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BD-302 | ミチュ ⚙ MICHU ([personal profile] mechanically) wrote2022-12-31 05:05 pm
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Player: aaya
Contact: [plurk.com profile] yagyuu
Age: 30
Current Characters: riku [personal profile] spiritualize

Character Name: BD-302 | Michu
Character Canon: Cray Cross Epic (translations here)
Canon Point: Post-canon (pre-epilogue timeskip)
Age: Chronologically, about 8; physically and mentally resembles a 17-year-old.

Crime: Domestic terrorism.

Background: A Battleroid who aspires to be an idol in Lyrical Monasterio.
She used to spend all her time in battle, but was moved by footage of Bermuda Triangle, as such she is now a lively girl who works hard at destructive activities… practice so to become the greatest idol.


Created by Troas Industries yes i got this wrong in a tdm tag im sorry as part of the "Blue Dream" series of battleroids, Michu was born into combat. Battleroids of her caliber are given advanced, sentient AI with which they can form relationships as well as any organic being can - and the Blue Dream squadron were like her sisters, all through their missions and downtime. Then, during a particularly difficult mission, Michu lost contact with the rest of her "siblings" and crashed to the ground.

There, she found herself having landed in a long-abandoned concert hall. Accidentally activating the ancient technologies, she was exposed to the splendour of performance - a recording from thousands of years in the past, of a beautiful mermaid commanding the stage with her song. Finding herself unable to face the prospect of returning to her military base without her sisters, Michu instead turned her goals toward discovering more music - eventually resolving to become an idol.

Traversing from her home continent of Brandt Gate to the northen Stoicheia, Michu crash-landed into a small business in the port town of Sciapari. There, she met the shy seamstress mermaid Noqno. Entranced by the girl's voice, so similar to the mermaid she had discovered in the ancient hall, Michu befriended her and learned of the upcoming auditions for Lyrical Monasterio. Situated atop a giant flying whale and kept far from the conflicts of Planet Cray's oft-turbulent surface, this academy accepts students of any age, race or gender - as long as they want to be an idol.

The two pass their entrance auditions, and their relationship grows as they enter the academy as classmates. Over time, they befriend others, Michu's status as the only battleroid at the academy causing some chaos and confusion. Passing her classes and learning more about her world and dream, Michu and Noqno pair up for Bloom Fest - a celebration / contest for any hopeful participants with the potential to win a trophy said to grant a single wish. Michu and Noqno's friendship deepens greatly through their practice, affirming their devotion to one another as they establish their goal of winning the Bloom Fest. On the day of the event, they meet Rorowa and Radylina - two "idols" from "not the Monasterio", also competing for the trophy. These two newcomers are actually Glitters - those in search of the Fire Regalis, a legendary item split into crystals that grant wishes - who have realised that the Bloom Fest trophy contains one of those Regalis Pieces.

As the competition begins, one of the judges is introduced - Kheios, a demon scholar whose affable personality and startlingly good publicity hide his true nature as an extremely powerful and deeply antagonistic manipulator, who seeks the Regalis for his own ends. Along with him as a judge is Tamayura, a lovely and very ill fox warbeast woman accompanied by her two wards, the ex-assassin Direful Dolls Ririmi and Rarami. While Tamayura initially bears no negative intent, the twin Dolls will go to any length to obtain the Regalis Piece and heal their master. The Dolls plant explosives in the gifts given to children in the audience, sewn into stuffed toys. Michu, by chance, notices this in time to fully sweep the stadium and disarm every explosive before tragedy can strike. Rorowa and Radylina fight off the Dolls and eventually Tamayura, who joins the battle to defend her beloved attendants. However, Kheios was unwilling to settle for this result.

Truly, Michu knew her fellow Blue Dream sisters had been destroyed. But if even one had survived, like her, she sought to become an idol for them to be able to find her. Kheios preys on her suppressed grief, manipulating her mind to pull the reality of her sister's destructions to the surface, blocking out her dreams and limiting personality. He attempts to use her as a weapon to destroy the Bloom Fest's hall, bringing down the roof and killing thousands of spectators, to further fuel despair and give him easy access to the trophy containing the Regalis Piece.

Thankfully, Kheios is a dramatic bastard and deigned for this to occur during Michu and Noqno's performance for Maximum Impact. But Noqno's recognition of how strange Michu is acting and the two girl's love for each other overwrites Kheios's influence (though he does not seem especially bothered by this), and they complete their successful performance with an embrace. This earns them the Bloom Fest trophy, which they decide to use to heal Tamayura of not only her illness but also the injuries she sustained while she and the dolls fought Rorowa and Radylina.

Now striving to follow her dreams on her own terms, Michu returns to her studies alongside Noqno and her other friends.

Personality:
"Sparkly and exciting...... This is the stage of my dreams!"
Despite her origins as a purpose-built weapon, Michu has become a quintessential teenage girl. Bubbly and high-spirited with an open and friendly personality, she approaches life with a bombastic and excitable energy, fawning over cute things and flustering at the mentions of romance. She is still naive to many social and environmental cues due to the circumstances of her creation, with her only references prior to joining Lyrical Monasterio being the military group she had fought for, her mechanical sisters, and the barren tundras of Brandt Gate's war zones. As a result, she appears airheaded and a little ditzy, though her skills at reading the room are slowly improving with continued socialisation. Michu's emotions are worn trimmed in glitter and lights on her sleeve, everything from prideful boasting to kicked-puppy disappointment. Being an artificial existence does absolutely nothing to give her a decent poker face.
- "...aren’t you a machine that came here to kill me?"
"Ahahahaha, no way! I’m no longer a Battleroid! I, Michu, am going to be an idol!"
Once having claimed to have abandoned her nature as a battleroid, Michu remains determined and protective of those she cares for. While she has become more willing to acknowledge her past and use her abilities and armaments to defend, the idea of being used as a weapon again frightens her. Her free will is incredibly important, and she treasures the connections she makes with people who recognise her as Michu, not just a product for combat. A result of this is that Michu will often choose to endanger herself over causing any risk to others, leading to repairs being needed. It's lucky she is so difficult to damage. With her friends, Michu openly affectionate and physical, sometimes forgetting her own strength. In an effort to shed some of the inbuilt battleroid precision and appear more natural, she leans too far in the other direction and becomes a bit clumsy.

Creative and hands-on, Michu has innate engineering abilities programmed into her and finds tinkering fun and fascinating. This is most obvious in the various fireworks she makes herself, from the designs of the flares to the hand-painted work on the cannonballs themselves. While academic learning apparently struggles to compute in the "arithmetic processing unit" that serves as her brain, tasks such as building and designing are much easier for her to absorb. Obviously as an idol she loves to sing and dance, her vocal range wide thanks to her construction. Choreography is not her strong suit, though, often leaning too stiff or too graceless.
A mechanical voice resounded through Michu’s blue world.
- "Do you want to delete data?"
"No."
Even though she is genuinely happy-go-lucky, the traumas of Michu's war-focused past have never completely left her. Being unarmed makes her feel uneasy, which is why her cannons - while able to be disconnected - are almost always cabled in and loaded. Loud and sudden noises put her on high alert, and fear can affect her badly. The loss of her squadron is no longer denied and no longer defines her actions, but the pain remains. This also feeds into a fear of failure, as she harbours some survivor's guilt that manifests in this manner. She can fall into a slump when faced with repeated failures, and needs positive affirmation to pull her out of low moods.

Becoming an idol who truly brings happiness to a wide range people is Michu's goal. Together with Noqno, on her own - all she wants now is to make others smile. With her worst experiences behind her and renewed hope in her mechanical heart, Michu will continue to strive toward her ultimate dream.

Abilities: Michu is a battleroid, a robot created for combat. Hardy, heavy and well-equipped for a variety of battle situations, she is made of much tougher stuff than an average human.

Most notably, there is a large hub port on her back - a shallow dome-shape, with several cables and input ports. Hooked up to that panel are her two gattling cannons, which can fire various types of live ammunition as well as the fireworks she custom-makes herself. These guns float alongside her weightlessly with small anti-gravity engines, but truthfully weigh a ton.

Her internals are entirely mechanical, and she does not eat or drink like an organic being. Instead, she requires charging, though her internal battery can store up to a week's worth of charge if she is simply doing daily activities. Her alloy is highly advanced and durable, resistant to most attacks. Wounds on her "skin" will "bleed" a dark fluid akin to blood, but more resembling oil in composition. This skin is self-repairing at a similar rate to a human wound. Her arms, legs and torso have panels, visibly lined in silver, than can open to grant access to various weapons, tools and controls. Of particular note, her legs and heels contain boosters for powered flight.

Vision and hearing are much more attuned than as human's, with sensors for targeting, night vision, infra-red and heat mapping in her eyes. When attacked, an electromagnetic "barrier" is deployed to fend off damage, but it is breachable. Michu is also capable of recording audio and playing it back, though this seems to have been damaged at some point and only functions properly occasionally. Strength-wise, she can produce much greater force than her size might indicate due to her nature, and can carry several times even her own significant weight.

basically: cool robot

Inventory: Her two cannons, loaded with fireworks; several normal cannonballs and other artillery rounds housed in storage compartments in the guns; a wireless microphone; a futuristic-looking thin smartphone (unable to connect).

Samples: TDM toplevel, thread with A2

Questions: i have to grow my own memes in this abandoned warehouse so if i make one in time itll go here