character meme - Reika Takamura

Jul 10, 2009 22:21

So, the character meme of hugeness . . .

FULL NAME: Reika Takamura (or in standard Japanese order, Takamura Reika)
MEANING: 'Reika' apparently means "lovely flower", though I only found that out just now; 'Takamura' means either high village or hawk village, depending on the kanji
NICKNAME: none
MEANING: n/a
ACTUAL AGE: 729
RESIDENCE: The Moonbase, Earth's Moon
AGE APPEARANCE: She looks 29 due to the nanomachines stopping her aging process.
BIRTHDAY: October 31, 2076
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Scorpio
SPECIES: Human (cyborg)
GENDER: Female
ALLERGIES: None
SEXUAL PREFERENCE: For some reason I'm thinking bisexual but more interested in guys, though it'd take a miracle for her to act on either.
OCCUPATION: Roboticist/technician, though she dabbles in everything from botany to spaceship repair.
MARITAL STATUS: Single
THEME SONG(S): Pray and/or Eternal Blaze, both by Nana Mizuki

APPEARANCE

HAIR COLOR: Black
HAIR STYLE AND LENGTH: Long with slightly wild bangs, usually worn in a ponytail or braid.
EYES COLOR: Such a dark brown it's almost black
EYESIGHT: No problems.
HEIGHT: 5'5"
WEIGHT: don't ask
OUTFIT/CLOTHING STYLE: A black jumpsuit with lots of pockets for tools, occasionally covered with a white lab coat . . . the lab coat sometimes gets switched out or layered over a set of light body armor as well.
ABNORMALITIES (TAIL): Her right arm is a robotic replacement.
DISTINGUISHING MARKS (SCARS, MOLES): Nothing much but the aforementioned right arm. It's made of white metal with black accents, and it works just as well as a real human arm. Any scars she may have had are gone, due to the regenerative properties of the nanomachines in her body.
SELF CARE (MAKE UP): Doesn't bother with makeup, chances are she'd sweat it off or otherwise mess it up while working.
FIRST IMPRESSION ON PEOPLE: A younger scientist in overall good shape, though not really all that buff
SKIN COLOR: Slightly pale but not nearly as bad as someone from the Heritage; she'll occasionally get some sun when wandering around on Earth.
BODY TYPE/BUILD: Toned but not overly so, and her build is average. She's not all that well endowed but you can't exactly call her an ironing board either.
DEFAULT EXPRESSION: Somewhat bored and maybe a little distant.
POSTURE: Relaxed, though still able to spring into action within seconds.
MEASUREMENTS: never really thought about this, don't really need it either.
PIERCINGS: None
DESCRIBE THEIR VOICE: It alternates between calm and gentle when talking to her creations all the way to loud and commanding if really needed (Jennifer Hale or Wendee Lee would be good reference voices, though I prefer the former.)
WEAPON OF CHOICE: Reika's preferred weapon is herself! She uses the ion cannon in her robotic arm, a katana she forged herself, or her own feet and fists using Northern Shaolin kung fu.

RELATIONSHIPS

MOM: Her mom was a scientist, though she was more involved with coding rather than building anything.
HOW WELL DO THEY GET ALONG: They weren't all that close, though they did care about each other.
DAD: Her father worked in starship design and was also a pilot.
HOW WELL DO THEY GET ALONG: Reika was closer to her father, following in her father's footsteps at least with the piloting thing.
SIBLINGS: None
HOW WELL DO THEY GET ALONG: n/a
CHILDREN: Do her creations count? if so, the entire Autopilot line as well as Rov-r.
HOW WELL DO THEY GET ALONG: Reika is very close to Auto and he feels the same for her . . . sometimes she can be a little overprotective of him and that embarrasses him, though he puts up with it.
OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS: None living.
PAST LOVER(S): She may have had a crush on Jean Arsene, but that ended BADLY . . .
CURRENT LOVER: None. The only other humans around are her enemies, so that kinda limits any chance for love. Also, she'd outlive any normal human so that's a limiting factor as well.
REACTION TO MEETING SOMEONE NEW: Reika is happy to meet someone new, though she wouldn't immediately trust them completely.
ABILITY TO WORK WITH OTHERS: She's had to work as part of various design teams over the years and she usually gets along well in those.
HOW SOCIABLE (LONER, ETC): She likes her alone time, but is not exactly a loner. Back before the exodus, she had a few human friends . . . not a lot of them, but she was close to the ones she had. Now that there's people other than enemies around she's slowly building new friendships.
FRIENDS: Serenity, Ku-to, Captain McCrea, Helene, Jeremie, and probably the rest of the bots once she gets to know them.
PETS: Does Rov-r count?
LEAST FAVORITE TYPE OF PERSON: People who hate robots or abuse them.
PARENTAL TYPE (PROTECTIVE, ETC): Hello, Mama Bear! Never had or wanted actual human children, but she considers her creations as her kids . . . woe to all who harm her autopilots or anything else she's created.
AFFINITY WITH...: Robots and humans, equally.
FAVORITE PEOPLE: Auto, Shou, Serenity.
LEAST FAVORITE PEOPLE: Luc and all of his ilk.

PERSONALITY

...WHEN YOU FIRST MEET THEM: Friendly though a little standoffish.
...AS YOU KNOW THEM BETTER (AND THEY LIKE YOU): Passionate about robots and other things, intelligent, will do anything to protect her loved ones, more open once she gets to know you.
...AS YOU KNOW THEM BETTER (AND THEY DISLIKE YOU): Very standoffish, though if you're actively doing something she doesn't like she's openly confrontational and downright hostile. Expect to be hurt if you continue being stupid.
FAVORITE COLOR: Doesn't have a favorite, but is partial to black, white and red.
FAVORITE FOOD: Sushi or any other kind of seafood.
FAVORITE ANIMAL: Wolves or maybe some type of bird.
FAVORITE INSTRUMENT: Guitar, preferably electric . . . though she likes traditional Japanese music and other instrumentals as well.
FAVORITE ELEMENT: probably fire
FAVORITE REMEMBERED MOMENT IN LIFE: Bringing Auto online for the first time.
LEAST FAVORITE COLOR: Yellow
LEAST FAVORITE FOOD: She doesn't really like red meat all that well.
LEAST FAVORITE ANIMAL: maybe cows? I dunno, I got nothing . . .
LEAST FAVORITE INSTRUMENT: Doesn't really have one.
LEAST FAVORITE ELEMENT: doesn't really have one.
MOST HATED MOMENT IN LIFE: Quite a few, actually . . . losing each of Auto's prior iterations to various failures and having to ease them into nonexistence (there were three of them), finding out what happened to the Endeavor, Jean's betrayal and reprogramming of Madam, having to end the lives of Rene and Ines Arsene due to Luc poisoning them.
HOBBIES: Reading, gardening in the Arboretum, working on the Hoshiyomi
USUAL MOOD: Calm
DRINK/SMOKE/DRUGS: She drinks, liking sake especially.
DARK VERSION OF SELF: When she's pushed to her absolute limits or just well and truly PISSED, she has what's been called Lunar Demon mode . . . her nanomachines go absolutely nuts, marking her exposed skin with silver circuitry patterns, and her strength and speed are roughly double what they are normally. Her eyes also glow red. While like this, she's absolutely ruthless in battle, more than willing to kill any opponent that crosses her path.
LIGHT VERSION OF SELF: Uh, her normal self, if that counts?
HOW SERIOUS ARE THEY: Depends on the situation. If it's just hanging out at the Moonbase or on the Axiom she's relaxed and even teases people. When in battle she's utterly serious, though not above cracking quips as she fights.
CLASS IN AN RPG: Either a monk or a ninja.
BELIEVE IN GHOSTS: Though not a practicing Shintoist, she does believe there's a soul or spirit in everything, especially in robots.
(IN)DEPENDENT: Independent.
SOFT SPOT/VULNERABILITY: Her love for Auto . . . learning of A-113 is what set off her Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Forthright, and the Eris Virus incident will kick off another Roaring Rampage targeted at Aida and Madam.
OPINION ON SWEARING: She's quite happy to swear, though avoids dropping f-bombs too often. Doesn't mind it when others swear either.
DAREDEVIL VS CAUTIOUS: Depends on the situation, normally cautious, though will be quite daring if she's sure she can pull something off.
MUSIC TYPE: rock, Jpop, classical, video game soundtracks
MOVIE TYPE: Action movies
BOOK TYPE: tech manuals, scifi books
GAME TYPE: FPSs, RPGs, platformers
COMFORTABLE TEMPERATURE: Not too cold, not too hot, like in the lower to mid 70s.
SLEEPING PATTERN: Reika is a night owl, often staying up really late, and then ends up sleeping in sometimes later than she wants.
CLEANLINESS/NEATNESS: Her room is kind of messy, though it isn't dirty. Her lab is kept fairly neat because it's easier to find things that way.
DESIRED PET: n/a
HOW DO THEY PASS TIME: Doing experiments, gardening in the Arboretum, occasionally pulling a raid on the Mars base, hanging out with Serenity, Ku-to and Rov-r.
BIGGEST SECRET: Even though it's been useful and it allowed her to see Auto again, she doesn't really like being immortal.
HERO/WHO THEY LOOK UP TO: All the mad scientists in various media, especially a certain Washu Hakubi
WHAT ANIMAL WOULD THEY BE: Either a fox of a wolf.
FEARS: Auto or any of the other pilots getting hurt or destroyed, BnL somehow returning to take over Earth.
COMFORTS: A good RPG, sitting under the cherry blossoms in the Arboretum, having her creations around, spending some quality time with Auto.
DRUNK TYPE: Loud and kind of obnoxious, thinks her singing is the gods' gift to the universe, though while drunk it's anything but.
SPECIAL ABILITIES/MAGICS: Her robotic arm can transform into an ion cannon, and it also has a grapple line so she can climb things.
HOW DID THEY GET SAID MAGICS: She lost her real arm in the explosion of the Osaka Wall-E factory, and originally her robotic arm was just an arm without any extra features other than the high strength. But as things slowly got worse on Earth, she integrated the weapon systems into it.
DONE ANYTHING TO GET IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW: Not that she got caught, but she teamed up with the EACC to sabotage BnL and eventually gave them the codes so they could attack the Endeavor.
WHICH "7 DEADLY SINS" ARE THEY MOST LIKE: Probably Wrath . . .
WHICH "7 VIRTUES" DO THEY HAVE: Diligence and Kindness

WHAT ROLE WOULD THEY BE IF THEY WERE IN...
ROMANCE MOVIE: Supporting character
ACTION MOVIE: Action Mom/Team Mom
CARTOON: The crazy scientist who has a lab in another dimension, the door to which in our world looks like a normal broom closet door.
HORROR MOVIE: The person who finally kills whatever the heck it was killing the rest of the cast.
PORNO: . . .
LABYRINTH: Haven't seen it
PRINCESS BRIDE: Haven't seen it, but . . . "My name is Inigo Montoya . . ." Yeah, you know the rest.

HOW DO THEY ACT WHEN THEY ARE...
SAD: Tries her best to hide it, though you'll know something's wrong just by her posture. It would take a lot for her to cry or shed tears, and that would mostly be done in private.
HAPPY: Maybe at first Reika would be a bit loud, but she'd settle down pretty quickly.
ANGRY: If she is angry you will know it . . . her eyes will start to get a slight red glow, she might start yelling, and her posture would be quite aggressive.
AFRAID: It takes A LOT to scare her, and she'd try to keep a lid on it if she was. Her eyes might get a little wider, but that's about all.
LOVE SOMEONE: If Reika loves you, she will tease you. She'll also give out hugs if she feels it's appropriate.
HATE SOMEONE: She will probably actively try to kill someone if given the opportunity when she absolutely hates them. Case in point: Luc Rousseau and centuries earlier, Forthright and Jean Arsene
WANT SOMETHING: Whenever she wants something, she'll get it herself.
CONFUSED: Step back for a moment and try to figure things out.

HOW DO THEY REACT TO...
DANGER: Is usually right in the middle of it, so she's pretty calm about it. Sometimes she even seems bored.
SOMEONE THEY HATE WHO HAS A CRUSH ON THEM: She'd be rather WTF?! about it, but she'd only get angry if they actually acted on it.
PROPOSAL TO MARRY: She'd just say she wasn't interested.
DEATH OF LOVED ONE: Depends on the cause. If it was natural, she'd take the time to grieve before getting back to work, though she wouldn't be the same for weeks if not months. If it was deliberately caused . . . can you say Roaring Rampage of Revenge? She'd grieve after she made the person who killed her loved one into a smear on the pavement.
DIFFICULT GAME/MATH/ETC: Reika would enjoy the challenge, though after a while she might start cursing a bit at it. After that she might leave it to cool off, but she'll usually come back to solve it.
INJURY: If it's during a battle, ignore it as best she can. Only once she's somewhere safe will she check on herself. If it's just minor stuff while working around the Moonbase, she'll just grumble a bit before slapping a bandaid on it.
SOMETHING IRRESISTIBLY CUTE: Squee and then interact with said cute thing.
LOSS OF HOURS OF WORK: She'd be angry for a little while, but then get over it and get back to work. She has all the time in the world, after all.

HISTORY

BIOGRAPHY: Parts of this have already been posted somewhere else. Reika was a young prodigy in the BnL Robotics division, and eventually she designed the series of Autopilots used on all the starliners. This wasn't where she'd planned to have them, and this along with learning of Directive A113 caused her to side with the EACC to try and get revenge on Forthright. Reika got revenge along with a lot of deaths she didn't want, so she cut ties with them. After an attempt on her life, she ended up using nanomachines to save herself, which ultimately stopped her aging process.
FIRST APPEARANCE: Of Outlaws and Axioms Phase 1, coming out of a cryostasis pod.

KNOWLEDGE

LANGUAGES: English and Japanese, along with multiple programming languages.
SCHOOLING LEVEL: She has a doctorate in the field of robotics and computer programming, so she's probably one of the most educated people in Earth's solar system right now.
FAVORITE SUBJECT: Robotic design, quantum physics.
INTERESTED CAREERS: She dabbled at piloting for a while, but she'd always liked robots and dreamed of designing a line of her own one day.
EXPERTISE: Robotics (design, programming and maintenance) and high level sciences in general, also skilled enough to be a test pilot
PUZZLES: Very good at them.
CHEMISTRY: Not her best subject, but she can whip up something handily explosive if needed.
MATH: Given that's what most programming languages run on, she's very good at it.
ENGLISH: English is actually her second language, though she has a great command of it.
GEOGRAPHY: She found it interesting, especially since BnL changed the names of many places.
POLITICS/LAW: As much as she hates politics, she enjoyed learning about it . . . it was useful for finding ways to screw the system.
ECONOMY/ACCOUNTING: Reika is quite good at this, given the fortune she ended up with working as a robot designer. Though she'd rather just hack the varicredits into existence.
COOKING: There's a VERY good reason one of her companions on the Moonbase is a chef bot, let's just leave it at that . . .
SEWING: She's not really the best at anything domestic, really . . . she'll usually replicate something new and recycle the old item.
MECHANICS: Very skilled and not just with robots either.
BOTANY (FLOWERS): She didn't have much of it in her education, though she's had to learn to keep the Arboretum healthy. She's pretty good at it, though she still considers herself as learning it.
MYTHOLOGY: Knows a lot about Japanese mythology, as well as other ancient belief systems.
DRAMATICS (ACTING, SINGING): Never really acted in anything before. She does know how to sing and is good at it when she's not drunk off her butt, sometimes she'll sing karaoke with Serenity to pass the time.
READING LEVEL: Really high in English and Japanese . . . given the nature of her work, she's had to read a lot of tech manuals.
HOW GOOD ARE THEY AT PLANNING AHEAD: Very good.
IMPULSIVE/STRATEGY: Strategic, though sometimes she'll give into her impulses if she feels the timing is right.

ROMANCE: After getting burned one too many times, she's not really interested. She ended up killing the last crush she had, anyway.

*SIGH* Finally, two days and it's finished!
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