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Name: Levonsong
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IC Information:
Name: Joe (Preincarnation) | Joe Weller (Reincarnation)
Canon: The Protomen
Age: Early 20s (Preincarnation) | 37 (Reincarnation)
Preincarnation Species: Human
Preincarnation Appearance: A concise description or link to an image will do.
Any differences: Just a bit older in the face
Preincarnated History: Joe was one of the first generation to grow up in The City, a technologically advanced city with a robot workforce and ruled by a scientist named Dr. Wily. Thanks to the robot workforce, those in Joe's generation had no need to work or toil, something that their parents told them they were lucky to have. However, this wasn't a utopia as many would disappear at night. Among that number were Joe's father when he was a child and his mother seven years after that. From then on Joe lived with other boys like him as a sword of gang similar to The Outsiders. Like many of this generation, he found the life of no work and no ambition empty and crushing. He knew this was no way for people to live and grew to hate the city like many others. One night at a bar he finally hit his limit and could take no more. After asking a woman at the bar to run away with him out of The City, he rushed out and toward his home. Drunk on alcohol, rage, and a glimmer of hope, he took the motorcycle he had inherited from his father and set off into the night.
With the roar of the motorcycle's engine echoing through the streets, Joe rode at full speed down the road to the outskirts of town. The whole time he felt watched, feeling that unless he did something that he would join those lost to "Light's Monster," the being the citizens of the City blamed for the disappearances and named after a famous murderer from The City's past. When he finally stopped at the literal end of the road, knife in hand, he saw a figure walk out of the shadows, but it was a grayed man and not the monster he expected. However the man pointed behind Joe and there stood the creature that had been stalking him the whole night through. It was a man of green metal with a blast shield for a face, a gun at its hip, and a wicked knife in its hand. If he was to die, then Joe intended to die fighting. He launched himself at the automaton and knocked them both to the ground, the machine quickly getting on top and trying to strangle Joe. Joe was lucky, though. His hand found the machine's gun and shot into its chest. For a moment he was blinded by the resulting light and once his eyes once more opened, he could see the robot several feet away with a large hole blown through its chest.
The old man introduced himself as Thomas Light, the very man The City remembered as a murderer. He explained he had been Wily's partner until he was framed so Wily could control the town. Light approached the robot, the Sniper, removed its helmet and offered it to Joe. From there, Joe's remaining time was measured in hours. Light revealed his plan to destroy the transmitter tower that controlled The City's robots and free the people from Wily's grasp. Within moments Joe rode toward the tower, the machine's helmet on his head and explosives at his side. With a crash he drove his bike through the front doors of the tower and quickly took the stairs to the roof. Joe laid down the explosives at the base of the transmitter and set the timer before turning to get on the stairs. Unfortunately, he had barely taken a step before the explosives went off, and he was launched off the roof.
Reincarnated History: Joe was born to Mr. and Mrs. Weller in 1976. His father was part of the police force and was killed by a hit and run during a traffic stop in 1986. The next few years were hard for the Weller family, Joe's mother having to sell off the house and move them to a poorer part of the city to keep above water financially. Joe fell in with a local gang during his teen years, causing his mother no end of grief, but thankfully most of his activities were overlooked thanks to residual goodwill for his father's service. It wasn't the end for his family's poor fortune. Soon after graduating high school in 1993, Mrs. Weller was also killed in a hit and run. With no real desire for higher education, Joe cleaned up his act and joined the police force in memory of his parents.
Joe worked on the force for many years until early 2009 when he was leading an investigation against one of the city's financial services companies. Uncovering some information that connected some of the higher-ups of the police force to the company's illegal activities, he decided to go public with the information. Sadly, another member of the force in the investigation spirited the evidence away before Joe could go public and he was unceremoniously let go. Joe then left Locke City for four years, traveling the country and working his way to keep going as he quite literally had nothing left. Only returning to Locke when he heard an old friend of his, Raul Panther whom he had helped train, had been fired as well and taken up work as a private investigator.
First Echo: Joe had just returned to Locke City after his years away when he got jumped by a mugger. After fighting him off and watching the mugger run away, he noticed a green motorcycle helmet in his hand.
Preincarnation Personality: Joe is either a very brave man or very reckless young man. When faced with the monster that had been keeping the people of his city in check for years, he didn't back down or worry. He told it that there were things worse than fear and death in that city and charged it with a lead pipe. He is also very independent; declaring that he will not be told what to do by any man, machine, or otherwise. Most of all he is tired. He is tired of the desperation he and everyone lives with, of living in a gilded cage, and of letting themselves live under the thumb of a man and his machines in a sort of complacent slavery.
Oddly enough, Joe shows a want to free the people of the city, not just himself. Despite his anger toward everyone for letting themselves live under Wily's thumb, Joe shows concern for those who live in the city and wants them all to rise up and take their home for their own. It may be this want that made him join Doctor Light, despite only having just met him and the fact that he's remembered as a murderer in that city—if remembered at all besides the Sniper being nicknamed Light's Monster.
Most of all though, his attitude and world view were caused by what happened to his parents; he may have been just another one of the sheep in that city if not for their fate. Ten years before canon, when Joe was a preteen, his father was taken in the night and never heard from again. Then seven years later his mother was taken as well. The loss of his father must have been devastating and perhaps causing his street punk style with only his mother holding him in check. Her loss was the last nail in the coffin and he began to truly act out, these acts being what brought the Sniper's eye upon him and motivating him toward his wild ride in hopes to escape The City.
However this isn't to say he's some hero of the streets. His first instinct when he realized he was being watched by the Sniper was to run away and leave the City and to tease the girl in the bar he wouldn't take her with him during the song 'Breaking Out'. Joe also quickly joins the Light after destroying the Sniper bot, despite having no idea who he was at first. While it can be assumed Light did explain a little of it, Joe still readily agreed to help build explosives and set them on the largest building in the City. Despite any good intentions he is still a street punk, comparable to the boys from the Outsiders.
Still, Joe does have a good heart. As he rides to escape the City, still knowing that he is being watched, his mind turns toward the people. He says a prayer for the children, for the adults that still remember how life used to be, and for the few like him that refuse to surrender to the soul crushing city. It is also suggested that during his fight against the Sniper robot that Joe was partly fighting for the people, wanting to have their fear dragged into the light and beaten.
Any differences: The most readily apparently difference between reincarnation and preincarnation Joe is that his reincarnation has calmed down alot, but that could simply be thanks to age. The raging fires of rebellion that were present in the original have calmed down and mellowed. That isn't to say they aren't still there, but they need a bit of gas to be back to their former state.
Abilities: What abilities did your character's Preincarnation have? To what extent were they used? Include any equipment they had access to and any skills they had. Headcanon should be indicated in italics, as before. You may write a brief synopsis and link to a more detailed resource if you wish. Favor conciseness here, and try to limit (or else otherwise elaborate upon) canon terminology to avoid confusion.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person: Some form of extended prose exhibiting strong voice and key behaviors of your character. If the voice is weak or the characterization appears to be off, revisions may be asked for.
Roleplay Sample - Network: Same as above, but in network-style format.
*Note: One of the samples (of your choice) must be done from the perspective of the reincarnated character, set within the game. Samples from the test drive community may be used for this purpose.
Any Questions? If you need to clear up any lingering questions or concerns, here's the place to do it.
Name: Levonsong
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IC Information:
Name: Joe (Preincarnation) | Joe Weller (Reincarnation)
Canon: The Protomen
Age: Early 20s (Preincarnation) | 37 (Reincarnation)
Preincarnation Species: Human
Preincarnation Appearance: A concise description or link to an image will do.
Any differences: Just a bit older in the face
Preincarnated History: Joe was one of the first generation to grow up in The City, a technologically advanced city with a robot workforce and ruled by a scientist named Dr. Wily. Thanks to the robot workforce, those in Joe's generation had no need to work or toil, something that their parents told them they were lucky to have. However, this wasn't a utopia as many would disappear at night. Among that number were Joe's father when he was a child and his mother seven years after that. From then on Joe lived with other boys like him as a sword of gang similar to The Outsiders. Like many of this generation, he found the life of no work and no ambition empty and crushing. He knew this was no way for people to live and grew to hate the city like many others. One night at a bar he finally hit his limit and could take no more. After asking a woman at the bar to run away with him out of The City, he rushed out and toward his home. Drunk on alcohol, rage, and a glimmer of hope, he took the motorcycle he had inherited from his father and set off into the night.
With the roar of the motorcycle's engine echoing through the streets, Joe rode at full speed down the road to the outskirts of town. The whole time he felt watched, feeling that unless he did something that he would join those lost to "Light's Monster," the being the citizens of the City blamed for the disappearances and named after a famous murderer from The City's past. When he finally stopped at the literal end of the road, knife in hand, he saw a figure walk out of the shadows, but it was a grayed man and not the monster he expected. However the man pointed behind Joe and there stood the creature that had been stalking him the whole night through. It was a man of green metal with a blast shield for a face, a gun at its hip, and a wicked knife in its hand. If he was to die, then Joe intended to die fighting. He launched himself at the automaton and knocked them both to the ground, the machine quickly getting on top and trying to strangle Joe. Joe was lucky, though. His hand found the machine's gun and shot into its chest. For a moment he was blinded by the resulting light and once his eyes once more opened, he could see the robot several feet away with a large hole blown through its chest.
The old man introduced himself as Thomas Light, the very man The City remembered as a murderer. He explained he had been Wily's partner until he was framed so Wily could control the town. Light approached the robot, the Sniper, removed its helmet and offered it to Joe. From there, Joe's remaining time was measured in hours. Light revealed his plan to destroy the transmitter tower that controlled The City's robots and free the people from Wily's grasp. Within moments Joe rode toward the tower, the machine's helmet on his head and explosives at his side. With a crash he drove his bike through the front doors of the tower and quickly took the stairs to the roof. Joe laid down the explosives at the base of the transmitter and set the timer before turning to get on the stairs. Unfortunately, he had barely taken a step before the explosives went off, and he was launched off the roof.
Reincarnated History: Joe was born to Mr. and Mrs. Weller in 1976. His father was part of the police force and was killed by a hit and run during a traffic stop in 1986. The next few years were hard for the Weller family, Joe's mother having to sell off the house and move them to a poorer part of the city to keep above water financially. Joe fell in with a local gang during his teen years, causing his mother no end of grief, but thankfully most of his activities were overlooked thanks to residual goodwill for his father's service. It wasn't the end for his family's poor fortune. Soon after graduating high school in 1993, Mrs. Weller was also killed in a hit and run. With no real desire for higher education, Joe cleaned up his act and joined the police force in memory of his parents.
Joe worked on the force for many years until early 2009 when he was leading an investigation against one of the city's financial services companies. Uncovering some information that connected some of the higher-ups of the police force to the company's illegal activities, he decided to go public with the information. Sadly, another member of the force in the investigation spirited the evidence away before Joe could go public and he was unceremoniously let go. Joe then left Locke City for four years, traveling the country and working his way to keep going as he quite literally had nothing left. Only returning to Locke when he heard an old friend of his, Raul Panther whom he had helped train, had been fired as well and taken up work as a private investigator.
First Echo: Joe had just returned to Locke City after his years away when he got jumped by a mugger. After fighting him off and watching the mugger run away, he noticed a green motorcycle helmet in his hand.
Preincarnation Personality: Joe is either a very brave man or very reckless young man. When faced with the monster that had been keeping the people of his city in check for years, he didn't back down or worry. He told it that there were things worse than fear and death in that city and charged it with a lead pipe. He is also very independent; declaring that he will not be told what to do by any man, machine, or otherwise. Most of all he is tired. He is tired of the desperation he and everyone lives with, of living in a gilded cage, and of letting themselves live under the thumb of a man and his machines in a sort of complacent slavery.
Oddly enough, Joe shows a want to free the people of the city, not just himself. Despite his anger toward everyone for letting themselves live under Wily's thumb, Joe shows concern for those who live in the city and wants them all to rise up and take their home for their own. It may be this want that made him join Doctor Light, despite only having just met him and the fact that he's remembered as a murderer in that city—if remembered at all besides the Sniper being nicknamed Light's Monster.
Most of all though, his attitude and world view were caused by what happened to his parents; he may have been just another one of the sheep in that city if not for their fate. Ten years before canon, when Joe was a preteen, his father was taken in the night and never heard from again. Then seven years later his mother was taken as well. The loss of his father must have been devastating and perhaps causing his street punk style with only his mother holding him in check. Her loss was the last nail in the coffin and he began to truly act out, these acts being what brought the Sniper's eye upon him and motivating him toward his wild ride in hopes to escape The City.
However this isn't to say he's some hero of the streets. His first instinct when he realized he was being watched by the Sniper was to run away and leave the City and to tease the girl in the bar he wouldn't take her with him during the song 'Breaking Out'. Joe also quickly joins the Light after destroying the Sniper bot, despite having no idea who he was at first. While it can be assumed Light did explain a little of it, Joe still readily agreed to help build explosives and set them on the largest building in the City. Despite any good intentions he is still a street punk, comparable to the boys from the Outsiders.
Still, Joe does have a good heart. As he rides to escape the City, still knowing that he is being watched, his mind turns toward the people. He says a prayer for the children, for the adults that still remember how life used to be, and for the few like him that refuse to surrender to the soul crushing city. It is also suggested that during his fight against the Sniper robot that Joe was partly fighting for the people, wanting to have their fear dragged into the light and beaten.
Any differences: The most readily apparently difference between reincarnation and preincarnation Joe is that his reincarnation has calmed down alot, but that could simply be thanks to age. The raging fires of rebellion that were present in the original have calmed down and mellowed. That isn't to say they aren't still there, but they need a bit of gas to be back to their former state.
Abilities: What abilities did your character's Preincarnation have? To what extent were they used? Include any equipment they had access to and any skills they had. Headcanon should be indicated in italics, as before. You may write a brief synopsis and link to a more detailed resource if you wish. Favor conciseness here, and try to limit (or else otherwise elaborate upon) canon terminology to avoid confusion.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person: Some form of extended prose exhibiting strong voice and key behaviors of your character. If the voice is weak or the characterization appears to be off, revisions may be asked for.
Roleplay Sample - Network: Same as above, but in network-style format.
*Note: One of the samples (of your choice) must be done from the perspective of the reincarnated character, set within the game. Samples from the test drive community may be used for this purpose.
Any Questions? If you need to clear up any lingering questions or concerns, here's the place to do it.
