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Emodriver Plot Role Info

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Your Imperial Highness was told that your beloved Consort was killed by the humans on Mars. You are certain that this is false. They were captured, not killed. They're still alive, in EDF custody. You have to believe this, that the dreams you’ve been having are a cry for help rather than a trick of your mind.

You spare human lives both because excessive bloodshed does not become an Emperor and in the hopes of finding some clue to the whereabouts of your beloved. If the humans were just to return them, and make formal amends, the war would be over.

Instead, they spread their morale-destroying bioweapons and feign ignorance. Until such crimes are redressed, your Imperial fleets will fight for the Empire, for honor, and for your lost beloved Consort.

Plot skill - Noblesse Oblige: Grants considerable plot armor when fighting on behalf of the people you are leading.

Edited 2019-09-17 20:15 (UTC)

If it weren't for the meddling Princeps, by now Earth would be a colony and you its satrap. The Princeps is far too concerned with aiding and comforting the enemy for their own good. And if they find out their Consort is alive, a piece of intelligence you’ve been guarding closely, it could ruin everything.

Your task is to eradicate all resistance by any means necessary - including use of the human's "X-pression Virus" bioweapon - and prevent that little tidbit from getting to the Princeps until it's too late. If necessary, you're contemplating mutiny - the assumption of total command of the Aurigan forces. You're months from the Emperor, if it comes to it. If the Princeps were to be declared "killed in action," who would contradict you?

Plot Skill - Knives in the Dark: Increase the psychic shock of a betrayal such that the victim cannot retaliate this scene.

Edited 2019-09-17 20:16 (UTC)

If it weren't for your more unusual talents, you'd be a footnote rather than a respected scientist. If you have seen far, it is because you have stood on the shoulders of giants.

Whether they know it or not.

Using your mind-reading powers and your ability to feign emotion, you've stolen countless secrets you used to build up AEGISCorp - including the uncomfortable truth that the Imperial Consort was alive. And now, the Consort is in a black box of your design, worked into the beating heart of the Phileon. Without the consort's unique dreams as emotional fuel for the Philia Core, the project would be impossible.

Now, you just want to see how well your creation does in battle.

It's purely scientific curiosity.

Plot Skill - Smile in a Jar: Using S-tech, you can falsely emote, projecting emotion that you are not actually feeling!

The Phileon project is going to make you the most powerful individual on Earth.

Sure, it's powered by the brain of a forsaken child, but let's face it: that's not the worst thing you've ever done to promote AEGISCorp and its former competitors. Hell, you're already in the lucrative field of weapons manufacturing.

If you play this right - and, of course, assuming you're not all bowing and scraping to a blue space elf tomorrow - being the CEO of the fine people who brought you the Frame that won the war could make you the Federation's Minister of Defense. Then, who knows? Maybe the ~~President~~ Prime Minister of a United Earth.

Until then, smile, shake lots of hands in the EDF, and keep on selling folks on the need to kick those pointy-eared bastards right off of Jupiter.

Plot Skill - But Wait, There's More!: You can bafflegab people with a little S-tech into at least considering what you're selling (take this metaphorically).

Edited 2019-09-17 23:47 (UTC)

The Phileon is a gorgeous machine. You wish you could understand how the Philia Core at its heart functions. All you do is build the damn thing, stress test it, and liaise with the EDF to make sure they can fly it.

But you've been noticing some things that don't add up, and have no idea how it can get the amount of power it consumes. All your attempts to find out have been stonewalled.

You think you're being watched. Someone has broken into your hangar, opened your files, looked into what you've looked into. Either you're being paranoid or you've stumbled onto something that someone doesn't want you to know - and you're in danger.

Plot Skill - Science and Visions - You can use S-Tech diagrams and models to keep yourself in an inspired state for a limited time, bringing back brilliant and elegant designs.

Your job is simple: beat the Impies. And when you're in the Phileon, you feel like you can do it all on your own. You can avenge your older sibling, like you've wanted to from the start.

Your life up to this point has been tests and tests and more tests, punctuated by stealing time at the Civilian Idol's concerts (you might have the tiniest crush) and promising the Brilliant Engineer that you're not about to crash their baby. But soon, very soon, you're getting moved to the front - transferred to the Valiant, and into the thick of it.

You cannot wait for your first real battle!

Plot Skill - S-Tech Psychokinesis: You can use appropriate S-Tech effects as psychokinetic effects. This is like, but more powerful than, Burning Passion and allows attacks at range!

By order of the Princeps - and their order alone - you have been embedded into deep cover within the EDF fleet, and have worked your way into the Phileon Project's test squadron. The human "X-Pression" bioweapon has some... useful side effects that you used to aid your infiltration.

You used that position to break into the Engineer's files - and you suspect that the Phileon itself has clues to the location of the Consort. You are now certain the Consort is still alive.

But you weren't the first one to search for those files - the Engineer seems to be looking for the same, and forces within AEGISCorp were trying to stop them.

Trust no one but yourself and the Princeps. Protect the Engineer, and the Phileon - and the Phileon's pilot. It's possible if you succeed that the Ace won't have to die, and of late you would... very much prefer that.

Plot Skill - S-Tech Masque: You have S-Tech that gives you a human form (from any nonhuman one) as per Tiresias Syndrome, which post-Jaunt does not necessarily resemble your normal human form if you are normally human; additionally, your Alien form (which can be Aurigan or a subject species) is free.

THIS IS GOING TO BE A DISASTER LET'S GO

I'm so pleased that Kinji is a benevolent spy.

Just to check: do I announce that I have this plot role?

You don't have to if you think it'll be ~~funnier~~ more dramatic!

You've seen enough war to know it's a nasty business. It seems of late that business is good.

AEGISCorp's hand is everywhere, it seems. The EDF would barely be holding out without them. And you're a shrewd enough logistician to know that's a point of weakness. The CEO is doing a naked grab for power. You'll gladly protect the Earth; you'll be damned if you'll fight a war to fill AEGISCorp's pockets, or to show off their latest toy. Your soldiers deserve better than that - you were there when they started to use weaponized S-Tech, when they started sending in teenage or Ganymede pilots. You didn't like it then and you don't like it now.

You'll use the Phileon to win the Aurigan War, since you have to. But you've been fighting your own war against AEGISCorp. A war that already has casualties, on your side - the Veteran's wingmate should have survived their last battle, but you privately suspect sabotage.

Such people should not be at the helm of the world.

Plot Skill - S-Tech Gravitas: You may project calm, assured command using S-Tech, protecting those in the same room (like the CIC) from fear or emotional turmoil.

~~Commander Sendak~~ I mean, General Hacet reporting for duty.

Icon name relevant.

Let's get this show on the road!

You've fought on Mars and Ceres and Venus and everywhere on Earth. You lost your wingman and closest friend (lover?) in the Battle of Tharsis, where the fighting was fiercest; they pulled some stupid hotdog manuever and they didn't survive it.

You did.

Now the EDF Admiral has you looking after the Ace. Your old friend/flame's younger sib. Who's just as reckless as your wingmate ever was.

You're not going to let them earn a Darwin Award like your old friend/flame did. You're going to drill the stupid out of them before it kills them, and you don't care if they'll hate you for it.

Then maybe, just maybe, you'll both see the end of the war.

Plot Skill - S-Technological Empathy: You can sense the metaphorical emotional state of machines, your mecha in particular.

In your Ganymede form (or Tireseas or both, your choice) you're the most popular musician in cis-Martian space! You've been performing for Earth and the EDF for years, and it never gets old!

Lately, you were asked to do a concert for the Phileon pilots... and got caught up in something way out of your depth. You stumbled on some people rifling through something they shouldn't have. If it weren't for a handsome, mysterious stranger, you would have been killed for knowing too much.

The safest place you can be right now is with the Phileon project, and you've figured out that your mysterious champion is the Imperial Spy. You've also realized they genuinely want... something... that will let them call off the war.

But the people who pay for your concerts work for AEGISCorp, and if you're going to help end the war, you'll be in even more danger...

Plot Skill - S-Tech Alarm: You can use S-Tech to let out a distress signal that can be heard across a usefully long distance.

To clarify on his plot skill - essentially he can involuntarily turn into a human when he starts as not one?

And went "oh, I can use this," yes!

ETA: After the Jaunt you can use this at will, during the Jaunt not so much.

Edited 2019-09-17 21:06 (UTC)

COOL he's gonna be hella confused.

Clarification: is this a situation where his real form is unknown to the public and the Tireseas (that's probably what i'm going with) form is the public idol?

Oh my god that skill is so useless for Stone-the-Raksura, so I'm totally taking it anyway XD

Anyhoo, checking in. This is gonna be perfect.

That's correct! Cuts down on paparazzi and AEGISCorp gank squads, y'know?

excellent~

If he ever wants to have some time to himself so that he can idk go out for ramen without a hoard of screaming fanboys/fangirls, YES.

we understand each other

Yep! Also if he's stuck in one form or another thanks to time limits, he can cheat out of it by using this skill.

DAMMIT KATSURAGI WHY AREN'T YOU SHARING YOUR RESEARCH.

Edited 2019-09-17 21:16 (UTC)

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Emodriver Plot Role Info

THE AURIGAN PRINCEPS - ALLURA

THE AURIGAN GENERAL - THACE

THE DISPASSIONATE RESEARCHER - SENTO

THE AMBITIOUS CEO - YAKUMO

THE BRILLIANT ENGINEER - THORNE

THE EDF'S RISING ACE - JAINA

THE IMPERIAL SPY - KINJI

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THE EDF ADMIRAL - SARA

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THE SEASONED VETERAN - STONE

THE CIVILIAN IDOL - PHILLIP

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