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Player Information

Name: Charlie
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Current Characters: N/A

Character Information

Character Name: King Candy / Turbo
Canon: Wreck-it Ralph
Canon-Point: Post movie (though he's been 'regenerated' as King Candy)
Age: He looks roughly 50-60 but in game years he's around 30 years old.
History:

During the 1980s, arcade games were the hit thing - and one game in particular had become a huge hit with the kids. It was called Turbo Time, and it was the most popular game in the arcade. Unfortunately, time tends to move on, and it wasn't long until another racing game came out - Roadblasters. Roadblasters had better graphics, more to offer and it attracted the kids like opposite ends of a magnet. Turbo became incredibly jealous of the other game's popularity, and his jealousy lead towards reprogramming himself into Roadblasters which subsequently ended in both games being unplugged from the arcade. Somehow, Turbo managed to escape long before the games were killed and he spent a long time learning about coding, reprogramming and it wasn't long until he became an expert. He found a new game to inhabit and he created a completely new avatar and personality to go with it - this game was called Sugar Rush. Sugar Rush was an imported Japanese racing game that had cute graphics, cute racers aided by a cute candy themed world. The karts were made out of candy, the tracks were made out of candy, the clothes were made out of candy and the landscape was - you guessed it - made entirely out of candy. In order to blend in with this adorable game, he had to hack into the mainframe and it was there that he created the alias of King Candy. He locked everyone's memories away, he hacked Vanellope's code until it had no connection with the rest of the game and he made himself the ruler of Sugar Rush. By cutting Vanellope away from the rest of the game's code, he made Vanellope into a glitch - she was such an integral part of the mainframe that it had to be severed entirely, which caused some problems in her general code make up.

From that moment on, he did everything within his power to keep Vanellope from racing - because she was the rightful ruler of Sugar Rush, if she passed the finish line, all of Turbo's hard work would reset and he'd be left with nothing other than a few lines of broken code and a game full of angry racers. And honestly, he was intelligent enough to keep an eye on all of the loose ends that might have revealed his secret for a good ten years - it was only when Wreck-It Ralph started to feel sorry for Vanellope that things started to go down hill. Seeing Ralph as a threat from the very beginning, Turbo tells him to leave and to never come back and that if he sees him again, he'll be sent to his 'fungeon' (fun dungeon. yep, he's a fan of wordplay).

Needless to say, he sees Ralph again - and he's helping Vanellope! Getting genuinely worried, he tells his guards to find them and to bring them back to his castle. When that turns out to be fruitless, he decides to take matters into his own hands - literally. He goes back into the game's mainframe and takes out the medal Ralph had been searching for and concocts a plan to force Ralph into seeing sense. He tells him that if Vanellope races and the players take her incessant glitching as a fault with a game, they might unplug Sugar Rush (unplugging means that the world will die, and it'll take everyone stuck inside with it - and Vanellope, being a glitch, won't be able to leave, so she'll die too). He tells Ralph that he's just trying to protect Vanellope from herself, because she's so headstrong and stubborn that she could end up getting all of them killed by forcing her way into the race - knowing that he'd succeeded in manipulating Ralph, King Candy gets ready for the roster race.

The race begins smoothly enough, with Vanellope being a no-show (you know, since she's locked in King Candy's fungeon) - but Ralph was one step ahead of King Candy. After seeing Vanellope racing on the side of the Sugar Rush arcade game, he realised that the candy king had been lying, and Ralph breaks Vanellope out of her cell and they quickly make their way towards the race, just catching it seconds after it had begun.

King Candy is the best racer in the game, and he manages to dodge an attack, and eliminate three people from the race all in one quick movement - he may be a villain, but this villain has epic manoeuvrability inside a race kart. Little does he know that Vanellope is quickly sneaking up behind him, and once she's left three more racers in the dust, King Candy sees her. Shocked, he lets her slip by him and then takes a shortcut, ultimately crashing into her (making her kart land on top of his). Trying to shove her off of his kart, the two touch and Vanellope's glitching starts to affect King Candy - and this is where King Candy shows his true colours as Turbo.

The glitching begins to undo the King Candy avatar, with code stripping it down and showing Turbo's true form. Eventually, Vanellope manages to escape by using her glitch, leaving Turbo behind. Being reckless, Turbo speeds up in a last ditch effort to catch her - unfortunately, a Cybug flies in from out of nowhere, opens its mouth and Turbo drives straight into it, unable to movie the kart aside fast enough.

Sugar Rush is now overrun by cybugs (a virus from the game Heroes Duty; they eat everything, and once they've eaten something, they can absorb the characteristics of it - ie, if a cybug eats a gun, that cybug now has two guns on either arm! The only way to stop them is to shine a bright beacon, which they become incredibly drawn to - like a moth to a flame), and everyone is being told to evacuate their game. Vanellope, being a glitch, is unable to leave her game - every time she tries, she's thrown back by an invisible forcefield. Knowing that this is his only chance to save Vanellope, Ralph leaves everyone behind and flies off towards Diet Cola Mountain in order to create a beacon from the mentos covering the 'lid' of the mountain.

It's here that Turbo returns, only something has... changed. The cybug that swallowed him became Turbo and his avatar for King Candy, which meant that Turbo was now the strongest virus in the arcade - and once Ralph had been taken care of, he intended to take over every game connected to Game Central Station.

Turbo ends up grabbing Ralph and lifting him high up into the air, using his newfound body to hold him captive and force him to watch as Vanellope remains unable to leave the game as everything crashes and burns around her. Ralph becomes desperate, and forces his way out of Turbo's grip - he plummets down towards the mentos covering Diet Cola Mountain and smashes into them. Ralph ends up being saved by Vanellope moments before the mentos fall into the diet coke and create a beacon of light.

Unfortunately for Turbo, his cybug side is unable to break out of the hypnosis the beacon creates, and he flies straight into the boiling hot wall of light and diet cola, which subsequently rips his code apart and causes him to die a very painful death.

Personality:

King Candy is charming, flamboyant and absolutely ridiculous. He has trouble staying still for long periods of time, preferring to jump, skip and otherwise break the laws of physics by staying up in the air for too long and making his feet twist at the ankle.

Being goofy and being the comic relief comes naturally to him, and he enjoys nothing more than making funny puns and quick witted remarks. King Candy has been programmed to be cutesy, and that's precisely what he is - he's sweet, he's adorable and he's practically made out of candy himself. He's an incredibly generous and benevolent king, having a bubbly personality and using his overflowing candy fund, he always throws candy out into the crowd along with saying his famous catchphrase 'have some candy!'.

Whilst he's all tickle-fights and kitten whiskers usually, he is the ruler of Sugar Rush, and he takes his job very seriously. He has very little leniency when it comes to people messing with his game, and if he has to put people in his fungeon because they could potentially cause trouble, he will. He's also not above putting other racers in there, should they want to create havoc in any way - he doesn't stand for pranks, and he doesn't appreciate it when people go against the grain simply because they can.

Racing is absolutely everything to King Candy, and there's nothing he won't do to win. He is, after all, the best racer Sugar Rush has. Though when you get down to it, in reality, King Candy is Turbo, and Turbo is egocentric and absolutely obsessed with winning. He uses King Candy's sweet sugarcoated personality as a distraction for the monster he really is, and he doesn't really care how many people he hurts so long as he ends up being the centre of attention. It's honestly somewhat complicated, because Turbo isn't a person, he's a video game character and he's fully aware of being a video game character to such an extent where he's learnt how to manipulate code and create a more palatable version of himself to exist inside a game that shouldn't have him.

This is the personality on display for most of the film: goofy, fun loving, somewhat eccentric, enjoys racing and he seemingly looks out for his subjects. Eventually, Turbo's true personality comes into play, and we discover that not only is King Candy not real, but we also see that Turbo is behind the whole thing.

Turbo is King Candy's true personality, but as there would be no way he could fit in as a racer in the Sugar Rush game, he had to 'invent' a personality to mesh with everyone else's. Acting his way through interactions with everyone else, it eventually becomes second nature to such an extent that every move he makes is in sync as King Candy.

Turbo himself is a cruel, sadistic and tyrannical racer who will do anything within his power to continue racing. He doesn't care how his actions will end up affecting any one else, because in his opinion, he is the best racer in the entire arcade, and he won't let a little thing like being unplugged stop him. Being conceited and arrogant hasn't made him many friends, but it has lead him towards intense jealousy, spite and genuine malicious intent for anyone that stands in his way. He's stubborn, he's demented, he's corrupted, he's deceitful and he's disturbed - there is nothing he won't do to get what he wants, even if it means getting people killed, ruining a nine year olds life or forcing his code into a game that simply can't handle it. Since getting all of the attention in the arcade, he just can't abide by the fact that he might end up losing it - which is why he doesn't stop until he gets what he wants (in this case, to become the king of Sugar Rush, and to be the best racer in the game). Being an intelligent yet evil mastermind with incredibly ambitious intentions has essentially made him insane, as the second he turns into a cybug, he's determined to take over every single game connected to Game Central Station.

After all this time, Turbo finds it very easy to slip this persona on - almost like a favourite dressing gown or a well worn pair of slippers. He's able to pick up and drop the act as much as he pleases, though for self preservation's sake, he tends to act and talk as King Candy without letting his personality show through at all. Either way, his constant need to be the centre of attention drives him forward, and his frankly distressing obsession with winning has gotten them this far, and he's not about to go back to being homeless if he can help it. Jealousy has always been a big motivator - he was programmed to win, and even if it meant taking down three games in the process, he was going to win. Should anyone try to take his spotlight, then they'll do everything within his power to eliminate that threat (preferably silently, too, so as to not cause a fuss).

Abilities/Powers:

King Candy/Turbo is the 'best racer ever', having originally come from his own game TurboTime. He has epic racing abilities and he's pretty obsessed with winning, too. He's the best racer in the game and he's pretty famous for it - the only racer that actually could possibly give him a run for his money is Vanellope.

He's very good at hacking, having made the entirety of King Candy (both his appearance and his personality) up by using pieces of unused code. He forced his way into the game Sugar Rush and spliced it to such an extent that all of the racers saw King Candy as their true king, whilst Vanellope (the true ruler of the game) had been pushed aside as nothing more than a glitch.

Acting is another skill he has - he's able to play King Candy without a single slip up until the absolute end of the movie, and he's with the other racers (and Sour Bill) 24/7.

As a cybug, Turbo/KC can roll himself for protection and barrel towards his prey - probably because his racing kart had also been swallowed alongside Turbo himself. When he flies, his wings glow a bright, fuchsia pink and his insect tail (???) is also that same bright pink.

Items:

⊰ one racing coin.
⊰ one crown that constantly sits lopsidedly upon his head
⊰ one candy cane cane.
⊰ one racing outfit.
⊰ a strange red and white jumpsuit & helmet
⊰ some very burnt, sticky clothes that resemble diet coke and mentos. also rainbows, bright colours and... bright pink wings that have apparently fallen off inside his coffin

Samples

test drive.

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There's a strange place between being asleep and slowly becoming aware of your surroundings. When everything tells you that something's not right, that something's wrong, reality tends to come crashing down that much harder. Waking up had never really been the hard part, it was opening his eyes that took some time. He just felt so damned tired - it's bright, and he can tell that much behind closed eyes (and that only makes it harder to actually open them). It's when the sunlight suddenly becomes entirely blocked that he blearily takes a glance upwards, and what he sees nearly makes him jump out of his skin. There's- there's a pair of eyes just staring at him - dwarf eyes - and he's far too close for comfort. He's edging towards him, slowly getting closer and closer and closer...

There's only so much you can do when you're trapped inside a glass box, squirming away from an apparently incredibly determined dwarf. It's when their lips meet that King Candy forcefully shoves him aside and sits up, grumpily wiping his mouth against his arm.

"W-what the heck wath that for?" He splutters, using his legs to push him further out of the dwarves grip. "You can't just go around kissing people! It'th rude!"

Apart from anything else, it's downright creepy! And this guy hasn't even acknowledged him beyond his initial attempt at getting to second base, and the King's not sure what's worse - being ignored after being kissed, or being kissed at all!

"You didn't even ask for my number, eheha."