Done by me
Prologue
+ NAME + MDK - 101
+ ALIAS + “Proteus”, “PegoMan 5000”, “Bruce” as his phone sex line name, “Maximov” as his online handle
+ AGE + Manufactured dated around 20 years ago. Mentally, mid-30’s.
+ GENDER + Male by vocal designation
+ ORIGIN + Imogen Innovations, Aedolis
+ SPECIES + Limited Edition Combat Droid
+ RESIDENCE + Home, Home on the Rails.
+ OCCUPATION + Part-time Mercenary / Bodyguard, Phone Sex Operator, and one-time underwear model
+ FACE + Cerulean Blue Glowy eyes / Hair - N/A
+ STATURE + 6’10” / 3580 lbs.
+ SEXUALITY + If it’s Gouda for you, it’s Gouda for Me. But not actual cheese.”
+ THEME MUSIC +
Iron Savior: “Tyranny of Steel” (https://youtu.be/8y22STBfUW4)
Mega Drive: “Delta Protocol” (https://youtu.be/HIXvFhlGl_Q)
Scandroid: “Neo Tokyo (DWtD Rmx)” (https://youtu.be/MkgR0SxmMKo)
__________________IN-DEPTH
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Built as an expensive battle droid - the first successful prototype - designed for intense combat and infiltration. The cubes that combine together are small enough to thread together and form sinew-like muscles attached to the a central reactor core inside Proteus’ chest, locked into a droid chassis. Fully armored up, Proteus stands at approximately 6’10” with spaces in his armor for upgrades and mod attachments to further augment his killing ability. He’s come a long way from his initial manufacturer production line, still maintaining parts of his armor pieces with it’s scoring and the old battalion insignia on the outside of his armor right under his model number.
Most of his coloration has faded a little over the last 20 years, with a gunmetal gray base coat, and slate blue armor chest plate and accents, and black frame mod ports along his arms. His helmet has a bulletproof visor that retracts into the frame around his head, which can also be further be detached and fixed with something else. The cubes underneath the armor pieces are small enough in size to appear seamless, feeling smooth for the most part and partly ridged where they twist into his frame. The armor itself is utilitarian in nature without a lot of extra pieces to catch on and drag. The greaves go over his ‘muscles’, clamping onto portions of the frame around his thighs, shinguards built in just underneath the knee, and the sections of his feet split off into separate ‘toes’ for better balance. He tends to move very quietly for such a heavy machine, by virtue of his design.
His effectiveness in combat made him a highly sought after model, but the expense kept him largely exclusive.
Voice Claim: Idris Elba (https://youtu.be/RNUZRQxO5xI)
PERSONA
“Are you aware of your meatbag status?”
Casually blunt and thoroughly self-aware, Proteus is a misanthropic troll of an automaton, making light the general sufferings of others purely because it amuses him, generally with dark caustic humor. In fact, Proteus rarely does anything the doesn’t amuse him. If a modicum of entertainment could be gained from it, he’ll do it. He has no real empathy for others (meatbags in particular), not because he’s incapable of it but the choice is his to employ it and the wasted effort rarely is worth his time. He tends to find most interpersonal interactions annoying and likes to poke fun where he can. His worries are few, and his confidence is aplenty, but is less inclined to prove his casual superiority.
Those he chooses to spend his time with tend to have a quality he enjoys or finds intriguing, and they generally are a select few. Being generally unimpressed, makes him bored and he moves along to the next more interesting thing. Wandering in general public between domes has only slightly curbed Proteus’ murderous personality, and some days he muses about the old times of carving scores of Edanis to pieces with a few emp grenades and hollow points. Ah, those were good days.
- Things! -
- Likes honey, bees, and casually gardens in Margad because of how important bees are in general. Finds the concept of how something so small can have such an impressive impact to be particularly fascinating.
- Dislikes Pegos with a heated passion. He’s reduced the small plastic blocks to a melted puddle with his plasma canon by the crateful on more than one occasion.
- Loves to mess with all kinds of mods, both with weapons and his armor pieces, and it’s a nice way to pass the time.
- Always places adds on Dragonslist for bodyguard or mercenary work for what he’d say are fairly competitive rates. In between that, he moonlights on a phone sex operator. Because he can make his own hours, tap right into the call from anywhere, and the pay isn’t half bad.
MAGIC/ABILITIES
MDK Model 101 - Inspired by the trashed construct of alien tech, the use of small variable cubes that can alter shape and density fused via it’s core to a robotic chassis. Although an expensive model (no doubt from the use of experimental technology), MDKs (Murder - Death - Killer) were programmed to be effective killers. Coupled with advanced AIs, MDKs were designed with adaptive programming to understand varying degrees of combat situations from anything ranging from hand to hand to assassinations, etc. They possess Tactical Precision Arrays, room for weapons modifications, and anti-corrosive shielding on their plated armor. Proteus himself was usually sent ahead of his squadron to clear out a room of enemies prior to their advance since he could take more damage without the risk of extensive casualties.
Physically, MDKs are heavy and designed to take a beating, with exceptional reflexes and elemental resistances, waterproof, shock resistant. While he’s skilled in a large array of weapon types, if left without, he still has plasma canons in his wrists, charged from residual energy from his reactor core (which has shielding that slides down to protect it when not in combat). And if he’s to be believed, it’s down right sexy. “It’s all in the aerodynamics.”
RELATIONSHIPS
Lieutenant Dylan Eidelweiss - 55, Deceased - His last commanding officer in the Edani War. The last and only meatbag he’s ever genuinely respected.
HISTORY
The first successful unit of a handful of limited edition combat droids designed by Imogen Innovations in the waning years of the Edani War. Taken from alien technology, they managed to replicate the reactor core technology that allowed the creation of his droid type. The expense of making him left him very rare, ultimately purchased for use by the commanding officer of the 47th Infantry Commando Squadron - “Hellbenders” - used mainly for infiltration and ‘meat grinder’ combat. Dubbed Proteus by his commander, he proved effective and was shipped back home once the war was over.
Unfortunately his commander never made it back and was considered KIA, leaving Proteus to his own devices, declared independent and a free operator. He’s spend the last two decades a somewhat decorated veteran, although he doesn’t consider himself such, dabbling in various jobs mainly for publicity and fun.
For now, though, he’s a meandering transient, taking odd jobs for the pay and going wherever he pleases. And although there is some itch to his trigger finger, he does his best to keep it down.
Epilogue
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