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May. 29th, 2014 12:09 am[OOC]
Backtagging: Please! I'm in the UK so timezone issues can really trip me up at times and I can be slow.
Threadhopping: Just use common sense regarding if a character's got a reason to be in a thread and we're good. Feel free to ask at any time!
Fourthwalling: Not in any serious contexts.
Offensive subjects (elaborate): Let's stay away from heavy sexual stuff and related topics. (In any case, he's a teenage robot, how often is that kind of stuff going to be relevant?)
[IC]
Hugging this character: Totally OK. Expect flailing.
Kissing this character: Sure thing! Expect confusion.
Flirting with this character: It will go over his head like anything, but it's fine.
Fighting with this character: What he's here for. Go for.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Honestly, anything goes, but if it's anything that'll need heavy duty repairs or will cause lasting plot impact let's talk it through first. I expect surprise nasty in something like a dark horror thread or a meme, but not in everyday threads. (Let's make this fun, you know?)
Killing this character: Gonna have a tough time... but totally willing to talk it over if the context's right.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Well, if your character can feasibly read a robot's mind, go for it... ask if there's any specific stuff that they might be looking for.
Warnings: Say or imply that he's not real? That's a punchin'.
Very few people can get away with using his "codename". Depending on the context, that may also be a punchin'.
Please note: the character very much has an issue where seeing people being hurt is concerned, and even if it isn't exactly a "trigger" seeing people, especially humans, die in front of him is likely to send him into serious depression. Please mention if this is likely to occur.
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Backtagging: Please! I'm in the UK so timezone issues can really trip me up at times and I can be slow.
Threadhopping: Just use common sense regarding if a character's got a reason to be in a thread and we're good. Feel free to ask at any time!
Fourthwalling: Not in any serious contexts.
Offensive subjects (elaborate): Let's stay away from heavy sexual stuff and related topics. (In any case, he's a teenage robot, how often is that kind of stuff going to be relevant?)
[IC]
Hugging this character: Totally OK. Expect flailing.
Kissing this character: Sure thing! Expect confusion.
Flirting with this character: It will go over his head like anything, but it's fine.
Fighting with this character: What he's here for. Go for.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Honestly, anything goes, but if it's anything that'll need heavy duty repairs or will cause lasting plot impact let's talk it through first. I expect surprise nasty in something like a dark horror thread or a meme, but not in everyday threads. (Let's make this fun, you know?)
Killing this character: Gonna have a tough time... but totally willing to talk it over if the context's right.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Well, if your character can feasibly read a robot's mind, go for it... ask if there's any specific stuff that they might be looking for.
Warnings: Say or imply that he's not real? That's a punchin'.
Very few people can get away with using his "codename". Depending on the context, that may also be a punchin'.
Please note: the character very much has an issue where seeing people being hurt is concerned, and even if it isn't exactly a "trigger" seeing people, especially humans, die in front of him is likely to send him into serious depression. Please mention if this is likely to occur.
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Alright: if anyone has any feedback regarding this character, feel free to drop me a line here! Please bear in mind that he is an AU, and as such, things will be different to the canon chair-swinger - however, I hope that he's still believable and enjoyable to play with. If either of these isn't the case, please let me know what's wrong, and I'll see what I can do about the issue.
Thanks!
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AU divergences in detail : WIP
Mar. 21st, 2014 11:02 pm
Plot notes:* Kanji is punted into the TV for similar reasons as canon: Namatame has to wait until he spots him shut down and apparently 'asleep' before he can get him through there. He doesn't exactly want to go telling the world about his suspicions, mind. ('Why is this guy so heavy?')
* His dungeon is ... noticeably different. Definitely not the Bad Bad Bathhouse. It looks more like an abandoned hospital. The IT are confused by the mechanical voices they hear...
* While he still goes on the camping trip and Yosuke is still a jerk, the reasons tend more towards "dude, are you going to watch me sleep?!" than ... his other issues. At least this version of Kanji can't have a nosebleed...
* The Shadow Ops first get involved in the Inaba mess earlier than canon, and take Adachi in. The two groups come to blows somewhat. However, not knowing about Izanami at that stage, the Investigation Team are left to deal with her.
* With what information Kanji can give her, Naoto starts looking into them early...
* His Arena title's "The Wound-Up Tin Toy Soldier".
* At the end of Arena, Kanji and his mother make an offer to Labrys to come live with them. Overall, Arena goes down very differently, with the two sides knowing considerably more about each other from the start. It's a mess.
Personal notes:
* To him, his human memories are like reading a book: disconnected, second-hand. It's hard for him to directly associate with the emotional impact of the memories. As such, he's rather more naïve and childlike at times than the human Kanji: but at the same time, he can be colder and more rational.
* That said, it surprised a lot of people when he started calling himself Kanji at them... the human version's memories were uploaded as a means to speed up his personality development, but the scientists didn't predict they would overwhelm what they'd crafted.
* He wasn't designed to be able to sew - he lacks the finer tactile responses he'd need. While he knows that his human self used to enjoy it and be good at it, it frustrates him that he can't do this thing that he remembers loving so much. (He does, however, still hoard cute crafty things.) He's not a good artist in general, but he appreciates it, and occasionally tries his hand at painting.
* He has inbuilt weaponry akin to Aigis, and is designed with defense in mind. He can handle hostile environments with ease. His version of Aigis' Orgia Mode is less of an all or nothing affair, with him being able to modulate his limiters and divert power in a controlled fashion - however, at its strongest, it risks doing him far more damage than hers would. He's packing an electroshock punch, too.
* He's actually missing a few bits of equipment he was planned to have; it wasn't fully installed during his testing period, and he was taken to Inaba before it could be.
* He tends to dress a bit like Shinjiro in an attempt to hide his outward mechanical traits. The only time the jacket goes over his shoulders is when he needs to keep his arms free to use his guns.
* Even without the mechanical tells, he's possible to distinguish from his human self: the scientists who created his current appearance were extrapolating somewhat from a younger Kanji, and while they did a good job, he's not a perfect match. He also lacks his human self's telltale scar. His voice is slightly different to his counterpart's, but it's subtle.
* His Social Link is focused around learning to let go of the past and find happiness in who and what he is now.
* Where maintenance is concerned, he gets help from Yosuke and Naoto. With much, much awkwardness.
* His ma knows about what Shadows and Personas are - and it scares the hell out of her. Their relationship as a whole is pretty strained, with them trying to recapture what they had (or what she had with her original son), but with everything so changed... he keeps the TV situation under wraps as long as he can, and doesn't let her see his battle damage. (She's actually this version of Yu's Empress Social Link in Margaret's place, as he helps her deal with the pressure and grief...)
* He's even worse for taking the bullet than his human self is. "I'm made for this. I can be repaired." He's very driven to be a strong protector type, feels it's both his duty - and what his human self's dad would want. Can take it too far.
* He answers to both his human and ASW names, but not without a measure of confusion as to which is his 'real' one sometimes. His SL helps him work through the issues there. Still, he only uses his ASW name when his hand's forced, and basically only Labrys, Aigis, Naoto and Yu can get away with it. (The first two because, yanno, robofamily; Naoto because
* His Persona isn't the same as his human counterpart. Matching his sisters, it's pulled from Greek myth: Talos, the bronze guardian of ancient Crete. It actually looks a spot more humanlike than Take-Mikazuchi... Still huge though. Here, Take-Mikazuchi (in a different form) is the Persona Yu earns for completing their Social Link together. His Persona's second form is Zeus Tallaios, "Solar Zeus".
* Still a dope when presented with cute things. He often goes squee at the kitty cats with Yu. Helps that he can talk to them...
* When he can get away with it, he writes his human name as カンジ rather than 完二, as a deliberate underlining of the fact he's not the same person and to get away from some of the ironic meanings that the kanji (hah) spelling of it has in this context. ("Perfect/complete", "number two" - a perfect copy?)
( PQ Spoilers! )
AU backstory and intro
Mar. 21st, 2014 10:15 pm...
>...
>Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon 9th Generation "Thyreos": Data File
>...
...damn file. My name's Kanji, okay?
The Anti Shadow Weapon project might have gone quiet after Aigis' creation, but it wasn't retired entirely. After all, if one functioning robot was good, why not have a second as backup? The incident in Iwatodai disrupted the program, true, but those who had pushed for bringing the Fall took what data they could and set up a smaller project separated from the first to start work on their backup unit. One that could be more directly and easily controlled - at least, that was their hope.
Still, time and resources were not on their side, nor was the pressure of having to fly beneath the Kirijo Corporation as a whole's radar. Their progress was slowed compared to what had been.
By 2009, they had caught back up, despite a certain number of false starts. The one thing that they couldn't seem to recreate was an active, stable personality...
Out of desperation, they turned to techniques inspired by the fifth generation. The faulty AI, an imperfect copy of Aigis' mind pattern, would be augmented by a personality lifted wholesale from a donor, a young boy brought to the Tatsumi Memorial Hospital from his tiny hometown - and in an attempt to speed up that personality's development, the donor's memories would be implanted and the body reconfigured to closer resemble the donor himself (from its originally feminine design).
With word of the project's coordinator's death, things fell somewhat into disarray - but they pushed on, regardless. Perhaps their efforts would not be in vain?
Their mechanical youth was activated successfully, eventually. He showed a personality from the very first second, and was quickly given a name to match his sisters'.
Unfortunately, the personality they would get? Overwhelmed by what he was experiencing, refusing to believe he was a machine, more than a little unwilling to cooperate - and most of all, loud. Not entirely hostile, but not the loyal and controllable unit they had hoped for. Past that, completely unwilling to accept the name they placed on him...
Thyreos? No. He was Kanji Tatsumi, dammit.
During Mitsuru's takeover of the corporation and the establishment of the Shadow Ops, what had happened was discovered: he was offered the chance to go home. Desperate to return to what he saw as his old life, he took it, arriving on his mother's doorstep to her shock and surprise: and with a lot of explanations accompanying him.
But was it his life he was returning to? It'd take him a long time to work that out - and a little trip into the world of his own psyche to bring it home.
>...
>Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon 9th Generation "Thyreos": Data File
>...
...damn file. My name's Kanji, okay?
The Anti Shadow Weapon project might have gone quiet after Aigis' creation, but it wasn't retired entirely. After all, if one functioning robot was good, why not have a second as backup? The incident in Iwatodai disrupted the program, true, but those who had pushed for bringing the Fall took what data they could and set up a smaller project separated from the first to start work on their backup unit. One that could be more directly and easily controlled - at least, that was their hope.
Still, time and resources were not on their side, nor was the pressure of having to fly beneath the Kirijo Corporation as a whole's radar. Their progress was slowed compared to what had been.
By 2009, they had caught back up, despite a certain number of false starts. The one thing that they couldn't seem to recreate was an active, stable personality...
Out of desperation, they turned to techniques inspired by the fifth generation. The faulty AI, an imperfect copy of Aigis' mind pattern, would be augmented by a personality lifted wholesale from a donor, a young boy brought to the Tatsumi Memorial Hospital from his tiny hometown - and in an attempt to speed up that personality's development, the donor's memories would be implanted and the body reconfigured to closer resemble the donor himself (from its originally feminine design).
With word of the project's coordinator's death, things fell somewhat into disarray - but they pushed on, regardless. Perhaps their efforts would not be in vain?
Their mechanical youth was activated successfully, eventually. He showed a personality from the very first second, and was quickly given a name to match his sisters'.
Unfortunately, the personality they would get? Overwhelmed by what he was experiencing, refusing to believe he was a machine, more than a little unwilling to cooperate - and most of all, loud. Not entirely hostile, but not the loyal and controllable unit they had hoped for. Past that, completely unwilling to accept the name they placed on him...
Thyreos? No. He was Kanji Tatsumi, dammit.
During Mitsuru's takeover of the corporation and the establishment of the Shadow Ops, what had happened was discovered: he was offered the chance to go home. Desperate to return to what he saw as his old life, he took it, arriving on his mother's doorstep to her shock and surprise: and with a lot of explanations accompanying him.
But was it his life he was returning to? It'd take him a long time to work that out - and a little trip into the world of his own psyche to bring it home.
