Cyborg Help?

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So, I'll just be up front here: I like this forum. I would like to make a character. However, I am NOT extremely familiar with the setting, and I have a vague concept that I'd like to work out in a way that is appropriate for the forum. I am hopeful that you good folks will be able to give me a bit of guidance here.

The basic idea is that the character is human, but has a pair of cannons (well... E rank, so... oversized pistols at best) attached to her back that can rotate or whatever to fire over her shoulder or from her side, and MAYBE some sort of radar-ish ability, mostly 'cuz the pic I was thinking of using has some vaguely radar mast-ish headgear and that got me thinking. How would I be best off representing those things in RP?


I get that as an E-rank character I start off weak and all that, I figure the "cannons" would be like 1 inch caliber at best and have limited ammunition and recoil would be a serious issue and all that stuff, but I do like the idea of a mixed short-to-midrange, punching-and-integrated-shooting style so I'd like to represent it in some way. I'm not dead set on the radar stuff but it could be linked to the guns (not firing computer, still human brain) or... something. I dunno. I'm still researching the universe to get a better understanding of stuff, but I'm not there yet.

[Djinn]

Hmmm... Some thoughts that may prove helpful can be found here:

Robot Ideas

Franky Before the timeskip would be more doable for you there.

Some Ideas I actually could see working are to keep the cannons (not pistols) just give them limited uses throughout a thread so they seemed more balanced. Maybe you're guy could have pistols too (stash em in the hands or mouth maybe?)

As far as Radar, that's gonna be a hard sell especially at E-rank, maybe a better way to take it would be to give her telescopic sight? If you're feeling saucy you could try for Nightvision/Infrared (Predator, anyone?)

Finally you need to think about how much of your character is a Cyborg? How much of them is still human?

After you find your answers to these questions, you'll have a much better idea of what's going on with your potential character...

Also, there are Cyborg Rules around here somewhere... The fact that I couldn't find them shouldn't discourage you from looking too though.

[Helix]

Yo, welcome to da forum!

So, about your radar. I'm thinkin' it could start out as some kind of sonar, as that would probably be a bit simpler and easier to make (sonar is essentially using sound as opposed to radar using electromagnetic waves). Maybe later you can upgrade it to full-out radar, since I think radar in general is more useful and/or accurate (might have to do a bit of research on that though). Though I'm pretty sure sonar tends to be only useful in the water, so there is that. I've also heard that sonar can be used to detect oil in the earth, so perhaps you could use some stethoscope-type thing to see into solid objects?  As for viewing the sonar/radar, how about you have some sort of visor that comes down and gives you a screen like this? Instead of plugging it straight into the guns or your brain or what not. That way there'd be the weakness of not being able to see anything else while you're using it (unless you later upgrade to a semi-translucent screen or something... ).

Like Djinn, I'm not totally sure how staff'll end up grading your cyborg, but if I had to guess I'd say the sonar will probably be pushed to D-Class, since it's fairly advanced. In that case you could simply say that, although the picture of her shows "this part", she hasn't actually acquired it yet. Oh, and also make sure to have some sort of power source for your cyborg if you end up having more automated stuff. Guns'd probably be fine by just having a trigger that you pull, but if you want them to go off at will, have stuff like sonar, etc., you'll need a power source of some kind. Franky uses Cola to power himself, so it doesn't have to make complete sense XD. It is One Piece after all. Could probably use something like a wind-up battery if you wanted, lol. At any rate, good luck with your character.