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From any outside perspective, Senan Lexley would appear to be an average corporate stooge: an obnoxious middle-manager for Ringfort Resource Extraction's offices, maintaining a constant attitude of faux-friendliness and passive aggression as he enforced pointless regulations, demanded busywork, and barraged Sean Irons, aka Contract Rider Dolmen , with emails. It was only after a year of enduring this miserable, degrading experience that Sean discovered that Senan was, in fact, an anti-corporate radical attempting to counter the actions of the Golgom cult . Allying himself with Dolmen and a group of other riders , Senan provided Sean with the powerful KT Strata upgrade to make him strong enough to take on Golgom.

It wasn't until after KT Dolmen's monstrous debut that Sean discovered the truth behind the KT Disk: the upgrade was fueled by hatred and resentment, and the year of torment that Sean had gone through had been deliberately orchestrated by Senan to turn him into a rage-driven super-soldier. Sean was furious to learn this — as was Parker Prophet , whose aunt Barb had colluded with Senan to create the KT Strata Disk — but, with few other allies in the city, the Riders were forced to put up with the smug, remorseless Senan in order to make use of his talent for information gathering.

Even this, however, wasn't the full story.

Around fifteen years earlier, the Common Rider had been temporarily taken our of commission, resulting in widespread disruption and infrastructural damage caused by Geisters — disruption that also led to the death of Parker's parents. During this period, a piece of space junk that would otherwise have been deflected by the Aegis dome was able to break through it, and was found by a younger Senan; within the satellite's internal computer, he discovered metadata that suggested that global communications were still occuring outside Elysium, leading Senan to conclude that the outside world had deliberately isolated them and let them believe they were alone. Between the tragedies, the failure of institutions that were supposed to protect them, and this new discovery, Senan came to form a bitter, solipsistic ideology: human interdependence and the relationships between people could only lead to suffering.

With this in mind, Senan spent the next decade and a half researching and investigating Geisters , K-Stones , and Zeitgeist Fields . Discovering the existence of Golgom, he found subtle ways to manipulate the cult's actions, nudging them towards certain areas of research and pushing others into interfering with Golgom's actions. All of this was done in the name of one grand, impossible goal: the pursuit of godhood, so that he could create a "land of light" where no human could ever hurt another. In Senan's ideal world, the psychic power of the Kingstones would be used to provide every human consciousness with their own perfect, isolated paradise; befitting a middle manager, he intended to solve the problems of human existence by putting everyone in a cubicle.

The crux of Senan's plan came with the awakening of the Shadow Moon Presence , a living thought-form created by Golgom to be a perfect ruler for humanity. Senan orchestrated his own death at the tulpa's hands, and as he died, used the collective psychic weight of Ultra-Catholicism — one of the city's dominant religions, formed from cargo-cult misrememberings of the stories of the Ultra Series from before Elysium's founding — to implant the narrative of Ultraman and Shin Hayata into the mind of the Shadow Moon Presence. Driven by this narrative, the Presence saved Senan's life, and in the process was absorbed into him.

Bat! Spider! Cobra! FUSION RISE! Citogenesis! Ultra-Genesis!

The result of this fusion — Senan's mind bound to his own corpse by animalistic Geister essences, the story of Ultraman, and the idea of the Shadow Moon — was "Ultraman Caesar" (or "Ultra-Senan"), an undead mimicry of the Giants of Light wielding unfathomable power. Ultraman Caesar possessed a deep-set connection to the Zeitgeist, and could use terrifying abilities like the devastating Eclipsium Beam.

Despite his power, the trauma of his genesis — coupled with being stabbed through the chest by an angered Luxe Miserables — meant that Senan had to retreat in human form, taking refuge beneath the city as he built up the strength required to enact his Land of Light Plan. Despite this, he did not rest idle; claiming the mantle of Shadow Moon as his own, he rallied the remaining adherents of Golgom to follow him, and took control of the city's collapsing media infrastructure to turn its citizens against the Contract Riders and call for a war against the outside world that had abandoned them.

Yes, our GM did make the ultimate villain of our campaign out of a bad pun and a stupid joke that we made early on about crucifixes in Elysium all having Ultraman on them. And, somehow, it worked. Senan was variously annoying, obnoxious and scummy throughout the campaign, but nobody saw his turn as the Big Bad coming.

Senan's extremely tall and lanky human form was based on Stephen Merchant, as he was often compared to Wheatley from Portal 2. His Ultra form, on the other hand, was designed as a twisted parody of an Ultraman — since Senan plays Shin Hayata's story for horror, focused on the idea of him as a "reanimated corpse", the design was intended to evoke a zombie; rather than traditional Ultraman bright red, azure blue and shining silver, Ultraman Caesar is the red of dried blood, bruise-purple, and the greenish off-white of rotting flesh. Markings on his body resemble stitches, and instead of a Color Timer he has a gaping wound that evokes an autopsy scar.

As Senan used the essence of cobra, bat and spider Geisters to engineer his transformation — the "classic three" motifs used by Kamen Rider monsters — he has a cobra-like hood, and a bat-wing shaped head crest and adornments on his armor, patterned with spider webs. Influences that went into his design included Evolt from Kamen Rider Build (in the cobra hood), Benvicktor/Frankenstrike from Ben 10 (in the "stitches"), Rising Ultimate Kuuga (in the armor), and the Way Bads from Ben 10: Omniverse (in general). (There's also single black "pinpricks" in the eyes, in a nod to Ultraseven's goofy-looking suit pupils.) Funnily enough, he ends up looking a lot like a twisted version of Ultraman Nexus, which was completely unintentional.

Senan's character concept was created by M0hairSam . The Ultraman Caesar design was created by Speed_Freak01 and refined/modified by me. Senan was played to obnoxious perfection by our GM, Kuuga_Gameing . Pixel bases were, as always, created by Taiko554 .

If you want to hear more about Contract Riders and the thought process behind Senan as a character, Jack appeared on today's episode of The Home for Wayward OCs podcast (July 27, 2022) to talk about the villains of the campaign. Go give it a listen!

Description
From any outside perspective, Senan Lexley would appear to be an average corporate stooge: an obnoxious middle-manager for Ringfort Resource Extraction's offices, maintaining a constant attitude of faux-friendliness and passive aggression as he enforced pointless regulations, demanded busywork, and barraged Sean Irons, aka Contract Rider Dolmen , with emails. It was only after a year of enduring this miserable, degrading experience that Sean discovered that Senan was, in fact, an anti-corporate radical attempting to counter the actions of the Golgom cult . Allying himself with Dolmen and a group of other riders , Senan provided Sean with the powerful KT Strata upgrade to make him strong enough to take on Golgom.

It wasn't until after KT Dolmen's monstrous debut that Sean discovered the truth behind the KT Disk: the upgrade was fueled by hatred and resentment, and the year of torment that Sean had gone through had been deliberately orchestrated by Senan to turn him into a rage-driven super-soldier. Sean was furious to learn this — as was Parker Prophet , whose aunt Barb had colluded with Senan to create the KT Strata Disk — but, with few other allies in the city, the Riders were forced to put up with the smug, remorseless Senan in order to make use of his talent for information gathering.

Even this, however, wasn't the full story.

Around fifteen years earlier, the Common Rider had been temporarily taken our of commission, resulting in widespread disruption and infrastructural damage caused by Geisters — disruption that also led to the death of Parker's parents. During this period, a piece of space junk that would otherwise have been deflected by the Aegis dome was able to break through it, and was found by a younger Senan; within the satellite's internal computer, he discovered metadata that suggested that global communications were still occuring outside Elysium, leading Senan to conclude that the outside world had deliberately isolated them and let them believe they were alone. Between the tragedies, the failure of institutions that were supposed to protect them, and this new discovery, Senan came to form a bitter, solipsistic ideology: human interdependence and the relationships between people could only lead to suffering.

With this in mind, Senan spent the next decade and a half researching and investigating Geisters , K-Stones , and Zeitgeist Fields . Discovering the existence of Golgom, he found subtle ways to manipulate the cult's actions, nudging them towards certain areas of research and pushing others into interfering with Golgom's actions. All of this was done in the name of one grand, impossible goal: the pursuit of godhood, so that he could create a "land of light" where no human could ever hurt another. In Senan's ideal world, the psychic power of the Kingstones would be used to provide every human consciousness with their own perfect, isolated paradise; befitting a middle manager, he intended to solve the problems of human existence by putting everyone in a cubicle.

The crux of Senan's plan came with the awakening of the Shadow Moon Presence , a living thought-form created by Golgom to be a perfect ruler for humanity. Senan orchestrated his own death at the tulpa's hands, and as he died, used the collective psychic weight of Ultra-Catholicism — one of the city's dominant religions, formed from cargo-cult misrememberings of the stories of the Ultra Series from before Elysium's founding — to implant the narrative of Ultraman and Shin Hayata into the mind of the Shadow Moon Presence. Driven by this narrative, the Presence saved Senan's life, and in the process was absorbed into him.

Bat! Spider! Cobra! FUSION RISE! Citogenesis! Ultra-Genesis!

The result of this fusion — Senan's mind bound to his own corpse by animalistic Geister essences, the story of Ultraman, and the idea of the Shadow Moon — was "Ultraman Caesar" (or "Ultra-Senan"), an undead mimicry of the Giants of Light wielding unfathomable power. Ultraman Caesar possessed a deep-set connection to the Zeitgeist, and could use terrifying abilities like the devastating Eclipsium Beam.

Despite his power, the trauma of his genesis — coupled with being stabbed through the chest by an angered Luxe Miserables — meant that Senan had to retreat in human form, taking refuge beneath the city as he built up the strength required to enact his Land of Light Plan. Despite this, he did not rest idle; claiming the mantle of Shadow Moon as his own, he rallied the remaining adherents of Golgom to follow him, and took control of the city's collapsing media infrastructure to turn its citizens against the Contract Riders and call for a war against the outside world that had abandoned them.

Yes, our GM did make the ultimate villain of our campaign out of a bad pun and a stupid joke that we made early on about crucifixes in Elysium all having Ultraman on them. And, somehow, it worked. Senan was variously annoying, obnoxious and scummy throughout the campaign, but nobody saw his turn as the Big Bad coming.

Senan's extremely tall and lanky human form was based on Stephen Merchant, as he was often compared to Wheatley from Portal 2. His Ultra form, on the other hand, was designed as a twisted parody of an Ultraman — since Senan plays Shin Hayata's story for horror, focused on the idea of him as a "reanimated corpse", the design was intended to evoke a zombie; rather than traditional Ultraman bright red, azure blue and shining silver, Ultraman Caesar is the red of dried blood, bruise-purple, and the greenish off-white of rotting flesh. Markings on his body resemble stitches, and instead of a Color Timer he has a gaping wound that evokes an autopsy scar.

As Senan used the essence of cobra, bat and spider Geisters to engineer his transformation — the "classic three" motifs used by Kamen Rider monsters — he has a cobra-like hood, and a bat-wing shaped head crest and adornments on his armor, patterned with spider webs. Influences that went into his design included Evolt from Kamen Rider Build (in the cobra hood), Benvicktor/Frankenstrike from Ben 10 (in the "stitches"), Rising Ultimate Kuuga (in the armor), and the Way Bads from Ben 10: Omniverse (in general). (There's also single black "pinpricks" in the eyes, in a nod to Ultraseven's goofy-looking suit pupils.) Funnily enough, he ends up looking a lot like a twisted version of Ultraman Nexus, which was completely unintentional.

Senan's character concept was created by M0hairSam . The Ultraman Caesar design was created by Speed_Freak01 and refined/modified by me. Senan was played to obnoxious perfection by our GM, Kuuga_Gameing . Pixel bases were, as always, created by Taiko554 .

If you want to hear more about Contract Riders and the thought process behind Senan as a character, Jack appeared on today's episode of The Home for Wayward OCs podcast (July 27, 2022) to talk about the villains of the campaign. Go give it a listen!