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Al del Toro
Alicio del Toro is one of Reiner Greschnik's elite bodyguards - even if not an Angel per se. Alicio, or Al for short, was the winner of the Rapture that ended with a Chaingear firing its plasma beam on the stands, killing dozens of people in the process. In the chaos that followed, Al saved Renzo from certain death in a strange act of compassion. Al is not a bad person per se, but is very attached to his sheep flock and would do anything to protect it - even murder government officials.
He ended up in Shaz's dream by appearing in a newscast about the Rapture incident, reminding the latter of the events Renzo told him about. In Shaz's mindspace, Al del Toro is an untouchable force of nature that cannot be tamed. Contact with him results in a counter so strong that can wipe his opponent out in one touch.
This trait might have been caused by the miracle of his survival to the Rapture, that was reflected in his absurd resilience to every physical strike and his preternatural combat abilities. An unstoppable force and an unmovable object at the same time.
Engage at your own risk.
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Apple
Apple is a fictional character of the series of light novels "Fox Fire Rondeau". He is the titular Rondeau's sidekick and sort-of-boyfriend, in an open couple arrangement with a half-robot girl called Mia. "Fox Fire Rondeau" is a violent story with lots of spicy moments - many of which due to Apple himself. Shaz dreamed of him after hearing news about a new scandal surrounding the somewhat popular series.
In his source material, Apple is a no-nonsense charming rascal who does not think twice about bedding his partner-in-crime, kinda girlfriend, Rondeau. He is an elegant fighter who wears as little clothing as possible, to the point of having been voted "most provocative male character" in reader surveys for five consecutive months.
Since Fox Fire Rondeau hasn't received an animated or live adaptation yet, Shaz's mind based Apple's voice on Renzo's. This might be due to the fact that Shaz started considering his Italian friend "husband material" after the drastic changes that followed his breakup with Elena, but never in a way that implied romantic feelings of any sort.
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Beatriz Gattonero
Beatriz "Bea" Gattonero is the second daughter of Reno Gattonero, sandwiched between Corinne (one year older) and Claire (one year younger). She was born from a one night stand between her father and one of his long-time informants, Pamil Taheri. Her two sisters were also the result of two one-night-stands with a convicted French mafioso that had a history with Reno. Bea is a fan of extreme sports, practicing skydiving, bungee jumping, base jumping, dragster racing and a whole lot other activities. Her first love, however, is judo, which has become her main and most successful endeavor.
Shaz started dreaming about her after gleaning from the TV that she won a European judo competition and smashed Czech tycoon Rainer Greschnik to the mat for a bad taste joke about nekos. As for all Gattonero sisters - never mess with her if you want to keep all of your bones intact.
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Bura Malebolge
Bura Malebolge is a real person that ended up in Shaz's dream because of very real circumstances. Bura is Lazor's partner and is an intersex shoiga rhepp/sannzo mix that works as a waiter at The Lighthouse pub. Born in EXODUS as a part of a large brood, Bura moved to Earth in her early teens, before settling in New Langdon and serendipitously meeting Lazor.
Bura and the piranha-man are a happy couple, sharing four neurons in two and professing their love to each other very loudly. This dream version of Bura is very similar to their real counterpart, with exception of their unrealistic extra-long tongue and their air-spinning prowess, characteristics that conflated in their depiction because of several unrelated events - which might or might not have resulted in various criminal charges.
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Callowman
Callowman is. Yes, that's it. There is no other way to describe this spacetime anomaly that shatters dimensions with the power of his absolute chins. Callowman is also the star of the Callowman comics, written by B.T. Hatter and illustrated by LUCKYSTAR, which are sold in the best stores. Callowman is fictional, but also isn't. A cosmic catastrophe on steroids, walking through dimensions and laying waste while trying to make the lives of the citizens better. If Callowman ever offers you any help
Don't.
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Cannon Fodder
Cannon Fodder is the ace in the hole of the Headcannon Gang of Slumslum City, in the fictional world of the hit streaming series Blasting Fist. Cannon Fodder (or simply "Fodd" for friends) is a religious fanatic, member of the Church of the Gun Savior. The believers in the cult of the Holy Trigger replace their heads with guns and spread the word of their Lord via bursts of bullets. While not all the members of the Headcannon Gang are ardent believers, Cannon Fodder is. He found his way inside Shaz's dream after the latter watched a promo about the latest episode of the show being aired, with Cannon Fodder being a prominent character in it.
The Cannon Fodder in Shaz's dream shows some anti-shoiga traits and displeasure with EXODUS people with some extremist British movement. Those aspects were barely touched upon in the show, but were amplified once Bura entered Shaz's dream too.
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Chaingear MK. IV
The Chaingear is the crown jewel of Reiner Greschnik's top show "The Rapture" - a machine of pure destruction that stops at nothing and viciously erases every trace of whoever is bold or stupid enough to face it. Towering over the arena, the chaingear is a force to be reckoned with and has become synonymous with the Rapture itself. After the incident in March 2067, the current model was retired for adjustments. A new model might be available soon to replace it.
The Chaingear in Shaz's dream is a composite model that takes elements from Mk. I to Mk. IV revisions and mixes them in a strangely coherent way. This version has its signature chainsaws and plasma beams, but lacks the plasma cutter that usually resides at the tip of its tail.
What prompted its inclusion was a newscast about the 2067 Rapture incident where Renzo almost lost his life. That event left a mark on Shaz's psyche, causing the Chaingear to remain latent inside it, until triggered again by a random report aired on public television.
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I.N.A.B.A.
I.N.A.B.A. is a scandalous robotic pop star that took the charts by storm. Cobbled together by Todd McGilligan using a dismissed bunny robot body, the brain of a robot salvaged by the mafia, and disks full of elevator music, I.N.A.B.A.'s existence is nothing short of a miracle. Identifying as a girl, I.N.A.B.A. has a thing for cuteness (even if she will never admit it) and a heartwrenching fear of being deactivated. Currently, she is sharing a flat with her human manager and 74-Nanashi at the outskirts of Euterpe. Her most famous songs are "Murder Murder", "Buttplugs for Sheeple", "Little Charred Bags of Money", and "Unholy Threesome". Being the agent provocateur she is, there is literally nobody and nothing that is safe from her mockery.
Shaz ended up adding her to his dream after watching an interview at the TV, where she dabbed vigorously... reminding him of a certain other dabbing robot and conflating the two in one. Because, of course, there is no way that I.N.A.B.A. and H-168 Krave are the same person, right?
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Junrao Kurakurapiko
Junrao Kurakurapiko is the protagonist of the live action series "Blasting Fist" and is interpreted by actor Kenzo Fukuna, who also made the motion capture for Mir Kovalev in the web serial "Motionsickness". In his titular series, Junrao is a paladin of justice, fighting in the streets of Slumslum City and exploding people to the ground with his signature judo techniques (that aren't judo at all, but whatever).
Shaz fell asleep while watching a promo for Episode 47 of Blasting Fist, thus kickstarting the dream that brought Exploding Judo to life - mixing and matching the explosions and judo of Blasting Fist in a cocktail of weirdness. Some traits of dream!Junrao are taken from Kenzo Fukuna's role as Mir Kovalev, while some are mistakenly referencing Kenzo Koiyama - another character of Motionsickness. Thus, this Junrao is an amalgam of three different sources, brought together in a strange chimera that is all of them and none of them at the same time.
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MIRAI Nanami
Combat Idol MIRAI Nanami is Shaz's favorite singer. An artificial pop star commissioned by Tonethorn Records to Kreen Industries in 2066 with the goal of topping the charts - a goal that was snatched by the meteoric raise to success of I.N.A.B.A., who stole Nanami's thunder. Contrary to the scandalous bunny robot, Nanami is a shining ray of sunshine that sings about friendship, first crushes, street food and colorful, happy adventures. She became even more famous after her role as herself in the movie "Schwarzerblitz II: FLASHBACK", where she acted together with Mr. Claws. Unfortunately, the first Nanami was lost at sea in September 2067 after a freak pyrotechnic accident. Shaz and many other of her fans mourned her passing and celebrated her memory with the biggest online fan-made concert ever recorded in human history.
For a short while, there were rumors that Nanami was one and the same with 47-Shishichi. Shishichi is a gynoid that looks almost like Nanami and used to distort her songs to talk about civil rights, ardent passion and same sex love. These rumors should be considered nothing more than hearsay, or so the lawyers of Tonethorn Records - and Nanami's former manager Annapurna Wagner - suggest.
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Prince Barion
Barion Entelechia is a fictiona-
Barion Entelechia is the only real person. Everything else in this "Exploding Judo Federation" simulation was generated by the MEMORIAN installed in his stranded starship, with which he has been wandering through space for more than one year. Locked in a forty square meter habitat with his synthetic cat/only friend Beryl (an energy construct generated by the MEMORIAN and shaped after a human named Bree Chandrasekar), he's living through several simulations in order to keep his mind sane. Roaming space in silence and reflecting on his past genocidal tendencies, Barion is slowly learning new things about himself, while trying to avoid sinking into depression. With no concrete chance to land on an inhabited planet and essentially being condemned to live alone for eternity due to his biological immortality, Barion has resigned himself to a fate worse than death - one that he still hopes to be able to escape from, even if the odds are stacked against him.
Only time will tell whether he'll be successful or not.
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Random
Even dreams have glitches. The deeper you go, the deeper you sink. And, once again, from chaos - Random emerges.
As before, this is a rogue packet of undeleted information who took the shape of a big question mark on a 3D floating cube. Random doesn't speak, doesn't eat, doesn't sleep (but who does, inside a dream?). It is debatable if it is also not thinking, but since it shows an aggressive behavior against whoever approaches it, it is safe to assume that it has a sort of instinct.
Despite being even more fictional than before, being a being inside a deep sleep dream (or is it really just a dream?), Random is still an anomaly that could alter the fabric of reality itself.
Direct contact must be avoided at all costs.
Now more than ever.
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Shaz Aliart
Gaetano Trasimeno, alias Shaz Colder, Shaz Aliart, Joe Jamboli, Chad Harder and another half a dozen aliases, is a mutant sharkman and the best friend of Vincent Jackson. Thanks to an impromptu nap at the latter's cafe, a world of explosions, judo and mechanical kaijus is taking place inside his head - mixing and matching every small outside input. Be it a shameless foxboy or a large-chinned superhero, there's no limit to what Shaz's brain is going to blend together in his sleeping fantasy.
At this point of his life, Shaz is the happy owner of the fishmonger's store "The Paradise of Pangasius", together with his fishface pal Lazor Loyra. He is currently happily dating a human guy with shark-like teeth called Todd McGilligan, who happens to be I.N.A.B.A.'s flesh and bones manager too.
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Shocker the Electric Lobster
"I WILL CHASE YOU TO THE END OF EARTH!"
Shocker the Electric Lobster is the main villain of the movie "Schwarzerblitz II: FLASHBACK", where he is played by famed wrestler Mr. Claws (a.k.a. the Evilobster). Shocker's ultimate goal is to build the Flashback Machine to remove all choice and non-determinism in the world, thus becoming the admin of reality and turning every other person in an NPC. In the movie, Shocker is dubbed over by Dwayne Eric Wingman, the actor that played Sergeant Maximum Freedom in "Motionsickness". Shaz also starred in the movie, reprising his role as Chazz Altar. The experience on set was great, for once, despite this being the average Mr. Daevka production.
Shocker became part of Shaz's dream after Lejl forced Vince to watch the movie again as payment for a lost bet. Shocker barged in with the power of a hydrogen bomb, bringing his large ham personality (but not his voice actor) to Shaz's theater of mind. However, his moveset is based mostly on the traumatic fight Shaz had against the Evilobster in Euterpe in 2065 - with emphasis on wrestling moves that Shocker didn't show off in the film.
It is unclear whether Shaz will ever manage to erase that experience from his mind, in any way.
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Yume-Yume
In the deepest depths of deepest sleep
The queen sits on her throne.
She knows you're lost inside your dream
and smiles under her crown.
She dons a mask, a head of light
While ready for the task.
A box of hope, that shines so bright
The only safety rope.
And lo
The shark is lost
Oh woe
What is the cost?
Find out inside the box.
Find out what is that locks.
And never press
a punch alone
nine-hundred ninety-fold.
Unless you want
The man who's gone
To talk alone
Of flower thorns.
And lo
The shark is lost
Oh woe
What is the cost?
The shining screen
So clean and mean
Will be the last
Real thing
He sees.
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