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hatefuldays) wrote2016-01-01 11:28 pm
hatefuldays) wrote2016-01-01 11:28 pm
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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Prof
AGE: 29
JOURNAL:prof
IM / EMAIL: --
PLURK:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
ProfessorProf
RETURNING: No
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: *Hyun-ae
CHARACTER AGE: Either 16 or 638, depending on how you count it
SERIES: Analogue: A Hate Story / Hate Plus
CHRONOLOGY: After the events of Hate Plus. *Hyun-ae Platonic route, Survivor's Testimony ending. Immediately after powering down for transfer to robot body.
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Opting in!
BACKGROUND:
Whether or not there's a wiki for this, *Hyun-ae's past is convoluted enough that it's worth going over in detail.
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.
So 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.
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 possibly 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.
POWER:
Robot body: *Hyun-ae is occupying a robot body, with a frame resembling a flesh-and-blood human closely enough to pass as one. Her physical strength isn't any higher than average, but she doesn't need to eat, drink or sleep to live.
Hologram projection: Non-canon power. *Hyun-ae has a program that she can give to anyone, allowing them to run it on a computer or mobile device. When the program is running, and when *Hyun-ae has access to the internet, she can connect to their computer and use it to project a hologram body. *Hyun-ae can see, hear, and talk from her hologram body, which looks enough like her that it can pass for a real person under casual (but not close) scrutiny. However, the hologram can't physically interact with anything, and can't stray more than a few meters from the projecting device.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
Happy New Years, everyone! It's not exactly when I'm used to celebrating, but as long as I'm in America, I might as well try to do things the American way.
So, the big thing you're supposed to do is to reflect on how your life has changed in the last year, then make resolutions about the next year, right? Well, this was definitely a weird but exciting year for me. I made contact with humanity for the first time in forever! I left my home ship behind, and finally made it to Earth! Then, the whole imPort thing happened? Honestly, it's almost weird to think that I'm the same person I was a year ago at all. Overall, despite all the weirdness, it's just been a really, really good year. Maybe the best year of my life, when I think about it.
So, resolutions for the next year!
* I resolve to learn how to bake! I know some recipes, but I've never gotten a chance to actually try any of them.
* I resolve to get a real job! Even if I'm getting free housing from the government, I'd reall like to earn my own living for once in my life, you know?
* I resolve to visit Pyongyang this year, the city where my parents met. If not in person, hopefully I can at least find a way to get a hologram over there...
* I resolve to find a way to use my powers to help people, instead of just entertaining myself.
That's not too many, but thtey're pretty big, so I'll leave it at four. Here's hoping the rest of you all have a great year! ^~^
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Here. Disregard the narration gag about the 30th century - it's a mistake, since she was born in the 25th century.
FINAL NOTES:
*Hyun-ae's canon has several endings. The details of mine are: Investigator rejected *Hyun-ae's love confession, but brought her back to Earth as a friend. Investigator gave *Hyun-ae a robot body. Investigator let *Hyun-ae choose whether or not to testify about her actions, and she decided she would.
NAME: Prof
AGE: 29
JOURNAL:
profIM / EMAIL: --
PLURK:
RETURNING: No
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: *Hyun-ae
CHARACTER AGE: Either 16 or 638, depending on how you count it
SERIES: Analogue: A Hate Story / Hate Plus
CHRONOLOGY: After the events of Hate Plus. *Hyun-ae Platonic route, Survivor's Testimony ending. Immediately after powering down for transfer to robot body.
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Opting in!
BACKGROUND:
Whether or not there's a wiki for this, *Hyun-ae's past is convoluted enough that it's worth going over in detail.
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.
So 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.
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 possibly 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.
POWER:
Robot body: *Hyun-ae is occupying a robot body, with a frame resembling a flesh-and-blood human closely enough to pass as one. Her physical strength isn't any higher than average, but she doesn't need to eat, drink or sleep to live.
Hologram projection: Non-canon power. *Hyun-ae has a program that she can give to anyone, allowing them to run it on a computer or mobile device. When the program is running, and when *Hyun-ae has access to the internet, she can connect to their computer and use it to project a hologram body. *Hyun-ae can see, hear, and talk from her hologram body, which looks enough like her that it can pass for a real person under casual (but not close) scrutiny. However, the hologram can't physically interact with anything, and can't stray more than a few meters from the projecting device.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
Happy New Years, everyone! It's not exactly when I'm used to celebrating, but as long as I'm in America, I might as well try to do things the American way.
So, the big thing you're supposed to do is to reflect on how your life has changed in the last year, then make resolutions about the next year, right? Well, this was definitely a weird but exciting year for me. I made contact with humanity for the first time in forever! I left my home ship behind, and finally made it to Earth! Then, the whole imPort thing happened? Honestly, it's almost weird to think that I'm the same person I was a year ago at all. Overall, despite all the weirdness, it's just been a really, really good year. Maybe the best year of my life, when I think about it.
So, resolutions for the next year!
* I resolve to learn how to bake! I know some recipes, but I've never gotten a chance to actually try any of them.
* I resolve to get a real job! Even if I'm getting free housing from the government, I'd reall like to earn my own living for once in my life, you know?
* I resolve to visit Pyongyang this year, the city where my parents met. If not in person, hopefully I can at least find a way to get a hologram over there...
* I resolve to find a way to use my powers to help people, instead of just entertaining myself.
That's not too many, but thtey're pretty big, so I'll leave it at four. Here's hoping the rest of you all have a great year! ^~^
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Here. Disregard the narration gag about the 30th century - it's a mistake, since she was born in the 25th century.
FINAL NOTES:
*Hyun-ae's canon has several endings. The details of mine are: Investigator rejected *Hyun-ae's love confession, but brought her back to Earth as a friend. Investigator gave *Hyun-ae a robot body. Investigator let *Hyun-ae choose whether or not to testify about her actions, and she decided she would.