O.M.G...

Well, back on topic :)

Found pics for my other characters - one of whom, thanks to a brainwave from Sean, is going to have a much greater role than originally planned.

The girl is escaped-slave Tajheri (character card pending) and the guy is the ex-miner who in the game was called Gilfred but I have renamed Gideon.  Also thought I'd give him a ridiculous surname, so he's now Gideon Flintlock XD

I'll give you all three guesses as to the common theme of all my character pics :P

-- Edited by [BOSS]Fenix at 13:50, 2007-05-10

THE RETURNED (Marcus' team after leaving the Battleclaws)

Name - Fantom, Marcus A
Age - 27
Family - Unknown
Place of Birth - Chiron (Alpha Centauri III)
Occupation - Former employee of Inuit Corporation
Personality - Guarded, stern. Haunted, though he hides it behind a mask of cynicism. Shares a strong bond with the Nali and with his friend Luthienne. She is the only person he would readily open up to, though circumstances have recently driven them their separate ways. Marcus is possessed of a fear and hatred of Necris that goes far beyond the common persons distrust of these sinister aliens.
Strengths - Self-sufficient; field craft (so knows how to use cover and ambushes within the arenas); hardened fighter; marksman - the sort of things you learn as a guerrilla fighter
Weaknesses - Not used to respawning, so wont be as aggressive as some veteran players; a sure-fire way to piss him off is to use the fight like a Nali taunt
Languages - English, Nali (picked it over the 4 years on Na Pali), some Necris (mainly insults and taunts), will need a Translator for any others (such as Serelian or Nahkti)
Background - Marcus Fantom was a former employee for Inuit Corporation, serving as an engineer on the science vessel ISV Kran. During a routine survey of the binary Gryphon system, the Kran was attacked without provocation by Necris fighters as it approached the fourth planet, Na Pali. It took heavy damage and was forced to make a crash-landing, losing their antagonists in the atmosphere. This was partly due to the sensor-scrambling effects of local Tarydium deposits. Tarydium energy crystals were unusually abundant on the planet, and having realised this the Necris had taken Na Pali for themselves, enslaving the native population to mine the valuable Tarydium for them, and shooting down any interlopers to protect the secret of their existence there.
After the Crash - The Kran was crippled by the impact and the crew were marooned on Na Pali, cursing Inuit Corporation for not getting off its collective arse and sending a rescue ship. In fact, several searches were made for the Kran, but any that came close to Na Pali were similarly ambushed and destroyed by the Necris. The Necris found the Kran first and, intent on wiping out any survivors who might give away their presence, sieged the ship. Though the crew fought back, the Necris swarmed the ship in fairly short order, killing most of the crew. Only Marcus and Luthienne managed to escape the doomed ship, everyone else being cut off and slaughtered by the deadly Necris Phayders. They were taken in by the Nali, and galvanised the natives into action against their oppressors. Over time, a small movement of guerrilla fighters was formed to hit back at the Necris and drive them from the planet. Despite their vast advantages in technology, numbers of soldiers and combat experience, the Necris were unable to put down the uprising. This small war was still going on when humans returned to Na Pali, 4 years after the loss of ISV Kran.
Rescue - After mysteriously losing several ships in the area, Inuit dispatched a military expedition to Na Pali. Marcus was out scouting after word reached the Nali of the human arrival, but his team ran into the Necris first. Knocked unconscious during the fight, he did not see a marine patrol arrive and drive off the Necris Phayders. Awakening in orbit aboard an Inuit vessel, Marcus learned that, after interrogation of one of the Nali who had been on patrol with him, the marines had also located Luthienne and forcibly retrieved her from the Nali mountain village. However, due to her mental state, they wouldnt allow Marcus to see her. She was committed to a mental institution upon return, despite Marcus protests, and he hasnt seen her since. Meanwhile the human discovery of the Necris presence precipitated a war between the two, who both wanted the planet for its rich Tarydium deposits. The helpless Nali were caught in the middle, being treated little better by the humans than the Necris due to being seen as primitive and irrelevant.
Present - Marcus was hailed as a returning war hero for surviving the Necris occupation for so long. He was profoundly cynical about it and Inuit soon realised their mistake and allowed him to fade into the background. After the hype died down, Marcus told Inuit Corporation (quite understandably) that he didnt want to go back to working for them. They paid him off with a lousy pension. Not really knowing what to do next, when Marcus received an unexpected invitation to join the Battleclaw team in the annual Liandri Tournament (which even offered to pay his entry fee if he was good enough) he accepted it.
Weapon of Choice (Ranged) - ASMD Shock Rifle
Weapon of Choice (Melee) - Tarydium machete crafted on Na Pali
Preferred Combat Style - Ranged, by ambush or aggressive use of terrain (ie sneak attack)
Trademark Skill - Stealth (got to be stealthy to evade the Spooks for 4 years)
Competitions Entered - Whichever from Team Deathmatch, Team Capture the Flag, Team Domination and Team Assault that the Battleclaws have decided to participate in, plus of course the initial Qualifiers

Name - Thrace, Luthienne
Age - 27
Family - Unknown
Place of Birth - Mar Sara (Archeron IV)
Occupation - Former employee of Inuit Corporation, Liandri arena slave
Personality - Once an outgoing and spirited girl, Luthienne was mentally tortured by her experiences on Na Pali. Fading into madness, she began to lose her ability to recognise people she knew. Only the Nali soul-binding allowed her to hang onto a few shreds of her past self through Marcus. When they were separated this final link was shattered.
Strengths - In Inuit, Luthienne would do anything for her friends and for Marcus, she was a competent med-tech and engineer, and out of necessity became a crack shot with an ASMD (though eventually her deteriorating mental state meant she had to be pulled off active resistance duty)
Weaknesses - Terrified of Necris, not naturally inclined towards mortal combat
Languages - English, Nali
Weapon of Choice (Ranged) - ASMD, though as an arena slave Liandri armed her with a TCA Combat Assault Rifle
Weapon of Choice (Melee) - None decided, might randomly give her martial art skills :D
Preferred Combat Style - Long range support, though up close she never stops moving - a stationary target is a dead target
Trademark Skill - Extremely adept at tracking fast-moving targets, having had to deal with the preternaturally-agile Necris
Background - Like Marcus, served aboard the ISV Kran and was caught up in the same nightmare when the ship crashed on Na Pali. Before the Necris found them, Marcus and Luthienne continued to get on well, working to try and fix the ship and find a way of contacting help. Luthienne even adopted a pet Nali Rabbit which she named Kiwi (because of its resemblance to the Earth bird), which Marcus still looks after to this day, his last reminder of her.
Kran's Fall - However, the Necris found the Kran before rescue could. The ships crew were not soldiers and were no match for the Necris Phayders who swarmed the ship. While attempting to rescue an injured friend, Luthienne was cornered by Necris and only saved by Marcus, who ran with her to the ships bridge and the emergency teleporters. While Luthienne, scared out of her wits, and Marcus escaped the ship, heir friend Captain Mikael Leatham stayed behind to buy them time, overloading the ships power cores as the Necris stormed the bridge. As Marcus and Luthienne fled, the Kran went up behind them in a cataclysmic explosion.
With the Nali - As explained in Marcus bio, he and Luthienne were taken in by the few Nali still living free under the Necris occupation and started a limited resistance movement to try and free the less fortunate Nali who were forced to work as slaves in the Necris Tarydium mines.

Tragically, the horror of the Krans fall and the cruel slaughter of her friends never really left Luthienne, and the constant battle they were forced to wage with the shadowy Necris took a spiralling toll on her mind. The highly-spiritual Nali attempted to help, using the mystical process they called soul-binding to create a bond between Marcus and Luthienne that allowed her to hold on to her sanity.

Downward Spiral - For a while this worked, but when Marcus and Luthienne were forcibly separated after their rescue from Na Pali, the results were catastrophic. Despite Marcus screaming at them to let him see her, Inuit saw no choice but to hand Luthienne over to a mental institution. She was not there long before the hospital was visited by a scout from Liandri - never worried about letting ethics or compassion get in the way of potential profit - looking to fill shortfalls in the ranks of the corporations arena fighters in preparation for next years Grand Tournament. Interested by Luthiennes terror-driven assaults on several doctors and other patients, her scrambled perception unable to distinguish human from hostile Necris, the scout saw potential Deathmatch material in Luthienne and conscripted her for the Tourney as an arena slave, along with many other psychosis-suffering patients.

Name - Tajheri, surname unknown
Age - 17
Family - Unknown
Place of Birth - Khemri (Nahkti homeworld), though her parents were slaves from offworld
Occupation - Liandri arena slave
Personality - A world-weary tomboy grown up beyond her years and used to looking after herself, whose current plight has left her in an uneasy balance between grim cynicism and despair. Does not open up easily and does not gladly suffer protective attitudes towards her.
Strengths - Self-sufficient, practical, stealth
Weaknesses - Lack of combat experience
Languages - English, Nahkti
Weapon of Choice (Ranged) - Has no combat experience so is happy to find any gun at all. Liandri issue her with a TCA combat shotgun.
Weapon of Choice (Melee) - Stiletto dagger, though she has seen Nahkti battle-staffs as used by the Nahkti Desert Legion and would like to learn how to use one
Preferred Combat Style - Surprise attack (hiding in the most unlikely places is her speciality)
Trademark Skill - Popping up out of nowhere
Background - Tajheris parents were civilians caught in the wrong place at the wrong time in a dispute between the expansionist Izanagi corporation and the tribal Nahkti who had both laid claim to the same world for mining reasons. The resulting skirmish resulted in the Nahkti Desert Legion defeating the Izanagi Ghost Warrior mercenaries, and the corporate civilians who had been drafted to start the mining colony had no choice but to surrender. The Nahkti took them back to Khemri as slaves, and with the Desert Legion being one of the best defences against Necris and other alien threats in the outer colonies, the corporations decided against provoking the Nahkti by further intervention, effectively sacrificing the colonists.

Torn Away - Tajheris mother was several months pregnant when she and her husband were captured. On Khemri slaves have very few rights, and being allowed to have children is not one of them. Though Tajheris mother concealed her pregnancy for as long as she could, her Nahkti masters eventually found out, and Tajheri was torn away from her parents almost immediately after birth. Whether they were kept as slaves or put to death is unknown. Tajheri knows nothing of her family, not even her surname, and only knows her first name thanks to a crude bracelet inscribed "Tajheri" given to her by her mother shortly before she was taken from her. She still wears the bracelet to this day.

Slavery - When she was 4, Tajheri was sold to the wealthy Reydi family, a prestigious Nahkti royal house whose line included several former Emperors. This mattered little to her; like almost all the other harshly-treated slaves, Tajheri had only one thing on her mind - escape. She had to wait years for her chance, but one night she managed to escape her quarters by an ingenious method, combined with some help from her fellow slaves who saw that Tajheri, with her natural ability to move silently and hide almost anywhere, was the only one among them with even a ghost of a chance. Tajheri did indeed escape, stealing away aboard a Nahkti courier vessel.

Betrayed - When they arrived at their destination, Tajheri slipped away from the ship and sought refuge with the New Earth Government police. However, they betrayed her, seeing her as a serious liability to NEG-Nahkti relations and offering her straight back to the Reydi even though they would certainly execute her upon return. The Reydi however did not want the embarrassment of an escaped slave to become public and paid the NEG off to keep the incident quiet. NEG decided selling Tajheri to Liandri as an arena slave would be the best way for her to disappear. Tajheri is now dealing bitterly with the irony of escaping one prison, only to be confined once again in another.

Name - Flintlock, Gideon
Age - 33
Family - Unknown
Place of Birth - Earth (Sol III)
Occupation - Ex-miner, Liandri deathmatch competitor
Personality - Bitter, taciturn, though fiercely loyal to those he considers friends
Strengths - High physical strength, determined, disregard for his own safety (though this can also be a weakness)
Weaknesses - Although hes a good boxer, hell get taken apart by a real martial artist
Languages - English only
Weapon of Choice (Ranged) - Liandri issue him with a Stinger (since its a converted mining tool :D)
Weapon of Choice (Melee) - His fists
Preferred Combat Style - Close-range firefights and melee
Trademark Skill - Will get back to you on this
Background - Dont really have much for this guy so far, bar he was a Liandri Miner who got suckered into the Tourney on false promises to make up competitor numbers. He has little chance of winning the Deathmatch championship and he knows it - lost in despair he takes out his anger on anyone within the arena, regardless of damage done to himself. When Marcus pulls him out of the Deathmatch cul-de-sac and drafts him into The Returned, it gives him hope. He becomes utterly devoted to his team-mates.

-- Edited by [BOSS]Fenix at 19:00, 2007-05-11

Not a problem, one of Liandri's biggest sources of "recruits" is criminals from the over-crowded colonial prisons.

Was going to offer Soven a place on The Returned if he wants it?  If not I'll have to think up yet another character to bring my team up to 5 :P

Quite so - none of the characters in this UT story are gonna be shining paladins anyway so don't worry.  More like they have nobility (or whatever) that shines through their faults.  And let's face it - has anyone got a hope in hell of winning the Tourney unless he's a violent bastard? XD

[BOSS]Fenix wrote:

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And let's face it - has anyone got a hope in hell of winning the Tourney unless he's a violent bastard? XD

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Score XD

 

Ah, the miracle of the Search and Replace function ^-^

Not that it matters that much seeing as we haven't started yet.

Some of these are for established characters that don't have pics yet - others are completely new.

STEEL COBRAS

Blake (leader of the Steel Cobras team and Diego's nemesis for most of the story) - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/Albert_wesker.jpg

Shiva, Blake's girlfriend - http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/geneon_entertainment/appleseed/appleseed10.jpg

Stilgar, one of Blake's team, a pro arena fighter - http://images.epilogue.net/users/scottjohnson/KalJericho.jpg

Cali, another one of Blake's team - www.animenfo.com/image/anime_216.jpg

And finally Kane - https://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h43/psychoxdream/300px-Solbadguy.gif

BLAKE IS THE ONLY CONFIRMED CHARACTER SO FAR, I MADE UP THE REST OF HIS TEAM'S NAMES AND BACKGROUND PRETTY MUCH ON THE SPOT AND IT'S MORE TO GIVE IDEAS THAN ANYTHING

NATURE'S DEADLIEST

Alex - http://www.animegalleries.net/albums/bleach/tatsuki_arisawa/bleach_tatsuki0079.jpg

Gina - http://www.ritualistic.com/screens/sineps/other/char_jessica.jpg

Mander - http://they.misled.us/images/kratos.jpg

BATTLECLAWS

Seneca Swiftpaw - https://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m200/Firagabreak/Black_Tiger_Guy_Colored.jpg

Aino Nyantooth in her feral form - http://www.imaginatorium.org/shop/pics/a10356det.jpg

Nokoni Blackfoot - http://dark-ride.org/IMG/jpg/lg.jpg

THE RETURNED

Luthienne Thrace - http://www.the-spoiler.com/Sinjin/RECV/clair.jpg

Tom Reynor, another ISV Kran survivor who will turn up later on - http://www.geocities.com/bella_fallen_angel/david1.jpg

REYNOR'S EX-TEAM

Bane (leader) - http://www.rehorror.net/thirdeye06/re4_krauser.jpg

Sapphire (poser lol) - https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h90/csite/27.jpg or possibly http://www.computerarts.co.uk/__data/assets/image/9429/3dsmax_3022.jpg

Krige - http://media.teamxbox.com/dailyposts/unreal/ut2007/preview_071305_08.jpg

Jakob - http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39454000/jpg/_39454895_unreal_shooter203b.jpg

Barktooth (Reynor's replacement, a psycho) - http://images.businessweek.com/di/gameroom/images/inline/unrealtourno2007.jpg

AND NOW A TEAM OF NECRIS PHAYDERS, AGAIN JUST IDEAS:

RED SPECTRES

Malakai (Team leader) - http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/underworldevolution/site/media/downloads/wallpapers/full/uw_wallpapers_kraven_1600x1200.jpg

Kryss (Necris blademaiden) - http://www.geocities.com/unholysisters/blood-tear.jpg

Azaziel (Necris assassin) - http://communibuild.com/pumpkins/patterns/vampire-eyes-sm.jpg

Freylis (Necris blademaiden) - http://www.johnnyalucard.com/pics/gene.jpg

Selphie (Necris blademaiden) - http://www.dvdmovies.com.co/wallpapers/uw_wallpapers_selene1_1024x768.jpg

Necris in action - http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/fb09/kunstpaed/indexweb/mv/zwb/ARCHIV/VP/Vampire-01.JPG

SOME OTHER GUYS YOU MIGHT BE FACING

Commandos... http://john.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/gears_of_war_250_248370g.jpg

Juggernauts... http://www.planetunreal.com/uchamp2/characters/3_sm.jpg

Nahk'ti... http://www.journaldugamer.com/images/2006_08/ut07pc023.jpg

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

Xan Kriegor, current Tourney champion - http://www.clantemplates.com/renders/gallery/data/media/47/Xan%20Kriegor_Robots.jpg

-- Edited by [BOSS]Fenix at 17:22, 2007-05-30

Hey, Blake's cool :P He's just a bit of a bastard XD

And c'mon WTF would his gf be DOING in the Tourney if she couldn't kick ass?  Hehe, you could always run up to her in the pub and ask for her autograph :P Then tell her why you reckon she could have done better than Blake

And no you don't have to kill her - well, not in the permanent sense.

Loosen up :P They are not THE original characters, they just look like them.  I mean if you took Marcus and Luthienne's pics as literal, they'd be brother and sister >.>

I'm surprised you didn't comment on the Battleclaw pics actually.  You wouldn't believe the crap I had to sift through to try and find pics of "Serelian", especially male ones.  There were plenty of females but...well, let's just say they probably weren't exactly what you had in mind.

Okay, say that's his "normal" form instead then.  I assume he'll be using his feral form mainly for stealth purposes then so as to close with the enemy, as a wolf doesn't have the kind of power that a tiger does.  Aino can run at 30-odd mph over short distances, jump 10 m horizontally and 5 m straight up, and kill a human with one blow from her paw.  She could also probably shrug off glancing hits, though if someone reacted fast enough to her charge and scored a direct hit it would put her down in fairly short order.

These were all drawn from randoms i know on one of the art sites i'm registered on. The are just rough ideas of what i want my guys to look like!

so heres some pictures i think refer to my team better~

Nokoni Blackfoot - http://data.furaffinity.net/art/bovar/1179885105.bovar_kurstcolour.jpg
Or
http://data.furaffinity.net/art/deathpuppy/1179698844.deathpuppy_urhere.jpg

Aino Nyantooth - She'll have white fur because shes a tiger not black. And no she won't have a bike.
http://data.furaffinity.net/art/auric/1160370550.auric_gaelic_gsxr_small.jpg

Minqua Battleclaw (she'll have better clothes) - http://data.furaffinity.net/art/hibbary/1175902132.hibbary_kierafur.jpg

Seneca Swiftpaw - http://data.furaffinity.net/art/hibbary/1175904342.hibbary_daveqat.jpg

Lune Battleclaw (obviously she won't be smiling like that) - http://data.furaffinity.net/art/hibbary/1159272476.hibbary_rowananthrocolor.jpg

And for Koda, just think og a male version of the one above~

EDIT:  And one of my favourites :D
http://data.furaffinity.net/art/kaji/1174847158.kaji_benjamin_archer.jpg

-- Edited by [BOSS]Asreal at 19:02, 2007-05-30

I said they won't wear MUCH armour and weapons. He'll definatly have his gun :D

Ok heres the rest of Natures Deadiest, apart from Gina who is still to come, I've also drawn Relenna.

Snowva
Age - 20
Height - 6ft 10
Hair colour - Black
Eye Colour - Black
Other Notes - build like a brick **** house

Mander
Age - 40
Height - 6ft 2
Hair Colour - White (ment to b)
Eye Colour - Yellow
Other notes - He's the daddy, or father figure Also Skin Colour Grey

Heather
Age - 21
Height - 5ft 9
Hair colour - Black
Eye Colour - Gold
Other Notes - Cleet sooooo fancy's her

Alex
Age - 20
Height - 5ft 5
Hair colour - Black
Eye Colour - light green, or greenish blue
Other Notes - Pretty Tomboy, also I forgot to draw but she always wears a bracelet on her right arm, it was a gift from Diego.

Relenna
Age - 20
Height - 5ft 5
Hair Colour - blonde (Not natural)
Eye colour - Black
Other Notes - Every man wants her

Ok will add that on see how it looks, also if u want i can try and draw A Taj, also she's unique as her and Diego have more in common.

Woo, found a song to go with Nature's deadliest its goes with the entire crew for they all have troubled pasts (cause of Liandri) But none the less they jst keep going forward and with a smile they simply Sail On and take whatever is thrown at them head on.

Song - Sail On
Band - MasterPlan

Heres the Song, (and as u always get with me an awsome amv)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Lluz2thNf1g

Lyrics;
You cannot see it coming
Always without a warning
You need to hold on tighter
Find a brand new start

High on the wire
They taunted you like the Messiah
Time for a change
Before your life just falls apart

How could you find a way
From deep within your heart
Reach out and gaze at the star
Let the vision fly

We always have to sail on
Out of shadows to the light beyond
Never shut your waery eyes
But always try to see the line
Can you see it in your mind

Wearing the mask for so long
The clown must believe to hold on
Throw down your fears
and guide the strength which lies within

We always have to sail on
Out of shadows to the light beyond
Never shut your waery eyes
But always try to see the line
Can you see it in your mind

Can you see it in your mind

New rising sun will shine forever
All your power strong as steel
Turn the page and seek no saviour
Break free and see
The line through the wheel

We always have to sail on
Out of shadows to the light beyond
Never shut your waery eyes
But always try to see the line

We always have to sail on
Out of shadows to the light beyond
Never shut your waery eyes
But always try to see the line

Can you see it in your mind
Can you see the line
See the line through the wheel
Can you see the line