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Character: Toshiko "Tosh" Sato
Series: Torchwood
Character Age: 34
Job: Internet Prometheus
Canon: In a world that is constantly visited by extraterrestrial life, there needs to be someone there to investigate it. Torchwood is an organization dedicated to investigating alien activity, as well as other mysterious events. They’re headquartered in Cardiff, England, which sits on top of a rift in space/time that allows all these supernatural creatures to come to Earth.
Toshiko is a computer genius, and is the technology expert and scientist of the team. She’s very dedicated to her work, although her passion and seriousness for it occasionally makes it seem like she “has a stick up her ass.” She’s not above goofing off and having fun with others, and she can be somewhat cheeky at times. Tosh also has a tendency to babble on about the topics that fall under her expertise. However, even when she’s in a teasing mood, she is able to quickly sober up if the time calls for it. Tosh does tend to keep to herself, and can be pretty shy when she's being social outside of work-related things. Basically, she is the awkward turtle of the team.
Sample Post: Right, so, I’ve been informed that upon arrival, everyone here receives a laptop. However, not everyone comes from a planet or timeline where this type of technology is available to them. While I assume this isn’t normally that critical of an issue considering our setting, there has recently been a situation where vital information was supplied to you all via your computers. In case something like this happens again, it is my duty to make sure that every camper and counselor is able to access such information. In other words, hello all zombies, robot cows, and everything in between. I’m going to show you how the internet works.
Luckily for all of you, these laptops are generally very easy to use and low tech. A little too low tech for my taste, actually, it’s a bit off-putting if you want to get more out of it than just idle web-surfing. I was going to use the one I received in an attempt at analyzing that infamous barrier, but I’m not even close to getting it to work. It’s really fascinating, isn’t it? I’ve seen other barriers and devices that are meant to trap people before, but never to this caliber. It sort of reminds me of the rift back home-it brings all of us here from across universes, and just dumps us all inside, like a gigantic trash bin. If I had the right equipment, I may be able to . . . get way off topic. My apologies, this sort of thing just really interests me. It won’t happen again.
Getting back on track: Your computers! I assume that they’re all turned on right now. Let’s begin with something relatively simple, like sending messages to one another. Email is very much like mailing someone a normal letter, only it’s much faster and less personal. If you wish to do something like, let’s say, send someone a love letter, it’s best to do it with a handwritten letter. I would suggest being unique and using a carrier pigeon, but I think the closest to that you’ll get here is a carrier toucan. And as entertaining as that thought is, I’m not particularly sure if that’s an actual viable substitute. But if you want to risk your personal feelings ending up in the mess hall instead of your significant other’s cabin, be my guest. Anyway, after you open the email window, please try to send me one once you figure out how it works. It can be anything from a greeting to your name to- . . .
A rather detailed work of fiction involving the resident tentacled monster? While I’m very impressed by how quickly you wrote all of that out, especially with rotted fingers, I'm pretty sure that anatomy of any kind does not work that way. And this is sort of putting me off of seafood. In other news, however, I don’t think you’ll have any problems with adjusting to internet culture.
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