Character Information
Character's Name: Dr. Daedalus Yumeno, C.M.D.
Character's Age: 21
Canon Source: Ergo Proxy
Canon Format: Anime
Character History:
Wiki-link for basic canon-world premise.
Daedalus Yumeno's life began where all human life in Romdeau is created- within the WombSys, a contained system for artificial biological reproduction. In his own words, "It is from this place that the foundations of what makes a good fellow citizen are prepared. Every step controlled, every detail scrutinized, all balance maintained. Population management and social stability are essential for maintaining an ordered daily life. Operation intervention in early development- only by this can the human race continue." In other words, over the course of his young development, every biological predisposition was already in place and meticulously monitored in preparation for his future role as a functional citizen of the dome.
That role is Director of the Division of Health and Welfare, and upon assignment, he was also appointed head of the Proxy Research Team, charged with keeping and containing the mysterious specimen called Monad Proxy, a godlike life form plundered from the conquered Mosque Dome. Through this study, he came to realize many classified secrets and most of the unspoken truths about Romdeau's existence. He accepted these truths, having few reasonable alternatives other than conforming to this understanding of his purpose...and took liberty to disconnect his two Auto-Reiv entourages, Deleuze and Guattari, from the central surveillance system.
Monitoring the dormant Proxy proved less personally fulfilling than his other assignment, a girl named Re-l Mayer, who was assigned to the privileged status of the regent's granddaughter. As her personal physician, he watched her grow into a young woman. He devoted careful attention and a confidential ear whenever she needed him, such that Re-l's entourage Iggy nicknamed him her "Prince". When she became sullenly rebellious and admirably curious, he often caught himself wondering at what her ultimate purpose would be.
One day Monad Proxy woke, and broke free of it's restraints in a tremendous display of power. Its resultant rampage set Daedalus slightly at odds with newly appointed Security Bureau Chief, Raul Creed. Re-l also had a run in with a Proxy at her apartment, and was sent to Daedalus for a psychiatric evaluation. He intended to keep her from perusing the case of this 'monster', and although he didn't want to reveal classified information, when she later found Monad's destroyed body his silence admitted that he knew more than he was letting on. He asked that she keep the creature's existence quiet.
Re-l leaves the domed city illegally in pursuit of escaped immigrant Vincent Law, and quickly contracts sickness from the atmospheric contamination outside. Upon her return, Daedalus makes her recovery a top priority, receives her and gives her an infusion of Amrita cells, immortal cells sampled from the remnants of Monad Proxy, which he has secretly recovered. Although this heals her quickly, he regrets having nearly lost her. He praises her curiosity once more, warns her that the truth is not always comfortable, but gives her further information on proxies and returns her entourage, having disconnected Iggy from central surveillance as well.
When infected autoreivs arrive at his office and attack them, targeting Re-l, Daedalus assumes that the Security Bureau has been recklessly weaponizing the Cogito Virus in attempts to track down Vincent. He fakes Re-l's death report and sends her out to track down Vincent and Romdeau's own missing proxy with special FP-ray bullets, harmless to humans but capable of injuring a proxy because Amrita cells were bio engineered to die under natural sunlight. He is not aware that Vincent is in fact a human manifestation of Ergo, Romdeau's proxy.
For losing both the Proxy and Re-l, the administrative bureau strips Daedalus of his position and places restrictions on him. He secretly causes several small power outages within the life support system, slowly harnessing enough power to revive the recovered Monad Proxy specimen. The duration of the last outage, 02:17:23 seconds, matches his citizen registration number, and the Security Chief takes this baited message as a cry for help. Raul visits him under pretense of a medical exam, so that the two have a chance to speak beyond the Regent's eye. Raul tells him that it was the Regent himself who ordered the assassination on Re-l Mayer. This news stuns Daedalus, and he agrees to resume work with the confiscated proxy under Raul's jurisdiction.
While allowing Chief Raul to assume control, Daedalus produces more FP-bullets, and Raul additionally places him in charge of Project Aus der Wickle (ADW), to re-map human genetics and break their dependency on the Wombsys and Amrita cells. But Daedalus already knows this sentimental endeavor is doomed to failure, and so he devotes the majority of his time and devotion tending to his "new" Re-l, cloned from Monad's cells. He raises raising her rapidly to full growth over the course of a few weeks as the rest of Romdeau declines into chaos, growing increasingly guarded and possessive over her, self-indulgent with his new beloved raison d'etre. His obsession with this replacement becomes narcissistic, as he believes that he is creating a new god, but he grows increasingly exasperated with her wandering around outside of the lab.
By the time the real Re-l Mayer returns to Romdeau, Project ADW is failing, the Cogito Virus has spread among Auto-Reivs, and Daedalus believes she has abandoned the dome as a traitor. He meets her in an elevator, realizes that her raison d'etre will always be the Proxy and Vincent Law above himself, and so he tells her that her grandfather ordered her assassination then leaves her to meet with him.
He is heartbroken that his new Re-l clone has also abandoned him in favor of seeking out Vincent Law, and orders her back to the laboratory. This is the first and only time we ever see a true, brief emotional outburst from Daedalus. Resigned and fatalistic, he returns to the labs where he plays coy with Raul in his office, who demands his supply of FP shells. Daedalus has already discarded them. Frustrated, Raul tries to shoot him, but Monad Re-l fires first, and when they wash blood from her hands, she tells Daedalus that she did it to protect Vincent. This is the final personal blow.
Embracing a self-destructive impulse, and understanding the inevitable futility of their existence, Daedalus follows his final administrative order to bring down the entire dome, and shuts off the reserve power. When Re-l show up to confront him, he tells her that Romdeau's humanity has been forsaken, that the Proxy's true purpose was to eventually destroy themselves and their creations if the Creators returned, and that their lives are now pointless, their roles finished. "The best broken cogs can do is be quiet."
He spots Re-l's clone flying overhead, now fully realized as the new Monad Proxy, and is filled with a brief, momentary joy at seeing his own creation, at having created a god. But when she doesn't fly down to him, he is crushed...literally, because debris from the collapsing the ceiling comes down on him. He is able to have a brief reconciliation with Re-l, calling her his "favorite", before urging her on her way.
...about those wings, and how proxies die in sunlight. Daedalus has a fitting-to-name last glimpse of his Monad creation rising into blue skies before she disappears, and he dies.
Point in Canon: Post-Death in Episode 23
The last two paragraphs of his history have just happened. At this point, Daedalus has fully realized the futility of Romdeau's humanity, has made his amends with Re-l, and has just watched his winged Monad clone die. I'll be bringing him fully revived post-death in Siren's Port.
Character Personality:
"You're too emotional to be reasonable."
On first impression, Daedalus Yumeno seems to fit the ideal of a true Romdeau citizen. He knows his place in the dome's scientific and medical community, and remains self-controlled and collected. He is a very even-tempered physician, reserved, placating, professional, polite. Wholly pleasant and phlegmatic in demeanor, if not a bit overly detached. He understands that cogs in such an intricate machine, in an enclosed paradise, need to keep stable and well-oiled, and so he presents himself as unobtrusively as possible, quietly observant and on task. He rarely ever loses his cool head, and looks disdainfully upon reckless, over-emotional, over-idealistic action.
"I like answers, that's why I'm here"
Daedalus is also a research scientist, and when things are stable and going well, he's very content in the intellectual rigors of his work. He is a curious man, and enjoys purposefully planting trails for others to come to their own conclusions. He takes a special private satisfaction in Re-l's cleverness, her investigative impulse.
He understands the deeper workings of life that the average citizen might take for granted, and silently marvels at concept of grander design. His work has given him finer appreciation for delicate balancing acts, for being cog in the greater machine, having a destined purpose charted since cellular development. For this, he has resigned to his raison d'etre, his purposes, and forgoes any other personal ambitions until he loses that which he considers his life's work. And in understanding the delicate elegance of the Romdeau system, he comes to know the sickness of the entire machine, and its fated expendability. Truth can be a terrible thing to become conscious of, and so is realizing the ultimate futility of your contributions.
"Don't show your hand until it's time for all cards on the table"
With his respect for knowledge comes the prudence of knowing when to keep information to himself. He'll be sure to maintain at least the appearance of passive compliance to the appropriate authorities, because he knows that power is not about who can be the most bombastic or domineering, and that understanding and concealing of powerful truths can be a more effective than acting on impulse.
Daedalus has proven himself an effective subversive, capable of plotting behind the back of the Regent and the Romdeau administration. He has kept his personal entourage auto-reivs disconnected from the surveillance system for some time. He managed to locate and revive the Monad Proxy without anyone noticing. He is careful to never tell an outright lie, and keeps a low profile. And yet when Raul challenges the Representative Council regarding human autonomy...their first suspicion is that Daedalus Yumeno had some hand in planting ideas in his head, which implies he has tested those limits before.
When caught off-guard by new information, however, he is at his most vulnerable. When called out on his scheming, he has little option but to submit on the spot. He generally doesn't do well with people encroaching on his physical proximity, either.
"When I look into her eyes, I want to see my reflection."
At his worst, Daedalus can be called proudly introverted, smug and blithely self-satisfied in his own intelligence. Raul accuses him of self-indulgence, and even calls his subversive efforts brash. He is outwardly humble, but he has autoreivs nicknaming him 'Prince', and he also instructs his cloned Re-l to "never show that smile to another man." In devoting his whole life to the well being Re-l and the proxy, he has developed an unrequited Pygmalion complex. In successfully cloning Monad, he also takes fanatical delight in having creating a god, which turns to despair when she abandons him. So when she finds herself drawn to Vincent Law, and he realizes his fixation will never be returned in the way he wants to be recognized, he turns self-destructive and fatalistic.
In Siren's Port, a world of multiple new opportunities, things to occupy his curiosity, he should be able to move on, find a new purpose, and re-stabilize from his madness. However, because of Romdeau citizen's socialized xenophobia, he'll have a time of being the outsider.
Character Plans:
His first impressions of Siren's Port should be a mix between curiosity and careful disdain, 1) That their technology is laughably behind the times 2) That life is overwhelmingly chaotic and non-regimented 3) The lack of Auto-Reivs means people actually do most things for themselves...which is interesting, if not slightly daunting. 4) The notion of a self-contained city is really nothing so new.
Once he finds out that this world is behind his timeline, that these are ancestors of the creators, he'll be eager to see how he might influence this world into a better position.
Daedalus should gravitate toward working with SERO, getting on the hospital staff. His emerging powers should give him a role in SERO's experimental treatments. His general interactions should lean on exchanging intellectual pleasantries, until he finds himself with a scientific puzzle to work on. He has an excellent background in genetics to get wrapped up in testing out other people's natural-born powers.
What form will your character's NV take?
A personal touchscreen notebook with digital projections and the appropriate input devices. It's a sweet, sweet piece of tech for this age.
Canon examples Here and Here
Character's Canon Abilities:
No superhuman enhancements, although he was genetically planned and sociologically engineered to become one of Romdeau's chief medical personnel. He was promoted into this role at a relatively young age.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them?
Because of Daedalus' experience with biology, working closely with Amrita cells, his dormant ability will be speeding and slowing the speed of natural cell growth by sheer force of will. He'll probably begin to discover this ability while observing cell growth under microscopes, and gradually gain refined control. This will be used to manipulate other life forms as well as himself, allowing him to give people extensive regrowth/regenerative treatments, speed or slow aging process.
Character's Age: 21
Canon Source: Ergo Proxy
Canon Format: Anime
Character History:
Wiki-link for basic canon-world premise.
Daedalus Yumeno's life began where all human life in Romdeau is created- within the WombSys, a contained system for artificial biological reproduction. In his own words, "It is from this place that the foundations of what makes a good fellow citizen are prepared. Every step controlled, every detail scrutinized, all balance maintained. Population management and social stability are essential for maintaining an ordered daily life. Operation intervention in early development- only by this can the human race continue." In other words, over the course of his young development, every biological predisposition was already in place and meticulously monitored in preparation for his future role as a functional citizen of the dome.
That role is Director of the Division of Health and Welfare, and upon assignment, he was also appointed head of the Proxy Research Team, charged with keeping and containing the mysterious specimen called Monad Proxy, a godlike life form plundered from the conquered Mosque Dome. Through this study, he came to realize many classified secrets and most of the unspoken truths about Romdeau's existence. He accepted these truths, having few reasonable alternatives other than conforming to this understanding of his purpose...and took liberty to disconnect his two Auto-Reiv entourages, Deleuze and Guattari, from the central surveillance system.
Monitoring the dormant Proxy proved less personally fulfilling than his other assignment, a girl named Re-l Mayer, who was assigned to the privileged status of the regent's granddaughter. As her personal physician, he watched her grow into a young woman. He devoted careful attention and a confidential ear whenever she needed him, such that Re-l's entourage Iggy nicknamed him her "Prince". When she became sullenly rebellious and admirably curious, he often caught himself wondering at what her ultimate purpose would be.
One day Monad Proxy woke, and broke free of it's restraints in a tremendous display of power. Its resultant rampage set Daedalus slightly at odds with newly appointed Security Bureau Chief, Raul Creed. Re-l also had a run in with a Proxy at her apartment, and was sent to Daedalus for a psychiatric evaluation. He intended to keep her from perusing the case of this 'monster', and although he didn't want to reveal classified information, when she later found Monad's destroyed body his silence admitted that he knew more than he was letting on. He asked that she keep the creature's existence quiet.
Re-l leaves the domed city illegally in pursuit of escaped immigrant Vincent Law, and quickly contracts sickness from the atmospheric contamination outside. Upon her return, Daedalus makes her recovery a top priority, receives her and gives her an infusion of Amrita cells, immortal cells sampled from the remnants of Monad Proxy, which he has secretly recovered. Although this heals her quickly, he regrets having nearly lost her. He praises her curiosity once more, warns her that the truth is not always comfortable, but gives her further information on proxies and returns her entourage, having disconnected Iggy from central surveillance as well.
When infected autoreivs arrive at his office and attack them, targeting Re-l, Daedalus assumes that the Security Bureau has been recklessly weaponizing the Cogito Virus in attempts to track down Vincent. He fakes Re-l's death report and sends her out to track down Vincent and Romdeau's own missing proxy with special FP-ray bullets, harmless to humans but capable of injuring a proxy because Amrita cells were bio engineered to die under natural sunlight. He is not aware that Vincent is in fact a human manifestation of Ergo, Romdeau's proxy.
For losing both the Proxy and Re-l, the administrative bureau strips Daedalus of his position and places restrictions on him. He secretly causes several small power outages within the life support system, slowly harnessing enough power to revive the recovered Monad Proxy specimen. The duration of the last outage, 02:17:23 seconds, matches his citizen registration number, and the Security Chief takes this baited message as a cry for help. Raul visits him under pretense of a medical exam, so that the two have a chance to speak beyond the Regent's eye. Raul tells him that it was the Regent himself who ordered the assassination on Re-l Mayer. This news stuns Daedalus, and he agrees to resume work with the confiscated proxy under Raul's jurisdiction.
While allowing Chief Raul to assume control, Daedalus produces more FP-bullets, and Raul additionally places him in charge of Project Aus der Wickle (ADW), to re-map human genetics and break their dependency on the Wombsys and Amrita cells. But Daedalus already knows this sentimental endeavor is doomed to failure, and so he devotes the majority of his time and devotion tending to his "new" Re-l, cloned from Monad's cells. He raises raising her rapidly to full growth over the course of a few weeks as the rest of Romdeau declines into chaos, growing increasingly guarded and possessive over her, self-indulgent with his new beloved raison d'etre. His obsession with this replacement becomes narcissistic, as he believes that he is creating a new god, but he grows increasingly exasperated with her wandering around outside of the lab.
By the time the real Re-l Mayer returns to Romdeau, Project ADW is failing, the Cogito Virus has spread among Auto-Reivs, and Daedalus believes she has abandoned the dome as a traitor. He meets her in an elevator, realizes that her raison d'etre will always be the Proxy and Vincent Law above himself, and so he tells her that her grandfather ordered her assassination then leaves her to meet with him.
He is heartbroken that his new Re-l clone has also abandoned him in favor of seeking out Vincent Law, and orders her back to the laboratory. This is the first and only time we ever see a true, brief emotional outburst from Daedalus. Resigned and fatalistic, he returns to the labs where he plays coy with Raul in his office, who demands his supply of FP shells. Daedalus has already discarded them. Frustrated, Raul tries to shoot him, but Monad Re-l fires first, and when they wash blood from her hands, she tells Daedalus that she did it to protect Vincent. This is the final personal blow.
Embracing a self-destructive impulse, and understanding the inevitable futility of their existence, Daedalus follows his final administrative order to bring down the entire dome, and shuts off the reserve power. When Re-l show up to confront him, he tells her that Romdeau's humanity has been forsaken, that the Proxy's true purpose was to eventually destroy themselves and their creations if the Creators returned, and that their lives are now pointless, their roles finished. "The best broken cogs can do is be quiet."
He spots Re-l's clone flying overhead, now fully realized as the new Monad Proxy, and is filled with a brief, momentary joy at seeing his own creation, at having created a god. But when she doesn't fly down to him, he is crushed...literally, because debris from the collapsing the ceiling comes down on him. He is able to have a brief reconciliation with Re-l, calling her his "favorite", before urging her on her way.
...about those wings, and how proxies die in sunlight. Daedalus has a fitting-to-name last glimpse of his Monad creation rising into blue skies before she disappears, and he dies.
Point in Canon: Post-Death in Episode 23
The last two paragraphs of his history have just happened. At this point, Daedalus has fully realized the futility of Romdeau's humanity, has made his amends with Re-l, and has just watched his winged Monad clone die. I'll be bringing him fully revived post-death in Siren's Port.
Character Personality:
"You're too emotional to be reasonable."
On first impression, Daedalus Yumeno seems to fit the ideal of a true Romdeau citizen. He knows his place in the dome's scientific and medical community, and remains self-controlled and collected. He is a very even-tempered physician, reserved, placating, professional, polite. Wholly pleasant and phlegmatic in demeanor, if not a bit overly detached. He understands that cogs in such an intricate machine, in an enclosed paradise, need to keep stable and well-oiled, and so he presents himself as unobtrusively as possible, quietly observant and on task. He rarely ever loses his cool head, and looks disdainfully upon reckless, over-emotional, over-idealistic action.
"I like answers, that's why I'm here"
Daedalus is also a research scientist, and when things are stable and going well, he's very content in the intellectual rigors of his work. He is a curious man, and enjoys purposefully planting trails for others to come to their own conclusions. He takes a special private satisfaction in Re-l's cleverness, her investigative impulse.
He understands the deeper workings of life that the average citizen might take for granted, and silently marvels at concept of grander design. His work has given him finer appreciation for delicate balancing acts, for being cog in the greater machine, having a destined purpose charted since cellular development. For this, he has resigned to his raison d'etre, his purposes, and forgoes any other personal ambitions until he loses that which he considers his life's work. And in understanding the delicate elegance of the Romdeau system, he comes to know the sickness of the entire machine, and its fated expendability. Truth can be a terrible thing to become conscious of, and so is realizing the ultimate futility of your contributions.
"Don't show your hand until it's time for all cards on the table"
With his respect for knowledge comes the prudence of knowing when to keep information to himself. He'll be sure to maintain at least the appearance of passive compliance to the appropriate authorities, because he knows that power is not about who can be the most bombastic or domineering, and that understanding and concealing of powerful truths can be a more effective than acting on impulse.
Daedalus has proven himself an effective subversive, capable of plotting behind the back of the Regent and the Romdeau administration. He has kept his personal entourage auto-reivs disconnected from the surveillance system for some time. He managed to locate and revive the Monad Proxy without anyone noticing. He is careful to never tell an outright lie, and keeps a low profile. And yet when Raul challenges the Representative Council regarding human autonomy...their first suspicion is that Daedalus Yumeno had some hand in planting ideas in his head, which implies he has tested those limits before.
When caught off-guard by new information, however, he is at his most vulnerable. When called out on his scheming, he has little option but to submit on the spot. He generally doesn't do well with people encroaching on his physical proximity, either.
"When I look into her eyes, I want to see my reflection."
At his worst, Daedalus can be called proudly introverted, smug and blithely self-satisfied in his own intelligence. Raul accuses him of self-indulgence, and even calls his subversive efforts brash. He is outwardly humble, but he has autoreivs nicknaming him 'Prince', and he also instructs his cloned Re-l to "never show that smile to another man." In devoting his whole life to the well being Re-l and the proxy, he has developed an unrequited Pygmalion complex. In successfully cloning Monad, he also takes fanatical delight in having creating a god, which turns to despair when she abandons him. So when she finds herself drawn to Vincent Law, and he realizes his fixation will never be returned in the way he wants to be recognized, he turns self-destructive and fatalistic.
In Siren's Port, a world of multiple new opportunities, things to occupy his curiosity, he should be able to move on, find a new purpose, and re-stabilize from his madness. However, because of Romdeau citizen's socialized xenophobia, he'll have a time of being the outsider.
Character Plans:
His first impressions of Siren's Port should be a mix between curiosity and careful disdain, 1) That their technology is laughably behind the times 2) That life is overwhelmingly chaotic and non-regimented 3) The lack of Auto-Reivs means people actually do most things for themselves...which is interesting, if not slightly daunting. 4) The notion of a self-contained city is really nothing so new.
Once he finds out that this world is behind his timeline, that these are ancestors of the creators, he'll be eager to see how he might influence this world into a better position.
Daedalus should gravitate toward working with SERO, getting on the hospital staff. His emerging powers should give him a role in SERO's experimental treatments. His general interactions should lean on exchanging intellectual pleasantries, until he finds himself with a scientific puzzle to work on. He has an excellent background in genetics to get wrapped up in testing out other people's natural-born powers.
What form will your character's NV take?
A personal touchscreen notebook with digital projections and the appropriate input devices. It's a sweet, sweet piece of tech for this age.
Canon examples Here and Here
Character's Canon Abilities:
No superhuman enhancements, although he was genetically planned and sociologically engineered to become one of Romdeau's chief medical personnel. He was promoted into this role at a relatively young age.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them?
Because of Daedalus' experience with biology, working closely with Amrita cells, his dormant ability will be speeding and slowing the speed of natural cell growth by sheer force of will. He'll probably begin to discover this ability while observing cell growth under microscopes, and gradually gain refined control. This will be used to manipulate other life forms as well as himself, allowing him to give people extensive regrowth/regenerative treatments, speed or slow aging process.