Street Fighting Ring & Takedown plotting!

[brightlyshines]

Since there's a lot of us taking on this particular task board job, I'm posting here on the OOC community so we can hash out ideas and get our ducks in a row about what we'll all be doing throughout the month with these tasks!

We can discuss what our characters might attempt, their investigation efforts, and if or how they'll end up collaborating with each other here in this post. Toss out ideas and let's have some fun with this!

Edit: Also, do we want a mingle log for this spanning October?

Comments

[lionhandler]

OK SO for those of you who are not familiar with Shiro's canon, the very first thing that happens in it is that Shiro and his crew are captured by an evil alien empire. There's a timeskip and Shiro comes back with white hair, scars, a robot arm, and a huge year long gap in his memory thanks to all the trauma. Later, it turns out that the aliens forced him to fight as a gladiator, where he managed to defeat the reigning champion in his very first fight and remain undefeated thereafter. Which undoubtedly led into further unpleasant bullshit because Shiro's life is suffering.

THE POINT IS Shiro is 1) a very good fighter, and 2) has something of a personal vendetta against bloodsports in general.

My main goals here:
-Shiro's time as a gladiator in canon earned him the title of Champion, which the villains still sometimes call him, and as you can imagine, he does not care for that very much. So naturally I would like him to gain enough of a Reputation in these fights for a similarly uncomfortable nickname to stick if not just straight up. People here also calling him Champion.

-Shiro's fighting style is brutal, to put it bluntly. He aims to take his opponent out as quickly and thoroughly as possible, mercilessly seeking out and exploiting weak spots to do so. It's brutal, efficient, emotionless, and a huuuuuuge contrast to the casually friendly cool older brother vibe he usually gives off. I know some of his already-established CR is also participating in this, so if anybody wants to look at that and go dude, what the fuck, I am super up for this.

-He's working with Kevin Regnard on this, though I'll leave it up to Callie to discuss how much involvement and such she wants in this overall.

-This is probably not going to do his PTSD any favors.

-Come at me, bro.

[justpastdawn]

Yes, hello, I will just piggyback here --

So way back when Kevin first came to Emp and was too PTSD himself for things like "actual jobs" and "interacting on a regular and routine basis with other human beings", he used to earn himself a bit of lunch money out in the pubs, winning bets in regards to his fighting ability. He's tiny and skittish and so he's often underestimated, but he can and routinely does take down people twice his size, and he used this to his advantage until he'd built up a reputation as a fantastic duelist in certain parts of the city.

He still has that reputation, and more importantly, a lot of these NPC people he still gets together to spar with are well aware that he is an Enforcer.

Because of that he's not allowed to go into the field for this and that's where Shiro comes in. If Shiro is actually there and participating and looking around, he can feed what he sees to Kevin through the amulets, who'll be able to identify a few of these people. Not all of them, certainly, but enough to get a few leads and set the rest of the Enforcers on the trail. I am open to other characters getting in on this, but unless you're dying for CR for some reason, I will request that we handwave most of Kevin's involvement -- I've got a deadline and am unable to do more than pick out a tag or two a day for this first week or so, and later in the month he's going Adventuring™, so I'd like to save this month's threads for that and for Not!Boreas.

[lionhandler]

You know, it occurred to me this morning that if Shiro's broadcasting everything he sees back to Kevin, if something happens to set off a flashback, Kevin'll get that, too. Is that something you're interested in pursuing or nah?

[justpastdawn]

Sure! This seems like a great opportunity to play with that.

[canach]

While not really established, since they did meet once, if they ever cross paths Canach would recognize him and be like, "What is a nice fellow like him doing here—oh, I see." hah.

[lionhandler]

They're established enough for my standards! /o/ I'm totally down for threading with Canach for this, Shiro will make friends with your stupid cactus. Do we want them to actually fight each other or doing investigative shit or just chatting or what?

[canach]

Awesome sauce. Hmmm let's see. Okay my mind wandered and came up with this idea. Whaaat if Canach happens to spot him during one of Shiro's fights and he comes up to him after? Then from there they could try and do some investigative stuff. Maybe even get into a brawl with a decently ranked member and they have to work together to take him down.

[lionhandler]

Chatting and then teaming up to take somebody down sounds fun to me! /o/