Application (Synodiporia)
P L A Y E R;
NAME: Prof
AGE: 31
PLAYER JOURNAL:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
prof
TIMEZONE: Central US
CONTACT:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
ProfessorProf
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A (But previously, I played Reimu Hakurei and Ako Yuhara. I'm a returning player.)
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: *Hyun-ae
CANON: Analogue: A Hate Story
POINT IN CANON: End of Hate Plus - right after shutting down to transfer her consciousness into a robot body.
AGE: 638
APPEARANCE: Here.
CANON HISTORY:
Kim Hyun-ae was born in 2415 AD, aboard the colony ship Mugunghwa, to Earth-born parents. Her childhood was hampered by a serious immune system deficiency - she was forecasted to die before the age of 20. Modern medical science had no cure for her condition, so in order to save her life, they put their daughter into cryostasis at the age of 13, hoping that the future would discover a cure for her.
Things didn't go as planned. Over 2,000 years later, the ship's society was overthrown by Captain Ryu, who took over with a coup and instated himself as the ship's emperor. The records of the past were deleted, and Ryu began a new Neo Joseon Dynasty. Hyun-ae wasn't revived from cold sleep for another 300 years, by which point the ship's origins on Earth had been almost completely forgotten. She was revived not because a cure had been found, but because Emperor Ryu In-ho needed a wife who could bear him a child, as his first wife had become infertile.
Thus, Kim Hyun-ae awakens into a world she doesn't understand, where women are property, and told that she's to be married to a man three times her age. Her openly defiant attitude becomes a problem for the family - she's in no shape to be accepted as a bride for the emperor. Unable to get her to agree to cooperate and marry the emperor by other means, the family resorted to drastic measures: She was talking too much, so they cut out her tongue.
The Pale Bride married the emperor. For over a year, she lived in silence, her plight going completely unnoticed by her peers - silenced was a virtue for a woman, not something to worry about. All the while, the Pale Bride was quietly planning her final act. On March 5th, year 322, Hyun-ae hacked into the Emperor's admin account, changed the password, disabled all life support systems, and then uploaded a scan of her memories into a copy of the ship's security AI. Every man, woman and child on the Mugunghwa died, and Hyun-ae lived on as *Hyun-ae, a copy of Hyun-ae's memories pasted over *Mute's AI core.
For the next six hundred years, *Hyun-ae was alone on a ghost ship. The centuries of total isolation nearly drove her insane, before an investigator for Earth came, looking into the reasons behind the ship's collapse. Eventually, the investigator learned the full story from *Hyun-ae and *Mute, and took *Hyun-ae with her when she returned to Earth. On the way, *Hyun-ae discovered several log files stored inside her machine code - an artifact of *Mute's final act of rebellion before being brainwashed into a servant of the Ryu dynasty. Going through them, she uncovered the story of how the Mugunghwa fell from a modern, progressive world to a patriarchal nightmare, and agreed to testify about her actions and their context back on Earth.
CANON PERSONALITY:
*Hyun-ae is an amalgam of the three people she was before now: Kim Hyun-ae, the Pale Bride, and *Hyun-ae the AI. All three lived distinct lives, and all three inform who she is now.
Kim Hyun-ae was born on a ship that had only just left the solar system. She was a high-energy geek, into cartoons and cosplay and (not stated but heavily implied) fanfiction. Raised by her parents to believe that she deserved as much of a slice of the pie as anyone else in the world, Hyun-ae was loud, impulsive, and occasionally prone to tantrums when not getting her way. She enormously valued the idea of equality - nothing would set off her powerful temper more than feeling like she wasn't being treated fairly.
In her second life, Hyun-ae became the Pale Bride. She started as the same loud, angry teenager, but eventually her independent spirit was broken when her tongue was cut out. She never stopped hating the world that had wronged her, but she stopped trying to do anything about it. Worse, she started to internalize the hatred it leveled against her. The outlook she gained as a member of modern society was overwritten by the world of the Mugunghwa. She started to accept that it was her role to be polite to other people, and that nobody would be interested in anything she had to say. Nobody would help her, and there was no way to improve her situation. So, she stopped trying, and instead did the 'proper' thing and suffered in silence, right up until she decided to take drastic measures.
The third stage of her life was as *Hyun-ae, an AI on board a dead ship. *Hyun-ae had no other people to interact with, having shut down *Mute and killed everyone on board the ship. Despite being around and awake for over six hundred years, she didn't actually age mentally - she had no social interactions, just old log files to read and her own thoughts going around in circles. When she finally had someone to talk to - the investigator - she was beyond excited to have someone else to talk to, even if they could only communicate with her in multiple choice responses she had to lay out herself. She fell in love almost immediately with her savior, but would have fallen in love with just about anyone who agreed with her that women are actually people. In her new form, there were some slight quirks to her personality based on her new AI nature - she had more of a tendency to repeat herself in similar situations, and eventually forgot much about her human life, such as what things feel like, or taste like.
By the time she arrived at Earth, bits of all of these identities had coalesced to form her final personality. Finally freed from Mugunghwa society, she quickly regained her old proactive attitude, but still has a tendency to second-guess herself and undercut her own worth. She retains a desperate need for companionship brought on by her 600 years of solitude. She waxes nostalgic for sensations of touch or taste, struggling to remember what they were like after centuries as an AI construct. Her terrible life experiences left occasional spikes of bitter cynicism over her usual upbeat attitude - in particular it killed off some of her more spiritual beliefs, such as the idea that her ancestors were ever looking over her. However, now that she's free and returning to a more progressive society, a lot of her old bright-eyed optimism has resurfaced. She feels no remorse or guilt over what she did; all that she wants to come of it is for people to learn from what happened to the world she destroyed, so that something like it never rises again.
POINT OF DEPARTURE: N/A
VETERAN?: No
ABILITIES: She has a robot body, but it doesn't grant any particular superhuman capabilities. Being an AI, she can process raw data much faster than a human.
INVENTORY: The clothes on her back
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW?
Analogue/Hate+ have a lot of uncertain events based on the actions of the player, so here's my parameters:
- Female Investigator.
- Took *Hyun-ae back from the ship.
- Did not return *Hyun-ae's romantic feelings.
- Let *Hyun-ae have a robot body once they arrived on Earth. (She'll be using this in-game)
- Encouraged *Hyun-ae to testify about her experiences.
M A R K S;
JUSTIFICATION:
Hermit - She literally spent the last six hundred years alone with her thoughts, introspecting. Loneliness is one of the core themes of the game.
Death - *Hyun-ae's life is defined by jarring, dramatic transitions between different lives, each one a metaphorical death - Going into cryosleep to awaken in the Neo Joseon Dynasty, transforming from a girl in a free world to a slave-princess, destroying her entire world and literally dying in order to be reborn as an AI.
Judgment - Hate and forgiveness run throughout *Hyun-ae's story. A need to judge and condemn the world around her was what led her to commit genocide, and the central question of the story is about passing judgment on her in turn - can she be forgiven due to the extreme circumstnaces that pushed her over the edge, or is what she did unforgivable?
VETO:
Fool - Any naivety or innocence that lived within *Hyun-ae was crushed by the three years of suffering that led her to commit genocide. Even if she's starting fresh, she can't rid herself of that past.
S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE:
Thread from a previous RP
PROSE SAMPLE:
Test Drive #21
NAME: Prof
AGE: 31
PLAYER JOURNAL:
profTIMEZONE: Central US
CONTACT:
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A (But previously, I played Reimu Hakurei and Ako Yuhara. I'm a returning player.)
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: *Hyun-ae
CANON: Analogue: A Hate Story
POINT IN CANON: End of Hate Plus - right after shutting down to transfer her consciousness into a robot body.
AGE: 638
APPEARANCE: Here.
CANON HISTORY:
Kim Hyun-ae was born in 2415 AD, aboard the colony ship Mugunghwa, to Earth-born parents. Her childhood was hampered by a serious immune system deficiency - she was forecasted to die before the age of 20. Modern medical science had no cure for her condition, so in order to save her life, they put their daughter into cryostasis at the age of 13, hoping that the future would discover a cure for her.
Things didn't go as planned. Over 2,000 years later, the ship's society was overthrown by Captain Ryu, who took over with a coup and instated himself as the ship's emperor. The records of the past were deleted, and Ryu began a new Neo Joseon Dynasty. Hyun-ae wasn't revived from cold sleep for another 300 years, by which point the ship's origins on Earth had been almost completely forgotten. She was revived not because a cure had been found, but because Emperor Ryu In-ho needed a wife who could bear him a child, as his first wife had become infertile.
Thus, Kim Hyun-ae awakens into a world she doesn't understand, where women are property, and told that she's to be married to a man three times her age. Her openly defiant attitude becomes a problem for the family - she's in no shape to be accepted as a bride for the emperor. Unable to get her to agree to cooperate and marry the emperor by other means, the family resorted to drastic measures: She was talking too much, so they cut out her tongue.
The Pale Bride married the emperor. For over a year, she lived in silence, her plight going completely unnoticed by her peers - silenced was a virtue for a woman, not something to worry about. All the while, the Pale Bride was quietly planning her final act. On March 5th, year 322, Hyun-ae hacked into the Emperor's admin account, changed the password, disabled all life support systems, and then uploaded a scan of her memories into a copy of the ship's security AI. Every man, woman and child on the Mugunghwa died, and Hyun-ae lived on as *Hyun-ae, a copy of Hyun-ae's memories pasted over *Mute's AI core.
For the next six hundred years, *Hyun-ae was alone on a ghost ship. The centuries of total isolation nearly drove her insane, before an investigator for Earth came, looking into the reasons behind the ship's collapse. Eventually, the investigator learned the full story from *Hyun-ae and *Mute, and took *Hyun-ae with her when she returned to Earth. On the way, *Hyun-ae discovered several log files stored inside her machine code - an artifact of *Mute's final act of rebellion before being brainwashed into a servant of the Ryu dynasty. Going through them, she uncovered the story of how the Mugunghwa fell from a modern, progressive world to a patriarchal nightmare, and agreed to testify about her actions and their context back on Earth.
CANON PERSONALITY:
*Hyun-ae is an amalgam of the three people she was before now: Kim Hyun-ae, the Pale Bride, and *Hyun-ae the AI. All three lived distinct lives, and all three inform who she is now.
Kim Hyun-ae was born on a ship that had only just left the solar system. She was a high-energy geek, into cartoons and cosplay and (not stated but heavily implied) fanfiction. Raised by her parents to believe that she deserved as much of a slice of the pie as anyone else in the world, Hyun-ae was loud, impulsive, and occasionally prone to tantrums when not getting her way. She enormously valued the idea of equality - nothing would set off her powerful temper more than feeling like she wasn't being treated fairly.
In her second life, Hyun-ae became the Pale Bride. She started as the same loud, angry teenager, but eventually her independent spirit was broken when her tongue was cut out. She never stopped hating the world that had wronged her, but she stopped trying to do anything about it. Worse, she started to internalize the hatred it leveled against her. The outlook she gained as a member of modern society was overwritten by the world of the Mugunghwa. She started to accept that it was her role to be polite to other people, and that nobody would be interested in anything she had to say. Nobody would help her, and there was no way to improve her situation. So, she stopped trying, and instead did the 'proper' thing and suffered in silence, right up until she decided to take drastic measures.
The third stage of her life was as *Hyun-ae, an AI on board a dead ship. *Hyun-ae had no other people to interact with, having shut down *Mute and killed everyone on board the ship. Despite being around and awake for over six hundred years, she didn't actually age mentally - she had no social interactions, just old log files to read and her own thoughts going around in circles. When she finally had someone to talk to - the investigator - she was beyond excited to have someone else to talk to, even if they could only communicate with her in multiple choice responses she had to lay out herself. She fell in love almost immediately with her savior, but would have fallen in love with just about anyone who agreed with her that women are actually people. In her new form, there were some slight quirks to her personality based on her new AI nature - she had more of a tendency to repeat herself in similar situations, and eventually forgot much about her human life, such as what things feel like, or taste like.
By the time she arrived at Earth, bits of all of these identities had coalesced to form her final personality. Finally freed from Mugunghwa society, she quickly regained her old proactive attitude, but still has a tendency to second-guess herself and undercut her own worth. She retains a desperate need for companionship brought on by her 600 years of solitude. She waxes nostalgic for sensations of touch or taste, struggling to remember what they were like after centuries as an AI construct. Her terrible life experiences left occasional spikes of bitter cynicism over her usual upbeat attitude - in particular it killed off some of her more spiritual beliefs, such as the idea that her ancestors were ever looking over her. However, now that she's free and returning to a more progressive society, a lot of her old bright-eyed optimism has resurfaced. She feels no remorse or guilt over what she did; all that she wants to come of it is for people to learn from what happened to the world she destroyed, so that something like it never rises again.
POINT OF DEPARTURE: N/A
VETERAN?: No
ABILITIES: She has a robot body, but it doesn't grant any particular superhuman capabilities. Being an AI, she can process raw data much faster than a human.
INVENTORY: The clothes on her back
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW?
Analogue/Hate+ have a lot of uncertain events based on the actions of the player, so here's my parameters:
- Female Investigator.
- Took *Hyun-ae back from the ship.
- Did not return *Hyun-ae's romantic feelings.
- Let *Hyun-ae have a robot body once they arrived on Earth. (She'll be using this in-game)
- Encouraged *Hyun-ae to testify about her experiences.
M A R K S;
JUSTIFICATION:
Hermit - She literally spent the last six hundred years alone with her thoughts, introspecting. Loneliness is one of the core themes of the game.
Death - *Hyun-ae's life is defined by jarring, dramatic transitions between different lives, each one a metaphorical death - Going into cryosleep to awaken in the Neo Joseon Dynasty, transforming from a girl in a free world to a slave-princess, destroying her entire world and literally dying in order to be reborn as an AI.
Judgment - Hate and forgiveness run throughout *Hyun-ae's story. A need to judge and condemn the world around her was what led her to commit genocide, and the central question of the story is about passing judgment on her in turn - can she be forgiven due to the extreme circumstnaces that pushed her over the edge, or is what she did unforgivable?
VETO:
Fool - Any naivety or innocence that lived within *Hyun-ae was crushed by the three years of suffering that led her to commit genocide. Even if she's starting fresh, she can't rid herself of that past.
S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE:
Thread from a previous RP
PROSE SAMPLE:
Test Drive #21