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Character Name & Journal: Drift, @ fastandcurious Guild Affiliation: None. He's likely to try to avoid guild affiliation for a while since neither of the established guilds appeal to his personal sense of morality. Maybe the Society of Villainous Reformation, eventually, if character stuff takes him that direction.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:Drift is coming from a canon point where he's lost basically all of the precious stability he's managed to scrape out of life and has gone back to being a wandering bounty hunter. He isn't sure what he wants, except that he wants to feel like he matters to someone and that he wants to have someone who can accept him--the only problem is that even he has a hard time doing that thanks to all the anger and guilt he carries around. The Hedgehog's Dilemma is in full force, so for right now short term he's just trying to carve out a niche and survive, maybe find a way off the planet if he's lucky (but he doesn't expect to be that lucky in the near future). So he plans to explore this version of Earth and try to see it as a chance to see the world without a gun (or sword) in his end. Whether that actually works out? We'll see.
Plot/CR Hooks: Drift is the kind of person who can't stand to see the 'little guy' suffer and ultiumately will probably end up doing something stupid to try and defend the downtrodden. He's also a natural driver and racer and might put himself out there on the rally circuits or do some dubiously legal street racing as a method of making local currency. He might use his holoform to create a very flimsy human identity to hide behind, but we'll see.
Ultimately, he needs fuel and while local stuff is fine (even, ugh, crude oil) the better refined and higher octane stuff is better, and harder to get hold of for obvious reasons, which might put him in the path of others.
He's also a giant (28 ft tall!!) alien robot, so any tech heads might want to try and recruit (or capture) him for study.
In his canon, he's supposed to be a redeemed bad guy, someone who joined the wrong side for the right reasons and is now trying to make up for it. I can see him playing a similar role here in other's storylines--his desire for justice and his conception of it isn't always going to line up with the way governments or heroes might (Drift is ACAB at all times thanks to some really bad stuff that happened to him when he was younger) and I can see him getting into the role of an anti-hero or foil to some good guys in a satisfying way. He's unlikely to end up going full baddie, though, since he's had his fill of being an on-call assassin.
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Character Name & Journal: Drift, @
Guild Affiliation: None. He's likely to try to avoid guild affiliation for a while since neither of the established guilds appeal to his personal sense of morality. Maybe the Society of Villainous Reformation, eventually, if character stuff takes him that direction.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:Drift is coming from a canon point where he's lost basically all of the precious stability he's managed to scrape out of life and has gone back to being a wandering bounty hunter. He isn't sure what he wants, except that he wants to feel like he matters to someone and that he wants to have someone who can accept him--the only problem is that even he has a hard time doing that thanks to all the anger and guilt he carries around. The Hedgehog's Dilemma is in full force, so for right now short term he's just trying to carve out a niche and survive, maybe find a way off the planet if he's lucky (but he doesn't expect to be that lucky in the near future). So he plans to explore this version of Earth and try to see it as a chance to see the world without a gun (or sword) in his end. Whether that actually works out? We'll see.
Plot/CR Hooks: Drift is the kind of person who can't stand to see the 'little guy' suffer and ultiumately will probably end up doing something stupid to try and defend the downtrodden. He's also a natural driver and racer and might put himself out there on the rally circuits or do some dubiously legal street racing as a method of making local currency. He might use his holoform to create a very flimsy human identity to hide behind, but we'll see.
Ultimately, he needs fuel and while local stuff is fine (even, ugh, crude oil) the better refined and higher octane stuff is better, and harder to get hold of for obvious reasons, which might put him in the path of others.
He's also a giant (28 ft tall!!) alien robot, so any tech heads might want to try and recruit (or capture) him for study.
In his canon, he's supposed to be a redeemed bad guy, someone who joined the wrong side for the right reasons and is now trying to make up for it. I can see him playing a similar role here in other's storylines--his desire for justice and his conception of it isn't always going to line up with the way governments or heroes might (Drift is ACAB at all times thanks to some really bad stuff that happened to him when he was younger) and I can see him getting into the role of an anti-hero or foil to some good guys in a satisfying way. He's unlikely to end up going full baddie, though, since he's had his fill of being an on-call assassin.