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Ardra:
Rating: 1.09%
Team: Nico
In Their Own Words: Stepping into the light, you notice the door is closed tightly. Deciding to test your fate, you slowly and quietly twist the door knob open. Pushing the door silently, you peer in to see a young man of sixteen years standing before a full length mirror with a rather old brush in his hands. Violet eyes quickly spotted you in the mirror and whipped around, suddenly a Glock is trained on your head, violet eyes, once wide and open, were now smiling, cold and distant, a eerie contradiction as it seemed as if he was more than willing to pull the trigger and kill you if he had to.
“Who in the name of the Colonies are you?†he purred out.
In glancing at the Glock again, you find your gaze drawn back to the teenager before you. Long, chestnut colored hair lay in waves behind him, reaching well past the back of his knees. Bangs standing every which way. His body, especially his naked chest, is muscled but not overly muscled, showing signs of a deeply rooted strength that could be accessed any time the young man wanted to. You notice his finger move from the trigger guard to the actual trigger and quickly sputter out who you are.
“You’re from OZ?†the young man demanded, his finger pressing to the trigger a little, the gun ready to go off within a hair’s breadth of extra pressure put onto it.
Swallowing thickly, you tell him that you are not. Violet eyes surveyed you before the Clock’s hammer is pulled back, the safety clicked on and the Glock rendered harmless once more. Nodding, the young man turns and continues brushing his hair out. You watch as skilled hands part the hair into three even strands. Faster than you can keep up, hands dance through the hair, weaving it into a braid that reaches past the belt of his pants before the young man uses his finger tips to rescue his bangs from the rest of his hair and turns to you again.
“What are you doing here? No one is supposed to be here.â€
Quickly explaining yourself, you watch him pull on a white t-shirt with long sleeves and collar. Idly wondering why he would wear something so hot on such a hot day, your confusion mounts more when he pulls on a thick black jacket over the white shirt. Asking him about it, you only receive a wistful smile and a shrug as he zips up the zipper, then rolls his jacket sleeves then his white sleeves over the rolled jacket’s until it was in the middle of his forearm. The whole outfit looks like something that a priest would wear in the churches; the white collar that is still visible gives it that feeling. Feeling a bit daring, you ask for his name.
“My name? My name is Duo Maxwell.â€
You’d never heard that name before, but his face looked familiar. The young man is a Gundam Pilot. Someone considered a terrorist, but he actually is fighting for those who have no voice of their own. Despite the fact that the Colonies have rejected their claim on the huge, metal beasts known as Gundam, the pilots claim they are fighting for the rights of the Colonies. He is one of five outcasts on both the planet and the Colonies, but he still fights for a good cause.
You see a silver cross hanging from his neck that glimmers in the light as he bends down and picks up a large, purple and silver scythe from the ground. Idly, your mind tells you it’s a battle weapon known as a Shinigami. Wondering why he would have that, you ask him.
“I carry this with me to remind me of what I am. I am Shinigami, the God of Death.â€
A Shinigami wielding a Shinigami. Such a thing would be humorous if the young man were anyone else. Despite your initial fear of him and his gun, you notice that the young man is very good looking and idly wonder what a teenager, a kid, like him could have done to get himself in the middle of a war. He should be dating, going to school, or something that normal kids his age did, but he wasn’t doing anything of the sort. He was fighting a war, killing people with his own hands, or his mecha’s. He was, in a word, a savior of the world, and its Colonies.
Duo Maxwell, a boy from space, took on the role as the Pilot of the Gundam known as Deathscythe Hell when he was fifteen. He took the Mecha to use it to fight against a tyrant organization known as OZ, instead of letting the Mecha be used for the original purpose it was built for, to destroy the whole world. During his time on Earth, he meets five other pilots of their own Gundam and slowly becomes allies with them in order to take OZ down from the pedestal it has put itself on. The Colonies, thinking that OZ was going to take care of them, rejected the Gundam after one of the Gundam Pilots, Heero Yuy; accidently destroyed a ship full of Pacifist Government officials.
Despite his background being from a horribly poor Colony full of thieves, Prostitutes, and Drug dealers, Duo uses the skills he picked up growing up to further himself into the fight with OZ. Skills such as lock picking, and hacking that he learned in a back alley that keeps him able to do what he does. His outfit throws people a little and allowed him, for a little while, to blend in to places for hiding from OZ until they learned of his outfit, his hair, and his eye color, then he was only able to do secret missions, and missions involving his Gundam. He is the stealthiest of the five, but, unfortunately, his inability to leave an innocent behind or to keep himself from doing something stupid makes him easy to capture.
Suddenly, Duo is before you, violet eyes looking you over before he folds his arms over his chest rather impatiently, the Shinigami strapped to his back.
“You mind? I need to get going.†He said, referring to you blocking the door.
Nodding, you move aside and let him pass. This would be the last time you would see Duo Maxwell and live to tell the tale.
Spliff:
Rating: 1.07%
Team: Manwar
In Their Own Words: This is my own character. He's a naga and a pediatrician. His lower half is that of an albino rainbow boa, so it actually would refract light. The tattoo is my own design and the hair used it exactly how he would wear it on a normal basis. He has a boyfriend. His boyfriend is a raccoon-boy who is about 8 years younger than him.
SolusAurora:
Rating: 1.07%
Team: Nico
In Their Own Words: Dante/Lyra, in a bit of a deteriorated state, but everyone who is a fan of Fullmetal Alchemist, the original series should recognize her for her body snatching ways. I took the ballroom dress from the final episodes and matched it as closely as I could.
S-whit:
Rating: 1.06%
Team: Nico
In Their Own Words: Angel, I just sorta went with what I was already wearing because it seemed at least a LITTLE well done, probably not gonna win with this though, considering people who are also in the contest probably put A LOT more effort into it than me.
Admiral:
Rating: 1.06%
Team: Nico
In Their Own Words: Lord Blackwood, from the new Sherlock Holmes movie, as portrayed by Mark Strong, the 'depraved adversary.'
Lupanar:
Rating: 1.05%
Team: Nico
In Their Own Words: Not exactly perfect but it's the best I can do with my budget. Based on Jason from the popular Anita Blake: Vampire hunter series. Jason is a twenty something werewolf in the Thronos Rock Pack, based in St Louis.
He is loyal but flirtatious, he teases the main character Anita but seems to be the only person that can tell her she is doing wrong without getting hit. He is low down in the pack but relishes the position as he avoids the drama.
