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Hayato Jin, roughly twenty, Japanese student radical / terrorist mastermind of unspecified origins. Pilot of Getter 2 / Getter Machine Jaguar, speed based for underground combat. Based out of Saotome Labs / Sakihama Base.
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May. 2nd, 2014 07:51 pmHayato is not a nice guy a lot of the time! If you'd rather not deal with him, let me know here and we can work something out.
At the same time, he's a pretty smart guy who likes to manipulate people and find out things he's not meant to know! If you're okay with him reading your character like a book or ferreting out secrets from your canon, say something and we can figure something out!
Comments are screened in case the discussion is spoilery.
At the same time, he's a pretty smart guy who likes to manipulate people and find out things he's not meant to know! If you're okay with him reading your character like a book or ferreting out secrets from your canon, say something and we can figure something out!
Comments are screened in case the discussion is spoilery.
Getter plot planning
Apr. 14th, 2014 08:45 pm-- Third draft!
Arc start:
(optional) Event: Hellish Terror of the Newts!
Ryouma Nagare has been attacked by strange creatures during an attempt by Professor Saotome to recruit him, and brought to Mt Asama for treatment. While there, the lab comes under attack by a swarm of body-hijacking newtlike creatures! At the same time, student terrorist Hayato Jin leads a raid on the lab that runs afoul of these strange creatures! Unity Group are called in for aid, arriving in time to meet the first open Mechasaurus attack, leading to the debut mission. (Optionally, some characters may have helped escort Ryouma to the Labs, leaving them on the scene for the newt action before the mission.)
Mission: A youthful life blazes bright red!
Fighting off the newt invasion leaves Saotome Labs in chaos as a Mechasaurus attacks, with Professor Saotome's son dead and he, Ryouma, and Hayato the only ones able to get to the Getter Robo, which the Dinosaurs are trying to destroy. Outside, UG mecha fight the Mechasaurus(es?), but they're tough and regenerate quickly! Saotome persuades Ryouma and Hayato to join him in piloting the Getter to turn the tide, and they launch and use Getter-1 and Getter-2 to assist, finishing off the Mechasaurus with a Getter Beam.
Note: Professor Saotome uses his influence to secure amnesty for Hayato so he can pilot Getter-2. Naturally, many members of UG are likely to be unhappy about this.
Mission: A Vision of Hell on Mt Daisetzu!
Strange reports come in from Hokkaido of primitive life appearing and atavistic reversions among the population, which Professor Saotome fears are part of a Dinosaur Empire plot. Ryouma heads north to investigate, but the Eagle is forced down and Ryouma is rescued by student judoka Musashi Tomoe. The pair discover a Dinosaur beachhead while Hayato and the UG uncover the nature of the biological weapon being used, rushing to back Ryouma up. Musashi helps out by piloting the Bear, and Getter-3 makes its debut, while the beachhead is repelled and the bioweapon destroyed. Emperor Gore reveals himself and taunts humanity with their inevitable destruction at the hands of the superior Reptiloids.
Arc end.
Note: From this point on, the Dinosaur Empire is at open war with humanity, and "Mechasauruses of the Week" are available for combat logs and as complications for other canons' missions. Gore doesn't want to help anyone else conquer the surface, but weakening humanity's resistance or killing large numbers of humans are always on his agenda.
Mission: Gore unleashes a strange new creature, a jellyfish which dissolves and consumes whoever it can reach. Getter must force it back into the water and figure out a way to destroy an enemy which uses any attack as energy to become larger and more powerful!
Mission: Dinosaur Empire infiltrators steal the prototype next-generation Getter Robo G. The team must take on a more powerful version of their own robot, pitting their skill and teamwork against raw specs and a murderous intent!
Mission: When Gore sends a new Mechasaurus programmed with all the Getter's combat data against Saotome Labs, only Musashi is fit to sortie after a mass food poisoning incident! Can Musashi adapt to this new enemy that knows all the team's tricks? (Other PCs with strong stomachs and weaker minds may substitute for the action figure and dog that were his original co-pilots on this adventure.)
Arc start:
Mission: Twister of Terror!
Abnormal clouds roll in, and a city is wracked by lightning and tornadoes. The Getter investigates, and finds the storm both covering and powering Mechasaurus weather control machines! Taking out this large-scale incursion is complicated by the need to protect the surviving civilian population.
Mission: Infiltrate the Dinosaur Empire!
Investigation shows that the Tornadosaurs' emergence tunnels can still be tracked, and Getter-2 is used to follow them back to an underground base where many new weapons are being prepared! The base is destroyed, but Ryouma is badly injured in the process!
Mission: "So you want the Getter, do you?"
With their plans disrupted, the Dinosaur Empire launch an all-out attack with everything they've got before they're again forced underground by Getter Rays. Priority one is destroying the Getter, so Musashi launches to draw them away from the Labs while the Professor and Hayato try to get the untested Shin Getter Robo ready to launch and back him up. Shin refuses to respond, however, even when Ryouma drags himself out of the infirmary to pilot it. In the end, Musashi self-destructs the Getter to devastate the Dinosaur forces, and the reaction activates Shin, granting Ryouma a terrifying vision of the future!
Note: Musashi's self-destruct should do a lot of damage, albeit not necessarily killing many in the wake of the Dinosaur attack it ends. It would be good to tie this to another canon that needs such a disaster.
Arc end.
Season end.
Supporting characters:
Professor Saotome: originally a genius researcher into the promising energy source of Getter Rays, Saotome was the first to recognize the pattern of malice in the Dinosaur Empire's early clandestine attacks, and designed the Getter Robo to combat them. He receives considerable support from the Japanese government, which is a good thing given the rate at which he burns through people and resources. An intensely driven man, ruthless in his pursuit of humanity's defense.
Michiru Saotome: the Professor's daughter, an academic in her own right but frequently at odds with her father's methods.
Tatsuhito Saotome: the Professor's son, originally a candidate pilot for the Getter. Possessed by newts during the first event, and incinerated by the Professor himself.
Professor Shikishima: an actual mad scientist, not just an angry, obsessive one. Font of wonderful toys.
Antagonists:
Emperor Gore:
General Bat:
Advisor Galilei:
Mechasauruses: giant cyborg monstrosities in a wide variety of shapes and functions. These capitalize on the basic reptiloid resilience and regeneration to overwhelm their foes, and are difficult to put down without the use of Getter Rays.
Reptiloids: roughly humanoid infantry and flying pterosaurs, the Dinosaur Empire's basic troops are strong and very resilient, able to function despite an enormous amount of punishment. The only kind of kill that works is overkill, or Getter Rays.
--- Second draft!
Arc start!
Event post - Ryouma crashes a martial arts tournament, and is attacked afterwards!
Mission - Ryouma fights newts while Hayato raids the Labs! Getter-1 and Getter-2 launch!
Mission - A Vision of Hell on Mt. Daisetszu! Musashi is recruited, and Getter-3 debuts!
Arc finish!
Miscellaneous missions and monsters of the week!
Possibly include "vs Getter Robo G" here, with G as a prototype?
This should totally include the "Musashi pilots alone" adventure!
Arc start!
Mission - Twister of Terror! A city under attack!
Mission - Infiltrate the Dinosaur Empire! Tracing the attack back to an underground base, where Ryouma is injured!
Mission (season finale) - "So You Want The Getter, Do You?"! Hayato tries to get Shin ready to go, while Musashi stages a delaying action in the Getter! Ryouma tries to help pilot Shin, but it's no good! Musashi self-destructs the Getter to devastate the Dinosaur armies and enable the rest of UG to finish them off, and the reaction awakens Shin, granting Ryouma a vision of the future!
Arc finish! Season end!
Ryouma turns his back on the Getter, afraid of what he saw!
Event post - The Destruction of Saotome Labs! Research on Shin Getter irradiates the labs and kills many researchers, including (?) Professor Saotome!
Between this and Musashi's city-destroying self-destruct, Getter research is severely restricted! Getters under construction are mothballed!
Ryouma decides that his vision means humanity will need the Getter! He steals an incomplete Getter Robo and finishes it as the Black Getter! (Should he steal it from space, to justify its colour?)
Meanwhile, Hayato pursues Plasma Reactor research and develops the Neo Getter!
(Do we want to include any of the "aliens from the future" stuff here?)
Shin vs Neo! The Dinosaurs return! Possibly Doctor Rando is a pawn of the future aliens? His mind-controlling body horror, the Oni, and the future aliens could all be rolled into one and the Dinosaur Empire saved for later in the season!
Hayato recruits new pilots! The Neo Getter Robo sees action!
Eventually, a true Getter is required! Shin is awakened by Ryouma, Hayato, and Benkei/Michiru?
How will the old and new teams divide the Shin up between them? Possibly Hayato should remain a commander, Ryouma pilot Black Getter, and the new team take Shin?
--- First draft!
Ryouma is recruited and brought to Saotome Labs, but the Dinosaur Empire attacks! A swarm of mind-controlling parasitic newts infiltrates the base and wreaks havoc! In the end, to defend the unfinished Getter Robo, Professor Saotome must incinerate his own son!
Hayato's School House raid the Labs, but are caught up in a Dinosaur attack! In the end, Hayato is induced to pilot the Getter with Ryouma and the Professor! Getter-1 and Getter-2 launch for the first time!
Strange reports from Hokkaido send Ryouma to investigate. He meets Musashi, who's fending off a strange biowar attack from the Dinosaurs! In the end, UG must launch a rescue mission, and Musashi becomes the third pilot! An underground base is discovered, and destroyed!
(Idea - combine Ryouma and Hayato's recruitment, and make it an arc with Musashi's. Split the whole "infiltrate the underground base" part off for a later mission, possibly on an arc with Machine Land - we find the research facility and can't save the hostages, but we learn about the real weapon about to launch and must stop it!)
Mechasauruses of the week in action logs!
Giant energy-absorbing jellyfish!
Twisters of Terror - we follow the tunnel of one of the tornadosaurs to the underground base!
Machine Land!
--- Some of the things we want!
The three pilots' recruitment. Events/missions? OK!
Combine Terror of the Newts with Hayato's attack? OK!
A mission to Hokkaido which recruits Musashi / confronts the Dinosaur Empire in its secret base! OK!
Machine Land!
A volcano!
Giant jellyfish!
Tornado engines! OK!
Ryouma's amnesia/abduction/reprogramming? OK!
A reason for Ryouma to get Black Getter! OK!
MUSASHIIIIII! Any canon need a city destroyed? OK!
Ryouma freaking out and rejecting the Getter! An attempt to pilot Shin gone wrong? OK!
Do we want the whole aliens-from-the-future thing? Ryouma's vision of Getter Hell?
Do we want to involve the Demons, or just have the Dinosaurs straightforwardly beaten?
A reason for Hayato to develop Neo Getter Robo! OK!
If we get a Michiru, how can we incorporate her into the plot?
--- Ideas
Initially, Saotome's plan is for Ryouma, Hayato, and his son to be the pilots. To this end, he leaks info about the Getter to Hayato to lure him in. However, Hayato's raid comes at the same time as the newt attack that kills Saotome Jr, so the Professor must launch with them instead.
Sequence of events for So You Want The Getter: a major Dinosaur attack is incoming! Their priority is to wipe out the Getter before they become dormant, which will allow them to extend their time on the surface! Musashi launches to lure them away from the Labs and buy time for Shin to be completed and launched! However, Shin won't respond, despite the Professor's and Hayato's best efforts! Ryouma's in intensive care after his injuries, but he drags himself to the cockpit to try to help! With both him and Hayato present, Shin begins to respond, but Ryouma's injuries are getting the better of him! (Perhaps they launch, and crash en route when Ryouma blacks out?) Musashi opts to take out the bulk of the Dinosaur forces by self-destructing! The blast of Getter energy resonates with Shin, awakening it - it has eyes! Ryouma is clinically dead for a few seconds, though his heart is quickly restarted! During this time, he has a vision of the future of Getter, which terrifies him! With Musashi's sacrifice and Shin's resonance, the Dinosaurs are devastated and their dormancy accelerates, and the rest of UG force them to retreat back under the Earth!
We need a reason for there to be a second (at least) original-type Getter for Ryouma to turn into Black Getter. Perhaps, between Musashi's self-destruct and the disaster with Shin that wipes out the Labs, there was a plan for mass production which was cancelled when Getter research was suspended?
We should totally have Professor Shikishima around as an NPC for shenanigans.
Arc start:
(optional) Event: Hellish Terror of the Newts!
Ryouma Nagare has been attacked by strange creatures during an attempt by Professor Saotome to recruit him, and brought to Mt Asama for treatment. While there, the lab comes under attack by a swarm of body-hijacking newtlike creatures! At the same time, student terrorist Hayato Jin leads a raid on the lab that runs afoul of these strange creatures! Unity Group are called in for aid, arriving in time to meet the first open Mechasaurus attack, leading to the debut mission. (Optionally, some characters may have helped escort Ryouma to the Labs, leaving them on the scene for the newt action before the mission.)
Mission: A youthful life blazes bright red!
Fighting off the newt invasion leaves Saotome Labs in chaos as a Mechasaurus attacks, with Professor Saotome's son dead and he, Ryouma, and Hayato the only ones able to get to the Getter Robo, which the Dinosaurs are trying to destroy. Outside, UG mecha fight the Mechasaurus(es?), but they're tough and regenerate quickly! Saotome persuades Ryouma and Hayato to join him in piloting the Getter to turn the tide, and they launch and use Getter-1 and Getter-2 to assist, finishing off the Mechasaurus with a Getter Beam.
Note: Professor Saotome uses his influence to secure amnesty for Hayato so he can pilot Getter-2. Naturally, many members of UG are likely to be unhappy about this.
Mission: A Vision of Hell on Mt Daisetzu!
Strange reports come in from Hokkaido of primitive life appearing and atavistic reversions among the population, which Professor Saotome fears are part of a Dinosaur Empire plot. Ryouma heads north to investigate, but the Eagle is forced down and Ryouma is rescued by student judoka Musashi Tomoe. The pair discover a Dinosaur beachhead while Hayato and the UG uncover the nature of the biological weapon being used, rushing to back Ryouma up. Musashi helps out by piloting the Bear, and Getter-3 makes its debut, while the beachhead is repelled and the bioweapon destroyed. Emperor Gore reveals himself and taunts humanity with their inevitable destruction at the hands of the superior Reptiloids.
Arc end.
Note: From this point on, the Dinosaur Empire is at open war with humanity, and "Mechasauruses of the Week" are available for combat logs and as complications for other canons' missions. Gore doesn't want to help anyone else conquer the surface, but weakening humanity's resistance or killing large numbers of humans are always on his agenda.
Mission: Gore unleashes a strange new creature, a jellyfish which dissolves and consumes whoever it can reach. Getter must force it back into the water and figure out a way to destroy an enemy which uses any attack as energy to become larger and more powerful!
Mission: Dinosaur Empire infiltrators steal the prototype next-generation Getter Robo G. The team must take on a more powerful version of their own robot, pitting their skill and teamwork against raw specs and a murderous intent!
Mission: When Gore sends a new Mechasaurus programmed with all the Getter's combat data against Saotome Labs, only Musashi is fit to sortie after a mass food poisoning incident! Can Musashi adapt to this new enemy that knows all the team's tricks? (Other PCs with strong stomachs and weaker minds may substitute for the action figure and dog that were his original co-pilots on this adventure.)
Arc start:
Mission: Twister of Terror!
Abnormal clouds roll in, and a city is wracked by lightning and tornadoes. The Getter investigates, and finds the storm both covering and powering Mechasaurus weather control machines! Taking out this large-scale incursion is complicated by the need to protect the surviving civilian population.
Mission: Infiltrate the Dinosaur Empire!
Investigation shows that the Tornadosaurs' emergence tunnels can still be tracked, and Getter-2 is used to follow them back to an underground base where many new weapons are being prepared! The base is destroyed, but Ryouma is badly injured in the process!
Mission: "So you want the Getter, do you?"
With their plans disrupted, the Dinosaur Empire launch an all-out attack with everything they've got before they're again forced underground by Getter Rays. Priority one is destroying the Getter, so Musashi launches to draw them away from the Labs while the Professor and Hayato try to get the untested Shin Getter Robo ready to launch and back him up. Shin refuses to respond, however, even when Ryouma drags himself out of the infirmary to pilot it. In the end, Musashi self-destructs the Getter to devastate the Dinosaur forces, and the reaction activates Shin, granting Ryouma a terrifying vision of the future!
Note: Musashi's self-destruct should do a lot of damage, albeit not necessarily killing many in the wake of the Dinosaur attack it ends. It would be good to tie this to another canon that needs such a disaster.
Arc end.
Season end.
Supporting characters:
Professor Saotome: originally a genius researcher into the promising energy source of Getter Rays, Saotome was the first to recognize the pattern of malice in the Dinosaur Empire's early clandestine attacks, and designed the Getter Robo to combat them. He receives considerable support from the Japanese government, which is a good thing given the rate at which he burns through people and resources. An intensely driven man, ruthless in his pursuit of humanity's defense.
Michiru Saotome: the Professor's daughter, an academic in her own right but frequently at odds with her father's methods.
Tatsuhito Saotome: the Professor's son, originally a candidate pilot for the Getter. Possessed by newts during the first event, and incinerated by the Professor himself.
Professor Shikishima: an actual mad scientist, not just an angry, obsessive one. Font of wonderful toys.
Antagonists:
Emperor Gore:
General Bat:
Advisor Galilei:
Mechasauruses: giant cyborg monstrosities in a wide variety of shapes and functions. These capitalize on the basic reptiloid resilience and regeneration to overwhelm their foes, and are difficult to put down without the use of Getter Rays.
Reptiloids: roughly humanoid infantry and flying pterosaurs, the Dinosaur Empire's basic troops are strong and very resilient, able to function despite an enormous amount of punishment. The only kind of kill that works is overkill, or Getter Rays.
--- Second draft!
Arc start!
Event post - Ryouma crashes a martial arts tournament, and is attacked afterwards!
Mission - Ryouma fights newts while Hayato raids the Labs! Getter-1 and Getter-2 launch!
Mission - A Vision of Hell on Mt. Daisetszu! Musashi is recruited, and Getter-3 debuts!
Arc finish!
Miscellaneous missions and monsters of the week!
Possibly include "vs Getter Robo G" here, with G as a prototype?
This should totally include the "Musashi pilots alone" adventure!
Arc start!
Mission - Twister of Terror! A city under attack!
Mission - Infiltrate the Dinosaur Empire! Tracing the attack back to an underground base, where Ryouma is injured!
Mission (season finale) - "So You Want The Getter, Do You?"! Hayato tries to get Shin ready to go, while Musashi stages a delaying action in the Getter! Ryouma tries to help pilot Shin, but it's no good! Musashi self-destructs the Getter to devastate the Dinosaur armies and enable the rest of UG to finish them off, and the reaction awakens Shin, granting Ryouma a vision of the future!
Arc finish! Season end!
Ryouma turns his back on the Getter, afraid of what he saw!
Event post - The Destruction of Saotome Labs! Research on Shin Getter irradiates the labs and kills many researchers, including (?) Professor Saotome!
Between this and Musashi's city-destroying self-destruct, Getter research is severely restricted! Getters under construction are mothballed!
Ryouma decides that his vision means humanity will need the Getter! He steals an incomplete Getter Robo and finishes it as the Black Getter! (Should he steal it from space, to justify its colour?)
Meanwhile, Hayato pursues Plasma Reactor research and develops the Neo Getter!
(Do we want to include any of the "aliens from the future" stuff here?)
Shin vs Neo! The Dinosaurs return! Possibly Doctor Rando is a pawn of the future aliens? His mind-controlling body horror, the Oni, and the future aliens could all be rolled into one and the Dinosaur Empire saved for later in the season!
Hayato recruits new pilots! The Neo Getter Robo sees action!
Eventually, a true Getter is required! Shin is awakened by Ryouma, Hayato, and Benkei/Michiru?
How will the old and new teams divide the Shin up between them? Possibly Hayato should remain a commander, Ryouma pilot Black Getter, and the new team take Shin?
--- First draft!
Ryouma is recruited and brought to Saotome Labs, but the Dinosaur Empire attacks! A swarm of mind-controlling parasitic newts infiltrates the base and wreaks havoc! In the end, to defend the unfinished Getter Robo, Professor Saotome must incinerate his own son!
Hayato's School House raid the Labs, but are caught up in a Dinosaur attack! In the end, Hayato is induced to pilot the Getter with Ryouma and the Professor! Getter-1 and Getter-2 launch for the first time!
Strange reports from Hokkaido send Ryouma to investigate. He meets Musashi, who's fending off a strange biowar attack from the Dinosaurs! In the end, UG must launch a rescue mission, and Musashi becomes the third pilot! An underground base is discovered, and destroyed!
(Idea - combine Ryouma and Hayato's recruitment, and make it an arc with Musashi's. Split the whole "infiltrate the underground base" part off for a later mission, possibly on an arc with Machine Land - we find the research facility and can't save the hostages, but we learn about the real weapon about to launch and must stop it!)
Mechasauruses of the week in action logs!
Giant energy-absorbing jellyfish!
Twisters of Terror - we follow the tunnel of one of the tornadosaurs to the underground base!
Machine Land!
--- Some of the things we want!
Machine Land!
A volcano!
Giant jellyfish!
Do we want the whole aliens-from-the-future thing? Ryouma's vision of Getter Hell?
Do we want to involve the Demons, or just have the Dinosaurs straightforwardly beaten?
If we get a Michiru, how can we incorporate her into the plot?
--- Ideas
Initially, Saotome's plan is for Ryouma, Hayato, and his son to be the pilots. To this end, he leaks info about the Getter to Hayato to lure him in. However, Hayato's raid comes at the same time as the newt attack that kills Saotome Jr, so the Professor must launch with them instead.
Sequence of events for So You Want The Getter: a major Dinosaur attack is incoming! Their priority is to wipe out the Getter before they become dormant, which will allow them to extend their time on the surface! Musashi launches to lure them away from the Labs and buy time for Shin to be completed and launched! However, Shin won't respond, despite the Professor's and Hayato's best efforts! Ryouma's in intensive care after his injuries, but he drags himself to the cockpit to try to help! With both him and Hayato present, Shin begins to respond, but Ryouma's injuries are getting the better of him! (Perhaps they launch, and crash en route when Ryouma blacks out?) Musashi opts to take out the bulk of the Dinosaur forces by self-destructing! The blast of Getter energy resonates with Shin, awakening it - it has eyes! Ryouma is clinically dead for a few seconds, though his heart is quickly restarted! During this time, he has a vision of the future of Getter, which terrifies him! With Musashi's sacrifice and Shin's resonance, the Dinosaurs are devastated and their dormancy accelerates, and the rest of UG force them to retreat back under the Earth!
We need a reason for there to be a second (at least) original-type Getter for Ryouma to turn into Black Getter. Perhaps, between Musashi's self-destruct and the disaster with Shin that wipes out the Labs, there was a plan for mass production which was cancelled when Getter research was suspended?
We should totally have Professor Shikishima around as an NPC for shenanigans.
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Character name: Hayato Jin
Source canon: Getter Robo
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Do I want a HMD: I already have one
Notes: This app is subject to some revisions depending on what the prospective players of Ryouma and Musashi/Benkei want to do with the canon. At the moment I'm assuming a canon point resembling the original manga / New / a hypothetical prequel to Shin vs Neo, with the Getter team being assembled for the first time to fight the Dinosaur Empire / Reptiloids, and the cast aged up from high school to college age. The long-term aim is to tell a reimagined “classic” Getter story, then transition into something like Go/SvN after a season or two. If we do reach that point, I'll probably submit a new app for cleanliness' sake.
It's also worth noting that Hayato has pretty certainly killed quite a few people. Most likely, some sort of pardon or amnesty will need to be arranged once he's recruited. Very possibly, some player characters won't be happy about that.
Background: Dinosaurs are attacking Japan. Are you abad enough dude big enough psycho to rescue Japan FUCK DINOSAURS (not literally)?
Millions of years ago, dinosaurs didn't just rule the earth but had an advanced technological civilization. However, as the amount of the mysterious Getter Rays reaching Earth increased, the dinosaurs were driven underground, ceding the surface to mammals. There, deep beneath the Earth's crust, they alternately slumbered in dormancy and eked out a harsh existence, dreaming of a return to claim their birthright.
Meanwhile, in the modern day, the brilliant Professor Saotome was researching Getter Energy as a potential power source when he began to connect the dots revealing a pattern of sabotage and terrorism behind several disasters and assassinations - perpetrated by inhuman enemies! Disturbed, he developed the Getter Robo, a trio of jets which combine into three powerful mecha, using his Getter Energy discoveries as a power source. Unfortunately, the Getter Robo is a demanding machine, and its prototypes and test flights have killed or maimed many candidate pilots. Before Emperor Gore and his Dinosaur Empire unleash their terrifying Mechasauruses on the surface world, he needs three exceptional people with uncanny resilience and the willingness to stare death in the eye, three hearts to beat as one...
Meanwhile meanwhile, one such candidate stands out! A super-genius mind! An exceptional physique, with a gymnast's body and catlike reflexes! Considerable personal charisma! Kind of a fucking psycho! Fortunately that last part isn't considered a disqualifying factor for the Getter. Unfortunately, it's kind of hard to make someone a job offer when they've radicalized a chunk of their university into an off-the-grid terrorist cell. But when the head of an above-top-secret military-sponsored weapons research institute wants to get in touch with someone like that, it's always possible to leak just enough information to get him to come to you...
Almost nothing is known about Hayato Jin's background in canon - apparently his intelligence at a young age made him "a darling of the media" and he was a gymnastics star in middle school, but details of his family or home life are a mystery. Hayato himself probably considers them basically irrelevant. He obviously had the opportunity to thoroughly develop his mind and body, but at the same time turned out to be a pretty messed up guy. I intend to address this issue by completely ignoring it. How Hayato got to be how he is isn't interesting; his past and family are non-entities; chances are good he's destroyed a lot of records on the topic anyway.
More recently, Hayato entered university, where he's created a subversive organization around himself which he rules through a mixture of grudging respect and abject terror. These radicalized students are well-organized, ruthless, and set to... ummm... well, if they blow enough shit up then something interesting will probably happen, right? They're tearing down the System, man. Besides, Hayato surely knows what he's doing. ...Right?
However undirected Hayato's School House's rage may be in general, when he enters the game it's found a target. There's a lab getting a lot of support from the government and military where almost everything about it is incredibly highly classified, led by a scientist around whom strange rumours swell. For the students, it's a symbol of the military-industrial complex, mad science, meddling with things man was not meant to know, and all that good stuff. For Hayato, it's a locked door - and he wants to see what's on the other side. First hand...
Personality: Hayato is smart, ruthless, and sadistic. "Smart" is easy: he's referenced as having an IQ of 300 in elementary school (a ridiculous number I won't quote in the game, but mention here for reference), he can ably assist Professor Saotome in tasks as diverse as autopsy/vivisection and Getter Energy research, and he's implicitly identified as a "mental" rather than "physical type" in an exchange with Ryouma and Benkei. Ruthless is easy too: he starts out as a radical student terrorist for lulz, kills his own men with little provocation, and argues for killing civilians being used as hostages by the Reptiloids. Sadistic is fairly clear in the way he kills his own men, and his enemies - you don't learn to fight viciously with overgrown, sharpened fingernails, and enforce discipline by taking a deserter's eyes, ears, and nose with your bare hands, unless you like inflicting pain.
Hayato's an odd case in that his behaviour seems to change a lot almost as soon as he joins the Getter team. When introduced, he's almost feral, ruling his henchmen with terror and sadism, fighting with what are practically claws and making strange noises all the while, and making some faces that are odd-looking even by Getter manga standards. Once he's actually gotten a night's sleep at Saotome Labs, he seems a lot more controlled and reasonable, even if he's still clearly the most callous of the team.
So what's that about? My explanation is that, up to the point when he's recruited, Hayato has essentially never been challenged. Given his abilities, life has been pretty easy for him, and he's just plain bored. Intellectually and physically, he excels without much effort, and socially, manipulating the people around him has been trivial. He set up his "school house" more to have something to do than out of any sense of idealism, and in the hopes that making enough of a ruckus will provoke a response he can really get his teeth into. It shows - he has some respect for some of his minions, but for the most part pretty much treats them like he's a particularly unhinged supervillain. When he first fights the Reptiloids, he's freaking out even while holding his own. When he pisses himself, Ryouma comments that "it's probably the first time you've really been scared".
By contrast, the Getter team gives him an incredibly demanding challenge for insanely high stakes, surrounded by exceptionally capable people. Having an outlet calms him down a lot, even if he's still kind of a raging asshole in a lot of ways, and he's able to make actual friends, and to get along with people who would previously have provoked a violent reaction for wasting his time simply by existing. Of course, he's still pretty abrasive, and perfectly willing to get sacrifice others to achieve his goals - subordinates and civilians alike. That said, he's also willing to sacrifice himself - in the manga, at a crisis point, he joins Ryouma in what they both expect to be a kamikaze run. And of course, when he's not severing people's ears with his fingernails, his gruffness can be taken for a kind of charm. He's actually the Getter pilot with the most success with the ladies - he even gets engaged at one point! (She blows up.)
(This all raises the question of why he wasn't already doing something more productive with his time before he's recruited. It's a little harder to justify in SRWU than in the original canon, but it's simplest to assume that most places where he could apply his talents found him too unstable to employ, while those willing to take on someone like him were too obviously shady for him to risk. Saotome Labs hit a sweet spot of needing psychotic killers as something more than cannon fodder or attack dogs. This allows the interesting possibility that he may have approached or been approached by organizations from other canons in the game, depending on how they go about recruiting.)
With real work to channel his talents, Hayato grows into a genuine bona fide leader of men. Compared to the other pilots, he's more interested in the secrets of the Getter and of Getter energy, and more involved in the administration of Saotome Labs, assisting with research and filling a "mission control" role on some tests. Eventually he essentially inherits Professor Saotome's role of advancing Getter research, developing the plasma reactor and the Neo Getter Robo it powers, and commanding the Super Robot Army supporting it. He's still a scary bastard and losing - or sacrificing - people bothers him due to the waste of resources rather than on any emotional level, but he's practically respectable, and has people who genuinely believe in both his cause and in him personally.
Capabilities and Resources: As a Getter pilot, Hayato is downright abnormally strong, tough, and especially fast. He's able to fight Ryouma, a master martial artist, as an equal, and take on Reptiloid foot soldiers unarmed, and can push the speed-based Getter-2 to its limits. He's also very smart and broadly skilled, and able to lead - or at least command - or just plain dominate, very effectively.
Type: Combatant (perhaps later also a Commander)
Unit Name: Getter-2
Unit Description: Getter-2 is the “speed mode for underground combat” form of Getter Robo, produced by combining the Jaguar, Bear, and Eagle in that order. It's a streamlined white-and-red robot with similar proportions to Getter-1, with a large drill for a right arm and a claw hand on its left. Its signature ability is its extreme speed; it's more lightly armoured than Getter-1, but can move so fast it leaves behind afterimages, dodging and outmaneuvering enemies with aplomb. It's even able to burrow and move underground at “higher than Mach” speeds, practically swimming through the earth; it can use this to avoid attacks by using the ground as cover, and to disappear and reappear behind enemies for surprise attacks, as well as for the obvious application of fighting other burrowing enemies. Its attacks mostly revolve around stabbing or shooting things with its drill:
Getter Arm: the claw hand on Getter-2's left arm grabs and crushes the enemy.
Getter Drill / Drill Arm: the drill on Getter-2''s right arm is used to, well, drill through an enemy.
Drill Missile / Jet Drill: the drill is spun up to high speed and launched at the enemy as a rocket. It can optionally return to Getter-2, remain where it was fired, or explode on (or shortly after) impact.
Drill Storm / Getter Hurricane / Getter Storm: the drill is spun fast enough to generate a vortex of wind, immobilizing or even blowing away enemies caught in it.
Getter Beams: beams of Getter Energy fired from Getter-2's eyes. Less powerful than Getter-1's.
Mach Special: Getter-2 moves so quickly it leaves afterimages in its wake, confusing the enemy.
Open Get: A defensive technique, splitting the combined Getter into its three component jets to evade an attack. Once the team have some experience, they can do this almost as easily as dodging.
Size: L (~40m)
Terrain compatibility:
Air: Yes
Ground: Yes
Water: No
Space: Yes
Favored terrain: Ground
Note: Getter-2's jetpack gives it limited flight, but Getter-1 is far and away the preferred mode for aerial combat. Getter-2 can also function underwater, though it can't float, and Getter-3 is the go-to mode for that environment. On the ground, on the other hand, Getter-2 is not only highly mobile, but can use its drill to move underground with implausible ease, to dodge attacks and surprise enemies.
Unit Name: Getter Machine Jaguar
Unit Description: Getter Machine Jaguar is the white jet that forms the lead component of Getter-2 (and the midsection of Getter-1 and base of Getter-3). Though tough and fast, it's not really much to write home about on its own; the individual Getter Machines, even when all three are together, are much less capable than their combined forms. Armed with missiles and machine guns.
Size: M
Terrain compatibility:
Air: Yes
Ground: No
Water: No
Space: Yes
Favored terrain: Air
Notes: As with the combined Getter Robo, the Jaguar can operate underwater, though it can't float.
Upgrades: The original Getter Robo doesn't really get any upgrades; its pilots just get better at using it. New machines such as Getter Robo G and Shin Getter Robo will depend heavily on plot.
Wingmen: None to start with; possibly some alternate pilots and henchmen later.
Mission requirement: Yes, ish (Event post that leads directly in to a mission)
Suggested Event List: The draft list is on Ryouma's app. My addition is:
Event post 1: Hayato's School House
Hayato's terrorist group mounts a raid on Saotome Labs! Before they can penetrate security, however, the entire base comes under attack by Reptiloid troopers on foot. Hayato's lackeys are wiped out, as he fights on foot against these terrifying new enemies. In the process, he finds his way, or is brought, to the hangar where he's forced into the Getter with an interface helmet, leading to the first mission!
It'd be nice if unobtrusive mention could be made, in the week before the mission, of a raid on the Department of Defense in which classified military data was stolen. Having law-and-order types already aware of at least one major criminal act by Hayato will surely make his introduction go super well.
Hayato may also be locked up after his debut mission, probably depending on whether he tries to abscond with the Getter. If so, he'll be offered his freedom in exchange for his cooperation, possibly in connection with Musashi's intro.
Sample post: Testrun
AIM contact: on file
Alternate contacts:
Character name: Hayato Jin
Source canon: Getter Robo
Community tag: hayato jin
Do I want a HMD: I already have one
Notes: This app is subject to some revisions depending on what the prospective players of Ryouma and Musashi/Benkei want to do with the canon. At the moment I'm assuming a canon point resembling the original manga / New / a hypothetical prequel to Shin vs Neo, with the Getter team being assembled for the first time to fight the Dinosaur Empire / Reptiloids, and the cast aged up from high school to college age. The long-term aim is to tell a reimagined “classic” Getter story, then transition into something like Go/SvN after a season or two. If we do reach that point, I'll probably submit a new app for cleanliness' sake.
It's also worth noting that Hayato has pretty certainly killed quite a few people. Most likely, some sort of pardon or amnesty will need to be arranged once he's recruited. Very possibly, some player characters won't be happy about that.
Background: Dinosaurs are attacking Japan. Are you a
Millions of years ago, dinosaurs didn't just rule the earth but had an advanced technological civilization. However, as the amount of the mysterious Getter Rays reaching Earth increased, the dinosaurs were driven underground, ceding the surface to mammals. There, deep beneath the Earth's crust, they alternately slumbered in dormancy and eked out a harsh existence, dreaming of a return to claim their birthright.
Meanwhile, in the modern day, the brilliant Professor Saotome was researching Getter Energy as a potential power source when he began to connect the dots revealing a pattern of sabotage and terrorism behind several disasters and assassinations - perpetrated by inhuman enemies! Disturbed, he developed the Getter Robo, a trio of jets which combine into three powerful mecha, using his Getter Energy discoveries as a power source. Unfortunately, the Getter Robo is a demanding machine, and its prototypes and test flights have killed or maimed many candidate pilots. Before Emperor Gore and his Dinosaur Empire unleash their terrifying Mechasauruses on the surface world, he needs three exceptional people with uncanny resilience and the willingness to stare death in the eye, three hearts to beat as one...
Meanwhile meanwhile, one such candidate stands out! A super-genius mind! An exceptional physique, with a gymnast's body and catlike reflexes! Considerable personal charisma! Kind of a fucking psycho! Fortunately that last part isn't considered a disqualifying factor for the Getter. Unfortunately, it's kind of hard to make someone a job offer when they've radicalized a chunk of their university into an off-the-grid terrorist cell. But when the head of an above-top-secret military-sponsored weapons research institute wants to get in touch with someone like that, it's always possible to leak just enough information to get him to come to you...
Almost nothing is known about Hayato Jin's background in canon - apparently his intelligence at a young age made him "a darling of the media" and he was a gymnastics star in middle school, but details of his family or home life are a mystery. Hayato himself probably considers them basically irrelevant. He obviously had the opportunity to thoroughly develop his mind and body, but at the same time turned out to be a pretty messed up guy. I intend to address this issue by completely ignoring it. How Hayato got to be how he is isn't interesting; his past and family are non-entities; chances are good he's destroyed a lot of records on the topic anyway.
More recently, Hayato entered university, where he's created a subversive organization around himself which he rules through a mixture of grudging respect and abject terror. These radicalized students are well-organized, ruthless, and set to... ummm... well, if they blow enough shit up then something interesting will probably happen, right? They're tearing down the System, man. Besides, Hayato surely knows what he's doing. ...Right?
However undirected Hayato's School House's rage may be in general, when he enters the game it's found a target. There's a lab getting a lot of support from the government and military where almost everything about it is incredibly highly classified, led by a scientist around whom strange rumours swell. For the students, it's a symbol of the military-industrial complex, mad science, meddling with things man was not meant to know, and all that good stuff. For Hayato, it's a locked door - and he wants to see what's on the other side. First hand...
Personality: Hayato is smart, ruthless, and sadistic. "Smart" is easy: he's referenced as having an IQ of 300 in elementary school (a ridiculous number I won't quote in the game, but mention here for reference), he can ably assist Professor Saotome in tasks as diverse as autopsy/vivisection and Getter Energy research, and he's implicitly identified as a "mental" rather than "physical type" in an exchange with Ryouma and Benkei. Ruthless is easy too: he starts out as a radical student terrorist for lulz, kills his own men with little provocation, and argues for killing civilians being used as hostages by the Reptiloids. Sadistic is fairly clear in the way he kills his own men, and his enemies - you don't learn to fight viciously with overgrown, sharpened fingernails, and enforce discipline by taking a deserter's eyes, ears, and nose with your bare hands, unless you like inflicting pain.
Hayato's an odd case in that his behaviour seems to change a lot almost as soon as he joins the Getter team. When introduced, he's almost feral, ruling his henchmen with terror and sadism, fighting with what are practically claws and making strange noises all the while, and making some faces that are odd-looking even by Getter manga standards. Once he's actually gotten a night's sleep at Saotome Labs, he seems a lot more controlled and reasonable, even if he's still clearly the most callous of the team.
So what's that about? My explanation is that, up to the point when he's recruited, Hayato has essentially never been challenged. Given his abilities, life has been pretty easy for him, and he's just plain bored. Intellectually and physically, he excels without much effort, and socially, manipulating the people around him has been trivial. He set up his "school house" more to have something to do than out of any sense of idealism, and in the hopes that making enough of a ruckus will provoke a response he can really get his teeth into. It shows - he has some respect for some of his minions, but for the most part pretty much treats them like he's a particularly unhinged supervillain. When he first fights the Reptiloids, he's freaking out even while holding his own. When he pisses himself, Ryouma comments that "it's probably the first time you've really been scared".
By contrast, the Getter team gives him an incredibly demanding challenge for insanely high stakes, surrounded by exceptionally capable people. Having an outlet calms him down a lot, even if he's still kind of a raging asshole in a lot of ways, and he's able to make actual friends, and to get along with people who would previously have provoked a violent reaction for wasting his time simply by existing. Of course, he's still pretty abrasive, and perfectly willing to get sacrifice others to achieve his goals - subordinates and civilians alike. That said, he's also willing to sacrifice himself - in the manga, at a crisis point, he joins Ryouma in what they both expect to be a kamikaze run. And of course, when he's not severing people's ears with his fingernails, his gruffness can be taken for a kind of charm. He's actually the Getter pilot with the most success with the ladies - he even gets engaged at one point! (She blows up.)
(This all raises the question of why he wasn't already doing something more productive with his time before he's recruited. It's a little harder to justify in SRWU than in the original canon, but it's simplest to assume that most places where he could apply his talents found him too unstable to employ, while those willing to take on someone like him were too obviously shady for him to risk. Saotome Labs hit a sweet spot of needing psychotic killers as something more than cannon fodder or attack dogs. This allows the interesting possibility that he may have approached or been approached by organizations from other canons in the game, depending on how they go about recruiting.)
With real work to channel his talents, Hayato grows into a genuine bona fide leader of men. Compared to the other pilots, he's more interested in the secrets of the Getter and of Getter energy, and more involved in the administration of Saotome Labs, assisting with research and filling a "mission control" role on some tests. Eventually he essentially inherits Professor Saotome's role of advancing Getter research, developing the plasma reactor and the Neo Getter Robo it powers, and commanding the Super Robot Army supporting it. He's still a scary bastard and losing - or sacrificing - people bothers him due to the waste of resources rather than on any emotional level, but he's practically respectable, and has people who genuinely believe in both his cause and in him personally.
Capabilities and Resources: As a Getter pilot, Hayato is downright abnormally strong, tough, and especially fast. He's able to fight Ryouma, a master martial artist, as an equal, and take on Reptiloid foot soldiers unarmed, and can push the speed-based Getter-2 to its limits. He's also very smart and broadly skilled, and able to lead - or at least command - or just plain dominate, very effectively.
Type: Combatant (perhaps later also a Commander)
Unit Name: Getter-2
Unit Description: Getter-2 is the “speed mode for underground combat” form of Getter Robo, produced by combining the Jaguar, Bear, and Eagle in that order. It's a streamlined white-and-red robot with similar proportions to Getter-1, with a large drill for a right arm and a claw hand on its left. Its signature ability is its extreme speed; it's more lightly armoured than Getter-1, but can move so fast it leaves behind afterimages, dodging and outmaneuvering enemies with aplomb. It's even able to burrow and move underground at “higher than Mach” speeds, practically swimming through the earth; it can use this to avoid attacks by using the ground as cover, and to disappear and reappear behind enemies for surprise attacks, as well as for the obvious application of fighting other burrowing enemies. Its attacks mostly revolve around stabbing or shooting things with its drill:
Getter Arm: the claw hand on Getter-2's left arm grabs and crushes the enemy.
Getter Drill / Drill Arm: the drill on Getter-2''s right arm is used to, well, drill through an enemy.
Drill Missile / Jet Drill: the drill is spun up to high speed and launched at the enemy as a rocket. It can optionally return to Getter-2, remain where it was fired, or explode on (or shortly after) impact.
Drill Storm / Getter Hurricane / Getter Storm: the drill is spun fast enough to generate a vortex of wind, immobilizing or even blowing away enemies caught in it.
Getter Beams: beams of Getter Energy fired from Getter-2's eyes. Less powerful than Getter-1's.
Mach Special: Getter-2 moves so quickly it leaves afterimages in its wake, confusing the enemy.
Open Get: A defensive technique, splitting the combined Getter into its three component jets to evade an attack. Once the team have some experience, they can do this almost as easily as dodging.
Size: L (~40m)
Terrain compatibility:
Air: Yes
Ground: Yes
Water: No
Space: Yes
Favored terrain: Ground
Note: Getter-2's jetpack gives it limited flight, but Getter-1 is far and away the preferred mode for aerial combat. Getter-2 can also function underwater, though it can't float, and Getter-3 is the go-to mode for that environment. On the ground, on the other hand, Getter-2 is not only highly mobile, but can use its drill to move underground with implausible ease, to dodge attacks and surprise enemies.
Unit Name: Getter Machine Jaguar
Unit Description: Getter Machine Jaguar is the white jet that forms the lead component of Getter-2 (and the midsection of Getter-1 and base of Getter-3). Though tough and fast, it's not really much to write home about on its own; the individual Getter Machines, even when all three are together, are much less capable than their combined forms. Armed with missiles and machine guns.
Size: M
Terrain compatibility:
Air: Yes
Ground: No
Water: No
Space: Yes
Favored terrain: Air
Notes: As with the combined Getter Robo, the Jaguar can operate underwater, though it can't float.
Upgrades: The original Getter Robo doesn't really get any upgrades; its pilots just get better at using it. New machines such as Getter Robo G and Shin Getter Robo will depend heavily on plot.
Wingmen: None to start with; possibly some alternate pilots and henchmen later.
Mission requirement: Yes, ish (Event post that leads directly in to a mission)
Suggested Event List: The draft list is on Ryouma's app. My addition is:
Event post 1: Hayato's School House
Hayato's terrorist group mounts a raid on Saotome Labs! Before they can penetrate security, however, the entire base comes under attack by Reptiloid troopers on foot. Hayato's lackeys are wiped out, as he fights on foot against these terrifying new enemies. In the process, he finds his way, or is brought, to the hangar where he's forced into the Getter with an interface helmet, leading to the first mission!
It'd be nice if unobtrusive mention could be made, in the week before the mission, of a raid on the Department of Defense in which classified military data was stolen. Having law-and-order types already aware of at least one major criminal act by Hayato will surely make his introduction go super well.
Hayato may also be locked up after his debut mission, probably depending on whether he tries to abscond with the Getter. If so, he'll be offered his freedom in exchange for his cooperation, possibly in connection with Musashi's intro.
Sample post: Testrun
