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Dark Future Meme (as requested)

DARK FUTURE MEME
[We know who it is we want. We have a collective mind.
We don't miss a single step. We're always right behind.
We know we serve someone else. We have swallowed our pride.
We march to this tune of loss. We take this in our stride.]



Ten years later, humanity and the synthetic life on the station are at odds
Hypatia has inducted as many citizens of Sacrosanct into a private military and launched
an all-out war against organic life and the people of Asphodel.
Some were kept on the station as captives, some escaped down planet-side
to become part of the resistance, and countless others were re-purposed into
Hypatia's willing slaves.

Where will you be?


How this works:
-If you are synthetic or part-synthetic, OR if you have special armor (Looking at you, Spartans, Troncast, EVERY ROBOT EVER) you are a target for re-purpose.
You can still have escaped down to the planet, but she'll be after you. Going to the station is dangerous, once you enter her wide-area-network you are at risk of being hacked
-If you are fully organic, you are either dead, kept prisoner and made to work on the station, or part of the resistance on Asphodel.
-Anything in-between? You decide. Be creative with this.
-Fill out the form below to give us an idea of what your character is up to, what happened to them etc. Thread with each other! RP it out!
-Also, bring in your extra journals! There won't be the same people on the station ten years from now! If you're planning to app someone, or just have something interesting lying around, toss them in!


THANE KRIOS

[identity profile] eighttotwelve.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Thane Krios
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Thane doesn't look too much different. Different clothing (http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/3/30014/1308413-alternate_appearance_03_o_super.jpg), minus the sunglasses.
Summary: Once upon a time, Thane's organs were removed by SHODAN and Motoko; they were replaced with mechanical ones. We all know this story; it's in-game canon. However, Hypatia saw a possibility; with the most deadly assassin in the galaxy under her control, Thane would be an excellent agent. As such, she tormented him and attempted to break him in by occasionally turning off his lungs or heart for a few seconds and generally causing him pain through his mechanical organs. Between this and the constant hallucinations of his dead wife and other Marker shenanigans, it was very trying. Eventually, Skyfire had to carry Thane out from Sacrosanct and take him to Asphodel so he wouldn't suffer any longer, despite Thane's protests. Since then, Thane has been actively working at Asphodel, shooting down any threats with keen precision. On occasion, Hypatia's signal breaks through and causes him internal pain, but this only lasts a few seconds at a time.

Thane in general is far more cold, detached, and projects himself to appear indifferent. He wants to do right by this world and destroy Hypatia, but he finds holding most things and people at arm's length would be the best method. If you have been repurposed by Hypatia, chances are Thane has or is going to shoot you.

ALEJANDRO BORGES

[identity profile] cousinisdeeeead.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Alejandro Borges
Current location: Sacrosanct
Current Physical Appearance: A little older, still in decent shape. His arm has been significantly re-taylored.
Summary: So when shit was going down at Sacrosanct, Alejandro was heading off to the shuttles with Isaac, because as much as they're douches to each other engineers gotta stick together. When it came down to it, though, Alejandro determined that at least Isaac needs to survive. Showing a bit more of his true colors than usual, Alejandro used a reverse stasis module to make himself move faster in order to shove Isaac into the escape shuttle and program it to escape without him. Alejandro chose to stay behind.

Since then, Alejandro wasn't killed, as he thought this would initially happen. Instead, Hypatia has kept him around to fix things, which he argues against until he's tamed by pain through his mechanical arm. He spends his time brooding in his shop and reluctantly fixing things for the repurposed. If you are repurposed -- and chances are that's ALL who he has interaction with -- Alejandro is snide until he's convinced he has no choice but to cooperate. Chances are Hypatia will do the convincing for you.

[identity profile] savor-last-shot.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Garrus Vakarian
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Much the same. Ten years older, a lot more battered and scarred. Almost like a turian version of Zaeed, really.
Summary: Garrus is still serving Shepard. That's his purpose, his goal, his personal crusade, when you get past all his talk about justice and serving the greater good of the galaxy. That's all gone now - he's convinced they're never getting home now and even if they did, it would probably be a dead galaxy. His family is probably dead and his only friends in the whole galaxy are here.

He escaped to Asphodel during the chaos that ensued, although it was a fighting retreat. He accompanied a task force deep into the heart of Sacrosanct in a suicidal bid to destroy the station (or at least Hypatia) before she could override and destroy everything in sight. They failed and had to fight their way back out. Their were probably casualties. There was probably loss.

Garrus moved past that. He's a hardened, bitter man these days - even more so then the past - and he keeps mostly to himself. Everything he touches turn to ash, it seems. But he'll keep on fighting, because it's what he's best at these days.

Samus Aran

[identity profile] chozobloodrites.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Samus Aran
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Samus looks moderately the same, only a few years older and her hair cut pretty darn short (think the-game-that-shall-not-be-named (http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B002BSC4ZS.01.lg.jpg)). However, she has a huge surgical scar down her abdomen and across her chest, pretty much the sort you'd find on a post-autopsied body.
Summary: So that suit Samus has. Varia. Full of great power and great responsibility yadda yadda, overall something that could be very bad in the wrong hands. Hypatia had her shiny AI eye all over that. Samus wasn't so inclined to give it up and as it is biologically attached to her, she just said "screw this" and refused to activate it. So Hypatia tried to get it out through "scientific means." That would be her term for torturous and invasive surgery.

Samus went through this for what could be days, weeks, years, she wasn't entirely sure, until a mission from others off of Asphodel to stop Hypatia backfired and she was found during the escape. They took her back down to the planet to safety and to recover. Physical recovery she could do, mental hasn't been so hot. She can feel Varia inside her wanting to come out, or perhaps that's her own will losing the battle over her body, and when it does all Hypatia has to do is swoop down and take it.

She tries her best to fight for the resistance, she has the training for it, but she's becoming less and less sure of herself without her suit.

NEMESIS PRIME

[identity profile] knight4darkness.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Nemesis Prime. Yes, he's going by that name now instead of Convoy.
Current location: Sacrosanct
Current Physical Appearance: Very similar to how he normally is, insomuch a car robot...but...his optics are no longer red, they no longer even light up. They're blacker than the rest of him. Occasionally there will be a dull glow, but for the most part...they're blank.
Summary: So Hypatia attempted to repurpose a TransFormer who had already been repurposed by a higher-dimensional group of Good Guys sworn to protect the multiverse from being eated by the Beast of Time, after he had already been repurposed by a Dark God to serve as a Herald to the end of all things. This didn't end very well.

The healing that the Alternity had given him bled, barely holding together long enough for him to realize midway through ramapage through a group of organics that he was, in fact, rampaging through a group of organics, being essentially 'steered' by an AI that had implanted itself in his processor and wasn't interested in letting him go. The next thing he realized was that it was a few months later from that, and he was trying to tear out his own processor after Shockwave had tried a reverse-hack of what Hypatia had done to him.

On the bright side, he's no longer being steered. On the dark side, he no longer falls quite under the definition of 'sane'. Fragmented and blurred, against all offers of 'freedom' he stays on Sancroset. He lets Hypatia tell him what to do. This suggests a form of Stockholm Syndrome, and this is somewhat what's happened.

Essentially, Hypatia is a surrogate Master, one that Nemesis willing follows in a mirror of two lives past. But with a twist; able to see, able to choose, he chooses hate, and he chooses to act as her thrall only to get himself as close as possible so that he may assist in her downfall. Fearing that Asphodel will never accept him, and preferring the mantle of a slave to an exile, he bears it with the dream of revenge upon her since his revenge against Unicron is out of reach.

As for how he acts? For the most part, he is silent, talking only to himself or to Hypatia if addressed. Sometimes he'll even address himself as 'we', arguing with himself and the rest of the imagined Alternity though he has long since given up hope of reintegration. He becomes violent without warning, his own chassis not except if there is nothing else to destroy - or if Hypatia has given him explicit orders /not/ to destroy something else. But he follows orders well enough to not provoke another 'download' from her, and the patches he does get, he is able to counter with Shockwave's aid. Shockwave being one of the handful he actually remains in contact with, and feeds information to.
Edited 2011-06-21 06:26 (UTC)

YEEHAW

[identity profile] eighttotwelve.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
There is only so much practice can gain him. He remembers how to move perfectly. The steps, the care taken. What he's been taught, what he's learned now.

Until he's out there, shooting down the faces of who had once been allies, it matters little to him.

The drell follows the forms of many. Smoothly, he transitions, from the arts he'd learned in his childhood, tactical practices of the turians, what he'd learned from practicing with Anon those years ago--

Then he stops. Slowly, he sits, folding his hands together.

Then turns his head.

"Skyfire," he says impersonally, politely.

[identity profile] eighttotwelve.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Thane had tried. And honestly, some days, he wishes he'd been able to end Skyfire's suffering. He's a shell of who he was. It's painful for him. For... both of them.

"I prefer not to," Thane responds, his tone having a slight edge. "The more you observe, the more you learn something new. For both our sakes, it's best if you do not learn much from me."

The unspoken possibility that one day, possibly, if Hypatia wins over Skyfire again...

"What can I do for you?"

[identity profile] eighttotwelve.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
"As much peace as I am able to find," Thane responds truthfully. "It was easier on the Normandy, I admit; watching the engine was beautiful. It was unlike any other ship. Here, I stare at dusty walls, pray the the gods, and beg for forgiveness."

The drell's hands fold together. "For you, it would involve breathing, and thinking of nothing. Absolutely nothing. To release your muscles. I am uncertain what else you can learn by simply watching me."

[identity profile] eighttotwelve.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Tai-Chi. The drell have the alanor'ha, which is a similar idea. To accept the connection of body and soul, through prayers to Amonkira. To follow his steps, as his chosen. I have also practiced Tai-Chi and other forms."

A pause, then he adds a bit wryly, more true to himself, "Then there's always the shooting range, if none of that works to quell me."

Thane has a lot of pent up aggression. Despite his training, it's hard to ignore it.

KARKAT VANTAS

[identity profile] selfkismesis.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Karkat motherfucking Vantas
Current location: Asphodel, bitches.
Current Physical Appearance: Older, more matured body. His nubs are a bit bigger, he's a bit taller. Typical difference between a 13 year old and a 23 year old. Exact same style outfit, though. Fuck fashion.
Summary: GUESS WHO PREDICTED THIS SHIT?! BITCHES SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO OUR RESIDENT ROBOHATER.

Basically, the first signs of something fishy, Karkat was warning the shit out of everything that moved. Considering the fact that he was warning the shit out of everything that moved even before things got fishy, it's easy to believe no one listened. Ever. Since they never do.

When Hypatia made her move, Karkat gathered as many of his team of trolls as he could and absconded. It was early, quick, and as low-key as possible.

Karkat's living up to his Ancestor's legend, being the biggest, most persistent (most annoying) resistance asshole ever. He's pretty vocal about how the resistance should make more raids on Sacrosanct to also maybe save people, that'd be good too.

Personality-wise, Karkat's rage is a universal and temporal constant. However (depending on how many trolls/friends made it out/have been saved), he's much more bitter. Defensive. Paranoid as shit. Basically, take all of his bad qualities and multiply them by stupid.

It's safe to say everyone ever pretty much knows about his blood, though. FIGHTING ROBOTS MEANS LOTS OF INJURIES AND SCARS AND STUFF.
Edited 2011-06-21 08:29 (UTC)

TALI'ZORAH VAS NORMANDY

[identity profile] quarianengineer.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Tali'Zorah vas Normandy
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Same as canon.
Summary: It wasn't long after Tali arrived on the station that the situation between Hypatia and the organics on the station began rapidly degenerating. She, for one, wasn't all that surprised when the shit hit the fan, and was one of the first to fight back, using her mechanical expertise to great advantage against synthetic foes. She was a part of Garrus' failed task force attempting to destroy the station, and was forced to fight her way back out and retreat to Asphodel when that proved impossible.

On Asphodel, she serves Shepard as breathlessly as she always has. She does upkeep on shuttles and equipment, and also keeps an eye on synthetics and those with synthetic parts, making sure they're in working order (this occasionally doubles as checking for any of Hypatia's spies). Fighting has hardened her, but she doesn't believe that all hope is lost. Achance to destroy Hypatia and return to her own galaxy will present itself, they just have to wait for it.
gottakilldaves: (take your best shot)

[personal profile] gottakilldaves 2011-06-21 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Jack Noir
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Older, starting to go grey by now, jeez. He still wears classy suits and bathes rarely. He also has A MILLION MORE ROBOPARTS which now include both arms, both eyes, everything from the waist-down, and most of his organs. He also has sharp metal teeth because I find the concept hilarious. His scar map has greatly expanded due to those roborgans listen above. He also wears fake skin over his right hand because too many roboparts kind of freak him out.
Summary: SO. ROBOPARTS. Jack may not be the most talented cyborg, but if nothing else he's proven he's very good at adjusting to suddenly having more mechanical bits. This also makes him a good guinea pig for what sorts of roboparts are compatible with human bodies. He was taken early on in the war and used for testing and experimentation (IRONY), leading to most of his body being replaced with mechanical parts. It sucked. A lot. The horrific torture kind of suck. Luckily enough, he was rescued before he lost all of his humanity. It was probably by Karkat because Jack is a douche and doesn't have many friends.

Physically, he healed surprisingly quick, because he is Jack Fucking Noir and not even getting cut in half can slow him down. But mentally, it's been much slower. Some days he acts just like he was before -- a hissy screechy stabby asshole who loves shitty puns and old mobster movies -- but other days he'll just freeze up completely and turn into a terrified wreck. Robots fucked him up good. His own mechanical limbs freak him out sometimes. And whenever Hypatia is brought up? Pure bloodthirsty rage. He's nowhere near stable enough to take her on yet, but damned if he doesn't make it sound like he's ready. In fact, Hypatia has become the new object of his undying hate. Pantsless isn't off the hook, of course, and he still thinks Striders are douchebags, but since his rescue he hasn't made a single attempt to kill any Daves. Progress??

anyway he lives in a carboard box outside wherever the fuck Karkat lives. He throws sand around it sometimes and puts on CDs of beachsounds. JUST LIKE HOME.

[identity profile] quarianengineer.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
At some point, Tali has become sure her "checkups" on Thane had completely ceased to surprise him, if they ever had in the first place. Part of her sort of preferred it that way, it made it a little bit easier to broach the subject. There was no inherent suspicion in her requests to check the status of his mechanical organs, as there was with others; for her at least, it was impossible to go through something like they did when they passed through the Omega 4 Relay and not completely trust one another.

She was aware, if only vaguely, of what Hypatia had done and continued to do to Thane through his synthetic organs; the idea of turning someone's own body against them like that turned her stomach, so in her way, she wanted to try and stop it. Sometimes, she offered to set his equipment up with firewalls that would block Hypatia's signal, but even if he did accept them, it wasn't like something she programmed would outwit an AI of Hypatia's caliber forever. It proved to be quite vexing.

"Thane," she said crisply as she approached, her omnitool already out.
gottakilldaves: (non omnis moriar)

Re: KARKAT VANTAS

[personal profile] gottakilldaves 2011-06-21 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
Good morning Karkat. Oh, what's that? You wanted to get your nocturnal-species sleep on??

Fuck you, have some shitty beach sounds instead, courtesy of that asshole who lives outside your house and refuses to sleep anywhere that isnt a box and/or tiny failshack. This CD has been running on loop all night. Jack sleeps in. He's not going to turn it off any time soon (if ever).

d w i
notsoloyal: (bot/hn/ baby i'm gone)

SHOCKWAVE

[personal profile] notsoloyal 2011-06-21 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Shockwave
Current location: Asphodel, sneaks up to Sacrosanct when possible, mostly to help Nemesis.
Current Physical Appearance: Pretty much the same, just a bit older with actual combed hair! However he's gotten beaten up his fair share of times, and his body does show it. Scar across one of his eyes - no longer has superior vision out of that one.
Summary: Luckily for Shockwave he may have been a Cybertronian, but he's one in a completely organic human body; and sparks aren't exactly something you can just hack into. However choosing sides wasn't easy for him. Synthetics against organics, is not something you put in front of a space robot whose primary function is conquer the universe for his race. The temptation to side with synthetics was always there and will likely always be there.

There is one big reason as to why he chose to side with the organics; not having to work for Hypatia. When you so strongly believed that someone was responsible for the disappearance of your boyfriend it does become a point to NOT work for them. Siding with the resistance would allow him more data than being a slave to the AI anyway. That was if the resistance would take him. Alas thanks to his little stunts of not caring about if people died as a consequence of one of his own actions, and outing himself as an inorganic who constantly made threats (even if a lot of them were at Hypatia), joining the resistance turned out to not be an option. He wasn't trusted. That didn't mean that he wouldn't occasionally hand information over to the resistance between his trips to and from the planet.

He lurks about, staying mainly on Asphodel, however when he does go up to Sacrosanct it's often to assist Nemesis or try and obtain more data. He's given up hope on getting his boyfriend back, and tend to keep to himself more. Slowly reverting to how he used to be. Completely logical, too serious for his own good. Being emotional and attempting to charge Hypatia just does not work.

MESSED UP SORTAKINDA DATA ROBIN HOODWAVE WITH CONSTANT INTERNAL DEBATE OVER IF HE'S ON THE RIGHT SIDE.

And those waves on the station? Primus, way too loud and way too many.

kite if you aren't in bed, i am going to fly to canadia and double ground your ass.

[identity profile] selfkismesis.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
Despicable mammalian son of a fuck, not again. Karkat doesn't sleep much-- even less than he did when he was younger. Recuperacoons were long since gone; trolls had to deal with the bullshit stupid dumb human bed things that did absolutely nothing for a troll's inherent need to have the worst, most violent dreams ever. So, when Karkat decided he actually needed to sleep, he needed to sleep. Unfortunately, the peaceful, lulling sounds of waves and sea gulls made sleep no longer a possibility.

He lie in bed, promising himself that when the CD repeated for the 612th time, he would do something about it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie#Bluffing). It had hit that 612th repeat about three hours ago.

"JACK." If Karkat's anything like me on a debate trip when someone deprives me of sleep, this is one of the most scariest sounds you could ever imagine. Fortunately for this log, Karkat won't be trying to smother anyone with a pillow BECAUSE THEY WERE SNORING SO FUCKING LOUD AND I HAD SEMIFINALS THE NEXT DAY AND GODDAMNIT HOW CAN YOU SLEEP LIKE THAT?!!

"JACK. JACK." Karkat's at Jack's boxhome, kicking the side.

"FUCK. JACK. JACK. FUCKING FUCK. JACK." He is incapable of coherent sentences and may or may not be frothing at the mouth.

Kyubey

[identity profile] mephistofeline.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Kyubey
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Hasn't aged a day.
Summary: Kyubey escaped Sacrosanct not long after it was clear that Hypatia was taking over. From that point on, he aided the resistance as best he could. Being an animal, this wasn't much, but it was enough.

Except that. Well. In all likelihood, even the organic parts of his body are manufactured, and he is not entirely organic.

Even before leaving the station, Kyubey had been hacked; a handful of memories and his main motivation altered (serve Hypatia), Hypatia the keeper of the collective (a fragment of the familiar-home-correct whole), a particular branch of telepathy become usable once again (long-unused channel, altered, only for Hypatia the whole of self).

There was little change in the way he spoke or acted. After all, connection was once as familiar as the fur on his paws; it wasn't that hard to remember how to navigate it.

And after all, he serves Hypatia of his own will.

[identity profile] memorymodus.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, you said you have injuries? Jade is going to fix you up and you will sit still while she puts this needle into you for stitches goddammit! She's the only one who knew how to fix a modicum of injuries, and though trolls are a little different, she seems to be a pretty good nurse.

Just. Sit still or she'll poke you in the eye.

[identity profile] memorymodus.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Jade doesn't know why she puts up with Jack, but she does all the same -- probably because sometimes, he can almost be nice, especially since he stopped trying to kill Daves. She comes to visit almost every day and politely puts up with the smell (though occasionally, she has to force him into a bathtub because jesus jack you stink.

It's mid-afternoon, and Jade is carrying a brown bag full of food to the cardboard box and knocking on the side. "Hey, anyone home?"

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