SHIT LIKE THAT SO I NEVER WENT BACK {application for singularity}
Player Information ;
Your Nickname: Dha
OOC Journal: twenty_til_12
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Characters Played at Singularity: None!
Character Information ;
Name: CT (formerly known as Agent Connecticut, Connie; real name isn't known)
Name of Canon: Red vs. Blue
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: Canon
Reference: Here and here!
Canon Point: Recreation, Episode 19
Setting:
We didn't really think we were alone in the universe, right?
Right. Well, in the 26th century, humans are at war with a collection of enemy races and species known as the Covenant while at the same time at war with themselves. Yep, even while they're fighting aliens, the UNSC (or United Nations Space Command) is also trying to fight other humans known as the Insurrection. Space wars abound, Red vs Blue rarely touches many of these issues, focusing instead on some select elements. While the canon utilizes the vehicles, weaponry, technology, and many elements of the universe, it also branches off into its own offshoot.
When the humans began to lose the Great War, as the Director of Project Freelancer refers to it, many different projects sprung up in the UNSC, all attempting to find a "magic bullet" to win the war (Reconstruction). One of these projects was Project Freelancer, which was largely experimental. The Director recruited the best and the brightest to his program and trained them, occasionally through the use of simulation bases set up in remote locations. These simulation bases are the premise of the first part of Red vs Blue: the Blood Gulch Chronicles. The troops for these bases were taken from the lowest scoring recruits to the UNSC and placed on two enemy teams (Red and Blue), intended to fight each other or keep each other busy while Freelancer pulled strings.
However, despite the heavy emphasis on teamwork, Freelancer, at its core, was an extremely competitive program, with a ranking system that was at times used to punish the agents. However, the primary use of the ranking system was to rate agents to possibly use artificial intelligences in the field and then potentially expand to the UNSC at large. Since he was given only one AI, the Director innovated a way to "copy" or, rather, "fragment" the Alpha AI into the many pieces it is now, all named with greek letters. These fragments, however, never forgot about their Alpha and, according to Washington, are obsessed with finding the Alpha.
During all of this, though, someone was leaking information about Project Freelancer to the Insurrection, hoping to aid them in gaining an advantage over the bureaucracy they're fighting. While the Project does detect these transmissions, they can't pinpoint who or what might be sending them. This person, of course, is CT. She's been leaking information likely since her arrival in the program. However, sometime between when Wash finds her in the middle of one such transmission and when the Blood Gulch Crew encounters her in the middle of the desert, CT left Project Freelancer to engage in an excavation attempting to uncover an ancient alien weapon that could possibly be used for more sinister purposes (as the Great War ends sometime between these two points as well).
Out in the middle of nowhere in this desert, the conflict between the aliens and humans has essentially ceased as well, to the point that they can cooperate to a certain degree (unless CT kills them whoops). There's little us versus them feeling until one of the alien artifacts is discovered in the temple CT and her "team" are attempting to excavate. At that point, everything goes quickly to hell in a hand basket. Again.
Personality:
If there were ever anyone to see the glass as half-empty, CT would be that person. To her, the world is conspiring to drive her over the edge that she already took a flying leap off of. Even those who act friendly toward her are likely to get paranoia and doubt in response. She trusts literally no one, not even herself at times. While it could be say that she's her own worst enemy, CT would claim that the enemy is not only external, but probably lurking around the corner. The only place in the universe she finds any good in is the Insurrection, and even then, she likely wouldn't put her life on the line for the cause. Still, the Insurrection is one of the few things she can actually anchor her life on, as she definitely doesn't trust or believe she can actually count on her teammates in Freelancer. For example, while Wash is trying to cheer her up following a failed mission, CT not only borderline mocks him but finds his devotion to the Director completely delusional.
Not that she should talk about being delusional, holy shit.
If she can, CT can and will undermine others and play the devil's advocate, such as during the briefing prior to the Sarcophagus mission, when she asks about Texas. She makes a pointed remark to Carolina "Notice he didn't say no." If there's something she can fuck up for someone else, she'll be the first in line to do that, no doubt. However, she'll rarely do so directly. Backchannels and underground movements, such as the Insurrection, fit her indirect style miles better than direct confrontation. If CT were in the current mental health system, she would likely be diagnosed for schizophrenia. She truly believes that others are out to hurt her and get her. This belief in addition to her lack of a support system simply makes her spiral further as the series continues. She briefly trusts an Elite, nicknamed Smith by her until he turns on her (through her own fault, really).
Therefore, CT works best in a saboteur position, except where she can openly spurn others' trust in the final round. She can definitely be two-faced at times, such as when she vents to Wash in private, but then replies only politely to the Director's face. As well, later when Wash catches her transmitting to the Insurrection, she tells him to just "mind his own business" rather than speaking to him with any level of respect. As previously mentioned, though, she can't seem to take any delight or comfort in having deceived others so thoroughly and doesn't "troll" others. She can be sarcastic at times, but she's far too strait-laced to do much more than that; she's always on edge and doesn't relax even if victory's in her grasp, which could very well lead to her many failures.
However, CT is extremely intelligent. She can communicate with Elites and the Covanent in general with no problem, can send encrypted transmissions from a state-of-the-art military facility without suspicion (until Wash walked in on her), and, while she does not excel in the field, CT has many strengths behind the scenes. She's extremely competitive, and had likely done extremely well with her life until arriving at Freelancer. Of course, since she's not at the top, it's easy to hate the ranking system (sour grapes and all that, which builds into her largely negative outlook on the world). She feels most comfortable, though, when she feels that she's in control of the situation and every element of her life, which is extremely infrequently.
Even with her intelligence and excellent training, CT fails in one huge area: keeping a level head when things go wrong. At the slightest bit of failure, CT goes into a spiral and panics. On the same token, CT almost can't ever not rise to verbal baiting, which makes it difficult for her to hold confidence in herself for more than a few minutes. She hates all things silly and nonsense and really doesn't enjoy others joking around. ALL OF HER BUSINESS IS OF THE MOST SERIOUS NATURE!!!!1 She tries way too hard and is far too stubborn to let others really help her, with one possible exception of Smith, her once-lieutenant.
What she wants more than anything, though, is respect. She wants to be important to someone, but won't let herself trust anyone when and if they do compliment her; she believes they're patronizing her or outright lying. So, in something of a vicious circle, CT likely never will get the respect she wants so badly: she does something compliment-worthy, receives said compliment, thinks the person issuing the compliment is lying, lashes out, and then loses that respect. That coupled with the fact that she bases her opinions of herself on what others think of her makes an even worse mix. If she had self-confidence, she could take criticism and compliments, but she simply doesn't (and likely hasn't for a while).
Altogether, CT is a mess of a person: a mix of flaws that build and exacerbate each other while also destroying her own progress toward some kind of distinctive goal. She sabotages herself almost as easily as she sabotages others, which really is just the tip of the iceberg of emotional and psychological problems.
Abilities, Weaknesses, and Power Limitation Suggestions:
CT, while she isn't the best of the best, does have advanced training in several infiltration and combat techniques from Freelancer. However, she excels most in encryption and more along the lines of hiding things rather than exposing them. She can absolutely perform the duties of a double-agent as long as things run relatively smoothly, as she panics at the first sign of trouble. She likely knows how to pilot/drive several vehicles, but really shouldn't pilot/drive them because of not being able to keep a level head. However, she is extremely intelligent and prefers to work subtly from the background if at all possible rather than directly.
Unfortunately, CT isn't that likable. She has few things about her personality that don't sabotage her in the short or long run. She doesn't accept help, even if she needs it, and as such tends to end up shooting herself in the foot more than once.
As it is, none of her abilities are extraordinary or game-breaking that I know of.
Inventory:
-Her MJOLNIR, Mk VI armor (In these colors) - this also includes a voice modifier
-Battle rifle with limited ammunition
-Magnum with limited ammunition
-Field knife
Appearance:
CT, even while in her armor (the same link as the one in the inventory), is the shortest of the Freelancers. As it is, her amor is dark brown with white trim, and her helmet gives the impression of elephant tusks. However, considering the number of those associated with the Freelancer program in Sacrosanct, CT is not likely to wear her armor long unless she can move to an isolated area. As well, her canon appearances without armor are extremely limited, so I'll also be using a PB Arielle Kebbel.
Without armor (she's the one in the center), I'd say she's about 5'3" and relatively petite except for a certain part of her torso. :| (The ridiculous chest-piece doesn't help much.)
Age: She looks extremely young in the previously linked image, meaning that at the end of Recreation she could possibly be in her late-20s but look much younger.
OC/AU Justification ;
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across? N/A
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: (quick ooc note for possibly triggering thoughts of self-hate)
When the motor spat spat oil back into her face, CT cursed and stood, hurriedly attempting to wipe the muck from her face. This was her third attempt already to fix this piece of shit that she'd found in the Junkyard. While trying to clean her face CT throws the wrench across the small garage and plops herself down on the nearest plastic crate. Fucking thing hated her, that was the only explanation for why it had worked for all of two seconds before crapping out. Or it could be the fact that she was a huge fucking mistake for a person. Goddammit why couldn't she do anything right?
Fixing this motor should be easy, a walk in the park based on what the manual said. Maybe the manual was lying. That had to be it. The fucking manual was written by a bunch of pricks who didn't want anyone copying their work anytime soon. Stupid jerks. Why couldn't they share some of the limelight with someone who really needed it? Hell, if anyone needed it most, it was her and yet here she was sitting in some rundown garage trying to be something she has never been: good with her hands.
Still, she knew that the best way to keep on the down-low and, overall, undetectable by any of the Freelancers, she had to stay in this shithole and keep her mouth shut. Two things she knew she wasn't good at in any capacity.
Fuck. Fuck everything. Fuck this oil that isn't coming off.
Network Sample:
[To say that CT hadn't checked out the network first would be a sore underestimation of her paranoia. Just arriving in a new place had thrown her for a huge loop and she did not want to be caught with her figurative pants down again. Never again. So, after doing some investigation of her own, CT's finally approaching the network, but not without heavy, military-grade encryption. She would rather do all the information gathering on her own, but there's elements that have to be asked of others. Still, who says any of them are going to tell the truth?
She hates this part.]
[Anonymous Text; if traced, signal leads to out in the middle of space]
OPEN REQUEST FOR ANY INFORMATION ON CURRENT LOCATION.
[And now she has to wait. Fuck. ]