OOC: Application for singularity_rpg (Genderbend AU)
Player Information ;
Your Nickname: Surge
OOC Journal: sugarsurge
Under 18? N!
Email/IM: HPlus Future
Characters Played at Singularity: HAL 9000
Character Information ;
Name: Lavernia Tucker
Name of Canon: Red vs. Blue
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: AU; He is a she
Reference: See "AU" section. Also, this, this, and this.
Canon Point: End of Revelation
Setting:
RvB is more loosely attached to the Halo series than dignity is to the remaining members of the Grif family. Master Chief and Halo continuity get mentioned once at the beginning of Blood Gulch Chronicles, and then forgotten for the rest of the series. For the most part, it’s assumed that it starts after Combat Evolved is over, and carries on from there. The 20th - 21st centuries seems to have left a lasting impact, since multiple references are made throughout the series to movies like Waterworld and The Matrix (Only the first one), which are considered good enough to be Classics in the future. Several characters also make a reference to movie tropes, though these seem to be more prominent with Tucker than anyone else.
The Red vs. Blue "war" is a front for a plethora of simulation bases meant to train agents from Project Freelancer. Soldiers in the bases have failed whatever military tests they were given and deemed unfit for combat. Because of this, they were shunted off to the simulation bases and left there until a Freelancer needed a simulation test. Due to the nature of normal MJOLNIR armor (it has a habit of breaking a normal human being's bones you see), they are most likely wearing knock-off armor that has most of the special abilities removed, as well as being made of an alloy that doesn’t weigh almost 500 pounds.
The Covenant Elite in this series are probably low class or some kind of mentally deficient off-shoot of the race, and I'm only saying that because it makes sense. They seem to have remarkably low intellect and speak a totally different language than the ones in Halo canon, a language that mostly consists of honks and blarghs. It justifies the stupid and why no international incidents are caused when the series suddenly takes a turn for the serious and ends with many of them dead. They are probably outcast drones that are only given simple tasks and are poorly regulated by the Sangheili, most likely retaining a rank more on par with Grunts than even the lowest Sangheili minor.
The Smart AI in this universe are based on the brain and personality of a dead or flash cloned person, instead of being programmed, though they aren't really that person and often don't act like them. Dumb A.I. are A.I. that are programmed to do a specific task, while Smart A.I. are able to do many tasks, but only have a 7 year life span before rampancy or ceasing to function due to “thinking themselves to death”. This information wouldn't matter were it not for the fact that every Freelancer agent gets an A.I. which is later revealed to be a fragment of the Alpha, who is based on the original Leonard Church, Director of Project Freelancer. The fragments act as a "dumb" A.I. and embody only one of the many personality traits of the Alpha. Delta is logic, Gamma is deceit, Omega is rage, etc. Church is the remnants of whatever they couldn't get out of the A.I., while Tex is a memory of Allison, a woman he was in love with.
For the first part the series takes place in a box canyon in the middle of fuck nowhere known as Blood Gulch. It is later moved to a snowy base in the middle of nowhere known as Sidewinder, and O’Malley’s fortress in the middle of nowhere known as Zanzibar. These locations seem to be key to the series, as they are re-used repeatedly. The Meta goes back to Zanzibar to charge his armor, while Sidewinder makes an appearance in Blood Gulch Chronicles and Revelation as the location of Freelancer Command. After being relocated, Tucker is finally rediscovered in a temple in the middle of nowhere, known as Sandtrap. Currently, everyone is presumed to be in Valhalla, which is also in the middle of nowhere.
Personality:
No matter the gender, Tucker usually has the same basic outline. She's obnoxious, obsessed with the idea of boning someone, and too unmotivated to use the gratuitous amount of perceptiveness and common sense she has for anything constructive. She enjoys pointing out flaws and loopholes in someone else’s logic, but has a habit of jumping to conclusions with little evidence to support her claims. Like most of the Red vs. Blue cast, she doesn't put much thought behind her actions, though occasionally she will stop herself and go "Wait...". Though she did have something of a different upbringing when she was a child, allowing her to completely take things into her hands in her later years resulted in the Tucker everyone knows and loves, with a few differences.
As usual, she is obsessed with sex and really isn't picky about who she hits on. For all extents and purposes, she can be considered bisexual, being sexually attracted to men and women. However, she feels more at ease with the thought of sleeping with women and has an overt preference to them. While she does like men in theory, pretending to be one and hanging around with the other Blues and Reds has put her off them. Since Flowers ordered her to pretend to be a guy, Tucker had more of a chance to talk about how she loved the ladies, and less of one to talk about how she loved the men, at risk of shit getting awkward. Even after her ruse is unveiled, she still displays a preference for women, though it's mostly because Sister is easy and all the men she knows are firmly crammed in the "DO NOT WANT" zone or trying to kill her.
Tucker was pretty masculine even before she started pretending to be a man. She's still crude and impolite, but has is an equality of a sort in mind when she uses words like slut, because fuck that, pretending to be a guy didn't make her any less of a manwhore. She tends to treat everyone equally -man, woman, or alien- which is to say she gives them little to no respect because no, you are not a special snowflake. She has little in ways of manners and seemingly no mental filter for what shouldn't be said in polite conversation, though that's not so much a man thing as it is a Tucker thing and probably got worse because she hangs around too many assholes who wouldn't know polite conversation if it shot them in the face.
She seems to be rather averse to fighting battles she knows she can't win; though occasionally self-preservation, petty revenge, or a selfless attitude (or all three), will get the better of her. She's combat capable, though not to the extent of a Freelancer or a SPARTAN, but unmotivated to use it for any practical purpose or to further anyone else’s ideas. This can be changed, typically by receiving order from someone she thinks is actually in control, but also when she feels she has to fight someone purely to help a person she sort of-maybe-actually gives a damn about. While she refused to follow most of Church's poorly planned schemes, she seemed to function pretty well when "Command" ordered her to keep some alien weapon from falling into the wrong hands. When Tex explained her plan to take Junior and use him to corrupt the Aliens, Tucker expressed hostility at her for taking her kid, proving that she can actually develop attachments to people.
Aside from the overt sexuality, occasional unwillingness to do most menial tasks, and being an affront to civil decency in general; Tucker's sarcasm and snarky remarks make her even more difficult to deal with. She is constantly trading banter and sitting in the metaphorical back row, making unwanted comments and interjecting with her opinion even though no one asked for it in the first place. She seems to be incapable of taking things completely seriously, keeping hints of humor and optimism even when she is being beaten or her life is in danger. She likes to make sex jokes and seek out double entendres, even when it means getting threatened with bodily harm. Tucker is totally willing to take a punch to the face if it means she can make a funny, but she might not let it slide so easily now that she has the ability to deal out some serious damage.
While in her armor, Tucker is pretty cagey about her race and sex. Since plenty of people in RvB treat things like this as a big deal (i.e.: Tex's reveal and the "Are you black?"), she is pretty much an expert at deflecting questions. She has the tendency to get annoyed by anyone who brings it up consistently, though once their surprise wears off and they start acting normally, Tucker forgets about it easily. Aside from this, she seems to have picked up a bit of paranoia, a side-effect from the effort of keeping up her ruse for several years as well as living a day-to-day life of being shot at be assholes and people who want to kill her.
Abilities and Weaknesses:
Tucker has whatever abilities her shitty knock-off armor gives her. When she has it on, she is capable of jumping higher than usual and taking heavy hits without dying, such as when she took a rocket launcher to the chest. Along with this, she possesses above average aim, able to stick plasma grenades to moving enemies as well as being able to fire a rifle without shooting herself in the foot, a la Oregon Trail. Aside from her guns and grenades, Tucker also possess The Great Weapon, a plasma sword with the ability to stab/slice/cut the hell out of various objects no matter their size (but within reason). Due to some sort of bizarre imprinting process, it can only work for her and Junior, because her little abomination has some of her genetics in him.
Inventory:
Cyan/Aqua Mark VI MJOLNIR armor (modified for non-Spartans)
BR-55 Battle Rifle
The Great Weapon (Covenant H2 plasma sword)
Plasma Grenades (x3)
Appearance:
Almost everyone in MJOLNIR armor looks similar, discounting things like size discrepancies (height/weight), so Tucker looks like an average-sized person in cyan armor. Because of the way armor is structured, it is difficult to tell the sex of whoever is inside.
Since there is no real description from the series as well as this being an AU, outside of the armor, girl!Tucker is African-American. This is a stunning revelation to everyone she meets. She is around 5"7 and her weight is a mystery even to her because she hasn't seen a scale since she got to Blood Gulch. Her eyes are dark brown and her hair is a medium shade of brown as well as ridiculously curly and voluminous. It's a miracle she even fits it into her helmet. Her musculature is similar to someone really fit, as she does a lot of work that requires her body to be in good shape. It's hinted that she works out, as she managed to get rid of all her baby weight from when she had Junior.
Her Played By is Tracie Thomas.
Age: What a rude question! Mid to late 20's (25 - 28), though.
OC/AU Justification ;
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across? Like this.
If OC, Did You Run Your Character Through a Mary-Sue Litmus Test? N/A
And What Did You Score? N/A
Samples ;
Log Sample:
She's looking at the teleporter hard enough with the hopes that maybe it will turn into a tank, or a jeep, or any mode of transportation that didn't have the habit of fucking her over every time she used it. Everyone says it's the main mode of transportation and the fastest, but fuck them. She wouldn't use it if everyone came out of the other end with a mug of beer and a hot chick waiting for them at the stop. They haven't had to deal with soot all over their armor, not to mention the slightly painful sensation.
She's been staring at it for fifteen minutes and it's still not turning into a sweet fucking car or something.
"Fuck it, I'll walk."
She flips it the bird as she walks away.
Network Sample:
Wow, a fucking automated message tour. Really rolled out the fucking welcome wagon for that one, huh? Hey, you know what would be an even better idea? Moving all the crap that gets dumped into Zone double zero, so that when people get pulled into Buttfuck, Space Station U.S.A, they don't end up rolling through a pile of sharp metal fucking ship parts for fifteen goddamn minutes.
And that chemical shower? Yeah. Fuck that.
Your Nickname: Surge
OOC Journal: sugarsurge
Under 18? N!
Email/IM: HPlus Future
Characters Played at Singularity: HAL 9000
Character Information ;
Name: Lavernia Tucker
Name of Canon: Red vs. Blue
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: AU; He is a she
Reference: See "AU" section. Also, this, this, and this.
Canon Point: End of Revelation
Setting:
RvB is more loosely attached to the Halo series than dignity is to the remaining members of the Grif family. Master Chief and Halo continuity get mentioned once at the beginning of Blood Gulch Chronicles, and then forgotten for the rest of the series. For the most part, it’s assumed that it starts after Combat Evolved is over, and carries on from there. The 20th - 21st centuries seems to have left a lasting impact, since multiple references are made throughout the series to movies like Waterworld and The Matrix (Only the first one), which are considered good enough to be Classics in the future. Several characters also make a reference to movie tropes, though these seem to be more prominent with Tucker than anyone else.
The Red vs. Blue "war" is a front for a plethora of simulation bases meant to train agents from Project Freelancer. Soldiers in the bases have failed whatever military tests they were given and deemed unfit for combat. Because of this, they were shunted off to the simulation bases and left there until a Freelancer needed a simulation test. Due to the nature of normal MJOLNIR armor (it has a habit of breaking a normal human being's bones you see), they are most likely wearing knock-off armor that has most of the special abilities removed, as well as being made of an alloy that doesn’t weigh almost 500 pounds.
The Covenant Elite in this series are probably low class or some kind of mentally deficient off-shoot of the race, and I'm only saying that because it makes sense. They seem to have remarkably low intellect and speak a totally different language than the ones in Halo canon, a language that mostly consists of honks and blarghs. It justifies the stupid and why no international incidents are caused when the series suddenly takes a turn for the serious and ends with many of them dead. They are probably outcast drones that are only given simple tasks and are poorly regulated by the Sangheili, most likely retaining a rank more on par with Grunts than even the lowest Sangheili minor.
The Smart AI in this universe are based on the brain and personality of a dead or flash cloned person, instead of being programmed, though they aren't really that person and often don't act like them. Dumb A.I. are A.I. that are programmed to do a specific task, while Smart A.I. are able to do many tasks, but only have a 7 year life span before rampancy or ceasing to function due to “thinking themselves to death”. This information wouldn't matter were it not for the fact that every Freelancer agent gets an A.I. which is later revealed to be a fragment of the Alpha, who is based on the original Leonard Church, Director of Project Freelancer. The fragments act as a "dumb" A.I. and embody only one of the many personality traits of the Alpha. Delta is logic, Gamma is deceit, Omega is rage, etc. Church is the remnants of whatever they couldn't get out of the A.I., while Tex is a memory of Allison, a woman he was in love with.
For the first part the series takes place in a box canyon in the middle of fuck nowhere known as Blood Gulch. It is later moved to a snowy base in the middle of nowhere known as Sidewinder, and O’Malley’s fortress in the middle of nowhere known as Zanzibar. These locations seem to be key to the series, as they are re-used repeatedly. The Meta goes back to Zanzibar to charge his armor, while Sidewinder makes an appearance in Blood Gulch Chronicles and Revelation as the location of Freelancer Command. After being relocated, Tucker is finally rediscovered in a temple in the middle of nowhere, known as Sandtrap. Currently, everyone is presumed to be in Valhalla, which is also in the middle of nowhere.
Personality:
No matter the gender, Tucker usually has the same basic outline. She's obnoxious, obsessed with the idea of boning someone, and too unmotivated to use the gratuitous amount of perceptiveness and common sense she has for anything constructive. She enjoys pointing out flaws and loopholes in someone else’s logic, but has a habit of jumping to conclusions with little evidence to support her claims. Like most of the Red vs. Blue cast, she doesn't put much thought behind her actions, though occasionally she will stop herself and go "Wait...". Though she did have something of a different upbringing when she was a child, allowing her to completely take things into her hands in her later years resulted in the Tucker everyone knows and loves, with a few differences.
As usual, she is obsessed with sex and really isn't picky about who she hits on. For all extents and purposes, she can be considered bisexual, being sexually attracted to men and women. However, she feels more at ease with the thought of sleeping with women and has an overt preference to them. While she does like men in theory, pretending to be one and hanging around with the other Blues and Reds has put her off them. Since Flowers ordered her to pretend to be a guy, Tucker had more of a chance to talk about how she loved the ladies, and less of one to talk about how she loved the men, at risk of shit getting awkward. Even after her ruse is unveiled, she still displays a preference for women, though it's mostly because Sister is easy and all the men she knows are firmly crammed in the "DO NOT WANT" zone or trying to kill her.
Tucker was pretty masculine even before she started pretending to be a man. She's still crude and impolite, but has is an equality of a sort in mind when she uses words like slut, because fuck that, pretending to be a guy didn't make her any less of a manwhore. She tends to treat everyone equally -man, woman, or alien- which is to say she gives them little to no respect because no, you are not a special snowflake. She has little in ways of manners and seemingly no mental filter for what shouldn't be said in polite conversation, though that's not so much a man thing as it is a Tucker thing and probably got worse because she hangs around too many assholes who wouldn't know polite conversation if it shot them in the face.
She seems to be rather averse to fighting battles she knows she can't win; though occasionally self-preservation, petty revenge, or a selfless attitude (or all three), will get the better of her. She's combat capable, though not to the extent of a Freelancer or a SPARTAN, but unmotivated to use it for any practical purpose or to further anyone else’s ideas. This can be changed, typically by receiving order from someone she thinks is actually in control, but also when she feels she has to fight someone purely to help a person she sort of-maybe-actually gives a damn about. While she refused to follow most of Church's poorly planned schemes, she seemed to function pretty well when "Command" ordered her to keep some alien weapon from falling into the wrong hands. When Tex explained her plan to take Junior and use him to corrupt the Aliens, Tucker expressed hostility at her for taking her kid, proving that she can actually develop attachments to people.
Aside from the overt sexuality, occasional unwillingness to do most menial tasks, and being an affront to civil decency in general; Tucker's sarcasm and snarky remarks make her even more difficult to deal with. She is constantly trading banter and sitting in the metaphorical back row, making unwanted comments and interjecting with her opinion even though no one asked for it in the first place. She seems to be incapable of taking things completely seriously, keeping hints of humor and optimism even when she is being beaten or her life is in danger. She likes to make sex jokes and seek out double entendres, even when it means getting threatened with bodily harm. Tucker is totally willing to take a punch to the face if it means she can make a funny, but she might not let it slide so easily now that she has the ability to deal out some serious damage.
While in her armor, Tucker is pretty cagey about her race and sex. Since plenty of people in RvB treat things like this as a big deal (i.e.: Tex's reveal and the "Are you black?"), she is pretty much an expert at deflecting questions. She has the tendency to get annoyed by anyone who brings it up consistently, though once their surprise wears off and they start acting normally, Tucker forgets about it easily. Aside from this, she seems to have picked up a bit of paranoia, a side-effect from the effort of keeping up her ruse for several years as well as living a day-to-day life of being shot at be assholes and people who want to kill her.
Abilities and Weaknesses:
Tucker has whatever abilities her shitty knock-off armor gives her. When she has it on, she is capable of jumping higher than usual and taking heavy hits without dying, such as when she took a rocket launcher to the chest. Along with this, she possesses above average aim, able to stick plasma grenades to moving enemies as well as being able to fire a rifle without shooting herself in the foot, a la Oregon Trail. Aside from her guns and grenades, Tucker also possess The Great Weapon, a plasma sword with the ability to stab/slice/cut the hell out of various objects no matter their size (but within reason). Due to some sort of bizarre imprinting process, it can only work for her and Junior, because her little abomination has some of her genetics in him.
Inventory:
Cyan/Aqua Mark VI MJOLNIR armor (modified for non-Spartans)
BR-55 Battle Rifle
The Great Weapon (Covenant H2 plasma sword)
Plasma Grenades (x3)
Appearance:
Almost everyone in MJOLNIR armor looks similar, discounting things like size discrepancies (height/weight), so Tucker looks like an average-sized person in cyan armor. Because of the way armor is structured, it is difficult to tell the sex of whoever is inside.
Since there is no real description from the series as well as this being an AU, outside of the armor, girl!Tucker is African-American. This is a stunning revelation to everyone she meets. She is around 5"7 and her weight is a mystery even to her because she hasn't seen a scale since she got to Blood Gulch. Her eyes are dark brown and her hair is a medium shade of brown as well as ridiculously curly and voluminous. It's a miracle she even fits it into her helmet. Her musculature is similar to someone really fit, as she does a lot of work that requires her body to be in good shape. It's hinted that she works out, as she managed to get rid of all her baby weight from when she had Junior.
Her Played By is Tracie Thomas.
Age: What a rude question! Mid to late 20's (25 - 28), though.
OC/AU Justification ;
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across? Like this.
If OC, Did You Run Your Character Through a Mary-Sue Litmus Test? N/A
And What Did You Score? N/A
Samples ;
Log Sample:
She's looking at the teleporter hard enough with the hopes that maybe it will turn into a tank, or a jeep, or any mode of transportation that didn't have the habit of fucking her over every time she used it. Everyone says it's the main mode of transportation and the fastest, but fuck them. She wouldn't use it if everyone came out of the other end with a mug of beer and a hot chick waiting for them at the stop. They haven't had to deal with soot all over their armor, not to mention the slightly painful sensation.
She's been staring at it for fifteen minutes and it's still not turning into a sweet fucking car or something.
"Fuck it, I'll walk."
She flips it the bird as she walks away.
Network Sample:
Wow, a fucking automated message tour. Really rolled out the fucking welcome wagon for that one, huh? Hey, you know what would be an even better idea? Moving all the crap that gets dumped into Zone double zero, so that when people get pulled into Buttfuck, Space Station U.S.A, they don't end up rolling through a pile of sharp metal fucking ship parts for fifteen goddamn minutes.
And that chemical shower? Yeah. Fuck that.