Post by Mani4c on May 21, 2014 10:30:58 GMT -5
Name: Mani4c
Avatar Style: Infiltration/Spammer
Gender: Male
Appearance: When not wearing his armor, Mani4c takes the appearance of a man in his early to mid twenties. He has short dark brown hair, approximately 1.5 to 2 inches in length. He wears a plain Black hoodie with a white T-shirt underneath, Tan cargo pants and White sneakers. Mani4c's body occasionally seems to break apart into a humanoid mass of pixels(Like poor quality video footage.) This doesn't seem to cause him any discomfort or impair his abilities in any way, and seems to be a symptom of his unstable code.
Personality: As his name implies Mani4c isn't the most balanced individual, rarely acting in a way that makes sense to anyone other than him, even his operator has trouble reading him on occasion. A major part of Mani4c's personality is his warped sense of humor, he's notorious for pulling pranks on people no matter who they are. Despite being a former rouge avatar Mani4c is actually quite peaceful, his pranks rarely cause any lasting damage, normally all it takes to undo one of his pranks is reboot the system that he messed with. Even though he prefers not to fight, he isn't afraid to step in if an innocent person is being victimized, and when he does get into a fight with somebody he isn't afraid to make use of his "unique" abilities. Mani4c's fighting style(and I use that term rather loosely) is just as unpredictable as it's user, His main strategy when fighting is to use banter and jokes to irritate his opponent and make them sloppy, his actual fighting style is a cobbled together mix of various fighting styles.
History: Mani4c was originally created by an old man who used to be a scientist working for PariahTech. The man had never married and desperately wanted a son but in his old age he wasn't able to take care of a child, so instead he created Mani4c. However there was a problem, he wasn't licensed to create an avatar, if he was caught he would be arrested, and on top of that his health was failing. It took three years to create Mani4c, and somehow despite his worsening health, the old man managed to complete most of Mani4c's programming, he was even able to be activated, but his code still had gaps that would have made traversing the cyber world extremely hazardous. Eventually, the old man died of a heart attack, but before he died he released Mani4c onto the net; hoping that the additional code he had added since activating him would allow him to be safe. Mani4c wandered the net for about a year roaming from one end of the cyber world to the other, all the while suffering from glitches related to his code still not being finished, and it seemed like Mani4c was doomed to roam the net forever. Until, that is, he was attacked by a virus. The virus attempted to consume him, to absorb his data in order to grow. But instead of being deleted, Mani4c's patches of missing code turned the virus's ability to consume it's targets against it, the viral data bonded to the empty spaces in Mani4c's code; including the virus's ability to analyze data and consume it. Instead of consuming Mani4c, it was analyzed, broken down into individual bits of raw data, and then absorbed into Mani4c's base code. Approximately a year after gaining his viral abilities, Mani4c met Baretta and Saber when he briefly lost control of his viral abilities while inside of a power plants control systems(He had been planning to cause brown outs across the city, his idea of a joke). This nearly caused an explosion that could have killed over a dozen people. He later managed to get the viral infection under control with Baretta and Saber's help. Since then, Mani4c has gained a very good amount of control over his viral abilities, and is now working with the NPD as infiltration specialist in hopes of using his powers to protect people.
Add-Ons:
Combat- Combat Armor: Mani4c's basic armor
Combat- Arm Blade: Mani4c's basic close range weapon, it takes the appearance of a Straight edged scythe blade that starts at the middle of his forearm and extends out about two feet past his arm. Like all of Mani4c's weapons it's capable of having a viral effect added to it.
Combat- Palm cannons: Mani4c is capable of firing bolts of energy from the two disks on his palms, while they aren't particularly damaging to an armored target like Halberd, they can be fired very quickly for a long time before they need to cool down.
Combat- Flak Mod: This blaster mod makes the energy bolts the Mani4c fires explode when they get close to their target, giving him the ability to hit fast moving targets. A down side of this mod is that it lowers the firing rate of Mani4cs cannons by approximately 30%. The explosion is also ineffective against heavily armored targets.
Combat- Laser Mod: This mod refocuses the lenses on his palm cannons, as well as increasing the amount of power draw that the cannons use. The result is a tighter, more focused beam of energy, as opposed to the more spherical bolts that Mani4c's normal cannons fire. This mod is designed to overcome the biggest weakness in Mani4c's arsenal, it's lack of effectiveness against armored opponents. However the increased power comes at a cost, the mod diverts energy form the suits motorized joints, which makes the armor more difficult to move. On top of the loss of mobility, the increased power also leads to a massive spike in the heat generated by the cannons. As a result while the mod is active Mani4c moves 30% slower than normal, and after 2 posts, the palm cannons overheat, rendering them inoperable for 4 turns until they can cool.
Cosmetic-Cloak: This is just a simple cloak that Mani4c uses in poor weather(It's also used for dramatic entrances.)
Downloaded Programs: (Note: If there's a 'VP' before the name of one of Mani4c's Downloaded Programs, That means 'Viral Program', in a nutshell those are the abilities given to him by the viral code in his body.)
VP/Combat- Data Consumption: This ability allows Mani4c to analyze, break down, and consume data belonging to viruses. When Mani4c breaks down a virus, he has two options when it comes to their data. He can either keep the code intact for further analysis later on, or break the viruses code down into it's individual bits of information and assimilate it. If he assimilates the data it can be used in a number of ways, he can use it to repair battle damage when there's a lull in the fighting, he can use it to create new mods or downloads, or he can merge the data with his own. The last choice out of the three is the most intriguing, somehow when the data is assimilated it becomes RAM, which allows Mani4c to carry more mods and downloads in one sitting. Nobody, not even Mani4c himself knows how this happens, it's been theorized that the process is much like how a human body creates fat when it has excess calories. When there's an excess of viral data that isn't needed it gets turned into RAM, allowing greater room for storage. But just because Mani4c can carry a large amount of mods and downloads doesn't mean he can use them all at once, while he does posses an abnormally high amount of RAM, he is still limited by his processing power. Because of this he cannot use any more than the standard two mods at the same time, just like any other avatar.(The data consumption power can only be used on viruses, avatars and any other digital entity are incapable of being broken down.)
VP/Combat- Viral Payload: The viral payload ability allows Mani4c to imbue his weapons with a virus designed to weaken an opponent. There are 3 kinds of Viral Payloads.
1. Scrambler Payload: This Viral Payload is designed to force any active weapon mods to automatically go into their cool down phase.
2. The Code-breaker Payload: This payload is similar in function to the scrambler mod, but instead of disabling the victim's weapon mods, it disables their Downloaded abilities(Enemies are unable to use any downloads for 2 posts, counting the post that this ability was used.)
3, The Plague Payload: Despite the name, the viral payload in this weapon does not cause direct damage to an avatar, instead it acts like a debuff that weakens an avatar without directly harming them. It overloads an avatar's processor with junk data, causing them to lag heavily, this not only slows them down but makes them less powerful and more easily injured. (all of the viral payload abilities are disabled after 2 posts, and none of them can be used again until 5 posts later.)
VP/Connectivity- Unstable Code: This ability is less the result of the viral code inside of Mani4c, and more of a result of the pieces of code that were never implemented. Because of how unstable Mani4c's coding is, his body is almost constantly in a state of flux, this has an unexpected side benefit. Because his body is always shifting Mani4c can simply walk through a computer's firewall. However, this ability does not work on high or medium quality firewalls, If Mani4c were to try, he would be deleted.(This is a passive ability)
User: Alexi Petrovik