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NAME: Maggie
AGE: 21
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IM: TharianDream
E-MAIL: bellachaotica [@] gmail [.] com
RETURNING: Fresh meat! o/
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Heero Yuy
FANDOM: Gundam Wing
CHRONOLOGY: Post-series, pre-Endless Waltz (that is to say, after the actual episodes but before the final movie)
CLASS: Hero, sometimes maybe leaning Anti-Hero, depending on the circumstance. He's no Lawful Good Paladin Type, but he's not entirely self-serving enough to be the Anti-Hero, either.
SUPERHERO NAME: "Zero"
ALTER EGO: Heero Yuy, high school student
BACKGROUND:
This... is ridiculously long. But, that's what I get for picking the protagonist, huh?
Heero Yuy was born in AC 180 (AC stands for "After Colony" - a time period in Earth's future after which the majority of human population now lives in space colonies built in orbit at the lagrange points). Not much is known about his earlier years, only that he was raised by a man named Odin Lowe, an assassin who taught the boy how to use a gun. Apparently, he was skilled enough that at the age of eight, he went with Lowe on a mission and was sent to take out a communications tower with an RPG. He failed, and when he found Lowe again, Lowe was fatally wounded. As he died, he reminded Heero that it only takes one foolish person to change the world.
Heero wandered the space colonies on his own until he was found by Dr. J. He took the boy in and was impressed enough by him that he felt it right to give the boy a Gundam - a gigantic mobile suit built for space combat - named Wing. His official training began here.
In AC 194, he was sent to destroy an Alliance base. After placing the explosives, he came across a girl walking her puppy and befriended them. That night, in the attack on the Alliance base, a mobile suit was blown into a neighboring apartment building. Heero found the dead body of the puppy in the ruins. He buried the body, and possibly that of the girl's as well. Afterwards, it was ordered that Heero was to be retrained without emotion - kindness was not fitting for a weapon.
April 7, AC 195 was supposed to be launch of Operation Meteor, a plan for the Gundams to drop to the earth disguised as meteors and destroy everything in their paths. Heero (along with the other pilots, although all separately) decided to go against, carrying out his own version of Operation Meteor which involved taking out Alliance bases instead of blowing up everything. Unfortunately, he was intercepted by an Alliance patrol force. The leader managed to grapple Heero's Gundam, and they crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Heero was washed onto the beach, unconscious, where he was found by Relena Darlian, daughter of the Vice Foreign Minister. When he awoke, he attempted to self-detonate, but the ocean water fried the circuits and he only managed to knock himself over. It was enough of a diversion that he was able to escape. He enrolled in Relena's school as a cover for his own devices, and when he went to retreive, Relena stubbornly came running after him. He intended to shoot her, but was interrupted by the arrival of Duo Maxwell, another Gundam pilot who intended to take Wing and keep it for parts. Heero ended up getting himself shot, twice, and damaged both Gundams in the process. He was taken by force to an Alliance hospital and held there. Duo managed to break him out, where Heero once again attempted suicide when the two had to jump from a tall building on a cliff. Heero refused to pull his parachute, until Relena (who was somehow present) called out to him. He managed to open his parachute in time to save his life, but he broke his leg. After setting the bone himself (which Duo complained about), he stole parts from Duo's Gundam, Deathscythe, and left with Wing.
The next important event occurred when Heero was informed of an OZ meeting in California. He arrived, along with the other Gundam pilots, and they destroyed the base and almost each other. The whole thing was a setup, however, and they had actually just destroyed a spaceship and a base full of pacifists attempting to negotiate. The Gundam pilots were all marked as terrorists.
Some time later, the Gundams gathered to intercept OZ transports of Mobile Suits. Lady Une, an OZ leader, threatened to blow up the colonies unless the Gundams surrendered. This transmission was intercepted by Dr. J, who informed Lady Une that he would surrender, but he would not surrender the Gundams. That was Heero's cue to self-detonate, which he did.
Trowa saved him, and after a month of nursing him back to health, they were informed by a woman named Lucrezia Noin that Zechs was in the process of rebuilding Wing at a base in Antarctica. They traveled there, where Heero fought against Zechs using Trowa's Gundam, Heavyarms. The battle came to a halt when Relena intervened (again). Trowa arrived with Wing, and they all escaped while Zechs voluntarily shouldered the blame for the encounter.
The space colonies turned their backs on the Gundam pilots, labeling them as their enemies. OZ used this to their advantage, of course. Heero enrolled in a school under Duo Maxwell's name in order to better research OZ's plans and begin plotting his next moves. He learned that the real Duo Maxwell had already been captured by Oz and, intent on eliminating all obstacles, planned to infiltrate, find Duo and kill him. This instead turned into a rescue mission. After saving him, Heero took off in order to destroy the Lunar Base, where OZ was manufacturing armies of Mobile Dolls as well as holding the Gundam creators (including Dr. J) hostage. Trowa found him, having gone undercover as an OZ officer, and took him prisoner.
OZ received word that another Gundam pilot was in space, and through process of elimination, Trowa knew it had to be Quatre. He took Heero with him under the guise of neutralizing the "threat," when really the two planned to team up with Quatre and move on. Quatre, however, had other plans. Having been driven mad by the ZERO system and the death of his father, he destroyed Trowa and very nearly destroyed Heero as well. His actions caused him to snap out of it, and with Heero, he tried to escape and regroup. Unfortunately, OZ caught them both, and they were taken prisoner (again). This time, Heero was forced to test pilot the ZERO system, which caused him to go on a rampage through the base. Quatre managed to stop him, and in the confusion they destroyed the Lunar Base and left for Earth.
On Earth, Heero was reunited with his Gundam in the Sanc Kingdom, where Relena ruled. It took the combined efforts of Relena, Noin and Quatre to convince him to stay and protect the pacifistic nation, but he agreed on the grounds that Relena was using her networks to find Trowa. After learning about Treize's arrest, however, Heero took off to find him. There, Treize gave him the Gundam Epyon, also equipped with the ZERO system of operaion. Heero was still unable to control it, and even though Relena surrendered to OZ and dissolved the Sanc Kingdom, Heero continued to fight. Zechs appeared with the new Wing Zero Gundam, and after the two of them fight, they agree to switch Gundams before going their separate ways. Heero remained on Earth briefly, but upon learning of the growing threat of the rebel force White Fang, he took off into space once again.
More fighting occurs and more things blow up as many skirmishes with White Fang come and go. Eventually, Heero learned from Duo that Relena had been taken hostage onto the battleship Libra. He, of course, decides to go rescue her. He managed to get her safely to the Peacemillion (another ship), but he returned to Wing Zero in order to finish the fight, as Zechs intended to destroy Earth by dropping the entire battleship Libra onto the surface. The two fought in space once again, Wing versus Epyon, and Heero eventually emerged victorious. He spared Zech's life, but a stray piece of Libra - large enough to cause alarm - was quickly hurtling toward Earth. Though his Gundam was already severely damaged, he entered the Earth's upper atmosphere and destroyed the stray piece and survives.
End series. ♥ Endless Waltz would be next, but that's after his canon point.
PERSONALITY:
Heero Yuy is, first and foremost, a soldier. He's focused, efficient, dedicated... he's everything a perfect soldier should be. While on the battlefield, he reigns in his emotions and remains as stoic as he can. He knows that he can't feel compassion for his enemies, it would make him less effective. However, all of this is put aside when he isn't fighting. Odin Lowe always told him that a life is most worth living when lived through your own emotions, and he has taken this to heart. Many of his impulse decisions are completely made by following his heart, not his head.
While he values his life now, he didn't always. Heero used to think of his life as cheap, and saw himself as nothing but a weapon. His progression through canon taught him otherwise, and he ultimately lives to save the day with a declaration of "I will survive!" (and I bet the song is now running through your head. Works every time).
Heero has many talents, such as combat, firearms, hacking, basketball and other strange things we see him excel at in series (like formal dancing). However, conversation is not one of those talents. Heero is, generally, blunt. He doesn't like stringing six words together when three can get his point across just fine. At the same time, though, he doesn't mince words either. If it needs to be said, he won't let it slide. Now that peace has been achieved, he's trying his best to adapt, as hard as that is for a boy who literally grew up entirely surrounded by war. This definitely includes learning to actually socialize properly. Maybe he'll get better about it with time. ... Maybe.
POWER:
In canon, Heero stands out because he's a Gundam pilot, and is trained in hand-to-hand combat and basic firearms as a soldier. I assume he retains all of that knowledge when he shows up in The City.
I'd like to grant him the following superpowers:
* Accelerated healing/regeneration - It will take him less time to heal than your average squishy human. (Doesn't make him any less squishy, either...) Example: a broken leg takes most people weeks to heal. Heero's would heal in a day. Cuts and scrapes? healed instantly. He won't become Starfish Man and regenerate a leg if you cut it off, though. And a headshot's still going to be instadeath.
* Beam Cannon - Heero's Gundam's main weapon is a large beam cannon. I'd like to give that to Heero, in a sense. Think a hadouken or a kamehameha - a blast of energy concentrated in his hands and then fired at the enemy. He'd probably only be able to use it once a day, since it would require so much energy to use and more than likely knock him out completely until he learns to control himself a little better.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
I find myself unsure how to go about this. It appears to be Earth, but several things don't fit. Unless the technology on Earth has suddenly advanced in different areas and declined in others during the war, it's safe to assume that this is nowhere I've been before. I'm also unaware of how I arrived here at all. The device given to me seems like a personal computer, only much smaller and far more capable than what I'm used to. It will prove useful at least.
I'm apparently another new "resident" of this city. However, I have very little to go on. I've turned to this network in hopes of receiving any helpful or otherwise important information. If there is anything you can offer me, I would... be grateful. I would especially like to know who is behind this and what it is they want.
[Encrypted to 02, 03, 04 and 05 should they be around at all; video]
Heero Yuy here. Please brief me on where and what this is.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE: That was the signal. Heero did not take a deep breath to steady himself — he was trained against such signs of weakness. Even so, he couldn’t keep himself from thinking the situation through. Both sides of it. For some reason, it didn’t matter to him that he knew he shouldn’t be thinking, especially at a time like this.
He picked up his detonator, standing from his pilot seat and exiting his Gundam. He stood on the edge of the platform, staring straight ahead, ignoring everyone that was trying to sway his decision. He was conflicted enough as it was without their input. On one hand, there was so much going on lately, a war was inevitable. If he did this, there would be one less soldier — no, one less weapon. He had to remember that his gundam was a weapon. He was a weapon. There was nothing more to be said on that matter. There is no use in denying what you are.
Something was still nagging him, and even though he couldn’t quite grasp what it was, it had to be important if it was bothering him this much. There had to be a much greater disadvantage to pulling that trigger. There had to be some reason not to blow up Wing. There had to be an underlying cause for his sudden fear of...
And then, he thought of his mistakes. He thought of everything that he had done so far to put him where he now stood and he couldn’t stand it. He wasn’t doing anyone but Dr. J any good by staying alive. From all that he could gather, he was doing more harm anyway. He wasn’t a soldier, and he wasn’t on “the good side”. He wasn’t really on “the bad side,” either. He was just a tool. A weapon.
He activated the self-detonator.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
None. ♥!
NAME: Maggie
AGE: 21
JOURNAL:
sykkeaIM: TharianDream
E-MAIL: bellachaotica [@] gmail [.] com
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Heero Yuy
FANDOM: Gundam Wing
CHRONOLOGY: Post-series, pre-Endless Waltz (that is to say, after the actual episodes but before the final movie)
CLASS: Hero, sometimes maybe leaning Anti-Hero, depending on the circumstance. He's no Lawful Good Paladin Type, but he's not entirely self-serving enough to be the Anti-Hero, either.
SUPERHERO NAME: "Zero"
ALTER EGO: Heero Yuy, high school student
BACKGROUND:
This... is ridiculously long. But, that's what I get for picking the protagonist, huh?
Heero Yuy was born in AC 180 (AC stands for "After Colony" - a time period in Earth's future after which the majority of human population now lives in space colonies built in orbit at the lagrange points). Not much is known about his earlier years, only that he was raised by a man named Odin Lowe, an assassin who taught the boy how to use a gun. Apparently, he was skilled enough that at the age of eight, he went with Lowe on a mission and was sent to take out a communications tower with an RPG. He failed, and when he found Lowe again, Lowe was fatally wounded. As he died, he reminded Heero that it only takes one foolish person to change the world.
Heero wandered the space colonies on his own until he was found by Dr. J. He took the boy in and was impressed enough by him that he felt it right to give the boy a Gundam - a gigantic mobile suit built for space combat - named Wing. His official training began here.
In AC 194, he was sent to destroy an Alliance base. After placing the explosives, he came across a girl walking her puppy and befriended them. That night, in the attack on the Alliance base, a mobile suit was blown into a neighboring apartment building. Heero found the dead body of the puppy in the ruins. He buried the body, and possibly that of the girl's as well. Afterwards, it was ordered that Heero was to be retrained without emotion - kindness was not fitting for a weapon.
April 7, AC 195 was supposed to be launch of Operation Meteor, a plan for the Gundams to drop to the earth disguised as meteors and destroy everything in their paths. Heero (along with the other pilots, although all separately) decided to go against, carrying out his own version of Operation Meteor which involved taking out Alliance bases instead of blowing up everything. Unfortunately, he was intercepted by an Alliance patrol force. The leader managed to grapple Heero's Gundam, and they crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Heero was washed onto the beach, unconscious, where he was found by Relena Darlian, daughter of the Vice Foreign Minister. When he awoke, he attempted to self-detonate, but the ocean water fried the circuits and he only managed to knock himself over. It was enough of a diversion that he was able to escape. He enrolled in Relena's school as a cover for his own devices, and when he went to retreive, Relena stubbornly came running after him. He intended to shoot her, but was interrupted by the arrival of Duo Maxwell, another Gundam pilot who intended to take Wing and keep it for parts. Heero ended up getting himself shot, twice, and damaged both Gundams in the process. He was taken by force to an Alliance hospital and held there. Duo managed to break him out, where Heero once again attempted suicide when the two had to jump from a tall building on a cliff. Heero refused to pull his parachute, until Relena (who was somehow present) called out to him. He managed to open his parachute in time to save his life, but he broke his leg. After setting the bone himself (which Duo complained about), he stole parts from Duo's Gundam, Deathscythe, and left with Wing.
The next important event occurred when Heero was informed of an OZ meeting in California. He arrived, along with the other Gundam pilots, and they destroyed the base and almost each other. The whole thing was a setup, however, and they had actually just destroyed a spaceship and a base full of pacifists attempting to negotiate. The Gundam pilots were all marked as terrorists.
Some time later, the Gundams gathered to intercept OZ transports of Mobile Suits. Lady Une, an OZ leader, threatened to blow up the colonies unless the Gundams surrendered. This transmission was intercepted by Dr. J, who informed Lady Une that he would surrender, but he would not surrender the Gundams. That was Heero's cue to self-detonate, which he did.
Trowa saved him, and after a month of nursing him back to health, they were informed by a woman named Lucrezia Noin that Zechs was in the process of rebuilding Wing at a base in Antarctica. They traveled there, where Heero fought against Zechs using Trowa's Gundam, Heavyarms. The battle came to a halt when Relena intervened (again). Trowa arrived with Wing, and they all escaped while Zechs voluntarily shouldered the blame for the encounter.
The space colonies turned their backs on the Gundam pilots, labeling them as their enemies. OZ used this to their advantage, of course. Heero enrolled in a school under Duo Maxwell's name in order to better research OZ's plans and begin plotting his next moves. He learned that the real Duo Maxwell had already been captured by Oz and, intent on eliminating all obstacles, planned to infiltrate, find Duo and kill him. This instead turned into a rescue mission. After saving him, Heero took off in order to destroy the Lunar Base, where OZ was manufacturing armies of Mobile Dolls as well as holding the Gundam creators (including Dr. J) hostage. Trowa found him, having gone undercover as an OZ officer, and took him prisoner.
OZ received word that another Gundam pilot was in space, and through process of elimination, Trowa knew it had to be Quatre. He took Heero with him under the guise of neutralizing the "threat," when really the two planned to team up with Quatre and move on. Quatre, however, had other plans. Having been driven mad by the ZERO system and the death of his father, he destroyed Trowa and very nearly destroyed Heero as well. His actions caused him to snap out of it, and with Heero, he tried to escape and regroup. Unfortunately, OZ caught them both, and they were taken prisoner (again). This time, Heero was forced to test pilot the ZERO system, which caused him to go on a rampage through the base. Quatre managed to stop him, and in the confusion they destroyed the Lunar Base and left for Earth.
On Earth, Heero was reunited with his Gundam in the Sanc Kingdom, where Relena ruled. It took the combined efforts of Relena, Noin and Quatre to convince him to stay and protect the pacifistic nation, but he agreed on the grounds that Relena was using her networks to find Trowa. After learning about Treize's arrest, however, Heero took off to find him. There, Treize gave him the Gundam Epyon, also equipped with the ZERO system of operaion. Heero was still unable to control it, and even though Relena surrendered to OZ and dissolved the Sanc Kingdom, Heero continued to fight. Zechs appeared with the new Wing Zero Gundam, and after the two of them fight, they agree to switch Gundams before going their separate ways. Heero remained on Earth briefly, but upon learning of the growing threat of the rebel force White Fang, he took off into space once again.
More fighting occurs and more things blow up as many skirmishes with White Fang come and go. Eventually, Heero learned from Duo that Relena had been taken hostage onto the battleship Libra. He, of course, decides to go rescue her. He managed to get her safely to the Peacemillion (another ship), but he returned to Wing Zero in order to finish the fight, as Zechs intended to destroy Earth by dropping the entire battleship Libra onto the surface. The two fought in space once again, Wing versus Epyon, and Heero eventually emerged victorious. He spared Zech's life, but a stray piece of Libra - large enough to cause alarm - was quickly hurtling toward Earth. Though his Gundam was already severely damaged, he entered the Earth's upper atmosphere and destroyed the stray piece and survives.
End series. ♥ Endless Waltz would be next, but that's after his canon point.
PERSONALITY:
Heero Yuy is, first and foremost, a soldier. He's focused, efficient, dedicated... he's everything a perfect soldier should be. While on the battlefield, he reigns in his emotions and remains as stoic as he can. He knows that he can't feel compassion for his enemies, it would make him less effective. However, all of this is put aside when he isn't fighting. Odin Lowe always told him that a life is most worth living when lived through your own emotions, and he has taken this to heart. Many of his impulse decisions are completely made by following his heart, not his head.
While he values his life now, he didn't always. Heero used to think of his life as cheap, and saw himself as nothing but a weapon. His progression through canon taught him otherwise, and he ultimately lives to save the day with a declaration of "I will survive!" (and I bet the song is now running through your head. Works every time).
Heero has many talents, such as combat, firearms, hacking, basketball and other strange things we see him excel at in series (like formal dancing). However, conversation is not one of those talents. Heero is, generally, blunt. He doesn't like stringing six words together when three can get his point across just fine. At the same time, though, he doesn't mince words either. If it needs to be said, he won't let it slide. Now that peace has been achieved, he's trying his best to adapt, as hard as that is for a boy who literally grew up entirely surrounded by war. This definitely includes learning to actually socialize properly. Maybe he'll get better about it with time. ... Maybe.
POWER:
In canon, Heero stands out because he's a Gundam pilot, and is trained in hand-to-hand combat and basic firearms as a soldier. I assume he retains all of that knowledge when he shows up in The City.
I'd like to grant him the following superpowers:
* Accelerated healing/regeneration - It will take him less time to heal than your average squishy human. (Doesn't make him any less squishy, either...) Example: a broken leg takes most people weeks to heal. Heero's would heal in a day. Cuts and scrapes? healed instantly. He won't become Starfish Man and regenerate a leg if you cut it off, though. And a headshot's still going to be instadeath.
* Beam Cannon - Heero's Gundam's main weapon is a large beam cannon. I'd like to give that to Heero, in a sense. Think a hadouken or a kamehameha - a blast of energy concentrated in his hands and then fired at the enemy. He'd probably only be able to use it once a day, since it would require so much energy to use and more than likely knock him out completely until he learns to control himself a little better.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
I find myself unsure how to go about this. It appears to be Earth, but several things don't fit. Unless the technology on Earth has suddenly advanced in different areas and declined in others during the war, it's safe to assume that this is nowhere I've been before. I'm also unaware of how I arrived here at all. The device given to me seems like a personal computer, only much smaller and far more capable than what I'm used to. It will prove useful at least.
I'm apparently another new "resident" of this city. However, I have very little to go on. I've turned to this network in hopes of receiving any helpful or otherwise important information. If there is anything you can offer me, I would... be grateful. I would especially like to know who is behind this and what it is they want.
[Encrypted to 02, 03, 04 and 05 should they be around at all; video]
Heero Yuy here. Please brief me on where and what this is.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE: That was the signal. Heero did not take a deep breath to steady himself — he was trained against such signs of weakness. Even so, he couldn’t keep himself from thinking the situation through. Both sides of it. For some reason, it didn’t matter to him that he knew he shouldn’t be thinking, especially at a time like this.
He picked up his detonator, standing from his pilot seat and exiting his Gundam. He stood on the edge of the platform, staring straight ahead, ignoring everyone that was trying to sway his decision. He was conflicted enough as it was without their input. On one hand, there was so much going on lately, a war was inevitable. If he did this, there would be one less soldier — no, one less weapon. He had to remember that his gundam was a weapon. He was a weapon. There was nothing more to be said on that matter. There is no use in denying what you are.
Something was still nagging him, and even though he couldn’t quite grasp what it was, it had to be important if it was bothering him this much. There had to be a much greater disadvantage to pulling that trigger. There had to be some reason not to blow up Wing. There had to be an underlying cause for his sudden fear of...
And then, he thought of his mistakes. He thought of everything that he had done so far to put him where he now stood and he couldn’t stand it. He wasn’t doing anyone but Dr. J any good by staying alive. From all that he could gather, he was doing more harm anyway. He wasn’t a soldier, and he wasn’t on “the good side”. He wasn’t really on “the bad side,” either. He was just a tool. A weapon.
He activated the self-detonator.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
None. ♥!
