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Player: Emma
Age: 25
Personal Journal:pseudocode
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Other Characters: Kazuya Miyuki (pickoffs), Tsumugu Kinagase (needlegunner) and Chikara Ennoshita (comingattraction)
IC INFORMATION;
Characters Name: O.D.
Age: 300-something.
Canon: Gatchaman CROWDS: Insight
Canon Point: Post-series
Species: Half-human, half-alien (unspecified species), appears human.
Gender: Their gender is carefully unidentified in both canon and supplementary materials. (When characters are split into 'boys' and 'girls', O.D. appears with neither group, etc, despite other ambigiously presenting characters like Katze or part time crossdresser Rui appearing under the 'boys' section.) Series villain Katze calls them 'okama', a pejorative term for crossdressing gay men, which suggests they're DMAB, but can't be used as evidence in favor of 'definitely a man' because Katze is a literal embodiment of internet trolls. For what it's worth, they're a three hundred year old half-alien raised on another planet, I'm not sure human gender binaries totally apply.
Orientation: They're interested in men. They'd ID as gay, if asked.
History: wiki. Their pre-series history is spotty: we know they were raised on a different planet with their human mother and alien father, on a planet that was eventually destroyed by the villianous shapeshifter Berg Katze through manipulation of the populace. At some point, O.D. gained a NOTE, and became a Gatchaman. We can assume from context that O.D. drove Katze from their planet with the planet itself as the price: O.D.'s Gatchaman powers are referred to as those of "destruction", and they are considered a final resort in the larger conflict with Katze. O.D. has lived on Earth with Paiman for an undetermined length of time, and now lives in the Gatchaman apartments with Utsu-tsu, who they care for.
Through the conflict of the first series, they stay out of battle, because their abilities are too dangerous to use, but serve as emotional support and as a dispatcher for the other Gatchaman, who until the run of the series mostly work by themselves. When Rui's NOTE - and control of global network GALAX, and through GALAX, the CROWDS system - is stolen by Berg Katze, the only final way to reverse Katze's plans is to retrieve that NOTE. O.D. volunteers for this, provoking Katze into coming to them where they lie in wait, within Gatchaman HQ. They transform and nearly kill Katze, but they retrieve the NOTE - at serious damage to themself, saved only by Utsu-tsu's power of healing.
During INSIGHT, O.D. appears repeatedly as a regular on a program called The Millione Show, offering, well... insight, on the current conflict between rogue and registered CROWDS users. When childish mindreader alien Gelsadra arrives in Japan, O.D. recognizes his species by positive reputation, and is surprised by Katze's claim to have retreated from a Sadra-controlled plant out of fear. Over the course of the series, as public opinion of the Gatchaman wanes and waxes, they fall out of favor as a television personality, and are eventually replaced. They keep out of the main conflict of the series - the evolution of the people of Japan as they give up individual thought and then, slowly, take it back from Gelsadra, whose powers and misunderstanding of what 'peace' really means pushes Japan's population into blase acceptance and complete social conformity. When Hajime Ichinose creates a plan to use Katze's powers and mimic Gelsadra's appearance in his battle form, fighting against the Gatchaman and appearing to die as Gelsadra, in order to shock the citizens of Japan back into thinking for themselves, O.D. goes along to observe and silently support all of their teammates, but doesn't transform. When Hajime wakes from her injury-induced coma one month after this conflict, O.D. is present.
Appearance: General | Gatchaman suit
The most beautiful... green lipstick and all.
Personality: O.D.'s absolute favorite phrase is 'too much', and that applies to pretty much everything about O.D., too. Vibrant and sociable, O.D. is a breath of fresh air among the other established Gatchaman: between the quiet and introspective natures of Joe and Utsu-tsu, and the highly-strung attitudes of Paiman and Sugane, O.D. seeks to break up anything they consider too gloomy or serious with levity, appropriate or not. O.D. is emotionally intelligent and caring toward the other members of the G-Crew, in ways less flashy than might be expected given their personality: they quietly cut Paiman off from alcohol when he's had too much, or shut off his cell phone when he's tired of dealing with the press, or uses a ruse to get Utsu-tsu to go to Hajime and deepen their relationship even over Utsu-tsu's reticent shyness. Paiman claims that O.D. is the reason their motley crew is tethered together at all, given the clashes in personalities and idealogies and Paiman's own weakness as a uniting force.
Much of O.D.'s skill with reassurance and care is a result of their lifespan and experience: at more than three hundred years old and no sign of slowing down any time soon, O.D. will likely outlive all of their human teammates, and any other humans they meet, besides. That makes them capable of motivating and relating to Earthlings, but it also tinges their world. Upon bringing Hajime and Utsu-tsu together, they remark that this is another memory, even though all memories bring them is pain. After the loss of the planet where they were raised, O.D. took on the guilt of failure and the reality of loss, both things that they carry through the series. They once refer to Hajime as the G-Crew's 'sun': her open acceptance and personal honesty make the people around her thrive and grow. They aren't immune from that: when Utsu-tsu is recovering from healing people during a tunnel collapse, O.D. - by now aware Berg Katze is on the planet and working to destroy it - expresses happiness that Utsu-tsu has grown enough that she'll be fine, even if they aren't there. They wave off her questions and retreat to their bedroom, pausing to open their NOTE. Within it are two pages decorated as a scrapbook. The only picture of a person is one of Utsu-tsu, 'Goodbye, Utsu-tsu' written on it. By this point in time, their most fervent regret would be departing from Utsu-tsu, who needs them as her only family. They're ready to die to take down Berg Katze, and don't know if the planet can be saved when they do so. When we see the inside of their NOTE again, the scrapbook pages have changed: the picture of Utsu-tsu remains, but is joined by photos of the rest of the G-Crew family, living and happy. The scrapbook's motif has changed from dark vines to sunflowers and bright bows. This is the NOTE O.D. activates to do battle with Berg Katze: this is the soul that moves past fear to save a world whose future they are desperate to see.
O.D. takes a careful hand with the personal development of the younger members of team Gatchaman, and a quietly private, but positive position on Hajime's tendency to push forward at all times: they want Utsu-tsu to form friendships, and create a situation for Utsu-utsu to seek out Hajime. When Hajime confronts Sugane about his tunnel vision and position overly focused on doing what Gatchaman are 'supposed' to do, without thinking about it, O.D. smiles instead of stepping in. When Hajime walks across the invisible floor to meet J.J. face to face, O.D. watches with interest, not shock or surprise. They celebrate when Sugane crosses the gap between the Gatchaman and J.J. to tell him that he (and the other young Gatchaman, especially) will be acting as they see fit, instead of waiting for prophecies and orders. Paiman disapproves, but O.D. hugs Sugane out of pride. The only person they always cut straight through on in conversation in order to shock them into realization is Paiman, who has a much closer and more equal relationship with them. They're also honest with Prime Minister Sugayama, putting to words his and Paiman's feelings about being too afraid to make any move at all because they're afraid of losing everything, speaking from their own feelings on the matter and spurring both Paiman and Sugayama into action in their own ways. In Insight, they attempt to push at Tsubasa's overly headstrong position on making a decision to save Rui over Rui's own feelings, to get her to think on her own with a little encouragement. This shows that their somewhat hands-off approach to mentoring the younger Gatchaman has shifted to something a little more guiding over the course of the first season.
O.D. is generally bright, theatrical and cheery. They appreciate showmanship, dramatics and displays of passion. At the same time, those theatrics sometimes give way to a more melancholy, serious personality. This is not to say that their cheer and sociability is faked - that is, they arefond of people and they don't like things to be too serious all the time - but they harbor deep fear and resentment of Berg Katze, and they are much more thoughtful than they choose to appear. They present a somewhat flaky and flighty demeanour, and when they express serious thought or concerning sentiment, they wave off probing about it. Better to be upbeat than a downer, they say!
Abilities: Without their suit, O.D. is a remarkably long-lived (in narration, they refer to living for more than three hundred years) half-alien, but beyond their sclera turning orange when they are enraged (see here), they don't seem to have much in the way of supernatural powers from that heritage. However, O.D.'s soul has been rematerialized in the form of a mint green and white notebook called a NOTE. The NOTE can be used as a group journal - anything written in or spoken to it will be communicated to other NOTE holders. All NOTEs are capable of using an ability referred to as the Amnesia Effect. When active, it projects a field to make the Gatchaman and anything else inhuman invisible, though not intangible. (All NOTE holders are immune to this ability.) The effect can be reversed by calling out Amnesia Remind. NOTEs can additionally be used as teleportation devices into and out of the Mental Precipice, the place where the creator of the Gatchaman - J.J. - resides and speaks to the Gatchaman. O.D.'s NOTE is the NOTE of Destruction, giving them unparalleled destructive powers and the use of the Gatchaman known as G-12. In addition to the Gatchaman suit, O.D. also has superhuman strength and endurance. All Gatchaman display the ability to use their NOTE powers out of their suits, so it can be assumed O.D. has natural destructive capabilities.
G-12 mainly uses projectile weaponry in the form of laser wings that act as arrows or missiles, and it is devastatingly powerful, enough to vaporize parts of Katze's Gatchaman suit and body beneath it, even though Katze had been thus far untouched. (Sadly, Katze's shapeshifting abilities made that damage anything but fatal.)
A veteran Gatchaman, O.D. is presumably capable with tactics, and they are the organizer of the activities of the CAGE, the Gatchaman HQ, which suggests organizational abilities. Paiman refers to them as the only reason the members of Earth's CAGE hadn't all gone their separate ways before Hajime's arrival. Their emotional intelligence and empathy make them apt for handling the mess of issues and personalities that is the G-Crew.
Player: Emma
Age: 25
Personal Journal:
pseudocodeContact Info:
Other Characters: Kazuya Miyuki (
pickoffs), Tsumugu Kinagase (needlegunner) and Chikara Ennoshita (comingattraction)IC INFORMATION;
Characters Name: O.D.
Age: 300-something.
Canon: Gatchaman CROWDS: Insight
Canon Point: Post-series
Species: Half-human, half-alien (unspecified species), appears human.
Gender: Their gender is carefully unidentified in both canon and supplementary materials. (When characters are split into 'boys' and 'girls', O.D. appears with neither group, etc, despite other ambigiously presenting characters like Katze or part time crossdresser Rui appearing under the 'boys' section.) Series villain Katze calls them 'okama', a pejorative term for crossdressing gay men, which suggests they're DMAB, but can't be used as evidence in favor of 'definitely a man' because Katze is a literal embodiment of internet trolls. For what it's worth, they're a three hundred year old half-alien raised on another planet, I'm not sure human gender binaries totally apply.
Orientation: They're interested in men. They'd ID as gay, if asked.
History: wiki. Their pre-series history is spotty: we know they were raised on a different planet with their human mother and alien father, on a planet that was eventually destroyed by the villianous shapeshifter Berg Katze through manipulation of the populace. At some point, O.D. gained a NOTE, and became a Gatchaman. We can assume from context that O.D. drove Katze from their planet with the planet itself as the price: O.D.'s Gatchaman powers are referred to as those of "destruction", and they are considered a final resort in the larger conflict with Katze. O.D. has lived on Earth with Paiman for an undetermined length of time, and now lives in the Gatchaman apartments with Utsu-tsu, who they care for.
Through the conflict of the first series, they stay out of battle, because their abilities are too dangerous to use, but serve as emotional support and as a dispatcher for the other Gatchaman, who until the run of the series mostly work by themselves. When Rui's NOTE - and control of global network GALAX, and through GALAX, the CROWDS system - is stolen by Berg Katze, the only final way to reverse Katze's plans is to retrieve that NOTE. O.D. volunteers for this, provoking Katze into coming to them where they lie in wait, within Gatchaman HQ. They transform and nearly kill Katze, but they retrieve the NOTE - at serious damage to themself, saved only by Utsu-tsu's power of healing.
During INSIGHT, O.D. appears repeatedly as a regular on a program called The Millione Show, offering, well... insight, on the current conflict between rogue and registered CROWDS users. When childish mindreader alien Gelsadra arrives in Japan, O.D. recognizes his species by positive reputation, and is surprised by Katze's claim to have retreated from a Sadra-controlled plant out of fear. Over the course of the series, as public opinion of the Gatchaman wanes and waxes, they fall out of favor as a television personality, and are eventually replaced. They keep out of the main conflict of the series - the evolution of the people of Japan as they give up individual thought and then, slowly, take it back from Gelsadra, whose powers and misunderstanding of what 'peace' really means pushes Japan's population into blase acceptance and complete social conformity. When Hajime Ichinose creates a plan to use Katze's powers and mimic Gelsadra's appearance in his battle form, fighting against the Gatchaman and appearing to die as Gelsadra, in order to shock the citizens of Japan back into thinking for themselves, O.D. goes along to observe and silently support all of their teammates, but doesn't transform. When Hajime wakes from her injury-induced coma one month after this conflict, O.D. is present.
Appearance: General | Gatchaman suit
The most beautiful... green lipstick and all.
Personality: O.D.'s absolute favorite phrase is 'too much', and that applies to pretty much everything about O.D., too. Vibrant and sociable, O.D. is a breath of fresh air among the other established Gatchaman: between the quiet and introspective natures of Joe and Utsu-tsu, and the highly-strung attitudes of Paiman and Sugane, O.D. seeks to break up anything they consider too gloomy or serious with levity, appropriate or not. O.D. is emotionally intelligent and caring toward the other members of the G-Crew, in ways less flashy than might be expected given their personality: they quietly cut Paiman off from alcohol when he's had too much, or shut off his cell phone when he's tired of dealing with the press, or uses a ruse to get Utsu-tsu to go to Hajime and deepen their relationship even over Utsu-tsu's reticent shyness. Paiman claims that O.D. is the reason their motley crew is tethered together at all, given the clashes in personalities and idealogies and Paiman's own weakness as a uniting force.
Much of O.D.'s skill with reassurance and care is a result of their lifespan and experience: at more than three hundred years old and no sign of slowing down any time soon, O.D. will likely outlive all of their human teammates, and any other humans they meet, besides. That makes them capable of motivating and relating to Earthlings, but it also tinges their world. Upon bringing Hajime and Utsu-tsu together, they remark that this is another memory, even though all memories bring them is pain. After the loss of the planet where they were raised, O.D. took on the guilt of failure and the reality of loss, both things that they carry through the series. They once refer to Hajime as the G-Crew's 'sun': her open acceptance and personal honesty make the people around her thrive and grow. They aren't immune from that: when Utsu-tsu is recovering from healing people during a tunnel collapse, O.D. - by now aware Berg Katze is on the planet and working to destroy it - expresses happiness that Utsu-tsu has grown enough that she'll be fine, even if they aren't there. They wave off her questions and retreat to their bedroom, pausing to open their NOTE. Within it are two pages decorated as a scrapbook. The only picture of a person is one of Utsu-tsu, 'Goodbye, Utsu-tsu' written on it. By this point in time, their most fervent regret would be departing from Utsu-tsu, who needs them as her only family. They're ready to die to take down Berg Katze, and don't know if the planet can be saved when they do so. When we see the inside of their NOTE again, the scrapbook pages have changed: the picture of Utsu-tsu remains, but is joined by photos of the rest of the G-Crew family, living and happy. The scrapbook's motif has changed from dark vines to sunflowers and bright bows. This is the NOTE O.D. activates to do battle with Berg Katze: this is the soul that moves past fear to save a world whose future they are desperate to see.
O.D. takes a careful hand with the personal development of the younger members of team Gatchaman, and a quietly private, but positive position on Hajime's tendency to push forward at all times: they want Utsu-tsu to form friendships, and create a situation for Utsu-utsu to seek out Hajime. When Hajime confronts Sugane about his tunnel vision and position overly focused on doing what Gatchaman are 'supposed' to do, without thinking about it, O.D. smiles instead of stepping in. When Hajime walks across the invisible floor to meet J.J. face to face, O.D. watches with interest, not shock or surprise. They celebrate when Sugane crosses the gap between the Gatchaman and J.J. to tell him that he (and the other young Gatchaman, especially) will be acting as they see fit, instead of waiting for prophecies and orders. Paiman disapproves, but O.D. hugs Sugane out of pride. The only person they always cut straight through on in conversation in order to shock them into realization is Paiman, who has a much closer and more equal relationship with them. They're also honest with Prime Minister Sugayama, putting to words his and Paiman's feelings about being too afraid to make any move at all because they're afraid of losing everything, speaking from their own feelings on the matter and spurring both Paiman and Sugayama into action in their own ways. In Insight, they attempt to push at Tsubasa's overly headstrong position on making a decision to save Rui over Rui's own feelings, to get her to think on her own with a little encouragement. This shows that their somewhat hands-off approach to mentoring the younger Gatchaman has shifted to something a little more guiding over the course of the first season.
O.D. is generally bright, theatrical and cheery. They appreciate showmanship, dramatics and displays of passion. At the same time, those theatrics sometimes give way to a more melancholy, serious personality. This is not to say that their cheer and sociability is faked - that is, they arefond of people and they don't like things to be too serious all the time - but they harbor deep fear and resentment of Berg Katze, and they are much more thoughtful than they choose to appear. They present a somewhat flaky and flighty demeanour, and when they express serious thought or concerning sentiment, they wave off probing about it. Better to be upbeat than a downer, they say!
Abilities: Without their suit, O.D. is a remarkably long-lived (in narration, they refer to living for more than three hundred years) half-alien, but beyond their sclera turning orange when they are enraged (see here), they don't seem to have much in the way of supernatural powers from that heritage. However, O.D.'s soul has been rematerialized in the form of a mint green and white notebook called a NOTE. The NOTE can be used as a group journal - anything written in or spoken to it will be communicated to other NOTE holders. All NOTEs are capable of using an ability referred to as the Amnesia Effect. When active, it projects a field to make the Gatchaman and anything else inhuman invisible, though not intangible. (All NOTE holders are immune to this ability.) The effect can be reversed by calling out Amnesia Remind. NOTEs can additionally be used as teleportation devices into and out of the Mental Precipice, the place where the creator of the Gatchaman - J.J. - resides and speaks to the Gatchaman. O.D.'s NOTE is the NOTE of Destruction, giving them unparalleled destructive powers and the use of the Gatchaman known as G-12. In addition to the Gatchaman suit, O.D. also has superhuman strength and endurance. All Gatchaman display the ability to use their NOTE powers out of their suits, so it can be assumed O.D. has natural destructive capabilities.
G-12 mainly uses projectile weaponry in the form of laser wings that act as arrows or missiles, and it is devastatingly powerful, enough to vaporize parts of Katze's Gatchaman suit and body beneath it, even though Katze had been thus far untouched. (Sadly, Katze's shapeshifting abilities made that damage anything but fatal.)
A veteran Gatchaman, O.D. is presumably capable with tactics, and they are the organizer of the activities of the CAGE, the Gatchaman HQ, which suggests organizational abilities. Paiman refers to them as the only reason the members of Earth's CAGE hadn't all gone their separate ways before Hajime's arrival. Their emotional intelligence and empathy make them apt for handling the mess of issues and personalities that is the G-Crew.