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Name: Ryo
Are you over 16?: Si
Personal DW: y'know after i abandoned my journal on LJ i just haven't felt like making a new one. This isn't a requirement, is it 8|
Email: hrainwilson2@gmail.com
Timezone: EST
Other contact: fullmetalfu on AIM & mummifiedsalarian on Plurk
Characters already in the game: Fox McCloud, Mordin Solus, Kamui
How did you find us?: here since day one FIGHT ME.
IC:
Character name: Jake Clawson/Razor
Fandom: SWAT Kats
Timeline: After the abrupt bullshit series end so like after episode 24 or whatever idk there were a couple little half episodes not sure what to call those
Age: Early to mid twenties
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: Jake is a professional auto mechanic, and can fix any busted ass vehicle you send his way. He also happens to be a mechanical genius and designed every piece of hardware the SWAT Kats use in combat, from glove mounted guns to like, bikes and jet skis, and the team's two-seater jet, the Turbokat. His aim is nearly unmatched both inside and outside of the cockpit. Speaking of COCKpits, he's also a decent pilot, though his flying skills aren't quite on par with his partner's.
Physically, what he lacks in size and strength he makes up for in speed and technique. Apparently he has time to not only master all manner of technical wizardry, but to master the shit out of some martial arts as well. He can easily out-kung fu enemies twice his size.
How would they use their abilities?: BATMANNING and I guess fixing vehicles or something. Pissing off the local authorities. Y'know, stuff vigilantes do.
Appearance: In comparison to his large, beefy partner Chance/T-bone who looks like he could probably crush a man's skull with his biceps, Jake/Razor is more on the skinny-yet-speedy-little-bastard looking side. He also seems to be a bit vertically challenged, managing to be a little shorter than most other characters, including the chicks. His fur is this I guess medium brownish with a splash of red color depending on the lighting. It like changed slightly between some episodes because who the hell needs consistency. Also he's a cat dude so he's got them cat ears and a tail and shit. He's usually either seen in a light blueish-greyish jump suit deal with a name tag when he's all doing his mechanic shit, or a blue and red flight suit with a matching helmet and a tiny black mask (that totally hides his secret identity from the whole world because tiny black masks hide EVERYTHING) when doing the SWAT Kat thing. Otherwise he dresses pretty casually.
Background/Personality: Once upon a time there was this series that had pretty much no consistent plot line and got canceled before it could explain much of the main character's back stories, so I'm just gonna slap you with some key terms/important people out of convenience and then bullshit a history from there. Also cat is spelled KAT in this universe because y'know K is so much kooler than C. .
MEGAKAT CITY: The city where everything in the world happens. Has been trashed by giant evil bacteria, dinosaurs, giant robots, little robots, giant katlizard godzillas, evil floating air ships, aliens, the list goes on. Basically whatever monster of the week you can imagine, it's taken a shot at the city. It's run by this fat little golf obsessed coward douchebag called Mayor Manx, whose accent can't decide if it wants to be Scottish or Irish. According to the deputy mayor, he hasn't actually done any paperwork in years.
sexy cat lady DEPUTY MAYOR CALICO "CALLIE" BRIGGS: Basically runs the city since the mayor is a useless coward. She's pretty much the SWAT Kat's numero uno ally and biggest supporter, and is almost always the one to alert the SWAT Kats about whatever giant monster of the week is trashing the city. They gave her a little communicator device to contact them with at some point, but since the show was canceled before any real back story could be explored, it's not clear as to how she ended up with it.
She also happens to have her car serviced by Jake and Chance at their mechanic garage thing, naturally has no idea who they are because cartoon logic and secret identities and shit. ALSO it was briefly hinted once or twice that she may or may not have eventually become a legit romantic interest for Jake, but again, series canceled by bullshit before anything like that could have been explored. idk that's what the wikis seem to think since she said like "bye Jake" in a flirtatious tone once. SO HEY who knows.
ENFORCERS: Megakat City's military police. They have an impressive arsenal consisting of tanks, helicopters and airplanes that get blown up CONSTANTLY because they are more or less incompetent. The Enforcers are lead by Commander "send me chopper backup" Feral, this gigantic kat dude with a massive butt chin and matching ego (a butt ego). Basically useless in earlier episodes, the SWAT Kats usually show up and make him look like an ass every day. Naturally, he holds a big fat grudge against them. (To be fair, he's useful sometimes, and as the series progresses he becomes a little less of a douche. A little.)
The only other actually notable Enforcer is Feral's niece, Lieutenant Felina Feral. Unlike her uncle, she trusts the SWAT Kats and has even helped them out on a number of occasions.
CHANCE FURLONG/T-BONE: The beefy half of the SWAT Kats, Jake's BFF 5ever/business partner/housemate/friendly rival. Before they were discharged from the Enforcers, Chance and Jake were a pilot/weapon system operator team on an Enforcer jet. After being discharged and forced to run the Megakat City salvage yard by Commander Feral, they decided to just say FUCK IT, built their own jet, and became the SWAT Kats.That's how Batman did it, right? Oh and also they opened up that mechanic garage at the salvage yard and cleverly named it 'Jake and Chance's Garage'. The two often have friendly competitions with each other, like 'who can eat the most impossibly hot chili peppers' or 'who can clear the training course the fastest' or 'who can bench press the most chicks' no i made that one up.
As T-bone, Chance pilots the Turbokat, and his flying skills are pretty much unmatched by anyone else in the series.
MONSTERS OF THE WEEK: Given the lack of a solid plot and episodic nature of the series it's easier to just list some of the bad guys and what they do since very little of it ACTUALLY MATTERS in the long run. Who needs a plot, right? So here we go.
Dark Kat: With a spooky name and an army of weird little pink lizard things called Creeplings, Dark Kat is probably the most dangerous out of all the over powered weirdo bad guys, and seems to have been around the longest. He somehow manages to get a hold of nuclear materials or something like every Tuesday and tries to blow up, flatten, microwave, or otherwise take over the city. Occasionally forms alliances with other villains only to plan on betraying them for his own gain later. Noteworthy in the fact that Jake and Chance were pursuing Dark Kat while they were still Enforcers; he managed to evade capture thanks to Commander Feral's interference. Once the Swat Kats hit the scene and started mucking up his evil plans, Dark Kat's goals seemed to shift from just taking over the city to mainly focusing on destroying the vigilantes and THEN taking over the city. Looks like a giant purple cat Satan.
The Metallikats: AKA Mac and Molly Mange, the Metallikats are a husband and wife team of robot gangsters that fucking LOVE robbing banks. During a botched prison escape they were fatally injured in a boating accident, and some scientist (named Professor Hackle) just happened to find them washed up on shore. Naturally, he stuck them in robot bodies. Whatever. They rolled out of Hackle's joint in a tank loaded with guns and proceeded to start robbing banks and causing a ruckus. They also decided to go shoot up the mayor, believing that he had denied their parole and fat bribes to let them out of prison. Turns out it was actually Deputy Mayor Briggs that denied their parole, soooo they decided to shoot her up instead. Or drop her out a window, whatever. Either way the SWAT Kats showed up and saved the day.
After being trashed by the SWAT Kats once, their remaining CHUNKS were dumped off at the salvage yard. Hackle picked them up and, because he is obviously a genius, fixed them. Before any reprogramming could happen, Mac and Molly escaped and made their way back to the salvage yard to get their giant tank car and shit back. Once there, they managed to stumble across the SWAT Kat's under ground hangar and became the only characters in the series to learn their secret identities. Then the Swat Kats beat them yet again. Credit to Feral, he chose to deactivate the Metallikats despite them offering to give up the SWAT Kat's secret identities in exchange for their freedom.
They showed up in later episodes, but the fact that they knew who the SWAT Kats are never really came up again. So either it's plot hole city or they forgot somehow after being deactivated by Feral.
None of the other baddies are terribly important concerning any sort of plot. There's Dr. Viper, a crazy half kat/half lizard mad scientist who occasionally tries to take over the city with giant mutated plants and shit (and was voiced by Mark Hamill which is totally relevant), the Past Master who can magically teleport through time with some magic watch thing (resulting in airplanes fighting dinosaurs AWESOME!!!!!!!), Turmoil the crazy nazi chick who lead an army of all female pilots (and totally wanted to bang T-Bone). There was an evil clown guy, aliens, a dude that turned into a fifty foot crystal monster, a guy that could hop through power lines, you fucking name it, the SWAT Kats had to fight it. Almost everything has two common goals: DESTROY AND/OR TAKE OVER THE CITY and KILL THE FUCKING SWAT KATS. Except for the aliens, they just wanted to steal the planet's water. Speaking of which, the planet was apparently never named. It's probably something stupid like KAT PLANET or KATOPIA who knows.
Off the top of my head, the only things that may or may not have left an impact on any sort of plot is the fact that pursuing Dark Kat is what set off Jake and Chance being booted from the Enforcers and inevitably deciding to become vigilantes, and the Metallikats were the only characters to learn the SWAT Kat's secret identity. Everything else usually involved flying, blowing something up, saving the cops while simultaneously making them look like chumps, and saving the deputy mayor a couple times. Also towing cars and fixing them. That happens a couple times.
STUPIDLY BRIEF HISTORY TIME:
Jake met Chance SOME TIME before the series, and at some point they joined the Enforcers. They were probably friends as kids or something, it's like vaguely hinted at in one episode where they chat with some old dude at a magazine stand, but naturally not expanded upon at all. Anyway.
Even before Jake and Chance became the SWAT Kats, the Enforcers were pretty much useless. As I've probably already stated like twelve times, Jake was once a weapons system operator in the Enforcers. He and Chance were partners, with the latter serving as the pilot of their standard issue two-seater Enforcer jet. During one job, the two were in hot pursuit of Dark Kat, the rest of their squad broke off the chase since Dark Kat was weaving through buildings like a fucking loony and I guess the other pilots sucked too hard to keep up. Chance was able to maintain pursuit, and Jake took out Dark Kat's weapons system before he was able to blow up the Enforcer Headquarters building. Why was Dark Kat trying to blow up police HQ? Because he's evil, don't ask questions.
Jake had locked another missile onto Dark Kat's ship and was about to shoot his ass down, when Feral showed up in his own jet and ordered Jake and Chance to break off pursuit because apparently HE wanted to shoot Dark Kat down. Chance insisted that it was their tag; Jake already had a lock on the target. After some pointless back and fourth bickering, Feral slammed Jake and Chance's jet which sent it smashing into the Enforcer building that they'd been trying to protect in the first place. They managed to eject before the impact. Feral ended up letting Dark Kat get away because he's an idiot and got distracted like a boss.
Despite the fact that it was pretty much entirely Feral's fault that Dark Kat had escaped and the building had been damaged, he held Jake and Chance completely responsible for the situation. Not only did he fire them, but he decided that they had to pay off the damages to the Enforcer building as well, forcing them to work at the city's salvage yard until they paid back the debt (something Feral insisted would take a thousand years). Naturally, they were pissed.
FAST FORWARD. Once there, Jake took note of the fact that the salvage yard had a ton of parts from old Enforcer jets and other equipment, and suggested that he and Chance build their own plane and get back in the air. It didn't take much effort to convince Chance that becoming kat batmans was totally a good idea, AND THUS the SWAT Kats were born.
SO, on top of the day job of maintaining the salvage yard and running a mechanic garage, Jake designed not only a high tech jet, but various other vehicles and weapons that he and Chance built completely out of scrap parts. They also somehow built an entire underground hangar under the salvage yard to store said vehicles. From then on they proceeded to kick bad guy ass and piss off the cops, eventually befriending the deputy mayor and trusting her to contact them whenever shit went down. They were teleported through time like three times, sent to another bizarro world dimension where they blew up evil versions of themselves, fought robots, mutants, fuckin' giant mummies. Yeah, the list goes on. If you want specifics I'll gladly provide, this is just the short hand version. If you want an episode by episode summary just say the word. I can't promise it wouldn't be horribly redundant like "bad guy shows up, cops fight it, fail, swat kats fight it, swat kats win, Feral gets pissed off". Anyway.
Jake tends to come off as pretty laid back. He isn't too out going, preferring to spend more time tinkering with his random gadgets and shit than hang around other people. Besides Chance but they like live together and all so whatever. He's also pretty shy around girls. In contrast to his mild mannered secret identity, as Razor he's more sarcastic and quick-witted, and confident almost to the point of being cocky. Usually. He's a genius and a damn good shot, and he knows it, but he isn't immune to being shaken up.
He prefers to employ non-lethal methods in order to take down a target. Most of the weird shit and weapons he invents for the team revolve around capturing targets rather than destroying them. That doesn't mean he won't hesitate to put a dangerous enemy down if it means protecting innocent lives, the Turbokat is equipped with "plain old missiles" for just such an occasion.
He's also just a bit on the emotionally vulnerable side, especially in comparison to his partner. There was one instance where a pair of missiles he'd fired ended up hitting an abandoned building and fucking EXPLODING (despite said missiles being non-explosive), seeming to have injured an elderly couple. The resulting guilt killed Jake's confidence and he considered giving up on the whole vigilante thing. Upon visiting the old folks in the hospital, he learned that they were just hired goons working for Dark Kat (the doctors were apparently incompetent because these dudes weren't injured at all but they still had on casts and neck braces?????? whatever cartoon logic) and the entire exploding building thing had been a set up. In the end Jake pulled himself out of that depression funk pretty quickly, but hey. THE POINT IS he doesn't handle guilt well.
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Why do you want to continue their history here:
For applicants considering an alternate version of a character already in game, please use this as your chance to explain the key differences between your character and the one already in play:
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And by that I mean The guide plug is is FlamingFerret, people can earn money by doing missions, doing freelance work, and mooching off of people that actually have money.
1st person sample:
[Well okay, the technology around here is a little high tech for a dude who basically flew right out of the early 90's, but he seems to have at least figured out how to get the guide's video to record. And so, you get a shoulders up view of this fuzzy cat dude, sporting a black mask under a blue and red helmet. He's not really looking at the guide after the first second or two of recording, his attention mostly focused on tinkering with something off screen. The background seems to suggest that the video is being recorded somewhere in the hangar.]
Okay, so... I get that we're in space, and I get that apparently my planet was destroyed somehow. I don't really buy it, but arguing with those aliens about it probably would have required a second round of paperwork, and my hand's already cramped up enough from round one. I'm sure there's an explanation somewhere for that mess, but what I wanna know right now is how I showed up here with my jet, but my pilot is nowhere to be found. We were both in it right before I found myself here, and it doesn't look like he ejected. I haven't been able to contact him, which means he's either out of range, or my comm equipment isn't compatible with the frequencies around here.
[he finally stops tinkering with whatever he's been messing with off screen, and looks to the guide with a bit of a defeated sigh.]
...Or it could be both, I guess. If anyone could point me in the direction of a good place to pick up some new parts, I'd appreciate it. And uh, if you happen to know a big, yellow kat with a helmet like this one, tell 'em Razor's lookin' for him.
[After a couple seconds of tinkering with the guide, the feed ends.]
3rd person sample:
In comparison to all the other planes and ships in the hangar, the Turbokat was looking a little... outdated, to put it kindly. Not just that, but she was pretty banged up after her last encounter with whatever monster of the week the SWAT Kats had been dealing with before Jake had ended up on the Thor. At this point, he couldn't even remember who they had even been after. He kind of had more pressing matters on his mind, like the fact that his best friend and the city they protected together could be gone. Frankly, it wasn't sitting well with Jake at all. As much as he told himself he didn't believe it, there was this little nagging voice in the back of his head that kept bringing up worst case scenarios, making him question whether or not there was something he could have done to prevent it, etc.
It was frustrating as hell, but dwelling on it wasn't going to do him any good. Whatever it had been was most likely out of his hands anyway. Hell, he couldn't even remember what had happened. Besides, if Chance had been here, Jake knew he'd be giving him a hard time for getting his tail so bent out of shape about the whole situation. At least for now working on the Turbokat was something to focus on, so for the time being he was perched on top of the jet, flipping through a few pages of notes.
"Tch, I guess speed of heat mode isn't all that impressive anymore. Hate to say it, but you're gonna need a few upgrades if you're gonna keep up with the rest of these things." Great, he was talking to the jet now. Well, if everything else wasn't already a kick in the pants, the fact that the high tech jet he'd put so much time and effort into was just an old fashioned trinket in a place like this sure as hell was. Time to go back to the drawing board.
Questions?: i'm bringing the fucking turbokat to the thor and you can't stop me (unless you want to, boss :) )
Did you put your character's name and fandom in the subject: You're not the boss of me
Name: Ryo
Are you over 16?: Si
Personal DW: y'know after i abandoned my journal on LJ i just haven't felt like making a new one. This isn't a requirement, is it 8|
Email: hrainwilson2@gmail.com
Timezone: EST
Other contact: fullmetalfu on AIM & mummifiedsalarian on Plurk
Characters already in the game: Fox McCloud, Mordin Solus, Kamui
How did you find us?: here since day one FIGHT ME.
IC:
Character name: Jake Clawson/Razor
Fandom: SWAT Kats
Timeline: After the abrupt bullshit series end so like after episode 24 or whatever idk there were a couple little half episodes not sure what to call those
Age: Early to mid twenties
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: Jake is a professional auto mechanic, and can fix any busted ass vehicle you send his way. He also happens to be a mechanical genius and designed every piece of hardware the SWAT Kats use in combat, from glove mounted guns to like, bikes and jet skis, and the team's two-seater jet, the Turbokat. His aim is nearly unmatched both inside and outside of the cockpit. Speaking of COCKpits, he's also a decent pilot, though his flying skills aren't quite on par with his partner's.
Physically, what he lacks in size and strength he makes up for in speed and technique. Apparently he has time to not only master all manner of technical wizardry, but to master the shit out of some martial arts as well. He can easily out-kung fu enemies twice his size.
How would they use their abilities?: BATMANNING and I guess fixing vehicles or something. Pissing off the local authorities. Y'know, stuff vigilantes do.
Appearance: In comparison to his large, beefy partner Chance/T-bone who looks like he could probably crush a man's skull with his biceps, Jake/Razor is more on the skinny-yet-speedy-little-bastard looking side. He also seems to be a bit vertically challenged, managing to be a little shorter than most other characters, including the chicks. His fur is this I guess medium brownish with a splash of red color depending on the lighting. It like changed slightly between some episodes because who the hell needs consistency. Also he's a cat dude so he's got them cat ears and a tail and shit. He's usually either seen in a light blueish-greyish jump suit deal with a name tag when he's all doing his mechanic shit, or a blue and red flight suit with a matching helmet and a tiny black mask (that totally hides his secret identity from the whole world because tiny black masks hide EVERYTHING) when doing the SWAT Kat thing. Otherwise he dresses pretty casually.
Background/Personality: Once upon a time there was this series that had pretty much no consistent plot line and got canceled before it could explain much of the main character's back stories, so I'm just gonna slap you with some key terms/important people out of convenience and then bullshit a history from there. Also cat is spelled KAT in this universe because y'know K is so much kooler than C. .
MEGAKAT CITY: The city where everything in the world happens. Has been trashed by giant evil bacteria, dinosaurs, giant robots, little robots, giant katlizard godzillas, evil floating air ships, aliens, the list goes on. Basically whatever monster of the week you can imagine, it's taken a shot at the city. It's run by this fat little golf obsessed coward douchebag called Mayor Manx, whose accent can't decide if it wants to be Scottish or Irish. According to the deputy mayor, he hasn't actually done any paperwork in years.
She also happens to have her car serviced by Jake and Chance at their mechanic garage thing, naturally has no idea who they are because cartoon logic and secret identities and shit. ALSO it was briefly hinted once or twice that she may or may not have eventually become a legit romantic interest for Jake, but again, series canceled by bullshit before anything like that could have been explored. idk that's what the wikis seem to think since she said like "bye Jake" in a flirtatious tone once. SO HEY who knows.
ENFORCERS: Megakat City's military police. They have an impressive arsenal consisting of tanks, helicopters and airplanes that get blown up CONSTANTLY because they are more or less incompetent. The Enforcers are lead by Commander "send me chopper backup" Feral, this gigantic kat dude with a massive butt chin and matching ego (a butt ego). Basically useless in earlier episodes, the SWAT Kats usually show up and make him look like an ass every day. Naturally, he holds a big fat grudge against them. (To be fair, he's useful sometimes, and as the series progresses he becomes a little less of a douche. A little.)
The only other actually notable Enforcer is Feral's niece, Lieutenant Felina Feral. Unlike her uncle, she trusts the SWAT Kats and has even helped them out on a number of occasions.
CHANCE FURLONG/T-BONE: The beefy half of the SWAT Kats, Jake's BFF 5ever/business partner/housemate/friendly rival. Before they were discharged from the Enforcers, Chance and Jake were a pilot/weapon system operator team on an Enforcer jet. After being discharged and forced to run the Megakat City salvage yard by Commander Feral, they decided to just say FUCK IT, built their own jet, and became the SWAT Kats.
As T-bone, Chance pilots the Turbokat, and his flying skills are pretty much unmatched by anyone else in the series.
MONSTERS OF THE WEEK: Given the lack of a solid plot and episodic nature of the series it's easier to just list some of the bad guys and what they do since very little of it ACTUALLY MATTERS in the long run. Who needs a plot, right? So here we go.
Dark Kat: With a spooky name and an army of weird little pink lizard things called Creeplings, Dark Kat is probably the most dangerous out of all the over powered weirdo bad guys, and seems to have been around the longest. He somehow manages to get a hold of nuclear materials or something like every Tuesday and tries to blow up, flatten, microwave, or otherwise take over the city. Occasionally forms alliances with other villains only to plan on betraying them for his own gain later. Noteworthy in the fact that Jake and Chance were pursuing Dark Kat while they were still Enforcers; he managed to evade capture thanks to Commander Feral's interference. Once the Swat Kats hit the scene and started mucking up his evil plans, Dark Kat's goals seemed to shift from just taking over the city to mainly focusing on destroying the vigilantes and THEN taking over the city. Looks like a giant purple cat Satan.
The Metallikats: AKA Mac and Molly Mange, the Metallikats are a husband and wife team of robot gangsters that fucking LOVE robbing banks. During a botched prison escape they were fatally injured in a boating accident, and some scientist (named Professor Hackle) just happened to find them washed up on shore. Naturally, he stuck them in robot bodies. Whatever. They rolled out of Hackle's joint in a tank loaded with guns and proceeded to start robbing banks and causing a ruckus. They also decided to go shoot up the mayor, believing that he had denied their parole and fat bribes to let them out of prison. Turns out it was actually Deputy Mayor Briggs that denied their parole, soooo they decided to shoot her up instead. Or drop her out a window, whatever. Either way the SWAT Kats showed up and saved the day.
After being trashed by the SWAT Kats once, their remaining CHUNKS were dumped off at the salvage yard. Hackle picked them up and, because he is obviously a genius, fixed them. Before any reprogramming could happen, Mac and Molly escaped and made their way back to the salvage yard to get their giant tank car and shit back. Once there, they managed to stumble across the SWAT Kat's under ground hangar and became the only characters in the series to learn their secret identities. Then the Swat Kats beat them yet again. Credit to Feral, he chose to deactivate the Metallikats despite them offering to give up the SWAT Kat's secret identities in exchange for their freedom.
They showed up in later episodes, but the fact that they knew who the SWAT Kats are never really came up again. So either it's plot hole city or they forgot somehow after being deactivated by Feral.
None of the other baddies are terribly important concerning any sort of plot. There's Dr. Viper, a crazy half kat/half lizard mad scientist who occasionally tries to take over the city with giant mutated plants and shit (and was voiced by Mark Hamill which is totally relevant), the Past Master who can magically teleport through time with some magic watch thing (resulting in airplanes fighting dinosaurs AWESOME!!!!!!!), Turmoil the crazy nazi chick who lead an army of all female pilots (and totally wanted to bang T-Bone). There was an evil clown guy, aliens, a dude that turned into a fifty foot crystal monster, a guy that could hop through power lines, you fucking name it, the SWAT Kats had to fight it. Almost everything has two common goals: DESTROY AND/OR TAKE OVER THE CITY and KILL THE FUCKING SWAT KATS. Except for the aliens, they just wanted to steal the planet's water. Speaking of which, the planet was apparently never named. It's probably something stupid like KAT PLANET or KATOPIA who knows.
Off the top of my head, the only things that may or may not have left an impact on any sort of plot is the fact that pursuing Dark Kat is what set off Jake and Chance being booted from the Enforcers and inevitably deciding to become vigilantes, and the Metallikats were the only characters to learn the SWAT Kat's secret identity. Everything else usually involved flying, blowing something up, saving the cops while simultaneously making them look like chumps, and saving the deputy mayor a couple times. Also towing cars and fixing them. That happens a couple times.
STUPIDLY BRIEF HISTORY TIME:
Jake met Chance SOME TIME before the series, and at some point they joined the Enforcers. They were probably friends as kids or something, it's like vaguely hinted at in one episode where they chat with some old dude at a magazine stand, but naturally not expanded upon at all. Anyway.
Even before Jake and Chance became the SWAT Kats, the Enforcers were pretty much useless. As I've probably already stated like twelve times, Jake was once a weapons system operator in the Enforcers. He and Chance were partners, with the latter serving as the pilot of their standard issue two-seater Enforcer jet. During one job, the two were in hot pursuit of Dark Kat, the rest of their squad broke off the chase since Dark Kat was weaving through buildings like a fucking loony and I guess the other pilots sucked too hard to keep up. Chance was able to maintain pursuit, and Jake took out Dark Kat's weapons system before he was able to blow up the Enforcer Headquarters building. Why was Dark Kat trying to blow up police HQ? Because he's evil, don't ask questions.
Jake had locked another missile onto Dark Kat's ship and was about to shoot his ass down, when Feral showed up in his own jet and ordered Jake and Chance to break off pursuit because apparently HE wanted to shoot Dark Kat down. Chance insisted that it was their tag; Jake already had a lock on the target. After some pointless back and fourth bickering, Feral slammed Jake and Chance's jet which sent it smashing into the Enforcer building that they'd been trying to protect in the first place. They managed to eject before the impact. Feral ended up letting Dark Kat get away because he's an idiot and got distracted like a boss.
Despite the fact that it was pretty much entirely Feral's fault that Dark Kat had escaped and the building had been damaged, he held Jake and Chance completely responsible for the situation. Not only did he fire them, but he decided that they had to pay off the damages to the Enforcer building as well, forcing them to work at the city's salvage yard until they paid back the debt (something Feral insisted would take a thousand years). Naturally, they were pissed.
FAST FORWARD. Once there, Jake took note of the fact that the salvage yard had a ton of parts from old Enforcer jets and other equipment, and suggested that he and Chance build their own plane and get back in the air. It didn't take much effort to convince Chance that becoming kat batmans was totally a good idea, AND THUS the SWAT Kats were born.
SO, on top of the day job of maintaining the salvage yard and running a mechanic garage, Jake designed not only a high tech jet, but various other vehicles and weapons that he and Chance built completely out of scrap parts. They also somehow built an entire underground hangar under the salvage yard to store said vehicles. From then on they proceeded to kick bad guy ass and piss off the cops, eventually befriending the deputy mayor and trusting her to contact them whenever shit went down. They were teleported through time like three times, sent to another bizarro world dimension where they blew up evil versions of themselves, fought robots, mutants, fuckin' giant mummies. Yeah, the list goes on. If you want specifics I'll gladly provide, this is just the short hand version. If you want an episode by episode summary just say the word. I can't promise it wouldn't be horribly redundant like "bad guy shows up, cops fight it, fail, swat kats fight it, swat kats win, Feral gets pissed off". Anyway.
Jake tends to come off as pretty laid back. He isn't too out going, preferring to spend more time tinkering with his random gadgets and shit than hang around other people. Besides Chance but they like live together and all so whatever. He's also pretty shy around girls. In contrast to his mild mannered secret identity, as Razor he's more sarcastic and quick-witted, and confident almost to the point of being cocky. Usually. He's a genius and a damn good shot, and he knows it, but he isn't immune to being shaken up.
He prefers to employ non-lethal methods in order to take down a target. Most of the weird shit and weapons he invents for the team revolve around capturing targets rather than destroying them. That doesn't mean he won't hesitate to put a dangerous enemy down if it means protecting innocent lives, the Turbokat is equipped with "plain old missiles" for just such an occasion.
He's also just a bit on the emotionally vulnerable side, especially in comparison to his partner. There was one instance where a pair of missiles he'd fired ended up hitting an abandoned building and fucking EXPLODING (despite said missiles being non-explosive), seeming to have injured an elderly couple. The resulting guilt killed Jake's confidence and he considered giving up on the whole vigilante thing. Upon visiting the old folks in the hospital, he learned that they were just hired goons working for Dark Kat (the doctors were apparently incompetent because these dudes weren't injured at all but they still had on casts and neck braces?????? whatever cartoon logic) and the entire exploding building thing had been a set up. In the end Jake pulled himself out of that depression funk pretty quickly, but hey. THE POINT IS he doesn't handle guilt well.
Why do you want to continue their history here:
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And by that I mean The guide plug is is FlamingFerret, people can earn money by doing missions, doing freelance work, and mooching off of people that actually have money.
1st person sample:
[Well okay, the technology around here is a little high tech for a dude who basically flew right out of the early 90's, but he seems to have at least figured out how to get the guide's video to record. And so, you get a shoulders up view of this fuzzy cat dude, sporting a black mask under a blue and red helmet. He's not really looking at the guide after the first second or two of recording, his attention mostly focused on tinkering with something off screen. The background seems to suggest that the video is being recorded somewhere in the hangar.]
Okay, so... I get that we're in space, and I get that apparently my planet was destroyed somehow. I don't really buy it, but arguing with those aliens about it probably would have required a second round of paperwork, and my hand's already cramped up enough from round one. I'm sure there's an explanation somewhere for that mess, but what I wanna know right now is how I showed up here with my jet, but my pilot is nowhere to be found. We were both in it right before I found myself here, and it doesn't look like he ejected. I haven't been able to contact him, which means he's either out of range, or my comm equipment isn't compatible with the frequencies around here.
[he finally stops tinkering with whatever he's been messing with off screen, and looks to the guide with a bit of a defeated sigh.]
...Or it could be both, I guess. If anyone could point me in the direction of a good place to pick up some new parts, I'd appreciate it. And uh, if you happen to know a big, yellow kat with a helmet like this one, tell 'em Razor's lookin' for him.
[After a couple seconds of tinkering with the guide, the feed ends.]
3rd person sample:
In comparison to all the other planes and ships in the hangar, the Turbokat was looking a little... outdated, to put it kindly. Not just that, but she was pretty banged up after her last encounter with whatever monster of the week the SWAT Kats had been dealing with before Jake had ended up on the Thor. At this point, he couldn't even remember who they had even been after. He kind of had more pressing matters on his mind, like the fact that his best friend and the city they protected together could be gone. Frankly, it wasn't sitting well with Jake at all. As much as he told himself he didn't believe it, there was this little nagging voice in the back of his head that kept bringing up worst case scenarios, making him question whether or not there was something he could have done to prevent it, etc.
It was frustrating as hell, but dwelling on it wasn't going to do him any good. Whatever it had been was most likely out of his hands anyway. Hell, he couldn't even remember what had happened. Besides, if Chance had been here, Jake knew he'd be giving him a hard time for getting his tail so bent out of shape about the whole situation. At least for now working on the Turbokat was something to focus on, so for the time being he was perched on top of the jet, flipping through a few pages of notes.
"Tch, I guess speed of heat mode isn't all that impressive anymore. Hate to say it, but you're gonna need a few upgrades if you're gonna keep up with the rest of these things." Great, he was talking to the jet now. Well, if everything else wasn't already a kick in the pants, the fact that the high tech jet he'd put so much time and effort into was just an old fashioned trinket in a place like this sure as hell was. Time to go back to the drawing board.
Questions?: i'm bringing the fucking turbokat to the thor and you can't stop me (unless you want to, boss :) )
Did you put your character's name and fandom in the subject: You're not the boss of me