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OUT OF CHARACTER:
Name/Handle: Ceti
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Reference: N/A
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shoujoreject
IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Ethan “FlickerFox” Travers
Character journal:syntech
Series name: Original
Canon notes: Earth, year 3414. Tech is highly-advanced, relying on integrated paneling and (mostly) solar and water power. There’s a single networking mesh that defines the entirety of the internet and all data flow, and physical crime has become a smaller (and more unacceptable) course, compared to cybercrime.
Species: Human
History: Ethan Travers wasn’t much of note, in his early years. Certainly, he was found to have incredible abilities as a techie early on, but that didn’t set him aside from the rest of the world. After all, technology was equivalent to life where he grew up.
By the time he was ten, Ethan had started on the path that would take him to where he is today – being a weak-bodied young man, he was frequently hospitalized for injuries and sickness. In the hospitals, he started to experiment with their network, learning how to dig into protected files and eventually getting caught due to his ID chip. After that embarrassment, it was somewhat like child’s play for him to learn how to scramble said ID, and by the time he was thirteen, he was delving into things most adults couldn’t dare to reach.
It kept his family in a good position, of course, as he was careful how he used it. The data he brought back was never kept where one of them could be implicated, and he never sold it. Instead, he supported his family almost by himself when he started creating integrated HUD designs and technological advancements.
At thirteen, he learned about Persilico Dolvaa and the RIPPER program. More specifically, the CEO invited him to join the company as an information-runner, explaining to him what it is RIPPER does and why. Ethan hardly had to search to dig up the hidden facts, and almost immediately thereafter, he signed on with RIPPER. In order to keep his anonymity as strong as possible, he designed a HUD and setup that would allow him to use a computer-generated voice in place of his own, and so (in conjunction with his feminine avatar) most people actually assume he’s a woman. Even in person, if he’s speaking in an official capacity with a coworker or employer, he uses that same audio tech to speak with.
Since then, he became one of the largest assets of the foundation, creating most of the individualized HUDs each agent uses by hand. At first, he was little more than the premiere information reaper – he refused, at that time to do “hardware” jobs (essentially the assassination jobs RIPPER takes on, because Dolvaa is of the belief that some crimes are unforgivable and some people simply need to be taken out of the equation).
After a year, the corruption of their world hit him hard. His parents were lost in an accident – which, when he dug a little deeper, was no accident at all. It hardened him some, but his sister – Lilly – kept him grounded. Getting angry, she always said, wouldn’t help him to uncover things. He shouldn’t give himself up because they were retaliating. He retreated into the kindness of her words, and the music he’d always been partial to. It was then that his case of Logic Amalgam started to come to bear; his mind stopped processing things in the most human manner and began overlaying them with the pure logic of a machine, almost.
So it was, until he was sixteen. He’d gained notoriety, in the form of his Avatar – the virtual-net body he pilots, given the name FlickerFox – and that had gained him quite the number of enemies, especially within the companies he stole information from. They used his abilities against him, implanted a virus of a sort in the data he was carrying, and used that to find him.
More specifically, they found his home and kidnapped his sister. Then they contacted him and forced him to watch her murder, knowing he could never get anyone to believe it was. Without her as an anchor, he became more and more jaded – and more accepting of Dolvaa’s idealism that some people just didn’t deserve to live. He also became reckless, and convinced Dolvaa to agree to experiment on him to learn the limitations of the human body when accepting EDLs. Some would expect that Dolvaa stopped implanting – after twelve installs and the second time Ethan developed a case of Calamity Trigger – only because he didn’t want to lose a valued employee, but the man was, in fact, legitimately worried about him. Ethan himself, on still being alive after all of it, was somewhat embarrassed by the sheer amount of metal that now stuck out of his body.
Ethan’s reputation only became more fearsome in the three years that followed, as FlickerFox became not just an information risk, but a physical risk as well. Where once was a careful, balanced threat, they now faced an angry enemy with nothing left to lose. GRAFT, a company opposing RIPPER, sent many agents out against him (and indeed, against most RIPPER agents), but only one could even come close to his skill and ferocity – an agent by the name of PistolPanic. That remains true even now, and typically PistolPanic is the reason behind any improvements Ethan makes, to both himself and his avatar.
Personality: Calling Ethan a quiet individual is a bit of an understatement. Even if you were to ignore the fact that he basically never speaks directly, what talking he does is often simple and to the point. At least, when it doesn’t encompass a lot of technical jargon. “Words often fall short in the course of action” is how he explained it once, to Persilico Dolvaa himself. Still, he knows the value of them, and will speak lightly and calmly in appropriate instances. His views seem skewed, to some, but none can truly pinpoint why nor discredit the validity of them.
There aren’t many that he puts his faith in, either. Outside of the close circle of his family, Ethan is courteous but distant to most. In order to get close enough for him to start to trust (and subsequently get him to admit things to)someone, they have to prove above and beyond that their interest is honest and true. Some would say this requires every ideal they have to be in line with his – he would disagree, because in his mind, there isn’t a single person who truly agrees with everything any other person says. “It’s in what we can reconcile in others that determines their position within our circle.” That’s been his view since long before he lost his family and became jaded.
In work relationships, though, there are few who share more loyalty than Ethan. Even at the cost of his personal health, he’s willing to do whatever it takes to protect his allies and the work he does. That’s a seemingly unchangeable trait in his life, and he has taken – more than once – excessive damage in order to get an ally out of the fray safely. This persists despite any personal reservations he has toward an ally – there have been occasions when he’s worked with BellWraith, who is brutal to the point of actively triggering Fox into a near panic attack, where he’s nonetheless stayed behind to ensure none of the faster, stronger avatars could interfere with escape or acquisition.
Outside the digital world, when he does form attachments, he forms them strongly enough that he would risk everything for them. This extends almost exclusively to Dolvaa and a very select group of RIPPER agents, though he hasn’t met the latter in person thus far.
He’s also prone to bouts of quiet reflection and brooding. Because of the way he thinks, this is somewhat troublesome – there are times where his human emotions clash with his logical thinking, like when he’s upset that an ally has been injured. He doesn’t believe that humanity has much good left in it, and so he’s usually looking for something to pick out of his daily interactions to solidify that idea.
Similarly, perhaps because he’s seen so much in his life, Fox is very slow to anger. His anger starts as a quiet irritation, a roiling beneath the surface that many miss thanks to the fact that he doesn’t speak, and it takes a lot of prodding in order to make any reaction deeper than that. When he does move past irritation, he tends to lash out with expressions even before words. Though he’s got a decent grip on expressing his emotions as a whole, his face in particular has many subtle, unconscious changes that indicate his mood at any given time.
Abilities:
- As with most people who can operate EDLs, Ethan has the strength of will to share his mentality/consciousness with his created virtual avatar.
- Ethan’s mental capacity is almost superhuman, to the point that operating all twelve of his EDLs (the highest publicly known number of them installed in one person is 4) simultaneously is taxing, but not impossible.
- He can, similarly with RIPPER/GRAFT agents, use his force of will to manifest his avatar into real space in a pinch. Because of his frailty, this is somewhat more taxing than it is on others.
- He understands people in something of a musical way – the actions of others present themselves in a specific sort of pattern. IE: someone like BellWraith feels like their personality is staccato, whereas he viewed his sister as having a personality more like a serenade.
Augment Skillset: Communications
Sample:
here, and here, because Fox and PistolPanic and then Fox and LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE are two very. Very very different beasts...
Name/Handle: Ceti
Contact:
Reference: N/A
Other characters: Qing-Yuan Zhu
shoujorejectIN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Ethan “FlickerFox” Travers
Character journal:
syntechSeries name: Original
Canon notes: Earth, year 3414. Tech is highly-advanced, relying on integrated paneling and (mostly) solar and water power. There’s a single networking mesh that defines the entirety of the internet and all data flow, and physical crime has become a smaller (and more unacceptable) course, compared to cybercrime.
Species: Human
History: Ethan Travers wasn’t much of note, in his early years. Certainly, he was found to have incredible abilities as a techie early on, but that didn’t set him aside from the rest of the world. After all, technology was equivalent to life where he grew up.
By the time he was ten, Ethan had started on the path that would take him to where he is today – being a weak-bodied young man, he was frequently hospitalized for injuries and sickness. In the hospitals, he started to experiment with their network, learning how to dig into protected files and eventually getting caught due to his ID chip. After that embarrassment, it was somewhat like child’s play for him to learn how to scramble said ID, and by the time he was thirteen, he was delving into things most adults couldn’t dare to reach.
It kept his family in a good position, of course, as he was careful how he used it. The data he brought back was never kept where one of them could be implicated, and he never sold it. Instead, he supported his family almost by himself when he started creating integrated HUD designs and technological advancements.
At thirteen, he learned about Persilico Dolvaa and the RIPPER program. More specifically, the CEO invited him to join the company as an information-runner, explaining to him what it is RIPPER does and why. Ethan hardly had to search to dig up the hidden facts, and almost immediately thereafter, he signed on with RIPPER. In order to keep his anonymity as strong as possible, he designed a HUD and setup that would allow him to use a computer-generated voice in place of his own, and so (in conjunction with his feminine avatar) most people actually assume he’s a woman. Even in person, if he’s speaking in an official capacity with a coworker or employer, he uses that same audio tech to speak with.
Since then, he became one of the largest assets of the foundation, creating most of the individualized HUDs each agent uses by hand. At first, he was little more than the premiere information reaper – he refused, at that time to do “hardware” jobs (essentially the assassination jobs RIPPER takes on, because Dolvaa is of the belief that some crimes are unforgivable and some people simply need to be taken out of the equation).
After a year, the corruption of their world hit him hard. His parents were lost in an accident – which, when he dug a little deeper, was no accident at all. It hardened him some, but his sister – Lilly – kept him grounded. Getting angry, she always said, wouldn’t help him to uncover things. He shouldn’t give himself up because they were retaliating. He retreated into the kindness of her words, and the music he’d always been partial to. It was then that his case of Logic Amalgam started to come to bear; his mind stopped processing things in the most human manner and began overlaying them with the pure logic of a machine, almost.
So it was, until he was sixteen. He’d gained notoriety, in the form of his Avatar – the virtual-net body he pilots, given the name FlickerFox – and that had gained him quite the number of enemies, especially within the companies he stole information from. They used his abilities against him, implanted a virus of a sort in the data he was carrying, and used that to find him.
More specifically, they found his home and kidnapped his sister. Then they contacted him and forced him to watch her murder, knowing he could never get anyone to believe it was. Without her as an anchor, he became more and more jaded – and more accepting of Dolvaa’s idealism that some people just didn’t deserve to live. He also became reckless, and convinced Dolvaa to agree to experiment on him to learn the limitations of the human body when accepting EDLs. Some would expect that Dolvaa stopped implanting – after twelve installs and the second time Ethan developed a case of Calamity Trigger – only because he didn’t want to lose a valued employee, but the man was, in fact, legitimately worried about him. Ethan himself, on still being alive after all of it, was somewhat embarrassed by the sheer amount of metal that now stuck out of his body.
Ethan’s reputation only became more fearsome in the three years that followed, as FlickerFox became not just an information risk, but a physical risk as well. Where once was a careful, balanced threat, they now faced an angry enemy with nothing left to lose. GRAFT, a company opposing RIPPER, sent many agents out against him (and indeed, against most RIPPER agents), but only one could even come close to his skill and ferocity – an agent by the name of PistolPanic. That remains true even now, and typically PistolPanic is the reason behind any improvements Ethan makes, to both himself and his avatar.
Personality: Calling Ethan a quiet individual is a bit of an understatement. Even if you were to ignore the fact that he basically never speaks directly, what talking he does is often simple and to the point. At least, when it doesn’t encompass a lot of technical jargon. “Words often fall short in the course of action” is how he explained it once, to Persilico Dolvaa himself. Still, he knows the value of them, and will speak lightly and calmly in appropriate instances. His views seem skewed, to some, but none can truly pinpoint why nor discredit the validity of them.
There aren’t many that he puts his faith in, either. Outside of the close circle of his family, Ethan is courteous but distant to most. In order to get close enough for him to start to trust (and subsequently get him to admit things to)someone, they have to prove above and beyond that their interest is honest and true. Some would say this requires every ideal they have to be in line with his – he would disagree, because in his mind, there isn’t a single person who truly agrees with everything any other person says. “It’s in what we can reconcile in others that determines their position within our circle.” That’s been his view since long before he lost his family and became jaded.
In work relationships, though, there are few who share more loyalty than Ethan. Even at the cost of his personal health, he’s willing to do whatever it takes to protect his allies and the work he does. That’s a seemingly unchangeable trait in his life, and he has taken – more than once – excessive damage in order to get an ally out of the fray safely. This persists despite any personal reservations he has toward an ally – there have been occasions when he’s worked with BellWraith, who is brutal to the point of actively triggering Fox into a near panic attack, where he’s nonetheless stayed behind to ensure none of the faster, stronger avatars could interfere with escape or acquisition.
Outside the digital world, when he does form attachments, he forms them strongly enough that he would risk everything for them. This extends almost exclusively to Dolvaa and a very select group of RIPPER agents, though he hasn’t met the latter in person thus far.
He’s also prone to bouts of quiet reflection and brooding. Because of the way he thinks, this is somewhat troublesome – there are times where his human emotions clash with his logical thinking, like when he’s upset that an ally has been injured. He doesn’t believe that humanity has much good left in it, and so he’s usually looking for something to pick out of his daily interactions to solidify that idea.
Similarly, perhaps because he’s seen so much in his life, Fox is very slow to anger. His anger starts as a quiet irritation, a roiling beneath the surface that many miss thanks to the fact that he doesn’t speak, and it takes a lot of prodding in order to make any reaction deeper than that. When he does move past irritation, he tends to lash out with expressions even before words. Though he’s got a decent grip on expressing his emotions as a whole, his face in particular has many subtle, unconscious changes that indicate his mood at any given time.
Abilities:
- As with most people who can operate EDLs, Ethan has the strength of will to share his mentality/consciousness with his created virtual avatar.
- Ethan’s mental capacity is almost superhuman, to the point that operating all twelve of his EDLs (the highest publicly known number of them installed in one person is 4) simultaneously is taxing, but not impossible.
- He can, similarly with RIPPER/GRAFT agents, use his force of will to manifest his avatar into real space in a pinch. Because of his frailty, this is somewhat more taxing than it is on others.
- He understands people in something of a musical way – the actions of others present themselves in a specific sort of pattern. IE: someone like BellWraith feels like their personality is staccato, whereas he viewed his sister as having a personality more like a serenade.
Augment Skillset: Communications
Sample:
here, and here, because Fox and PistolPanic and then Fox and LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE are two very. Very very different beasts...