Post by Legume on Dec 10, 2018 16:46:11 GMT -5
CHARACTER BIO
NAME. Legume
RACE. Saiyan
AGE. 27 (or -39 thousand, depending on how you count)
GENDER. M
HEIGHT/WEIGHT. 6'1" / 200 lbs
APPEARANCE.
MOTIVATIONS. Having just been thrusted into a Galaxy which is both familiar and isn't at the same time, and one which is so shitty that he couldn't even believe it at first, Legume has resolved to do whatever it take to make this Galaxy of the distant past a better place, butterfly effect be damned.
QUIRKS.
BONDS.
Legume has no bonds in the Galaxy by definition. The only thing he could potentially call a friend or an ally is a gigantic replica of an ancient sword, which he calls Vanity - he initially had it with him for a theatre play he was going to attend, but it turned out to be of actual use in the battlefield, too.
BACKSTORY.
In the year forty thousand in the Galaxy, there is only... peace.
Legume was born to a family of Saiyan police officers in Age 40,059, a new citizen of the sprawling, wealthy and peaceful united Galaxy of his era. Many, many eras preceded it, some horrible, some considered to be golden ages, like periods of predicatble upturn and downturn, and Legume's era was one of the former. Unified under the Galactic core, the unified Galaxy, a major force in Universal international politics, an open and free democratic nation with a rapidly homogenizing population. Legume himself was registered as a Saiyan, but he was pretty sure he could count the blood of at least thirty species within him.
Legume spent most of his life in the Galactic core, a gigantic metropolis built around and drawing energy from the supermassive black hole below, and inhabited by trillions of citizens of pretty much every variety you could imagine in the entire Universe. During children's games and sparring matches alike, as well as the standard power level screening procedure at the doctor's check-up, it turned out that Legume had a naturally higher power level and affinity to further growth than most, if not almost all of his peers, something which excited both the young Saiyan child and his parents to no end. Legume had heard a lot about the Saiyan heroes of the past, such as Prince Vegeta of the first millenium, Articho of the twenty first, Callar of the thirty fifth... and being quite an idealist and an easily excitable person himself, Legume took this news as the chance to follow in their footsteps and achieve something great himself.
At age sixteen, Legume applied for the Galactic Police Force and began training in one of their academies to become an officer himself - however, he swiftly changed his allegiance to the Galactic Armed Forces, as it soon became clear that not only the police had little desire to have someone with such great potential die as a bureaucrat somewhere in the Galaxy's many planets, but Legume himself wanted to strive beyond. In the military, Legume was met with some of the most talented recruits and veterans which the Galaxy could offer and began his long and arduous path towards becoming a powerhouse himself.
It all culminated five years later, when after life-threatening exercise and strain, pushing himself to the brink in the heat of training, with little path for retreat, Legume's chains broke at last and the young colonel roared with a powerful golden aura, joining the ranks of the small, but growing community of the Galaxy's Super Saiyans, men and women which have acquired the legendary transformation of the Saiyan race either through the brink of death or long and arduous training. Always a valuable tool in the Galactic Armed Forces thanks to their overwhelming physical strength and ki power.
The years of training had grown Legume from an impressionable teenager to a well-crafted, composed adult, viewing both himself and the society around him through a more mature lense - and the skills and power he had achieved during his service in the military made him both attractive in a job market and to the other gender. The Super Saiyan swiftly acquired a girlfriend - her name was Lavendra, a fellow Saiyan just like him, and an outgoing, generally friendly girl - and a new role in society by joining several of the Galaxy's diplomatic missions across both the Universe and beyond it as an entourage guard, which gave him an enven more zoomed out view of the world at large than he already had. Witnessing the totalitarian dictatorships and oppressive monarchies which the Galaxy had to interact with and conflict on a daily basis gave Legume newfound appreciation for the liberty and freedom he and his people owned back in the Galactic core and the space around it.
The next was a fairly humorous incident which turned everything which Legume had in his life upside down.
Due to his muscled composition and above average height, Legume was invited to take part in a play, where he would play the role of a villainous Earthling swordsman with a massive sword. Plays had become a completely antiquated practice at this point, everyone preferred the Galactic Ultranet, but this old man wanted to experience what plays millenia ago looked like, and was adamant about it, so the company organizing his 300th birthday had to acquit. On his way to the play, however, Legume got lost, distracted by a recent name change to one of the streets in the Galactic core - and instead of entering the old man's house, he accidentally entered a semi-abandoned shop which was, in reality, some mad scientist's laboratory.
What kind of scientist works on a one-way time machine and doesn't tell anyone, anyway? Finding a way how to construct a time machine was ordered by the Galactic Association of Physical Sciences with a prize of over a billion credits, and this person cracks the code and doesn't even tell anyone? But whatever...
Not really aware with what a play was supposed to be, Legume recalled that he was supposed to stand behind the curtains until he is ordered to step forward - but when he stepped into what he presumed were dark red curtains, he saw himself falling face-first into a ring-like mechanism with a wormhole in the center - which instantly pulled the poor Saiyan in and spat him out into a thin grassland on what appeared to be Planet Earth - at least that's what he figured from witnessing a single large moon above.
Initially, after standing back up and brushing away the dirt on his clothes, Legume made the hypothesis that he was teleported somewhere else in the Galaxy and that he'll just get back to the Galactic Core in a few hours. As he reached the nearest population center, however - and this was the ruins of Central City, just to note - Legume was instantly struck with two major things he had to note:
One, this was not the Galaxy he was familiar with. Nobody had any clue about a united Galaxy or what the Galactic Core was supposed to be, they had never heard of him or any of the names he listed, such as the President or famous celebrities of his time. When asked about who are the leaders of the Galaxy right now, he'd receive a few names he faintly remembered from memory or history books, like "Polaris", "Ches" or "Radia", but none of which were from this time.
Second, this Galaxy he had just fallen to, which was clearly the same one as his, just different... it was terrible. The city he arrived to was destroyed, the people spoke of a some sort of major war going on across the Galaxy, some of the biggest leaders of local Galactic polities massacred on Abbayor, they were in fear of constant attacks by bandits on the planet's surface and space pirates in the eternal empty skies...
This wasn't the Galaxy he was used to. This was a dystopia!
Legume slowly came to realize that he was not going to be getting back to his time anytime soon, if ever. All of the people he knew rom the future, his comrades in arms, his Lavendra... they were all gone to him forever. But if he's going to be stuck in this past galaxy and call it his new home, then, god damn it, he is going to to try to make it a good home.
CALL TO ACTION.
Explained in Motivations and Quirks.
OTHER.
Original Character Sheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z8jrziE3prhVYpDHpxUw-xrGTyRh_NXJ0vRJoOSNk3U/edit#gid=0
If using a face claim, what is their name/what anime are they from?: Bankotsu from Inuyasha.
NAME. Legume
RACE. Saiyan
AGE. 27 (or -39 thousand, depending on how you count)
GENDER. M
HEIGHT/WEIGHT. 6'1" / 200 lbs
APPEARANCE.
MOTIVATIONS. Having just been thrusted into a Galaxy which is both familiar and isn't at the same time, and one which is so shitty that he couldn't even believe it at first, Legume has resolved to do whatever it take to make this Galaxy of the distant past a better place, butterfly effect be damned.
QUIRKS.
- What do you mean you don't have Ultranet Chips installed in your brain?: Legume comes from such a distant future, and grew up in such a radically different culture and society than the one he has been thrusted into now, that he struggles with some of the most mundane tasks which the people around him have no problem with. For example, he signs up to the Galactic Hypernet like a caveman who has never heard of the procedure, because he's just so used to having a chip installed in his brain which connects for him automatically. Except he is too advanced rather than too primitive for that. And so on. Adding on to that, he has yet to fully grasp the idea of the existence of separate sovereign states in a single Galaxy, such as the Saiyan Kingdom, the Galactic Empire, Earth, et cetera. Why aren't you all united yet?
- I knew I shouldn't have dropped that AP history course...: Legume is a time traveller from the distant future - however, this future is so distant that the average inhabitant of his Galaxy only has the faintest knowledge of what happened back then. Before Legume got accidentally dropped in this period in time, he legitimately thought Polaris, Chilled and Frieza were all the same person, and that he could still meet King Vegeta somewhere. Technically, he could have gotten prepared by reading up on the history of the first millenia of modern Galactic history... had he known that he was going to be dropped here... but he didn't. And he is reaping the consequences.
- Liberty or death!: Having grown up in a well-managed, galaxy wide, open and free society and lived there his entire life, Legume cannot imagine something else. As such, he sees the current piss poor state the Galaxy of the past is in with a bleeding heart - and with any possibility of returning to his time completely gone, Legume has resolved to put all of the strength he has to work and at the very least make this brave new world he's been thrusted to into a better place.
BONDS.
Legume has no bonds in the Galaxy by definition. The only thing he could potentially call a friend or an ally is a gigantic replica of an ancient sword, which he calls Vanity - he initially had it with him for a theatre play he was going to attend, but it turned out to be of actual use in the battlefield, too.
BACKSTORY.
In the year forty thousand in the Galaxy, there is only... peace.
Legume was born to a family of Saiyan police officers in Age 40,059, a new citizen of the sprawling, wealthy and peaceful united Galaxy of his era. Many, many eras preceded it, some horrible, some considered to be golden ages, like periods of predicatble upturn and downturn, and Legume's era was one of the former. Unified under the Galactic core, the unified Galaxy, a major force in Universal international politics, an open and free democratic nation with a rapidly homogenizing population. Legume himself was registered as a Saiyan, but he was pretty sure he could count the blood of at least thirty species within him.
Legume spent most of his life in the Galactic core, a gigantic metropolis built around and drawing energy from the supermassive black hole below, and inhabited by trillions of citizens of pretty much every variety you could imagine in the entire Universe. During children's games and sparring matches alike, as well as the standard power level screening procedure at the doctor's check-up, it turned out that Legume had a naturally higher power level and affinity to further growth than most, if not almost all of his peers, something which excited both the young Saiyan child and his parents to no end. Legume had heard a lot about the Saiyan heroes of the past, such as Prince Vegeta of the first millenium, Articho of the twenty first, Callar of the thirty fifth... and being quite an idealist and an easily excitable person himself, Legume took this news as the chance to follow in their footsteps and achieve something great himself.
At age sixteen, Legume applied for the Galactic Police Force and began training in one of their academies to become an officer himself - however, he swiftly changed his allegiance to the Galactic Armed Forces, as it soon became clear that not only the police had little desire to have someone with such great potential die as a bureaucrat somewhere in the Galaxy's many planets, but Legume himself wanted to strive beyond. In the military, Legume was met with some of the most talented recruits and veterans which the Galaxy could offer and began his long and arduous path towards becoming a powerhouse himself.
It all culminated five years later, when after life-threatening exercise and strain, pushing himself to the brink in the heat of training, with little path for retreat, Legume's chains broke at last and the young colonel roared with a powerful golden aura, joining the ranks of the small, but growing community of the Galaxy's Super Saiyans, men and women which have acquired the legendary transformation of the Saiyan race either through the brink of death or long and arduous training. Always a valuable tool in the Galactic Armed Forces thanks to their overwhelming physical strength and ki power.
The years of training had grown Legume from an impressionable teenager to a well-crafted, composed adult, viewing both himself and the society around him through a more mature lense - and the skills and power he had achieved during his service in the military made him both attractive in a job market and to the other gender. The Super Saiyan swiftly acquired a girlfriend - her name was Lavendra, a fellow Saiyan just like him, and an outgoing, generally friendly girl - and a new role in society by joining several of the Galaxy's diplomatic missions across both the Universe and beyond it as an entourage guard, which gave him an enven more zoomed out view of the world at large than he already had. Witnessing the totalitarian dictatorships and oppressive monarchies which the Galaxy had to interact with and conflict on a daily basis gave Legume newfound appreciation for the liberty and freedom he and his people owned back in the Galactic core and the space around it.
The next was a fairly humorous incident which turned everything which Legume had in his life upside down.
Due to his muscled composition and above average height, Legume was invited to take part in a play, where he would play the role of a villainous Earthling swordsman with a massive sword. Plays had become a completely antiquated practice at this point, everyone preferred the Galactic Ultranet, but this old man wanted to experience what plays millenia ago looked like, and was adamant about it, so the company organizing his 300th birthday had to acquit. On his way to the play, however, Legume got lost, distracted by a recent name change to one of the streets in the Galactic core - and instead of entering the old man's house, he accidentally entered a semi-abandoned shop which was, in reality, some mad scientist's laboratory.
What kind of scientist works on a one-way time machine and doesn't tell anyone, anyway? Finding a way how to construct a time machine was ordered by the Galactic Association of Physical Sciences with a prize of over a billion credits, and this person cracks the code and doesn't even tell anyone? But whatever...
Not really aware with what a play was supposed to be, Legume recalled that he was supposed to stand behind the curtains until he is ordered to step forward - but when he stepped into what he presumed were dark red curtains, he saw himself falling face-first into a ring-like mechanism with a wormhole in the center - which instantly pulled the poor Saiyan in and spat him out into a thin grassland on what appeared to be Planet Earth - at least that's what he figured from witnessing a single large moon above.
Initially, after standing back up and brushing away the dirt on his clothes, Legume made the hypothesis that he was teleported somewhere else in the Galaxy and that he'll just get back to the Galactic Core in a few hours. As he reached the nearest population center, however - and this was the ruins of Central City, just to note - Legume was instantly struck with two major things he had to note:
One, this was not the Galaxy he was familiar with. Nobody had any clue about a united Galaxy or what the Galactic Core was supposed to be, they had never heard of him or any of the names he listed, such as the President or famous celebrities of his time. When asked about who are the leaders of the Galaxy right now, he'd receive a few names he faintly remembered from memory or history books, like "Polaris", "Ches" or "Radia", but none of which were from this time.
Second, this Galaxy he had just fallen to, which was clearly the same one as his, just different... it was terrible. The city he arrived to was destroyed, the people spoke of a some sort of major war going on across the Galaxy, some of the biggest leaders of local Galactic polities massacred on Abbayor, they were in fear of constant attacks by bandits on the planet's surface and space pirates in the eternal empty skies...
This wasn't the Galaxy he was used to. This was a dystopia!
Legume slowly came to realize that he was not going to be getting back to his time anytime soon, if ever. All of the people he knew rom the future, his comrades in arms, his Lavendra... they were all gone to him forever. But if he's going to be stuck in this past galaxy and call it his new home, then, god damn it, he is going to to try to make it a good home.
CALL TO ACTION.
Explained in Motivations and Quirks.
OTHER.
Original Character Sheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z8jrziE3prhVYpDHpxUw-xrGTyRh_NXJ0vRJoOSNk3U/edit#gid=0
If using a face claim, what is their name/what anime are they from?: Bankotsu from Inuyasha.
