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look i was raised hindu, and maybe it was obvious since so many of our stories involve people like this, but it's so weird that people get mad that abusive characters in fiction are also given redeeming qualities, and those redeeming qualities are elaborated upon in context of the person.
'it's abuse apologia-' no it isn't. it's about realizing that abusers aren't mustache-twirling villains, and how no amount of talent, skill and kindness you might have will ever excuse your harm. abusers are people; dehumanizing bad people and making them into caricatures ignores the reality that horrible people can and do lead lives that are upstanding in many ways.
Here's another Character sheet, this time for the alternate universe counterpart of Ray/Rei Watanabe. (the fox) This time, I decided that I'm going to explain why some of the metrics are the way they are.
(also I said fuck it and used a headshot from a previous art rather than make a new one)
*Name: Fang is the personal name given by the scientists who created him. They wanted something tough sounding since he's a creature that's made to be used as a soldier.
*Nicknames: In his human form, he takes on the name 'Ryan Feng'. His designation in the laboratory is Project 22, since he's the 22nd successful animal creation of the genetics lab.
*Species/Race: I forgot to add that Fang is technically Japanese like Ray, because the human contribution to his genetic makeup was from a Japanese woman who offered herself as a test subject. She didn't survive to meet her very strange progeny.
*Age: 21 as of 2024, so he was created in 2003.
*Gender: Male, biologically and identifies as such.
*Alignment: His alignment is a result of being a creature made for war and survival. His morals are entirely based around himself and his own survival. Even the friends he's made along the way are almost only kept around for how useful they can be. Fang is not above stealing, killing, and extorting from the innocent if necessary.
*Class/Job: When he and his partner Bone (coming soon) arrived in the nuclear remains of Pittsburg, now dubbed Anarchy City by the residents, the then current mayor was a gang leader who had very little control over his own city, as it was taken over by rival gangs. He entrusts the strange animal duo who recently arrived in town to assassinate each gang leader and their members to free the city. In return...the mayor retires and hands over the city to people who are more capable than he is.
*Perception and Communication: For a fox hybrid, his senses aren't that great. His selfish nature means that his communication skills are quite stunted, as he has no patience for other opinions and feelings outside of his own.
*Persuasion: He's alright when it comes to making good points in an argument. However, he prefers that people see things his way, always, and isn't above threatening people to do that.
*Mediation: He's a terrible mediator. He'll force to arguing people to sit down and shut up with a gun to their faces rather than hear anyone out.
*Literacy and Creativity: Not as well read as Ray, and more willing to use the fastest solution to a problem rather than a creative one, but it's still there somewhat. He can quote Shakespeare and solve complex problems, but he doesn't apply it much in real life.
*Cooking: No knowledge of it aside from the fact that burning something = safer to eat.
*Tech Savvy: Not as savvy as Ray, but can still fix machines and understand a bit about their inner workings so he can get things running when necessary.
*Combat: Oh goodness, the combat. Fang's literally engineered as a living weapon, and trained extensively in the compound he was created in for all 21 years of his life. Hand to hand combat is an instant GG for anyone against him, and his aim with guns is impeccable. Don't piss him off. Seriously though, don't piss him off. When sufficiently angry, he can go into a Berserker state where despite his small size, he can effectively crush skulls and tear off limbs. Woe to anyone who happens to look at him wrong when he's in this state.
*Survival: Ah, this. Fang was also trained to survive well in the post-apocalyptic Earth he was born into. Aside from wilderness and technology skills that have been drilled into his mind from birth, he's been modified to have a strong gut, tougher skin to resist radiation, and a resistance to his body heat increasing or decreasing.
*Stealth: Small size allows him to sneak around and reduce sound emitted by his footsteps. Fang will resort to using blades over guns if the situation demands it.
*Street Smarts: His extensive training in the compound and his selfish attitude make him extremely ready for the chaotic streets of Anarchy City, and the post apocalyptic United States in general.
*Seduction: Being a genetic hybrid who may or may not be aro-ace, his sexual sense is completely fucked. He doesn't see anything as "sexy", he can't reproduce, and doesn't like being touched.
*Luck: Not sure how to explain this one, he has been known to get lucky in different situations, despite his karma probably being in the toilet for all the bad stuff he may have done.
*Handling Animals: His fox appearance gets him attacked or ignored by most animals, and most animals are significantly more savage after the apocalypse of 1983.
*Pacifying Children: "Holy shit, can you stop FUCKIN CRYING FOR ONE MINUTE!? FUCK!"
*Strength: Very high on account of his Berserker Mode.
Height: '5 "02.
*Dexterity: In retrospect this should be higher since he's good with guns and hand to hand combat, so he's gotta be decent.
*Health: Strong for his species and size, but he's been trained to be an efficient dodger since he can only take so many hits.
*Energy: Very energetic.
*Beauty: Not sure what to say here, he's an anthropomorphic fox, whose sense of fashion is basically a tattered biker jacket.
*Style: That being said, the glasses and jacket combo are kinda fire.
*Hygiene: Because he cares so little about the opinions of others, he only practices this when it's for the sake of his health. Otherwise, he doesn't care how much he smells like wet dog.
*Intelligence: While his brain was modified to retain high amounts of information just like Ray, he tends to rely more on impulsive instincts, so it's going to be a bit lower.
*Happiness: With Fang knowing that his only purpose was to be a weapon, he isn't fully sure about his existence and place in the grand scheme of things. His paranoia about potential enemies around the corner and the constant background anxiety of everyone living in a post-apocalyptic world also really add up over time.
*Spirituality: He was raised without religion.
*Confidence: He KNOWS that he's a good fighter, and enjoys being an unempathetic bastard. This has raised his confidence/ego to surprisingly high levels.
*Humor: Was raised around super serious scientists who were only concerned with his daily stats. That tends to leave one feeling very alien when it comes to comedy. Unless if you count laughing at your enemies struggle. Then he does have a sense of humor.
*Anxiety: Again, in hindsight this should've been higher. It doesn't openly bother him, but he keeps it bottled up inside.
*Patience: NONE. Absolutely nothing. Fang will tell people to shut up and get to the point, he'll ignore sob stories, and as demonstrated earlier, he hates the sound of children.
*Passion: If he wants something badly, he'll get it. Though he can lose interest if it's too difficult in getting.
*Charisma: Fang gets his way through violence, threats, and insults. Nothing charismatic about him.
*Empathy: As a result of his genetic makeup and training, he cares almost non-existent amounts for the welfare of others. Except maybe Bone.
*Generosity: He keeps an iron grip on anything valuable, but to be fair that's most people in the fucked world he lives in.
*Wealth: The very little monetary value that exists in Anarchy City is controlled by the duo.
*Aggression: As mentioned before, his personality gets him far in this dog-eat-dog deathworld, so it's pretty damn high.
*Libido: Once again, being an infertile hybrid and possibly being an aro ace (not saying that aro ace ppl don't have libidos, I'm saying that nothing can actually get him interested), he has no drive.
I'll explain more a bit later, post is getting long and I'm getting paranoid that I'll lose progress, so I'll cut it here. Feel free to ask questions.
Another Character sheet, this time for Wolf's alternate counterpart.
I guess I should make a content warning for some mild mentions of racism/discrimination, human experimentation, and child abuse/spousal abuse.
*Name: Kevin Rome was named by his mother because she refused to let his father have any say in anything after he was born.
*Nicknames: Called Bone in Wolf form, called Kev for short.
*Race/Species: So here's where it gets a bit odd...Kevin doesn't actually know he's Russian-American. On the post-apocalyptic Earth of the 5a universe, Slavic/former Soviet Union ethnicities are treated with racist hatred because of their association with the empire that essentially destroyed the world. Kevin's parents are still from Russia, but they hid this information upon arrival in the US and disguised themselves as German-Americans. Aside from that situation, his story of how he got the Wolf form is the same as Roman's--he was diagnosed with a genetic muscle wasting disease, and he overwrote his human DNA with wolf DNA, becoming what he is now.
*Age: 30, as he was born in 1993 in the US and it's 2024.
*Gender: Male, identifies as such.
*Alignment: Neutral Evil, as he has extremely loose morals and believes that nothing should impede the path of science. He developed a horrible habit of experimenting on fellow bunker dwellers without their knowledge, by adding things to their food or drink, or pricking them with a needle when they aren't paying attention.
*Class/Job: He was eventually busted by the Bunker's security and was exiled, technically making him an illegal scientist. He continued his shady work in the nearby Anarchy City, a bombed-out Pittsburgh home to Rejects, people rejected from the bunkers for various (and sometimes idiotic) reasons. I should've added that he's also a dual Mayor with Fang of Anarchy City, after they worked together to clear it out of rival gangs.
*Perception: Being a paranoid being, he's constantly on the lookout for trouble.
*Communication: A nervous wreck who stumbles over his words in most situations.
*Persuasion: Same issue as above, hard to buy what he's saying when he's sweating bullets talking to you.
*Mediation:...Yet decent at getting people to not argue and reach an agreement with each other.
*Literacy: Growing up in an abusive household where his shrew of a mother prevented him from talking to other children and considered his high intelligence to be a curse, and his father unable to put a stop to it, Kevin relied on books growing up...well, what little of books survived the raging fires of the nuclear exchange. When he ran away from home to work in the nearby bunker at the age of 16, he gained access to a significant amount of information that survived the destruction, becoming the well read man he is now.
*Creativity: And his creativity bloomed as a result, coming up with unique ways to deal with almost any situation.
*Cooking: His mother taught him to cook so she didn't have to anymore. So he's knowledgeable of a few recipes, and prefers to cook his meat rather than eat it raw like Roman.
*Tech Savvy: His father did teach him how to repair machines and salvage for scraps in the nearby ruins of towns, so he's knowledgeable in getting even the most broken of machines working again.
*Combat: Kevin never received the martial arts training that Roman did, and was simply given a gun to protect himself from the mutant animals and roving bandits. In Wolf fork, he's a lot stronger though.
*Survival: He knows the same basic survival skills as the others in his world.
*Stealth: Same issues with Roman, very tall both in human and in wolf form, very clunky.
*Street Smarts: He's familiar with wasteland lingo and has developed a fear of anything unusual or new, making him decently adapted in the chaotic nuke world.
*Seduction: LMAO no.
*Luck: Has no better or worse luck than most people, but he does fall on his face a lot when attempting something risky.
*Handling animals: Animals hate his wolf form. They're otherwise neutral to his human side.
*Pacifying children: He's learned from the failed parenting of his mother and can empathize with children really well.
*Strength: Weak as a human, strong as a wolf, but rarely gets exercise so he's not as strong as Roman.
*Dexterity: Clunky paws make it hard to manipulate things like he can in his human form. I probably should've put it at 3 instead of 2.
*Health: Weak as human, better as wolf.
*Energy: He finds himself having to sleep more after doing anything strenuous.
*Beauty: With his bad hygiene and lack of good self care, he's not considered as handsome as Roman, regardless of his current form.
*Style: Always wearing the dirty lab coat.
*Hygiene: Suffers from the same issue as Roman, with having human lymph nodes under his wolf fur, so he can develop a furious smell. Sadly, he doesn't have good self-care habits, so he's sometimes gnarly to be around.
*Intelligence: As with Roman, his brain mutated exponentially after birth, which his parents regarded as a strange and scary curse. Not wanting to get attention lest it expose the family as being from the Soviet Union, they forced him to withhold his talents from the world. His father was a bit more understanding however, and secretly loaned him books that he could get a hold of.
*Happiness: Living in a deathworld is bad enough, but growing up with a horrible mother who diminished his self-worth and contributed to his anxiety disorder really did numbers on his overall happiness. Like Fang, his role in helping clean up Anarchy City and control it has also led to him developing paranoia.
*Spirituality: Raised Christian by mostly his father, Kevin has relied on his belief in God to pull him through the tough times growing up. However, that hasn't stopped him from developing a twisted set of morals that allow him to see himself as a good Christian while doing very un-Christ-like behavior like experimenting on his fellow man.
*Confidence: Crippling anxiety, childhood abuse, and a pessimistic outlook has knocked his confidence into the toilet.
*Humor: Relies on either self-deprecating humor or insulting someone else.
*Anxiety: As stated before, has an anxiety disorder that is relatively untreated and exacerbated by the volatile world around him.
*Patience: Decently patient in most situations, but will get easily annoyed in others.
*Passion: His drive for knowledge and science have driven him to a dark path. But as time goes on, he's starting to doubt his life choices.
*Charisma: Lol.
*Empathy: While he can cruelly look down on people he feels superior to for whatever reason, there are times when he does have a sudden stroke of empathy towards a particularly sad situation.
*Generosity: Believes that communities can be stronger when they are generous, but doesn't practice this often.
*Wealth: Controlling Anarchy City has led to them being de facto wealthy.
*Aggression: Rarely aggressive himself, Kevin is more of a coward at heart.
*Libido: Aro-ace and having a very weak libido doesn't mix.
I'll add more later, and I'll repost this when I do.
My lovely warlock tiefling for my fictional band, The Macarbre Union. Her name is Vice. I'll post her equally edgy gf tmr.