Esmerald[]
Real Name : She will hunt me if I tell you about this, so not for now lol.
Nick : Emerald, Emmy, Em
Color : #00FF00 for main color, #FFFFFF for the head fill, and around #BE8B00 for the hair and actual manga eyes (simply draw those green circles for the eyes if you want to make it simple XD).
Age : 21
Abilities[]
Able to duplicate herself until twice of her current age (means 42 by now, including herself). The clones can simply leave the main body after a short internal body vibration for the duplication process, even the clones can still create another clones until the maximum capacity has been reached. They are really identical to each other that as long as one of her is still alive, she won't lose the battle until all existing Emeralds are defeated first. Though she tends to keep the number down in battles (mostly 10 if the enemy's not that demonic, sort of thing. It's situational at times, really).
She's able to communicate with her clones telepathically, which is truly effective for their synced coordination when doing tag-teams.
While cloning herself, she can duplicate objects which are lighter than her current weight (varies between 47-50 kg), as long as they're in contact with Emerald's skin. An exception can be seen in weakness section.
The clones' thought are independent, but often focus on same purpose as the real Emerald does.
Her fighting style is unidentified by now, preferably uses punches and kicks only, yet it's helped with her well reflexes and acrobat movements mostly for dodging or anticipating.
Weapon and additions[]
Emerald has a recorder that can launch a tiny metallic spike (originally made from a toothpick with some Mag-ink, scroll below for further info about Mag-ink) from the recorder's mouth. It could be launched only if the whole pipe holes has been fully closed with the blue shelters provided in the middle of head joint. In before, the tone hole on the lip joint must be the first to be closed so that the head joint's shelters can be attracted and used manually, like loading a shotgun, literally.
There are 10 spikes inside the recorder which can be used on each battle. Emerald herself can shoot it effectively with almost same speed as bullets due to hidden thruster provided inside the foot joint.
Weaknesses []
Even though Emerald's clones look tough from the outside and can't be differentiated with each other, there is one fatal weakness for this advantage. Her clones (or she with her clones) will involuntarily self-merge once a skin contact has been made and they release each other's contact - even an unnoticed short bump will do.
Not to mention that she can't somehow clone objects that are heavier than herself AND her main weapon while self-duplicating.
She really needs to close her eyes during the duplication process to prevent total dizziness when splitting. There were times when she did this with eyes opened but it needs a higher concentration so that she won't lose focus. She ended up a bit dizzy still, hence she has to close her eyes.
The recorder's blue shelter can be broken when it's clashed 11 times with other kind of combat melee weapon (e.g. sword, staff, spear, etc.) but range weapon (e.g. shotguns, pistols, snipers, etc.) while the recorder itself can break with the opponents' final special attack. To prevent the flute from the break, she prefers not to use it unless the enemy approaches her pretty fast with sword, sort of thing. Plus, when the shelter that covers the whole pipe holes is broken, she won't be able to shoot the spike properly anymore, even with her own fingers because it requires specific material that covers the recorder itself.
She has quite low stamina (around 60%-65%). Thus, she can be seen to breathe every time her opponent got knocked or far away from her in a while.
Personality[]
Emerald is a tomboy. Yup, simply said.
In several occasion, she tends to be having a really random personality, followed with random talks that makes most people who is having talk with her could get confused. Her feels could be depending on her current mood, which may affect her own clones as well.
As a person who likes to have good use of something that some people consider weird, she barely uses her power in public, unless in RHG battles, at a really silence place, or between friends or people that she trusts.
When using her clones, she really loves to use "we" or "us" rather than "I". It really arises "their" self-confidence without further reason, especially on battle.
She likes to be helpful for others, although sometimes she tries to make them becoming standalone persons step by step like not giving them complete help while it's not on the emergency situation. E.g. she would give a math riddle if someone was asking about her current age.
Some of her personality was mostly caused by her tragic past, and Emerald is really good at hiding - not to mention repressing - her feelings and chooses not to spoil that part of her memory to random person.
Short Background[]
Born from an near-to-broken family, Emerald was closer with her older brother named Red-Hot more than her parents and also several kind neighbors who understood their family condition. Right on her 5th b-day, her parents left them due to the unknown reason until they decided to visit their grandparents two years later. Their grandma told them that they were actually criminals who had done one of Top 10 Major Criminals of the Year in their city, which then left them to prevent further problems for their children. Got disbelief with her story, Red-Hot ran away from their house and Emerald was too late to know when they found their residential burned, leaving nothing but the ashes. Her brother became sudden deaf either after the fire incident and left Emerald in wonder for three years, dealing with his harsh act while trying to struggle with life dangers.
At a corner of Dark City where Emerald and her brother lived for 3 years after the incident, Red-Hot was "killed" by a four-armed stranger due to his action as an everyday robbery and left his identity card as a later clue for her to find out an RHG world. Emerald later discovered her duplication power as a form of her lost while telepathically being told by dying Red-Hot that she was still three when first time used the ability unconsciously. Soon after, Red-Hot's body turned into ashes and flied away to the nowhere while she took the stranger's card to be kept in her pocket. Minutes later she also found out that she and the clone will instantly self-merge after releasing their contact while she was hugging her own clone. She then learnt a price of stealth to continue on her brother's way to survive, until she met Blak just to find another shoulder to cry on as well as friendly douching-bag training for 7-8 years ahead.
On her 17, Blak assumed Emerald was ready to meet her with their User which then they found out that they should infiltrate "her" high school to meet and have a talk with for one year ahead. Their User - Mustika - then unconsciously introduced her with the RHG system where Red-Hot was actually, saying that he was still alive and was found on the fire source inside the RHG battlefield itself. This condition for sure enlightened her to join one and made an account on StickPage as a registration proof into the RHG world without Mustika's official approval. Until the end of their school era, both decided to go solo with their own business, but still keeping their contacts via phones while the combat was on.
Given with a sheltered recorder from Mustika as well as packs of toothpicks covered with Mag-Ink thanks to Blak's invention and more undiscovered secrets from the flute itself AND the four-armed stranger's identity card, Emerald is ready to start her journey to find her brother and also rock-on the Rock Hard World!
Update 4/9/2015 : She tried to think about her fitting title and this came out. The 'self-dozens' part is pretty much self-explanatory, while the 'stranger' part came from the place she realized her self-duplication power, and that place's not her hometown.
Trivia[]
Related to her cloning weakness, Emerald still learns on how to duplicate herself with her main weapon as well. When she uses her power, the flute will not duplicate as well so only one Emerald will have it.
Related to the first line above, there's no actual guarantee if the real Emerald is actually battling your character. She can be the real her or just her identical clone who has the same power as her, which means the real one could be anywhere out of the RHG arena. But worry not, that doesn't mean it'll give any advantage to her loss later on due to the system only count the existing/present Emerald.
She likes spicy foods and coffees a lot.
She really loves to go and sit at the edge of the rooftops in the night, simply just to look at the stars or watching people walking around down streets.
Emerald also has a passive ability in which she can master an object's mechanics almost instantly by observing and touching the whole object's surface. So if she has to master a huge machine's mechanism, it will still be easy for her because of her self-duplication ability.
She doesn't know how to merge dead clone(s) by now - or more like doesn't want to. Except when the clone is about to die, Emerald can still do it but she prefers not to. Sometimes, dead clones can become a good advantage, least for herself.
As well as the clone's permanent injury (e.g. scars, gun shots, or even limb loss), it could affect the real Emerald and other clones too ONLY when they have been self-merged with the injured clone. To prevent this, she refuses to self-merge with the heavily-injured clone until the clone is fully recovered. (Original question by Superterry)
User's note #1: Rock Hard Gladiator universe is the secondary world on my story version, while the first is called the Reality where humans normally live on Earth and do their daily activities, and the Earth itself still rotates the sun as our solar system. Both universes can be connected through the system called "StickPage Forum" as we know up to this day. There are two types of RHGs; 1) Stand-alone RHG, where the User becomes one with the RHG they make. Mathematically, User identity = RHG identity, and 2) Paired RHGs, where the User makes their RHG as a separate individual, apart from the user itself (Emerald and I are on this category). RHGs can come up from the Reality (which explains how I met her in Reality, but in the end RHGs are destined to fight with others on their own universe.
User's note #2: Originally Emerald and I are not separated individuals. I used to be really wanting to make her as my depiction, but then for the sake to make the story more interesting, I decided to make us as a different persons, yet has the most similarity left in both of us as well (like our birth date, high level of teamwork, and somehow soul mate).