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Character Info:

Full Name: Victor Mancha
Called By: Vic to his friends, or he'll answer (grouchily) to a wide range of dumb jokes.
Age: Physically appears and mentally is 17. Actually a cyborg, though, so his body's only been around for about 4 years or so, about half of that in construction.
Canon: Marvel 616
History: Marvel wiki and/or regular wiki. Vic's coming from just pre-Avengers A.I.

Personality:

Victor is, or at least remembers being, a poor Hispanic kid from the very end of the 20th Century, from the bad side of Los Angeles. His mom had three jobs to support the two of them, and his dad was, as far as he was aware, a deceased soldier. In most respects, Victor would be a perfectly normal teenager, if it wasn't for the fact that he's actually a cyborg, and his dad is in fact one of his universe's biggest villains. Also he comes from a world with superheroes, a fact which plays into a lot of his personality traits.

The most obvious thing about Victor is that regardless of anything else, he is a hero by nature, even if that nature is programmed. He has, for a start, a fairly strong sense of justice, and he tends to be protective of people around him, especially those he's close to. Originally this was only really his mother, but since her death and being taken in by his friends, he's extended it to them. He sometimes verges into self-sacrifice; he's taken on missiles for the rest of his friends before, because he knows he can take the damage. He's also the most confident when he's trying to be a hero, which can edge over into cockiness sometimes. He's fairly self-effacing most of the rest of the time, though. And he is aware that being a hero isn't all about adulation and praise.

He's horrified when he's used as a weapon to attack innocent people or those he cares about, and would rather be knocked out when it happens. Which, thanks to Victor's robotic and therefore hackable nature, has happened before. He's also shown horror when innocent people turn on him, for various reasons; all he wants is to help them, and he barely defends himself from them. He hates running away from a fight if there are people he can help, but better that than anyone but the bad guys getting hurt.

On a less powered front, he's also the one who seems to end up trying to look after Molly and Klara, often acting as a big brother to them. He's no stranger to housework or hard work, and doesn't mind pitching in to help out, although that doesn't stop him from taking time out to relax.

He's also generally speaking a nice guy most of the time. He's fairly forgiving, most of the time, and if he can help someone, he will; this ranges from saving their lives to finding music for his friends to comforting upset people. That said, he tries, but he's not always good at dealing with people. Sometimes he messes up, and he has missed social cues once or twice before. He can occasionally make hurtful or ignorant statements, but only because he's not thinking; he's also known to respond to other people's hurtful comments with fairly barbed responses. And he does have a stubborn streak and can get quite sullen when people are clearly not listening to him.

On the whole, though, he's fairly easy-going, and he tends to roll with the punches reasonably well. He's also often the first Runaway to suggest trusting someone if they haven't proven by their actions to be harmful. The major exception to this is if the person he's talking to is a known villain; at which point, Victor gets downright suspicious and sometimes even hostile. He's also currently wary of authority, having spent time as a juvenile runaway, and thanks to the mess the Registration Act caused for many people.

Victor is also programmed to be super-logical, and has the potential computing power to make some very, very quick judgements when he needs to; he's calculated complex vector-based mathematics, come up with obscure science facts, and even speculated on magical effects before now, proving right most times.

In contrast, he's also programmed to be simultaneously super-spiritual; his mother was Catholic, and he still seems to find comfort in the religion. He's been depicted praying before now, and once outright admitted that inasmuch as a robot can believe in God, he does. The combination of logical and religious is in fact one of Victor's weaknesses, and one he's aware of, but not one he seems able to change.

He's programmed to have some degree of above-average intelligence, even if he doesn't always act like it. He also remembers everything he's read, although that tends to fall into high school level knowledge, only really going into depth on certain preferred subjects. He can seem like something of a nerd given the chance to really show off what he knows; he occasionally drops random facts into conversation like everyone should know them. He's studied the super-heroes of his world, even the obscure ones, and gets enthusiastic and even a little awestruck about meeting them, at least the first time; some things he considers betrayals on the part of some of his heroes have slightly dampened this down generally, and almost completely towards those specific heroes. He can sometimes gets a little impatient with people when they're doing something obviously silly, and doesn't always seem to get he's smarter than a lot of people and things that are obvious or easy to him maybe aren't so much to other people.

Victor does tend to be something of a romantic; he falls in love quite quickly, and does take a while to fall back out of love. He can be quite shy about admitting it to the girl in question, and he can be fairly awkward when he's talking to them, at least at this canon point. He's also shown signs of struggling to discuss serious issues with them, which means most of his relationships have also been pretty short so far.

He is genuinely worried about his future self, at least some of the time. He's really not happy about people being afraid of him, or about the things he's potentially programmed to do. He still occasionally suffers from nightmares regarding betraying his friends, both based on the times he actually was made to do so in the past and the potential he has to do so later, if his attempts to reprogram himself haven't worked right. He used to suffer them almost nightly, but time with the Runaways has managed to cut it down significantly. Because he does fear his potential to be so, he can get very defensive when people call him psycho or accuse him of being a future murderer (he overwrote that programming). He's also somewhat annoyed when people bring up his cyborg nature as a bad thing; he's learnt to accept it, and even brings it up himself in regular conversation or as joke, but other people don't have that right unless they're his friends. Even then, they'd better not be serious.

Given his canon reaction to waking up in the Diamond (a vast artificially constructed world built by A.I.s), and to his reaction to discovering they were 100 years in the past, Victor's basic reaction to waking up somewhere he didn't expect to wake up is to be initially surprised, maybe swear once or twice, and then get on with it. He doesn't have time to be shocked or angry, not if there are people to help or things to do. Plus, give him a couple of seconds and he can probably name at least ten major heroes who are known to have visited other dimensions and come back just fine, so it's not like this is something that isn't known. He might be a little unhappy he's here without the other Runaways, but he can cope, and besides, he's pretty optimistic. Given time, might actually be relieved he's in another world without the Avengers; he can hardly join them and betray them if they don't exist here, right?

Powers:

As a cyborg, being a mostly organic layer of flesh and skin over a metallic skeleton, Victor is more durable than most; he's still mostly metal, after all. He's also full of self-repairing nano-machines that are also slowly converting his underlying metal systems into ones almost indistinguishable from a regular humans. He's still destructible, though, and can be taken out of fights by sufficient damage, as the nanomachines take time to work, or by sufficient head trauma, as it makes him reboot. He's shown signs of super-fast reflexes, is capable of bursts of slightly above-human speed, and doesn't really get fatigued. He also possesses non-human strength; his upper strength limit appears to be about 20 tons, by the official Marvel power ratings. He technically doesn't need to eat or sleep, but is programmed to do so for the sake of appearances. At the moment, his nanomachines have barely started conversion, and Victor's internals are very much entirely metal; he sets off metal detectors.

As an A.I. running on an internal hard-drive he also has the following powers. He's got literally photographic memory; his eyes work much the same as cameras. He has deleted memories previously, and he's also played them back holographically in an alternate future timeline. He remembers pretty much everything he's ever read, too, which includes a full database kept by the Pride on potential threats, not to mention all the time he spent reading up on superheroes, so he has a reasonable level of knowledge of most heroes and villains from the Marvel universe. Super-intelligence and the logic he's programmed with lets him work out solutions to problems really quickly, when he's trying. Can interface with most Earth-based technology, either by plugging in or wirelessly. He can analyse most metals and mechanical devices by touching them with his powers active. He has peak-condition human senses, but is able to process the signals more efficiently, so can isolate sensory input that for most humans would be lost in the background. He's also got some pretty weird brainwave patterns, for obvious reasons.

Unfortunately, he's also hackable, given a high level of hacking skill. It's not easy, though, and Victor checks himself rigorously for hacking attempts. Mostly it depends on how actively malicious the hacking is; passively piggy-backing his visual feed is pretty easy and hard to detect, actively changing his core personality or overriding his free will is very hard. It's also true his A.I. makes him susceptible to logic bombs, which literally cause him to crash. There's at least two based on the conflict between "super logical" and "super spiritual", but others might work. In a situation where he can't remove himself physically but will otherwise be forced to harm innocents, the same thing might happen.

Vic also has electromagnetism powers, which work both as magnetic powers to reshape and control metals, and the ability to throw high-voltage blasts of electricity around. He does generate his own electricity and then stores it, so it has been known to run out. Rather like Magneto, can use planetary magnetic fields to levitate, or presumably his own in an enclosed metallic space. When he's using these powers, his eyes and/or mouth may glow blue and he might emit sparks from hands, eyes or mouth as well. He occasionally sparks involuntarily when angry or upset, or when his internal static regulator isn't working.

Special Skills: Most of Vic's skills are actually tied into his power-set, but he does speak a number of Earth-based languages, including English, Spanish, and Russian. He can cook very basic meals and keep his place relatively clean. He is pretty good at mechanical repairs, having kept both the Leapfrog and several cars in working order during his time with his friends, and has previously constructed working radio scanners and similar systems. And unsurprisingly, he's pretty good with coding and computers.

Anything else?: This is Vic under construction. Along with this picture of Victor getting blown up, it's the best I have for guessing at Vic's internal make-up. Marvel is not very clear on how much Vic is robot or how he works, sadly.

Vic is by no means a trained fighter, although he has downloaded a few matial arts instructional videos. In combat he's actually more a ranged type, relying on his electromagnetic powers over his physical strengths.

If comm symbols are still required, Vic's will probably be some kind of lightning bolt and headphones combination I'll mock up.

Also, because I'm taking Victor from pre-Avengers A.I., although he's been working on it, he hasn't quite worked out forcefields yet, or installed the Dragon's Claw listed under his power section on the Wiki. And his levitation abilities are all pretty new, too.

Writing Samples:

Action Tag Sample: [It's not that long since he arrived here, but Victor needs to be able to do something before he starts feeling useless. He's been hiding away a lot since his arrival, used to a certain amount of lying low to make sure social services don't pick him up, but maybe it's time to see if that's even going to be a problem here.

Besides, some credits would be nice. And he's used to being around other people; being without much contact is driving him mad. Maybe the network is a solution here. It's gotta be worth a try, at least. He still looks and sounds a little dubious about the whole thing, though.]

So, uh, dumb question, but do labor laws even apply here? I think I'm gonna need a job if I don't want to go crazy. I'm not exactly trained for anything, but I can do a few basic repairs, or a little heavy lifting.

[He hesitates, not entirely willing to go into detail just yet. He knows he could be pretty useful, though, so he might as well offer all his skills. Just carefully, that's all.]

And if exploration trips are a thing, how do I get on one?

Third Person Prose Sample: They'd arrived at the mansion late Tuesday night, back from the trip to San Francisco, and by mutual consent they'd all collapsed into bed without talking much. He'd been tired, actually, although usually his robot side made him a little less prone to fatigue. He clearly hadn't been tired enough, though, if he'd woken up less than 3 hours after getting back, after another nightmare. He had hoped he'd stopped having them, honestly, but he should probably have known better. At least this time he'd managed to wake up silently; he couldn't hear anyone moving, at least, which meant either he hadn't made a noise or he had and people were just too tired to hear it. In some ways, it was a relief no-one seemed to be coming. At least he didn't have to talk about it to people who understood only too well what he could be capable of.

That still left him awake at an ungodly hour of the morning, though, and he hated lying in bed doing nothing, so he got up instead. The Leapfrog had actually made it back from the trip without taking any damage, which was a change from usual, but there was always some repair or another that needed making, and if he was going to be awake he might as well do it now. It was better than realising he hadn't done it mid-fight, after all.

He checked on Molly and Klara on the way past, but the light was off and he couldn't hear anything, so they were probably asleep too. Not entirely surprising, given Molly's day. He was almost certain something else had happened beyond just visiting the school, but she didn't want to talk about it just yet and there really wasn't any point pushing. Stubborn didn't even begin to cover it, sometimes. He'd have to keep an eye on her for a couple of days, just in case.

Heading through the kitchen to the garage, he stopped to pick up the toolbox before walking outside.