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Basic Info
Maybe I'll make this pretty later. For now, the most basic of basic info posts:
PLAYER
Player Name: Hen
Pronouns: he/him
Timezone: PST
Contact: here!
CHARACTER
Character Name: Gigan
Canon: Godzilla
What? This is a wacky AU with friends! See here for details! TL;DR this is Gigan, the kaiju from the Showa Era of Godzilla films, ordinarily a massive cyborg lizard chicken from space, but here transformed into human (mostly) form by Mothra for laughs and probably to learn an important lesson or something.
Human PB: Lussuria from Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Height:65 m 6'5" (196 cm)
Weight:25,000 tons 250 lbs (114 kg); a lot of it is muscle but some of it is chub
Age: WHO KNOWS, tens of thousands of years. Adult.
Hair: steel grey (like, Anime Grey, you know), mohawk style
Eyes: Often covered by sunglasses with bright red lenses, but his right eye is a glowing red cybernetic lens that doesn't blink (think Mortal Kombat Kano, ish, but it can move in its socket and has an iris and pupil). The left eye is missing and the lid is scarred over/shut.
Other Notable Features: His hands and feet are also cybernetic; they are visibly robotic, without skin (this time think automail from Fullmetal Alchemist). He also has a tiny aperture in his forehead that he can shoot lasers out of! Hell yeah!
A lot of his usual cybernetics are missing in this form, but he still has traces of them: he has a triple column of bolts running down his spine (where his wings were attached), and a long, vertical surgical scar running down the center of his abdomen, from just below his collarbone to just above his pubic region (where his rotary saw was implanted).
Abilities: While he retained his laser beam, it's the nature of this AU that he doesn't currently have most of his abilities, since most of them rely on his cybernetics, which have been significantly altered to nerf him. For the most part, he is just a big cyborg dude. He won't even be especially good at fighting until he gets used to having a human form, since it's so different from his own and he doesn't have built-in blades to use to his advantage. EDIT: As of Day 32 in Overdue he has regained his right hammer claw, which he can choose to transform back and forth between claw and hand (though it's much harder for him to go back to hand from claw). SWEET.
One Last Thing: Gigan has implants in both hands that allow him to be effectively immortal so long as his hands aren't destroyed; they can reboot his body and mind and bring him back from "death." These are unlikely to work as expected in this game! We'll find out what happens if it ever becomes relevant! But Gigan has no reason to believe they aren't working normally, so he will be quite protective over not getting them destroyed.
History: See AU link above!
Personality: Gigan is both a sadistic asshole without any loyalty or shame and a gregarious guy who's down to take orders from others. He likes things going his way more than anything else in the world, so everything's gravy as long as he's coming out on top and having a good time, but the moment the tide turns against him, he wants nothing more than to fight about it (and then fuck off if that fight also isn't going his way). He is more a fan of violence than battle—he doesn't follow a code of honor or have any particular respect for a strong opponent. It's just fun to inflict pain on someone he doesn't like, and it's not fun to have pain inflicted on him by someone else, simple as that.
That said, Gigan is a relatively sociable guy who would rather be enjoying himself with someone else than all alone. If he has the opportunity to strike up a rapport with someone, he'll always take it. This doesn't necessarily translate to real loyalty or respect; he is friendly without being nice and is always looking out for himself in the end. Working together is a matter of fun and convenience, and if it stops being either of those things, it's all over.
But being a cyborg who was modified and controlled as a weapon by another race has also left Gigan relatively easy to push around and manipulate. He has not lived a life under his own control in a very long time, if ever, and he isn't quite sure how one does that. This isn't a particular source of angst for him, either; he has never really longed for a life lived for himself. The idea is fairly alien to him. It's easier to seek pleasure in the task assigned to him than to reflect and make big decisions about what would give him pleasure if he had the freedom to seek it anywhere he wanted—which leaves him susceptible to falling into this pattern with others as well. He is a follower to his core, and his identity has been built around the ways in which he was modified from his original organic form and the purposes he was modified for. His personality lives not in having control over his own actions but in the ways he approaches those actions, and Gigan is perfectly comfortable with it being that way.
PLAYER
Player Name: Hen
Pronouns: he/him
Timezone: PST
Contact: here!
CHARACTER
Character Name: Gigan
Canon: Godzilla
What? This is a wacky AU with friends! See here for details! TL;DR this is Gigan, the kaiju from the Showa Era of Godzilla films, ordinarily a massive cyborg lizard chicken from space, but here transformed into human (mostly) form by Mothra for laughs and probably to learn an important lesson or something.
Human PB: Lussuria from Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Height:
Weight:
Age: WHO KNOWS, tens of thousands of years. Adult.
Hair: steel grey (like, Anime Grey, you know), mohawk style
Eyes: Often covered by sunglasses with bright red lenses, but his right eye is a glowing red cybernetic lens that doesn't blink (think Mortal Kombat Kano, ish, but it can move in its socket and has an iris and pupil). The left eye is missing and the lid is scarred over/shut.
Other Notable Features: His hands and feet are also cybernetic; they are visibly robotic, without skin (this time think automail from Fullmetal Alchemist). He also has a tiny aperture in his forehead that he can shoot lasers out of! Hell yeah!
A lot of his usual cybernetics are missing in this form, but he still has traces of them: he has a triple column of bolts running down his spine (where his wings were attached), and a long, vertical surgical scar running down the center of his abdomen, from just below his collarbone to just above his pubic region (where his rotary saw was implanted).
Abilities: While he retained his laser beam, it's the nature of this AU that he doesn't currently have most of his abilities, since most of them rely on his cybernetics, which have been significantly altered to nerf him. For the most part, he is just a big cyborg dude. He won't even be especially good at fighting until he gets used to having a human form, since it's so different from his own and he doesn't have built-in blades to use to his advantage. EDIT: As of Day 32 in Overdue he has regained his right hammer claw, which he can choose to transform back and forth between claw and hand (though it's much harder for him to go back to hand from claw). SWEET.
One Last Thing: Gigan has implants in both hands that allow him to be effectively immortal so long as his hands aren't destroyed; they can reboot his body and mind and bring him back from "death." These are unlikely to work as expected in this game! We'll find out what happens if it ever becomes relevant! But Gigan has no reason to believe they aren't working normally, so he will be quite protective over not getting them destroyed.
History: See AU link above!
Personality: Gigan is both a sadistic asshole without any loyalty or shame and a gregarious guy who's down to take orders from others. He likes things going his way more than anything else in the world, so everything's gravy as long as he's coming out on top and having a good time, but the moment the tide turns against him, he wants nothing more than to fight about it (and then fuck off if that fight also isn't going his way). He is more a fan of violence than battle—he doesn't follow a code of honor or have any particular respect for a strong opponent. It's just fun to inflict pain on someone he doesn't like, and it's not fun to have pain inflicted on him by someone else, simple as that.
That said, Gigan is a relatively sociable guy who would rather be enjoying himself with someone else than all alone. If he has the opportunity to strike up a rapport with someone, he'll always take it. This doesn't necessarily translate to real loyalty or respect; he is friendly without being nice and is always looking out for himself in the end. Working together is a matter of fun and convenience, and if it stops being either of those things, it's all over.
But being a cyborg who was modified and controlled as a weapon by another race has also left Gigan relatively easy to push around and manipulate. He has not lived a life under his own control in a very long time, if ever, and he isn't quite sure how one does that. This isn't a particular source of angst for him, either; he has never really longed for a life lived for himself. The idea is fairly alien to him. It's easier to seek pleasure in the task assigned to him than to reflect and make big decisions about what would give him pleasure if he had the freedom to seek it anywhere he wanted—which leaves him susceptible to falling into this pattern with others as well. He is a follower to his core, and his identity has been built around the ways in which he was modified from his original organic form and the purposes he was modified for. His personality lives not in having control over his own actions but in the ways he approaches those actions, and Gigan is perfectly comfortable with it being that way.