Name: Ryo Contact: mummifiedsalarian on plurk, mummifiedsalarian#0939 on discord, PM this journal Current Characters: Peter Parker
Character.
Name: Zer0 Canon: Borderlands Canon Point: Post Tales from the Borderlands. Zer0's just finished helping a bunch of random fucks fight a vault monster in a giant robot for shits and giggles.
Personality: Zer0 somehow manages to be enigmatic and boisterous all at the same time. Nobody knows his true name or age, or whether or not he's even human. The only thing anybody knows about his origins is that he used to be an assassin and got bored with it because it wasn't challenging enough. Payment isn't high on his list of priorities, beyond what he'd need to buy badass new guns. His driving force instead is his insatiable desire to push himself to his limits. The entire reason he took up Vault hunting was because he saw it as a challenge worthy of his skills, aaaand there you have it. Beyond that he's managed to keep pretty much everything about himself to himself. I mean it helps that nobody in the game ever really asked him any invasive questions but psh. The point is: so mystery, much vague, very ninja. wow. amaze.
SO yeah, he has the ground work set for the "silent, mysterious edgelord" character type, so you're like "surely this guy will never say more than like two words" He's all vague and mysterious, but at the same time he's probably one of the the most vocal of the Vault Hunters. Every time he kills something he has to brag about it or taunt the thing he killed, usually in the form of haiku. If he's standing idle for too long he gets cranky and makes several remarks about how bored he is and how much he wishes he was shooting things or exploring. Taking elemental damage, especially being covered in slag, prompts even more poetic bitching. For someone so stealthy, he certainly has a hell of a lot to say, at least when it comes to being in the middle of combat.
Given his "wooo soo mysterious" assassin background, he's accustomed to working alone on jobs, and was pretty damn good at it considering the hefty bounty he managed to get dropped on him. Even so, he slots into the Vault Hunter group easily. It's probably just because they're a group of weirdos that just want to watch the world burn and he's totally down with it, but it still counts. While he is kind of a huge prick to the things he's blasting the shit out of, he does have his own moral code when it comes to his team. One of his lines while reviving a fallen comrade is "Teamwork is honor / an unbreakable binding / that I must respect" (the haiku thing never ends). He definitely values his team and knows he can trust them on the battlefield, and in turn he will do what he can to watch their backs.
Lacking a visible face, Zer0 relies on holographic emoticons projected in front of his helmet to convey his feelings. Seeing as he never takes off his helmet because MYSTERY, it's pretty handy.
Powers/Abilities: Being a skilled assassin, Zer0 is absurdly good at quite a few combat styles, and he's got some fancy tricks up his sleeves as well. He has the ability to project a holographic decoy of himself which is handy when he needs to fool the stupids. He can also cloak himself, becoming invisible to the naked eye for when he needs to get right up on a stupid and stab the shit out of them. He's a skilled swordsman for when said stabbing needs to happen, and has a knack for using various types of fire arms as well. He has a preference for sniper rifles when it comes to fire arms, preferring to blast something from a considerable distance when he isn't melee fighting the fuck out of it.
In addition to his sword, he carries a few kunai around to whip at dudes. He usually just uses them when he's already cloaked, and if they land a hit, leave his victims afflicted with various status effects such as lighting them on fire, electrocuting them, eating away armor with acid. Fun stuff.
Inventory: His sword, a sniper rifle, a pistol, his personal shield generator, a few throwing knives for funsies.
Anything Else? It's literally never stated whether or not Zer0 is human or a robot or three kids stacked on each other's shoulders or whatever. I tend to lean towards 'human with cybernetic enhancements', but if Gearbox ever decides to tell us more than "lol it's a mystery tho" (unlikely, those turds) then boy howdy I sure will figure something out.
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Network Sample: [Zer0 is a man of few words, but also a man of very precise syllable count. You would think this would mean that when he does speak, he only does so to say something important or profound. This is not the case at all, my dudes. When Zer0 uses the network, it's for stupid bullshit.]
I'm so friggen bored. Would anyone like to duel? Please come at me, bros.
Zer0 | Borderlands | NOT RESERVED
Name: Ryo
Contact: mummifiedsalarian on plurk, mummifiedsalarian#0939 on discord, PM this journal
Current Characters: Peter Parker
Name: Zer0
Canon: Borderlands
Canon Point: Post Tales from the Borderlands. Zer0's just finished helping a bunch of random fucks fight a vault monster in a giant robot for shits and giggles.
Character History:
Zer0
General BL2 junk
Personality:
Zer0 somehow manages to be enigmatic and boisterous all at the same time. Nobody knows his true name or age, or whether or not he's even human. The only thing anybody knows about his origins is that he used to be an assassin and got bored with it because it wasn't challenging enough. Payment isn't high on his list of priorities, beyond what he'd need to buy badass new guns. His driving force instead is his insatiable desire to push himself to his limits. The entire reason he took up Vault hunting was because he saw it as a challenge worthy of his skills, aaaand there you have it. Beyond that he's managed to keep pretty much everything about himself to himself. I mean it helps that nobody in the game ever really asked him any invasive questions but psh. The point is: so mystery, much vague, very ninja. wow. amaze.
SO yeah, he has the ground work set for the "silent, mysterious edgelord" character type, so you're like "surely this guy will never say more than like two words" He's all vague and mysterious, but at the same time he's probably one of the the most vocal of the Vault Hunters. Every time he kills something he has to brag about it or taunt the thing he killed, usually in the form of haiku. If he's standing idle for too long he gets cranky and makes several remarks about how bored he is and how much he wishes he was shooting things or exploring. Taking elemental damage, especially being covered in slag, prompts even more poetic bitching. For someone so stealthy, he certainly has a hell of a lot to say, at least when it comes to being in the middle of combat.
Given his "wooo soo mysterious" assassin background, he's accustomed to working alone on jobs, and was pretty damn good at it considering the hefty bounty he managed to get dropped on him. Even so, he slots into the Vault Hunter group easily. It's probably just because they're a group of weirdos that just want to watch the world burn and he's totally down with it, but it still counts. While he is kind of a huge prick to the things he's blasting the shit out of, he does have his own moral code when it comes to his team. One of his lines while reviving a fallen comrade is "Teamwork is honor / an unbreakable binding / that I must respect" (the haiku thing never ends). He definitely values his team and knows he can trust them on the battlefield, and in turn he will do what he can to watch their backs.
Lacking a visible face, Zer0 relies on holographic emoticons projected in front of his helmet to convey his feelings. Seeing as he never takes off his helmet because MYSTERY, it's pretty handy.
Powers/Abilities:
Being a skilled assassin, Zer0 is absurdly good at quite a few combat styles, and he's got some fancy tricks up his sleeves as well. He has the ability to project a holographic decoy of himself which is handy when he needs to fool the stupids. He can also cloak himself, becoming invisible to the naked eye for when he needs to get right up on a stupid and stab the shit out of them. He's a skilled swordsman for when said stabbing needs to happen, and has a knack for using various types of fire arms as well. He has a preference for sniper rifles when it comes to fire arms, preferring to blast something from a considerable distance when he isn't melee fighting the fuck out of it.
In addition to his sword, he carries a few kunai around to whip at dudes. He usually just uses them when he's already cloaked, and if they land a hit, leave his victims afflicted with various status effects such as lighting them on fire, electrocuting them, eating away armor with acid. Fun stuff.
Inventory:
His sword, a sniper rifle, a pistol, his personal shield generator, a few throwing knives for funsies.
Anything Else? It's literally never stated whether or not Zer0 is human or a robot or three kids stacked on each other's shoulders or whatever. I tend to lean towards 'human with cybernetic enhancements', but if Gearbox ever decides to tell us more than "lol it's a mystery tho" (unlikely, those turds) then boy howdy I sure will figure something out.
[Zer0 is a man of few words, but also a man of very precise syllable count. You would think this would mean that when he does speak, he only does so to say something important or profound. This is not the case at all, my dudes. When Zer0 uses the network, it's for stupid bullshit.]
I'm so friggen bored.
Would anyone like to duel?
Please come at me, bros.
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