Muteki Fomorian King B: Super Robot

Basically something the style of super robot shows like Mazinger, Voltron, G Gundam, and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Complications like natural laws and common sense are thrown out the window and trampled on in favor of metaphor, character and emotional focus, fist being shot like missiles, laser beam eyes, people yelling really loud, and the occasional JAM Project song. To me, there is little more GAR.

Muteki Fomorian King B: Excuse Plot

In the year 200XX, a discovery made in the Aztec ruins which were jumped upon by a group of Japanese archeologist, and by another in the Egyptian ruins. Tablets and hieroglyphics telling of giants and powerful suits of armor, all of which strikingly similar, and all giving what seemed to be instructions left for the royal families or when another “crisis” happened. These discoveries were kept under wraps, quickly seized by the Japanese government, with similar findings also obtained by a bribed British team who searched the Mesopotamian ruins. The translation process took long enough, but soon the realization came that what they were dealing with was beyond that of their current scientist.

That was until the very eccentric, very childish, and quite possibly insane Dr. Tadashi Hiraga was on the job. Where others were stumped for a year, he found solution in a month. He was quickly given the upmost attention by the Special Defense Force, to which he demanded that children from military families be taken and trained as pilots for the future recreations of the ancient giants, or Fomorians, as he called them.

Ten years later, the Fomorians are all complete, and the pilots ready to handle them. But more importantly, it looks like they are going to be needed. Two weeks ago, a string of meteors have been reported to have fallen at the islands with surprising frequency, shortly followed by what has been reported as a kaiju attack. The two attackers were suppressed by regular SDF forces, if just barely, to the surprise that the things changed into something that looked quite human- the subjects have been under heavy interrogation and testing since. With more of the buggers expected, Dr. Hiraga is just plain giddy.

Kaiju

The first compatible organism, the only known one being human, that one of the “meteors” comes in contact is targeted by it. If it is successful, they enter a symbiotic relationship. Even though the host at least initially keeps it’s individual mind, they fuse into a single organism. A tell tale mark is always present on the host, such as a third eye, one arm being completely covered in scales, or something else related to his or her monster form.

When the host is danger, it rapidly grows into monstrous form, comparable in size to Fomorian. Of course, the natural name for the Japanese public to call such a thing is a Kaiju (ex. Godzilla), which roughly translates into “mysterious monster“. Human language sees impossible for a Kaiju, though they automatically seem to learn their own “Kaiju” language which can be crudely spoken in human tongue. Kaiju are even further connection in that they can sense when another or their kind transforms into or out of the monstrous form. When the body feels as if it is out of danger or simply too weak to fight any longer, the Kaiju passes out and changes back into the human form.

Lastly, it should be noted that a Kaiju’s destructive power greatly varies; although adrenaline is part of it, strong emotions seem greatly correlated with it’s strength. In other words, the more afraid/ fired up/ etc. a Kaiju is in its monster form, the more powerful it is.

SDF Fomorians

A Fomorian pilot and Kaiju are like night and day. A pilot relies manual control, and teamwork with their fellow SDF pilots, and have all training for the SDF since children to skillfully use their individual Fomorians. Being mechanical, Fomorians each have at least one alternate form, such as an animal, vehicle or weapon, making them more adaptable. Range from eighteen to twenty four meters tall in humanoid form. Being repairable and possessing an ejectable cockpit also makes a Fomorian safer. The differences in styles are particularly obvious in the SDF’s trump card, the ability of the Fomorians to combine into an even more powerful robot, Muteki Fomorian King B.

But of course, these come with some big drawbacks. Fomorian needs regular maintenance, only able to be launched at the SDF headquarters. And while Muteki Fomorian King B is more powerful than the sum of it’s parts, it being in the trial phase, and the sheer strain on each Fomorian to maintain the mode means that it can only be used as a desperation move. It would explode if used for too long.

Note: controlling the combined form would be managed by the pilot players taking turns controlling the actions of the robot, even though they ICly only control a specific section of it (legs, torso, head, etc.). It could be too cumbersome to for each player to only control one section of the robot.