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Oh what the hell. I'm still proud of these, even if I never did get the AATR3 audition done in time. I might post what I did for that later, if not here then on Tumblr.Have a Wall of Text!
Buster the Dragon
A cute dragon character from a fictional mon-genre anime kids cartoon. Rob created Buster to exist in a story where the cartoon world leaked into the real world, so his home anime story has not been developed much, bar the note that “it’s like every cheap mon-genre kids anime like Pokemon, Digimon, Duel Masters, Zatch Bell, Bakugan, Yu-gi-oh, etc etc etc, and its hopelessly cliché.” Buster is the hero’s monster, and has the adorable, kid-appeal enthusiasm, gusto, and energy needed for the role. He takes fights head-on, doesn’t entirely think things through, and relies on the hero’s instinct to battle. He’s cute, he’s energetic, he’s plucky, he’s every endearing thing you can think of. However, Buster thinks himself as bigger and tougher than he is, and his overly cheerful and energetic personality is easily aggravating to many. Seeing as Rob’s not built like a shoenen hero in the least, Buster’s out of his element.
Powers and Abilities:
Plucky and can-do, never gives up
Despite him being too dense and his wings not big enough to do so, he can fly.
Rainbow Fire Breath: Buster has the most gaudy and obviously “An adult thought kids liked this” based attack with this. There are 6 different flame colors that Buster can breathe, each one with a different effect. He needs to be told to use any other flame color than what he thinks is right for the effect, and all flames have the same properties of normal fires.
Red: Normal dragon’s fire breath. His most basic and default attack.
Orange: Upon burning, it will gather rain clouds and begin to rain. The longer the flame burns, the more heavy the rain becomes. If the flame is made wet, the water that it touches will “catch on fire,” giving Buster temporary hydrokinetic power. Treat orange flames as one would a grease fire to extinguish.
Yellow: The target hit by yellow flame will burn, but as it burns, it will gain an exponential amount of mass. This makes the burning target heavier, and if the fire burns long enough, the target will gain its own gravitational pull.
Green: If Buster breathes this flame, the flames will lick around him and cause him to shapeshift. Uses it to gain claws or bigger wings, and if he shapeshifts his whole body, he loses the ability to breathe any other type of flame. He isn’t able to hold any form for very long, and if the flames are extinguished prior to the shapeshifting is complete, the shift will fail, and buster will be locked into the mid shift until he’s able to shapeshift again. This is the second most common technique of Buster’s, but also one of his least reliable.
Blue: Anything hit with a blue flame will “burn” with no ill effect. It actually feels quite pleasant. If two objects that are burning with this blue flame touch, or a blue-burning target is hit with another blue flame, it will create a inorganic polymer around the subjects, immobilizing and binding the burning subjects together. Buster rarely uses this technique, it requires forethought that neither he nor his shoenen hero protagonist partner have.
Violet: The flames will wreathe out and form a barrier. It’s a basic shield technique, used more than the orange, yellow, and blue flames, but less than the red and green.
Rainbow: a super blast of all colors. A signature move of sorts, a flaming rainbow is blasted from his mouth and explodes on contact. It’s Buster’s “signature move” of sorts, and it will be called something each time it’s used. It will compel someone in the viewing area to shout its name, no matter what. It’s like Naruto’s Rasengan, or Luffy’s various finisher techniques.
Buster also has a passive “power creep, power seep” effect, and his techniques gain power and he can become influenced by outside sources of power, be it magic, radiation, supernatural sources, or whatever. It also starts overlaying personality shifts in increasing amounts the longer he’s around the source, starting as non-existent and growing to brainwashing at its worst. Perhaps it’s a good thing Rob is creatively blocked.
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Comments: 3
ThePuertoRicanDragon [2013-06-19 01:13:56 +0000 UTC]
You did too good a job here, since I actually really like Buster! The coloring is simple, harmonious, and unique. In fact, the design itself is simple (probably alluding to the fact that protagonist mons have designs that are so simple, even little children could do fan art of these mons with a degree of recognition or accuracy).
I like the fact that he is meant to parody both the mon genre and how mon characters would behave in the real world. Of course, I also like how the different colors of his flame make for different effects.
I wonder, though. Is Buster's passive effect already a part of him, or was it made specifically for the AATR timeline?
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MrAthens In reply to ThePuertoRicanDragon [2013-06-19 03:42:01 +0000 UTC]
The passive effect is before AATR - how else do you think all those hero mons keep up when they are paired with idiot heroes? Certainly not systematic training regiments, that's for sure XD
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ThePuertoRicanDragon In reply to MrAthens [2013-06-19 04:37:21 +0000 UTC]
I have to agree. I like the serious, "everything according to plan" characters, but they are always pushed away. Kiyo from Zatch Bell was methodical, but Zatch made him think with his heart. There is also the lazy Reiji vs. the orderly Hikaru in Dragon Drive. I was actually rooting for Hikaru!
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