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Physical Description:
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Machine: Guardian is a huge machine, standing seventeen feet tall at the shoulder, with a length roughly three times as long including his deadly tentacles.One of an experimental set of models, he has a more organic build then many destroyers, with four legs, a head suspended from a chord-thick neck, and retractable claws. His head, composed of several metal plates and set with thirty eyes, also houses two pairs of razor-sharp pincers, as well as a lazer. Tentacles sprout mostly from his back and shoulder/leg-joints, each tipped with clamp-like claws. Most of his body has become tarnished, in some places badly rusted, but he still looks dangerous.
Machine Personification: Guardian was originally able to enter the matrix to search down his quarry when it was otherwise physically impossible to do so. In these cases he took his machine-personification format, a short, human-like guise that, while it stood on two legs and had the basic human parts, ended its resembelance there. In this form his head is simply a elliptical orb in which rest fifteen eyes, fourteen of them situated around the main one. His entire body is made of a dull, silver-like alloy, and segmenting lines cover his legs, torso and arms. His back is probably the most peculiar thing about him: manipulable tentacles sprout starting at the shoulder (these are the longest) and grow out in two rows to the end of his lower back. Each of these can be used just as in real life, and each are tipped with the same sharp clamps. In this form he usually goes unnoticed to unaware humans.
Human: A recently adopted format, Guardian uses this form in the Matrix also, but while his machine-personification form is alien, this one is wholly human. Standing 5'7" in this form, he is merely a short, caucasian male with close-cropped, light blonde hair and murky green, calculating eyes. He prefers to wear whites and greys, countering his fellow humans' dark wardrobes. He enjoys this form, dressing somewhat extravagently (though never so much so that he isn't able to move properly) with belts and harnesses for needed equipment. He is usually quite devoid of visible emotions. His metallic silver, opaque glasses tend to mask his face all the more.
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Personality:
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Where humans seem to have out-of-control emotions--qualities which cloud their minds, Guardian typically acts as though he's blank and sometimes oblivious. He does have his own emotions, of course; sometimes he believes he even thinks like a human himself, but he keeps these feelings well under control and doesn't allow them to interfere when he needs to think clearly. He is one hundred percent loyal to the crew he works with. He can follow orders quickly and precisely, though when he is called upon for tactical suggestions, he can provide solutions just as quickly. He enjoys working inside the Matrix with Fire-Eater and her crew, and gets the most satisfaction from a job well--and efficiently--done.
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