Super Otaku Brawl - Round One: Traverse Town

Username: Garuru
Name: Tobias
Gender: Male
Species: It's Complicated
Text Colour: #993333
Description: Tobias is a hawk! A red-tailed one to be exact. Well, technically Tobias was born as a human, but later got the power to morph into any animal, and subsequently got stuck in a hawk's body, then given the power to morph again while still in a hawk's body. He has had difficulty embracing his life as a hawk, but it is something he will have to accept. His human body is blond and kind of meek-looking, so his current fierce appearance is at odds with his personality. He was always the loner who got bullied at school, and his home situation was not excellent, so he seemed like the happiest to be a part of the Animorphs (a group of 6 people who all can morph into animals), despite all the danger, because it gave him a purpose to live. As such, he was the first one to embrace morphing. He is normally naive and optimistic, but his life as a hawk has helped him to realize some truths as well.

Items/Abilities: As an Animorph, Tobias has the capability of morphing in any animal he encounters. To be more exact, he acquires their DNA through touching them, which puts them in a trance. Then, he can morph into them at any time, but the process is lengthy and rather disgusting to watch, but painless. Furthermore, he can only be in a morph for up to two hours. Any further, and he gets stuck in that morph. In fact, that happened to him already, leaving him stuck in a hawk's body, but because of SHENANIGANS, he regained the power to morph, but the hawk body is still his default body. He's gotten used to it, anyways. Also, he can use thought-speak while in morph. His morphs include his human body, his cat, a polar bear, a Hork-Bajir (tall lizardman covered in blades), a house fly, and many more. However, he doesn't morph as often as his comrades, preferring to act as mission control while flying around in the skies above the scene.

Biography: Growing up with his neglectful aunt and uncle, he was always alone. Bullied at school, and abandoned by the world, his life had no meaning. That is, until he ran into his friend, Jake, and they walked through a construction site together on the way back from school. There, an alien spaceship crashed, and an Andalite (blue deer-ish centaur with no mouth) came out, severely injured and begging for help. The group came to him, and the Andalite gave them the power to morph into any animal they touch, with a few caveats. Tobias was the most attached to this alien, talking to him in the last moments in his life. Then another alien came and killed this Andalite, then they became the only resistance against a species of aliens called the Yeerks, which are slugs that enter a body and control it from within. Tobias was the first to embrace morphing, and was the only one genuinely excited about fighting an intergalactic war. But then he got stuck in a hawk's body, and became useless as a fighter, until SHENANIGANS, then he got the power to morph back.

Suggested Location: The Collector Base.
A massive spaceship with both organic and mechanical parts. The Collectors are aliens who harvest humans and use their genetic material to... well, to do something. It's a mystery why. The ship consists of a huge central chamber with millions of pods, containing humans in every one of them, and several branching paths with some clearings that provide convenient cover for shooting. There are floating platforms in the central chamber that occasionally connect to each other. Some of the humans in the central chamber are alive, but most are dead. There are some guns scattered here and there (think scifi laser guns). The ship appears empty at first, but the Collectors will swarm you if you cause trouble. The Collectors, incidentally, are insect-like humanoids, and they don't really talk. But Harbinger, a Reaper, will occasionally possess one of them, and shout hammy taunting lines at you in all caps. Also there are seeker swarms here and there. Seekers are insects the size of your fist that will paralyze you if you get stung. So, y'know, good luck.

(this profile used to be another character, which was the one that credit below was rooting for.)