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Oct. 1st, 2011 10:17 pmPlayer Info:
Nickname: Button
Age: I VOTE IN THE US. 8Db
Personal LJ: makeshift_6
Method of Contact: AIM/MSN: redbuttonofdoom@hotmail.com plurk: zombiecannon
Characters Played: Yuu Kanda
Character Info:
Name: Ada Lovelace
Age: Mid 20s? I'm guessing 22 or so.
Canon: 2D Goggles or The Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Pull Point: “The Organist”-- just after getting sobered up after a poetry and drinking binge. Part 6, the beginning thereof.
Background Info:
History: Ada Lovelace was born the only legitimate child of one Lord Byron, an unashamed playboy and poet. Her mother fled that life and swore to protect her child from the demons of poetry-- through mathematics. Quite literally. She hired all the best scientists and mathematicians she could afford to turn little Ada into a human computer. This was largely successful. As such, when she met Charles Babbage in her 20s at a party, demonstrating his model of his calculating machine, she understood perfectly what most of the population there could not-- that Babbage's machine was a thing of the future.
Together, they successfully build the first computer in the 1830s, ushering in the technological revolution 150 years early. Lovelace and Babbage were then appointed heads of security in England, and given the difficult task of fighting crime in the country with just themselves and the machine. Lovelace herself also took an interest in mathematically discovering the nature of the universe, which lead to an experiment in composing music-- which caused for a (temporary) split between her and Babbage's interests. She left, and it was not long before she succumbed to the poetry sickness and wound up drinking herself into a stupor regularly and drowning in the literary vices she avoided so much. Isambard Brunel then helps her up off the street, to convince her to go back to Babbage's lab and stop his reign of terror on his war against street music-- because he's slowing down scientific progress (and money) by running the differential machine number crunching for that tomfoolery.
Personality: Ada Lovelace is a lean, mean, calculating machine. Nearly literally-- almost everything that comes out of her mouth is analytical, rational, and extremely logical. Imagine Spock in a Victorian dress and with long hair, and you almost have her. She lives and breathes science-- even in music, which most listen to for the simple pleasure of listening, she takes the time to rationalize and quantify it into numeric expressions.
She has a severe aversion to the literary arts, as mentioned before-- to her, they are a vice that destroys a person's ability to think logically. It seems to be her weakness as well-- her ability to do even simple arithmetic goes the way of the dodo, so far as she seems to think 10+10 is 100, which is only true in binary addition.
It's easy to say she's married to her job-- later, upon reuniting with the differential machine at the conclusion of “The Organist”, a rather embarrassing scene shows her clinging to and being romantic with it, claiming that “it completes her” and other such nonsense.
Game Specific:
Arcana: Strength
Justification: Ada is a very passionate woman-- about science. She has devoted her entire being to it, and it's what keeps her from falling into her more “unpleasant” vices. Speaking of which, poetry seems to flow in her veins-- and poetry is 1) immoral in Ada's eyes, and 2) a gateway to sitting with the “wrong crowd” and to heavy drinking. She does have a lot of fortitude, keeping her strong in the face of many challenges, and only uses her strength where she sees it's necessary. Whether it's solving the nation's economical troubles or taking down a mad group of musicians abusing the device Babbage developed, she does what's necessary and leaves the rest to somebody else. She is, however, a bit pessimistic with people more than half the time-- an easy example is with the aforementioned economy problem, where she reasons it's the overspeculative impulses of the people working with the market, and not the market itself, that is the source of the problem. And she really doesn't expect that to change anytime soon.
Samples:
First Person Sample:
[The one beautiful thing about being in this strange city...was the vast availability of ladies' trousers. Ada loves it, and as such, has yet to wear a skirt while in Prospero.]
[What she doesn't like to see? Are these ridiculous young women, with all the opportunity to be absolutely amazing people one day, doing nothing but wear clothing she wouldn't even constitute as underwear and gabbing about a stupid reality show or whatever they're called now.]
It disturbs me greatly to see such opportunities wasted! Honestly, people in this place!
[She shakes her head, sitting on a bench outdoors and lighting up her pipe. (Cigarettes, she discovered, are not to her taste.)]
Well. I suppose you can develop technology and science all you like, but humans are humans, and rather hopeless if not exposed to the proper way of things in such a way that it appeals to their short attention spans in youth. Pity.
Third Person Sample:
A cell phone.
They called it a cell phone-- short for cellular phone, apparently.
It was easily the most fascinating thing Ada had ever seen in her lifetime. Upon realizing its functions and what exactly it could do, she had immediately gone searching for a tool set to take it apart.
Now, it was in pieces on her table, systematically arranged so she could put it back together with relative ease. “I see! So this block is what powers the unit-- it looks as though it would be ill-advised to try and open it, considering it's sealed in at least three different ways. Another time, perhaps, I will unravel that mystery. But this, here, looks like a tiny, more advanced version of our machine...”
She sat back in her chair, and drew on her pipe-- thankfully, she had received a room she could smoke in. “It appears to be extremely fragile. Another thing I will have to investigate later, I suppose.” Taking a minute to glance around the room, Ada had to wonder how many of these new technologies are like this cellular telephone-- where she'll have to track down a microscope and perhaps a dozen books on the subject to see how each one works.
“Perhaps, if they are similar, the knowledge of learning about one will translate into others. Or even better-- if some of these devices were developed only because another was developed first, I can take them in order and develop a better understanding.”
She nodded to herself and quickly put the phone back together before getting up to repeat the process with anything she could lift and move from its place.
Hopefully, she will remember to eat at some point.
Nickname: Button
Age: I VOTE IN THE US. 8Db
Personal LJ: makeshift_6
Method of Contact: AIM/MSN: redbuttonofdoom@hotmail.com plurk: zombiecannon
Characters Played: Yuu Kanda
Character Info:
Name: Ada Lovelace
Age: Mid 20s? I'm guessing 22 or so.
Canon: 2D Goggles or The Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Pull Point: “The Organist”-- just after getting sobered up after a poetry and drinking binge. Part 6, the beginning thereof.
Background Info:
History: Ada Lovelace was born the only legitimate child of one Lord Byron, an unashamed playboy and poet. Her mother fled that life and swore to protect her child from the demons of poetry-- through mathematics. Quite literally. She hired all the best scientists and mathematicians she could afford to turn little Ada into a human computer. This was largely successful. As such, when she met Charles Babbage in her 20s at a party, demonstrating his model of his calculating machine, she understood perfectly what most of the population there could not-- that Babbage's machine was a thing of the future.
Together, they successfully build the first computer in the 1830s, ushering in the technological revolution 150 years early. Lovelace and Babbage were then appointed heads of security in England, and given the difficult task of fighting crime in the country with just themselves and the machine. Lovelace herself also took an interest in mathematically discovering the nature of the universe, which lead to an experiment in composing music-- which caused for a (temporary) split between her and Babbage's interests. She left, and it was not long before she succumbed to the poetry sickness and wound up drinking herself into a stupor regularly and drowning in the literary vices she avoided so much. Isambard Brunel then helps her up off the street, to convince her to go back to Babbage's lab and stop his reign of terror on his war against street music-- because he's slowing down scientific progress (and money) by running the differential machine number crunching for that tomfoolery.
Personality: Ada Lovelace is a lean, mean, calculating machine. Nearly literally-- almost everything that comes out of her mouth is analytical, rational, and extremely logical. Imagine Spock in a Victorian dress and with long hair, and you almost have her. She lives and breathes science-- even in music, which most listen to for the simple pleasure of listening, she takes the time to rationalize and quantify it into numeric expressions.
She has a severe aversion to the literary arts, as mentioned before-- to her, they are a vice that destroys a person's ability to think logically. It seems to be her weakness as well-- her ability to do even simple arithmetic goes the way of the dodo, so far as she seems to think 10+10 is 100, which is only true in binary addition.
It's easy to say she's married to her job-- later, upon reuniting with the differential machine at the conclusion of “The Organist”, a rather embarrassing scene shows her clinging to and being romantic with it, claiming that “it completes her” and other such nonsense.
Game Specific:
Arcana: Strength
Justification: Ada is a very passionate woman-- about science. She has devoted her entire being to it, and it's what keeps her from falling into her more “unpleasant” vices. Speaking of which, poetry seems to flow in her veins-- and poetry is 1) immoral in Ada's eyes, and 2) a gateway to sitting with the “wrong crowd” and to heavy drinking. She does have a lot of fortitude, keeping her strong in the face of many challenges, and only uses her strength where she sees it's necessary. Whether it's solving the nation's economical troubles or taking down a mad group of musicians abusing the device Babbage developed, she does what's necessary and leaves the rest to somebody else. She is, however, a bit pessimistic with people more than half the time-- an easy example is with the aforementioned economy problem, where she reasons it's the overspeculative impulses of the people working with the market, and not the market itself, that is the source of the problem. And she really doesn't expect that to change anytime soon.
Samples:
First Person Sample:
[The one beautiful thing about being in this strange city...was the vast availability of ladies' trousers. Ada loves it, and as such, has yet to wear a skirt while in Prospero.]
[What she doesn't like to see? Are these ridiculous young women, with all the opportunity to be absolutely amazing people one day, doing nothing but wear clothing she wouldn't even constitute as underwear and gabbing about a stupid reality show or whatever they're called now.]
It disturbs me greatly to see such opportunities wasted! Honestly, people in this place!
[She shakes her head, sitting on a bench outdoors and lighting up her pipe. (Cigarettes, she discovered, are not to her taste.)]
Well. I suppose you can develop technology and science all you like, but humans are humans, and rather hopeless if not exposed to the proper way of things in such a way that it appeals to their short attention spans in youth. Pity.
Third Person Sample:
A cell phone.
They called it a cell phone-- short for cellular phone, apparently.
It was easily the most fascinating thing Ada had ever seen in her lifetime. Upon realizing its functions and what exactly it could do, she had immediately gone searching for a tool set to take it apart.
Now, it was in pieces on her table, systematically arranged so she could put it back together with relative ease. “I see! So this block is what powers the unit-- it looks as though it would be ill-advised to try and open it, considering it's sealed in at least three different ways. Another time, perhaps, I will unravel that mystery. But this, here, looks like a tiny, more advanced version of our machine...”
She sat back in her chair, and drew on her pipe-- thankfully, she had received a room she could smoke in. “It appears to be extremely fragile. Another thing I will have to investigate later, I suppose.” Taking a minute to glance around the room, Ada had to wonder how many of these new technologies are like this cellular telephone-- where she'll have to track down a microscope and perhaps a dozen books on the subject to see how each one works.
“Perhaps, if they are similar, the knowledge of learning about one will translate into others. Or even better-- if some of these devices were developed only because another was developed first, I can take them in order and develop a better understanding.”
She nodded to herself and quickly put the phone back together before getting up to repeat the process with anything she could lift and move from its place.
Hopefully, she will remember to eat at some point.
