Viki's Request Thread

Yes, this is where I got the name for the RP 'Programmed' on NaNo.

My Character
Name: Pern
Age: 19
Build: 5'9, thin due to lack of food, but still very fast.
Hair: Dirty blond (usually tied back when its long enough,
Eyes: blue eyes that can change to purple

"I was engineered to be fast, smart, strong, and adaptable. I was the CERO’s (Cryogenic Experimentation Research Organization)  trial project and I worked for them for 9 years. I executed all their missions and followed all their orders. I stole, built things, and changed the tide of wars. I killed many people. And then I left." - Pern



Story premise:
Pern is a living computer. He is biologically human, but his body works differently; that is to say, his brain works differently and therefore he can make his body do things that normal humans cant. His body has long since been adapted to work with machines as though he was another machine. He is able to sync with technology simply using his mind and physical contact. This makes him an excellent hacker (which is how he ‘fits’ in with normal society while on the run. Perhaps how he meets your character?)

While working for CERO, he grew to have a strange affinity for guns, which he loves for their technological simplicity, and he can speak 12 languages fluently as he has traveled to many of those countries. He was raised as a tool for CERO since he was a child and has no notion of what is normal.  In order to perform correctly, Pern is able to sense electromagnetic disturbances, be they from machine or human, meaning he can read emotions through physical contact. This is how he has learned to mingle with humans.

Pern does not know if he is human, as he was never treated as one, which is a constant worry at the back of his mind. He sees himself as a machine and knows that he is programed to act and react certain ways. He does however have a killer sense of humor which he no doubt picked up after serving some time with Rebel faction leaders from various parts of the world (he helped a group in Ireland for a year and they consider him family.)

Weaknesses:
- Touching a person with too strong of an emotion.
- Water (does not like it and does not like to submerge himself in it. Thinks he will short circuit, so showers are quick).
- He does not feel physical pain immediately (mind over matter).
- If he tries too hard to control a machine, he can injure himself (bleeding from the nose and ears).
- Instead of adrenalin, Pern has to electrocute himself (XD its kinda funny) sometimes that’s how he has to wake himself up.
- He is use to running and avoids attachments.
- Alcohol.
- Tends to be irrational when he’s killed or about to kill someone. He doesn't understand that it’s his guilt screaming at him. He thinks he’s malfunctioning.

Strengths:
- Intelligence. Rocket scientists have nothing on him.
- Affinity for guns and hand to hand combat, but he is of a rather smaller so he has a hard time against the 3rd generation droids.
- His main strength is his ability to alder electrical currents in human bodies.
- He is friends with Irish and various other rebels where he helped them and they taught him a great deal about being human.
- Does not need to eat or sleep much.

NOTE: I do realise that I have Pern acting as a quite 'godly' character, but he will rely on your OC quite a bit.

Possibilities for your character
Professional swimmer
Engineer
Normal person

Somewhat of a modern 'Beauty and the Beast' plot, but not quite.

My Character:
Name: Jace Knight
Age: 23
Build: 5' 10", well muscled but with a lean build; narrow torso and narrow hips.

"Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring." - Sugar Ray Leonard
"Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning." - Joyce Carol Oates



Story premise:
"Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity." Jace Knight is a prime example of this. Born into a wealthy but broken family, he was drawn to nonconformity, and took up boxing when he was 14 in an act of rebellion. When he was 18 he began competing professionally, and quickly rose up the ranks to become his gym's biggest bantamweight star, soon gaining national attention with his skill, good looks and charisma. Most boxers are only stars in the ring, Jace was in tabloids, gameshows, magazine photoshoots and advertisements.

Jace had always been blessed with a handsome and godly appearance, and he enjoyed the huge amount of female attention that he got to the full. One of these woman who gave him 'female attention' happened to be the newly engaged long-term girlfriend of a local champion heavyweight boxer.

During his 23nd birthday party, Jace was dragged away and beaten up by a gang of skilled heavyweights, breaking his ribs, limbs and his prized face. This went on for a couple of hours. After the ordeal he dragged himself back to his party, took a shot of vodka, and fell unconscious. He was rushed to hospital where the doctors fixed him up as best as they could, but when he awoke from his coma two weeks later, he took one look in the mirror, smashed it, and refused to let anyone into his hospital room. His nose and jaw were broken and he had knife scars all over his face and torso. Nurses had to leave his food outside the room, and he didn't allow any visitors, not even his parents.

Finally he was released from hospital, his arms and left leg having healed, but he had to walk with a slight limp. After making an unofficial retirement from his boxing career and becoming a shut-in in his uptown penthouse for four months, Jace was told he had to do physiotherapy, despite his protests.

Possibilities for your character:
- Jace's manager/PR officer
- Jace's physiotherapist
- A trainee nurse
- Daughter (or son) of a man who owes Jace's father money

"There is a kind of beauty in imperfection." - Conrad Hall