Notes: We're not exactly playing any one Getter canon, but an amalgam (or, appropriately, gattai) of all three of the OVAs—we worked it out via a lot of group planning. Someone will PM the mod account with a somewhat long full summary of the AUed backstory—it's just a specific combination of the canons I'm linking via Wiki.
Personality: On any team without Hayato on it, Ryoma would be The Crazy One. He's callous, hyper-aggressive, and prideful, lives like a bit of a good-old-fashioned bum, and is almost (almost) literally incapable of feeling fear. If you mess with his mind, you can get results, but if it's a matter of physical confrontation? He doesn't back down from a fight, period, fuck you. No matter how insane the odds against him are. All around, the simple explanation is that he's what you get when a shounen hero gets a good roid rage on: so hot-blooded he's an asshole. Of course, like a shounen hero, he's not necessarily super bright. Even with his years of battle experience, his greatest weaknesses are impulsivity and stubbornness.
According to the manga, he learned everything he knows both about karate and about interacting the with the world around him via unrelenting, insane violence from his father. He considers the life philosophy he inherited to be a manly, warrior spirit kind of thing, which in a sense it is. Still, the end result is that his idea of fun is deliberately pissing off the Yakuza so he can beat up their thugs. Fortunately, this works out well because he's a ridiculously good fighter, whether in Getter Robo or on foot.
Of course, if Ryoma were an asshole through and through, he'd be more of a villain protagonist. You could almost think of him as being rough around the edges but with a heart of gold. Sure, “rough” is rough enough to sand your skin off, and the gold needs some polishing, but there is a basic, antiheroic sense of morality at his core. He never takes his need for a fight out on someone who doesn't want to fight back. He might have some disdain for the weak, or at least those he considers weak, but he'll protect them if they need protection—because fuck bad guys, that's why. He loves battle in general, but nothing could make him stop fighting to protect the world.
He is also well-acquainted with the concept of the bromance. As far as the Getter team goes, he and his copilots can read each other's minds, and they have each other's backs—even if they really don't seem to get along. Even if he's kind of intent on killing one of them for betraying him years ago. They're still patching things up. Hayato and Benkei have never been his only “soft” spots, though. It's hard to tell when exactly Ryoma starts considering you a friend, or respecting you at least, but after a while it gradually becomes obvious. He'll do anything to protect a friend, and God help his enemies if he fails.
Ryoma Nagare 1/3
Personal LJ:
AIM Contact: Captain Gardock
Character Name: Ryoma Nagare
Source Canon: Getter Robo
Community Tag: “Ryoma Nagare”
Background: Some links for the canons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getter_Robo_Armageddon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Getter_Robo_vs_Neo_Getter_Robo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Getter_Robo
Notes: We're not exactly playing any one Getter canon, but an amalgam (or, appropriately, gattai) of all three of the OVAs—we worked it out via a lot of group planning. Someone will PM the mod account with a somewhat long full summary of the AUed backstory—it's just a specific combination of the canons I'm linking via Wiki.
Personality: On any team without Hayato on it, Ryoma would be The Crazy One. He's callous, hyper-aggressive, and prideful, lives like a bit of a good-old-fashioned bum, and is almost (almost) literally incapable of feeling fear. If you mess with his mind, you can get results, but if it's a matter of physical confrontation? He doesn't back down from a fight, period, fuck you. No matter how insane the odds against him are. All around, the simple explanation is that he's what you get when a shounen hero gets a good roid rage on: so hot-blooded he's an asshole. Of course, like a shounen hero, he's not necessarily super bright. Even with his years of battle experience, his greatest weaknesses are impulsivity and stubbornness.
According to the manga, he learned everything he knows both about karate and about interacting the with the world around him via unrelenting, insane violence from his father. He considers the life philosophy he inherited to be a manly, warrior spirit kind of thing, which in a sense it is. Still, the end result is that his idea of fun is deliberately pissing off the Yakuza so he can beat up their thugs. Fortunately, this works out well because he's a ridiculously good fighter, whether in Getter Robo or on foot.
Of course, if Ryoma were an asshole through and through, he'd be more of a villain protagonist. You could almost think of him as being rough around the edges but with a heart of gold. Sure, “rough” is rough enough to sand your skin off, and the gold needs some polishing, but there is a basic, antiheroic sense of morality at his core. He never takes his need for a fight out on someone who doesn't want to fight back. He might have some disdain for the weak, or at least those he considers weak, but he'll protect them if they need protection—because fuck bad guys, that's why. He loves battle in general, but nothing could make him stop fighting to protect the world.
He is also well-acquainted with the concept of the bromance. As far as the Getter team goes, he and his copilots can read each other's minds, and they have each other's backs—even if they really don't seem to get along. Even if he's kind of intent on killing one of them for betraying him years ago. They're still patching things up. Hayato and Benkei have never been his only “soft” spots, though. It's hard to tell when exactly Ryoma starts considering you a friend, or respecting you at least, but after a while it gradually becomes obvious. He'll do anything to protect a friend, and God help his enemies if he fails.