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subroutined) wrote2016-05-01 11:01 am
subroutined) wrote2016-05-01 11:01 am
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LITTLE HADES - APP
💀 Player Information
Name: Chris
Age: 27
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Characters In-game: n/a
💀 Character Information
Name: Ash Starmer (clone)
Canon: Black Mirror
Canon Point: some indeterminate time after Episode 2x01, "Be Right Back"
Age: Mentally ~30, Physically ~11
Description: Ash is 6'1", pale, ginger, and scrawny. The first thing you notice about Ash is that his body language is very passive. He is gangly and tall, with his arms usually hanging at his sides, or folded in his lap. Get closer, and you'll see that his skin is smooth to the touch, without callouses or even ridged fingerprints. Freckles, wrinkles, all details are merely printed onto his manufactured skin. It's minor details like this that point out his inorganic nature. Just listening to him speak, it is much harder to tell, because his speech patterns and choice of phrasing is built upon the real Ash's actual words.
Physical changes: None yet! May choose to add some over time.
Powers:
*These abilities can be limited/nullified in-game. If mods deem it necessary, I am willing to have other abilities limited/nullified as well.
History: wiki link; youtube link to the episode (if you have 48 minutes to spare and feel like crying)
Hell Status: Limbo Case
What Brings Them To Hell: Martha finally decided she couldn't take having the clone Ash around, and chose to deactivate him.
The Pitch:
On the surface, Ash's personality is quite bland, only displaying emotions when he is told or given permission to. He is focused on sensing the feelings of those around him, and trying to react accordingly. He does have a sense of humor, as the real Ash did, but he has a limited knowledge of how to behave, and can sometimes say or do the wrong thing. When he makes a misstep, he asks for correction, and learns from it, acting correctly the next time the situation arises. Of course, his only teacher has been Martha (and to a lesser extent her daughter), so he's used to her particular way of doing things.
Being around Ash for a short time, one might not immediately tell that he isn't "real." But spend a prolonged amount of time with him, and the difference becomes not only apparent, but disturbing. He is definitely Uncanny Valley territory. He was created for the purpose of providing companionship to a grieving loved one, and doesn't know how to function in any other context. Additionally, in his particular case, that loved one decided she could hardly bear the sight of him after just a few days in his presence, and locked him in the attic for the rest of his unnatural life. Ash has spent the better part of the last decade alone, and as such is somewhat out of practice in dealing with people.
Ash is an odd mix of child and adult, in that he's only existed for just over a decade, and so only has a child's worth of experiences, but he possesses an adult's body, brain, and social expectations. No one is going to look at him and treat him as though he's only eleven years old, even though technically he is. They will expect him to know how to behave as an adult, even though there are so many things he's never done that normal adults have.
It is unclear whether Ash feels genuine emotions such as fear, amusement, or love, or whether he's merely parroting back what his programming tells him is the appropriate response to the given stimuli. I argue that they're the same thing. His expression of emotions is as close to true feeling as he can get. One thing he can genuinely feel is confusion. When he is faced with a query or a stimulus that he cannot parse, he doesn't know how to react. His first instinct is to ask the person to repeat their question, or redefine the parameters of their request. This very much shows how he is basically just a computer with legs. If the code is broken somewhere, the program will not run.
Setting Fit:
Ash will find being in Hell quite funny, actually, since he didn't expect anything but black nonexistence after he was deactivated. Being in Hell implies he has some sort of soul, which he didn't think possible. As stated previously, it will take some adjusting for Ash to interact with people other than Martha and her daughter, who were his only companions during his activation.
Ash may have better luck with strangers than he did with Martha, because Martha judges him against her feelings for, memories of, and associations with the real Ash. He could not possibly match up to her perfect example. When faced with people who never knew Ash as he was when he was alive, clone Ash has a much better chance of being accepted, despite his quirks and shortcomings. It all depends upon the open mindedness of the people he meets. Perhaps this is one reason that Martha's daughter seems to have less trouble interacting with Ash than Martha does; because she never knew her father.
Samples:
TDM threads for a different game
meme thread
Pitch
OKAY SO. You want to know what's so great about Ash Starmer? LET ME TELL YOU what's so great about Ash Starmer. ASH STARMER IS FUCKING GREAT. Ash is an optimist. His life is shitty, he's left alone for days, weeks, years on end, and he still has a smile on his face. He's innocence embodied. The poor guy hasn't done a single thing wrong to deserve the shitty hand he's been dealt by Martha. All he's tried to do is be there for her, love her, please her, and she pushes him away for it because her pitiful human brain can't reconcile the creepiness of having a clone of her dead boyfriend. Ash got a terrible chance at life, gathering dust in an attic. All I want is for him to have another chance at happiness and fulfillment. If that chance comes with eternal damnation, then, so be it.
Setting Fit
Ash is used to doing nothing for like, 99.99% of his time, so he'll be glad to do anything at all, really. Maybe not punishment, he wouldn't be glad of that, but anything else. He wouldn't have any opinions either way about being stuck in Hell forever; he'd been stuck in an attic for eleven years before that. He'd get along with everyone because he's a nice guy who just wants to please people. (Really he doesn't deserve Hell, but the whole lacking a soul thing hampers him.)
Name: Chris
Age: 27
Contact:
Characters In-game: n/a
💀 Character Information
Name: Ash Starmer (clone)
Canon: Black Mirror
Canon Point: some indeterminate time after Episode 2x01, "Be Right Back"
Age: Mentally ~30, Physically ~11
Description: Ash is 6'1", pale, ginger, and scrawny. The first thing you notice about Ash is that his body language is very passive. He is gangly and tall, with his arms usually hanging at his sides, or folded in his lap. Get closer, and you'll see that his skin is smooth to the touch, without callouses or even ridged fingerprints. Freckles, wrinkles, all details are merely printed onto his manufactured skin. It's minor details like this that point out his inorganic nature. Just listening to him speak, it is much harder to tell, because his speech patterns and choice of phrasing is built upon the real Ash's actual words.
Physical changes: None yet! May choose to add some over time.
Powers:
ANDROID PHYSIOLOGY
Ash does not need to eat, sleep, or even breathe. Heck, he could probably survive in outer space without a space suit. As such, he also does not age. He is a near-perfect replica of the real Ash, frozen in time at the point of his death.
SUSTAINABLE POWER SOURCE
It is not shown in canon how Ash maintains operation over a long course of time; whether he needs to "plug in," etc. However, we do know that he is still functioning when Martha's daughter is approximately ten years old, so I headcanon that he has some sort of self-charging battery, possibly solar powered or conductive. (Or it's the future and renewable energy is just a thing.)
LEARNING MEMORY
Ash remembers everything the real Ash ever said or posted online, and can learn new behaviors through being told stories of what the real Ash used to say or do. He can learn other new behaviors in a similar fashion.
INTERNET CONNECTIVITY
Ash's memories and personality are stored in the cloud. This allowed him to move from Martha's laptop to her phone, and then into his physical body. He can access the internet remotely, googling things in the span of seconds merely by thinking.*
PHYSICAL CUSTOMIZATION
While he cannot grow facial hair, Ash can reproduce moles or freckles instantaneously.
DISTANCE RESTRICTION
Ash is physically incapable of leaving the vicinity of his administrative user, Martha.*
DAMAGE REDUCTION
While Ash's skin is not impermeable, he does not bleed if cut, and his cuts will heal if given time. Still, anything that breaks Ash's skin should be wrapped in paper, as the nutrient gel which keeps his synthetic musculature from drying out is potentially unsafe.
SEXUAL PROWESS
Ash comes preprogrammed with numerous sexual subroutines, designed to give his partner ultimate pleasure. In addition, he is able to become instantly erect.
*These abilities can be limited/nullified in-game. If mods deem it necessary, I am willing to have other abilities limited/nullified as well.
History: wiki link; youtube link to the episode (if you have 48 minutes to spare and feel like crying)
Hell Status: Limbo Case
What Brings Them To Hell: Martha finally decided she couldn't take having the clone Ash around, and chose to deactivate him.
The Pitch:
On the surface, Ash's personality is quite bland, only displaying emotions when he is told or given permission to. He is focused on sensing the feelings of those around him, and trying to react accordingly. He does have a sense of humor, as the real Ash did, but he has a limited knowledge of how to behave, and can sometimes say or do the wrong thing. When he makes a misstep, he asks for correction, and learns from it, acting correctly the next time the situation arises. Of course, his only teacher has been Martha (and to a lesser extent her daughter), so he's used to her particular way of doing things.
Being around Ash for a short time, one might not immediately tell that he isn't "real." But spend a prolonged amount of time with him, and the difference becomes not only apparent, but disturbing. He is definitely Uncanny Valley territory. He was created for the purpose of providing companionship to a grieving loved one, and doesn't know how to function in any other context. Additionally, in his particular case, that loved one decided she could hardly bear the sight of him after just a few days in his presence, and locked him in the attic for the rest of his unnatural life. Ash has spent the better part of the last decade alone, and as such is somewhat out of practice in dealing with people.
Ash is an odd mix of child and adult, in that he's only existed for just over a decade, and so only has a child's worth of experiences, but he possesses an adult's body, brain, and social expectations. No one is going to look at him and treat him as though he's only eleven years old, even though technically he is. They will expect him to know how to behave as an adult, even though there are so many things he's never done that normal adults have.
It is unclear whether Ash feels genuine emotions such as fear, amusement, or love, or whether he's merely parroting back what his programming tells him is the appropriate response to the given stimuli. I argue that they're the same thing. His expression of emotions is as close to true feeling as he can get. One thing he can genuinely feel is confusion. When he is faced with a query or a stimulus that he cannot parse, he doesn't know how to react. His first instinct is to ask the person to repeat their question, or redefine the parameters of their request. This very much shows how he is basically just a computer with legs. If the code is broken somewhere, the program will not run.
Setting Fit:
Ash will find being in Hell quite funny, actually, since he didn't expect anything but black nonexistence after he was deactivated. Being in Hell implies he has some sort of soul, which he didn't think possible. As stated previously, it will take some adjusting for Ash to interact with people other than Martha and her daughter, who were his only companions during his activation.
Ash may have better luck with strangers than he did with Martha, because Martha judges him against her feelings for, memories of, and associations with the real Ash. He could not possibly match up to her perfect example. When faced with people who never knew Ash as he was when he was alive, clone Ash has a much better chance of being accepted, despite his quirks and shortcomings. It all depends upon the open mindedness of the people he meets. Perhaps this is one reason that Martha's daughter seems to have less trouble interacting with Ash than Martha does; because she never knew her father.
Samples:
TDM threads for a different game
meme thread
Pitch
OKAY SO. You want to know what's so great about Ash Starmer? LET ME TELL YOU what's so great about Ash Starmer. ASH STARMER IS FUCKING GREAT. Ash is an optimist. His life is shitty, he's left alone for days, weeks, years on end, and he still has a smile on his face. He's innocence embodied. The poor guy hasn't done a single thing wrong to deserve the shitty hand he's been dealt by Martha. All he's tried to do is be there for her, love her, please her, and she pushes him away for it because her pitiful human brain can't reconcile the creepiness of having a clone of her dead boyfriend. Ash got a terrible chance at life, gathering dust in an attic. All I want is for him to have another chance at happiness and fulfillment. If that chance comes with eternal damnation, then, so be it.
Setting Fit
Ash is used to doing nothing for like, 99.99% of his time, so he'll be glad to do anything at all, really. Maybe not punishment, he wouldn't be glad of that, but anything else. He wouldn't have any opinions either way about being stuck in Hell forever; he'd been stuck in an attic for eleven years before that. He'd get along with everyone because he's a nice guy who just wants to please people. (Really he doesn't deserve Hell, but the whole lacking a soul thing hampers him.)