Chapter 1: Character introduction
A/N: Hello to anyone reading this. This is my first time writing fanfiction mainly due to curiosity, which I'm glad to see that you had joined in to read my story. This story takes heavy inspiration from CasualFictionWriter23 and laigunner03, who I would like to thank for giving me the courage to write it, though mostly being a copy compare to them, so you could call me a "faker" in a sense. This Chapter is about the information about the OC of the story, the background, and the Gundam/Infinite Stratos he will be using.
Also, I advised reading or at least have some understanding of the Crossbone Gundam manga series to better understand the character and the background information.
Main Character
Name: Tobia Arno
Age: 22
Species: Human
Genetic type: Newtype
Nationality: Unknown ( European? )
Height: 179 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Blood: O
Birthdate: September 27 U.C 134
Appearance: He is a young and tall man with short navy blue hair, green eyes, and a slim but sturdy, well-trained body.
Personality: Tobia is a straight-forward and rationally minded man, although he is kind of an introvert and lazy, he is perfectly normal when it comes to communicating with others. He has a mostly stoic and calm-looking face, but he's a kind, easy-going and chill person that likes to joke sometimes despite being bad at it. He's serious when handling problems and always tries to approach them with deep care and consideration, especially in regards to his family and friends. He likes cooking and learning but dislikes being asked too much, and people who disrespect and talk rudely. He has a very negative view of war and killing.
History: He's the first son of Seabook Arno and Cecily Fairchild. Having been into Mobile suit since a young age, he was trained by Seabook, then followed Tobia Arrnonax ( Seabook's friend and named after ) to work alongside him until U.C 153 as he also served in the EFSF in the meantime. When the Zanscare empire attacked Earth and his family's home, Tobia together with his father and friends fought against the force that attacked his hometown using the Crossbone Gundam. Later, he worked in SNRI to help with the project Phantom Light and upgrade of the Ghost Gundam; he's the test pilot for the new prototype Ghost Gundam that supported a Minovsky Drive to test out for deep space exploration.
Gundam/ Infinite Stratos
1st Shift: XM-X0 Crossbone Gundam X-0 Ghost
Armaments:
2x Vulcan Gun: A pair of head-mounted weapons with a high rate of fire, but with little power and effectiveness against mobile suits. However, it can be used to take down missiles, light armored vehicles, or mobile suit sensors.
2x Beam saber/beam gun: The beam saber is a standard CQC weapon for mobile suits. When not in use, it's stored in the shoulder rack, which could also act as a beam gun that is similar in function compared to the Vulcan guns.
2x Heat Dagger: Stored in the legs, one each calf. Normally, it's handheld while in use, but it can also slide out of the sole as a suprise attack.
2x Screw Whip: A handheld whip-like weapon with a sharp crown-tip that can rotate rapidly like a drill to increase penetration, after contact or penetration, it sends out EMP shockwave to neutralize enemy electronics. Stored in the rear skirt when not in use.
2x Scissor Anchor: They are attached to the Gundam by long chains that folded in the front skirts when not in use. During combat, they can be used to grab objects from afar or grip the limb of an enemy to ensnare it or reel it closer to the Gundam. They also have the EMP property should the Gundam needed to.
2x Beam Shield/Brand Marker: A pair of beam shield generators stored on the Gundam forearms. When in use, they flip out over the hands, forming a pyramidal shape beam shield, that can neutralize most energy-based or physical attacks; or in other situations, the beam can also be used for melee attack similar to a beam saber, but leave an X-shape hole.
2x I-field Generator: They are stored inside the palm of each hand, which is an absolute defense against energy-based weapons, but they can not do anything against physical weapons, so they're not as versatile as a beam shield. Though they offer absolute defense against beam attack, they suffer from overheating issues, which they each can only be used for 105 seconds and needed 120 seconds to cool down.
1x Beam Zanber: A high-power beam saber of the Crossbone Gundam, with the hilt modeled after a pirate cutlass, as does the beam blade after it's formed. Its power output is significantly higher than a normal beam saber, as such, it can overpower an enemy or cut through the beam of a normal saber. It can be stored on the side skirt when not in use.
1x Buster Gun: A flintlock pistol-like weapon that can fire a medium-power energy beam, only required one hand to operate. It can also combine with the beam zanber to form the Zanbuster, to fire a more condensed and powerful beam; a rifle grenade can be attached to the muzzle and fire off.
2x Butterfly Buster: A shotgun-like double barrels beam rifle that can switch between gun mode and saber mode with a folding mechanic, and power output of that of a beam zanber. They can be used to replace the beam zanber and buster gun, and are usually seen being dual-wielded; they can be stored on the side skirts.
1x Multi-purpose Assault Weapon "Muramasa" Mk-2: It's a long sword with the size of a lance, it has skull and crossbones etched on both sides of the handguard. It has 15 beam emitters, 1 beam gun at the tip, and 14 beam blade emitters along the sides. For close combat, all 15 beam emitters can form into a giant beam blade around the edge of the sword; and for long-range combat, it can fire beams at the sword's tip or all 14 of the beam emitters can spread out like peacock feathers and fire in a wide arc.
1x Peacock Smasher: A crossbow-like beam weapon, it mounts 9 separate beam guns which can be fired in any arrangement. The 8 beam guns on the sides can be detached and the weapon itself can turn into a normal beam rifle, which increases its firing rate.
V.S.B.R X-MK.11: Variable Speed Beam Rifle, it's a prototype high-powered long beam rifle designed to be used by the Victory 2 Assault-buster Gundam and the Victory 3 Gundam with the power supply linked directly to the Minovsky Drive during usage. It's capable of firing solid 130mm high-velocity armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot rounds varying from the speed of Mach 6 to Mach 11; it can also fire either a supersonic wide arc beam with a wide-area destructive effect like a beam cannon or a highly condensed hypersonic beam capable of punching through multiple layers of beam shields or even an I-field at maximum power. When using, the Gundam has to use 2 of its I-field generators to protect the barrel and the rifle electronic from being immediately melted by the extreme heat generated from the firing process. Even though the rifle hasn't been used by the Ghost Gundam yet, it's somehow got saved into the data bank of the Gundam, which allow it to be used when the Gundam uses the Minovsky Drive.
Special Equipment & Features:
Bio-computer: A next-generation psycommu system, it can process data of the mobile suit and relay it to the human brain like a form of sensory information and let the pilot control the mobile suit through their sense as well, essentially enable the human pilot to control the Gundam like his/her body.
Anti-beam coating cloak: It's a piece of cloak that can cover the whole mobile suit, it's treated with anti-beam coating and can handle 6-7 beam shots before the coating wears out and turns into a normal cloak. It's a light-weight defense that can provide full-body cover and hide the mobile suit identity, though only has a limited defensive capability.
"Full Cloth" Unit: The silver with red lining cloak-like armor is made from the remaining ABC cloak overlain on a framework of thrusters, and with 2 I-field generators in the shape of skull heads. It provides heavy defense and thrust. Parts of the armor can be moved out of the way when engaging in melee combat, and the skull head units can be detached and worn over the arms to serve as protection while the Crossbone Gundam charges forward using them as boxing gloves.
Phantom system: It's a psycommu system that works by using the psycho-frame built around the cockpit and the bio-computer to enhance the pilot's senses and reacting time. The Gundam eyes turn golden and its mouth vent open to release the purple flame building up from inside the machine due to the Minovsky Drive System. By greatly enhancing the pilot brainwave, the pilot can effectively control wireless assault weapons or overtaking the control of enemy funnels/bits and turns them against their wielder.
Minovsky Drive System: This system allowed the Ghost Gundam to fly in space without the use of conventional rocket thrusters (though they were still incorporated for maneuvering) and achieve incredible speeds for long space voyages and explorations. A side effect when the Gundam uses the system at 80% is that the system's high-energy exhaust plumes manifested as a purple flame ( Phantom Light ) from the back thruster and vernier units at first but quickly spread throughout the unit through the body exhaust vents, which can be used both for offensive and defensive purposes as a gigantic beam saber or massive beam shield to shield itself from beams and physical attacks.
Optical Camouflage
2nd Shift: XM-XX Ghost Gundam ( Silver Phantom )
-Originally meant to be a modified Crossbone Gundam X-0 combined with the Phantom Gundam that is installed with a Minovsky Drive; after the Ghost Gundam was transformed into an IS, all the suits data merge back into the form of the Crossbone Gundam X-0. But when the Phantom system is fully released, the Gundam body transforms by reshaping and expanding its armor, while cloaking its body in an inferno purple flame by using Phantom Light of the Minovsky Drive, turning it back into the XM-XX Ghost Gundam, which now reminiscent of a phantom, thus dubbed "Silver Phantom". Even though the transformation greatly enhances the mobile suit stats and capability, but the massive stress created from tons of data pouring into the pilot brain can cost the suit to overtaken the host and turn itself into a mindless killing machine if the pilot is not a new type.
A/N: I do take some liberty changes to the Armaments and features.