Tragoedia

"Hostile sighted! Engaging target in ET-2.5 seconds..."" Tragoedia is an original character created by Aldrasos.

Appearance
Tragoedia is a customised version of the HC-TR Cavalier - the latest military android created by the Helldrive Corporation. He is an 8-feet tall lizard-like humanoid android with large clawed fingers, 2-metre long tail and a large metal jaw complete with numerous spiked metal teeth. While most HC-TR Cavaliers are smaller, standing at just 7-feet tall with sleek, black and grey armour, Tragoedia's armoured hide is dark green in colour, with additional yellow-gold armour plates, as well as explosive-resistant silver plates covering its torso, tail and other vulnerable parts.

He is also decorated with several additional features to make him more intimidating, including spikes on his knee-guards and elbows and bladed pauldrons on his shoulders. Down the left side of his chestplate are the words 'Strength in Loyalty' written in an unknown language (which is actually a mixture of Japanese kanji and and Chinese symbols).

Personality
Being an android, Tragoedia has a very limited AI, despite being several levels above the standard Atlesian Knight's. He is programmed to follow orders to the letter, and makes no distinction between what is right and wrong, and therefore his 'personality' can very well be a mere mirror of his controller's. Tragoedia cannot learn new things from experiences, but can have his programming repeatedly updated in order to make his reaction to certain situations more appropriate. He does, however, possess the ability to mirror certain actions performed such as humans - his 'favourite' being to lean against a wall and cross his arms. His programming makes him unflinchingly loyal, decisive and ruthless, but when in standby-mode (when he is not being given direct orders) he prioritises peaceful solutions to problems over violent ones.

History
Tragoedia, originally HC-TR Cavalier Type-ALPHA, was originally the pet project of robotics pioneer Professor Helldrix of the HellDrive Corporation in Vale, who in his free time attempted to design a new type of military android which could easily surpass the standard Atlesian Knights in terms of combat strength. His aim was not to create an android which could replace regular soldiers, but to replace Huntsmen instead.

The project was initially a great success, but the production of the Cavaliers was doomed to fail from the very beginning. This was primarily due to the extrodinary cost associated with creating such an android, and due to budget restraints Helldrix was only able to create ALPHA before he ran out of money. A second limiter was the fact that while Helldrix was superb at creating combat models, he was unable to replicate the 'human touch' in an android. The final problem was the large amount of Dust required to keep the model running, which was simply too uneconomical for it to be worth the hassle.

The Cavalier Project was later taken up by Professor Helldrix's son, Skye, who was able to surpass his father, and created the HC-TR Cavalier Type-BETA - a smaller, sleeker, and more efficient version of the android, which lacked the combat ability or the advanced AI of the ALPHA model but was still leagues better than the standard Knights. However, due to the sheer expense of creating even a single android, the project was once again scrapped.

ALPHA was then auctioned off to an anonomous bidder by the name of Decadere Diaboli, to nicknamed ALPHA Tragoedia - meaning 'tragedy' - and outfitted him with advanced equipment, armour and modern systems which had previously become outdated, before making him his personal bodyguard. Diaboli then proceeded to begin hoarding wealth, until the day that he would purchase a small army of BETA-models from the Helldrive Corporation and, with Tragoedia as his lieutenant, take his ward Blanc Claymoore and go on the journey around the world that he had promised her he would.

Wrist Blades
Tragoedia's only weapons are a pair of large golden sword-like blades which extend from his wrists. The blades are roughly a metre long and are double-edged. The blades are very light, meaning that he can move his arms as if they were not even there, and due to them being a part of him they do not slow him down in any way. The length of the blades can be adjusted for practicality, meaning that they can be used like extra claws if he intends to grap hold of a target.

Claws
Even without his wrist blades, Tragoedia's claws are deadly sharp in their own right. Capable of tearing through most materials with ease, his claws are especially effective when he has pounced on a target, and he begins shredding them apart with lightning-fast slashes. These are also very useful for quickly scaling buildings.

Fighting Style
Tragoedia's fighting style revolves around sheer brutality and relentlessness. Due to his size and strength, he is extremely fast, nimble and physically powerful, meaning that he can outmatch most human opponents in almost all physical aspects. He is only capable of dealing damage in close-combat, and so his first action in a fight is to get up close to his opponents and attack them constantly, preventing them from forming an effective counter-attack.

Natural Abilities
Due to him being a robot, Tragoedia does not suffer from exhausion, pain or hesitance in a fight, meaning that he can almost always outlast his opponent if they are equally matched in combat prowess. Being a 7-feet tall machine, his physical strength is also something that few human opponents can match, with him being able to lift many times his own body weight. His great artificial muscle strength and inability to be easily stumbled means that he can also run much faster than a human, making him very difficult to escape from or catch up with. His armoured body also means that he can take a vast amount of punishment before an opponent can damage any vital mechanisms within, and the various systems inside mean that Tragoedia can continue functioning even after taking large amounts of physical damage.

Certain parts of his programming also allow him to imitate humans and build up a database of potentially suitable responses to certain events. However, this rarely has any practical use.

Weaknesses and Disadvantages
Despite being superior to humans in almost every way, in terms of physique, he lacks the things which make Huntsmen more powerful than their robotic counterparts. This not only relates to his lack of an Aura - which Helldrix was never able to replicate - and Semblance, but his lack of a sentient mind. This means that he can be relatively easily tricked, and cannot formulate plans in the same way as humans can. In most cases, Tragoedia has to 'brute-force' his way through obstacles and problems, while humans will generally find alternative solutions. This also means that he can be tricked relatively easily, as he does not recognise threats like humans do.

Tragoedia's design also has its flaws. He has no form of ranged weaponry, meaning that at a distance he is practically useless in a fight. While his combat skills are extremely well refined, he is almost completely reliant on voice commands to tell him what to do, otherwise he will either wander around searching for areas, or simply stand still. The sheer expense of keeping Tragoedia running is also a major problem, with a large container of Dust worth as much money as a car only lasts for 48 hours, meaning that he is only practical to extremely wealthy owners, such as Diaboli.

Trivia

 * Tragoedia means 'Tragedy' or 'Goat Song' in Greek