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Name: Surge
Timezone: Eastern Standard Time
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Characters in Game (previously too): N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: "Robot" (designated S13 at activation, but is only called that by other Seraph model Court robots)
Canon: Gunnerkrigg Court
Gender: N/A - Robot is designated male by everyone who surrounds him, but has yet to actually confirm whether or not it's something that he actually cares about. Robots don't really seem to have much of a concept or gender, though the people of the Court tend to refer to them by tacking on gender titles to model frames.
Age: ??? (Old. Older than Annie and Kat. He was active long before Annie rebuilt him, and while he is the 13th of his model-type, the first concept of his frame-make has been around since the Court began.)
Suitability: He is a robot. It's implied that he's been around for Quite Some Time, and while there are no robots in the Court used for sexual purposes (as far as we've seen in canon), it can be expected that he knows what it is and what it's about, as well as enough to consent if asked. It's likely that he's not interested in seeking it out himself, since he's a robot who's never had a need or desire for sex.
Species: Robot
Genitalia: Robot, being a robot with a body designed to do nothing but be durable and flexible, doesn't have canon genetalia. Since there's no reason to stick him with something as boring as a metal dick, let's not do that.
Here are some examples of what he will have: 1 + 2
Canon Point: Hugging Shadow. during the wrap-up of The Torn Sea.
World/Setting: N/A
History: No one actually knows the details of what happened to Robot before Annie found him. Later in the series, we are told that he was charged with spreading misinformation and rumors, so they had him dismantled and locked away in a closet. Other robots of his model address him as S13, and Antimony found him in a box marked 'Spare #13', but she just calls him "Robot" and so does everyone else.
Antimony Carver found him in a box and put him back together so he could escort Shadow 2 across the bridge between the Court and Gillitie Woods. After having done that, he decided to explore the woods and ran afoul of Ysengrin, who implanted a seed that gave him a wooden arm to replace his missing one. This sort of put him under sway of the Wood and allowed another one of the Glass-Eyed Men to manipulate him into crossing the bridge between the Court and Gillitie Woods. While mind-controlled, he tried to kidnap Reynardine and pushed Annie off the bridge before being stabbed by Eglamore.
His body was turned into paperclips, and his CPU was sent to a robot processing center so they could examine what exactly caused his unique behavior. It stayed there for quite some time, and it’s implied that he was running over his own thoughts in his head the entire time. Most of them were regrets over having hurt Annie. After dealing with whatever consequences her actions caused for others, Annie decided she would find out what happened to Robot in the forest. After following a few blatantly obvious signs telling her not to go to the places she was looking for, as well as tricking two other Court robots, she found his CPU. That was being kept for study, since glitches like his are interesting to other robots of the Court. Annie and Reynard broke him out and escaped, meeting up with Kat and installing his CPU in a platform that had a mic and a camera so he could see, hear and speak. This is where he starts becoming friends with Shadow and Kat, the latter of which he begins to consider an angel due to her appearance.
As the story moves on, he and Shadow become nearly inseparable in a very literal way. When he is given a more mobile mouse-bot body, Shadow tags along with him everywhere he goes. Eventually, when Kat’s mom gives her access to a lab that she'd once used, Kat and Annie discover a bunch of strange robots. Kat takes Robot’s computer chip and places it into a model similar to his old body, and he springs to life and acts out an entire puppet show before fleeing into a chamber with a picture of a woman on it. The woman is named Jeanne. She died and they did nothing.
After this is when shit starts getting weird.
The next chapter Robot plays a significant role in is one where he has a humanoid body given to him by Kat. It’s revealed that he has actually been spreading the word about her and the tomb for some time, and that robots often come by to see it. Eventually, he fetches a meteorology robot and tells him about Kat, as well as Jeanne’s tomb. During this event, it is revealed that the creator of the Court robots, Diego, was actually a huge dick. Because a woman named Jeanne spurned his affections, he basically arranged for her death. Robot sees how and why it happened, as well as Annie and Kat crying about it, and it’s something of the true start of his obsession with understanding human emotions and how they work.
Later in the story, Kat begins to research more into the way Diego worked, and she eventually decodes his method enough to bring one of the first court robots back to life. He explains to her that they essentially killed themselves after creating a new generation of court robots, and clarifies why the robots serve the court, as well as the significance of movement and their definition of life. Then he asks her to kill him, and she does so reluctantly. This is when he starts to act less as a missionary about Kat, and more like a preacher for the other robots. As a result, they slowly come to think of Kat as even more of an angel and probably something of a messiah. It’s later revealed that he follows her to make sure she is safe, presumably because a lot is on her shoulders and he doesn’t want her to suddenly be lost to them all.
Time passes until he and Shadow are enlisted to help Parley get better at fighting so that she can combat Jeanne’s ghost while Annie tries to force her to move on. While he initially holds back, at Kat’s prompting, he soundly trounces her at sword fighting and feels terrible about it. Eventually Parley starts to teleport around, and then he’s unable to stop her from kicking his ass in close quarters. When discussing weapons to use against Jeanne, the possibility of Coyote’s tooth is brought up, and Parley underestimate it’s sharpness and cuts him in half. It doesn’t kill him, but then she drops the sword and it cuts Shadow off the floor.
Shadow and Robot express a great deal of concern for each other before being spirited away to separate places for their respective repairs. While he’s being shut down so that Kat can fix him, Robot realizes that he is in love with Shadow. When they see each other again, Shadow has a 3D body, and Robot takes full advantage of that by hugging the shit out of him. They also hold hands and Shadow gives him a new hoodie. It’s super cute.
Robot begins following Shadow like he does with Kat, and seems to be very keen on watching over him. It’s slightly less creepy because Shadow always knows he’s there. They continue to be super cute the next time they are seen, which is when Shadow is talking to Robot about his classes. Suddenly, they’re ambushed and Shadow escapes while Robot is taken into custody by his former brethren, other S13 models. When they find him again, he’s being held captive for telling lies and slander about Kat being an angel and basically super fucking awesome about robots. Annie, Kat and Shadow are having absolutely none of that shit, and force them to let Robot go. Eventually, Kat proves that she is indeed the hot shit and Robot is granted parole after they doodle a symbol of protection into her walls.
Robot is seen in the backround at various points in the comic, though his latest appearance has had him helping Annie, Jack, Jenny, and Shadow take down the antagonist in The Torn Sea. Said antagonist was a sentient ship who wants to be made flesh through the use of Kat's knowledge and harnessed aetheric magics.
Personality: Robots in the court are unfailingly polite to humans, willing to go out of their way to keep them safe and happy. For the most part they are programmed to do certain tasks according to their model. Robot, also called S13 by his brethren, was apparently part of a secret service sort of outfit that monitors the actions of the court citizens to ensure compliance with certain rules. He apparently wasn’t very good at his job, because they caught him spreading lies and slander and dismantled him. Then they stuck him in a closet where Antimony later found him.
Despite being a glitched model, Robot is still unfailingly polite to just about everyone he meets, even if they are a complete stranger. He doesn't really have anything keeping him from not attatching himself to people or from judging them to be untrustworthy. He is kind to a fault and tends to expect the best of people be default, the Court and himself not really having had enough experience with awful individuals to bother programming or gaining a failsafe in which to deal with them.
While this isn’t really elaborated on, it’s implied that he can occasionally exaggerate the reality of things to the point where they’re pretty much lies. Throughout the comic, he addresses Kat as an angel and pretty much exaggerates her importance and her actions to the point of elevating her to near legendary status among the robot populous. He even does it for himself on occasion, putting himself up in the place of a sort of preacher of her words and actions, which is a side he hides from Kat and Annie, though not from Shadow, who finds it a bit creepy.
Speaking of creepy, Robot’s understanding of personal boundaries is sketchy at best, but this is a common thing with Court robots, who occasionally fall in love with humans and need to be told to stop. He seems to be constantly concerned about Annie and Kat, and is both implied and outright shown to be watching them without their knowledge. When Shadow points out how weird that is, he claims to be trying to keep them safe. Once Shadow gains a three-dimensional form, Robot starts following him as well, though that paranoia is a little more justified, given Shadow's uniqueness and the fact that Robot is basically in love with him. This doesn't make it any less creepy, but his intentions are never malicious.
Keeping Kat in particular safe might be part of an obsession he has with learning about himself and robots in general, where they came from and why they are the way they are now, as well as how they can evolve past that. There seems to be a distinct lack of knowledge about robots by robots, as well as a general lack of understanding of human emotion, and figuring out why they are here and what it means to feel is somewhat central to his character. Learning about the past robots and how they were made and what the general meaning of their existence is, is one of the things he seems to be trying to figure out throughout various points in the comic.
Robots of the Court consider movement to be the entire point of living. In the words of the comic,“[Their] limbs do not tire. [Their] minds do not lull. [They] yearn to feel the movement of [their] joints and the firing of [their] senses”. They don’t even have something akin to sleep, so much as they die when they are shut down and are brought back to life when restarted. Robot is the same as the other Court robots in this respect, and it explains some of his behavior towards the people he knows and cares about. He's loyal to Annie and Kat because the former is the one who rebuilt him and gifted him with life again, and the latter is constantly improving his state of being. He's loyal to Shadow and becomes excellent friends with him because Shadow is familiar to him and sort of the reason for his existence. The latter is enough of a crux in Robot's developing personality that he actually admits to himself that he loves the little shadow man.
He is polite to other denizens of the Court because all robots do this, doubly so if they are in any way related to Antimony or Katerina. He’s seen being nice to Parley, even going easy on her in a fight because he doesn’t want to crush her completely and hurt her feelings. When he does beat her, he shows a bit of guilt and sheepishness as well. When Kat brings a robot from Diego’s era back to life, Robot restrains it before it goes berserk, but still thanks it when it compliments his skills. He comes off as very kind and mild-mannered when given the opportunity, albeit a bit awkward in social situations. He even helps Annie with her attempts to get Kat to talk to her again after she returns from the forest, though he is clumsy about it and sorry for inconveniencing Kat. He is generally a nice sort of guy aside from a few creepy factors he exhibits, and his niceness isn’t part of a mask that hides his true, creepy motives, so much as it is just another part of who he is.
Annie and Kat are the main ladies in his life and two of the most important people to him. While he considered Annie something like his mother and is willing to help her and dote on her, Kat is something of a religious figure to him, as well as the person he trusts to fix him. Both of them are extremely important to him in different ways, and while he feels attatchment to them, he doesn’t actually know what ‘love’ is until Shadow. The relationship between them runs deep because Robot was literally put together again to help Shadow get back to the Gillitie Wood. When they were reunited, they spent most of their time together, with Shadow tagging along with Robot via the shadows of his hoodie. After Shadow gains a solid body and Robot gets cut in half, Robot comes to realize that he actually loves Shadow and begins treating him with a great deal more affection, holding hands and hugging him whenever the other is receptive to it. When Shadow starts going to school, he also follows him there initially, though Shadow is fully aware of his presence.
Abilities/Weaknesses: He is a robot.
He's stronger and faster than a normal human, and he doesn't need to sleep or eat. He apparently doesn’t run out of battery or whatever he uses for power either, essentially being unable to tire as well. He has a natural affinity for technology, repairs and so on, because the robots of the court are said to be entirely self-sufficient, relying only on themselves for repairs and maintenance. He is difficult to actually damage unless significant force is used to dent or otherwise break his casing, and even then, considering that Parley cut him in half, he doesn't even feel the pain from it. He can't be killed unless his CPU is destroyed, and his CPU can be inserted into anything that has a port to store it.
Outside of the realm of robotics, Robot is an expert fencer, having learned from his time implanted in the S1 model, first of his kind. He is also quite a dab hand with unarmed combat, though it’s unknown where he picked it up. He’s perfectly capable of taking down a larger opponent when he needs to, and the fact that he can hit fairly hard probably helps. He’s also exceedingly good at parkour, partially due to being a robot and unable to take damage from large falls or hard rebounds, and can easily execute moves most humans couldn’t even attempt due to a lack of strength, flexibility, and the possibility of a fatal landing. As a robot, he can probably calculate what forces and movements need to be used for the optimum jumps and landings.
Due to the fact that robots of his model apparently act as a sort of secret police, and that Robot has been seen tracking Shadow, Kat and Annie (usually without their knowledge) as well as finding other robots around the Court, it can be assumed that he also knows how to find people, sort of like a robot detective.
RP Samples:
Sample #1: PSL @sharkbox
Sample #2:
[This is new.
Robot lifts his hand, or what used to be his hand, up into the sunlight so that it's sihouetted and casts a shadow across his face. He wiggles his fingers. This is not normal, of course, because he didn't have fingers before. If he had to compare his hand to anything before, he would have compared it a mitten.]
Um...
[He turns and stares at the man sitting across the table from him, who has long translucent robes and a tall pointy hat. He said that he was a wizard, and that he specialized in transformation. The man looks very proud of himself. If Robot had a proper face, he'd probably be a little disconcerted. Not having one doesn't keep him from being unsettled, but it's not very obvious.
All he'd asked was why the wizard was wearing translucent robes. It was purely a point of curiosity. Robot has tried hard to learn about this strange place, and asking questions seemed a lot safer that simply running headfirst into everything. Instead, there was a long rambling lecture he could remember perfectly but not really understand. The word 'metaphor' had been used a lot.
Then he'd seen a bright flash, and while it hadn't hurt, everything in his programming told him that something about his body was distinctly off. Not wrong per se, because his chassis is maleable as the Creator wishes it to be, but it suddenly feels like something about him isn't as it was before.
When he looked down his hands had fingers.]
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what this has to do with your robes being translucent. This is interesting though, sir.
[Truth be told, he's not very comfortable with being altered like this, not by anyone who is not Kat. But on the other hand (the one that is not currently full of fingers), it would be very rude to say otherwise out loud. It's best to be subtle so no feelings are hurt.]
Could you please change it back?
Name: Surge
Timezone: Eastern Standard Time
Personal Journal:
surgeprise Player Contact: HPlus Future (AIM) |
Characters in Game (previously too): N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: "Robot" (designated S13 at activation, but is only called that by other Seraph model Court robots)
Canon: Gunnerkrigg Court
Gender: N/A - Robot is designated male by everyone who surrounds him, but has yet to actually confirm whether or not it's something that he actually cares about. Robots don't really seem to have much of a concept or gender, though the people of the Court tend to refer to them by tacking on gender titles to model frames.
Age: ??? (Old. Older than Annie and Kat. He was active long before Annie rebuilt him, and while he is the 13th of his model-type, the first concept of his frame-make has been around since the Court began.)
Suitability: He is a robot. It's implied that he's been around for Quite Some Time, and while there are no robots in the Court used for sexual purposes (as far as we've seen in canon), it can be expected that he knows what it is and what it's about, as well as enough to consent if asked. It's likely that he's not interested in seeking it out himself, since he's a robot who's never had a need or desire for sex.
Species: Robot
Genitalia: Robot, being a robot with a body designed to do nothing but be durable and flexible, doesn't have canon genetalia. Since there's no reason to stick him with something as boring as a metal dick, let's not do that.
Here are some examples of what he will have: 1 + 2
Canon Point: Hugging Shadow. during the wrap-up of The Torn Sea.
World/Setting: N/A
History: No one actually knows the details of what happened to Robot before Annie found him. Later in the series, we are told that he was charged with spreading misinformation and rumors, so they had him dismantled and locked away in a closet. Other robots of his model address him as S13, and Antimony found him in a box marked 'Spare #13', but she just calls him "Robot" and so does everyone else.
Antimony Carver found him in a box and put him back together so he could escort Shadow 2 across the bridge between the Court and Gillitie Woods. After having done that, he decided to explore the woods and ran afoul of Ysengrin, who implanted a seed that gave him a wooden arm to replace his missing one. This sort of put him under sway of the Wood and allowed another one of the Glass-Eyed Men to manipulate him into crossing the bridge between the Court and Gillitie Woods. While mind-controlled, he tried to kidnap Reynardine and pushed Annie off the bridge before being stabbed by Eglamore.
His body was turned into paperclips, and his CPU was sent to a robot processing center so they could examine what exactly caused his unique behavior. It stayed there for quite some time, and it’s implied that he was running over his own thoughts in his head the entire time. Most of them were regrets over having hurt Annie. After dealing with whatever consequences her actions caused for others, Annie decided she would find out what happened to Robot in the forest. After following a few blatantly obvious signs telling her not to go to the places she was looking for, as well as tricking two other Court robots, she found his CPU. That was being kept for study, since glitches like his are interesting to other robots of the Court. Annie and Reynard broke him out and escaped, meeting up with Kat and installing his CPU in a platform that had a mic and a camera so he could see, hear and speak. This is where he starts becoming friends with Shadow and Kat, the latter of which he begins to consider an angel due to her appearance.
As the story moves on, he and Shadow become nearly inseparable in a very literal way. When he is given a more mobile mouse-bot body, Shadow tags along with him everywhere he goes. Eventually, when Kat’s mom gives her access to a lab that she'd once used, Kat and Annie discover a bunch of strange robots. Kat takes Robot’s computer chip and places it into a model similar to his old body, and he springs to life and acts out an entire puppet show before fleeing into a chamber with a picture of a woman on it. The woman is named Jeanne. She died and they did nothing.
After this is when shit starts getting weird.
The next chapter Robot plays a significant role in is one where he has a humanoid body given to him by Kat. It’s revealed that he has actually been spreading the word about her and the tomb for some time, and that robots often come by to see it. Eventually, he fetches a meteorology robot and tells him about Kat, as well as Jeanne’s tomb. During this event, it is revealed that the creator of the Court robots, Diego, was actually a huge dick. Because a woman named Jeanne spurned his affections, he basically arranged for her death. Robot sees how and why it happened, as well as Annie and Kat crying about it, and it’s something of the true start of his obsession with understanding human emotions and how they work.
Later in the story, Kat begins to research more into the way Diego worked, and she eventually decodes his method enough to bring one of the first court robots back to life. He explains to her that they essentially killed themselves after creating a new generation of court robots, and clarifies why the robots serve the court, as well as the significance of movement and their definition of life. Then he asks her to kill him, and she does so reluctantly. This is when he starts to act less as a missionary about Kat, and more like a preacher for the other robots. As a result, they slowly come to think of Kat as even more of an angel and probably something of a messiah. It’s later revealed that he follows her to make sure she is safe, presumably because a lot is on her shoulders and he doesn’t want her to suddenly be lost to them all.
Time passes until he and Shadow are enlisted to help Parley get better at fighting so that she can combat Jeanne’s ghost while Annie tries to force her to move on. While he initially holds back, at Kat’s prompting, he soundly trounces her at sword fighting and feels terrible about it. Eventually Parley starts to teleport around, and then he’s unable to stop her from kicking his ass in close quarters. When discussing weapons to use against Jeanne, the possibility of Coyote’s tooth is brought up, and Parley underestimate it’s sharpness and cuts him in half. It doesn’t kill him, but then she drops the sword and it cuts Shadow off the floor.
Shadow and Robot express a great deal of concern for each other before being spirited away to separate places for their respective repairs. While he’s being shut down so that Kat can fix him, Robot realizes that he is in love with Shadow. When they see each other again, Shadow has a 3D body, and Robot takes full advantage of that by hugging the shit out of him. They also hold hands and Shadow gives him a new hoodie. It’s super cute.
Robot begins following Shadow like he does with Kat, and seems to be very keen on watching over him. It’s slightly less creepy because Shadow always knows he’s there. They continue to be super cute the next time they are seen, which is when Shadow is talking to Robot about his classes. Suddenly, they’re ambushed and Shadow escapes while Robot is taken into custody by his former brethren, other S13 models. When they find him again, he’s being held captive for telling lies and slander about Kat being an angel and basically super fucking awesome about robots. Annie, Kat and Shadow are having absolutely none of that shit, and force them to let Robot go. Eventually, Kat proves that she is indeed the hot shit and Robot is granted parole after they doodle a symbol of protection into her walls.
Robot is seen in the backround at various points in the comic, though his latest appearance has had him helping Annie, Jack, Jenny, and Shadow take down the antagonist in The Torn Sea. Said antagonist was a sentient ship who wants to be made flesh through the use of Kat's knowledge and harnessed aetheric magics.
Personality: Robots in the court are unfailingly polite to humans, willing to go out of their way to keep them safe and happy. For the most part they are programmed to do certain tasks according to their model. Robot, also called S13 by his brethren, was apparently part of a secret service sort of outfit that monitors the actions of the court citizens to ensure compliance with certain rules. He apparently wasn’t very good at his job, because they caught him spreading lies and slander and dismantled him. Then they stuck him in a closet where Antimony later found him.
Despite being a glitched model, Robot is still unfailingly polite to just about everyone he meets, even if they are a complete stranger. He doesn't really have anything keeping him from not attatching himself to people or from judging them to be untrustworthy. He is kind to a fault and tends to expect the best of people be default, the Court and himself not really having had enough experience with awful individuals to bother programming or gaining a failsafe in which to deal with them.
While this isn’t really elaborated on, it’s implied that he can occasionally exaggerate the reality of things to the point where they’re pretty much lies. Throughout the comic, he addresses Kat as an angel and pretty much exaggerates her importance and her actions to the point of elevating her to near legendary status among the robot populous. He even does it for himself on occasion, putting himself up in the place of a sort of preacher of her words and actions, which is a side he hides from Kat and Annie, though not from Shadow, who finds it a bit creepy.
Speaking of creepy, Robot’s understanding of personal boundaries is sketchy at best, but this is a common thing with Court robots, who occasionally fall in love with humans and need to be told to stop. He seems to be constantly concerned about Annie and Kat, and is both implied and outright shown to be watching them without their knowledge. When Shadow points out how weird that is, he claims to be trying to keep them safe. Once Shadow gains a three-dimensional form, Robot starts following him as well, though that paranoia is a little more justified, given Shadow's uniqueness and the fact that Robot is basically in love with him. This doesn't make it any less creepy, but his intentions are never malicious.
Keeping Kat in particular safe might be part of an obsession he has with learning about himself and robots in general, where they came from and why they are the way they are now, as well as how they can evolve past that. There seems to be a distinct lack of knowledge about robots by robots, as well as a general lack of understanding of human emotion, and figuring out why they are here and what it means to feel is somewhat central to his character. Learning about the past robots and how they were made and what the general meaning of their existence is, is one of the things he seems to be trying to figure out throughout various points in the comic.
Robots of the Court consider movement to be the entire point of living. In the words of the comic,“[Their] limbs do not tire. [Their] minds do not lull. [They] yearn to feel the movement of [their] joints and the firing of [their] senses”. They don’t even have something akin to sleep, so much as they die when they are shut down and are brought back to life when restarted. Robot is the same as the other Court robots in this respect, and it explains some of his behavior towards the people he knows and cares about. He's loyal to Annie and Kat because the former is the one who rebuilt him and gifted him with life again, and the latter is constantly improving his state of being. He's loyal to Shadow and becomes excellent friends with him because Shadow is familiar to him and sort of the reason for his existence. The latter is enough of a crux in Robot's developing personality that he actually admits to himself that he loves the little shadow man.
He is polite to other denizens of the Court because all robots do this, doubly so if they are in any way related to Antimony or Katerina. He’s seen being nice to Parley, even going easy on her in a fight because he doesn’t want to crush her completely and hurt her feelings. When he does beat her, he shows a bit of guilt and sheepishness as well. When Kat brings a robot from Diego’s era back to life, Robot restrains it before it goes berserk, but still thanks it when it compliments his skills. He comes off as very kind and mild-mannered when given the opportunity, albeit a bit awkward in social situations. He even helps Annie with her attempts to get Kat to talk to her again after she returns from the forest, though he is clumsy about it and sorry for inconveniencing Kat. He is generally a nice sort of guy aside from a few creepy factors he exhibits, and his niceness isn’t part of a mask that hides his true, creepy motives, so much as it is just another part of who he is.
Annie and Kat are the main ladies in his life and two of the most important people to him. While he considered Annie something like his mother and is willing to help her and dote on her, Kat is something of a religious figure to him, as well as the person he trusts to fix him. Both of them are extremely important to him in different ways, and while he feels attatchment to them, he doesn’t actually know what ‘love’ is until Shadow. The relationship between them runs deep because Robot was literally put together again to help Shadow get back to the Gillitie Wood. When they were reunited, they spent most of their time together, with Shadow tagging along with Robot via the shadows of his hoodie. After Shadow gains a solid body and Robot gets cut in half, Robot comes to realize that he actually loves Shadow and begins treating him with a great deal more affection, holding hands and hugging him whenever the other is receptive to it. When Shadow starts going to school, he also follows him there initially, though Shadow is fully aware of his presence.
Abilities/Weaknesses: He is a robot.
He's stronger and faster than a normal human, and he doesn't need to sleep or eat. He apparently doesn’t run out of battery or whatever he uses for power either, essentially being unable to tire as well. He has a natural affinity for technology, repairs and so on, because the robots of the court are said to be entirely self-sufficient, relying only on themselves for repairs and maintenance. He is difficult to actually damage unless significant force is used to dent or otherwise break his casing, and even then, considering that Parley cut him in half, he doesn't even feel the pain from it. He can't be killed unless his CPU is destroyed, and his CPU can be inserted into anything that has a port to store it.
Outside of the realm of robotics, Robot is an expert fencer, having learned from his time implanted in the S1 model, first of his kind. He is also quite a dab hand with unarmed combat, though it’s unknown where he picked it up. He’s perfectly capable of taking down a larger opponent when he needs to, and the fact that he can hit fairly hard probably helps. He’s also exceedingly good at parkour, partially due to being a robot and unable to take damage from large falls or hard rebounds, and can easily execute moves most humans couldn’t even attempt due to a lack of strength, flexibility, and the possibility of a fatal landing. As a robot, he can probably calculate what forces and movements need to be used for the optimum jumps and landings.
Due to the fact that robots of his model apparently act as a sort of secret police, and that Robot has been seen tracking Shadow, Kat and Annie (usually without their knowledge) as well as finding other robots around the Court, it can be assumed that he also knows how to find people, sort of like a robot detective.
RP Samples:
Sample #1: PSL @
sharkboxSample #2:
[This is new.
Robot lifts his hand, or what used to be his hand, up into the sunlight so that it's sihouetted and casts a shadow across his face. He wiggles his fingers. This is not normal, of course, because he didn't have fingers before. If he had to compare his hand to anything before, he would have compared it a mitten.]
Um...
[He turns and stares at the man sitting across the table from him, who has long translucent robes and a tall pointy hat. He said that he was a wizard, and that he specialized in transformation. The man looks very proud of himself. If Robot had a proper face, he'd probably be a little disconcerted. Not having one doesn't keep him from being unsettled, but it's not very obvious.
All he'd asked was why the wizard was wearing translucent robes. It was purely a point of curiosity. Robot has tried hard to learn about this strange place, and asking questions seemed a lot safer that simply running headfirst into everything. Instead, there was a long rambling lecture he could remember perfectly but not really understand. The word 'metaphor' had been used a lot.
Then he'd seen a bright flash, and while it hadn't hurt, everything in his programming told him that something about his body was distinctly off. Not wrong per se, because his chassis is maleable as the Creator wishes it to be, but it suddenly feels like something about him isn't as it was before.
When he looked down his hands had fingers.]
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what this has to do with your robes being translucent. This is interesting though, sir.
[Truth be told, he's not very comfortable with being altered like this, not by anyone who is not Kat. But on the other hand (the one that is not currently full of fingers), it would be very rude to say otherwise out loud. It's best to be subtle so no feelings are hurt.]
Could you please change it back?
