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Dec. 15th, 2023 01:00 amPLAYER INFO
Player Name: Drizz
• Player Contact: How can we contact you? Plurk? Discord? PM? Messenger Pigeon? Message in a bottle?
• Player Age: 27
• Permissions: We ask that all players fill out a permissions form for both OOC/IC. Link it Here.
CHARACTER INFO
• Character Name: WDID: UZI/Uzi Doorman
• Character Age: 17
• Character Canon: Murder Drones
• Canon Point: Episode 6, right before getting her arm sliced off.
• Character History: One wiki page with hopefully enough required info
• Character Personality: Provide information about their personality, both negative and positive aspects — with three of each. Give examples of how they've behaved this way. You do not need to provide an essay, but please submit enough to give a feel for the character.
— Positive Trait: When you’re part of a race of autonomous, sentient worker drones, freed from their servitude by a freak cataclysm that killed all humans on their exoplanet, only to later be hunted down by “disassembly drones” sent to purge you for perceived corruptions... you’d fight back, right? Cuz that’s sensible and all that. Except you don’t. Instead, you build a couple of super doors and decide to hide behind them and never worry about the killer robots constantly trying to get in ever again.
Then you wouldn’t be Uzi.
The most immediate trait of Uzi worth discussing, perhaps the defining trait of her, is that she is a diehard rebel. Not (fully) for angsty teen reasons, but also because she loathes the way almost everyone around her is just so apathetic to the way things are to try and affect any change. So, she rebels to show that they don’t need to be afraid of the Murder Drones by building a sick as heck railgun that can harm them. Then, she decides she’s going to rebel further by outright banishing herself from the community (that doesn’t last) and vowing to kill all humans for trying to destroy them (that doesn’t last either).
Even with her “edgy loner persona” not lasting for very long as she’s drawn into the greater conflict, her ultimately strong sense of altruism still persists in striking back against the status quo. Standing up to humans and, in general, questioning the way of things that usually leads to people suffering, and trying to prevent any more of it.
Yes, that includes her dad. Who does love her more than doors, ultimately.
— Positive Trait: As a kickass rebel, it may not be surprising that Uzi is fiercely inquisitive. She’s not just intelligent, she’s savvy. Building a railgun is one thing, but upon meeting a disassembly drone for the first time she not only manages to outwit him but uses a flaw to piece together how the murder drones have been sent to die on their world by the corporation with little explanation as to why. Her wits continue to keep her alive in fights against disassembly drones and eldritch monstrosities that are definitely outside her weight class (which is definitely small). Not that it always saves her, as she’s put in danger quite often, but having friends who have her back keeps her on her toes.
Even before meeting N and V the disassembly drones, Uzi had been piecing together clues about what had happened to her mother... and what was currently happening to her. An awoken ability, shortly after her “banishment” manifested in her eye. Strange symbols that can destroy mirrors and manipulate objects. All things that turned up on the conspiracy board she keeps hanging on the ceiling in her bedroom.
Almost always quick on the draw, it’s hard to genuinely surprise Uzi unless you’re something completely unexpected. Attempt to trap her with a fake crying baby in a hallway? She’ll shoot at it. Stun her with magnets and dissect her on a table while talking about her lost mother? That’ll get her good.
— Positive Trait: Admittedly, the best quality Uzi can offer comes from her own constipated feelings. Having so much trouble connected to others (not much to do when you sit on your desk like a cat or hide in trash cans) means she is undoubtedly loyal to the ones she manages to form bonds with. Under that rebellious, hot-topic attitude is a girl who can get along with almost anyone if they both commit. Her bond with N the disassembly drone, specifically, rises from a shared sense of rebellion and grows into both a strong friendship and a budding romance neither of which are fully prepared for.
Alternately, there’s V, the other drone that forms Uzi’s unorthodox trio. At first, they got along like a house on fire, given that Uzi compromised her and N’s mission, and kept digging into their past as dark truths resurfaced. Sure, they all tried to kill each other at one point or another, but by the time V is ready to sacrifice herself for the others safety, she trusts Uzi implicitly to look out for N. She’s right to, as Uzi cares deeply about N. Possibly more than anyone, given he was her first true friend.
Even back home at Outpost 3, among other worker drones that sometimes forget she even exists, Uzi can’t bring herself to not protect them when she’s able... That is to say, when she murders some of them in a blind rage (long story) she at least feels bad about it?
— Negative Trait: As previously stated, over and over, Uzi is, a rebel! Edgy and aloof, standing out among the crowd as a rude loner who doesn’t play well with others and doesn’t care about it!
Except, Uzi cares a lot. A whole lot. Deep down, deeper than the loyalty she expresses, she’s lonely as hell. And deeply self-conscious about it. Who knows when the people who actually acknowledge her will suddenly decide that she’s not worth being around and move on? Even in the midst of an Absolute Solver-invoked murderous rampage, she can’t help worrying that N will leave her for the other drones who don’t even remember she exists, despite spending their whole lives together!!
It’s this fear, and the resultant damage to her self-esteem, that bolsters Uzi to become a rebel in the first place. You aren’t known as the disappointment of your dad across the whole outpost without that creating some issues. For a short while, her dad leaving her to die to the Murder Drones as he hides behind the outpost doors was the final straw for her to abandon all of them for good. Though she returned, their relationship was soured until her dad, Khan finally apologizes and let her in on the secrets her missing mother had been hiding.
In fact, it’s perhaps this reason why the story continues as it does, with Uzi joining the Murder Drones, N and V, forming a tense (at first) allyship that becomes a true friendship before long, no matter each others quirks. Despite trying to kill her in their first meeting, N, and V, become some of the few drones that understand Uzi the most.
— Negative Trait: Yes, it’s a good thing that Uzi is so damn inquisitive, and digging into the secrets of her surroundings to find the clues. But slowly piecing together the intricate web of lies and secrets that have scarred Copper 9 wasn’t doable without leaving its own marks on Uzi. As such, it’s little wonder that others see her as more than a little paranoid.
Which, to be clear, she is. You don’t have your own, already-established conspiracy board before the weird things really start happening. Apparently, such things were literally inherited from her mother, Nori, who received terrifying visions of things to come. Now, just because those visions of the disassembly drones and the Absolute Solver were correct it doesn’t mean Uzi is right about everything. Her hunches lead her down the right paths, but it’s also set her up for most of her life worrying about the things around her.
Desperate to find out what’s wrong with her, Uzi pushes forwards almost entirely on her own, accepting help when its only clear that they’re all in the same boat. Worrying otherwise that the others won’t care about her, which feeds into her other self-esteem issues and the rebel personality she exudes to handle it. Her angsty conspiracy wall is tucked safely inside her bedroom, where no one can see – save for her dad, who stores the whole thing with the rest of Nori’s prophetic visions, much to Uzi’s ire. Even if she wanted to explain her investigations to anyone who mattered, included her dad, she’d rather keep it locked tight, for fear of their safety.
— Negative Trait: Unstable might not be the term you’d use to describe Uzi. But... it wouldn’t be incorrect that she has her... moments.
After all, who else would bring an untested railgun to class instead of doing an assignment on buying watermelons? Let alone turn it on for a test when she admits it doesn’t work. But that, and her conspiracy wall of red string and self-admitted “crazed ramblings”... and the occasional bouts of unhinged, maniacal laughter – typically whie she’s wielding a weapon or announcing her vengeance – doesn’t really mean that Uzi is less stable than her classmate or the average Worker Drone, right?
Perhaps it could be chalked up to the life the drones lead; hiding for their lives, and living in general apathy when their robot brethren meet a gruesome end. Nevermind the top secret laboratories that were experimenting on drones with the Absolute Solver before the worldwide cataclysm that wiped out all humans. Uzi’s world is dark and dangerous, and it’s little wonder that she could be the same if she stopped caring.
Case in point: Uzi’s own Absolute Solver form. Brought on by the use of her burgeoning powers, a dangerous force that takes hold of Uzi the more she uses them, overheating her body, twisting it, giving her fleshcovered wings a semi-sentient tail with a fanged stinger, and an insatiable bloodlust to kill. In this form, Uzi has become a Murder Drone, down to their weaknesses, and at least at first, she could not control it. Becoming a monster that mowed down her classmates, and almost killed V, giggling maniacally the whole way while Uzi’s conscious mind could only sit back and watch. She was eventually talked out of this mental block but it’s impossible to say that not even a small portion of the wave of cannibalistic violence didn’t belong to her.
• Character Skills: Does your character have any particular skills that might help them in game? Maybe they have knowledge of firearms, carpentry, fishing, maybe foraging or how to make clothes. List them here in bullet-point form:
• Uzi’s knowledge of firearms is quite extensive... but mainly directed towards the hard science variety. She at least knows HOW to fire a gun.
• Hacking skills. Which are useless!
• Technology repair skills. Also possibly useless!
• In general, Uzi’s type of robot was designed to need no food or water – but they can still rest – along with surviving harsh environments, so she has that going for her. She can also do acrobatics thanks to pirated anime.
•And there’s the whole Absolute Solver issue, which is... that’s a whole other thing down below. (nerfed)
• Character Inventory: Characters may bring THREE items with them. These can be items a character owns, but might not happen to have on their person when they are brought to this world. They may bring tools they may already own to help them survive, or cherished personal items. The clothes they're wearing do not count as a slot, but if they have really good winter coat at home, that would count as a slot.
— ITEM ONE: A railgun! A magnetically amplified photon converger that can blow a regenerating robot’s head to smithereens... At least it would. Because even if technology could work here, which it can’t, it’s still heavily damaged from a previous altercation (but at least not exploded somehow).
— ITEM TWO: Uzi’s Backpack, which is full of perfectly normal parts and- no, that’s a lie. There’s “bloody” robot parts in here. The blood is oil, since. Robots.
— ITEM THREE: An old, oil-stained wrench. It’s been bent into an odd angle.
• Important Notes: Claps hands, OKAY SO
Uzi is a robot, of course, which will lead to some minor issues with the Aurora, but that’s not the relevant note. Uzi also happens to be a holder of the Absolute Solver infection – Absolute Solver being short for “Solver of the Absolute Fabric” an artificial intelligence that came into being through currently unknown means that might have something to do with piles of discarded, improperly deactivated drones and some eldritch know-how. It’s unclear. What is clear is the Solver infecting apparently damaged A.I. and mutating them, granting them the ability to manipulate matter around them with a flick of their hand, including themselves. Uzi can reform damaged things, stop bullets in midair, and even turn inert material into living flesh, in one gruesome and unplanned moment.
She’s also been granted most of the general abilities of the Disassembly drones/Murder drones. With her own odd twists. These include a harmful reaction to being in direct sunlight, and the generation of fleshy wings to fly with, and the aforementioned semi-sapient tail. These things aren’t in themselves robotic, but they do come from the Absolute Solver, so I could really go either way with them being nullified. ITS A LOT I KNOW, I’m willing to go over anything that needs to be discussed.
ADDENDUM now that it's been discussed:
Uzi's Solver abilities will be nerfed entirely, including her wings and the healing factor of the disassembly drones that I totally forgot to add I'm sorry. Her weakness to direct sunlight will be nerfed into being harmful but not fatal. And while Uzi's robotic race was designed to work in the harsh conditions of an exoplanet, she's still very susceptible to damage and will accordingly avoid throwing herself into self-destructive situations (hopefully).
• Writing Samples: Players must provide TWO prose writing samples. These both must be log threads. Due to the fact there is no network in this game, 'network' or 'texting'-style threads will not be accepted.
— SAMPLE ONE: Here
— SAMPLE TWO: Here
Player Name: Drizz
• Player Contact: How can we contact you? Plurk? Discord? PM? Messenger Pigeon? Message in a bottle?
• Player Age: 27
• Permissions: We ask that all players fill out a permissions form for both OOC/IC. Link it Here.
CHARACTER INFO
• Character Name: WDID: UZI/Uzi Doorman
• Character Age: 17
• Character Canon: Murder Drones
• Canon Point: Episode 6, right before getting her arm sliced off.
• Character History: One wiki page with hopefully enough required info
• Character Personality: Provide information about their personality, both negative and positive aspects — with three of each. Give examples of how they've behaved this way. You do not need to provide an essay, but please submit enough to give a feel for the character.
— Positive Trait: When you’re part of a race of autonomous, sentient worker drones, freed from their servitude by a freak cataclysm that killed all humans on their exoplanet, only to later be hunted down by “disassembly drones” sent to purge you for perceived corruptions... you’d fight back, right? Cuz that’s sensible and all that. Except you don’t. Instead, you build a couple of super doors and decide to hide behind them and never worry about the killer robots constantly trying to get in ever again.
Then you wouldn’t be Uzi.
The most immediate trait of Uzi worth discussing, perhaps the defining trait of her, is that she is a diehard rebel. Not (fully) for angsty teen reasons, but also because she loathes the way almost everyone around her is just so apathetic to the way things are to try and affect any change. So, she rebels to show that they don’t need to be afraid of the Murder Drones by building a sick as heck railgun that can harm them. Then, she decides she’s going to rebel further by outright banishing herself from the community (that doesn’t last) and vowing to kill all humans for trying to destroy them (that doesn’t last either).
Even with her “edgy loner persona” not lasting for very long as she’s drawn into the greater conflict, her ultimately strong sense of altruism still persists in striking back against the status quo. Standing up to humans and, in general, questioning the way of things that usually leads to people suffering, and trying to prevent any more of it.
Yes, that includes her dad. Who does love her more than doors, ultimately.
— Positive Trait: As a kickass rebel, it may not be surprising that Uzi is fiercely inquisitive. She’s not just intelligent, she’s savvy. Building a railgun is one thing, but upon meeting a disassembly drone for the first time she not only manages to outwit him but uses a flaw to piece together how the murder drones have been sent to die on their world by the corporation with little explanation as to why. Her wits continue to keep her alive in fights against disassembly drones and eldritch monstrosities that are definitely outside her weight class (which is definitely small). Not that it always saves her, as she’s put in danger quite often, but having friends who have her back keeps her on her toes.
Even before meeting N and V the disassembly drones, Uzi had been piecing together clues about what had happened to her mother... and what was currently happening to her. An awoken ability, shortly after her “banishment” manifested in her eye. Strange symbols that can destroy mirrors and manipulate objects. All things that turned up on the conspiracy board she keeps hanging on the ceiling in her bedroom.
Almost always quick on the draw, it’s hard to genuinely surprise Uzi unless you’re something completely unexpected. Attempt to trap her with a fake crying baby in a hallway? She’ll shoot at it. Stun her with magnets and dissect her on a table while talking about her lost mother? That’ll get her good.
— Positive Trait: Admittedly, the best quality Uzi can offer comes from her own constipated feelings. Having so much trouble connected to others (not much to do when you sit on your desk like a cat or hide in trash cans) means she is undoubtedly loyal to the ones she manages to form bonds with. Under that rebellious, hot-topic attitude is a girl who can get along with almost anyone if they both commit. Her bond with N the disassembly drone, specifically, rises from a shared sense of rebellion and grows into both a strong friendship and a budding romance neither of which are fully prepared for.
Alternately, there’s V, the other drone that forms Uzi’s unorthodox trio. At first, they got along like a house on fire, given that Uzi compromised her and N’s mission, and kept digging into their past as dark truths resurfaced. Sure, they all tried to kill each other at one point or another, but by the time V is ready to sacrifice herself for the others safety, she trusts Uzi implicitly to look out for N. She’s right to, as Uzi cares deeply about N. Possibly more than anyone, given he was her first true friend.
Even back home at Outpost 3, among other worker drones that sometimes forget she even exists, Uzi can’t bring herself to not protect them when she’s able... That is to say, when she murders some of them in a blind rage (long story) she at least feels bad about it?
— Negative Trait: As previously stated, over and over, Uzi is, a rebel! Edgy and aloof, standing out among the crowd as a rude loner who doesn’t play well with others and doesn’t care about it!
Except, Uzi cares a lot. A whole lot. Deep down, deeper than the loyalty she expresses, she’s lonely as hell. And deeply self-conscious about it. Who knows when the people who actually acknowledge her will suddenly decide that she’s not worth being around and move on? Even in the midst of an Absolute Solver-invoked murderous rampage, she can’t help worrying that N will leave her for the other drones who don’t even remember she exists, despite spending their whole lives together!!
It’s this fear, and the resultant damage to her self-esteem, that bolsters Uzi to become a rebel in the first place. You aren’t known as the disappointment of your dad across the whole outpost without that creating some issues. For a short while, her dad leaving her to die to the Murder Drones as he hides behind the outpost doors was the final straw for her to abandon all of them for good. Though she returned, their relationship was soured until her dad, Khan finally apologizes and let her in on the secrets her missing mother had been hiding.
In fact, it’s perhaps this reason why the story continues as it does, with Uzi joining the Murder Drones, N and V, forming a tense (at first) allyship that becomes a true friendship before long, no matter each others quirks. Despite trying to kill her in their first meeting, N, and V, become some of the few drones that understand Uzi the most.
— Negative Trait: Yes, it’s a good thing that Uzi is so damn inquisitive, and digging into the secrets of her surroundings to find the clues. But slowly piecing together the intricate web of lies and secrets that have scarred Copper 9 wasn’t doable without leaving its own marks on Uzi. As such, it’s little wonder that others see her as more than a little paranoid.
Which, to be clear, she is. You don’t have your own, already-established conspiracy board before the weird things really start happening. Apparently, such things were literally inherited from her mother, Nori, who received terrifying visions of things to come. Now, just because those visions of the disassembly drones and the Absolute Solver were correct it doesn’t mean Uzi is right about everything. Her hunches lead her down the right paths, but it’s also set her up for most of her life worrying about the things around her.
Desperate to find out what’s wrong with her, Uzi pushes forwards almost entirely on her own, accepting help when its only clear that they’re all in the same boat. Worrying otherwise that the others won’t care about her, which feeds into her other self-esteem issues and the rebel personality she exudes to handle it. Her angsty conspiracy wall is tucked safely inside her bedroom, where no one can see – save for her dad, who stores the whole thing with the rest of Nori’s prophetic visions, much to Uzi’s ire. Even if she wanted to explain her investigations to anyone who mattered, included her dad, she’d rather keep it locked tight, for fear of their safety.
— Negative Trait: Unstable might not be the term you’d use to describe Uzi. But... it wouldn’t be incorrect that she has her... moments.
After all, who else would bring an untested railgun to class instead of doing an assignment on buying watermelons? Let alone turn it on for a test when she admits it doesn’t work. But that, and her conspiracy wall of red string and self-admitted “crazed ramblings”... and the occasional bouts of unhinged, maniacal laughter – typically whie she’s wielding a weapon or announcing her vengeance – doesn’t really mean that Uzi is less stable than her classmate or the average Worker Drone, right?
Perhaps it could be chalked up to the life the drones lead; hiding for their lives, and living in general apathy when their robot brethren meet a gruesome end. Nevermind the top secret laboratories that were experimenting on drones with the Absolute Solver before the worldwide cataclysm that wiped out all humans. Uzi’s world is dark and dangerous, and it’s little wonder that she could be the same if she stopped caring.
Case in point: Uzi’s own Absolute Solver form. Brought on by the use of her burgeoning powers, a dangerous force that takes hold of Uzi the more she uses them, overheating her body, twisting it, giving her fleshcovered wings a semi-sentient tail with a fanged stinger, and an insatiable bloodlust to kill. In this form, Uzi has become a Murder Drone, down to their weaknesses, and at least at first, she could not control it. Becoming a monster that mowed down her classmates, and almost killed V, giggling maniacally the whole way while Uzi’s conscious mind could only sit back and watch. She was eventually talked out of this mental block but it’s impossible to say that not even a small portion of the wave of cannibalistic violence didn’t belong to her.
• Character Skills: Does your character have any particular skills that might help them in game? Maybe they have knowledge of firearms, carpentry, fishing, maybe foraging or how to make clothes. List them here in bullet-point form:
• Uzi’s knowledge of firearms is quite extensive... but mainly directed towards the hard science variety. She at least knows HOW to fire a gun.
• Hacking skills. Which are useless!
• Technology repair skills. Also possibly useless!
• In general, Uzi’s type of robot was designed to need no food or water – but they can still rest – along with surviving harsh environments, so she has that going for her. She can also do acrobatics thanks to pirated anime.
•And there’s the whole Absolute Solver issue, which is... that’s a whole other thing down below. (nerfed)
• Character Inventory: Characters may bring THREE items with them. These can be items a character owns, but might not happen to have on their person when they are brought to this world. They may bring tools they may already own to help them survive, or cherished personal items. The clothes they're wearing do not count as a slot, but if they have really good winter coat at home, that would count as a slot.
— ITEM ONE: A railgun! A magnetically amplified photon converger that can blow a regenerating robot’s head to smithereens... At least it would. Because even if technology could work here, which it can’t, it’s still heavily damaged from a previous altercation (but at least not exploded somehow).
— ITEM TWO: Uzi’s Backpack, which is full of perfectly normal parts and- no, that’s a lie. There’s “bloody” robot parts in here. The blood is oil, since. Robots.
— ITEM THREE: An old, oil-stained wrench. It’s been bent into an odd angle.
• Important Notes: Claps hands, OKAY SO
Uzi is a robot, of course, which will lead to some minor issues with the Aurora, but that’s not the relevant note. Uzi also happens to be a holder of the Absolute Solver infection – Absolute Solver being short for “Solver of the Absolute Fabric” an artificial intelligence that came into being through currently unknown means that might have something to do with piles of discarded, improperly deactivated drones and some eldritch know-how. It’s unclear. What is clear is the Solver infecting apparently damaged A.I. and mutating them, granting them the ability to manipulate matter around them with a flick of their hand, including themselves. Uzi can reform damaged things, stop bullets in midair, and even turn inert material into living flesh, in one gruesome and unplanned moment.
She’s also been granted most of the general abilities of the Disassembly drones/Murder drones. With her own odd twists. These include a harmful reaction to being in direct sunlight, and the generation of fleshy wings to fly with, and the aforementioned semi-sapient tail. These things aren’t in themselves robotic, but they do come from the Absolute Solver, so I could really go either way with them being nullified. ITS A LOT I KNOW, I’m willing to go over anything that needs to be discussed.
ADDENDUM now that it's been discussed:
Uzi's Solver abilities will be nerfed entirely, including her wings and the healing factor of the disassembly drones that I totally forgot to add I'm sorry. Her weakness to direct sunlight will be nerfed into being harmful but not fatal. And while Uzi's robotic race was designed to work in the harsh conditions of an exoplanet, she's still very susceptible to damage and will accordingly avoid throwing herself into self-destructive situations (hopefully).
• Writing Samples: Players must provide TWO prose writing samples. These both must be log threads. Due to the fact there is no network in this game, 'network' or 'texting'-style threads will not be accepted.
— SAMPLE ONE: Here
— SAMPLE TWO: Here