Bearo - The self insert

Bear is my self insert OC, and he is drawn as a sort of distorted Self-Portait, he's not human, his race was originally created, 5 years ago, as an all male rip-off of the Gems from steven universe, which is visible all throughout the setting... After much work, I can now confidently say, he is an Insanon, the spawn of Nazara, or in Bear's case, one of his clones, he has a human soul which was elevated through a cycle of death and rebirth into an Angel, Adam, as the god diecting this process, recreated Bear's soul in his own image. He is composed of hard light, literally a hologram with mass, his core contains a Super Solenoid, which provides infinite power, he has an absolute terror field which makes him a potent psychic, he is considered half human, because, after being inactive in core form for many thousands of years, his core was awakned by his "father" using human DNA, which fused with and overwrote his original DNA, promting him to regenerate into a more human form. He grew up rather quickly, because while he lacked any memory, he was quick the redevelop his adult level mental faculties, he was allowed to attend school in 2008, after he was poofed and regenerated as a 15 year old version of himself, where he met Walker and Mitsuo...

I used a photo refrence of myself, to scale, to get his features, and have used him, for many years, to work on my self-image issues...

Elizabeth

The Lezareno family owns the Altamira Resort and hot springs, which has an attached ferris wheel and roller coaster, and a casino. It once brought huge numbers of tourists; having been rebuilt as a tall glass cylinder, with fine dining and shopping. While most of her family attends the family business, her father grooming her ‘gross stupid’ younger brother Theodore to take it over, she has gone on to be a nurse. She lives in a camper with a small cheap kitchenette, bed, and bathroom, which is all pink and full of stuffed animals hanging from the ceilings by nooses.

Despite dressing as a high class flight attendant, in all pink, black, and gold, she is not the least bit feminine. Elizabeth is a complete wackjob, the product of her family, all of whom are highly eccentric rich weirdos, the home of the executive and investor class; she choose to leave the stuffy and confining world of the hotel, to live a life of fun and adventure on Earth. Her family is worth millions, and has a long history of assassinations, sabotages, and other "fun" stuff that could raise that number significantly should many of them die.

Elizabeth however, wanted to have fun in the big wide world outside the hotel. To that end, she works as a nurse at the local hospital, though she is highly inappropriate about her love of gore and suffering. She is an amazing field medic with many annoying quirks, not the smallest of which is her love for making her own money by any means, and yaoi, she constantly tries to get Dean and Hunter laid for her own amusement. Hunter and Dean call her Bitch Tits, commenting on the inflating prices for her first aide, and both would rather have Anep be the one helping them recover than her.

Elizabeth adventures with a large but light shield and a small blue, almost crystalline looking gun.

Sheryl

Bisexual, Sheryl is actually a guy, despite his name, 6'0", he has gorgeous caramel skin, he is Portuguese from Brazil, with a black grandmother, he has a number of tattoos on the right side of his body, along the front and back of his torso down his upper leg and arm, in dark magenta smart ink, when his blood chemistry changes, for instance, under sexual arousal they glow neon pink, and under adrenaline they glow bright white. He is a model and cam boy for a living, but he works at a loading and unloading cargo ships when they land to keep his figure and keep him grounded, a total dom, though he’s bisexual he feels rather no emotional connection to women, he is very popular for sleeping with his fans and signing autographs, he however, cannot take sadism being dished back to him.

He is shady and kind of a creep, sleazy, and the butt of many jokes about him creeping on people or being a rapist, but when push comes to shove, nobody doubts that he would never cross that line and his friend’s trust in him is implicit. His preferred weapon is razor wire. He is very sketchy, a total sleaze bag, but is a good man at heart, and it’s all just jokes, he lives in an apartment in Seattle, earning a living as a e-sex boy, selling himself as the perfect boyfriend with a new fantasy each episode.

He is a jaded playboy whose emotions have become dulled and his heart numb, a lazy sleaze who only goes for one night stands, he works at a loading dock during the day to cover up that he's a gay cam boy at night. He now only finds meaning with his friends, not relationships, and is always quick to give a bullshit rationale behind his subdued feelings. His persona is that of the perfect boyfriend, and each show is a diffrent fantasy, rich boyfriend, football boyfriend, etc, where he dresses up, strips, and jerks off while telling a sex story, this is a persona however, and while he may sleep with his fans ocasionally wearing this mask, he will never use it on his friends because he genuinely cares about them and won’t lie for their affection.

He lives in one of the penthouse apartments in the new shopping district.

Hunter

Flippy - Bisexual

Hunter is tall 6'2", pale, gold eyes, mint blond hair with an undercut, revealing dark green roots. He has hairy legs but fuzz everywhere else, thick pubes, he is very lanky but shredded as fuck, born in 2055, he's one of the youngest Skullz. Hunter is a military fanboy and went to work as a mercenary when he turned 15, after his conventional basic training regimen he was fitted with a new experimental psyberware implant to give him psychic senses, however further training proved to stressful for the implant, the interferes fucks with his brain chemistry, giving him PTSD and fragments of a split personality, while it should let him know about enemies and other combat data the implant keeps trying to predict combat patterns based on psychic insight, creating a kind of fake, forced memory, literally a fase traumatic flashback. The defects in the implant detectors create "ghosts" as they overreact to residual psychic energy even when the originator is gone, though they don't always come from the dead. The implant does make him master at hand to hand combat, helping him develop expert strategizing and tactical problem solving skills, and gain the ability to wield any weapon he might find on the battlefield without prior knowledge of its specific operating principles, and give him savant shooting capabilities, essentially making Hunter an ace combatant with the skills of a war weary veteran with decades of service.

The few trainees with this new, powerful, but entirely experimental implant experienced some side effects, while Hunter gained skills equal to a highly trained and accomplished veteran he also developed PTSD and Dissociative Personality Disorder, although he has no actual memories of these events, he still has the traumatic experiences, when triggered, he takes on a highly confident, sleazy, violent, and aggressive persona that can make full use of his super soldier skills. Hunter suffer nightmares over these experiences, with his mind filling in the missing details with images of his friends, family, and his home, he is haunted by the deaths of friends and comrades, brothers, that are still alive, and sees his hands as having been stained by the blood of atrocities that have never actually happened. This has subjected Hunter to constant accusations of faking his war experiences to get attention, which is part of the reason he’s been adopted by Dean Shinwoo.

Hunter is a bit socially timid and nerdy, kind but shy, unaware of his sex appeal and charm, gets too caught up nerding out over Bear being an Alien to remember he was trying to get laid. He and the ‘other hunter’ share the same underlying personality and contectome, the other hunter simply has different traits at the forefront of his personality,  he is simply a different mask over the real Hunter, just a different elaboration of his personality. Hunter is descended from Americans, but is extremely skilled with the Russian language and much of his specific knowledge is about Russian weapons technology and military techniques - he likely is from a now defunct Russian paramilitary contractor group, since the experiment obviously failed, he was simply thrown out as a useless asset during bankruptcy.

Hunter is one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, shy and quiet but also confident in himself and his value as a person, he is very strong willed, manly, but not loud - he is however, very dangerous under the right circumstances, though he has never harmed anyone, including himself, without sufficient cause, he is Dean Shinwoo's roommate and Dean has essentially taken legal custody of him, Dean, a veteran, will hurt anybody who tries to deny Hunter the respect a veteran is due, even if the war Hunter fought isn't real, he's still been to hell and back.

Hunter Adventures without armor, and fights with various styles of gun.

Dean and Hunter live inside a cargo container together, they have two bunk beds, one with a couch underneath and the other a TV, along with a small kitchen and fully stocked bathroom. There are plenty of windows and too many guns for anybody nearby to feel reasonably safe.

Dean

Mac Skull, born in 2037 in Imperial Americana, honorably discharged 2060 - Gay - wears inappropriately adult themed cutoff tee-shirts constantly. He is Hunter's legal guardian, he works double shifts on the factory farm to support himself and Hunter inside their cargo container of a home out in the chaotic older occupation era homes; though this RV is fully outfitted for the two men’s various hobbies and predilections, there are far far to many weapons, rounds of ammunition, and alcohol for anybody at the local tower to feel reasonably safe, however, responsible gun ownership is the rule of their home. The two confirmed bachelors are so bad at cleaning and daily home maintenance that it’s totally worth it to pay Anep to come clean for them.

Dean Shinwoo is of average height - 5'10.5", big shoulders, powerful chest, and rippling muscle, he had long hair always sticking upward in a wavy mess, his naturally light brown hair is dyed blond on the top of his head, combined with the green bandana he always has wrapped around his forehead, makes it look like, from the front, he has two totally distinct hair colors, blond on top, and all brown on the bottom. He has thick brown eyebrows, bright cyan eyes that are always half-lidded, and wrinkles give him permanent bags under his eyes. Dean doesn't look lazy though, his eyes are always bright, and his smile full of genuine merriment and cheer, though always with a hint of danger. He wears his dog tags around his neck, and his white wife beater has the shoulder area totally ripped and torn, he always wears pants evocative of a baggy military uniform and big belt, with his shirt tucked loosely in, and giant black combat boots.

Dean Shinwoo joined the military when he was 16 out of a very dumb sense of patriotism, he completed his training and was deployed to one of the endless peacekeeping wars that ravage the world. He had been rewarded for good work with a basic super soldier enhancement, his reflexes are extremely fast, his perceptions and situational awareness increased via drugs, his stamina heightened to the point he could go for two weeks without sleep as long as he got minimal rest during that time. He was deployed to war after war, he spent 15 years in the service before being hospitalized for a severe injury, which eventually resulted in his honorable discharge, the field treatments weren't good enough to fix a basically destroyed respiratory system, and the military washed their hands of him.

Disillusioned from the military and big money interests, he drifted all across America and Pangaea and always looking for something to believe in, he found Hunter, another victim of the military grooming its youth to fight on its behalf in the endless wars to sustain the global economy; eventually settling down in Seattle with Hunter, forming a group of ex-military and military enthusiasts as well as a field medic who bond over their military experience or need for first aid.

Dean Shinwoo has one final surprise for most people, hes’ 100% gay, his type, much younger bear cubs, the more innocent, the better, and he was a expert at taking a guys virginity without leaving a sour taste in their mouth when he didn’t come back the next day. He was a romantic sweetheart but preferred to remain unattached. Dean’s choice of non-lethal weapons was a Needle Gun, coated in a muscle relaxer,
he aimed for acupuncture pressure points, temporarily paralyzing a target, he used small, Japanese knives too, as close quarters hand to hand weapons, coated in a paralyzing agent that Dean's military enhancements made him immune too, but which would paralyze another person with just a scratch. His gear is military grade body armor, as well as a gatling gun as well as a smaller needle gun, he wears strips of needles wrapped all around his body like rambo.

Dotty

Straight Yaoi fangirl, dresses in a simple black dress highlighted by white lace, red hair, dark green eyes, she is very pale, she is an exceptional mecha pilot and accomplished musician, she loves to set Beck up with other men, she is otherwise quiet and well mannered, but very flat and emotionless. She’s actually a robot; inside her headband is a core memory drive containing a quantum light gate crystal with her fluctlight; salvaged when her original body died; she’s actually heavy enough to crush a car if she fell on it; to set herself apart from everyday androids and their perfectly human-seeming warm personalities, she acts cold and emotionless; stiff and robotic; speaking in monotone and displaying as little emotion as she can, though her facade slips from time to time; a very human trait. She plays piano at the bar and Altamira hotel, for a living. She needs no weapon; she can vibrate her hand or foot fast enough to cut through things.

Beck

Going by Beck only, 186 (6'1"), a buffoonish man with a gaudy taste for gold, he is quite tall and always found in a bright gold business suit with a black tie, with a curl of naturally golden blond hair, and golden brown eyes, a few shades richer than Mitsuo's honey brown. He is a womanizing sleaze who's also into dudes. He was a petty criminal in old new york, moving across the countryside always a step ahead of the authorities, eventually joining the Skullz in the old United States, where Mitsuo convinced him to go legit, starting his own weapons dealing firm just outside the Seattle Stacks in the huge swath of junkyards surrounding the city. While he may be a buffoon he is also a genius - a tech savant who can patch together any technology he finds, an IQ of roughly 210, but he's a classic underachiever who took to petty crime to get through life the easy way. His color scheme is gold and black, his taste is gaudy and tacky gold gold gold.

Beck is no introvert but he is an almost autistic weirdo, he has great charisma. He was too smart for school, and became a petty criminal in old New York City, the famous city of lights, with its downtown having been hit by a direct nuclear strike during the seven hours war. He ended up drifting across the county, committing progressively more and more sophisticated high tech crimes, before setting up shop as an Arms Dealer in the rump republic before the government could manage to pin any crimes on him.

He’s good at getting tech to do Science, he can hook up any tech system into any other tech system, including with effort, Insanon technology. Beck fanboys about the ‘Alien’ whenever in Anep’s presence, and for the most part Beck is a fanboy, but he is also still a sleazy but charismatic ladies man. Beck can't actually have a functional relationship, fuck yes, but love is too much for his lightning quick brain to deal with. He is the only natural psychic in the Skullz, his power is great enough that no scientific test in his vicinity can be taken as accurate, but primarily his ability allows machines to “yell back” at him, a form of technotelepathy.

Living in his own junkyard on the edge of Hellawes, with some greenhouses, and piles of old cars. He refurbishes military mechas and other robotic technology, weapony, and high technology, for his business, as a private technology contractor, focusing on cybernetics, robotics, and other heavy technologies, supplying people who would otherwise be unable to access this tech at reasonable prices, he even has access to decommissioned military technology, contracting with several local police forces and private security firms, as well as maintaining and refurbishing android companions and pet robots, and other such autonomous mechanical devices.

Beck has produced a technology called the Advanced Generation Device; this is a standard issue, if older, auto fabrication which is run by a trio of personality transplants based on Beck himself, these ais take relevant data and use evolutionary algorithms to enhance the products they produce; this device is used in Beck's work, but has also produced the highly specialized and useful armors and weapons the Skulls use in Ruin Delving; taking readings from sensors built into them and data contextual data to produce more advanced gear after each fight; often by using materials scavenged from the ruins themselves.

Rivals with Walker, sometimes bitter, sometimes friendly, both competing to be the smartest man in the gang, though Walker helps him out of programming jams every now and then; including with his Advanced Generation Device. He is equipped with two brain implant chips, running two distinct copies of his personality in parallel; which are always communicating with him to help him decide on the best course of action by providing him with an inner voice with two counter perspectives; these are two scaled down versions of the three AIs used in the AGD.

Whether they realize it or not; Beck and Anep only communicate by flirting; both are highly intelligent and both have a strong interest in each other's thoughts and opinions; unlike Walker, who finds Anep mildly annoying, Beck loves talking with Anep, and has a slight crush on him; with Mitsuo inviting Beck to have sloppy seconds from time to time.

Physically, Beck is a tall thin man, with no real muscle tone, and average amount of body hair; but Anep considers him one of the most attractive men in the gang. Beck Fanboys over everything Op̄tr, and loves the theorize about how they work even when they defy all human understanding; having figured out that the halo-like devices used for Op̄tr gravity control operate as Radion Accelerators to generate both gravity and anti-gravity; also figuring out this is how Anep’s halo works; simply producing light as a byproduct of the loop’s inefficiencies.

Beck created Mitsuo and Anep’s wedding rings by working small bits of Op̄tr metal, though he isn’t exactly sure why one of the metal rings on Mitsuo’s turned black. He performs maintenance on Dotty, but they consider each other Brother and Sister and have no romantic feelings for one another; she often tries to set him up on dates with men to fangirl over him.

Britney Britney Britney

Britney Deshima, she’s Japanese, she has big bubbly brown eyes and bright pale blond hair, she fancies herself a Japanese pop star, she is a girly-girl who likes to get into street fights and hang with the boys, she dresses in intricate lolita style, all pastels with many eccentric accessories, stuffed animals, umbrellas, hats, Anep loves it all. She helped Anep get his pumpkin and banana umbrellas and loved his cheeseburger backpack and hot dog duffel bag; and supposedly she helped Mitsuo pick out his Bear hoodie. She is a total slob and needs someone to pick up after her; her tour bus is a giant mess. She pretends to only speak Japanese if annoyed, and is a lipstick Lesbian.

Involved in an accident during early commercial space flight in the late 70s, Britney barely survived and her injuries were simply so bad that she was placed in cryogenic suspension to preserve her until medicine had advanced enough to treat her; which finally happened in 2019; confused, she set out to pay back her debts by bringing gold old fashion J-pop back from a more civilized time. After earning a bit of money; she bought her own tour bus to continue her dream of being a Jpop star. She's also a passable medic. She’s a lesbian in the same way Mitsuo and Walker are straight; she can’t stand most other women and often complains about them with Mitsuo, who share’s a similar outlook; she has sleepy with Mitsuo from time to time; she’s even pegged him, sometimes while Anep rides Mitsuo at the same time, and there have even been times where she and her strap on and Mitsuo have double stuffed Anep.

She’s a professional shopper by day, specializing in high style on a budget, she has an amazing knowledge of history and geopolitics, knowing how historical events influenced fashion trends, she also sings and makes her own music, as is very talented as a J-pop singer, even though her music is contraband in japan. She lives in a camper out in the tall grass on the edge of town.

Mitsuo’s under-boss to the and big sister to the Skulls, often helping the younger members with many of their problems, all while trying to save up and pay back her medical debts. She has a collection of old pre-war technology, finding much of the new post-war stuff to be confusing; and sometimes stupidity specialized “Who needs a portable automatic headphone cleaner?”.

Fighting dirty in order to keep up with the boys, but loves fighting as much as she does pink and lipstick; her blond hair is dyed; obviously so is the hot pinks; she loves pink and frills and has dozens of umbrellas and various gothic lolita outfits covered in bows and lace and scalloping; she helped Mitsuo buy the Bear hoodie he gave to Anep, and at his request, and on his dime, she worked with Anep to get him a functional wardrobe of eccentric clothes; for instance swimsuits as shorts because of how colorful they are, and tasteful anime shirts.

More perceptive than she ever lets on; Britney and Walker fight like actual siblings, telling each other they’ll never get laid, elbowing one another, calling eachother flat, and fighting over the littlest things when upset; she is always quick to point out his problems with Anep’s sexuality are because he has a crush on both Anep and Mitsuo, while he points out that she’s flat chested and won’t date men because her costumes and dolls make her feel like their a pedofile; they never take any of the extremely harsh stuff they say to one another seriously after a fight though.

Alongside Mitsuo she often complains about modern women; she openly notes their near zero net worth for a relationship - of any kind, and their obsession with politics as an attempt to outdo one another online by competing over who can support the most insane, niche causes online while having bulldozed over all actual minority voices in the communities they claim to champion, to the point that they can’t even recognize that nobody is left in activism except grifters and allies.

She finds what women have let the internet do to them disgusting, along with the massive consumer waste they generate, the littering, and the attitude that what they do in their actual life doesn't matter as long as they hashtag and dance online to support whatever they see on TV. Britney also finds the modern woman’s tendency to gawk at offensive stereotypes in media while patting themselves on the back for watching media with ‘minorities’, along with their castration of all male role models in favor of more strong and opinionated gurl power icons, completely disgusting and narcissistic.

Britney is very careful about admitting female skulls to the gang, and will practically only accept autistic girls and ones who have lost social acceptance for being nerds or wanting to fight, instead of ones seeking orbiters in the gang’s male population; in part to protect the men of the gang, many of whom are gay and autistic, from being abused by women who pathologicalize autistic men as ‘incels’. She delves with a large glittering purple scythe made from amorphous steel.

Egor

Egor Shao, a strange mix, half Chinese and half Russian, he is extremely tall, slightly taller than even Mitsuo at 6'10", he has short light brown hair that curls slightly and pointy sideburns, and pale blue eyes, he is always sharply dressed, with a darker steel blue high collar sweater under a nice black dress jacket with matching pants and dark red dress shoes. He is a gentleman and cheerful, he can be very intimidating when he wants, he never carries a weapon with him, and will instead improvised weapons on the spot and is an expert at non-lethal combat and capture, making him a natural bounty hunter. He was raised as an assassin, and primarily worked for a shady pharmaceutical company called Nebula, before deciding to try and turn his life around, he worked various jobs along the coast before meeting Nanu, pizza boy, bartender, delivery boy, mover, he does it all. He is a gentleman in bed too, with a classy no-homo bro sentiment as he plows with precision and no wasted movements. He is very good at cheerful intimidation. Assassin Skull, he is Aromatic like Nanu but is platonically bisexual.

Egor is not officially a Skull, like Nanu, but he is treated as a hired gun, and is well aware of Nebula and Anep, his apartment has only enough room for a bed, TV, couch, coffee table, and a very small fully functional kitchen. He works as a pizza delivery boy locally, with a crappy car that can’t really lose any more value if something bad happens. Egor fights with an unornamented sword that vibrates at extreme speed, and a large rapid firing gun. He lives on the other side of the duplex with Nanu. 

Nanu

Nanu, occasionally known as Mob, is a police officer, a detective, sympathetic to the Skullz. He is an exotic looking man, he is short, only  5’7.5”, he has very pale skin, and an athletic build, his height makes him seem somewhat stocky, with his shoulders seeming large despite their average width, but most notable are his medium red eyes, a natural feature, and the fact that his hair turned gray when he was a teenager, even now, his short sliver mop contrasts with his black eyebrows, which retain the color he was born with.

Nanu’s slim form belies a very muscular and athletic body, he has thin leg hair, black, a smattering of hair on his torso, up his abs and onto his pecs, thick pubes, hairy armpits, but no arm hair. His eyes are usually half lidded, but far from being bedroomy they seem stern, his facial features are sharp around his eyes, and he has noticeable cheekbones. He is stoic and unemotional, his half-lidded eyes make him look low energy, and he usually seems annoyed, the only emotions he ever displays are pride, either in himself, his culture, or the Skullz, the rest of his emotions are dulled, and he often smile at Bear with a dull amusement. Despite often seeming to be a stoic hardass, he is fiercely loyal to his friends. He is gay, but he is also completely aromatic, he has no desire to settle down with anybody, and he isn't lonely on his own, he makes sure every guy he fucks keeps it casual.

Nanu has a thick and veiny but otherwise average six and a half inch long uncut cock, framed by black pubes, and a gorgeous set of balls, he fucks rough but sweet, always with a prideful and arrogant smile on his face as he grunts and thrusts into your ass with great force, he would praise you, degrade you as he manhandled you ass roughly and pulled your hair, and when he was finished he would always blow a massive load onto your back. Nanu is a total top, and he treats getting undressed as part of foreplay, and only fucks naked. Nanu doesn't masturbate, he doesn't feel the need to, when he is unbearably horny, he would just find some sweet ass to pump a load or two into.

At first glance, most people assume that Nanu is part of the Russian Mob, something he never denies, he has connections everywhere though, and actually works as a detective for a local PD, he’s become sympathetic to the skullz after pulling some of them, including Mitsuo, repeatedly on the city’s catch and release policy for minor crimes; he’s become part of Mitsuo’s circle from those interactions; since Mitsuo often picks up his friends from the police station. He lives in a tiny home duplex with just his bathroom and kitchenette, and living room that doubles as a bedroom.

He always wears his signature black short sleeve jacket, denim, with golden stars on both sides, always unzipped and unbuttoned, with the high collar turned out, black jeans, a black leather belt with a basic silver buckle, a red t-shirt with the collar unbuttoned, a black skull necklace with dog tags, he never wears socks, but can often be found in sandals with a red strap that match his shirt and black soles.

Walker

Walker works as a freelance ice cutter; though he’s a pyromaniac. An auitstic Otaku and best friends with Eric, adopted into Mitsuo’s van gang along with Eric so Mitsuo and Stanford could keep them under control. An autistic like Mitsuo, they became friends with Mitsuo bullying him, trading insults and witty comebacks and eventually bonding over video games and anime. He is five foot 8.5 inches (174 centimeters) tall, with jet black hair, and light brown eyes. He is almost always seen with his eyes nearly closed; he has high functioning autism and is sensitive to bright light, he typically wears a wide smile on his face.

Walker is the half-Japanese bastard son of a Japanese Soldier stationed at a US base during WW3 it was a whirlwind romance that faded about the moment that his mother got pregnant. He doesn’t like to talk about it but he is estranged from both his parents, he lives in a storeroom above a family friend’s coffee shop.

He is a pyromaniac, and gets a sexual thrill from fire, and his bunk is complete with a large, retro-modern looking fake fireplace. Walker, like Eric, is an Otaku, and the two are nearly inseparable, though, probably because he’s straight (Traps aren’t gay! Even though he’s done Buddy, Elias, and Lavi), he doesn’t share Eric’s love of Yaoi. The eccentric duo often need Mitsuo to step in and keep them thinking straight and keep them from misbehaving too terribly, but Mitsuo also isn’t above humoring or goofing around with them if there isn’t any harm in it.

Walker only revealed his high functioning autism after Mitsuo started dating Anep, who suffers from the same condition. Walker is very impressed that his best friend didn’t consider autism a deal-breaker. Walker often finds Anep mildly annoying, but he is very protective of him, viewing him as a surrogate little brother, and is quite willing to “fuck a bitch up” if they threaten to hurt him.

He is Shinto, and wears boxer briefs. He is mostly tech support in battle, scanning and later hacking into and controlling technology and mapmaking, he also maintains communications and is quick to video capture and photograph everything, so he can compile it all later, he does carry a long polearm with a heated tip for cutting. He has later designed a robotic backpack, which can extend spider limbs as well as various machines, for his use in a fight, the limbs are razor sharp and heated for cutting, and allow him to walk around and explore sections of the ruins others cannot normally get too, he can use them as a melee weapon as well, and is quite skilled at using his extra limbs. He wears only bullet proof vests.

Walker occasionally watches anime with Anep, but is more into henti, girly, and more fetish anime; there is little common ground between what the two like, though Walker and Eric love to watch anime and read manga together. Walker occasionally indulges Aneps odd behavior, as a single child he considers the hybrid to be the 'flaming gay autistic' brother he never had, even if Walker is often annoyed by him.

Eric brings out Walker’s more anti-social behavior, he's a pyromaniac and even has a bionic flamethrower replacing the bones in his lower arm; without Mitsuo to keep them in check the duo quickly resorts to talk of kidnapping and Molotov Cocktails. Often annoyed by Anep’s 'faggotry', accusing him of being too gay because of his campy fey humor; in reality it's more a sense of jealousy over Mitsuo becoming Anep’s hero; he is happy for Mitsuo finding someone who made him truly happy; but feels like Anep has taken his hero from him, like Walker is a third wheel.

He resents Anep to some degree over feeling like a third wheel with him and Mitsuo, and teases him for being too gay over it, and became very annoyed that Anep wouldn’t just let him just disengage from the friend group he felt was leaving him behind; eventually finally yelling at him over it. Walker is not just a weeb, loving Anime and Video-game Tiddy; but an avid conspiracy theorist; something only Anep indulges him in on a regular basis.

Mitsuo adopted Walker and Eric together to control their anti-social behavior; saving the two from being groomed as interrogators for an actual gang. Walker isn’t great at expressing his feelings; and despite all the gay jokes he’s actually into traps and perfectly okay with his best friend, Eric, being gay; eving going with him to bars; where Walker just games on his handheld while Eric goes to flirt with other dudes. He refuses to seriously game with Anep because of how slow to react he is, but has no problem in less serious games like minecraft or animal crossing.

Walker has a brain-implant chip installed, augmenting his neural-kinetics and data analysis; like Mitsuo he replaced the vi with one based on his own personality. He acts like a brother to Britney; often elbowing her in the boobs or fighting over who gets the best seat, they can be extremely nasty to one another; but never take any of it personally, with her pointing out his issues with Anep are caused by him having a gay crush on both Anep and Mitsuo, and him pointing out her career as a pop-star has gone nowhere and that she’s just some ‘ghetto-ass’ kanto girl with delusions of grandeur.

Competing with Beck over their status as the smartest guy in the gang, the two alternate between bitter rivals and friendly rivals, with walker helping provide some of the software Beck uses in the gang’s equipment, and even helping him program his Advanced Generation Device using a series of three parallel AI copies of Beck’s personality, evolutionary algorithms, and an Autofab.

Stanford

Stanford and Mitsuo don’t often talk about how they met, though they go way back, Stanford is a carpenter and architect and the younger brother of Stanley and Staniel, a trio of triplets. He was an unexpected bonus to a mother who was expecting twins and had gone overboard, explaining not only the pattern of the trio's names, but why Stanford’s name doesn’t quite match up with the others.

Stanford is an almost comically stereotypical looking carpenter, he is taller than Eric and Walker, though still dwarfed by Mitsuo, about six-foot 1 inch, 186 centimeters, he has wide shoulders and slim waist, his long straight hair parted in the middle, large ears, and soft gray eyes. He has passing obsessions over female teen-pop idols, and goes to any concert he can, as they fade away, he moves onto the next up and coming 20-something pop-teen idol shows her face. He is a great street fighter, second only to Mitsuo, and he will go absolutely psychotic if you damage his van; for which their gang is named.

He is always willing to help others but waits till Mitsuo extends his hand first. Stanford was a fighting addict in his youth but has mostly grown out of it, he is an exceptional power house though. He was also a very proficient fist fighter, and could hold his own against five men in an ambush, his skills are second to Mitsuo, though Eric and Walker had the advantage of being insane and being willing to literally Molotov Cocktail people.

Anep had the privilege of being the only one to ever to accompany Stanford to a concert, Stanford jams with Anep, drove him around in his van, things nobody else was privileged too, on the other hand, Stanford has a typically laid back and reserved attitude, he is, to a degree, emotionally distant, making him so hard to read, though he does go out of his way to make Anep feel included and welcomed, even if Anep occasionally annoyed him.

Most people know little about Stanford; only knowing that Mitsuo and Stanford go way back, to middle school at least, before they both dropped out of high school at 16. Stanford and Mitsuo were both fighting addicts back in the day. Stanford is a fanboy of whatever pop idol happens on the scene at the time; even being able to speak japanese so he can fanboy over the songs; when their careers ended after just a few months, he moves on; just as enthusiastically, to the next sensation.

He has the largest collection of music of anyone in the gang, and though he finds Mitsuo’s taste for Korean-Pop terrible, he loves to groove out with Anep, treating him like a younger brother. Stanford is laid back, but gets second hand embarrassment from Walker and Eric's anime fanboying along with their occasional bouts of antisocial behavior, but unlike Mitsuo he does not harbor a private reserved obsession with them; he is not happy that Eric and Walker replaced the dented side door with one covered in an Anime Mural, but also refuses to paint over it. He does occasionally read the manga they leave in his van.

The van is Stanford's one major obsession, and he flies into a rage should it be damaged by anybody intentionally or otherwise; only second to his obsession for his current pop idol. Stanford openly tears up at pop concerts and his home is filled with ‘bling’ he bought at the one’s he’s attended in the city. He was once prepared to kill a man for damaging some memorabilia of some washed-up pop idol he kept in his van; only being stopped by his friends.

A fighting addict in his youth, this has mellowed out not only thanks to his pop obsession but to Mitsuo's influence upon him. Stanford is an extremely proficient driver, and can hold his own against five men in an ambush, though Eric and Walker have the advantage of being insane and being willing to literally Molotov Cocktail people.

Anep has the privilege of sitting shotgun in Stanfords van, being taken to a concert by him, and jamming with him, but Stanford is also typically laid back and reserved; emotionally distant. Sometimes Anep annoys Stanford, but he also enjoys his randomness and energy; he is very hard to read but does his best to make people feel included and welcome. Stanford and Anep share their thing for pop, and J-pop.

Stanford is good with his hands, helping the gang deal with damage to the abandoned warehouse on the edge of town, along the dirt road, and also helping them set up for events held there. Though he’s straight he’s more in love with his van and impossible to reach pop idols than any woman; he never dates, though some girls in the gang have acted as his beard by pretending to be his girl when he goes and visits his family.

Eric

Eric has been Mitsuo’s best friend since Mitsuo adopted him and Walker into the Van Gang off the streets of Hellawes. he works as a welder. Eric has longish sandy blond hair, hazel eyes, and a noticeable tan, he stands five foot 11 inches (180 centimeters) tall. He is considered to be a classically handsome American, well built, with big broad shoulders - a football player's body; he played football in middle school. Openly gay; as a bent telophone pole as he puts it, though you’d never know from his behavior, though its fairly obvious in hindsight thanks to his flamboyant personality. Eric is an Otaku, and loves anime and to a lesser extent video games.

He draws his own crude triple-x rated webcomic, which he is horribly embarrassed to share with Anep, who he considers to be more talented. Eric treats Anep as the gay younger brother he never had, though hes a bit jealous as he had had his eyes on Mitsuo since he first joined the van gang, Mitsuo would often taken Eric, and rarely be taken by him; for years he was Mitsuo’s favorite lay in the gang; he was kinda miffed that Mitsuo choose Anep; a nobody he just met who wasn’t even part of the gang, as his chick instead of Eric, but eventually he moved on after seeing Mitsuo truly happy for the first time with Anep, and has since started looked for his own special someone.

Eric was the first homeowner in the gang, having a tiny home inside a cargo-container, he has a verandah with a small hanging garden on the side of his home, which is simply large enough for a small bedroom, large tub and shower, and a kitchenette and dining area, and a small living room area overlooking the verandah through sliding glass doors. Slobby, Eric prefers to tend to his garden rather than clean his own home, though there is nothing rotting or perishable in the mess; but he leaves his dirty clothes on the floor, leaves things out too long, clutters everything, he always throws away trash but has a problem picking up after himself.

Eric loves to garden and is a master of his craft, typically working 10 hours a day sometimes seven days a week. In his free time he can sometimes also be found creating metal sculptures at the shop, his boss giving his employees the freedom to use his equipment so long as it doesn’t interfere with their jobs, they pay for materials themselves, along with the request that the company be given mention at art shows. He maintains a garden around his tiny home; on the deck and the sides; the home is nice enough modeled after a painted lady house.

Eric and Walker are a dangerous mix; drawing out each other's disturbing fantasies and aggression, and need Mitsuo to keep them levelheaded; he and Walker were adopted into Mitsuo’s van gang so he and Stanford could keep an eye on them and keep them out of trouble. Though he’s a weeb, Eric has a functional life outside Anime and Video Games, unlike Walker, though whenever they weeb out in public Mitsuo and Stanford feel a surge of second-hand embarrassment.

He and Anep watch anime together, if only by AR chatting across town during, with Eric enjoying Yaoi and barely-not-gay sports animes; unlike Mitsuo who finds them too cheesy or stupid or pedestrian. Eric is big into yaoi, bara, slash, and shipping like Anep is, though they don’t really share a type as Eric is mostly a top and Anep is a bottom; though they both agree Mitsuo is ‘sexy as fucking fuck’ and love to be on their knees or bend over for him.

Dropping out at 16 like most people who had an idea of what they wanted to be or do in life; he and Walker got in with a bad crowd and were being groomed to become interrogators for a real gang, before Mitsuo came along and saved them from their antisocial weirdo behaviors and gave them a place to truly belong rather than a place that exploited their worst traits.

Eric works in a general store in Hellawes, and in his free time can be found creating metal sculptures. Eric is attracted to the Skullz because of their creed, and because he doesn't want to live a quiet life like everyone else; getting together with the Color Gang to be useless and fight and have fun. He keeps videos and photos from their lives before the Skullz on his coil, back when it was just the Van Gang, a bunch of overzealous and dorky kids acting like big tough beatboxers and street thugs; considering this part of his life to be very endearing, though he and his friends have grown out of the social malcontent wannabe part of their youth.

Eric’s adventure weapons are a huge double handed sword, hollow, with a chainsaw blade on the outside. He also wears plated nano-laminante armor, the heavy variety, not like Mitsuo.