out! If you aren't a Maverick, maybe I'll be nice.

3rd person This place felt like the worst run-down slums of home, a tangled mess of metal and darkness. But unlike home, it didn't seem to end. At home, you'd come out to forests of technoorganic plant life, where cyborg rabbits sat among the weeds and technoorganic birds sang sweet songs, or down to a lake or to the bustling city she called home. But no, here, it seemed like it was just more miles of steel.
And then there were the inhabitants. She'd thought them Mechanaloids or Psudoroids at first, but then they spoke to her as intelligently as most Humanoids.
"Is this the past?" she wondered aloud. "Did I fall through time, or something?"
But it couldn't be, the scale was all wrong. She knew the heroes of the past were mostly human-sized, with a few exceptions.
It was a mystery she didn't particularly care to solve, to be perfectly honest. She needed to get home. Model W was still out there, even if Albert had been defeated, and so were the other Mega Men, even if she'd taken back their Biometals for herself.
No. She had to get out of here. Wherever "here" was.

Preference for arrival Arena plz.

Additional notes Re: human form, see above about being a technoorganic life form. Aile will be keeping her normal human form. I'm handwaving that she can metabolize energon, because while she does eat in canon, she also can restore health from energy capsules just like any robot, and the energy used in the MMZX universe is pretty damn similar. If necessary though, I can handwave that she had a mod installed as she came in.

I'm operating under the assumption that Vent and Ashe (the opposite gendered protagonists) don't exist in this timeline, so if they app in, Aile won't know who they are. CONFUSION ABOUNDS.