Post by Emery on Apr 16, 2021 11:09:54 GMT -6
Name: Emery Arlon
Species: Human… originally, at least.
Gender: Female
Age: 35
Native Language: Common
Level: 10
Physical Description:
Imagine a person who’s average height, about 5’6. Average build. Perhaps a little athletic. Tanned skin, dark brown straight hair. Eyes with a little glimmer in them, lips quirking up into a smile.
Now throw her into a blender and strap several dozen medical devices of dubious origin and function onto her well-diced body in a desperate attempt to keep her from kicking the bucket and then wait a few years and you’ll get someone who looks like Emery. She is, to not put too fine a point on it, exhausted. Any former athleticism has left her as she finds intense exercise to be beyond her nowadays, leaving her withered and lame. She is never seen without a cane. Her body is littered with large scars, not that she lets most see them, wearing structured and near formal jackets, gloves, pants, and shoes to conceal her extensive surgical scars.
A good thirty percent of her body is covered in prosthetics, but not as we’d know them. Instead of well validated medical devices, Emery’s body shows the tell-tale tech of the Lab City’s tinkers, with thick bolts and welding lines, and hardly anything that could be called “refined”, plating portions of her body. Her breaths are deep, wheezing affairs and her voice buzzes electronically like a low quality speaker. Cables snake between ribs and into her neck, and a false leg shudders and squeaks, having to be coaxed into movement.
Her most prominent item however is a CRT screen placed over her head like a helmet, with the cables and wires from her body scurrying up to plug into it. With a few twitches, she can display text, vital signs, maps that she knows, or even simple “expressions” made of basic symbols or letters. Apparently she can see perfectly fine through it too, or at least she never bumps into anything. When asked why she would use that instead of going as is however, her response is normally along the lines of her wanting people to stare at something she chose to put on herself, as opposed to scars that she had no choice in receiving. With that in mind, she rarely takes her “head” off, and never around other people.
Needless to say, Emery has to put a lot of effort into taking care of herself, frequently rolling up a sleeve and popping open a panel to tinker with misbehaving wires. Despite that though, she doesn’t seem to have any negative views of herself, viewing her prosthetics as regular parts of her body, albeit high maintenance ones. She does need a cane to get around easily, but holds herself with good posture and a confident countenance, easily asserting herself in social situations.
Mental and/or Social Description:
Emery has a blunt, logical mindset. If you asked her, she’d simply inform you that she has Asperger’s with little elaboration. Indeed, with how much effort she puts into speaking, she is a woman of few words and unreadable emotions. That’s not to say she doesn’t have emotions or opinions, however. She just usually doesn’t have the energy to show much enthusiasm.
Instead, when it comes to completing tasks, Emery is a “slow and steady wins the race” sort of person. She’ll consume vast amounts of knowledge and work on projects over the course of months, slowly, but never stopping. Her memory is pristine as well- she’s the sort to hear someone mention something they like once and deliver it to them personally on their birthday, perfectly wrapped, at the crack of dawn. Even if they didn’t give her their address. She’ll figure it out.
Given that though, where her memory is fantastic her social skills are more lacking. It’s not that she doesn’t want to connect with people- far from it, she enjoys meeting and connecting with as many people as possible. But she goes about it mechanically, treating interactions as a checklist she has to go through to gain a “positive” reaction. Comment on weather. Compliment one (1) object of physical appearance under the individual’s control. Inquire about status of object, pet, or event mentioned in last conversation. Ask follow up questions every forty five seconds. Maintain eye contact.
...She doesn’t have a ton of friends. She’s bad at sarcasm and her blunt responses tend to drive more people away than it does attract them, and she’s not exactly open about herself or her past. If asked about the state of her body, she simply refers to it as “an accident” instead of elucidating what happened and who fixed her. Even then though, she does desire connection. With other people, with pets, and the world. She’ll figure it out, even if she has to write a textbook on each person she meets.
Goals:
Emery desires connection and, more privately, to transcend her humanity. Why remain as you are, as just one person, when you can form powerful bonds with people, creatures, machines, and dragons? Why have a normal body when you can place your mind into a more powerful form? Why stick with normal weapons when the raw forces of magic are at your fingertips? Emery is a scientist at heart and always seems to be working on vast, confusing computer networks or stuck into a book on some esoteric subject. How far she’ll go with her views though, well. That remains to be seen.
Attribute: Mechanical Genius
Traits:
Disfiguring Scar (+2)
Neurodivergence (+2)
Lame (+2)
Natural Scholar (-8)
Photographic Memory (-1)
Danger Sense (-3)
Stats:
Stamina: 3
Strength: 3
Resistance: 3
Dexterity: 3
Mentality: 3
Skill Groups:
Tinkering- Mechanical Genius
Academics- Natural Scholar
Husbandry
Magic
Skills:
Tinkering:
Basic Software I (1)
Basic Hardware I (1)
Academics:
Husbandry:
Magic:
Magical Awareness (2)
Artisan
Mason II (10)
Available SP: 0
Species: Human… originally, at least.
Gender: Female
Age: 35
Native Language: Common
Level: 10
Physical Description:
Imagine a person who’s average height, about 5’6. Average build. Perhaps a little athletic. Tanned skin, dark brown straight hair. Eyes with a little glimmer in them, lips quirking up into a smile.
Now throw her into a blender and strap several dozen medical devices of dubious origin and function onto her well-diced body in a desperate attempt to keep her from kicking the bucket and then wait a few years and you’ll get someone who looks like Emery. She is, to not put too fine a point on it, exhausted. Any former athleticism has left her as she finds intense exercise to be beyond her nowadays, leaving her withered and lame. She is never seen without a cane. Her body is littered with large scars, not that she lets most see them, wearing structured and near formal jackets, gloves, pants, and shoes to conceal her extensive surgical scars.
A good thirty percent of her body is covered in prosthetics, but not as we’d know them. Instead of well validated medical devices, Emery’s body shows the tell-tale tech of the Lab City’s tinkers, with thick bolts and welding lines, and hardly anything that could be called “refined”, plating portions of her body. Her breaths are deep, wheezing affairs and her voice buzzes electronically like a low quality speaker. Cables snake between ribs and into her neck, and a false leg shudders and squeaks, having to be coaxed into movement.
Her most prominent item however is a CRT screen placed over her head like a helmet, with the cables and wires from her body scurrying up to plug into it. With a few twitches, she can display text, vital signs, maps that she knows, or even simple “expressions” made of basic symbols or letters. Apparently she can see perfectly fine through it too, or at least she never bumps into anything. When asked why she would use that instead of going as is however, her response is normally along the lines of her wanting people to stare at something she chose to put on herself, as opposed to scars that she had no choice in receiving. With that in mind, she rarely takes her “head” off, and never around other people.
Needless to say, Emery has to put a lot of effort into taking care of herself, frequently rolling up a sleeve and popping open a panel to tinker with misbehaving wires. Despite that though, she doesn’t seem to have any negative views of herself, viewing her prosthetics as regular parts of her body, albeit high maintenance ones. She does need a cane to get around easily, but holds herself with good posture and a confident countenance, easily asserting herself in social situations.
Mental and/or Social Description:
Emery has a blunt, logical mindset. If you asked her, she’d simply inform you that she has Asperger’s with little elaboration. Indeed, with how much effort she puts into speaking, she is a woman of few words and unreadable emotions. That’s not to say she doesn’t have emotions or opinions, however. She just usually doesn’t have the energy to show much enthusiasm.
Instead, when it comes to completing tasks, Emery is a “slow and steady wins the race” sort of person. She’ll consume vast amounts of knowledge and work on projects over the course of months, slowly, but never stopping. Her memory is pristine as well- she’s the sort to hear someone mention something they like once and deliver it to them personally on their birthday, perfectly wrapped, at the crack of dawn. Even if they didn’t give her their address. She’ll figure it out.
Given that though, where her memory is fantastic her social skills are more lacking. It’s not that she doesn’t want to connect with people- far from it, she enjoys meeting and connecting with as many people as possible. But she goes about it mechanically, treating interactions as a checklist she has to go through to gain a “positive” reaction. Comment on weather. Compliment one (1) object of physical appearance under the individual’s control. Inquire about status of object, pet, or event mentioned in last conversation. Ask follow up questions every forty five seconds. Maintain eye contact.
...She doesn’t have a ton of friends. She’s bad at sarcasm and her blunt responses tend to drive more people away than it does attract them, and she’s not exactly open about herself or her past. If asked about the state of her body, she simply refers to it as “an accident” instead of elucidating what happened and who fixed her. Even then though, she does desire connection. With other people, with pets, and the world. She’ll figure it out, even if she has to write a textbook on each person she meets.
Goals:
Emery desires connection and, more privately, to transcend her humanity. Why remain as you are, as just one person, when you can form powerful bonds with people, creatures, machines, and dragons? Why have a normal body when you can place your mind into a more powerful form? Why stick with normal weapons when the raw forces of magic are at your fingertips? Emery is a scientist at heart and always seems to be working on vast, confusing computer networks or stuck into a book on some esoteric subject. How far she’ll go with her views though, well. That remains to be seen.
Attribute: Mechanical Genius
Traits:
Disfiguring Scar (+2)
Neurodivergence (+2)
Lame (+2)
Natural Scholar (-8)
Photographic Memory (-1)
Danger Sense (-3)
Stats:
Stamina: 3
Strength: 3
Resistance: 3
Dexterity: 3
Mentality: 3
Skill Groups:
Tinkering- Mechanical Genius
Academics- Natural Scholar
Husbandry
Magic
Skills:
Tinkering:
Basic Software I (1)
Basic Hardware I (1)
Academics:
Husbandry:
Magic:
Magical Awareness (2)
Artisan
Mason II (10)
Available SP: 0
