Ninten

Ninten Rude Buster often shortened to just Ninten, is a protagonist of The Master Plan Series, being a variation of the protagonist from Nintendo/Creatures Inc. video game MOTHER 1, also known as EarthBound Zero or EarthBound Beginnings. He works for both Industry 14 and the jazz_bar Ninten first joined the story after Haley was defeated the first time, meeting Cobra and assisting in downing Haley the second time. Ninten is one of the people running the show at the jazz_bar, and a trusted ally of many.

Background
Ninten's first chronological appearance in a written work was in CYOA: choosing your own adventure by Gamefaqs user notok, as an early introduction into the story, joining Alvin's party early on, his introduction being the request of user CheerUpCrewcut. Ninten was introduced with the ability to consume souls, as well as all of the traditional abilities a PSI user from the MOTHER series would have, being more than he would regularly possess, due to Ninten's lack of Offensive PSI in the official game. Ninten is a far deviation from the genuine article presented in MOTHER 1/EarthBound Beginnings, however, being a soul-stealing enigma of an individual even his own traveling partners did not know much of. Throughout the various wars that transpired, Ninten was a leader in combat and a skilled survivor, working alongside the likes of Alvin, Laharl, Noctis, and his other allies to stop various threats such as Real Evil.

After the events of choosing your own adventure, Ninten went traveling wherever he found himself drifting to, no particular goal in mind, he was only really good as a strategist an an asset for war. During these travels, he met Cobra amidst a war against Haley. Ninten assisted, staying in the shadows before stealing the Infinity Gauntlet from Haley, and became a major player in any battle from then onward. In particular, he often had the power to stand up to Haley in one on one confrontations for a decent amount of time, more than many others could say.

Ninten worked often at the jazz_bar, going around and dealing with whatever issues deemed important enough to take care of, almost always of a life-threatening nature. Unlike Cobra, he never participated in arguments about the moral right or wrongdoings of their activity. Some of those who worked at the jazz_bar didn't have full faith in meddling with people's lives and people's fates, but never bothered trying to convince Ninten of it.

Ninten briefly met Hatred Doctor Mario of CYOA: Marth, having been invited to Hatred Doctor Mario's second party by a mutual acquaintance, Tomas with a gun with a shovel. Ninten informed himself of all of the happenings to that point, with many other allies of his, such as Cobra, Hiro or Edward, already coming to be involved in the situation at that point. Ninten's role in the events was ultimately minimal, but the time he spent present was not something he forgot.

A time after the party, Ninten moved away from his work in the jazz_bar to work with Agent 14 almost full time at the latest incarnation of Industry 14, the Academy, acting as a teacher as well as his regular work of dealing with what he considered wrongdoing, usually in the forms of broken laws, as he kept his activity on a lesser scale to remain closer to the Academy.

Appearance
Ninten's proportions compared to a normal person are quite small, standing at about 3 feet, if not even less. His eyes are a dark green, his skin is a lighter colorand his hair is pure black and somewhat well kept. While not perfectly straight, the style of his hair is deliberate, although he doesn't concern himself with it too much due to his hat.

Ninten dresses as many common variations of Ninten would, with a lot of blue colors and a striped shirt, not to mention the hat on his head. In particular, Ninten wears a red, white, and blue striped shirt, blue shorts, and blue shoes, with red socks that go up to his knees. The baseball cap he wears is usually angled diagonally forward, but he'll sometimes wear it properly pointed to the front or back, and sometimes even straight to the side.

Personality
Ninten is not a personality-lacking individual, per se, but he does not possess emotional motivations. His actions are dictated almost entirely by logic, and logic alone, and he is more than willing to suggest alternatives, as well as concede to most ideas if there is no changing someone else's mind, reminding them later of how a different plan may have worked better, but hardly being pushy about it. Although he is willing to agree to another's plan, he almost always believes his idea for how to solve a problem presented to him would be the better call.

While he does have some personal priorities, as Ninten does actually care about the people around him, he'll never put those priorities before the objective ones, unless he's very confident about a low margin for error in helping out despite a more important matter at hand.

Ninten is a strong believer in the greyscale of concepts and morality, usually trying to look at things from multiple viewpoints before deciding a specific action, and hearing out explanations from most anyone for their behavior. He will ask them questions to solidify the truth or expose a lie, in the name of making his own judgements when possible rather than using abstract labels, but he doesn't have much hesitation to do what he sees fit even if he sympathizes with a cause.

He seems to possess an odd sort of sarcasm, despite his distaste for most common forms of enjoyment or joking around, usually saying something crude as if it were a quote, and often bringing up forms of irony or hypocrisy when he sees them, all of it coated in a sophisticated and somewhat verbose manner of speaking, as Ninten normally talks.

Despite his ability to do so, Ninten doesn't often read other people's minds and thoughts, unless he feels the situation dire, partially due to how strenuous it is a task, but also partially out of respect for most individuals and their privacy, and in many cases of those around him, trust. Of course, he wouldn't care too much if that trust were broken, he would just keep doing what he had to, with no sense of his personal priorities.

Credit
Credit to Kieran on steam for the Ninten photos