Application: Cape and Cowl
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Mica
AGE: 24
JOURNAL: mica_silverwind
IM: AIM: pearlyunicorn1
E-MAIL: evilshrimpy@yahoo.com
RETURNING: 1: Major Motoko Kusanagi
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Chang Wufei
FANDOM: Mobiles Suit Gundam Wing
CHRONOLOGY: Post-Endless Waltz, but before signing up with the Preventors, officially.
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: Justice
ALTER EGO: Chang Wufei - he'll almost certainly sign up for police work. FOR GREAT JUSTICE.
BACKGROUND:
With high expectations, Mankind has colonized space, and, down on the Earth, the nations have united as the United Earth Sphere Alliance. However, the Alliance oppresses the colonies with its military power in the name of Justice and Peace. The colonies desire a peaceful resolution to the situation, joining together in a movement headed by the pacifist Heero Yuy. In the year After Colony 175, Yuy is shot dead by an assassin (believed to be Odin Lowe), forcing the colonies to search for other paths to peace. The assassination also prompts five disaffected scientists from the Organization of the Zodiac (more commonly referred to as OZ) to turn rogue after the completion of the mobile suit prototype Tallgeese.
And that's when shit got real.
Each scientist created one extremely advanced mobile suit, made from the rare and extremely durable material, gundanium, and therefore collectively known as "Gundams." The operation involves five teenage boys, who have each been chosen and trained by one of the five scientists, then sent to Earth independently. At first, each is completely unaware of the others, at first. This is Operation Meteor, the scientists plan for vengeance against OZ: their mission is to attack OZ directly, in order to rid the Alliance of its weapons and free the colonies from its oppressive rule. The Gundam pilots each start out on separate missions, but encounter each other and then join forces later while on Earth.
While each pilot's first encounter with the planet Earth and its inhabitants played out differently, each was explosive and bloody. All but one reach their destinations with relative impunity, and proceed with their missions, systematically destroying out supply depots and weapons production facilities in accordance with the goal of crippling OZ's military structure and relieving said pressure on the colonies. Despite their success, the sinister organization is still able to complete its ultimate goal of overturning the Alliance and becoming the new ruler of Earth and the colonies.
While Wufei participates in these battles in brief on-screen vignettes, it's clear that his fights are won through such overwhelmingly superior firepower as to make handwaving them plausible, considering the other drama that's being enacted by the other four pilots. Keeping his efforts on his duties, rather than seeking out the other pilots, Wufei continues to pursue his mission goals, eventually getting some screentime when he attacks the military base at Lake Victoria when one of OZ lieutenants, Zechs Merquise happens to be present. His is a display of terrifying power, fire and death raining from above.
Later, meeting up with the other pilots for a joint mission meant to end the conflict by assassinating the leaders and upper-level influences of OZ, Wufei participates in a botched mission that results instead in the deaths of nearly all the pacifist leaders of the colonies at the hands of the gundam pilots. Meanwhile, in another location, the operatives of OZ take out the remaining few people who might be able to bring the colonies under peaceful alignment with the rest of the world.
Horrified and enraged, Wufei seeks out the OZ leader and figurehead a charismatic and deadly man, Treize Kushrenada, meaning to assassinate him. At first he moves to kill him with his gundam, ruthlessly cutting down every one of Treize's soldiers, but when the man challenges Wufei to a sword duel to determine the outcome of the fight, he can't resist indulging the chivalry of the moment, nor his pride, and comes out of his cockpit to fight the man. Confidant and brash compared to Treize's suave maturity, Wufei seems more like a rough, unfinished youth, a wild dog biting at its chains by comparison. Treize defeats him after a few minutes of fighting, and Wufei looks up at him in wary disbelief with the sword at his throat, thinking his life is over. He accepts it, even, because it was a difficult fight, fairly lost. But, in his dignity and grace, Treize chooses to spare the pilot, much to the chagrin of....well, everyone. Distraught and confused, Wufei honors his loss by withdrawing and, with his gundam, sinks deep into the ocean and despair.
For a long time, that was it. He eventually left the ocean floor, more out of a sense of duty and prudence than of a desire to go anywhere and went to the only place he knew would not find him unusual, on the planet; China. He hid his gundam and blended with the populace, unable to know or decide what to do next. Of course his 'take a sanity vacation' plan was thwarted by one Sally Po, a former Alliance officer, now the leader of a guerrilla unit fighting that same Alliance. With her help and by her example, Wufei regains the motivation and inspiration to fight on and takes his Gundam back into the conflict. She is, therefore, one of the very few of women that he respects.
Reunited with his purpose and back on track, Wufei responds to a call-to-arms from the other pilots and heads off into space again. Though his gundam is unsuited for zero-g fighting, Wufei attacks a fortified "space barge fortress" in an attempt to derail the efforts of the newly appointed diplomat to the space colonies, Lady Une, a truly psychotic woman who once before threatened complete destruction of the colonies to force compliance from the Gundam Pilots. Unable to make headway, Wufei is forced to escape before he can be finished off, innovatively using the blast from his own gundam's explosive fuel as the method of propulsion when all other avenues are blocked.
Later, after receiving a covert message from the captured scientists that had originally built the five gundams, Wufei allows himself to be caught, knowing that his gundam will be taken to them and upgraded, under the orders of their captors. Duo Maxwell, another gundam pilot, is eventually captured as well and put into the same cell as Wufei. He chatters to fill the silence and Wufei bears up under this with stoic, persistent patience, impressing Duo with his calm fortitude. When the air is shut off to the cell bloc, Wufei meditates to reduce his oxygen requirements, maintaining serenity in the face of death.
Due to a violent coup and series of battles being fought outside, the cells are unlocked and Wufei escapes handily alongside Duo, each stealing their newly upgraded but partially incomplete gundams on the way out. Wufei retreats to his home colony, in the L5 cluster to gain enlist to the skilled technicians and supplies that assisted in creating the original gundam in completing this new form.
However, he is forced to witness it's destruction when they choose suicide as the only effective method of truly rebelling against OZ. Shattered to his core, driven practically insane with grief, Wufei denies all offers of assistance from a Zechs whose loyalties are shifted, declaring that he lacks justice and is incapable and unworthy of being the instrument to bring about peace. Wufei moves through space tirelessly, killing OZ troops and drone units along with Romefeller and White Fang- anyone and everyone who has taken a side in this war, he does his best to slaughter, driven by the memory of his colony's destruction and his hatred for their enemies.
In particular he attempts to fight White Fang whole and entire on his own, a third-party faction who recently offered their leadership to the defected Zechs Merquise (now going as Milliadro Peacecraft, his supposed birth name). When his rabid, thoughtless aggression forces Wufei to accept an offer from another gundam pilot to use his gundam for the duration of a battle, Wufei is forced to accept. This is Gundam Wing Zero, Heero's upgraded gundam with an artificial inteligence so advanced that it's predictive moves appear to coincide with some unknown form of telepathy or prescience. During the battle, the machine's mind-altering influence convinces Wufei to rejoin forces with the other pilots, and helps him funnel his emotions into more productive channels.
Then, everything just goes straight to hell in a handbasket. Twelve different political intrigues come to fruition, people die, Zechs flips his shit and a giant canon intended to act as a weapon of mas destruction to level the playing field between earth and the colonies' vulnerabilities gets fired a few times. Wufei is in the background a bit during the ensuing series of fights.
Wufei fights mobile dolls and gets a rematch with Treize, questioning if Treize understands justice and the consequences of his actions. However, as Treize reveals that he does understand, he allows himself to be killed by Wufei's Gundam in a reversal of their original duel. Having only just come to truly understand and respect this man, Wufei is shocked to find himself grieving that the world had to lose such a man to gain the chance of lasting peace. Overwhelmed with emotion, Wufei broke down in tears having finally beaten an enemy he had spent months trying to defeat.
Soon after that, Wufei retrieved Wing Zero's buster rifle and delivered it to Heero who shot down the final block of Libra that was descending to Earth, bringing an end to the conflict.
Except...nothing had really changed. Even though now the colonies were treated with a modicum of fairness, Wufei's personal mission had grown to become more than that. How could he care for the fairness in political-economic dealings when his home, his people, and everything that had ever represented them were so much debris and vaporized space-dust? There was still so much injustice in the world, that a man like Treize, who acted honorably and well, and who valued his men and their sacrifices as highly as they should be was killed by Wufei's own hand, as the only path to that dubious prize, peace? The strong still oppressed the weak, the powerful still committed countless injustices with impunity! He couldn't bear to accept that these things were just human nature, the way the world is.
So when Mariemaia, a young girl claiming to be Treize's biological daughter approached him with a plan to rid the world of injustice and take over, Wufei signed up to help her. He was vulnerable.
Of course, something like that can't go unanswered by the other pilots who, by then, had retreated into their own peacetime lives. Wufei fought hard and bravely on Mariemaia's behalf, but was undone by the conviction and sacrifices of Heero, leaving him speechless and with no defensible excuse for his actions. Ashamed, he turned and fought alongside his fellow pilots to put and end to the conflict, for once and all.
Afterward, he joined with the 'Preventors' a multinational paramilitary group tasked with the control and destruction of the lingering weapons of war and maintaining the tenuous but strengthening peace between the earth and her colonies. It wasn't perfect, but it meant he could work towards that fair and just world that he had envisioned. He was sixteen years old.
PERSONALITY:
Wufei grew up as an heir of the Long Clan in Colony A0206. The clan had been exiled from China and forced to move to the aging colony. At the age of 14, as per clan custom, it was arranged that he would marry to Master Long's(an elder clan member) granddaughter Meiran who was also an heir. Wufei and his wife did not get along well; Meiran did not feel Wufei was fit to carry on the clan's name due to his scholarly nature, while he felt she was rash and impulsive, and had no real understanding what they were fighting for.
In an attack on the colony, Wufei in his incomplete Shenlong Gundam, and Meiran in a borrowed precursor to the Tallgeese favored by Zechs later in the series defended their home against outside influences- at the cost of Meiran's life. Profoundly affected by his wife's death, Wufei took to calling his gundam 'Nataku' according to Meiran's wishes and took up her cause to bring Justice to the world.
He was fifteen at the start of operation meteor, a brash, confident, utterly trained weapon of a child, full of pride and aggression. He has been brought low by his experiences in the war- technically wars. Thoroughly inured to pain and physical hurt, Wufei's spirit nevertheless has taken a terrible beating, leaving him externally cold and analytical but driven to occasional rages and terrible fits of temper. Rather than being suicidal, he is completely ready, as most of the gundam pilots are, to risk his life to prove his often overbearing and purist points. Despite his necessary emphasis on the physical, and his affected immature speech patterns and combative attitudes, Wufei is actually much more at home in quiet, isolationist study. In other words, Chang Wufei, war veteran, is an enormous nerd.
POWER:
Pyrokinesis, with a twist.
Able to control, create and manipulate a psychic fire with his mind (and, inevitably, with his martial arts) Wufei's abilities mimic that of the Altron Gundam's superior melee capabilities and double arm-mounted flamethrowers. He is incapable of burning "innocents." Well, to be completely fair, he could technically burn whatever and whoever he likes- but the flame responds to both conscious and subconscious demands, making his own heavily reinforced mental blocks more of a tactical weakness than usual by preventing him from casually burning people to death unless he can convince himself that they deserve it.
However, there is another application of this psychic flame; information. Burning a book, for example, will allow him to absorb in an instant the complete contents. This will likely be more than a little horrifying to the scholar in Wufei, balanced by the deep desire for knowledge. Because he doesn't have enough of a guilt complex, yet, clearly. This can also be applied to human beings and animals; a small touch, perhaps the size of a cigarette burn will convey knowledge of the comings and goings of that person for perhaps the past hour, while burning someone whole and entire transfers a synesthetic kaleidoscope of memories and personality in much the same fashion of Rogue from the X-Men.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: [(after some fight against a supervillain or something that resulted in a lot of casualties.)]
[audio]
Is that all this is to you people? A game?! This kind of battlefield is no place for- [he cuts himself off, because he knows what people will say to- NO, NEVERMIND. SCREW YOU ALL.]
For children!
If they continue to be killed, to just die and come back again, then what is the meaning of this conflict? There's no justice in this, nor is there any purpose! Even so, to involve civilians is unforgivable! Unforgivable!
[Having made that declaration he peters off, still snarling with the furor of his conviction. You can hear his breath hissing through his teeth, if you turn the volume up.]
And I will destroy you myself, as many times as it takes. You may return if you can, but I will fight you, and continue to fight until there's nothing left of you.
[click!]
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE: It was an act of attrition, now. To read.
Wufei sat in the dark. He knew that if he looked up, he'd be able to see in the angle-twisted dapples from the blinds striping the shape of the apartment around him. It wasn't fair to call the MAC a slum, but given the aptitudes and attitudes of it's typical inhabitant, accurate enough.There was a light on in the kitchen, but it was dim and the only indication through his open bedroom door was a slight lightening of the blue-grey twilight. It didn't occur to Wufei to expect rain.
His eyes had adjusted to the light a while ago, far too dark to read, but he was still looking down at the book in his hands. It lay open, scrawled over with graceful, beautiful lines of ink, some language completely foreign to him, alien script. It was beautiful, hand-bound and made with care, written with a brush or stylus, not printed. He could smell the age in the paper, see the yellowing.
Would have seen the yellowing, had there been light to; even then, he couldn't read it.
But, more than anything in this city, he wanted to know. But to know, he would have to destroy it, utterly destroy this beautiful thing, innocently made, fashioned and bound and written by an artist's hand for some unknown purpose. It was beautiful, and ancient and strong. The phone woke him from his reverie with a start that had his hand halfway to the gun on the bed beside him before Wufei realized how foolish that was. His jaw tightened until his teeth creaked- and, finally, the phone stopped ringing.
Chang Wufei closed his eyes against the glare and inhaled deeply of the musty smoke from the ancient, alien book as it burnt to nothing in his hands. The sprinkler of course did not go off; he'd disabled it weeks ago. After a moment, the knowledge came, flooding like a drug high through his system. It had been a cookbook, that beautiful book he had burned.
He stood, and moved towards the kitchen. A snap, and the tiny oven-light went out. The jingle of keys and the locks on the door preceded the roar of the motorcycle's engine as he left. After all; one cannot cook without groceries.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
NAME: Mica
AGE: 24
JOURNAL: mica_silverwind
IM: AIM: pearlyunicorn1
E-MAIL: evilshrimpy@yahoo.com
RETURNING: 1: Major Motoko Kusanagi
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Chang Wufei
FANDOM: Mobiles Suit Gundam Wing
CHRONOLOGY: Post-Endless Waltz, but before signing up with the Preventors, officially.
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: Justice
ALTER EGO: Chang Wufei - he'll almost certainly sign up for police work. FOR GREAT JUSTICE.
BACKGROUND:
With high expectations, Mankind has colonized space, and, down on the Earth, the nations have united as the United Earth Sphere Alliance. However, the Alliance oppresses the colonies with its military power in the name of Justice and Peace. The colonies desire a peaceful resolution to the situation, joining together in a movement headed by the pacifist Heero Yuy. In the year After Colony 175, Yuy is shot dead by an assassin (believed to be Odin Lowe), forcing the colonies to search for other paths to peace. The assassination also prompts five disaffected scientists from the Organization of the Zodiac (more commonly referred to as OZ) to turn rogue after the completion of the mobile suit prototype Tallgeese.
And that's when shit got real.
Each scientist created one extremely advanced mobile suit, made from the rare and extremely durable material, gundanium, and therefore collectively known as "Gundams." The operation involves five teenage boys, who have each been chosen and trained by one of the five scientists, then sent to Earth independently. At first, each is completely unaware of the others, at first. This is Operation Meteor, the scientists plan for vengeance against OZ: their mission is to attack OZ directly, in order to rid the Alliance of its weapons and free the colonies from its oppressive rule. The Gundam pilots each start out on separate missions, but encounter each other and then join forces later while on Earth.
While each pilot's first encounter with the planet Earth and its inhabitants played out differently, each was explosive and bloody. All but one reach their destinations with relative impunity, and proceed with their missions, systematically destroying out supply depots and weapons production facilities in accordance with the goal of crippling OZ's military structure and relieving said pressure on the colonies. Despite their success, the sinister organization is still able to complete its ultimate goal of overturning the Alliance and becoming the new ruler of Earth and the colonies.
While Wufei participates in these battles in brief on-screen vignettes, it's clear that his fights are won through such overwhelmingly superior firepower as to make handwaving them plausible, considering the other drama that's being enacted by the other four pilots. Keeping his efforts on his duties, rather than seeking out the other pilots, Wufei continues to pursue his mission goals, eventually getting some screentime when he attacks the military base at Lake Victoria when one of OZ lieutenants, Zechs Merquise happens to be present. His is a display of terrifying power, fire and death raining from above.
Later, meeting up with the other pilots for a joint mission meant to end the conflict by assassinating the leaders and upper-level influences of OZ, Wufei participates in a botched mission that results instead in the deaths of nearly all the pacifist leaders of the colonies at the hands of the gundam pilots. Meanwhile, in another location, the operatives of OZ take out the remaining few people who might be able to bring the colonies under peaceful alignment with the rest of the world.
Horrified and enraged, Wufei seeks out the OZ leader and figurehead a charismatic and deadly man, Treize Kushrenada, meaning to assassinate him. At first he moves to kill him with his gundam, ruthlessly cutting down every one of Treize's soldiers, but when the man challenges Wufei to a sword duel to determine the outcome of the fight, he can't resist indulging the chivalry of the moment, nor his pride, and comes out of his cockpit to fight the man. Confidant and brash compared to Treize's suave maturity, Wufei seems more like a rough, unfinished youth, a wild dog biting at its chains by comparison. Treize defeats him after a few minutes of fighting, and Wufei looks up at him in wary disbelief with the sword at his throat, thinking his life is over. He accepts it, even, because it was a difficult fight, fairly lost. But, in his dignity and grace, Treize chooses to spare the pilot, much to the chagrin of....well, everyone. Distraught and confused, Wufei honors his loss by withdrawing and, with his gundam, sinks deep into the ocean and despair.
For a long time, that was it. He eventually left the ocean floor, more out of a sense of duty and prudence than of a desire to go anywhere and went to the only place he knew would not find him unusual, on the planet; China. He hid his gundam and blended with the populace, unable to know or decide what to do next. Of course his 'take a sanity vacation' plan was thwarted by one Sally Po, a former Alliance officer, now the leader of a guerrilla unit fighting that same Alliance. With her help and by her example, Wufei regains the motivation and inspiration to fight on and takes his Gundam back into the conflict. She is, therefore, one of the very few of women that he respects.
Reunited with his purpose and back on track, Wufei responds to a call-to-arms from the other pilots and heads off into space again. Though his gundam is unsuited for zero-g fighting, Wufei attacks a fortified "space barge fortress" in an attempt to derail the efforts of the newly appointed diplomat to the space colonies, Lady Une, a truly psychotic woman who once before threatened complete destruction of the colonies to force compliance from the Gundam Pilots. Unable to make headway, Wufei is forced to escape before he can be finished off, innovatively using the blast from his own gundam's explosive fuel as the method of propulsion when all other avenues are blocked.
Later, after receiving a covert message from the captured scientists that had originally built the five gundams, Wufei allows himself to be caught, knowing that his gundam will be taken to them and upgraded, under the orders of their captors. Duo Maxwell, another gundam pilot, is eventually captured as well and put into the same cell as Wufei. He chatters to fill the silence and Wufei bears up under this with stoic, persistent patience, impressing Duo with his calm fortitude. When the air is shut off to the cell bloc, Wufei meditates to reduce his oxygen requirements, maintaining serenity in the face of death.
Due to a violent coup and series of battles being fought outside, the cells are unlocked and Wufei escapes handily alongside Duo, each stealing their newly upgraded but partially incomplete gundams on the way out. Wufei retreats to his home colony, in the L5 cluster to gain enlist to the skilled technicians and supplies that assisted in creating the original gundam in completing this new form.
However, he is forced to witness it's destruction when they choose suicide as the only effective method of truly rebelling against OZ. Shattered to his core, driven practically insane with grief, Wufei denies all offers of assistance from a Zechs whose loyalties are shifted, declaring that he lacks justice and is incapable and unworthy of being the instrument to bring about peace. Wufei moves through space tirelessly, killing OZ troops and drone units along with Romefeller and White Fang- anyone and everyone who has taken a side in this war, he does his best to slaughter, driven by the memory of his colony's destruction and his hatred for their enemies.
In particular he attempts to fight White Fang whole and entire on his own, a third-party faction who recently offered their leadership to the defected Zechs Merquise (now going as Milliadro Peacecraft, his supposed birth name). When his rabid, thoughtless aggression forces Wufei to accept an offer from another gundam pilot to use his gundam for the duration of a battle, Wufei is forced to accept. This is Gundam Wing Zero, Heero's upgraded gundam with an artificial inteligence so advanced that it's predictive moves appear to coincide with some unknown form of telepathy or prescience. During the battle, the machine's mind-altering influence convinces Wufei to rejoin forces with the other pilots, and helps him funnel his emotions into more productive channels.
Then, everything just goes straight to hell in a handbasket. Twelve different political intrigues come to fruition, people die, Zechs flips his shit and a giant canon intended to act as a weapon of mas destruction to level the playing field between earth and the colonies' vulnerabilities gets fired a few times. Wufei is in the background a bit during the ensuing series of fights.
Wufei fights mobile dolls and gets a rematch with Treize, questioning if Treize understands justice and the consequences of his actions. However, as Treize reveals that he does understand, he allows himself to be killed by Wufei's Gundam in a reversal of their original duel. Having only just come to truly understand and respect this man, Wufei is shocked to find himself grieving that the world had to lose such a man to gain the chance of lasting peace. Overwhelmed with emotion, Wufei broke down in tears having finally beaten an enemy he had spent months trying to defeat.
Soon after that, Wufei retrieved Wing Zero's buster rifle and delivered it to Heero who shot down the final block of Libra that was descending to Earth, bringing an end to the conflict.
Except...nothing had really changed. Even though now the colonies were treated with a modicum of fairness, Wufei's personal mission had grown to become more than that. How could he care for the fairness in political-economic dealings when his home, his people, and everything that had ever represented them were so much debris and vaporized space-dust? There was still so much injustice in the world, that a man like Treize, who acted honorably and well, and who valued his men and their sacrifices as highly as they should be was killed by Wufei's own hand, as the only path to that dubious prize, peace? The strong still oppressed the weak, the powerful still committed countless injustices with impunity! He couldn't bear to accept that these things were just human nature, the way the world is.
So when Mariemaia, a young girl claiming to be Treize's biological daughter approached him with a plan to rid the world of injustice and take over, Wufei signed up to help her. He was vulnerable.
Of course, something like that can't go unanswered by the other pilots who, by then, had retreated into their own peacetime lives. Wufei fought hard and bravely on Mariemaia's behalf, but was undone by the conviction and sacrifices of Heero, leaving him speechless and with no defensible excuse for his actions. Ashamed, he turned and fought alongside his fellow pilots to put and end to the conflict, for once and all.
Afterward, he joined with the 'Preventors' a multinational paramilitary group tasked with the control and destruction of the lingering weapons of war and maintaining the tenuous but strengthening peace between the earth and her colonies. It wasn't perfect, but it meant he could work towards that fair and just world that he had envisioned. He was sixteen years old.
PERSONALITY:
Wufei grew up as an heir of the Long Clan in Colony A0206. The clan had been exiled from China and forced to move to the aging colony. At the age of 14, as per clan custom, it was arranged that he would marry to Master Long's(an elder clan member) granddaughter Meiran who was also an heir. Wufei and his wife did not get along well; Meiran did not feel Wufei was fit to carry on the clan's name due to his scholarly nature, while he felt she was rash and impulsive, and had no real understanding what they were fighting for.
In an attack on the colony, Wufei in his incomplete Shenlong Gundam, and Meiran in a borrowed precursor to the Tallgeese favored by Zechs later in the series defended their home against outside influences- at the cost of Meiran's life. Profoundly affected by his wife's death, Wufei took to calling his gundam 'Nataku' according to Meiran's wishes and took up her cause to bring Justice to the world.
He was fifteen at the start of operation meteor, a brash, confident, utterly trained weapon of a child, full of pride and aggression. He has been brought low by his experiences in the war- technically wars. Thoroughly inured to pain and physical hurt, Wufei's spirit nevertheless has taken a terrible beating, leaving him externally cold and analytical but driven to occasional rages and terrible fits of temper. Rather than being suicidal, he is completely ready, as most of the gundam pilots are, to risk his life to prove his often overbearing and purist points. Despite his necessary emphasis on the physical, and his affected immature speech patterns and combative attitudes, Wufei is actually much more at home in quiet, isolationist study. In other words, Chang Wufei, war veteran, is an enormous nerd.
POWER:
Pyrokinesis, with a twist.
Able to control, create and manipulate a psychic fire with his mind (and, inevitably, with his martial arts) Wufei's abilities mimic that of the Altron Gundam's superior melee capabilities and double arm-mounted flamethrowers. He is incapable of burning "innocents." Well, to be completely fair, he could technically burn whatever and whoever he likes- but the flame responds to both conscious and subconscious demands, making his own heavily reinforced mental blocks more of a tactical weakness than usual by preventing him from casually burning people to death unless he can convince himself that they deserve it.
However, there is another application of this psychic flame; information. Burning a book, for example, will allow him to absorb in an instant the complete contents. This will likely be more than a little horrifying to the scholar in Wufei, balanced by the deep desire for knowledge. Because he doesn't have enough of a guilt complex, yet, clearly. This can also be applied to human beings and animals; a small touch, perhaps the size of a cigarette burn will convey knowledge of the comings and goings of that person for perhaps the past hour, while burning someone whole and entire transfers a synesthetic kaleidoscope of memories and personality in much the same fashion of Rogue from the X-Men.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: [(after some fight against a supervillain or something that resulted in a lot of casualties.)]
[audio]
Is that all this is to you people? A game?! This kind of battlefield is no place for- [he cuts himself off, because he knows what people will say to- NO, NEVERMIND. SCREW YOU ALL.]
For children!
If they continue to be killed, to just die and come back again, then what is the meaning of this conflict? There's no justice in this, nor is there any purpose! Even so, to involve civilians is unforgivable! Unforgivable!
[Having made that declaration he peters off, still snarling with the furor of his conviction. You can hear his breath hissing through his teeth, if you turn the volume up.]
And I will destroy you myself, as many times as it takes. You may return if you can, but I will fight you, and continue to fight until there's nothing left of you.
[click!]
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE: It was an act of attrition, now. To read.
Wufei sat in the dark. He knew that if he looked up, he'd be able to see in the angle-twisted dapples from the blinds striping the shape of the apartment around him. It wasn't fair to call the MAC a slum, but given the aptitudes and attitudes of it's typical inhabitant, accurate enough.There was a light on in the kitchen, but it was dim and the only indication through his open bedroom door was a slight lightening of the blue-grey twilight. It didn't occur to Wufei to expect rain.
His eyes had adjusted to the light a while ago, far too dark to read, but he was still looking down at the book in his hands. It lay open, scrawled over with graceful, beautiful lines of ink, some language completely foreign to him, alien script. It was beautiful, hand-bound and made with care, written with a brush or stylus, not printed. He could smell the age in the paper, see the yellowing.
Would have seen the yellowing, had there been light to; even then, he couldn't read it.
But, more than anything in this city, he wanted to know. But to know, he would have to destroy it, utterly destroy this beautiful thing, innocently made, fashioned and bound and written by an artist's hand for some unknown purpose. It was beautiful, and ancient and strong. The phone woke him from his reverie with a start that had his hand halfway to the gun on the bed beside him before Wufei realized how foolish that was. His jaw tightened until his teeth creaked- and, finally, the phone stopped ringing.
Chang Wufei closed his eyes against the glare and inhaled deeply of the musty smoke from the ancient, alien book as it burnt to nothing in his hands. The sprinkler of course did not go off; he'd disabled it weeks ago. After a moment, the knowledge came, flooding like a drug high through his system. It had been a cookbook, that beautiful book he had burned.
He stood, and moved towards the kitchen. A snap, and the tiny oven-light went out. The jingle of keys and the locks on the door preceded the roar of the motorcycle's engine as he left. After all; one cannot cook without groceries.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER: