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assimilation) wrote2014-12-26 10:35 pm
assimilation) wrote2014-12-26 10:35 pm
Application :: Synodiporia
P L A Y E R;
NAME: Aaron
AGE: 22
PLAYER JOURNAL:portaling
TIMEZONE: EST
CONTACT: cheerypapercut @ gmail
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Regina
CANON: OC
POINT IN CANON: After killing her parents.
AGE: Approximately 22
APPEARANCE: Here! Her PB is Jessica Brown Findlay.
She also has a tattoo of a barcode on the inside of her left wrist (it is faded, as if it has been there for quite some time). On the back of her neck is an input jack, as if you would plug in composite cables. It’s also worth noting that she looks particularly gaunt.
CANON HISTORY:
2XXX AD. It's an earth after the earth has fallen -- of course, "fallen" could be taken in many different ways, depending on which species of people you talk to. General consensus on the history of Earth after the present day is this:
War had ravaged most of the population on earth, and left many people desperate for a solution to their numerous problems. Humans, realizing their limitations as fallible, flesh-like creatures, decided to merge their humanity with something that they considered to be infallible: technology. Starting in the year 2050, the humans on Earth began experimenting with the idea of tampering with their bodies to increase their processing capacity, their resilience, and even their lifespans. You get the idea -- they wanted to become superhuman through the use of robotic technology -- specifically, they wished to become more than human using the science that they so desperately depended on. But all of these experiments could not be done only on animals; after all, the human brain is a complex muscle, and therein lay the problem. Where did people get human brains to experiment on? Volunteers were used for a short while; but the company sponsoring this experiment -- later to be called “Rotech” -- realized that adult brains were useless. They needed a younger group. Thankfully, there were plenty of starving and stranded refugees of war across the world that simply needed some food, some money, to get their families started again. And many of those refugee families had children that drained their finances. Using a supply of children sold to Rotech, scientists began implanting them with all sorts of crazy things in the name of science. From children who could shoot chemical fire out of their mouths to boys and girls with robotic implants, from full limbs to metal hearts, they were deemed a new breed of human. After the experiments, those who survived (and while there weren't as many that came out as went in, there were still a good deal left) were sent into the world and told to "produce science." Of course, the children had no idea what that meant. Rotech checked in on them yearly, tracking their progress in school and even asking them some strange questions as they grew older: how is your love life? Are you sexually active? Do you plan on getting married?
What the children didn't know - what Rotech had conveniently never told them - was that the primary material used in the experiments was a new biological creation, a genetically enhanced gene designed to take over normal genes and be carried as a trait into the next generation. This “robotic gene” was what allowed the children to exist with their robotic enhancements, essentially turning them into transhuman, robotic hybrids. So the children grew up, and the scientists observed: and in the end, those mutated children grew into positions of great power, out of fear and adoration for their gifts.
Unfortunately, they were not very benevolent with their powers; probably because they had been sold into experimentation when they were younger, the children that grew up to rule much of the known world were not actually kind leaders at all. Turns out, when superhuman are put up against regular humans, guess what? Tyranny happens. The children -- later known as the First Generation -- raised their offspring in the lap of luxury, using their new status to further stratify the world economy in this post-war atmosphere. And as the scientists who created them died, the First Generation eventually inherited Rotech and all of it’s information, which was used for their own benefit and nefarious means.
It is now hundreds of years into the future, the superhuman race is the dominating class of earth, controlling everything from radio and television to what people are allowed to learn in school. The people who are fortunate enough to be superhuman live in the lap of luxury. Oh sure, they go to school and have jobs. But their jobs are nowhere near as strenuous. All they need to do is look good and be smart. Learn to breathe fire for your leader, Rotech! Get the newest eye-implants -- your children's features will shine like real gold! And so on. Those who have not been fortunate enough to either breed into or naturally belong to the super "mecha" human class find themselves working second-rate jobs, those that require barely any talent and are mostly menial labor. Sure, there are still human artists, performers -- but even the arts have taken a back seat to technology and progress. Art and culture have been replaced by the "future", which is to say, replaced by technological entertainment.
When these starving, menial humans can't feed their children any more (and too frequently they can’t, because they are not paid well, not cared for by their superhuman counterparts) RoTech strikes them a deal: sell their children to science, and the company will feed them for at least two years... The family, that is. The children are supposedly taken under the wing of the executive committee and given a 'good trade' to better themselves with. Their families are left satisfied on both accounts. They've bettered their child's future, and also fed the rest of their family.
What most humans don't know- what RoTech refuses to tell them - is that these children are essentially changed into people whose lives revolve around their careers. Not in the dedicated, work oriented sense, but in the "slightly brainwashed and still okay" sense. Kids are taught to forget everyone and everything from the life they had before and focus on one thing: becoming a part of the company. Stolen at the age of five, human children are given ten years of education -- eight of general knowledge and two of specialization, based on the classes in which they excel. From then on, they are given certain jobs in society. And they keep those jobs until the day they die, or are released from service -- these things tend to happen equally. Not all minds can handle the constant stream of information from their superiors, through a psychic-style network. Some minds go the way of jelly. Some just die. But RoTech figures it's okay that way; at least when these people are allowed to reproduce, they'll have stronger half-humans to control.
Regina is one of these half-humans. At the age of 5, she was sold by her parents as a means to keep her older brothers and sisters fed for a brief while -- of course, she doesn't remember this. She only remembers her first day of classes at RoTech and briefly, flashes of the operation that removed the rest of her memories. But that's mainly screaming, telling men in white coats to get away from her. She doesn't think of it much. Instead, her memories start after she took her place in the training academy for those “blessed” with receiving an upgrade from their old lives. For a long time, Regina was simply part of the system -- she learned science and mathematics, and was particularly skilled in physics from a young age. She was smart, and learned quickly; gifted from a young age in the transferring and viewing of information telekinetically, Regina was selected to function essentially as a human library: information was stored inside of her mind almost like one would use a CPU, and could be accessed by those with the correct clearance. Regina herself, in return, was able to see and decipher things that normal humans couldn’t: some of the talents she was given at a young age included being able to see all waves on the UV spectrum, and speak in many different languages. Essentially, she worked as a multi-functional, super intelligent and living library.
And then she didn't.
See, there are these humans who don't really like the oppression that they face because of the superhuman. Crazy, right? These humans are usually people who have had loved ones sold or stolen away from them: cousins, brothers and sisters, twins. Sometimes even parents. Their solution is to kidnap the half-human machines and orient them into society again. Then, after orientation, their technological prowess and half-super powers can be reprogrammed to fight against those that created them: namely, Rotech, the motherfucking rulers of the world. It is during one of the rebels’ missions into the heart of Rotech that they kidnap Regina; naturally, the people who work as human information terminals are the most interesting to them, as they contain many of the company’s secrets inside of their minds. So she is kidnapped, stolen away from the life she has known for basically 15 years, and taken to an underground hideout: the rebels’ base of operations. While the group is very devoted, and extremely spirited, they’re also not actually that well equipped. Outside of kidnapping a few workers here and there, they weren’t actually able to do more to damage the internal system of their enemy. So their plan was to reprogram the brains of Regina and the others, and force them to reveal the information stored inside of them.
Well...redoing what was essentially the brainwashing process of several years also requires an incredible amount of surgery to be done: specifically, any tracking devices implanted into their brains would need to be taken out, and any mechanical implants removed and replaced with a modified version. So all of the people kidnapped are immediately subjected to an intensive surgery to remove those pieces of their programming. Unfortunately...intensive brain surgery? Not actually a safe thing. The few others kidnapped with her died during the attempt -- and Regina herself became ill not long after, rendered virtually useless for several weeks while they attempted to salvage what remained of her.
While she was out, however, a rare thing happened: alerted to the possibility that some of the information workers had survived the surgery, a young man named Vernon made his way to the hideout looking for his sister. A gifted hacker and member of the rebels’ IT collective, Vernon knew that Regina was his sister, and came to bring her back into the family. Barely awake and incoherent, Regina was not exactly the ideal sister to have a teary reunion with: the surgery may have freed her mind from the grasp of Rotech, but her emotions were scrambled and her mind likely required psychological attention. But they didn’t have that kind of time -- and Vernon was entirely too impatient for his own good -- so he charmed the nurses into allowing Regina to come with him, and took her back to their parents’ home in the slums of what was formerly Washington DC. Unnnnfortunately...all of those feelings that Regina had had suppressed by programming, and all of those memories she refused to accept during her daily life came flooding back to her, including her anger and frustration at being given away by her parents. In a moment of absolute rage, Regina kills her parents, the ultimate revenge for what equated to a lifetime of suffering and pain for her and the rest of her siblings.
LONG STORY SHORT:
- futuristic world with lots of super futuristic technology, interfaces combined with hoverboards, cybernetic implants you know the like
- entire world run by one corporation they're scary
- they own lots of human children
- human children turned into half-human slave-creatures + human adult laborers = the energy on which the superhuman mechanical creatures fuel their pleasure-oriented instant gratification society
- rebellion doesn't like that, steals children away from the corporation to reprogram them for a rebellion army
- regina is one of those kids that gets kidnapped
CANON PERSONALITY:
On the outside, Regina appears to be a silent, passive person; never one to stand in the spotlight,she has spent her life supporting those who had more power, more charisma, than she could hope to attain. One could say that she is the world’s most talented support role: eternally watching and listening, she spots things that other people don’t and remembers them to be used as information later, generally for her and her friends’ benefit. It is easy to look past her and focus on other people -- and that’s exactly the way she likes it to be. As a naturally quiet person, even before her brainwashing, Regina has always believed that the person in the background is the one that will eventually win the day. She is a font of natural curiosity: her disposition enables her to learn many different things about a situation, and she genuinely enjoys listening to people talk and finding out as much as she can about...well, everything. Information has always been a solace for her, and the more she knows, the more in her element she feels.
But it is also important to remember that for most of her life, Regina has not been allowed to feel. Part of Rotech’s surgery suppressed her emotions, restricting the way she was allowed to think and act on a daily basis -- and this played a large part in shaping her into such a quiet person. Emotions like anger, jealousy, doubt -- all negative emotions were essentially repressed or just didn’t exist in the first place. So on some level, she is almost like a young child: the anger and doubt that she experiences, she experiences intensely, because she has never been able to feel it before. The way that a toddler may go full out on a tantrum, kicking and screaming and dragging their feet, is now transferred to a 20-something woman, who is more than capable of actual, physical violence.
Thankfully, although she is new to these emotions, Regina is remarkably patient with most people -- her fuse is long, and it takes a great act of injustice (or evil) to really get to her switch out of her normal, passive persona into a more proactive and angry one. But when she does get angry, it is with the intelligence of someone who knows exactly how to hurt another person, physically and emotionally. Regina holds a lot of anger deep inside of her, specifically for her parents, who gave her away in the first place. It is a situation that has never sat well with her, even when most of her thoughts were controlled by Rotech; this source of discomfort is the best example of how long it takes her to act on something: over 20 years passed before she was able to actually unleash her anger on her parents, or even to vent to someone about the traumatic event in the first place. And when she explodes, she explodes with a fury; because she has never felt negative emotions, she has no real understanding of the consequences of them.
But those times are few and far between. For the most part, Regina acts like a normal, happy toddler in regards to her emotions: once she warms up to someone, she’s eternally curious and forever willing to ask questions. In her positive relationships -- like the one with Vernon, her brother -- she is always ready to support and provide anything her friends might need. Even if she’s not good at something, she’d be willing to try; attempting new tasks makes her friends happy, and also provides her with a chance to learn something new. Which has always been her motivation: learn as many things as possible, and then turn around and use that information for the betterment of...well. What she wants to better generally depends on how she’s feeling; normally Regina expends most of her energy attempting to make other people happy, because that is what she’s done for her whole life -- attended to the needs of others without thinking of her own welfare. Highly intelligent, although emotionally stunted, Regina is glad to wholeheartedly support anyone who considers her a friend or a family member, and allow them to take the credit for it.
POINT OF DEPARTURE: Regina is a remarkably malleable person -- the result of having many different people force very different ideas on her throughout her life. As someone who can easily slide between one group of people and another, I believe that Regina as an infiltrator will be best described as someone who could easily fit anywhere, given a chance. As a quiet person, I have trouble seeing her adapt radically; I don’t think that she would be able to play a loud or intrusive role in any infiltration mission. But the side characters -- ones I can think of include ones such as the professors from the Ground jaunt: Regina would adapt well to being a quiet but curious professor, interested in gaining money for her department but not strictly vocalizing those feelings in any sort of competitive way. I feel that her subdued personality would allow her, as one of those people, to quietly sabotage other competitors in the grant competition and blame it on someone else: the ultimate level of deviousness that gives her quiet satisfaction, but does not draw attention to herself. Which is, to be honest, exactly the way she likes to operate every day -- get things done in a quiet manner, and let other people take the credit for it.
ABILITIES:
Regina is partially robotic, and has abilities that work like...a robot…
- Where more people can only see visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum, Regina has been altered so that she can see everything on the spectrum: that includes waves like microwaves and radio waves, as well as X-Rays, gamma rays, etc. She can also interact with these waves: for example, she can “tune in” to a certain radio station by focusing on the wavelength it produces without using a radio to do it, or cook something in her hand using microwaves without the use of the actual machine. But she can’t actually produce these waves, merely alter them or claim them for her own use after being produced by an outside force.
- Intelligence; Regina has highly intelligent, capable of memorizing many facts in an extremely short amount of time and recalling them in an instant. She is particularly gifted with science -- physics in particular -- and has basically a graduate-level education in physics and mathematics. She is akin to a human calculator, able to do sums in her head almost instantaneously and report the answer to you with a small margin of error. Her level of memorization also means that she tends to remember very small facts that other people take for granted: small changes in hairstyle or height, in the way people speak. She stores them in the database that her expanded mind affords her and will relate them to people if it seems like something they should know. (She is not very good at keeping secrets.)
- She can survive on little food and sleep, as part of her genetic alterations. This one is fairly self-explanatory.
She is also formerly connected to a telekinetic network that works mostly like the psychic network, but that is not a power she has any more!
INVENTORY; CLOTHES….that’s it….
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? beep boop :U
S A M P L E S;
FIRST PERSON: Previous game post! For context: Kyriakos is a memory loss team game, in which teams compete to win their memories back in a series of “games”. Regina was attempting to make friends for her team, Ometotchtli (or Omelettes) because they are frequently killed during games.
THIRD PERSON: The day was going splendidly until Regina ventured outdoors. In fact, it hadn’t really been a strange day at all: she had been exploring liminal space, investigating the nooks and crannies of what looked to be some sort of subterranean tunnel system, before she decided that dungeoning was done for the day and returned to the surface.
That was when, out of nowhere, she felt a large, vaguely wet plop hit the top of her head. Reaching up carefully to investigate the sudden weight that was pressing down on her, her fingers touched something sponge-like in texture, and she jumped -- Regina brushed the substance off of her head quickly. As the mysterious object fell to the ground with another wet sound, she crouched over to examine it further. Why would this have fallen on my head? I think...this is food…
It did appear to be the remains of some sort of food, at the very least: the remnants of some birthday cake, the blue and white icing still vaguely visible in the mess that remained. Regina knew from experience that cake was a harmless substance, but still, it wasn’t normally something that fell from the sky. She wondered briefly if the substance could be related to the location: many people had told her that liminal space was unpredictable, and although her limited experience had shown that most of the caves beneath her were normal, it was possible that the cake was a side-effect of the situation.
More cake was raining now: the food hit her shoulders and back more and more frequently as she bent over to examine the first piece of evidence. What had started as an isolated incident was now becoming something of a cakestorm. Perhaps...it was time to move on from examination, then. Obviously standing with her back to the rain would only cause more mess in the future.
So Regina did the correct thing and stood up, putting her hands out to catch the pieces of cake before eating them. Mm, cake.
NAME: Aaron
AGE: 22
PLAYER JOURNAL:
portalingTIMEZONE: EST
CONTACT: cheerypapercut @ gmail
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Regina
CANON: OC
POINT IN CANON: After killing her parents.
AGE: Approximately 22
APPEARANCE: Here! Her PB is Jessica Brown Findlay.
She also has a tattoo of a barcode on the inside of her left wrist (it is faded, as if it has been there for quite some time). On the back of her neck is an input jack, as if you would plug in composite cables. It’s also worth noting that she looks particularly gaunt.
CANON HISTORY:
2XXX AD. It's an earth after the earth has fallen -- of course, "fallen" could be taken in many different ways, depending on which species of people you talk to. General consensus on the history of Earth after the present day is this:
War had ravaged most of the population on earth, and left many people desperate for a solution to their numerous problems. Humans, realizing their limitations as fallible, flesh-like creatures, decided to merge their humanity with something that they considered to be infallible: technology. Starting in the year 2050, the humans on Earth began experimenting with the idea of tampering with their bodies to increase their processing capacity, their resilience, and even their lifespans. You get the idea -- they wanted to become superhuman through the use of robotic technology -- specifically, they wished to become more than human using the science that they so desperately depended on. But all of these experiments could not be done only on animals; after all, the human brain is a complex muscle, and therein lay the problem. Where did people get human brains to experiment on? Volunteers were used for a short while; but the company sponsoring this experiment -- later to be called “Rotech” -- realized that adult brains were useless. They needed a younger group. Thankfully, there were plenty of starving and stranded refugees of war across the world that simply needed some food, some money, to get their families started again. And many of those refugee families had children that drained their finances. Using a supply of children sold to Rotech, scientists began implanting them with all sorts of crazy things in the name of science. From children who could shoot chemical fire out of their mouths to boys and girls with robotic implants, from full limbs to metal hearts, they were deemed a new breed of human. After the experiments, those who survived (and while there weren't as many that came out as went in, there were still a good deal left) were sent into the world and told to "produce science." Of course, the children had no idea what that meant. Rotech checked in on them yearly, tracking their progress in school and even asking them some strange questions as they grew older: how is your love life? Are you sexually active? Do you plan on getting married?
What the children didn't know - what Rotech had conveniently never told them - was that the primary material used in the experiments was a new biological creation, a genetically enhanced gene designed to take over normal genes and be carried as a trait into the next generation. This “robotic gene” was what allowed the children to exist with their robotic enhancements, essentially turning them into transhuman, robotic hybrids. So the children grew up, and the scientists observed: and in the end, those mutated children grew into positions of great power, out of fear and adoration for their gifts.
Unfortunately, they were not very benevolent with their powers; probably because they had been sold into experimentation when they were younger, the children that grew up to rule much of the known world were not actually kind leaders at all. Turns out, when superhuman are put up against regular humans, guess what? Tyranny happens. The children -- later known as the First Generation -- raised their offspring in the lap of luxury, using their new status to further stratify the world economy in this post-war atmosphere. And as the scientists who created them died, the First Generation eventually inherited Rotech and all of it’s information, which was used for their own benefit and nefarious means.
It is now hundreds of years into the future, the superhuman race is the dominating class of earth, controlling everything from radio and television to what people are allowed to learn in school. The people who are fortunate enough to be superhuman live in the lap of luxury. Oh sure, they go to school and have jobs. But their jobs are nowhere near as strenuous. All they need to do is look good and be smart. Learn to breathe fire for your leader, Rotech! Get the newest eye-implants -- your children's features will shine like real gold! And so on. Those who have not been fortunate enough to either breed into or naturally belong to the super "mecha" human class find themselves working second-rate jobs, those that require barely any talent and are mostly menial labor. Sure, there are still human artists, performers -- but even the arts have taken a back seat to technology and progress. Art and culture have been replaced by the "future", which is to say, replaced by technological entertainment.
When these starving, menial humans can't feed their children any more (and too frequently they can’t, because they are not paid well, not cared for by their superhuman counterparts) RoTech strikes them a deal: sell their children to science, and the company will feed them for at least two years... The family, that is. The children are supposedly taken under the wing of the executive committee and given a 'good trade' to better themselves with. Their families are left satisfied on both accounts. They've bettered their child's future, and also fed the rest of their family.
What most humans don't know- what RoTech refuses to tell them - is that these children are essentially changed into people whose lives revolve around their careers. Not in the dedicated, work oriented sense, but in the "slightly brainwashed and still okay" sense. Kids are taught to forget everyone and everything from the life they had before and focus on one thing: becoming a part of the company. Stolen at the age of five, human children are given ten years of education -- eight of general knowledge and two of specialization, based on the classes in which they excel. From then on, they are given certain jobs in society. And they keep those jobs until the day they die, or are released from service -- these things tend to happen equally. Not all minds can handle the constant stream of information from their superiors, through a psychic-style network. Some minds go the way of jelly. Some just die. But RoTech figures it's okay that way; at least when these people are allowed to reproduce, they'll have stronger half-humans to control.
Regina is one of these half-humans. At the age of 5, she was sold by her parents as a means to keep her older brothers and sisters fed for a brief while -- of course, she doesn't remember this. She only remembers her first day of classes at RoTech and briefly, flashes of the operation that removed the rest of her memories. But that's mainly screaming, telling men in white coats to get away from her. She doesn't think of it much. Instead, her memories start after she took her place in the training academy for those “blessed” with receiving an upgrade from their old lives. For a long time, Regina was simply part of the system -- she learned science and mathematics, and was particularly skilled in physics from a young age. She was smart, and learned quickly; gifted from a young age in the transferring and viewing of information telekinetically, Regina was selected to function essentially as a human library: information was stored inside of her mind almost like one would use a CPU, and could be accessed by those with the correct clearance. Regina herself, in return, was able to see and decipher things that normal humans couldn’t: some of the talents she was given at a young age included being able to see all waves on the UV spectrum, and speak in many different languages. Essentially, she worked as a multi-functional, super intelligent and living library.
And then she didn't.
See, there are these humans who don't really like the oppression that they face because of the superhuman. Crazy, right? These humans are usually people who have had loved ones sold or stolen away from them: cousins, brothers and sisters, twins. Sometimes even parents. Their solution is to kidnap the half-human machines and orient them into society again. Then, after orientation, their technological prowess and half-super powers can be reprogrammed to fight against those that created them: namely, Rotech, the motherfucking rulers of the world. It is during one of the rebels’ missions into the heart of Rotech that they kidnap Regina; naturally, the people who work as human information terminals are the most interesting to them, as they contain many of the company’s secrets inside of their minds. So she is kidnapped, stolen away from the life she has known for basically 15 years, and taken to an underground hideout: the rebels’ base of operations. While the group is very devoted, and extremely spirited, they’re also not actually that well equipped. Outside of kidnapping a few workers here and there, they weren’t actually able to do more to damage the internal system of their enemy. So their plan was to reprogram the brains of Regina and the others, and force them to reveal the information stored inside of them.
Well...redoing what was essentially the brainwashing process of several years also requires an incredible amount of surgery to be done: specifically, any tracking devices implanted into their brains would need to be taken out, and any mechanical implants removed and replaced with a modified version. So all of the people kidnapped are immediately subjected to an intensive surgery to remove those pieces of their programming. Unfortunately...intensive brain surgery? Not actually a safe thing. The few others kidnapped with her died during the attempt -- and Regina herself became ill not long after, rendered virtually useless for several weeks while they attempted to salvage what remained of her.
While she was out, however, a rare thing happened: alerted to the possibility that some of the information workers had survived the surgery, a young man named Vernon made his way to the hideout looking for his sister. A gifted hacker and member of the rebels’ IT collective, Vernon knew that Regina was his sister, and came to bring her back into the family. Barely awake and incoherent, Regina was not exactly the ideal sister to have a teary reunion with: the surgery may have freed her mind from the grasp of Rotech, but her emotions were scrambled and her mind likely required psychological attention. But they didn’t have that kind of time -- and Vernon was entirely too impatient for his own good -- so he charmed the nurses into allowing Regina to come with him, and took her back to their parents’ home in the slums of what was formerly Washington DC. Unnnnfortunately...all of those feelings that Regina had had suppressed by programming, and all of those memories she refused to accept during her daily life came flooding back to her, including her anger and frustration at being given away by her parents. In a moment of absolute rage, Regina kills her parents, the ultimate revenge for what equated to a lifetime of suffering and pain for her and the rest of her siblings.
LONG STORY SHORT:
- futuristic world with lots of super futuristic technology, interfaces combined with hoverboards, cybernetic implants you know the like
- entire world run by one corporation they're scary
- they own lots of human children
- human children turned into half-human slave-creatures + human adult laborers = the energy on which the superhuman mechanical creatures fuel their pleasure-oriented instant gratification society
- rebellion doesn't like that, steals children away from the corporation to reprogram them for a rebellion army
- regina is one of those kids that gets kidnapped
CANON PERSONALITY:
On the outside, Regina appears to be a silent, passive person; never one to stand in the spotlight,she has spent her life supporting those who had more power, more charisma, than she could hope to attain. One could say that she is the world’s most talented support role: eternally watching and listening, she spots things that other people don’t and remembers them to be used as information later, generally for her and her friends’ benefit. It is easy to look past her and focus on other people -- and that’s exactly the way she likes it to be. As a naturally quiet person, even before her brainwashing, Regina has always believed that the person in the background is the one that will eventually win the day. She is a font of natural curiosity: her disposition enables her to learn many different things about a situation, and she genuinely enjoys listening to people talk and finding out as much as she can about...well, everything. Information has always been a solace for her, and the more she knows, the more in her element she feels.
But it is also important to remember that for most of her life, Regina has not been allowed to feel. Part of Rotech’s surgery suppressed her emotions, restricting the way she was allowed to think and act on a daily basis -- and this played a large part in shaping her into such a quiet person. Emotions like anger, jealousy, doubt -- all negative emotions were essentially repressed or just didn’t exist in the first place. So on some level, she is almost like a young child: the anger and doubt that she experiences, she experiences intensely, because she has never been able to feel it before. The way that a toddler may go full out on a tantrum, kicking and screaming and dragging their feet, is now transferred to a 20-something woman, who is more than capable of actual, physical violence.
Thankfully, although she is new to these emotions, Regina is remarkably patient with most people -- her fuse is long, and it takes a great act of injustice (or evil) to really get to her switch out of her normal, passive persona into a more proactive and angry one. But when she does get angry, it is with the intelligence of someone who knows exactly how to hurt another person, physically and emotionally. Regina holds a lot of anger deep inside of her, specifically for her parents, who gave her away in the first place. It is a situation that has never sat well with her, even when most of her thoughts were controlled by Rotech; this source of discomfort is the best example of how long it takes her to act on something: over 20 years passed before she was able to actually unleash her anger on her parents, or even to vent to someone about the traumatic event in the first place. And when she explodes, she explodes with a fury; because she has never felt negative emotions, she has no real understanding of the consequences of them.
But those times are few and far between. For the most part, Regina acts like a normal, happy toddler in regards to her emotions: once she warms up to someone, she’s eternally curious and forever willing to ask questions. In her positive relationships -- like the one with Vernon, her brother -- she is always ready to support and provide anything her friends might need. Even if she’s not good at something, she’d be willing to try; attempting new tasks makes her friends happy, and also provides her with a chance to learn something new. Which has always been her motivation: learn as many things as possible, and then turn around and use that information for the betterment of...well. What she wants to better generally depends on how she’s feeling; normally Regina expends most of her energy attempting to make other people happy, because that is what she’s done for her whole life -- attended to the needs of others without thinking of her own welfare. Highly intelligent, although emotionally stunted, Regina is glad to wholeheartedly support anyone who considers her a friend or a family member, and allow them to take the credit for it.
POINT OF DEPARTURE: Regina is a remarkably malleable person -- the result of having many different people force very different ideas on her throughout her life. As someone who can easily slide between one group of people and another, I believe that Regina as an infiltrator will be best described as someone who could easily fit anywhere, given a chance. As a quiet person, I have trouble seeing her adapt radically; I don’t think that she would be able to play a loud or intrusive role in any infiltration mission. But the side characters -- ones I can think of include ones such as the professors from the Ground jaunt: Regina would adapt well to being a quiet but curious professor, interested in gaining money for her department but not strictly vocalizing those feelings in any sort of competitive way. I feel that her subdued personality would allow her, as one of those people, to quietly sabotage other competitors in the grant competition and blame it on someone else: the ultimate level of deviousness that gives her quiet satisfaction, but does not draw attention to herself. Which is, to be honest, exactly the way she likes to operate every day -- get things done in a quiet manner, and let other people take the credit for it.
ABILITIES:
Regina is partially robotic, and has abilities that work like...a robot…
- Where more people can only see visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum, Regina has been altered so that she can see everything on the spectrum: that includes waves like microwaves and radio waves, as well as X-Rays, gamma rays, etc. She can also interact with these waves: for example, she can “tune in” to a certain radio station by focusing on the wavelength it produces without using a radio to do it, or cook something in her hand using microwaves without the use of the actual machine. But she can’t actually produce these waves, merely alter them or claim them for her own use after being produced by an outside force.
- Intelligence; Regina has highly intelligent, capable of memorizing many facts in an extremely short amount of time and recalling them in an instant. She is particularly gifted with science -- physics in particular -- and has basically a graduate-level education in physics and mathematics. She is akin to a human calculator, able to do sums in her head almost instantaneously and report the answer to you with a small margin of error. Her level of memorization also means that she tends to remember very small facts that other people take for granted: small changes in hairstyle or height, in the way people speak. She stores them in the database that her expanded mind affords her and will relate them to people if it seems like something they should know. (She is not very good at keeping secrets.)
- She can survive on little food and sleep, as part of her genetic alterations. This one is fairly self-explanatory.
She is also formerly connected to a telekinetic network that works mostly like the psychic network, but that is not a power she has any more!
INVENTORY; CLOTHES….that’s it….
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? beep boop :U
S A M P L E S;
FIRST PERSON: Previous game post! For context: Kyriakos is a memory loss team game, in which teams compete to win their memories back in a series of “games”. Regina was attempting to make friends for her team, Ometotchtli (or Omelettes) because they are frequently killed during games.
THIRD PERSON: The day was going splendidly until Regina ventured outdoors. In fact, it hadn’t really been a strange day at all: she had been exploring liminal space, investigating the nooks and crannies of what looked to be some sort of subterranean tunnel system, before she decided that dungeoning was done for the day and returned to the surface.
That was when, out of nowhere, she felt a large, vaguely wet plop hit the top of her head. Reaching up carefully to investigate the sudden weight that was pressing down on her, her fingers touched something sponge-like in texture, and she jumped -- Regina brushed the substance off of her head quickly. As the mysterious object fell to the ground with another wet sound, she crouched over to examine it further. Why would this have fallen on my head? I think...this is food…
It did appear to be the remains of some sort of food, at the very least: the remnants of some birthday cake, the blue and white icing still vaguely visible in the mess that remained. Regina knew from experience that cake was a harmless substance, but still, it wasn’t normally something that fell from the sky. She wondered briefly if the substance could be related to the location: many people had told her that liminal space was unpredictable, and although her limited experience had shown that most of the caves beneath her were normal, it was possible that the cake was a side-effect of the situation.
More cake was raining now: the food hit her shoulders and back more and more frequently as she bent over to examine the first piece of evidence. What had started as an isolated incident was now becoming something of a cakestorm. Perhaps...it was time to move on from examination, then. Obviously standing with her back to the rain would only cause more mess in the future.
So Regina did the correct thing and stood up, putting her hands out to catch the pieces of cake before eating them. Mm, cake.