Name: Benjamin Rivalta
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Nationality: Republican
Zoid: Command Wolf
AIM: BlackOrpheusSSDD

Personality:

Ben is a laid-back sort of guy, who likes to enjoy the finer things in life, like pot, booze, and women, though not necessarily in that order. His reaction to almost anything when not high or drunk is to treat it with a casual disinterest, and look at it objectively and mellowly. When things are going his way, he’ll joke around, and become very generous and extremely teasing with women, but when things aren’t going so much his way, he becomes a bit more sombre and melancholy. He doesn’t sulk, or become angry or upset, just that his mellow self takes a darker tinge than normal.

Ben loves to party, often going out of his way to make sure he can attend or establish one at any given point in time. To this end, Ben normally has a keg stashed somewhere, and he loves egging people on to see them do crazy things. As it is, the only place Benjamin takes risks is on the Zoid battle field, unless you consider consuming large amounts of alcohol to be a risk. The drinking has affected his life, and Ben knows that despite his young age he’s completely ruined his liver, fully expecting his life to be cut off before his 50th birthday. As a result, though he has a laid-back way of life, Ben can occasionally come up with some real pearls of wisdom. Ironically, this is usually only when he’s completely drunk, one of the only times he really shows his inner self. Inhibition is a bitch.

Background:

Benjamin was born in the Republican capital of Helic City during the tumultuous times after the war, during the Anti-Zoid times. Ben lived with his mother and father in a small apartment in the middle of the urban neighbourhood. Ben’s father was a foundry worker, while his mother worked with a small Helic branch of AIZDAT, doing combat testing for various new Zoids and modifications. Due to being a rather risky occupation, Ben’s mother was rather well paid, and so he lived life as well as any middle-class child could be expected to. He grew up around two main places; the arcade and school. At school he performed at the average levels, getting through with C’s and B’s mostly. At the arcade, he spent a lot of time playing in VR combat with friends, using the Zoid simulators. From the age of six, Ben spent plenty of time on these simulators, learning how to pilot all the different Zoids. In the end though, he kept returning to one, the Command Wolf. He and some of his friends formed a team they called the Black Dragons.

As Ben grew older, he and his friends began to find interests other than just the arcade. Girls and parties were of particular interest to Ben as he entered puberty. By nature, Ben had always been an exuberant and social character, and parties were just his thing. Ben had a few girlfriends throughout schooling, until he graduated at age sixteen. From as far back as he could remember, Ben had always taken an interest in his mother’s work, and so he applied for a scholarship to learn and work at AIZDAT’s educational campus, located just outside the boundary of Athens itself.

Because Ben’s mother had been a combat-test pilot for new Zoids and modifications, she’d taught Ben a lot about how Zoids work and the various systems in place inside a Zoid. She also taught him that the simulators he had played as a child were utterly fake, nothing like the real thing, and that to be a combat-test student he’d have to be taught how to pilot. But with her help and some pulling of strings, Ben’s scholarship was accepted and he packed up and headed off to AIZDAT, where he was placed in a dorm with three other testosterone-fuelled teens.

At the educational campus of AIZDAT, Benjamin met many like-minded young people who were learning how to use Zoids, how to design and engineer and all the various other branches of Zoid development. He also learned how right his mother had been when he tried to pilot the tutorial Zoid he’d been assigned, a stripped-down Command Wolf. He wasn’t rubbish at it, but he certainly wasn’t anywhere near as good as he’d been in the simulators. Still, he improved rapidly, settling around the average for his class. At the same time, Ben learned the finer points of combat testing, and also attended lectures on the rapid advancements in Zoid design and technology.

Being that the educational campus lifestyle was much like that of a university, there was plenty of partying for Ben to continue to indulge in, and plenty of nubile young women as well, which he found to be great. Between the classes, provisional work with the testing teams, and the campus life, Ben didn’t spend all that much time off campus. A lot of his spare time was spent in the archives, researching and learning about developing Zoids. It has been Ben’s dream plan to eventually become a designer, as part of a team that works to create the newest cutting-edge Zoids. In the meantime, now aged twenty, Ben became a full time combat tester, being placed in a team with three other new testing officials. The team was officially C-Test Team 062, but the four of the team members have taken to calling themselves the Crash Test Dummies unofficially.

It was Benjamin who actually proposed that CTD register themselves as an official team in the Athenian League, and the other three members jumped on the idea with great zeal, registering the Crash Test Dummies as an official team. Using a portion of the money he’d earned through combat testing, Ben bought a Command Wolf, and has established himself as the leader of the CTD. He continues to work in combat testing, earning enough money to pay for his course in design and engineering and live comfortably in an apartment he shares with his girlfriend, Celina.

Description:

Benjamin is of African-American descent, with kinky dark hair and dark skin. His hair is cut very close to the scalp, and he has deep brown eyes. He also sports a small black goatee on his chin, which juts out somewhat from his face. His ears also stick out from his face too, so in a sense, it actually looks quite sensible to have a pointy chin. Benjamin’s build is not particularly thickset, being a very skinny, gangly fellow. He las long arms and legs, measuring in at six feet and six inches, but he has a very flat chest, and no toned muscles at all. His skin is smooth and unblemished in any fashion, and he has pearly-white teeth he takes great care of.

He normally wears plain denim jeans and a t-shirt of some type, and when on campus carries a satchel with all his text books, papers, computer and stationary supplies inside. Benjamin almost always carries around a small black leather-bound diary, which is his pride and joy. It is filled with designs, blueprints and concepts for a variety of modifications, upgrades and new Zoids that Benjamin plans to propose to the main AIZDAT project board when they are more finalized. He wears dirty white high-top sneakers most of the time, and a baseball cap is often perched on his head. Benjamin always carries around a few sticks of gum in is pocket, as he likes to chew while he thinks.

I see a couple of typoes, but nothing too serious. I actually like the character's concept - it's not the hero type we normally see in Zoids RPGs. *Hides own characters.*
Approved. 50k for the bio and 10k for originality.