Metal Raven
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A perpetual W.I.P. Page! Metal Raven is my take on a character like Iron Man, only younger; troubled by a haunting past and the weight of the world, he is a young man that takes it in stride and does what he can to help the world and cleanse all the crime and chaos from the planet -- one villain at a time!
Contents
- 1 Affiliations
- 2 Physical
- 3 Examples of the Metal Raven series of Powered Armor Suits
- 4 Summarized History
- 5 Trivia, Rumors and Miscellaneous
- 6 ((RPHooks))
Affiliations
Organization/Super Group
Currently, Robin is unaffiliated with any superteam.
Friends and Family
((OOC Note)) WIP. Feel free to add your character here or under 'Enemies and Opposition' and I'll fill in a description, as well as what Robin thinks.
Butler is a highly advanced sphere-shaped robot with many surgical and offensive limbs and attachments. Built by Robin at age thirteen, this droid has gone through few alterations and seems almost primitive compared to Robin's current inventions and designs; he is, however, amazingly responsive for a robot, having accompanied Robin for years at this point. He often speaks to Robin rather loudly through his comm, making friendly jabs at his master to encourage the boy. Though often considered defenseless, he is anything but - Butler is armed with deadly taser charges and the ability to gather enough kinetic energy from the environment and his constant mobility to float above a target and unleash a massive beam of force; he often pursues the target until they are destroyed (if inorganic), slain (if a monster) or pummeled into a subdued state (if organic/sentient/most humanoids). This intense maneuver is called "Reignfall".
Serenity Summers
Enemies and Opposition
((OOC Note)) WIP. Feel free to add your character here or under 'friends' and I'll fill in a description, as well as what Robin thinks.
Superior may be long-gone, his mind forever locked in the Qliphothic, but Robin and - in fact - all of Millennium City are not without the scars this mastermind had left behind. Superior had placed Robin under powerful mind control to forcefully coerce him into attacking his friend and ally Zen, essentially making Robin Superior's puppet after a fight had occurred between the two.
Senika is one of Superior's allies, and has put Robin through hell and back -- besting him in battle twice. Though detained and arrested, Senika broke free of her bonds and is now loose upon the city again. Robin has tried time again to convince she and Naji that the life of a crime fighter isn't so bad!
Naji is a brutal, powerful hulking mass of lizard.. robot... thing. They've butted heads over the fact that Naji is a supervillain and ally to Superior, alongside Sennika. Naji has defeated Robin and escaped him in battle twice now. Robin has given up trying to arrest Naji, as the creature has since ceased his violent ways (for now), but he still hopes to convince him that committing evil acts isn't what Naji has to limit himself to.
Physical
Appearance
He is tall for a normal human being at a solid six foot three, his tall and lanky frame is lightly-built with toned rather than bulky muscle, implying a history of exercise and martial arts or self-defense training. His soft, angular facial features include leaf-green eyes and what appears to be dyed-black hair kept meticulously well-groomed. Beyond that, hidden beneath his apparel is a horrifically numerous amount of scars littered along his torso, stopping just above his bicep and just above his mid-thigh, as if they weren't meant to be seen. But by whom were these scars left...?
Personality & Mentality
In a nutshell, Robin is incredibly shy, very nervous, and tends to be quite awkward. Having been forcefully sheltered for up until the age of thirteen or so, he doesn't seem to 'get' most social cues or modern references. Only recently has speech therapy helped him discard his stutter, though he still stammers when nervous and he continues to tend to pause between words frequently.
Examples of the Metal Raven series of Powered Armor Suits
He has been fighting crime for nearly a decade now. Outside of his suit, Raven is a completely normal, strong-willed healthy human being of genius-levels of intellect and good control of his emotions, but he is only as effective as a well-trained and athletic human being. A thug might not stand a chance against him still, but a street-level hero could easily mess his day up if they were to get in a fight for whatever reason. He is left quite defenseless against anyone with superior training -- or superpowers. Though he's a brilliant mind and a great shot with a handgun or rifle, he's only human at the end of the day. To make up for his lack of superhuman abilities, he utilizes mechanical assistance in the form of Power Armor. The following is a partial list of suits Robin has built starting from age fourteen and ranging up to his current 2009-2012 (and beyond!) series of Metal Raven powered-armor suits.
Current Suit: Metal Raven 'Sparkhawk' Suit
Advantages
Metal Raven is essentially Iron Man meets War Machine: he is a durable, highly mobile weapons platform and is technically, legally classified and categorized as a weapon of mass destruction. His greatest strengths include his aerial superiority, extreme maneuverability and ability to suddenly pick up speed (reaching top speeds suggested to be as high or higher than Mach IV) or to make a sudden and safe stop.
Raven's suit runs off self-developed, patented technology known as a 'Kinetic Battery', which essentially absorbs kinetic energy and allows him to build up intense levels of energy from anything from movement such as flight or evading attacks to actual physical combat. Excess levels of kinetic energy are 'vented' through slots in the armor, allowing him to safely dispose of excessive levels of heat and energy. It is also highly armored and durable: thanks to magnetorheological dampening fluids packed away between layers of heavy, top-quality armor plating consisting of some of the world's most durable alloys (which have been tempered and padded to shrug off extreme weather and allow him to safely roam outer space, below-freezing temperatures and volcanic levels of heat and still safely operate his suit) he can directly withstand intense explosions, heavy physical strikes, powerful laser and plasma weaponry and armor-piercing rounds for at least the first shot or a few. However, continued pressure can dent, buckle, crack or even break his armor.
In terms of weaponry and combat-readiness, his suit is equipped with a mix of lethal and nonlethal weaponry with components that he can easily swap out at base depending on who he needs to fight: the basic weapons that stay on his suit at all times are: his kinetic and plasma/laser weaponry including twin palm projected kinetic cannons (which can be set to nonlethal or lethal force to knock an enemy around or puncture armor or flesh with a pin-point accurate beam), a chest-oriented cannon; as well as the micro-missiles from his chest plating a shoulder-mounted chaingun with options for nonlethal shock rounds and .500 caliber armor piercing slugs as well as another weapons platform on the opposite shoulder with options for a railgun or rocket launcher or missile silo. He also stores heel-based slug throwers in his jet boots and a wrist-mounted cartridge launcher (that allows him to fire a variety of cartridges such as explosive or gas darts or tasers) and autocannon on either hand.
He is also inhumanly strong in his suit thanks to his powered limbs, able to lift tanks (or punch a hole in their armor with his power fists).
Grond-Buster Mark I 'L.A.W. & Ordnance' Prototype
More of a 'shell' to the Mark II Grond-Buster, this suit is designed to put Metal Raven toe-to-toe with the deadliest powers on the planet with the proper team makeup -- unfortunately, it didn't do so well. On a foolish one-man assault on Therakiel's Temple, the Mark I prototype Grond-Buster suit (then donning the Ministry of Order paintjob) was shattered before he could get very far in, the Questionite-plated and titanium-infused frame now in pieces. Robin barely escaped with his life, activating a contingency beacon to the City, where WarForged and Tin Man easily caught the crash-landing boy. From there, he began work on the Mark II 'GB-Suit'.
Metal Raven THRASH Suit
Robin's Mark III of power armor is highly advanced, including his helmet. This helm contains highly-responsive synaptic-and-optic HUD interface that gives him in-depth targeting systems, scans, readings, vision modes, and of course voice- or thought-activated system responses. The suit itself is a self-empowering high tensile titanium frame that runs off various fuel and energy sources, including a kinetic battery, a solar power cell, and water-fueled as well as hydraulic engines (plus fuel for his thrusters).
Grond-Buster Mark II
This suit is even more raven-like than the previous, detailed in desert-print camo plating and green glow in the decal. It hums with pure vibrant energy, all the metal in the suit is composed of 88% Neutronium alloy - even with the other 12% alloy makeup consisting of 3% titanium, 6.5% Questionite and 2.5% gold (wait, what?), this suit is not only very heavy on the repair bills, but it weighs in at more than an adult African bull elephant at approximately eight tons. Robin can't take flight in this suit, only capable of leaping, bounding and gliding with it. This suit is extremely resilient and, with the proper team alongside him, is designed to take on legendary threats to the world such as Grond.
Travel Methods
Robin has two primary forms of quick travel, namely his jet and rocket thruster setup and a new device he's working on.
On-Frame Jet Booster & Thruster System (Jet Boots)
Thanks to his responsive HUD interface, he can use his synapses to activate, deactivate and control the jets, boosters and thrusters within his power armor, propelling himself at great speeds and rendering him able to fly. At top speeds, he creates sonic booms from acceleration!
Anti-Gravity Field Generator (Rocket Jump)
Robin is working in a new invention for his power suit - "Antigrav boots" that will allow him to seamlessly switch between standard gravity, or to enable an anti-grav field around himself that lets him bound from location to location.
Weaknesses and Limitations
He does have a handful of glaring weaknesses though not every foe is able to take advantage of them. Direct damage to his helmet yields a variety of results: loss of optics/targeting/navigation systems, his head and face become exposed to direct hits and any sort of mental protection is reduced to that of a strong-willed but normal human being. As well, he is highly susceptible to attacks that are magical/mystical in nature due to having no real built-in defense except for physical self-defense. Thanks to the suit he does have the physical strength and speed to match inhuman levels of physical prowess, however his abilities greatly pale in comparison to someone with actual super strength or super speed. As well, he can't effectively build energy if he is completely immobilized, reducing the effectiveness of his suit during the time for which he is stuck in place. He also has an inadvertent weakness in the form of refusing to ever kill, dismember or horribly maim an enemy.
Summarized History
((OOC Note)) Strictly OOC information unless learned IC.
1987: 17-year-old Sarah Rose meets a charming man, aged 20, named Robert Fenix. Robert and Sarah go out on a series of dates over the course of the summer, becoming an item by the fall.
1992: Robert's father, Jay, passed away from cancer. Robert grieves the loss of his only remaining relative, but becomes even closer to Sarah, asking her to marry him. She accepts, and they wed in 1994.
1993: Robert and Sarah become expecting by August of '92, after dating for nearly four years. They think on names. Later in the year of 1993, Robin Jaye Fenix is born a healthy, happy baby to the young, loving couple of Robert and Sarah Fenix of Detroit, Michigan.
1996: Robin shows incredible reading, writing and motor skills, learning to read and write aged at three years old, but the destruction of Detroit by Destroyer's hand annihilates the Fenix home as the family escapes. With no home insurance or money to buy a proper home, the family stays in the ruins of the westside for several months before finding a cheap home in the outskirts of the city.
1997: Robert is diagnosed with lung cancer and turns to alcoholism to cope. He begins verbally abusing his wife and child.
1998: Robert begins to physically abuse Robin, becoming violent to his wife as well. While at school, Robin refuses to take his shirt off to change during gym class; suspicious and worried teachers check Robin's stomach, finding various recent scars, and child investigative services are called into play.
1999: Robert's wife and child swear that Robert had nothing to do with their health. Investigative services turn away, though keep an eye on the Fenix household.
2000-2003: Robin and Sarah continue to suffer abuse from the raging alcoholic Robert has become. Robert eventually goes beyond his normal level of abuse, violently beating Sarah into a coma where she is hospitalized for two weeks. The Fenix family misses Christmas of 2003. Police attempt to take Robert into custody, but he resists, reportedly escaping. He has yet to be caught and is presumed dead.
2004: Sarah passes away Christmas week, leaving an orphaned Robin to a new family in Millennium City, Michigan. Robin runs away two weeks after being inducted into a local city orphanage, escaping with fellow orphan Raven Davis.
2006: The young man spends a couple of years homeless, losing contact with Raven, but regains hope when he enters a local city-wide contest awarding a grant to the most inventive engineer. Robin's invention, a 'Kinetic Battery' impresses the hosts of the contest and he is awarded a rather impressive grant which he uses to build his prototype powersuit, the Cardinal, powered by an early version of the kinetic battery. Robin's intellectual genius and willingness to fight crime draws the attention of the Ministry of Order...
Trivia, Rumors and Miscellaneous
Trivia
Robin loves cherry cola, orange soda, root beer and ... chocolate milk? He isn't quite old enough to drink and finds the stuff dangerous (as it dulls the senses), so he stays away from alcohol.
Robin refuses to kill or resort to brutality for any reason. So far, he has a clean record consisting of zero kills or excessive violence.
He doesn't refer to himself as a 'hero', thinking this too egotistical a term to call one's self by. Instead he simply calls himself a 'crime fighter'.
Rumors
They say...
...that Robin entered a beauty pageant contest in '99, wearing a dress and makeup, and won three hundred dollars as a result, only to be discovered as a boy and getting ran off.
...that Robin had slain Der (or Die) Doppelganger in a life-or-death standoff! However, being pigeon-holed into apparently killing had shaken Robin's demeanor and left him sore with the reportedly living-again Doppelganger. It was later revealed that the Doppelganger had survived and simply tricked Robin into thinking he had killed someone.
...that the villain Senika stripped off the armor plating from the Mark III Metal Raven suit and took it as a trophy, leaving only his helmet.
...that Robin has an IQ above 160 and around, at or under 200! You're probably as surprised as he is.
Thoughts and Opinions from Outside Sources
((Here is section for IC thoughts and opinions on Robin. Add away!))
".. Robin. He is quiet, but not weak. Is friend." -Same
"Robby? He's a great kid! He's sometimes a little quirky, but who isn't in Millennium? He's a good friend and he has a great heart!" - Eternal Reverie
"Very adorable guy. Just have to be patient." - Catling Gun
"Him? Yeah, I think I met him once. Scared the crap outta him! Ha!" - Samhain
"I barely know him... but from what I do know of him? He's a great guy, takes a lot of balls to be able to stand up for a friend when the bad guy scares everyone." - Blitzkrieg
"Metal Raven is a wicked smart, misunderstood hero who's greatest super power is that he NEVER gives up. Robin Fenix on the other hand... He's a quiet, immature kid that needs to grow up." - Serenity Summers
((RPHooks))
- He builds all of his own weapons, armor and technology, and even builds such items for others if they supply the materials or pay him. Usually this list of clientele includes registered heroes, big businesses, or well-paid mercenaries.
- He's a certified genius, and has secretly applied to colleges around Millennium City. Unfortunately, he has no high school education, nor a G.E.D. -- he's still trying to work out a deal with the staff at the local technical institutions and colleges.
