Dark Future Meme

[notyourchauffeur]

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.

Now, tensions are at a peak and both sides are preparing for a throwdown. Skirmishes break out on the station and planet. Many of Hypatia's prisoners have been freed, but many more have fallen to the clutches of reprogramming.

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!

<B>Name:</B> (Derp or Derpina.) <B>Current location:</B> (Where are they? Sacrosanct? Asphodel?) <B>Current Physical Appearance:</B> (What do they look like now? ) <B>Summary:</B> (Tell us the story. How did they get to this point? What happened to them? What are they like?

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[astrometry]

Name: Jade Harley
Current location: Sacrosanct
Current Physical Appearance: Taller, the body of a 23 year old instead of a little girl. Still has the roboarm, but has a lot more robotic parts in general (and also because Linda is right arms are so cliche, she lost a leg somewhere in there too yeah). Her hair's cut short, and her glasses have been rendered obsolete by robotic eye implants. But she still wears the frames with the glass popped out.
Summary: Jade initially disagreed with Karkat's assumption that they would have to leave the station -- after all, robots have never done her personal harm, besides the few AIs but they don't really count, do they? She stayed behind when the others fled to Asphodel, thinking she'd be completely fine.

But of course That Was Wrong.

Being part robot, part sprite, part human made Jade a bit of an anomaly; it wasn't hard to hack her mind with the programming from the game and Kimiko's own surgical additions in place. But it couldn't completely erase her humanity, either -- instead of a mindless robot slave, she became a sort of half-working mess, hating her existence as a creature made to kill but unable to actually do anything about it. Because if she resists, her own body could turn against her; and dying over and over for no good reason is exactly the sort of thing she wishes to avoid. Hypatia can (and has) used it against her before. And if Hypatia could get her hands on the key to manipulating Space, she could simply shrink the resistance and crush them in her hand -- so Jade's kept alive, frequently interrogated and experimented on. Not that Jade knows anything about her powers beyond what game mechanics can tell her. Until then, Jade acts as an agent sent to survey Asphodel and report on resistance findings, as well as an assassin targeting everyone she ever loved. Because there's nothing more hilarious than to watch a girl try and kill the people she grew up with.

[gottakilldaves]

Jack can't see her come in, but he's used to the sound her teleporting makes by now. She's one of the very few who actually bothers to make sure he's still alive every now and then. Same as always.

He clears his throat, turning his head in the direction he thinks she's in. "Back from your trip already?"

He appreciates the company, really. But sometimes he wishes she wouldn't come back. Maybe they could find a way to fix her, back on Asphodel...

In this meme: I ruin everything for Linda forever

[mcfussyfangs]

Name: Kanaya Maryam
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Kanaya stopped aging at around 9 sweeps, for conveniences sake, and because it turns out that her novels didn't completely fucking lie to her and rainbow drinkers are exactly as Mary Sue-ish as no one lead her to believe. She topped off at about 7 feet (not including horns) and remains tall and mostly slender, though she does have dem hips.

However, she's missing her original arms and legs, as Hypatia has seen fit to replace them with stronger metal limbs that have basically removed most physical constraints on her strength and stamina. The right arm transforms into a chainsaw, and the left has needles build into it that allows her to drain blood on contact. They are also heavy metal fucking arms that can punch through walls and shit. Hypatia don't spring for no cheap shit. In order to insure that she doesn't starve, she has two tanks made of a metal alloy with tubes that attach to her jugular veins and directly feed synthetic troll blood into her system. She wears cloths similar to he work clothes, but more tattered at the edges.

Summary: So Kanaya was a good moirail and good friend. The problem was she was too busy being these things that she got herself trapped on the station when the iron curtain came down. Hypatia has a lot of use for an undead revenant, and she has all the means in the world to synthesize blood, thanks to all these nice troll donors. While Kanaya managed to destroy a good many drones, she eventually found herself fatigued and was captured.

While Hypatia was never able to keep her fully organic and complacent, she did manage to find a middle ground. She replaced Kanaya's arms and legs with combat issue metal prosthetics, and blanked out the parts of her memory that made her mistrust robots, as well as large amounts of her life back "home" so that she would feel detached from a life that wasn't the one she's trapped in now. Kanaya has very little recollection of Alternia aside from memories of blistering heat and her lusus, and while she can recall their symbols and colors, she doesn't remember her friends names or faces. She does remember snippets of conversations and ghosts of feelings but for the most part does what she sees as her current duty.

Her current duty is to patrol the tunnels of Asphodel and interrogate or kill any resistance members she finds. She is good and bad at this, able to kill but on rare occasions, not doing so because "gee now don't I know you" syndrome and a vague feeling that this is not what she's supposed to be doing. She lives in one of the Hypatia controlled Carbon Plants in a small office room covered in bright swaths of fabric. Hypatia drops spare blood containers every 3 weeks, mostly because Kanaya is not as effective as she had hoped and she likes to study the effects starvation has on hideous undead-robot amalgamations of war, hate and half-memory. She still wears her old symbol on everything. She feels it's important for some reason.

[lithp]

It's almost a familiar routine, now, running into people he thinks he used to know on the borders of himself. Sollux tends to think of each tendril of his system snaking out into the labyrinthine tunnels as himself, really. Kanaya comes by to test his shielding out, he rebuffs her efforts.

"Hi, Kanaya," he says over the speaker he's installed at this outpost, sounding vaguely cheerful. "You look hungry. When was the last time you ate?"

[agentdork]

Name: York
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Older, more gray in his hair, wrinkles, etc. Still dresses awful. He's about 46.
Summary:

He, Wash and Sarah have been living together for a little while now, finding safety in numbers. Along the way, they lost Delta, but York's been trying this whole time to get him back because losing him hasn't left him the most sane of the trio.

He's taken to making more careless mistakes-- less logical ones, if you will, but no matter what, the other two always come first.

He'll work with people to help them, but right now is more concerned with surviving and making sure the other two survive, and then working on a way to get the place back. His first and foremost concern is Delta, though, and he's constantly seeking ways to fix that, even if it's not the smartest way.

BLUH BLUH and now for york/sarah/wash/delta

[agentdork]

[ He knows it's stupid, but he can't stop himself. He's spent countless nights on this and he wants to ensure it works. It has to work. Delta's worth any effort, of course, but--

A creak from down the hall makes him jerk and pause ( nothing there, everyone's out, aren't they, so logically-- ) and then he continues, humming faintly under his breath as he hooks it all together and just looks it over. He has to talk to him. Has to at least try and get through, has to save him-- he has to try, goddamnit.

Holding the tiny chip carefully, he lifts it up, and starts to bring it to the nape of his neck, sliding it home. ]

... D?

[gottakilldaves]

Name: Jack Noir
Current location: Sacrosanct
Current Physical Appearance: OLD he has grey hairs now so much despair. +all the robotics, so his list of prosthetics now includes both arms, both eyes, most of his internal organs, and everything from the waist down. Lots and lots of scars. Generally a lot more worn out, both in body and mind.
Summary: Jack may not be the most talented cyborg, but if nothing else, he's proven he's very good at adapting and surviving against the odds. Thus, he made for a good guinea pig for testing assorted cyborg enhancements. He was taken early on in the war and used for said experimentation (IRONY), leading to most of his body being replaced with (more) mechanical parts.

He was originally slated for labour on the side, but due to the fact that he's a stubborn ass with no sense of self preservation beyond dumb luck, he caused more trouble than he was worth keeping around. Instead he just gets dumped in a locked room when not needed, given the bare minimum to stay alive and nothing more. He hasn't had a lot of people to talk to in years now, and the few he can talk to are probably brainwashed by Hypatia anyway, so he's somehow managed to become worse at socializing. Not that he'd pass up an opportunity to do something other than stare at the floor for hours.

NEEDS NEW ICONS will just get her a paid too

[killswithbrooms]

Name: Roll
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Before she was 10 year old little girl in a red dress and cute shoes and

well

Now she looks to be somewhere in her teens, and has traded in her skirt for armor. She still carries her broom, though it can morph in to a hammer at the push of a button - and her right hand can retract in to a blaster.

SUDDENLY ROLL WAS ZERO????

Summary: She knows they don't trust her. Really, she doesn't blame them. When Hypatia made her move, Roll was terrified, and she saw her friends suffer and panic and be hurt by the AI and Roll was so very willing to charge in and fight and-!

And so many...

It didn't...break Roll, per se. But a little something in her died, over the course of time, and a little thing hardened when she had to leave her brother behind, when she fled to Asphodel. And from there...well.

Roll managed to convince someone to upgrade her in to a true combat model. While she does still carry around her broom, she hardly uses it to sweep. Instead, it's able to expand in to a hammer, one she can use with programmed skill. She prefers to use it to sweep, but she has nothign against using it to cut.

With Rock up on Sacrosanct, she goes up as often as she can risk it. If only to leave letters in hidden places, letters that wish him all the best, ask him if he's keeping up on his mineral intake, if his armor's still in good condition...

[mybrotherfought]

He leaves her alone when she comes up. But he watches her from the shadows, a black-cloaked thing, hidden and in secret.

Go back to the planet. Go live out your days in silence. There's nothing here. You can't save them. Or us.

No one can.

[balancetheblood]

Name: Toby Daye
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Toby has completely forgone using her glamour at this point, and in fact looks even more fae than she used to. She has delicately tapered ears, brown hair with unnaturally vivid golden and honey highlights (that are, in fact, natural), grey eyes with not a hint of any color in them, and features that are rather beautiful, in an unnerving way - too angular and inhuman, but still Toby.

She has plenty of scars, and her eyes were actually completely destroyed in an attempted raid on the station - glamouring them is the only aesthetic magic she does on herself, because she's told the scars are rather frightening.
Summary: Toby stayed as long as she could, getting as many people off the station as she could before leaving. She left Jade behind on the station because the girl didn't want to go - she's never really forgiven herself for that. She also wasn't able to find Buffy, who had already been hacked and incapacitated before the escape, and she's never forgiven herself for that, either.

Afterwards, she threw herself into the rebellion, because that is what Toby does. She participated in raids early on, mostly trying to rescue Jade and Buffy. Unfortunately, it wasn't long before Hypatia used her knowledge about Toby to her advantage, and Toby's last raid ended in an attack by a robot with iron weapons. Toby ended up blinded and a bit mangled, and it was sheer good luck that allowed the other people in the raid to actually get her back alive. Sheer willpower and May's tears gave her the push she needed to burn the iron out of her blood - barely - and kept her from getting too sick or worse. In the process, she managed to find a way to change the balance of her own blood. She's become more pureblood since then, bit by bit, and the amount of magic she can do (even blind) has increased significantly.

She's currently working on using a combination of her heightened senses and a little bit of magic to learn to fight with a sword again, blindness aside. She's not sure if it'll ever actually be a viable form of defense for her, but she's working on it.

[justamobster]

Reconnaissance again.

At this point, he's unsure of whether Hypatia really has a reason to think the rebellion would be launching an attack soon or if she's doing her best to keep him gone, away from the station for longer periods of time until he simply doesn't come back. Ever since his indoctrination was declared a failure, he's known that his service to Hypatia has been little more than a stay of execution. It's only his willingness to do as she asks that keeps him alive, and it's only a frail thread of hope that keeps him willing. Hope that maybe he can make everything right in the end. Hope that he can free the kids like Jade, enslaved and miserable. Thus why the Goddamn blue bitch keeps divorcing him from them, keeps sending him down here.

He crouches near a porous red rock, tail tracing lines on the dusty surface of the planet. He doesn't expect to see anyone, thus why he cringes when his cybernetic eye detects movement.

Damn it.

[seeing_idawg]

Name: Dave Strider.
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Stands at about 6'7", with a human level of thickness that would make sense for someone at about 5'10". Ends up looking lanky and stretched because of it. Mottled grey skin with lighter blotches all over his body. Black hair, with a few patchy spots that come out blonde. Thanks to mutant issues, his irises spilled over, leading to completely red eyes.

His horn is a thing of terror, coming out at about a meter / three feet and some long, and has two or three notches along it where he's slipped up in battle. Still wears his god-tier ensemble, usually with the hood up. When he speaks, his fangs (having grown a good half an inch past the rest of his teeth) cause a noticeable lisp.

Summary: When Sollux fled Sacrosanct, Dave went with him. Since then, he's led constant raids (sometimes solo) wherever he can - as the Knight of Time and local deity, he is essentially immortal, after all. Despite ten years having passed, he's one of the ones who's kept their hopes up: he honestly believes he can get Jade and the others out from Sacrosanct, and has no plans to sit down and stop until he's done so.

He's not really much for tactics - he is a fighter, pure and simple. He leaves strategizing and discussing to Karkat and the others - however, he takes place in every skirmish. Every. Last. One. The cuts on his horn are from one Miss Harley, after all.

There is a small neural link in his brain connecting him to Sollux's mainframe. Dave has told exactly nobody about this; every time he goes onto Sacrosanct, Sollux actively stays with him, countering any attempts at hacking the small access point.

[astrometry]

She's there behind him, unmoving.

They fight a lot -- and everywhere, something that part of her looks forward to. The thrill of battle, you can't catch me! and the ringing of steel against steel, snarls and gashes and biting and blood, everywhere. Though she doesn't think she can bleed any more, not really; whatever spills out isn't hers to claim, it's Hypatia's.

Today the order is simple: assassinate. Leave no survivors. But there's still part of her that's upset don't hurt dave! and there are flashes of simpler times, curling up on the couch and playing video games, sleepovers in the middle of the hallway, swimming together.

So she just stands there.
"You need a haircut Dave, do you want me to give you on-- o-one? O-or do you want me to take your eyes out instead?"

She makes no move.

Sonic

[hedgehogengine]

Name: Sonic
Current location: Asphodel/Sacrosanct
Current Physical Appearance: He's taller, but he'll pretty much never be the size of a normal human the same age as him. Between 20 and 30, Sonic really doesn't look that different.
Summary: Never one to stay in one place for too long, Sonic didn't stick around on Asphodel for very long after escaping the station. He only stayed long enough to gather intel he needed to know where Hypatia was keeping her prisoners and how to get them out, and he was headed back to Sacrosanct on the first shuttle he could find. This proved to be the first instance of what would soon become a pattern. He goes to Sacrosanct, frees as many prisoners as he can, and gets them back down to Asphodel, or just makes as much havoc as possible on the station (startlingly easy when your body is essential a giant cannon ball) to create cover for others to escape. Then, he waits on Asphodel for the heat to die down a little, and goes back.

He's on Asphodel quite a bit, but even then, he's never there for very long. As the skirmishes have started to escalate into ferocity and rescue missions have started to thin out, when he's not fighting, Sonic has taken to exploring the planet, sometimes for days at a time, seemingly unfettered by Asphodel's hostile environment. As time goes on, he's become more determined not to slow down unless it's necessary. Anything to keep his feet moving.

Sorry about the icon. I don't have any decent pics for icons

[forevermechanic]

Tails had stayed in Asphodel to work for the resistance and so that he could become stronger. As an adult, he's become quite a valuable member of the resistance and has toughed up, but if there was one thing that never changed was that he always enjoyed what little time he could spend talking with Sonic. He understood that Sonic didn't want to stick around.

Today, he was actually out and about. Normally he would be in the base doing tech work, but today he was going to do some rescuing. As he used his tails to move fast, he spots Sonic and tries to catch up with him. "Hey Sonic!"

[hybridharvester]

Name: Micah
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: His human form is bigger and has the mandatory action stubble along with various battle scars. His Wooly form looks basically the same... except that it, too, has the mandatory action stubble. Which is weird, because, you know, not human.
Summary: He hadn't trusted the station's motives in a long time. When they came for him, he was prepared. Well, somewhat. They did manage to catch him by surprise. But there's no good way to overtake someone who has long had an escape button and been in the habit of using it. (They now know that he can only teleport towards his home, but they won't be able to take over his house as easily this time, since it's not in the middle of their territory anymore.)

He doesn't believe anyone genuinely wants to work for Hypatia, since as far as he can tell, her goal is literally "kill all organics because", and who the heck would support that? (Clearly he hasn't met everyone on the station.) Accordingly, he considers it his mission to break her control over as many people as he can. So far, he has freed zero people, because he has no idea how she's controlling them in the first place aside from "something with computers", and, yeah, still not good with computer.

He's also one of the go-to guys for anything that's likely to involve fighting. He's surprisingly good at nonlethal takedowns, for someone whose fighting experience consisted primarily of "beat it up until the magic keeping it here breaks", which obviously no longer applies.

[notsoloyal]

Name: Shockwave
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: The scruffiest Shockwave ever. With the fluffiest fluff hair of fluff in the universe.
Summary:

Being morally ambiguous is both beneficial and not when war breaks out. Combine that with being a former military operations commander and you get Shockwave.

Since the chaos Shockwave has become much more secluded from everyone, much preferring to remain by himself and work on weaponry. He dislikes Hypatia and he dislikes most of the people on the planet, so there was no point in picking a side when half the time he wanted to kill the people he was working with. He's cranky about this whole ordeal.

Instead he works by himself, perfectly fine with offering up weapons to either side - given they can afford his prices. Those he actually likes have a much easier time getting things from him for free.

[notyourchauffeur]

He thought, ironically, in a brief fit of memory, that Shockwave might be amused that he calls himself Jetfire now.

Like Soundwave, something draws him to occupy his home.

Slip in and sit amongst his tinkerings like some deactivated doll, only the dim red light from his visor indicating that there is some sort of consciousness.

He looks like some kind of discarded drone. A broken toy in a scrapheap.

And isn't that what he is now?

He waits for Shockwave.

[derpbert]

Name: John Egbert (AU)
Current location: Sacrosanct
Current Physical Appearance: John's not exactly an imposing figure, but he is 23 years old. He has shaggy black hair, thin silver wire-framed glasses that at some point replaced his old clunky black shades, some constant stubble (more than you'd think John could put out), and quite the number of scars all over him. He peaked at about 5'11", and he's filled out nicely - not muscular or sturdy, but less "gawky teenager", at least.
Summary: John escaped to Asphodel, and joined the resistance. This was to be expected. He went on raids aplenty - not as many as Dave, but almost. He only got killed a couple of times, and thankfully someone was able to get to his body to make sure he didn't get left on the station - revivals happen, since normal heat-of-combat deaths aren't really especially heroic, even if the rebellion itself is.

But then, oh then, not even that many months ago, without thinking of the consequences, he dove in the way and took a blow meant for one of the other resistance fighters - maybe it was someone he knew, maybe not. But the thing is, it was extremely heroic. He died.

But of course, even the rebellion has used the teleporters a few times - it was unavoidable, if they wanted to get further into the station. And while they might have been able to hack them so that Hypatia can't strand them... she can still get at the data.

Once they were gone, she re-formed him, and set him to work doing... well, whatever it is she needs slaves to do. Dismantling things. growing and harvesting food for the organic or part-organic residents of the station, perhaps. Or maybe just a lot of torture and trying to get the secrets of the rebellion out of him. Probably the last one, mostly.

John is alive, and he's pretty sure his friends don't even know it.

[astrometry]

She knows.

She knows because her mind isn't entirely her own; it's Hers and Jade does what she wants just like John does, even though her tasks are less menial and more dangerous. But at least today, there are no orders reaching under her skin and dragging her away. Today it has been relatively quiet, and so she goes to see him, deep in the recesses of the station, whatever hovel She's put him in. They need to talk, she thinks; her memories are jumbled, but over and over again the human part of her says john john john--

"John. That's your name, right?"

[circuitry]

Name: Terezi Pyrope
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Older, taller, longer horns. She looks a lot like Redglare (oh no, she's hot), minus the teal and red clothing. Glowing like an extra from the set of Tron is not a thing that ever stopped happening.
Summary: Terezi was one of the first ones off the station, thanks to Karkat and his ever-lasting hatred and paranoia against the robot menace. Which was good for her, because honestly? Staying around a place where a nigh-omnipotent artificial intelligence can fuck with the electronics running under your skin and wired into your organs is not a good idea.

She doesn't make as many trips to the station like the other resistance members due to her vulnerability to Hypatia's hacking, but this doesn't bother her that much. She has better things to do. A Seer supports her allies not with her weapons, but with her vision, after all. She constantly abuses her ability to view doomed timelines, tracing the countless chains of events that lead to everyone she knows dying around her, and she does her best to keep those vortices of alternate possibilities from becoming a reality.

so are they still awkward matesprits or just biffles or war buddies or hwat

[seeing_idawg]

[[ have a neutral tag until your response whoops ]]

"Thup, T-to-the-Thee."

Dave ducks under the doorway, careful not to slam the narwhalian monstrosity into the top, and straightens back up to look at the Seer.

"Already thpoke with Karkleth. Raid ended in total victory, in cathe you thomehow hadn't figured that out already or thomething. No casualtieth on our end."

The distinct downside of lisping is that it makes you sound more like your moirail (who happens to be connected through your head) than you already do. You haven't told a single person about your special little neural link. You get the dithintct thuthpicion the troll in front of you knows anyway.

She's kind of terrifying like that.

[slenderbot]

Name: Soundwave
Current location: Sacrosanct.
Current Physical Appearance: She's made use of this one.
Hypatia has combined Soundwave with her station. As such, his robotic body mostly resides at Hypatia's hub of communications. She's taken him partially apart and he's suspended mainly by cabling inserted into his body.

Summary: He was one of the first to fall. Hypatia took interest in Soundwave because of his multitude of information gathering capabilities. It was almost too easy to gain control over him. All she had to do was wait for him to plug into her systems-- as he always did --and then she seized control.

She took away his freedom, but not his consciousness like the others. She wanted him to know what happened to him. These days Soundwave exists in a constant state of pain. His body partially dismantled and made part of her, his drones enslaved. Now all he has the option to do is watch, and watch for Her. He no longer had his choice of master. He's been warped by his torture and enslavement, becoming little more than a grand mainframe of information. It's not that he doesn't wish for freedom-- he just wishes to forget about it. Freedom is not an option anymore.

Gaining control of Soundwave had added a terrifying weapon to Hypatia's arsenal that lead to the death and enslavement of many others. After all, Soundwave hears and sees everything.

[friendleading]

Name: John Egbert
Current location: Asphodel.
Current Physical Appearance: When puberty hit John, it hit John like a ton of bricks. He's tall. 6' or 6'1". Nowhere near as tall as Time God Dave is, but he makes up for it by showing off the fact that it isn't just good ecto-genetics that he's able to swing around sledgehammers like they don't weigh anything at all. He's pretty thick, and his resistance work has kind of turned him into a built tank of sorts. His left eye - due to a hassle when escape happened - was replaced with a synthetic one, which he lets the more robotic types in the resistance check on every now and again. He keeps it patched up whenever he gets a chance to hit up Sacrosanct. He still wears the god tier ensemble, but ripped the sleeves off long ago. He's got a few rips and tears - luckily immortality rules are fairly vague in these circumstances.
Summary: When the end came, John wasn't ready for it, but he was bound and determined to make sure as many of his friends saw their way off as he could. Hypatia managed to snag him once in the beginning, deciding "oh hey, I remember when you had robot eyes!" And replaced one with a synthetic. He managed to escape and regroup with the resistance during an early raid, and refuses to tell anyone he doesn't have to. Karkat knows, but only because of an altercation the two of them had.

Work-wise, he's the Resistance's go-to everyman. Whether it be labor or needing quick defenses or skirmishes, John is ready and willing to lend a hand. He's probably the most support oriented out of the resistance's Bullshit God Gang. He's just as determined as Dave to get his Space Dog Cyborg God Sister back, but he's also been keeping up morale and doing needed supply runs, the things that keep their war against Hypatia moving. He's joined battle a few times - especially when there's rumors that Jade might be there, and he can be a reckless hothead - ten years of resistance will do that to you - but he's still John, and he's still trying to get everyone home safe.

The loss of his alternate counterpart hit him hard, and since then, John has been redoubling his efforts to help everyone. There's many nights he's sitting there with one of his many hammers, sustained only by coffee and his own, occasionally lonely thoughts. He isn't going to give up until they've won. He kind of tries to look out for everyone as a whole, a weird father figure to the family they've established at times. It's not really much and he doesn't really come off as fatherly more than frienderly, but it's what he feels he needs to do.

[astrometry]

Sometimes, Jade can be seen wandering Asphodel, like she has a purpose.

They know where the rebels are but they just can't get to them -- Sollux keeps them well-hidden and well-protected, which infuriates Jade to no end. But sometimes it just seems like she's there because she's missing something, some part of her life that slipped through her hands in the years after she learned to live with the madness of her broken brain.

And maybe she's acting that way today: lost, a little lonely. John might find her as he wanders from job to job, standing far enough away from the resistance base that it's obvious she's not there to try and attack.

[syntheticson]

Name: Rock Light, nee "Mega Man"
Current location: Sacrosanct
Current Physical Appearance: A lot of him still looks like a 10 year old, but he's definitely taller now, with bits that don't exactly conform to his standard blue bomber design, jury-rigged bits here and there, to keep himself together. His hair hasn't changed, but he's got new hands - longer and spindlier, with new techie bits grafted on - and his chest and back plates have had a lot of tech grafted to him over the years. Legs have a lot of newer bits, too. He's got a more teenage frame with a lot of jury rigged attachments on almost his entire body.
Summary: When the Three Laws Compliance kicks in, it kicks hard. While the rest of the station was busy preparing a mass evacuation, Rock elected to stay - he couldn't watch everyone evacuate when Hypatia needed to be stopped. He overestimated the amount of damage he could do during the initial evacuation, and fell back.

For a while, he operated on dead air. He refused to sync his systems with the network, knowing full well that the minute he did, Hypatia would see him and try to claim him as her own - which Rock knew he couldn't abide by. So he waited, and waited, trying to find bits and pieces he could use to get onto the network, let others know he was still online.

It wasn't easy, but he did it. Carving out one of the more abandoned station chunks for himself, he doesn't serve the resistance directly - they wouldn't trust him. Instead he acts how he can, being one of the few established techbots on Sacrosanct not under Hypatia's control. He never uses the same trick twice, and changes locations as often as he can.

He's got in a few skirmishes before, he knows that Hypatia is probably aware he's on the station. He's taken enough damage over the years to warrant replacement parts - he had to remove the Variable Weapons System from himself after a while, it having grown too unstable, but the Copy Chip is still functioning, allowing him to stay a couple steps ahead of Hypatia's codebreakers. He works the data networks of Sacrosanct now, occasionally reaching out to try and patch communications with any resistance members who will talk to him. He helps where he can, when he can.

Dr. Light wanted peace for robot and humankind, after all.

[autodidacticrobogirl]

Sacrosanct is a big station. It's entirely possible that with so few rats in the sewers that neither of them would ever meet. But Megaman works the networks and Kim works the mechanics, and neither of them can afford to dip into the other's realm incautiously.

So, when Kim does touch the digital realm, she notices things. Little things that tickle at her imperfect, organic mind. She begins looking for him.

And then.

She finds him.

Kim squanders six sightings in silence, savoring those half-glimpses and peeks because no matter how either of them hides, she's still a roboticist and he's still a reploid. Protoman is dead, a martyr to save the lives of the evacuees. It looks like Megaman is as much a fighter as his almost-brother had been. As Kim was.

Eventually, she decides that this has gone on long enough. Kim flicks a pebble at him from her hiding place in a drainpipe that's well above street height. It plinks off his helmet, and she withdraws. Either he'll come into the dark warren where it's safer to talk and work and travel, or he won't. Kimiko doesn't dare do more.

[roseintheshade]

Name: Rose Lalonde
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: She stands at about 5'11" with a figure that makes approximate sense for somebody of her age and height. Her complexion wavers, sometimes staying an (again, approximately) normal tint, sometimes becoming close to slate grey and sometimes going in between from day to day.

She still wears her god hood. She's taken to wearing Bro Strider's shitty pointy anime shades, but considering she never takes her hood down (it's not at all unlikely that some of her acquaintances and even close friends haven't seen her face in years), it's not all that obvious.
Summary: Rose never trusted Hypatia. She tried to make use of her Vision Omnifold, try to see the correct path, but it never came to her, her trip through the rift having routed her vision too much to see the convoluted path that would lead her and her friends to victory. All she saw was enough to save herself, and the rest she had to leave up to instinct. Her instincts weren't good enough. Not good enough to stop Jade or Kanaya from being re-purposed, nor enough to stop her father from being killed. She hangs all of those entirely upon herself as personal failure, because she was unable to see them coming and prevent them.

She spends much of her time on Asphodel trying to speak with the Horrorterrors, attempting to seek their counsel and return her Vision Omnifold to its maximum potential. Their connection has become strained to its limit in the past ten years though, so coercing answers from them has become more difficult than ever. Her constant attempts to speak with them show upon her skin, occasionally returning it to the gray tone it was upon her first arrival in Sacrosanct. Her magic is as potent as ever, and she won't hesitate to participate in a skirmish. One thing the past years haven't dulled is her reckless streak. Given the opportunity, she'll lay waste to as many of Hypatia's forces as she can, or go up to the station and rip everything she can find asunder just to give others time to do things of actual importance. When she's not trying to use her Vision Omnifold to plot out the path of victory (she swears that, sometimes, little pieces of something comes to her, just floating on the periphery of her vision, but they could just as easily be her own delusion) or plotting to just wreck as much as she can, she's legendarily distant, staying holed up in her own home. Her guilt allows her very little in the way of personal comforts, and to that effect, what she does can almost barely be called living. She allows herself to survive, and to indulge in her most destructive tendencies occasionally, but little else.

/because Chibi is waffling

[herald_ramjet]

Name: Cliffjumper
Current location: Dead/disappeared
Current Physical Appearance: Not much dfference, except he'd started to be able to control the glass gas through his own hands, so, due to troubles with control, a lot of cracked, replaced and mis-matching red and gray plating to repair the areas especially around his hands and lower arms when he lost control.
Summary: Cliffjumper was still on Sacrosanct when things started to go badly... and he quickly became very suspicious towards anyone and anything else when the reprogramming started to show come into evidence.

Initially, he managed to avoid any reprogramming, slowly planning for some sort of last strike (he'd learned patience, but since it was all gearing towards one of those typical bum-rushes, it's hard to tell if he'd changed much at all), but if things hadn't happened as they did, he certainly would have fallen under Hypatia's control. Cliffjumper liked to hide in the Junkyard during this time, and at some point the rift either got him out of there, or he ran into someone else who'd made the Junkyard their territory (and was most probably killed by);

Name: Ramjet
Current location: Sacrosanct
Current Physical Appearance: Ramjet is still a large, melty robot with the occasional tentacle and purple aura and all that fun stuff.
Summary: Ramjet came in only a year or so before things started to go to hell. It's probable he could have left the moment he appeared on Sacrosanct, but he stayed to pester Convoy for some reason.

Hypatia got to Ramjet early - mostly because he saw no danger from her - and while she did manage to reprogram him, it was... brief, at best. Ramjet's still-unstable form cannot hold any changes that aren't inherent to his spark, and further... Ramjet has only one Master, and Hypatia is not Unicron.
So when hypatia's reprogramming faded, Ramjet went on (delighted) rampage, destroying as much as he could before he was captured again... and then the process repeated, since why would Hypatia want to give up something that disorts the reality nearest to him and can disintegrate a few enemies evey day, despite the problems Ramjet presents. Though soon Ramjet usually escaped to the Junkyard between attempts at controlling him, doing... something to the Rift.

Ramjet isn't a tool, isn't a weapon. He isn't even a loose cannon, but rather more like a loose atomic bomb that periodically is set on a timer and then goes rogue after inflicting some known quantity of damage through Hypatia's orders. The Junkyard is his, and while Ramjet is a bomb, the Junkyard and the changed Rift (it sometimes now tends to rip things and people down there apart into thousand little pieces while pulling who/whatever out of the dimension) is more of an apocalypse waiting to happen.

Why leave, when he can just destroy this dimension and leave that way?

Re: /because Chibi is waffling

[knightofdarkness]

RAMJET IS PROBABLY THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS THAT NEMESIS IS ACTUALLY WORKING TO TRY AND DESTROY THE STATION

Y/N

/also copy-pastes from last time

[shipper]

Name: Nepeta Leijon
Current Location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Fairly similar to her younger self - Nepeta never got any taller than what she hit at thirteen, but she has compacted even further into pure muscle. Her horns are a bit longer, and she's ditched both the kitty apparel and her trench coat. Also for the most part she goes barefoot.

Summary: Nepeta fled the Station with Karkat and the other trolls he managed to scrounge together, but was separated from them in the chaos. Unable to find her way back to them and cut off from any sort of restraining influence, Nepeta fell back on her feral instincts to survive.

By this time she's gone almost completely feral, although she is still perfectly capable of speech. Her memories of life previous to Asphodel have been suppressed as belonging to a before time that has no bearing on her now. There's a large stretch of tunnel which resistance members believe to be inhabited by some kind of large monster - believe, because anyone who's ventured through has been killed by Nepeta. Yeah, she's a maneater now.

There's still a fragment of her original personality trying to get out, but it's become twisted. Whenever something humanoid has the misfortune to venture into her territory, she won't kill them immediately. Instead she leaves them alive so that she can 'play' with them - unfortunately her games now have the same result as simply being attacked.

[gamzgrewup]

They compete sometimes. He almost respects her, the way a lion might respect another lion's territory. He avoids her territory most of the time. But sometimes he tests her. Pushes the limits.

He crawls deliberately through her tunnels, searching for her. Maybe he'll kill her today.

because Jayde is terrible

[lookslike_fishmen]

Name: Jack Walters
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Ten years older, with more scars and more stubble, and six downward-facing horn-like protrusions on his lower jawline, three on each side. Thinner, lately, and obviously showing signs of neglecting his own health.
Summary: Jack wasn't on the station for long before Hypatia's hostile takeover started. He didn't manage to make it off the station before one of her drones killed him, and he was swiftly captured coming out of the teleporter. Rather than enhancing him with cybernetics, however, she began tweaking his genetic makeup in an effort to get someone with enough psychic ability to combat the humans on Asphodel that had the same ability.

Unfortunately, this isn't the first time that Jack has been captured, and he recently freed himself and fled to the planet below. He's less human than he was and more Yithian, with more control over his psychic abilities. Most of his days are spent tweaking the Yithian Lightning Cannon to be more powerful, or with him in a pool of ankle-deep water, trying to get a fix on controlling Asphodel's giant worm population.

He still writes in his journal when he can.

[vilified]

Name: Doug Rattmann
Current Location: Sacrosanct
Current Physical Appearance: Very similar to how he looks now - emaciated, haggard, unkempt, and more than a little off-kilter. His clothes are even more ragged than before and it's likely that he's lost even more weight in the interim. Dodging robots for food is hard, ok.

Summary: In his own way, Rattmann had been warning people about this eventuality almost as frequently as Karkat. But no on had listened to him (again) and soon his nightmare was rising up into the painfully familiar crescendo.

He'd always been more of a reluctant hero than he'd ever care to admit, and so when things went to shit once again he stayed behind on the station. His morals and paranoia wouldn't conscience fleeing with strangers to an unknown planet when there were still people trapped on Sacrosanct. Besides, what use could a schizophrenic without his medicine be to a resistance force?

It's more difficult these days to keep himself hidden; but Hypatia doesn't hold the same sway as GLaDOS did, and he'd kept himself away from her nearly as long. The station is simply too big for her to track down one long nutcase, and that's what he's counting on.

Any resistance members on missions in the station will notice that the walls have been covered in words pointing out the direction of their target or giving zone coordinates for organics still held prisoner by Hypatia. These are usually framed by insane ramblings and cries for help, but the information offered has always turned out good. In his more lucid moments Rattmann also throws himself into disrupting Hypatia's processing - nothing large, but resistance members may find that door locks and security drones tend to malfunction more often the closer they come to their targets.

He also makes use of the fact that he knows there are telepaths in the group of people the Rift had brought in, sending a constant stream of information and locations out into the void of thoughtspace and hoping someone picks them up. These are much more difficult to decipher than the wall directions, however, as they're jumbled with both Rattmann's shattered mind and his emotions.

[rebuildscience]

It had to come down to this eventually.

The "rat man," as Chell found herself calling him, has been a thorn in Hypatia's side for long enough. He's been spotted before and always managed to evade capture, but she intends for this time to be different. Hypatia's made the consequences should she fail again clear.

As she approaches the place where he was seen, Chell wonders why it feels so wrong.

[princeofhope]

Name: Eridan Ampora
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Really, there wasn't much change in Eridan. His eyes completely filled out with color, his horns have taken to a longer shape as well, he has grown quite a bit, but staying as lean as ever. literally this if you're too lazy to imagine. Plus a missing foot because missing a foot is awesome. He looks much similar to his ancestor, but not as burly as the late Orphaner. I mean, he's only 11 sweeps (~24) at this point.

Summary: Of course Eridan would follow his glorious leader, there's no doubt to that. He would follow him until he proved otherwise to be the leader that he had followed through 600 hours of one hell of a game.

At first, he was to stick to his own force in the rallies, of course, he was an offensive brute with a horrible trigger finger. It's obviously the perfect plan, right? Not right. He would fuck up majorly and it would cost him his eye and his fin. He was damaged, but he wasn't defeated yet. He would try to keep his pacing up, but it was difficult to relearn how to work with one eye. Eventually, he would relearn, but he was too paranoid that his blind spot was going to become the end of him.

That didn't mean that he had completely placed himself out of the fight. He eventually snuck out every once in a while when tings were too quiet for him to be comfortable in, usually ending in someting... happening. He'd come back with different injuries, but the one that did stop him and make him actually sit back and let the able bodied and those who weren't in the same situation as he was ... was when he came back without any wings or a foot.

That was the deal breaker for him. He knew he wasn't to chance his luck, and remained with those who planned. That was his new calling... but it wasn't as if he would completely stick to it. He would just try to avoid getting into a scuffle when he went out form that moment on.

Coming from his personality, he's matured greatly from what he was before. His top priority is planning, especially after his injuries. He fucking adapted to what he could focus on the most, he couldn't keep hope up. He tried to. He was the Prince of Hope after all. He was always staggering to attempt to keep them hopeful, but HAHA nope. Someone else would step up for him, and he would be bitter... but he would still keep hope where he could.

He put aside all differences for the trolls, what does he hate now? Well, basically he took a page from Karkat's book of rage and hates those god damned sons of bitches ROBOTS FUCK THEM UGH. Except for a few that have proven to be... you know, good souls and were able to make their way into the Resistance. fuck the rest of them though GUHHGHHGHSDHGDSF He also has a wicked temper from the fact that his seakin are normally just complete assholes to everyone, and he's prone to snap if he's provoked, especially since his injury.

All and all, he still tries to stay the same as he did before, but there's no way he's the same Eridan he was at 7 sweeps. He knew there was no way he could ever go back to doing that. Never ever was he turning back to that again.


Jesus fuck tl;dr he stays with the trolls, gets injured and gets paranoid the's going to get killed so he forces himself off the field, but he continues to go against himself until his wings get borked and he really does stop going off.

YEAH.

[gamzgrewup]

There's no memory at all. Even the concept of a matesprit is lost to him. What need has a monster for others?

So when he sees this one in the tunnels, traveling, going visiting--doesn't matter, the only thing he recognizes is the scent. Fish.

All that means is tastier prey.

So he hunts.

[originaljoe]

Name: Joe
Current location: Asphodel
Current Physical Appearance: Joe's in his 30s now and his age is starting to show although it is rare that he removes his helmet now. He's gotten physically stronger and is much more scarred. He really should have asked Light for armor early on.
Summary: When it became apparent that Hypatia was done letting everyone stay, it wasn't even a question if Joe would leave and join the resistance. He had fought against Wily, however shortly, back home and he'd fight again here. After all, he had his adopted family to protect and he'd would not lose anymore family. Sadly, the fact that Megaman, both of them, stayed behind has stayed with him. Yes, one stayed to hold off Hypatia and one stayed to join her but, he still feels as if they're both lost forever since he cannot blame his Megaman for his anger. Sure, most of the trolls joined the Resistance as well and that would give some happiness but, only one was ever really family.

While Joe has gotten more experience and a lot more scars, he has not gotten anymore careful than that night with the Sniper. He goes out on missions every time he can in hopes of finding anyone he knew that stayed behind, even if they joined willingly. His main hope is to find Megaman, to show him again that this place isn't like home. Perhaps even to die by him. Joe has long since known that there are things worse than death and this new life is one of them. So he fights Hypatia's robots whenever the chance arises, he doesn't really care much about his own safety anymore. It's just another overlord using robots to him and he's willing to die again for the cause if it means sparing one of the others he once considered children.

[justamobster]

Name: Ladon Ceto
Current location: Sacrosanct, mostly, though he's often sent to Asphodel for recon.
Current Physical Appearance: Part human, part dragon, part machine. Ladon's different forms are now competing for dominance, though his new artificial add-ons keep him from swinging fully into either. The mobster disguise has been cast aside now that everyone has pretty much found out what he is. He's a mess of scales and skin and metal, with a replacement cybernetic eye on the left side of his face, one mechanical leg, and robotics keeping him upright and functional after some pretty terrible damage he sustained in an explosion. His tattered wings and tail are almost always out now, but he still holds on to his hat, if only out of sentimentality.
Summary: During the flight from Sacrosanct, Ladon did what he could to buy the escapees time. Unfortunately, that meant throwing himself into the fray and winding up dead-- or well. Mostly. Regardless, the original Ladon Ceto never came back from that fight. Hypatia has done what she could to indoctrinate him, but he's basically a failed prototype. He's resisted brainwashing, and attempts to fuss with a dragon brain held captive in a human skull would likely just kill him. He stays because of the others left behind, and follows Hypatia's orders in a limited fashion, if only to keep the unwilling, enslaved, and brainwashed from death until they can be freed and/or returned to their right minds. However, he's running out of time. Eventually he's going to outlive his usefulness or cross one too many lines and be decommissioned. Once Hypatia cuts the power to his cybernetics, he'll be dead. That reality is becoming more and more likely in the near future, but if he's going to go out, he's at least going to do what he can beforehand.

[supernova1006]

He walks. "Walking the Earth," people have called it in the past. Whatever. There's always something refreshing about walking, feet to the ground. He could fly, but instead he keeps his wings tucked to his sides. He needs contact right now. And the dragon form is better for fighting off the worms when they come.

He's out on the wastes, heading to the nearest carbon plant controlled by Hypatia to see what he can find there. Maybe kill some drones, try to take the plant for the resistance.

Whatever.

When he sees a figure moving across the surface, tiny, human mostly, he assumes it's just another drone, probably coming from the carbon plant. But when he gets closer, he sees the wings and tail, the organic parts, the cybernetics.

Ah. The resistance had said he'd survived.

[redancestor]

Name: The Signless
Current location: Dead
Current Physical Appearance: Not unlike a corpse.
Summary: As if Signless wasn't going to fight. Sadly, just as last time, he wasn't very lucky.

[princeofhope]

Upon the discovery of Signless' death, Eridan would pour one out for his homie.


Damn was he going to miss him.

[taggingcode]

Name: LILY.exe
Current location: Sacrosanct
Current Physical Appearance: None. She's part of the station network now, her physical body destroyed.
Summary: She was one of the first to be taken, and her capture and re-formatting was more an experiment than anything. Could Hypatia take over the mind of a program in a human's body? Could she manipulate coding that was part normal computer code and part magic? The answer to both was yet, though it took time, and ended with the destruction of her human body and most of what made her human. She was left a shell, with only her obsession with codes left to remind her of what she once was. She's put to work as a codebreaker and has been the downfall of many a resistance movement. The resistance has yet to come up with a code that she couldn't eventually break.