forum Takedown Team (OPEN FOR ALL!)

Started July 12, 2019 by @Mojack group

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Name: Dr. D'Aja Vu (Her moms are sick bastards when it comes to puns)
Age: 29
Species: ((Cyborg? Human? Alien? Robot? This is a futuristic-sci-fi world we're speaking here, so..)) Human acting as host to alien parasite.
Gender: Female, but parasite is agender.
Sexuality: She never really knew. To be honest, it's the least of her troubles.
Appearance: ((Height would be useful)) one of the sketches is unfinished but I don't care. Also I have zero consistency in my art so I guess I'm just gonna sit here and sob okay moving on!

at about 5' 7" in height and scarily underweight.
Clothing: ((keep in mind of the setting here)) Basically just a basic shirt and pants, sometimes a tool belt.
Job: ((what do they do on the ship? They cook? Navigate? Repair? Stop people from making bad choices?)) Keep people from making bad choices, cook, therapist, and resident doctor.
Backstory: ((doesn't have to be an essay.)) D'Aja is at an all time low. She started life in a junkyard, found by security, and turned over to the only orphanage on the planet, and it wasn't the best place to grow up. However, she was adopted by two amazing women, Anna and Dorian Vu, who raised her well enough with lots of support and love even in their impoverished colony. D'Aja went on to be a doctor, and decided to travel. She promised to meet her moms again in three years. Of course, that plan didn't work out so well. She crashed and given that she had little engineering experience and the rest of her crew was dead she wasn't capable of getting her ship offworld. She was captured by settlers on the planet who were apparently nonviolent, as long as you didn't try to leave and ended up staying 5 years. She met a native to the world, Seo, a restless female engineer ready to get the hell out of there. They spent the next few months repairing the ship and planning what they'd do when they left. They were captured and interrogated the day of departure, but D'Aja managed to escape. Her ship was utterly trashed, but she repaired what she could through Seo having shown her the ropes over the years, but she was held up two months by not having her friend and queerplatonic partner helping out. She returned for Seo, but the woman was terribly shaken and in a nearly catatonic state for a long while, having been tortured and dealing with the reality that D'Aja had left without her. She nursed her partner back to health over the next few months, and eventually they left with quite the struggle, yet again crashing on a slightly nicer planet and ending up meeting the team, who were fighting some Kaiju. D'Aja got lost, meeting a mysterious being that claimed to need her body, and having given up on any hope, let the thing take over in a last, irrational act of self destruction. The being didn't harm her or even take over her body, but it did keep her alive and it kept her safe. D'Aja and Seo joined the Kaiju hunting team later and have lived with them ever since.
Personality: She used to be very upbeat and empathetic, but now doesn't really care about herself much, is slow and just tired of being, in a state of flux between wanting to be and wanting to die. So she's kinda a shitty therapist. If you don't fix your own shit, then you can't help others with theirs. But she tries to support where she can, if she can manage to get out of bed. She hasn't slept in a while.
Other: ((feel free to add other categories too)) Her parasite doesn't normally take any control of D'aja unless she's in grave danger. It does have abilities D'Aja can readily access, if she really knew what they were or cared enough to use them.

Name: Seo
Age: 27
Species: ((Cyborg? Human? Alien? Robot? This is a futuristic-sci-fi world we're speaking here, so..)) Tessian.
Gender: Female
Sexuality: None. She's ace, but pan/demiromantic.
Appearance: ((Height would be useful))

About 5' 2".
Clothing: ((keep in mind of the setting here)) Dresses when she can, otherwise overalls and a shirt that she can easily throw out or is tough enough to survive grease, tears, and smoke, among other repair things.
Job: ((what do they do on the ship? They cook? Navigate? Repair? Stop people from making bad choices?)) Resident engineer and tech genius. Not the best fighter though.
Backstory: ((doesn't have to be an essay.)) Seo hated her planet and people. She knew everything they did to outsiders or people they weren't so fond of otherwise, and that was genetic experimentation. She should know, she helped conduct it. But Seo wanted out and D'Aja and her ship was the best way. Refer to D'Aja's backstory, add more torture, and you've got a good idea of what happened to Seo.
Personality: Carefree and kind, but not the most in touch with emotions at all and very blunt. She can't keep a secret for the life of her, but that's alright because she makes friends easily and you just can't help but forgive her adorably childish face. She's very charismatic in a playful, childlike way, but isn't very domineering, leaving the leading to leaders. But she has a few triggers that will make her hide in her room for a day or two at worst, need to leave the room and collect herself with a bit of crying at best.
Other: ((feel free to add other categories too)) Has some pretty intense PTSD but hides it behind smiles and jokes most of the time. Don't play card or board games with her, she will fucking destroy you because she's a complete boss when it comes to anything remotely strategic.

Note: I suffer from depression, anxiety, anorexia, and have had problems with panic disorders related to trauma in the past. Don't expect me to get everything about these two character' mental health correct, I'm basin this off of my experiences and people that I'm close to's experiences so if I'm misrepresenting something, tell me! My grandmother and one of my bffs both have PTSD so I know a little about this, don't worry, by still. The constructive criticism helps. Good day!

Yay! I finally had the energy to post characters! Feel proud of me!!

Vexhorc was left unsure of what all and everything everyone started talking about. The once toothy smile turned into a puzzled frown. He knew only a few of the terms being used, traps a definite one. Though the creature was unsure of how they were placing said 'trap'. Perhaps he missed something when listening to the conversation. He was sure they had heard him, maybe miscommunication? Or were they all trying to figure something else out entirely?
"Hm…Vexhorc still not like idea of fighting big ugly in own terrain…big ugly smart to lay own trap maybe?"
It was a decent question. He, and probably the rest of the crew, didn't know the intelligence of this creature. This was a wild beast, and most wild creatures were very unpredictable. They wouldn't know what would happen when they finally found the beast and had it trapped.
"Vexhorc and Cruax will still track big ugly…"

"Vex has a fair point. I'd rather not fight a Kaiju in it's den either. Especially underground with no escape." Freya hummed quietly, her tail wrapping itself around the back of her chair. Tapping a claw thoughtfully on her chin she continued. "If we are to engage it in the open, we would have a far better chance. Vex do you think you can draw it out?"

“Oh, yeah, um, that’s not supposed to be there,” Ean muttered, blushing, as he pulled the rubber duck into his arms. “And yeah, that’s a good idea. Let’s get to work then!” He set the duck down next to him and got some tools.

((Right now we’re just preparing and planning for going to Choaliv (the planet) You could meet up with my character KH, if you want to, because he could also give you an in-roleplay briefing of what’s happened so far. Most of us have just said we exited our quarters and went to the cockpit as well, and from there decided what to do.))

KH began to walk around in the hallways again, deciding to look around at some things before the arrival. He paused at one of the ship windows and seemed to stare out of it. It was hard to tell with him. Robot and all.

Strex tapped her claws on the desk as she attempted to pull out a visual of the Kaiju. She exhaled as she was faced to errors each time, before deciding to give up.
She decided to listen into the plans, adding in her thoughts when needed.

(Lmao ok)

Iris added the finishing touches on the paint and stepped back with a satisfied grin. "So these play a high frequency sound and have brought, blinding lights." She said, talking about the burrowing robots "I'm finished with the look if these buggers, you finished there Ean?" She called, flying above the workshop to find him

“Yeppers!” Ean answered. “These drones can be controlled remotely so we can watch them and see what they are doing. They are also equipped with the capacity to play a high frequency sound.” He beamed.

"Perfect! Let's go meet up with the others and show them our creations." She said, landing beside him and holding her wings

“Okay!” Ean agreed, pressing a button on the remote he was holding and bringing the drones next to him to life. “Let’s go!” He made his way out, the drones following him.

The creature turned his head towards Freya. He vigorously nodded his head, having heard her voice in his mind. Vexhorc was well aware of some beings being able to speak via telepathy. He suddenly stood up, being careful with his claws and muscular arms. Once again he stood at his full height.
"Yaya! Bad fight big ugly in own ground. Need hard rock. There mountains here? Mountains usually always hard, tough rock, hard burrow."
Vexhorc ran his bright blue tongue along his lips, then continued, "Vexhorc and Cruax find big ugly. We lead big ugly towards mountains, or where ground hard, hard burrow."

(Okay, I'm posting now! Sorry for taking so long!)

Seo and D'Aja had fallen asleep to reruns of old Earth cartoons, again. D'Aja was still sleeping hard, but Seo had woken up and now she walked along the halls with leaded feet, still groggy and feeling like hell. She and D'Aja had only been here for a few days and travel didn't sit well with Seo's stomach. She headed for the cockpit, hoping to meet up with someone and see if they'd landed yet.

Iris picked up her devices and brought them with her, looking at the small screen in her hands "Let's head there, and see what they think." She said and walked back to the cockpit. She looked at the group still there and waved "we whipped up a few basic devices to assist our endeavors."

Watching the window, as he detected someone moving, KH turned around and saw Seo. He was not one to initiate conversation, but decided to, because Strex told him he should do more conversations. He walked over, calling out, “Hello.”

Strex looked up from her desk. “Oh! What did you guys make?”

Ean was all too eager to show her. “I made some remote-controlled drones that we can use to watch the kaiju and then we can press a button to make them emit high frequency sounds!” he told her, sounding almost like a kid at show-and-tell.

"Hey, KH. Ean, that's awesome!" Seo gave a small applause in approval.

Iris laughed at his excitement and showed her screen "and my burrowing robots also emit a high frequency sound and have extremely bright lights, to lure him towards our trap." She said pulling up a small animated description.

“Yup. Awesome.” KH said, as if the words he just spoke were ‘alien’ to him. Which they were. Most robots were not built with this sort of intent to make these sort of bonds. Even if years had passed, experiences could not erase what was programmed into him. With the words trap, KH also decided to add something.
“I also contacted Choaliv, and they said we can use one of the mining areas for a trap. They haven’t been used very often, with the kaiju around and whatnot.”

“Choaliv’s land is pretty flat, from what I’ve heard. Not many mountains. But I did hear there are some hard spots of ground..” Strex thought. She turned over.
“Those robots and drones will help for sure!”

"Perfect." Iris said, a singled pointed tooth showing. "We should be landing any minute now, I'll go check on our supplies and make sure we are all able to survive that terrain." She said