Retro Stratus

## The Player

Artwork By: GZ\_Animation

***"Yo! Game On, Player!"***

- Retro Stratus

## Biography

Retro Stratus is another confident character of the entire series and novels of the Unknown Wonders series. He is a Arcade Hip-Hop Aliens known as the Arcaders that Retro truly is. He loves to Breakdance and play video game and play at the Arcade Machine place in Hip-Hop-Tropia.

## Appearance

He wears a long dark purple beanie and a dark purple sweater with gray armor vest on the chest with the space invader logo on it and a white B-boy slip on shoes he always loves to rock.

## Personality

Retro is nice, calm and kind hip-hop arcade alien loving person, a kind-hearted individual who cares deeply for his arcade loving hip-hop friends and his Crew. He enjoys playing in the arcade the most and breakdancing, his hobby is hanging out with the crew and friends, likes to play video games and arcades for the sake of fun and enjoyment.

His favorite animals are bunnies and rabbits because he is really a bunny lover and has a female pet bunny he found on earth and calls her “Button” and doesn’t mind dogs as well. He likes listening to 80s hip-hop and retro electro, most likely listening to 80s Synthwave and Chillwave while poppin’ n’ lockin' and breakin’.

His favorite food is extra pepperoni cheesy pizza, Cheesy double meat Burger and dessert is chocolate cake, cookie's and cream ice cream, fudge, and Peanut Butter Chocolate flavor deserts.

## Weapons/Equipments

**Lazer Rifle:** It is a futuristic arcaded alien-themed rifle that shoots cyan particles which can bounce on walls. It has medium-high damage, a mediocre fire rate for an automatic weapon, low capacity, and low mobility which Retro created this weapon for good firing weapon with game codes inside this asault rifle. This weapon shoots cyan pixelated particles that take the form of small cubes that leave small trails. These pixelated particles can bounce off of walls and have a slow bullet travel time for an automatic weapon. These particles are shot automatically from the weapon's nozzle.

**8-Bit Raygun:** It is an alien themed pistol that shoots a light blue pixelated cube laser beam with the Ricochet attribute. It possesses high damage, medium fire rate, average capacity, and good mobility. This weapon emits a light cyan pixelated laser beam with instant bullet travel time (hitscan) that is visible to opponents. This laser beam can bounce through walls and can pierce through enemy targets.

**Computerize Arcade MG:** It is an arcade-themed machine gun that shoots red bullets in three directions. It has very good damage, a good fire rate, good capacity, and low mobility. It is 8-10 shots but if all 3 shots hit then it’s 3 shots. This machine gun, shooting from its single nozzle, emits red bullets in three directions as these bullets are shot automatically, given that it is a machine gun and these bullets can also slow down the target when it hits them. This weapon deals increasing damage if more than one bullet lands on an opponent at a time.

**Joystick:** His combat weapon instead of using firearms is an arcade joystick piton and turns into light daggers when he is fully endangered or in case of an emergency or anything he feels like.

**Coin Slot Blades:** He carries quarter and coins as he throws sharp bladed coin slots of quarter coins like a ninja star with b-boy combat combination while breakdancing and fighting.

**Skee-Ball:** Retro will throw and roll a skee-ball and pops when the skee-ball explodes into fragments that sharp piercing threw the enemies like a samurai sword and also explodes with frags.

**Claw Machine:** Retro will use and throw a Claw like a claw machine to grab an opponent or either bring them back or slam them to the floor and sometimes the claw machine will turn spikes in the center to kill the opponent just like Scorpion from mortal kombat.

## Capabilities

Retro Stratus can alter the laws of physics to mimic any and all video games and this arcade plus gaming power can give him a wide variety of abilities of video games. Retro is able to perform or cast a rare variety of arcade magic spells and feats that relates to games, video games and arcades.

## Skills

**Video Game Mastery:** is a master of video games, possessing immense knowledge of them, with keen eye for details, strategic mind, unbendable determination and confidence. He know how a video game works down to the core, how it plays, and do not need to learn anything about it, effectively and immediately mastering the video game when he play it.

Retro have an intuitive mastery of all the associated video game skills and techniques granting them major leverage in any video game situation. Retro can perfectly and without a single flaw or mistake play any and every type of video game there is, was and will ever be, whenever they want with zero effort by themselves in a short amount of time.

Retro is so good at playing video games, he can play any video game perfectly. He can easily play so flawlessly that it instantly hooks everyone that’s sees it and every person that’s sees it instantly thinks it’s the very peak of video gaming. Each feature Retro plays in a video game will be objectively and unanimously perfect in every facet aspect and detail. Each video game Retro plays will have be an immediate unmatched success in every way. This also allows Retro to dominate any and every video game-based competition on any and every competition level at any time in all aspects easily.

## Powers

**Pixel Manipulation:** Retro can manipulate and tear apart attacks, pixels of people, energy blasts, along with anything else pixel related cubes and bites. Retro can also manipulate the very air, turning the particles into small rgb pixels and invoking them with any form of power, allowing him to form anything he desires.

**Heads-Up Display:** Retro can create or see a heads-up display containing information about the world around them, allowing them to perceive data without requiring him to look away from his usual viewpoints. This includes his own and others' health gauges, magic gauges, stamina gauges, power gauges, minimaps, etc. Retro might also be capable of identifying everything in another person's combat arsenal such as magic spells, magic weapons and forms of martial arts.

**Glitching:** The nature of Retro's gaming glitch allowed him to teleport himself from one nearby location, to another, in the blink of an eye. Upon learning to control this ability, Retro would use it as an in-game power-up that was simply titled "The Glitch Player" by gamers.

**Arcaded Blasters:** He will summon the smalls ones will come from corners, These mini arcade blasters can fire beams that travel at the same speed as a normal Arcade Blaster but these beams instead completely paralyze a target by destroying the concept of movement and speed within the target making them unable to move or go at any speeds making them completely still.

**Arcaded Projectiles:** A special kind of game projection made from game codes. On hit, the entity's code is completely destroyed instantly as these projectiles are a mixture of game codes pixelated cube orbs.

**Lazer-Beam:** Retro will shot lazer-beam from his fingers that the ray is more of a consistent beam than just a single fire, and can be swung around and it is also far weaker than the normal laser beam, but if shot at a living being, it will shatter its body into pixelated cubes and bites with no chance of escape, or turn them into an pixelated files and the beam can be produced from Retro extra in his palm for a quick shot reload.

**Electronic Eclypse:** This technique on his visor, the antenna glows yellow and this powers to absorb and create photons of light, heat, and energy it sparks and shoots it from his hand while busting a move. This means he can emit rays of light as well as energy beams from his Visor from the solar and lunar eclipse for the moon.

**Gravitar:** He will use Gravitar jump from his hip-hop sneakers instead of using his jet shoes, when using it, the gravity on his sneakers turns on and floats with zero moon gravity but sometimes he only uses them when he feels like it or sometimes use it for fun.

**Power-Up Manipulation:** He can create, shape and manipulate any sort of power-ups, objects that add benefits or extra abilities on his own will.

**Arcade Buttons:** Retro will use different types of arcade button controllers on his electro bracelet to create so he can use this as his good adantage and great gaming skills in his defense and offence for example:

* **Purple Button:** The purple arcade button will summin an indestructible pixelated shield around himself for a limit amount of time unleas he master it.
* **Orange Button:** One of his best abilities for fighting, the Zero Point Energy gloves literally freezes the targets and removes the gravity making them easy to throw around with one beam.

* **Blue Button:** The blue arcade button when he pushes it will give him instant 1-UP healing and instant invisibkillsility for him or give the gaming invisibility to his friends or allies which this button will buff their powers and their abilities.

* **Green Button:** The green arcade button when he pushes it, are used in correlation with the blue button, using extracted statistics to also boost them as this arcade button color is essentially a method of healing. Retro can heal himself from major and serious and fatal injuries including fatal wounds, when he’s down from fighting the opponent, even when he’s getting tired out from a battle he is in.

* **White Button:** This usual set of arcade button as this is used specifically for the purpose of draining data and code from Arcade world. From excessive training, he then discovered the ability to siphon data from entities with SOUL's, as well, allowing him to restrict mana, defence, health and energy.
* **Yellow Button:** The yellow arcade buttom that Retro will pause and freezed the opponent with the power of game pause, it can stop time while being unaffected themselves, or may also allow others to be unaffected. If he moves before this ability ceases, it would appear to everyone that he teleported.
* **Black Button:** The black arcade button on the power game controller braclet that when he pushes that button, he can lower the opponent's ability powers and stamina, he can get rid of lives and make the opponents weaker and a chance to defeat the opponent easily.

**Extra-Life:** When he is down, Retro will use this ability to revive himself from his serious injuries and very low stamina to recover for himself and others when they are down.

**Space Invaders:** He can use pixel 8-bit little attack drones to defend or attack them with 8-bit shooter shaped like arcade characters like Galaga, Galaxians, Space Invaders, Defenders, Tempest, Gravitar, and Asteroids.

**Arcade Synth (Outrun):** Retro has the ability technique to VHS tracking artifacts, magenta neon energy beam, and grid-lines of arcade powers in 3D and Atari like arcade objects and throws at the opponent, if the object is destroyed it will explode and creates sharp 8-Bit grid-lines and and different direction and stabs the opponent to death.

**Game Weapons Of Choice:** This Special Move allows him to summon any gaming weapons from different video games from any gaming world. Such as guns, swords, and other weapons that are basic powers to overpowered of a video game or arcaded weapon.

## Forms

* The Arcader
* Bezerk
* Polybius

## Relationship

**Gizmo Cade - (Closed Childhood Friends)**: They are both bunny lovers and Arcade duos since Gizmo Cade is from antoehr crew called The In-Sync Crew which he is the leader. They both have something in common when they first met each other in the Arcade Side of Hip-Hop-Tropia when they where Hip-Hop alien kids before the first Hip-Hop-Tropia War. Gizmo and Retro very love to play and hang around at a arcade place and their console together, and they play with their own pet bunny Button and Cream together. Gizmo even showed his elemental f gravity power to him and it was amazing for him and they use Arcade and Gravity power breakdance moves to create a totally awesome and radical breakdance ultimate move to amazed the crowd in Hip-Hop-Tropia. Their friendship bonds are very closed like a sticky glue together and they both became a very and a true closed friends together in Hip-Hop-Tropia.

**Xzav Zeykro - (Best Arcade Homie's):** Him and Xzav are very best friends, they love to hang around in the arcade pace in Hip-Hop-Tropia playing the arcade machine and old classic Nintendo video game consoles together. They sometimes in the series they breakdance with the funky 80s synthwave and electro with him and the crew together.

**Vesper 'Nyx' Guerrero - (Best Friends):** Him and Vesper are best friends, they both like to talk about Arcades, Games, arcade characters as well. the two of him like to hang around sometimes.

**Erock Gensys - (Best Friends):** Him and Erock friendship is everything, they both like to play video games on the Nintendo consoles and Atari as well. They both like Breakdance against each other to see whos the best dancer in the crew just for fun together and both loves to listen to Erock father Kylo funky and oldies music together, soon in after they both became very closed friends like Gizmo Cade.

**Rygel Troza - (Synthwave Homeboys):** They both love to hang around to each other in Hip-Hop-Tropia. they love to Pop N' Lockin to 80's Synthwave, Heatwave, Vaporwave, and Miami Vibes together.

**Kyp Stroder - (Graffiti Hip-Hop Friend):** He sometimes hang around with Kyp Stroder graffiti and painting on walls of art in their home alien planet together and they both show off their combat skills together combined with breakdance as well since they both trained the combat hip-hop military academy and boot camp, soon then after they love to draw graffiti arts, character, etc. together and they both became a closed friends together.

**Slippy Noko** **- (Bunny Lover Luck Friends):** Him and Slippy have something in common, since Slippy has a Rabbit girlfriend name Mika and Retro has a pet bunny name Button, they both like to hang out sometimes. Retro even lets Slippy and his Noko Siblings pet his pet bunny.

**Yuzuki Usagi - (Bunny Lover Trios):** Gizmo Cade girlfriend Yuzuki Usagi which she is the elemental of moon and lunar introduced to him and the three of them love to show off their pet bunny together and which Yuzuki is a bunny girl yokai as well. The three of love to hang around very often.

## Trivia/Facts

* Retro Stratus is another crew of The Dynamic Space Breaker.
* He is very a bunny lover, because it looks cute for him and he has has a pet bunny name Buttons and the bunny is a female in the entire series.
* Retro is a professional Arcader and Gamer in his home planet of Hip-Hop-Tropia and other Arcader hip-hop aliens as well.
* He has all Nintendo Old School Consoles including Nintendo 64 consoles in his home, as well including a Game-Boy which he usally play all his favorite Game-Boy games on the go when he has nothing to do so.
* His pet bunny name Button sometimes he likes to play with her and to keep him happy and calm.
* He found the female bunny on earth including Gizmo Cade