Duke N. Ukem

[Oathkeeper]

Name: Duke N. Ukem

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Alignment: Pending

Power Level: 3, upgrades to a 7 while in the Strong Arm

Timeline: Futuristic

Appearance: Duke has purple hair split down the center with two thick sets of bangs. He wears a sleeveless shirt, blue, and blue possibly leather pants. The pants are held up by suspenders. He has a pair of dark blue gloves with a white band on the wrists, black boots the pants tuck into, blue eyes, and a pale complexion.

Picture Summary: Duke N. Ukem

Personality: Duke is a duty bound man. When he gives someone his word he will go to great lengths to complete it. That being said, Duke is honest and confident man who does not let the fact he has been called an ass-jockey get him down. He trains long and hard, at least three days out of five. Duke handles drama and stress well during the event, but usually bottles things up for long periods of time, to the point that he has snapped occasionally during battle and destroyed his suit at the same time as he destroyed as much of the enemy as he could.

History: Duke entered into the military as early as he could. He was born in Baldur Bay of Riah. Although met with some opposition, Duke was eventually given the blessing from his parents to join. It was during basic that Duke got the N placed in his name by his bunk mates. Still young, Duke was a bit reckless and when asked what he was doing after being pulled out of a training mission for eliminating someone and using keys to sabotage the base he answer he was going to nuke the base. Nuke, being slang for exploding builds during construction work back on Riah, flowed easily with his last name, and he has since then been called Nuke'm all Duke by his closer friends. He calmed down once out of basic, and for many years he was nothing more than a lucky red shirt. At the start of Char's counterattack Duke proved himself and rose through the ranks quickly, culminating in him finding his mobile suit and being granted the rights to keep it. He spent a majority of his money into repairing it. He joined Zeus with the promise they would fully restore and possibly improve Strong Arm.

Powers and Skills: Duke is a tough individual, training close to eight hours a day for most days of the weak; as such, he is physically stronger than most pilots.

Equipment: Duke has a laser pistol strapped to his thigh.

Weakness: Duke is a normal human, and would go to death to keep his word. He bottles up his stress and can snap when it becomes too much.


Name: AMS-119 Geara Doga E.mbrasure Ex.perimental A.K.A. Strong Arm

Age: Operating four months under current pilot. Built sixteen months ago. First saw battle ten months ago.

Gender: None

Race: AMS-119 Geara Doga

Alignment: Same as pilot

Power Level: 7

Timeline: Futuristic

Appearance: Strong Arm

History: Originally intended for The E EX is an experimental mobile suit designed to clamp onto the sides of enemy defenses, regardless of base, and cut through it with the right arm. In doing so, it could create opening for weapons normally incapable of creating large scale damage. It was commissioned in secret and was not finished and deployed until ten months ago. Duke found it, the cockpit shot by a stray shot, and with some help managed to salvage it for his own. It was only in the past four months that it has run at over ninety percent fully restored. Strong Arm still needs some work before it is fully completed.

Powers: The left arm is capable of shredding most fortifications. It is similar to a Command ZAKU in that its speed is 30% more than the average Geara Doga.

Arsenal: Built in: There is a shield built into the strong arm of Strong Arm. The strong arm has three blades on it with enough strength to tear into nigh anything. The arm is also capable of sucking holes in other mobile suits, or reversing the suction to knock suits off their feet.

Beam Sword-Axe: The other close ranged weapon for Strong Arm is a single beam sword-axe, which is mounted on the underside of the shield when not in use.

Modular: Grenade Launcher: While typical on the standard Geara Doga, the grenade launcher have instead been overhauled into becoming a switchable mode for the Strong Arm's left arm. It has a maximum of four shots unless extra ammo is taken with the suit.

Beam Machine Gun: The common ranged weapon of the Geara Doga are beam machine guns. Strong Arm carries one occasionally. It is powered by a replaceable e-pac, with two additional e-pacs being stored on the hip armor of the suit. The beam machine gun mounts a heat bayonet.

Weakness: The Strong Arm, while faster than normal cannon fodder, is slow in changing weapons. It is limited in only being able to use the right arm for most weapons. It is highly susceptible to damage while it is removing fortifications. It is still being repaired. Aside from those, it suffers the standard Mobile Suit weaknesses.

[shinaobi]

Zeon never rejoined the Federation; that was specifically where the timeline split, so assuming you're making the character for the rp, you'll need to edit the history to reflect that.

That and 13 really isn't acceptable as an age for joining the military; the youngest I've ever heard of for even conscription is 15, disregarding the occasional epic-horrible child soldier thing some of the nastier states in Africa sometimes resort to.

[Oathkeeper]

There was a 14 year old pilot who had been a pilot for a year or two in the timeline. If I were basing it off modern times it would be different.

You said 100 Universal Century. 100 Universal Century is when Zeon rejoined the Federation officially, though it was not the last of the evil side.

[ketaro]

Just cause it happened once or twice...doesn't mean you can/should do it to. (Child soldier thing I mean). It's not really that important to really need him have been enlisted as a child now, is it? It doesn't make as interesting a character as you believe. (imo)

[shinaobi]

Timeline SPLIT, oath. As in, that's when things were different. U.C. 100, things became different from the canon events.

And he was 13. His name was Uso Evin. He jumped into a MS(he had not been recruited, he just jumped in) and successfully shot down a Zeon ace. The Federation decided to keep him.

[Oathkeeper]

Better?

[shinaobi]

Much :]

[Veros]

I know almost nothing about Gundums... So no comment on that front...

But as a mecha-suit user, he looks pretty good, but I have one comment. His name, I keep reading it Duke Nuke 'em. =P Probably completely intended. But funny.

[Oathkeeper]

Yes, completely intended.

I grew up with Ol' Duke, and this is just a little reference.

There are 3 other references to things, the third one being a part of Strong Arm's profile.

[Veros]

The only reference I got was the two obvious ones, and I also thought there might be a reference to a type of crab...

A fiddler crab to be exact...

[Ninmast]

I don't like the character for three reasons:

1) Duke Nukem was a Class A moron.

2) You used a freaking Gaia Avatar for a picture.

3) I don't like anything that has the ability to rip apart anything regardless of how big it is, how heavy it is, how well it's made or what it's made of. That's ridiculous.

Also, he cannot train eight hours a day and still see to his duties as a soldier.

[Oathkeeper]

To Veros: The Name was obvious. There is the Naruto reference with his personality, to death to keep his word, Ass Jockey is a reference to American Wedding, and a one other thing I can't remember the name of, but a military related, and then the crab reference... which I am surprised you got.

To Ninmast:
1. Duke Nukem was a great game series. Sure the main character was the epitome of stereotype, but it is still highly enjoyable. If you don't like him, sucks to be you, I find him to be a fun character to be in the games.

2. I used the Gaia avatar after having made the character, and so what if it is small and slightly disproportional? It still works when it comes down to it. It may not be exactly how I envisioned the character, but however I envisioned, unless I pay for someone to draw it for some reason, will be different from how you see it if it was only described in words.

3. It is an experimental design for embrasure. It does nothing of what you are implying. It has three blades and a very strong suction that it uses to make holes for artillery to hit.

4.A) It is only 3 to 4 days out of the week.

4.B) Actually it is possible. Now, a full blown sweat inducing workout is a negative. But, there are other ways of exercising you can do around places like offices or whatnot depending on what you are doing. However, you can still do things to exercise. That is to exclude what is done outside of the workday. now, you may only gain a grand total of an hour or two in say an eight hour workday, but coupled to what can be done outside of work, it adds up to eight easily. One hour in the morning, an hour or two during work doing what you can with the space and time you have, some of it when you get off before dinner, some more after you eat, it all adds up. It is possible.

[Ninmast]

You specifically say the arm is capable of shredding most fortifications. That sounds pretty much like what I said.

And yes, I'm sure his superiors are REALLY happy when they come in expecting to see him on guard duty and he's doing push-ups, instead.

[Oathkeeper]

Maybe it was the way you had worded it I saw as meaning something else. Anyways, it is an experimental mobile suit, built within the last year or two. It is designed to be able to make holes in all currently designed and produced fortifications. If something comes out later, they might be able to stop the suits usefulness, but for now he is capable of making gaps in all known fortifications.

[Ninmast]

... Which you don't see as remotely powergaming ...

And you didn't answer the problem about his superiors and his doing push-ups while he's supposed to be doing something else.