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Your Name/what you go by: Kayce
AIM/E-mail/contact info - some way of reaching you:
AIM @ GDViralMarketing -OR- GaruChomp // EMAIL @ vulpyke @ hotmail . com
Your character's name (last, first): Takeuchi Sora
Series your character's from: Air Gear
Background info on your character: (Sora's background is a spoiler for pretty much the whole damn series. >_> )
Imagine if you will a version of Japan in the near future, where the biggest trend at the time is Air Trecks, which are special rollerblade-like footwear that allow the user to do all kinds of tricks and give those who wish to fly in the sky the closest to humanly possible chance to do so. One of the rising celebrities of the Air Treck (or AT) world is one cocksure middleschooler named Minami "Ikki" Itsuki, but we're not going to focus on him at the moment--
Let's back up a bit here though, back to before ATs became mainstream; more specifically, back to when something called the Gravity Children project was still in effect, and about to fall to ruin at the hands of its own creations.
What are Gravity Children? Think biogenetic experiments. Children created with special technology, making them able to move more naturally in lower gravity environments such as the Tropheum Tower, the massive underground lab the first generation of Gravity Children were born and raised in. Said tower also happens to be the battlegrounds for the Gram Scale Tournament during the present timeline, but we'll worry about that later.
Now let's move on, kids. The first generation of Gravity Children were also the first to get the AT trend going, bringing these new "toys" with them. Things didn't start that way, however. Remember the project falling, like mentioned a little earlier here? That's what we're going to be reading next.
Named by codes at first, these guys had never even seen the sky, living down in a hole for most of their lives. The researchers of the Gravity Child project managed to create their experiments as planned, and created special ATs called Regalia for these kids who would later be known as Kings in the AT world because of such. Many of the kids were deemed as failures, however, and a few of the other kids caught on to this, deciding to break free from the ones who wished to dispose of them. At the time, there was also a new Regalia that none of them had even seen yet: the Sky Regalia. Kilik, and several of the other Gravity Children, including his twin sister Simca, caused a riot and began to escape the hole they called the tower, taking as many of the other gravity kids with them during their escape. Sora was one of these escapees, and decided he wanted to return some day to take the Sky Regalia for himself, despite not knowing its name or even what it was at the time. It might have sounded like a stupid thing at first, but he was serious about it.
Jump ahead a couple years~! Kilik notices something on the internet about the tower, which nobody but the researchers and the gravity children themselves should be aware of, and something about a "Sky Regalia" as well as all other Regalia, and how to get to the tower itself. Sora suggests they gather the other gravity children, the Kings, and form a team to "protect" the tower from outsiders, and Kilik quickly agrees, not wanting things to get any further out of hand. Sora dubs this team "Sleeping Forest", after the thick forest-like atmosphere of the tower. Unknown to the others at the time, Sora was the one who leaked this information in order to draw AT riders from all over to the tower, using the new "Parts Wars" to gather all the Regalia to one place. Sora was and still is somewhat of a selfish little bastard.
Still trying to form a team, many of the gravity children who had escaped back then had began living normal lives, and didn't want to take part in anything to do with the ATs anymore, so they declined the offer to form a team. Undaunted by that, Sora soon meets a female AT rider named Rika, who at the time was known as the Queen of Thorns, and convinces her to join Sleeping Forest as their Thorn King and user of the Thorn Reaper Regalia. Kilik was against the idea at first, since Rika was a normal girl and not a fellow gravity child, but after Sora takes him to one of her matches and he sees her in action, Kilik is instantly impressed. Sora falls in love with Rika, and Kilik did as well, making him a bit jealous. Kilik also discovers that part of Sora's interest in Rika was the fact she was raising 3 gravity children from a different research facility as her own sisters, signifying the project was still ongoing somewhere else, and that more problems like what they went through might arise from it. Sora tells Kilik that all the members of Sleeping Forest, sans Kilik himself, knew about this, and that he shouldn't make such a huge deal out of it. Kilik gets pissed, saying normal people never had a right to know about the tower, and Sora tries to correct him, saying normal people have a right to have hopes and dreams as much as they do.
After awhile of Sleeping Forest's reputation building, Kilik finally discovers Sora's true intentions and betrays him, making his own factioned off team of Sleeping Forest, and defeating those who still followed Sora, taking away Sora's Wind Regalia (Bagram), losing his own Gem King's Regalia, and the others ending up scattered. During this betrayal, Sora lost the ability to walk and in turn lost the ability to use ATs ever again, due to the tendons in his heels being severed. Shortly after this, Sora breaks up with Rika, claiming he was only using her to get to the top of the tower and the AT world, and all she was doing was bringing him down-- looking back on this, he probably meant she couldn't help him complete his goal, so he was trying to get her out of his life in order to ease his own mind. This didn't exactly work, seeing as they still see each other regularly, even in the present.
Soon, Rika begins complaining to Sora about the boy she's been raising as a little brother, Ikki, and that he was starting to act like Sora used to, being a flippant idiot about ATs and battles. Sora is interested in this, knowing Ikki must be the new Wind King he and the remaining members wanted to raise in his place in order to climb the tower to the Sky Regalia. Eventually, Ikki ends up contacted by and asked to lead Genesis, the re-formed team of what was left of Sora's old followers along with hundreds of the top AT riders from across the country.
Later on, after a surprise attack against Sora, he ends up in the hospital sometime after Ikki had finished his attempt at the Devil's 33 against Yoshitsune, the Rumble King down in Kyoto. The doctors claim Ikki's knee is broken and he needed to stay at the hospital for 3 weeks so it could heal, but this was actually so Sora had enough time to teach Ikki how to utilize wind pressure, in order to use the Wind Regalia. Keeping Ikki in the same place he was staying gave Sora a chance to determine if the kid was worthy of his old title as Wind King, and to figure out the location of Bagram.
Jumping further ahead-- Kururu, the new "Pledge Queen" (leader of Tool Toul To, a team of specialized AT tuners), revives the Bagram from the Regalia core Ikki was given when he first began riding ATs. Sora decides to move ahead again after learning this, and suddenly the story gets darker from here on.
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Despite usually being in a wheelchair, Sora can keep up with most AT riders just fine in it, since his wheelchair is equipped with AT wheels as well, allowing him to perform jumps, flips and turns as if he were wearing ATs himself. However, since learning that the core of his Regalia was in town, he had his legs replaced by biomechatronic ones in order to use the wheels again. This may have been a childish move, but it means his legs won't suffer as much stress when using Bagram's abilities. He still uses the wheelchair as a way to hide this.
Normally, Sora is a laid back guy, pretty easy-going and a bit on the perverted side, but can get rather into it when he's serious. Even if his legs don't work like they used to, he still acts pretty much the same as he did when he was younger, just a bit more mature (for the most part). The other side of this guy is he's a selfish douchebag, but rarely shows this before Bagram is returned to him. Since this particular Sora is going to be dumped on the island before even getting a chance to regain his Regalia, he won't be showing this side too often, but it's still very much there beneath his friendly smiles.
A list of things your character might have on them after they got snatched up and put on this island:
* the clothing on his back and his usual cap
* Wheelchair with A-T wheels installed on it
* Stone, Cold and Stunner (Sora's dogs) + 1 frisbee
* robolegs
AIM/E-mail/contact info - some way of reaching you:
AIM @ GDViralMarketing -OR- GaruChomp // EMAIL @ vulpyke @ hotmail . com
Your character's name (last, first): Takeuchi Sora
Series your character's from: Air Gear
Background info on your character: (Sora's background is a spoiler for pretty much the whole damn series. >_> )
Imagine if you will a version of Japan in the near future, where the biggest trend at the time is Air Trecks, which are special rollerblade-like footwear that allow the user to do all kinds of tricks and give those who wish to fly in the sky the closest to humanly possible chance to do so. One of the rising celebrities of the Air Treck (or AT) world is one cocksure middleschooler named Minami "Ikki" Itsuki, but we're not going to focus on him at the moment--
Let's back up a bit here though, back to before ATs became mainstream; more specifically, back to when something called the Gravity Children project was still in effect, and about to fall to ruin at the hands of its own creations.
What are Gravity Children? Think biogenetic experiments. Children created with special technology, making them able to move more naturally in lower gravity environments such as the Tropheum Tower, the massive underground lab the first generation of Gravity Children were born and raised in. Said tower also happens to be the battlegrounds for the Gram Scale Tournament during the present timeline, but we'll worry about that later.
Now let's move on, kids. The first generation of Gravity Children were also the first to get the AT trend going, bringing these new "toys" with them. Things didn't start that way, however. Remember the project falling, like mentioned a little earlier here? That's what we're going to be reading next.
Named by codes at first, these guys had never even seen the sky, living down in a hole for most of their lives. The researchers of the Gravity Child project managed to create their experiments as planned, and created special ATs called Regalia for these kids who would later be known as Kings in the AT world because of such. Many of the kids were deemed as failures, however, and a few of the other kids caught on to this, deciding to break free from the ones who wished to dispose of them. At the time, there was also a new Regalia that none of them had even seen yet: the Sky Regalia. Kilik, and several of the other Gravity Children, including his twin sister Simca, caused a riot and began to escape the hole they called the tower, taking as many of the other gravity kids with them during their escape. Sora was one of these escapees, and decided he wanted to return some day to take the Sky Regalia for himself, despite not knowing its name or even what it was at the time. It might have sounded like a stupid thing at first, but he was serious about it.
Jump ahead a couple years~! Kilik notices something on the internet about the tower, which nobody but the researchers and the gravity children themselves should be aware of, and something about a "Sky Regalia" as well as all other Regalia, and how to get to the tower itself. Sora suggests they gather the other gravity children, the Kings, and form a team to "protect" the tower from outsiders, and Kilik quickly agrees, not wanting things to get any further out of hand. Sora dubs this team "Sleeping Forest", after the thick forest-like atmosphere of the tower. Unknown to the others at the time, Sora was the one who leaked this information in order to draw AT riders from all over to the tower, using the new "Parts Wars" to gather all the Regalia to one place. Sora was and still is somewhat of a selfish little bastard.
Still trying to form a team, many of the gravity children who had escaped back then had began living normal lives, and didn't want to take part in anything to do with the ATs anymore, so they declined the offer to form a team. Undaunted by that, Sora soon meets a female AT rider named Rika, who at the time was known as the Queen of Thorns, and convinces her to join Sleeping Forest as their Thorn King and user of the Thorn Reaper Regalia. Kilik was against the idea at first, since Rika was a normal girl and not a fellow gravity child, but after Sora takes him to one of her matches and he sees her in action, Kilik is instantly impressed. Sora falls in love with Rika, and Kilik did as well, making him a bit jealous. Kilik also discovers that part of Sora's interest in Rika was the fact she was raising 3 gravity children from a different research facility as her own sisters, signifying the project was still ongoing somewhere else, and that more problems like what they went through might arise from it. Sora tells Kilik that all the members of Sleeping Forest, sans Kilik himself, knew about this, and that he shouldn't make such a huge deal out of it. Kilik gets pissed, saying normal people never had a right to know about the tower, and Sora tries to correct him, saying normal people have a right to have hopes and dreams as much as they do.
After awhile of Sleeping Forest's reputation building, Kilik finally discovers Sora's true intentions and betrays him, making his own factioned off team of Sleeping Forest, and defeating those who still followed Sora, taking away Sora's Wind Regalia (Bagram), losing his own Gem King's Regalia, and the others ending up scattered. During this betrayal, Sora lost the ability to walk and in turn lost the ability to use ATs ever again, due to the tendons in his heels being severed. Shortly after this, Sora breaks up with Rika, claiming he was only using her to get to the top of the tower and the AT world, and all she was doing was bringing him down-- looking back on this, he probably meant she couldn't help him complete his goal, so he was trying to get her out of his life in order to ease his own mind. This didn't exactly work, seeing as they still see each other regularly, even in the present.
Soon, Rika begins complaining to Sora about the boy she's been raising as a little brother, Ikki, and that he was starting to act like Sora used to, being a flippant idiot about ATs and battles. Sora is interested in this, knowing Ikki must be the new Wind King he and the remaining members wanted to raise in his place in order to climb the tower to the Sky Regalia. Eventually, Ikki ends up contacted by and asked to lead Genesis, the re-formed team of what was left of Sora's old followers along with hundreds of the top AT riders from across the country.
Later on, after a surprise attack against Sora, he ends up in the hospital sometime after Ikki had finished his attempt at the Devil's 33 against Yoshitsune, the Rumble King down in Kyoto. The doctors claim Ikki's knee is broken and he needed to stay at the hospital for 3 weeks so it could heal, but this was actually so Sora had enough time to teach Ikki how to utilize wind pressure, in order to use the Wind Regalia. Keeping Ikki in the same place he was staying gave Sora a chance to determine if the kid was worthy of his old title as Wind King, and to figure out the location of Bagram.
Jumping further ahead-- Kururu, the new "Pledge Queen" (leader of Tool Toul To, a team of specialized AT tuners), revives the Bagram from the Regalia core Ikki was given when he first began riding ATs. Sora decides to move ahead again after learning this, and suddenly the story gets darker from here on.
---
Despite usually being in a wheelchair, Sora can keep up with most AT riders just fine in it, since his wheelchair is equipped with AT wheels as well, allowing him to perform jumps, flips and turns as if he were wearing ATs himself. However, since learning that the core of his Regalia was in town, he had his legs replaced by biomechatronic ones in order to use the wheels again. This may have been a childish move, but it means his legs won't suffer as much stress when using Bagram's abilities. He still uses the wheelchair as a way to hide this.
Normally, Sora is a laid back guy, pretty easy-going and a bit on the perverted side, but can get rather into it when he's serious. Even if his legs don't work like they used to, he still acts pretty much the same as he did when he was younger, just a bit more mature (for the most part). The other side of this guy is he's a selfish douchebag, but rarely shows this before Bagram is returned to him. Since this particular Sora is going to be dumped on the island before even getting a chance to regain his Regalia, he won't be showing this side too often, but it's still very much there beneath his friendly smiles.
A list of things your character might have on them after they got snatched up and put on this island:
* the clothing on his back and his usual cap
* Wheelchair with A-T wheels installed on it
* Stone, Cold and Stunner (Sora's dogs) + 1 frisbee
* robolegs