In Alphabetical Order
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=============== Alia is a member of the Hunter Support Team, which also consists of Douglas, Livesaver, etc. She's not really designed for combat, though she does have a weapon in the case of emergencies. She's a highly skilled navigator and researcher. She was once very close with Gate, but circumstances--along with Gate's work--forced them to seperate. After his recent reactivation, Alia is overjoyed at the prospect of their second chance together. |
=============== Zeira Walker's would-be son-in-law and friend, Areno (better known by his nickname Are-X) is a slightly younger, equally powerful Overseer, and has been appointed by his mother--a high-ranking Overseer Elder Council member--to look after Walker while he awaits trial by the council for his daughter's alleged crimes. Are-X obviously doesn't buy that, as he's helping Walker bend the rules in his search for evidence to clear Xaria, as discretely as possible of course. |
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=============== The very first self-aware robot created by doctors Thomas Light and Albert Wily, Blues--also known as Protoman--was the original prototype for the robot that eventually became MegaMan. Taken along with the original six robot masters built by Light, Protoman served his co-creator Dr. Wily in the name of chaos and world domination for years until he was finally deactivated and taken back to Dr. Light for reprogramming by MegaMan. This has led him to be fiercely loyal to both Light-bot and Wily-bot alike, and oftentimes he would not directly take sides in the war. After the death of MegaMan and Dr. Light, Blues took it upon himself to protect Light's final creation, X, viewing the advanced android as his younger brother. Of late he's also come to view Dr. Wily's ultimate robot, Zero, as his little sister as well. Though he's constructed to resemble a thirteen year old boy, Blues carries himself with the air and attitude of a world-weary, battle-wisened veteran and is a deadly opponent due to his hundred-plus years of combat experience, no matter who he's facing. |
=============== Deja's real name, as you might imagine, is Zero. She's the original robot designed by Dr. Wily to be X's "sister," and although he started to convert her into his ultimate war machine towards the end of his life, he scrapped the idea--in fear she would refuse to obey him--and built a new robot using her basic design as a guide. That robot became the Zero who now commands the Maverick Hunters. Deja, on the other hand, wasn't discovered until 2134 by Xenos, a good 130 years after her creation. The efforts of Kagemaru and Kieran kept her out of Xenos' hands after her discovery, and she's now in training to become a Maverick Hunter. Deja was built with the same experimental "free-will" circuitry as X, and as such she is still very much a child. She lacks any combat experience, but Dr. Wily preprogrammed her with a basic knowledge of weapons and vehicles before abandoning her to work on the second Zero model. |
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=============== Gate is a brilliant reploid scientist and roboticist, specializing in study of reploid 'DNA' and resurrection through use of said 'DNA.' Once criticized and alienated for the sheer power and invincibility of his creations, Gate became embittered towards many of his colleagues and vowed to prove them wrong through his work. His dedication to the craft eventually led to seperation from his significant other, Alia, though they still harbored deep affection for eachother--even if Gate couldn't look away from his work long enough to see it. Gate was classified as Maverick in 2131, after attempting to rekindle the insane Dr. Doppler's dream of a reploid utopia by using a virus called the Nightmare Phenomena in an attempt to gain control of every robot on Earth. Now, three years later, he's been purged of the Maverick Virus and given a second chance by the Maverick Hunters, under the condition that he no longer experiments with the Nightmare Phenomena. It should be noted that due to his experimentation with Zero's 'DNA' data while Maverick, Gate can transform himself into a powerful pseudo-Zero capable of facing off against virtually the strongest reploids on Earth. His only weakness is his own Buster attacks. |
=============== Ikari started life as the Nightmare Zero that plagued the Hunters during the Eurasia crisis in 2131. After she was destroyed by X, Gate collected her remains and rebuilt her into IKARI-Zero. The original memory and personality core was intact within I-Zero; he had both Zero's and Nightmare Zero's memories... which probably lead to some interesting emotional conflicts, considering they were both female and he was decidedly male. In the final confrontation with Xenos, I-Zero was destroyed. However, the core personality has fused with the Nightmare Virus in the same way that Sigma has fused with the Maverick Virus; as a result, Ikari has infected Lucia and temporarily taken over as the mainframe AI at Hunter HQ, reverting to her original female persona in the process. |
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=============== Jordan Locke is the 11-year-old daughter of Kivane Locke. Though human, Kivane's nanites were passed onto her while still in the womb, and as a result of either a malfunction or lack of programming specification, the nanites replicated Kivane's cybernetic implants in Jordan's body as she grew. Considering the delicate nature of cybernetic augmentation to the human brain, Jordan was very lucky to survive it; as such, Kivane can be overprotective of her at times. It can be said that Jordan is a little more advanced than a typical eleven-year-old; due to the neural implants, she is an extremely quick learner (she had a ten-word vocabulary by the time she was six months old) and is able to memorize entire books after reading them once. She's been skipped forward a grade in school because of this already, and is currently an A/B student. However, as mentally advanced as she may be, she is still an eleven-year-old child at heart, and her behavior reflects that. |
=============== The finest creation of Dr. Nobuhiro Takagi, Kagemaru was originally the test type for a series of ninja-style robots that were to serve as contract agents for the Japanese government. He was later upgraded beyond the state of a simple robot and given a biomechanical body. He has assisted Dr. Light's robots in fending off the attacks of the mad Dr. Wily in the past. It's unknown what exactly he's been doing the last hundred years, but he has resurfaced on occasion to help the Maverick Hunters in times of great need, regardless of the fact that he dislikes their methods (and of the fact he has less than warm feelings towards Zero in particular). Level-headed, professional, and with a strong sense of justice, Kagemaru will do whatever it takes to get the job done. |
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=============== Kieran--or at least his body--is a 4th Generation X-Series reploid. Though built by Dr. Cain sometime after the Doppler incident, he is actually the "son" of Zeira Walker. Through telepathic guidance, Kieran was built in Walker's image and later infused with a small amount of Walker's own life force. In that sense, Kieran isn't really a reploid at all, but his physical body is very much a bioandroid like the rest of the Maverick Hunters. He was "born" on Earth for the purpose of being a last line of defense against Xenos, as Walker feared him growing beyond Xaria's control (with good reason, as it turned out); in times of dire need, he can draw from his Overseer life force to increase his strength and power tenfold; unfortunately, he hasn't learned to control this ability yet, and it didn't help him in the final confrontation with Xenos, anyway. That being said, Kieran is a competent fighter and unit leader, third in command of the primary Maverick Hunter HQ, and while he specializes in melee combat, has a fairly good knowledge of long-range and tactical weaponry as well. In non-combat situations, however, his behavior tends to be "flaky," possibly a result of having been pre-programmed as a Maverick Hunter upon activation. |
=============== A widowed mother and possibly one of the only humans currently working at the New York Hunter HQ, Kristina Levin--aka Kivane Locke--is a scientist of the highest caliber. She graduated from MIT in 2124 with honors in record time, at the top of her class. Though originally from Germany, she was brought to America in 2119 after being abducted by an anti-reploid organization, who then augmented her body with black-market cybernetics and nanotech, implanted personality inhibition chips in her brain, and set her loose--along with several other kidnapping victims--to stage an attack on New York in an attempt to discredit Dr. Cain's work. Somehow freed of their control after a brief fight with Zero, Kivane decided to stay in America and study robotics in an attempt to better understand what had been done to her. After her husband's death in the Sky Lagoon crash of 2126, she became a freelance computer programmer, eventually getting hired by Dr. Cain to work on the Hunter HQ's mainframe system. LUCIA was the result of that job. After this, she signed an extended contract with Dr. Cain to work with the Hunters as a technician. Her expertise in robotics has made her an invaluable asset to the Hunters, and though her long-range combat abilities are limited due to power supply problems with her Busters, she takes on freelance maverick hunting assignments from time to time to blow off steam. It should be noted that after her daughter was born with fully functional cybernetic augmentations--an unexpected side effect of the nanites in her bloodstream--she has made it a personal quest to develop a functioning reproductive system for reploids. Though thirty-four years of age, Kivane appears to be in her early twenties, also a side effect of the nanites--continuous cellular regeneration prevents her from aging. |
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=============== Lucia is literally the heart of the primary Maverick Hunter HQ; she controlls all of the automated systems operating throughout the base. She was designed and integrated into the HQ's computer system by Kivane Locke, and while she could arguably be called a reploid without a body, she's also much more than that. She has a higher level of consciousness than a standard reploid despite being stuck in the control room; she can see what's happening anywhere in Hunter Base that has a security camera, she can hear anything that's being said anywhere in the base over the comm system, she has access to every major information database on the planet, and because she's been installed as an upgrade to the base's original computer, she can multitask like nobody's business; she's able to hold several conversations simultaneously, monitor the base and its surroundings, and search every computer system on Earth she has access to for one single specific bit of information without missing a beat. She also serves as a local teleportation grid system for the Hunter Base, with an operational range of 800 miles without accessing the Maverick Hunter STN (Satellite Teleportation Network). And of course she has full access to and control of the Maverick Hunter STN as well. Her access extends to the Civilian STN; she can route a Hunter teleport through the civilian satellite network to avoid a signal trace, and can access the full and complete record of recent STN traffic. Though she feels emotions just like any standard reploid, she has excellent control of them and displays them only when she feels it's appropriate. Lucia is not presently active, however, since the mainframe doesn't have enough memory to run both her and Ikari at the same time. |
=============== Thought to have been destroyed in the early 2000s by Zero, MegaMan--one of the first largely autonomous Human Replica Androids ever built by Dr. Thomas Light--reappeard in mid-2134, under the control of Xenos. Though he was used to attack the Hunters, seemingly only for Xenos' personal amusement, he was deactivated only a few short days after his return by the efforts of Kagemaru. He's currently in a stasis capsule at the Maverick Hunter HQ in New York awaiting reprogramming. Though not much remains of the original MegaMan's body, this reconstruction seems to posess all of MegaMan's memories, at the very least. 
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=============== X is the leader of the Maverick Hunters' Elite Unit 17, and Zero's second-in-command. An ancient marvel of robotics, he was created over a hundred years ago by the late Dr. Thomas Light as a prototype for a revolutionary project--robots that could actually think and feel, allowing them to operate with total independence. Unfortunately, before the project could be fully completed, Dr. Light was killed and his lab destroyed by Dr. Albert Wily's final creation. X is a kind person at heart, but years of fending off constant attacks by the likes of Sigma has made him somewhat cold on the surface. He takes solace in his relationship with Zero, as well as the companionship of his brother, Protoman, and his friends among the Maverick Hunters. |
=============== Xaria Walker is the daughter of Zeira Walker. She was drafted into the Overseer Order at the youngest age in their history--93 years old (still very much a child by Aidenian standards)--and sent out on her first assignment only five years later. It's unknown whether or not the outcome of that assignment was intentional, but it nearly lead to her death; she was attacked by a dark energy being named Kaiser shortly after her arrival on Earth, and through the course of their battle, posessed by him. In her attempts to free herself, she inadvertently caused her dimensporter to overload and create an unstable dimensional rift that quickly reduced Earth to floating debris. Xaria herself was split asunder inside the rift, divided into two versions of herself: One almost normal save a little bit of dark energy still within her, and one that quickly became corrupted by the vast majority of Kaiser's power. They both survived the rift and ended up stranded on Earth in seperate dimensions; while the "normal" Xaria became scared and went into hiding, the "dark" Xaria got to work finding a new dimensporter so she could find and recombine herself with her other half, intent on taking revenge against the Overseer Council, whether their sending her on a suicide mission was intentional or not. Both Xarias have been recombined into their original form and purged of Kaiser's life force at this point. However, whether or not the corruption of her "dark" half's mind by Kaiser will have any ill effects on Xaria has yet to be determined. |
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=============== Xenos was a powerful robot built by Xaria Walker in the early 2000s to inhabit while stranded/hiding on Earth. Unfortunately, due to the dark energy present in her body, Xenos slowly became corrupt and eventually came to be known by the Hunters as one of the most dangerous Mavericks of all time. He was finally destroyed in 2134 through the combined efforts of the Maverick Hunters, though their casualties in the conflict were high.
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=============== One of the only known Maverick Hunters who is a classic-style robot rather than a reploid, Zero is currently the acting commander of all the Maverick Hunters, in light of Signas and Dr. Cain's deaths. Originally classified as a maverick, she was brought to Dr. Cain for study and reprogramming after being deactivated by the former commander of unit 0, Sigma, shortly before he himself went maverick. It's believed by some that her discovery is somehow related to Sigma's rebellion, but no concrete evidence has ever been found. She is rumored to be the most powerful robot ever created, built for the sole purpose of combat; despite this (or perhaps because of it), Zero has formed a very close relationship with X over the years. After once sacrificing herself to save his life, she was rebuilt and upgraded by a group of mavericks called the X-Hunters, who intended to use her as a weapon against the Maverick Hunters. X managed to deactivate her and take her back to Dr. Cain for yet more reprogramming not long after the X-Hunters completed her. Later, in 2131, she was seemingly destroyed in a battle with Sigma. However, she resurfaced three weeks later during the Nightmare incident, claiming that she'd been in hiding while repairing herself. The full story of Zero's origins is known only by a select few: She is the last creation of Dr. Albert Wily, completed mere days before his apparent assassination in 2017. This fact troubles her and a few of the other Maverick Hunters, as lately she's been having dreams based around memories that should've been wiped from her hard drive, as well as displaying erratic behavior, which suggests that someone's been tampering with her programming... |
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=============== Zeira Walker is a member of a race known as Aidenians. Specifically, he's a member of an Aidenian order known as the Overseers. Further along the evolutionary ladder than humans, Aidenians can travel between dimensional planes through a technique they call "planeshifting," and have the unique ability to make their bodies immaterial (possibly transforming into a state of pure psychokinetic energy), allowing them to outlive their already impressive life spans by millenia on end. Culturally, Aidenians posess an interdimensional society, built upon advanced technology supplemented with their telepathic abilities. Their homeworld was only colonized by their early ancestors in a few dimensions, but due to their abilities and technological advancement, they've been able to link their dimensions together on that single planet, resulting in a huge society that spans at least five alternate realities. Their incredible mental powers make them a force to be reckoned with, and the Overseer Order has devoted themselves to protecting other, less-evolved cultures from beings of their own technological and/or evolutionary caliber who see fit to cause trouble. Walker in particular is rather hot-headed, but his sense of justice and loyalty to his family does his race credit. At just over 900 years old, his family is surprisingly small--just him, his wife Ashelyn, and their daughter Xaria. |
