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=America's Mobile Suit Corps: "Lucky Aces"=

Name: Lincoln Desso
Age: 27
Hair: Standard military buzzcut, mousy brown
Eyes: Green
Rank: Captain
Ethnicity: European-American
Reason for joining MS Team: Lincoln was one of the foremost tank commanders in the field, and has the ability to make machines do far more than they were originally intended. He was selected as the team Captain for this very reason.
(Note: Token action hero)

Name: Shizuko Oatridge
Age: 23
Hair: Long, sleek, black
Eyes: Dark Brown
Rank: Private
Ethnicity: Japanese-American
Reason for joining MS Team: Shizuko is a hacker. She was recruited after she managed to break into a lock that the guerillas put on one of their own mobile suits, making it useable.
(Note: Token female)

Name: Billy Fulkerson
Age: 25
Hair: Medium-long, center-parting, Dirty-Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Rank: Private
Ethnicity: European-American
Reason for joining MS Team: Billy is a techno-geek. He loves to tinker around with anything of this nature, and has singlehandedly improved the performence of the mobile suits that the Lucky Aces use.
(Note: Token smart guy)

Name: Glenn Wolfe
Age: 24
Hair: Shoulder length, greasy-looking black
Eyes: Brown
Rank: Private
Ethnicity: European-American
Reason for joining MS Team: Glenn is an angry young man, and could probably do well with therepy. He had managed to down no less than three mobile suits before the Military even had a chance to retaliate to an incident in Washington D.C. using just anti-tank mines that he kept for "events like this"
(Note: Token violent guy)

Name: Marlin Quirino
Age: 26
Hair: Very short, yet curly, black
Eyes: Brown
Rank: Private
Ethnicity: African-American
Reason for joining MS Team: Marlin was part of a random screening program performed on military soldiers, to see if it was possible for mobile suits to be used effectively for combat. He excelled in the field tests, and was allocated a mobile suit as a result.
(Note: Token black guy)


=UK Forces 1st Autonomous Attack Force=

Name: Lance Shuttleworth
Age: 28
Hair: Short, dark brown, messy
Eyes: Blue
Rank: Captain
Ethnicity: British
Reason for joining MS Team: Lance has been a part of the UK army since he was of legal age to join. He has made the military his career and his life. He has outstanding performance in nearly every field, and over the years has earned rank after rank. He is now assigned to the UK Forces 1st Autonomous Attack Force. He was captain when most of his men were killed by a bomb planted by a terrorist in one of their outposts. He blames himself for their deaths and seeks to avenge them.
(Note: Token I-must-redeem-my-failure-as-a-man officer.)

Name: Samantha Lowehart
Age: 19
Hair: Shoulder Length Brown, Layered, Slight blue highlights to random tips
Eyes: Hazel
Rank: Private
Ethnicity: British
Reason for joining MS Team: Military draft, compulsory due to "incident A" (Incident A refers to her old job. She was a mechanic for MST-01 units back when they were civillian use. A terrorist attacked them, trying to score more MST units to upgrade. Using a construction type's welding tool, she managed to defeat the Terrorist unit just as the military forces deployed. Such skill earns her a place amongst the first mobile suit team of the country.

Name: Deirdre Moran
Age: 20
Hair: Long, red, kept back in a long braid or black slip
Eyes: Blue
Rank: Private
Ethnicity: Northern Irish
Reason for joining MS Team: She claims to fight for the UK forces because she believes in their cause, but unbeknownst to her teammates, she has ties with Sinn Féin and a violent faction of the IRA. She, in truth, is bitter at the UK and it's army, despite how close she grows to another member of the UK force.
(Note: Token traitor)

Name: Ramsey Thatcher
Age: 23
Hair: Black, short, spiked
Eyes: Green
Rank: Private
Ethnicity: British
Reason for joining MS Team: His older brother joined the UK forces, and he, always having admired his brother, followed suit. They were both assigned to the MS Team due to their extraordinary tactical skills, and ability to cooperate with nearly anyone under any circumstances. His elder brother was killed when terrorists planted a bomb in an outpost, and he held him in is arms as he died. He fights now to keep his brother's ideals alive, though sometimes his will is shaken.
(Note: Token OMG-why-am-I-in-love-with-a-traitor *emotional breakdown* character.)

=Terrorist MS Team=

Name: ???
Age: 54
Hair: Black, with hints of gray. Has a beard that is kept thick, but short, which attach with his sideburns and frame his face.
Eyes: Brown
Position: General
Ethnicity: Iraqi
Reason for joining MS Team: Assigned against his will by higher-ups. He does not like mobile suits, nor does he like the team to which he is assigned much. He feels like a babysitter and from time to time, threatens to quit. However, after seeing the extraordinary skills of the team captain, he feels there is a glimmer of hope for his team, and his reputation.
(Note: Token angry gruff general.)

Name: ???
Age: 19
Hair: Black, with artificial brown highlights.
Eyes: Unknown. Wears red contacts.
Position: Captain
Ethnicity: North Korean
Reason for joining MS Team: His loyalty lies only with himself, and no one else. He dislikes Western civilizations as a whole, but his main motive for joining the MS team was because he had nothing better to do. He did not want to join the N. Korean military because of their perverted loyalties, and discovered that he is actually quite skilled with mobile suits. Later, he becomes motivated by a rivalry in terms of skills with an enemy officer.
(Note: Token rival.)

Name: ???
Age: 24
Hair: Long, greasy, thin, dulled grey-ish black
Eyes: Brown
Position: Pilot
Ethnicity: Afghani
Reason for joining MS Team: He was offered over to this team to battle the West because he was too much of a nuisance for his previous Afghani factions. However, his above average (though not stupendous) abilities to work with machinery would make it a waste to just eliminate him.
(Note: Token prankster.)

Name: ???
Age: 23
Hair: Black, buzz-cut
Eyes: Brown
Position: Tank Operator
Ethnicity: Afghani
Reason for joining MS Team: He was sent to this MS unit with ???(above) per request because he is and was largely a lackey of ???'s, and a best friend. His superiors honoured his request.
(Note: Token fat guy.)

Name: ???
Age: 23
Hair: Dyed blonde. Original hair colour is black or very dark brown. Front is longer and spiked up, while back is cut shorter
Eyes: Pale hazel
Position: Pilot
Ethnicity: French
Reason for joining MS Team: Once a part of the ETA and largely anti-UK, this man saw hundreds die at the hands of UK and US officials. This drove him to insanity and unfiltered spite for the UK and US. He now works for whoever guarantees him the best chance to kill as many of the United States and United Kingdom residents as possible, often making it a point to crush civilians. He is immensely skilled at snatching mobile suits from enemies, and a fine pilot.
(Note: Token psycho.)

Name: ???
Age: 17 (claims to be 21)
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Position: Technician
Ethnicity: Northern Irish
Reason for joining MS Team: She joined to prove to herself that females could work just as well as males could in a "military" setting. At first, she pretends to be a male because of the implications of working under a bunch rumoured to be fundamental Muslims. When she is found out, she is allowed to remain on the team but largely disrespected. She remains through the disapproval to prove her worth.
(Note: Token feminist.)

Name: ???
Age: 38
Hair: Blackish-brown
Eyes: Brown, wears glasses
Position: Second tank operator
Ethnicity: Iraqi
Reason for joining MS Team: He fights because he cannot afford good insurance for himself nor his family back home. Higher-ups promised him this coverage in exchange for his service while he doesn't agree with the cause behind this terrorist team, but then had his family eliminated without notifying him until his last moment.
(Note: Token good badguy.)

Need names for these guys if anyone is willing to contribute. Hope this is okay. While half of these people would typically never cooperate with eachother, I'm going to suggest that we try not to rationalize this too hard (after all, it is a manga, hence, fiction, and needs a good twist.) We could always just say that against a heightened US and UK alliance, no terrorist group feels capable of fighting as small groups. They temporarily ally, but trust runs thin within the groups.

Does that work? ^_^;

Eh, as of late I've been into the oldschool stuff... so I am inclined to lean in that direction. However, I cannot draw mobile suits worth dimes so I suppose you, being an already skilled mecha artist, would need to decide according to your own personal tastes.

Though I think I could legitimize the oldschool types. They're a little more simplistic and earlier in the thread it was suggested that the designs be a little simple, and open to certain types of customization...

But eh, I think that's your forte. Not mine. ^_^;

Seems few people are active in the guild too. I know of one more person who might be interested in participating, at least with ideas and the likes, and in the guild itself. Jaaten Syric, if you want to shoot out an invite.

Well, anyway, you have my opinion. Hope to hear from more of the guild. ^_^ Which do you think we should do?

Ooh, really? Yeah, if you want.

I wouldn't mind expanding it to a realm where battles in space occur...

Did somebody say "we need a mechanical designer"?



MSPaint isn't nearly as incapable as people say it is.

There's a conflict with your demands, and I'll explain it.

1: I'd be happy to get down to business with my inks and tablet and make some dynamic-angle designs, but I do not presently have access to a scanner, and it would likely take me a great deal of time to produce anything worthwhile, as I stopped drawing mechanical detail two years ago (focused on the structure of the human body after getting out of jail, which is also when I switched from ink to pencil).

2: Paint allows me to make simple designs with full color in very small expanses of time. I can complete a project in under two hours if I focus on it. Also, it allows me to switch color schemes out quickly and make structural changes on the fly. Drafting a design in pencil or ink allows for modification in only such a capacity.

3: I'll see what I can do. That machine I presented was an example of a flashy 2001-2005 Gundam-class suit, just to demonstrate my aesthetic.

Give me some time, I'll try some things...First and foremost, I need detailed, concise, exact details on at least one or two machines in order to submit drafts. I can't just start showing you things if I don't even know what you want.