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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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A note for CR AU applications
Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.
In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.
Re: [CANON] Epsilon || Pluto || No Reserve
That is the full sum of Epsilon's involvement in it, however. While the other six of the world's most advanced robots all played an active role in the war's events, Epsilon--the world's strongest robot--declined to participate in the conflict. In doing so, he earned the worldwide scorn and contempt of humans and robots alike. From there, he returned to Australia, where he began adopting orphaned children from the conflict--many of them deeply traumatised, left with permanent emotional and psychological scars from the horrific things they saw and experienced.
This is where canon events more or less start, with a lot of political stuff relating to the war, its true causes, and the nature of humanity and "perfection" as it relates to A.I. Hate and sorrow are also addressed--but while many of the other six experience "hate," Epsilon never does, save by proxy from Gesicht. Instead, he--like Pluto, the titular robot and original "villain" of the story--is connected to "sorrow."
There are no good links to his canon, and I really don't want to go The Full Johan unless absolutely necessary, so I hope that will suffice.
(Epsilon dies and Pluto continues to exist until Atom ends him. That's all that really needs to be said.)
Strengths/Weaknesses: I already covered these in personality and in abilities, I don't want to repeat myself!
Abilities: He's a bloody robot that can channel the fucking sun. No, really. Epsilon, for all his shortcomings and seeming passivity, is officially recognised as the strongest robot in the world. (Pluto and Bora are illicit creations.) And this is no exaggeration: when in direct sunlight, Epsilon's power is nearly limitless, and he has been mistaken for a second sun on more than one occasion. And this isn't just by humans--other robots have made this mistake too, which is remarkable for reasons I'll explain in a bit. Applications of his power in canon range from the mundane (such illuminating a dark basement--photons are the quantum of light; emitting photons means emitting light) to the immense. He is demonstrated melting the weaponised horns of the monstrous robot Pluto by superheating them with photon energy emissions; another time he destroys an artifically created tornado with his power--obliterating Pluto's left arm in the process, thereby doing more damage to him in one blow than all the other "strongest robots" combined. Right before he dies, he uses the last of his energy to detach his arms (he's a robot, roll with it) and use his disembodied hands to erect a protective barrier of photon energy around another robot and one of his adopted children. Finally, and most tellingly, there is his demonstration of power in the cleanup of that old mosque... a release of energy so immense that it erases an entire village from the map in a single blow.
This is a robot who can literally produce levels of light and heat generally seen in stars.
Of course, unless the sun is out in full force and photon energy easily accessed, doing something like that last bit would drain him dangerously, if not outright end him.
Re: [CANON] Epsilon || Pluto || No Reserve
As a robot, he has no need to breathe, he does not tire, he does not feel pain if he sustains damage. Also, he's made of metal, which helps a bit with that whole "sustaining damage" thing to begin with. He is, however, considered rather fragile for a robot.
Additional bonuses to being a robot include the ability to go back over his complete memory in 100% detail, the ability to analyse, calculate, and store massive amounts of data, and the ability to exchange memory chips with other robots or simply insert theirs to "borrow" their experiences and memories. Also, despite his superficially human appearance, his senses are dramatically different from those of a human. He sees with his "eyes" and hears with his "ears," but that is where the similarities end; he has no sense of taste, no sense of smell. Meanwhile, his visual perception and speed of processing exceed human limitations, and he does not suffer from inattentional blindness. He also possesses an ability intrinsic to all robots: the ability to identify other beings as robotic or nonrobotic, regardless of how convincingly programmed they may be they may be. (Well, almost. One robot is so near human that it produces mixed readings, but that's complicated and said robot is supposed to be the most perfect robot in existence. Also, for most of the series, this robot is not known to be a robot. He's believed by all--including himself--to be a human who lost most of his body in the war, creating confusing readings.) If the robot is from his canon, he has a chance of being able to identify said robot by serial number and/or model as well.
Finally--finally--Epsilon can detect living things within a fairly wide radius. This is most likely a safeguard related to his powers--if you created something that can replicate intensities of heat and light that vastly exceed that of a volcano, you probably don't want him "flying blind," so to speak.
First Person: [Epsilon is a little preoccupied, but as soon as he turns the watch video on, it has his undivided, direct attention. He takes the requisite moment to let his audience catch his face before speaking. Etiquette.]
This may be a trivial question for most of you, but I was wondering if the weather in this city is usually this overcast.
[Another second pause, and the video ends. That's all he has to ask.
Perhaps he'll be more talkative once he has some answers.]
Third Person: Epsilon walked silently, his eyes roaming uncertainly over the largely barren buildings and empty streets. The cloudy skies hung overhead, an iron-grey expanse of atmospheric oppression that weighed upon the city proper. It was no great stretch to acknowledge that the weather was a contributing factor to Epsilon's strangely disconcolate air; it was ever-present to him, a constant factor in his daily existence. As much as water, food, and air were necessary to human life, so sunlight was to him.
But why...? He did not understand how he was alive, or what he was meant to do with himself--the space between his annihilation and the train was not a space at all but a lack of one. He both knew and sensed the disorder with this--with his becoming, as it were, a being once again. He could not shake it. Walking, his quiet footfalls carried him around the city, in and out of its alleys and down its sparsely populated streets, but without a destination in mind, he was really only expressing aimlessness... no, not aimlessness--his helplessness.
He was helpless.
And understanding that was exactly what made him so scared.
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