Ember

Personality

At his best, Ember is an energetic, silly monkey who just wants to have fun. He's a troublemaker at heart, just like his best friends, and always maintains an eccentric, happy-go-lucky demeanor if he can help it. He tends to be snarky and sarcastic, often making out-of-pocket jokes to try and get a laugh from people, but he's never mean. He cares deeply about his friends and family, and tries his best to help however he can.

In terms of his work, he tends to be either lazy and apathetic, or perfectionistic to an unhealthy degree, depending on whether or not he gives a damn about what he's working on.

Unfortunately, Ember also has severe anxiety. He doubts himself a lot - his anxiety causes him to constantly worry that he's somehow doing everything wrong. He used to worry a lot about being abandoned just for being himself, but he's gotten over this since becoming a hero and making a few friends.

Ember feels the need to always seem happy and carefree, even when he's upset, so he doesn't bring other monkeys down. He believes that if he's "too negative" (shows anger, sadness, or frustration one too many times), everyone else will cut him out of their lives so they don't have to feel sad anymore. So he insists on putting on a smile, all the time, until he gets so upset that he can't hide it anymore, and he snaps.

Likes

• Really all kinds of machines. Robotics special interest go brrr
• Messing around with Ben & Gwen
• The TV show Outrageous Acts of Science

Dislikes

• Bright sunlight
• The consequences of his actions
• Forgetting things
• Adora

Trivia

• When Ember was younger, he drank way too many energy drinks.
• His favorite foods are mac & cheese, Pop-Tarts, and sushi. He regularly bugs Ben to make sushi for him.
• According to Ember, the one good part about being hypermobile is that he can scare people by bending his thumb backwards to touch his forearm, which is impossible for most monkeys without connective tissue disorders. He does this more often than you'd expect a man in his 30s to.
• Sometimes, on his way home from the battlefield, Ember picks a flower from a bush he passes, and gives it to Brickell. Brickell has saved every flower he's ever given her.

Playlist

• I Wanna Be a Machine - The Living Tombstone
• I've Got Some Falling to Do - Lemon Demon
• icosa - Oliver Buckland
• Lazy - The Living Tombstone
• I'm Gonna Win - Rob Cantor
• Modify - Lemon Demon

History

* Ember's lore after he became a hero is currently under revision, and will not be fully added until I've finished a fic I'm working on.

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Relationships

Admiral Brickell
Wife

Ember and Brickell are like lightning and thunder. Ember's unique nature holds a special place in Brickell's heart, and she would listen to him ramble about robotics and engineering for hours. Brickell goes into battle each day to fight for a world where Ember doesn't have to make weapons, and he can do stupid stuff, like building a rollercoaster for his kids, or trying to replicate the stuff he sees on Outrageous Acts of Science. She just wants him to be happy. Even though Brickell is eight and a half years older than Ember, that doesn't stop them in the slightest.

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Etienne
Adopted Son

Ember and Etienne are united by an interest in engineering, having cool goggles, and not taking things seriously enough. The fact that Etienne is taller than him doesn't bother Ember.

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Psi
Adopted Child

Psi and Ember aren't particularly close, but Ember still loves them just as much as his other kids. When they were a kid, Ember would let them stay up past their bedtime reading, even on school nights.

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Millie
Adopted Daughter

Millie's not the same anymore. She hasn't been for a long time. Ember misses their happy memories together, where Millie looked up at him with wonder and excitement, instead of staring ahead like a zombie. Nevertheless, Ember keeps trying to cheer her up, even though it seems like the sadness and grief has seeped into her very soul, and the prospect of Millie ever being happy again seems like a distant fantasy.

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Cirrus
Adopted Child

Cirrus is slowly coming out of its shell due to Ember's love and care. Ember sees himself in it, a scared hurt kid with nowhere to go, and above all else, he wants to be the father that he never had growing up.

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Gwendolin & Benjamin
Best Friends

Gwen, Ben, and Ember are close enough that they consider themselves almost like family. Neither Ember nor Ben had siblings growing up, so they're the closest thing that they have. They get into all kinds of hijinks together, and for a while, they even had a secret hideout in a nearby abandoned warehouse. Benjamin is more careful and rational than the other two, being the oldest out of the group by two years, and he's probably the only reason Gwen and Ember haven't blown themselves up.

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Sauda
Old Friend

When Sauda was left traumatized by the Legion's treatment of her, Ember was there to help her pick up the pieces of her shattered self. When she couldn't sleep or leave her room for days because of the horrible flashbacks she was having, he would bring food to her door, and tried his best to convince her that she was still the same warrior she'd been before that night. Bit by bit, Ember held Sauda's hand as she stepped out of the darkness. It's been seven years since the incident, and thanks to Ember, Sauda is alive and mostly back to her old self. She knows who she can count on if something ever happens to her again.

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Rosalia
Friend

Being Gwendolin's little sister, Rosalia is the baby of the group by six years. She and Ember have shared tips for building stuff before, and Ember helped show her around when she first became a hero. She sometimes tags along with the group's shenanigans.

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Geraldo
Friend

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Adora
Rival

Adora finds Ember completely insufferable. Ember thinks the same of her.

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Stats

(loosely based off D&D stats)

Strength: 13

Dexterity: 5

Stamina: 4

Vitality: 13

Intelligence: 16

Wisdom: 12

Charisma: 10

Height: 5'1/152 cm

Weight: 150 lbs/70 kg

Physique: Chubby with some muscle mass. Poor motor control makes Ember bad at fighting in melee combat, though he is somewhat strong.

Design

• tail bandage is not optional , he gnawed off all the fur under it (he chews on his tail when anxious and all attempts to stop have been unsuccessful) and he hates anyone seeing the hairless scarred ring around the end of his tail
• he technically can walk without his crutches, but if you're drawing him sitting down somewhere, he would definitely have them close by, as he doesn't go anywhere without them

Levels

"A skilled engineer, Ember can build tons of different deadly contraptions to destroy the Bloons."

Cost: 5000 Monkey Money / $1700 in-game Medium Standard

Leveling: 1.71x (same as Churchill, Adora, and Corvus)

1: Pilots a double-barreled Rocket Tower. Thanks to his homemade night-vision goggles, he can target Camo.

2: Increased attack speed.

3: Hot Shots Ability: Red-hot rockets pop Lead and Frozen Bloons.

4: Hot Shots cooldown reduced.

5: Range increased (to 60).

6: Hot Shots lasts longer.

7: Spy Camera Ability: A hidden camera pops out of the ground and scans all the nearby Bloons, revealing their weak points to other towers and removing Camo properties.

8: Larger, sharper rockets deal more damage and can pop Lead and Frozen Bloons at all times. Hot Shots instead increases damage greatly.

9: Ember gets an auto-targeting system for his Rocket Tower, allowing him to construct and spawn three new types of sentries: Fire Sentries, Blade Sentries, and Shock Sentries.

10: Ember’s Rocket Tower has 3 barrels. Acid Spill Ability: Splashes the biggest Bloons on screen with a powerful rubber-dissolving solvent.

11: Sentries fire faster.

12: Smart Sentries: Sentries only spawn close to the track.

13: Acid Spill cooldown reduced.

14: Spy Camera gets extra range and can detect better weak points.

15: Rocket Tower fires faster and fires much more powerful rockets.

16: Range increased again (to 80). Hot Shots cooldown greatly reduced.

17: Sentries fire much faster.

18: Acid Spill splashes surrounding Bloons in a much larger radius. More powerful acid lasts much longer.

19: The Spy Camera becomes deadly efficient at picking out each and every Bloon’s fatal flaws.

20: Rocket Tower has 4 barrels and fires even faster. Acid Spill rains acid everywhere in a cataclysmic storm.

Voicelines

Selected on the menu:

“It’s science time!”

Placed:

“Kids, don’t try this at home!”

MOAB-Class Spawns:

“M-O-A-B on the horizon!” (MOAB)

“BFB on the horizon!“ (BFB)

“Watch out, guys!” (ZOMG)

“Swiss cheese Louise!” (DDT)

“Tell my wife I love her…” (BAD)

MOAB-Class Destroyed:

“Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal!”

“That’ll show ‘em…”

"All in a day's work." (BAD)

Leveling Up:

“Ha-ha!”

“Ha-ha-ha!”

“Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha!”

“Now we’re talkin’!”

“Awesome!”

“Eureka!"

“Upgrade time!”

“Upgrade time!” (different tone)

“Now we’re bringing out the big guns!” (Level 20)

Selected:

“Yup?”

“Target?”

“Yeah?”

“What’s up?”

“Ready for action!”

“What’s next?”

“Need something?”

“You better watch it, buster.” (annoyed)

“You’re gettin’ awful confident for someone standing in range of this thing.” (very annoyed)

Lives Lost:

“We need more power!”

“Come on, it’s not rocket science!”

Activated Ability Used:

“Eat metal, suckers!” (Hot Shots)

“Take THIS!” (Hot Shots)

“Get ‘em, guys!” (Spy Camera)

“Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!” (Acid Spill)

Technical Stuff

Because I'm extremely autistic about this game, and I had to spend hours making my special little guy balanced.

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