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Barricade [Bayverse] ([personal profile] namesnotprowl) wrote in [community profile] singularityooc2011-07-02 12:31 am
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How YOU doin'?

This is Jayde, back again with a new character (or rather an old character), and breaking the mold a bit because he isn't a silent video game protagonist. Instead, he's a snarky alien robot that finds you squishies marvelously entertaining. Especially when he chases you.

This is Barricade, that one cop car from that movie about those transforming robots. He's showing up after his stint in [livejournal.com profile] axiomnexus, which is basically what would happen if Sacrosanct was run by giant robots and covered in red tape. He's showing up with medical knowledge of most Cybertronians, regardless of reality (since all of them showed up in the Nexus), a useless comm bolt, and a new and improved face. Basically he went from this to this, but he still has four optics. And his holoform is semi-solid and looks like the T-1000 from Terminator 2. Oops?

ALSO, he is prone to making pop culture references. What does this mean? Possible fourth-walling. Anything from the summer of 2009 and earlier is potential fodder for him. So this is also serving as a permission post for that.
Are you okay with him knowing your character's canon? Are you not? COMMENT! If it's any consolation, his canon is technically fourth-walled IN his canon (silly ARGs), so he's unlikely to directly mention that their canon is a book/movie/video game/whatever. And he is fourth-wallable by anyone that could logically recognize the Decepticon symbol on his police shield (which is right in front of his door in vehicle mode and up on his pauldron as a tire guard in his base mode).

I will hopefully be posting a log with him tomorrow so everyone can go bug the car that's randomly sitting in Some Zone. Fair warning: if you get in his cab, he will lock the doors and drive you around like a maniac at dangerous speeds. He won't hurt anyone, he's just out to scare some folks because he loves doing that and it's been so long since he had any stupid monkeys to play with.

[identity profile] teal-deer.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
OK SO

Homestuck technically started in April '09, but at the time nobody knew what the fuck it was and it was an obscure webcomic and most of the characters (the trolls) weren't even in it yet.

That said, you'd also want to talk to the other Kid players about if it's OK (I... still somehow doubt Barricade would know an obscure webcomic but idefk)



ON THE OTHER HAND, SHODAN is from the System Shock series, which is from the 90s, and he is welcome to go LOL YOU'RE THAT LADY? FROM THOSE GAMES?

[identity profile] memorymodus.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Technically he could know MS Paint Adventures, as that was around and even the kids know it's A Thing. They would just think he was talking about the Midnight Crew!

[identity profile] puppetfetishist.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
THIS IS TRUE

hell I think Bro is even a fan of And It Don't Stop in canon; or at least his wallpapers are covered in it

[identity profile] memorymodus.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Homestuck: the canon that you can fourth wall without the characters actually knowing that they're being fourth walled.

[identity profile] puppetfetishist.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
IDK BARRICADE I GUESS IT IS JUST MY NATURAL CHARM????