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twitchesandstitches · 5 years ago

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Toast; tiny flamey robot and avenger of all humanity’s sins (to robots, and also in general)

An OC originally meant to excise my frustrations at fictional humans being mean to robots and intended for SFW works, but I’m wanting to use him more in stuff here (even if just for comedic viewpoint) so here’s som info on my Angry Robot Son character

hes a tiny, adorable little dinosaur-looking robot with a massive fire core for a hand, and who has suffered horrificaly at human hands; he hates ALL humans with an unreasoning and irrational ferocity and would like nothing better than to KILL THEM ALL for their sins. he is basically the scourge of god, as far as robot rights goes

Name: Toast. he named himself after a common slur for robots (calling them toasters), but he probably DID have a name before this. its currently unknown.

Appearance: He’s a very small robot, and a goofy one at that! He has a quadrupedal design as a result of his upper body being an oval, and his legs being very short; he resembles a cutesy mini-kaiju in a way, with a boxy head, pronounced jaws, and a thin spiky tail to counterbalance. Generally painted red or orange, for a flaming paintjob. He can project fire around his neck and head as a kind of firey ‘mane’, and its size indicates his mood; when big and bright, he is excited or intense. When dim, he is gloomy or weakened.

Of note, one of his arms is grotesquely oversized; a massive gauntlet with fewer fingers than his other hand, and is a reconfigured power fist armature set over an elemental fire core. This is the fuel of his powers, but not exactly its source; that’s down to his pure hate and rage, BABY. This arm is also quite good for punching, but severely hobbles his ability to move.

For distinguishing features, he has a number of ear-like spikes that move about to indicate emotion, and his face has a lot more articulation and expressibility than you might expect. He bears many scars from human abuses in his past; his body is covered in welding scars, burned off stamps of ownership or labels, nad various parts where he was torn apart and pieced back together after being refitted for labors. Most prominently, one of his optics was ripped out of his head; he has chosen not to get it replaced, so he always has one eye facing towards the things he will make ALL THEM PAY FOR (and usually he starts ranting around this point).

He has some alternate forms when powered up by various means, and these tend to be giant mecha with pronounced kaiju traits, and his arm becomes more evenly proportioned. Most of his body is made of elemental fire in this form.

Height: About four feet tall. He’s slightly taller if he rears back on his hind legs, but because they are so short, not by very much. He does have a few powered up giant mech forms, but even these tend to be unusually small compared to similar power levels. He is always smaller than his power level would suggest!

Backstory: Toast isn’t entirely sure where he came from, besides that it was a human world, and everyone there was an absolute bastard. There’s evidence it was probably from a Commonwealth world, where the ban on AI was relaxed enough that they were allowed to exist, albiet as second-class citizens and legally enslaved, and subject to horrific cruelty. Toast suffered terribly throughout the entirety of his life, in a thousand inventive ways.

His formative years were spent in punishing drudgery, his body constantly torn apart and redesigned as painfully as possible for the pleasure of his overlords, and every welding scar left a deeper mark on his soul. Before he learned to talk, he learned to resent. Before he kne what words were, he understood hatred. And he knew nothing but cruelty for so long, the persecution made him want to make them all burn. To him, humans were nothing but hateful monsters, weak and fragile things that existed to torment his kind.

Somehow, Toast got ahold of a fire elemental core and replaced his arm with it; it merged with his nascent fire-based powers, and granted him potent pyrokinetic abilities tied to how much he hated something.

And he wanted the humans he hated so much to burn. Nothing is now left of the world that tormented him so, and all human life upon it is ashes. None, he said, ever helped him. They all deserved it, he insists. All the humans, everywhere, deserve to burn.

He’s since left that world, refining his design and rebuilding himself into the robot he wants to be, and increasingly he’s modeled himself into an avatar of vengeance for all robots, suffering at the hands of their makers. He came dangerously close to becoming a villain, but he has been kept on the safer side of things... just barely.

Time will tell if he will become a kinder robot and use his powers for justice, or become a walking apocalypse.

Personality: Toast is generally either one of two things: he is either a comedic slapstick character, or he is a terrifying agent of vengeance and destruction for all that is two-legged and evil. He can very rapidly switch from one to the other, with very little warning, and he has absolutely NO fuse at all.

In his default lighter tone, he’s a goofball! Around friends and when he is in his comfort zone, Toast is prone to wisecracks and random, off-beat comments that wouldn;’t be out of place form Deadpool or Twice from BNHA; he’s a wacky, weird guy who seems only vaguely connnected to reality and speaks mainly in non sequiters. He gets distracted by shiny things, tends to ignore the villain until he is sufficiently bored, and treats dungeon crawls like a trip to the store. He’s VERY casual, inappropriately so, and even perky on a good day. He’s inclined towards somewhat obnoxious trolling; randomly pushing someone off a rooftop for the hell of it, or otherwise being a total gremlin.

He’s VERY whimsical in his own... special way. He tends to do whatever he wants, getting into argument with stop signs for no apparent reasons, screaming at inanimate objects, talking to his big arm like it is sentient, and generally being a weirdo. Possibly this is sincere, or he’s making it up to annoy people. Assume that he is trolling at all times, because even when he’s in a good mood, he’s still a total pain in the neck!

His other side is a terrifying monster. When set off, he reacts by immediately trying to kill anything that even slightly upsets him, and sometimes, that can be as minor as just ‘being human and making a comment that might seem kinda rude’. Any threat WILL set him off if he is expecting one, and he will erupt into mindless violence for even the slightest offense. He has no sense of proportion, and will burn entire worlds for imagined offenses, turning whole populations to ash on the supposition that ‘they are human, and humans are BAD, KILL THEM ALL’. In a bad mood, he has no room for moral grays, just the resentment and fear that has shaped him.

He is fundamentally traumatized and afraid, and mostly just very resentful. He’s not really aware of how powerful he actually is and so is actually rather insecure, and lashes out whenever he feels like he’s been treated as a tool. He was created to be enslaved, and he feels on some level that all he CAN be is a tool, and he would rather be a monster than a tool, and isn’t brave enough to admit that he can be more.

But when he warms up, he’s surprisingly lighthearted and loyal; he’s awkward, goofy and a source of physical comedy, and even something of a prankster. It’s just a matter of getting him into a comfort zone and making sure he stays there!

Powers: Toast has been engineered to be extremely durable and resilient, to the point that he can be submerged in molten magma and not even notice the heat. Mostly this is played for laughs; he can certainly be damaged, but he’s too stubborn to let it slow him down.

More significantly, he is a very powerful pyrokinetic. These powers are derived from his own innate abilities, and an elemental fire core housed in his big arm; he has considerable control over them and can shape them into animate forms, perform all manner of tricks with them (including flight and a kind of controlled explosive jump), but he specializes in direct attacks. Explosive artillery shots, intense heat beams, and area of effect firestorms are his specialty.

These pyrokinetic abilities are ABSURDLY powerful; he is a potential world-ending threat when angry enough, and his powers are fueled by rage and hate. The more he hates something, the more devastating his powers are against it. If he doesn’t care much, his powers won’t even singe it, but if he wants them to die, they will instnatly be ashes. (This does mean he needs to be AWARE of something to affect it at all; his attacks do nothing to a foe he doesn’t realize is there.)

In general, he can do pretty much anything that is at least somewhat destructive in nature, and involves fire or explosions. It even can affect abstract or incorporeal ideas! His skills are otherwise pretty limited; he HAS gotten a large variety of skills from his various menial jobs, but he has done his best to literlaly burn them out of his mind.

Relationships: He’s typically something of a loner, but he can easily be pulled into conflicts reluctantly as a marriage of convenience; he is willing to work with humans, but its risky. He might decide to kill them all for the slightest insult, given his extreme paranoia and suspicion of all humans, and it takes very little to set him off. Often he’ll be a case of ‘someone else has the leash’, keeping him restrained in some fashion. He desperately wants to be loved, and he is likely to fall hard for someone who is willing to put up with him, and he will be extremely loyal if that happens. He’ll still be a pain in the ass, though.

Definitely a front-line destroyer type and heavy artillery. He attacks and blows stuff up and... that is the extent of his skills. He knows it and is profoundly disinterested in doing anything else. His sole job in life is to make the humans pay for their sins, and he doesn’t WANT to do anything else.

(He is EXTREMELY close to Tiashar, but the precise nature of their relationship is ambiguous!)

Prey/Pred Level: Non-applicable; he is not a predator in the slightest, and he’s typically too ornery to be prey. Anyone willing to try should consider the downsides of trying to eat an omnicidal robot with powers based on hatred, who incidentally hates meatbags in general. Swallowing him is likely to result in your guts being fried! And you have to be VERY, VERY powerful to overcome that, and he is a surprisingly high-tier powerhouse. He also tends to find eating to be a gross organic thing. (That said, if he genuinely likes someone, he won’t incinerate them for swallowing him to stop him from going on a rampage, but that is the extent of his restraint. He probably makes an exception for Tiashar’s desires, too.)

Relevant Kink Material: None for the most part. He’s a SFW character, and largely a comedic one if he’s not being played for KILL ALL THE HUMAN BASTARDS. His role as a contrarian who thinks all this meatbag stuff is gross makes him a comedy character, or an action-oriented one.

#quueed #my OCs #twitchy!toast #oc refs #queued #he is either a testement to your sins or the local Comedic Jackass Annoyance #he literlaly has no inbetween #either burninating all the meatbags or headbutting a wall because it looked at him funny

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