Post by mugenginga on Nov 24, 2011 8:58:36 GMT -5
Name (True): N/A (its best described as an unpronouncible string of computer code)
Name (Human Form): Zero Nada
Nickname (Both): Missing No.
Age (Actual): ~10 Billion Years
Age (Human Form): ~23
Height:
Weight:
Gender (Actual): N/A
Gender (Human Form): Male
Race: Sentient Computer Virus
Alliance: Neutral (Leans Sharply Towards Evil)
Home: Cyberspace
Franchise: Pokémon Adventure (Original Story)
Physical Description (Human Form)
Zero is tall with a lean body structure. His white hair is long enough to border on ridiculous, and he prefers to wear it in three ponytails the splay out in a rather "anime hair" fashion. While he prefers to tie them with a grey wrap, he's been using whatever is handy lately. His bangs curl a bit around his face and are long and a little jagged. His eyes are red - not pink like in albinos, but actually red - and are generally thought to be contacts.
His current outfit consists of a grey button up dress shirt and pressed white pants. It looks like it's supposed to be a suit, but the jacket is missing if that's the case. His boots are grey and fairly plain. Around his neck is a pendant hanging from a thin but deceptively sturdy metal chain. It's square and is made of the same metal computer chips are. The front is engraved with two centered lines, the top reading "000" and the bottom reading "ZERO".
Physical Description (True Form)
To be most accurate his true form is actually a string of indecipherable computer coding incapable of manifesting in the physical world - it consists mostly of zeroes and oddly enough due to being a binary based being, twos that manifest as blue no matter what the color scheme of the computer is.
However, he is capable of a stream of distorted "reality" that looks almost like a digital signal break down. There are tinges of blue to it as of late, though.
Weapons
Zero doesn't carry any weapons on hand.
Abilities/Powers
Zero has the ability to "delete" things from reality, but it's a bit skittish and unreliable even at the best of times. A deletion is a complete removal of a person from reality - death as athiests see it. He can also screw up the coding of computers by basically feeding a part of himself into them and generally muck up anything electronic. Or at least he could...
...if the virus didn't basically have a virus. Said virus prevents him from using his powers at all unless the owners of the virus are permitting it. Any attempts to do so will wrack his body with pain, and any attempts to push past it will complete decapacitate Zero with intense pain and jolts through his body - at the worst it makes it nearly impossible for him to maintain his human form. It also doesn't help that he's having some trouble drawing up the powers lately even when he's allowed.
Due to what he is, anyone that tries to read his mind would get a string of "binary", but it wouldn't make any decipherable sense even to those that could read it. It has a rather large amount of zeroes to the point of being imbalanced. The ratio is 75-90% zeroes to ones depending on the situation.
Skills
Zero can read binary, due to it technically being his first language. He can speak any language that's been recorded into computers in the early 21st century, so he's basically completely panlingual - if the language has records, he can at least read it. He can nudge computer systems to program anything he wants to providing his powers are working, and he can identify when a computer is infected with a virus just by looking at it.
He can also shapeshift when his powers aren't being blocked. It's free for him to shift from his human form to his viral form (the digital distortion) in the physical world, with his truest form only existing in a digital environment - in fact it's the only form he can take, although if one has a program that can "visualize" programs he'll generally look to be in his viral form unless he's choosing to display his human form. If he gets injured enough he'll revert to his viral form.
No computer programmer has ever come close to erasing his program. His ability to move through any computer connection, even if its latent, means its more or less impossible to track him down. When in a system he can't be prevented from invading, but the better ones can prevent him from causing damage.
Personality
Zero is not the most cheerful or friendly of folk, and he seems to have a rather large chip on his shoulder about humanity. Once he learns you're trying to get his goat, he's pretty hard to get a rise out of, although there is at least one person who seems to be capable of doing it on a regular basis.
He likes to talk about how superior he is to humans and how inferior they are. When cornered about why he's sticking so close to a group of them, he'll roughly change the subject or ignore you. The truth is he doesn't really know himself, although he's managed to convince himself it's because the human he sticks closest to is the cause of some of his ability control issues lately.
He's rather the Chessmaster and likes to have things under complete control, getting greatly irritated by things such as the Indy Ploy. He's got an almost need to have people figured out and he tends to get agitated when he's unable to predict how they'll act. He seems to be rather manipulative of people, but half the time even he isn't sure what he's after - another source of agitation for him as of late.
He does have a slight bit of a berserk button. Don't accuse him of being human. He tends to flip. By flip we mean that he may just delete you - or at least stop your heart and leave you to die.
History
About ten billion years ago, give or take a millenia here or there, a programmer was trying to create a new program. He made an error in the coding that he wasn't aware of, and when he first tried to run the program the "glitch" began destroying his data. The glitch ran to another computer when the programmer tried to shut it off, but the programmer was unaware of it.
Some time later, the members of the Indigo Pokémon League were updating trainer records when they found masses of data missing. They brought in a programmer who found the glitch just before the computer system crashed on itself due to the virus.
The next six months saw data going missing in massive amounts. No one could figure out just why. Their attempts to find a solution, anyone that could fix the unusual problem, lead them to the original creator, who recognized the error messages and system. He hadn't realized the virus had spread (and wasn't quite sure how), but tried to help eliminate it as it expanded its reach. It wasn't even the worst of it. The virus was manipulatable to grant power boosted Pokémon and an endless increase in items at the risk of the Pokémon's lives and the trainers' records.
At one point in the chase, the glitch had destroyed enough data that it somehow managed to become sentient. The data destroying had been a method of supplementing its growth before, and now it knew that living entities would grant a greater boost. It began targetting stored Pokémon, causing a massive withdrawl of Pokémon from the storage system. By this time the severity of the situation became known to the god beings of the world known as "Legends". They dispatched the seventeen "PokéChosen" they had selected to represent the human race by representing one of the Pokémon types.
The virus managed to grow enough to be able to sustain itself in the physical world. It tore through the world, deleting anything it could get its hands on. It eventually lead to a climactic battle with the PokéChosen, their Pokémon teams, and every. single. legend rose up against the being who was most commonly known as "Missing No.". Arceus dealt the final blow, and it seemed the "virus" was destroyed.
Arceus called a meeting of all the Legends and the Chosen and let Dialga explain that the future was fading, as if it was being deleted. Together with Celebi it explained that Missing No. had only been sealed and if action was not taken, it would escape in a few years. This caused a panic due to the massive casualities the battle had brought. Arceus said that Celebi and Dialga had sensed hope. In the far future, someone who could battle and truly defeat the virus, the "PokéDestined" would surface. But to keep the virus sealed for that long, they'd have to collapse the universe and use the energy from the resulting rebirth to keep the virus sealed. They made the painful decision.
Celebi flew to the future and planted the message of Pokémon in people's minds to set about the events that would reawaken knowledge of Pokémon and would aid the PokéDestined. It gave birth to a game, but the seal on Missing No. had weakened enough that it could manifest in the games. It was able to enter the physical world once more when Platinum was released. He was weak, but there was a time limit before the foretold time occurred...
...except that the virus, which now had a human form named Zero, vanished from that world. The destiny never came to pass, and the few Legends that had reawakened used their energy to conceal the slow return of Pokémon and bring it to a halt. Those that were meant to fight the virus took the secret of their precious partners to their graves.
On the Island between dimensions, Zero would get into various bits of mischief before finally meeting up with the captain of a Firefly class starship from another reality. The man would treat him not as a monster, but as an equal and a person, and something about the words and actions screwed with Zero's very reason for being. His powers began to fritz from that point on.
He continued to remain with Mal, helping him with various issues, and ended up getting infected by the mysterious "Hands of Blue" for his efforts. They are trying to control him, and at this point things look far from good for both Zero and his new... allies.
Other
Updated for the plot he's officially a part of, Pocket Verse.
Pictures
#1: purenightshade.deviantart.com/art/Zero-Nada-114574047
#2: sakky-attack.deviantart.com/art/Zero-120686609
Chibi: vividbit.deviantart.com/art/Zero-122258649
Name (Human Form): Zero Nada
Nickname (Both): Missing No.
Age (Actual): ~10 Billion Years
Age (Human Form): ~23
Height:
Weight:
Gender (Actual): N/A
Gender (Human Form): Male
Race: Sentient Computer Virus
Alliance: Neutral (Leans Sharply Towards Evil)
Home: Cyberspace
Franchise: Pokémon Adventure (Original Story)
Physical Description (Human Form)
Zero is tall with a lean body structure. His white hair is long enough to border on ridiculous, and he prefers to wear it in three ponytails the splay out in a rather "anime hair" fashion. While he prefers to tie them with a grey wrap, he's been using whatever is handy lately. His bangs curl a bit around his face and are long and a little jagged. His eyes are red - not pink like in albinos, but actually red - and are generally thought to be contacts.
His current outfit consists of a grey button up dress shirt and pressed white pants. It looks like it's supposed to be a suit, but the jacket is missing if that's the case. His boots are grey and fairly plain. Around his neck is a pendant hanging from a thin but deceptively sturdy metal chain. It's square and is made of the same metal computer chips are. The front is engraved with two centered lines, the top reading "000" and the bottom reading "ZERO".
Physical Description (True Form)
To be most accurate his true form is actually a string of indecipherable computer coding incapable of manifesting in the physical world - it consists mostly of zeroes and oddly enough due to being a binary based being, twos that manifest as blue no matter what the color scheme of the computer is.
However, he is capable of a stream of distorted "reality" that looks almost like a digital signal break down. There are tinges of blue to it as of late, though.
Weapons
Zero doesn't carry any weapons on hand.
Abilities/Powers
Zero has the ability to "delete" things from reality, but it's a bit skittish and unreliable even at the best of times. A deletion is a complete removal of a person from reality - death as athiests see it. He can also screw up the coding of computers by basically feeding a part of himself into them and generally muck up anything electronic. Or at least he could...
...if the virus didn't basically have a virus. Said virus prevents him from using his powers at all unless the owners of the virus are permitting it. Any attempts to do so will wrack his body with pain, and any attempts to push past it will complete decapacitate Zero with intense pain and jolts through his body - at the worst it makes it nearly impossible for him to maintain his human form. It also doesn't help that he's having some trouble drawing up the powers lately even when he's allowed.
Due to what he is, anyone that tries to read his mind would get a string of "binary", but it wouldn't make any decipherable sense even to those that could read it. It has a rather large amount of zeroes to the point of being imbalanced. The ratio is 75-90% zeroes to ones depending on the situation.
Skills
Zero can read binary, due to it technically being his first language. He can speak any language that's been recorded into computers in the early 21st century, so he's basically completely panlingual - if the language has records, he can at least read it. He can nudge computer systems to program anything he wants to providing his powers are working, and he can identify when a computer is infected with a virus just by looking at it.
He can also shapeshift when his powers aren't being blocked. It's free for him to shift from his human form to his viral form (the digital distortion) in the physical world, with his truest form only existing in a digital environment - in fact it's the only form he can take, although if one has a program that can "visualize" programs he'll generally look to be in his viral form unless he's choosing to display his human form. If he gets injured enough he'll revert to his viral form.
No computer programmer has ever come close to erasing his program. His ability to move through any computer connection, even if its latent, means its more or less impossible to track him down. When in a system he can't be prevented from invading, but the better ones can prevent him from causing damage.
Personality
Zero is not the most cheerful or friendly of folk, and he seems to have a rather large chip on his shoulder about humanity. Once he learns you're trying to get his goat, he's pretty hard to get a rise out of, although there is at least one person who seems to be capable of doing it on a regular basis.
He likes to talk about how superior he is to humans and how inferior they are. When cornered about why he's sticking so close to a group of them, he'll roughly change the subject or ignore you. The truth is he doesn't really know himself, although he's managed to convince himself it's because the human he sticks closest to is the cause of some of his ability control issues lately.
He's rather the Chessmaster and likes to have things under complete control, getting greatly irritated by things such as the Indy Ploy. He's got an almost need to have people figured out and he tends to get agitated when he's unable to predict how they'll act. He seems to be rather manipulative of people, but half the time even he isn't sure what he's after - another source of agitation for him as of late.
He does have a slight bit of a berserk button. Don't accuse him of being human. He tends to flip. By flip we mean that he may just delete you - or at least stop your heart and leave you to die.
History
About ten billion years ago, give or take a millenia here or there, a programmer was trying to create a new program. He made an error in the coding that he wasn't aware of, and when he first tried to run the program the "glitch" began destroying his data. The glitch ran to another computer when the programmer tried to shut it off, but the programmer was unaware of it.
Some time later, the members of the Indigo Pokémon League were updating trainer records when they found masses of data missing. They brought in a programmer who found the glitch just before the computer system crashed on itself due to the virus.
The next six months saw data going missing in massive amounts. No one could figure out just why. Their attempts to find a solution, anyone that could fix the unusual problem, lead them to the original creator, who recognized the error messages and system. He hadn't realized the virus had spread (and wasn't quite sure how), but tried to help eliminate it as it expanded its reach. It wasn't even the worst of it. The virus was manipulatable to grant power boosted Pokémon and an endless increase in items at the risk of the Pokémon's lives and the trainers' records.
At one point in the chase, the glitch had destroyed enough data that it somehow managed to become sentient. The data destroying had been a method of supplementing its growth before, and now it knew that living entities would grant a greater boost. It began targetting stored Pokémon, causing a massive withdrawl of Pokémon from the storage system. By this time the severity of the situation became known to the god beings of the world known as "Legends". They dispatched the seventeen "PokéChosen" they had selected to represent the human race by representing one of the Pokémon types.
The virus managed to grow enough to be able to sustain itself in the physical world. It tore through the world, deleting anything it could get its hands on. It eventually lead to a climactic battle with the PokéChosen, their Pokémon teams, and every. single. legend rose up against the being who was most commonly known as "Missing No.". Arceus dealt the final blow, and it seemed the "virus" was destroyed.
Arceus called a meeting of all the Legends and the Chosen and let Dialga explain that the future was fading, as if it was being deleted. Together with Celebi it explained that Missing No. had only been sealed and if action was not taken, it would escape in a few years. This caused a panic due to the massive casualities the battle had brought. Arceus said that Celebi and Dialga had sensed hope. In the far future, someone who could battle and truly defeat the virus, the "PokéDestined" would surface. But to keep the virus sealed for that long, they'd have to collapse the universe and use the energy from the resulting rebirth to keep the virus sealed. They made the painful decision.
Celebi flew to the future and planted the message of Pokémon in people's minds to set about the events that would reawaken knowledge of Pokémon and would aid the PokéDestined. It gave birth to a game, but the seal on Missing No. had weakened enough that it could manifest in the games. It was able to enter the physical world once more when Platinum was released. He was weak, but there was a time limit before the foretold time occurred...
...except that the virus, which now had a human form named Zero, vanished from that world. The destiny never came to pass, and the few Legends that had reawakened used their energy to conceal the slow return of Pokémon and bring it to a halt. Those that were meant to fight the virus took the secret of their precious partners to their graves.
On the Island between dimensions, Zero would get into various bits of mischief before finally meeting up with the captain of a Firefly class starship from another reality. The man would treat him not as a monster, but as an equal and a person, and something about the words and actions screwed with Zero's very reason for being. His powers began to fritz from that point on.
He continued to remain with Mal, helping him with various issues, and ended up getting infected by the mysterious "Hands of Blue" for his efforts. They are trying to control him, and at this point things look far from good for both Zero and his new... allies.
Other
Updated for the plot he's officially a part of, Pocket Verse.
Pictures
#1: purenightshade.deviantart.com/art/Zero-Nada-114574047
#2: sakky-attack.deviantart.com/art/Zero-120686609
Chibi: vividbit.deviantart.com/art/Zero-122258649
