Epikarus (Character)

Introduction
Epikarus (known by many other aliases, most notable being "epikdarkcharizard" and "Oofyr") is a ROBLOXIAN and personality on ROBLOX.

Epikarus first began playing ROBLOX on 21st April 2013 at his friend's birthday party, where he instantly became addicted to the gaming platform, and still plays on a daily-to-weekly basis.

History
Epikarus always had a creative spark and passionate imagination since his days before finding ROBLOX, especially within the art and music departments; having a knack for drawing, and picking up the electric guitar at the age of 7.

ROBLOX had allowed Epikarus to learn an entirely new passion and route he would like to explore, introducing him to the idea of game design. His first project on ROBLOX was based on his own image of the 'Kanto Region' seen in the Pok­émon game series by Nintendo. Despite 2017/18 ROBLOX updates breaking most of the games map, it is still available and playable to the public here: https://www.roblox.com/games/116149633/Pok-mon-Kanto-MEGA-UPDATE-read-desc

Before he had fully formed, Epikarus originally shaped into his character, he started off ROBLOX under the alias 'Psypokes' before later creating the account of 'epikdarkcharizard' on August 8th, 2013. Whilst on psypokes, Epikarus befriended one of his lifelong best friends 'Madders' on the game 'Slender's Yard'. And for 6 years they have still continued to be at each others side throughout their epik journey.

On the early days of epikdarkcharizard, Epikarus met and became close with one of his other lifelong friends, 'WolfPrincess'. For over a year, Epikarus and Wolf dated (Yuck, ODers!) before deciding to go separate ways, but left on good terms and are still occasionally in contact!

During 2014-2015, Epikarus worked on creating a website to document his ROBLOX adventures, noting some of his closest friends and favourite journeys. However, Epikarus had quickly lost track of the fact he was making this, and is now documenting it on a Wikia instead (Ain't that nifty, I just sort of broke the 4th wall there. Wall...Monitor?)

In late 2015, Epikarus began working on what would become his biggest success on both ROBLOX and his life (I mean, they're basically the same thing really). Epikarus began working on 'DBUR', Dragon Ball Ultimate Revelations (Later shortened to 'UR', Ultimate Revelations). The achieved 3.4M+ visits until its closure in July 2018, receiving an overall 81% positive review from the public.

The game was a Fantasy-Action-Adventure RPG (FAARPG), in which players would battle NPC's and other players in order to raise their power level progressively higher and higher in order to fight more powerful and dangerous villains located around various parts of Earth. The game was originally designed around the hit-series 'Dragon Ball Z', featuring characters, transformations and concepts from the show, but was altered in late 2017 to become its own creation, 'Ultimate Revelations', where the mechanics of the game stayed mostly the same but introduced new and original ideas such as the 12 Zodiac's being bosses, and the transformations based on elements such as wind, fire and light. Despite receiving some negative reception initially for these changes, the game continued to receive thousands of daily visits, but at the time was still being surpassed by its successor, 'Dragon Ball Ultimate Revelations 2'.

Developed in mid-2017 and released in late 2017 shortly before the redesign of DBUR, Dragon Ball Ultimate Revelations 2 aimed to be an updated and advanced version of its predecessor, introducing new stats such as genetics, age and mastery. With the addition of these new stats, it helped attract a new audience of players but at the same time give long-time players of DBUR a new experience but with the same overall genre of game.

DBUR2 overall received higher satisfaction from the public, achieving 86% positive reviews. Despite it's popularity and success at the time however, DBUR2 only gained 582.1K+ visits until its closure in July 2018. Though this can be debated due to the fact the game was only public for 8 months, as opposed to DBUR which had been public for over 2½ years.

With the closure of UR and DBUR2, Epikarus began working with best friend 'Madders' on an unnamed team project dubbed 'Project: 367' in July 2018. The game was intended to be an adventure RPG game, but was unfortunately given up on and left incomplete as of September 2018.

Following several months later, Epikarus had also began working on a team project with Madders in March 2019 named 'DBFJ', Dragon Ball: Fantastic Journeys. The game was intended to be the first main Dragon Ball project Epikarus was to work on that wasn't under the brand of 'Ultimate Revelations', intended to be an entirely new experience, not related to the previous two games, but instead paying homage by giving something much grander as well as more time-consuming and difficult. However, the game was stopped under development in late December 2019, as Epikarus decided he'd retire as a developer.

Additionally, Epikarus also retired as a YouTuber and from all social medias, and although he still plays ROBLOX, no longer actively reports or documents his adventures as publically as he did. His grand finalé on YouTube can be viewed here, titled 'Fly high, Free Bird', leaving the adventure on an open-end route, meaning that although this chapter comes to a close at the end of the decade, Epikarus will continue to journey with his friends.

Appearance
Epikarus' appearance has drastically changed and adapted throughout the years. In 2013 Epikarus' first iconic outfit appeared with blonde hair, a blood-splattered 'Bulbasaur' shirt, a robotic arm and unequal legs, finished with the signature :3 face.

Epikarus created this outfit with the intention of it being unique, so much so that he'd never be mistaken for other ROBLOXIANS (except doppelgangers). Despite being referred to as 'childish' and as if 'a toddler had made it', Epikarus continued to rock the outfit all the way from 2013 up until around late 2015, and still occasionally wears it.

During 2015 in the production process of 'Dragon Ball Ultimate Revelations', Epikarus decided he wanted to seek out a new look to go alongside his developing career, and went through various changes throughout the period, not really having any signature 'stand-out' outfits that stayed. Due to his game being in the theme of the 'Dragon Ball' franchise however, it was not uncommon to see him sporting a Gi or outfit from the show. In late 2016, Epikarus' appearance began to adapt rapidly from what had previously been seen, going for darker themes and almost grotesque appearances. He had changed his name from 'epikdarkcharizard' to 'Kaneki_RootA', and took on appearances not unlike characters from the series 'Tokyo Ghoul'. This was considered the 'Dark Age' for Epikarus, as he was also having personal difficulties at the time, so characters like 'Kaneki' had become relatable due to his often overwhelming feelings of sadness.

Throughout the next year, there were no particular consistent outfits from Epikarus, mostly all just sharing similarity in dark colours and lack of warmth. Following his leave from High School, Epikarus finally decided on taking the identity of 'Seinu' on ROBLOX for several months, also sporting a more up-beat colourful outfit. This outfit consisted of the 'Zombie Hunter Cap', 'Friendly Trusting Smile' and an 8-Bit tie, accompanied by entirely custom clothes (for the first time) truly making his character unique.

The custom clothes featured a green short-sleeved jacket (with the new ROBLOX logo at the time) on his left shoulder. On his wrists were armbands, potentially serving as reference to his 'Dragon Ball' games with their fighting appearance. The pants featured basic jeans with no particular stand-out, finished with some high-top sneakers. The back of his jacket also featured several notable usernames from the past underneath the name in largest font 'Brook', intending for this outfit to be his 'ultimate' form.

Following the release of DBUR2, he retained this appearance to match with the games theme. However, in July 2018 with the introduction of 'FE' (Filtering Enabled) breaking his games causing him to make them inactive, he adopted the 'Oofyr' name, along with a new appearance. Initially, the Oofyr name was introduced with a different 'new' outfit, consisting of simple default-blue clothes, light blue skin and the 'Crazy Big ear flaps hat'. this outfit aimed for simplicity and minimalist style while at the same time being unique. It was later adapted slightly to sport a dark-grey robotic arm on the right hand, this was intended to be part of the fictional 'story-line' to coincide with the statue of the 'Hero who gave his Right Arm'. Unfortunately, Epikarus lost interest in the development of this game upon returning to education in September 2018, but still left the game available to any players that were waiting for the games release. The game features two floating islands with different themes, one with a warm 'town' feel that also has a farm/ranch beyond it, and the other with a cold winter city feel, with Christmas themes.

After months and months of receiving messages from fans of the DBUR franchise, Epikarus began planning game ideas. Originally considering the idea of DBUR3, Epikarus instead decided that he'd leave the Ultimate Revelations franchise in history to be remembered and respected, and create a new era of 'Fantastic Journeys'.

Epikarus began working on DBFJ alongside Madders, in which he also decided he'd sport a new look. His new appearance combined aspects of all his previous appearances such as the goofiness of epikdarkcharizard, the symbolism of Seinu and the simplicity of his initial Oofyr costume. Piecing them all together alongside a mixture of introducing 'retro' themes to pay homage to the franchises that had brought him there such as Pokémon, Epikarus created the outfit. The Oofyr outfit sports a burgundy red jacket featuring the current ROBLOX Logo on the left shoulder like Seinu. Underneath the jacket is the default blue clothing which was worn in his original Epikarus costume. The hat Epikarus wears is the '8-Bit Wonder' cap, and to accompany the pixelated themes he wears the 'Green 8-Bit Backpack', representing the adventurous nature he has held since the 'epikdarkcharizard' days.

As of 20th April 2020, Epikarus retired the Oofyr outfit, as well as his name. His

Twitter shows all his adventures upon adopting the Oofyr outfit to the end of the decade. Epikarus' new outfit consists of a fusion of the 'epikdarkcharizard' and 'oofyr' outfits, but with a nod to the 'hero who lost his right arm' phase, featuring a robotic right arm in place. The Oofyr jacket is also noticeably damaged, rolled up on the right sleeve to reveal the robot arm, and torn on the left sleeve. The pants are a faded version of the 'epikdarkcharizard' jeans, which were originally colour-changeable jeans. His hair is the 'sleepy hero' hair, which is long, unkempt and partially tied up at the back. He has a van dyke beard, blue eyes and a blue 'hero cape' with the R logo on the back. On his waist, he bears a sword on his left side.

Biography
Epikarus is a male ROBLOXIAN born on 7th March 2001. As a character, he has constantly evolved and adapted, even going under multiple different personas to help him cement who he wants to become. Not mentioned in the history section, epikyro also had a YouTube channel under the 'epikdarkcharizard' name in 2013-2015 which was focused on entirely random videos, ranging from ROBLOX Let's Plays to obscene videos of the real-life Epikarus eating cake for 40 seconds.

Despite being quirky and a little strange, Epikarus typically has good intentions, and his ultimate dream, regardless of where his career path takes him, is to entertain and reward those around him. Through the years, he has learned that it can be mentally exhausting to work towards fan expectation, but despite going through some difficult times, he has always kept a positive outlook in life, and wishes to create things which others will appreciate.

Toward the close of the 2010s, Epikarus began to develop some self-awareness and a rason d'etre, which was to enjoy himself and take pride in doing what he loves, and at the same time not to force himself into doing things to please others. Although he initially thought it was a selfish decision, he realised that he shouldn't carry on attempting things just to appease people when it is causing negative effects on him, therefore to help gain self respect and a healthier lifestyle, he decided to focus more on himself.

Trivia
- Epikarus' real name is 'Brook' and was born in England, UK.

- Epikarus' "final" username is an ultimate combination of the best of his notable names, including the "epik" from epikdarkcharizard and "yr" from "oofyr". I suppose you could throw in the "o" from the latter, too.

- as Oofyr, his name was often mispronounced as "ooh-fire" and also "ooh-fear".

- Epikarus' username "Oofyr" backwards is 'Ryfoo', which is a combination of Capcom's Street Fighter character 'Ryu' and a misspelling of the Martial Arts style 'Kung-Fu'. It is commonly mistaken and associated with the ROBLOX death noise 'Oof', however. Though it is still unclear whether this was intentionally done to also refer to that.

- As of changing his name to 'Oofyr', he has spent R$34,000 on changing his name, something he did not intentionally plan until it had happened.

- Following above fact, Epikarus had been under the name 'epikdarkcharizard' for over 3 years and didn't have any intention to change it until it happened.

- As of 20th Apr. 2020, he has changed his name a grand total of 40 times, and is adamant he won't change his name anymore (let's hope).

- Epikarus' favourite colour is jade green.

- Epikarus' IQ is 131.

- Epikarus'MBTI Personality type is 'ISFP'.

- Epikarus is left-handed, which is typically associated with 'creativity', which may be true as Epikarus has always seemed to be working within the creative industry.

- Epikarus received his first Electric Guitar the age of 7.

- Epikarus' favourite food is Pizza with Pepperoni, Peppers and Mushrooms, topped with Garlic Mayonnaise (Vampires watch out!)

- Despite loving Pizza, Epikarus dislikes Cheese. He also dislikes tomatoes.

- Epikarus' favourite number is 12.

- Epikarus has a younger brother on ROBLOX, named psyduckparty.

- His first name, 'psypokes' was a culmination of the two original Pokémon 'Psyduck' and 'Slowpoke', and is also the name of epikyro's uncle's Pokémon Guide Website.

- Combined, Epik and his brother create the 'Epik Duck'

- Epikarus' second name, 'epikdarkcharizard' was done after passing on the 'duck' to his younger brother, and discovering his love for the Shiny variant of the Pokémon 'Charizard', to which Epikarus had described as 'epik'.

- The reasoning for Epikarus' longest-serving username containing the internet slang 'epik' as opposed to 'epic' was much similar to the excuse of 'Spinal Tap' having their amps turn up to 11 as opposed to just making 10 louder: "because epik is cooler than epic".

- Epikarus' favourite media genre as a whole (including Film, TV, Radio, Books, Games) is Horror, especially Slapstick.

- Epikarus' favourite film of all time is 'Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn', starring Bruce Campbell and Directed by Sam Raimi.

- Project: 367 was going to be titled 'Islands in the Sky', inspired by the Oingo Boingo song 'Islands'.