Application for capeandcowl
[PLAYER INFO
NAME: Oke
AGE: -
JOURNAL: algerbraic [Rarely used!]
IM: AIM: vagabounce
E-MAIL: redeggs at hotmail.co.uk
RETURNING: N/A
CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Bender Bending Rodriguez
FANDOM: Futurama
CHRONOLOGY: End of Wild Green Yonder
CLASS: Anti-Hero. He'll do good or evil when it suits him best.
SUPERHERO NAME: Super King
ALTER EGO: Mr I. C. Weiner
BACKGROUND:
Bender comes from the distant future, at the very beginning of the 31st Century. He lives in New New York, a bustling metropolis and one of the largest cities on Earth. He was built for the sole purpose of bending girders somewhere in the late 2990's in Tijuana, Mexico, by Mom's Friendly Robot Company. He majored in bending with a minor in Robo-American studies at the Bending State University. Yes, this makes no sense.
He entered into a job for his primary purpose, which was bending. He worked in a factory bending girders until one day that he discovered the girders he was bending were intended for suicide booths. After losing his one purpose in life, he decided to kill himself. In a suicide booth. He's not logical.
While in line for the booth, he met smelly idiot Phillip J. Fry, a 20th century man frozen cryogenically in a pizza delivering accident. After he successfully wasted their quarter, Bender decided to take the chump to a restaurant to discuss life, jerks and how smoking makes him look cool. After meeting up with the one eyed Turanga Leela, the trio got themselves hired by Fry's great great great great great (etc.) nephew, Professor Hubert Farnsworth.
They entered the delivery service called Planet Express, delivering random packages to such scenic locations such as Ebola 5, the virus plant. During one of the team's adventures, Bender took a tour on the Titanic. He fell in love with the beautiful and, more importantly, rich Countess de la Roca. Unfortunately, she was sucked into a black hole in a stupendous navigation blunder and left Bender heartbroken. He got over it.
Other highlights include his brief conversion to Robotology, meeting God and turned into a werecar. You may wonder why I skip over things that seem so important but they're pretty mundane in Bender's everday life. And besides, no matter how many times a lesson seems to be learned, it turns out he hasn't learned anything at all. He's cool like that.
To choose a few highlights, Bender once adopted a whole orphanarium of children just to claim child benefits. Then he tried to sell them as livestock. After being arrested, Bender decided children weren't worth the bother and dumped them back in the Orphanarium. He kept the drawing they made him though. Though he still hates them all!
He became Pharoah of the planet Osiris 5 in a quest to make himself remembered throughout time. After constructing a gargantuan, fire breathing statue of himself, the people got sick of his idiocy and buried him in his tomb early. After finally being persuaded to get over himself and leave the temple, he watched in sadness as his memorial crumbled to the ground.
He also entered a relationship with Lucy Liu, who at this point was a head in a jar. This is what the future is like.
Another thing to note is the time he did become part of a superhero team when he joined his friends Fry and Leela in forming the New Justice Team after they had applied miracle cream and had been granted superpowers. Bender believed being a robot was enough of a power and promptly became Superking. Bender seemed to love the publicity more than anything but was prepared to do good in order to make himself look better. Eventually, he gave that up and decided to go steal stuff. That's pretty much what he'll be doing here.
After Planet Express was nearly destroyed by the Box Network, a group of stupid morons, the crew were back on track. Firstly, Bender caught a virus and became a time travelling thief and even nearly killed Fry due to the hypnotic effects of the virus. Also he destroyed all of New York using a spaceship. Bender is morally ambigious at best.
Next, he entered the League of Robots in order to lord over his superiority to mankind. As soon as he planned to take over, all the organic creatures in the universe swiftly ascended up a golden escalator to be with their collective, multi-tentacled lover. In a fit of jealous rage, Bender launched an attack on the rather nice Cthulu-like Yivo and promptly ruined the universe's chance of happiness. Nobody really cared that much.
He then went insane when playing Dungeons and Dragons, promptly creating an elaborate fantasy where he was a noble knight named Titanius Anglesmith. This is why robots should never imagine things. After he accidentally created a parallel universe just by the sheer force of his crazy and an extremely non magical crystal, Bender got better. Huzzah.
And on the final adventure, while flying away from the intergalatic police force, the whole Planet Express crew moves through a wormhole. No idea what is on the other side, the crew decide to see what will happen next. And that's when Bender shows up here.
PERSONALITY:
Bender is a childish, crude yet cunning idiot. He's loud and brash, announcing his thoughts extremely loudly. He's rude to pratically everyone and doesn't hesitate to insult or threaten others. He's egotistical, to the point of near obsession with how great he is. This means he's also a massive attention seeker, acting rather childishly because he always demands to be centre of attention. This includes stalking his favourite actor, Calculon and sucking up to his creator, Mom. When he's not seeking attention, he's busy slacking off and doing nothing apart from formulating the next get rich quick scheme.
There is more to Bender than an egotistic moron. While rather uncaring about others, when something bad happens to him, it's pretty much a melodramatic tragedy. And when he does believe something bad has really happened to his friends, he has be known to become rather upset. Otherwise, he's rather uncaring and in some cases may find it funny. He's very overemotional generally, tending to swing from murderous rage to loud, weepy self pity in a few seconds.
He also is quite charming in a rude sort of way. He successfully picks up a lot of hookerbots and floozies, though sometimes a fine, classy, rich fembot will catch his eye. He puts this down to his swarthy Latin charm and this especially shines through when it comes to the senoritas. He's been known to enter some relationships with human females but he's more attracted to robots in general.
While Bender is nettlesome, most people seem to actually like him despite his behaviour, largely down to his "in your face interface" and frank attitude. He most certainly lets his opinion be known at every opportunity. This is what leads him to be such a good conman, in his ability to get people to trust him. He loves money and will take any opportunity to take it off saps.
He has several large dreams- Firstly, he wants to become a proper cook. Over half of his meals are poisonous to living organisms. Secondly, he wants to be a country singer. He only sings when there is a magnet stuck on his head or he's singing a song about himself. Lastly, he wanted to be a Globetrotter. He wasn't funky enough.
Bender has a big fear of being forgotten and even arranges his own funeral just to see what people will say about him. He hates when people don't pay attention to him and will stoop to the lowest depths to receive any attention. This includes dumping a dog into lava.
In order to get on Bender's good side, you need to pay him a lot of attention but not hassle him. He wants fans to admire him from a distance. This is why he hates Zoidberg so much.
To get on Bender's bad side, you would need to be stuck up, impatient towards his attitude and critical of him in anyway at all. Being on Bender's bad side will most likely earn you a lot of abuse.
POWER:
Robot form: Bender can transform into his original robot form which is fuelled by alcohol. His robot body includes many other useful features such as telescopic vision, floatation devices in his ass and a highly effective cheating unit. It's also got extendable limbs, which he used in his brief stint as a superhero. If he turns back into a human during robot form, he will most likely be very drunk for a long time. However, if Bender remains sober he acts like a drunk human person. That's how things work.
Super bending: An extension of Bender's normal bending abilites, this will allow him to bend any material known to mankind. But he can only bend these things.
Money sight: Bender would know how much money any one person is worth and/or carrying with them, as well as being instantly able to evaluate objects or buildings for their true monetary value.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[The feed comes on to Bender, leaning back in an expensive office chair smoking a cigar.]
Listen up, chump and chumpettes. It's me: Bender.
As many of you meatbags are aware, I'm both handsome, intelligent and charming. This is why I, Bender, will be starting a new completely legally legitimate business: Match making!
[Bender sits up to produce a badly made poster with the words "Bender Dating Service" written on it with really bad handwriting..]
Come all ye pathetic losers and sadsacks, to the temple of Bender! It's an once in a life oppurtunity for everyone, no matter how fruity your costume, to become a Casanovabot.
Don't believe me? Just listen to this testimonial I most certainly didn't write myself!
[Bender begins to read from another piece of paper, melodramatically overstating everything in a squeaky falsetto.]
"Bender's Dating Service helped me get a date in no time! It's all thanks to his superior intelligence. I've never been happier until I met Bender!"
That testimony was written by an old friend of mine: Mr I. C. Weiner. Now, good old Weiner went from his old crappy hobo lifestyle to a life of debauchery and sin, all thanks to me.
"But Bender!" you will say, "What if you get the wrong person for me?" Well, tough crap! Put up with it or get out, sister. It's not like you're getting any prettier.
I'm offering this exclusive match making service for a low, low price of $50! That's the price for at least five puppy hides. Order now, pathetic losers!
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Bender gave a small, evil giggle as he snuck through the midnight streets of New York. The air was cold but this didn't affect Bender's maliciously cheerful mood. Covered up in a thick hat and coat as to avoid suspicion, he strolled casually towards his newest target.
The store front of the tobacco shop was immaculate- It was the places only the most classy nicotine addicts would visit. Bender almost felt like he had to wear a monocle just to break in. Pulling out a large crowbar, Bender's guffaws only increased in amplitude as he sneaked around the shop side.
"Somebody's going to get rich tonight. And that's me." Bender boasted to himself, swinging the crowbar into his spare hand with plenty of smirking to help complete his evil image. "This will require some clever planning-" Bender posed to himself, before suddenly coming up with an ingeniously brilliant scheme.
He took the crowbar to the window, jumped in through the shattered glass and stole around eighty pairs of cigars and any spare change from the cash register. How clever of you, Bender.
Now he ran through the streets of the old New New York, a place he had only seen filled with mutants and concrete shells. It looked like such an awful place to be. But really, Bender realised as he pushed a homeless man out of the way as he sprinted frantically back home, this wasn't so bad. Especially since there was booze pratically everywhere.
He did miss the hookerbots and the ultraporn though. And maybe his friends. Just maybe. But for now, Bender was perfectly happy running through the previously (Or soon to be; Time travel makes grammar hard) subterranian sidewalks with only a bag full of cigars, around two dollars in change and a hefty criminal record.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
N/A!