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⟐ ━━ Melanie Cortav ; Cyborg BOTU Crew Member

Postby Nawratus » Sat Jul 01, 2017 12:25 pm

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Melanie Cortav
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And I bleed when I fall down
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Name: Patient 2140, but primarily known as Melanie Cortav
Gender: Cisfemale - Preferred pronouns include she/her
Age: 21 years of age - chip makes her 30 intellectually
Species: Human/Cyborg
Skills: Due to having her chip put in recently, she has enhanced eyesight. Her chip
was designed to help her identify certain objects and species. With the chip, she's
basically a human dictionary, although with limits. Trying to track certain people or
learn classified things can give her headaches. Also if she asks too many questions for
the chip to look up, it can get overloaded and black out, making Melanie have to
reboot it. Her chip gives her access to most resources, like culture information and
language information. Just by reading the given, she can speak any language and
understand any culture about foreign visitors (alien/others)
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Melanie grew up into a pretty good life until she got an eye disease. It was so rare that the doctors had no idea what to call it. Melanie was 16 at this time, which was a pretty young age to get sick. None of the doctors in her state could help her and her mother's hope was increasingly going down. Melanie was afraid she would never see anything ever again, until a top notch science academy contacted her. A few students there, brilliant ones, had been trying to come up with a new idea to help preserve the life on Earth. Melanie was the perfect test subject for it and the reward for her services would be great. Her mother let her be a test subject, in hopes that her sight would come back. Willingly, Melanie accepted their offer and moved to the academy. They did tests on her, including chemicals, radiation and then finally technology. They hadn't had the resources to make a Cyborg, but one scientist found a loop hole. He created a chip called A.R.B.U.S., which could not technically "heal" Melanie's condition, but instead become a substitute for it. The chip helped enhance her eyesight, adding a few more levels to it. Its minimum of view is 1 inch and the maximum of view is to at least 10 feet. By asking ARBUS, Melanie can identify an object that is hidden away,
as long as it shows some sign of existence. Say she sees something shiny in the distance and can't tell what it is, ARBUS will be able to identify the object. The reason why she's called Patient 2140 is because that was the year she was successfully "healed". The government noticed the project of the students and without her mom's consent, the government stole her and used her at their own advantage. They felt that the kind of technology that was in her chip, could help soldiers and possible missions to space. Melanie was assigned to go with ICARUS to space, just in case they met a few unexpected visitors (aliens/other life forms) and she had the ability to communicate/identify them.
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I'm Only Human
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Melanie is a reserved, shy girl. Most people, when they look at her white irises, think that she is just another "robot". In fact, she's probably even more human than most test subjects. Since she wasn't created as an Android, she still has human characteristics. Melanie feels, tastes, loves, cares, basically anything that a human can do. She is a very timid person, much like a stature of a deer. She doesn't like getting herself into bad situations, so instead of using her words, she stays quiet and sheltered. ARBUS has a personality of its own. It was created to guide Melanie and care for her as if it were a real person. Although the chip itself does not feel "real" emotion, but instead replicates it. Melanie doesn't necessarily like having ARBUS always around, but she is thankful for the "fake" guidance. She has trouble with making friends and trying to enjoy herself, but once she gets comfortable in her situation, she can let loose here and there. Melanie is known for her slight sarcasm, which she portrays to those who intrigue her. To the others, she just blends in as a normal person. Melanie enjoys reading and writing, although lately she hasn't had any muse to write. If she cares about someone, she will put her life on pause, or put it in jeopardy. She is deathly loyal to those who care about her and will do anything in her power to help. Melanie has learned to be much more mature than most people her age. She enjoys things that were in the past, although most things in the future intrigue her as well. It takes awhile to get to know Melanie thoroughly, but when you do, you won't regret it.
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And I crash and I break down
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Re: ⟐ ━━LET'S GO HOME ━ Discussion & Forms ━ ⟐

Postby incarna » Sat Jul 01, 2017 12:40 pm

    ⟐ ━━ U P D A T E !

      Hello all - Incarna here :) I'm happy to say that we'll most likely be able to start early next week!
      This means that there will no longer be any 'typical' BOTU members accepted (meaning those who
      were on the ship before the crash), Earth survivors will be open throughout the roleplay.

      I'm planning to start the rp a few hours before the crash (landing) to get everything rolling. I don't have any
      specific place planned out for the landing site quite yet, but if you have an idea, feel free to
      tell us!

      I'm excited to see everyone's characters so far ;)

      In the meantime, feel free to chat! How's everyone doing? (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧

      *cough* still have to fill out my character relations
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Re: ⟐ ━━LET'S GO HOME ━ Discussion & Forms ━ ⟐

Postby passione » Sat Jul 01, 2017 4:52 pm

I'm excited!
Can't wait to get started but I might have to wait to post. I'm running a bad fever right now and am in dire need of rest.
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Re: ⟐ ━━LET'S GO HOME ━ Discussion & Forms ━ ⟐

Postby oddvocado » Sat Jul 01, 2017 6:01 pm

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fc: georgie badiel || template: fantôme

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base facts
full name kaiya balewa
nicknames n/a
age 28
gender female
specie human
sexuality bisexual

appearance
height 5' 3"
weight 125 lbs
build lean
eyes dark brown
hair black

base traits
main trait self preservation
+ traits curious, reliable, independent
open, persistent

- traits impulsive, arrogant, controlling
rebellious, stubborn

status || Green Block
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Kaiya grew in a household strict on academia: her father was a well-respected surgeon in cyborg enhancements, and her mother, though solely a homemaker, supported him without question. Stuck within the limiting parameters of expectation from her parents, Kaiya grudgingly, but successfully, became an electronics engineering technician. Desperate to evade her parents, Kaiya moved to Brooklyn immediately to study and later start her career. She would work for the Interstellar Navigation and Communication Corporation (I.N.C.C) with a small league of technicians, all of them dedicated to the development of experimentally superior means of navigation and communication systems for various mediums. [full]

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Arrogance is Kaiya's crown, gained and polished from her success in academia and her job: she flaunts it freely and probes opportunities to absorb credit for any accomplishment that she is related to. Her success could be allocated to her persistence, dedication to achievement making her a reliable ally for any task. She lives for facts and logical evaluations, her parents and youthful endeavors promoting an insatiable curiosity, but she reacts on emotional influence and impulse to situations, especially those of a high-stress nature. Because of her protective/ no-nonsense upbringing, she often finds it difficult to handle confrontation and tends to deal with the circumstance through deflection or purely ignoring it. She craves the constant sense of control which causes her to be demanding of others, but at times rebellious to their input: those she would willingly heed, someone she respects, are few. Most notably, though she will minimize its truth, Kaiya resorts to self-preservation, a tendency reinforced by the disaster and demand for survival.

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r e l a t i o n s

Key: ؟ unknown, neutral , acquaintance , ⭐︎ friends , interest, crush , partner , dislike , enemies


[.] Toph Suri Mikhailov
[.] Serena
[.] Zenith Centurion
[.] Arata Shimizu
[.] Icarus
[.] Quentin
[.] Mia Paris Harper
[.] Yuri Gagarin
[.] Isabella Heaton
[.] Dion Kasper
[.] Rän-aki Kelde
[.] Melanie Cortav
[.] Cayley "Sugar" Donovan
PM for plots..[plots]
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Re: ⟐ ━━LET'S GO HOME ━ Discussion & Forms ━ ⟐

Postby oddvocado » Sat Jul 01, 2017 6:04 pm

@Xiabrine

i concur! I am quite excited~ but also a little nervous ;-; I haven't RPd in 2 year so x_x time to get back in the groove

aww sorry to hear you're feeling so sick ;^; I hope you get better soon~ your health is most important after all <3 rest up
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Re: ⟐ ━━LET'S GO HOME ━ Discussion & Forms ━ ⟐

Postby passione » Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:35 am

Fever's almost gone and I'm feeling a lot better!
I'm starting relations today so I will be PMing those who are aboard B.O.T.U.
Earthlings will be based on first impression but I'm not going to be doing those yet.
Please feel free to PM me first, though, as I'm grabbing some pizza at the moment and won't be back for a few hours XD
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Re: ⟐ ━━LET'S GO HOME ━ Discussion & Forms ━ ⟐

Postby Snuggle Puppy » Wed Jul 05, 2017 1:07 pm

So you've been where
I've just come

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Cayley Donovan
“Sugar”
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Age – 26
Gender/Species – female/human
Orientation – heterosexual
Location - Recently arrived at The Gates attempting to stay out of trouble.
Trying to decide if she has the courage to go to The Zoo.
She misses nature.


fc;;emilie de ravin
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From the land that brings losers on

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Sugar is friendly enough. She is 26, she smiles, she is polite, she laughs.
But, she seems a bit detached. As an only child, her world was pretty small. Ha
ving lost her parents and everyone she knew, she is not in a hurry to get close to
anyone. She is purposeful and practical. She is physically strong for her light, 5’
6” wiry frame, but she purposefully stays strong in order to carry bags of supplie
s and travel. She does not have a photographic memory, but she does memorize
well and she likes to learn and study. She doesn’t spend a lot of time mourning
what has been lost, rather she often wonders what this new world will become.

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So we will share this road we walk
And mind our mouths and beware our talk

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She goes by “Sugar” now. Her father was a tenured professor
in the study of ancient peoples. He had a masters in geography
as well and dabbled with geology. The only way she had to relate
to him was through his interests so she learned a lot about these things.

He was proud of his Native American heritage,
though it was so diluted as to be negligible, witness the last na
me of Donovan. But their home was filled with Native America
n artifacts. In theory, he wanted her to know how to be a survi
valist because of their heritage, but in practice he didn’t know
any of it so he put her in scouts growing up and she learned the
basics of camping and fishing (though she doesn’t like fish).

Her mother was of Irish decent, red hair and all. She didn’t flo
ut it, it just was. Sugar wished she’d been in Ireland when the
disaster happened. She’d always wanted to go. Her mother wa
s a midwife and much preferred natural medicine and home re
medies. Sugar often assisted her mother with births and discov
ered she was not afraid of blood or gore, but she had no desire
to go into a medical field. The joy of birth and the sorrow of d
eath didn’t really touch her deeply. What she really liked was
nature.

Her parents may have been psychic when they named
her “Cayley” which means “of the forest”. She liked hiking alo
ne in the woods and observing wildlife. She liked sketching pla
nt-life (though she’s only an adequate artist) and classifying pl
ants and memorizing types of trees. She didn’t actually like ga
rdening, but she liked plants. She planned to be a botanist or
a forest ranger, however, she was only in her second year at c
ollege when the bombs hit. She was 20. After her freshman ye
ar, she had taken a year off to travel the country in a van wit
h 3 friends. It was fun and felt rebellious, but after awhile it a
lso felt pointless. She needs a goal or purpose to drive her life.

The university her father taught at and which she attended wa
s a bomb shelter, and well-provisioned, not to mention stocked
with great minds who could solve problems and create resourc
es from little. However, after the first year an illness broke out.
It was never identified, and despite everyone’s efforts eventual
ly killed off most everyone. Little by little people left. While he
r parents were some of the last to die, they eventually succumbed.

She had not realized how much she loved her parents until they
were gone. After everything and feeling all alone, she gave in to
depression. She left like most everyone else had already done, i
ll-prepared and not caring. The loss of life from the war was a h
orror, and on a smaller scale, the plague at the university. The l
oss of her parents, was a tragedy. And the loss of plants and ani
mals, more and more evident as she wandered, became a daily
ache that shadowed her soul. Eventually, she sat down on a dir
ty mattress she found in a gas station and could not go on.

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She had no idea how long she was there. She didn’t eat or drink,
but the next thing she knew there was a rather large older
woman with long, stringy white hair that wouldn’t stay pulled
back in its bun, tending to her and making her drink, then eat,
talking to her constantly. That was Ruby. Ruby was from the south
and kept calling her “Sugar” since she was barely able to talk.

Though her strength returned, her will to engage in life did no
t and for a time she continued to be mute. Ruby was not both
ered. She didn’t actually need another person to keep up a co
nversation. Eventually, Sugar began to feel guilty about being
cared for and not contributing, so she started helping out and
started talking. However, she didn’t talk much about her past
or family and decided to keep “Sugar” as her name and make
a new start.

After awhile, she and Ruby travelled to a big city together. In
the big city, they found a group to make a home with, but Su
gar would be harassed on the street by other groups. She dec
ided she did not want to be a victim in this new world, so she
found a library and read about martial arts skills (what she ha
d learned in karate class at age 12 was not enough). With the
help of a few mentors, she learned some basic self-defense.
She’d never be a warrior, but she could protect herself.

She also wanted more to do than scavenge. She wanted a pla
ce in life. After, the experience at the college, having had Ru
by tend her back to health, with her experience as her mothe
r’s assistant and some background knowledge in plants and n
atural medicine, she began to study where she could and quiz
anyone in the know about medicine in this new world. She ke
pt notes and sketches in journals and collected medical suppl
ies when she found them. She would have a use and a purpose.

One day she was attacked on the street and with a bit of luck,
she was able to stab her attacker in the chest. He lay unconsc
ious and she was angry. Squatting down beside him, detached,
she decided to watch him bleed to death, thinking of it as a m
edical experiment. But, she finally decided to patch him up an
d she left him there. She didn’t think she wanted him to live,
but she wasn’t sure. Maybe he was just desperate. Maybe he r
eally was a bad guy. But she didn’t think she wanted to be the
reason he died either. She didn’t think.

After a year and a half with that group, she had not settled in.
Maybe she was more of a loner. The only person she felt conne
cted to was Ruby. So, she decided she would travel. She has sp
ent months at a time in various towns and cities reading medic
al journals, survival books and herb lore. A healer is usually we
lcome wherever they go. And maybe she will find a new home
one day.

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Sugar's Relationships:


In general, Sugar is ambivalent about AI’s and androids. She did not have any close, personal experience with any, though they were a part of her culture. But, her family just tended to center around human ideas and experiences rather than technology. So, she has no particularly negative feelings, but they are a bit of an unknown for her. Nothing to be feared, just different. Cyborgs, she generally views as entirely human if they mostly look like it, unless they present themselves otherwise.
[ } = conflicting emotions ] [ ? = uncertain ]

B.O.T.U.
Icarus [}] : Should she ever meet Icarus, her feelings would be mixed. On the one hand, she would hold him in a kind of hidden awe and want to ask him a thousand questions about the world and what happened, though she may not dare to. On the other hand, she would find his sharp tongue distasteful.

Quentin [Pos.]: Sugar would be drawn to Quentin, not romantically, just the interesting combination of both knowledge and curiosity along with kindness. He would be easy for her to be around. But it doesn’t sound like he would seek company much, so she would probably be pleasantly reserved unless circumstance put them together at a common task.

Mia Paris Harper [Neu.]: : Sugar would be frustrated by Mia’s inability to accept help. She would suspect the image and the bravado as hiding something, but she wouldn’t dig deep. She would respect Mia’s mind, but would get frustrated with the messiness. Sugar’s not a neat freak, just practical. Messy isn’t practical.

Yuri Gagarin [Pos.]: She would find it difficult to relate to a machine with no humanoid body as a person, but I have no doubt with their first conversation she would find Yuri’s personality engaging, fascinating and fun. They could have many long conversations about random thoughts and imagination. He would bring wonder back into her life.

Isabella Heaton [Pos.] : She would want to pity Isabella for her accident, but Izzy probably doesn’t allow or need pity, so Sugar would quickly learn to overlook the mechanics and forget they are there at all. She would greatly respect Izzy’s plant knowledge and desire to learn from her.

Dion Kasper [Neu.] : She wouldn’t quite be sure what to make of Dion. As a child, he would almost bring out a protective streak in Sugar that she didn’t know she had, but I think his personality would make her hold him responsible for his own actions. She would probably end up approaching him with a very matter-of-fact attitude, enjoying his curiosity and antics quietly, but glad to not be responsible for him.

Rän-aki Kelde [Neu.] : Sugar could see Ran-aki as a peer. They may not be best friends, but she could respect her. Sugar would tend to think of her as older than herself, because of Ran-aki’s former roles as wife and mother which she would subconsciously respect, but given that Ran-aki’s personality hasn’t changed much since she was 21, these facts would probably balance each other out and she would consider her a neutral peer.

Melanie Cortav [Pos.] : She would enjoy Melanie’s vast knowledge on the humanities. She would have a soft spot for Melanie and would be surprised by her desire to protect her. She would find ARBUS confusing, and if they talk about it, she might almost come to view them (ARBUS and Melanie) as brother and sister.


Earth
Toph Suri Mikhailov [Neg.] : Sugar would find Toph more trouble than she’s worth. Dangerous and better left alone. She would like Toph’s parents’ story, but Toph would probably never share that with her.

Serena [Neu/Pos.] : While Sugar would almost feel like Melanie is a kindred spirit, she doesn’t quite trust Serena’s kind and open personality, even though it is genuine. She doesn’t at all dislike her. Serena is sweet. But, she wouldn’t feel deeply about her. She might also, secretly, feel a little inferior given Serena’s actual medical training at her father’s side. But she does find Serena’s purple beautiful.

Zenith Centurion [Neu.] : With no emotion, Zenith would probably fade into the background in Sugar’s estimation, as something of an appendage to Arata. But, if Zenith’s “affinity for plants and animals” came up, there would be a point of connection. For Sugar, Zenith would be one of those “things that make you go ‘hmmm’”.

Arata Shimizu [?] : Sugar would admire his achievements and acknowledge his great ability, but since she has little interest in technology, there would be no hero worship and no common point of interest. He might remind her of her father just a bit. If they did develop a relationship, she would be sure to ask him to teach her aikido. And if they became “friends”, she would be concerned about his health. I don’t think they would “get” each other. But if they happened to run into each other, and if he deigned to notice her, they could be strange friends, of a sort, I think. On her part anyway.

Kaiya Balewa [?] : Their relationship will probably depend on their first meeting. Sugar would have a lot of respect for Kaiya, her achievements, knowledge and upbringing. But Kaiya’s personality would probably put Sugar on guard and it may take awhile for her to notice her good qualities. However, if their first meeting is one in which Kaiya’s positive qualities shine, Sugar would try very hard to overlook the arrogance and stubbornness, valuing what Kaiya can bring to the table.
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Re: ⟐ ━━LET'S GO HOME ━ Discussion & Forms ━ ⟐

Postby incarna » Wed Jul 05, 2017 1:10 pm

    Hello guys!
    I'm going to start writing the first post(s) now, so bear with me (。•́‿•̀。)
    We'll likely start tomorrow.

    @Xiabrine Good to hear you're feeling better! Being sick always sucks.
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Re: ⟐ ━━LET'S GO HOME ━ Discussion & Forms ━ ⟐

Postby incarna » Thu Jul 06, 2017 6:07 pm

    excuse the double post! vv

    the first post is officially up! *slow claps*
    yes, that took way too long (my apologies)
    - currently the BOTU is in critical condition; most of the crew is likely to be in the navigation/engine room.
    - check below the recap section for weather, time, etc.!

    i look forward to seeing you guys' posts! *-*
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