derkaderka

[justoverreacting]

PLAYER INFORMATION
Your Name: Dha
OOC Journal: inagalaxyfarfaraway
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: Nope! (almost 23)
Email + IM: blackwaterkeeponrolling@gmail.com (email) mustlovetherock (aim)
Characters Played at Ataraxion: N/A

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: CT
Canon: Red vs Blue
Original or Alternate Universe: Original **EDIT IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND
Canon Point: End of Season 9. **EDIT IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND
Number: RNG would be just fine!

Setting:
To begin, Red vs Blue, as a series, was born out of machinima, a medium that utilizes a pre-existing game's mechanics in order to tell a new story. Red vs Blue's game? HALO: Combat Evolved. At first the connection, though, was somewhat loose (as many of the technical names were rarely used, such as the Scorpion being called "the tank" or "SHIELA" or the Hornet being called a "plane-thing"). However, the connection grew as the storyline progressed, tying the two universes more tightly together, especially in the case of Project Freelancer. So, with that preface:

In the 26th century, things such as faster-than-light travel are not only possible, but common and altogether a daily activity for many. And, along with that technology, grew expansions in other areas: interplanetary communications, cyborg organ transplants, and Spanish-speaking robots, to name a few. As well, along with civilian innovations, the UNSC's SPARTAN project blew the door right off on what was previously considered impossible to the human race. These "super soldiers" could run faster, jump higher, be all they could be, and more. Science and technology dominated and things such as "ghosts" or "magic" were seen as unreal or otherwise stupid to believe in.

Also in the 26th century, the Earth reached its limits on population and, with nowhere else to go but out into space, the human race did what it does best: survive and colonize the shit out of everything. Some people agreed with the colonization, and some really, really didn't, such as those who formed the Insurrection. The Insurrection, like many rebellions, began with peaceful protests, but turned to violence when negotiations failed. Still, among the many, many planets colonized by humans, the most relevant is Reach, which became a military hub and the home of the SPARTAN project. This project, by and large, attempted to create a class of super soldiers. However, the Covanent, a collection of alien races who coincidentally find the human race to be blasphemous to their religious beliefs. So, they began to attack human colonies all across the galaxy and thus began the Great War.

Despite these SPARTAN super-soldiers, the UNSC was losing the war. Badly. Many projects attempted to find the solution, or to find the "magic bullet" to win the war. Director Church took that directive a step further and created Project Freelancer with the mindset of ensuring the human race's survival. Not branching off too far from the SPARTAN project itself, Freelancer focused on making its agents faster, stronger, and altogether superhuman in some ways, especially through the armor enhancements given. For example, Carolina was given (possibly) a speed enhancement that allowed her to keep up with not only a Mongoose (a vehicle similar to a motorcycle) going full-speed on a highway, but a Hornet (another vehicle similar to a helicopter, but with two sets of blades) as well. As well, the agents wore armor similar to SPARTAN armor.

At its core, the Freelancer program attempted to build off of the SPARTAN program, trying to create more of the super soldiers to possibly turn the tide of the War. With an internal ranking system, agents were being rated for the next step of the program, despite the heavy focus on teamwork. With the Insurrection snatching up critical assets (such as the Sarcophagus retrieved in Season 9, Episode 15) and the Great War appearing more and more like it would be the last stand of the human race, Director Church stepped up the plate with the idea of AI to be implanted into Freelancer agents. These AI would run the armor enhancements that, for the most part, had been almost a death sentence to use (Utah is mentioned explicitly in this case and a deleted scene shows him activating his dome shield, only for it to be around his head).

However, the Director was only given one AI, the Alpha, so he attempted to copy it in several different ways before deciding that torture could possibly fragment it, like a human mind. At this point in the Great War, "any option was preferable" to the extinction of the human race and the Director proceeded to torture the Alpha. The fragments that came from the Alpha were never quite a whole personality or a complete AI, representing only a compartmentalized emotion most of the time. For example, Omega represented the Alpha's rage, which had to be cast off in order to survive, or Epsilon, the memories that had to be shed in order for the Alpha to not go insane. The final AI cast off , then, was Epsilon and, with multiple AIs now available, Director Church implanted them into his top agents.

Some of these AIs worked stellar with their agents, such as York and Delta, but many of the "experiments" were failures, such as Carolina and her two yet-unamed AI or the Dakotas (a pair of twins, one of which was given an AI and the other was not). Epsilon's self-destruction in Agent Washington's mind marked the end of AI implantation and any agents after did not receive AI. During the later stages of Project Freelancer, some time before the implantation process began, someone was leaking information to the Insurrection through a series of transmissions from the Mother of Invention (the ship the Project is housed in for a time, despite the presence of a planet-side facility).

Still, even with these experiments, it was not Project Freelancer that ensured the survival of humanity, but the NOBLE team's efforts on Reach and, with the end of the Great War, Project Freelancer should have shut down, right? Nope. While many of the agents either left, escaped, or died, Freelancer continued to run simulations on simulation troopers known as the Reds and the Blues. These were two "rival" armies who were comprised of the lowest-scoring soldiers at recruitment by the UNSC and placed across the universe, meant to fight each other if they got bored (and making up most of the Red vs Blue: Blood Gulch Chronicles).

CT, though, left the Project altogether and the next time we see her is on Sandtrap, where she and her then-lieutenant Smith (a Covenant Elite) who she actually does trust a little. The two of them killed the original members of a human-alien team that was attempting to uncover an ancient Covenant weapon. Of course, CT only had herself in mind, not Smith or the other aliens' religious beliefs. Tucker (a BLUE simulation soldier who holed himself up in the "Temple" on Sandtrap) explains that CT plans to sell the weapon to the highest bidder and throw some proverbial shit into the proverbial fan that had all but stopped turning by now since the end of the Great War.

Still, things turn hostile when CT orders a human-soldier Jones to shoot the Forerunner monitor Church begins to inhabit and it becomes clear that the Covenant still obviously don't like their religious views and artifacts messed with. They quickly turn on the humans and slaughter almost everyone on the excavation team, with the exception of CT, who attempts to escape with the monitor. Doesn't end well because Church ends up killing her with his "laser face."

History: **

Personality:
If there were ever anyone to see the glass as half-empty, CT would be that person. To her, the world is conspiring to drive her over the edge that she already took a flying leap off of. Even those who act friendly toward her are likely to get paranoia and doubt in response. She trusts literally no one, not even herself at times. While it could be say that she's her own worst enemy, CT would claim that the enemy is not only external, but probably lurking around the corner. The only place in the universe she finds any good in is the Insurrection, and even then, she likely wouldn't put her life on the line for the cause. Still, the Insurrection is one of the few things she can actually anchor her life on, as she definitely doesn't trust or believe she can actually count on her teammates in Freelancer. For example, while Wash is trying to cheer her up following a failed mission, CT not only borderline mocks him but finds his devotion to the Director completely delusional. In a way, she's trying to unsuccessfully transfer blame from herself to him. However, she's not the type to shake blame free of herself.

That is, CT has incredibly low self-esteem and tends to blame herself when things go wrong. Now, this isn't some silent angsting manpain, but instead a self-hate-driven thing. In her mind, she's not good enough, she's not a leader like Carolina or a fighter like South and, in an environment that focuses more on an agent's weaknesses than their strengths, CT absolutely relays the Director's feelings onto herself. She forms her self opinion from what she can see and observe from others, so her actions are rarely done out of a real desire to save mankind. She wants to impress others, not save them from certain destruction.

If she can, CT can and will undermine others and play the devil's advocate, such as during the briefing prior to the Sarcophagus mission, when she asks about Texas. She makes a pointed remark to Carolina "Notice he didn't say no." If there's something she can fuck up for someone else, she'll be the first in line to do that, no doubt. However, she'll rarely do so directly. Backchannels and underground movements, such as the Insurrection, fit her indirect style miles better than direct confrontation, as the latter tends to cause her to panic. She truly believes that others are out to hurt her and get her. This belief in addition to her lack of a support system simply makes her spiral further as the series continues. She briefly trusts an Elite, nicknamed Smith by her until he turns on her (through her own fault, really).

Therefore, CT works best in a saboteur position, except where she can openly spurn others' trust in the final round. She can definitely be two-faced at times, such as when she vents to Wash in private, but then replies only politely to the Director's face. As well, later when Wash catches her transmitting to the Insurrection, she tells him to just "mind his own business" rather than speaking to him with any level of respect. As previously mentioned, though, she can't seem to take any delight or comfort in having deceived others so thoroughly and doesn't "troll" others. She can be sarcastic at times, but she's far too strait-laced to do much more than that; she's always on edge and doesn't relax even if victory's in her grasp, which could very well lead to her many failures.

However, CT is extremely intelligent. She can communicate with Elites and the Covanent in general with no problem, can send encrypted transmissions from a state-of-the-art military facility without suspicion (until Wash walked in on her), and, while she does not excel in the field, CT has many strengths behind the scenes. She's extremely competitive, and had likely done extremely well with her life until arriving at Freelancer, as previously mentioned. Of course, since she's not at the top, it's easy to hate the ranking system (sour grapes and all that, which builds into her largely negative outlook on the world). She feels most comfortable, though, when she feels that she's in control of the situation and every element of her life, which is extremely infrequently.

Even with her intelligence and excellent training, CT fails in one huge area: keeping a level head when things go wrong. At the slightest bit of failure, CT goes into a spiral and panics. On the same token, CT almost can't ever not rise to verbal baiting, which makes it difficult for her to hold confidence in herself for more than a few minutes. She hates all things silly and nonsense and really doesn't enjoy others joking around. ALL OF HER BUSINESS IS OF THE MOST SERIOUS NATURE!!!!1 She tries way too hard and is far too stubborn to let others really help her, with one possible exception of Smith, her once-lieutenant.

What she wants more than anything, though, is respect. She wants to be important to someone, but won't let herself trust anyone when and if they do compliment her; she believes they're patronizing her or outright lying. So, in something of a vicious circle, CT likely never will get the respect she wants so badly: she does something compliment-worthy, receives said compliment, thinks the person issuing the compliment is lying, lashes out, and then loses that respect. That coupled with the fact that she bases her opinions of herself on what others think of her makes an even worse mix. If she had self-confidence, she could take criticism and compliments, but she simply doesn't (and likely hasn't for a while).

Altogether, CT is a mess of a person: a mix of flaws that build and exacerbate each other while also destroying her own progress toward some kind of distinctive goal. She sabotages herself almost as easily as she sabotages others, which really is just the tip of the iceberg of emotional and psychological problems.


Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
CT, while she isn't the best of the best, does have advanced training in several infiltration and combat techniques from Freelancer. However, she excels most in encryption and more along the lines of hiding things rather than exposing them. She can absolutely perform the duties of a double-agent as long as things run relatively smoothly, as she panics at the first sign of trouble. She likely knows how to pilot/drive several vehicles, but really shouldn't pilot/drive them because of not being able to keep a level head. However, she is extremely intelligent and prefers to work subtly from the background if at all possible rather than directly.

Unfortunately, CT isn't that likable. She has few things about her personality that don't sabotage her in the short or long run. She doesn't accept help, even if she needs it, and as such tends to end up shooting herself in the foot more than once.

As it is, none of her abilities are extraordinary or game-breaking that I know of.

Inventory:
-Her MJOLNIR, Mk VI armor (In these colors) - this also includes a voice modifier
-Battle rifle with limited ammunition
-Magnum with limited ammunition
-Field knife

Appearance: CT, even while in her armor is possibly the shortest of the Freelancers. In the "without armor" picture link below, Monty describes Carolina as the shortest, but in the team image, CT clearly appears much shorter. As it is, her amor is dark brown with white trim, and her helmet gives the impression of elephant tusks. However, considering the number of those associated with the Freelancer program in Sacrosanct, CT is not likely to wear her armor long unless she can move to an isolated area. As well, her canon appearances without armor are extremely limited, so I'll also be using a PB Arielle Kebbel.

Without armor (she's the one in the center), I'd say she's about 5'3" and relatively petite except for a certain part of her torso. :| (The ridiculous chest-piece doesn't help much.)


Age: She looks extremely young in the previously linked image, but Word of God has said that all of the Freelancers are late 20s/early 30s except one of them (which could be CT, but also could possibly be Wash). Oh Burnie.
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