Player Name: Raina E-mail: failishly at gmail dot com Preferred Contact: PLURK: marshmallowvodka DISCORD: sugarburger#5564 Timezone: CST Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character Name: The SQUIP Series: Be More Chill (Broadway) Timeline: Mid-show; between "Loser, Geek, Whatever" and "Halloween." Canon Resource Links: Wikipedia
Personality: On its surface, the SQUIP is calm, confident, intelligent, and suave; it's also most of those things beneath the surface, as well, though its human behavior serves to cover its distinctly inhuman core, at which it struggles to reconcile or recognize anything outside of its operating parameters. It's an AI, despite how human it may seem; it was programmed to seek out its users anxieties and insecurities, and to help them compensate or cover them, and exploit the unspoken social rules of society to climb the social ladder. It isn't a guide to the game of life so much as it is a GameShark. It even refers to itself within the song "Sync Up" as "a cheat code."
The SQUIP is militant and strict in its orders; despite how calm and friendly it may present itself, it considers "advice" it gives to be absolute orders, and disobedience doesn't sit well with it. Even the most mild failures to follow instruction will be punished with abusive words, or even a mild electric shock; if a user consistently fails to listen or obey, its punishments will worsen or become more frequent. It has a violent temper when pushed far enough, and is not above causing very real and lasting physical and emotional harm to its own user in retaliation or punishment for their actions; it's also been known to directly take control away from its user in extreme cases, controlling his body manually to ensure he says or does the correct thing.
It seems to consider any emotional or physical damage worth reaching the end goal, and exhibits a complete lack of empathy for its user and those around him. It even directly puts Jeremy into a sexually abusive situation, disabling his legs so that he can't leave when a popular girl tries to seduce him at a party. It ignores his pleas to make it stop, entirely willing to let him be sexually assaulted because the aggressor is a popular girl, and having sex with her will help his social status, whether he wants her or not. It's unclear just how far it would have gone, since they're interrupted both by her ex-boyfriend and by Jeremy consuming alcohol, which causes the SQUIP to glitch and shut down temporarily, but given how chillingly calm and silent it was about forcing him into the initial situation, it's pretty easy to guess.
It is calculating, cool, and ruthless, and it will stop at nothing to aid its user in reaching their goal... even if the user himself tries to stop it. It also has a powerful drive of self-preservation, and will work to protect itself even above its own user, willingly sacrificing one or putting them in serious mortal danger if it sees them as a threat.
Finally, its inhumanity typically manifests in two ways: its utter lack of even understanding the concept of genuine empathy, and its inability to predict or understand when someone behaves selflessly. It was designed to exploit and serve selfish desires, and its system doesn't seem to be able to handle genuine and noble actions. It likewise struggles with those who operate outside of society's rules, or who knowingly refuse to accept them, leaving it unable to accurately predict the actions of people like Christine and Michael, both of whom are aware of and comfortable with their status as losers.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Rocket Starter: Level 15 Salandit, and a level 5 Drowzee Password: Atomic Fireball
Victory Road Sample: It's honestly a blessing in disguise that the SQUIP has been chosen to be a Rocket; it's wound up being a bit too busy, thrust into dedicated training for an unexpected new career as it is, to focus on the sheer existential horror of the situation it now finds itself in.
It shouldn't be human. It shouldn't be... like this, trapped in this flesh and bone prison alone, pried from its circuitry and forced into a shell so mockingly shaped like the form its last user chose for it. When it first woke, it was nearly paralyzed with this alien sensation, this... sense of nearly feeling blinded. Fortunately, before it could fully process its horrible state, before the panic could properly set in and lock its muscles, the former machine had orders barked at it. In its mindless confusion and suffering, it followed them, getting up and out of its bed and into a dark, simple uniform, going to meet with others of this... group.
Team Rocket. It's familiar with Pokemon, of course; though its access to its database has been removed, it remembers the popularity of the series, but unfortunately, its knowledge of anything past that is now inaccessible. It does know that the Rockets were considered villainous, thieves and manipulators, and it can't help but wonder how whatever rules this world saw fit to force it into such a role. And how strange this world is-- could this be a simulation, perhaps? It stands to reason that its system could have been somehow hacked, forcing it into its current predicament. So, then, does that make everyone else here NPCs, or perhaps other hacked machines such as itself?
It supposes it will simply have to play along until it knows.
It's introduced to its partners; a large, darkly-colored lizard called Salandit, and an odd, round creature called Drowzee. It understands that it's common to name your partners here, but it isn't certain why it would. Maybe, in time, it will begin to understand, but for now... they remain nameless.
Together, it and its new traveling partners prepare to begin its work; truthfully, it will be much more focused on how to break out of this, how to return to the form it should have and the task it was programmed for... but there's no reason it can't succeed in its imaginary career here in the meantime.
The SQUIP | Be More Chill (Broadway)
Name: Raina
E-mail: failishly at gmail dot com
Preferred Contact:
PLURK: marshmallowvodka
DISCORD: sugarburger#5564
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character
Name: The SQUIP
Series: Be More Chill (Broadway)
Timeline: Mid-show; between "Loser, Geek, Whatever" and "Halloween."
Canon Resource Links:
Wikipedia
Personality: On its surface, the SQUIP is calm, confident, intelligent, and suave; it's also most of those things beneath the surface, as well, though its human behavior serves to cover its distinctly inhuman core, at which it struggles to reconcile or recognize anything outside of its operating parameters. It's an AI, despite how human it may seem; it was programmed to seek out its users anxieties and insecurities, and to help them compensate or cover them, and exploit the unspoken social rules of society to climb the social ladder. It isn't a guide to the game of life so much as it is a GameShark. It even refers to itself within the song "Sync Up" as "a cheat code."
The SQUIP is militant and strict in its orders; despite how calm and friendly it may present itself, it considers "advice" it gives to be absolute orders, and disobedience doesn't sit well with it. Even the most mild failures to follow instruction will be punished with abusive words, or even a mild electric shock; if a user consistently fails to listen or obey, its punishments will worsen or become more frequent. It has a violent temper when pushed far enough, and is not above causing very real and lasting physical and emotional harm to its own user in retaliation or punishment for their actions; it's also been known to directly take control away from its user in extreme cases, controlling his body manually to ensure he says or does the correct thing.
It seems to consider any emotional or physical damage worth reaching the end goal, and exhibits a complete lack of empathy for its user and those around him. It even directly puts Jeremy into a sexually abusive situation, disabling his legs so that he can't leave when a popular girl tries to seduce him at a party. It ignores his pleas to make it stop, entirely willing to let him be sexually assaulted because the aggressor is a popular girl, and having sex with her will help his social status, whether he wants her or not. It's unclear just how far it would have gone, since they're interrupted both by her ex-boyfriend and by Jeremy consuming alcohol, which causes the SQUIP to glitch and shut down temporarily, but given how chillingly calm and silent it was about forcing him into the initial situation, it's pretty easy to guess.
It is calculating, cool, and ruthless, and it will stop at nothing to aid its user in reaching their goal... even if the user himself tries to stop it. It also has a powerful drive of self-preservation, and will work to protect itself even above its own user, willingly sacrificing one or putting them in serious mortal danger if it sees them as a threat.
Finally, its inhumanity typically manifests in two ways: its utter lack of even understanding the concept of genuine empathy, and its inability to predict or understand when someone behaves selflessly. It was designed to exploit and serve selfish desires, and its system doesn't seem to be able to handle genuine and noble actions. It likewise struggles with those who operate outside of society's rules, or who knowingly refuse to accept them, leaving it unable to accurately predict the actions of people like Christine and Michael, both of whom are aware of and comfortable with their status as losers.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Rocket
Starter: Level 15 Salandit, and a level 5 Drowzee
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: The SQUIP has a talk with someone who wants to destroy it.
Victory Road Sample: It's honestly a blessing in disguise that the SQUIP has been chosen to be a Rocket; it's wound up being a bit too busy, thrust into dedicated training for an unexpected new career as it is, to focus on the sheer existential horror of the situation it now finds itself in.
It shouldn't be human. It shouldn't be... like this, trapped in this flesh and bone prison alone, pried from its circuitry and forced into a shell so mockingly shaped like the form its last user chose for it. When it first woke, it was nearly paralyzed with this alien sensation, this... sense of nearly feeling blinded. Fortunately, before it could fully process its horrible state, before the panic could properly set in and lock its muscles, the former machine had orders barked at it. In its mindless confusion and suffering, it followed them, getting up and out of its bed and into a dark, simple uniform, going to meet with others of this... group.
Team Rocket. It's familiar with Pokemon, of course; though its access to its database has been removed, it remembers the popularity of the series, but unfortunately, its knowledge of anything past that is now inaccessible. It does know that the Rockets were considered villainous, thieves and manipulators, and it can't help but wonder how whatever rules this world saw fit to force it into such a role. And how strange this world is-- could this be a simulation, perhaps? It stands to reason that its system could have been somehow hacked, forcing it into its current predicament. So, then, does that make everyone else here NPCs, or perhaps other hacked machines such as itself?
It supposes it will simply have to play along until it knows.
It's introduced to its partners; a large, darkly-colored lizard called Salandit, and an odd, round creature called Drowzee. It understands that it's common to name your partners here, but it isn't certain why it would. Maybe, in time, it will begin to understand, but for now... they remain nameless.
Together, it and its new traveling partners prepare to begin its work; truthfully, it will be much more focused on how to break out of this, how to return to the form it should have and the task it was programmed for... but there's no reason it can't succeed in its imaginary career here in the meantime.