A Mainspring alt.
(Work in progress, please ask about him, it'll help me flesh him out some. If anyone wants to play a younger version of him, sure! As long as sex is off the table, I'll participate.)
When the Vikings discovered America and the first millennium crisis was resolved, a distant world was wracked in ecological disaster. The latest in a long line of wars had depleted the soil resulted in an apex predator being dropped on that world, which devoured everything in its path. Desperate for a defense, teams of picoengineers designed clouds of smart machines that would multiply, devour these predators, and recycle them into nutrients. However, one such machine got hold of a time machi-
Every few million years, evolution leaps forward. In some cases, though, it practically gallops. In the depths of the ocean reside microbes known as extremophiles: which are known to reside in high temperatures and even in conditions too acidic to measure in integers. Such was the case of one such colony, until a deep-sea thermal forced them to
I’M ON A MISSION FROM GOD TO-
Maybe I’d better start from the top…
Hello, my name is Kyle Damien Fairbanks. I look like a perfectly normal person: black hair, brown eyes, gangly, nice beard. And that was how I grew up, thinking I was a perfectly normal person. OK, that part isn’t entirely true. I was the class dork growing up. If there was a way to screw up a conversation, be it hilarious or offensive, I found it. Still, however, I thought I was a perfectly human social catastrophe.
Then someone ate me. I was thirteen, just walking along, and someone I’d never seen before just up and swallowed me whole. I thought I was going to die, but then, after I’d passed out, I found that I was completely OK. My molecules had exited my predator’s body and reformed me. I’d have been ecstatic if I weren’t so naked (my clothes didn’t survive the trip). Thus, I had a mystery on my hands before I’d even made it out of middle school. I immediately resolved to learn as much science as I could, eventually joining the engineering program at Edward Callum High School.
A little while later, I had another very strange experience. I was walking home from school when I was attacked by a man in a hood. He didn’t want my money: all he wanted was me. Then everything went black and two minutes later (I was wearing a watch), the man was inside me, dead. I’d grown a tail and swallowed him that way. Then, however, he left me a note saying that he’d be back, but I haven’t seen him since… I don’t think. But I had another mystery on my hands.
That was thirteen years ago. I’ve since graduated, but now I wander the nine worlds searching for answers. So far, all I have are theories, such as the ones up at the top of this page. However, I will find out what I am and why I can do what I can do. That I promise you.
Abilities explained:
I'm a shapeshifter, in basic. When I can get it to work. When it
is working, though, I can control and transmute every cell in my body. I can make poison spitting glands, a tail, strengthen my bone structure, neturalize my digestive juices or make them more potent, you name it. I can even split myself into duplicates. Again, this is requisite on my powers deciding to cooperate.
Plot Hooks:
A Link to the Past: Right now, a big question is who am I? How can I do what I do? Any reference to people like me would be very much welcome, and I'd be happy to work/negotiate with you to get it.
Transformation Training Trouble: Mysteries aside, I have a really cool gift, and the bounds seem to be almost limitless. If I can get them to work, that is. Sometimes I'll just be stuck in an odd form with no way to 'reset' myself, sometimes I'll have done something strange to my brain. The results of my own training... can be unpredictable.
New Job: Just because I might not be human/anthro/what-have-you doesn't mean I don't have a normal life! I
am a heckuvan engineer, after all, with significant skill in electrical engineering, robotics, and computer programming. I would make a great asset to your company, and I always appreciate the money. I promise, I can settle in anywhere and get along with
any new coworker.
Vore Battle
Active:
- Ramblin', Gamblin', Heckuvan Engineer: All that time at Georgia Tech didn't go to waste! When dealing with any kind of mechanical foe, Kyle can skip his turn to try and sabotage his foe. If he rolls higher than his opponent, he gives them a -1 to all checks, plus an additional -1 for each 5 points he goes over their roll. If he does this from the stomach, add an additional -3 due to being close to his work.
- Slick: On his turn, Kyle can, as part of a minor action, secret a slippery substance from his skin. This gives him a +1 to escape being grabbed and his opponent a -1 to keep him in a grab. However, it gives him a -1 to swallow an opponent and his opponent a +1 in the same. Cannot be used with Stick.
- Stick: Like Slick above, except he gets a +1 to swallow an opponent and his opponent gets a -1 to escape being swallowed. He also gets a -1 to gain control of a grab, and his opponent gets a +1 to maintain the grab.
Passive:
- Skittish: Kyle is only recently becoming plucky. His time spent running from people who tried to eat him have given him a +2 to avoid being taken control of by a grab.
- Despirate times: When Kyle has lost half of his health, his programming takes over. His next turn causes him to transform to fit the current situation, giving him a +3 to the next check he makes, as well as subsequent checks of the same type. However, he cannot take any actions until the turn after he transforms.