kingsknights

[kingsknights]

so, what would i be without starting at the flagship oc of mine- ronin. he’s arguably my most fleshed out oc, and is like “king if he was cool , but also missing an arm” (someone ate it)

he’s a titanfall pilot that is picked up by a phys gun and thrown into the multiverse , to distill a bunch of story beats into one hyperbolic sentence. warning - very long read coming up. take this reading in bits , and come back as you can <3 also - trigger warning for topics like mental illness and violence . the warning will appear again closer to when its going to show up .

of course since i actively write this character he’s still being added to, and his story is going to be kind of “what he’s doing in this verse” rather than “here’s an arc”.

im gonna make a few introductory posts about my characters , then just whenever something hits me that is specific character coded , ill be like “this is ronin” on this blog

all of these first posts will be a stat sheet (height, build, age, name) then some important pre-multiverse stuff.

ronin bueller

age: 28

height: 7’3”

build: athletic, not crazy hyper muscular - but strong enough to do his jobs .

TW: mental illness , violence

(titanfall recap: humans discover space travel, colonize planets- a big corpo rises called the imc and starts taking over planets, the people form a militia called the frontier militia and they fight)

ronin’s story starts with his parents, of course- but not in the way you expect . ronin’s mom served in the first titan war, coming out of it early for the frontier militia’s early experiments with void energy. specifically, human-void energy usage.

in simulacrums, (a robot that a human’s uploaded into) void energy allows them to temporarily enter a different reality to avoid damage or just teleport seemingly. however , its gone mostly untested* in humans until ronin’s mom , morgan .

*wraith from apex legends, but that was imc testing

so, between the events of titanfall one and two , morgan and the project lead on this whole void-human experiment- tomo, get together as they are nearing the apex of the project - actually injecting void energy into morgan . upon injection, near unspeakable things occur. equipment is broken, and people are left barely breathing. when the dust settles, its tomo who is able to quell whatever happened to morgan .

the people sponsoring the project , seeing what happened- quickly pulled funding and covered up what happened . several bribes later , the research station was decommissioned and laid dormant. but morgan and tomo stuck together.

one night , tomo just admitted he wanted a kid. it was entirely out of nowhere for morgan, but.. she was ready.

when morgan and tomo go to the doctor for their (very privately documented) checkups , gene projections show that their baby would either end up having some crazy and unknown super power , or end up with some genetic mutation because of the effects of the void serum injection.

i have intentionally neglected explaining what happened to morgan , because it doesnt become a problem until ronin is born- but ill explain it.

ronin is born, and as it turns out- he is just growing rapidly. like, 6” by age fifteen, and topping out at 7’3” at 22 .

so , a few months after ronin is born , tomo and ronin are out going on an evening walk when upon returning , find the house trashed . and , morgan huffing and writhing on the floor . not in pain , but in an other-wordly anger . tomo steps back outside holding ronin close and calls someone to help . hours later , baby ronin lay in a crib next to tomo in a hospital room . with morgan laying motionless .

a group of three doctors approach , and explain to tomo that morgan has what they are calling “ARS” , or “Always Ready Syndrome”. this means nothing, and is more an attempt to put a name on something even they dont understand because they need to document it .

what is later learned as ronin grows up and is main source of ronin’s troubles coming up is that when morgan is injected with this void energy , she is connected with an alternate reality where she is still alive, but.. the imc had arrived at the main frontier militia planet , harmony . where morgan and tomo moved to to conduct the void experiments .

however , the morgan in that alt reality is connected with the reality that our story is in .

basically- morgan and alt morgan know each other exist . and at first, thats all it was . but , seemingly at random times, the morgan’s will swap . alt morgan exists in ronin’s reality, and morgan goes to the alt reality . eventually , alt morgan realizes that tomo and ronin are alive in this universe .

medicine is very slowly developed, and morgan is able to keep alt morgan out . at the cost of losing more control of herself if alt morgan breaks through .

alt morgan watches as ronin grows up- and even wants to be a pilot through morgan’s eyes . and she grows angry . incredibly angry .

one night , when ronin was 15 , he was up late doing homework when who he thought was his mother shuffling down the stairs . of course , ronin was never told about any of this . not until recently . all he was told that if mom didnt seem right , to call a number and leave the house .

ronin calls out to his mom , but .. nothing is returned . she shuffles towards the knives and ronin notices . he taps his shorts to find his phone , but its across the island where morgan was .

his footsteps were careful . intentional . adrenaline coursing through him as he attempted to reach over the island and take his phone . he reached out and got his hand on it , but his mom was too fast . ( violence ahead, you’ve been warned)

morgan brought the cleaver down into ronin ‘s arm , letting go as ronin pulled away . because of her strength- she nearly cut it clean off . ronin bursted out the side door - screaming as the cleaver slides out and onto the now crimson sidewalk he rushed out through . everyone in the neighborhood was woken by the loud sirens , and ronin collapsing on the concrete .

ronin can barely remember what happens between arriving at the hospital and the news being broken that his arm would be better off amputated than being treated . militia insurance wouldn’t cover ronin , and especially wouldn’t cover any prothesis .

he does remember tomo crying above him . head hung low with stress weighing on him .

ronin couldn’t return to school for a while- so had to learn and catch up while recovering from the amputation while missing his left arm from the elbow down . tomo was there every day , talking with doctors , family friends and trying to find something for ronin .

when ronin was finally able to return to class , he was gifted a.. very custom-made wooden arm that - if nothing else let him at least have something to fill his sleeve so outfits didn’t look odd .

his classmates all banded together to make it for him , in a rare case of kindness . when ronin came home , tomo started crying again . holding ronin , and feeling both arms again was amazing .

morgan was sent to 24/7 care center , personally overseen by one of the old void experiment sponsors . they felt responsible for it, in some way- however , it was either morgan or ronin . tomo didn’t get a say , just .. saw morgan leave .

as ronin grew up - he felt even more of a drive to be a pilot . so , he spent a lot of his free time training as best as he could , until he was 19 . when , a recruiter noticed this same drive , and ronin’s last name .

the marauder corps pilots personally oversaw the development of a grappling hook arm to replace ronin’s cobbled-together wood arm that he had to reinforce with metal to be able to lift weights . tomo was with him the whole way , and watched him graduate basic training with that rickety wood and metal arm .

when ronin joins the marauder corps- he was gifted the arm and a titan specially fit to his seven-foot stature . ronin was beyond excited , and the moment he was free , sent pictures and tried to call tomo to no avail .

tomo was probably busy , which is what ronin believed as he went on to greet his titan .

pilots are really units that consist of two elements , the pilot , (ronin in this case) and the titan , who is DE-3492 , or delta . pilot’s link to their titan via a brain chip that allows the titan to connect with the pilot and do complex actions when a pilot is piloting a titan .

but , this linking also creates a special bond that is solely unique to a specific pilot and titan unit .

the role titan-pilot units fulfill is to not only battle other titans , but give the side using it an overwhelming amount of firepower .

ronin and delta become practically inseparable . always training , or doing something together . that is , until he is offered to join the ACES , Angel City’s Elite. a group of pilots lead by titan war veteran robert “barker” taube .

ronin joins , and really finds a place he belongs in . of course- there’s a titanfall one and two, so where is ronin during that? he is mostly not fighting typhon , the main planet - but is called in for a big assault on an IMC base where the power to a planet destroying gun is being held . ronin is part of the initial assault force , and is left at the entrance to cover the flank at the entrance .

ronin and delta fight tooth and nail to hold their position , with the two finally being evac’d before the planet explodes . as ronin is being treated for his wounds, and delta is repaired - the two rejoice in their victory .

okay - thats everything . pre-phys gun into the multiverse . thank you for reading! expect longer stories like these between other posts <3