Name: Magus Jacob
Signature Quote: "Creators and gods aren't the same thing at all."
Personal Email address: neovid@hotmail.com
- Height: 6' 11"
- Weight: 460 lbs.
- Appearance: Atavist. Blunt-muzzled wolfish look (something like a combination of wolf and cat), with one pair of thin fangs that reach to the point of his jaw, retractable claws, felinoid-jointed legs, and fur in a uniform shade of milk-chocolate brown. Has an Ultima's gold-mixed-with-silver eyes. Wears a black trenchcoat, no shirt, baggy pants that almost hide his leg structure, and sandals (since
nothing else'll fit on paws). Also wears a copper chain around his neck, with intricate patterns pressed into the links. Well-muscled, but more conditioned than huge. He's completely capable of changing his form, but rarely does.
- Alternate Appearance: The only changes are he has no trenchcoat, and an official Vid Shirt(tm) in black. The shirt is constantly overloaded, trying to display several levels of thought at once.
- Fighting Style: He knows every fighting style known to man just like he knows everything else. He'll sometimes mix up different ones in odd ways.
- Button Style: Street Fighter
- Bio: Possibly the most powerful of the posthumans, [huge spoiler deleted] Aside from that, Jake is one of the most influential people ever in the Focal Point. Believing that all humans are eventually meant to gain the power of Creators, he's a natural rival to anyone who tries to hold people back...
- Intro: [spoiler deleted] Just try and get it out of me. Nyah nyah.
- Theme Songs: (Chosen randomly before each fight)
- Game Theme: Deus Superior (Blue Nothing)
- Main Theme: Veteran of the Psychic Wars (Blue Oyster Cult)
- Alternate Theme: Get Together (The Youngbloods)
- Alternate Theme: Liberi Fatali (FF8 soundtrack)
- Alternate Theme: All the Small Things (Blink 182)
- Alternate Theme: More Human Than Human (White Zombie)
- Alternate Theme: Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf)
- Stage: The Wheels. They are a paired set of Ringworldish structures, about the size of Earth's orbit around the Sun. Jake created them centuries in the past as a mental exercise, and later put them to use as 'safe houses' for the rarer intelligent species. They are side-by-side rings around a star far from Sol, each about one million kilometers wide, with air walls about three thousand high at each side. Being rings, the horizon curves up, which is the thing that is first noticed by new visitors. The one used for his stage is the one that was permanently left about 70% complete, since Jake was still capable of being distracted in those days. The fight takes place next to a half-dry lake, and the huge gap in the Wheel is just barely visible far in the distance.
- Weapons: Besides big claws and fangs, he occasionally makes use of a few real armaments...
- Special Resources: The huge number of abilities stemming from having near absolute control over himself, such as...
- Psychespace: One of his harder to explain abilities, he can store
physical objects in his memory.
- The collective knowledge of just about everyone who ever lived.
- Too much more to list, really.
- Openings: (With his special intros, there is only about a 50% chance that they will happen in place of a regular intro.)
- 1st Round: As his opponent's intro starts, Jake teleports in. There are no special effects when he teleports... not a fade-in or a ripple. After taking his position, he smiles and says, "What, I'm supposed to show off?"
- Standard: A more usual showy teleport, with the background twisting, then snapping back to normal, leaving him in its place.
- Alternate, 30% chance: Jake is sitting crosslegged on his side of the screen, relaxed, with his eyes closed. The second before the fighting starts, he flips to his feet in an instant.
- Alternate, 10% chance: Jake is already onscreen as it starts. He crosses his arms, and Hod appears at his back. It's not a symbol, it's the actual sephira of glory. Describing it isn't exactly possible, but it is sort of like staring into the Sun.
- Vs. anyone whose first language is English, but uses something else in their intro: Jake states, "Lay lum lay ho wie yun wie mo yun ming bok lay?" The reply is generally, "..Huh?" He responds, "Doesn't sound so cool now, does it?" (That was Cantonese for, "You think you're so good because no one understands you?")
- Vs. anyone with an intro that has an incredible display of their powers: Jake watches dispassionately. "Hm. Show off."
- Vs. NeoVid: Glares at NeoVid before saying, "This is going to be idiotic..." NeoVid says back, "Ya got THAT right!"
- Vs. Barrigostin: Jake looks very interested. "A deamon dedicated to redemption? Hmmm... there are some 'people' I should have you talk to."
- Vs. Yuu: Jake shakes his head. "It's sad to see people who think they can't change..."
- Vs. Replica: About the same look he gives Barrigostin. "At least someone here's learning..."
- Vs. Drogn: Jake is allllmost amazed. Then he smiles. "Well, this is unique."
- Vs. King in Yellow: Jake snorts. "If there's one thing I'm sick of..."
- Vs. Epsilon: "There's a cure for people like you..."
- Vs. Wyvern Neo: Jake smiles at the Wyvern and says, "I'm sure being a god is a nice consolation prize." Then he gives the Wyvern a tolerant pat on the head.
- Vs. Skribulous: "Humans can even leave you behind... If they learn how."
- Vs. Xachary: Jake's grin flashes, complete with *ping*. "Calculated chaos... now THAT'S impressive!"
- Vs. Judgment: The background ripples as they stare each other down. Jake starts by saying, "So you're actually going to go through with this?" Judgment tenses his fists a few times, replying, "It's not because I think it's a good idea...."
- Taunts:
- Jake rubs his forehead. "Holding back..."
- Finishing Poses:
- Standard: Jake says, "I hope you learned something," before teleporting out.
- Standard 2: Smirks and says, "Humani nil a me alienum puto..." Not many people know what the hell he's saying.
- Standard 3: He sits down, lounging back... in midair. His gofer (Julius "Sticky" Goremykin, though I'm not going to say much about him) walks on, nervous. "I watched everything like you said, sir... but... uh..." Jake pats him on the head and tells him, "You'll figure it out."
- Desperation: He watches the opponent drop down from whatever place they were smashed into, then says, "Direct action isn't my style... but it works."
- Perfect: "You made the effort, at least..." Julius sticks his head into the picture. "I'm amazed, sir." "You shouldn't be."
- Flash Finisher: Jake pulls the bit of Mirror off of his opponent, who falls. Jake absorbs the piece of Mirror, but after a few seconds he nearly doubles over and coughs up more of his own Mirror.
- Draw: Watches his opponent thoughtfully.
- Time Over: Same as Draw, but says, "Must say I'm impressed."
- Victory Quotes:
- "Not bad."
- "I prefer creation, but I can do destruction if it's needed..."
- "That was only a start."
- "I represent all that's good about humanity. What've you got?"
- Desperation: "Keep trying that hard and you could make it."
- Perfect Victory: "...Disappointing, but expected."
- Ultimate: "I didn't enjoy that."
- Flash Finisher: "Let me restore your delusions."
- Character Strategy: Jake doesn't like limiting himself, but his normal power level of 'one thought from him and there won't be a puff of smoke left of you' isn't going to get into any video game... That said, he's still got an array of moves for every situation, many of them multipurpose, and vicious. His speed is his only weak point, and with good strength, great range and three fighting styles it won't matter much. Add ways to indirectly cripple his opponents' fighting ability, and you end up with one of those 'unbeatable when CPU controlled, but hard to use in the hands of a player' secret bosses. If used well, he's just flat-out deadly with any strategy, thanks to his multiple styles, which let him fit any type of pattern by changing his normal moves entirely. Capoiera gives him insane comboability (and also looks damn cool). Hap Do Sool has quick striking attacks with high priority, making him into the biggest hit-and-runner around. If you're a throw maniac, just go for Grappling, which has slow normal attacks, but gives him a throw for every situation.
- Attacks:
- Glitches:
- Motivations:
Jake being nearly incomprehensible to anyone vaguely human, it's hard to guess. His general protectiveness toward life probably applies, and so does his love of doing anything he hasn't done before. He also likes to motivate people into bettering themselves, though he's subtle about that, unless they're a danger to others (NeoVid, Wyvern Neo...)
- How Jake talks:
Whatever way will be best to communicate with whoever he wants to communicate with. Since any pretense of a human-scale personality from him is just that, pretense, he can change his manner completely whenever he decides to. He knows every language ever invented, and could learn a new one in seconds if necessary. Jake has a powerful tendency to philosophise, and to contradict himself when he does this. He'll explain that with, "Everything's true. Even 'everything is a lie' is true." Partly due to his arrogant standard cover personality, he doesn't seem to worry too much about making himself understood most of the time, though he limits himself to only using small amounts of non-contemporary language, often using 'bruh,' which probably comes from 'bro,' and would refer to the Wyvern as 'en' instead of 'it.' When he needs to communicate something very clearly and with no chance of misinterpretation, he'll put the entire concept in the recipient's head at once telepathically.
...And his voice sounds a lot like Barry White's. This is the only thing about his physical body that's rumored not to be natural. He won't answer questions about it.
- How Jake acts:
The first thing to keep in mind is that Jake is a good person at the core, but is also superior to everyone in every way and realizes it.
The second thing no one in continuity really knows until he decides to show it: he reads everything in everyone's minds for miles around all the time.
He's never seen anything morally wrong with this, and never will. Keeping him out is probably impossible, due to his skill at evading mental defenses instead of fighting them. (what good would the strongest stone wall in history be against someone who can fit between bricks?) He refuses to change anyone's mind against their will, fortunately.
His morals are hard to guess at, though he has said he believes morality is in black and white, despite knowing what everyone sees as black and white is different. He has absolute tolerance of anything on the good side of the line, and a pronounced intolerance of anything that crosses it. This is most often triggered by those biggest of human failings: stupidity and violence. Though there's really no way to be sure what might make him take action, and what won't...
Jake can be extremely hard to reason with, the cause being that he already knows what you think on any subject, often more clearly than you do (due to having read every one of your memories seconds after meeting you), and so your words aren't about to make a difference to him... though he'll still listen to them.
Surprisingly, Jake likes being asked questions, because it's a mark of one of the things he most appreciates: a desire to learn. He'll generally answer any questions given to him (though when it comes to some things, no one can keep a secret like him). If someone is reluctant to ask something important, he'll sometimes answer it before they ask... mind reading, yknow.
It's rare for anyone to be intimidated by him. This is by his choice. It's the only form of mental influence he's willing to use on others without permission. Think of it as various types of Auras he can project by changing subconcious reactions.
Due to having concious control of about 93% (according to him) of his own mind, Jake has no reflexive, instinctive or involuntary responses of any sort, unless he wants to have them. In simple terms, that means everything he does is calculated. Since he can devote thought to every little action, he has an inhuman precision and grace to his physical motions, which contrasts with his informality. He mutes this most of the time, though.
Using his mental abilities is totally natural to him, to the point that he's more likely to use teke to pick something up than his hands. Ordinary TK and telepathy is just the base for what he can do. Jake learns everything he's capable of learning about other forms and uses of his abilities. One of his greatest strengths comes from knowing several different ways to do everything (teleportation, reality manipulation, magic... he knows several systems to each). His powers have developed to the point where he can control reality fundamentally, and when faced with someone else who can do the same, he'll generally figure out how to copy their variation of it.
He uses his Unsubtle cover personality to hide the fact that very few things he does are in plain view, or rely on direct force. The fact that the short description of his powers is "limited-range omnipotence" (maybe an area the size of a solar system, though whether that's his actual limit is unknown) means things usually go the way he wants, even though he's rarely seen interfering...
The character "Magus Jacob" and all attributes thereof are TM and © 2000 to NeoVid.
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