#won't tag mega man until i have better art

[remesrobotics]

Betelgeuse / “Khepri”

SGN.0?? / Unnumbered "Servant" - ベテルギウス / ケップリ B: “Peace can only be achieved by complete unification.”

Good Point - K: Resourceful Bad Point - K: Slow-witted Like - K: Trash Sculpture Dislike - K: Intruder

Betelgeuse Height Unknown / Khepri Height 6’2” (187.96)

A Sungod-type robot from Antares’ line and often considered to be an elder half-brother of sorts to the Scorpion’s Heart. Betelgeuse took on a much more aggressive stance towards assimilating civilizations in his purview, using Creator technology and technology developed by its vassal cultures to convert any captured planets and their people into an all-encompassing hive-minded machine civilization. While not ill-intended, this created a growing imbalance, as territories captured from other Sungods as the part of the Creators’ mostly-scripted wargames could never be properly extracted from Betelgeuse’s control.

This created a distinct animosity between Betelgeuse and other immediate Sungods, especially his half-sister Antares, who shared the most bordering territories. Antares eventually convinced the Creators that Betelgeuse was an even larger threat that could possibly even overthrow them if his reign continued to grow unchecked, and received the Creators’ blessing to remove him from the equation.

In a climactic one-on-one battle, Antares annihilated Betelgeuse’s constantly-regenerating body by tearing out his star core, separating it from his consciousness. In a show of haughty disdain, she crushed the core in her hand and threw it into the scrapyard of her temple, losing rapport with many of her Sungod peers, but gaining a position amongst the inner circle of the Creators, before they betrayed her during the coup.

Unbeknownst to her for a time, the will of Betelgeuse emanating from his core allowed it to begin pulling scraps from the heap together to form a body, but without access to a computer capable of higher thought, could not get beyond the simplest, instinctive AI. This rudimentary body, which was later discovered by Antares and remodeled into its current beetle form.

Antares is unaware of the weakened (but intact) core inside it, seeing as it lacked the obvious recurring physical traits from her reviled half-brother's many self-resurrections, believing instead that some other piece of unknown technology thrown away unknowingly over the centuries was responsible.

This new “Khepri” is sympathetically connected to the junk in the scrapyard, and despite lacking full sapience, is able to discern functional and useful machinery from complete garbage, which it collects for Antares to be used as spare parts for repairs, upgrades, and manufacturing new minions. Actual garbage is hoarded to be used as fuel for its devastating meteor-like attacks.

#oc betelgeuse #fancharacter #remes data cd #won't tag mega man until i have better art #this 'thing' not only plays into the fake 'game' I wrote up for Antares #but also the 'game' variants of all the other characters... for better or for worse (usually worse) #i have an idea for design but just haven't finalized something I like #betelgeuse is more lore than anything but khepri is a staple in the lineup behind the scenes despite being more or less unintelligible #basically fire elemental bug junk man #but at the end of the day his 'star' identity is more important than his nickname