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Name: B Storm
Age: 3 (read backstory)
Canon: OC (Neon Knights Online MMO VR RPG)
Alignment: Neutral Good
Motivation: Self-betterment towards an ideal version of himself from his own memories, to find his maker.
Powers:
B’s class in NKO is Warrior. It’s a class based more on pure physical stats and basic attacks than flashy skills, but he does have a few noteworthy outliers:
Regeneration: B regenerates from wounds faster than most beings. During the average span of a combat however, this can’t do much more than slowly fix a few gashes or stabilize a broken bone.
Breaker Sword: When active, this skill allows B to break objects that are normally too tough for his sword to damage. It remains active for up to 20 seconds and it has a 5 minute cooldown.
Sapping Sword: Another self-buff skill that allows B to drain stamina from enemies he hits with his sword, allowing him to fight for longer while tiring them out at the same time. Sapping sword has the same up/downtime as Breaker Sword and he can’t have both skills active simultaneously.
Berserk mode: Berserk mode is a risky self-buff skill that, once triggered, will provide B will a boost of strength and speed for the rest of the battle, at the cost of reduced endurance. Once active, it will surround B with white energy, and the stance will last until B disengages from the fight.
Skills: Swordfighting, survivalist, learns and retains game-related information surprisingly well.
Equipment:
Average warrior class armor set: Grants protection against most types of physical trauma. Significantly less effective against magic.
Heaphones: Noise cancelling, high quality sound. Can be used to communicate with a variety of signal ranges.
Travel Backpack: Usually contains snacks and a fully charged phone.
Personality:
B is extremely concerned about how others see him. He constantly tries to put up a cool and collected facade, but it’s an extremely thinly veiled attempt at that, quickly given away by his anxious, bumbling nature and his fear of breaking rules. Deep down, however, he is a kind, chivalrous spirit who will work hard to uphold his principles when push really comes to shove. B also has a bit of an obsession over games of all kinds, often using them as his most important means of understanding the world around him, as well as bond with others.
Biography:
Neon Knights Online is one of the many immersive virtual reality MMOs that populate the gaming scenery of futuristic South Korea, set in a modern fantasy world. Although it has its fair share of issues, it’s kept afloat by a very unique mechanic that’s quite popular amongst players: Ppon logging off, one may assign an AI take over your character. Said AI holds a database of that player’s past actions and chats and, with it, reproduces their personality to an extent. This allows the character to progress and interact with friends even while the owner is logged off.
Chae Sua used to own a warrior avatar under the username B Storm. The boy would take up a persona whenever he donned the orange-haired, headphone clad avatar, acting calm and collected, yet selfless and determined. While he was far from the strongest or richest player, he gained renown among quite a few newbie circles for his diligence at guiding and helping them through all sorts of difficulties.
However, all good things inevitably reach their end at some point. As college came knocking on his door, Sua saw himself forced to leave his gaming habits in the past, lest he’d compromise his past. And just to ensure he would never, ever fall back to his old habits in a time of weakness, he ordered a full deletion of his account.
That’s when miracle struck.
Sua’s character was on the verge of having all his data deleted by the server’s routine when a timely power outage struck, corrupting the process and leaving it unfinished. As a result, the account access had been deleted, but the character itself - the AI - was left alive, a glitch in the system. Not only that, but the near-death experience would spark a behavior never seen before: It discovered a fear of death, questioned its own existence and, with that, grew a fully operational conscience. This marked the birth of B Storm.
The newly arrived existence had all of his memories as a character. He knew they weren’t actually his, and yet, he latched on to them, deciding to make that personality his own. He wasn’t as confident, as collected or as street-smart as his previous self, but he kept at it, determined to become the ideal self from his own memories. It was during this time he met Jaco, his closest friend and ally, who would accompany him on the game’s adventures without ever becoming aware of B’s condition.
When the portals arrived at the world of Neon Knights Online, a strange phenomenon happened; the bodies of the players and their characters merged together as soon as they crossed them into the world of Perpetual Rift. B was an exception, however, being his own conscious. Now thrown into this own confusing and expansive new world, the AI given life has no choice but to try and adapt to his new reality and, in it, find new purpose.
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Name: B Storm
Age: 3 (read backstory)
Canon: OC (Neon Knights Online MMO VR RPG)
Alignment: Neutral Good
Motivation: Self-betterment towards an ideal version of himself from his own memories, to find his maker.
Powers:
B’s class in NKO is Warrior. It’s a class based more on pure physical stats and basic attacks than flashy skills, but he does have a few noteworthy outliers:
Regeneration: B regenerates from wounds faster than most beings. During the average span of a combat however, this can’t do much more than slowly fix a few gashes or stabilize a broken bone.
Breaker Sword: When active, this skill allows B to break objects that are normally too tough for his sword to damage. It remains active for up to 20 seconds and it has a 5 minute cooldown.
Sapping Sword: Another self-buff skill that allows B to drain stamina from enemies he hits with his sword, allowing him to fight for longer while tiring them out at the same time. Sapping sword has the same up/downtime as Breaker Sword and he can’t have both skills active simultaneously.
Berserk mode: Berserk mode is a risky self-buff skill that, once triggered, will provide B will a boost of strength and speed for the rest of the battle, at the cost of reduced endurance. Once active, it will surround B with white energy, and the stance will last until B disengages from the fight.
Skills: Swordfighting, survivalist, learns and retains game-related information surprisingly well.
Equipment:
Average warrior class armor set: Grants protection against most types of physical trauma. Significantly less effective against magic.
Heaphones: Noise cancelling, high quality sound. Can be used to communicate with a variety of signal ranges.
Travel Backpack: Usually contains snacks and a fully charged phone.
The Warp Sword is B Storm’s legendary-grade sword, earned through the discovery of an Easter Egg back in NKO. It is a neon blue, one-sided blade with a revving engine in its guard. By pulling the rev, the sword engages in warp mode, which allows it to bend the spacetime around the user to achieve various effects.
Space shrinking: Through the shrinking of space fabric, the Warp Sword can close gaps much easier than normal, allowing the user to traverse an unobstructed space in an instant or for his swings to reach distant enemies without having to approach.
Space expanding: By increasing space-time, the sword can stall projectiles or other attacks, setting up traps or giving the user time to avoid them.
Space curving: Space curving combines shrinking and expanding to make linear trajectories curve however he wishes them to. Can be used to see or attack through corners or to perform complex movement maneuvers.
The Warp Sword comes with a fuel reserve that replenishes when out of combat. For every 5 seconds it is active, it’ll consume 1% of its total fuel. B can also rev the sword multiple times: each time he does this, the sword will double its area of effect, speed of casting and fuel consumption. By rev number 4, the sword will reach its maximum potential, spending 8% fuel per 5 seconds and unlocking special, powered-up versions of his skills:
Regeneration: Allows quick regeneration of any non-permanent wounds.
Breaker sword: Can instantly shatter any weapon it comes in contact with
Stamina drain: Also drains the target’s strength/concentration, reducing their ability to deal damage
Berserk mode: Unlocks the skill Doomsday Divide.
Doomsday Divide: B’s ultimate skill, which automatically spends all his fuel. This skill allows him to create a perfect division alongside the direction of his swing, splitting even molecules perfectly across a several mile-long line.
Space shrinking: Through the shrinking of space fabric, the Warp Sword can close gaps much easier than normal, allowing the user to traverse an unobstructed space in an instant or for his swings to reach distant enemies without having to approach.
Space expanding: By increasing space-time, the sword can stall projectiles or other attacks, setting up traps or giving the user time to avoid them.
Space curving: Space curving combines shrinking and expanding to make linear trajectories curve however he wishes them to. Can be used to see or attack through corners or to perform complex movement maneuvers.
The Warp Sword comes with a fuel reserve that replenishes when out of combat. For every 5 seconds it is active, it’ll consume 1% of its total fuel. B can also rev the sword multiple times: each time he does this, the sword will double its area of effect, speed of casting and fuel consumption. By rev number 4, the sword will reach its maximum potential, spending 8% fuel per 5 seconds and unlocking special, powered-up versions of his skills:
Regeneration: Allows quick regeneration of any non-permanent wounds.
Breaker sword: Can instantly shatter any weapon it comes in contact with
Stamina drain: Also drains the target’s strength/concentration, reducing their ability to deal damage
Berserk mode: Unlocks the skill Doomsday Divide.
Doomsday Divide: B’s ultimate skill, which automatically spends all his fuel. This skill allows him to create a perfect division alongside the direction of his swing, splitting even molecules perfectly across a several mile-long line.
Personality:
B is extremely concerned about how others see him. He constantly tries to put up a cool and collected facade, but it’s an extremely thinly veiled attempt at that, quickly given away by his anxious, bumbling nature and his fear of breaking rules. Deep down, however, he is a kind, chivalrous spirit who will work hard to uphold his principles when push really comes to shove. B also has a bit of an obsession over games of all kinds, often using them as his most important means of understanding the world around him, as well as bond with others.
Biography:
Neon Knights Online is one of the many immersive virtual reality MMOs that populate the gaming scenery of futuristic South Korea, set in a modern fantasy world. Although it has its fair share of issues, it’s kept afloat by a very unique mechanic that’s quite popular amongst players: Ppon logging off, one may assign an AI take over your character. Said AI holds a database of that player’s past actions and chats and, with it, reproduces their personality to an extent. This allows the character to progress and interact with friends even while the owner is logged off.
Chae Sua used to own a warrior avatar under the username B Storm. The boy would take up a persona whenever he donned the orange-haired, headphone clad avatar, acting calm and collected, yet selfless and determined. While he was far from the strongest or richest player, he gained renown among quite a few newbie circles for his diligence at guiding and helping them through all sorts of difficulties.
However, all good things inevitably reach their end at some point. As college came knocking on his door, Sua saw himself forced to leave his gaming habits in the past, lest he’d compromise his past. And just to ensure he would never, ever fall back to his old habits in a time of weakness, he ordered a full deletion of his account.
That’s when miracle struck.
Sua’s character was on the verge of having all his data deleted by the server’s routine when a timely power outage struck, corrupting the process and leaving it unfinished. As a result, the account access had been deleted, but the character itself - the AI - was left alive, a glitch in the system. Not only that, but the near-death experience would spark a behavior never seen before: It discovered a fear of death, questioned its own existence and, with that, grew a fully operational conscience. This marked the birth of B Storm.
The newly arrived existence had all of his memories as a character. He knew they weren’t actually his, and yet, he latched on to them, deciding to make that personality his own. He wasn’t as confident, as collected or as street-smart as his previous self, but he kept at it, determined to become the ideal self from his own memories. It was during this time he met Jaco, his closest friend and ally, who would accompany him on the game’s adventures without ever becoming aware of B’s condition.
When the portals arrived at the world of Neon Knights Online, a strange phenomenon happened; the bodies of the players and their characters merged together as soon as they crossed them into the world of Perpetual Rift. B was an exception, however, being his own conscious. Now thrown into this own confusing and expansive new world, the AI given life has no choice but to try and adapt to his new reality and, in it, find new purpose.
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