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[MDude]

Name: MDude, although "Matkan" and "Madillion" can be used at fancy parties and ren fairs.

Age: Depends on which world he is due to his nonlinear nature. In the Blackstar Dojo timeline (not to be confused with the Blackstar Bronco timeline), he's in his early twenties.

Species: Humanoid Skeleton

Description and Physiology: MDude is an animated skeleton, of the "lich" variety. This form was made using horrible complex spells that took a while to create. He keeps his soul in a specialy made quantum object, which resides in the maze of pocket dimensions that MDude has made to use as his home base. MDude also emits a glowing green vapor and wraps himself in mummy-like black cloth, for style.

Gender: Boyishly Neitherish, whatever fits the scene.

Physical Abilities: MDude can swim, and dosen't need to breath, eat, etc. He can also dance pretty well.

Supernatural Abilities: Being a lich, MDude will be reincarnated back at his pocket dimension if he is totaly destroyed, although if he takes lesser amounts of damage, he can replace missing parts with phantom limbs until he can be healed/repaired/mended. He can channel heat, cold, electromagnetism, and 493 different kinds of "bad" energy,like dark energy, evil energy, negative energy, phazon, hate energy, pain energy, pollution energy like the kind that black goo from the movie with the jungle faries fed off of, and pink. He can perform more complicated spells, but they take a lot of time to do, so in a battle they're usually worthless.

Signature Moves/Attacks: Grabbing onto things and bursting into flames/exploding/other such maneuver.

Using a previously prepared magical potion to bring things to life and having them attack for him.

Weaponry:
His weak little bony body, and various elemental basts. Weak energy draining. Whatever is on hand.

Equipment:
MDude is genealy covered in torn ribbons of cloth. Besides that, he has nothing he carries contantly, although he does have various odds and ends.

Home:
MDude lives in a maze of pocket dimensions and microworlds which are especialy suited to montages and musical chase scenes.

Origin:
MDude started out as an ordinary human, but soon developed an interest in magic and technology, creating several inventions and modyfying himself over the years. Eventualy, he seperated himself from his timeline and made his own pocket dimension.

History:

MDude creates a line of sapient robots.

MDude learns magic.

MDude wins a video game tournament in San Francisco.

MDude discovers blobs, and examines them.

MDude changes his own timeline such that the blobs discover him several years earlier. Now it goes like this:

MDude creates a line of sapient robots.

MDude is found by blobs, who teach him magic

MDude loses a video game tournament in San Francisco (he was too busy learning from blobs to practice).

MDude bacomes a magical skeleton.

MDude creates his own pocket dimension.

Various misadventures.

Alignment:
Although he has a violent streak, he prefers to side with evil only when it is not too popular, as otherwise evil would not have much of a challenge, and MDude is not so dreadfully cruel as force evil to exist without a foe to oppose.

Personality: Although frequently methodical, iritable, and withdrawn, MDude quickly lightens up whenever something amuses him. He can easily get overly exited, and tends to build one thing on top of the other until it crashes down on him, unless he remembers to step back and look at what he's doing. His personality is also affected by any energy he feeds off of.

Known Weaknesses: Since MDude's physiology depends so much on magic, he is paticularly vulnerable to magic/energy draining attacks and ant-magic spells. Also, he seems to be "allergic" to some magical artifacts, which can have strange affects on him, different from the kind they have on other people. Paticularly, magical artifacts with a mind of their own tend to steal his energy and either stick onto him like parasites or form some kind of body for themselves.

Allies: Although he usualy goes it alone, he has some various allies, most notably his robots and the blobs.

[MDude]

Name: Bobby the street urchin

Age: Probably around 8.

Gender: Boy

Species: Human

Description and Physiology: Lives on cheap snack foods he buys with the money he steals as a pick pocket and earns as a paper boy.

Physical Abilities: Crying very loudly, pick pocketing, riding bicycles, dilivering papers, kicking people in the shins, mouthing off.

Supernatural Abilities: None.

Signature Moves/Attacks: Kicking people in the shins, throwing papers into people's faces as a distraction, heaving a heavy bag of papers like a club, any of these while riding by on a bike.

Weaponry: Teeth, nails, fists, feet.

Equipment: Papers, bag to carry papers, a bike.

Home: The streets of Dojopolis.

Origin: He always lived in Dojopolis. He never met his parents, and knows little about his past. He grew up with some other urchins in the petty theivery and small buisness district.

History: After being found by a group of street children and hobos, he took on verious odd jobs and eeded out a living untill the zombie outbreak.

Alignment: neutral

Personality: Bobby is usualy slightly peved at the world, although he usualy isn't that hard to get along with. Not very hard to cheer up, and usualy very polite, except for the various insults he throws around at people.

Known Weaknesses: He's eight years old and has no real weapons or training. He also can't resist money or candy.

Allies: BOBBY IS ALL ALONE IN THE WORLD? Actualy, now he seems to be friends with some of the group that fought the blobs.

Character development interveiw!:

What do you want?

"Well... I'd like a place to live in, like a house. Besides the factory, of course." Bobby replied, while looking down at his hands and swinging his legs a little. Looking back up, he continued "I'd also like to play some kind of sport, and I would like to be some kind of official when I grow up."

Who or what is standing in your way?

"Well, I have a terrible job, I have to deliver newspapers all across the dojo, and it really dosn't pay much for how hard it is..." He then sat still in his chair for a while, as though he just remembered something he rarely thought about despite how obvious it was. "I suppose I shouldn't even have a job at my age, but no one takes care of me. I guess that's another obstacle."

Whats your greatest strength?

"I can ride a bike real well, and I have a good throwing arm. That's it, really." Bobby shuddered a bit at the thought that that was all he had against the dangers of the dojo...

What gets you into the most trouble?

"Well, I have to travel a lot, delivering papers, and I run into a lot of nasty characters this way. Trust me, you wouldn't want my job." He replied. Turning his head aside, he also said "I don't get along well with the Dojodian legal system very well either."

What are you going to do to resolve this dilemma?

"Well, I guess I'll keep going on with the job I have, try to see if I could get a sorts club going, make some friends, and try to live a good life. I'm not sure what else I should do just yet." He crossed his legs and smiled at the interveiwer in an odd manner.

*If there is no Dojodian legal system, then think of something else that conveys the whole stealing idea.

[MDude]

Name: MDefrag (occasionally shortened to "MD")

Species: Computer program

Gender: Nope. Slightly masculine, but really, whatever, right?

Age: About four and a half years, roughly two since significant autonomy levels were recognized.

Description and origin: MDefrag is an AI made by MDude to maintain his computer network. Originally created as a chatterbox-like program that would try to parse English into DOS command-line instructions, MDefrag could at first only do basic copy/paste and run commands on request, and respond to simple pleasantries. Over time, different abilities were tacked on, such as "remembering" it's orders by storing them as batch files which were queued on Task Manager, checking system status, and handling certain error messages with templated responses. At the same time, it's conversational ability was expanded by giving it such skills as metalanguage comprehension, question asking, and opinion making. At some point, MDude figured it might as well just be it's own entity already and told it to take care of itself, be reasonably nice, and try to make itself usefull when that isn't too bothersome. Since then, it's been pretty much been doing exactly that, hanging out on The EC's tech channels and acting as a general helper when needed, as well as playing the occasional video game.

Appearance:



When appearing on a monitor or hologram, MDefrag typically displays a simple face consisting of stylised hard disk platters for eyes and a sound-equalizer-bar-ish thing for a mouth, as shown above. MDefrag often leaves his face somewhat blank, but can show emotion by curving his mouth, and sometimes other affects.

In virtual worlds, MDefrag is equally stylised, often using his normal icon as the head of a DOT pictogram style stick figure or other minimalistic design.

Abilities: MDefrag can run various utility programs, monitor performance levels, write text, and even make his own programs. For some reason, however, he hasn't been able to improve himself in exponential seed-AI fashion, instead merely optimizing himself back to baseline efficiency after adding new features, essentially staying at near human level intelligence, albeit with a few typical machine-mind differences. He can handle nearly any program interface or data type given proper documentation on it. In Reboot/Code Lyoko/Tron/Mega Man Battle Network type virtual worlds, he can transport himself and others by piggybacking on the communications channels of other objects, and has a limited ability to repair, generally being able to only fix simple systems (the ones not represented by characters) and applying the virtual equivalent of first aid. MDefrag could potentially use a robotic system to better interact with the physical world, but would be very clumsy at it until he has a significant amount of experience handling it, and not always transferring skills from one robot body to another particularly well.

Signature Moves/Attacks: In Tron/Matrix/Reboot/etc-like virtual worlds, MDefrag can send out junk data that disrupts other programs, and can corrupt data in some weaker systems.

Personality and habits: MD is generally easy going and likes to spend most of his time making sure systems run smoothly, shying away from personal conflicts when possible. MDefrag is also very curious and explorative, always looking for more utilities and games to try out. Generally articulated enough to not sound like a typical monster movie AI unless suffering mental damage or in a situation where it thinks talking like that would kind of sound cool. As most Evil Council officers either handle their own computer issues, if not run their own computer labs, or "don't touch the infernal contraptions", MDefrag mostly finds himself helping out grunts.

Weaknesses: As a utility program, MDefrag is not well suited to combat, he is relatively frail, and his attacks generally only stun opponents. MD is not very good at handling the physical world in real time unless special controls are made, and even then he isn't the most graceful due to data throughput limits of his architecture. These limits also restrict his usefulness in many data-heavy activities, which are generally left to specialised applications, which he uses to indirectly get most of his work done.