#messages from my hellpad

[supersolidstatedrive]

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR IDIOTS BROTHER!

I HAVE SO MANY IDIOTS AND THEY KEEP MULTIPLYING 😭 this will be so, so long, bear with me

so! some overall lore to keep in mind- the SES Leviathan of Self-Determination is a part of the 45th Helldiver Experimental Fleet. What's the experiment, you may ask? Depends on the ship, but in the Leviathan's case, "recovering" dissidents! Working closely with the Ministry of Truth, the Fleet uses the Leviathan to turn traitors into loyal soldiers! And, most of the time, it's fairly effective! (But, that's largely thanks to the efforts of the Fleet Admiral, K1.)

Anyways, on to the idiots!

FISH

"Fish" is the fan-favorite among my friends. He's the Democracy Officer of the ship. He's distant, cold, cruel, sadistic... Fish is a real piece of work on the surface! He originally worked for the Ministry of Unity as a scientist for Permacura, and lived a fairly peaceful Class B life on his home planet of Malevelon Creek with his wife and beloved young daughter.

Then.. the fire nation Automatons attacked. While being evacuated, his wife was torn to shreds by a bot, and Fish has never been the same since. As soon as he could, he enlisted with the Helldivers, leaving his daughter in the care of his parents on Super Earth.

Fish, despite being significantly older than his peers, excelled at being a solider. He was especially praised for his ability to identify and summarily execute dissenting, treasonous, or otherwise disloyal Helldivers. The Ministry of Truth took notice, and appointed him as the Democracy Officer of the LoSD.

Unlike his peers, Fish's callsign doesn't come from another member of the SEAF, rather, it comes from his daughter who saw him performing a successful assassination on TV. He'd crawled up a dune to get a better vantage point at his target, and she thought he looked like a fish, swimming through sand.

Fish wears custom SC-30 armour, and occasionally wears a custom MoT-themed cape. His helmet features a false "third eye"- an infrared lens designed to mimic the eye of an Automaton. Although he is a skilled sniper, Fish is very nearsighted, and the lenses of his helmet are prescription, allowing him to see better.

Despite being an asshole to his fellow Helldivers, loyal or not, he deeply looks forward to the war ending so he can be reunited with his kid.

RASCAL

Rascal is a sweetheart of a man, assigned to the LoSD as a positive example for his fellow Divers. Hailing from Hellmire, Rascal was raised on the planet's E-710 farms-- the same as his parents, and their parents, and their parents' parents.

Very few Terminid-related things can scare him, and he's always been extremely comfortable around terminids. During missions, it's not uncommon to watch him gallop across the mission area on the back of a feral Charger, or attack bugs up-close and personal with explosives. He cares deeply about bugs in the same way a farmer cares about their livestock.

His career as a helldiver started when he heard of people on other planets losing their homes, lives, and families to the bugs. Seeing it was a problem that he had experience with (terminid-farming), and something he could help with, he joined the Helldivers. His end goal is always to protect his way of life, and the lives of others.

DJ

DJ is a rather mysterious Helldiver. On the surface, a specialist in Automaton anti-stratagem efforts and communications, DJ reports directly to the Ministry of Truth about the progress being made on the LoSD's goal of effective dissident military re-education. Unlike Fish, his connection to the Ministry of Truth is kept a secret to the rest of the ship.

Despite his job being more intelligence-based, he's a fantastic technician and an excellent communications officer. He very rarely dives, choosing to remotely attack the Automatons' networks.

His callsign comes from his strange (but very effective) habit of overriding illegal broadcasts with his "fire mixtape" of MoT-approved music.

C1

C1 was the original guinea pig for the Leviathan's project. A "cured" dissident, C1 was heavily dosed with amnestics and sent to become a Helldiver. He's very fearful and absentminded, and it's not uncommon for him to freeze during combat and stare blankly.

In reality, his "treatment" was not fully effective, and he still suffers from flashbacks and memories from his more rebellious days as a political dissenter. Fish can sense that something's wrong with C1, and often bullies him psychologically as a result.

CB-2 "BLUE"

By the time of the Second Galactic War, the Blue that Super Earth knew of was long dead.

Blue was a Helldiver during the First Galactic war, fighting against the Cyborgs. He hadn't been a Helldiver for very long before he came to the realization that he did not, in fact, hate the Cyborgs. Rather the opposite, in fact-- he found them utterly fascinating.

Taking detailed notes in semi-secrecy about anything and everything Cyborg for the rest of the war, Blue defected to Cyberstan shortly before the 'borgs were forcibly democratized. Refusing to return to Super Earth, he was sentenced to hard labour in the mines of Cyberstan alongside his Cyborg comrades.

(To be clear, Blue doesn't hate Super Earth. He just much prefers being a Cyborg. Man got so autistic about Cyborgs he just had to be one.)

Thanks to his augmentations, he's (presumably) still alive in the modern day. His insight into the internal workings of the Helldiver corps and Super Earth have been invaluable, and now helps with guiding the strategic and technological advancements of Cyberstan as a member of the Cyborg High Council.

A few years before the Second Galactic War broke out, Blue, along with a few other Cyborgs, would complete a long-awaited project to create a prototype successor for the Cyborg race, allowing them to finally have a chance at usurping their human oppressors. These successors would come to be known as the Automatons, and the prototype as...

ZWEI

About 2/3rds of the size of a regular bot, Zwei is a prototype Automaton Trooper, created by Blue and a few other Cyborgs in secret in the mines of Cyberstan. Much like the fixation of their parent, Zwei is utterly fascinated by Super Earth.

Zwei is a bit weird, in that they're largely AU-based. In the main timeline, the canon one, Zwei acts as an assistant to Blue as they're too small, and too precious to Blue, to fight. Main-timeline Zwei wears a tattered blue bandanna, made from a Super Earth flag.

In their AU, where Cyberstan was recently ceded to the Automatons and Cyborgs, Zwei lives a mostly quiet life with Blue. They love listening to Blue's stories of being a Helldiver, and playing with other children. Despite Blue's disapproval, Zwei secretly has ambitions to become the Federation's first Automaton Helldiver. AU Zwei wears a blue hoodie with the Super Earth emblem on the back.

C2 "CHEF"

C2 is an arrogant, but skilled, Helldiver. He's the second-in-command of the 45th Experimental Fleet, proud Creeker, and a chronic Automaton sympathizer. Although originally from Prosperity Falls, C2 was separated from his family at roughly 7 years old and sentenced to working at a cape-manufacturing facility on Marfark. When he came to the age of majority, he was offered the chance to redeem himself and joined the Helldivers, where he fell in love with the lifestyle.

Highlights of his career include participating in the defense and liberation of Malevelon Creek, being one of the first divers to deploy Dark Fluid on Meridia, and never missing an opportunity to keep Marfark free.

Contrary to popular belief, his helldiving career was far from the end of his treasonous ways and, in fact, only made them worse. Although, under the guiding hand of his commanding officer, K1, his love of Automatons presents itself in a democratic-enough way that he's not in danger of being immediately executed for treason.

He explicitly doesn't align himself with any dissident groups, such as the CyOps or Chaosdivers, rather simply self-identifying with being a plain ol' bothugger.

He serves alongside the eclectic K1, the bug-sympathizing M3, and his fire-obsessed little sister, S4.

RED ROCKET OF DESTRUCTION

Red Rocket of Destruction, or Red, is a Devastator who leads a fortress of bots on Choepessa IV. He too is a survivor of Malevelon Creek, and holds strong animosity towards most humans as a result.

Red used to be a rocket devastator, but after receiving heavy damage, had his rocket parts removed and entered semi-retirement. Unlike others of his kind, Red has two hands instead of one hand and a gun. Red is an inventor, and has created new weapons for his subordinates in the past.

After C2 was abandoned on the surface of Choepessa, he and Red developed a close bond with each other, and Red taught C2 how to fluently understand and read Automaton Script.

He's somewhat revised his stance on humans after meeting C2, but still remains standoffish and hostile towards them.

(Red is so much more complicated and nuanced, he's genuinely one of my favorite OCs at the moment, 's just a lot of it is [sadly] not safe for tumblr and I am way too tired to write my way around it atm ^^' But! Please take my word for it that Red is super cool and fleshed out. Slaps roof of Red. This bad boy can fit so much trauma and self-image issues into him.)

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I think that's about all of them! There are plenty of minor and influential friend characters kicking around, but those are the most important of my babies. Thanks for asking! I had a lot of fun rambling about them :D