Pirate Kitty!

VINCENT STERLING

Theme Song: The Kraken
Eat the Rich

Name: “Captain” Vincent Sterling

Birthday: September 16th

Age: 26

Race: Human-Cat Hybrid; “Neko”

Sex: Male

Hair: Black

Eyes: Slivery-Blue, with vertically-slit pupils.

Weight: 146 lbs.

Height: 5’ 11’’

Weapons: Ravager: Vincent lost his left arm at the shoulder to a rival pirate captain, and has since had it replaced with a mechanical arm, otherwise known as Ravager. Made from titanium, Ravager is extremely durable, and contains more than a few tricks. The fingers of the arm come down into very sharp, curved points, which can easily rend flesh, and the high-powered mechanics of the thing give it enviable strength. Aside side from the natural deadliness of the arm, there are several other notable features.

Electric Generator: An electric generator within the arm allows both contained bursts and launched bursts of electricity
Flame Generator: There is a large hole in the palm of the mechanical hand, within which is a small flame-generator. When activated, a jet of flames will pour forth from the hole.
Laser: There are also two small barrels on the back of the wrist, from which a pair of green laser bolts are fired. The laser has two settings: Stun and Sting. Stun will, obviously, stun a person, doing very little physical damage while assaulting their senses and orientation. Sting does a fair amount of physical damage, leaving holes in clothing and a black burn mark on a person’s skin.
Launcher: Lastly, there is a larger barrel between those two, which serves no definite purpose. Vincent can insert appropriately sized objects and launch them when needed (such as his grappling hook, arrows, rocks, ect). All of the features are powered by a small energy battery, which can be refilled with just a small electrical charge (easily obtained from the Ravager).

Sling-Blade: For the most part, this blade appears as a common cutlass. The blade is slightly curved, and a bright silver in color. The handle is a deep black, with a golden basket-shaped guard, and gold inlays spiraling down the handle. However, there is a small generator and the back and bottom of the blade, which pours forth a slew of bright yellow plasma. There is a guarded channel down the back of the blade, which helps to direct the plasma so that it covers the entire blade. Once it gets flowing, a simple swing of the blade will send the plasma flying out to burn at the opponent.

Plasma Rifle: This high-powered rifle fires bolts of bright blue plasma, which burns like acid. Depending on how the charge is set, the blasts can have two different effects. The first is a hard, armor-piercing blast, which burrows through the target. The second is a softer shot, which will usually not pierce the target, but explode in a large burst of plasma. The rifle has a high-tech scope, which can interface with Vincent’s Eye-Scope, so that he can effectively aim without putting the scope to his face. The armor-piercing shot has a longer range (about 200 yards) than the burst shot (about 100 yards).

Plasma Grenades: Small grenades, that explode in a burst of bright blue plasma, which burns like acid. Additionally, Vincent can activate these so that they will stick to any surface they hit. He carries eight of these at a time.

Armor: Power Field (Model Z69): This generator comes in the form of a small, circular ruby, which Vincent wears on a silver chain around his neck. The generator emits a small force field around his body, which reflects and protects against flames, electricity, lasers, plasma, radiation, and certain brain-affecting mental and sound waves.

Inventory: Eye-Scope (Model E33): An extremely popular item with the wealthy adventure (or pirate). This high-tech piece of equipment is fitted over the eye, and small robotic clamps will fasten it to the face, until a small, discreet button is pressed, and it may be removed. This optical device grants its user a number of visual enhancements, including heat sensing, zoom, magnification, x-ray, infrared, and night-vision. It also allows the viewer to monitor others’ life-signs, and locate bone fractures, breaks, broken veins, heart rate, perspiration, and more. Vincent has slightly altered his model to make it appear as a black eye-patch.

Power-Scope (Model T75): In form, this device appears a simple telescope. It is a golden-brown in color, and consists of three inter-folding parts. However, it shares several similar abilities with the E33 Eye-Scope (heat sensing, zoom, magnification, infrared, and night-vision). However, its magnification and zoom exist on a much higher scale, allowing Vincent to locate a flea on the back of a sweaty sailor six miles away. (Or just locate the sailor in a patch of trees thirty-plus miles away.)

Hover/Burst Boots: When activated, Vincent’s boots allow him to hover for a short time. Also, when needed, they can provide a 10-20 second-long burst of acceleration.

Homing Grapple: A titanium, folding grapple hook with a titanium cord, attached to Vincent’s belt. This grapple is equipped with a high-tech sensor, allowing it to lock onto desired targets. It also has a small “computer” and three tiny jets, allowing it to calculate proper trajectory and flight-path, the jets propelling it along its course. The jets automatically kick in, so only a small toss is needed to set it on its way. Depending on its trajectory and flight-path, the grappling hook’s speed varies.

Petey the Parrot: A robotic parrot, built by Vincent himself. There’s actually not much to him. He can fly, and his steel claws are razor-sharp. His eyes transmit a video stream to Vincent’s Eye-Scope, and he possesses an AI that grants him enough intelligence to distinguish between friends and foes, how to work through simple puzzles, and to hold a witty conversation. He is also equipped with a self-destruct sequence, activated by Vincent when the need arises (he can always build a new Petey).

Strengths: Vincent’s transition into “neko-hood” has granted him several feline traits, including incredible agility and speed, as well as enhanced sight, hearing, and smell (roughly 3x that of a regular human’s). His Power Field definitely gives him an edge over flame- and electricity-wielders, as well telepaths. While the main of his body is neither weak nor notably powerful, his left arm possesses incredible strength.

Weaknesses: In addition to his other feline traits, Sterling has gained an extremely strong aversion to water, and will head for cover at any sign of hostility with or from it (he holds a strong dislike for rain, but it generally isn’t enough to bother him). He’s also developed an almost overwhelming love for fish and milk (strong enough to fully distract him for at least a few minutes). Aside from his Ravager (which he can use to block), Vincent is unarmored and vulnerable to physical attacks, making him easily injured (assuming you can hit him).

Skills/Magic: Vincent has no magic, but plenty of technological and acrobatically-based skills. His feline genes give him insane speed, agility, and allow his to perform amazing feats of dexterity. His sense of sight, smell, and hearing are all about three times better than that of a normal human. Also, Vincent is a natural genius with machines and technology, often able to repair anything that breaks, and occasionally creates something altogether new. Additionally, Vincent is ambidextrous.

Transportation: The Kraken: A large traditional pirate ship, only incredibly high-tech. It features a titanium hull and solar-powered sails, which help to provide the ship with power, charging up a set of high-capacity batteries. The ship can hold approximately 300 human-sized crewmembers and about 120 tons of cargo. The Kraken is equipped with a very thorough communication system, touch-screen control panels, plasma cannons, and a series of large jets. It can move pretty quickly, but isn’t made for easy maneuverability.

Silver Serpent: Sterling’s own private skiff. The skiff has a titanium hull, with solar-powered sails, and a pair of small jets on the rear. Incredible speed and maneuverability.

Appearance: Vincent is slim, but still somehow muscular. His face is angular and distinctively cat-like, and his canines come to small, sharp points. His hair is a deep black, and frames his face at about eye-level. Two cat ears, both covered with black fur, sprout from the top of his head (his normal human ears were surgically removed without a trace). His eyes are a bright blue-silver, and feature slit-pupils. A furry black tail sprouts from the base of his back.

Vincent wears heavy black boots, dark green, pocket-riddled cargo pants, and a wide leather belt. Above that, he wears a black shirt, with a long, deep blue overcoat over it. A stark white skull-and-crossbones is shown on the back of the overcoat, and the bottom hangs down at calf-level. The overcoat has a high collar, which rises up to about earlobe-level before folding over to reach back to the shoulders. The entire edging of the overcoat has a fancy gold trim. The left sleeves of both the shirt and overcoat are missing, so that Vincent may proudly show off Ravager. His Eye-Scope (designed to appear as a black eye patch), usually rests over his left eye, and Petey generally has a reserved spot on Vincent’s left shoulder. His plasma rifle is slung across his back, and his plasma grenades are attacked to his belt, while his cutlass hands at his left hip. His Power-Scope is tucked into the inside of his overcoat, and his grappling hook is attacked to his right hip.

Occasionally, when the fancy strikes him, Vincent will don a large, plain leather tricorne (also known as a tricorn, tri-cornered hat, or three-cornered hat). He also wears his Power Field as a necklace under his clothing.

Personality: Despite his piratey-goodness, Vincent is not without mercy or compassion. He usually tries to keep his crew from outright killing (all lasers to stun, and aim the cannons at purely structural—or at least, low manned—areas), and won’t actually hurt anyone unless they resist him. He generally tries to raid only the moderately well off or out-right wealthy, leaving the poorer folks alone (for both practical and ethical reasons). As for personal relationships, he’s a pretty kind and thoughtful fellow, although his trustworthiness is somewhat questionable. He’s often aloof and a tad arrogant (whether this is due to his own DNA or the feline DNA is often the subject of many a debate), but mostly manages to pull it off so that people walk away considering his coolness and how suave he is. And suave he is indeed, as well as graceful, romantic, and charming. He never misses a chance to pull a prank or trick, and often finds humor in the darkest of situations.

History: Born in one of the floating cities common to his time, Vincent has always had an obsessive fascination for pirates. Vincent was raised alongside his sister by their single mother, never having known a father. He was not distressed by this, however, prone to imagine his father off sailing the skies as some fantastic pirate captain (whether or not this is actually true remains pure speculation, for Vincent’s mother never spoke of his father). For the most part, Vincent and his slightly younger sister got along well enough, although they rarely agreed on something and often argued. Vincent was always headstrong and chaotic, whereas his sister was always ordered, effective, and coolheaded. At the age of seventeen, Vincent’s mother passed away from various stress-related illnesses. The two siblings seemed able to handle themselves well enough, so they spilt up, Vincent joining the first pirate crew he came across and his sister going out to fulfill her own goals.

Vincent moved around from crew to crew, gaining fame, respect, and knowledge. Eventually, he had gathered enough money to pay for Genetic Grafting, a common—and expensive—procedure for the fashionable. It was the latest fad—grafting animal DNA into your own. Depending on how far you went, you went from exotic eyes and coloration to extra body parts to animal traits. Vincent went all the way, gaining his cat ears and tail, as well as various feline traits. He continued to pirate for several more years, until he had accumulated enough fame and wealth to purchase his own pirate ship and hire on his own crew. Unfortunately, such wealth and notoriety can go to a person’s head. Vincent got a bit too cocky, and lost his left arm at the shoulder to a rival pirate captain. The neko retreated, and had the arm replaced with the Ravager. Since then, he’s plundered and pillaged to his delight.

Battle Rank
Player: Halcyon Hero
Character: Vincent Sterling
Innate Element: Technology? Kitty-ness? O.o
Overall Rank: VI
Strength: V
Defense: III
Elemental: V
Speed: IX
Skill: X

Nice, pretty original in my point of view, i'd accept that.

Looks good, HH--I was worried about all those weapons, but he has sufficient weaknesses to balance out the strengths they give him. *approved*

And ZeldaMaster#1#1, please don't post in other members' character threads. Only approvers can.

Yay, thanks Aiko-chaaan~! ^_^