GODZILLA / C&C APP
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gombigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andri Charton-Haymoss Ivanovici Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser III Grimm.
AGE: One past a quarter-century.
JOURNAL: poisoninkbottle
IM: feelinggrimm
E-MAIL: deoxycytidine - at - gmail - dot - com
RETURNING: Just Trowa.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Godzilla
FANDOM: Godzilla
CHRONOLOGY: Original Movie / Vs. Mecha-G / Tokyo SOS
CLASS: He's... complicated. Let's call him a Type V anti-hero, as the new one revived and rampaged mostly because the original Godzilla's bones were disturbed, which was deemed a crime against nature. Basically, he does what HE thinks is the right thing to solve a problem... even if the rest of us wouldn't.
SUPERHERO NAME: King.
ALTER EGO: AHAHA. Riiiight.
BACKGROUND:
GODZILLA (1954)
In 1954, a mysterious force sank the ship known as the Eiko-maru somewhere just off the coast of Japan. This event was shortly followed by the destruction of the Bingo-maru, as well as 15 other unnamed boats sent to the area, and caused mass panic on the part of the Japanese people, who were still rebuilding their lives after the use of the nuclear bombs on their country. Small riots broke out regarding the idea that the government military and police were keeping secret the results and reasons for the loss of lives, as well as the identities of the dead--in reality, all of these things were simply unknown.
At Odo Island, a small village learned that their fishing success had dropped to nothing, to which an old man commented that the monster in the sea--'Godzilla'--was angry, and states that they used to sacrifice girls to it when these things happened to appease it. A younger resident laughs at the idea, and the old man's ideas regarding the possibility of the existence of a monster go ignored.
A few nights later, an unusual hurricane demolishes part of the very same village, causing the wells on that side to become tainted and leaving, um. Giant... radioactive... footprints...? Anyway, a zoologist finds a trilobite in one of the footprints, and tests it, coming up with radioactive sediment from layers of dirt generally associated with prehistoric eras. And, of course, actually witnessing the creature firsthand sort of helps!
Knowing that hydrogen bomb tests have been conducted in the sea nearby, and that any beast capable of living so long and absorbing as much radiation as that would have to be one seriously massive, utterly powerful thing, he goes with a group of others to speak before Parliament. Arguments break out over whether or not to release the information to the public, but it's finally decided to make the truth known--cue more panic, more evacuations, etc.
After Godzilla surfaces, trashes a bit of city and leaves again, the military and police band together to build an enormous electrified fence out of barbed wire. Somehow, this is a good idea? Anyway, it has all the effect of someone stumbling into a cobweb, so thumbs up on that one. They come to their senses, try to destroy him with tanks and planes and such, and he blows the place to smoldering rubble. This film is notable for actually showing people dying, and not always in tame ways; somewhere along the line you even see a mother and her children huddled together trapped against a wall, with the mother telling them that it's okay because they'll finally be with the girls' father soon.
So come daybreak, he's gone, and one of Japan's major cities is a mess. Nobody knows how to take it down because the strongest weapon man knows of at the time is nuclear energy--and, well, he absorbs that.
Cue Dr. Serizawa. Mildly nutty recluse scientist in the process of secretly developing a horrific and super-deadly weapon: the Oxygen Destroyer. When dropped underwater, the device forces oxygen molecules to bond with hydrogen, essentially disintegrating anything in the area on an atomic level and turning it into more water. At the end of the day, Dr. Serizawa is convinced to weaponize his device on a high level in order to destroy Godzilla; refusing to let mankind turn his creation into another simple weapon for governments and wars, he destroys his notes, makes one last Destroyer, and goes diving off a boat to the bottom of the sea where Godzilla is resting to set it off.
As Godzilla dies, Serizawa commits suicide both over the shame of using his science in such a way and to prevent anyone from being able to get him to make another. The defeated Godzilla's bones fall to the seabed.
In the meantime, giant monsters of varying origins--many of them similarly atomic in nature--continue to show up and raid Japan for one reason or another.
These are said to include (but are not remotely limited to) Bigfoot (Gaira), shot down by maser cannons, and Mothra, who was supposedly destroyed.
GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA (2002)
Around 1999 or so, one dark and stormy night, a new leaner, meaner Godzilla rises up and comes ashore in Japan, presumably with the intent of crushing them and taking all their delicious nuclear goodness for himself. One woman, who happens to be part of a military unit trying to face off against him, makes an error while driving one of the transports that ends up getting her whole crew killed. She's then demoted to a dead end desk job, and he's free to head back to the sea, where he chills out for a little while. In the meantime, Japan's Minister of Science and Technology decides to commission a machine that will be used to defend the country.
We're shown a scientist that's made a trilobite by using old fossils and DNA computers and combined them with a robot exoskeleton; he is picked up and taken to an underwater facility by a government official, where he and a bunch of other researchy types have been gathered. To their surprise, they're introduced to the skeleton of the 1954 Godzilla, which has been salvaged from the Pacific, and asked to build a bio-robot on the lines of the trilobite out of said bones in order to create a weapon worthy of fighting against Godzilla.
Time passes, power changes over, and the remote-piloted MechaGodzilla--or, Kiryu, as everyone has named it--is ready; the desk clerk chick is asked back onto the team. A press release includes a demonstration of the Absolute Zero weapon... a device which allows Kiryu to freeze something completely through at a molecular level and shatter it. As this press release goes up, Godzilla heads back toward Japan for another raid; the new MechaG is transported by aircraft to the site of Godzilla's landing in order to attempt its first real fight.
After popping him with a few missiles and some masers, the crew notes that he's beginning to back away and decides to load up the Absolute Zero to finish him off. Godzilla roars in frustration, and we're treated to a quick trip through Kiryu's circuitry. The dead Godzilla's memories come flashing back through the DNA computers, remembering the destruction it caused and its own death at the hands of the humans; Kiryu stops responding completely, standing stock-still despite everything the crew tries or shouts at it to do. As it does a great deal of nothing, Godzilla dives back into the Bay and swims off.
Kiryu abruptly turns on its creators, trying to shoot down a plane, and then turns to face the bay city it was meant to protect. Its eyes glow brighter, and in a spectacular display of Enough Firepower is Never Enough begins to blow the crap out of the surrounding area with missiles, rockets, and lasers. Since nobody can regain control of it, it spends the next hour or so freely trashing the place until its energy supply runs out. The Prime Minister realizes that using one Godzilla to fight another might have been a bad idea--afraid that it would refuse to fight against its successor a second time--and puts the project in stasis for a little bit.
Godzilla shows back up while the scientists are busy trying to repair Kiryu and prevent it from refusing to fight for the humans again, and so some fighters go out to try and fire rockets and mortar shells at him to make him leave, but it does about as much good as tanks ever do in one of these films. Finally, after 40% of the city is destroyed, one of the crew members confronts the Prime Minister and begs him to let them use a newly-repaired Kiryu. After a moment of indecision, the PM finally gives in, and Kiryu is launched. It arrives just as Godzilla approaches Shinagawa Hospital, flying the last bit of the way in on its backpack boosters, crashing into Godzilla and sending him flying right when he's about to fire a blast at the hospital and the two people inside.
With evacuation complete, the two giants are free to resume their battle. They grapple for a bit before Kiryu backs up and uses the masers; Godzilla blows off the robot's arm in return and whacks off part of the backpack unit, only to be stabbed in the arm and massively electrocuted. He breaks the knife off and boots Kiryu through a skyscraper, walks over and starts crushing MechaG's belly in--but the human pilots fly by in a jet and distract him, allowing Kiryu to get up and fire the broken backpack, sending Godzilla flying backward. Because Kiryu is faster and has the added benefits of boosters/robotics/etc, it starts working circles around Godzilla, blinding him, jumping over him and hitting from behind, punching, grabbing him by the head and throwing him down. At this time, anybody who was ever a fan of the Mario 64 game giggles with delight at the sight of Kiryu snatching hold of Godzilla's tail, spinning in a circle, and flinging him away. Tired as hell, Godzilla falls to the ground.
The crew is about to finish him off with the Absolute Zero system when he blows the ground out from beneath Kiryu's feet, sending him toppling ass over teakettle; the shot goes wild, and takes out three towers instead, leaving the robot with nearly no energy and damaged remote systems. It becomes necessary to pilot him manually, which desk clerk chick volunteers herself to do. They black out all of Tokyo to have enough energy available to emergency-feed Kiryu again, distracting Godzilla with maser fire from tanks so he won't crush the robot in his downtime.
Kiryu rises again, and is hardcore sucker-punched from behind with an atomic ray, forcing him back to his knees. As he gets up a second time, one of the nearby crew jet pilots realizes Godzilla is going to fire like that again and ejects his co-pilot, heading straight at the big guy to draw his fire; the jet's wing is clipped, and he steers it straight into Godzilla's mouth, shouting. The back half of the jet is crunched to pieces, Godzilla's jaws are locked into the main part of the jet (with the still-living pilot inside) and can no longer fire, and desk clerk chick is ordered to use Absolute Zero. But the robot is out of control again, and flies toward Godzilla, ripping the jet piece free and saving the pilot. Squeezing Godzilla's mouth shut, it grabs hold with its other hand and flies off toward the sea, Absolute Zero still charging in its chest.
They crashland just as the girl fires it, freezing both the water surrounding them and the spray that flies upward from their impact into a swirling, spiky mass of ice.
There's a moment where it looks like everything is finished... and then the ice shatters, leaving Godzilla standing there with a giant gaping hole blown into the middle of his chest and some jagged furrows out to the sides. Tired of dealing with this shit, Godzilla wades away from both the robot and the city bay, with an energyless, 70%-damaged Kiryu standing left behind. Certain that it is now possible to defeat Godzilla, the government considers this a great victory. Desk clerk chick watches as Godzilla fades into the distance.
(Post-credits, we're treated to the sight of the desk clerk chick, the girl, and the girl's father watching Kiryu undergo repairs. Desk clerk chick notes that she doesn't consider it a victory herself--only a tie--speaks about the value of all life, flirts, and walks off.)
GODZILLA: TOKYO S.O.S. (2003)
I apologize ahead of time for the length of this one, but this film is complicated argh and if I leave some of these scenes out it's only going to make for a HUH? moment later on. Anyway, the first thing shown on-screen is Kiryu, seemingly almost fully repaired, undergoing a diagnostics check. It then cuts to a familiar spiny-backed form sleeping beneath the water, and one eye slowly opening...
At a U.S. Hawaii military base, radar operators notice something unknown moving in the air. At the same time, Japanese operators see that it is moving towards their country, and send some fighter jets out to intercept it and warn it away; when it ignores their warning, they open fire on it. Something's weird, though--the thing isn't shaped like a plane, and the pilots can hear... singing? The thing uses strange gold dust to confound the missile sensors and shield itself from radar, and the military--confused by what's going on--catches a satellite image of the thing in the clouds.
Behold: Mothra!
Back in civilian life, a mechanic (Chujo) for the MechaG and his nephew are working on a toy plane model; the kid goes to show his grand-uncle and all three are confronted by a set of twin fairies who work for Mothra. They come bearing a message that building Kiryu was wrong, and against the workings of life--no human being may touch the souls of the dead. The old Godzilla's bones must be returned to the sea. They question how they would protect themselves from the new Godzilla if he shows up again; the fairies state that Mothra will do the job if they return the bones. If they do not, she will declare war on the human race instead. Outside, Mothra herself sits listening from atop the hill. When the Chujo family turns back to speak to the fairies again, they're gone, and have only left a tiny tablet behind.
Returning to the MechaG site, it's stated that the Absolute Zero system is in disrepair, but that Kiryu is capable of functioning perfectly otherwise. (This is a lie, as two mechanics talking reveal that he should work, but no test runs have been made to prove this.) Someone brings up the possibility that Godzilla was attracted to the land for the last few battles simply because of the fact that his ancestor's bones are the source of its inner structure. While this goes on, the new Kiryu pilots are brought in, and Chujo immediately develops a crush on the female one. At the same time, it's explained back at the Chujo household that Mothra originally attacked Tokyo because her fairies were kidnapped, and that the symbol on the little tablet they received is the same one that was used to summon her some 40 years previously. THIS IS IMPORTANT DO NOT FORGET THIS.
There's a party, humans flirt and threaten each other, some guy kills a fly to show off; nobody cares too much, we're here for the monster details. Anyway, the old female pilot meets up with Chujo and discusses the fact that she thinks Kiryu doesn't want to fight anymore, and that she believes it should stay in disrepair before she goes and leaves again.
A few days later, the Prime Minister from before is confronted by old man Chujo, who says that life must be lived in the time that nature allows, and wants the MechaG project to be stopped. Prime Minister Igarashi refuses, though, and says that he will not do so until Godzilla is finally stopped. A giant sea-turtle monster washes up on the seashore, dead, obviously killed by Godzilla. Down in the water, the big guy takes down a U.S. nuclear submarine, swimming off with it and presumably devouring the energy. Back at the MechaG site, it's noted that the Absolute Zero system can't work without a synthetic diamond roughly four feet across, and that the budget doesn't have the cash to make another, letting us know that it won't be the main weapon for the movie anymore. (It's also pointed out that Kiryu may not work very well without it.) The military questions the mechanic guy about Mothra and whether or not they'll still need Kiryu.
Godzilla finally comes up closer to the coast of Hachijo Island and is attacked by some battleships in the area, getting away in the end and heading for Tokyo Bay. The government decides to try and confront him at Shinagawa City, which is still pretty much a pile of rubble from the last movie. The area is evacuated, but the little nephew is missing; the grand-uncle goes to find him. When Godzilla surfaces, the military can tell it's the same one as last time by the scarring on the chest, and attack it, confident in their ability to hurt it. While the evac goes on, we see the boy messing about with some desks in a schoolyard, although we don't know what. Godzilla wipes out the military force and changes course towards the Minato District, where Kiryu--newly revamped with a Hyper Maser instead of Absolute Zero--is being held in waiting. News reporters watching him advance catch sight of what the kid is doing from overhead.
It's the Mothra symbol--and true to word, she comes zipping in overhead! Godzilla takes very poorly to the fairy goddess getting all up in his path and trying to blow him off his feet with gusts of wind; in the dust cloud, she circles behind him and grabs hold, flying forward and then letting go to have him crash into the highway system. They continue battling while the humans debate over whether or not to bring in Kiryu; Godzilla tears off one of her legs and gets a faceful of poisonous mothscale for it. Unfortunately, once Mothra uses all of its scales, it won't be able to stay airborne anymore, so this is clearly a sign of desperation on her part. Back on the islands, the twin fairies are standing on another tiny version of the symbol in front of a giant egg, singing.
Godzilla ignites the scales with a blast, clearing the air around him and making it necessary for her to use more of them, forcing her into a position of suicide to save the city and damaging her wings further. Seeing this, the Prime Minister decides to send Kiryu in after all, wishing to help and knowing they're caught in a damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don't scenario. While they bring MechaG to the fight, Godzilla and Mothra continue battling, accidentally knocking over a tower and catching both grand-uncle and nephew Chujo beneath the rubble. Godzilla blows a hole in Mothra's wings right as MechaG comes landing in, and turns to face his new attacker. Still a huge proponent of Big Guns, I Must Have Them fighting style (Trowa would be proud), it once again comes at Godzilla with missles, masers, rockets, bombs, and other assorted things, not letting up for a second. Unable to avoid all three prongs of the incoming ammunition-based attack, Godzilla is hit from two sides and retaliates by shooting Kiryu through a building. He's about to fire the finishing shot when Mothra, on her last legs, bowls him over and takes the ray instead.
Back at Infant Island, the egg hatches, revealing two Mothra larvae instead of the usual one; they speed off through the water toward Japan to help their mother. The mechanic drives around looking for his uncle and nephew when the little tablet from earlier glows and rattles, pointing the way. Around this time, Kiryu manages to get back up; it fires off one of the body units at Godzilla, who blows it up, and uses the smoke to secretly fire another, which Godzilla is not expecting; it blasts him, and he falls over. As he stands up, Kiryu knocks him into a tower. When he gets up a second time and charges, Kiryu ducks, then flips Godzilla over his back. From there, Godzilla trips the MechaG unit with his tail, and blasts it right in the face, blowing out one eye and putting a massive hole through a chunk of control circuitry.
Around this time, the two larvae surface in the bay and make their way over land to the battle site. Triumphant, Godzilla stomps toward the downed Kiryu--and is distracted by spurts of webbing from one of the larvae twins. The second converses with its dying mother, and the first soon joins him in the 'discussion'. While they speak, Godzilla fires a ray from behind, intending to take out the children--but with the remainder of its energy, Mothra bursts up from the ground to block the shot, taking it full on. Her body is engulfed by flame, and she flares out into an explosion of fiery dust, leaving her children behind to continue the battle.
The mechanic heads for Kiryu, hoping to repair it; without its help, the larvae don't stand a chance. In the meantime, the piloting crews try to distract Godzilla again, needing to keep him away from the downed robot as long as possible. Using his inattentiveness to its advantage, one larva jumps at his swinging tail and latches on to the end, biting into it and holding on for dear life even as Godzilla smashes his tail against the ground over and over again in the hopes of killing it dead. The mechanic gets to the suit, and tanks with maser cannons show up to add to the confusion and slow the inevitable march toward where the robot is laying while he works on reconnecting and bypassing circuitry, but he ends up having to get inside a maintenance bay to finish the job. In the meantime, the larvae start to spin Godzilla up with webbing, but he gets through and blasts at Kiryu, sealing the bay door shut. The mechanic lies about where he is to the military, and is stuck inside while the battle continues.
The pissed off worms chase after Godzilla, who means to head toward the center of the city, and Kiryu rises up in the background. Their fight rages onward, with the two giants trashing the Capitol building in the process; Kiryu topples him, and transforms his right hand into a drill, punching through Godzilla's hide and spinning a hole through the thick scaling down to the meat below. Kiryu targets this weak point with the Hyper Maser, causing Godzilla to roar in pain; this once again starts the flashbacks of the dead original's memories of its original attacks on Tokyo and its previous behavior in the last movie. It stands there doing nothing while the Mothra larvae spin a cocoon around Godzilla; by the time they finish, the screen moves up to show that the camera behind where the blown-out eye lens was has been turned to the side, and only returns its attention to the scene before it as the worms finish--in essence, the old resurrected one didn't want to fight, and certainly didn't want to watch as this happened to its successor. It simply wants to be back under the sea, dead again, something confirmed by the twin fairies.
Prime Minister Igarashi orders the finishing of the downed Godzilla and the subsequent scrapping of the MechaG project... but it's too late.
Kiryu turns to watch the sun rising over the horizon and refuses to obey the order to blast Godzilla to death with the Hyper Maser, glancing down at him instead and then roaring. Instead of killing him, it takes the cocooned Godzilla up in its arms and begins flying out to sea, with a jetful of confused human pilots chasing it. The mechanic, still inside the robot's maintenance bay, realizes that they're headed toward the Japan Trench, where it means to permanently sink both itself and its captive; the others understand that he's trapped and fly close, blowing the door to the bay open. Understanding, Kiryu begins to rotate itself midflight until the open bay door points downward, allowing him to leave; the mechanic falls out, catching a glimpse of a goodbye message on the screen just before the secondary hatch closes, and is saved by one of the other pilots.
Kiryu fires thick metal cables that wrap around the living Godzilla still locked tight in his arms, trapping him close, and crashes into the water. Both of them slowly sink far, far down below the water, permanently tied together, lost from sight forever. The Prime Minister admits that they were wrong to play with nature so, and states that he has learned the lesson of humility, hoping that no-one will make such mistakes again. Having been rescued in the interim, Grand-uncle Chujo reminds the little boy that life must be lived within the time that nature allows, and the twin larvae swim off back home to their island, the faeries riding on their backs. They thank the humans for allowing both souls to rest in the cradle of eternity at last, and all is done, the mechanic and his rescuer waiting to be picked up on an inflatable raft in the middle of the sea.
Once the credits have finished rolling, something remarkably like a roiling mass of see-through black rope fills the screen. As the camera 'pulls back', we see that it's a mess of DNA, and that the DNA in question is suspended inside of a liquid inside of a thick blue-glassed vial with cables of some kind attached to the ends. The view slowly pulls back even more to the single, cold sound of a steadily beeping monitor, rolling out even further to show a placard below that reads '1954 Godzilla DNA, extracted 3/11/1999', and keeps moving. Other vials are shown all around it, each of them marked with the name of a kaiju that has raided Japan and the date the samples were drawn--at which point a door reading DNA TANK / Special BioTechnology Institute slams shut with a hiss, blocking them from our view as scientists in lab coats pass by...
PERSONALITY:
Personality
Godzilla is not just a monster, he's the monster, so the puny humans and aliens had better understand that--and quick! This isn't the happy, helpful, Power-Ranger-esque Godzilla most people grew up with in the sixties. Nor is this the mutated family monster with problems that was from the late eighties and early nineties. This kaiju is a right bastard. Thinking he's one of the other versions is a serious error, and occasionally one that a person won't live to make more than once. He's hugely confident in himself, and with good reason. If you were at the top of the monster food chain, you would be too!
Godzilla walks loudly and carries one big-ass stick, living powerhouse that he is, and he's not afraid to beat anything with it. You throw an obstacle in front of him, and he'll batter himself against it until either it breaks or he does... and more than likely, it's not going to be him losing that fight. This is his turf now, damn it, and you'd best believe he'll work it.
As King of the Monsters, he believes he rules the roost and will probably treat others as being below him. Their opinions won't mean squat unless they can beat him; as far as he's concerned, what he says or does goes, and that's the end of it. If he somehow ends up changing his mind and agreeing with someone who's clearly a lesser being, then in his mind it just means that they were smart enough to know what he was going to get around to thinking eventually anyway. (People who disagree and don't manage to convince him of their position are liable to get thrashed--or worse!) Anyone smart enough to stay on his good side and support him may find themselves with a damn fine ally for a while, but in the end, they're still not as strong and mighty as he is, and so remain expendable underlings to him. As such, if they go against what he wants somewhere in the process, or if he thinks its better to rid himself of them afterward, he has no problems doing whatever he has to in order to clear the blockage. Working with him could pay off well, but is one hell of a risk to take all in all.
This nature also makes it so that he considers said territory free game for himself to use as he pleases. Is there a nuclear plant somewhere? That's his to siphon energy from as he wants it. That building over there? Sure, it's a hospital for underprivileged Citizen babies. But it's tall enough to throw something into when he feels the need. Money? Who needs that? People give him what he asks for, when he asks for it... unless the job seems like it could be useful to him. And even then, they'd better not tell him 'no' when payday comes. He'll continue to think this way until someone or something can overpower him and give him a sufficient enough scolding.
At the same time, if he's put claim to something--a group of humans who're trying to fight the same thing he is, or a section of land that he likes, or the need to avenge some great wrong he considers having been done--he may well temporarily act the good guy. Just don't expect him to go out of his way to do anything for a 'lesser creature' other than sweep them out of his path for a reason that has no benefit to him at all. Not without a ton of past CR and some good persuasion, anyway.
Godzilla's been through a lot in the world he's just come from; it's unclear whether he continued attacking Japan because of their intention to build something in a method that would massively violate the laws of nature (as he did in 1954 because of the hydrogen bomb testing) or simply because he felt like it. I take it as a mix of both--his first raid suggests that he was there to take energy for himself, but he doesn't show up again until Kiryu is created!
After their initial showdown, he leaves Kiryu behind in a state of non-function. He could well have torn it limb from limb and continued to attack Japan as he pleased, since he could obviously still move decently enough, their military couldn't do anything, and they had no other backup plan to take him down... but he left the 'dead' abomination there and went on his way. He only showed up a third time after the humans set about repairing and reviving Kiryu, and headed straight for the newly-living robot upon reaching land, destroying the cities as he went. I personally interpret this behavior as meaning to forcibly adjust the balance and prevent any place from being capable of making another. So while he's technically doing the earth a favor at the time, he has no problems with pulling a kill-death-destroy on anything and everything in his way in the process. This makes him not a flat-out full-on villain, true, but it still means that he's not at all a nice guy..
And here's the big kicker for a lot of his behavior in the beginning, should he be accepted. In the end, both MechaGodzilla and himself go down to the bottom of the sea and are permanently sunk into the Japan Trench. As long as he can be underwater without breathing, the combined damage he took, his inability to move or refuel himself, the pressure depths, and the fact that he does need breath sometime--when combined with the fairy twins insisting that both souls are at peace now--I firmly believe that this particular Godzilla eventually dies. Because of this, and the apparent behavior concerning something that was brought back to life and never should have been, he will not at all be a happy camper. Nor will he take well to anyone that dies and is brought back by whatever method. This will be a massive point of rage for him in both cases, and I can definitely say that he'll try to hunt down and re-kill someone who's been returned from the dead during his stay, at some point. More so the anger on his own behalf--what with being forced back from the dead to fight, he may think of himself as being treated like another MechaG, and loathe it.
Godzilla also will have a pretty big hate-on for anything that reminds him of moths, as well as the name 'Kiryu'. Not that you can really blame him, all things considered...
His roars, growls, screeches, and other such noises are perfectly translatable by the comm, but because of his primitive, reptilian language, what he says doesn't always come across in the most articulate way (although anyone capable of speaking to animals or monsters or with automatic translation abilities will find him delightfully well-spoken). Anyone kind enough to overlook the poor English will edge a little closer to his good side, while people foolish enough to mock his lack of verbal skill could potentially find him waiting for them outside an elevator.
He's fully able to think as an intelligent being, and can pull off complex trains of thought or abrupt changes in tactics as necessary--especially in combat. He may be slower about it than some, and mostly prefers direct approaches to any problem posed when possible, but if you give him a chance to think he'll shine just about as well as any non-genius-level being. Even lofty things like various philosophical questions or riddles brought down to forms and concepts he can understand may actually prove interesting to him! It's just that his particular pace may cause people not to give him the time he needs to push through all the questions.
Basically? Please him, and he'll be decent enough... but that's really, really hard to do.
POWER:
NUCLEAR MUTATIONVILLE
He is extremely difficult to kill, as even a scrap of tissue is proven enough for him to completely regenerate from (and it's not like you can drop a nuclear bomb on his head and expect it to work, although other energy has a better chance of not being completely absorbed). The gorier and greater the task at hand, the longer it will take him to come back from it--that is to say, it will take much longer for him to regrow an arm than it would a finger. Feeding on large energy sources may shrink the time needed. Most internal methods like poisons fail to work not only because of this, but also due to his inhuman body structure.
Even as a (mostly) human, Godzilla has size working in his favor. Unable to fit under most ceilings at 10' without crouching or bending to some degree, he will have a very difficult time fitting in (and would even if he were shorter, as his appearance is not exactly something easily overlooked). However, he is taller than most, and carries the proportionate strength, skin thickness, and general density of a seriously beefy motherfucker that big. We're not talking super strength (at least without him being in Monster Body), but he's still pretty fierce, given what a person half that size can do.
As he is an enormous nuclear reactor on overload, he's also very hot, internally. Although he can be injured much, much easier in his human body than he ever could as Godzilla proper, things (or people!) coming into contact with his insides and/or blood may risk being melted/burned. So while that pretty steel sword will lop his arm off, it probably won't be much more than a nub on a hilt by the time it finishes the sweep.
As a radiovore, he can not only consume various forms of energy (although nuclear energy remains his favorite, and the easiest one), but has an innate sense of where to go to find more. Or, if you prefer to think of it this way: he knows where you keep your microwave ovens.
Despite being humanoid, and a somewhat reptilian one at that, Godzilla still remains equally at home moving around and fighting under the water as he is on land, possibly even preferring a life underwater when he can get it, and can spend a long, long time resting below the waves without needing to come up for air or 'food'. Furthermore, because of his cold-blooded body and his nuclear state, the longer he spends underwater, the more lethargic he is upon first resurfacing and the more time he needs to get back up to his full strength. Extreme cold on its own will slow him down, whether underwater or not; do not expect him to function as well in a blizzard.
There is, naturally, also the atomic ray that everyone knows and loves. Most often electric blue in color, it is essentially a long-reaching, concentrated, superheated blast of radiation with explosive and kinetic properties due to the method in which it is generated and expelled. It can be laced with other energies he's 'eaten' at the time, or powered up by them instead, but that doesn't happen as often. By essentially 'swallowing' this ray as it is about to be expelled, he can instead emit the nuclear energy in a 'pulse' that functions more like a radioactive shockwave. His sharp dorsal spines (also a vent for the excess energy as well as a defensive feature) will crackle with the same light as he charges up a blast; the longer they go, the more powerful the blast will be.
MONSTER TIME
For one (1) IC hour every two weeks (as counted from the last time he used the power), Godzilla is capable of assuming a scaled-down, sixty-foot-tall version of his natural Toho-verse kaiju body. Don't worry, that's actually even shorter than the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man in the Ghostbusters movies, and far below the 328' that was his burning-version counterpart from 2009's log. He'll also probably use this very sparingly, and often in safer places like deep water, or simply outside of the City limits.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
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LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
He sat at the very edge of the pool, seething, staring out into the nearest part of the rest of the park with narrowed eyes, clawed fingers flexing with the desire to just crush something.
The humans had done so many wrongs to him already--brought him back from his dark sleep on the ocean floor, where both he and his predecessor had found peace at last. Taken him away from his world and told him he couldn't go back, which was clearly a lie; how dare they insult his power by claiming that some other, lesser creature could stop him from doing whatever he wanted, something weaker than him!
His strength... they'd taken some of that away, too. He was smaller, here. He didn't need to know any units of measurement to be able to tell; it was an innate sense, like being aware of one's foot or arm and whether or not they were still attached.
And he was, for all intents and purposes, human.
It was offensive in every way that he could think of, and he'd spent most of the morning trying to do exactly that. How humiliating to be made to stand in a line to get what he wanted--and when he'd protested by blasting the desk into singed splinters, they'd ordered him go back to the end of it and start all over again.
They were foolish, disrespectful creatures, and he was determined to smash them to pulp one day for what they had done.
At least the small things still ran from him sometimes. Oh, yes, some of them pointed and smiled, or simply ignored him as he passed by, but every now and then they still ran like they'd always done, screaming and pointing, hiding, and calling him names he didn't need to understand to know were unpleasant in nature.
...Perhaps it wouldn't be that bad inside of the City. He was still the King, whether he happened to be towering over Japan or no bigger than a one-story house in the City. He would rule, and fight for what he believed should be--and he would see to it that no other Mistakes were made, as had happened to him.
Given enough time and a number of lessons, everyone in the wretched human scab was capable of learning that fact.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
I played this version briefly around this time last year but ended up dropping him due to a small list of personal reasons. I've been sad about it ever since, and the brief stint at Gargleblasted over winter only made it clearer to me that I did the wrong thing then. Hopefully, we'll get a chance to make this right. <3
Also, he'll be humanized, as per the rules; a few traits will carry over, such as being about 10' tall and lightly greyish, with thick skin, sharp teeth, dorsal spines, slightly ridged (and somewhat ugly by human standards) facial features, and clawed fingers/toes. But that's as far as it goes on the outside. Essentially, even Santo looks wackier than he does.
NAME: Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gombigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andri Charton-Haymoss Ivanovici Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser III Grimm.
AGE: One past a quarter-century.
JOURNAL: poisoninkbottle
IM: feelinggrimm
E-MAIL: deoxycytidine - at - gmail - dot - com
RETURNING: Just Trowa.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Godzilla
FANDOM: Godzilla
CHRONOLOGY: Original Movie / Vs. Mecha-G / Tokyo SOS
CLASS: He's... complicated. Let's call him a Type V anti-hero, as the new one revived and rampaged mostly because the original Godzilla's bones were disturbed, which was deemed a crime against nature. Basically, he does what HE thinks is the right thing to solve a problem... even if the rest of us wouldn't.
SUPERHERO NAME: King.
ALTER EGO: AHAHA. Riiiight.
BACKGROUND:
GODZILLA (1954)
In 1954, a mysterious force sank the ship known as the Eiko-maru somewhere just off the coast of Japan. This event was shortly followed by the destruction of the Bingo-maru, as well as 15 other unnamed boats sent to the area, and caused mass panic on the part of the Japanese people, who were still rebuilding their lives after the use of the nuclear bombs on their country. Small riots broke out regarding the idea that the government military and police were keeping secret the results and reasons for the loss of lives, as well as the identities of the dead--in reality, all of these things were simply unknown.
At Odo Island, a small village learned that their fishing success had dropped to nothing, to which an old man commented that the monster in the sea--'Godzilla'--was angry, and states that they used to sacrifice girls to it when these things happened to appease it. A younger resident laughs at the idea, and the old man's ideas regarding the possibility of the existence of a monster go ignored.
A few nights later, an unusual hurricane demolishes part of the very same village, causing the wells on that side to become tainted and leaving, um. Giant... radioactive... footprints...? Anyway, a zoologist finds a trilobite in one of the footprints, and tests it, coming up with radioactive sediment from layers of dirt generally associated with prehistoric eras. And, of course, actually witnessing the creature firsthand sort of helps!
Knowing that hydrogen bomb tests have been conducted in the sea nearby, and that any beast capable of living so long and absorbing as much radiation as that would have to be one seriously massive, utterly powerful thing, he goes with a group of others to speak before Parliament. Arguments break out over whether or not to release the information to the public, but it's finally decided to make the truth known--cue more panic, more evacuations, etc.
After Godzilla surfaces, trashes a bit of city and leaves again, the military and police band together to build an enormous electrified fence out of barbed wire. Somehow, this is a good idea? Anyway, it has all the effect of someone stumbling into a cobweb, so thumbs up on that one. They come to their senses, try to destroy him with tanks and planes and such, and he blows the place to smoldering rubble. This film is notable for actually showing people dying, and not always in tame ways; somewhere along the line you even see a mother and her children huddled together trapped against a wall, with the mother telling them that it's okay because they'll finally be with the girls' father soon.
So come daybreak, he's gone, and one of Japan's major cities is a mess. Nobody knows how to take it down because the strongest weapon man knows of at the time is nuclear energy--and, well, he absorbs that.
Cue Dr. Serizawa. Mildly nutty recluse scientist in the process of secretly developing a horrific and super-deadly weapon: the Oxygen Destroyer. When dropped underwater, the device forces oxygen molecules to bond with hydrogen, essentially disintegrating anything in the area on an atomic level and turning it into more water. At the end of the day, Dr. Serizawa is convinced to weaponize his device on a high level in order to destroy Godzilla; refusing to let mankind turn his creation into another simple weapon for governments and wars, he destroys his notes, makes one last Destroyer, and goes diving off a boat to the bottom of the sea where Godzilla is resting to set it off.
As Godzilla dies, Serizawa commits suicide both over the shame of using his science in such a way and to prevent anyone from being able to get him to make another. The defeated Godzilla's bones fall to the seabed.
In the meantime, giant monsters of varying origins--many of them similarly atomic in nature--continue to show up and raid Japan for one reason or another.
These are said to include (but are not remotely limited to) Bigfoot (Gaira), shot down by maser cannons, and Mothra, who was supposedly destroyed.
GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA (2002)
Around 1999 or so, one dark and stormy night, a new leaner, meaner Godzilla rises up and comes ashore in Japan, presumably with the intent of crushing them and taking all their delicious nuclear goodness for himself. One woman, who happens to be part of a military unit trying to face off against him, makes an error while driving one of the transports that ends up getting her whole crew killed. She's then demoted to a dead end desk job, and he's free to head back to the sea, where he chills out for a little while. In the meantime, Japan's Minister of Science and Technology decides to commission a machine that will be used to defend the country.
We're shown a scientist that's made a trilobite by using old fossils and DNA computers and combined them with a robot exoskeleton; he is picked up and taken to an underwater facility by a government official, where he and a bunch of other researchy types have been gathered. To their surprise, they're introduced to the skeleton of the 1954 Godzilla, which has been salvaged from the Pacific, and asked to build a bio-robot on the lines of the trilobite out of said bones in order to create a weapon worthy of fighting against Godzilla.
Time passes, power changes over, and the remote-piloted MechaGodzilla--or, Kiryu, as everyone has named it--is ready; the desk clerk chick is asked back onto the team. A press release includes a demonstration of the Absolute Zero weapon... a device which allows Kiryu to freeze something completely through at a molecular level and shatter it. As this press release goes up, Godzilla heads back toward Japan for another raid; the new MechaG is transported by aircraft to the site of Godzilla's landing in order to attempt its first real fight.
After popping him with a few missiles and some masers, the crew notes that he's beginning to back away and decides to load up the Absolute Zero to finish him off. Godzilla roars in frustration, and we're treated to a quick trip through Kiryu's circuitry. The dead Godzilla's memories come flashing back through the DNA computers, remembering the destruction it caused and its own death at the hands of the humans; Kiryu stops responding completely, standing stock-still despite everything the crew tries or shouts at it to do. As it does a great deal of nothing, Godzilla dives back into the Bay and swims off.
Kiryu abruptly turns on its creators, trying to shoot down a plane, and then turns to face the bay city it was meant to protect. Its eyes glow brighter, and in a spectacular display of Enough Firepower is Never Enough begins to blow the crap out of the surrounding area with missiles, rockets, and lasers. Since nobody can regain control of it, it spends the next hour or so freely trashing the place until its energy supply runs out. The Prime Minister realizes that using one Godzilla to fight another might have been a bad idea--afraid that it would refuse to fight against its successor a second time--and puts the project in stasis for a little bit.
Godzilla shows back up while the scientists are busy trying to repair Kiryu and prevent it from refusing to fight for the humans again, and so some fighters go out to try and fire rockets and mortar shells at him to make him leave, but it does about as much good as tanks ever do in one of these films. Finally, after 40% of the city is destroyed, one of the crew members confronts the Prime Minister and begs him to let them use a newly-repaired Kiryu. After a moment of indecision, the PM finally gives in, and Kiryu is launched. It arrives just as Godzilla approaches Shinagawa Hospital, flying the last bit of the way in on its backpack boosters, crashing into Godzilla and sending him flying right when he's about to fire a blast at the hospital and the two people inside.
With evacuation complete, the two giants are free to resume their battle. They grapple for a bit before Kiryu backs up and uses the masers; Godzilla blows off the robot's arm in return and whacks off part of the backpack unit, only to be stabbed in the arm and massively electrocuted. He breaks the knife off and boots Kiryu through a skyscraper, walks over and starts crushing MechaG's belly in--but the human pilots fly by in a jet and distract him, allowing Kiryu to get up and fire the broken backpack, sending Godzilla flying backward. Because Kiryu is faster and has the added benefits of boosters/robotics/etc, it starts working circles around Godzilla, blinding him, jumping over him and hitting from behind, punching, grabbing him by the head and throwing him down. At this time, anybody who was ever a fan of the Mario 64 game giggles with delight at the sight of Kiryu snatching hold of Godzilla's tail, spinning in a circle, and flinging him away. Tired as hell, Godzilla falls to the ground.
The crew is about to finish him off with the Absolute Zero system when he blows the ground out from beneath Kiryu's feet, sending him toppling ass over teakettle; the shot goes wild, and takes out three towers instead, leaving the robot with nearly no energy and damaged remote systems. It becomes necessary to pilot him manually, which desk clerk chick volunteers herself to do. They black out all of Tokyo to have enough energy available to emergency-feed Kiryu again, distracting Godzilla with maser fire from tanks so he won't crush the robot in his downtime.
Kiryu rises again, and is hardcore sucker-punched from behind with an atomic ray, forcing him back to his knees. As he gets up a second time, one of the nearby crew jet pilots realizes Godzilla is going to fire like that again and ejects his co-pilot, heading straight at the big guy to draw his fire; the jet's wing is clipped, and he steers it straight into Godzilla's mouth, shouting. The back half of the jet is crunched to pieces, Godzilla's jaws are locked into the main part of the jet (with the still-living pilot inside) and can no longer fire, and desk clerk chick is ordered to use Absolute Zero. But the robot is out of control again, and flies toward Godzilla, ripping the jet piece free and saving the pilot. Squeezing Godzilla's mouth shut, it grabs hold with its other hand and flies off toward the sea, Absolute Zero still charging in its chest.
They crashland just as the girl fires it, freezing both the water surrounding them and the spray that flies upward from their impact into a swirling, spiky mass of ice.
There's a moment where it looks like everything is finished... and then the ice shatters, leaving Godzilla standing there with a giant gaping hole blown into the middle of his chest and some jagged furrows out to the sides. Tired of dealing with this shit, Godzilla wades away from both the robot and the city bay, with an energyless, 70%-damaged Kiryu standing left behind. Certain that it is now possible to defeat Godzilla, the government considers this a great victory. Desk clerk chick watches as Godzilla fades into the distance.
(Post-credits, we're treated to the sight of the desk clerk chick, the girl, and the girl's father watching Kiryu undergo repairs. Desk clerk chick notes that she doesn't consider it a victory herself--only a tie--speaks about the value of all life, flirts, and walks off.)
GODZILLA: TOKYO S.O.S. (2003)
I apologize ahead of time for the length of this one, but this film is complicated argh and if I leave some of these scenes out it's only going to make for a HUH? moment later on. Anyway, the first thing shown on-screen is Kiryu, seemingly almost fully repaired, undergoing a diagnostics check. It then cuts to a familiar spiny-backed form sleeping beneath the water, and one eye slowly opening...
At a U.S. Hawaii military base, radar operators notice something unknown moving in the air. At the same time, Japanese operators see that it is moving towards their country, and send some fighter jets out to intercept it and warn it away; when it ignores their warning, they open fire on it. Something's weird, though--the thing isn't shaped like a plane, and the pilots can hear... singing? The thing uses strange gold dust to confound the missile sensors and shield itself from radar, and the military--confused by what's going on--catches a satellite image of the thing in the clouds.
Behold: Mothra!
Back in civilian life, a mechanic (Chujo) for the MechaG and his nephew are working on a toy plane model; the kid goes to show his grand-uncle and all three are confronted by a set of twin fairies who work for Mothra. They come bearing a message that building Kiryu was wrong, and against the workings of life--no human being may touch the souls of the dead. The old Godzilla's bones must be returned to the sea. They question how they would protect themselves from the new Godzilla if he shows up again; the fairies state that Mothra will do the job if they return the bones. If they do not, she will declare war on the human race instead. Outside, Mothra herself sits listening from atop the hill. When the Chujo family turns back to speak to the fairies again, they're gone, and have only left a tiny tablet behind.
Returning to the MechaG site, it's stated that the Absolute Zero system is in disrepair, but that Kiryu is capable of functioning perfectly otherwise. (This is a lie, as two mechanics talking reveal that he should work, but no test runs have been made to prove this.) Someone brings up the possibility that Godzilla was attracted to the land for the last few battles simply because of the fact that his ancestor's bones are the source of its inner structure. While this goes on, the new Kiryu pilots are brought in, and Chujo immediately develops a crush on the female one. At the same time, it's explained back at the Chujo household that Mothra originally attacked Tokyo because her fairies were kidnapped, and that the symbol on the little tablet they received is the same one that was used to summon her some 40 years previously. THIS IS IMPORTANT DO NOT FORGET THIS.
There's a party, humans flirt and threaten each other, some guy kills a fly to show off; nobody cares too much, we're here for the monster details. Anyway, the old female pilot meets up with Chujo and discusses the fact that she thinks Kiryu doesn't want to fight anymore, and that she believes it should stay in disrepair before she goes and leaves again.
A few days later, the Prime Minister from before is confronted by old man Chujo, who says that life must be lived in the time that nature allows, and wants the MechaG project to be stopped. Prime Minister Igarashi refuses, though, and says that he will not do so until Godzilla is finally stopped. A giant sea-turtle monster washes up on the seashore, dead, obviously killed by Godzilla. Down in the water, the big guy takes down a U.S. nuclear submarine, swimming off with it and presumably devouring the energy. Back at the MechaG site, it's noted that the Absolute Zero system can't work without a synthetic diamond roughly four feet across, and that the budget doesn't have the cash to make another, letting us know that it won't be the main weapon for the movie anymore. (It's also pointed out that Kiryu may not work very well without it.) The military questions the mechanic guy about Mothra and whether or not they'll still need Kiryu.
Godzilla finally comes up closer to the coast of Hachijo Island and is attacked by some battleships in the area, getting away in the end and heading for Tokyo Bay. The government decides to try and confront him at Shinagawa City, which is still pretty much a pile of rubble from the last movie. The area is evacuated, but the little nephew is missing; the grand-uncle goes to find him. When Godzilla surfaces, the military can tell it's the same one as last time by the scarring on the chest, and attack it, confident in their ability to hurt it. While the evac goes on, we see the boy messing about with some desks in a schoolyard, although we don't know what. Godzilla wipes out the military force and changes course towards the Minato District, where Kiryu--newly revamped with a Hyper Maser instead of Absolute Zero--is being held in waiting. News reporters watching him advance catch sight of what the kid is doing from overhead.
It's the Mothra symbol--and true to word, she comes zipping in overhead! Godzilla takes very poorly to the fairy goddess getting all up in his path and trying to blow him off his feet with gusts of wind; in the dust cloud, she circles behind him and grabs hold, flying forward and then letting go to have him crash into the highway system. They continue battling while the humans debate over whether or not to bring in Kiryu; Godzilla tears off one of her legs and gets a faceful of poisonous mothscale for it. Unfortunately, once Mothra uses all of its scales, it won't be able to stay airborne anymore, so this is clearly a sign of desperation on her part. Back on the islands, the twin fairies are standing on another tiny version of the symbol in front of a giant egg, singing.
Godzilla ignites the scales with a blast, clearing the air around him and making it necessary for her to use more of them, forcing her into a position of suicide to save the city and damaging her wings further. Seeing this, the Prime Minister decides to send Kiryu in after all, wishing to help and knowing they're caught in a damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don't scenario. While they bring MechaG to the fight, Godzilla and Mothra continue battling, accidentally knocking over a tower and catching both grand-uncle and nephew Chujo beneath the rubble. Godzilla blows a hole in Mothra's wings right as MechaG comes landing in, and turns to face his new attacker. Still a huge proponent of Big Guns, I Must Have Them fighting style (Trowa would be proud), it once again comes at Godzilla with missles, masers, rockets, bombs, and other assorted things, not letting up for a second. Unable to avoid all three prongs of the incoming ammunition-based attack, Godzilla is hit from two sides and retaliates by shooting Kiryu through a building. He's about to fire the finishing shot when Mothra, on her last legs, bowls him over and takes the ray instead.
Back at Infant Island, the egg hatches, revealing two Mothra larvae instead of the usual one; they speed off through the water toward Japan to help their mother. The mechanic drives around looking for his uncle and nephew when the little tablet from earlier glows and rattles, pointing the way. Around this time, Kiryu manages to get back up; it fires off one of the body units at Godzilla, who blows it up, and uses the smoke to secretly fire another, which Godzilla is not expecting; it blasts him, and he falls over. As he stands up, Kiryu knocks him into a tower. When he gets up a second time and charges, Kiryu ducks, then flips Godzilla over his back. From there, Godzilla trips the MechaG unit with his tail, and blasts it right in the face, blowing out one eye and putting a massive hole through a chunk of control circuitry.
Around this time, the two larvae surface in the bay and make their way over land to the battle site. Triumphant, Godzilla stomps toward the downed Kiryu--and is distracted by spurts of webbing from one of the larvae twins. The second converses with its dying mother, and the first soon joins him in the 'discussion'. While they speak, Godzilla fires a ray from behind, intending to take out the children--but with the remainder of its energy, Mothra bursts up from the ground to block the shot, taking it full on. Her body is engulfed by flame, and she flares out into an explosion of fiery dust, leaving her children behind to continue the battle.
The mechanic heads for Kiryu, hoping to repair it; without its help, the larvae don't stand a chance. In the meantime, the piloting crews try to distract Godzilla again, needing to keep him away from the downed robot as long as possible. Using his inattentiveness to its advantage, one larva jumps at his swinging tail and latches on to the end, biting into it and holding on for dear life even as Godzilla smashes his tail against the ground over and over again in the hopes of killing it dead. The mechanic gets to the suit, and tanks with maser cannons show up to add to the confusion and slow the inevitable march toward where the robot is laying while he works on reconnecting and bypassing circuitry, but he ends up having to get inside a maintenance bay to finish the job. In the meantime, the larvae start to spin Godzilla up with webbing, but he gets through and blasts at Kiryu, sealing the bay door shut. The mechanic lies about where he is to the military, and is stuck inside while the battle continues.
The pissed off worms chase after Godzilla, who means to head toward the center of the city, and Kiryu rises up in the background. Their fight rages onward, with the two giants trashing the Capitol building in the process; Kiryu topples him, and transforms his right hand into a drill, punching through Godzilla's hide and spinning a hole through the thick scaling down to the meat below. Kiryu targets this weak point with the Hyper Maser, causing Godzilla to roar in pain; this once again starts the flashbacks of the dead original's memories of its original attacks on Tokyo and its previous behavior in the last movie. It stands there doing nothing while the Mothra larvae spin a cocoon around Godzilla; by the time they finish, the screen moves up to show that the camera behind where the blown-out eye lens was has been turned to the side, and only returns its attention to the scene before it as the worms finish--in essence, the old resurrected one didn't want to fight, and certainly didn't want to watch as this happened to its successor. It simply wants to be back under the sea, dead again, something confirmed by the twin fairies.
Prime Minister Igarashi orders the finishing of the downed Godzilla and the subsequent scrapping of the MechaG project... but it's too late.
Kiryu turns to watch the sun rising over the horizon and refuses to obey the order to blast Godzilla to death with the Hyper Maser, glancing down at him instead and then roaring. Instead of killing him, it takes the cocooned Godzilla up in its arms and begins flying out to sea, with a jetful of confused human pilots chasing it. The mechanic, still inside the robot's maintenance bay, realizes that they're headed toward the Japan Trench, where it means to permanently sink both itself and its captive; the others understand that he's trapped and fly close, blowing the door to the bay open. Understanding, Kiryu begins to rotate itself midflight until the open bay door points downward, allowing him to leave; the mechanic falls out, catching a glimpse of a goodbye message on the screen just before the secondary hatch closes, and is saved by one of the other pilots.
Kiryu fires thick metal cables that wrap around the living Godzilla still locked tight in his arms, trapping him close, and crashes into the water. Both of them slowly sink far, far down below the water, permanently tied together, lost from sight forever. The Prime Minister admits that they were wrong to play with nature so, and states that he has learned the lesson of humility, hoping that no-one will make such mistakes again. Having been rescued in the interim, Grand-uncle Chujo reminds the little boy that life must be lived within the time that nature allows, and the twin larvae swim off back home to their island, the faeries riding on their backs. They thank the humans for allowing both souls to rest in the cradle of eternity at last, and all is done, the mechanic and his rescuer waiting to be picked up on an inflatable raft in the middle of the sea.
Once the credits have finished rolling, something remarkably like a roiling mass of see-through black rope fills the screen. As the camera 'pulls back', we see that it's a mess of DNA, and that the DNA in question is suspended inside of a liquid inside of a thick blue-glassed vial with cables of some kind attached to the ends. The view slowly pulls back even more to the single, cold sound of a steadily beeping monitor, rolling out even further to show a placard below that reads '1954 Godzilla DNA, extracted 3/11/1999', and keeps moving. Other vials are shown all around it, each of them marked with the name of a kaiju that has raided Japan and the date the samples were drawn--at which point a door reading DNA TANK / Special BioTechnology Institute slams shut with a hiss, blocking them from our view as scientists in lab coats pass by...
PERSONALITY:
Personality
Godzilla is not just a monster, he's the monster, so the puny humans and aliens had better understand that--and quick! This isn't the happy, helpful, Power-Ranger-esque Godzilla most people grew up with in the sixties. Nor is this the mutated family monster with problems that was from the late eighties and early nineties. This kaiju is a right bastard. Thinking he's one of the other versions is a serious error, and occasionally one that a person won't live to make more than once. He's hugely confident in himself, and with good reason. If you were at the top of the monster food chain, you would be too!
Godzilla walks loudly and carries one big-ass stick, living powerhouse that he is, and he's not afraid to beat anything with it. You throw an obstacle in front of him, and he'll batter himself against it until either it breaks or he does... and more than likely, it's not going to be him losing that fight. This is his turf now, damn it, and you'd best believe he'll work it.
As King of the Monsters, he believes he rules the roost and will probably treat others as being below him. Their opinions won't mean squat unless they can beat him; as far as he's concerned, what he says or does goes, and that's the end of it. If he somehow ends up changing his mind and agreeing with someone who's clearly a lesser being, then in his mind it just means that they were smart enough to know what he was going to get around to thinking eventually anyway. (People who disagree and don't manage to convince him of their position are liable to get thrashed--or worse!) Anyone smart enough to stay on his good side and support him may find themselves with a damn fine ally for a while, but in the end, they're still not as strong and mighty as he is, and so remain expendable underlings to him. As such, if they go against what he wants somewhere in the process, or if he thinks its better to rid himself of them afterward, he has no problems doing whatever he has to in order to clear the blockage. Working with him could pay off well, but is one hell of a risk to take all in all.
This nature also makes it so that he considers said territory free game for himself to use as he pleases. Is there a nuclear plant somewhere? That's his to siphon energy from as he wants it. That building over there? Sure, it's a hospital for underprivileged Citizen babies. But it's tall enough to throw something into when he feels the need. Money? Who needs that? People give him what he asks for, when he asks for it... unless the job seems like it could be useful to him. And even then, they'd better not tell him 'no' when payday comes. He'll continue to think this way until someone or something can overpower him and give him a sufficient enough scolding.
At the same time, if he's put claim to something--a group of humans who're trying to fight the same thing he is, or a section of land that he likes, or the need to avenge some great wrong he considers having been done--he may well temporarily act the good guy. Just don't expect him to go out of his way to do anything for a 'lesser creature' other than sweep them out of his path for a reason that has no benefit to him at all. Not without a ton of past CR and some good persuasion, anyway.
Godzilla's been through a lot in the world he's just come from; it's unclear whether he continued attacking Japan because of their intention to build something in a method that would massively violate the laws of nature (as he did in 1954 because of the hydrogen bomb testing) or simply because he felt like it. I take it as a mix of both--his first raid suggests that he was there to take energy for himself, but he doesn't show up again until Kiryu is created!
After their initial showdown, he leaves Kiryu behind in a state of non-function. He could well have torn it limb from limb and continued to attack Japan as he pleased, since he could obviously still move decently enough, their military couldn't do anything, and they had no other backup plan to take him down... but he left the 'dead' abomination there and went on his way. He only showed up a third time after the humans set about repairing and reviving Kiryu, and headed straight for the newly-living robot upon reaching land, destroying the cities as he went. I personally interpret this behavior as meaning to forcibly adjust the balance and prevent any place from being capable of making another. So while he's technically doing the earth a favor at the time, he has no problems with pulling a kill-death-destroy on anything and everything in his way in the process. This makes him not a flat-out full-on villain, true, but it still means that he's not at all a nice guy..
And here's the big kicker for a lot of his behavior in the beginning, should he be accepted. In the end, both MechaGodzilla and himself go down to the bottom of the sea and are permanently sunk into the Japan Trench. As long as he can be underwater without breathing, the combined damage he took, his inability to move or refuel himself, the pressure depths, and the fact that he does need breath sometime--when combined with the fairy twins insisting that both souls are at peace now--I firmly believe that this particular Godzilla eventually dies. Because of this, and the apparent behavior concerning something that was brought back to life and never should have been, he will not at all be a happy camper. Nor will he take well to anyone that dies and is brought back by whatever method. This will be a massive point of rage for him in both cases, and I can definitely say that he'll try to hunt down and re-kill someone who's been returned from the dead during his stay, at some point. More so the anger on his own behalf--what with being forced back from the dead to fight, he may think of himself as being treated like another MechaG, and loathe it.
Godzilla also will have a pretty big hate-on for anything that reminds him of moths, as well as the name 'Kiryu'. Not that you can really blame him, all things considered...
His roars, growls, screeches, and other such noises are perfectly translatable by the comm, but because of his primitive, reptilian language, what he says doesn't always come across in the most articulate way (although anyone capable of speaking to animals or monsters or with automatic translation abilities will find him delightfully well-spoken). Anyone kind enough to overlook the poor English will edge a little closer to his good side, while people foolish enough to mock his lack of verbal skill could potentially find him waiting for them outside an elevator.
He's fully able to think as an intelligent being, and can pull off complex trains of thought or abrupt changes in tactics as necessary--especially in combat. He may be slower about it than some, and mostly prefers direct approaches to any problem posed when possible, but if you give him a chance to think he'll shine just about as well as any non-genius-level being. Even lofty things like various philosophical questions or riddles brought down to forms and concepts he can understand may actually prove interesting to him! It's just that his particular pace may cause people not to give him the time he needs to push through all the questions.
Basically? Please him, and he'll be decent enough... but that's really, really hard to do.
POWER:
NUCLEAR MUTATIONVILLE
He is extremely difficult to kill, as even a scrap of tissue is proven enough for him to completely regenerate from (and it's not like you can drop a nuclear bomb on his head and expect it to work, although other energy has a better chance of not being completely absorbed). The gorier and greater the task at hand, the longer it will take him to come back from it--that is to say, it will take much longer for him to regrow an arm than it would a finger. Feeding on large energy sources may shrink the time needed. Most internal methods like poisons fail to work not only because of this, but also due to his inhuman body structure.
Even as a (mostly) human, Godzilla has size working in his favor. Unable to fit under most ceilings at 10' without crouching or bending to some degree, he will have a very difficult time fitting in (and would even if he were shorter, as his appearance is not exactly something easily overlooked). However, he is taller than most, and carries the proportionate strength, skin thickness, and general density of a seriously beefy motherfucker that big. We're not talking super strength (at least without him being in Monster Body), but he's still pretty fierce, given what a person half that size can do.
As he is an enormous nuclear reactor on overload, he's also very hot, internally. Although he can be injured much, much easier in his human body than he ever could as Godzilla proper, things (or people!) coming into contact with his insides and/or blood may risk being melted/burned. So while that pretty steel sword will lop his arm off, it probably won't be much more than a nub on a hilt by the time it finishes the sweep.
As a radiovore, he can not only consume various forms of energy (although nuclear energy remains his favorite, and the easiest one), but has an innate sense of where to go to find more. Or, if you prefer to think of it this way: he knows where you keep your microwave ovens.
Despite being humanoid, and a somewhat reptilian one at that, Godzilla still remains equally at home moving around and fighting under the water as he is on land, possibly even preferring a life underwater when he can get it, and can spend a long, long time resting below the waves without needing to come up for air or 'food'. Furthermore, because of his cold-blooded body and his nuclear state, the longer he spends underwater, the more lethargic he is upon first resurfacing and the more time he needs to get back up to his full strength. Extreme cold on its own will slow him down, whether underwater or not; do not expect him to function as well in a blizzard.
There is, naturally, also the atomic ray that everyone knows and loves. Most often electric blue in color, it is essentially a long-reaching, concentrated, superheated blast of radiation with explosive and kinetic properties due to the method in which it is generated and expelled. It can be laced with other energies he's 'eaten' at the time, or powered up by them instead, but that doesn't happen as often. By essentially 'swallowing' this ray as it is about to be expelled, he can instead emit the nuclear energy in a 'pulse' that functions more like a radioactive shockwave. His sharp dorsal spines (also a vent for the excess energy as well as a defensive feature) will crackle with the same light as he charges up a blast; the longer they go, the more powerful the blast will be.
MONSTER TIME
For one (1) IC hour every two weeks (as counted from the last time he used the power), Godzilla is capable of assuming a scaled-down, sixty-foot-tall version of his natural Toho-verse kaiju body. Don't worry, that's actually even shorter than the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man in the Ghostbusters movies, and far below the 328' that was his burning-version counterpart from 2009's log. He'll also probably use this very sparingly, and often in safer places like deep water, or simply outside of the City limits.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
http://capeandcowl.livejournal.com/2253479.html
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
He sat at the very edge of the pool, seething, staring out into the nearest part of the rest of the park with narrowed eyes, clawed fingers flexing with the desire to just crush something.
The humans had done so many wrongs to him already--brought him back from his dark sleep on the ocean floor, where both he and his predecessor had found peace at last. Taken him away from his world and told him he couldn't go back, which was clearly a lie; how dare they insult his power by claiming that some other, lesser creature could stop him from doing whatever he wanted, something weaker than him!
His strength... they'd taken some of that away, too. He was smaller, here. He didn't need to know any units of measurement to be able to tell; it was an innate sense, like being aware of one's foot or arm and whether or not they were still attached.
And he was, for all intents and purposes, human.
It was offensive in every way that he could think of, and he'd spent most of the morning trying to do exactly that. How humiliating to be made to stand in a line to get what he wanted--and when he'd protested by blasting the desk into singed splinters, they'd ordered him go back to the end of it and start all over again.
They were foolish, disrespectful creatures, and he was determined to smash them to pulp one day for what they had done.
At least the small things still ran from him sometimes. Oh, yes, some of them pointed and smiled, or simply ignored him as he passed by, but every now and then they still ran like they'd always done, screaming and pointing, hiding, and calling him names he didn't need to understand to know were unpleasant in nature.
...Perhaps it wouldn't be that bad inside of the City. He was still the King, whether he happened to be towering over Japan or no bigger than a one-story house in the City. He would rule, and fight for what he believed should be--and he would see to it that no other Mistakes were made, as had happened to him.
Given enough time and a number of lessons, everyone in the wretched human scab was capable of learning that fact.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
I played this version briefly around this time last year but ended up dropping him due to a small list of personal reasons. I've been sad about it ever since, and the brief stint at Gargleblasted over winter only made it clearer to me that I did the wrong thing then. Hopefully, we'll get a chance to make this right. <3
Also, he'll be humanized, as per the rules; a few traits will carry over, such as being about 10' tall and lightly greyish, with thick skin, sharp teeth, dorsal spines, slightly ridged (and somewhat ugly by human standards) facial features, and clawed fingers/toes. But that's as far as it goes on the outside. Essentially, even Santo looks wackier than he does.