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Character Name: Full Frontal
Age: Complicated. Physically he appears to be in his mid-30s and has adult cognition to match, but his conscious (and possibly physical) existence started only 3 years ago.
Canon: Gundam Unicorn
Canon point: Episode 6
History: Full Frontal on the Gundam Wiki.
Notable is that while Frontal has part of Char's soul implanted, he does not seem to share Char's memories beyond vague details and the specific memory of his death. In rare cases Char's emotions can be roused from the back of Frontal's head, but even then Frontal describes the two of them as separate entities, asking whose voice it is he is truly hearing in his head.
Frontal is pretty much just a whole new guy who has a quarter of a ghost freeloading at the back of his mind.
Personality:
"Full Frontal - as the name suggests, I have nothing to hide. I play the role that people want and nothing more."
▓ AN EMPTY VESSEL.
Full Frontal sees himself not as a person but as a vessel. He is fully aware that he was created and is not a 'person' per se, he is a means to an end. His purpose in life is to ensure the independence of people living in space because that is what the people want and he is a vessel for their desires. He makes most of his decisions based on 'the will of spacenoids' and will swear up and down that he straight up does not have personal preferences.
He will reflect what people want from him and is happy to let them make their own assumptions, but he generally will not lie other than by omission. He is a very straight-forward person.
Made to be extremely pragmatic, he fills his role well. It's just when he is removed from the context he is made for that he becomes a fish out of water. He does not actually understand other people very well.
▓ (AVOIDING) THE QUESTION OF THE 'SELF'.
Despite all his insistence that he is empty, Frontal is still very much an individual capable of self-reflection. Whether he likes it or not, he is a person. A person who is in vehement denial about that fact.
Though he is modeled off Char, his personality only contains remnants of Char's and in many points, they actively clash. This shows especially with the character of Princess Mineva, whom Char was protective of but who Frontal actively dislikes. Frontal also feels fairly negatively about Char himself, calling him a 'dead and defeated man'. In the finale, he refers to Char as 'the voice inside his head', solidifying that he is a separate entity from Char who is capable of questioning him.
Frontal's much-denied personal preferences come through in his choice of subordinates. When he has to examine his own feelings, he does so through others that mirror them. When he is just created, he seeks out an angry misanthropic teenager and makes him his closest subordinate because he reflects his rage. When he is questioned about his deep-seated grudges, he immediately seeks out a crew member who is defined by vengeance and questions him about his experience with that. The only way Frontal can stomach self-recognition is through the other.
It is possible to make Frontal feel uneasy about himself and his priorities, but he tends to justify it by simply going „well, if they experienced what I did, they would eventually feel the same way as I do and thus my way is completely correct“.
▓ MISANTHROPY.
At his core, Frontal is fueled by resentment of humanity. At his death Char Aznable, the man he is based on, was capable of transcending time itself and watching until basically the heat death of the universe. In doing so, he realized humanity would continue repeating the same mistakes even after witnessing a miracle. He despaired over the pointlessness of it all when the universe will just wind up as a cold black void all the same. Frontal is basically born from that despair.
He does not believe in the future and thinks that life will be nothing but a cycle of tragedies that spins out without meaning. Giving people what they want is, in its own way, a hateful act to him. He despises the humanity that he has deemed incapable of recognizing miracles and enacting change, so he will assist in trapping them in the cycle they themselves have chosen.
This kind of nihilism is, to him, the only correct point of view.
Frontal is, above all, simply tired of it all.
▓ LEADERSHIP QUALITIES.
Frontal is a charismatic leader. He always speaks with good manners, stays calm in any situation, and is decisive in command. So long as there is a clear goal to work towards, Frontal is a man you want on your team. He will assess any problem carefully and no emotion will ever get in the way of him choosing the pragmatic option.
▓ DIFFICULTY ADAPTING.
Since Full Frontal is made for one purpose and one purpose only, he has difficulty in any other situation. He passes as charismatic so long as he is in his position as the leader of Neo Zeon, but as soon as he has to assert himself in a different environment... well, he reads a lot less charming and more awkward. The Dynasty Warriors Gundam games give a helpful approximation of how Frontal would act in a jam jar game being pulled away from his world to meet others in an odd dimension: he is goal-focused to the point of being absolutely blunt and he deals badly with conflict among the group when he does not have the authority to simply end that conflict with a single word. He has a tendency to straight up walk away from situations he cannot handle.
Apocalypse How will provide quite the challenge for him and this will make him question his self-image quite strongly. How fortunate that that's the possibly only thing he is actually afraid of~
Suitability: Full Frontal needs to return home and he knows that his best chances of finding a way to return to his world and his purpose lies with ADI. Further, he has some scientific curiosity about the entities at play in this world. Nothing of the sort exists in his world and a discordant value from what he understands about the world is... unsettling. He would like to understand.
Powers/Abilities: Full Frontal is a Cyber Newtype. Though most Cyber Newtypes are mentally unstable, those who are genetically engineered are much more in control of themselves. As such, Full Frontal's abilities approach those of a genuineNewtype. This is just to toss out the relevant canon terms for reference - I will list all specific skills again below.
✷ Having seen to the end of time. This is a Frontal-specific detail. He has a fragment of Char Aznable's ghost in his head. Upon his death, Char basically ascended – he became a Newtype ghost, granting him the ability to see time itself. What has been implanted into Frontal is Char's resulting frustration with an ever-unchanging humanity that eventually just perishes as the universe destroys itself through entropy. Because of this, Frontal's mindscape presents as a void to anyone looking in with psychic abilities – his mind is basically a glimpse to the heat death of the universe. This does not mean he has future foresight of specific events – his knowledge is more abstract and general.
✷ Psychic abilities. Being a (Cyber) Newtype means basically being a super empath. Frontal can feel the presence of other Newtypes and connect with them mentally, though it is not quite the same as reading each other's mind. A Newtype connection can include mental conversation in extreme moments, but that is limited to Newtypes among each other. Frontal is not capable of telepathy with regular humans. Most often a Newtype is merely capable of feeling the ~vibes~ of other people. This works with regular humans, but it works much better with fellow Newtypes. Frontal primarily uses this ability to be constantly mentally linked to his right hand, Lieutenant Angelo Sauper.
Additionally, Frontal consistently claims to be a vessel for the desire of those living in space. Canon leaves it open whether that means he is constantly seeking their feelings through his Newtype powers or if he is referring to the one time event of what Char felt when he ascended and connected to the will of humanity that way. For the sake of the game, I will treat it as the latter.
✷ Heightened Instincts. Being a Newtype means having fantastic awareness of your surroundings and very fast reflexes. This makes Newtypes good fighters, both as pilots and in hand to hand combat.
✷ Piloting Skill. In accordance with the last point, Frontal is a fantastic pilot who outclasses the average military fighter ace in his world by far.
✷ General Combat Skill. Frontal knows his way around firearms with scary accuracy and is shown decent at hand to hand quarrels as well.
✷ Engineering (with a dash of Forbidden Knowledge). Frontal is noted to be able to design mobile suits (the pilotable robots from Gundam). In specific, he designs the Neo Zeong – a machine noted for having such strong psychic resonance that it could theoretically rip a hole into the fabric of reality. Nobody really knows how he did this and it is assumed he tapped into knowledge from the void somehow. Considering this is a headache for any game context, Frontal will only be able to design normal machinery in We're Still Here. Let's just blame it on lack of canon-specific materials.
✷ Skilled Leader. At last, Full Frontal is just a good military commander. He has a good grasp of strategy, a calm and commanding presence and a lot of dedication.
Entity Affinity: The Extinction.
Inventory: His mask. A gun. The clothes on his back (military uniform).
Samples: here!
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CONTACT:
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: I try to tag at least once a day, sometimes I boomerang. I tend to be around from EST afternoon to 9pm. (I'm European, but nocturnal.)
BRACKETS/PROSE: Brackets preferred, but I can adapt to prose.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Please mark drug use (and generally substance-induced mind alteration) for me! Magical mind alteration is fine, but the closer it gets to descriptions of drug trips the more difficult it will be for me to read.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Sure! Lasting injuries should be briefly discussed beforehand.
RELATIONSHIPS: Unlikely. He's not officially taken, but he's... pretty taken.
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: Full Frontal is a Cyber Newtype, which basically makes him a kind of psychic. He can roughly feel extremely strong emotions coming from others, but mostly his psychic connections are limited to other Newtypes. If you want to read his mind, please let me know, because he's got a terrifying void in there.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: N/A.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: N/A, but please do check the 'visual' first impressions!
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: He has none.
THREADHOPPING: Public network threads as generally a 'yes', please ask for in person interaction.
FOURTHWALLING: No, thanks.
NOT INTERESTED IN: N/A
He is a tall pretty muscular man who is most often wearing a military uniform and a mask.
AURAL: voice sample - he talks more like the voice towards the latter end of the video.
OLFACTORY: He smells pretty nice because Angelo selects his bath products for him.
DEMEANOUR: Calm, confident, leaderly.