GOT A MACHINEHEAD

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✘ Name: AgentKaz
✘ Age: 30
✘ Contact: PM, agentkaz
✘ Character(s) currently in game: n/a
✘ Favorite horror tropes/events: body horror (duh), psychological horror, comedy horror, zombies, parasites, scary biomechanical stuff (if these count...)
✘ Limits/Triggers: none
✘ Invited by: Naya


✘ Name: Dr. Robotnik
✘ Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
✘ Canon Point: Sent through the ring to the mushroom planet

✘ Age: 50s
✘ History: wiki link
✘ Personality:

You're assigned a group project. What role do you end up taking?

Let's be real. It doesn't matter what role I decide to take; in the end I'm going to be doing all the work anyway. And if somehow by some miracle I don't have to do all the work? The work won't be done well, and I still have to do it all. So we might as well just ignore all of that "role" crap and appoint me the leading leader in whatever the hell it is I'm being shoved into. It'll save a hell of a lot of people a hell of a lot of time and money, and it'll keep them from having to deal with me complaining about it. And trust me, I can complain. Loudly.

[He gives off an air of annoyance in general, but at least he doesn't seem to have an issue with answering questions right now. Or pounding his fist on a table to make a point.]

Frankly, I'd rather just work alone so nobody bothers me, but we all know how much people want to "foster cooperation" or whatever stupid new buzzphrases they're coming up with these days. Once they start talking about "team building exercises," that's the time to run. Get out and never stop running. There is nothing left there.

You have the chance to anonymously send a letter to someone who's wronged you in the past. What does it say?

Oh, I have the chance to anonymously send one letter? One single solitary letter? How generous of you. Listen, I have the opportunity to send as many letters as I feel like, right here, right now, right this very second. Hell, I'd rather just send them a nice, unpleasant email. [He emphatically taps the computer on his wrist.] Takes less time to get there, less likely to get lost in the mail. All I have to do is put a little effort into finding people, but it's not like it's hard. It's more time-consuming than anything, and with a little bit of multitasking it isn't that big of a deal either.

As for the contents? Oh, nothing too terrifying. They'd all probably say something along the lines of "watch your back," if I felt like being cryptic. Maybe include a little bit of identifying information, just to freak 'em out. Or just give them a nice description of just how much more successful I happen to be.

[He lets out a laugh. He's not trying to be unsettling, but he clearly doesn't care if he is or not.]

All speculative, of course. I have much better things to do right now, so I'm not going to bother putting the effort in. If someone wrongs me, I prefer to take care of it as fast as possible, anyway. Nothing a few machines can't fix.

Someone you admire very much has just done something you find reprehensible. How do you deal with the situation?

Well, in that case I guess I'd have to congratulate myself on the new and exciting depths I've apparently sunken to. See, I'm not one for admiration of others. What's the point? Everyone's going to disappoint you somewhere down the line, so why bother? When it all comes down to it, I'm the only one who can get what I need done. I think I've already taken this particular track, actually. The part with the group project role? Stop making me repeat myself.

[Cue the admonishing finger pointing, even if it didn't really have anything to do with the question at hand.]

Anyway, since my machines aren't going to do anything I find reprehensible in the first place, the only other logical object of my admiration is their creator-- that's right, me. And if I happen to do anything reprehensible, well, it stands to reason that there was a point to it in the first place, absolving me of any and all wrongdoing. So it doesn't matter. There's no situation, there's nothing to deal with. Sure made that easy, huh? You should have me write the questions. I'd be out of here by now and working on something worthwhile. Waaaay better use of my time.

If you could achieve all your goals right now, what would your life look like?

There's always going to be new goals popping up along the line, so that would depend on the exact meaning of the question. Is this a matter of achieving all of the goals I'll ever come up with in my life, or is it one of only achieving what I'm intending to achieve right this very second?

[He accompanies this with a needlessly dramatic shrug.]

If it's the second one... then, well, I'll have a lot more work to get done around here. I still have a lot to accomplish at the moment, but once I've done all that, then it's back to the drawing board because, well, are you ever truly done in my line of work? Absolutely not. Meanwhile, if it's the first one, then things might end up a little on the boring side. Can't innovate when you've apparently already accomplished it all. And I know I just said you're never truly done, but in the event that I've finished every single goal I could ever possibly have, then there's just no place to go from there.

That's right. The answer to this question boils down to "working hard or hardly working." I know. I'm disappointed too.

[A pause.]

Anyway, I'd have untold amounts of power. It'd be great.

Someone tells you all your flaws. What did they tell you, and are they right or wrong?

By "someone" do you mean "my bosses?" Because if I have to hear any of those morons try to give me the same old pointless performance review for the millionth time, I'm going to break down and create a death ray. They need me more than I need them. Anyway, I'm no stranger to unnecessary critique, and at this point I have a pretty extensive list of the various issues people have with me if they're brave enough to say something. Are they right? Maybe. Are they wrong? Maybe. Many things I consider the opposite of flaws end up being called flaws, and many things I consider flaws might inexplicably be desired by the rest of the populace. Things are funny that way.

As for how I feel about it? Easy: I don't care. Their opinions don't matter in the end. You know whose does? That's right. I can openly admit that my biggest flaw is being human, and I fully intend to take care of that particular glaring issue one of these days. Tell that to someone else, and they'll claim something about that not being a flaw, but that's how you can tell that nobody knows anything about anything.

Are we done here?

✘ Type: Mechanical
✘ Powers:

Power 1: He has an internal, mental wifi connection. Subject to the usual whims of wifi dropping out.
Power 2: He can partially transfer his "consciousness" to machines and control them, or speak through them. He has to be able to connect to them in some way to do that, either wireless or wired, and the more he focuses on the machines or the more he tries to control at once the less his full body can do simultaneously.
Power 3: His body, while humanoid by default, is modular and can also unfold into groups of smaller limbs/tools/etc. There's always the potential of getting stuck, however.

✘ Inventory: One flight suit, one pair of fingerless control gloves, one pair of goggles, one wrist computer.
✘ Sample: https://canyon-memes.dreamwidth.org/492.html?thread=1004#cmt1004

https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7061941.html?thread=3106349493#cmt3106349493

CHARACTER NAME: Dr. Robotnik
CHARACTER SERIES: Sonic Movie

[OOC]

Backtagging: in memes/psls/outside of games: hell yeah forever
in games: as long as it's going along steadily, if it's been a month or more between replies we should probably handwave it
Threadhopping: long as it's cool with other people
Fourthwalling: keep it tasteful (or really funny)
Offensive subjects (elaborate): just don't be a douche

[IC]

Hugging this character: try it but he won't be happy unless it's stone unless he really trusts your character
Kissing this character: ditto but worse
Flirting with this character: mostly ditto but he might jokingly reciprocate if he's feeling it
Fighting with this character: go ahead but look out for the robots
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): fuck man do it, he can build new body parts probably
Killing this character: mmm probably not except for cool bringing back from the dead purposes
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: go right ahead!

Warnings: he's an egotistical asshole, tread lightly

kinklist is here

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CHARACTER NAME: Dr. Robotnik
CHARACTER SERIES: Sonic Movie

[OOC]

Backtagging: absolutely
Threadhopping: long as it's cool with other people
Fourthwalling: keep it tasteful
Offensive subjects (elaborate): just don't be a douche

[IC]

Hugging this character: try it but he won't be happy unless it's stone unless he really trusts your character
Kissing this character: ditto but worse
Flirting with this character: mostly ditto but he might jokingly reciprocate if he's feeling it
Fighting with this character: go ahead but look out for the robots
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): fuck man do it, he can build new body parts probably
Killing this character: mmm probably not except for cool bringing back from the dead purposes
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: go right ahead!

Warnings: he's an egotistical asshole, tread lightly

kinklist is here

→ OOC INFO

Name: AgentKaz
Contact: agentkaz, pm
Timezone: EST
Over 18?: yes
Other Characters: n/a


→ IC INFO

Character Name/Alias: Dr. Robotnik
Character age: 50s
Canon: Sonic Cinematic Universe
Canon point: end of movie 2 final battle

History: here
Appearance: here
Personality: Life's hard when you're the smartest person in the world.

Dr. Ivo Robotnik is a literal genius, with five PhDs and an IQ that's "off the charts." With an ego to match, it can create a pretty dangerous combination. The man is a strange one indeed, and despite his incredible skills and impeccable track record he was generally a last choice when sent out on jobs for the government. Deemed a "psychological tire fire" by the very people who employed him at the time and were loath to utilize him, Robotnik is still a pioneer of revolutionary drone technology and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Like any good (or bad) villain he's got himself an origin story: when a bully punched him in the face as a child it showed him just how cruel the world was. He determined he had no choice but to utilize his intelligence to be nothing but cruel in return in the face of a world that stood against him, and he's carried that through his life. He's rude, dismissive, and likes to lord his intellect over others at every chance he can get. If he gets the opportunity to insult someone, he'll certainly take it. He gets frustrated easily as well, often finding the need to yell at someone.

He vastly prefers the company of robots, referring to the ones he built as his babies, and treating them a hell of a lot better than he'd ever treat a person. He constantly talks about how much better they are. Robots, after all, don't have all the problems people do. Humans are largely too stupid for him, and he's certainly not afraid to tell them that. Constantly, even. His machines are everything to him.

While he's certainly not the most pleasant person to be around, it doesn't mean he can't have fun. He's particularly fond of music, and has a large collection of playlists to fit a number of moods. Sure, those moods might include "Heavy Metal Bombing Over Babylon" and "Soulful Chamber Music of Oppression," but they're moods. To go along with that, he likes dancing, and is happy to bust out a few moves while he's working. While he generally hates people, he can occasionally be something resembling nice to his assistant, Agent Stone. Even if that just means screaming at him about how much he loves his fancy lattes. He still keeps him around for a reason, after all, and somebody had to handle the Robotnik Manifesto while he was gone.

Despite his scientific (and assholish) nature he's incredibly eccentric and even playful, making robot noises or pretending a virtual t-rex has bitten his head off. He's loud, dramatic, poses a lot, and makes a lot of faces, as a character portrayed by Jim Carrey is wont to do. His insults often enter the realm of "very very silly" and he's not afraid to make a bad pun every now and again. But while he's silly, he can also be particularly threatening. He might seem like a cartoonish villain, but he has absolutely no issue with potentially causing property damage or injury or death (or "worse," according to him). He can be slapstick one moment and ready to have his robots shoot to kill the next. The time spent marooned alone on a distant planet didn't do his eccentricity any favors, either.

When there's something he wants, he can be very singleminded and obsessive, causing more logical solutions to fly out the window as he relentlessly tries to hunt down his prize. Take the first incident with Sonic: At first, he was just sent in for a job, and he was more interested in throwing his intellect around as he worked to stop the threat. As he found out just what he was after and how much power it had, he decided he needed it for himself, and that became his main focus over anything else. He'd stop at nothing to get that power, utilizing every resource he had to pursue it, whether it was a good idea or not. And after that whole fiasco, imagine having to basically do it all over again, just without government funding.

His obsession is what ultimately causes his downfall, and eventually he's defeated by the very creature he's been trying to stop (and the power of friendship). Twice! However, he's extremely persistent, and he won't let a little thing like losing stop him, even if everything he's worked for ends up destroyed and he finds himself marooned on a distant planet, or he loses his chance at ultimate power.

What did they do to end up here?: Take your pick! He's responsible for a number of war crimes, and then of course there's his relentless attempts at murdering innocent aliens in order to steal power. Plus he's just a jerk.

Powers / Abilities: He doesn't have any special powers without outside help, but he does have a ludicrously high IQ (which he, of course, lords over everyone else). He's also very skilled in machinery and robotics, and he can throw someone out of a window if necessary.
Inventory: One pair of electronic control gloves, one teeny-tiny scanner drone, and one pair of goggles that inexplicably stick to the forehead.
Samples: tdm, this denny's meme

OOC INFORMATION
Name: AgentKaz
Contact: pm, agentkaz
Are You Over 18?: yes
Other Characters: n/a

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Dr. Robotnik
Age: unknown (40s-50s)
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Canon Point: After being sent through the ring to the mushroom planet.
Character Information: here

Personality:

Life's hard when you're the smartest person in the world.

Dr. Ivo Robotnik is a literal genius, with five PhDs and an IQ that's "off the charts." With an ego to match, it can create a pretty dangerous combination. The man is a strange one indeed, and despite his incredible skills and impeccable track record he's generally a last choice when sent out on jobs for the government. Deemed a "psychological tire fire" by the very people who employ him and are loath to utilize him, Robotnik is still a pioneer of revolutionary drone technology and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Like any good (or bad) villain he's got himself an origin story: when a bully punched him in the face as a child it showed him just how cruel the world was. He determined he had no choice but to utilize his intelligence to be nothing but cruel in return in the face of a world that stood against him, and he's carried that through his life. He's rude, dismissive, and likes to lord his intellect over others at every chance he can get. If he gets the opportunity to insult someone, he'll certainly take it. He gets frustrated easily as well, often finding the need to yell at someone.

He vastly prefers the company of robots, referring to the ones he built as his babies, and treating them a hell of a lot better than he'd ever treat a person. He constantly talks about how much better they are. Robots, after all, don't have all the problems people do. Humans are largely too stupid for him, and he's certainly not afraid to tell them that. Constantly, even. His machines are everything to him.

While he's certainly not the most pleasant person to be around, it doesn't mean he can't have fun. He's particularly fond of music, and has a large collection of playlists to fit a number of moods. Sure, those moods might include "Heavy Metal Bombing Over Babylon" and "Soulful Chamber Music of Oppression," but they're moods. To go along with that, he likes dancing, and is happy to bust out a few moves while he's working. While he generally hates people, he can occasionally be something resembling nice to his assistant, Agent Stone. Even if that just means screaming at him about how much he loves his fancy lattes.

Despite his scientific (and assholish) nature he's incredibly eccentric and even playful, making robot noises or pretending a virtual t-rex has bitten his head off. He's loud, dramatic, poses a lot, and makes a lot of faces, as a character portrayed by Jim Carrey is wont to do. His insults often enter the realm of "very very silly" and he's not afraid to make a bad pun every now and again. But while he's silly, he can also be particularly threatening. He might seem like a cartoonish villain, but he has absolutely no issue with potentially causing property damage or injury or death (or "worse," according to him). He can be slapstick one moment and ready to have his robots shoot to kill the next.

When there's something he wants, he can be very singleminded and obsessive, causing more logical solutions to fly out the window as he relentlessly tries to hunt down his prize. At first, he's just sent in for a job, and he's more interested in throwing his intellect around as he works to stop the threat. As he finds out just what he's after and how much power it has, he decides he needs it for himself, and that becomes his main focus over anything else. He'll stop at nothing to get that power, utilizing every resource he has to pursue it, whether it's a good idea or not.

His obsession is what ultimately causes his downfall, and eventually he's defeated by the very creature he's been trying to stop (and the power of friendship). However, he's extremely persistent, and he won't let a little thing like losing stop him, even if everything he's worked for ends up destroyed and he finds himself marooned on a distant planet. Downfall? What downfall? He'll be home by Christmas.

5-10 Key Character Traits:

Genius
Eccentric
Dramatic
Sarcastic
Misanthropic
Persistent
Playful
Egotistical
Vengeful

Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? either
Opt-Outs: werebear, pooka, harpy, gargoyle, troll, minotaur

Roleplay Sample:
https://graveyardsmash.dreamwidth.org/46453.html?thread=21798517#cmt21798517