cyberware | app for futuro

APPLICANT INFO.
NAME: Zee
CONTACT: plurk: zeeco
CURRENT CHARACTER: Aleksandra Zaryanova
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CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Vanadi
CANON: original
AGE: 25
APPEARANCE: Here!
CANON POINT: About half a year after leaving his home planet.

BACKGROUND:

There’s a little planet that humans have recently become aware of, which they have decided to call Wayland. It’s an unusual case, home to nearly 20 different sentient species, which have only recently and through generations of hard work come to a tentative accord with one another, after a long and bloody history. This, and the fact that very few of the denizens have any interest in seeing life outside of Wayland, have made this a remote and rather backwater planet.

Unfortunately, humans encountered a problem when landing for the first time on the planet. What technology the natives did have was powered by a unique source referred to as Light, present as an energy in the atmosphere that could be channeled down to the ground for use. Though it was never known to be anything but beneficial to the natives, the human ship passing through it reacted poorly, and the resulting radiation infected about 10% of the human populace with a fatal disease, and sterilized all of them.

After the humans landed and began to build their city from the remains of their transport ship, the static birthrate issue had to be addressed. Nearly every scientist, biologist, and geneticist turned their attention to it, but it was Dr Venus Vega that would come to have the most impact on the planet. Her solution was not to put her hope in human life yet to come, but focus on what they already had. She would find the way to immortality through cybernetics and eliminate the fear of sickness, old age, and death. All she needed was a test subject. She couldn’t work with a human, of course, since human life was now more precious than ever before, and couldn’t be endangered. She turned her attention to one of the native species, kitrites, whose genetic makeup was remarkably alike with that of humans.

Vanadi of House Vadarta would never have had any reason to care about any of this, had he not been chosen to assist Venus’s work. He had distinguished himself as a capable athlete in peak physical condition, and on top of that was known for disappearing for long stretches of time as he traveled and partied around the world. He was the youngest of four siblings, essentially simply tolerated by his parents who had long since turned their hopes to the higher achieving of his siblings, and he seemed to have very few close friends who would concern themselves with his whereabouts or wellbeing. He was perfect. She traded a bit of advanced human technology to the kitrite government for the right to work on him, and the deal was made. Vanadi was taken against his will to play host to her experimental cybernetic advancements.

Over the course of a few long months he was made faster, stronger, more durable, very deadly, and decidedly miserable. To test the full extent of the loyalty program Venus had installed along with the physical upgrades, Venus used Vanadi to deal with a scientist who had recently discovered and been appalled by her work on an unwilling subject. She ordered him to take whatever action he saw fit to, to ensure he wouldn’t do anything to endanger their project. Vanadi came to the reluctant conclusion that killing him would be the only certain way of keeping him silent, and the programming compelled him to carry it out. Venus’s work was a success.

Two things were unknown to Venus. The first was that Vanadi had a single good childhood friend, Maria Del Andallo, who began a search when Vanadi failed to show up for one of their yearly reunions. The second was that that atmospheric energy, Light, was not quite as innocuously inert as the people of Wayland assumed, and her lab used quite a lot more of it than the planet had seen before. And all that Light funneling down to one singular location didn’t sit well with the undiscovered beings who lived within the atmospheric fields and fed upon it.

Maria enlisted the help of a human who had already made himself an infamous nuisance, Riley Riker. They broke into Venus’s lab to free Vanadi, and Riley attempted to lift the obedience code Venus had installed on Vanadi — only to accidentally transfer command to himself. A second human met them at the closed down lab, Kelawar. Her father had been that unfortunate scientist that had uncovered Venus’s work on Vanadi and been killed for it, and Kelawar was determined to expose and punish Venus.

Before any sort of revenge could be planned or extracted, though, the Light funneling into the lab reached a maximum threshold, and one of the denizens of the atmosphere dropped in for a visit to completely devastate the lab. Venus was assumed dead, and with nothing left to satisfy Kelawar and Vanadi’s thirst for revenge, the group opted to escort Vanadi back to his home. Kelawar came along to try to de-program his obedience Riley’s commands.

From there, however, conflict began to stir. More creatures like what had attacked the lab began to descend planetside and wreck havoc, and only the eyes of Maria’s species were attuned to see them. Various nations began to blame one another for the attacks, and the planet teetered on the verge of plunging back into the wars it had only just freed itself from. Vanadi’s group came to meet a young member of that strange new species that housed itself in the mechanical parts of Vanadi’s body (until they were able to build it a robotic body of its own), who called itself the Fiery Traveller. It helped them understand that its species was being attacked by this draining of the Light, their habitat, and together they managed to spread understanding and quell the conflict. However, it soon reported that the Light was still being drained at an alarming rate, which lead to the discovery that Venus was not only still alive, but had found a way to power herself with Light. The five of them confronted her and pushed her to overload herself with Light, which proved too much for her body and killed her.

Though they succeeded, Vanadi was left disillusioned and frustrated by the greed and lack of compassion he’d come to see throughout the planet. He left Wayland as soon as he was able to and figured he'd take his chances with the rest of the universe, where he'd heard there were better prosthetics and loads of new species to sleep with. Nearly immediately he discovered that his family's wealth stopped at the magnetic field around Wayland, and he was painfully broke in the universe at large. He currently takes employment as he can find it, enjoying life as a nearly penniless space hobo.

PERSONALITY:

Vanadi has spent most of his life so far being a charmer. He was an expert at the ins and outs of his old high society life, and it was a simple thing to butter someone up to get just what he wants out of them. His arsenal consists of friendliness, compliments, favors promised, and of course sheer persistence. He’s a difficult man to dissuade when he’s determined to have something from someone. All this has led him to be quite good at reading and understanding people, because how else can he work his way around someone without anticipating their desires and reactions? He’s comfortable with people, and always knows just what to say to keep things moving smoothly.

He isn’t all manipulation, though. Vanadi genuinely enjoys the company of others; he takes comfort from their presence, and particularly from the expression of physical affection. Which is to say, he really, really enjoys sex. He’d do a great deal to gain someone’s attention, in particular their companionship, and most especially physical intimacy with them. His interest is keen enough to push over the edge into addiction sometimes, and it doesn’t take much to become an easily manipulated weakness of his. Despite all his understanding of people, he can still be a sucker for a pretty face.

It isn’t just the sex he craves, though, it really is the whole package of the company of others that he yearns for. The man is an extrovert, through and through. Being around others gives him energy, and the more positive his relationship with them, the brighter he shines. Deprive him of that, though, and the result is something pitiable. Like a flower taken from sunlight, in the absence of company, Vanadi becomes dispirited and withdrawn, even sullen. Having had good company whenever he wanted it for nearly all of his life has left him with no resistance to loneliness, and he suffers it acutely. Alone, he withdraws and becomes morose, and is prone to dwelling on negativity. He needs others around to distract himself from the various unhappinesses in his life. And there are quite a few of those. He resents having seen the darker side of his people, and feels betrayed by his own society. He knows in turn that it wasn’t just his society that would do such a thing, but really any society under the right circumstances. People as a whole just aren’t as compassionate as he’d initially believed. He hates anyone who reminds him of the cold and unfeeling logical mind of Venus that he’d been held captive with for so long, and he especially hates the reminder of the life he lost, what’s been done to him, and who he is now. He’s a colder and more tactical man than he ever had to be before, and he hates that he’s been brought to such a state. His cybernetic augmentations and deeply scarred body are just one more reminder of all of it, and so his own appearance is one more thing on the list of things he resents.

Since his experience, Vanadi has become much more wary of people. He needs them, and craves company, but he is nonetheless keenly aware of the fact that people are, ultimately, out for themselves. You can trust someone only until it’s convenient for them to betray that trust, and so betrayal should always be anticipated. He goes into every interaction expecting to get something only if it’s beneficial to the other party to give it, and with an eye out for attempts at scamming him. He has very little patience for someone being actively awful, and while in previous years he’d have taken rudeness and a lack of manners in stride, these days he’s more likely to snap and snipe back. Being quite physically capable, he’s confident in his abilities if it should happen to come to a fight — though he would prefer it not. He’s especially loathe to take a life, but realistic enough to recognize that it may occasionally be a necessity. A choice between keeping himself alive and keeping someone trying to hurt him alive isn't really much of a choice at all.

He knows, of course, that these pessimistic assumptions don’t apply to everyone. He has had good and kind friends, and so of course he knows it’s possible to find genuine compassion. That he expects otherwise is a matter of self preservation, but he’s genuinely grateful to be proven wrong. He appreciates a good heart, and will do his very best to repay any kindness shown to him. Give him enough, and the given would find themselves with Vanadi’s solid and unwavering loyalty. It’s a cold enough world as it is, after all. Although he’s out to keep himself alive, he doesn’t need to be one of the ones to add to the misery.

ABILITIES:

He's very athletic and well-trained in a fluid, showy form of martial arts developed by his race. Until recently most of his skill was theoretical and untested, but that has begun to change, and he's proven himself able to put it to practice. His augmentations enhance his speed and durability somewhat, and his strength and endurance greatly. He can also hack a system by jacking into it directly (at the risk of opening himself up to attack in turn). He's a pretty good shot with his dinky little gun as well, with his cybernetics to steady and enhance his aim.

He's also so good at cooking, so good.

INVENTORY:

Just his clothes and a small pack, containing 5 shitty phones, a solar charger, adaptor, wallet, etc. Plus a small, fairly short range laser pistol, which can discharge 6 shots before it has to recharge. Pretty mundane stuff, he was not packed for an adventure.

HATHAWAY.
SUITABILITY:

Coming from a point in his life where he has no idea what he's doing with himself, Vanadi is well-suited to loan a few weeks/months/years/honestly he doesn't care, to Hathaway. He's physically capable and will be more than happy to work toward their goals for their promised incentive — honestly, he'd probably do it just for a normal paycheck too, jobs are frustratingly hard to come by. He wants a purpose, and he doesn't mind being given one by some unheard of organization.

INCENTIVE:

Getting his body back, fully organic and without any scarring or cybernetics.

SPECIALIZATION:

1) Negotiator: Vanadi has always had a way with words, and from a young age he learned their effectiveness in getting people to do what he wants. He would vastly prefer words over any other weapon, and resorts to fighting only with reluctance.

2) Inventor: Being partially cybernetic, he definitely has an interest in learning how to upkeep and maintain himself, and wouldn't say no to applying his learned skills in other situations. He's pretty low in this area at the moment, but has potential.

WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE: Here!

ACTION SAMPLE: Here!