TOME: T-Bones

Username: T-Bones
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Class: Animalistic
Power: Tyrannosaurus
Special Techniques
Quake - The user stomps the ground to create a mini-earthquake.
Fossil Fling - The user stomps a dinosaur fossil out of the ground and headbutts it into one enemy, piercing their defense.
Rapid Claw - A multi-hit punching attack with machine gun precision.

-THE ORIGINAL-
"Grounder" and T-Bones were very close to being the same in the original. Their designs were based on characters from Pokemon, turned into armor-like suits for the players to wear. Granda and T-Bones' Vietnamese and Scottish origin, respectively, were also both intact. They were interesting in concept, but not used very often throughout the story aside from their eventual involvement with Season 2's big finale.

-THE NEW-
For TOME, I kept their racial-origins and tried to cast them appropriately as well. Their dynamic was interesting enough to begin with, but I wanted to make better use of it and spice things up for the characters. T-Bones, being the older one, made for a good level-headed big guy that tries to keep an eye out for Granda and play alongside her. I decided to make Granda very loud and violent in nature, mainly for the sake of comedy as it made for some really funny scenes between her and Nylocke, who she's fixated on due to her constant losses from him. I imagine her being relatively chilled out when playing with T-Bones, but otherwise doesn't care enough to hold herself back; her rage is almost a sign of her actual enjoyment. I don't so much view Granda as a statement of "video games make kids more violent" or anything preachy like that, but rather that she represents people who are completely unbridled in their opinions and actions online because they feel like it's not important enough to affect their real life. Because of this, Granda feels no repercussions for her actions. T-Bones is more the type to apologize, even on someone else's behalf, as he feels a sense of responsibility to everyone around him, even though it's just a game. The two balance each other out nicely.