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Time Zone: GMT-8 (PST)
Characters Played: Morgiana, Gilgamesh Wulfenbach
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Rider/Iskandar
Character Canon: Fate/Zero
History: On the type moon wiki
And the original flavor
AU History: Iskandar was once a rather unremarkable warrior of the Valkyrie tribes. In a skirmish against Gigas, he got hit on the head and knocked senseless, allowing him to be captured by the enemy. Rather than be ransomed home, Gigas command decided he would be best put to use as a test subject for the Enhanced program.
It worked, turning him from a regular dude to a massive, half crazy Electric/Ghost enhanced warrior, while scrambling most of the memories of his past life. Gigan scientists tried to use this semi-fresh start to indoctrinate him as a loyal soldier, and it...sort of worked. He did indeed have all of his loyalty to the Valkyrie tribes basically removed from his brain, but his mind was unstable and prone to fits of megalomania and delusions of grandeur. He wanted to rule the world, and such desires made him ill-suited for a soldier taking orders.
They tried to make use of him in Sanctuary, but he proved to be too uncooperative to forced obedience. After a dozen counts of insubordination or refusal to accept orders, they threw him in jail (which was no easy undertaking let me tell you.) and left him there until after they dealt with this latest confrontation with Union and they had the time to figure out what to do with him.
As luck would have it, rescue came from the unlikely source of Waver Velvet. Waver accidentally teleported himself into the prison, as he still was not very good at controlling his powers, and in his mad dash to escape he released a number of prisoners to create confusion. One of those released was Iskandar.
Iskandar felt that he owed Waver a debt of gratitude for setting him free, so he has spent the time since his escape tracking the boy down, and has only now found his way to Union.
(Waver's role in this has been okayed by his player.)
Canon Personality: Iskandar is larger than life, in every sense of the word. His presence fills up any space, making him impossible to ignore, wherever he goes. He does it without even trying, but if he did have to try, he would. He WANTS to be a larger than life figure. He is a king, and his belief is that as a king, he needs to serve as an example to his subjects on how the truly great will live. He is a living incarnation of greed, but rather than being hateful and jealous, he inspires others to believe in his vision. He wants to gain the loyalty of others
Fitting with his larger than life style, he has larger than life ambitions. He speaks of seeking Oceanus, the mystical ocean at the edge of the world, and of conquering all the lands he finds along the way. It is true that he wants this, but while that is true, it is not the Truth. What Iskandar wants is an excuse to go as far as he can. If he actually FOUND the edge of the world, that would be the end of his fun. He set himself an impossible goal so that he could seek it for the rest of his life. Oceanus is not a place so much as it is an unreachable ideal. It is a trite saying, but for him the journey really is more important than the destination.
Every heroic spirit is supposed to have some reason for seeking the Holy Grail. In Iksandar's case, he wishes to be reincarnated into the modern age. Being a heroic spirit, with all the incredible strength and power that grants you, is pretty great, but you're still not really alive like a regular human is. You're a magical construct, dependent on an outside power source to even exist. Iskandar wants his fake body of magic to be replaced with a real flesh and blood body so that he can truly live in this era. He wants to take another shot a conquering the world, after all.
There is a part of him that realizes the enormity of this task. He never saw a map of the whole world until he was reborn as a heroic spirit. One of the first things he did, upon awakening in the 20th century, was find such a map, and it was only then that he realized the sheer absurdity of one man taking on that, no matter how great he may be. Compared to the Earth, Iskandar realized, he was a tiny speck on a tiny speck. He was nothing. It didn't make him any less determined, though. He was still going to have a go at it. He just realized that no matter how hard he tried, it was a very real possibility that it would be impossible for him.
Despite his insane ambitions, Iskandar is actually a fairly affable fellow. While he is fully willing to kick ass when needed, he'd rather solve problems by diplomacy if it seems at all possible. Against those who seem honorable and strong, he would rather try to recruit them to his side than fight them. It was his preference to end the Grail War without unnecessary violence by just gathering all the servants together and having them talk it out and just decide which of them was greatest and most worthy of the grail (obviously, this did not work.). He does not shrink from violence, but it would not be accurate to describe him as a violent man.
He likes to adapt to the customs of whatever land he is in. In antiquity, he earned the mistrust of his own army by taking on the clothing styles of the lands he conquered rather than maintaining his original, Macedonian style of dress. Finding himself in Japan in the mid 90s, he was just as comfortable switching to dressing in modern styles, going around openly in jeans and a t-shirt rather than his normal armor and cape. He learned quickly about the modern world by watching TV, and spent his spare time playing video games.
AU Deviation: In this world, there was no Alexander the Great. Or if there was, then Iskandar has nothing to do with him. He doesn't claim to be a reincarnation of a historical figure, he just acts the way he does because of who he is in THIS life. So in short, instead of SOUNDING crazy, Iskandar is actually just crazy. He has megalomania and delusions of grandeur. Also, his memories of his life from before the enhancement procedure are hazy at best. He does not remember much of that life at all.
Likewise, Iskandar is not compelled to obey Waver Velvet by a magically binding contract. He feels that he owes the young magus a debt for helping him escape Gigan prison, but the only thing forcing him to respect this is his own sense of honor.
Canon Abilities: Iskandar, or "Rider" is a heroic spirit summoned by the Holy Grail, a nigh infinite source of magical power. As such, he is incredibly powerful, but requires a continual source of mana to even exist in our world. As a heroic spirit, he gains a wide variety of powers. A lot of these will be just tossed out in the AU
- Superhuman strength, speed, and toughness. In any kind of physical competition, Iskandar can just overwhelm any normal human with little difficulty.
- Huge. Iskandar is over two meters high and built like a truck. Do not fuck with someone that big.
- Dematerialization. When discretion is needed, or to save on mana usage, Iskandar can vanish entirely from the physical world, existing in a spirit form and only able to communicated with the mage that summoned him forth from the Grail.
- The Gordius Wheel. Iskandar can summon his war chariot from anywhere, severing the air itself with his sword to create a portal it rides out of. The chariot is a massive construction, pulled by a pair of giant bulls. It can simply trample an unwary opponent and has a pair of giant blades mounted on either side of the car for ramming purposes. But even beyond its mere physical properties, the bulls that carry it are infused with the power of Zeus, and so the chariot can ride through the sky just as easily as it can along the ground. It can also envelope itself in a web of lightning strikes, damaging anything nearby.
- Ionioi Hetairoi. Iskandar's ultimate attack. With this, Iskandar creates a pocket dimension, drawing all around him into it. In this world there is only an endless desert, a clear sky, Iskandar, his foes, and the army of fellow heroic spirits who have sworn loyalty to him beyond even death itself. In the open, against an endless army of mighty warriors, few foes can survive.
- The Sword of Kupriotes. A really big sword. Iskandar can dematerialize it and rematerialize it as needed, and uses it to summon his chariot by slicing open the air.
Enlightened Abilities: Enhanced Master of Battle, Electric/Ghost. He could pass for an unenlightened human, save for his unusual size, which will get slightly greater with each evolution (starting from maybe 6'4" and ending at around 7'3").
First form: Iskandar can surrounded himself in an aura of electricity, which arcs out and strikes that which he deems his enemy.
Second form: Iskandar gains the ability to focus his electric aura into a pathway, allowing him or anything he rides to travel through the air as if on solid ground.
Third form: Iskandar's delusions gain so much strength from his will that they start entering the physical world, allowing him to create ghostly soldiers from the army that lives only in his mind. Doing so is barely a conscious ability. He could not summon a soldier specifically for one purpose, but he might find that as he charges into battle, he suddenly is not charging alone.
At least initially, he has no special equipment. Eventually I want to get him his chariot. It was suggested that he could get a special chariot that counts for the "held item" of two pokemon, allowing him to summon it when he summons whatever he ends up getting to pull the chariot, for maximum OU parallels.
Starter Pokémon: Honedge named Kupriotes. Iskandar uses Kupriotes like a regular sword, while Kupriotes absorbs Iskandar's life energy to empower their attacks. It's pure teamwork.
SAMPLES
(NOTE: You may link a previous entry or thread, including testrun or musebox threads (but NOT Dear Mun), for one or both samples. However, we want to see the character in the setting of Brave New World and specifically in their AU for at least one sample.)
First-Person: Non AU musebox post (except for the one thread with Saber) and Iskandar's thread from the testdrive. It's all a mix of commentspam and prose, so I'll just answer a couple of the questions and hopefully we can call that good.
Third-Person:
• What do you seek for humanity’s future?
Humanity's future shall be as my subjects! Hopefully, at least. It is no simple task to conquer the world, after all.
• What aspects and traits do you respect most in your individual fellow man?
Ambition. The world needs selfless people, but the world is changed and ruled by those who seek power and glory.
• What do you look for in the Pokémon with whom you bond?
Courage, honor, and strength. As I would look for in any subject.
• What do you think your Pokémon respect most about you?
The same. I ask much of those who are loyal to me, it is only fair that I offer the same.
• What would you say is your greatest duty, and why?
As king, it is my duty to inspire my subjects! I shall show them the heights a human being can achieve! I shall love more, hate more, and desire more than anyone else. I shall live life to it's absolute fullest to inspire jealousy in the rest of the world. Jealousy that will inspire them to be greater than they could otherwise be!
• You plunge into the depths of ruins of an ancient civilization. What is it that you seek from the past? Treasure, technology, wisdom?
The treasure, problem. Money is an important part of managing an army.
• When encountering a rare and powerful Pokémon, what is most important? Researching it, bonding with it, or defeating it? Why?
I shall bond with it, obviously. If it is truly so fine a specimen, I would be honored to have it as my subject.
Name: Eric
Contact Information:
Time Zone: GMT-8 (PST)
Characters Played: Morgiana, Gilgamesh Wulfenbach
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Rider/Iskandar
Character Canon: Fate/Zero
History: On the type moon wiki
And the original flavor
AU History: Iskandar was once a rather unremarkable warrior of the Valkyrie tribes. In a skirmish against Gigas, he got hit on the head and knocked senseless, allowing him to be captured by the enemy. Rather than be ransomed home, Gigas command decided he would be best put to use as a test subject for the Enhanced program.
It worked, turning him from a regular dude to a massive, half crazy Electric/Ghost enhanced warrior, while scrambling most of the memories of his past life. Gigan scientists tried to use this semi-fresh start to indoctrinate him as a loyal soldier, and it...sort of worked. He did indeed have all of his loyalty to the Valkyrie tribes basically removed from his brain, but his mind was unstable and prone to fits of megalomania and delusions of grandeur. He wanted to rule the world, and such desires made him ill-suited for a soldier taking orders.
They tried to make use of him in Sanctuary, but he proved to be too uncooperative to forced obedience. After a dozen counts of insubordination or refusal to accept orders, they threw him in jail (which was no easy undertaking let me tell you.) and left him there until after they dealt with this latest confrontation with Union and they had the time to figure out what to do with him.
As luck would have it, rescue came from the unlikely source of Waver Velvet. Waver accidentally teleported himself into the prison, as he still was not very good at controlling his powers, and in his mad dash to escape he released a number of prisoners to create confusion. One of those released was Iskandar.
Iskandar felt that he owed Waver a debt of gratitude for setting him free, so he has spent the time since his escape tracking the boy down, and has only now found his way to Union.
(Waver's role in this has been okayed by his player.)
Canon Personality: Iskandar is larger than life, in every sense of the word. His presence fills up any space, making him impossible to ignore, wherever he goes. He does it without even trying, but if he did have to try, he would. He WANTS to be a larger than life figure. He is a king, and his belief is that as a king, he needs to serve as an example to his subjects on how the truly great will live. He is a living incarnation of greed, but rather than being hateful and jealous, he inspires others to believe in his vision. He wants to gain the loyalty of others
Fitting with his larger than life style, he has larger than life ambitions. He speaks of seeking Oceanus, the mystical ocean at the edge of the world, and of conquering all the lands he finds along the way. It is true that he wants this, but while that is true, it is not the Truth. What Iskandar wants is an excuse to go as far as he can. If he actually FOUND the edge of the world, that would be the end of his fun. He set himself an impossible goal so that he could seek it for the rest of his life. Oceanus is not a place so much as it is an unreachable ideal. It is a trite saying, but for him the journey really is more important than the destination.
Every heroic spirit is supposed to have some reason for seeking the Holy Grail. In Iksandar's case, he wishes to be reincarnated into the modern age. Being a heroic spirit, with all the incredible strength and power that grants you, is pretty great, but you're still not really alive like a regular human is. You're a magical construct, dependent on an outside power source to even exist. Iskandar wants his fake body of magic to be replaced with a real flesh and blood body so that he can truly live in this era. He wants to take another shot a conquering the world, after all.
There is a part of him that realizes the enormity of this task. He never saw a map of the whole world until he was reborn as a heroic spirit. One of the first things he did, upon awakening in the 20th century, was find such a map, and it was only then that he realized the sheer absurdity of one man taking on that, no matter how great he may be. Compared to the Earth, Iskandar realized, he was a tiny speck on a tiny speck. He was nothing. It didn't make him any less determined, though. He was still going to have a go at it. He just realized that no matter how hard he tried, it was a very real possibility that it would be impossible for him.
Despite his insane ambitions, Iskandar is actually a fairly affable fellow. While he is fully willing to kick ass when needed, he'd rather solve problems by diplomacy if it seems at all possible. Against those who seem honorable and strong, he would rather try to recruit them to his side than fight them. It was his preference to end the Grail War without unnecessary violence by just gathering all the servants together and having them talk it out and just decide which of them was greatest and most worthy of the grail (obviously, this did not work.). He does not shrink from violence, but it would not be accurate to describe him as a violent man.
He likes to adapt to the customs of whatever land he is in. In antiquity, he earned the mistrust of his own army by taking on the clothing styles of the lands he conquered rather than maintaining his original, Macedonian style of dress. Finding himself in Japan in the mid 90s, he was just as comfortable switching to dressing in modern styles, going around openly in jeans and a t-shirt rather than his normal armor and cape. He learned quickly about the modern world by watching TV, and spent his spare time playing video games.
AU Deviation: In this world, there was no Alexander the Great. Or if there was, then Iskandar has nothing to do with him. He doesn't claim to be a reincarnation of a historical figure, he just acts the way he does because of who he is in THIS life. So in short, instead of SOUNDING crazy, Iskandar is actually just crazy. He has megalomania and delusions of grandeur. Also, his memories of his life from before the enhancement procedure are hazy at best. He does not remember much of that life at all.
Likewise, Iskandar is not compelled to obey Waver Velvet by a magically binding contract. He feels that he owes the young magus a debt for helping him escape Gigan prison, but the only thing forcing him to respect this is his own sense of honor.
Canon Abilities: Iskandar, or "Rider" is a heroic spirit summoned by the Holy Grail, a nigh infinite source of magical power. As such, he is incredibly powerful, but requires a continual source of mana to even exist in our world. As a heroic spirit, he gains a wide variety of powers. A lot of these will be just tossed out in the AU
- Superhuman strength, speed, and toughness. In any kind of physical competition, Iskandar can just overwhelm any normal human with little difficulty.
- Huge. Iskandar is over two meters high and built like a truck. Do not fuck with someone that big.
- Dematerialization. When discretion is needed, or to save on mana usage, Iskandar can vanish entirely from the physical world, existing in a spirit form and only able to communicated with the mage that summoned him forth from the Grail.
- The Gordius Wheel. Iskandar can summon his war chariot from anywhere, severing the air itself with his sword to create a portal it rides out of. The chariot is a massive construction, pulled by a pair of giant bulls. It can simply trample an unwary opponent and has a pair of giant blades mounted on either side of the car for ramming purposes. But even beyond its mere physical properties, the bulls that carry it are infused with the power of Zeus, and so the chariot can ride through the sky just as easily as it can along the ground. It can also envelope itself in a web of lightning strikes, damaging anything nearby.
- Ionioi Hetairoi. Iskandar's ultimate attack. With this, Iskandar creates a pocket dimension, drawing all around him into it. In this world there is only an endless desert, a clear sky, Iskandar, his foes, and the army of fellow heroic spirits who have sworn loyalty to him beyond even death itself. In the open, against an endless army of mighty warriors, few foes can survive.
- The Sword of Kupriotes. A really big sword. Iskandar can dematerialize it and rematerialize it as needed, and uses it to summon his chariot by slicing open the air.
Enlightened Abilities: Enhanced Master of Battle, Electric/Ghost. He could pass for an unenlightened human, save for his unusual size, which will get slightly greater with each evolution (starting from maybe 6'4" and ending at around 7'3").
First form: Iskandar can surrounded himself in an aura of electricity, which arcs out and strikes that which he deems his enemy.
Second form: Iskandar gains the ability to focus his electric aura into a pathway, allowing him or anything he rides to travel through the air as if on solid ground.
Third form: Iskandar's delusions gain so much strength from his will that they start entering the physical world, allowing him to create ghostly soldiers from the army that lives only in his mind. Doing so is barely a conscious ability. He could not summon a soldier specifically for one purpose, but he might find that as he charges into battle, he suddenly is not charging alone.
At least initially, he has no special equipment. Eventually I want to get him his chariot. It was suggested that he could get a special chariot that counts for the "held item" of two pokemon, allowing him to summon it when he summons whatever he ends up getting to pull the chariot, for maximum OU parallels.
Starter Pokémon: Honedge named Kupriotes. Iskandar uses Kupriotes like a regular sword, while Kupriotes absorbs Iskandar's life energy to empower their attacks. It's pure teamwork.
SAMPLES
(NOTE: You may link a previous entry or thread, including testrun or musebox threads (but NOT Dear Mun), for one or both samples. However, we want to see the character in the setting of Brave New World and specifically in their AU for at least one sample.)
First-Person: Non AU musebox post (except for the one thread with Saber) and Iskandar's thread from the testdrive. It's all a mix of commentspam and prose, so I'll just answer a couple of the questions and hopefully we can call that good.
Third-Person:
• What do you seek for humanity’s future?
Humanity's future shall be as my subjects! Hopefully, at least. It is no simple task to conquer the world, after all.
• What aspects and traits do you respect most in your individual fellow man?
Ambition. The world needs selfless people, but the world is changed and ruled by those who seek power and glory.
• What do you look for in the Pokémon with whom you bond?
Courage, honor, and strength. As I would look for in any subject.
• What do you think your Pokémon respect most about you?
The same. I ask much of those who are loyal to me, it is only fair that I offer the same.
• What would you say is your greatest duty, and why?
As king, it is my duty to inspire my subjects! I shall show them the heights a human being can achieve! I shall love more, hate more, and desire more than anyone else. I shall live life to it's absolute fullest to inspire jealousy in the rest of the world. Jealousy that will inspire them to be greater than they could otherwise be!
• You plunge into the depths of ruins of an ancient civilization. What is it that you seek from the past? Treasure, technology, wisdom?
The treasure, problem. Money is an important part of managing an army.
• When encountering a rare and powerful Pokémon, what is most important? Researching it, bonding with it, or defeating it? Why?
I shall bond with it, obviously. If it is truly so fine a specimen, I would be honored to have it as my subject.
