Name:
SONNY -X-Affix-
Kuma Kuma Circus - Persona 4 Arena
Age: 1
Gender: Female (machine)
Specie: Tsukumogami
Physical Description: A flat-screen plasma TV with a DVR attached at the base. From that extend five spider-like legs, and up top is a diamond-shaped antenna.
Personality: Very quirky, she styles herself like a spokesperson at times. Sometimes, the channel she's tuned to affects her attitude - for instance, the Quest Time channel makes her very daring and boisterous.
History: The Akuma incidents in Japan have raised priority for some extra help in exorcising any more malevolent spirits. To that end, a closet Yokai researcher created an artificial tsukumogami by directly infusing ectoplasm and life force into a television set. This made the TV come to life as the eccentric Sonny! On a mission, she sets out to fight the evil forces that threaten the world.
Equipment: N/A
Abilities: She can generate things from her screen real as life. To maintain her energy, she has to use one of four special channels created with different frequencies. These channels are the video game Super Bit Warriors, the sci-fi channel Future-Now, the action channel Quest Time, and the recreational channel House & Home.
Other: Since she's animated by paranormal energy, she has similar weaknesses as ghosts do, like cleansing tags, white noise, and cold-iron. Breaking her TV won't work - she'll just pull it back together, good as new.
SONNY -X-Affix-
Kuma Kuma Circus - Persona 4 Arena
Age: 1
Gender: Female (machine)
Specie: Tsukumogami
Physical Description: A flat-screen plasma TV with a DVR attached at the base. From that extend five spider-like legs, and up top is a diamond-shaped antenna.
Personality: Very quirky, she styles herself like a spokesperson at times. Sometimes, the channel she's tuned to affects her attitude - for instance, the Quest Time channel makes her very daring and boisterous.
History: The Akuma incidents in Japan have raised priority for some extra help in exorcising any more malevolent spirits. To that end, a closet Yokai researcher created an artificial tsukumogami by directly infusing ectoplasm and life force into a television set. This made the TV come to life as the eccentric Sonny! On a mission, she sets out to fight the evil forces that threaten the world.
Equipment: N/A
Abilities: She can generate things from her screen real as life. To maintain her energy, she has to use one of four special channels created with different frequencies. These channels are the video game Super Bit Warriors, the sci-fi channel Future-Now, the action channel Quest Time, and the recreational channel House & Home.
Other: Since she's animated by paranormal energy, she has similar weaknesses as ghosts do, like cleansing tags, white noise, and cold-iron. Breaking her TV won't work - she'll just pull it back together, good as new.
Specific Moves
- (Super Bit Warriors)
- Pixel Fist: Launches a fist-shaped projectile forth. Can be charged to increase its size and strength.
- Swing Foot: Projects a leg from the screen and spins about. Fends off incoming projectiles. Can be charged to increase hits and duration.
- Skyward Fist: A fist juts out of the screen, rising upward and pulling Sonny with it. Can be charged for extra strength.
- Grounded Foot: A foot juts out and launches Sonny forward along the ground. Can be charged to increase distance and strength.
- (Future-Now)
- Stun Blaster: Fires a paralyzing ray from a phaser out of the screen.
- Rematerializer: Showing a teleporter on the screen, she warps forward.
- Tractor Beam: A satellite on the screen shoots out a beam that catches foes and flings them.
- Interception Mine: Fires a sticky orb onto the ground. Explodes when foes get near.
- (Quest Time)
- Big Boulders!: Shoots a large boulder out of the screen. It's so strong, it knocks Sonny backward.
- Dino-Bite!: A T-rex head lunges the screen forth in a chomp.
- Airstrike!: A missile is fired upward, tracking the foe and coming down upon him/her.
- More Explosions!: Spits out a pack of dynamite. Can set off an explosion with it.
- (House & Home)
- Healthy Cooking: Shows a bunch of home-cooked meals on the screen. It's so salivating, just looking at it restores your energy.
- Shrubbery Set: Projects a large, durable shrubbery forth. Acts as a shield. Midair version, Sill Garden, will hang in the air.
- Umbrella Stand: Sets up a large open umbrella, acting as an anti-air shield.
- Aromatherapy: Sets down an incense candle. Somehow, its aroma empowers herself and her allies. Somehow...
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- Strobe Screen: Soul Drive A. Flashes the screen rapidly. If the foe is looking at it, it induces a moderate seizure.
- Panoramic Standoff: Soul Drive B. Stays still and focuses...then fires from a big revolver pointing through the screen!
- Sunday Night Football: Soul Drive C. Slides forth with hands on a football coming out of the screen. GOAL!
- Usugata no Ken: Arcane Drive AB. Multiple fists shoot out of the screen, finished with a fierce uppercut hand.
- Bullet Time: Arcane Drive AC. Anticipates and evades incoming projectiles, then counters with two guns sticking out of the screen firing rapid piercing shots.
- The Comedy Hour: Arcane Drive BC. Stretchy arms lunge out of the screen to grab the foe, resulting in a big ball of violence, finished by a laugh track.
- Final Horror: Omega Drive. Swallows foe into the screen, where they're subjected to a swath of insane imagery, finished by a deafening shriek before they're ejected.
Inspirations
- Calne Ca (VOCALOID)
- Sadako Yamamura (The Ring)
- Teletubbies
- Shotoclones (Street Fighter)
- Duck Dodgers
- Indiana Jones
- Jurassic Park
- Martha Stewart
- Fist of the North Star
- Matrix
Trivia
- Named after Sony, one of the biggest electronics manufacturers in the world.
- Her antenna is based on the Teletubbies' antennae.
- The core inspiration for Sonny is The Ring, in which the antagonist Sadako Yamamura emerges from a TV monitor to kill her victims. However, Sonny projects more comical things from her screen.
- Traditionally, a tsukumogami is an object that gains life after surviving a hundred years. A television set might not become a tsukumogami because electronic light is too bright for spirits.
- Of the Major Arcana, Sonny is based on The Lovers.
- The moves from the game Super Bit Warriors are based on moves from Street Fighter - Hadoken, Tatsumaki Senpukyaku, Shoryuken, and M. Bison's slide kick.
- Future Now moves are based on futuristic science fiction, like Star Trek.
- Quest Time moves are based on action movies, like Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park...and anything made by Michael Bay.
- House & Home moves are based on how-to/home-building/cooking shows.
- Strobe Screen is, of course, inspired by numerous casualties induced by seizures in Japanese TV shows.
- Panoramic Standoff draws inspiration from showdowns in western movies.
- Usugata no Ken is based on Kenshiro's famous Hokuto Hyakuretsu-ken, or Hundred Crack Fist. "Usugata" means "flatscreen".
- Bullet Time's countering effect is based on the slow-motion, or "bullet time", dodges made famous by the Matrix movies.