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Character Concept - The Bounty Hunter

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Like with all things, I got bored and made something. Here is my first, completely fleshed out, original character. It's based on something my friend and I did in Elementary school for fun. I will elaborate on stuff if I may, so just ask.

I'm not a writer, and did not like English class in school. I'm surprised I still remember the difference between your and you're. So bare with me here. :)

Oh, and a shout out to RuinEX for his character concept template, it's awesome!


Skye: The Bounty Hunter
See you space cowboy...


Idea:
A dynamic class with a action skill that drastically alters from game-changers.


Weapons And Specialization:
Pistols, assault rifles, shotguns, Close-Quarters-Combat, defense, and "energy manipulation".


Appearance And Clothing:
Male, the internet says Skye is a girl name. But, Jayne so whatever.
Height: 7’-0”
Age: 442 years, but looks like the average 28 year old.
Complexion: Caucasian, but tan. 5 o’clock shadow.
Hair Color: Dark Brown, fairly long but unkempt.

At first glance Skye looks like the average run-of-the-mill bounty hunter. But, upon further inspection his most prominent feature stands out. A small, pointy, horn protrudes out of the middle of his forehead through his hair.

Those who tease him about being a unicorn quickly find their head on the floor, or through a door.

His face would be somewhat attractive, but a large sword scar runs horizontally across his right eye. His right eye should be blind from such a wound. But it emits a dull red glow from the iris, indicating that it's almost perfect facsimile.

Attached to his short sleeve combat jacket are: grenades, ammo pouches, and “42” in tally marks embroidered upon the chest area. Heavy duty straps run across his chest to hold his “back pack” securely upon his back.

The “back pack” is not cloth, but a intriguing solid construction of cobalt colored metal. The base of this pack is outfitted with what seems to be a rocket exhaust nozzle. Yet, it’s not a jet-pack, but instead used to close ground incredibly quickly by “Rushing”. Affixed to his booster pack is a rather large sword without a sheath.

On his left arm: there is a wordless badge on the shoulder depicting a strange symbol, and his hand is encased by a simple but stout fingerless gauntlet with a forearm guard (this gauntlet would be the class mod).

The right arm is bare, except for the large but plain ring on the ring finger, and a tattoo on the hand.

A large belt holds many gadgets and implements, including his shield module. Combat leggings lead down to his boots, which are more like socks but have a heavy tread underfoot for traction. Large boot knives are strapped to each leg, which have tanto styled blades.


Story:
His ancestry is a mystery, but if his horn is any indication; it must be otherworldly or alien, not to mention his real age.

A bounty hunter who makes his living on the the border worlds, hunting the bounties of the scum-of-the-verse. Skye takes his profession very seriously and never breaks a deal. Throughout his years he has been: an thug, an assassin, an soldier, an inventor, and strangely enough an diplomat.

Handsome Jack may think he has absolute power. But on his trip to the top of Hyperion Jack preformed numerous double crosses and back stabs. Coincidentally, Jack has a bounty on his head from the Inner Worlds Authorities, but most bounty hunters are sane enough not to try and claim it.

But most bounty hunters are unlike Skye. Taking on the role of a vault hunter, Skye saw to easily get Jack on the train ride where he “welcomes” the new vault-hunters to Pandora. That would be his first and last mistake when dealing with Jack.


Skill Trees And Action Skill:

Action Skill: Rush
Use your booster pack and rush into the fray!

Description:
Rushing into or past enemies stuns them for a short while from the overpressure. Rush distance is about the same as Zer0’s Execute range. The overpressure has a AOE of your melee range. Stun lasts for 3 seconds, like Phaselock stun only affects certain enemies. You have 80% damage reduction during Rush. Cool down is about the same as Zer0’s full Deception.


Quote:


All skill values are just guess work, heck if I know how to accurately balance that stuff.
A-(Left): Ancestry

Skill: Medical Mechanica – Running regenerates health slowly.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 1.5% of health is regenerated while running per level.

Skill: Kinetic Rounds – Increases bullet speed and damage.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 8% bullet speed and 3% damage per level.

Skill: Cascade Reaction – Igniting or electrocuting an enemy has a chance for surrounding enemies to become on fire or electrocuted. Explosive damage has a chance for it's AOE to be increased every shot.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 5% chance per level.

Skill: Conservation of Energy – When you are on fire or being electrocuted, your elemental damage is increased. This effect is doubled when you are slagged.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 10% increase to elemental damage per level.

Kill Skill: Plasma Stealth – After killing an enemy you can become invisible when you do not move whatsoever. (No walking, no looking, no reloading, or shooting)
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: Skill duration increase +0.5 seconds per level.

Skill: E=MC Squared – Explosive damage is increased, any explosive damage you receive has a change to be converted to ammo.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 4% explosive damage increase, and 5% chance to create ammo from explosions per level.

GC Skill: E.M.P. – Action skill Augment, "energy Rush". Rushing does a automatic AOE of electrical damage based on the amount of player shields at the time of using Rush. If no shields are active at the time of Rushing, shields are drained from enemies affected by Rush, with up to a maximum of 50% of shields restored.
(0/1) NEXT LEVEL: "E.M.P. I'm a flash of light! E.M.P. And I'll win the fight!"

Skill: Speed of Heat – When you are on fire or when you ignite an enemy, your movement speed and Rush distance is increased.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 4% movement speed and Rush distance increase per level.

Skill: Ancient Bloodline – Instead of dieing, there is chance to transform into a super state for 1 minuet. During this state: 50% damage reduction, 25% increased movement speed, health and shields are doubled.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 2% chance to transform per level.

GC Skill: Tesseract – You now bend space and time when you Rush, creating a small singularity drawing enemies in with a chance to shift weakened ones out of existence. 13% chance to obliterate general mob, near-death foes.
(0/1) NEXT LEVEL: "An extra dimension or two comes in handy from time to time."


B-(Middle): Profession

Skill: Credits Will Do Fine – Decreases respawn fee.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 7% decrease per level.

Skill: Shield Harmonics – Damage done to the shields that hits the front of you is reduced.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 5% damage reduction to shields per level.

Skill: Lead for Blood – While in FFYL, every shot that hits an enemy increases your bleed out time.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: +0.15sec/shot per level.

Skill: I Know the Feel – Crouching while reviving a teammate reduces the time to revive.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 5% time reduction per level.

Skill: Booby Trap – Action Skill augment, grenade Rush. Drops a concussion grenade at the starting point of Rush, concussion grenade flinches enemies. % change to drop a equipped grenade for free.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 2% chance to drop a free grenade per level.

Skill: Firggen Laser Beams: – E-tech assault rifles do more damage and have increased fire rate the longer you hold the trigger.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 5% damage and fire rate increase per level.

GC Skill: Sure Shot – Action Skill augment, "Gun Rush". Instead of Rushing instantly when pressing the action skill button, Rushing is "active" until the first enemy is shot. Then that enemy is Rushed to, and if they are in range, Skye will stop in front of them and shoot them once at point blank. This single shot has 50% more damage and will always hit a critical if the enemy has one. Rush can now be canceled by pressing the action skill button again before you shoot.
(0/1) NEXT LEVEL: "One for the money."

GC Skill: High Noon – The first shot in a fully loaded pistol magazine has 100% accuracy.
(0/1) NEXT LEVEL: "Draw!"

Skill: Flirting with Disaster – The less total ammo you have for the currently used weapon, the more gun damage you do.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: Max of 5% damage increase per level.

Kill Skill: Tactical Speedload: – Killing a enemy gives you a chance to do a "speed reload" every time you reload, tripling your reload speed.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 10% chance per level.

GC Skill: Power Overwhelming – Action Skill augment, hold button "Armor Mode" Instead of Rushing, Skye digistructs combat enhancing armor around him for 1 minuet. Damage resistance is increased by 15% when shields are down, accuracy and stability are increased by 25%, movement speed is not slowed when aiming down the sights, shield recharge rate is increased by 20%, and shield recharge delay is decreased by half. Rushing is still possible, but Rush distance is halved. Upon armor expiration action skill cooldown is 4 minuets.
(0/1) NEXT LEVEL: "My armor, my helmet, my sword and my shield, gather for me and your death I shall yield."


C-(Right): Discipline

Skill: Parry – Additional damage resistance during and after Rushing.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 3% damage resistance per level.

Skill: Keening – Increased melee attack speed.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 5% increase to speed per level.

Skill: Point Blank – The closer you are to enemy the more gun damage you do.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: Up to 3% gun damage per level.

Skill: Bayonet Charge – Bladed weapons do more gun damage.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 4% gun damage per level.

Kill Skill: The Gate of Truth – Killing an enemy adds a health drain to your melee attacks for a short while.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: Up to 3% melee damage returned to you as health per level.

GC Skill: Firm Footing – Makes you harder to be knocked back. (Increases character weight)
(0/1) NEXT LEVEL: "Steadfast and unwavering."

Skill: Fortitude – Every time you second wind you gain a stack of Fortitude. Each stack increases your damage resistance and melee damage considerably. Up to ? stacks can be obtained, all stacks are lost upon death (New-U).
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 2% damage resistance and 4% melee damage per stack, per level.

GC Skill: Jack of Blades - Action skill augment, "Sword Rush" Instead of Rushing instantly when pressing the action skill button, Rushing is "active" until the melee button is pressed. Pressing the melee button Rushes you forward. The first enemy that is affected by the AOE of Rush is cut at point blank and knocked back. Melee damage for this single strike is increased by 50%. Rush can now be canceled by pressing the action skill button again before you melee.
(0/1) NEXT LEVEL: "Not Handsome, but Blades."

Skill: Vanguard – After Rushing your melee and shotgun damage is increased for a short while.
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 5% melee and 7% shotgun damage increase per level.

Skill: Poised Strike – Not attacking adds stacks of Poised Strike which increases melee damage and movement speed. Up to 20 stacks, all stacks are depleted upon any attack (stacks are gained quickly and automatically).
(0/5) NEXT LEVEL: 1.5% movement speed increase and 3% melee damage increase per stack, per level.

GC Skill: Whirlwind – Action Skill augment, "Sword mode" After a successful sword Rush, you can Rush again up to 3 times in quick succession by pressing fire, melee, or the AS button. (Sure Shot or Jack of Blades may be used if unlocked, and normal Rush is mapped to the AS skill button for each subsequent Rush)
(0/1) NEXT LEVEL: "The swirling melange of the cyclone."


ECHO Logs:
I think it would be great to have Skye voiced by Steven Blum or Nathan Fillion.

[Personal ECHO Log]
"Day, first. The sun nice and orange, I am waiting for space transport. Sure not which I am to miss more. Sun or gravity. Patriarch say gravity twice as weak on space transport than Nibia. Twice!

Day, second. Every person staring at me. Make me angry...Ancestors keep myself safe.

Day seven-hundred forty three. I found my old recorder device. Amazing how bad I was at English. Oh, got my first gig today. I get protection money for the Douglas brothers, or else I get to dish out the consequences heh heh.

[Error: file corrupted] (Computer voice sounds like a Dalek)

Day one-thousand-eight-hundred-two. The bastards cut my eye out! My favorite eye! Aah, what am I supposed to do?! Think! ...Ahh...I'll make one. Better than the old one, I have the technology.

Day two-thousand-sixty-six. So, I kill people for money now. Probably not too smart to record this self incriminating evidence, but who's gonna care for "misplacing" rival gang leaders and the sort?

[Error: file deleted]

Day seven-thousand-thirty-one. I'm now a solider for Samuel and Shodding Munitions. The pay is good and my belly is kept full. I like the helmet, everyone can't stare at me that way. Oh, and I think my sword keeps the newbies away. I don't blame them, it's sharp.

[Error: 404 file not found]

[Error: file corrupted]

Day fifteen-thousand-five-hundred-eighty-nine. I just negotiated the cease fire between Creta-5 and Glaxia Prime. Now they want me to draft a peace treaty. Also, I now have enough money to make that booster pack I've been cooking up in my head.

[File: corrupted]

[File: corrupted]

[File: deleted]

[File: corrupted]

*static* Day, uhhh ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine...plus a few. Managed to make this hunk of junk work again. Not sure why I've hung onto it this long. I'm going to Pandora, I hear it's nice hahaha. A guy named Jack, calls himself Handsome Jack, has a decent bounty on his head. This shouldn't take long."


[ECHO Log 01]
Angel: "Jack, you might want to hear this."

Jack: "Angel, not now, I'm trying to decapitate a this groundhog with a golf club."

Angel: "But a bounty hunter is after you."

Jack: "Nobody makes me miss a putt! *twack*...Whaaat did you just say?"

Angel: "The Inner Worlds Authorities have put a bounty on your head Jack, and a bounty hunter is coming for you. Listen."

Skye: "One ticket to Pandora, round trip."

Teller: "Sorry, uhhh sir. We don't offer round trip tickets to Pandora."

Skye: "Why not?"

Teller: "Because vault hunters like you hardly ever return from Pandora."

Skye: "Why, not?"

Teller: "Because Pandora is a very dangerous place. Don't you know that?"

Skye: "*sigh* Alright, fella. Let me set you straight. First, I'm not a vault hunter. Second, I'm a bounty hunter. Third, I'm getting the bounty for Handsome Jack. And lastly, QUIT STARING AT MY FOREHEAD!"

Teller: "Ahh! Forgive me! Please put me down and I'll get your ticket!"

Skye: "Thank, you."

Jack: "Who in their right mind would try and claim my bounty when there's a perfectly good vault to try and die finding it!? Bring it on idiot!"

[ECHO Log 02]
Angel: "Jack, I have more info on the bounty hunter."

Jack: "Play it, I wanna see how moronic this bounty hunter really is."

Conductor: "All aboard! The one way transport to Pandora is now departing!"

Skye: "This seat taken?"

Eager Vault-Hunter: "Nah, take it buddy. Hey fella, nice backpack. So is that where ya gonna put all yer loot from the vault?"

Skye: "It's not a backpack."

Eager Vault-Hunter: "Eeeeexcuse me tack head, bu-"

*smashing sound*

Skye: "Oops, I think you slipped and fell though a door or two."

Jack: "Did, did he just throw a guy through a door?"

Angel: "That seems to be an accurate assessment."

Jack: "What the hell is that on his head?"

Angel: "Looks like a, uhh...head protrusion."

Jack: "Pfffffahaha! This dingbat has a horn! HAHAaaaohhhhohohohoh..."


[ECHO Log 03]
Jack: "Angel! Where is my violin?! These fresh batch of vault hunters are not going to make fun of themselves."

Angel: "I dunno, but that bounty hunter is getting closer."

Jack: "Show me."

Skye: "What do you mean this is the final stop? I paid for a trip to Pandora. Not some desolate moon three systems away!"

Conductor: "Sorry sir, this transport does not go to Pandora. I doubt any transport line does."

Skye: "I'm going to Pandora, but I better not have to pay for anything else..."

Conductor: "Sorry sir, bu-"

Eager Vault-Hunter: "Hey pin head! We gotta take a cargo supply ship to Pandora now, duh!"

Skye: "Excuse me while I go smash something head shaped into the floor."

Jack: "Whoa! Would you look at that sword on that mush-for-brains' back! Angel, I want one. Get to it!"

Angel: "Of course Jack...but what about th-"

Jack: "Angel! Get me a sword. I wanna cut stuff and I wanna do it now."


[ECHO Log 04]
Angel: "Jack, the cargo ship the bounty hunter was on has crashed due to faulty landing thrusters."

Jack: "HA! The dopey bounty hunter has already failed! Classic win for the hero!"

Angel: "He's not dead."

Jack: "HOW?!"

Skye: "Hey guy, you OK? *pause* Dang, everybody is dead. Now I'll just keep talking to myself until I get my bearings. Oh! Some locals, I'm sure they will help. *gun loading* Can't be too careful."

Jack: "Good luck with the bandits!"

Psycho Bandit: "HAHA HAHA, MORE MEAT FOR ME!"

*gunshot*

Bruiser: "He got Thwack! Get him!

*gunfire and explosions*

Skye: "What a warm welcome!"

*bandits screaming*

Last Bandit: "Guuhh, ahh. Whaa. Whaaat are yooou?"

Skye: "I wonder how much I can get for the lot of you?"

Last Bandit: "Ssssah, go, goooo tooo hell!"

*gunshot*

Jack: "Watch him Angel, don't let him out of your sight."

[ECHO Log 05]
Jack: "Blake! BLAKE! Where is that overpaid waste of neckties? I need a new violin bow for crying out loud!"

Angel: "Jack, the bounty hunter just arrived at the train station."

Jack: "Huh? Oh, good. Bring up the station's surveillance system."

71-K37: "Would you like a ticket you devilishly error vault-hunter?"

Skye: "Yeah. Hey robot, you know if Handsome Jack is going to be on this train?"

71-K37: "Why of course! Handsome Jack needs you vault-hunter to help him error Pandora! In no way whatsoever would this train be a multimillion dollar vault-hunter death trap!"

Skye: "Well that was easy, but something in my several hundred years of experience is telling me to not let my guard down."

71-K37: "Here is your ticket. Please enjoy your error on Pandora!"

Jack: "Heh heh heh, this bounty hunter is as good as dead. Oh, Angel. Remind me to buy a new train."


[ECHO Log //NULL]
Angel: "Jack, the bounty hunter is, uhh...calling you."

Jack: "I'm honored...This is Handsome Jack, how's it going brochacho?"

Skye: "Hi Jack. I've decided to kill you, take your face, and wear it into the Inner Worlds Authority Building when I claim your bounty. Because you are a person that needs to die for all that you have done."

Jack: "Yeah that sounds pretty neat-You know, by calling me on a Hyperion network I have triangulated your location. I hope you like orbital bombardments buddy!"

*explosions and screaming*

Skye: "...So Jack, I hacked into one of your Hyperion outpost's ECHO communication relays, and rerouted my communications through there. You just killed everyone in that outpost, who's the idiot now?"

Angel: "Jack I don't know h-"

Jack: "Not a word Angel. Not, one."


Quotes:
Start Game:
“The aether has cast me down."
“Too bad I can't claim the vault hunter's bounties."


Action Skill:
“Advance!”
“Hello!”
“Go Zig!”
“Zoom!”
"Dash, a stampede."
“Don’t trip.”
“Here we go!”
“Pow!”
“Rock you like a hurricane!”
"You say goodbye, I say hello."
"Invading personal space!"
"Put your right foot in!"
"Engage!"
"Too late."(Gun Rush)
"Not so fast!"(Gun Rush)
"Ye, guilty."(Gun Rush)
"Heat in the pipe!" (Gun Rush with rocket launcher)
"We're both gonna feel this!" (Gun Rush with rocket launcher)
"Killshot. Killshot!" (Gun Rush with pistol)
"Hush now."(Sword Rush)
"It's over."(Sword Rush)
"Be still."(Sword Rush)
"Nevermore"(Sword Rush)
"The six cuts."(Sword Rush)
"Greasy lightning!"(Energy Rush)
"It's the amps that kill you."(Energy Rush)
"Thunder!"(Energy Rush)
"Lend me your shields!"(Energy Rush, shield drain)
"Lights out!"(Energy Rush, shield drain)
"Mine!"(Energy Rush, shield drain)


Fight For Your Life:
”I’m going to need a drink after this…”
“Curses!”
“Dying…sucks.”
"I'm taking a knee, time out."
"I get knocked down."


Second Wind:
“My ancestors are with me!”
“Victory!”
"I get back up again!"


Opening a Chest:
“R-N-G. Be kind.”


Being Revived:
“I was just playing dead. My dog would have been proud."
“Wow, I’m not dead?”
"I just got comfortable being numb."


Reviving Someone:
“Gross. Don’t bring me down.”
“No offense, but you smell like death.”
"There is no pain, you are receding."


Blue Loot:
“My favorite color!”


Purple Loot:
“I have the right to bear arms.”


E-Tech Loot:
“Explicit expletive!”


Badass Enemy:
“Look like you need a hug.”
“Someone ate their Wheaties."
"Eyes up, badass spotted."
"Mag check, badass over here!"


Comparing Items:
“I’ll use…hmm…the shinier one.”
“Flip a coin?”


Level-Up:
“I’m the limit!”
“Dunn daa daa dunn dunn, dadada!”(Final Fantasy level up.)
“Ancestors give me strength.”


Skill Trees:
“So that’s what I’m capable of.”
"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe."


Badass Challenge:
“One Up.”
“Like a honed knife.”


Roadkill:
“Why did the air bag not go off?”
“Dang Jaywalkers.”


Headshot Kill:
“Hah, boom!"
"Viewer discretion is advised."


Killing Tough Enemy:
“Wanted dead or alive. Dead still pays.”


Killing Many Enemies:
“Mr. Fett would be proud.”
"They fall like dominoes around me!"
"Total slaughter, total slaughter. I won't leave a single man alive. La de da de die, genocide. La de da de dud, an ocean of blood. Let's begin the killing time."


Entering Super State:
"Remember me patriarch? I was lost in the winds. The sky was falling and I had to leave. The old world was lost but the others were still fresh. May our line never fade from the innumerable spheres of fire."
"Cry not for us, our souls survive. Justice awaits, the waters rise."
"You should not have done that. Now I can't hold back."
"Sublime acquiesced fortune."
"I'm not ready yet! There's still so much left to be done. I want to stay, with them! I don't want to die!"


Standing Idle:
“I am a Zen master.”
“Their vision is based on movement."
"What's a few more seconds to several hundred years of my life?"
"One of them is a fake because I lost it in an fight. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I can only see patches of reality, never the whole picture."


Handsome Jack Voice Modulator: “Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack...is just sick, ewww.”

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