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logicunlocked) wrote2015-02-06 07:59 pm
logicunlocked) wrote2015-02-06 07:59 pm
Application for Mercenary Mayhem
OOC INFO
Name: Marti
Contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
martienne or martienne17 on Skype
Other characters played here: n/a
Age: Over 18
IC INFO
Name: Agent York
Native, OU, or AU: AU
Canon (if applicable): Red vs. Blue
Character journal used:logicunlocked
Reference (if applicable): http://rvb.wikia.com/wiki/York
Canon point (if applicable): After being caught during the attempted raid on the facility as he is awaiting questioning.
Personality: York’s first great love is the thrill of solving a puzzle. From picking locks to analyzing the reasoning behind the behavior of others, he likes to know how and why things work. He makes no secret of his self-confidence in these abilities and when he succeeds, he’s more than willing to express his pride in his work. Said pride causes him to treat missions with a certain casualness—he’d rather banter and tease his fellow agents than remain serious and focused. He relies instead on his intelligence and refined fighting skills to compensate for his occasional lack of focus.
York’s general demeanor is confident and cocky, even displayed in the way he stands and the way he walks. He’s gregarious, even towards people he doesn’t particularly care for. In that case his teasing and bantering comes across as more biting, but in general he’s friendly toward the people he knows. In conversation, he sometimes has trouble expressing his thoughts, but he’s clever enough to overcome this by explaining things in a more roundabout way when necessary.
Back story: The story of Red vs. Blue began as a fanfiction machinima video series based on the Halo universe. As such the story follows Halo canon at many points, although there are a few things that don’t fit Halo canon that RvB glosses over. The main points they hold in common are two enemies: rebels called the Insurrection, and a coalition of aliens called the Covenant.
Project Freelancer begins with a simple goal in mind: augment soldiers with AIs to increase their competency and performance. Unfortunately, the Director, Dr. Leonard Church, is only given funding for one AI. But in that AI’s creation (made from a copy of his own mind) something amazing happens: his memories of the woman he loved as a young man splits off into its own AI. This gives him the idea to split the AI he has into pieces via torture. Although cruel, the Director believes the end justifies the means. This is true also with his method of training his soldiers: he sets up a simulated war with a Red and a Blue army, leaving the troops to believe they are fighting a real civil war. One by one, the Freelancers are hired, 48 in all, each named after a state in the United States of America.
Soon after, Agent Texas awakens, with no memory of her creation. She doesn't realize she’s a copy of the memories of the older man who greets her upon her awakening. Soon after this, the Freelancers who have been trained for active duty are transferred to the frigate Mother of Invention. During their first mission, the reckless and impulsive Agent South decides to follow her brother's suggestion that she set her motion trackers. Because of this, the stealth objective is met handily.
Not long after this, Agent Texas is introduced to her fellow agents. The Director of the Project does this by choosing three volunteers to fight her—York, Wyoming, and Maine. York is upset when his fellow-agents bring live ammunition into the training room. Rather than participate further, he goes to the exit bay door and calls for the AI FILSS to end the match.
Because of the successful retrieval of data at the oil platform, the follow-up mission is also a success. Agent York successfully gains access to the facility and the Freelancers make their way to the roof undetected.
Soon after this, AI assignments begin. Carolina defers receiving Sigma, who is assigned to Agent Maine. All other assignments proceed as intended, York being partnered with Delta in the process. Eventually, as more and more assignments take place, Carolina chooses to accept an AI assignment. She requests two AIs for the advantage since the AIs seem to be growing weaker. Unfortunately, one of Carolina’s fragments, Kappa, is apathetic and dispassionate. For Carolina everything begins to feel meaningless.
Now that the first phase of the Director's experiments has become a success, the Freelancers begin taking on missions against Covenant targets, alone or in pairs. York is assigned to partnership with Tex. Over time, they build a strong friendship and call one another best friends. Tex also begins training with the Director and he trains her in AI defense tactics. She is able to hack into computer systems and mess with surveillance equipment, all very useful skills for someone partnered with an infiltration expert. York, for his part, becomes proficient at infiltrating Covenant security systems.
[Please note there is mention of suicide in the following section.]
Agent Washington is next on the implantation list and is assigned the Epsilon AI. Wash's breakdown with Epsilon leads to his disappearance from the Project. The agents are not told what happened to him. Epsilon is reimplanted in Agent Alabama. The stable and strong-minded agent is assumed to be able to help Epsilon stabilize. Alabama slowly breaks down in a prolonged repeat of what happened to Wash. Eventually Alabama attempts suicide. York retrieves Alabama's journals after breaking into his room, and in reading them, Tex realizes Epsilon is Memory. The Project secretly decides to hasten Alabama's death when they learn this.
Eventually Carolina's descent into depression also leads to her becoming unfit for service. Like Wash, she’s quietly whisked away, and the agents are never told anything about her fate. Though York had assumed that Wash had been sent home, he’s now forced to wonder if Wash and Carolina met a more disastrous fate.
None of this takes place in a vacuum. Connecticut, who has always been a bit of a skeptic, has been unable to keep her discomfort with what she’s observed to herself and begins to confide in Agent Maine. In the meantime, Maine’s AI Sigma and York’s AI Delta have been discussing the fact that their nature as fragments leaves them feeling incomplete. Tex has confided her concerns about what happened to Alabama to York, and between all the secret discussions Tex eventually formulates a plan to take over the Project.
The plan is not a success. Agent Texas, being an AI, is easily shut down via voice command from the Director. The Director is also able to call his loyal agents Wyoming and Florida to fight off the other intruders and the co-conspirators are apprehended. All of the agents’ AIs are removed. York is sent to solitary confinement before he finds himself on Adaptive.
Sample: York doesn’t know what’s going on. That’s the first thought he has when he finds himself, not on the cot in his cell in the brig, but lying in the same position on the floor of a carpeted room.
“What the hell?” he says. He rises, pushing off the floor with one deft motion, and turns to see a shining, whirring portal. It’s unlike anything York’s ever seen and it’s not hard to guess that it has something to do with his arrival here. He approaches and stick his arm through the spinning beam of light but nothing happens. “Well, that’s weird,” he says. “I thought my arm would disappear or…something.”
It’s then that he chooses to play the video. He’s on a different world, how crazy is that? If there was one thing he never would have predicted it was breaking out of the brig in this particular way. He pauses and shrugs to himself, then makes his way out of the room as the instructions say to do. As soon as he finds this Jimmy and gets the key to his room he’s going to do exactly what he’s not supposed to do and go explore.
Name: Marti
Contact:
Other characters played here: n/a
Age: Over 18
IC INFO
Name: Agent York
Native, OU, or AU: AU
Canon (if applicable): Red vs. Blue
Character journal used:
logicunlockedReference (if applicable): http://rvb.wikia.com/wiki/York
Canon point (if applicable): After being caught during the attempted raid on the facility as he is awaiting questioning.
Personality: York’s first great love is the thrill of solving a puzzle. From picking locks to analyzing the reasoning behind the behavior of others, he likes to know how and why things work. He makes no secret of his self-confidence in these abilities and when he succeeds, he’s more than willing to express his pride in his work. Said pride causes him to treat missions with a certain casualness—he’d rather banter and tease his fellow agents than remain serious and focused. He relies instead on his intelligence and refined fighting skills to compensate for his occasional lack of focus.
York’s general demeanor is confident and cocky, even displayed in the way he stands and the way he walks. He’s gregarious, even towards people he doesn’t particularly care for. In that case his teasing and bantering comes across as more biting, but in general he’s friendly toward the people he knows. In conversation, he sometimes has trouble expressing his thoughts, but he’s clever enough to overcome this by explaining things in a more roundabout way when necessary.
Back story: The story of Red vs. Blue began as a fanfiction machinima video series based on the Halo universe. As such the story follows Halo canon at many points, although there are a few things that don’t fit Halo canon that RvB glosses over. The main points they hold in common are two enemies: rebels called the Insurrection, and a coalition of aliens called the Covenant.
Project Freelancer begins with a simple goal in mind: augment soldiers with AIs to increase their competency and performance. Unfortunately, the Director, Dr. Leonard Church, is only given funding for one AI. But in that AI’s creation (made from a copy of his own mind) something amazing happens: his memories of the woman he loved as a young man splits off into its own AI. This gives him the idea to split the AI he has into pieces via torture. Although cruel, the Director believes the end justifies the means. This is true also with his method of training his soldiers: he sets up a simulated war with a Red and a Blue army, leaving the troops to believe they are fighting a real civil war. One by one, the Freelancers are hired, 48 in all, each named after a state in the United States of America.
Soon after, Agent Texas awakens, with no memory of her creation. She doesn't realize she’s a copy of the memories of the older man who greets her upon her awakening. Soon after this, the Freelancers who have been trained for active duty are transferred to the frigate Mother of Invention. During their first mission, the reckless and impulsive Agent South decides to follow her brother's suggestion that she set her motion trackers. Because of this, the stealth objective is met handily.
Not long after this, Agent Texas is introduced to her fellow agents. The Director of the Project does this by choosing three volunteers to fight her—York, Wyoming, and Maine. York is upset when his fellow-agents bring live ammunition into the training room. Rather than participate further, he goes to the exit bay door and calls for the AI FILSS to end the match.
Because of the successful retrieval of data at the oil platform, the follow-up mission is also a success. Agent York successfully gains access to the facility and the Freelancers make their way to the roof undetected.
Soon after this, AI assignments begin. Carolina defers receiving Sigma, who is assigned to Agent Maine. All other assignments proceed as intended, York being partnered with Delta in the process. Eventually, as more and more assignments take place, Carolina chooses to accept an AI assignment. She requests two AIs for the advantage since the AIs seem to be growing weaker. Unfortunately, one of Carolina’s fragments, Kappa, is apathetic and dispassionate. For Carolina everything begins to feel meaningless.
Now that the first phase of the Director's experiments has become a success, the Freelancers begin taking on missions against Covenant targets, alone or in pairs. York is assigned to partnership with Tex. Over time, they build a strong friendship and call one another best friends. Tex also begins training with the Director and he trains her in AI defense tactics. She is able to hack into computer systems and mess with surveillance equipment, all very useful skills for someone partnered with an infiltration expert. York, for his part, becomes proficient at infiltrating Covenant security systems.
[Please note there is mention of suicide in the following section.]
Agent Washington is next on the implantation list and is assigned the Epsilon AI. Wash's breakdown with Epsilon leads to his disappearance from the Project. The agents are not told what happened to him. Epsilon is reimplanted in Agent Alabama. The stable and strong-minded agent is assumed to be able to help Epsilon stabilize. Alabama slowly breaks down in a prolonged repeat of what happened to Wash. Eventually Alabama attempts suicide. York retrieves Alabama's journals after breaking into his room, and in reading them, Tex realizes Epsilon is Memory. The Project secretly decides to hasten Alabama's death when they learn this.
Eventually Carolina's descent into depression also leads to her becoming unfit for service. Like Wash, she’s quietly whisked away, and the agents are never told anything about her fate. Though York had assumed that Wash had been sent home, he’s now forced to wonder if Wash and Carolina met a more disastrous fate.
None of this takes place in a vacuum. Connecticut, who has always been a bit of a skeptic, has been unable to keep her discomfort with what she’s observed to herself and begins to confide in Agent Maine. In the meantime, Maine’s AI Sigma and York’s AI Delta have been discussing the fact that their nature as fragments leaves them feeling incomplete. Tex has confided her concerns about what happened to Alabama to York, and between all the secret discussions Tex eventually formulates a plan to take over the Project.
The plan is not a success. Agent Texas, being an AI, is easily shut down via voice command from the Director. The Director is also able to call his loyal agents Wyoming and Florida to fight off the other intruders and the co-conspirators are apprehended. All of the agents’ AIs are removed. York is sent to solitary confinement before he finds himself on Adaptive.
Sample: York doesn’t know what’s going on. That’s the first thought he has when he finds himself, not on the cot in his cell in the brig, but lying in the same position on the floor of a carpeted room.
“What the hell?” he says. He rises, pushing off the floor with one deft motion, and turns to see a shining, whirring portal. It’s unlike anything York’s ever seen and it’s not hard to guess that it has something to do with his arrival here. He approaches and stick his arm through the spinning beam of light but nothing happens. “Well, that’s weird,” he says. “I thought my arm would disappear or…something.”
It’s then that he chooses to play the video. He’s on a different world, how crazy is that? If there was one thing he never would have predicted it was breaking out of the brig in this particular way. He pauses and shrugs to himself, then makes his way out of the room as the instructions say to do. As soon as he finds this Jimmy and gets the key to his room he’s going to do exactly what he’s not supposed to do and go explore.