Post by Ninmast on May 2, 2014 17:45:27 GMT -5
Name: David Connor
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Race: Human, Caucasian
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Power Level: Mid-Tier Low (2)
Timeline: Modern AU
Appearance: Only a little taller than average, with a lean, toned build, brown hair worn short and combed over, and blue eyes that would be mundane if they weren't so sharp and piercing, Connor excels at blending in with a crowd. Easily considered handsome by any definition, he doesn't go out of the way to flaunt it or to make a big deal of himself in general. He tends to wear monocolored turtlenecks and slacks with no decoration and little flair. He's not actively looking to minimize his presence, but he avoids sticking out all the same.
Personality: Modest, but with a quiet confidence, Connor is easy to overlook, though this would quickly prove to be a mistake. He's actually very intelligent and attentive. Almost nothing escapes his attention. He tends to keep his thoughts to himself, but analyzes and applies them quickly. His subtle demeanor hides a strong love of Gunpla, and he spends a great deal of time brainstorming new modifications, designs and strategies.
History: In an alternate reality where Gundam is only a show and Gundam models are animated to do battle against one another, David Connor's counterpart has much the same hobbies, constantly researching, tinkering and modifying Gunpla. His father was a mid-level manager that entered corporate business after serving in the military out of high school. Not really understanding the whole Gunpla craze, when his little boy first showed interest, he thought it would be a passing thing and shopped for the boy's gift out of the bargain bin. Thus would the young boy's first Gunpla be the unpopular, unimpressive Leo mobile suit.
Instead of being dismayed, the boy was ecstatic, immediately fleeing to his bedroom with box in hand and meticulously piecing together his first model. It was clumsy and sloppy, decals were poorly aligned or peeled from repeated attempts to put them on straight, and there was a stray piece left in the box that to this day he's not entirely sure where it was supposed to go that he had missed. But the next day, he proudly brought it to school with him to show it off.
Only young, inexperienced kids like himself were impressed. Older students mocked the sloppy job on a low-grade model of a third-rate mobile suit. In childish pride, he stood by his creation and the older kids sprung for time on a gunpla battle machine in the mall after school. As inexperienced in piloting gunpla as he was in building them, however, the battle lasted as briefly as you'd expect with the devastating results you'd expect. That night, he returned home in tears with the ruins of his Leo cupped in his hands, with no appetite for supper.
The next day, the older kid who had built and piloted the opposing mobile suit found him still moping and criticized him for being so attached and upset by the loss of such a pathetic gunpla. Connor doesn't really recall much of his response. Presumably, it involved a lot of kicking and screaming, but the gist was that he didn't care what the older boy thought of the model. He didn't care it was lousy or weak or unpopular. It was his. Nothing else mattered. The boy was so moved by the heartfelt, if immature, display that the following week, he approached young Connor again, this time with a high-grade Leo kit in hand. He had purchased it with his own money and would give it to the youth on the one condition that he let him teach him how to build it properly.
In truth, the older boy was only an average builder with knowledge of a few tricks to improve the end result, but to the inexperienced young Connor, his new mentor was a gunpla god. The older boy showed him how best to put the parts together, finishing touches to make it stand out, and then, while really an average pilot as well, taught the boy how to properly direct and control his mobile suit. In due time, Connor started experimenting on his own, fiddling with these additions and those tweaks. His own skills at building and piloting began to show, and his mentor realized he was being surpassed long before Connor did.
Finally, a year and a half after that first fateful destruction of his first, poorly assembled Leo, there was a tournament. A small one, local, backed by a local television station looking to boost ratings by offering a small sum of prize money and a newly released real-grade kit of a popular mobile suit. Others had expected his mentor to enter, as he was well-respected as a battler locally, but he refused, insisting that David Connor enter instead. The suggestion shocked young Connor, who voiced that he really didn't think he stood a chance against the pilots he'd face. His mentor's answer has shaped much of his thinking ever since.
"Then build a better machine."
In the time leading up to the tournament, he poured his efforts into doing just that, and the gunpla he entered was what would become the precursor to the Lionheart. He took the tournament, small and local as it was, like an oncoming storm. His nervousness in his first match melted away as he methodically outpaced and finally overpowered his adversary, and after that, there was no stopping him.
He obliterated the competition, took the grand prize, a real-grade Tallgeese and $500, and hasn't looked back since. His mentor stopped teaching him after that, claimed that he came out a different man than the child that went in. The child may have had things left to learn, but if the man did, it was beyond his scope to teach it to him. Since then, he's honed his piloting abilities and extensively modified his designs, and now, for the first time in a decade, he's feeling the echo of that trepidation that child once felt as he considers challenging the World Tournament.
Powers: None
Equipment: Only his Gunpla, which may seem PL7 in a virtual battle, but are still just 1/144 scale models with plastic guns.
Weaknesses: All of the weaknesses of a civilian human, though his experience as a pilot has extensively sharpened his battlefield awareness and strategy.
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LNX-001 Lionheart
LNX-002 Lionheart VOX
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Race: Human, Caucasian
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Power Level: Mid-Tier Low (2)
Timeline: Modern AU
Appearance: Only a little taller than average, with a lean, toned build, brown hair worn short and combed over, and blue eyes that would be mundane if they weren't so sharp and piercing, Connor excels at blending in with a crowd. Easily considered handsome by any definition, he doesn't go out of the way to flaunt it or to make a big deal of himself in general. He tends to wear monocolored turtlenecks and slacks with no decoration and little flair. He's not actively looking to minimize his presence, but he avoids sticking out all the same.
Personality: Modest, but with a quiet confidence, Connor is easy to overlook, though this would quickly prove to be a mistake. He's actually very intelligent and attentive. Almost nothing escapes his attention. He tends to keep his thoughts to himself, but analyzes and applies them quickly. His subtle demeanor hides a strong love of Gunpla, and he spends a great deal of time brainstorming new modifications, designs and strategies.
History: In an alternate reality where Gundam is only a show and Gundam models are animated to do battle against one another, David Connor's counterpart has much the same hobbies, constantly researching, tinkering and modifying Gunpla. His father was a mid-level manager that entered corporate business after serving in the military out of high school. Not really understanding the whole Gunpla craze, when his little boy first showed interest, he thought it would be a passing thing and shopped for the boy's gift out of the bargain bin. Thus would the young boy's first Gunpla be the unpopular, unimpressive Leo mobile suit.
Instead of being dismayed, the boy was ecstatic, immediately fleeing to his bedroom with box in hand and meticulously piecing together his first model. It was clumsy and sloppy, decals were poorly aligned or peeled from repeated attempts to put them on straight, and there was a stray piece left in the box that to this day he's not entirely sure where it was supposed to go that he had missed. But the next day, he proudly brought it to school with him to show it off.
Only young, inexperienced kids like himself were impressed. Older students mocked the sloppy job on a low-grade model of a third-rate mobile suit. In childish pride, he stood by his creation and the older kids sprung for time on a gunpla battle machine in the mall after school. As inexperienced in piloting gunpla as he was in building them, however, the battle lasted as briefly as you'd expect with the devastating results you'd expect. That night, he returned home in tears with the ruins of his Leo cupped in his hands, with no appetite for supper.
The next day, the older kid who had built and piloted the opposing mobile suit found him still moping and criticized him for being so attached and upset by the loss of such a pathetic gunpla. Connor doesn't really recall much of his response. Presumably, it involved a lot of kicking and screaming, but the gist was that he didn't care what the older boy thought of the model. He didn't care it was lousy or weak or unpopular. It was his. Nothing else mattered. The boy was so moved by the heartfelt, if immature, display that the following week, he approached young Connor again, this time with a high-grade Leo kit in hand. He had purchased it with his own money and would give it to the youth on the one condition that he let him teach him how to build it properly.
In truth, the older boy was only an average builder with knowledge of a few tricks to improve the end result, but to the inexperienced young Connor, his new mentor was a gunpla god. The older boy showed him how best to put the parts together, finishing touches to make it stand out, and then, while really an average pilot as well, taught the boy how to properly direct and control his mobile suit. In due time, Connor started experimenting on his own, fiddling with these additions and those tweaks. His own skills at building and piloting began to show, and his mentor realized he was being surpassed long before Connor did.
Finally, a year and a half after that first fateful destruction of his first, poorly assembled Leo, there was a tournament. A small one, local, backed by a local television station looking to boost ratings by offering a small sum of prize money and a newly released real-grade kit of a popular mobile suit. Others had expected his mentor to enter, as he was well-respected as a battler locally, but he refused, insisting that David Connor enter instead. The suggestion shocked young Connor, who voiced that he really didn't think he stood a chance against the pilots he'd face. His mentor's answer has shaped much of his thinking ever since.
"Then build a better machine."
In the time leading up to the tournament, he poured his efforts into doing just that, and the gunpla he entered was what would become the precursor to the Lionheart. He took the tournament, small and local as it was, like an oncoming storm. His nervousness in his first match melted away as he methodically outpaced and finally overpowered his adversary, and after that, there was no stopping him.
He obliterated the competition, took the grand prize, a real-grade Tallgeese and $500, and hasn't looked back since. His mentor stopped teaching him after that, claimed that he came out a different man than the child that went in. The child may have had things left to learn, but if the man did, it was beyond his scope to teach it to him. Since then, he's honed his piloting abilities and extensively modified his designs, and now, for the first time in a decade, he's feeling the echo of that trepidation that child once felt as he considers challenging the World Tournament.
Powers: None
Equipment: Only his Gunpla, which may seem PL7 in a virtual battle, but are still just 1/144 scale models with plastic guns.
Weaknesses: All of the weaknesses of a civilian human, though his experience as a pilot has extensively sharpened his battlefield awareness and strategy.
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LNX-001 Lionheart
The Lionheart is, despite its performance, really only a prototype machine. He's modified it, added to it, tweaked it, but at its core, it's still a Leo, which ultimately holds it back. In his hands, it flies like a low-end ace gunpla, but its weaknesses are many.
The core frame is the OZ LEO, though the head has been replaced with a GM head mounting twin vulcans, and the limbs have been trimmed for greater agility while plated with thin, lightweight metal plates painted over with liquid plastic. This grants it better defenses than it would have with mere plastic without adding the bulk and weight additional armor plating would bring.
It sports a hard-mounted heavy shield from a Wing Gundam, attached to a slider that allows it to come down in a ready position or slide up to hang from the left shoulder like a one-shoulder mantle, allowing free use of the left hand. Its melee weapon is a standard beam saber, as Connor saw little purpose in reinventing the wheel. Its ranged weapon, and signature staple of the Lionheart, however, is entirely of his own design, and is called the Bimodal Energy Rifle, or BER for short. Much like a Variable Beam Rifle, it is capable of different types of shot, but rather than simply widening or narrowing the field of the beam, it instead switches between a scattershot mode boasting a high rate of fire of smaller bolts ideal for taking out large numbers of weaker suits and a high-density single beam more comparable to a buster rifle for powerful single opponents and otherwise hardened targets. It's powered, much like the Wing Gundam's buster rifle, by replacable e-pacs, generally plenty sufficient for individual battles.
For a propulsion system, David developed a single oversized engine, called an Overboost thruster, in between stiff, sheet-style wings. This allows it prolonged flight in atmospheric conditions with reasonable agility. Maneuvering, like with a jet, is accomplished more by small twists of the body than by the mobile suit's vernier thrusters, making it difficult to control at high speed in intense battles if the pilot is unprepared for it.
The core frame is the OZ LEO, though the head has been replaced with a GM head mounting twin vulcans, and the limbs have been trimmed for greater agility while plated with thin, lightweight metal plates painted over with liquid plastic. This grants it better defenses than it would have with mere plastic without adding the bulk and weight additional armor plating would bring.
It sports a hard-mounted heavy shield from a Wing Gundam, attached to a slider that allows it to come down in a ready position or slide up to hang from the left shoulder like a one-shoulder mantle, allowing free use of the left hand. Its melee weapon is a standard beam saber, as Connor saw little purpose in reinventing the wheel. Its ranged weapon, and signature staple of the Lionheart, however, is entirely of his own design, and is called the Bimodal Energy Rifle, or BER for short. Much like a Variable Beam Rifle, it is capable of different types of shot, but rather than simply widening or narrowing the field of the beam, it instead switches between a scattershot mode boasting a high rate of fire of smaller bolts ideal for taking out large numbers of weaker suits and a high-density single beam more comparable to a buster rifle for powerful single opponents and otherwise hardened targets. It's powered, much like the Wing Gundam's buster rifle, by replacable e-pacs, generally plenty sufficient for individual battles.
For a propulsion system, David developed a single oversized engine, called an Overboost thruster, in between stiff, sheet-style wings. This allows it prolonged flight in atmospheric conditions with reasonable agility. Maneuvering, like with a jet, is accomplished more by small twists of the body than by the mobile suit's vernier thrusters, making it difficult to control at high speed in intense battles if the pilot is unprepared for it.
LNX-002 Lionheart VOX
The Lionheart VOX, often simply called L2 or VOX for simplicity, is the first venture Connor has made away from the dated LEO frame, representing the spirit of the Lionheart unchained from its physical limitations. As such, little else about it beyond the color scheme of blue trimmed with white and gold physically resembles its predecessor. This is merely skin deep, however, and all the innovations he poured into the Lionheart are present, enhanced in ways the limitations of the LEO core frame couldn't permit.
The core frame is that of the Real Grade Tallgeese-II he won all those years ago, but the source of its great power comes from the Exia GN Core installed in its torso. This virtually limitless energy source is used to fuel the entirety of its very impressive arsenal. Connor even chose to opt out of the traditional rechargeable beam saber, replacing both arms with modified Unicorn Gundam limbs and hooked its wrist-mounted beam blades into the GN Drive to power wide, extremely potent beam sabers that couldn't be knocked out of hand or disarmed.
The head is more traditionally humanoid like gundams tend to be, though still without the typical V horns signature of the famous line since Project V, and also channels the power of the GN Drive. Instead of the twin vulcans in the Lionheart and typical of mobile suits in general, it boasts four fire-chained small-bore beam cannons.
Replacing the BER is the enhanced BMER, or Bimodal Mega Energy Rifle. Cabled directly into the suit's GN Drive, it boasts substantially increased firepower over the original Lionheart's rifle. On full output, its beam mode is comparable to a mega particle cannon. If the cable connecting the rifle to the suit is severed in battle, it can still function for a period of time at the level of the BER with its emergency e-caps.
Furthermore, since Trans-Am is an aspect of the GN Core rather than of the mobile suit, itself, the VOX is capable of activating it, also activating with the coursing of released energy the remnant NT-D systems in the modified Unicorn arms and legs. In addition to three minutes of tripled system performance in all areas and in all gear equipped to it, the remnants of the NT-D system also allows the VOX to jam and disable bit-like systems, including funnels, fins and dragoons. Because it's only activated by the GN Drive's Trans-Am, however, this benefit is only active while in that mode. Because it is activated by the Trans-Am mode, the psycho-frame in the limbs glows with the same neon pink as the rest of the mobile suit, rather than the Unicorn's signature red.
Borrowing from the Virgo-II mobile doll's shoulder pauldrons, the VOX mounts a large quantity of interlocking hexagonal metal discs remotely directed by and charged with an electromagnetic field, making it a very effective and flexible defense against energy weapons. Though it is capable of 360-degree operation, there are not enough discs to fully envelop the mobile suit. There are enough to make a single continuous surface approximately one and a half times the surface area of a heavy shield. While the interlocking EM field still serves to reduce the effectiveness against ranged beam weapons in its 360-degree coverage, the gaps make it ineffective in close quarters combat situations.
Thrust and flight is produced by a set of five actuating thruster tubes, taken from the kits of a smaller-scale Sinanju to accommodate the number. Not only does this grant a significant edge in acceleration and maneuverability, but unlike the sheet wings of the original Lionheart, damage to one or two of the tubes will only slow the VOX, not ground it.
Finally, like the Lionheart, the exterior of the mobile suit conceals a thin, lightweight layer of shaped metal painted over with liquid plastic, adding an extra level of defense that would otherwise require the significantly greater bulk and weight of much extra plastic to accomplish.
The core frame is that of the Real Grade Tallgeese-II he won all those years ago, but the source of its great power comes from the Exia GN Core installed in its torso. This virtually limitless energy source is used to fuel the entirety of its very impressive arsenal. Connor even chose to opt out of the traditional rechargeable beam saber, replacing both arms with modified Unicorn Gundam limbs and hooked its wrist-mounted beam blades into the GN Drive to power wide, extremely potent beam sabers that couldn't be knocked out of hand or disarmed.
The head is more traditionally humanoid like gundams tend to be, though still without the typical V horns signature of the famous line since Project V, and also channels the power of the GN Drive. Instead of the twin vulcans in the Lionheart and typical of mobile suits in general, it boasts four fire-chained small-bore beam cannons.
Replacing the BER is the enhanced BMER, or Bimodal Mega Energy Rifle. Cabled directly into the suit's GN Drive, it boasts substantially increased firepower over the original Lionheart's rifle. On full output, its beam mode is comparable to a mega particle cannon. If the cable connecting the rifle to the suit is severed in battle, it can still function for a period of time at the level of the BER with its emergency e-caps.
Furthermore, since Trans-Am is an aspect of the GN Core rather than of the mobile suit, itself, the VOX is capable of activating it, also activating with the coursing of released energy the remnant NT-D systems in the modified Unicorn arms and legs. In addition to three minutes of tripled system performance in all areas and in all gear equipped to it, the remnants of the NT-D system also allows the VOX to jam and disable bit-like systems, including funnels, fins and dragoons. Because it's only activated by the GN Drive's Trans-Am, however, this benefit is only active while in that mode. Because it is activated by the Trans-Am mode, the psycho-frame in the limbs glows with the same neon pink as the rest of the mobile suit, rather than the Unicorn's signature red.
Borrowing from the Virgo-II mobile doll's shoulder pauldrons, the VOX mounts a large quantity of interlocking hexagonal metal discs remotely directed by and charged with an electromagnetic field, making it a very effective and flexible defense against energy weapons. Though it is capable of 360-degree operation, there are not enough discs to fully envelop the mobile suit. There are enough to make a single continuous surface approximately one and a half times the surface area of a heavy shield. While the interlocking EM field still serves to reduce the effectiveness against ranged beam weapons in its 360-degree coverage, the gaps make it ineffective in close quarters combat situations.
Thrust and flight is produced by a set of five actuating thruster tubes, taken from the kits of a smaller-scale Sinanju to accommodate the number. Not only does this grant a significant edge in acceleration and maneuverability, but unlike the sheet wings of the original Lionheart, damage to one or two of the tubes will only slow the VOX, not ground it.
Finally, like the Lionheart, the exterior of the mobile suit conceals a thin, lightweight layer of shaped metal painted over with liquid plastic, adding an extra level of defense that would otherwise require the significantly greater bulk and weight of much extra plastic to accomplish.
