Steel
Field Value Full Name Steel Alias Gender Age World Occupation Status Role Participant Team Cat Summer Edition Crab 5 Creator
“Wow… It… tingles!”
Steel is a participant of Crab 5 as a member of Cat Summer and formerly a Bench member. He is a metal, a race of robotic aliens from a ravaged world.
Appearance
Steel is a 5 meter, 15 foot tall humanoid creature akin to a giant robot. It has a gray metallic body with a boxy chest and squared off legs. Its arms have angular dark gray pauldron-like shoulders and rectangular box arm ending in gray five-fingers metal hands. It has a machine gun turret with a triangular, triple barrel that fires caseless ammo embedded with an explosive material. This gun can be attached anywhere on the body magnetically, but is often on its right arm or shoulder.
Steel’s head is wedge-shaped with dark gray protrusions on the top and bottom that look like a pompadour haircut, large chin, and sideburns. Steel has two L-shaped orange eyes with yellow pupils and at third diamond-shaped eye of similar color in the center of its forehead. Steel has a mouth that does not open, but can change shape.
Steel’s human form seen in Round 2 is that of a tall Caucasian man with a black pompadour and beard. He wears gold aviator glasses, a gray polo shirt, and black shorts. He has a camera which hangs around his neck.
Personality
Steel is quiet, reserved, and calculative. While usually solitary by circumstance, it is willing to cooperate with others for mutual gain and benefit.
Steel is quick to draw his weapon when faced with an unknown problem. Steel cares about its world and wishes to see it prosper.
Steel is fascinated by space travel and other worlds. It enjoys mining, industry, and nature. Steel
Powers and Abilities
Steel can fire explosive machine gun rounds at a rapid clip. It is very strong and can slow down enemies with punches or bullet fire. When damaged, Steel can reforge itself to make repairs.
Background
Steel is a metal, a large robot-like alien from an ancient civilization of similar beings that has fallen on hard times. Its goal is to secure the wish to save its people.
Steel’s parent, called a forger, is a small rusted metal that makes a low humming sounds. It is still active.
History
Pit Entry
Steel (WON) versus Houndclops (LOSS)
After finding and picking up a recently killed bird-like creature, the Houndclops becomes enraged that Steel is “touching his meats.” Houndclops attacks Steel and they get into a fight, resulting in Steel punting the Houndclops to the horizon. After doing so, Steel receives its Crab 5 invitation.
Round 1: Hell
Steel (WON)
As a Bench contestant in Round 1, Steel was tasked with assembling the horsemen of the apocalypse. Steel searches for War, finding a chibi horse girl. She is soon attacked by demons, but dispatches of them herself. Steel draws its weapon, but the horse offers to slay demons with her before heading back, to which Steel obliges.
Round 2: Hawaii
Steel (LOSS) versus Cali (WON)
In a collaborative effort, Steel is turned into a human by G.Marion-ette’s drink after arriving in Hawaii. Cali is given all the drinks and turns into a squid that G. Marion-ette attempts to eat. After cowering behind Steel, Steel chucks Cali and the lighter for the cauldron into the distance. Kaleo to Pueo, a talking bird, tasks Steel with retrieving it before it starts a fire.
While searching for Cali and the lighter Kaleo teaches Steel about wildfires, their causes, preventative measures, and proper fire safety. Kaleo reveals that G. Marion-ette is trying to start a wildfire.
Cali and Steel are reunited and changed back into their normal forms, but Steel has been given a min-max to increase size and lose hearing, while Cali receives the morality mix and becomes enraged. G. Marion-ette starts a wildfire, but Steel and Cali put it out by modifying Steel’s turret to be a water cannon.
Round 3: The Bucket
Steel (LOSS) versus Pier Trissan (WON)
Canon
Steel is tasked to fight Pier in the Bucket and prepares by forging weapons, including a sword coated in a melted down Doe Deerly. Steel battles Pier and his upgraded future form on the city arena. Both are battered and beaten, with Steel seemingly gaining the upper hand. However, a truck of acid is destroyed, spilling onto the ground and causing Steel to fall through the floor, sending it out of bounds and dooming its race.
Non-canon
Steel fights Pier in the cityscape layout of the battle arena. They exchange a volley or projectiles with Steel on foot and Pier in his ship. Steel jumps on top of Pier’s vessel, destroying it. On foot, Pier manages to get the upper hand of Steel, felling the titan. However, Steel is too heavy for Pier to push out of bounds. Steel recovers, grabs Pier, and drops him out of the arena.
Cameos
Round 1
Locket: (Canon) Steel appears in the crowd at the end of the race, where it joins in laughing at Mystic Hand Natum’s defeat.
Round 2
Locket: (Canon) Steel, in his human form, is with his Cat Summer teammates at the hotel prior to Locket’s match-up. He and 17ling are concerned about Locket being able to win a surfing contest when she can’t swim.
Round 3
Locket: (Canon) Steel is shown attending Locket and Edric’s wedding and is used in Locket’s plan to defeat Rachel. After Rachel tackles Locket onto the battlefield, Locket instructs Steel to pen fire on her opponent. After clipping Rachel’s ear, she responds with a rocket launcher blast that kills Steel and everyone else at the wedding.
Side Stories
“Jev’s Puppet Time” epilogue: (Steel) In a post-story reaction image, Steel finds Locket’s beheaded body and picks it up similar to the bird in his Pit Entry.
“Class Dismissed”: (Locket) Steel appears with Cat Summer.
Role in CRAB
Steel was one of several contestants relegated to the bench for Round 1, but became the second Bench CRAB to enter the competition proper after Illwill’s departure before Round 2. Steel joined Cat Summer, where Steel’s age and nature as a metal were quite different than the college sorority atmosphere of the team. Despite this, Steel was accepted amongst their ranks and acted as Locket’s heavy artillery. The Cat Summer members often posed on Steel in promo images.
Relationships
Friends
- Locket in the Woods (Headliner)
- Illwill (Teammate)
- Doe Deerly (Teammate)
- Kabloouie (Teammate)
- 17ling (Teammate)
- Admiral Pizza (Teammate)
- Kaleo
- Saki
Allies
- Cali
Enemies
- Pier Trissan
- Agent Snow
- Rachel Envy
- G. Marion-ette
Life Within CRAB
Gallery
Gallery
Trivia
- Steel went winless in Crab 5, but received a gold medal from their Round 1 Bench entry.
- Steel and Admiral Pizza secured Cat Summer the Round 3 trinket by submitting entries in the mediums of 3D animation and video games respectively.
- Steel is 25,000 Earth years old, the second oldest Crab 5 competitor after his teammate Doe Deerly who is 1 trillion.
- Steel’s wish would’ve been restoring metal society to it’s prior and future heights.
- Steel uses it/its pronouns as a metal, but its human form is male.
- Steel enjoys watching Carmeldansen.
Source
Text: CRAB WIKI, Steel (revision 2674, 2026-10-17; by TheCittiverse)
Edited by: G
Licence: text CC BY-SA 4.0; characters, comics and art belong to their creators
