PLAYER INFO.
✖ Handle: Col
✖ Contact: plurk @ colster
✖ Are You Over 16: Yes
✖ Other Characters Played in Consignment: None

CHARACTER INFO.
✖ Character Name: Aran, Samus
✖ Canon: Metroid – Post Metroid Fusion
✖ Character Appearance: Both with and without her suit
✖ Character Age: No canon age given explicitly, assuming 30-31
✖ Pick A Number: 886, 717

✖ Canon Setting:
Metroid takes place in a futuristic, sci-fi setting across a wide variety of planets in what is presumably the Milky Way. Advanced technology, space travel, and even powered armor is commonplace in this universe. Humans have taken hold of other parts of the Galaxy, and Earth colonies exist. We've got three main stakeholders in this game: the Galactic Federation, the Space Pirates, and the Chozo.

The Chozo are a race of ancient and powerful bird-like aliens, who possess technology extremely advanced beyond other parts of the Galaxy and ultimately end up adopting and raising Samus They are unlike humans, almost to a frustrating extreme. They rely heavily on meditation and discipline as a society. The Chozo had colonies across the Galaxy, but due to long life spans and low reproductive rates were ultimately dying off. As a society, they were mostly benevolent, looking mostly to preserve a universe of peace as demonstrated by the fact that they took mercy on a young Samus after her home colony was attacked and parents killed. They had some prophetic abilities, but were imperfect in their visions as they see themselves as guardians of the Galaxy, but ultimately were responsible for some of its most destructive forces through their efforts.

While attempting to colonize a new planet, the Chozo discovered an extremely destructive organism, the X-Parasite. X-Parasites can infect a host and mimic their DNA, mutating into their prey or just eventually killing it. In response to the X-Parasite, the Chozo developed the Metroids – an energy sucking organism perfectly engineered to destroy the X-Parasite. They also built Mother Brain, a hyper-advanced AI to control the Metroids.

Mother Brain, however, thought herself more useful to the Galaxy than storing data and controlling Metroids for the Chozo. She defects to the Space Pirates, an incredibly large group of aliens that specialize mostly in brute force. Unlike the Chozo, they colonize planets by force and wreak havoc on human colonies for their resources (notably the human colony where Samus was born), and slaughter their inhabitants. They aren’t particularly intelligent, but with strong leadership, Mother Brain sees them, as well as the Metroids, as an important tool in her galactic power grab. She uses the Space Pirates to devastate one of the last remaining Chozo colonies where Samus was raised. Ultimately, Mother Brain has larger ambitions. She wants to use the Space Pirates as her personal army against our third player, the Galactic Federation, to rid the Galaxy of “lesser” species.

The last major player is the Galactic Federation. The Galactic Federation is the primary governing body in the Metroid Universe with colonies across the Galaxy, numerous space stations, huge fleets, and is based on the Capital Planet, Daiban. It has formal political, military, and police components as well as contracting freelance agents like Samus quite often. The Galactic Federation is predominately human, and thus in constant struggle with the Space Pirates as they terrorize human colonies and resources. The freelancers, or bounty hunters, work independently, assigned to missions that are too dangerous for Federation forces, like eliminating Space Pirate infestations. Of course, by their nature, freelancers and bounty hunters are not bound to the Federation, but bounty hunters are not inherently immoral for choosing to work outside of the formal authoritarian system in the Metroid universe.

Being the governing body of the Galaxy, the Federation also had altruistic roots, like the Chozo, to protect their domain. However, over time their motivations have become less benign, especially demonstrated in Samus’ encounters with them. Although they had contracted Samus to exterminate Metroids, they later revive the species through experimental cloning with the intent of using them as a bioweapons. The Federation also went as far to try and create another AI to control the Metroids: their own personal Mother Brain. It’s unclear if were isolated incidents of independently acting lab groups, or if the corruption within the Federation runs deeper. However, two instances of blatantly using her to restore a weapon of mass destruction in the Galaxy are certainly enough for Samus to question her allegiance to the Federation.

Samus has deep personal ties to all three players, as they have all shaped her lives in different ways that make her, ultimately, a woman dedicated to protecting the Galaxy. Her journey has brought her to the job of an independent bounty hunter. She leaves the Chozo to join the Federation, wanting to more good for the Galaxy then spending her days constantly training and meditating – and ultimately leaves the Federation, wanting to do more good for the Galaxy without the constraints and red tape of formal military structure.

✖ Character History: Here is a wiki page, but here are the highlights that are still probably too long to be considered highlights…

The short of it: Everything Samus touched exploded

But here's some highlights:

Samus Aran was born to a miner and his wife on an Earth colony. She was a curious young girl and befriended an old Chozo when they traveled to the colony. Shortly after, the colony was attacked by Space Pirates. Samus watched her mother and father brutally murdered by the Space Pirate commander, Ridley. Afterwards, the same group of Chozo took pity on her and brought her to their planet, Zebes. Because of Zebes' harsh environment, Samus had to undergo genetic augmentation to survive.

Two Chozo in particular, Old Bird and Gray Voice, raised Samus and instilled in her the same sense of duty and protection that guided the Chozo. While still young, and perhaps a bit hot-headed, she is a promising capable warrior and gifted her iconic power suit. However, in the extreme wisdom that often graces most 14/15 year old humans, Samus decides she can direct her training better than the Chozo. She left the proverbial nest while still young and moved on to join the Galactic Federation.

Despite her age (and on some level, naivety), she rose through the ranks quickly. It's during this time that Space Pirates invade Zebes under the direction of Mother Brain. Samus was on a Federation assignment with her platoon at the time, but disobeyed orders in order to return to Zebes and protect her home. Despite her best efforts, Samus couldn't save her Chozo "fathers" and the Space Pirates take control of Zebes. Gray Voice's last request mimics the benevolence of the Chozo, asking Samus to protect as many people in this galaxy as possible.

She returns to the Federation, but after a few years of serving, she leaves, feeling angered by the formal military command and structure. One of her teammates was sent to his death following while orders from their commander, his brother. Made worse, Samus was specifically ordered not to initiate rescue efforts. Years later, she reflects on this and understands her former Commanding Officer’s decision, as her rescue attempts would have likely led to her own death, but at the time it is enough to prompt her to pursue a life of bounty hunting instead of the strict life of regulations and authority in the military.

Samus goes on to gain an almost legendary reputation as a bounty hunter. Despite having left their military, she continues to take missions for the Federation as they fit well with her personal mission, protect as many as possible. She's more than capable of taking the jobs otherwise thought suicidal (all while killing countless numbers of space pirates and overcoming exposure to dangerous radiation among other things). It takes her across the Galaxy, to other Chozo settlements where she learns about their past, and even back to her de facto home world, Zebes, several times.

Samus is eventually tasked with exterminating the Metroids as a whole, which she does, save for one hatchling. Finding it not unlike herself, a single member of an otherwise lost race, she disobeys orders to destroy it and brings it back to Federation scientists, hoping that it could do some good.

She eventually receives another distress call about a Space Pirate attack on a space station. She decides to return to Zebes, which has become the main Space Pirate operations HQ. She infiltrates the base to fight their leader, Mother Brain, but becomes seriously injured during the fight. Near death, the Baby Metroid she had saved earlier attacks Mother Brain to save Samus. While Mother Brain then kills the Baby Metroid, Samus is able to fight back and destroy Mother Brain, triggering the base’s self-destruct sequence, ultimately destroying her once home.

After some time, Samus finds herself working with the Federation more directly again. She meets her former platoon while both are investigating an abandoned space craft. She uncovers a Federation effort to recreate Mother Brain's AI for use in controlling Metroids. Her former commanding officer sacrifices himself to destroy the AI as well the Metroid propagation laboratory, urging her to continue forward and fight on.

However, in the complete absence of the Metroid, the X-Parasite had begun to take hold again in the Galaxy again. Samus was hired as a body guard for some Federation scientists when she is attacked by the X-parasite. After being in a coma for two months and cured through a Metroid “vaccine” sourced from the Baby Metroid, the Federation has her continue her investigation, given a new AI to guide her.

Samus discovers a restricted lab dedicated to another Federation breeding program, which she promptly destroys – again against Federation orders. The Federation takes an interest in the X-Parasite as well, seeing their bioweapon potential and orders Samus to cease her efforts as she’s essentially abandoned on this planet to die without backup. For the good of the Galaxy, Samus initiates the laboratory’s self-destruct sequence, ultimately destroying it and the planet where X-Parasites originated, but not before her Metroid-like abilities from being infused in their DNA to absorb an X-Parasite. She remained as the sole reservoir for Chozo, Metroid, and X-Parasite DNA. She is clearly unhappy with the actions of the Federation. The Federation's reaction towards her is left ambiguous, but it is likely that she will face huge consequences for her actions, possibly alienating all of her Federation allies in the process.

Body count: 2 entire species, 4 planets, a handful of space stations, and way too many space pirates to count.

✖ Character Personality:

Dubbed simply as “The Hunter” by her main foes, the Space Pirates, Samus is an unstoppable force in the Galaxy and a harbinger of her own personal brand of justice. She is capable of massive annihilation, and what uninvolved parties might see as merciless slaughter. She’s able to drive entire species to extinction, and entire planets being destroyed in her wake. In Metroid Prime, a few Federation Marines debate on whether or not she’s even real. She’s a warrior and on some level a weapon, pointed in one direction with unwavering laser focus. She’s led by a fierce sense of duty, instilled upon her by the Chozo: Protect the Galaxy. And she does so, enduring personal sacrifice and hardships to fulfill the promise to her long-dead guardians.

Obviously, Samus’ relationship with authority is a complicated one, which will certainly play out within this setting. She enjoys the freedom of bounty hunting, actively choosing it after she watched a member of her Platoon die because of his direct orders to do his job and Samus’ direct orders to attempt no rescue. She is not totally incapable of working within the system. She works closely under Federation contracts throughout most of the games, but her own personal mission always takes precedence and red-tape and regulations are obstacles that hold her back needlessly, in her opinion. Even when she was enlisted in the Federation, she left her reconnaissance post to save a young girl from space pirate enslavement. She took a Federation vehicle without authorization to reach Zebes faster when the Space Pirates attack. She even points her arm cannon at her commanding officer when she thought he would stand in the way of reaching the Chozo during the attack. She destroyed Federation laboratories and research because she thought it posed too great a threat to the Galaxy, which leaves her in a truly tricky spot where she is undoubtedly going to face retribution from the Federation after the events of Metroid Fusions. Her true loyalty is to her duty of protecting the Galaxy, and no allegiance could ever be greater than that.
Within CDC, following mission orders she does not agree with will be her greatest struggle. While she has the advantage of being a professional hired gun, she has a true comprehension of what massive destruction they are inflicting on these planets, especially carrying the weight of being personally responsible for wiping out multiple species and her own home planet. Insubordination and following CDC leadership will likely be chief problems for Samus in the game. She won’t trust the leadership, especially after being burned multiple times by the Federation, but she won’t antagonize them from the start. She can anticipate the consequences of her actions. She’ll display restraint when she needs to, but act drastically when the situation calls for it.

Samus can be an extremely difficult person to get to know, but don’t mistake aloofness for detachment. Underneath that hard shell is an intense and unrivaled commitment to protecting life in the Galaxy, even if she is a major force of destruction. And it’s certainly not easy to yield that sort of destruction, either. Maintaining the balance between being a weapon and being a force of good has caused a lot of emotional turmoil. She can blink planets and species out of existence. Consciously, she abides by her duty, but when operating outside the direction of strictly stated laws and left to her own interpretation of Chozo will, it can be hard to reconcile if her decisions are correct or if she’s moving the Galaxy forward in a way it needs to go. Compound that with the fact that she's literally watched her friends and surrogate family die for her ability to continue forward, and the result is an almost unimaginable responsibility as if carrying the weight of the whole galaxy on her shoulders wasn't enough. Still, her adamantine will and righteous fury carry her through bearing the burdens that would cause lesser men and women to crack. She doesn't find her resolve particularly notable, though, and it’s not something she’s consciously developed. She’s simply adopted and honed it out of necessity. If that’s what it takes to survive, to get through to the next mission, she’ll do it. Whatever it takes to move forward.

Samus is a bit of a loner, having been raised totally outside of human society by the Chozo and then thrust straight into the staunch military life. She prefers to work alone, as is the nature of the bounty hunting profession she has chosen. As a teenager her squadmates joked while she was laser-focused on her mission. Even as an adult, she offers no response her fellow bounty hunter’s quips. She is private and controlled. It’s a necessity in her life. Her reputation as a literal legendary bounty hunter is dependent on it. While she has emotions, happiness and sorrow as inwardly intense as any other person, they run quiet and deep and are often hidden away, sometimes even ignored by herself. She has seen many dead soldiers and comrades, some like her Commanding Officer who sacrifice themselves for her mission, and is only afforded brief moments to reflect on them. She must move forward. While it would be easy for her to get drown in the sorrow and trauma that’s plagued her life, she presses forward as a stoic hero consistently completing her mission no matter their personal emotional toll, even if it means destroying her home.

She does get swept up in it on occasion, prone to feeling a painful sense of loneliness if her mind is left idle too long, as she is shown in the Metroid manga as an adult to brood quietly by herself in her quarters—perhaps many sleepless nights have been caused because of her mission. Displays of her emotions are rare, but they stem from her passion, hurt, and sacrifice. She numbs them through physical exhaustion or channels it into a force that pushes her forward.
Compassion runs deep within her, but is displayed equally rarely. She is motivated solely by compassion for the Galaxy as a whole, by the task her Chozo fathers gifted upon her to protect it. she happens upon the Baby Metroid, she finds it much like herself—something created for good, capable of massive destruction living totally alone in this galaxy—and she spares its life. Despite her nature, she could for deep relationships with those she finds similar to her. Even with their differences, her former Commanding Officer became a confidant and trusted ally as an adult when she realized how truly devoted he was to serving the greater good of their galaxy.

In short, Samus is an emotionally complex woman with a fierce sense of loyalty and unwavering commitment that run strong, down to her very core. Previous experience has left her a bit mistrusting and distant, but she fights for what (and who) she believes in. If nothing else, she's tenacious and unyielding even in the face of extreme adversity.

✖ Character Powers & Skills: Samus has undergone extreme physical training as well as some biological augmentation to increase her abilities as a warrior. While the details are vague in canon, Samus has heightened strength, speed, agility, and flexibility because of her rigorous training. These elements push the limits of human capabilities, and are only increased by her augmentations.

Additionally, she is adapted to harsher conditions because of her Chozo DNA. She can survive in hotter and more arid (almost extreme desert-like) conditions that most humans would not be able to withstand. While she also happens to currently be a cocktail of other DNA from her space-faring adventures, those don't manifest themselves as obviously. Her only clear affect from those is a susceptibility to cold, which would likely be corrected in CDC medical anyway.

She has military training in strategy and is skilled in hand-to-hand combat. She can handle a gun and has a decently accurate shot. She favors pistols and automatic rifles over long-range snipers. However, her weapon of choice is her arm cannon, which I've outlined below in the weapons section with her other Varia Suit functions.

CHARACTER SAMPLES.
✖ First Person POV:

Top level with Falcon, Raidan, and Shadow the Hedgehog
Tag-in with Vegeta
Tag-in with Kasumi

✖ Third Person POV:
This was a targeted recruitment, she knew that much.

Blowing up planets, after all, was what she was known for. It made her an equally famous and infamous bounty hunter. Her eyes narrowed suspiciously at her contact across the table. She normally didn’t take such meetings, but there were some extenuating circumstances that led her out to the peripheries of this system, usually the stomping grounds of bounty hunters far more desperate for jobs than she.

The name of the game was laying-low, though, so she resorted to picking up few easy jobs while she waited for the storm to pass, her trademark armor hidden away for the moment as not to cause any undue to herself. She meets him in a non-descript bar. He had found her anyway. He slid a card across the table with the organization’s name.

“I haven’t heard of it,” Samus presses her fingertips into the card, sliding it slowly back across the table to him.

“We specialize in a lot of the same things as you,” he smiles. The implication is there, though, that he knows exactly who she is, tapping a datapad in front of him. Her eyes narrow suspiciously. Her contact smiles from his drink, eyes flicking over to the muted bar tele-screen. The News Vids had it on repeat: Samus Aran Destroys Federation Space Station and Planet. Has Samus Aran violated Galactic Security? Samus Aran: The New Threat. It was perfect timing if it wasn’t being constantly replayed on every channel.

“Saw what you did with SR388. Nice work. Very efficient,” her contact continued. His cavalier attitude infuriated her, but she’s too busy scanning the bar to see what attention he’s grabbed from loudly announcing a recently destroyed planet. A few drunks glance over from their spots at the bar. She clenches her teeth, shooting her recruiter another sharp glance.

“You need to lay low. We can give you a place to do it,” he shrugs. “Be a shame if you got blamed for any more disappearing planets. Especially one like Daiban. I suppose a disappearing Capital Planet might solve your Fed problems, but cause a few others.”

She grunts flatly at him. He’s bluffing. He flips the datapad to a strategic plan detailing stealth fleets positioned around Daiban with live feeds of information, notes on the Federation command structure, surveillance data for high-security rooms, override codes for Council Room locks… Even if not enough to destroy the planet, enough to stage an attack on the Federation’s leadership.

Her lips purse tightly, with a protracted pause. She finally opens her mouth to respond, she’s literally stuck. Either go with and pledge allegiance to this or stay and be (maybe rightfully) blamed for the deaths of billions more. Certainly would secure her fate here.

“I don’t have much of a choice, do I?” She offers him, halfway between a scoff and a hiss. Unfoundedly manipulative. He’s hit her in all the right spots, no point in keeping her temper flare down to prevent unwanted attention.

“Come lay low with us,” he grins.

“Fine,” she offers through clenched teeth. She tenses visibly when he offers a congratulatory clap on the shoulder. What an auspicious beginning to her new job.

CHARACTER ITEMS.
✖ Pick a Team:
Red: Samus is obviously a trained warrior with experience acting alone to neutralize threats. She can go charging into action at a moment’s notice with little prep and still come out successful. Samus is particularly good at the “always working” bit, considering she derives much of her identity from her job and guiding mission.

Green: Straight assault and defense also fall within Samus’ skillset and may be more ideologically easier for her to conform to, as defense support for her fellow enlistees is a slightly nobler endeavor in her mind.

✖ Reason for Joining the CDC:
Samus has an obvious skillset that makes her suited to the CDC: strong, driven, and capable of causing massive amounts of destruction without becoming an emotional wreck, all good candidates for someone who needs to blow up planets, which I think would lead to an interesting targeted sort of recruitment.

More interesting though (at least OOC…), is her attitude towards authority and the struggle she’ll have with following strict orders with leadership that she doesn’t trust, especially coming off the end of Metroid Fusion when she has been honestly sort of betrayed by a military institution she has been generally loyal to. I think that dynamic will be interesting as she attempts to avoid IC consequences. She is also joining full disclosure (albeit through some coercion and the opportunity to lay low from her home galaxy’s military that is presumably perusing her now), so the leadership will be leaving a sour taste in her mouth from the beginning. She will do her job but that doesn’t mean she has to like it.

Ultimately, she will likely act out in some sort of insubordination after a slow build. Depending on her in-game actions, I can totally envision her being put on gray team for IC reasons or face even worse consequences (which I’m totally cool with).

✖ Mission Freebie: Her personal gunship.

✖ Personal Item or Weapon: 

Her Varia Suit will be her weapon.

I'm limiting Varia Suit functions to the following things (and considering having her ask for upgrades as mission rewards in the future if that's possible)

• The Power Beam, a basic energy based shot with no ammo limit.


• The Charge Beam, which is an extension of the power beam and allows her to build up energy based shots to be more powerful.


• The Morph Ball, which lets Samus roll around in a ball... More useful than you'd think!


• The Morph Ball Bombs, which are energy based and fairly weak, but allow her to launch herself short distances while in morph ball form.

Beyond the specific functions I've outlined above, her suit does protect her from even harsher elements such as extreme heat or noxious chemicals (to a point). It acts as an enhancement to her speed and strength as well.

In general, Samus' power suit never explained in great detail, but it is implied to have some biological components but isn't parasitic in nature. She can materialize and dematerialize it at will, and it can function as a sort of “second skin.” In her universe, the power suit is a highly unique piece of specialized technology. It's extremely modular, she's able to modify and add power ups, even during missions.

✖ Character Inventory:

Zero suit, red hair tie.