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a quick overview of the ara-ara-android
May. 25th, 2030 10:54 amPROFILE
ORDNANCE FILE: RPK-16, aka "Silver Fox"
DATE OF PRODUCTION:: 2062
content warning for themes of war, coercion, sadistic behavior and death-seeking.
RPK-16 is a literal war-machine; a cutting-edge android known as a Tactical Doll or "T-Doll." She was created specifically to round out the ranks of the elite Wolf Pack unit, when a violent dispute between two senior T-Dolls led to their complete refusal to work together. After her addition to the unit, it was rebranded into Task Force DEFY.
Her name comes from the model of light machine gun she's been imprinted to, enabling her to use and care for it with complete mastery. She CAN fight with other weapons (as long as she's still got her combat module enabled, ha ha), but her performance with them will be greatly reduced. #JustRobotThings.
Personality wise, RPK is a sly fox hidden among wolves. The immediate impression given is of a young woman who is cheerful and chatty, virtually indistinguishable from a human; she comprehensively simulates blinking, body language, emotional affect and more. Once you get to know her, you will discover a persona that is calm, inquisitive, eloquent, and wholly defined by a self-centric pursuit of freedom.
On that note.
RPK has very frank opinions on the nature and ignobility of being a Doll. Her life exists purely to throw into danger nigh-constantly against other Dolls in the exact same position she is, until being inevitably rendered obsolete to her masters by the forward march of tech. Having a measurably more caring human commander (Angelia) compared to the norm doesn't change that fact. She is still a bespoke weapon designed explicitly for that woman's hand, still a piece of property all too self-aware in a world that offers absolutely zero hope of liberation. To quote RPK herself, "It is always the humans who win, and always the dolls that perish," and because their minds can be backed up to be reinstalled on fresh or repaired hardware, they are not free even in death.
Sooooo, with all that said, here is where I tell you about the deep, deep down parts of the character.
Beneath the facades of pleasantry she's got some real passive aggression in her, with a penchant for lobbing out the most provocative statements when your guard is down. Surprising no one who knows what my character type is, she has an outright sadistic streak; one of her defining scenes is plying a captive human for information via breaking her fingers with gusto (and accompanying pithy monologue. oh my god dude, her frankenstein's monster speech is so good).
Ultimately, RPK has responded to her dire circumstances by dreaming (and scheming) toward the only out she can conceive of:detroit becoming human. And then ideally dying. She's really about the whole "able to die" thing. In less than two years of life max, RPK has concluded she wants an out.
content warning for themes of war, coercion, sadistic behavior and death-seeking.
RPK-16 is a literal war-machine; a cutting-edge android known as a Tactical Doll or "T-Doll." She was created specifically to round out the ranks of the elite Wolf Pack unit, when a violent dispute between two senior T-Dolls led to their complete refusal to work together. After her addition to the unit, it was rebranded into Task Force DEFY.
Her name comes from the model of light machine gun she's been imprinted to, enabling her to use and care for it with complete mastery. She CAN fight with other weapons (as long as she's still got her combat module enabled, ha ha), but her performance with them will be greatly reduced. #JustRobotThings.
Personality wise, RPK is a sly fox hidden among wolves. The immediate impression given is of a young woman who is cheerful and chatty, virtually indistinguishable from a human; she comprehensively simulates blinking, body language, emotional affect and more. Once you get to know her, you will discover a persona that is calm, inquisitive, eloquent, and wholly defined by a self-centric pursuit of freedom.
On that note.
RPK has very frank opinions on the nature and ignobility of being a Doll. Her life exists purely to throw into danger nigh-constantly against other Dolls in the exact same position she is, until being inevitably rendered obsolete to her masters by the forward march of tech. Having a measurably more caring human commander (Angelia) compared to the norm doesn't change that fact. She is still a bespoke weapon designed explicitly for that woman's hand, still a piece of property all too self-aware in a world that offers absolutely zero hope of liberation. To quote RPK herself, "It is always the humans who win, and always the dolls that perish," and because their minds can be backed up to be reinstalled on fresh or repaired hardware, they are not free even in death.
Sooooo, with all that said, here is where I tell you about the deep, deep down parts of the character.
Beneath the facades of pleasantry she's got some real passive aggression in her, with a penchant for lobbing out the most provocative statements when your guard is down. Surprising no one who knows what my character type is, she has an outright sadistic streak; one of her defining scenes is plying a captive human for information via breaking her fingers with gusto (and accompanying pithy monologue. oh my god dude, her frankenstein's monster speech is so good).
Ultimately, RPK has responded to her dire circumstances by dreaming (and scheming) toward the only out she can conceive of:
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RPK's original designation, Pandora, is due to a super secret bonus feature included in her design... or, rather excluded: unlike the vast majority of T-Dolls, she has the ability to choose to defy human orders, and even harm them without being given explicit orders to. Normally, doing this would immediately trigger a safety measure that inflicts catastrophic damage to a Doll's Neural Cloud, the all-important artificial mind...
Though she recognizes actions that as a T-Doll she is not supposed to be able to take, she receives no hard-coded backlash for daring to go against one, and is free to do unto mankind as she pleases.
Her name is Pandora, because she has been handed a world-altering choice.
Though she recognizes actions that as a T-Doll she is not supposed to be able to take, she receives no hard-coded backlash for daring to go against one, and is free to do unto mankind as she pleases.
Her name is Pandora, because she has been handed a world-altering choice.
