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char: resident evil.

tldr my ideas here are very "wesker and ada adjacent but not quite"

char's father had ideas around newtypes that were later co-opted by umbrella for initial research & use in bioweapon development before he was assassinated, making umbrella the zabi proxy in this universe & therefore the group char wants revenge against. so char infiltrates them as a tactical strategist for their private security branch maybe? he can work with wesker & the birkins around this time or something idk. but his whole goal is to blow up umbrella. he does not do that because raccoon city and the mansion happens first.

after raccoon city char fakes her death and then joins the BSAA as lieutenant quattro but effectively is just kind of always serving herself in one way or another in terms of trying to stop BOW development. the hyaku shiki can just be the name of quattro's cool bike. with lots of guns on it. obviously. whether your character would recognize char from his time at umbrella is up to you/whatever makes sense. this is probably where most threads would take place i imagine

for those who care about gundam lore there could be a fun side-element here too of "cyber-newtypes" effectively being the artificial/virus strain for further weaponizing newtypes into BOWs which char would have a special disdain for but that's also easily ignored in favor of just focusing on traditional RE virus strains

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char : fe3h verse.

born casval rem deikun, casval lives a pleasant and comfortable life with his father duke zeon zum deikun and his sister artesia. casval's father is killed by the zabi family who usurps his territory and turns it into the principality of zeon. casval and artesia are forced into hiding where he then adopts the alias eduoard mass.

casval's father believed in and shepherded philosophies around the idea of a new evolution of humanity called newtypes, which in this verse is effectively heightened communication and battle prowess without relying on crests. since this would upend the crest system and the way family birthrights and systems of power rely on crests, the zabis killed deikun to hide this information from getting out into the public. 2/4 of the zabi children have crests (garma & kycilia). casval is crestless--but is obviously a newtype.

casval decides to get revenge on the zabis for hiding the truth away and for taking his father's land. in this verse i am going to adopt the gundam origin idea that 'char aznable' is actually a noble who casval kills and takes the name of to further his infiltration into the zeon military with in his revenge plans. (sidenote, i don't think i'll really use this for my main characterization/verse for char but it works out perfectly here)

in this verse, casval befriends the adrestian nobleman char and the two become 'friends' which really means casval is planning to use char's identity to his benefit somehow anyways, then he discovers char is going to be sent to the monastery to further his training as a nobleman, and decides to kill and use the real char's identity and connections with the goal of becoming stronger and a skilled tactician so he can go back to zeon, infiltrate the zeon military, and kill all the zabis.

at the school, char is in the black eagles due to the real char being from adrestia. he fights with swords. i imagine him to be either a hero class or a paladin. that said, he mostly studies strategy during his time at the monastery. the real char has a minor crest, so char also pretends to have one but really it's just his heightened newtype abilities at play. do with that as you will...

during the timeskip the zabis die off due to Plot (i'm effectively replacing the events of 0079 gundam with the pre-timeskip part of 3h), his identity as not being the real char aznable comes to light, and char is forced into hiding where he then takes the name quattro and i don't know what i'm going to do from there yet. but you can just assume your muse recognizes him since like everyone knows quattro = char anyways by the mid-point of zeta gundam

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... "what exactly is a newtype anyway?"

this is a very brief tldr on newtypes at least from my understanding of them for those who aren't familiar with gundam! it's kind of loosely defined in the series and across the spin-offs but the tldr comes down to: newtypes are the next step in human evolution that is a side-effect of humanity moving into space and using a new side of their senses. because this is such a newly discovered side of humanity, some people believe in newtypes, but others don't.

newtype powers are equally loosely defined. some people are stronger newtypes than others. some, like lalah, are borderline omniscient depending on the source. others, like kamille, have extreme hyperempathy that encourages them to have strong connections with other newtypes as well as strong feelings of foreboding and precognition on the battlefield. amuro and char have much more toned down versions of newtype powers that kind of translates to being able to predict enemy movements and 'sense' the flow of battle or when someone's about to land a killing blow. others, like four, are artificially enhanced to be able to control their mobile suits with the power of their minds alone.

a lot of people into the series make the joke that being a newtype is essentially being neurodivergent and having your neurodivergency being weaponized for battle but honestly it's kind of the best explanation for what a newtype 'looks like' on a daily basis. it makes you want connection with other newtypes and struggle for other connection as well as to 'get' things other people simply don't get. it's about not needing to mask when you finally have connection and the overabundance of empathy that comes with it. it's about being perceived as "bad at normal human things but really good at not-human things" by the general public.

newtypes, because of their ability to predict things (esp on the battlefield), are good candidates for soldiers. some labs are even trying to artificially create or amplify already existing newtype abilities for use on the battlefield, resulting in the creation of supersoldiers--also known as cyber-newtypes.

!! : the most important thing irt newtypes in the context of UC gundam is that everyone argues over what a newtype is or isn't, creating conflicting ideologies in the wake of war. and their weaponization in the hands of others is the driving force of weapon development (assuming those making the weapons even believe newtypes are real in the first place).

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CHAR AZNABLE, he/she. main verse age is 27-28 but is verse-dependent.

OTHER VERSES... resident evil , tbe.

char is a liar and a manipulator who is so good at lying he doesn't know what he's feeling either. that aside, char is friendly, good at playing to people's expectations of him, and often commands charisma and personal respect with ease. char is usually easy to get along with but can come across as cagey and distant and is notably bad at being vulnerable. he often believes he is doing something for a morally right or good cause to disguise the fact that he is acting out of human selfishness and usually gets mad if someone suggests his cause is personal in some way. in crossovers char is best used as a sort of spy character or a respected commander of a starfleet or something.

char is born casval rem deikun. his father, zeon zum deikun, founder of the zeon regime, was killed by the zabi family. casval and his sister flee, fearing for their lives, and take on aliases. casval lives as edouard mass for a while. casval promises to get revenge for his father by killing off the zabi family.

infiltrating the zeon military, casval takes on the alias char aznable and becomes a quickly respected soldier who rises through the ranks, becoming known as the red comet. however, the rise of the federation's mobile suit, the gundam, and its pilot amuro ray as well as the awakening of amuro's newtype abilities, severely tests char's own experience and less-powerful awakening newtype abilities.

char finds and frees lalah, a powerful newtype girl, from earth, taking him under her wing to teach her more about her abilities and how to use them. lalah forms a connection with amuro, and unfortunately on the battlefield is accidentally killed by him by taking a hit intended for char. char never recovers from this.

after killing the zabi family and the events of the one year war conclude, char goes into hiding and takes the name quattro bajeena, operating as a spy and lieutenant for his former-enemies, working alongside even amuro to help with the next war efforts. he takes kamille under his wing as his protege, hoping to make up for what happened with lalah with kamille.

after the ending of zeta, fully disillusioned with humanity and believing history can do nothing but repeat, char decides to reinstate zeon to use his charisma to convince people to drop an asteroid on earth to send it into nuclear winter so that humans are forced into space to continue the evolution process into newtypes, believing people are too tethered to the earth and will only damage it irrevocably. or at least that's what he claims.

char claims his main hope is to see his father's legacy fulfilled and help see the evolution of newtypes along into a new age, but really he is just extremely jaded and unhappy.

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KAMILLE BIDAN, he/she/it*. 15-16.

kamille's pronoun situation is very "teenager trying to figure out he is not cis". writing him in-universe closer to the beginning of the events of zeta will feature less pronoun fuckery. closer to the ending of zeta and in crossovers/as i feel it out/etc. will feature more pronoun fuckery.

OTHER VERSES ... ff7 , pokemon, tbe.

as the main protagonist of zeta, kamille is a contrast to amuro's neuroticism and tendency to isolate. he is explosive, blunt, has a short temper, and always always speaks his mind--he is peak untreated autistic kid who doesn't understand social cues or how to lie to people to complace them. kamille has hated his name since birth, calling it a 'girl's name' and has extreme sensitivity over getting made fun of it. he compensates for this with hypermasc activities like learning karate and how to be a mechanic and stuff.

as the pilot of the zeta gundam, kamille has a similar hatred of war and weaponry but has a surprisingly level recognition that war is the system that brings people to do hateful and cruel things to other people and it's often one person in the position of power and the systems they put in place that needs to be destroyed.

kamille has very strong newtype abilities that give him hyperempathy. he often cries for his enemies and can't understand why people betray others.

like amuro, kamille is best used in crossover verses as a mechanic apprentice or the young prodigy pilot of a fighter pilot or something to that effect.

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FOUR MURASAME, she/her. approximately 16.

OTHER VERSES ... ff7 , resident evil , tbe.

four is not her real name. in fact, she knows almost nothing about herself except that she is the fourth cyber-newtype engineered by murasame labs in an attempt to artificially recreate the symptoms and experiences of newtypes to effectively create extra-efficient soldiers in battle who are capable of piloting bigger and better and stronger mobile suits. she is a weapon in the shape of a girl.

in crossover verses she is best treated as a bioengineered soldier or super-spy type of character who is otherwise not allowed contact with the outside world.

in battle, when her reprogramming awakens her cyber-newtype abilities, four is cold, calculated, and a monster who achieves her goals no matter the cost. outside of battle, she is a girly and childish teenage girl who wishes she remembered her name and wishes she was allowed to be a girl. some of her girly tendencies still appeared despite the mental conditioning: she wears purple lipstick and loves to style her hair.

due to being artificially implanted with abilities that are 1) extremely strong 2) taxing and 3) she would not otherwise have, four experiences heavy symptoms of chronic illness, taking very strong pain medication to deal with otherwise debilitating symptoms. she also accidentally reaches out to other newtypes with her abilities and can heavily influence them; this is how she forms a connection with and grows close with kamille.

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AMURO RAY, he/him. main verse sets his age circa zeta (23-24) but is verse-dependent.

amuro uses he/him in a genderweird way, not because i hc him as a cis dude.

OTHER VERSES ... [ tbe ]

amuro is neurotic, introverted, and hard to get to know. he has a tendency to come across as cold and withdrawn. as he ages, he gets warmer around the edges, but it is obvious this is someone who has spent the bulk of his life on the battlefield. many people consider him cold. he is most at home with machinery and when allowed to tinker; in crossover verses he is best served as a mechanic in a car shop or in a sci-fi verse's spaceship as a fighter pilot.

in the series, amuro is the protagonist of the original series and the pilot of the 'original' gundam. he is conscripted into fighting the one year war at the age of 15. fighting in space and with the gundam helps him awaken to his latent newtype abilities, making him one of the first recognized newtypes in the universe. he has mixed feelings about his abilities and about being the gundam pilot. amuro is terrified of war and being on the battlefield but equally proud of his abilities and terrified of people not wanting to be around him if he can't pilot. he often promises to never fight again only to end up in the battlefield when someone dares to replace him with another pilot, highlighting a penchant for jealousy and a slightly petty streak.

during the one year war after he awakens to his newtype abilities he forms a very strong connection with a girl named lalah sune who fights on behalf of his main rival, char aznable. unfortunately lalah is killed by amuro in battle after she takes a hit intended for char, and this defines both of their character motivations and dynamic with each other for the remainder of the franchise.

after the one year war (the events of the original series) he moves off of the spaceship white base where he served and onto earth where he is used as a propaganda piece and more or less put under house arrest to monitor his development and his newtype abilities. amuro reaches adulthood like this. when he reaches 23ish a secondary war reaches its full height; amuro is approached by old friends and enemies asking hm to return to their side to help, but he refuses, wanting to remain on earth. eventually amuro teams up with a resistance effort on earth and pilots mobile suits on the earth, however, he is generally speaking resistant to returning to space.

despite his struggle to connect with people amuro does have a general hope for humanity and its future and their ability to overcome adversary, especially by the time he hits 29 (the events of the movie char's counterattack) he seems to have been able to put more of his withdrawn tendencies to the side.