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r3f4c70r3d) wrote2017-01-12 08:07 pm
r3f4c70r3d) wrote2017-01-12 08:07 pm
APPLICATIONS
Player
Name: Tam
Age: 27
Contact:
Preferred Pronouns: she/her
Character
Name: Angel AKA the Guardian Angel
Age: 18
Memory Option: One
Established Status: Yes -- 5 IC years
Canon: Borderlands
Canon Point: post "Where Angels Fear to Tread"
Citizenship: Technically none, she is too far modded to legally be her own person. Currently, she is housed in a well hidden bunker deep within the badlands.
Job: Publicly unknown, seems to have no faction ties. Privately intelligence for the Company under Handsome Jack
However, augmentations this lofty don’t come without a price. To keep her body from rejecting the mods, Angel has to be fed a near constant drip of a high grade drug called dextroeridimine (or eridium, for short) with side effects that include higher neural activity and less need for sleep -- or rather, an inability to sleep properly.)
The lack of sleep combined with the constant brain activity increases her potential for seizures, fevers and migraines, and with those the chance for her original memories to begin to resurface after an episode.
Finally, past a certain threshold, the body becomes dependant on it, and without a regulated supply, the likely result is a painful death.
Personality:
On the surface, Angel comes across as a kind, gentle mannered and helpful young woman-- as she should, since these are traits expected of the AI she impersonates, and this is the personality most who interact with her will meet.
To an extent, these traits are true to her actual character, she is kind, she does want to be helpful, but she is also in many ways her father’s daughter; she’s quick witted, snarky, and when the situation calls for it, she will take drastic means to meet an end. Also like him, she too wears a type of mask, though hers is not a literal one. Underneath the politeness, the platitudes, Angel harbors deep seated anger, bitterness and resent.
Though she wants to believe in her father’s vision for a more orderly Westerly, in truth what he’s done to both her and its people has left her doubtful, and guilt ridden over how she continues to be used as his spy. These are thoughts she tries not to dwell on, though, Jack is the only father and friend she has, and if she can’t believe in him, then what has she got?
Deep down Angel craves the true companionship that she’s been denied most of her life, someone beyond Jack, or the occasional yes-man, body double or scientist he brings in to observe her (and who usually die shortly after by “unknown causes.) A genuine friend who she can call her own, beyond the orders of Jack, and maybe, if she’s lucky, a final path to freedom.
In canon, Angel’s tipping point comes after the attempted destruction of a large town of innocents, orchestrated largely in part by her, though under Jack’s orders. It’s this event that finally causes her to truly question Jack’s motives and actions, and ultimately turn against him. You know that deep down feeling you get when something about a situation is not quite right? Makes you feel bad even though you’re being told it’s good, by the one person you know who claims to keep you safe? Angel feels that pretty much all the time. It’s a slow build of guilt, of grief, of hatred, all of which she’s been trying to blind herself to. To face it would acknowledge the awful truth that not only has Jack been using her, but because she’s been letting herself be used.
As it currently stands, just like in the canon she comes from a catalyst will be needed for her to openly begin to question Jack, and to wish for freedom. This could come from in-game or CR building, or, since I’m taking her from the point in canon after she’s rebelled to the point of sacrificing her life to both stop and escape her father, the slow re-learning of these memories could inspire the desire to go rogue, even if it’s in small ways at first.
AU History: Angel was born in Westerly to mother [redacted] and father John "Handsome Jack" Marten, a healthy baby girl of the Marten family's seventh generation, and eligible for the boon that came with it . Angel lived a life typical to most Westerly children until she was (discuss? 11?) when her family was subject to an act of random violence, killing her mother and badly injuring her head. In order to save her life, Jack had cybernetic implants installed that helped to stimulate the brain and retain its functionality. The operation was successful, but a gateway for more extreme modifications in the future. After the accident Jack radically changed, starting with overprotective gestures and over time twisting into a love so overwhelming it was as suffocating as it was terrifying.
After the first augmentation was a success, Jack started looking into ways to take it further, becoming focused on the concept of creating a human computer, so that she may be uploaded, saved, and preserved. These operations of course went way past the safety limits, and would have likely meant Angels death if not for Jack's connections to higher quality drugs; Dextroeridimine, or "eridium" for short, is a drug developed to help with implant integration, healing, and preventing of rejection. and was initially given to Angel after her first surgery. It is something meant for one time use due to it's severe side effects, but with the amount of modifications done to her person, she has to be fed a constant drip of it through intravenous, and risks death if her supply is cut off.
These days, Angel may be one of Westerly (maybe even the whole quads') best kept secrets. Secluded from the world in a high security bunker within the badlands, Angel operates nearly 24/7 as Jack's eyes and ears around town, gathering information and manipulating others actions while disguising herself as a helpful AI with no obvious alliance.
With no means of escape, and under the pretense of being kept safe, Angel is subject to her fathers cruel whims, but perhaps there is hope for her yet, she just needs to find the right opportunity.
CRAU: No
Original History: Wiki Here
Inventory: An injection harness that helps to stabilize her augmentations, a comfortable two piece bodysuit, a neckpiece that doubles as a means to track her vitals and a fun shock collar!
Samples: From the TDM
Miscellaneous Notes: Angel's life of isolation has left her with a pretty colourless history, hence its shorter length. If this needs more elaboration, please let me know!
EL NYSA
Handle: Tam
Contact: weirdtakoykai @ plurk
Over 18? yes
Characters Played:none
THE CHARACTER
Character Name: Angel
Series: Borderlands
Canon Point: post Where Angels Fear to Tread (character death)
Character Age: 19
Background: wiki link
Personality:
This is the story of a girl who was so tired of being used and controlled and manipulated and using and controlling and manipulating others that she used, controlled, and manipulated the vault hunters into ending her life because she couldn't do it herself.
On the surface, Angel comes across as a kind, gentle mannered and helpful young woman-- as she should, since these are traits expected of the AI she impersonates, and this was once the personality who most would meet (before likely meeting their demise soon after) but here's the thing: the real Angel? She doesn't really exist.
Between her ruse as the Guardian Angel, the helpful AI she's forced to play, and placating her father while bending to his destructive whims, the chance for her true personality to emerge is rare. Throughout all of the series she never fully drops either act, but there are distinct glimmers of the person she is underneath, tangled up with her lies as it is.
She wants to be a good person, to help people, even when following Jack's orders she did so under the assumption that his intentions were the best ones, that despite all the awful things she was subjected to (both bodily and visually) they were for the right reasons. But she's also incredibly smart, has "a brain the size of a planet" so the likelihood that this became a lie she told herself so that the guilt of her actions wouldn't eat her alive is high.
To an extent, these traits are true to her actual character, she is kind, she does want to be helpful, but she is also in many ways her father’s daughter; she’s quick witted, snarky, and when the situation calls for it, she will take drastic means to meet an end, pursuing her goals relentlessly. Even if that means cutting off the oxygen in a wing of a space station to get her way, or obscuring truths, or sending people on seemingly impossible quests for her idea of greater good. Also like him, she too wears a type of mask, though hers is not a literal one. Underneath the politeness, the platitudes, Angel harbors deep seated anger, bitterness and resent.
In canon, Angel’s tipping point comes after the attempted destruction of a large town of innocents, orchestrated largely in part by her, though under Jack’s orders. It’s this event that finally causes her to truly question Jack’s motives and actions, and ultimately turn against him. You know that deep down feeling you get when something about a situation is not quite right? Makes you feel bad even though you’re being told it’s good, by the one person you know who claims to keep you safe? Angel feels that pretty much all the time. It’s a slow build of guilt, of grief, of hatred, all of which she’s been trying to blind herself to. To face it would acknowledge the awful truth that not only has Jack been using her, but that she’s been letting herself be used. And though Angel falls on the side of "victim" when it comes to Handsome Jack and his crimes, she still will feel she has a lot of amending to do once she arrives on Thesa Station.
In this second chance she will be her own person for the first time in almost ten years (or really ever, considering she was locked up so young) free both to flourish into the young woman she was meant to be...and battle against who she was forced to be. Alongside redemption and self discovery, deep down Angel craves the true companionship that she’s been denied most of her life, someone beyond Jack, or the occasional yes-man, body double or scientist he would bring in to observe her (and who usually die shortly after by “unknown causes.) A genuine friend who she can call her own, and help her break free of the invisible bonds that continue to bind her.
Powers/Abilities: Originally, Angel was a Siren, an omni-powerful being, with her particular set of skills relating to technology and the ability to interface, hack and control it with ease. However, there can only be six sirens in existence at once and when one dies, her powers are transferred on to the next candidate. Because Angel technically died before her arrival on Thesa, her powers have left her and she is now (more or less) a normal human girl. Angel will retain her augmentations, namely the USB ports in the side of her head, but they no longer serve much of a purpose. For the sake of simplicity, Angels dependence on Eridium also died with her on Pandora and she no longer needs a constant supply of it to live.
Power Nerfs (if applicable): no longer applicable
Inventory: A two piece bodysuit, spinal and chest plates that are no longer of use, and a siren control collar that is also no longer of use
Incentives: Angel will not need much convincing to go along. This is her second chance, her borrowed time, and if it means no longer being under Jack's thumb she will welcome this new fate.
FUTUROOGY
NAME: Tam
CONTACT: weirdtakoyaki on plurk
CURRENT CHARACTERS: n/a
ACTIVITY PROOFS: n/a
CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Angel
CANON: Borderlands
AGE: > 20 (Like many Borderlands characters Angel has no official age. Canon context places her somewhere between an older teen and young adult so this is an educated guess.
APPEARANCE: Here!
CANON POINT: moments before death in "Where Angels Fear To Tread"
BACKGROUND:Wiki
PERSONALITY:
This is the story of a girl who was so tired of being used and controlled and manipulated and using and controlling and manipulating others that she used, controlled, and manipulated the vault hunters into ending her life because she couldn't do it herself.
On the surface, Angel comes across as a kind, gentle mannered and helpful young woman-- as she should, since these are traits expected of the AI she impersonates, and this was once the personality who most would meet (before likely meeting their demise soon after) but here's the thing: the real Angel? She doesn't really exist.
Between her ruse as the Guardian Angel, the helpful AI she's forced to play, and placating her father while bending to his destructive whims, the chance for her true personality to emerge is rare. Throughout all of the series she never fully drops either act, but there are distinct glimmers of the person she is underneath, tangled up with her lies as it is.
She wants to be a good person, to help people, even when following Jack's orders she did so under the assumption that his intentions were the best ones, that despite all the awful things she was subjected to (both bodily and visually) they were for the right reasons. But she's also incredibly smart, has "a brain the size of a planet" so the likelihood that this became a lie she told herself so that the guilt of her actions wouldn't eat her alive is high.
To an extent, these traits are true to her actual character, she is kind, she does want to be helpful, but she is also in many ways her father’s daughter; she’s quick witted, snarky, and when the situation calls for it, she will take drastic means to meet an end, pursuing her goals relentlessly. Even if that means cutting off the oxygen in a wing of a space station to get her way, or obscuring truths, or sending people on seemingly impossible quests for her idea of greater good. Also like him, she too wears a type of mask, though hers is not a literal one. Underneath the politeness, the platitudes, Angel harbors deep seated anger, bitterness and resent.
In canon, Angel’s tipping point comes after the attempted destruction of a large town of innocents, orchestrated largely in part by her, though under Jack’s orders. It’s this event that finally causes her to truly question Jack’s motives and actions, and ultimately turn against him. You know that deep down feeling you get when something about a situation is not quite right? Makes you feel bad even though you’re being told it’s good, by the one person you know who claims to keep you safe? Angel feels that pretty much all the time. It’s a slow build of guilt, of grief, of hatred, all of which she’s been trying to blind herself to. To face it would acknowledge the awful truth that not only has Jack been using her, but that she’s been letting herself be used. And though Angel falls on the side of "victim" when it comes to Handsome Jack and his crimes, she still will feel she has a lot of amending to do once she arrives and has gathered her bearings.
In this second chance she will be her own person for the first time in almost ten years (or really ever, considering she was locked up so young) free both to flourish into the young woman she was meant to be...and battle against who she was forced to be. Alongside redemption and self discovery, deep down Angel craves the true companionship that she’s been denied most of her life, someone beyond Jack, or the occasional yes-man, body double or scientist he would bring in to observe her (and who usually die shortly after by “unknown causes.) A genuine friend who she can call her own, and help her break free of the invisible bonds that continue to bind her.
SUITABILITY: Even if she were to lose her Siren powers, Angel would remain a powerful hacker and informant, but with them she's unexpendable in the efficiency they allow. Angel's powers grant her the ability to "interface" with technology provided she is "compatible" with it (in canon, she is only compatible with Hyperion brand tech, since that is the system she is linked up to) and gaining control of it.
She also uses these powers as a way to expedite information gathering as well, since she can tap in easily to both technology with a compatible uplink, but also the Borderlands universes version of the internet (the echonet) as well as be a helpful navigator to wayward travelers, using her abilities to give them advice on how to proceed and taking down obstacles they may have trouble with like locked doors.
Angel will be pressed to use her talents in manipulation again, but at the same time Guardian Angel is an easy roll to fall back into and she could justify doing it for the Right reasons if she finds the Right people.
All together Angel is a team player who wants to be helpful, wants to amend, do better and use her powers for actual good for once.
ABILITIES: As mentioned above, Angel is a Siren, one of 6 omni-powerful beings in her universe with her particular skill set specializing in technology. She can interface with tech giving her the ability to control and think its code, bending it to her will. Depending on how it is utilized and controlled she can essentially become a computer herself and tap into the world around her from a stationary point, or interact directly with whatever it is she's hoping to hack (this is shown in canon with light beams from her palms?? The canon of Borderlands is pretty fast and loose with regards to Sirens and their powers, but Angel especially so.)
When using her powers at full capacity she sprouts wings made of iridescent light though they are mostly cosmetic.
INVENTORY: A two piece bodysuit, grey and yellow in colour.
REVISION ON POWERS:
Regarding powers: Angel's powers do not have infinite reach, it's safe to say from what's seen in canon that to manipulate technology she either needs to be networked into it some how if it is at a distance (in canon, Hyperion issued/tampered with tech needs to be installed into whatever she is trying to mess with) or touching it directly. She can't create new functions outside of what's already there (ex: she might be able to make a program act in a different way than it was initially coded to, or with your example yes she could turn lights on and off with access to them directly or networked into their control system, but she would not be able to give them the power to shoot electricity.) There will also be a learning curve for her to adapt to technology she isn't familiar with.