ooc - application to towerofanimus

[immortalia]

Player Information

Name: Liz.
Personal Journal: advancing
Age: 21.
Contact Info: AIM: Rafflesia Sky | Gmail: overcoming [dot] sins.
Other Characters Played: None!

Character Information

Character Name: Sertoria Cani/CXEV5001.
Character Age: Thousands upon thousands of years old, but looks around 20.
Character Gender: Female.
World Description:

Quaeda, the world in which CXEV5001 calls home, is a much more futuristic Earth that rapidly improved technologically wise and devoted time to exploring the great unknown, known as space and seeing if other worlds were out there. As it turned out, humanity liked being able to travel between their world and space, and so, funds were put forth to build space stations to house those who wished to remain up in space. This helped the already overwhelming amount of people on Quaeda so that resources wouldn't be abused to the point of the planet going extinct.

Quaeda was a neutral state as warfare and any other conflicts happened long before the current time, and so to avoid any other major strife, a mutual ceasefire was established around the countries and the planet has not seen any bloodshed since then. This helped increase the life expectancy as well as improve morale to help your neighbor, amongst other things. But, having a pure neutral state world would be pretty boring, wouldn't it?

Don't worry, it gets better.

There was a group who wanted to test themselves originally - to see if they could produce the first artificial life form and then market the research for those who otherwise could not reproduce on their own or simply wanted to adopt one of them. Thus, this began the Chorisis Xanthous Ethological Vessel Program. A highly trained group of geneticists, biologists, and other related scientists began working on CXEV0001, the first test subject, but it turned out that it was too unstable and they terminated the program.

Undeterred, the group continued their studies and research and went on to produce CXEV0002 to CXEV0500 before things went belly up. The team fought amongst themselves as ideals clashed and some of them left the project entirely. There was a small group that remained who were stubborn enough to continue the project no matter what. From that point on, they worked through CXEV0501 to CXEV2000 and rapidly improved upon their skills, but it didn't seem like it'd be enough.

This is when the team went crazy with power and began to lose their own humanity while working on the supposed project from hell itself. CXEV2001 to CXEV4500 were better, but they were unstable and did not perform to their standards, so they briefly terminated the project. Yet, one man named Giere Frederick decided that he would not give up and took on developing CXEV4501 to CXEV4775 before his next creation, CXEV4776, killed him and then killed itself due to a miserable outlook on life.

The group that remained either descended further into madness or opted for suicide by the time CXEV4825 was developed, but yet it seemed like they wanted to keep going as if compelled by the devil himself. CXEV4826 to CXEV4999 were failures again, but unlike giving up beforehand, they decided to keep going and when CXEV5000 was introduced, it was nearly perfect, but had a fatal flaw: no AI in order to understand orders and commands. They put an end to her and went back to the drawing board, and at this point, lost all their humanity and were nothing more than vicious barbarians who just wanted a perfected product.

For years, they poured money, sanity and time into developing the one they swore to be the one and CXEV5001 took well to the tests being done on it and soon, it had everything they were looking for! This renewed hope was enough for the team to join up again and finish what was started, come hell or high water. Thus, when CXEV5001 was born, it lived up to its' name "SPERO", meaning hope, and the group was pleased that their hard work finally paid off for something.

Character Background:

When it was time for CXEV5001 to wake up, she didn't know anything about the people around her or their intentions, but sooner than later, it was clear to her that her objective was to mercilessly slaughter innocent people for her creators and she did this without any arguments or hesitation. The more she killed, the better her treatment got, and so she was rewarded with more improvements to her already impressive system as well as minor freedoms: her own choice of clothes, weapons, etc. Although, if she tried to rebel or questioned her motives, they'd subject her to tests, cruel and unusual punishment and other forms of torture. Soon, she learned that if she did not want to experience pain, then she would not try to rebel against her creators if she could help it. This also helped to test her endurance and when there was a snag or a weakness, they would correct it so that she'd be able to be the perfect being.

As her creators felt that she was ready after years of practice and experience, she was told to start a mass genocide down there and understood her objectives. She was let loose and performed her duties exceptionally well until her actions garnered the attention of a prophet named Joshua. He wondered why she was killing people indiscriminately and tried to understand her, but she was suspicious and tried to maim, hurt or kill him on several occassions only to be left utterly confused as to why he was being nice to her and tried to get through to her. It took a great deal of work, over the span of a couple of years, to get her to his side.

As their bond formed more and Joshua worked to perform what others consider as a miracle, CXEV5001 was reborn as Sertoria Cani by him and decided that instead of killing, she'd work on protecting people with the talents she was granted. This, naturally, angered her creators who decided to show that she couldn't run away without getting punished and their response was to launch her in a seemingly endless gladiator match where the last one standing would be declared the victor. They controlled her to go to it and when she awoke, Sertoria did not want to do this, but she was promised that if she didn't win, she'd be terminated and then they'd go after Joshua too before finding a replacement.

She turned out to be the victor and broke down due to breaking her promise to Joshua, her first and only friend. Joshua comforted her and told her that she was not wrong to display weakness and that he would take care of her now. It took a long battle on Joshua's part, but eventually, he was able to prove to Sertoria's creators with his calming and warm personality that she was just as much human as anyone else. And soon, he told Sertoria that she didn't have to fight anymore and could be reborn. Sertoria was overwhelmed by this gesture and accepted his terms to reform into someone who protected people instead of harming them. And so, Sertoria traveled the world with Joshua and felt nothing but pure happiness on her journey. However, naturally, Joshua had to go on to the next life and Sertoria continued his legacy by telling others of what he taught her - to be kind to other people and don't perpetuate the cycle of hatred.

Give a few millennia later of roaming about and taking her own pilgrimages, but Sertoria found someone who looked alarmingly like her and her suspicion was correct - CXEV5002 was sent out to fight and destroy her since they could not let her live any further. And so, a raging battle ensued between the two life forms. It turned out that CXEV5002 was stronger than her predecessor and to eliminate the competition, CXEV5002 implanted a virus that would slowly corrupt her if it was not found in time. To add insult to injury, Sertoria did not know of the virus. She escaped to recover and try to prioritize how she would deal with this latest upset while still keeping her promise to Joshua up.

However, the fighting between her and CXEV5002 grew more and more intense over the span of a few years as the virus worked its way inside of her and made her go berserk. Though, she was determined to not lose what humanity she had left. As it spread, Sertoria eventually lost control and overpowered CXEV5002 enough to eradicate her. After this, she hid away so that she wouldn't be a threat anymore and tried to terminate herself. Yet, it seemed that someone wanted to help her out - a woman who went by the name Drusilla. At first, Sertoria told the girl to leave her be and to not come close to her lest she'd be killed. Drusilla did not mind this and said that she was here to help her out. Sertoria reluctantly agreed, since she did not have any other options available to her at the time and did not dare to go back to her creators' base. Drusilla took Sertoria in and helped flush the virus out of her system as well as worked on restabilizing her so that she would be back to the legendary woman she heard about in stories.

Although, the process to remove the virus was a tedious one, Drusilla didn't give up and did what she could so that Sertoria's AI would be safe and uncorrupted. There were times that Sertoria lashed out against Drusilla and hurt her with her awesome range in weaponry, yet Drusilla knew it was the virus and not Sertoria herself. At first, Drusilla's motivation was to see just what Sertoria Cani was about and see if she lived up to the legends that were told of her. (Mostly like a fan would to a celebrity to make comparisons.) However, in the long run, she found that Sertoria was fascinating not only because she was an android, but because she was just as human as she was.

Over time, Sertoria was okay again to where she didn't have to worry about the virus anymore as it was taken care of. With this, she vowed to protect Drusilla as much as possible and taught her what she knew from Joshua so that she'd be able to use it for future purposes, such as influencing others on his word just like she did. Though, this sort of life was what Sertoria wanted all along and enjoyed it. Sooner or later, she was fitted with a new pair of restraints as the others lost their power.

Sertoria went to make her mind up that she would try to shut down the CXEV Program so that her creators would not have anything else to hold over her. That, and she did not want Quaeda threatened any further than it was. Even if it meant that she would be shutting herself down in the process, she was okay with this and knew it was the right thing to do.

(This is where she would be brought in to Animus. I just thought I should note it down here.)

Personality:

CXEV5001, or Sertoria, was designed to have no emotions at all since they'd just interfere with her mission, which was to annihiliate living life forms and nothing but that. However, what her creators didn't know was that, even though she was the ultimate life form, she would eventually develop her own emotions and thoughts regarding things. This sort of development fascinated and also worried them, so they chose the next best thing: suppressing them time and time again. When she was presented with minor rewards, she didn't fight against the suppression because even though she didn't know what a friend was, her creators were the only ones she knew of and she followed their orders to the letter.

For years, she was lonely and wanted some deeper understanding into who or what she was and what really was her true purpose beyond killing indiscriminately. Though, she tried to not bring these thoughts up to her creators for fear that they would suppress them once again. This is the start of a long process of rebelling against the same people who created her, and even if it was buried under her orders to be a weapon of mass destruction, she really wanted to experience what it was like to have a friend due to her AI changing and adapting - just like a real human mind would.

It wouldn't be until a chance meeting with Joshua had her completely question her motives and why she was doing this. But, this wouldn't happen at first. At the prophet, due to her programming directive, she was angry, scared, confused and skeptical as to why he was so nice to her. Why would someone like him just waltz right on in and flip her life upside down from what she was used to? Moreover, how dare he say that she was just like him - human, a term that is dear to her even to this day. Who did he think he was to even suggest such a ludricrous thing?! Over time, Sertoria grew closer to him than intended and let him see who she really was - a naive, curious android with a maturing AI that was developing normally.

And so, this was the beginning of a long process of healing. Sertoria learned things that she ordinarily did not know before - how to treat others with respect, how to not raise a sword against someone who was innocent, that talking it out meant more than fighting it out, etc. Learning these things fascinated her and she actually enjoyed it. Of course, with being so new to so many experiences, she learned things at a snail's pace, but Joshua was patient with her and helped her when it was needed. Eventually, she was able to stand on her own two legs and try to talk things out first before raising a weapon.

However, when this stability was threatened by her creators, she, for the first time in her existence, felt powerless and helpless, and thus she reverted to her old ways: obey, slaughter - all in the name of surviving so that she would eventually be able to return to the life she enjoyed. It shook her up so much to where she wanted to deactivate herself so that she wouldn't cause anyone else strife. Though, when Joshua took it upon himself to right the wrongs her creators doled out, she was overwhelmed by grief, confusion, as well as thankfulness - emotions that she did not understand at the time, but again, it was due to her AI developing that he would fight against the very people who created her all because he saw her as a human, not a weapon of mass destruction.

It took some time for Sertoria to trust others again, but when she did, she decided that enough was enough and that she'd protect humanity and try to reason with her creators that continuing the CXEV Program was a bad idea, but her plea fell on deaf ears as she thought they would. But, this did not deter her. It actually made her AI mature that much more to where she was determined to see her goal through. While any ordinary being would have either decided to give up or give in, thanks to the emotional and mental backing that Joshua gave her, she had faith that things would work themselves out. She wouldn't be afraid anymore and would show that an artificial life form was just as much human as anyone else.

When Joshua died due to natural causes, Sertoria did not know what to do outside of ask what was going on. Death of a loved one was not something she understood in full, but she did understand sicknesses and other ailments, so she thought he was sick and therefore did what she could to help him out. Eventually, he died and the emotional response from her was both filled with confusion and uncertainty. What caused humans to die? Why did they have to go away? These sort of questions were what helped her finally come to terms with what she did in the past: Death was a bad, but necessary thing, and she decided to try to have a better understanding on what it meant to be a human in full.

And, so, as she wandered the world for thousands of years to observe, study and research humans as she bonded with them and saw many go on to the next life. It was a long process, but she worked tirelessly to try to understand humans and broaden her already exceptional database more than it was. While she was going through this, she felt at ease and at rest, things that she did not know that she could feel. And this was what she thought was a normal life after seeing others be happy with their current living situations.

Although, by the time that CXEV5002 threatened to deactivate her and put an end to the so-called happy life that Sertoria worked so hard for, she decided that she was going to fight to the bitter end so that humanity could remain in their peaceful state. It was a long and grueling fight and Sertoria felt her previous self that would follow orders absolutely. This would be the virus' objective: Wear down Sertoria's defenses and then eliminate her. As she became unrecognizable from the happy and calm android she set forth as, she was terrified and tried whatever she could to stay alive. Survival, even to this day, is key for her so that she can prove that androids are just as human as, well, humans are as well as keep her promise to Joshua up.

In battle, Sertoria, while she has been reformed to not automatically kill someone outright, still knows how to fight as it's second nature to her. She's ruthless, strong and and fights to amazing lengths. She'll still show mercy, but if someone threatens to harm those she cares about or a direct threat to her life, she won't be as kind and will make that other person learn that fighting does not solve everything and talking things out is preferred for the reformed weapon of mass destruction.

One thing that Sertoria is fascinated with is that, even though she has been designed to fight as many battles as possible, why can't she feel pain? As an android, she's been programmed to not have receptors that make it possible to feel pain. Sure, she's caused others pain a lot of times, but one of the things she feels that, to this day, she's missing is what is pain? Why do people feel pain, and yet, still manage to continue to persevere? This concept has fascinated her absolutely and she still researches the concept even though she's read and studied everything there is to know.

What was her lowest point was when the virus threatened to take over and she was fearful for the first time in her existence. She was helpless and did not know what to do other than to try and end her program, but as many times as she tried, it failed, and she didn't know why. She thought terminating herself was the only way to protect the people of Quaeda from the monster she was inside and this sort of thinking didn't stop until Drusilla entered her life. At first, Sertoria told her to go away and let her deal with the ramifications of what CXEV5002 did to her. But, it was Drusilla's kindness that broke through her wall and made her finally accept her help with her issue.

Sertoria did not mind the girl's company, and as such, their bond formed and strengthened to where she decided to protect the girl from her creators and whatever or whomever wanted to hurt her. To be saved not once, but twice, meant a lot to her and she wanted to pay both Joshua and Drusilla back for their generosity to see that she wasn't just an android built to destroy everything: she was as humanlike as possible and set forth to prove that with every day she was alive. Thus, these are the two most important people in her life and she will not tolerate any pain or sadness to come to them.

To others, she will still speak mechanically and emotionlessly due to the AI that is inside of her, however thanks to years of development and understanding, she carries a sort of warmth in her voice that is distinctly reminscient of an aged soul. Conversely, while talking with others, she will be to the point and very blunt. If someone is wasting their time doing erroneous things in her eyes, she will scold them and say that there is time for that later and that they need to work on what they have now if survival is what they aim for. Casual and smalltalk? It'll happen in spurts if the time is right, but beyond that, she ordinarily won't engage in it if she can help it.

Another weakness is that for all the time and energy devoted into studying humans and being around them, she still doesn't understand many things. Humans have fascinated her for millennias with their ability to adapt to new situations and other such things while she still remains mostly the same. How is it that they are still able to remain strong through strife and conflict? How have they lived for so long in harmony and still can pick themselves back up? These are just a couple of the endless questions she has surrounding humans themselves and this unsatiable curiosity is what compels her to keep on studying them so that she has something to keep protecting through the worst of times.

At her creators, while she is thankful that they gave her life and worked tirelessly to make the ultimate life form, she cannot forgive their actions to make her obey every command they wanted her to perform. Moreover, she was disappointed in their inability to let her go since she was clearly content in her current life. In this case, she is stubborn and defiant to not bend to their wills and said straight up that if they dared to threaten the peaceful Quaedans that they would suffer for their actions. This is largely thanks to what she has seen, but also her drive to protect stems from Joshua and it has not gone away. Even though the prophet is long since dead, she still believes in him and thanks him for the work he done. Additionally, she finds it to be difficult to think another way beyond what Joshua has reinforced in her AI - take care of others, be kind and just, and most importantly, see what they think first before making hasty generalizations. So, for someone to attempt to make her think differently would take a lot of work - just like what Joshua did before he passed on.

One thing that Sertoria holds dear to her is the concept of trust. When she puts her trust in someone, she expects that they won't sell her out to her creators, backstab her, or even decide to manipulate with her AI during maintenance. She has fought long and hard for her freedom from them, so should someone decide it's in their better interests to hand her over to her creators, she will not forget it and instead let them feel her wrath that is well known by now. Additionally, when she trusts someone enough to perform her maintenance, she expects them to not muck around with her AI and her memories. This makes her very skeptical and wary to the point of where she'll want to believe that they can be trusted to do said tasks here and there without fail.

Her reluctance to kill could also paint her as weak because she gives others too many chances to redeem themselves - just like she was given by Joshua and then Drusilla. Others could see this and use it to take advantage of her, and should this be the case, she will try to reason with them that she has changed from the ruthless killing machine she used to be and likes her way of life. Couple this with her stubbornness and her belief in Joshua and she will be very hard to persuade to think otherwise after all this time of being used to think in one specific way. Therefore, if someone does want to try to persuade her to think another way, it will take time and time as well as energy to do so.

Physically, though? While she has extremely heightened defenses, a brilliant attack system, and a rather advanced AI system that's capable of developing, her system is highly susceptible to viruses, malware and trojans. Should she contract one through improper usage, she will begin to shut down and turn into a more berserk version of the advanced android she was. Whereas she'd be willing to forgive someone who might have accidentally hurt her, under the influence of a virus, she will outright attack a person and attempt to kill them all because of how weak she is to viruses. Should someone she trusts do this to her, she won't know what to do or to think because she has never experienced betrayal or being backstabbed beyond with her creators.

In conclusion, she is still learning everything she can about humanity in full as well as fight the good fight against the very ones who gave her life. If it means that she has to end her program, then she is willing to take that risk - all in the name of protecting the ones who have fascinated her for so long. Ultimate life form she may be, there are still so many things she still has left to learn. And, that is what drives her to continue fighting and trying to make others see that no one needs to fight anymore.

Abilities: Sertoria is an android and has been designed to be a weapon of mass destruction. She has a vast amount of weaponry in a sleek female form and can use it for battle and other such purposes. She can turn her limbs into machine guns, submachine guns, plasma rifles and swords, etc. Inside of her, she has kinetic energy inside of her that manifests itself into lightning and is also the energy source needed for her plasma weapons.

As an android, she has super strength, acute hearing, a built-in scanner that allows her to find out about her opponent's weaknesses, accelerated speed and an inability to feel pain due to not being built with any receptors in which to handle it. Her eyes, which are known as optic sensors, allow her to see through the darkness and from far-away distances, among other such things. Another thing is that she does not age, and as long as she maintains her systems and works to eliminate bugs, she can live for years and years and years. However, if she is unable to perform maintenance on herself, she will have to have someone help her so that her system can continue running at full capacity.

She also can interface with various computer systems thanks to two chains that are connected to her "brain" and she can plug them in to any computer she's around. This also helps for maintenance as it allows her to still be awake and let changes take place.

Her weapons are all stored inside of her thanks to Spatial Technology, which allows her to be able to store a lot of things in her body at once and it does not weigh her down. Again, her weapons do need to be maintained time to time and she's capable of performing the necessary checks herself, however if she's unable, she will need to have someone else perform the checks for her. They are listed below:

Plasma sword (stored inside of her arms, but she can only wield two.)
Plasma rifle (stored in legs or arms. many, but can only wield two at a time. there is a seemingly endless ammunition supply)
Plasma beams (protrude out of her hands. are commonly stored in her arms.)
Plasma minigun (stored in hip or fingers. infinite ammunition supply [tips of fingers is where the ammo is stored], but low charge)
GX-0 (stored in forearm and has the ability to lock on to an opponent. can also fire poison tipped needles [stored in fingers and has around 20 to 30 of them at any given time] and flames.)
Toxin Rifle (fires up to three salvos of highly potent poison. stored in chest.)
Gunblade (stored in her legs. gun is able to have a blade extend out of it and can retract on her command. ammunition is stored in chest.)
Hellfire Submachine Gun (Like the name implies, she has two quadruple-barreled guns in her back and can summon them to her arms. The ammunition is stored in the back of her legs.)
Blazefire Cannon (In the middle of her chest, she can summon a huge cannon-like armanent and with enough time to charge [15 to 30 seconds], she can send out waves of electromagnetic energy in rapid succession and in a large radius. Can only be used once per battle.)
Price of Sins (By charging up enough kinetic energy, Sertoria can launch a sphere of it around an enemy and freeze them in place as they take continual damage and shocks. This can only be used once per battle and has a recharge time of 20 minutes.)

Though, for all of her terrific strengths and stats, she willingly downsizes her capabilities considerably thanks to two restraints that are around her neck and her wrists. They help keep her powers in check so that she can either conserve energy before a mission or so that she doesn't hurt someone in a friendly spar. They also prevent her from going out of control from the kinetic and electromagnetic energy being unleashed. Should they break, it'd take a considerable amount of time for her to calm down and to stop letting her powers go haywire.

She is also apparently immortal, having withstood thousands and thousands and thousands of years of Quaedan development while she didn't age a day herself. This is largely thanks to the system she was designed with, too, so that she'd be able to survive in even the harshest conditions should her mission require her to be launched in other places, such as space.

She will need to be recharged every so often just to give her system a full and complete chance to work any bugs out of it as well as run her diagnostic program in full. Sertoria also has mechanical knowledge in order to keep her systems up to date and free of problems.

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