OOC :: Application
CHARACTER INFORMATION-
Canon Character and Series: Cyborg Cat M/Mii-kun, Cyborg Kuro-chan
In-Game Name: Mii
Age: Unknown, but has been in operation for at least 20 years
Gender: Male
Position & Ship (first and second choice for position please):
Cook, Amestris
Appearance:
Made entirely of metal, Mii's body is in the shape of a cat. He has large, pointed ears and a long tail. That's where his similarity to a cat ends though, his tail has a sharp spearhead-like tip on the end and his body is painted blue and black. Where there is no paint, on his eyes, mouth, and the tips of his toes the colour of the metal shows through. A bright red cursive 'M' for 'Mii' is painted on his forehead. A red "1" is painted on his chest, denoting him as the very first clockwork cat manufactured by his maker, Professor Gou. Mii, being a cat at heart, wears no clothes. He does, on occasion, wear a dog suit when he is trying to pass as something other than a clockwork cat. However the dog plush animal the suit is made out of has such a cartoony expression that he generally attracts even more attention.
Personality:
Mii's personality is that of a chivalrous gentleman and a fussy housewife all rolled into one. He firmly believes that as a man/tom cat, it is his job to help those weaker than he is. He helps not because he thinks they can't protect or help themselves, but because this is his way of being who he is. He likes helping. If they don't want to let him just take their burden for them entirely, he is willing to share it with them. Anything as long as it helps to ease the weight of the load on their shoulders.
As the only responsible adult in the shack he inhabited, Mii had the job of keeping all his housemates fed, healthy, and happy. To this end, he is very picky about the kinds of food he prepares and when he prepares what kind of food. He usually ops for healthy, well-balanced meals suited to the season. No ice-cream cake on the coldest night of winter on his watch.
He isn't a pet, and refuses to be treated as such. For an independent creature such as himself, being treated like a common household pet is very demeaning.
When it comes to things involving world domination, Mii can be surprisingly ruthless and analytical if need be. Mii doesn't care if you insult him, but the professor is strictly off limits and he will make you very sorry if you say anything bad about the person who saved his life.
Abilities/Weapons:
Mii's main weapon is a long broadsword which he stores in a compartment in his chest. He has a very careful, precise style of fighting and does not use flashy moves. He also has a dark green gatling gun and a limited supply of ammo for said gun. Mii prefers using the sword, and will only ever use other weapons if he has somehow lost the use of it. When all else fails, his gun is gone and his sword has flown off somewhere, Mii also has three extendable claws hidden in each paw. Mii has a tiny wind-up creature named Ganbatte Mii-kun One stored in him that can travel very far distances to get help if need be. Ganbatte Mii-kun is also clockwork, but doesn't have the ability to speak, and does not communicate. It usually suffices by kicking and annoying the person it wants to get the attention of until they snap and chase him so he can lead them to where he wants them to go.
Mii can masquerade as a dog, to mislead people (mainly people that have never seen dogs before, or people that don't find dogs with bulging cartoon eyes and a slightly concussed expression even the least bit strange).
How well can your character hack?:
Easy
Weaknesses:
Mii is generally very calm, and nothing fazes him. Unless you're on the subject of the professor. If you praise the professor, Mii will gush like a schoolgirl, as proud of the professor's accomplishments as if they were his own. If you insult him, be prepared for Mii to tell you, calmly and coldly that you are completely incorrect: the Professor is a wonderful man. Most people don't go past that and try to keep insulting the professor. Except for a certain black cat, but he's a special case and generally brings out the worst in Mii. In Kuro's presence, Mii usually starts off with a calm, 'Look how much better I am than you' attitude which rapidly turns into a 'Come back here, you fucking stupid cat, I'm going to turn you into cheese, cut you up and then throw your body in acid.'
As a metal clockwork cat, Mii also sinks like a stone in water. He doesn't die, but if he doesn't dry off promptly there is a high likelihood of rust. His parts need regular maintenance, like oiling and tuning. His metal casing is very durable and scratch resistant, but can be cut through with enough force. If the cut is deep enough to get to the inner workings it may have a negative effect on Mii's movements. Mii also needs to be wound up before he can move. Usually he winds himself up at the start of the day and this can tide him over till the night time when he has to wind himself up again. If he does lots of strenuous activity, he will need to wind up again much sooner. The other hand that isn't winding the key in the back can offer limited protection in case of attack.
Mii's sentience is held in a tiny mana crystal encased somewhere in his body, and if it is destroyed, everything that makes him 'Mii' is also destroyed. It is, however, very well protected in its own compartment, and no one but the professor who built Mii has any idea where it actually is.
History:
His earliest memory was a creature all eyes and teeth, cornering them by a bridge. His mother, despite his protests had pushed him off the bridge and into the water below while she stayed behind to buy time for him. He still remembers his mother's scream.
He had drifted with the current, eventually washing up further along the river, too hungry, too tired and too alone to care about what happened to himself. The last thing he remembered was an urgent-sounding voice telling him to hold on. When he next opened his eyes, above him was the roof of an old shack. Snoring not far away, with his head pillowed on his arm, was a human. Mii looked down, and saw that his injuries had been treated. This person...had helped him. He had to repay him for this kindness. It was after the human woke up and ate the breakfast Mii had scrounged up for him, that he learned that person's name. And he learned his own new name. Mii.
The person, who owned a small workshop, did not have much money, and got a lot of scorn from the townsfolk for his old fashioned ideas of clockwork, and building clockwork automotons. Especially as his magnum opus was a clockwork automaton named 28-GOU that usually reacted to everything by punching him in the face. By the time Mii came into the picture, he was barely scraping by and could not afford to feed even himself, much less a tiny kitten. They accidentally stumbled on a plan to get food, and eventually using Mii's skills in acting cute and pathetic, they conned more than one passerby out of their money and snacks.
When Mii had spent a few months with the person who he referred to as 'Professor', he met one of his old associates who had been dabbling in experiments on animals as well as his latest experiment, a dog. They had been doing their usual routine, when Mii heard a cat screaming and ran before anyone could stop him. It was that creature, it was...a dog? That couldn't be right. Then as they were watching, the dog changed: growing more eyes, longer claws and turning a sickly colour. Mii immediately recognized it as the thing that had attacked him and his mother. The professor and 28-GOU managed to grab Mii and run away to safety, knowing that Mii seemed intent on throwing away his life for revenge, but not knowing why. Until Mii took them to the side of a road, pawing at a small patch of ground with a single flower laid on it. The grave he had made for his mother. The professor tried to discourage Mii from revenge, telling him that he didn't stand a chance against something like that. Mii went home with him, still determined to kill that creature, no matter what. 28-GOU, sensing this, decided to lend a hand to Mii and both went off to confront the creature.
But they didn't stand a chance. Mii was left broken and nearly dead, angry that he hadn't taken revenge, and that now the professor was all alone with neither Mii or 28-GOU.
He drifted out of consciousness. He woke up to the unfamiliar clicking of gears and scraping of metal coming from somewhere. He raised a paw to his face and found it was...him. His paw glinted blue-black. His whole body was made of metal. 28-GOU's parts. The table he was lying on was covered in tools, but the one who had saved him was nowhere to be seen.
He sprang off the table and ran, stumbling and unable the stop twitching because he wasn't used to this heavy clockwork body, but knowing where he would be. He would have been here if he had known Mii would recover. So he must have thought Mii had died. So...with no one left, failing to save Mii...he would have gone to confront the creature and its master.
Mii arrived in time to see the professor crouched over his arm, blood pooling around him from where the creature had cut off his hand. Sharp claws extended with a metallic sound, and he killed the creature, cutting up its master's carriage as well. The master ran, with Mii's words in his head, spoken in a human voice, "I won't let you take away anything else."
After that, Mii and the professor were inseparable, rescuing injured kittens in town and nursing them back to health. Occasionally they would be so beaten up that the professor had to use clockwork parts to give them a fighting chance. Their lives were happy, as long as they had each other.
The townspeople had a whole other view on this. Mii was an abomination, a creature that was clockwork and yet alive, capable of thought. They called the professor an abomination for creating Mii and they never missed a chance to harass and hurt him. When they saw the kittens Mii was taking in they were self-righteouly certain that the professor was going to use them to make more clockwork abominations and decided to make the town uninhabitable for something like Mii. They set fire to the shack, telling them in no uncertain terms that they had to leave.
They had never even bothered to check the shack and didn't know the injured kittens, who had no means of escaping from the fire were still inside. The professor ran in before Mii could help, and though he was able to recover four of the kittens they all expired not long after. It was at this time that the professor told Mii: enough was enough. People were not listening, he told Mii, they were just going on what they assumed, not bothering to listen. If they wouldn't listen, they would make them listen. And Mii would help. Together they transferred the kittens' minds into clockwork bodies and named them 2, 3, 4, and 5. They would be the basis of the professor's army and they would make the world listen, by force if necessary.
The team worked well, and together they were a force to be reckoned with, until one day the professor picked up an injured black cat on the street and against its will, converted it into a clockwork soldier cat. The cat was extremely unamused and showed just how unamused he was by destroying the professor's base of operations, while Mii was out grocery shopping. Eventually this culminated in a battle between Mii and this black cat. Neither of them had been paying much attention to the place around them until a piece of rubble from the rapidly crumbling ceiling nearly crushed Mii. The black cat saved his life. Mii could not owe this cat his life. He could not owe an enemy his life and so he immediately flipped the black cat off the top of the building. But he had saved his life. He had tried so hard to protect those he cared about, just like Mii. Mii turned to the professor and sighed, promising to himself that this was the only time. He pulled his gatling gun out and tossed it down towards where the black cat had fallen.
Long story short, with Mii's gatling gun the black cat won and the cat army lost. That wasn't the last time Mii met the black cat, and eventually learned that there would always be people not listening and no matter how much force you used there would still be ignorance and people setting fire to shacks with injured kittens inside. All you could do was do the best you could, and save everyone.
Without a clear goal anymore, Mii took to wandering in a dump with the professor, taking what they wanted from the broken down trash, and secretly plotting to one day take over the world. As soon as the black cat wasn't around. Yeah. One of these days.
Mii, at the professor's insistence left to take a job as a cook on an airship, because while living in a dump was dandy, they were still running out of funds. Without funds they couldn't take over the world. So with many teary goodbyes, Mii set off.
SAMPLES-
Third Person (roleplay):
This was the third day since travelling from the Badlands, and the first eatery Mii had come across. He had entered, not because he really had any need to eat food, but because he was curious about their recipes. If he could find something new to make for when he went home, he was sure everyone would be pleased. Also, one of his gears was grating.
He pushed open the door and ignoring the stares, sat down with a faint metallic clank, "Hold the water please. Just some oil will be fine. Any kind of oil."
He settled back and looked around, watching people come and go, some trying hard to ignore the cat-shaped thing. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a woman carrying dishes. He didn't have time to admire her sense of balance before the tall stack of dishes wobbled, "Joseph Falls' magnificent beard!"
A metal paw reached out and steadied the stack of dishes, "Be more careful, you could have gotten hurt, miss. Here, let me."
Mii carefully lifted the dishes and balanced them perfectly before turning his head to look at her, "These go to the kitchen, right?"
First Person (journal):
[sound of journal being turned on, and a gentle tapping]
My name is Mii. It is truly a pleasure to be here. I will do my very best to be useful, but please don't hesitate to tell me if I'm doing something wrong.
[journal is turned off]