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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
It's not clear if Epsilon can love, as humans love (though he may receive it... and though he cares, and is caring--Epsilon loves his children, but the nearness of this to human love is precarious and brought under serious scrutiny by the rest of the world.) He certainly does not rage, as humans rage (or, really, at all.) He does not grieve, as humans do (though he may experience loss.) His pain is not human pain. He understands human emotions, human pains, human joys--to a point, that is; he knows of them, he knows when they happen and understands them, in an objective way. This is not an issue--but for Epsilon, his "heart" is the heart of a robot, and though he pains for others, he cannot actually grieve for them as intensely as he may perhaps wish to.
This is not to say he does not feel. Epsilon, like many robots in his canon, possesses a striking degree of feeling that is both subtle and nebulous. There is an element of sadness and pain to Epsilon, concealed under his gentle exterior. But it is hidden, and he keeps it private--and even this he does not "feel" with the same quality as humans, even as his understanding of those feelings may approach human levels in intensity.
Interestingly, Epsilon can be much more direct and frank about his robotic nature than many of the other robots in canon, even those far less advanced. Even older models often choose to go through various motions of human life--for example, they may drink tea or eat human food to simulate the human experience and thus understand it better. Epsilon does not. Perhaps it is because of his programming or perhaps it is because of his children, but he has fulfilled his existence in a way that does not require a fascimile of humanity. He does not drink tea, does not eat human food, does not attempt to possess or understand feelings that he does not--he is content with what he has. Compared to certain other robots--Gesicht, Atom--Epsilon is relatively streamlined. Efficient in what his speciality is, but with some of the other aspects stripped down a bit; he definitely has an individuality and he certainly has personality, but it's not as obviously intense--as necessarily human--as the two mentioned.
Because of this, however, he can sometimes be a little too blunt, a little too "robot."
He does, however, have a dry, almost unexpected sense of humour--sometimes he can be almost sassy, in an understated way.
It'll sneak up on you.
Background: Epsilon was created by Dr. Ronald Newton-Howard, and the only one of the "seven most powerful robots in the world" to be created in Australia. These seven robots are the only seven robots known (at the beginning of canon) to function as weapons of mass destruction--the creation of which is now illegal. Which tells you something about Epsilon right from the start. He is also the only robot in the world to run on a photon reactor, drawing his energy--and power--from sunlight. While his AI is not always as humanlike as some of his fellow six, his unique technology is more than enough to set him apart. Programmed to be compassionate, peaceful, and caring, he is strictly nonviolent, and he is often distant to his fellow advanced robots and the world at large. This may be understandable, as he is often looked down on for refusing conscription in the 39th Central Asian Conflict, a decision made all the more remarkable for his immense power--a power so great, in fact, that he is regularly referred to as the strongest robot in the world.
He is well aware of what his capabilities are, but actively refuses to use them.
Despite his pacifism, however, he was commissioned by the U. N. military for a cleanup operation at the end of the 39th Central Asian Conflict.
While investigating the roboticist Goji before the war, the 'Bora Investigation Squad' found thousands of high-level robots hidden deep beneath an old mosque, all with their AIs removed. It was, from a robot perspective, a literal sea of corpses. A few weeks later, the war began.
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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