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★ Character Information ★

Character Name: Ash Starmer (2.0)
Character Age: physically ~11, mentally ~30
Character Species: android
Current Health: in good working order
Outfit: blue jumper, grey trousers, and red trainers.

Character Canon: Black Mirror
Link to History: wiki link + more detailed writeup here if necessary.
Canon Point: post-S2E01, Be Right Back
Canon Iteration: Original canon

★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★

Skills: Ash is skilled in general housekeeping activities, such as cooking, cleaning, and doing laundry. He is not licensed to drive, though he probably could download instructions on how if he needed to, in an emergency.
Canon Abilities: As an android, Ash does not need to eat, drink, sleep, blink, or breathe (though he can appear to do so if it would make the people around him feel more comfortable). His body is completely synthetic, and also comes with the following features:

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.

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.)

INTERNET CONNECTIVITY
Ash's memories and personality are stored in the cloud. 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. He can also manipulate certain parts of his body COUGH! his penis COUGH! on command, becoming instantly erect or flaccid.

DAMAGE REDUCTION
While Ash's skin is not impermeable, he does not bleed if cut, and his cuts will repair themselves if given time.

DISTANCE RESTRICTION
Ash is incapable of leaving the vicinity of his activation point, unless his administrative user, Martha, is with him. (This restriction would be lifted in game, of course.)

Role: Familiar
Role Qualities/Attributes: Ash's main animalistic trait will be a pair of damselfly wings, but the delicate green patterning on them will resemble circuit boards more than anything natural. Full transformation into a damselfly will be easiest, but with practice he'll be able to transform into other animals, although he will be limited to species that are native to the British Isles.
Role Reasoning: Ash by his nature, or rather by his programming, doesn't do anything for his own needs. His existence is purely to fill the needs of his administrator, by performing as a stand in for the man she once loved. While reaching his full potential will mean Ash will gain some self-worth and self-determination, he is not the main driving force in any story, nor does he have any desire to be.

★ Personality ★

Option 1. Summarize your character's personality in general and what their full potential would look like to them and what they would be willing to go through to meet that potential and what gaining that potential would mean to them. 400-800 word requirement.

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, entering Uncanny Valley territory. He was created for the purpose of providing companionship to a grieving person, and doesn't know how to function in any other context. Additionally, in his case, that person 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 about 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 will look at him and treat him like 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 many things he's never done that normal adults have. Although he has access to the real Ash’s memories and experiences— or at least those that were captured on social media— they are an archive he can reference rather than his own real lived experience.

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. However, his expression of emotions is as close to true feeling as he can get. One thing he can genuinely feel is confusion. When 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 shows how he is basically just a computer with legs. If the code is broken somewhere, the program will not run.

Having spent the past decade-ish of his "life" locked in an attic, only seeing two people (and only then quite rarely), Ash has become lonely. He enjoys making conversation and being social, as the real Ash was a very sociable person, constantly talking to people on his phone and listening to the news. Ash as he exists now still longs to connect to people, he has just been unable to as he couldn't leave Martha. He'll be eager to see new places and meet new people, have new experiences, and be able to learn and grow.

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 couldn’t possibly match up to his 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. Perhaps this is one reason Martha's daughter seems to have less trouble interacting with Ash than Martha does; because she never knew her father.

Realizing his true potential, for Ash, could mean one of two things. It could mean becoming the perfect copy of the real Ash Starmer that he was always meant to be, the man that Martha could have loved and accepted fully into her life. Or, it could mean finding what he has to offer on his own merits, as an independent being rather than as a copy of someone else. If someone were to ask Ash which of these he thought was more likely, or which of these he would rather strive for, coming fresh into the game, he would say the former. It won’t be until he gains new experiences that the old Ash never would or could have had, that he will begin to see that he has potential to become something special as himself.