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Player

Name: Dragon
Personal Journal: dragonoflife
Contact Info: dragonoflife
Timezone: Eastern
Characters Played: Zecora

Character

Name: Mewtwo
Source: Pokemon anime (OU)
Type: Reaper
Canon Point: After the escape from Giovanni, before the challenge to the other Trainers.
History: He wanted to be the very best...

After his death at this point, as a cloned Pokémon Mewtwo entered the UG to find himself treated no better than Noise. He basically forced his way into the Game to prove that he could be a better Reaper than a human one. Because of this, he identifies strongly with Noise, and is studying it.

Personality: Mewtwo is one massive inferiority complex wrapped up in genocidal anger. He suffers an incredible amount of angst over being created rather than born, for a number of reasons: he feels he has no purpose for existence, humans treat him as an object rather than as a sentient being, he has the constant comparison to his biological progenitor weighing over his head...

Giovanni, more than anyone, did the most harm to Mewtwo by promising him an equal partnership, then candidly dismissing the Pokémon as simply a tool to be used. With his only experiences with humans being those who created him and those who wanted to use him, Mewtwo believes the world itself has literally no place for him, and that the only way for him to find a place is to scourge the entire world clean and make a new home for not only himself, but other cloned Pokémon.

On the note of creating a world for clones, one might assume that the Pokémon battles he challenged the human trainers to were means for him to acquire more clones, and certainly they accomplish that purpose. But it also serves as both a petty, unnecessary dig at humans and the Pokémon they use, and a boasting assessment of his own superiority. (See: massive inferiority complex.) When the plan breaks down with Mew's arrival, Mewtwo hypocritically does exactly what he hated humanity for -- he treats his clone Pokémon as things, setting them into a painful and miserable battle purely for self-aggrandizement.

Although Mewtwo claims to hate humanity for using Pokémon, his response to the idea that a Pokémon could voluntarily work with a human as a friend is to despite that Pokémon for their weakness and foolishness. He's also quick to write off every single wild Pokémon in existence, apparently for the crime of not being a clone. Despite the horrific depths to which he intends to stoop, though, he isn't doing any of this out of evil -- though it IS evil, unquestionably. He's very, very lost and trying to find himself by raw force and strength, which are the only things he understands.

Abilities: Mewtwo has several Pokémon moves: Psychic, which is a direct mental energy attack; Barrier, which shields him from harm; Shadow Ball, which is a gathered-and-tossed energy attack; and Disable, although Mewtwo's version of it is substantially more powerful than the usual move, as it is capable of completely shutting down every move every Pokémon around can use.

Mewtwo is also powerfully telekinetic, to the point that he can summon a storm that would have been capable of literally wiping out advanced life on the planet, had it been allowed to progress. Telekinetic flight is second nature for him.

Mewtwo communicates only telepathically. Canon is unclear on whether or not this bypasses language -- he understands Pikachu, but then again, Pokémon are apparently universal translators for each other anyway. His telepathic power is such that he can completely dominate another person mentally, turning them essentially into a puppet.

He also apparently has extensive architecture and engineering knowledge, considering he was able to build his own fortress on New Island, presumably out of the lab wreckage there. He also has enough knowledge to not only rebuild the cloning facilities but improve them to the point that they can generate improved Pokémon clones in minutes flat.


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[Other Harriers ought to know not to interfere with the Pokémon as he shoots over the city with singleminded purpose, the slight glow around his form the only sign that he's exerting himself at all. ]

[He had missions. First, eliminate every Player possible -- both for the satisfaction of doing so, and to deny other Reapers their numbers for their own life tallies. Second... find the Composer.]

[The first is admittedly easier.]

[Spotting a lone Player below, Mewtwo drops out of the sky abruptly, already gathering energy to summon Noise.]

Your existence here is at an end.

[...As much as he might like to boast about how they will fall in combat with the strongest Reaper in existence, so long as he uses common Noise instead of his clone Pins, he recognized that the Players still have a reasonable chance of success. For now, he plays by the rules. Waiting to make his move, to claim the Game itself and the power of the Composer.]