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[Infinityforce]

I'm not sure, I think it might be a suplex/slam :p
lol he pulled off his own claw with mighty crab liftan strength and hella grit.

I agree: sniper, mechanic, hunter, all great ideas.

[lawastooshort]

Well my general character idea and indeed voice is pretty fixed now: it's inspired by two Cormac McCarthy characters, a psychopathic black bear with a lasso, and a country-influenced song about whiskey messing up all your relationships. Just a bit more trucky.

[Infinityforce]

Spoiler: Cormac McCarthy, Speaking Spanish! (click to show/hide)

Hey, maybe Terence reads Cormac McCarthy books or himself idolises one of the characters in the book?
You could have a poster of the front cover of one of his books on the inside of the truck too :p or of Cormac McCarthy or w/e you like

Is he a good author? I've never heard of him until a few moments ago. Sound cool though.

Maybe Terence can speak a little mexican-spanish like one of the characters in his books?
f you know a few phrases that's good. Something like "fuck off, dirtbag" or "see ya sexy senorita" in spanish will do here and there. A few words like hello or goodbye also work. Maybe Martha = Martina and she's spanish too? (she can/should stay as Martha, plain and homey, but maybe her mother was spanish?)
It'd be cool/funny if he becomes spanish-speaking whilst berserk.
Change it up and add something related to this subject. Make it whatever you like.
If it is the basis for your inspiration, you should try to work it in somehow (general advice)

[My Name is Immaterial]

Motherfucking crabs? Motherfucking truckers? Motherfucking excessive swearing? Fuck yeah, I'm in! Sheet incoming.

[Infinityforce]

Fantastic. Fuckin' A! Looking forward to it Fuck yeah!
Legendary forumite appeared! Welcome to the game My Name is Immaterial! Please come in and make yourself comfy.
We're gonna write this shit-house story collectively, so I hope you're good with the pen keyboard!
If you want to know about a specific job role, I can point out the posts or put a condensed version here, just let me know what you're interested in and I'll tell you what's good.

edit: feel free to add whatever you want (story, items, truck stuff, weapons, abilities, ideas, anything which strikes your fancy) and let me know what you're thinking or planning. Cool? Cool.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Big Bill:
Now, lookee here. Big Bill ain't big, and he ain't named Bill. His name's actually Jimmy, but everyone round 'ere just calls him Big Bill, on account of something a truck stop stripper said ta him once. But that's a story for a'nother day. He may be the runt o' the litta, but he's still a tough son ofa bitch. That boy can Lift, like nobody's business, just never ask him to do it too much: those little arms ain't made for lifting. He ain't much one for getting into a tussle, but he can Fight if ya make him. But don't ask him to Drive, last time he tried, the truck ended up in three different fucking ditches.
Still, he can Fix fucking anything-after he breaks it. Or one of his big brothers does, growing up the youngest of the bunch meant he always had to be Tough as shit to take a beating. Now, between all those beatings, he learned him some Religion right and good: the Crab Goddess teaches us to turn the other cheek, 'cause that's how you wind up to lay out a fucker who tries to shank you with your buddy's claw.

Lift/Fight/Drive
Fix/Tough/Religion

How's that shit look?

[Infinityforce]

"Big Bill" Jimmy

Spoiler: His SKILLZ (click to show/hide)

Beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous and music to my eyes.
What themes has he got? How does he dress? I currently seem him in a technicians's overalls, like what gas-station folk wear, but it ain't pretty. Does he wear glasses? I see him like a little squinty midget in navy or orange overalls and just flipping people over from below their line of sight :p
Does he have a ranged or projectile weapon? So far no one in the team has much capabilities like that except Terence's lasso. Maybe we'll get one soonish.

Fix
How or why? What is his attitude towards it. Does it make him happy to fix broken stuff? Does he whistle cheerfully as he gets to work?
Giant wrench or spanner(for combat?) Welder with torch? Maybe he can chew bolts and nuts and spray it like bullets. I dunno. Just give him some cool shit, like a toolbox with some crazy varied stuff in it and you'll find some shit on the road too. Maybe using a tool as a gun (nail gun?) or weapon is a good idea. Maybe he can cobble stuff together.
In any case, he can make use of junk and scrap and modify the truck a little lot tonne and repair it/stuff very well.
In fact, he can probably overhaul the truck overnight with the right parts maybe.
Specifically I want to know this: What kind of specialty does he do? Is he a metal man? Electrics? Electronics? Robotics?

Tough
I see toughness like being hard-bodied, he can wade through enemies and take a few bullets. It also suits him to being launched like a projectile.
I think this is a good option, but maybe it can be expanded in some way, like making enemies attacks bounce back on them?

Religion
My favourite. He will definitely get blessings from the Crab Goddess. I see Big Bill/Jimmy as being somewhat bashful persona, and the Goddess loves the meek. Maybe being battered by his brothers made him a little humbler than most. Goes with Tough and maybe he can pray for temporary invulnerability and he can quote some scripture or something? Just a little flavour here and there. Does he use a crucifix, rosary or devotive?
If he gets blessings from the goddess, consider how it affects his other powers: Will he gain a burst of superhuman strength? Does he go berserk? Get super tough? Fix things miraculously or is guided to do so?

Lift
What kind of lifting does he specialise in? There's pushing, flipping, throwing, wrestling.
His small size means he can get under stuff more easily, but unless he's very wide, it might give him a small disadvantage wrestling larger-than-normal creatures.
Yet it might also give him precision in targeting and locking enemies limbs/joints (there are all kinds of enemies and they have wildly differing body shapes)
His option seems to be to get under tight gaps rather than exerting leverage. It fits with the repair stuff quite well, squeezing into gaps or whatnot.

Fight
Give him some weapon or tool. He won't be as strong as Terence "Motherfuckin'" Johnson but he can hold his own quite well. Give him some accent, accessory or tool, fighting style or technique.

Drive
Fair enough, he can keep it steady and all that jazz but we won't ask him to do the tricky stuff. I see him peering over the wheel and struggling to reach the brakes

edit: Maybe he has a weapon with some kind of tech that breaks every so, and needs repairin or tuning now and then?

Terence Johnson
I see him as kind of an avenging angel cowboy all dressed in black and wrathful like the south and righteous justice. Maybe he really DOES love the women he "meets", and he knows he's doing wrong, but when every day he has to fight to survive (God... Everyday is hard without Martha) he lets his claws do the talking. He focuses on the job and only that, and when he has free time to himself he likes to chase every skirt around, because deep down, he knows he's nothing without Martha and has got a deep hole to fill, (maybe alcohol is only 1/2 effective bcus of sadness, or darkness or whatever you want to call it, it's more important how you portray it IC than what's written down)
The lasso is a heroic attribute. The womanising is a dark one. ALL CHARACTERS SHOULD HAVE SOMETHING OR THINGS LIKE THIS

@EVERYONE: you can change your concepts, ideas and crabs if you like IN ANY WAY YOU PLEASE I don't mind. Until a few more players come, we're up in the air anyway. Think about concepts you'd like to see in the team: You might come up with something you prefer better or enjoy more. Just think about other crabs and how they will work together.The main thing is adding skills outside of F/D/L so they have plenty and lots of charisma or personality or flavour or something. Look, just think about it. You might get some good ideas that other people can use too! I can add it in the info posts and they can choose it if they like.
P.S I changed the info posts.

[snow dwarf]

A snow crab? Well, I guess we could...

[Infinityforce]

Well, nevermind. I was thinking some of the crabs could be physiologically different from each other, like anatomy, structure, adaptation etc,
Ideally, I'd like there to be no "normal" crab

[Infinityforce]

Okay Big Bill, here's what I think.
The truck can store scrap such as metal poles, sheets and girders of varying thickness. You can get em as scrap from yards and across the wastes (abandoned labs, factories and enemy vehicles. Those places are probably densely filled with enemies that call it their lair.

LOOK IN THE INFO POSTS FOR MORE ABOUT SCRAP!

[Infinityforce]

TO NEWCOMERS: Hi if you're interested, please don't run away, we are very nice crabs looking for cool friends to be awesome with.
Feel free to make a crab, perhaps desert ranger, crab shaman, or godzilla crab, I don't know, anything really, just put some stuff down from your head to the thread and we'll have a look.
Almost any genre and design of crab is okay, as long as it can be gritty and/or slapstick and have well-fleshedness and rich aroma that speaks to all.
Here are some ideas for new crabs:
computer hacker dealie type crab. Maybe he can do ELECTRIC crab, neutralise enemies and use gadgets/robots
Ice wizard crab frost shaman: does jets of freezing cold and icicle spears GEORGE CAN DO THIS. RITE?
Desert Ranger Crab: has some sense! power and good with creatures.
Monk Crab of the Crab Goddess: has some psychic! powers as well as cleric/priest style stuff I THINK XANTALOS GOT THIS OKAY?

[Xantalos]

lawas you said this was gonna be good but I didn't realize it was going to be this beautiful!

I'm in like a damn ... I dunno, crab eating another crab or something. Point is, here's a character concept, coming straight out of a mixture of one of my friends, my recent viewing of Scarface, and the general brand of mentally unhinged psychos I let loose in nearly any forum game I find myself in.

Roberto 'Mister Baileys' Curio de Kumquato de Xantaloficago Al Dente Fettucine Armageddon de Cocina de la Long Huang Xing Shangsheng Leprás Burgonya Meowington Fergus

Call him Bailey, it's easier. He's been around the block, many that might not even exist. He's ingested such a vast quantity of crab drugs throughout his lifetime that he's obtained a rather notorious reputation in seemingly every occupied settlement of sapient beings on the mortal plane - if there are more than three people in a room, odds are at least one of them has met Bailey in some way, shape, or form.

The accounts of him vary - sometimes he's an amateur opera performer, sometimes he runs childcare centres, other times he sells human meat he found in a back alley to their unsuspecting relatives. One thing that remains constant with every sighting of him, however, is his ridiculous fighting prowess and tendency to go off on a whim - his temper is mercurial at best, and can be set off by something as little as a green cardigan. He studied crab karate, he claims, up in a remote mountain range somewhere he ended up in after a particularly rowdy drinking session. Ended up staying in this monastery for like ... he dunno, four hundred years? Or four hundred seconds? Too high to tell. Either way, he obtained an uncanny skill in hurting things from it. Also like totally rad martial arts shit, like the whole unnatural strength, speed, reflexes and stuff deal.

Bailey's also really good with knives. He apparently worked in a kitchen for a little while and got bored, and now he collects the damn things. Keeps them meticulously sharp, cuts random things when he gets bored, which is easily, and gets a dangerously gleeful look in his eye whenever he's holding one.

He also takes drugs constantly. His body is more than likely half drugs in mass at this point.

For skills ... I'm not quite sure how the custom skills are supposed to be arranged, but I know the three main ones would be Fight/Lift/Drive because Mr. Baileys never passed crab driving school.

[My Name is Immaterial]

"Big Bill" Jimmy

Beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous and music to my eyes.
What themes has he got? How does he dress? I currently seem him in a technicians's overalls, like what gas-station folk wear, but it ain't pretty. Does he wear glasses? I see him like a little squinty midget in navy or orange overalls and just flipping people over from below their line of sight :p

Overalls aren't really Big Bill's thing. He much prefers simple denim blue jeans with extra legs and a greased t-shirt, along with some heavy duty work boots. If he's dressing up, he's got a pair of multilegged slacks and a clean white shirt folded as nicely as a crab can at the bottom of his kit. However, he only wears that for Crab-Goddess Church, so most of his shirts have 'witty' jokes printed on them, overwhelmingly about scripture. He doesn't need glasses, luckily: he'd probably sit on them within a day of getting them.

Does he have a ranged or projectile weapon? So far no one in the team has much capabilities like that except Terence's lasso. Maybe we'll get one soonish.

Ranged weapon?
The fuck is a ranged weapon?
You mean, like, a sheet of scrap metal, that Big Bill throws at a fucker who called his mom a whore? Yeah, he can do that. Guns are for pussies and people who can't pick up an entire truck.

Fix
How or why? What is his attitude towards it. Does it make him happy to fix broken stuff? Does he whistle cheerfully as he gets to work?
Giant wrench or spanner(for combat?) Welder with torch? Maybe he can chew bolts and nuts and spray it like bullets. I dunno. Just give him some cool shit, like a toolbox with some crazy varied stuff in it and you'll find some shit on the road too. Maybe using a tool as a gun (nail gun?) or weapon is a good idea. Maybe he can cobble stuff together.
In any case, he can make use of junk and scrap and modify the truck a little lot tonne and repair it/stuff very well.
In fact, he can probably overhaul the truck overnight with the right parts maybe.
Specifically I want to know this: What kind of specialty does he do? Is he a metal man? Electrics? Electronics? Robotics?

Now, when you're one of the only people in town who did some learning, you're expected to step up and help everyone out. It don't matter if you've got a head for numbers or the inside of truck, there's taxes to do and cars to fix. Charging for that sorta thing is just unheard of: someone or their momma still better bake you a pie, though. Not doing a little something in return ain't right. Big Bill just happens to be good with cars, and carries a bigass red toolbox with him wherever he goes. He says he took it off a Ruskie he beat up, but no one believes him: everyone knows that Old Man Henderson gave it to him after he fixed his car after Young Henderson took it for a joyride. It's got everything a crab could need: wrenches, screwdrivers, wirecutters, even a small claw-welder. It's heavily dented, after all, he does use it (unwisely) as a weapon.
Big Bill's just plain good with engines. He can make a toaster go 0-60 in 10 seconds.

Tough
I see toughness like being hard-bodied, he can wade through enemies and take a few bullets. It also suits him to being launched like a projectile.
I think this is a good option, but maybe it can be expanded in some way, like making enemies attacks bounce back on them?

Nah, if someone's going to get hurt, it better be with his claw. Each time they hit him, he just gets tougher. He's been beat plenty, and this time ain't no different. He can take it.

Religion
My favourite. He will definitely get blessings from the Crab Goddess. I see Big Bill/Jimmy as being somewhat bashful persona, and the Goddess loves the meek. Maybe being battered by his brothers made him a little humbler than most. Goes with Tough and maybe he can pray for temporary invulnerability and he can quote some scripture or something? Just a little flavour here and there. Does he use a crucifix, rosary or devotive?
If he gets blessings from the goddess, consider how it affects his other powers: Will he gain a burst of superhuman strength? Does he go berserk? Get super tough? Fix things miraculously or is guided to do so?

The Crab Goddess has got bigger things to worry about that a little old crab, just doing his job. She's gotta keep Jibbers Crabst, the firebreathing lobster who lives behind the rings of Saturn, where he belongs: behind the rings of Saturn. He ain't done much worthy of Her bothering for him. He don't need no blessings, he just doesn't want to disappoint Her. He's got Religion to help inspire him and the other truckers, ain't nothing magical about it. He doesn't wear any religious symbols, 'cause She sees through them, and he ain't exactly the freshest smelling of people. He does keep a little shire to Her, which he lavishes any remaining money on-after it goes to the truck, booze, strippers, and blow-and not necessarily in that order.

Lift
What kind of lifting does he specialise in? There's pushing, flipping, throwing, wrestling.
His small size means he can get under stuff more easily, but unless he's very wide, it might give him a small disadvantage wrestling larger-than-normal creatures.
Yet it might also give him precision in targeting and locking enemies limbs/joints (there are all kinds of enemies and they have wildly differing body shapes)
His option seems to be to get under tight gaps rather than exerting leverage. It fits with the repair stuff quite well, squeezing into gaps or whatnot.

Now, I may've said this before, but he ain't the biggest crab, but that boy can Lift when he needs to. It's all about huge moves with him, so much so that it's practically a Throw. It's easy to pull a small crab off you, but what about when that small crab picks up a piece of your truck and fucking throws it at you?

Fight
Give him some weapon or tool. He won't be as strong as Terence "Motherfuckin'" Johnson but he can hold his own quite well. Give him some accent, accessory or tool, fighting style or technique.

The toolbox is the weapon of first resort, but he often quickly scuttles off, and comes back with a small dumpster over his head, which he throws at anyone who fucks with him. And if all goes to shit, he's still got claws like anyone else.

Drive
Fair enough, he can keep it steady and all that jazz but we won't ask him to do the tricky stuff. I see him peering over the wheel and struggling to reach the brakes

He'll never admit it, but he's also just plain old not allowed to drive, he ain't got a license. He's deadly afraid of the cops-not breaking the law, just the cops. When yer drunkard of a dad was the town sheriff, you get some mixed messages about cops. He ain't one to run from them, or do much of anything 'sides curl up in terror.

Okay Big Bill, here's what I think.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The truck can store scrap such as metal poles, sheets and girders of varying thickness. You can get em as scrap from yards and across the wastes (abandoned labs, factories and enemy vehicles. Those places are probably densely filled with enemies that call it their lair.


METAL POLES, GIRDERS AND SHEETS
Come in a few varieties, varying in thickness, strength and decay, and can be made of either steel or iron (unless we get a metallurgist of some sort later on) all of which affects the weight.
Whatever that Scrap was used for will affect its function: for example chickenwire sheets

POLES
Bill can wield poles effectively, even heavy ones. He can't battle up close very well, but he can use LIFT to force enemies back with whatever he's holding. Poles make good weapons, but Girders are much better at pushing foes. Poles can be used however you use your imagination. Strikes from the pole come from your LIFT and FIGHT stat so he does a decent job with it. You described that Big Bill gets over-exerted, so Poles are ideal because they are usually light weight.

GIRDERS
He can also wield Girders as spears. He can only strike 1 crab at a time (right now) and use it to ward off enemies by swinging it around.
This is not a FIGHT move, enemies are deterred, but only cus you're swinging around a huge steel girder.
LIFT attacks can be good surprise attacks and can occasionally hit enemies situationally. Mostly it's crowd control, like using the girder to push a row of enemies. Again, this is LIFT so it just pushes them back (for now, he'll get better with more effects such as stun, or damage)
Waving a Girder tires Big Bill and exerts him cus he's a tiny crab. Maybe it stresses his heart. Still he's better at LIFT than other anything else.

SHEETS
Big Bill, due to having a gnarly LIFT! Can wield the sheets as barricades and walls to block off enemies in combat. He can form a roof against air attacks and should plan around the natural terrain and position of the truck/crabs.
He can use them to do LIFT attacks which don't do much damage but can be defensive (the sheet would have to be appropriate thickness and material to be effective),
He can also use his FIGHT skill to deftly wield thin sheets like huge playing cards, slicing up enemies. I think we can all agree that a huge crab waving around a metal sheet and slicing shit up is cool.

All crabs can do these things but their lifting power comes from LIFT: If you have low LIFT you can probably still use thin poles and sheets as weapons, but not more than that.
When they FIGHT with it, they use FIGHT skill to determine the effectiveness of combat.
FIGHT and LIFT are distinct skill and have separate functions. Knowing how to use FIGHT and LIFT together can change the tide of combat.
When combat goes sour, form up, get the truck on the road and swap to DRIVE.
Using the right skill at the right time will save your life, but what about the team-mates and cargo. Think how to protect the valuable shit.

Big Bill, since you have high lift, you are in charge of protecting cargo, and you can save crabs by throwing them long distances.
If you choose throwing specialty, you can throw harder and further.

Throwing comes from LIFT: You can throw poles, girders, rolled up sheets etc. as well as crabs and cargo and anything you can think of. For anyone with weak LIFT, they can still throw light scrap relatively far.

I WILL THROW ALL THE THINGS

Use your imagination and be a crab that the Crab Goddess sent into the world as her trucker, to make sure everything goes alright. Big Bill seems like a humble sort of person and genuine nice guy. If you want to make him mean as coot but deeply caring, write it like that motherfucker.

Now, the Crab Goddess wants Her children to be big as the ocean, strong as the wind, crabby as She is, fast as the current, and hard as a rock, but Big Bill's only got the last down. He tries to be strong, but the kid gets tired fast. He'll never be big, and he just ain't got the cajones to be grumpy all day. He never can complain with the pros, which gets him down, so he tries to not complain, lest someone beat him at that game. All he's got left is to go fast, and make those deliveries.

Am I missing anything?

[lawastooshort]

Hehehe nice crabs, you two.

[Infinityforce]

Spoiler: All about Xantaloficago (click to show/hide)

So far, so good, and I like the ideas.

Xantalos: Your character seems to be taking form. What is his specific response and go-to? How does he react? Feel?
He HAS to see the cargo to where it needs to be, somehow. He does this by working in a team and protecting everything from fuckin' hairy shit that might fuck their shit up.
Most of the time, combat will be against enemies more numerous and powerful than you. Your priority is getting everything there safely, not to massacre things.
The murder is incidental to the life of a Crab Trucker, if anything, because one day they want to live in peace and dream of paradise through the Goddess and to spread her word of being awesome and doing good shit, like getting shit where it needs to be, no matter what, never giving up, trusting your comrades and fighting bastards and crazies and evil shit through ANY fucking means necessary, even if you have to throw the truck at a monster to save the cargo.

You crab should not act blindly. He should feel and reflect, and then act:
THIS IS BETTER THAN "My crab did some shit cus he felt like it." FUCK OFF
Show cause and effect and you will be a great writer.

example: he sees some shit he didn't fucking like, he feels fucked off, he fucks someone up

Here are some jumping points for you:

FIRST OF ALL: Mentally unhinged psycho is a great starting point for your crab and this game. I want the narration to reflect this as well, but all the players have to have congruent narration (try for seamless RP, nothing should be or feel "out-of-place" for example). It's good if you play it up, but not if you blow it out of proportion

NAME, CHARISMA, WORLDLINESS
Think about nicknames. More than 1 is fine and good. Keep it story-focused and we'll have a good time.

EDIT: Maybe Xantaloficago can have a legend of 100 names? (or more)

HIS PAST
Nationality
What is his nationality? He is a crab of the world, and his name reflects the richness/varieties of his experiences and past.
Consider how his name suits him as a crab. I particularly like the different mesh of cultures and whimsy. It keeps things fresh.
I like the spanish/chinese fusion for instance
(it seems he's quite an important lineage in a lot of cultures lol. Important lineage names usually take precedent over other names which are usually dropped or plain just not used. He might have lots of names, but just not use them all in his "official title or name")

One possibility is that he had some kind of job OFF of crab mountain such as trader or bodyguard and was quite good at it. (crabs leaving crab mountain is semi-rare)
Another idea is that he frequently gets high and goes on a rampage. This is not a social thing, he is just well known/ has a reputation, for example. This also affects fighting.
Consequently, while he doesn't know a person in every scene, large settlements, popular/large bars, junkyards (whatever) probably have someone who knows him, his name (probably not the whole thing!) or know his reputation or knows someone who knows him type thing.
He is probably feared or revered. His personality seems like the kind of thing that might get the team into and out of trouble, so it's okay.

Roberto = Great first name, if a little plain. Also ethnic = good variety and flavour
'Mister Baileys' = please elaborate on the background of this!!!!
Curio de Kumquato de Xantaloficago = Good flavour, but could be shortened somehow. What is this ancestry? Elaborate. He could do shamanic drugs and be in touch with his ancestors, for example, or be a brave warrior of his caste/tribe
Al Dente Fettucine = Funny, but remember he's a crab. Good for a name nonetheless
Armageddon de Cocina = Cool but do you absolutely need it? Everything is Armageddon in this RP.
de la Long Huang Xing Shangsheng = Like it, but shorten it! Sounds like semi-random chinese sounding syllables (dear god, please tell me you didn't do that. If it has real meaning, make it more pertinent or interesting, after all, it's a part of your character. Consider giving him kung fu or shaolin power, or ancestral chinese weaponry)
Leprás Burgonya = Not sure. Sounds cool though. Is he noble? What kind of crab is he?
Meowington Fergus = does he have cat in his ancestry or something? Is this from a different RP? Why should it be your crabs name? Consider this.

More is not better. Condense the literal meanings perhaps by adding puns, wordplay or allusions.
THIS MAKES FOR SNAPPY RP SO EVERYONE IS EXPECTED TO NOT ADD MEANINGLESS FLUFF AND KEEP THINGS SMOOTH AS FUCK
Consider shortening posts, narration and stuff, individually, or removing redundancy
Ask yourself
1. Does it stand up to scrutiny or examination?
2, Does it add flavour to my crab?
3. Will my team-mates appreciate this?
4. What is the Relevance to being an enormous crab?
Work together and complement your team-mates in narration and play. Have fun as a group, as well as reflecting personally.
Mostly: don't leave anyone behind. And don't forget the cargo! and don't destroy the truck! Fucking hell!

I think you have an issue of some sort NO LONGER
I can really feel/hear/see this character now! Great writing in that post, I REALLY felt it and have no doubts about your writing style AT ALL. This shit should be off the hook if you inject some !FUN! through your writing. Making all the writing styles complement and flow properly is difficult is there's no middle ground.
We should grow as people from journeying, narrating and coming up against challenges, your character(s) should too.

DRUGS, COPIOUS INGESTION THEREOF
Okay, this is what I feel. Although all the crabs will drink (even gasoline) and get hella pumped up, your character should have some specific vice or habit that he indulges in to identify him.
Maybe he does crystal meth? Dark and gritty as hell, but it works. Breaking Bad might be some inspiration, for instance.
Second, your crab has ingested a lot of drugs. This should have had a lasting effect on him, physically, mentally, psychically or physiologically.
Maybe he glows in the dark? Maybe he has dream vision (ties with heritage, see below) whatever you like, just suggest it.
Other ideas are mind altering substances like peyote or such: there is no reason the whole crew can't take a few buttons, smoke some desert weed and have a little trip, so confirm with others that
1. they feel comfortable with EXTREMELY HEAVY DRUG USE (you can find ways to tone it down, simplify it, for example fictional drugs work well)
2. if they want to do stuff with your character, such as drugs :p

Although I doubt anyone will tell you it's a bad idea, so I'll just put it out there that you need to modify this a bit, unless he has one of the following:
1. a constant mild habit, like cannabis, supplemented by harder drugs now and then is FINE
2. constantly tripping due to psychedelics is fine (sounds funny) by me, but he probably enters nightmare trances now and then during combat/duress
3. a fictional drug habit which is tied to the game. We can work this one out, but post ideas, as now, drugs will become a plot point and your crew will come across a shit tonne of gangsters who have access to some. Yep.

Frankly: a multitude of drugs (and features) weighs down the narrative. Clean it up and simplify it. If you want to invent a drug with an effect, go ahead and add it in! Your crab can be the specialist user of it, but other crabs might get to use it and have an advantage (but suffer side effects)
Taking drugs is not without repercussion. Consider this too in your character development. Maybe he's busted up somehow due to it? Emotionally or physically?

FIGHTING
KNIVES AND SWORDS
Knives? Why not swords? He could have an incan/mayan/mexican stone sword, and a chinese one. w/e works for you, if you want to incorporate this kind of thing. Does he have noble birth? How does that affect his style? Where from? Deep heritage? Yes please! But expand.
Actually, the mexican/chinese thing would work for knives too, but they'd have to be machete sized, for instance.
He can have kung fu, shaolin or some specific or fictional martial arts for example, it's all good and whatever you want.
He should sling knives/swords on his body so he can LIFT!
But you can't just swap to a pole or girder. They are heavy and need to be passed to you, for example, which might be difficult in combat.
Additionally, in heated combat, LIFTIN! using a pole or girder is not as easy FIGHTIN!
Also consider the shape and kind of weapon: huge weapons are favoured in this setting.
Think 1-foot long stilettos and flick, machetes big as a crab, etc.
Crowd control is a thing. If not, your crab can get up close and personal with lethal skill instead.


SKILLS
Here's how I have Xantaloficago currently
F/L/D
Karate/Knives - goes in Fight! as a specialty. What else about him? He flips out and gets violent. Okay. Describe it a little.
Lift - he's a medium lifter. So far the party is rounded out as far as lifting goes (so far)
Drive - he's poor at it. That's fine. He can get +1 in some cases so he can/should at some point have a go/relieve others.
Custom Skills
Temper - explosive, quick and likely to go off. Fast and furious. Sound fair? Maybe he gets tired or worn out by channeling his anger.
Drugs - is this really a custom skill lol? Maybe if can breathe fire or turn invisible because of it. What kind of drugs? What kind of effects? He's already OP in terms of fighting/power, so physical boosts aren't really a thing for this (much, we can add it later if we like)
Something else - he was in a monastery. Very interesting. Did he learn trances or meditation? what's his relationship with Crab Goddess like?

Everyone should bear this in mind: The RP and anything narrated is the real thing, OOC is practice/planning and setting/style.
Whatever is written down in IC is concrete(ish).
Everything here is just ideas with no bearing unless it gets narrated in IC.
Things can be changed IC or OOC whenever we want for whatever reason, just be sensible before committing things to writing/script.
Keep reworking a scene till you're happy with it. It's a great writing exercise and social thingy. Make it perfect FOR YOU.
Choose whatever you like and I'll try to write it in.