Mani4c V2.0
Sept 4, 2014 1:22:13 GMT -5
Post by Mani4c on Sept 4, 2014 1:22:13 GMT -5
Name: Mani4c
Avatar Style: Infiltration/Spammer,Combat
Gender: Male
Appearance: When not wearing his armor, Mani4c takes the appearance of a man in his early to mid twenties. Since Mani4c was overwhelmed by his viral impulses, his appearance has changed drastically. His hair is now acid green color with spikes that angle towards the back of his head and his eyes are a bright gold color. His clothing has changed as well, He now wears a bomber jacket with a white shirt underneath with a pair of military styled cargo pants with multiple pockets and pouches on the sides with black combat boots. This more militaristic look, combined with the piercing nature of his eyes makes him look more intimidating, despite the fact that his personality is for the most part unchanged.
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. Since Viral Mani4c's appearance, Mani4c's personality has remained the same, save for on small difference. While his overall personality and sense of humor are the same, his temper is much more volatile than before. Not only is he more prone to bouts of rage, but when someone he cares about is injured he' likely to fly into a berserk rage. When this happens, the only people who can snap him out of his frenzy are Baretta and Saber.
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.
After responding to a call about a sword wielding avatar terrorizing downtown cyber city, Mani4c learned that he has a 'sibling'. This sibling was Noxus, a high ranking member of the underground network who had ordered his second in command Justicar to get Mani4c's attention. Noxus revealed a plan to usurp control from humanity in an attempt to help them reach their true potential, and asked them to join him in his plan, he gave Saber a data chip that had data on Halberd's latest activities as a show of goodwill. After seeing Mani4c struggle with the idea of possibly having to fight his friends, Noxus decided to make Mani4c's decision for him, he ordered Justicar to gut Mani4c. During the ensuing struggle, Mani4c was exposed to a gargantuan amount of viral data after absorbing a attack meant for Baretta, this resulted in him being overloaded by viral data. The overload released Viral Mani4c, a genocidal version of Mani4c completely fueled by viral energy. The battle would have been lost if not for an unexpected donation from Noxus and some vital assistance from an avatar created from Project AUGMENT. After Viral Mani4c was bested, Mani4c returned with new upgrades, courtesy of the excess viral data that released Viral Mani4c in the first place. However, Mani4c didn't enjoy his upgrades for long, he fled in a panic and hid in an underused portion of the NPD's server. But unbeknownst to him, he arrived in the middle of an attack on the precinct by Halberd.
Add-Ons:
Combat- Assault Armor: Mani4c's armor received a sizable boost in terms of defense compared to it's previous form. This armor boasts thicker plating and a sealed helmet. It has a built in firewall that offers some defense against elemental damage. (Melee and Ranged attacks do approximately 15-20% less damage, Elemental attacks do 5% less damage.)
Combat- Arm Blade(x2): 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. Mani4c can now create 2 blades, one on each arm.
Combat- Energy Rifle: Mani4c's armor no longer has laser emitters on the palms, instead, Mani4c now comes equipped with an automatic rifle that fires intense bolts of energy. It can be fired in either semi or fully automatic modes, and is synced up to Mani4c's visor, allowing him to use his helmet's HUD to fire more accurately.
Connectivity- Combat Hoverbike: This vehicle wasn't created by Viral Mani4c's data, It was actually thought up by Mani4c. He combined all of the best aspects of his friends vehicles, the speed of Onimaru's motorcycle, the maneuverability of Saber's Speeder, and the ability to carry more than one passenger. Mani4c requested the creation of this vehicle right before his encounter with Noxus, and it was given to him after Halberd's attack. It also comes with a rapid fire DeRez blaster mounted in the nose of the bike, it only does light damage, but the intense amount of fire that it can put out makes it effective as a suppression weapon. The bike boosts connectivity by 125% and can carry 2 passengers counting the driver.
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.)
I've decided to color code the viral downloads to make them easier to distinguish, original viral downloads have their names highlighted in purple, new downloads are completely highlighted in green.
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)
Combat- Armor Piercing: Mani4c's rifle can be configured to fire highly compressed bolts of energy, these compressed bolts can punch holes through personal firewalls and pierce armor plating, negating any protection that the armor normally provides (This download does not have a cool-down period, and will automatically turn off if the Downloaded program limit is reached.)
Avatar Style: Infiltration/Spammer,Combat
Gender: Male
Appearance: When not wearing his armor, Mani4c takes the appearance of a man in his early to mid twenties. Since Mani4c was overwhelmed by his viral impulses, his appearance has changed drastically. His hair is now acid green color with spikes that angle towards the back of his head and his eyes are a bright gold color. His clothing has changed as well, He now wears a bomber jacket with a white shirt underneath with a pair of military styled cargo pants with multiple pockets and pouches on the sides with black combat boots. This more militaristic look, combined with the piercing nature of his eyes makes him look more intimidating, despite the fact that his personality is for the most part unchanged.
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. Since Viral Mani4c's appearance, Mani4c's personality has remained the same, save for on small difference. While his overall personality and sense of humor are the same, his temper is much more volatile than before. Not only is he more prone to bouts of rage, but when someone he cares about is injured he' likely to fly into a berserk rage. When this happens, the only people who can snap him out of his frenzy are Baretta and Saber.
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.
After responding to a call about a sword wielding avatar terrorizing downtown cyber city, Mani4c learned that he has a 'sibling'. This sibling was Noxus, a high ranking member of the underground network who had ordered his second in command Justicar to get Mani4c's attention. Noxus revealed a plan to usurp control from humanity in an attempt to help them reach their true potential, and asked them to join him in his plan, he gave Saber a data chip that had data on Halberd's latest activities as a show of goodwill. After seeing Mani4c struggle with the idea of possibly having to fight his friends, Noxus decided to make Mani4c's decision for him, he ordered Justicar to gut Mani4c. During the ensuing struggle, Mani4c was exposed to a gargantuan amount of viral data after absorbing a attack meant for Baretta, this resulted in him being overloaded by viral data. The overload released Viral Mani4c, a genocidal version of Mani4c completely fueled by viral energy. The battle would have been lost if not for an unexpected donation from Noxus and some vital assistance from an avatar created from Project AUGMENT. After Viral Mani4c was bested, Mani4c returned with new upgrades, courtesy of the excess viral data that released Viral Mani4c in the first place. However, Mani4c didn't enjoy his upgrades for long, he fled in a panic and hid in an underused portion of the NPD's server. But unbeknownst to him, he arrived in the middle of an attack on the precinct by Halberd.
Add-Ons:
Combat- Assault Armor: Mani4c's armor received a sizable boost in terms of defense compared to it's previous form. This armor boasts thicker plating and a sealed helmet. It has a built in firewall that offers some defense against elemental damage. (Melee and Ranged attacks do approximately 15-20% less damage, Elemental attacks do 5% less damage.)
Combat- Arm Blade(x2): 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. Mani4c can now create 2 blades, one on each arm.
Combat- Energy Rifle: Mani4c's armor no longer has laser emitters on the palms, instead, Mani4c now comes equipped with an automatic rifle that fires intense bolts of energy. It can be fired in either semi or fully automatic modes, and is synced up to Mani4c's visor, allowing him to use his helmet's HUD to fire more accurately.
Connectivity- Combat Hoverbike: This vehicle wasn't created by Viral Mani4c's data, It was actually thought up by Mani4c. He combined all of the best aspects of his friends vehicles, the speed of Onimaru's motorcycle, the maneuverability of Saber's Speeder, and the ability to carry more than one passenger. Mani4c requested the creation of this vehicle right before his encounter with Noxus, and it was given to him after Halberd's attack. It also comes with a rapid fire DeRez blaster mounted in the nose of the bike, it only does light damage, but the intense amount of fire that it can put out makes it effective as a suppression weapon. The bike boosts connectivity by 125% and can carry 2 passengers counting the driver.
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.)
I've decided to color code the viral downloads to make them easier to distinguish, original viral downloads have their names highlighted in purple, new downloads are completely highlighted in green.
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)
Combat- Armor Piercing: Mani4c's rifle can be configured to fire highly compressed bolts of energy, these compressed bolts can punch holes through personal firewalls and pierce armor plating, negating any protection that the armor normally provides (This download does not have a cool-down period, and will automatically turn off if the Downloaded program limit is reached.)