Hoshikawa Subaru app for capeandcowl
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Northwind Gale, often affectionately called "Gale," "North," or "Gayaru."
AGE: 18
JOURNAL: northwind_gale
IM: northwindgully (AIM)
E-MAIL: ambrosia_the_ice_double_blader@yahoo.com
RETURNING: New gal. Hopefully I can do things right...
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Hoshikawa Subaru, also known as Rockman when fused with his companion
FANDOM: Ryuusei no Rockman video game/anime series (known as Megaman Star Force in the US)
CHRONOLOGY: Just before he leaves to the "final boss area" in game three: Black Ace/Red Joker. He's headed off to space to stop a meteor made of electromagnetic waste from hitting the earth.
CLASS: Hero-but he's still learning. (He's only ten, after all.)
SUPERHERO NAME: Rockman
ALTER EGO: Hoshikawa Subaru / student
BACKGROUND:
In the year 22XX, technology has become centralized on using electromagnetic waves now called Denpa (meaning radio-waves) as a network to link all devices together in the earth's magnetic field. The technology continues to grow in leaps and bounds, creating new possibilities with every jump. Denpa is used so often that the network has developed into its own world invisible to the human eye: the Wave World. Technology no longer uses gears and wires to make things move-instead all they have is a simple router known as a Comp Space, where clusters of Denpa reside. These Denpa become figures called "Mr. Hertz," an AI that appears in various forms and performs various tasks depending on their location and purpose. The Hertz travel the Wave World as signals, creating a closely interlocked system that encompasses the whole world, bringing communications to a whole new level.
This growth in communications leads people to treasure connections with others over much else, and the electrical link called a "BrotherBand," which seems not too different from adding someone on Facebook or LiveJournal. However, it signifies that one has bonds with others, and is respected as a status symbol...even to the point of allowing one to acquire privileges such as free bus rides or luxury rooms in hotels if one has many "Brothers," or people who are linked to one by a BrotherBand. It's also found that they can lend power through those bonds with others...in more ways than one.
Hoshikawa Subaru is a ten (possibly eleven at the point in the series he's pulled from, although there is no confirmation) year old boy who suddenly gains a unique and dangerous power when he encounters a wayward alien fugitive, War-Rock, who's body is made of Denpa. War-Rock reveals that he is fleeing from his planet as a fugitive, and requests to borrow the boy's body because something about the Earth's field limits his power as a foreign inhabitant, and he must fuse with a human from Earth to be able to use his true power. At first, Subaru refuses, but when viruses and other Denpa beings from War-Rock's home planet create chaos in an attempt to find him, he agrees on one condition: that the alien tell him about his missing father, who apparently died in a space station accident three years prior and whom War-Rock claimed to know.
Through fusing with War-Rock, Subaru becomes Rockman, a Denpa-Human who can traverse both the real and Wave World. Through this unique ability, Rockman can solve many problems in the network, from mild virus attacks to threatening hacking attempts...and to even save the world from other individuals with the same legendary power over Denpa. Over time, he has been forced to fight both enemy and friend for the better of the world-and has even become regarded as a hero over time. He has saved the world twice-once from invaders from War-Rock's planet, once from a scientist using ancient Denpa technology to control the Earth and divide humans into classes...and quite possibly once again from a man using the very waste produced by Denpa to control a meteor made of the very same material...a meteor that is large enough to hold the very planet's existence under its sway.
Rockman's main strength is the bonds he shares with his friends-the very action of creating a BrotherBand gives him abilities that help him survive and gain advantages in battle.
As the main character of the game series, Subaru's role in the games encompasses the whole series, as the games follow his actions and experiences. Every major event culminates in him befriending a cast member/establishing plot and slowly laying down connections that expand through the entire game. Most, if not all the characters have some connection to him, whether it be a simple NPC asking him to complete a task or a close friend in need of rescue or aid, or the main villains establishing him as a threat to their plans due to being one of the few beings that can cross both worlds. Once others are made aware of his actions, he is elevated to the status of being a national hero of sorts-almost a celebrity.
PERSONALITY:
On first glance, Hoshikawa Subaru has the personality of any ten/eleven year old boy-chipper, full of energy, eager to meet most anything with enthusiasm. A closer look shows that he seems to act somewhat differently at times-he can be reserved with his own emotions, and can even be empathetic at times if one strikes a chord with him. He treasures his friends and others he keeps close greatly, and suffers a drastic change in personality if even one of them is lost-sometimes reverting to a moping wreck of his former self, other times becoming a far stronger, more determined character in order to save them again.
He wasn't always like this-three years prior to the first game, his father, who Subaru idolized greatly, disappeared with the space station he was on, Peace, and from then on Subaru closed his heart to nearly everyone save his mother, frightened to love again. He lived the three years prior to the first game as a soft-spoken, self-isolated kid who refused to seek connections to others, fearing the pain of losing them again. It takes meeting the alien fugitive, War-Rock, and the highly emotional battles that happen with him, to cause Subaru to interact with others again, and to slowly learn that he can, indeed, make friends, and that he does have the power to protect them.
Even after that large initial change, he still learns from his battles. During the events of the second game, he was slowly overwhelmed by the public's knowledge of his and War-Rock's fused form, Rockman, and their sudden lauding of his heroic actions. He slowly began to fold under the public's expectations of him, breaking completely into his former self when he was unable to save any of his friends save for one (the said friend then proceeded to scold him back into shape). Eventually, he learned that he had to simply do the best he could-even if he failed expectations he would leave a torch for another to pick up. He learned courage.
The third game sees him grow into a leader figure in the face of loss-when his friends are taken from him, seemingly smitten dead in the blink of an eye, he starts to assume control, and encourages others around him not to give up. This hints at a charismatic side to his character-that he is, indeed, slowly adopting Rockman's characteristics as his own.
Subaru treasures a long standing dream to become an astronaut and visit space, fueled by his father's disappearance and a desire to find him.
POWER:
On his own, Subaru has no power-the only thing remarkable about him is that he's nimbler than the average ten-year-old and has a slight resistance to electromagnetic waste (called Noise) due to fighting with War-Rock so long. He has a Visualizer (a set of goggles/glasses given to him by his father) that is able to see electromagnetic waves-and if War-Rock's presence is nearby, it can also see the Wave World. (Of course, this is rendered virtually useless out of his own canon.)
As Rockman (whom he cannot be without War-Rock), he gains the general abilities of a Wave Human-he can move between the Wave World and the real world on a thought, as well as obtaining improved reflexes and strength. All Denpa-Humans also have a unique attacking ability that only they can perform, depending on the characteristics of the Denpa being that is part of the fusion. Rockman's ability is to be exceptionally talented with Denpa-he can infuse a normally innocuous object in his world-a Battle Card, normally inserted into devices to delete viruses-with Denpa to power it up. This forms it into a weapon for a limited time: for example a Battle Card called "Gatling" changes his left arm into a Gatling gun-like device that shoots energy bullets rapidly, while another called "Mini-Boomer" becomes a small ball-shaped grenade. This, while on first glance doesn't seem to be the most powerful of abilities compared to other Denpa-Humans, allows Rockman to be versatile in battle. When he doesn't use Battle Cards, he has a "default" weapon in the form of "Rockbuster," in which his left arm becomes a hand-cannon that can fire either weak bursts of energy in rapid fire or a single charged shot, which takes time but is somewhat more powerful(in the first two games, this hand-cannon took the form of War-Rock's head, which was permanently attached in place of a left hand-an design change in the third game gives Rockman two visible hands).
The powers granted to him by the portal will adopt the form of Rockman-albeit more restricted. He will not become a Denpa-Human, as before-he merely becomes a boy wearing armored spandex with a weak cannon formed from the left hand (Rockbuster). The weapons he uses in that form are materialized by Battle Cards-but in the City, he will be reduced to two basic cards-the short range attack of Sword, which changes his left arm into an electromagnetic sword; and the long range attack of Cannon, which changes his left arm into a cannon that can fire bursts of energy.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
[VIDEO]
[Voice: Japanese]
[The communicator crackles to life, a hesitant pressing of buttons can be heard as the user eventually figures out that they have the object working. The face on the communicator screen looks resolute as he starts talking into it.]
Hey...is anyone there? I'm looking for some people...Has anyone seen a girl my age wearing pink? Or a boy who's...kinda big? Or a short one wearing glasses? Or a girl with long blond hair in pigtails? They're my friends...I'm wondering if they were pulled here with me...if they were they'd at least be safe...
...War-Rock? Are you out here too? I know you can protect yourself but...I'm worried...
[The face on the screen starts looking insecure as Subaru starts to bite his lip, looking much more like his real age.]
I hope you all are okay...
second attempt
[VIDEO
Voice: Japanese]
[The video flickers on, the details fuzzy before focusing on the image of a young boy wearing...some sort of odd costume. It's blue in color, and seems to consist of mostly spandex with some armor on it, complete with a helmet and visor. He seems to be concentrating on getting the communicator to work, but once he does, he steps back, satisfied, giving a more complete glimpse of his uniform.]
Well, it seems that my power lets me become Rockman without War-Rock...it feels...kind of weird and wrong with out him, really...anyways, I want to see if I can still do what I could do back home without him...
...Somehow I don't really think I can, War-Rock was the one with all the power in the transformation...
[He shakes his head, bringing himself back to concentrate.] Well, let's see what I can do...
[Inexplicably, he suddenly dives for the communicator, as if trying to tackle it head on-and he does, sending it hurtling to the ground and the scenery becomes blurred, even flickering in and out, and going through the usual motions of a damaged camera. Eventually a blue-booted foot comes into view-and judging from the voice coming from off the screen, it doesn't seem like the result he was hoping for...]
...That's strange, I can't Trans into that...? War-Rock and I could do that without thinking...
...guess that means I gotta look at this technology the hard way now...not that I'm complaining or anything...
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Subaru's eyes wandered around as he walked through the city, his eyes fascinated by everything. Coming from a small town, the only thing he could remotely compare to this was the large shopping complex that was a bus ride away. And even Vista Point, with all it's glowing signs and large buildings...it didn't seem to match the solemn majesty this city had. His young eyes were easily overwhelmed by the city's size. His neck ached from constantly looking up at the buildings-they all looked so tall. Then again, everything looked big to his ten year old body-long alleys seemed dark and foreboding; buildings taller than five floors looked massive; and of course, many of the residents of this city looked twice his size. With all the battles he and his companions had been through, he couldn't help but jump every time he saw someone tall.
Sometimes, however, his attention would be shifted away from the city and its inhabitants and down to the device in his hands. His desire to visit space had led to an interest with any sort of technology-and his escapades with his friends led him to a particular interest in communications. On finding out that this was a communicator, he couldn't help but play with it. Perhaps he could find his friends in this strange place as well by using this. He had to believe in that.
After all, they had been able to reach out to him across space. He could do the same, right?
With that, his eyes focus on the communicator in his hands, trying to puzzle it out.
"I wonder where the power button is..."
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
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NAME: Northwind Gale, often affectionately called "Gale," "North," or "Gayaru."
AGE: 18
JOURNAL: northwind_gale
IM: northwindgully (AIM)
E-MAIL: ambrosia_the_ice_double_blader@yahoo.com
RETURNING: New gal. Hopefully I can do things right...
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Hoshikawa Subaru, also known as Rockman when fused with his companion
FANDOM: Ryuusei no Rockman video game/anime series (known as Megaman Star Force in the US)
CHRONOLOGY: Just before he leaves to the "final boss area" in game three: Black Ace/Red Joker. He's headed off to space to stop a meteor made of electromagnetic waste from hitting the earth.
CLASS: Hero-but he's still learning. (He's only ten, after all.)
SUPERHERO NAME: Rockman
ALTER EGO: Hoshikawa Subaru / student
BACKGROUND:
In the year 22XX, technology has become centralized on using electromagnetic waves now called Denpa (meaning radio-waves) as a network to link all devices together in the earth's magnetic field. The technology continues to grow in leaps and bounds, creating new possibilities with every jump. Denpa is used so often that the network has developed into its own world invisible to the human eye: the Wave World. Technology no longer uses gears and wires to make things move-instead all they have is a simple router known as a Comp Space, where clusters of Denpa reside. These Denpa become figures called "Mr. Hertz," an AI that appears in various forms and performs various tasks depending on their location and purpose. The Hertz travel the Wave World as signals, creating a closely interlocked system that encompasses the whole world, bringing communications to a whole new level.
This growth in communications leads people to treasure connections with others over much else, and the electrical link called a "BrotherBand," which seems not too different from adding someone on Facebook or LiveJournal. However, it signifies that one has bonds with others, and is respected as a status symbol...even to the point of allowing one to acquire privileges such as free bus rides or luxury rooms in hotels if one has many "Brothers," or people who are linked to one by a BrotherBand. It's also found that they can lend power through those bonds with others...in more ways than one.
Hoshikawa Subaru is a ten (possibly eleven at the point in the series he's pulled from, although there is no confirmation) year old boy who suddenly gains a unique and dangerous power when he encounters a wayward alien fugitive, War-Rock, who's body is made of Denpa. War-Rock reveals that he is fleeing from his planet as a fugitive, and requests to borrow the boy's body because something about the Earth's field limits his power as a foreign inhabitant, and he must fuse with a human from Earth to be able to use his true power. At first, Subaru refuses, but when viruses and other Denpa beings from War-Rock's home planet create chaos in an attempt to find him, he agrees on one condition: that the alien tell him about his missing father, who apparently died in a space station accident three years prior and whom War-Rock claimed to know.
Through fusing with War-Rock, Subaru becomes Rockman, a Denpa-Human who can traverse both the real and Wave World. Through this unique ability, Rockman can solve many problems in the network, from mild virus attacks to threatening hacking attempts...and to even save the world from other individuals with the same legendary power over Denpa. Over time, he has been forced to fight both enemy and friend for the better of the world-and has even become regarded as a hero over time. He has saved the world twice-once from invaders from War-Rock's planet, once from a scientist using ancient Denpa technology to control the Earth and divide humans into classes...and quite possibly once again from a man using the very waste produced by Denpa to control a meteor made of the very same material...a meteor that is large enough to hold the very planet's existence under its sway.
Rockman's main strength is the bonds he shares with his friends-the very action of creating a BrotherBand gives him abilities that help him survive and gain advantages in battle.
As the main character of the game series, Subaru's role in the games encompasses the whole series, as the games follow his actions and experiences. Every major event culminates in him befriending a cast member/establishing plot and slowly laying down connections that expand through the entire game. Most, if not all the characters have some connection to him, whether it be a simple NPC asking him to complete a task or a close friend in need of rescue or aid, or the main villains establishing him as a threat to their plans due to being one of the few beings that can cross both worlds. Once others are made aware of his actions, he is elevated to the status of being a national hero of sorts-almost a celebrity.
PERSONALITY:
On first glance, Hoshikawa Subaru has the personality of any ten/eleven year old boy-chipper, full of energy, eager to meet most anything with enthusiasm. A closer look shows that he seems to act somewhat differently at times-he can be reserved with his own emotions, and can even be empathetic at times if one strikes a chord with him. He treasures his friends and others he keeps close greatly, and suffers a drastic change in personality if even one of them is lost-sometimes reverting to a moping wreck of his former self, other times becoming a far stronger, more determined character in order to save them again.
He wasn't always like this-three years prior to the first game, his father, who Subaru idolized greatly, disappeared with the space station he was on, Peace, and from then on Subaru closed his heart to nearly everyone save his mother, frightened to love again. He lived the three years prior to the first game as a soft-spoken, self-isolated kid who refused to seek connections to others, fearing the pain of losing them again. It takes meeting the alien fugitive, War-Rock, and the highly emotional battles that happen with him, to cause Subaru to interact with others again, and to slowly learn that he can, indeed, make friends, and that he does have the power to protect them.
Even after that large initial change, he still learns from his battles. During the events of the second game, he was slowly overwhelmed by the public's knowledge of his and War-Rock's fused form, Rockman, and their sudden lauding of his heroic actions. He slowly began to fold under the public's expectations of him, breaking completely into his former self when he was unable to save any of his friends save for one (the said friend then proceeded to scold him back into shape). Eventually, he learned that he had to simply do the best he could-even if he failed expectations he would leave a torch for another to pick up. He learned courage.
The third game sees him grow into a leader figure in the face of loss-when his friends are taken from him, seemingly smitten dead in the blink of an eye, he starts to assume control, and encourages others around him not to give up. This hints at a charismatic side to his character-that he is, indeed, slowly adopting Rockman's characteristics as his own.
Subaru treasures a long standing dream to become an astronaut and visit space, fueled by his father's disappearance and a desire to find him.
POWER:
On his own, Subaru has no power-the only thing remarkable about him is that he's nimbler than the average ten-year-old and has a slight resistance to electromagnetic waste (called Noise) due to fighting with War-Rock so long. He has a Visualizer (a set of goggles/glasses given to him by his father) that is able to see electromagnetic waves-and if War-Rock's presence is nearby, it can also see the Wave World. (Of course, this is rendered virtually useless out of his own canon.)
As Rockman (whom he cannot be without War-Rock), he gains the general abilities of a Wave Human-he can move between the Wave World and the real world on a thought, as well as obtaining improved reflexes and strength. All Denpa-Humans also have a unique attacking ability that only they can perform, depending on the characteristics of the Denpa being that is part of the fusion. Rockman's ability is to be exceptionally talented with Denpa-he can infuse a normally innocuous object in his world-a Battle Card, normally inserted into devices to delete viruses-with Denpa to power it up. This forms it into a weapon for a limited time: for example a Battle Card called "Gatling" changes his left arm into a Gatling gun-like device that shoots energy bullets rapidly, while another called "Mini-Boomer" becomes a small ball-shaped grenade. This, while on first glance doesn't seem to be the most powerful of abilities compared to other Denpa-Humans, allows Rockman to be versatile in battle. When he doesn't use Battle Cards, he has a "default" weapon in the form of "Rockbuster," in which his left arm becomes a hand-cannon that can fire either weak bursts of energy in rapid fire or a single charged shot, which takes time but is somewhat more powerful(in the first two games, this hand-cannon took the form of War-Rock's head, which was permanently attached in place of a left hand-an design change in the third game gives Rockman two visible hands).
The powers granted to him by the portal will adopt the form of Rockman-albeit more restricted. He will not become a Denpa-Human, as before-he merely becomes a boy wearing armored spandex with a weak cannon formed from the left hand (Rockbuster). The weapons he uses in that form are materialized by Battle Cards-but in the City, he will be reduced to two basic cards-the short range attack of Sword, which changes his left arm into an electromagnetic sword; and the long range attack of Cannon, which changes his left arm into a cannon that can fire bursts of energy.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
[VIDEO]
[Voice: Japanese]
[The communicator crackles to life, a hesitant pressing of buttons can be heard as the user eventually figures out that they have the object working. The face on the communicator screen looks resolute as he starts talking into it.]
Hey...is anyone there? I'm looking for some people...Has anyone seen a girl my age wearing pink? Or a boy who's...kinda big? Or a short one wearing glasses? Or a girl with long blond hair in pigtails? They're my friends...I'm wondering if they were pulled here with me...if they were they'd at least be safe...
...War-Rock? Are you out here too? I know you can protect yourself but...I'm worried...
[The face on the screen starts looking insecure as Subaru starts to bite his lip, looking much more like his real age.]
I hope you all are okay...
second attempt
[VIDEO
Voice: Japanese]
[The video flickers on, the details fuzzy before focusing on the image of a young boy wearing...some sort of odd costume. It's blue in color, and seems to consist of mostly spandex with some armor on it, complete with a helmet and visor. He seems to be concentrating on getting the communicator to work, but once he does, he steps back, satisfied, giving a more complete glimpse of his uniform.]
Well, it seems that my power lets me become Rockman without War-Rock...it feels...kind of weird and wrong with out him, really...anyways, I want to see if I can still do what I could do back home without him...
...Somehow I don't really think I can, War-Rock was the one with all the power in the transformation...
[He shakes his head, bringing himself back to concentrate.] Well, let's see what I can do...
[Inexplicably, he suddenly dives for the communicator, as if trying to tackle it head on-and he does, sending it hurtling to the ground and the scenery becomes blurred, even flickering in and out, and going through the usual motions of a damaged camera. Eventually a blue-booted foot comes into view-and judging from the voice coming from off the screen, it doesn't seem like the result he was hoping for...]
...That's strange, I can't Trans into that...? War-Rock and I could do that without thinking...
...guess that means I gotta look at this technology the hard way now...not that I'm complaining or anything...
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Subaru's eyes wandered around as he walked through the city, his eyes fascinated by everything. Coming from a small town, the only thing he could remotely compare to this was the large shopping complex that was a bus ride away. And even Vista Point, with all it's glowing signs and large buildings...it didn't seem to match the solemn majesty this city had. His young eyes were easily overwhelmed by the city's size. His neck ached from constantly looking up at the buildings-they all looked so tall. Then again, everything looked big to his ten year old body-long alleys seemed dark and foreboding; buildings taller than five floors looked massive; and of course, many of the residents of this city looked twice his size. With all the battles he and his companions had been through, he couldn't help but jump every time he saw someone tall.
Sometimes, however, his attention would be shifted away from the city and its inhabitants and down to the device in his hands. His desire to visit space had led to an interest with any sort of technology-and his escapades with his friends led him to a particular interest in communications. On finding out that this was a communicator, he couldn't help but play with it. Perhaps he could find his friends in this strange place as well by using this. He had to believe in that.
After all, they had been able to reach out to him across space. He could do the same, right?
With that, his eyes focus on the communicator in his hands, trying to puzzle it out.
"I wonder where the power button is..."
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
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