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King Ghidorah
Source: The Godzilla films (elements pulled from both the classic and monsterverse versions, as well as some related comics, with a certain amount of creative license thrown in)
Starting Location: Inverxe
Affinity I: Specialized (Ongoing)
Affinity II: Formidable
Physical Description
(Height: 35 m/115 ft. Weight: 20000 tonnes. See abilities section for textual description)
History
Abilities/Skills
Source: The Godzilla films (elements pulled from both the classic and monsterverse versions, as well as some related comics, with a certain amount of creative license thrown in)
Starting Location: Inverxe
Affinity I: Specialized (Ongoing)
Affinity II: Formidable
King Ghidorah is an Aesthete and a Destoyer: first and foremost, a narcissist, a psychopath, and a nihilist. He firmly believes that he is the single most perfect and worthy example of thinking life that has ever existed, the ultimate apex creature. He knows in the depths of his hollow soul that everything and everyone else is more or less there for his enjoyment - either as food, slaves, or fodder for his destructive muse, and he treats them as such. He's obsessed with bringing ruin and despair, addicted to the thrill of kicking over a sand-castle, and like more mundane addictions, he's constantly seeking to outdo his last fix . In fact, in his own mind he's elevated it to an art-form, an aesthetic consideration as much as a physical one. While he doesn't go around simply trying to kill everyone he meets and burn everything he sees, that is always his goal in the end, and any forbearance, restraint, or courtesy on his part is always paper-thin and usually in service of either destroying something or someone specific or more deeply appreciating the things he will one day remove from the world. Even when he is not killing, Ghidorah is never polite. He is insulting, demeaning, grandiose in word and deed, and quick to anger. He frequently breaks things, both for his own gratification and to make sure everyone around him knows who is in charge.
Not all of Ghidorah's qualities would be necessarily negative if they weren't attached to him specifically. He is curious in the extreme, a component of his particular aesthetic yen, and will demand information about anyone or anything with which he isn't familiar. He possesses a certain rudimentary caution around creatures in whom he recognizes power or violence akin to that of those few who have bested him in the past. Around such beings his arrogance and disdain become more subdued, although they never disappear entirely. He is aware of (and disgusted by) the fact that he is not as invincible as he would like, and the only thing preventing him from being a complete coward as a result is his unforgiving pride - qualities which frequently clash when he is in genuine danger. Finally, Ghidorah is very cunning. He possess a fine eye for detail, both when observing the behaviour of others and when examining objects, structures or vistas, a consequence of long experience reading into the aesthetic significance of the peoples and worlds he has ruined.
Note about Ghidorah and hands: This version of Ghidorah has had many forms over the eons, but only rarely has he had hands. Although he finds their form somewhat offputting, he can't deny the utility, and still finds them mildly fascinating.
Note about language: Almost as much as destruction, Ghidorah loves language. He didn't always have it, and the way it gives shape to his thoughts and reflects the nature of the world is a source of fascination for him almost on par with his love of wrack and ruin. As such, he is extremely verbose. Ghidorah 'speaks' telepathically, even to people who are standing in the same room - He lacks the physical apparatus for complex vocal communication
Not all of Ghidorah's qualities would be necessarily negative if they weren't attached to him specifically. He is curious in the extreme, a component of his particular aesthetic yen, and will demand information about anyone or anything with which he isn't familiar. He possesses a certain rudimentary caution around creatures in whom he recognizes power or violence akin to that of those few who have bested him in the past. Around such beings his arrogance and disdain become more subdued, although they never disappear entirely. He is aware of (and disgusted by) the fact that he is not as invincible as he would like, and the only thing preventing him from being a complete coward as a result is his unforgiving pride - qualities which frequently clash when he is in genuine danger. Finally, Ghidorah is very cunning. He possess a fine eye for detail, both when observing the behaviour of others and when examining objects, structures or vistas, a consequence of long experience reading into the aesthetic significance of the peoples and worlds he has ruined.
Note about Ghidorah and hands: This version of Ghidorah has had many forms over the eons, but only rarely has he had hands. Although he finds their form somewhat offputting, he can't deny the utility, and still finds them mildly fascinating.
Note about language: Almost as much as destruction, Ghidorah loves language. He didn't always have it, and the way it gives shape to his thoughts and reflects the nature of the world is a source of fascination for him almost on par with his love of wrack and ruin. As such, he is extremely verbose. Ghidorah 'speaks' telepathically, even to people who are standing in the same room - He lacks the physical apparatus for complex vocal communication
Physical Description
This form of King Ghidorah is partially humanoid, with no wings, no tails as of recent developments a single golden tail as long as his entire body, and functional arms. He stands upright, seven-and-a-half feet tall, sexless, and covered head to toe in overlapping golden scales. The individual scales are larger on his chest and thighs, almost suggesting a scale-mail breastplate and greaves, but shrink to a supple fineness almost akin to leather on the hands, feet and face. He possess three heads, after a fashion. Two of them are fused with his shoulders, oriented laterally, giving the impression of pauldrons: these are draconic, reptilian, with heavy brows above cruel, serpentine muzzles, crowned with thickets of twisted bronze horns and fine golden hair. The eyes are closed, and do not open. His central head is larger, with with a shorter muzzle, no hair to speak of, and larger horns. It sits atop a neck somewhat longer than a man's, though not quite qualifying as serpentine. His eyes are deep, crimson red. Ghidorah stands and walks digitigrade, with powerful thighs and defined calves ending in three-toed feet more reminiscent of those of a bird of prey than a man, creating the impression he is always stalking something. He does not wear clothing if he can at all help it.
(Height: 35 m/115 ft. Weight: 20000 tonnes. See abilities section for textual description)
History
Ghidorah is very, very old, born shortly after the beginning of his universe, before the laws of physics as we know them were entirely set. As the three-headed, golden-winged terror of the space-ways, destroyer of worlds, he ravaged his native cosmos for billions of years in the form of the colossal lightning-spewing dragon with which are all familiar. As such, although for much of his existence he has stood unchallenged as the most fearsome thing in the Milky Way galaxy, he has had trials as well as triumphs. At his best, he is responsible for boiling Venus, and the advanced civilization that lived there, and obliterating their martian outposts. He has smashed solar empires beneath his mighty stomping feet and gone through many bizarre changes, taking on different monstrous form and sometimes dominating the minds of lesser creatures. At his worst, he has been repeatedly mind-controlled himself by spacefaring civilizations seeking to exploit his power. He has been cast down in defeat, humbled by Mothra, vaporized by Godzilla such that only a few scraps of flesh remained. But Ghidorah has always risen again, a cosmic storm on wings of gold rolling in from the galactic rim, driving all lesser creatures before him.
However, at some point, something finally managed to kill him properly. He does not recall what. He does not recall how, or where. But the fact is evident by how he came to the Crossroads: arisen in a shrunken and larval form from a pool of golden blood half-clotted and dripping from a set of monstrous, mummified jaws. Looming above the comparatively insignificant frame he now called his own, half-embedded as though by some long-ago impact in the stone wall of a cave below the surface of Inverxe, the first thing he saw was a desiccated, three-headed corpse, a dragon the size of a mountain, with strips of glorious golden hide hanging like banners from its bones.
However, at some point, something finally managed to kill him properly. He does not recall what. He does not recall how, or where. But the fact is evident by how he came to the Crossroads: arisen in a shrunken and larval form from a pool of golden blood half-clotted and dripping from a set of monstrous, mummified jaws. Looming above the comparatively insignificant frame he now called his own, half-embedded as though by some long-ago impact in the stone wall of a cave below the surface of Inverxe, the first thing he saw was a desiccated, three-headed corpse, a dragon the size of a mountain, with strips of glorious golden hide hanging like banners from its bones.
1). A Crisis of Aesthetics and Pride
Ghidorah contemplates his situation, only to have his former self's tomb discovered by a mineralogical survey team. He attacks them, leaving only one alive, whom he forces to assist him in escaping the caverns beneath Inverxe. An ambush is attempted and failed, leaving Ghidorah gravely injured, and an entire mining settlement is over-run by xenomorphs as a result. Jewels, the lone surviving surveyor, recalls something she cannot explain.
Ghidorah contemplates his situation, only to have his former self's tomb discovered by a mineralogical survey team. He attacks them, leaving only one alive, whom he forces to assist him in escaping the caverns beneath Inverxe. An ambush is attempted and failed, leaving Ghidorah gravely injured, and an entire mining settlement is over-run by xenomorphs as a result. Jewels, the lone surviving surveyor, recalls something she cannot explain.
A Collision of Savage Opposites
Ghidorah emerges into Fortress-Polity 428A, only to find it overrun with Xenomorphs. After battling several of them and apprehending the numbers he is facing, he resolves to escape, only for his shuttlecraft to crash-land. Raph, a lawyer for Kaalakiota Corp., rapidly loses control of his assignment. Mabel, the best autopilot in the universe, is introduced.
Ghidorah emerges into Fortress-Polity 428A, only to find it overrun with Xenomorphs. After battling several of them and apprehending the numbers he is facing, he resolves to escape, only for his shuttlecraft to crash-land. Raph, a lawyer for Kaalakiota Corp., rapidly loses control of his assignment. Mabel, the best autopilot in the universe, is introduced.
Indictment of a Hollow Garden ( Ghidorah vs the Unmaking part I )
Ghidorah emerges form the wreckage of a transport shuttle, and senses something something offensively bland. Pursuing that sensation, he discovers a lush patch of forest wherein everything has been stripped of some fundamental aspect of its nature and infused with an ontological 'sameness'. This offends Ghidorah's aesthetic sensibilities, and after a confrontation with a mind-flayer serving as a sort-of priest for the force responsible (a thing called 'Darkseid) and his followers, during which Ghidorah confirms the he derives neither satisfaction nor insight from destroying things subject to this 'Anti-Life', he burns the place to the ground. Deciding he cannot allow this sort of thing to continue, for the sake of his offended aesthetic sensibilites and the future of his favorite pursuits, he resolves to see find and destroy the source of Darkseid's corruption.
Ghidorah emerges form the wreckage of a transport shuttle, and senses something something offensively bland. Pursuing that sensation, he discovers a lush patch of forest wherein everything has been stripped of some fundamental aspect of its nature and infused with an ontological 'sameness'. This offends Ghidorah's aesthetic sensibilities, and after a confrontation with a mind-flayer serving as a sort-of priest for the force responsible (a thing called 'Darkseid) and his followers, during which Ghidorah confirms the he derives neither satisfaction nor insight from destroying things subject to this 'Anti-Life', he burns the place to the ground. Deciding he cannot allow this sort of thing to continue, for the sake of his offended aesthetic sensibilites and the future of his favorite pursuits, he resolves to see find and destroy the source of Darkseid's corruption.
For that Corporate Dime
Jewels awakens on the Hub, traumatized by her recent experiences. She is convinced by Raph Hannigan to sell her stake in the mineral-rights claim on the Tomb of Monster Zero, and subsequently contracted to assist in a dangerous repair mission in the depths of the station. Though successful, the mission does not go well.
Jewels awakens on the Hub, traumatized by her recent experiences. She is convinced by Raph Hannigan to sell her stake in the mineral-rights claim on the Tomb of Monster Zero, and subsequently contracted to assist in a dangerous repair mission in the depths of the station. Though successful, the mission does not go well.
Against a Screaming Planet
The corrupted Arbiter of Inverxe has noticed Ghidorah, and the geology of the moon itself turns against him. After a considerable amount of discomfort, he manages to get out from under Rose Quartz's baleful unseen eye, venturing deeper still into the crust of the planet.
The corrupted Arbiter of Inverxe has noticed Ghidorah, and the geology of the moon itself turns against him. After a considerable amount of discomfort, he manages to get out from under Rose Quartz's baleful unseen eye, venturing deeper still into the crust of the planet.
Abilities/Skills
King Ghidorah's burgeoning cosmic fires have recovered to the point where he can at last recall a shadow of his former glory. As the millennium dragon, Ghidorah is 12 stories tall. He possesses a powerful, sinuous tail as long as his entire body which forks about 4/5 of the way along its length, ending in a pair of spiked clubs. He has no arms, and instead possesses golden wings, chiropteran but undeveloped, with a non-functional 'thumb' joint; they seem like they are slightly too small, proportionally, but he is still capable of flight at slightly below jet-airplane speeds. His body is covered in large, bronze scales reminiscent of armor plating, especially around the chest and thighs. Fang-like bone spikes line the vertebrae of his three serpentine necks, joining into a single row down his back and proceeding along his tail. His powerful legs have conical armored spurs on the knee-joint, and end in three-toed digitigrade feet, like those of a therapod dinosaur. His trio of terrible faces, while as distinctly reptilian as the rest of him, are almost lupine in shape, ringed by horns and bony protrusions, sporting cackling muzzles filled with double-rows of serrated teeth, and covered in knobbly, armored hide .
Titanic Form
Shapeshifting (1000)
Growth Rank 7 (1400)
-ongoing (0, specialised)
-Limited (Static, Millennium Dragon form only) (-350)
total (2050)
In this titanic form, Ghidorah's golden wings allow him to fly at hundreds of miles an hour. The wings themselves do not propel him as such, but rather provide a psychological focus for the cosmic forces at his command. It is these forces that are the true source of Ghidorah's mastery of the skies.
On Golden Wings
Flight Rank 8 (1600)
-ongoing (0, specialized)
-limited (Millennium Dragon only) (-400)
total (1200)
As the Millennium Dragon, Ghidorah is capable of spitting explosive bolts of cosmic fire the size of train-cars, trailing a comet-tail of crimson-lightning. These purplish-red plasma-bolts possess a flickering core of golden electricity and explode on impact, detonating with enough force to completely gut a four-story building.
Cosmic Firebolts
Damage Rank 8 (800)
-limited (only in Millennium Dragon form) (-400)
-ranged (400)
-Affects multiple Rank 4 (200 x 8=1600)
-Indiscriminate (-400)
total 2000
Titanic Form
Shapeshifting (1000)
Growth Rank 7 (1400)
-ongoing (0, specialised)
-Limited (Static, Millennium Dragon form only) (-350)
total (2050)
In this titanic form, Ghidorah's golden wings allow him to fly at hundreds of miles an hour. The wings themselves do not propel him as such, but rather provide a psychological focus for the cosmic forces at his command. It is these forces that are the true source of Ghidorah's mastery of the skies.
On Golden Wings
Flight Rank 8 (1600)
-ongoing (0, specialized)
-limited (Millennium Dragon only) (-400)
total (1200)
As the Millennium Dragon, Ghidorah is capable of spitting explosive bolts of cosmic fire the size of train-cars, trailing a comet-tail of crimson-lightning. These purplish-red plasma-bolts possess a flickering core of golden electricity and explode on impact, detonating with enough force to completely gut a four-story building.
Cosmic Firebolts
Damage Rank 8 (800)
-limited (only in Millennium Dragon form) (-400)
-ranged (400)
-Affects multiple Rank 4 (200 x 8=1600)
-Indiscriminate (-400)
total 2000
Ghidorah's body is not made out of conventional biomaterials. His scales are super-hardened, his bones moreso, and his flesh is like steel; even diminished he is very difficult to injure. Further, his physiology is fueled by the electro-gravitic echoes of a galactic superstorm. As such, he can endure far greater hardships than a normal creature. In a very literal sense he is his cosmic power source - mass built directly from energy, the resulting biological construct unbound by concerns for such petty things as caloric deficit or dehydration, oxygen or sleep, immune to environmental extremes and operating at a metabolic pitch nigh-unheard of in lesser creatures. Thus he is constantly being reconstructed, granting him a supernatural rate of recovery.
Protection Rank 8 (800)
-Ongoing (0, Specialized))
Endurance Rank 8 (800)
Healing Rank 8 (1600)
-Ongoing (0, Specialized)
Adaptation: Extreme Heat (100)
Adaptation: Extreme Cold (100)
Adaptation: Toxic environments (50)
Adaptation: Radioactive environments (50)
Adaptation: Falling (100)
Adaptation: Starvation and Thirst (50)
Adaptation: Need to Breathe (200)
Adaptions: Need for Sleep (50)
Adaptation: Space (300)
Adaptation: Disease (50)
4250 total cost
Protection Rank 8 (800)
-Ongoing (0, Specialized))
Endurance Rank 8 (800)
Healing Rank 8 (1600)
-Ongoing (0, Specialized)
Adaptation: Extreme Heat (100)
Adaptation: Extreme Cold (100)
Adaptation: Toxic environments (50)
Adaptation: Radioactive environments (50)
Adaptation: Falling (100)
Adaptation: Starvation and Thirst (50)
Adaptation: Need to Breathe (200)
Adaptions: Need for Sleep (50)
Adaptation: Space (300)
Adaptation: Disease (50)
4250 total cost
Ghidorah possesses tremendous strength, capable of tearing through steel plate like paper - or crashing through almost any structure lacking a steel skeleton when in titanic form. The cosmic catastrophe within that once burned worlds and propelled him between the stars is rising again in the depths of his soul, occasionally crackling in golden arcs across his hide, granting him physical power far out of step with his diminished form.
Damage Rank 8 (800)
Move Object Rank 8 (800)
1600 total cost
Damage Rank 8 (800)
Move Object Rank 8 (800)
1600 total cost
Ghidorah's speed and reaction time are nothing short of devastating, no matter what his shape or size. He possesses supernatural precision and grace in the control and use of his body, and can perceive and react to events so quick that lesser creatures would not have noticed them at all, serpentine in his suddenness of action. His tectonic grip-strength and affinity for gravitational forces allows him, in his reduced form, to clamber and cling to sheer surfaces and even ceilings with ease, and even in the absence of his wings, his tremendously powerful legs enable him to make great leaps through the air.
Agility Rank 8(1600)
Speed Rank 8 (1600)
-Ongoing (0, specialized)
Flight Rank 2 (400)
Movement: Wall Crawling (200)
-limited (not in kaiju-form) (-100)
total cost 3700
Agility Rank 8(1600)
Speed Rank 8 (1600)
-Ongoing (0, specialized)
Flight Rank 2 (400)
Movement: Wall Crawling (200)
-limited (not in kaiju-form) (-100)
total cost 3700
Ghidorah is able to unleash the astral chaos at the core of his being in the form of pseudo-electric 'gravity beams', which he can fire from his mouth or either hand. These bolts of destructive force are lethal, easily capable of smashing stone apart or burning through steel plating - provided they actually hit his target, which is a 50/50 proposition at best. Ghidorah is accustomed to having two additional pairs of eyes with which to aim, and his lightning has a tendency to arc and jump, twisting in ways that are not necessarily conducive to hitting their intended mark. This is somewhat compensated for by Ghidorah's sheer rate of fire; If he wants to he can even generate continuous discharges, sweeping the landscape before him with arcs of destructive power. In his kaiju form, this ability is replaced by grander manifestations of his destructive power.
Damage Rank 6 (600)
-Ranged (300)
-Chaotic(-300)
-ongoing (0, specialized)
600 total cost
Damage Rank 6 (600)
-Ranged (300)
-Chaotic(-300)
-ongoing (0, specialized)
600 total cost
King Ghidorah's higher telepathic abilities have begun to reawaken. His cosmic consciousness is capable of engaging with many of the various kinds of raw information which pass unseen through the void, from radio-waves to the thoughts of other creatures,. He can both send and receive, allowing complex communication across vast distances.
Communication Rank 1 - Telepathy (100)
Communication Rank 1 - Telepathy (100)
Ghidorah's astral furnace casts a light within the nebulous spaces beneath normal reality, and its reflected brilliance provides positional, quantitative and qualitative information about any lesser flames-of-life within its radius of illumination. It's almost like a sense of taste, but with a spatial-positional component, and allows Ghidorah to judge the nature and potency of the creatures he encounters.
Sense (life force) Rank 6 (600)
Sense (energy/threat level) Rank 6 (600)
-ongoing (0, specialized)
total cost 1200
Sense (life force) Rank 6 (600)
Sense (energy/threat level) Rank 6 (600)
-ongoing (0, specialized)
total cost 1200
Ghidorah possesses very keen and deceptively broad eyesight, able perceive his surroundings in minute and precise detail and to conduct a cogent analysis of what he sees. He is a practiced admirer of the composition of the universe, from the very great to the very small, and as such has a very highly developed sense of the interconnectedness of things. He is an expert in aesthetic composition and structure, especially as it pertains to complex systems such as societies or planets - although as he is currently lacking two sets of eyes and several other senses, he is not able to exercise his powers of observation and analysis to their fullest extent.
Senses: (Vision) Rank 6 (600)
-Ongoing (0, Specialized)
Master Skill: Knowledge (Aesthetic/Artistic Composition) Rank 6 (300)
Total cost: 900
Senses: (Vision) Rank 6 (600)
-Ongoing (0, Specialized)
Master Skill: Knowledge (Aesthetic/Artistic Composition) Rank 6 (300)
Total cost: 900
Ghidorah lives for only one thing: to bring ruin to that which is elegant, beautiful and worthwhile. Over eons of pursuing this goal he has acquired vast experience in the particulars, the results, and the practice of destruction in all its forms, from the personal to the abstract. He has learned to apply this knowledge in the most direct and forceful of ways when it comes to fighting an opponent or opponents in personal combat, and he has even, by careful observation of the methods that have been used to try to stop him, acquired a certain facility with military strategy, particularly when it comes to overwhelming defenses and breaking blockades. At his current size and power-level not all of this knowledge translates directly, but he remains a truly malign force.
Knowledge (Combat Tactics: Savage Brutality) rank 5 (250)
Knowledge (Military Strategy) rank 4 (200)
Art (Destruction) Rank 5 (250)
Social (Destruction/Trauma) Rank 4 (200)
Knowledge (Combat Tactics: Savage Brutality) rank 5 (250)
Knowledge (Military Strategy) rank 4 (200)
Art (Destruction) Rank 5 (250)
Social (Destruction/Trauma) Rank 4 (200)
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