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OC APPLICATION

Number/Name: 40 or Vierzig (German for 0)
Number Placement: "heart" area
Abilities: rolling around and eating machines or anything else he can stuff his mouth
Weapon(s):Himself and his appetite
Likes: eating, polka music, linguistics, jumping "for exercise"(his imagination tells him to)
Dislikes: Being stuffed, going to sleep, whining
About: As soon as the Dictator found 1 hiding in the Scientist's apartment after the arrest, he decided to scavage for any drawings which lead to trying a side project in the war against the machines. The man decided to use the scientists working at the time, and sacrifice them to make the doll humunculous, as spies to retrieve information like passenger pigeons as to get to one general to another official, give the Dictator more views on the area around the war.

One of the scientists used for the project was Albert Sondheim. A man known constantly for eating besides figuring a way to make machines in "his" image: loud, obnoxous, and histerical. He considered machines to be puppets and for amusement rather than what the Dictator wanted. This caused much uproar for the corpulent scientist, Sondheim, that he planned on doing a assassination on the man to restore humor into the world. Even if he could have tried to bring humor back, the machines took over before he had the chance.

Even if the Dictator wasn't aware of the man's actions, he still had albert fettered and taken to the soul extraction converters for the project. After Albert's rebirth as 40, even with no knowledge of his previous life, he took what left he had in his mind, humor. His ideal of "fun" replaced grusome images making 40 become psychologically disillussional. His very being altered his thoughts, soon making them somewhat childlike even with what knowledge he had left. Even with the child-like behavior and the drive for eating, 40 still had his intelligence of lingual studies and mathematical equation. This has helped him try to transfer some ideas of the machine language. Though, not having arms in his design, it did not stop him from giving a try at being a translator.

He started trying to have communications with the machines in order to understand their ways and culture, but unfortunately, it was his hunger that caused him to lose that chance. He ate the machines that came in contact. Now, he acts as a vagabond, just living for the sake of living and exploration of new lands.

Their Quote:"More food! Yes!"
Voice Actor: Gary Schwartz
Theme Song:Sabre Danse by Aram Khachaturian and The gonk by Herbert Chappell

Here's my newest character that I think will add more action to the group. Seemingly, he contrasts from my two other 9-related characters, Twent(20) and Wheel. While Twent is a reclusive personality, 40 is optimistic and tends to be sociable. Wheel might have the form of the ball, but will probably be seen as food unless 40 is kept under control.

I consider 40 to be a person with addiction. If that addiction isn't under control, he's a complete monster to both stitchpunk/humunculus and machine-kind alike. This is a living parable that anyone with addiction can learn from.

Please understand that this isn't a attack to anyone obese, I just felt like creating another character. So, in creating a character, I had to find a storyline to fit the design.

If anyone doesn't know who Gary Shwartz is, he's the voice of the Heavy and Demoman in Team Fortress 2. I prefered the Heavy voice to this character since I felt that a loud and childish voice seemed to fit the character. The thing is that if 40 were animated, I would like Shwarts to use a German accent but maintain the voice of the Heavy in the same time.

The Gonk is from one of the George Romero zombie films, and I love how loud it is. Just how the trumpets are played makes me think about how he notices his prey. Similar to that of a alarm, only to 40, it's a mental alarm. Also, that tune has a oom-pa-pa sound to it.

For my sake, please don't think I'm repeating myself. I know that Wheel and 40 are armless, but the two are totally different "races". Another big difference is the fact that wheel is mute, while 40 is loud and obnoxious. The whinning part of his "dislikes" list is just a hypocritical feeling.

As for the three eys, it's based on George Powell's version of War of the Worlds. The martians tended to look at their surroundings through three colors.

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