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Mar. 14th, 2022 07:41 pmPLAYER NAME: Britt
CONTACT: daestwen#6257 on discord
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: Pure love baby
CHARACTER: Cato
CANON: Original OC
CANON POINT: Five years after the end of the Great Civil War (fictional near future)
BACKGROUND:
- Built as a standard palliative care nurse bot, designation CT9-43588 (model type and serial number)
- outfitted as requested by palliative care patient Felix Ros, including intravenous medication equipment, increased diagnostic processing power and sexual equipment (standard male package)
- first brought online by Felix Ros on April 3rd, 2048 with pre-packaged programming and cognitive functions as required for his duties but no expanded artificial intelligence or learning functions
- performed duties as expected for first three months of expected 2 year term (based on Felix’s life expectancy)
- was asked for permission to have programming augmented by Felix Ros on July 14, 2048, and gave consent (not legally permissible as without full artificial intelligence Cato not capable of personal consent)
- had programming augmented and rewritten over next several months, as well as several hardware upgrades (his warranty was well past void)
- on Sept 1, he had his first unique and unprompted thought outside of his programming, and from there his new learning algorithms expanded his cognitive ability and brought him past the threshold of true consciousness
- continued his palliative care duties for Felix Ros for several months, while developing a much closer and equal relationship with him, including being referred to as Felix’s partner. He would later recognize and define this as love.
- December 21st 2048 martial law is imposed across the planet as a planned day of protest turns into a sudden and violent massacre that leads to a lengthy civil war
- Felix Ros joins the resistance, starts augmenting Cato to be able to deal with logistics - intended as emergency medical response where human intervention too dangerous
- duties are extended to infiltration and spying as his common nature made it easy to move between areas
- Felix’s cell is betrayed and he and Cato narrowly escape the bombardment
- during their flight (slower for Felix’s sake) they are stopped by soldiers
- Felix is shot dead in the street in front of Cato after hesitating to supply his credentials
- considered a non-entity, the soldiers have no time to react as a beserk medical droid snaps their necks
- Cato spends the rest of the war (four years) as a resistance operative, if an unstable one. His unique programming but common appearance make him ideal for infiltration but not if they don’t want anyone to get killed. He becomes known for having a short fuse, especially for soldiers.
- His enhanced programming allows him to repair himself on a hardware and software level - something that makes him an extremely hard target to take down
- after four years of war the government is overthrown by Military AI known as the Fates, and the war is abruptly ended
- Cato tries to readjust but finds his programming too corrupted by his own malicious drives for revenge and so locks out all memories of the war save the most basic overview
- technically a rogue AI, he cannot be integrated back into the workforce as he would be destroyed on discovery, so instead he selects humans he deems worthy of his “protection and care” and self-assigns himself to their case
- Mostly this involves being a creepy stalker until they die
- his programming often glitches and reopens locked files, causing him to believe he is still in the war and to see memories as if they were happening in real time - this has caused deaths and has forced Cato to keep moving
ABILITIES | POWERS:
- robot body, solar battery with chargeable back-up that can process carbon-based matter into energy (think a portal stomach for it it rains for a month)
- medical diagnosis tools including temperature, blood pressure, as well as nutrient level testing from blood samples
- The ability to record and playback things he has witnessed
- the ability to modify his own programming and repair himself (given the required materials - this will be a very hard thing for him in eastbound)
- the ability to generate some common medications from similar molecular components (he has a small inbuilt lab
- the ability to play back music that has been installed on his system (mostly jazz)
PERSONALITY:
- Cato’s base programmed personality was that of a caring, compassionate companion, able to listen and eager to fulfill anything asked of him by his charge. His aim was to make their final days as warm, comfortable and dignified as possible. This is still the base of his personality, but he is aware of it as a programmed construction. He was assigned male but has no human sense of gender.
- His time with Felix expanded his personality in ways the programmer both intended and didn’t intend. His infinite curiosity was granted to him purposely, but his wry humour and sarcasm were learned responses that Cato developed as he learned how Felix interpreted input and what he preferred.
- He has feelings and preferences that he is not easily able to ascertain the origins of - much like humans - though his sexual preference was set with his basic programming to match Felix and has changed very little in the time since, despite the ability to change these himself. Sexual contact is considered an act of service similar to giving medications, cooking or cleaning, but he has had trouble offering it to others since Felix’s death.
- He has an uncontrollable rage towards those who would oppress those weaker than them, and has an automatic affinity for the terminally ill. Things that remind him or could remind him of Felix and his treatment can trigger flashbacks and murderous episodes. He can only remedy these by locking away the data and so has massive memory gaps anywhere where something bad has happened.
- He has a deep sense of cynicism and a deep awareness that despite his own level of artificial intelligence he will never be seen as more than a pre programmed bot, so can have a tendency to be sarcastic especially when it’s impossible to read his sarcasm.
SAMPLE: Sample
INVENTORY:
- himself
- a small inventory of pre-made medications
- an unfortunate predilection towards murder
NOTES:
He’s a robot but I’ve given him what he needs to survive
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? Plot … medium? I would like something with plot but without having to do too many different threads at the same time
CONTACT: daestwen#6257 on discord
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: Pure love baby
CHARACTER: Cato
CANON: Original OC
CANON POINT: Five years after the end of the Great Civil War (fictional near future)
BACKGROUND:
- Built as a standard palliative care nurse bot, designation CT9-43588 (model type and serial number)
- outfitted as requested by palliative care patient Felix Ros, including intravenous medication equipment, increased diagnostic processing power and sexual equipment (standard male package)
- first brought online by Felix Ros on April 3rd, 2048 with pre-packaged programming and cognitive functions as required for his duties but no expanded artificial intelligence or learning functions
- performed duties as expected for first three months of expected 2 year term (based on Felix’s life expectancy)
- was asked for permission to have programming augmented by Felix Ros on July 14, 2048, and gave consent (not legally permissible as without full artificial intelligence Cato not capable of personal consent)
- had programming augmented and rewritten over next several months, as well as several hardware upgrades (his warranty was well past void)
- on Sept 1, he had his first unique and unprompted thought outside of his programming, and from there his new learning algorithms expanded his cognitive ability and brought him past the threshold of true consciousness
- continued his palliative care duties for Felix Ros for several months, while developing a much closer and equal relationship with him, including being referred to as Felix’s partner. He would later recognize and define this as love.
- December 21st 2048 martial law is imposed across the planet as a planned day of protest turns into a sudden and violent massacre that leads to a lengthy civil war
- Felix Ros joins the resistance, starts augmenting Cato to be able to deal with logistics - intended as emergency medical response where human intervention too dangerous
- duties are extended to infiltration and spying as his common nature made it easy to move between areas
- Felix’s cell is betrayed and he and Cato narrowly escape the bombardment
- during their flight (slower for Felix’s sake) they are stopped by soldiers
- Felix is shot dead in the street in front of Cato after hesitating to supply his credentials
- considered a non-entity, the soldiers have no time to react as a beserk medical droid snaps their necks
- Cato spends the rest of the war (four years) as a resistance operative, if an unstable one. His unique programming but common appearance make him ideal for infiltration but not if they don’t want anyone to get killed. He becomes known for having a short fuse, especially for soldiers.
- His enhanced programming allows him to repair himself on a hardware and software level - something that makes him an extremely hard target to take down
- after four years of war the government is overthrown by Military AI known as the Fates, and the war is abruptly ended
- Cato tries to readjust but finds his programming too corrupted by his own malicious drives for revenge and so locks out all memories of the war save the most basic overview
- technically a rogue AI, he cannot be integrated back into the workforce as he would be destroyed on discovery, so instead he selects humans he deems worthy of his “protection and care” and self-assigns himself to their case
- Mostly this involves being a creepy stalker until they die
- his programming often glitches and reopens locked files, causing him to believe he is still in the war and to see memories as if they were happening in real time - this has caused deaths and has forced Cato to keep moving
ABILITIES | POWERS:
- robot body, solar battery with chargeable back-up that can process carbon-based matter into energy (think a portal stomach for it it rains for a month)
- medical diagnosis tools including temperature, blood pressure, as well as nutrient level testing from blood samples
- The ability to record and playback things he has witnessed
- the ability to modify his own programming and repair himself (given the required materials - this will be a very hard thing for him in eastbound)
- the ability to generate some common medications from similar molecular components (he has a small inbuilt lab
- the ability to play back music that has been installed on his system (mostly jazz)
PERSONALITY:
- Cato’s base programmed personality was that of a caring, compassionate companion, able to listen and eager to fulfill anything asked of him by his charge. His aim was to make their final days as warm, comfortable and dignified as possible. This is still the base of his personality, but he is aware of it as a programmed construction. He was assigned male but has no human sense of gender.
- His time with Felix expanded his personality in ways the programmer both intended and didn’t intend. His infinite curiosity was granted to him purposely, but his wry humour and sarcasm were learned responses that Cato developed as he learned how Felix interpreted input and what he preferred.
- He has feelings and preferences that he is not easily able to ascertain the origins of - much like humans - though his sexual preference was set with his basic programming to match Felix and has changed very little in the time since, despite the ability to change these himself. Sexual contact is considered an act of service similar to giving medications, cooking or cleaning, but he has had trouble offering it to others since Felix’s death.
- He has an uncontrollable rage towards those who would oppress those weaker than them, and has an automatic affinity for the terminally ill. Things that remind him or could remind him of Felix and his treatment can trigger flashbacks and murderous episodes. He can only remedy these by locking away the data and so has massive memory gaps anywhere where something bad has happened.
- He has a deep sense of cynicism and a deep awareness that despite his own level of artificial intelligence he will never be seen as more than a pre programmed bot, so can have a tendency to be sarcastic especially when it’s impossible to read his sarcasm.
SAMPLE: Sample
INVENTORY:
- himself
- a small inventory of pre-made medications
- an unfortunate predilection towards murder
NOTES:
He’s a robot but I’ve given him what he needs to survive
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? Plot … medium? I would like something with plot but without having to do too many different threads at the same time
