Samus Aran OOC Information
Character Information
General
Canon Source: The "Metroid" franchise games by Nintendo. (Metroid, Zero Mission, Metroid Prime, Hunters, Echoes, Corruption, Return of Samus, Super Metroid, Other M and Fusion)
Canon Format: Originally, and primarily, video games. All the "Metroid" franchise games, as well as the "Super Smash Brothers" games. The character also appeared in the cartoon "Captain N, the Game Master" as well as a short lived comic run in Nintendo Power.
Character's Name: Samus Aran
Character's Age: 27
What form will your character's NV take? An electronic "bracer" set onto her left wrist and forearm with a flip up screen, expanding keyboard and small holo-projector that can place the image of someone she's talking to in the palm of her left hand.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Years and years of combat training, as well as many years of actual combat experience against Space Pirates, Aliens, Mutants and a host of other baddies. She's strong, fast and tough, though not beyond human capabilities. Her body has been infused with Chozo (Alien Race) and Metroid (Other Alien Race) DNA, giving her high resistence to hostile enviroments.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Given that her DNA has been mucked with on more then one occasion, I was thinking the Core would have taken it a step further and given her genetic structure a more "Mutable" form. Essentially she can transform, physically, into a much larger, much faster, much tougher biological monster. Think Tyrant or Nemesis from Resident Evil. It's new, so she'd need to learn, and it's creepy so she'll be reluctant to use it. Afterwards the transformation leaves her physically exhausted and hungry enough to clear a buffet table. Physically she resembles a bulked up, organic version of her Varia suit. She grows to about seven feet, and a hard but flexible exoskeleton secretes from her skin before hardening into a black carapace, with thinner, blue section at joints. Her head is encased with a helmet like layer of chitin, eyes protected by a transparent layer of the same material. Her arms and legs lengthen, with her fingers tapering off into rending claws. The lower half of her face is not encased in the helmet, but rather becomes an elongated, almost muzzle-like, jaw set with rows of sharp teeth for rending and tearing. Accelerated musculature allows her to jump long distances or moderate heights, and she can comfortably scale any surface she can sink her claws into.
Weapons: Zero Suit: Essentially the undersuit for Samus' more powerful Varia Suit powered armour, the Zero Suit enhances Samus' natural agility and athleticism, but lacks the augmented strength and heavy armour of the full suit. Although it stretches and bends like fabric, the Zero Suit does provide some small protection over normal clothes. The Paralyzer: Samus' sidearm, considered a weak backup to her full powered suit. It fires small energy projectiles that disrupt the nervous system, causing a temporary sense of dizziness and lack of muscle co-ordination, a "stunning" effect. With a press of a button the handle slides back to create a sword like grip, and the barrel acts as the anchor point for a whip of controlled plasma energy.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Samus spent her childhood with her family on the mining planet K-2L. The planet was raided by Space Pirates, who were looking for bounty. The leader of the Space Pirates, Ridley, killed everyone in Samus's colony, including her parents,and then reduced the planet to barren wastes. Orphaned, Samus was found by a bird-like alien race known as the Chozo, who brought her to their home planet Zebes. Samus was infused with Chozo DNA to give her a strong resistance to foreign environments, then trained as a warrior and given one of the alien race's artifacts, a powered exoskeleton called the Varia Suit that biologically entwines itself with Samus's mind and body.
Samus joined the Federation Police, where she excelled far above any at the academy. Only one being in a million was cut out to be a member of the police force, and she rose above them all. She received cybernetic enhancements, enhancing her already high combat capabilities to nigh-superhuman levels. Eventually, she was promoted to the Star-Trackers, which only one out of a million police officers is qualified for.
She was assigned to the command of Adam Malkovich, who referred to her as "Lady." He would always finish his orders with the question, "Any objections, Lady?" It was his way of cementing the trust between the two of them.
A few years later, without warning, Samus vanished completely, abandoning her post in the GF Police. Her reasons for doing so are unknown. She did not resurface until a few years later, and by this time had become universally-renowned as a Bounty Hunter. She had spent these years single-handedly hunting down Space Pirates. So much of her life during this time is shrouded in mystery, the public believed her to be a male cyborg, not the same woman who graduated first in her class at the GF Police.
After becoming the most famed and capable of all Bounty Hunters, succeeding in missions everyone considered impossible, Samus was summoned by the Galactic Federation. A Federation Planet Reclamation Devision had been sent to capture Metroid specimens for study, but the Space Pirates had swept in, killed all the crew, and stolen the Metroid. The capture of this creature was a disastrous blow to the Federation.
The Metroid could leech life from victims, was impervious to most weaponry, and could be cheaply cloned by exposure to beta rays for 24 standard hours. The Pirates had already tested their potential in a three-way simultaneous act on several Federation worlds, which were a stunning success for the Pirates’, with no casualties to their side at all. This was a grave threat to the fate of the Federation. With hundreds of Metroids under their power, the Space Pirates would inevitably begin a campaign to conquer the rest of the universe. Galactic Civilization would end.
After a long and harrowing search, the Federation Police tracked the Pirates to Zebes. They launched an invasion but Pirate resistance was strong. After much debate, the Federation decided to turn to Samus to infiltrate the base at Zebes. It was to be the first of many encounters with the Space Pirates, as well as the alien Metroids. Things came to a head after clearing planet SR388 of Metroid infestation.
SR388 was now free of Metroids, and so the Galactic Federation decided to send in a research party to investigate the planet. Due to her previous experience with the planet and its inhabitants, Samus was hired to serve as a guide to the researchers, to collect samples of life for the Biologic Space Laboratories (BSL). The researchers and Samus arrived on the planet, and when Samus and the troopers were trying to capture a Hornoad, a mysterious parasite injected itself inside Samus. Thinking nothing of it, the team continued on their mission. After their search was completed and the team returned to their ships, the parasite, which had infested her central nervous system, caused her to fall unconscious and drift her gunship into an asteroid belt. Fortunately, her escape pod was ejected from the ship and retrieved by the BSL.
The X had infected such large portions of her Power Suit that it had to be surgically removed, drastically altering her physical appearance. She was initially given a less than 1% chance of survival, but very fortunately the scientists discovered a cure: Metroids. The Metroids were discovered to have been created by the Chozo in order to exterminate the X. With this knowledge in mind, the scientists used a culture of Metroid cells extracted from the Infant Metroid to make a vaccine. The vaccine was an astonishing success; the X were completely purged from her body, curing her completely. The vaccine had some unexpected side effects on her body, however. Now that she was immune to the X. Samus also gained the Metroid’s trademark weakness to cold. More than just her biology changed, however; the surgical removal of parts of her Power Suit suit had left her with a radically different appearance, and the neccesary removal of her combat cybernetics.
An attempt to regain her original Varia suit lead to the destruction of a prominent Federation research station, where Samus discovered the Federation had been cloning Metroids in the same fashion as early Space Pirates, to use as biological weapons. She regained her suit and restored most of her biology, but the federation cybernetics were gone forever. Returning to the Federation was no longer an option, so she headed towards the Galactic Rim to resume life as a bounty Hunter.
See: http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Samus_aran for a full game-to-game history
Point in Canon: Only a few days after the end of Metroid Fusion (the last paragraph above), while travelling to the Rim via Gunship.
Character Personality: Samus is practically a textbook definition for the "Strong, Silent type." For most of her life she's spoken little, preferring to let her arm cannon or combat training do the talking for her. She's shunned personal relationships and connections, working alone and enjoying it that way. A series of betrayals by potential business partners and would be superiors has left her distrustful and suspicious, particularly of authority figures, or those trying to cozy up to her.
Character Plans: I was definately going to have Samus swing back into action as a Bounty Hunter, trying to make a name for herself in this new situation. Eventually she'll turn her talents to looking for a way home, and perhaps might be swayed to fighting for a cause instead of for money.
Appearance/PB:http://media.photobucket.com/image/samus%20aran%20pictures/RedDevil01/Art/SamusAran.jpg
She more likely looks like this now: http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/18/samus-1.jpg
General
Canon Source: The "Metroid" franchise games by Nintendo. (Metroid, Zero Mission, Metroid Prime, Hunters, Echoes, Corruption, Return of Samus, Super Metroid, Other M and Fusion)
Canon Format: Originally, and primarily, video games. All the "Metroid" franchise games, as well as the "Super Smash Brothers" games. The character also appeared in the cartoon "Captain N, the Game Master" as well as a short lived comic run in Nintendo Power.
Character's Name: Samus Aran
Character's Age: 27
What form will your character's NV take? An electronic "bracer" set onto her left wrist and forearm with a flip up screen, expanding keyboard and small holo-projector that can place the image of someone she's talking to in the palm of her left hand.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Years and years of combat training, as well as many years of actual combat experience against Space Pirates, Aliens, Mutants and a host of other baddies. She's strong, fast and tough, though not beyond human capabilities. Her body has been infused with Chozo (Alien Race) and Metroid (Other Alien Race) DNA, giving her high resistence to hostile enviroments.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Given that her DNA has been mucked with on more then one occasion, I was thinking the Core would have taken it a step further and given her genetic structure a more "Mutable" form. Essentially she can transform, physically, into a much larger, much faster, much tougher biological monster. Think Tyrant or Nemesis from Resident Evil. It's new, so she'd need to learn, and it's creepy so she'll be reluctant to use it. Afterwards the transformation leaves her physically exhausted and hungry enough to clear a buffet table. Physically she resembles a bulked up, organic version of her Varia suit. She grows to about seven feet, and a hard but flexible exoskeleton secretes from her skin before hardening into a black carapace, with thinner, blue section at joints. Her head is encased with a helmet like layer of chitin, eyes protected by a transparent layer of the same material. Her arms and legs lengthen, with her fingers tapering off into rending claws. The lower half of her face is not encased in the helmet, but rather becomes an elongated, almost muzzle-like, jaw set with rows of sharp teeth for rending and tearing. Accelerated musculature allows her to jump long distances or moderate heights, and she can comfortably scale any surface she can sink her claws into.
Weapons: Zero Suit: Essentially the undersuit for Samus' more powerful Varia Suit powered armour, the Zero Suit enhances Samus' natural agility and athleticism, but lacks the augmented strength and heavy armour of the full suit. Although it stretches and bends like fabric, the Zero Suit does provide some small protection over normal clothes. The Paralyzer: Samus' sidearm, considered a weak backup to her full powered suit. It fires small energy projectiles that disrupt the nervous system, causing a temporary sense of dizziness and lack of muscle co-ordination, a "stunning" effect. With a press of a button the handle slides back to create a sword like grip, and the barrel acts as the anchor point for a whip of controlled plasma energy.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Samus spent her childhood with her family on the mining planet K-2L. The planet was raided by Space Pirates, who were looking for bounty. The leader of the Space Pirates, Ridley, killed everyone in Samus's colony, including her parents,and then reduced the planet to barren wastes. Orphaned, Samus was found by a bird-like alien race known as the Chozo, who brought her to their home planet Zebes. Samus was infused with Chozo DNA to give her a strong resistance to foreign environments, then trained as a warrior and given one of the alien race's artifacts, a powered exoskeleton called the Varia Suit that biologically entwines itself with Samus's mind and body.
Samus joined the Federation Police, where she excelled far above any at the academy. Only one being in a million was cut out to be a member of the police force, and she rose above them all. She received cybernetic enhancements, enhancing her already high combat capabilities to nigh-superhuman levels. Eventually, she was promoted to the Star-Trackers, which only one out of a million police officers is qualified for.
She was assigned to the command of Adam Malkovich, who referred to her as "Lady." He would always finish his orders with the question, "Any objections, Lady?" It was his way of cementing the trust between the two of them.
A few years later, without warning, Samus vanished completely, abandoning her post in the GF Police. Her reasons for doing so are unknown. She did not resurface until a few years later, and by this time had become universally-renowned as a Bounty Hunter. She had spent these years single-handedly hunting down Space Pirates. So much of her life during this time is shrouded in mystery, the public believed her to be a male cyborg, not the same woman who graduated first in her class at the GF Police.
After becoming the most famed and capable of all Bounty Hunters, succeeding in missions everyone considered impossible, Samus was summoned by the Galactic Federation. A Federation Planet Reclamation Devision had been sent to capture Metroid specimens for study, but the Space Pirates had swept in, killed all the crew, and stolen the Metroid. The capture of this creature was a disastrous blow to the Federation.
The Metroid could leech life from victims, was impervious to most weaponry, and could be cheaply cloned by exposure to beta rays for 24 standard hours. The Pirates had already tested their potential in a three-way simultaneous act on several Federation worlds, which were a stunning success for the Pirates’, with no casualties to their side at all. This was a grave threat to the fate of the Federation. With hundreds of Metroids under their power, the Space Pirates would inevitably begin a campaign to conquer the rest of the universe. Galactic Civilization would end.
After a long and harrowing search, the Federation Police tracked the Pirates to Zebes. They launched an invasion but Pirate resistance was strong. After much debate, the Federation decided to turn to Samus to infiltrate the base at Zebes. It was to be the first of many encounters with the Space Pirates, as well as the alien Metroids. Things came to a head after clearing planet SR388 of Metroid infestation.
SR388 was now free of Metroids, and so the Galactic Federation decided to send in a research party to investigate the planet. Due to her previous experience with the planet and its inhabitants, Samus was hired to serve as a guide to the researchers, to collect samples of life for the Biologic Space Laboratories (BSL). The researchers and Samus arrived on the planet, and when Samus and the troopers were trying to capture a Hornoad, a mysterious parasite injected itself inside Samus. Thinking nothing of it, the team continued on their mission. After their search was completed and the team returned to their ships, the parasite, which had infested her central nervous system, caused her to fall unconscious and drift her gunship into an asteroid belt. Fortunately, her escape pod was ejected from the ship and retrieved by the BSL.
The X had infected such large portions of her Power Suit that it had to be surgically removed, drastically altering her physical appearance. She was initially given a less than 1% chance of survival, but very fortunately the scientists discovered a cure: Metroids. The Metroids were discovered to have been created by the Chozo in order to exterminate the X. With this knowledge in mind, the scientists used a culture of Metroid cells extracted from the Infant Metroid to make a vaccine. The vaccine was an astonishing success; the X were completely purged from her body, curing her completely. The vaccine had some unexpected side effects on her body, however. Now that she was immune to the X. Samus also gained the Metroid’s trademark weakness to cold. More than just her biology changed, however; the surgical removal of parts of her Power Suit suit had left her with a radically different appearance, and the neccesary removal of her combat cybernetics.
An attempt to regain her original Varia suit lead to the destruction of a prominent Federation research station, where Samus discovered the Federation had been cloning Metroids in the same fashion as early Space Pirates, to use as biological weapons. She regained her suit and restored most of her biology, but the federation cybernetics were gone forever. Returning to the Federation was no longer an option, so she headed towards the Galactic Rim to resume life as a bounty Hunter.
See: http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Samus_aran for a full game-to-game history
Point in Canon: Only a few days after the end of Metroid Fusion (the last paragraph above), while travelling to the Rim via Gunship.
Character Personality: Samus is practically a textbook definition for the "Strong, Silent type." For most of her life she's spoken little, preferring to let her arm cannon or combat training do the talking for her. She's shunned personal relationships and connections, working alone and enjoying it that way. A series of betrayals by potential business partners and would be superiors has left her distrustful and suspicious, particularly of authority figures, or those trying to cozy up to her.
Character Plans: I was definately going to have Samus swing back into action as a Bounty Hunter, trying to make a name for herself in this new situation. Eventually she'll turn her talents to looking for a way home, and perhaps might be swayed to fighting for a cause instead of for money.
Appearance/PB:http://media.photobucket.com/image/samus%20aran%20pictures/RedDevil01/Art/SamusAran.jpg
She more likely looks like this now: http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/18/samus-1.jpg
