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Description Abilities:

-Vibrations: Megoki's most noteworthy offensive technique involves her flapping her thin inner wings while still concealed under the outer shell. The vibrations produced spread across the whole body in a few seconds alone, and when it does, little can withstand the powerful waves of high pitched sound. This makes an excellent deterrence technique, but it has offensive capabilities as well. When striking with her spined limbs and extended clasping tail, these vibrations exponentially increase her attack's potency, able to turn a glancing blow into a glaring one. Lastly, by opening her wings during vibrations, powerful tunnels of sound can be sent out in all directions, mostly focused behind her, doing searing ear, bone and organ damage to all close by. This can kill nearby humans, rend combat mecha in two, render kaiju temporarily deaf, and even knock them unconscious.

-Tough Carapace: Megoki's adorned outer shell is quite resilient even by insect kaiju standards, able to take many, many blows before showing signs of wear and tear. In contrast to this, her shell takes much longer to regenerate damage than most kaiju hides do, and thus severe blows can really count. During military strikes, it is common practice to target one point and to continue bombarding as close to that point as possible, usually near the joints.

-Cockroach Queen: An ability not realized until after her first encounter with modern man ended, and perhaps the most disturbing of all of her tricks, Megoki can emit powerful pheromones similar to an ant or termite queen, capable of luring in cockroaches of all sizes to her location. After her defeat in Tokyo, the ruined city became home to millions of cockroaches of species found all over the world, rendering it an uninhabitable, unsanitary wasteland. In battle, these cockroaches can aid in offense and defense, shielding their queen from harm, forming protective shields over wounds, even swarming over entire kaiju and mecha like a dirty brown tidal wave. Megoki seems to feel nothing for these roaches and treats them like tools, but they don't seem to mind.


Noted Weaknesses:

-Low Tolerance to Cold: The most exploitable weakness known to mankind when it comes to dealing with Megoki is her weakness to cryogenic assaults, which can render her completely immobile and inert. This is how mankind defeated her the first time, and it's usually worked since, founding the modern use of kaiju cryogenics in places like the Sheol Shoals.

-Vanity: The cockroach queen's personality is quite fitting for one with that title, vain and ugly. She hates things bigger and shinier than she, and will attack outright anything that outdoes her. Most notably on this list of objects that she hates is skyscrapers, which she will deliberately knock down and step on their remains until there is no trace they were ever there. Larger kaiju typically meet this criterion as well, but she is less likely to outright attack when in the presence of true juggernauts like Giganuuk.

B.C.D.E.- Preferred Method: Capture Subject only to be attacked if discovered outside of sanctioned territory. Subject known for extreme aggression towards armed personnel, excessive deployment not recommended to diminish potential losses. Ambush techniques recommended, Ymir Missiles and Loki Cryo-Gel Bombs deemed acceptable means of containment. Upon freezing, subject to be dropped in Old Tokyo Epicenter and left to thaw.

Description:

The first kaiju to emerge in the public eye in recorded history, the creature known as Megoki the cockroach queen is among the most well known of modern monsters. Often held high on the list of public enemy monsters with true terrors like Giganuuk, Triction and Helong, though perhaps undeservedly so, Megoki is single-handedly responsible for the destruction of one of the largest, most populated cities ever to exist. Granted, we were incapable of militarily matching kaiju of any size at that point, and had she emerged any later she would be one of many standard aberrations, but thanks to the special circumstances of her emergence she will never be forgotten.

Her first appearance in modern day is one that has been observed from every angle by military and research forces combined, and is often regarded as a textbook kaiju attack. It began in the mid 21st century, a small-scale construction project was preparing to remove a chunk of natural land in favor of future business developments, met with standard environmental criticism that while well intended was not completely well founded. In short, a typical day. But one blast of TNT changed that as they tried to clear a particular rock face. The earth seemed to open up in a grand scale no one could have predicted, and inside was a massive crypt large enough to store a small office building. The construction workers halted immediately when the dust cleared, for inside was a massive statue more than 150 feet high of a humanoid insect. The site became a worldwide sensation in the archaeology circles overnight, and many renowned experts, led by Dr. Abigail Cathcart, came to the location immediately. The statue, and the nature of the crypt, completely puzzled them, blew their minds even. The surrounding earth showed no consistency in age, many believed equipment was malfunctioning, and the statue contradicted everything they knew about the region's history, not to mention it was too big to have been made by early human hands.

As they rallied elsewhere the next night to discuss their findings, something happened at the crypt that would change history forever. It started when a gentle spring rain began to fall, nothing unexpected for the time of year, but the true nature of the statue quickly began to reveal itself as the earth, which was hard as rock, began to give way, revealing it was nothing more than a cocoon of mud, and underneath was a very much alive and very angry creature. Megoki was awakened, and she was not happy. She completely demolished the worksite and a nearby small town that night, leaving nothing standing. The archaeologists were then traded in by the government for the Self-Defense Force, called out for their very first legitimate deployment. Of course, as history dictates, they were no match for the creature, every effort of their to firebomb it ended with demolished tanks, downed jets and lost lives. The top brass began to intensely rethink their strategy, and developed a clever plan using what little they knew. The giant cockroach only really moved great distances at night, and seemed to follow light sources, which meant she could be manipulated. They set up a plan to drown the creature by instituting blackouts across all of the major Japanese cities, using a lighthouse and many spotlights to lure the creature out to coast, where they would then strike it with everything they had and force it into deep water, where it would likely sink.

The plan almost worked, until a lone eco-fanatic broke into Tokyo's major power grid and flipped the switch, exposing their city to the view of the insectoid terror and ruining the SDF's plan, catching them all off balance. Megoki proceeded into Tokyo, and for three days destroyed much of the city, shrugging off SDF attempts to stop it and proceeding unchallenged until a surprising opportunity presented itself. When rampaging through an industrial plant, she knocked over a tank of cryogenic fluid, and the lower half of her body became immobilized. The SDF realizing they lacked the firepower to destroy the creature, decided to use icepower instead, and utilized jury-rigged helicopters to dump more of the cryogenic substances onto Megoki, freezing her near solid and ending her reign of initial terror.

The world was never quite the same after that. The UN took custody of the creature and placed it in remote Russia, where a massive cell originally meant to hold nukes was converted into a cryogenic prison for the insect. Kaiju became a legitimate fact, and many more would emerge shortly after that. Tokyo, unfortunately, had to be condemned, with capital powers transferred back to Kyoto, but not for the reasons people expected. Within weeks, the city was home to the biggest infestation of cockroaches ever seen, gathered to mourn their fallen queen, it seemed. They remain there to this day, leaving the city a filthy wasteland, but now their monarch is among them, and there she is at her strongest. Years later, after kaiju coexistence policies were put into place, Megoki was released in the middle of Old Tokyo to thaw, and has lived a contented life there since, though occasionally she breaks out or has to deal with an intruding force. Most of the kaiju of Japan avoid her, Gumoto sneaking in to prey on her larger children, (some of which are big enough to be kaiju themselves) and Kabukhan the solar beetle, who seems to share a bit of kinship with the fellow insect, being the two major exceptions. Yakai is one of the few native monsters she seems reluctant to approach, the electric monkey is capable of intense bouts of ferocity and seems, to an extent, to frighten her. The military of the Niipanian government is especially wary of her passionate hatred of things bigger and prettier than she, and keep a trained eye on her in case they need to remind her that they have beaten her once, and they can do it again.

This confidence is well-placed, but still, they cannot help but remember how at one point, this one rather average monster made us feel small again.

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Here you all have a taste of something familiar for you Grorn-ies. This is Megoki, the cockroach Queen, who is like in Grorn the first monster to emerge in modern day. Not much has really changed since her debut in Grorn, the story is still relatively the same, but with longer history and more details on her functions. Given a lot of people know about her already, I won't go into much else other than that her color scheme was fun to mess around with. I think I'm getting the hang of these bios, but just to remind, hit download for a fullview if the text seems too small for your eyes, though I made it bigger this time.

Enjoy, and Crim out.
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Comments: 24

Godzillajtn [2013-07-01 21:17:14 +0000 UTC]

I remember you submitted this to CkC!

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Vagrant-Verse In reply to Godzillajtn [2013-07-12 02:18:05 +0000 UTC]

Haha, yeah, this ol' girl did far better than I thought for popping in so late into the funding process.

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Godzillajtn In reply to Vagrant-Verse [2013-07-12 08:18:18 +0000 UTC]

Yeah! I hope she makes it!

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kayly101 [2012-12-30 23:32:02 +0000 UTC]

Dude! Just seen your work on Kaiju site, top notch work! \m/
Bloody sweet character. Beautiful and deadly

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The-Great-MM [2012-03-14 04:10:18 +0000 UTC]

I still love this guy. One of my faves of yours.

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Vagrant-Verse In reply to The-Great-MM [2012-03-14 18:39:10 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, glad to see she's popular, I quite enjoyed putting her together.

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JacobSpencerKaiju79 [2012-03-14 03:25:32 +0000 UTC]

She's pretty much a badass, and I think she serves her purpose in your kaijuverse.

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Vagrant-Verse In reply to JacobSpencerKaiju79 [2012-03-14 18:38:48 +0000 UTC]

Thanks much Jake, does me good to hear that.

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JacobSpencerKaiju79 In reply to Vagrant-Verse [2012-03-17 03:39:12 +0000 UTC]

Welcome

Hey, when you have time, you always leave me comments, so I figure I return the favor, you know?

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FakaPokeBio [2012-03-14 00:29:16 +0000 UTC]

Damn, Megoki is really like a female, badass version of my monster King Roach.

But yeah, she is a fantastic kaiju, and a good first appearance. I really like her.
She's just really impressive all around.

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Vagrant-Verse In reply to FakaPokeBio [2012-03-14 18:38:25 +0000 UTC]

Roaches are such underrated creatures, they're among the most monstrous alive thematically speaking. The great survivors, often jokingly called indestructible, I don't see why more people haven't taken advantage of the fact.

Thanks, she was fun to put together.

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RenDragonClaw [2012-03-13 01:40:09 +0000 UTC]

Of the roach monsters I've seen, Megoki is quickly becoming one of my favorites for her mix of era themes and excellent use of source material. Her bio is also a nice take on the long lasting effects kaiju would/could have on the world at large should they come into existance. In comparison to Giganuuk who is virtually a walking apocalypse.

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Vagrant-Verse In reply to RenDragonClaw [2012-03-14 18:37:02 +0000 UTC]

Well that does me good to hear, thanks Ren! I had a lot of fun putting her together, all things considered. Cockroaches are supremely monstrous creatures, its amazing people haven't exploited it more, and the political notes are something I'm really working towards in this. I figured the first monster to emerge wouldn't be quickly forgotten, and even if they were far surpassed there's a stigma on them people won't easily forget. Giganuuk will far transcend this, but all the same.

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AkityMH [2012-03-13 00:54:01 +0000 UTC]

hey its our favorite bitch of a roach! Megalon would be proud.

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Vagrant-Verse In reply to AkityMH [2012-03-14 18:34:38 +0000 UTC]

Indeed.

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Ravensaurs-Rex [2012-03-12 22:04:49 +0000 UTC]

Now she is a right beaut! She has some wonderful crab-ish overtones.

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Vagrant-Verse In reply to Ravensaurs-Rex [2012-03-14 18:34:20 +0000 UTC]

Thankya, there is a bit of crab, among other things.

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HayesAJones [2012-03-12 21:03:09 +0000 UTC]

Ah, looks like you took a cue from MM's mantis-fingered version.

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Vagrant-Verse In reply to HayesAJones [2012-03-14 18:33:57 +0000 UTC]

That I did. It was an excellent idea, she was lacking a good offensive weapon for her front end.

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Crystaldemon93 [2012-03-12 20:51:40 +0000 UTC]

Me likes this uber roach-queen, good work, man! While not new, the idea is well, developed and adapted, as well as awesomely realized both graphically and conceptually. In a word, awesome!

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Vagrant-Verse In reply to Crystaldemon93 [2012-03-14 18:33:17 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, glad you like her. Sounds like she's giving the exact impression I wanted, a classical monster with interesting new twists.

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Crystaldemon93 In reply to Vagrant-Verse [2012-03-15 17:15:56 +0000 UTC]

The exact thing you said. Again good work then.

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ProfessorCene [2012-03-12 20:28:03 +0000 UTC]

I like the look into kaiju containment policies.

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Vagrant-Verse In reply to ProfessorCene [2012-03-14 18:32:33 +0000 UTC]

It was pretty fun to write out, so thanks. Kaiju politics is one thing I really want to go into in this story.

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