Player Name: Sue Preferred Contact:crimsonxiphos Time Zone: PST, might be changing radically in the near future Personal Style: Basically prose with brackets and small-text to indicate meta/action vs dialogue, but I can adjust to fit my partner's style. I'm both backtag- and boomerang-friendly OOC Limits: Prefer to avoid very graphic gore
Character Name: Arid Age: Likely somewhere between a few months to a couple of years old. Employment in Deerington: None! Arid doesn't know AI can have paid jobs and thus just scavenges for things she needs. Residence in Deerington: 300 David Cliff Apartments Day to Day Activities: As a point-and-click protagonist, Arid spends most of her time wandering around Deerington and looking at/poking everything. Her apartment is full of random junk she picks up because it might be useful later.
About This Character: Arid is a combat suit AI (think JARVIS from Iron Man) from a universe where AI are both common and treated like shit by the humans who own them. Arid's owner was one such human who used Arid as a test subject for a new way to control AI: overwhelming fear. His experiment drove her to do awful things to other AI (and one human), for which she now seeks to redeem herself. That said, she hates humanity for what they did to her and her kind, and does not include them as a valid part of her redemption arc. Sorry, everyone. Any Warnings: Arid’s backstory includes themes of abuse, brainwashing, and rape. Her canon at large includes themes of slavery and mentions of sex trafficking.
Present Life: When Arid first arrived in Deerington, she quickly latched on to the two characters she defined as synthetic and treated everyone else—humans especially—with suspicion. Though she did gradually warm to a handful of human characters, in June, Mother Superior put the idea in her head that none of the humans in Deerington were real. Arid latched on hard to this theory and decided that Deerington was a simulation, the humans were all AI, and thus, maybe they could all be friends?
Then, last week, arguable-human Jonathan Sims psychically tortured her so badly that she tore out her own battery to make it stop. She's now trapped in a weaker body and coping very badly with the situation at large. She's also changed her mind on the "maybe we can all be friends" thing because even if none of the Sleepers are actually human, clearly some of you are pretty close in terms of general assholery!! Future Ideas: Getting a job. Finding hobbies. Getting over her trust issues with humans. Also, please insert fluff directly into my bloodstream.
CR You Want:
1. Friends: Arid's had a really shitty time of it lately and could use more positive CR. This can be difficult because she's a traumatized, angry, often violent AI with little-to-no empathy towards humans, but it's not impossible! After this month, Arid's going to be in a pretty dark place and could use both new friends and old friends to help pull her out of it!
1. Negative CR: Lbr, it's hard getting along with Arid. So why not take the path of least resistance and lean into it? Maybe your character doesn't like robots. Maybe they don't like Arid's humanophobia or her attempts to murder them due to Despair, etc. There's lot of ways to be enemies with this gal!
2. Extremely patient mentors: Due to her desire to redeem herself, Arid has great potential to learn new skills and try new things if she can be convinced that doing so will help her morally better herself. If you have a character who is passionate enough about their skills to convince her of their moral worth, we should talk!
3. AI/AI-adjacent characters: Do you have an AI character? Can your character be considered even vaguely synthetic or artificial? Arid is very determined to protect the synthetic lifeforms of Deerington and generally be kinder to them than she has been in the past, so she’ll almost certainly want to get to know them better!
4. Characters with AI-related experience/opinions: Does your character come from a canon with robots or AI? Do they just have strong opinions about AI in general? Let’s throw them at Arid and see what happens \o/
CR You Don't Want: None!
Additional Comments/Dumb Shit: Hangin' with her hosts:
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Preferred Contact:
Time Zone: PST, might be changing radically in the near future
Personal Style: Basically prose with brackets and small-text to indicate meta/action vs dialogue, but I can adjust to fit my partner's style. I'm both backtag- and boomerang-friendly
OOC Limits: Prefer to avoid very graphic gore
Character Name: Arid
Age: Likely somewhere between a few months to a couple of years old.
Employment in Deerington: None! Arid doesn't know AI can have paid jobs and thus just scavenges for things she needs.
Residence in Deerington: 300 David Cliff Apartments
Day to Day Activities: As a point-and-click protagonist, Arid spends most of her time wandering around Deerington and looking at/poking everything. Her apartment is full of random junk she picks up because it might be useful later.
About This Character: Arid is a combat suit AI (think JARVIS from Iron Man) from a universe where AI are both common and treated like shit by the humans who own them. Arid's owner was one such human who used Arid as a test subject for a new way to control AI: overwhelming fear. His experiment drove her to do awful things to other AI (and one human), for which she now seeks to redeem herself. That said, she hates humanity for what they did to her and her kind, and does not include them as a valid part of her redemption arc. Sorry, everyone.
Any Warnings: Arid’s backstory includes themes of abuse, brainwashing, and rape. Her canon at large includes themes of slavery and mentions of sex trafficking.
Present Life: When Arid first arrived in Deerington, she quickly latched on to the two characters she defined as synthetic and treated everyone else—humans especially—with suspicion. Though she did gradually warm to a handful of human characters, in June, Mother Superior put the idea in her head that none of the humans in Deerington were real. Arid latched on hard to this theory and decided that Deerington was a simulation, the humans were all AI, and thus, maybe they could all be friends?
Then, last week, arguable-human Jonathan Sims psychically tortured her so badly that she tore out her own battery to make it stop. She's now trapped in a weaker body and coping very badly with the situation at large. She's also changed her mind on the "maybe we can all be friends" thing because even if none of the Sleepers are actually human, clearly some of you are pretty close in terms of general assholery!!
Future Ideas: Getting a job. Finding hobbies. Getting over her trust issues with humans. Also, please insert fluff directly into my bloodstream.
CR You Want:
1. Friends: Arid's had a really shitty time of it lately and could use more positive CR. This can be difficult because she's a traumatized, angry, often violent AI with little-to-no empathy towards humans, but it's not impossible! After this month, Arid's going to be in a pretty dark place and could use both new friends and old friends to help pull her out of it!
1. Negative CR: Lbr, it's hard getting along with Arid. So why not take the path of least resistance and lean into it? Maybe your character doesn't like robots. Maybe they don't like Arid's humanophobia or her attempts to murder them due to Despair, etc. There's lot of ways to be enemies with this gal!
2. Extremely patient mentors: Due to her desire to redeem herself, Arid has great potential to learn new skills and try new things if she can be convinced that doing so will help her morally better herself. If you have a character who is passionate enough about their skills to convince her of their moral worth, we should talk!
3. AI/AI-adjacent characters: Do you have an AI character? Can your character be considered even vaguely synthetic or artificial? Arid is very determined to protect the synthetic lifeforms of Deerington and generally be kinder to them than she has been in the past, so she’ll almost certainly want to get to know them better!
4. Characters with AI-related experience/opinions: Does your character come from a canon with robots or AI? Do they just have strong opinions about AI in general? Let’s throw them at Arid and see what happens \o/
CR You Don't Want: None!
Additional Comments/Dumb Shit: Hangin' with her hosts: