Fantasy Humanization {ACCEPTING} Character Sheets

[archur]

H U M A N I Z A T I O N​

W e l c o m e , U s e r s.​

The following applicants have been accepted:​

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1. Megus​

2. BlackOrchid02​

3. Anaxileah​

4. Ronan​

5. Penumbra​

6.Devious Dilbert​

7. RadiantOnyx​

8. radical​

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A p p l i c a t i o n :​

Name: What is your character called, and what nicknames do they have (If they have friends that is, because you really can't give yourself a nickname without being heavily pitied.)

Age: We're not having citizens over the age of 25 or under the age of 12 enter the hubs. Partially because those over the age of 40 would die before they would be released, and those under the age of 10 would have their brains fried from being too underdeveloped. That's safety regulations for you!


Physical Description: (Dilby Note: Slap your fc here! Or at least include a physical description if you choose not to use one. Your choice!)


Augments: Augs! Glorious, unchecked, dangerous, potentially lethal augs! What type of augments has your character had undertaken? No augments within this work actually make you stronger, or run faster, or jump higher, because that's illegal. No vigilantes, that's bad for law enforcement.
Something more feasible would be replacement eyes, or color changing hair or something along those lines. Flashy, aesthetics. They're cheap, and most of all, it's the Fashion of the Future!™


Mal-augs: The stipulations placed onto your character by the government/slave traders/merc company/invading country/etc. This is the interesting part. This can be nerve stapling, or something you or somebody else has created. Have fun with this, just be sure to run this by me or Devious Dilbert in OOC or something so it isn't abuseable or something.


Personality: A little cliche, but in the presence of other people, how do they act? In the presence of friends? What about alone? Give me your deepest darkest, most heavily guarded secrets. The type of secrets to ugly cry about.


Biography: A quick biography of their life up to now. Short and sweet with 2-3 paragraphs, you can make it more, but no less. This should explain how you got your mal-augs, what country you were born in, the state of that country, what life was like, and so on.
(Dilby Note: Go nuts! Nevermind short and sweet- give as much detail as you want! Your bio will be important to us, gm's.


Extra: Throw a quote here or something, a little added flair. And delete the 'Extra' part, it'll make it look more natural.
(Dilby Note: I like to add themes for my characters here because I'm edgy!)

Coded by Devious Dilbert​

 

[Megus]

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Name: Kaylin Lott [Div class="Line"][/div] Nickname: Kay [Div class=“Line”][/div] Age: 19 [Div class="Line"][/div] Gender: Female [Div class="Line"][/div] Augments: Her only augment is that her eyes have been changed to a vibrant emerald green. [Div class="Line"][/div] Mal-aug: Changes the mindset about sharing/giving. If asked, Kay can’t refuse giving someone anything from her breakfast to her life. [Div class="Line"][/div]

Height: 5’1”

Weight: 126 lbs

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[Div class="Line" style="border-top: 1px SOLID #000000; height:3px;"][/div] Personality: As a child, Kay grew up as their neighborhood’s typical rotten brat. She would throw a fit any time anyone refused to give her something she wanted, and she would never share anything whether it be with an adult or a child her age. When her mal-aug was implanted, the main trait that was changed was her selfishness. She can’t refuse if someone’s asks her to share. As part of her conditioning (more in bio), Kay is also rather humble and respectful to others. It doesn’t matter if they are a complete stranger or a best friend, for she will treat all with the same kindness she would show her parents. Unfortunately, Kay now has a very meek and timid nature when around others. As a bit of backlash to her parents’ training, Kay has major anxiety in social situations. She is always worried that she isn’t treating someone right, and therefore will be punished for doing so. She is also inclined to judge others who do not treat everyone the way she was taught to because her parents always told her that those people were wrong in whatever they were doing. Even if it was was for a good reason. [Div class="Line"][/div] Biography: Kay was born as the youngest of three girls, and as the baby she was spoiled as such. She was loved very dearly by her parents and her sisters alike, but they went just a little too far with the spoiling. Kay grew into a rotten little girl who got whatever she’s asked for. Eventually, her parents realized what they had done to their beloved daughter, and they had her mal-aug implanted at the tender age of eight. While the mal-aug effectively fixed her selfishness, Kay had to spend the next 11 years changing her spoiled personality. Much like a lab rat, her parents helped by slowly reintroducing her into situations where she would be rewarded for reacting the “right” way and punished for the “wrong” reaction. Luckily for her, there were no major problems besides the mal-aug. She still had a life outside of her home (although she was closely monitored by her parents until she’s was 16), but as the days go by, Kay becomes more and more prepared to tackle life without her mal-aug. [Div class="Line"][/div] Extra:

Spoiler: Theme Song

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Code by AgWordSmith ​

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[BlackOrchid02]

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Name: Augustus Miles Hughes


Age: 19 Years Old


Physical Description: You can often find Augustus with a long sleeved shirt and a pair of jeans wearing some sneakers or some other form of shoes. He usually has a cigarette in his mouth it can be lit or unlit, it doesn't matter to him.


Augments: Augustus has none, yet.


Mal-augs: Nerve Stapling


Personality: Augustus can be seen as very stoic and/or insensitive, he tries to get along with people but tends to just hang out in the background. Around friends he lets loose and feels comfortable talking about whatever, he often does make remarks that can be construed as rude but he may just be being honest and if someone takes offense to it he will apologize. When Augustus is by himself, however, he's stuck with the thoughts and feelings of his careless choices. To strangers, he is cold and will probably push them away until he finds some reason to trust or respect them.


Biography: Augustus was born in London, England. As a baby, he was dropped off on the doorsteps of an orphanage unwanted by his single teen mother. He grew up in the orphanage until he was 11 years old, he was walking home from the docks, he usually spent a lot of his time there but this time he stayed a little longer than he intended. It was cold, dark, and raining, all Augustus had on him was his school uniform and a thin jacket given to him by one of the staff in the orphanage. Augustus was snatched by a few men and kidnapped in the night, people started questioning where he went but the searches didn't last long and people soon forgot about him.

When Augustus was first captured he was scared, the people there looked normal just very...lifeless. He was taken to some type of facility, it was too quiet there, the first few years they had him doing simple things, cleaning, eating, coding. It wasn't until he was 15 that they put the Nerve-Stapling mal-aug into him, right into his neck. That's when they put a gun in his hands and started training him, they had him hacking, learning how to kill. Augustus learned how to assassinate and hack on a professional level in the span of 4 months, he was a fast learner and became one of the favorites of their groups. Over time of doing their bidding, Augustus started hating himself, the group, the whole organization; he wanted to be himself again, to feel again. He destroyed their work and lit fire to the building and ran. He didn't know if everyone made it out or if everything burned he just wanted to get as far away from everything he was ever been and become human again.




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[Anaxileah]

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General Information
Name
Madeleine Eyre

Nickname
Mad, given to her by her parents when she was young for having constant temper tantrums as a baby.

Age
21 years of age

Gender
Female

Sexuality
Pansexual

Relationship Status
Single

Augments
Her eyes, greater detail given in Biography.

Mal-Augs
The machine controlling her heart, greater detail given in Biography.​

Physical Attributes
Hair Color
Naturally a medium brown with two rainbow streaks on either side of her hair that are permanent.

Eye Color
A bright orange hue normally, due to the fact that they are artificial eyes (they naturally glow). They flash to different colors when she is looking at different color spectrums (each color indicates a different color spectrum).

Skin Color
Fair-skinned, with a very faint tan.

Height
5'5"

Weight
101 lbs. - she is quite underweight due to her lack of activity, her lack of desire to eat, and her anemia.

Body Type
Lean, thin, only slightly muscular.

Tattoos
None, mainly because her parents won't let her have one.

Scars
She has an enormous scar on her chest due to the open heart surgery she had in the past, as well as two thin lines traveling from both of her eyes down to her collarbones before traveling across her shoulders and down her arms to the palms on each of her hands. The two lines then split into five separate ones that travel to the tips of each finger across each palm.

Daily Attire
While this is only mildly a joke, Madeleine is often seen in a hospital gown due to her repetitive visits to the hospital in order to check up on her heart and the status of the augment. When she's outside of the hospital, she normally dons archery gear since that is her second favorite hobby and is something she's permitted to do, despite her heart condition. When she cannot wear either, her regular attire is oddly entirely black - if she wore colors, she would never be able to match them because there are way too many variations.​

Personal Information
Likes
Seeing the world in so many different ways
Joking about her vision
Avoiding hospitals at all costs
Archery
Singing

Dislikes
Her Mal-Aug
Pressure
Being overwhelmed
Seeing ALL color spectrums at once
Ignorance

Personality
Throughout Madeleine's life, she's had more downs that up. Blindness at birth made her immediately bitter-minded as she grew older, blaming her parents for her disability despite knowing it wasn't their fault. They were the only tangible beings she could deem culpable, and thus she did so, which resulted in a negative relationship with her only available family. It worsened as they made her decisions for her, and since she wasn't allowed outside, all of that anger and pain bubbled up and took control of her entire being. When she got her augmented eyes, however, things changed.

Once she was able to truly see the world and was allowed to leave her home, Madeleine had a newfound love for life and was more optimistic about her future. If she could see and explore what was around her, how could she possibly return to the way she used to be? She became friendlier, happier, and spent as much time as she could outside and socializing with the doctors and even some people her age that she met at the park. Her naivety allowed her to fall for a man who was quite a roller coaster, causing her to be hesitant towards trusting others at the end of their relationship, but she still chooses to see what beauty she can. When she was alone, she would sing music she could see the lyrics for and would learn them with ease, memorizing them as she read them with her artificial eyes (she has an eidetic memory).

Still, it seemed her body was out to get her when her heart gave out one day and she was diagnosed with stage three heart cancer. The cardiac tumor had spread so much, it was both a miracle and a curse she wasn't dead already. She became miserable once more since she couldn't rely on running as a vent for her emotions anymore, but she wasn't feeling as horrible as she did when she was still blind. Instead, she goes on walks, tries to visualize the world in a more realistic fashion, and has lost all contact to the friends she used to have because they disappeared from the face of the earth. Even though she's still particularly new to the making-friends process, she isn't against it. She just understands that not all people would be interested in befriending someone like her.

Goal
To overcome her mal-aug and prove to everyone that she's more than just a weakling.

Fear
Never being able to truly live again.

Biography
Madeleine was unlucky from the very beginning of her existence. Born with blindness and a high risk of being diagnosed with cancer, she was forced to learn things the hard way and spent the majority of her life within hospitals. Her parents, owners of several companies within the United Kingdom, were incredibly wealthy and made the decision to replace their daughter's eyes with augmented, artificial orbs that could perceive every spectrum of light in existence. It was obvious that her parents valued her existence, but even she could tell they chose the surgery for their own benefit - they were just as miserable as she was. Her mom would advertise for the companies she and her husband managed, only smiling in front of the camera and never at home. The surgery was done on the young girl after she had learned to read braille and how to cope with her blindness, so the change was quite sudden and overwhelming for the poor 7-year-old, but it was good for all of them. The recovery days were...interesting, to say the least.

However, the doctors who had been part of the surgery and the scientists that made the eyes she now had to live with taught her how to change the spectrums she could see using the circuitry that had been wired into her directly from her eyes to each finger. When she taps one of her fingers to the corresponding thumb of that hand, she's capable of seeing the spectrum of light or color that is linked with that finger. On her right hand she can see with these spectrums: infrared (IR) on her pinkie (pink), ultraviolet (UV) on her ring finger (violet), x-ray on her middle finger (indigo), and gamma on her index finger (dark green); on her left hand she can see with these spectrums: radio (which includes being able to see the vibrations of sound) on her pinkie (light blue), emotion-color synesthesia (mood ring eyeballs) on her ring finger (light green), tetrachromacy on her middle finger (orange), and the visible light spectrum on her index finger (yellow). The colors on each nail correspond with the color her eyes become when she uses that spectrum.

Even though she has an enormous range of colors and wavelengths to see, it was a lot to work with for the young girl. In order to train Madeleine, the scientists created targets that were exceptionally visible in certain spectrums but invisible in others, which gave Madeleine the ability to use her focus on said targets and switch between the different spectrums with more ease than when she had first obtained them. Of course, with targets comes something to shoot the targets with, so Madeleine learned how to both shoot arrows with a bow and use her eyesight to her own benefit. While that method of learning was a little unorthodox to the doctors who had treated her, they understood it was something she enjoyed as well as learned how to live better with, so she was able to continue on with her life.

Since she had been gifted with vision, Madeleine very much enjoyed being able to see the beautiful world around her, even though beauty was all she saw - she didn't focus on the negative aspects of the world, since that's what she was forced to experience during her first seven years of life. However, that did make her quite naive, especially when it came to her first love. James was a typical bad boy, doing everything he shouldn't with his friends. Since she was so broken before, he had been attracted to her thinking she was something to fix, while she just fell for his rugged, red persona. However, as soon as she began all sorts of different hobbies, including running for exercise that she found joy in, he no longer thought she needed fixing. Her own aura went from blue to a beautiful lilac shade, and he left her, breaking her heart once more before it actually began to fail her.

Her joy in life ended quickly when she was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer in her heart. She had been feeling some of the symptoms as of late, but she hadn't imagined that cancer would be hitting her at age 16. Forced to live in the hospital once more, Madeleine argued with the doctors about her likelihood of survival, determined to keep anything else out of her body and to let nature take its course. However, her parents had an alternate agenda that involved placing a machine inside her chest cavity and using it to keep her heart at a steady 90 bpm with a blood pressure of 120/80. The entire tumor was removed during her open heart surgery, and the implant helped the heart from falling apart as well as kept her alive for longer than she would have lived without it.

But in all honesty...her life ended the moment they put that device inside her body. Since it was made to regulate her heart and control all aspects of it, she couldn't undergo any physical stress because her body would physically limit her from doing so. If she tried running, she would quickly tire and need time to recover. Even though she was able to continue her archery classes and practice using her spectrums, she couldn't do her other most-enjoyed hobby, and that broke her. Running gave her the chance to clear her mind, deal with the overwhelming parts of her life, and take things one step at a time. Now she goes to therapy because of the stress she's constantly under and the despair she feels when she cannot truly live. Her parents contributed greatly to her misery, so as soon as she turned 18 she left her home, later on rooming with three complete strangers who kept their distance as long as she paid for her expenses (which wasn't difficult, since her parents had given her a hefty amount of money after she completed her A-levels at age 17 - she skipped a year or two). It wasn't until she turned 21 that she was approached about a simulation of some sort that was supposed to help cure mal-augments. She signed up immediately, regardless of the price.

Skills/Abilities
Strengths
Sharpshooter
Investigative
Eidetic Memory

Weaknesses
Anemic
Heart = Controlled
Emotional

Skills
Archery
Singing
Analysis

Weapon(s)
N/A (proficient with bow and arrows)​

"Even with augmented eyes, a life full of every color imaginable can still be a life unlived."​

 

[Ronan]

Alias: Galileo Galilei.
Age: Twenty-four ( 24 ).
Gender: Non-conforming. Doesn't care what pronouns you use, but will refer to themselves as she/her.
Physical Description: As the beauty industry evolved with augments, Galileo did, too. Previously a 180cm (5'11") swarthy-skinned character of Italian descent, she now wears a mask of the 'fair race', the much desired white European features over her face, and shaved her head for silver dreads. The mask also changes her eye colour to pitch black. Her frame masculine leaning; broad shoulders, straight hips, small chest, and squared jawline. Her attire crisp and tight, a long-sleeved qipao that buttons at the left collarbone, and black leggings.

Spoiler: galileo galilei.

Augments: Silver dreads, the mask, and bilateral cochlear implants. Cochlear technology has evolved to where it is a chip (1cm x 1cm) that can be worn like a pair earrings or placed behind the ear. It sends electronic signals to the internal device that is located in the cochlea and gives Galileo a representation of sound. She chooses to wear the cochlear implants rather than a full augment of having her hearing restored.
Mal-augs: While cochlear implants give her a representation of sound, it is not a cure-all. Where Galileo succeeds in small environments, she struggles in large group settings, often getting shut down by being unable to follow conversations, locate sound, or separate individual sounds. It becomes a muddy mess of condensed noises.
Personality: As someone born profoundly deaf in both ears, she spent her early years alone learning spoken language with a speech therapist, which resulted in a cultural isolation. Galileo went to school and had friends, but there was no 'other'. There was no 'Deaf Culture' because disability was erased with the rise of augments. So she prefers to be a solitary person where she can focus on herself and the world around her. But because she is often alone, she, surprisingly, cultivated a healthy relationship with herself. Such healthy traits include being consistent - her thought process and personality do not fluctuate or waver - she is forthright in that she values truth in all aspects of her life. Galileo doesn't lie, or rather, doesn't understand lying. She understands it as a concept, but as a practise, she doesn't see the use in it or 'sugar-coating' things. She is gallant, educated, high-minded, responsible, and her best trait of all: persuasive. Her ability to persuade someone is well-recognised in academia and has pushed her ahead of her peers and swayed adults or researchers.

However, such positive traits can be perceived negatively to one unfamiliar with her. Her gallantry can be mistaken for charmlessness; her forthrightness mistaken for insensitivity, high-mindedness mistaken for knowledge hedonism; persuasiveness mistaken for tactlessness or bluntness, and most of all, her education mistaken for a calculating, faithless character obsessed with truth.
Biography: Galileo was born into a middle class Italian family in Cambridge, England on King's Parade.

Her family was hearing. She was not. They gave her bilateral cochlear implants and speech therapy. She wore it. Attended speech therapy for sixteen years. And succeed she did.

Galileo Galilei succeeded beyond expectations in school, easily reaching the top of her class and garnering the praise of her teachers. But as she received top marks in school, Galileo felt something missing, an integral piece of knowledge she sought for herself. And they say humans only use 10% of their brains. Galileo, in her solitary years, was determined to prove two things: one, the 'disabled' can succeed without augments, and two, there was more to the brain and a way to access it. How 10% could become 20%, and 30%, and so on. The first step was augments. As an entity, she understood what augments were and the benefits - she had been offered augments for restored hearing several times throughout her life which she rejected (hearing loss to Galileo did not mean that she was 'broken', it meant she was something that the majority of society was not). So Why couldn't she create an augment for the upper limits of the mind? Augments were everywhere: beauty, fashion, media. The extenstion of the mind became a question of what is "more"? Is 10% Galileo Galilei the same as 20%? What made humanity 100%? Augments were easy to understand from an engineers' perspective: they created the opposite from a known opposite. Hearing / Deaf. Blind / Seeing. Blue hair / Red hair. With the augment pushing the brain past 10%, there was no known factor. No known goal from start or end or what the results would be.

So with top marks in school, Galileo gained access to the prestigious university of Cambridge and resided as a student in Downey Hall where she further pursued her studies of augments and the common heritage of mankind. Her thesis was based on the humanist theory, the belief that mankind more than our physical entities á la the 10% question. The thesis paper won several accolades and recognition from researchers and scientists around the world, and as quickly as she graduated from Cambridge, she was employed in a large-scale augmentation company - one that took her humanist theory and applied it to the mind. There, she wrote more papers: the transparency of evil, cyber-feminism, electronic eros, post-humanism, and the license to dream. But one paper managed to shake researchers around the world. One that could push that 10% to 11%.

The theory of eternal life. With eternal life, mankind could grow. Age would not waste the mind. Researchers were keen on her publishing the theory of eternal life soon, but as quickly it was announced, Galileo pulled the plug on the research and buried it. All the papers were destroyed and she left the augmentation company. No one knows why.

 

[Hercynia]

Drawn by MahoganyLeaf for the first instance of this roleplay
^{If any artists would rather their work was not used here, please get in touch with me and I'll resolve the issue ASAP}​

Name: Aaron Frey (Nicknamed Red for (hopefully) obvious reasons)Credit where it's due

Age: 20

Gender: Identifies as male and uses male pronouns

Physical Description: Aaron's most striking feature is not his bright red hair - in this age of augments, brightly coloured hair is not uncommon, despite his being natural, and more often than not hidden under a slightly old-fashioned "newspaper-boy" cap. No, what sets him apart is his height. Aaron is, well, to say the least... not very tall, standing at approximately 5'2". This has been the source of much annoyance to him at first, but as time went by it's become a facet of living - and although there are likely augments that could resolve these... vertical challenges... his height is now more or less a point of pride. His eyes are the same as his hair - their bright green tone would also have been striking once, before the age of augments, but now the only thing that sets them apart is that they are natural, and the installed augment.

Usually, Aaron wears slightly more antiquated clothing - a favourite outfit of his is one that's been affectionately termed "newspaper boy". A vest with a few pockets over a loose, untucked checkered shirt, above a just-above ankle-length pair of dark green cargo pants. The more pockets, the better. The outfit is completed by a cap that sits atop his unkempt hair.

Augments: Aside from his neurochemical regulator, Aaron is more on the minimalist side in terms of augments. His left eye contains a mediocre-quality camera, which is capable of shooting, and storing, up to 500 images at a time. It connects wirelessly to his home system.

Mal-Aug: A black-market implant designed to regulate the levels of several neural chemicals - namely dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine. Unfortunately, due to the black-market nature of this device, the regulation system is highly inconsistent and does not function as intended, frequently releasing a significantly greater amount of these neural chemicals than intended, which can lead to heavy effects on Aaron's physical and mental state such as agitation, sleeplessness, headaches, pupil dilation, shivering, hyperactivity, paleness, and anxiety. The neural regulator in question is an old prototype model, stolen and applied to him in a "chop shop", common augmentation dens in the less-than-savoury underworld in this age of augmentation.

Personality: Aaron's personality is, well... inconsistent, to say the least. Due to the almost constant far-higher-than-average chemical influences on his brain, he is frequently agitated and uncomfortable, suffering from severe headaches and occasional bouts of acute anxiety. Mood swings are common and often completely unexpected. Fortunately - or perhaps, unfortunately, his neurochemical regulator is not broken enough to actually release enough of any chemical to kill him. Nor is it a constant influence, only triggering at random times, at least once a day - the design idea being that it'd have "More of an effect." Of course, this was scrapped in the commercial models in favour of a "first thing daily" timing.

When going without an overflow of any particular chemical, Aaron is, well... prideful. He quite enjoys arguing - or rather, in his words, debating, points and counter-points, poking holes in arguments, including ones he agrees with. When the situation is vital he's more focused, but still takes everything said by others with a substantial pinch of salt. It would not be inaccurate to say that Aaron is not exactly the most trusting person you'll ever meet, although he endeavours to always remain truthful. He also has a general dislike for governments and large, rule-making organisations in general - this stems from the ever-increasing corruption of the Canadian government as he grew up, and the unofficial-but-well-known control of the corporations. Saying this though, even for his dislike of these things, Aaron is hardly above the law. He won't do whatever it takes for money or for a cause, but if it'll ease his conscience and pay well? Then it's a bonus. Even better if it damages the reputations of or otherwise pisses off the companies he detests.

For all this, Aaron suffered from heavy bouts of SAD - Seasonal Autumnal Depression. Come winter, come the grey skies, and so too came an extraordinary greyness over the red-haired boy, plunging him into a deep, depression that lasted for months at a time. This was fixed, somewhat, with the implementation of his neurochemical regulator - at the cost of almost everything else. Even now though, he still strongly dislikes the sun, and winter. The chemistry may no longer be there, but correlation is harder to repair.

Biography: Aaron was born 20 years before the present day (That's what age is) in Toronto, Canada, to a fairly average middle-class family. He was raised along with a single brother - Strictly-enforced limits to prevent the constant threat of overpopulation in Canada's already straining ecosystem meant that only either the very rich or the very illegal could get away with a large family. These population limits had another purpose too - the border's sealed, the Canadian authorities began to deport the non-Canadian citizens, sending them back into the ever-warming desert America was becoming, or back overseas. The "We'll flee to Canada" mentality was shut down - hard, as corporations amassed greater and greater amounts of power until only a sliver of governmental control remained - with Syndico among the first of the organisations to take advantage of this. In this unpredictable and unstable country, Aaron saw friends vanish and disappear around him and augments and shipped-in employees appear as if overnight as he grew up.

Eventually, Aaron graduated high school with very little fanfare, and did, well... nothing, honestly, until discovering his passion for photography was something that people would actually pay him for. And thus, his hobby became his work. And what work! It almost consumed him, and Aaron travelled endlessly, working freelance as a photographer for almost anyone who'd pay him, above and below the radar. Eventually, he discovered that the jobs below said radar and ethics paid rather more, and made him feel much better about himself. He kept working, providing images for the quiet and meek - if they could pay, of course - and for the low and loud. The too loud, apparently, because Aaron got sick of his depression, and finally gave in to temptation. By this point, however, Syndico wasn't particularly inclined to do anything for him.

Some low friends were inclined to do something for him though, and a visit to a "chop-shop", a less-than-legal augmentation den for the criminal underworld was soon arranged. For an exorbitant fee, Aaron was fitted with a Neurochemical regulator to maintain dopamine levels in his brain. Unfortunately, the chop-shop owner neglected to include the fact that this particular neurochemical regulator was a prototype, fished from Syndico's scrapheap and badly repaired. In fact, Aaron later discovered, it was a wonder that it worked well enough to kill him. Although, perhaps wonder is the wrong phrase. Perhaps a more accurate term would be punishment, for now Aaron lives in fear - depression repressed, but neural chemicals in a constant swing, leading to constant illness and mental instability. The chop-shops won't touch him, partially due to a lack of expertise, and partially due to a lack of willingness to actually kill him.

Now Aaron has little choice but to go to the company he hates the most to fix the botched job of a neurochemical regulator - irony, in a way. And at this point, it's a race between what will kill him first - his botched regulator, his mood swings, or some revenge-seeking corporation. At this point, Aaron would take anything over his current life.

Anything.

"After the storm, there is silence. Can you remember the sun? Not here. Not right now."​

 

[marshmarrow]

lenci . 23 . female . mxrphine

pain is an illusion

FIRST DEGREE
full name Valencia Marie Roeser
nickname(s) Val, Lenci
gender Female
age 23
sexual orientation Bisexual
augments Electric-blue hair, metal fingernails
mal-aug Mxrphine


SECOND DEGREE
body type Mesomorph - 5'7" + 120 lbs.
faceclaim Nyané Lebajoa (model)
physical description Lenci takes pride in her physique, which is why she has left it natural, apart from her hair color and nails. Going against the norm, her mundane brown eyes became more unusual as a result of the rise of cosmetic augments. Her skin is Type V on the Fitzpatrick scale, and far from perfect. Her forearm sleeve is real, done by a professional tattoo artist (a rare find these days) instead of a skin aug. Her wardrobe consists of black and more black, but she is never seen without a delicate, antique watch on her wrist. She has many faint scars around her hands, elbows, and knees.
aug descrption Her fingernails are encased in a titanium shell, preventing growth and damage of the nail plate, while the bright-blue dye in her hair is permanent, and doesn't affect her natural texture or break down in heated water.
mal-aug description Mxrphine ("morphine") actively attaches itself to the thalamus to prevent her brain from interpreting any kind of physical pain. From stab wounds to paper cuts, Lenci will never know she has been wounded until she sees the wound for herself or feels the break in her skin. While there are certain advantages, there are far many more drawbacks she had never anticipated. Since augmenting herself, she would often find more than one contact burn on her hands or arms in a week, and more severely, suffer severe bouts of dehydration as she never feels the discomfort of a dry throat or headaches. She has taken to reminding herself to drink a cup of water every hour, and to eat something every four in order to prevent serious malnutrition. Even her workouts are timed in order to prevent fatigue. She regularly visits her doctor to see if her delicate aug is functioning as it should and disabling only one part of her brain, and for more extensive check-ups to detect any internal injuries. Usually, everything is working as it should be, but she can never take the chance to blow off her appointments.

THIRD DEGREE
personality Lenci is a woman who thrives on chances and risks. She has a fearless nature and is very boastful of her accomplishments. However, her pride is a cover for her insecurities. She’s bold and strong-willed, though she doesn’t always broadcast these qualities; a quiet demeanor, layered by a soldier’s posturing, suppresses much in the way of body language. If she says she is confident, most people believe that to be true, and many are in awe of her augment as it allows her to always spring back on her feet after she falls. She rarely ever reveals the true nature of her mal-aug, and how she struggles to feel she is truly sound in body when her brain is constantly convincing her she is healthy. Lenci is also known for being an extremely hard worker, stopping at seemingly nothing to achieve her goals even at the cost of her own well-being. She strongly believes that anyone who puts in the effort for something will be able to get the desired results in time. As she trusts her intuition over the opinions of others, it is extremely difficult for anyone to change her mind, although she respectfully listens to and considers all points that challenge her beliefs, even if she may not agree with them. Lenci never has trouble putting her thoughts into words. Although her vocabulary is "enriched" with vulgarities, she always speaks the truth, and would rather die than betray someone close to her. Flirtatious with boys and girls, she just likes to have a good time; a serious relationship has never appealed to her.
history For as long as she can remember, Lenci has always taken the unconventional route. She thrives on unpredictability, facing each day with a fresh mindset. Living in Los Angeles, she never knew what could happen. When she became the age where every little girl says they want to be a "vet" or a "teacher," she declared "soldier." Her brothers, father, uncles, and three of her four grandfathers all served in one branch of the military or the other, so it was only natural she, as a loyal daughter, would follow. However, her parents were horrified. All four of her brothers had served or were currently deployed, and they thought it was no life for their young girl. Even so, they did not stop Lenci from enlisting in the army at eighteen, and when she returned from basic training, they could see how she was transformed. Serving her country had given her a chance to distinguish herself, and no doubt she could handle it. She was a crack shot, a model private, and she possessed the ambition to excel further.

The threat of terror had amplified in recent times, militant groups placing the United States in their crosshairs. Lenci rose to first lieutenant, an expert in "unconventional" warfare, and very high-profile. She was disciplined in a variety of martial arts, learned to handle aircraft and heavy artillery, and to speak several foreign languages. She was tasked with handling many classified operations. She was the best of the best, and boosted morale among female soldiers as she proved she could be successful in a combat position.

For their valuable forces, the army was beginning to implement augments that would give them the upper hand in combat, and Lenci was selected for the "Mxrphine" experiment. Connecting the augment was painful, but then it was as if a switch had been flipped. She completed a series of tests, showing how turning off pain receptors made her faster, stronger, better. The brass patted themselves on the back, unaware of the agony Lenci put up with on a daily basis. A year later, her tour of duty was over and she received an honorable discharge, but she still faced the consequences of the augment. Returning home, she was labeled a hero by her community, and she ultimately hid the mal-aug from her family. Now alone, she lives her life by the ticking of her watch, her modestly-furnished apartment carefully cleaned and maintained to protect herself from accidents.

© penumbra

 

[Devious Dilbert]

V e r i d i u s

ID: 100003389


Date of Interview: February 22


Age: 21


DOB: May 13th

Physical Description:

Race: Caucasian

Sex: Male

Hair color: Light brown

Eye color: Light green

Height: 5'10

Weight: 173 lbs

A u g m e n t s​

When asked about his augment history the subject responded with, "Uhh... I only have a skin aug. My brother got it for me...? But I don't remember him ever doing that... But I believe him... I mean- It's there... On the palm of my right hand."
Log 1: February 22. Vernon Mosswell (H.R. Syndico America): The skin aug is a phone number in the form of black text. It is apparently his brother's number.

Log 2: April 3. Ian (A.I. Syndico America): Tests have concluded that the subject has had an eye and hair color augment as well. The original colors of his features will be disclosed in his private file.

M a l - a u g s​

When asked about his mal-aug the subject responded with, "My brother and I believe I have some sort of memory-inhibiting mal-aug..."
Log 1: February 25. Vernon Mosswell (H.R. Syndico America): After getting into consistent contact with his brother, I have forwarded Veridius's data to Matilda, as well as his brother's and my communications, for her analysis.

Log 2: March 18. Matilda (A.I. Syndico America): Tests are not accurately identifying the subject's mal-aug. I have sent Veridius's data to Syndico Japan.

Log 3: July 7. Yuruki (A.I. Syndico Japan): Hello! We apologize for the long wait, but we have finally identified the subject's mal-aug. He appears to indeed have a mal-aug that is blocking his memories and is continuously doing so exactly every 30 days. This, however, is all we could conclude. The manufacturer of the mal-aug is unknown, but we have pinpointed the subject's age that he had it applied, that being in August when he was 16.

P e r s o n a l i t y​

The subject seems a little timid, though has been very open and cooperative with me. He has been humble and amiable in his manner and shows great patience and docility. He seems to have a very strong connection to his brother, perhaps viewing him as a sort of guardian figure. There is, however, a sort of hesitation coming from him. I believe it to just be caution... as well as perhaps a little bit of shock or disbelief in his own condition. The more I have talked to him, the more I am inclined to perceive the latter. It seems that he is largely unaware of the effects of his own mal-aug. -Vernon Mosswell (H.R. Syndico America)

B i o g r a p h y​

When asked about his biography the subject responded with, "Me and my brother were 16 when we were involved in a serious car-accident. We... lost our parents and I have a bad memory because of it... I've lost my memory about every 30 days after the crash... Uh... I'm sorry... My brother would be able to tell you guys more... Like I said... we think I have some sort of memory-inhibiting mal-aug..."
Log 1: February 27. Vernon Mosswell (H.R. Syndico America): After getting into consistent contact with his brother... I can say that both of them are unreliable sources for Veridius's biography. I've forwarded my findings to Jalen.

Log 2: March 5. Ray Grace (Intelligence. Syndico America): Jalen has assigned me to the task. I will update in time.

Log 3: May 2. Ray Grace (Intelligence. Syndico America): I have looked into the issue and moved Veridius's personal information to his classified file. Me, all intelligence, and above, will have access and shall be contacted for valid concerns.

N o t e s​

The Subject's surname will not appear on his public file. -Ray Grace (Intelligence. Syndico America)

The subject has shared his favorite song?? -Vernon Mosswell (H.R. Syndico America)

Spoiler: His theme.

I told you guys I was edgy.

Coded by Devious Dilbert​

 

[radical]

Verity Dae


Basic Info

Age 17

Height 5’4

Weight 105 lbs.

Body Type Ectomorph

Augments

Augments

Verity has no augments. Even though rare, her natural eye color is blue. Instead of using augs to change her natural hair color, she bleaches it.

Mal-Augs

Verteplacement (Vertebrae Replacement)

Verity was in a car crash when she was younger. Consequencesntly, her C2 and C3 vertebrae were smashed to pieces.To improve her quality of life, she decided to get Verteplacement. Even though the the name is short for Vertebrae Replacement, this augment doesn’t actually replace vertebrae, it is placed over the damaged vertebrae. When a signal is passed down from the brain and it reaches the damaged area, the augment will absorb the signal and transmit a false signal. Since the augmentation was only in it’s experimental stage and Verity was the first to be implanted with it, it malfunctions. At first, it only malfunctioned every now and then and the malfunction only lasted for a few seconds. Then, the malfunctions got more frequent and lasted longer. For as long as months at a time, Verity lost the ability to move her limbs. This is especially dangerous for her because her injury is at a very high cervical level so she wouldn’t even be able to breath on her own without the augment. During the periods of time where the Verteplacement malfunctioned, Verity was confined to a wheelchair and had to use a ventilator in order to breath.


Memory Purge

As a child, Ver was always bouncing between different foster homes, taking the scars of each home with her. When she was finally adopted, her parents noticed that she was a very troubled child so they decided to “install” the Memory Purge augment on her so she would forget her dark past. This aug has to be replaced every ten years and Verity had no knowledge of it so when the augment expired, she slowly began to get her memories back. They often cam win flashes and caused her to have panic attacks around certain people that trigger her memories.

Personal Info

Personality

Verity was once lively and vibrant but the accident changed everything. Usually, she goes around wearing a blank, emotionless expression. The twinkle in most people’s eyes is not in hers. Ver never fully trusts anyone because they will only “hurt her or leave her”.
+reliable +sincere +practical +impartial
-frank -brutally honest -unyieldingly stubborn

Biography

Ver is Korean and lived in North Korea when she was younger. Her mother was pregnant with her when she was captured and sent to a labor camp. Verity’s mother tried to escape the labor camp twice in hopes of giving her daughter a better future but unfortunately, she did not succeed. On her last attempt, she was shot and killed and for a year, Verity was raised in the labor camp.Then she was sent to foster care. Her first few homes were very loving and caring but that only lasted until she turned four. That was when the abuse started. She stayed at the first home (after she turned 4) for two years until the teachers at her school noticed the abuse and reported it. For the first year, her alcoholic foster parents only hit her occassionally and she covered up the bruises. Then spontaneously, her foster parents stopped taking care of her and left her to rot in the yard with their dogs. When she tried to approach one of the aggressive dogs, they attacked her and nearly ripped her arm to shreds, she even still has scars. Verity’s second home only lasted a couple months. At first, she was treated like a princess but after they gained her trust, they betrayed her and abused her body for their pleasure. After enduring many long days of abuse, Ver was fed up and ran away, only to be caught by the police. She explained why she had run away and begged them not to force her to go back. They agreed and Verity was sent to another foster home. This time she lived with a kind old lady but unfortunately, her days of happiness were numbered. After spending a little more than a year at her home, the lady passed away and Ver was sent to yet another home. Her fifth foster foster family was extremely rich. She thought that she was finally meeting her happily ever after but she was far from correct. Verity was treated like a servant and whipped when her work did not please her family. The other servants/maids pitied her and took as good care of her as they were capable. The servants bandaged her back when she was whipped and fed her scraps from their meals when she wasn’t given a meal. Unfortunately, one of the rich children discovered that she was being helped and all the servants who had aided her were never seen again. Feeling weary and tired of her poor treatment, Verity decided to run away again. This time, she succeeded. For almost a whole year, she lived on the streets and was eventually forgotten by child welfare authorities. During one of Ver’s money begging days, a cop discovered her and she was sent to a group home. Lots of days, people came to visit her but nobody decided to adopt her. One day, during an adoption picnic, she was adopted by an American couple. She had many happy years. Her American parents cherished her with all their heart and never set a finger on her.One fateful morning during the winter, Verity and her family got in a car crash. The only survivor was Verity. She was only 14. Instead of going to foster care, she was handed to her rich aunt (in-law). Her aunt only visited her a few times every year; her primary caretaker was literally a caretaker that her aunt hired for her. Although Ver has never told anybody about this, she feels like she was living on borrowed time. She feels like she had a bottle of happiness. Once that bottle was drained, the happiness ended.​

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[TenshuZninja]

Name:
Lucian (Luci-Anne) "James" Whitaker ​

Age:
22​

Gender:
Genderfluid
{They, Them, Their}​

S.O.:
Pansexual

Physical Description:​

James is 5'11, usually making them one of the tallest people in most rooms. They has deep shaggy brown hair that they enjoys changing every once in a while merely for the choice. They once had equally deep brown eyes; now they are a milky silver meant to unsettle those who look into their eyes. Their skin is of the paler type, distinctly white due to the lack of sunshine they receive. Their body is mesomorph, muscular and well built. Often seen wearing a black suit and tie combination underneath a white physicians coat that paired with their pale complexion makes them appear somewhat sickly despite their obvious physical stability. Their downtime clothes are a stark contrast to what they are known for wearing. Bright and colorful clothes of multiple shades, patterns, and hues hitting closer to the feminine side of the scale.

Spoiler: Lucian James Whitaker

Augments:
Optic Nerve augmentation in order to carry more visual information to the brain. Cerebral Cortex augmentation for information to be processed at a faster rate. Iris augmentation for unsettling, unnatural pigmentation of the iris.


Mal-augs:
Will-Bonding, an augmentation used to ensure employees work their best for their companies and enslaves those who would be unwilling to do what is told and asked of them to those involved with the black market.


Personality:
Before the Will-Bonding Mal-Aug, James was a rather warm and social person with a strong sense of what they perceived to be justice. Boisterous and cheerful with a case of Diarrhea of the mouth. Out every Friday and Saturday hanging with their friends or making new ones. James was an outgoing, open, and caring young individual. By them self they tended to be more quiet but no less active. They seemed to simply ripple with excess positive energy and attitude and always actively sought to spread their good cheer. They were always keen on helping others and wanted to help the world in their own way. ​

Now with the Mal-Aug their personality has darkened, their attitude has soured. Their cheer has been drained out of them along with their hope of ever being free. They is now a negative photo of their former self, emptiness lies in their heart where happiness used to be. It's not a simple case of hopelessness, it's a deep case of depression and unfortunately they don't have the dopamine mal-aug.

Biography:​

James was born a happy, healthy baby boy named Lucian James Whitaker in Grundarfjorour, Iceland during the spring. Their family often commentated that being born during the spring and having the sun out when they was a baby is what gave them such a big personality. They was the second to last child of their family which consisted of their mother, their father, and their three other siblings. Lincoln is their brother and the oldest they are approximately 5 years difference between each other (27). Then there is Lynna their sister and approximately 2 years difference between them (24). Lastly after Lucy and the youngest of them all with a 4 year difference between them is Laurel Whitaker (18). Lucian grew up a healthy happy child as any other child living in Icelandic suburbia.

Their life went on quite peacefully. That is until they went to middle school wearing a dress one day. It was so strange that a silly dress started a city wide debate on the appropriate conduct and gender associations between girls and boys.Their classmates were belligerent despite most of their teachers being indifferent of the matter. They was bullied by various groups in school for their choices in clothing, as well as opinion. It did nothing to deter them from whom they wanted to be, what they wanted to do, what they chose to wear and how they felt on the inside. Their family was behind them so they couldn't care less about what the rest of the 867 people in Grundarfjorour thought bout them, they were small minded. There were those like and unlike them in later years that accepted them as they are, casting aside whatever they had previously felt to be unnatural and saw what was underneath. Which is an intelligent, very caring and exuberant individual with a big smile for anyone.

Their own experience fueled the determination for helping people to safely understand differences don't need to mean scary and spur unnecessary hate. James went on through high school and the following years of college studying psychology in order to help others mind states and understanding. Doing well in both sports and Academics their family was not surprised when they received the Division 53 Student Achievement Award scholarship during their first year of college as a psychology major. They used the scholarship when they changed schools and moved to america to attend a more "prestigious" college. It was purely unlucky coincidence that their first internship at a mental institution training under a crooked Dr. Mortum was what landed them in their current predicament. It was told to them at the initial meeting they would want to implant an aug into their brain in order to ensure efficiency because of the back log of patients and those who need to become patients. They weren't completely convinced of the necessity of the aug but relented after being pressured with losing the internship all together by the Dr. Unaware that the Aug would not only increase efficiency but also steal much of their free will. It's now 3 years into the internship under the thumb of the crooked doctor. They have been unsuccessful with multiple attempts of insubordination, and escape from the prison of this aug. They were losing any and all hope when this opportunity became known to them.

"Don't worry about the past predicaments, just bite the molar and go."
"Ekki hafa áhyggjur af fortíðinni, bara bíttu múluna og farðu"​

 

[VeiledPariah]

Name: Thomas Grey


Age: 24


Physical Description:

Augments:
Hand Augmentation- (Prosthetic)
Thomas lost his hand at the wrist and his insurance luckily allowed his hand/wrist to be replaced with a strong prosthetic that can't be damaged easily.

Hair Augmentation (Aesthetic)
Hair changed to dull brown with touches of gray.

Eye Augmentation (Aesthetic)
Eyes changed to dull grey color.


Mal-augs: A.I. Investigative System (AIIS)
AIIS was one of the corporations attempts at bringing law enforcement a better tool for solving crimes.
It was introduced to a few select candidates of the A.B.I (Augmentation Bureau of Investigation) during their certification of new recruits and preformed surprisingly well, creating more inquisitive and proficient investigators.
((see bio for details of issues))

Personality:
Thomas is a rather guarded individual, preferring to let another take the lead in a conversation while he scopes them out in order to answer appropriately.
This does not mean his is distant or cold but rather he is very approachable. Social, and rather upbeat in most situations but is not without his own dark waters that others would not normally tread into easily.
Such as he is not quick to anger but more violent upon being so. Its more of a all or nothing should it come to it. Its best to just not get on his bad side.

Spoiler: Bio Soundtrack-Theme of Laura-

Biography:
//SessionStart//
So, where did you grow up?
Illinois born and raised.
What was life like for you growing up?
Same as most i guess...
Can you clarify?, We have to be thorough..
Sure. I grew up with my Ma and my two younger sisters, Ma stayed home to take care of us and Dad well he was a cop with the 48th precinct.
We had things we needed and some things we couldn't get but we were raised right.
Alright then, So he was the reason you wanted to join the Bureau?
Yes and no.
*cough*
Right, right details..uhmm okay yes i joined the bureau to be a cop like my dad but also to help stop what i have seen on the streets...If someone doesn't step up then everyone will suffer for it.
By what you've seen....you mean your youngest sister?...Laura?
Yes.
Mr. Grey....
I don't want to talk about it..
I see, we will come back to that later then...
Am i done yet?, i kind of got to get back
We can stop here for today...see you tomorrow?
Sure whatever you say doc.
//EndSession//
Thomas returned and was found a suitable candidate for the AIIS implant and upon receiving it graduated a year later at the age of 19 from ABI HQ as an agent.
He had been on the job five years now and although his past and unsolved disappearance of his sister Laura remained so he continued with his work.
Recently he had picked up the cold cases of some missing persons who had MalAugs and surprisingly went to the cybernetics facility prior to vanishing.
It reminded him of his sister and the MalAug issue resembled his own.
The incident happened his last year on the job. He was chasing down a serial killer known as The Messenger.
His MO was to kidnap victims and alter their Augs after various torture to break down their mental state. After his "modifications" he would release them and upon a subliminal trigger via phone or radio wave the victim would become homicidal/ suicidal.
Thomas investigated but was not without his own scars. Finally having the right suspect he too was taken and submitted to torture and the offenders tactics. Losing his left hand in the process. Thomas however was able to subdue the man during the modification process leaving the killers work half completed. The results of that incident forced Grey to get a prosthetic to stay in the force but his AIIS implant was damaged and so too his psyche which resulted in his early and bright career ending short.
Now he works as a Private Investigator his only asset being Artemis the AIIS that has developed her own consciousness. Unbeknownst to Thomas however Artemis is the reason why his psyche has been damaged so as of late and is working toward breaking him down further until she has full control over is actions making him a shell in which she embodies. Now she forces her opinions and ideals down on his mind like a weight permanently rested on his soul that only gets heavier as he delves deeper into finding out who is behind these missing people and delves further into himself and his past as it comes back to haunt him which Artemis will ensure. Thomas plans to find out what happened to these lost people under any means necessary... But Artemis and Syn have their own plans...
RIRP

"Evil Only Triumphs
When Good Men Do Nothing"

Spoiler: Thomas' Theme- One more soul to the call-

 

[0stinato]

Name: Jan Bonvillian (pronounced 'yan'). He is usually referred to as Bon, especially by his mother, who shares his first name (Jan, pronounced, this time, as written). Since her divorce, at which point she took back her maiden name, she calls her son 'Bon' because it is a differentiation from their 'shared' first name.

Age: 24 - this is his last chance at fixing himself.

Physical Description:

Bon is somewhat tall, standing at 6'1", and rather wiry. His skin retains a youthful glow, as do his eyes, which are rather bird-like in his use of them. He moves in an odd fashion, either electing to be elegant and graceful, or sudden and jerky. Exaggeration dwells inside him, a result of the mal-augs he is suffering. Most of his erratic behaviour is down to his mal-augs.

Augments: Working under the tutelage of a musician and training to be a professional, casual-entertainer, Bon needed to be good at all things audio. Although he showed extreme promise in his craft, he felt improvement was necessary to improve his tutor. Because of this, he sought out augments. Although tempted by colourful promise and a strong desire to bring a bit of joy to the world, Bon ignored all the aesthetic augments. Instead he went with a small augment that would unlock the creative right hemisphere of his brain as long as he honed it. However, as Bon began doing as he was told and honing the newly-opened eyes within himself, the negative consequences began to appear.

Mal-augs: Under the guise that the augment was completely safe, Bon pushed himself. However, as with every augment, it needs a limit. The limit imposed on this was designed as a self-destruct. The augment was programmed to stop working after a certain amount of chemicals in the brain were detected. Because Bon had pushed the augment to its limit very quickly with his practice, the augment stopped working. This meant that nothing was regulating the right hemisphere of his brain, and the creative thought began to run a little bit manic. Bon's erratic behaviour and unsettling beliefs often overwrite any seriousness in his personality and in many situations cause him to overreact to stimuli. He has had no off switch since the augment stopped working. On the upside, it's led to many, many, many unique pieces of music and poetry. However, it has also led to those pieces of music and poetry being too far removed from reality that they cannot be enjoyed. One of his recurring themes in his music is to shift notes down one semitone, just to see how it sounds.

Personality: It is important to understand that although Bon's brain has been altered by the destruction of the augment, his personality is much the same. Bonvillian is a true Romantic, often raising up Nature as much as he can in this tech-heavy world. He is, however, no use at keeping houseplants because he forgets to water them. Bon has resigned himself to only writing or singing about such things. Because of this, he is a great lover of travel, and wishes to see the sunsets of all the continents. He often tells his tutor that, if he wasn't a performer, he'd be a botanist. Bonvillian is also slightly inept in social situations, only he is very oblivious to it. The mal-aug only adds to this. More often than not, he overstays his welcome, and tries to push into people's lives too quickly. He, of course, only sees himself as being friendly. In terms of his family, Bonvillian knows that his odd behaviour is a primary reason why his parents divorced. The mal-aug caused so much tension when it began to show its true colours that his parents began trying to fix what was wrong. Unfortunately, they pulled in different directions. Although both of them tell Bonvillian he was not to blame, as he has grown up despite his mal-aug, he recognises that he was the reason they split. The arguments and heartache became too much. Bonvillian rarely acknowledges this in his own life. However, upon discovering Syndico had the ability to fix his mind, and therefore physically fix his brain, he saw the opportunity for recompense and he took it.

Biography: Bon's world was always tech-heavy. As a child he played with the solar-powered sunflower model that stood on the balcony of the flat, often covering up the solar power to see how the model would 'wilt' before coming back to life with the sun on it. He always wondered what a real sunflower looked like but try as he might he never managed to grow one. Now, of course, he has seen sunflowers. Bon's parents, Oisin and Jan, realised how much of a lover their son was of bedtime tales and nursery rhymes. Even when he was a grown child, he would always sing the most toddler-centric rhymes. In response, his parents had him learn the clarinet and electric violin, because Jan and Oisin liked the sound of them respectively. Bon picked them up fairly quickly and showed promise so his parents paid for private tuition with a talented musician. This musican instilled within Bon the biggest love of music he could find.

From there, Bonvillian, in a strong attempt to improve, went and had his augment done. He began to rise and surpass many mistakes he had previously made. His tutor remarked that it was as if Bon had "finally understood" what music was all about. Bon was more willing to try different things, to experiment and explore themes, to expand his musical horizons in terms of both playing more music and playing more instruments. His lyrics improved, as did his performance and charisma when delivering performances.

Of course, this couldn't last. When the augment stopped working, Bon did not realise at first. To him, the changes were nothing unusual - he saw it as simply his brain coming up with new ways of doing something. He began to experiment beyond instruments, instead listening to other things. The noises of traffic he would develop a beat from, the rising of an elevator he would whistle to, the creaking of a chair he would sing with, and the smashing of glass he would add a bass line to. His tutor too was impressed until Bon began deteriorating. True madness wended its way into his music. At one point, Bon was set to perform a set of his own music and, halfway through, he began doing something completely different. When questioned, he responded with "It felt better to do it this way," even though the way related was to yowl discordantly and beat the bow of his violin against the wall.

When examined, Bon was told his augment had undergone its destruction. It was very much absorbed into his body though, so the only way of fixing the situation would be intense CBT or ECT - which one to go for was argued over by Jan and Oisin, to which the parents split up and lived separate lives. Oisin travelled while Jan stayed where she always was and kept a close, but melancholic, eye on Bonvillian.

One of Bonvillian's pieces is called "The Interlude of the Lazy Bard" and it is simply an E flat semibreve, and nothing else.
It was written after Bonvillian was asked to provide a piece for a charity comedy show.
He walked onto the stage, introduced the piece, raised his electric violin, played a long E note, then stopped, bowed, and left the stage.
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