F-Zero

### **BIO**

F-Zero is a warforged who was thrown into The Wilds about 23 years ago. Upon reactivating, F-Zero had no recollection of anything that happened to him previously. This is when he was discovered by Master Don, and studied under him for many years. One day, he met a strange knowledge cleric and a wizard and assisted them with an underlying problem. Later on that day, he encountered a succubus artificer named Eden, and joined her on her journey back to the boat. Little did F-Zero know at the time, he would stay with this adventuring party after Raas said he was cool. After dealing with the Mind Flayer incident and getting his memory chip fixed, F-Zero and the others encountered his sister, Gale. She beheaded Raas, causing Alberto and Gemini to kill her as F-Zero realized she wasn't fighting anymore. F-Zero finally learned how cruel the world could be to someone. For a while, he felt as if he couldn't trust his own allies, but soldiered onward towards The Loudspeaker's tower to fix his sister. After completing his personal mission, and recruiting a few new faces to The Redeemers, F-Zero continued trying to bond with other people on the boat. After they raided the shadow fortress to save Ragnarok, the entire boat was destroyed by a beam from the Light Eater, sending everyone flying in different directions. F-Zero, unfortunately, landed in the middle of an ocean near Strife, where he drowned and lost his entire body for the second time. While F-Zero did temporarily die, W.3.B., Drynn, and a few others worked tirelessly to revive him. After 3 years, their efforts proved to be a rousing success.

### **PERSONALITY**

F-Zero isn't a very smart individual, and has a degree of naiveté caused by not knowing much about the world. Being with the Redeemers awakened a level of sass within the warforged, often making cheeky remarks about the gaps in logic he sees. However, F-Zero has a great deal of trouble committing things to memory, even after getting the chip for it fixed. After dying, however, caused him to lose any amount of optimism he still had within him. This leads to constant brooding, and a somewhat negative, yet angry attitude regarding the current situation at hand. Another one of F-Zero's worst traits is his confidence in his abilities. He often feels like he doesn't measure up to the other Redeemers, and gets his point proven on a regular basis. F-Zero is also surprisingly tenacious (as shown when he sparred with Raas), and has a decent heart (as shown with his attempted sacrifice to save Gale). After sparring with Raas, F-Zero grew to dislike fighting as a whole, and continued to see it as a pointless endeavor. However, this didn't stop him from fighting altogether.

### **ABILITIES**

**Phantom Awakening -** After being thrown into a forest, F-Zero awakened to his inner self, a Phantom known as Silvanus. This phantom fights alongside F-Zero with every attack, and does not speak much. Its weakness is lightning, and it resists necrotic damage.

**Phantom Guard -** F-Zero increases his defenses for a short amount of time, making him harder to hit, unless the enemy lands a critical blow.

**Third Eye -** This ability allows F-Zero to be able to see things he normally cannot, but only if he focuses.

**Chaos Ball -** A manifestation of F-Zero's love for all things basketball. Sometimes, it takes the form of other sports balls. It deals necrotic damage as F-Zero throws, kicks, or spikes it.

**Phantom Evolution -** After surviving Vernegala, F-Zero's phantom evolved into Aegis. While it functions the same way, it carries a shield and vows to tap the user with it every time he suffers from his usual bad luck. Its weakness turned into a resistance, and it is immune to Necrotic damage.

**Razor Wings -** Originally belonging to Gale, F-Zero took these wings and began using them to fly, and can shoot projectiles out of them.

**Gun Arm -** F-Zero turns one of his arms into one of the various guns he holds.

**Grappling Hook -** Utilizing his gun arm, F-Zero also carries a grappling hook. While it doesn't automatically pull him, he has to reel in the wire for it to pull him into his destination.

### **RELATIONSHIPS**

#### Master Don:

Master Don is F-Zero's first ever friend, and took him in. While he often berates the Warforged for not being able to handle certain threats, he at least respects him. His wants for his student to get stronger often leads to intense training and verbal abuse, causing F-Zero to become unsure of his strength. The warforged, despite all this, thinks of Don as a father figure. After being revived, he called Don "Father" before retiring.

#### Eden:

The reason why F-Zero even knew of the Redeemers in the first place. F-Zero and Eden have a relatively chill friendship, with the latter beating him in games that require brainpower. On the basketball court, however, the succubus doesn't stand a chance. She tries anyway because she enjoys just hanging out with F-Zero, earning her the title of "Basketball Homie". She hugged him after The Redeemers reunited.

#### Raas:

F-Zero interacts with Raas more than every other Redeemer. He enjoys playing basketball with him, but feels vastly inferior to Raas due to not being as strong as he is. F-Zero once sparred with him, and was one step away from death's door soon after. He did forgive the half-dragonborn, but he never forgot. He did promise Raas that he would try a bit harder to take compliments.

#### Adelard:

F-Zero cares about Adelard, and wants him to be more receptive of incoming consequences. That being said, he absolutely cannot stand the cleric's shenanigans, and rips on him about it any chance he gets. While often being wary of the unwise knowledge cleric, F-Zero would actively fight with Adelard just to make sure he's safe from death.

#### Gemini:

F-Zero thinks Gemini is incredibly loud, but does often agree with her on certain subjects. He, like with the other Redeemers, cares about her deeply and wants to help her with her problems. She does often rip on F-Zero for being unintelligent, but he doesn't seem to hold it against her. After killing Gale, F-Zero resented her for a while, but eventually forgave her. Their friendship is mostly unspoken, but F-Zero is more than willing to help Gemini if she asks.

#### Alberto:

Alberto and F-Zero haven't interacted very much, but once Gale came into the equation, he resented the druid the most for landing the killing blow. After the whole Loudspeaker incident, the warforged began to forgive him, and actively started to care about Alberto. They still do not interact very often.

#### W.3.B:

F-Zero's current love interest. She and F-Zero have spent multiple romantic moments together, one of which ending with his chest being caved in and having to witness half of her face being melted off. The warforged's love for this spider woman is completely unconditional, leading the two to form a more intimate relationship. After waking up from death a year and a half later, F-Zero resolved himself into asking her to be his bride later down the line. F-Zero is also responsible for coming up with her nickname, "3B".

### **PLAYLIST**

#### Notable Songs

**Lazy Days by Ted Poley ~ Sonic Adventure -** This song references F-Zero's days before joining The Redeemers.

**This Machine by Julien K ~ Sonic Heroes -** This song encapsulates F-Zero as a character, as he further discovers the truth about himself, as well as his past before waking up in The Wilds.

**Through the Fire by Crush 40 ~ Sonic & the Black Knight -** This could be considered as one of F-Zero's campaign 2 battle themes. Ironically, he is (in a way) based off of Sonic the Hedgehog and him gaining a sword doesn't help the parallels.

**N. Sanity Island ~ Crash Twinsanity -** Usually, F-Zero has a lot of head empty moments, so the classic no thoughts, head-empty song has to be there.

**Metal Scratchin' (Parts 1 and 2) ~ Sonic Rush -** ...It's Metal Scratchin'. F-Zero's a robot.

**The Only Thing I Know For Real by Jamie Christopherson ~ Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance -** The sword, wings, and metal plates weren't the only things F-Zero took from Gale.

**Cannonball (Gametal Remix by Jonny Atma) ~ Mega Man Zero 3 -** F-Zero's pretty much a Mega Man character at this point.

**Mechanical Rhythm ~ Xenoblade Chronicles -** The title was just fitting, and the song's a banger.

**Engage the Enemy ~ Xenoblade Chronicles -** F-Zero needed more emotional songs on his playlists, plus it feels like a genuinely fitting song for the stronger emotional moments for this character.

**Wonderball 101 - Tables Turnover (Quad City DJs vs Platinum Star Games feat. Fort Minor) -** This song is ***THE*** F-Zero theme song. Just listen, and you'll know.

**Rivers in the Desert by Shoji Meguro, Benjamin Franklin and Lyn Inaizumi -** One of the many Persona songs for the character that has essentially just that.

**Trap Phantasm (Gametal Remix by Jonny Atma) ~ Mega Man ZX -** See Cannonball.

### **GALLERY**

Original Body (Raas Sparring Session)Before The Reign of LightPhantom Baller attireLightning Slip Suit
### **INSPIRATIONS**

* Android 16 (Dragon Ball Z)
* Raiden (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance)
* Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
* X (Mega Man X)

### **TRIVIA**

* While it is unknown how F-Zero grew hair, his last words to Eden were "Imagine having hair, couldn't be me." while she was picking up her childhood comb.
* Despite wearing so much orange, F-Zero's favorite color is actually forest green.
* F-Zero has only lost basketball games to Yggdrasil and Raas.