type: character
description: banned from the kitchen
aliases:
- Riley, Cole
tags:
- oc
- published
pagelink: https://mernolan.neocities.org/oc-database/merkavah-ungd/cole-riley.htmlCole Riley
| Skill | Score |
|---|---|
| STR | ●○○○○ |
| DEX | ●●●●○ |
| CON | ●●○○○ |
| INT | ●●●○○ |
| WIS | ●●○○○ |
| CHA | ●●●●○ |
| Race | Gender | Background |
Therian (Human Variant) |
Male |
Pilot |
- Age:
36 - Height:
6'2" (1.88m) - Mainly goes by his last name, Riley
- Chief bickerer of semantics
- Has been banned from kitchen duty - no one speaks of the incident
- conflicted about his alternate form and generally keeps it on the down low that he is a therian. Comes off as maybe a little too concerned about his looks as a result.
- The only time he shifts is to make a quick getaway or because its the only thing that fits in certain parts of the ship (for repairs).
- Has servers of pirated media and is always on the hunt for new content, digital or physical.
- Definitely the one who finds new card/board/etc games to bring game night.
- Is the one that created and curates the playlist they broadcast over the ships speakers - he takes requests.
Bio & Personality
Pilot of The Merkavah, works the comms, acting executive officer when there are passengers onboard and is the most personable of the three core crew members. His particular skill set is manually piloting ships without AI assistance.
Physical Description
Not particularly lean or athletic in his human form; dark mane that extend from his head, down his neck and back and slightly pointed ears, which are features that mark him as a therian.
ALTERNATE FORM (WIP) - has features similar to seals and large felines. Paws of forelimb are about as dexterous as they could be will still supporting walking on four limbs (thinking he can grasp but there's limited wrist mobility). Can walk upright on hind legs, but its inefficient. Can't talk in this form, but is able to vocalize close approximations of words in order to communicate (see: seal noises).
Relationships & Connections
The three core crew members of The Merkavah are all emotionally closed off in their own ways, but they seem to understand each other and work well together despite constant bickering. End of the day, everyone understands that they are trapped on this ship together so working together is critical to everyone's survival and have come to consider the other two friends. Their skill sets are complimentary, they strive for equal say in decision making and responsibilities despite titles, which they treat as a formality until its time to pull rank.
- August Hans - Gets along well enough with Gus since they need to work together closely to maintain the ship. Do get into semantics of "what the ship can in theory take" v. "staying within the bound of safe." Has almost as much working knowledge of the ship as Gus.
- Rene Severino - Tends to help deal passengers when Cole is otherwise busy piloting. She will also "bully" Cole into doing things she doesn't want to do because she can.
- Malotz - Riley and Malotz have overlapping skill sets and shared interest in old/retro things, so they hit it off great when they first meet.
Background
Hired by Gus to pilot The Merkavah. Circumstances around hiring Cole were that he was recommended by a friend of a friend and was currently in some hot water with the local authorities and/or criminal factions (TBD on the details of that). Was heavily involved in underground air/space craft racing before coming aboard the Merkavah.
Other
Riley is Marco’s subpar replacement. He is not nearly as well liked as Marco, and hates the fact that Marco sticks around. He is more concerned with making sure everyone is getting their jobs done and following the rules, which usually involves an excessive amount of micro managing. Interestingly enough, sometimes the rules don't apply to him. Hasn’t seen much action outside office work, he is more like a glorified meter maid in that sense. Riley is extremely insecure about his shapeshifting abilities and fears loosing his "humanity".