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Serial Designation V
Character Source: Murder Drones
Profession: Vampiric Assassin
Species: Disassembly Drone
Affinities: Specialized (Ongoing)
Influence:
- None as of yet
Character Behavior
V is an oddball, but best summed up under a blanket of being a sociopathic opportunist.She feels virtually no remorse or regret for any of her actions, the vast majority of the time. While saying she has no conscience at all might be a bit of a stretch, she will wholeheartedly engage in, and in fact gleefully enjoy, any number of actions to manipulate, exploit and harm others. She has limited ability to empathize with or even recognize the emotions of others, save for those she knows well or has managed to grow close to. She is easily angered or agitated, though this often manifests in a staggering degree of aloof coolness and callousness rather than conventional displays of anger.
When it comes to battle, however…she is something else entirely. Her cruel streak goes on full display, as she will do literally anything and everything to torment and wear down her targets, while she fully revels and delights in the mayhem. She will tease, taunt, torment and badger targets and opponents, seeking to unnerve or goad them into doing something foolish or making a mistake. She will make seemingly inopportune attacks, or do something blatantly out of left field and wasteful as if in a vain showoff of her firepower and abilities to distract targets from the ‘real’ threat. She will go after noncombatants or bystanders, or allies she perceives as weaker to demoralize or force more morally-inclined types to overreach and expose themselves. It’s all about reacting to the moment, and exploiting any opportunity or advantage no matter how small, even if the ‘moment’ is something she forcefully engineered. She has no concept of ‘hitting below the belt’, either, and doesn’t believe in things like ‘fighting fair’ or ‘foul play’ – it’s all about what’s most effective.
Physical Description
V is a Disassembly Drone, colloquially referred to as a “murder drone” by those less inclined to remember the ‘technical aspects’. She stands at approximately 5’, though the odd shape of her legs and resulting posture makes her exact height difficult to determine. She sports a primarily white coloration on most of her body, with an overall sleek, lithe and feminine design and aspect to her figure and overall shape, with an appearance generally construed as ‘conventionally attractive’, by designers.
Her arms widen at the wrists, ending in a ring of alternating yellow and black stripes not unlike caution tape, and her forearms have a seemingly hollow interior sealed off by an iris door, through which her hands and other assorted tools emerge. At approximately the mid-thigh her legs are encircled by another yellow-and-black striped ring and from there down her legs are black in color, giving the vague appearance of stockings as taper to a narrow blunt point where her feet would be, where they again sport the scheme of yellow and black striping.
The lower half of her face appears fairly normal, with a standard human-like mouth which bizarrely sports very human-like teeth and a tongue – though hers is notably a rather unnatural dark, mechanical gray color and unnaturally long – though when she gets ‘violent’ she reveals a set of retractable sharp, fang-like teeth not dissimilar to those of a predatory animal or even a vampire.
She lacks a nose or anything approximating it, and the upper part of her face is completely made up of a display visor, which bears her eyes. These can cycle through and display a wide range of apparent emotions, and include several auxiliary functions such as anime-like sweat drop, pulsing anger veins, blush lines and marks, bags/lines under the apparent ‘eyes’ and so on, to help with emoting. Whenever in her ‘violent’ state, her eyes tend to turn into a >< shape, or something much like a sideways X. While the vast majority of the time her eyes and visor will show things in a bright, clear neon yellow color, in the event of serious errors, glitches or damage the color can change from anything to red, to blue, to purple.
She sports a silver-gray bob cut style of hair, which frames her face down to approximately chin length. There appears to be a headband in her hair, like one would use to hold back their hair, which sports an array of five lights set equidistant from one another, all of them usually the same neon yellow as her eyes. Quite noticeably, she has a long tail emerging from her back, at approximately where the end of the spine would be on a human. It is quite narrow, similar to a length of cable or the like, but surprisingly sturdy and strong, on top of being fully controllable and prehensile. This tail is easily as long in length as V is tall, and perhaps somewhat longer. It ends with a canister containing a faintly glowing neon yellow liquid, and a large spear-like injector-stinger, which seems to constantly gleam unnervingly with a surgically precise sharpness.
Of final note, the only clothing V wears is a black, short-sleeved coat. It is cut in a crop-top style, only reaching to her mid-torso, and sports a furred collar and flared cuffs at the edge of its sleeves, with a yellow armband on her left sleeve.
History
V is one of many Disassembly Drones created before the End, by a now long-since defunct company known as JCJenson. All of its resources were either destroyed, bought and incorporated into other still-enduring companies, or shipped off-world to go re-brand and take business elsewhere during the catastrophe.Ostensibly, they were created to serve as something between salvage robots and (mostly) covert assassins, to handle other mechanized and automated emplacements that were considered aberrant, rogue, or otherwise ‘out of normal parameters’. They were originally given rudimentary AI-based personalities, which could theoretically grow and develop into something indistinguishable from a human’s if they managed to last and survive long enough in their line of work, though over time the middleman of ‘growth’ was cut out and they began being constructed with fully-fledged AIs and personalities, so they could be produced and ‘ready-made’ that much quicker.
The tendency to overdo the violence and enjoy it a bit too much, and cause some…unnecessary collateral damage lead to a more colloquial term of ‘murder drones’, as things that weren’t their target who got in the way tended to also wind up scrapped, owing to a less than stellar overall view of them, but their effectiveness was certainly unquestionable. Some ‘design flaws’ and failsafes intended to keep them under control were eventually worked into the design, but they remained just as effective as ever, for the most part.
Most of them were, predictably, destroyed long ago, with only a scant few remnants still lurking in the wastes and abandoned places beyond Markov’s borders. Just waiting for some poor sod with the right amount of luck and/or un-luck to stumble across one and accidentally reactivate it.
V, herself…is one such lucky late-generation drone enough to have escaped destruction. After succumbing to a spike of the aforementioned ‘design flaws’ while on an assignment, her systems shut down as a protective measure to keep from overheating or self-damaging, and she has lain dormant ever since, buried out there just waiting for the right twist of fate to wake her up again.
General Character Notes/Writing Tips
- Despite what almost all outward evidence to the contrary might indicate, V is not entirely a merciless, heartless and soulless killing machine. As anything with a full personality would be, even if it is just an AI, she does have some capacity for other emotions and feelings.
- V is actually something of a germophobe, or at least easily freaked out and disgusted by the unexpected. To the point of being well into a gleeful murderous state, and completely losing her focus and will to fight when one of her blade-hands was licked by her opponent, leading to her getting completely overwhelmed in her moment of distraction.
- The overheating issue V experiences is incredibly pronounced even when operating at 'normal' conditions, as murder drones just tend to run very, very hot; as long as she keeps strenuous activity to a minimum it won't be a problem, but much like overclocking computer components (even at a stable level), even moderately intensive activity can cause these temperatures to quickly jump up.
- When having been active for some time and actually overheating, however, V's temperature skyrockets to such a degree that when in rain or water it tends to almost instantly flash-boil and evaporate or steam away, she can leave burn imprints or marks with direct contact, and even instantly or melt the skin of a normal human with only brief contact; it's only the self-destructive and dangerous effects of running so hot that make it unusable as an offensive measure.
- V's programming is interesting when it comes to her targets, or who and what she can attack or damage. She's not supposed to attack or harm humans most of the time, unless specifically marked as a target, for extreme self-defense, to protect higher-ups in JCJenson hierarchy, or in the course of eliminating a persistent obstacle to her other assignments and objectives. In the moment, however....with JCJenson having largely becoming defunct and no longer issuing her orders and directives, she has fallen back on the core mission of 'SURVIVE'. Which means anyone and everyone is fair game now, though she may still get frustrating popup reminders in her HUD about not excessively harming humans unless necessary.
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