"How rude, crashing my stealth op and so eager to throw hands. You might think of me as an easy mark for not having fancy superpowers, but I'm still armed and ready! Let's dance, chucklefuck~"
Art is done by the amazing Hope (@StrypeisonFire on Twitter), and the incredible Korps setting belongs to Karen (@KorpsPropaganda also on Twitter).
-knocks off the dust-
I keep meaning to use Cohost more, and I know the last few times I've sorta just been...kinda depressing, to put it in a way. But hey, at least this time I have somethin' fun to share~!
Y'know, while I'm at it, I don't think I've ever publicly talked about what Her Deal™ is. So if you don't mind a brief bit of an info-dump, read on below the break!
So, while I won't necessarily go into origins, because I'm still (very slowly) working through writing that, the surface-level description for Korps Celes as a concept is like, a non-superpowered individual with a prosthetic robo arm who utilizes a blend of tech toys with combat and stealth skills (through hard-working, rapid, and continuous training) for various quick and dirty stealth ops, and capable of sometimes filling the role of like a support fighter (though being a bit of a glass canon).
Her "standard" loadout typically includes:
- Her prosthetic combat arm, with a series of small repulsor emitters beneath the wrist platting that work in conjunction with a small psuedo gauntlet made up of larger repulsor emitters, the overall tech of the emitters offering a short-range burst amplifying her physical punches
- A light stealth armor suit that can utilize a very rudimentary sort of "active camo"/cloaking field tech
- A pair of small spherical floating "drones" that can project a holographic figure each as decoys and/or distractions, controlled primarily by ROSE through the RCGs (with general suggestions from Celes)
- (More optionally) a small personal shield unit for added defense (This one is a recent-ish addition that was more directly inspired by Foxmates' work, because it absolutely makes sense for someone as soft and squishy as Celes generally is, lol.)
I had also more recently been ruminating on future time line stuff with her as a synth. While I don't yet have any other solid ideas with that, I had at least generally figured that she'd end up using more advanced versions of the above loadout. The "holo-drones" in particular though would be upgraded to "hardlight drones", not only capable of actually contributing to a fight more directly, but would also then be directly controllable by Celes herself (almost as if they were extentions of herself).
So yeah! Korps Celes in a nutshell. :3 (If you can name at least one or two of her concept's inspirations, you get a cookie~ Though she does sort of wear those inspirations on her sleeves, so to speak, lol.)
