Name: Rodney Thorsen
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Appearance: At 5'11", Rodney comes across as a typical Netopian businessman, with a normal build; neither fat nor athletic.
- While he possesses normal, short blonde hair, his facial hair manages to draw some attention. Specifically, his mustache extends clear off his face to in front of his ears, and is straight and pointy to the point where some poor visioned individuals wonder if he just taped a pair of yellow needles to his face. He also possesses a more typical, unpointed goatee. His eyes are dark brown.
- His usual attire of choice is a simple dark gray three piece suit, with a slightly lighter gray vest and tie, and brown shoes.
Personality: As a Netopian businessman, it's perhaps not surprising he's quite good with people. He's still more than willing to play hardball to close a deal, though. He tends to say what's on his mind, regardless of whether anyone else wants to hear it.
PET Modifications: A yellow Progress PET with black trim. It has improved processing power compared to a standard model.
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TRUE PROFILE
Name: Roderick Franklin
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Appearance: At 5'11", Roderick comes across as a typical Netopian businessman, with a normal build; neither fat nor athletic.
- While he possesses normal, short blonde hair, his facial hair manages to draw some attention. Specifically, his mustache extends clear off his face to in front of his ears, and is straight and pointy to the point where some poor visioned individuals wonder if he just taped a pair of yellow needles to his face. He also possesses a more typical, unpointed goatee. His eyes are dark brown.
- His usual attire of choice is a simple dark gray three piece suit, with a slightly lighter gray vest and tie, and brown shoes. While not normally seen, the lower part of his tie contains LightningMan's emblem.
Personality: Above all else, Roderick Franklin craves power. Though he has worked from humble beginnings to achieve great success, it simply is not enough, and is willing to do anything to achieve it. It's a shame, as aside from that, he'd just be a kind, hard working man.
PET Modifications: A yellow Progress PET with black trim. It's been modified to have incredible speed at copying accessed data, and is nigh impossible to hack into.
History
Roderick "Rod" Franklin grew up in a lower middle class family. Displeased at how much he couldn't do simply due to their lack of money, he began to work hard after graduating high school, founding a PET research and development company, FranklinTech. After a few years, it began to take off, and he soon found himself as the CEO of a multi-national corporation. But he remained unsatisfied, somehow. Despite his power and money, he desired...more. His solution was a simple one. There were people all over the world that undoubtedly desired change in the world. A new order. And surely he, who made a global multi-billion zenny enterprise from a venture that began in a single, dank apartment, couldn't do any worse than the present governments.
Of course, while being ruler of the world was appealing, it would be wise to hedge his bets, so that he didn't lose all that he'd already acquired, as creating organizations with the main purpose of making you the king of the world were frowned upon in society, and no one simply walked up to the world's leaders and told them they were let go. To that end, he secretly utilized some of FranklinTech's greatest technologies, and created a Navi that would answer only to him, and could serve as a figurehead from which he could issue orders through. Due to its electrical abilities and lightning rod-like spikes, he called the Navi LightningMan. Shortly afterward, Franklin decided that, due to the continuing expansion of the internet, that it would be best to focus his efforts on taking control of the Net, since humanity would be virtually powerless without it. Through LightningMan, he discovered some people that had similar world views, and brought them together to form the Baneful Infantry of Online Supremacy, or BIOS, for short. Its goal was simple: to reboot the cyberworld, and by extension, the real world, in a brand new image run by it.
But just as the organization was truly beginning to crystalize, the PET that held LightningMan was ransacked by a traitorous member, essentially turning the 'leader' making him a beginner Navi. But Roderick Franklin was not a man that gave up that easily. Despite having publicly vowed that he would never obtain a personal Navi, so that his works would benefit all of Navikind and not just himself, and not just his own Navi, he secretly made LightningMan his very own Navi, and hid the fact from the public. That way, he could personally oversee his upgrading, without the risk of accountants noticing that a couple million zenny just instantly vanished. BIOS, however, soon caught wind of their leader's power down...but in a surprising display of unity, virtually all elected to remain in full support of him, and his mysterious new operator, and the few dissenters either suddenly changed their minds, or were beset by an 'accident'.
Under the guise of a vacation, Roderick has come to Electopia to train up LightningMan and expand the ranks of BIOS, due to its fervent NetBattle scene. In addition, FranklinTech is virtually unknown in Electopia (it mostly operates in Netopia, Creamland, and Sharo), thus allowing him to move much more freely than he could otherwise.