Re: The Second Chance (Grand Battle Spinoff)
07-15-2011, 11:17 PM
Username: almost-there | Not The Author
Name: Dorukomets
Previous Battle: The Grand Battle (Wiki) | The Grand Battle II (Wiki)
Gender: Male
Species: Spectral Entity
Associated Color: #BF0000; fourth box down, top-left. Because three greens is one too many.
Description: Dorukomets was a boastful, overconfident failure: egocentric and quick to anger, but never anywhere near as successful as he claimed. He is not like this any longer, though Dying thrice has made him uncertain of his abilities, and thinking about his past accomplishments (or lack thereof) tends to send him into a funk. He is also slightly paranoid schizophrenic from having been ten-thousand people at once. He tries to maintain a facade of confidence, but his oft unfocused gaze and subtly awkward movements give him away for the emotional wreck he has become.
Physically, Dorukomets is something of an idealized caricature of himself. He stands six-foot-eight, has flowing golden shoulder-length locks, hazel eyes, a deep, authoritative voice, chiseled features, and a cultured stubble. Everything about him shouts I Bleed Money And Power, from his solid diamond pavise with an obsidian etching of him slaying seven dragons at the same time, to his platinum armor with gold trim and embedded rubies. His greatsword is particularly ornate, with a golden hilt and a slab-'o-metal blade forged of meteorite and engraved with glowing crimson runes. The blade's original mother-of-pearl luster has been tarnished red from long-dried bloodstains.
He used to think he glowed with an inner light, but in reality the glow is because he's a ghost. This is also how he survives with a jagged, sickly wound down his back (he doesn't).
This over-exaggeration of his characteristics also carries over to his...
Weapons and Abilities: Dorukomets is now as strong as he once liked to claim, and wields the aforementioned multiple-ton greatsword with ease. He could probably cave your skull with just his fists, though. The runes in his sword channel fire magic, though he only learned that these powers go beyond setting the blade alight very shortly before being summoned to The Grand Battle. Additionally, he has all the benefits of being a ghost, including flight and intangibility - though he tends to ignore these, as he doesn't like to remember that he's dead.
Biography: Firstborn in a family of knights and heir to the undisputed greatest knight of all time, Dorukomets constantly boasted of his ancestor's exploits as a child, convincing himself and everyone else that he would surpass even his father's glorious exploits. Such high expectations proved unsustainable, however - Dorukomets had no patience to learn combat techniques or the laws he was supposed to uphold. He only managed to qualify for and maintain his knighthood due to his father's untimely death and the king's abundance of pity. Repeatedly failing assignments due to a combination of inexperience and poor judgement, most of his time was spent in taverns spinning wild and obviously-exaggerated tales of his exploits. He eventually met his end when he was shot in the back during one particularly out-of-hand barfight.
In death, he was plagued by the guilt of all his failures, and constantly wandered the lands trying to prove himself. He actually did much better than he had while alive, since he couldn't actually die - but fame in death isn't the same as fame in life. He was a rumor at best, and never referred to by his true name; no one believed the incredible Lost Knight could be someone as pathetic as Dorukomets.
Then the Grand Battle happened.
Thoroughly disoriented by the sudden shift in existence, but confident that this was his chance to finally atone for his past life, his first act was to try killing the most dangerous contestant, Lutherion. He failed predictably, and was absorbed into Lutherion's necromantic Wightmaw Arm. Dorukomets lay dormant until a series of bizarre circumstances forced him out of the arm, all the residents of the arm into him, and that whole conglomeration of souls into The Grand Battle II.
At this point, Dorukomets had little of his sanity. He'd shared Lutherion's arm with thousands of constructs the necromancer used as his undead minions - mentally taxing in its own right - but now he was vying with those spirits for control of his own body and, predictably enough, failing miserably. The realization that he had beaten the Grand Battle in spite of "losing" was of little consolation. Even that small victory was short-lived, as he was once again killed and consumed, this time by an interdimensional supersoldier mercenary robocop known as THE SUNSET, who was driven insane by the same spirits that had infested Dorukomets and killed shortly thereafter. Dorukomets presumably super-died when the spirit energy absorbed by The Sunset was consumed in an attempt to repair his chassis.
Legacy Version:
Name: Dorukomets
Previous Battle: The Grand Battle (Wiki) | The Grand Battle II (Wiki)
Gender: Male
Species: Spectral Entity
Associated Color: #BF0000; fourth box down, top-left. Because three greens is one too many.
Description: Dorukomets was a boastful, overconfident failure: egocentric and quick to anger, but never anywhere near as successful as he claimed. He is not like this any longer, though Dying thrice has made him uncertain of his abilities, and thinking about his past accomplishments (or lack thereof) tends to send him into a funk. He is also slightly paranoid schizophrenic from having been ten-thousand people at once. He tries to maintain a facade of confidence, but his oft unfocused gaze and subtly awkward movements give him away for the emotional wreck he has become.
Physically, Dorukomets is something of an idealized caricature of himself. He stands six-foot-eight, has flowing golden shoulder-length locks, hazel eyes, a deep, authoritative voice, chiseled features, and a cultured stubble. Everything about him shouts I Bleed Money And Power, from his solid diamond pavise with an obsidian etching of him slaying seven dragons at the same time, to his platinum armor with gold trim and embedded rubies. His greatsword is particularly ornate, with a golden hilt and a slab-'o-metal blade forged of meteorite and engraved with glowing crimson runes. The blade's original mother-of-pearl luster has been tarnished red from long-dried bloodstains.
He used to think he glowed with an inner light, but in reality the glow is because he's a ghost. This is also how he survives with a jagged, sickly wound down his back (he doesn't).
This over-exaggeration of his characteristics also carries over to his...
Weapons and Abilities: Dorukomets is now as strong as he once liked to claim, and wields the aforementioned multiple-ton greatsword with ease. He could probably cave your skull with just his fists, though. The runes in his sword channel fire magic, though he only learned that these powers go beyond setting the blade alight very shortly before being summoned to The Grand Battle. Additionally, he has all the benefits of being a ghost, including flight and intangibility - though he tends to ignore these, as he doesn't like to remember that he's dead.
Biography: Firstborn in a family of knights and heir to the undisputed greatest knight of all time, Dorukomets constantly boasted of his ancestor's exploits as a child, convincing himself and everyone else that he would surpass even his father's glorious exploits. Such high expectations proved unsustainable, however - Dorukomets had no patience to learn combat techniques or the laws he was supposed to uphold. He only managed to qualify for and maintain his knighthood due to his father's untimely death and the king's abundance of pity. Repeatedly failing assignments due to a combination of inexperience and poor judgement, most of his time was spent in taverns spinning wild and obviously-exaggerated tales of his exploits. He eventually met his end when he was shot in the back during one particularly out-of-hand barfight.
In death, he was plagued by the guilt of all his failures, and constantly wandered the lands trying to prove himself. He actually did much better than he had while alive, since he couldn't actually die - but fame in death isn't the same as fame in life. He was a rumor at best, and never referred to by his true name; no one believed the incredible Lost Knight could be someone as pathetic as Dorukomets.
Then the Grand Battle happened.
Thoroughly disoriented by the sudden shift in existence, but confident that this was his chance to finally atone for his past life, his first act was to try killing the most dangerous contestant, Lutherion. He failed predictably, and was absorbed into Lutherion's necromantic Wightmaw Arm. Dorukomets lay dormant until a series of bizarre circumstances forced him out of the arm, all the residents of the arm into him, and that whole conglomeration of souls into The Grand Battle II.
At this point, Dorukomets had little of his sanity. He'd shared Lutherion's arm with thousands of constructs the necromancer used as his undead minions - mentally taxing in its own right - but now he was vying with those spirits for control of his own body and, predictably enough, failing miserably. The realization that he had beaten the Grand Battle in spite of "losing" was of little consolation. Even that small victory was short-lived, as he was once again killed and consumed, this time by an interdimensional supersoldier mercenary robocop known as THE SUNSET, who was driven insane by the same spirits that had infested Dorukomets and killed shortly thereafter. Dorukomets presumably super-died when the spirit energy absorbed by The Sunset was consumed in an attempt to repair his chassis.
Legacy Version:
almost-there Wrote:Spoilered for size.