☇ ooc | character history
[series]: Inception
[character history/background]: Dream-sharing was invented by the military as a realistic simulation where soldiers could shoot, stab, and kill each other without consequence. Nowadays, it’s also a tool utilized by thieves to steal ideas from individuals’ minds-a process dubbed “Extraction.” The device at the base of this mental heist, the PASIV Device (Portable Automated Somnacin Intravenous Device), can connect a single subject upwards to a team of people to a single mind, where they’re projected as mental representations of their physical form.
Within this subconscious, thoughts are rendered in mimicry of reality and time slows. A Parisian street scene or snow-capped mountain terrain can be felt and perceived in nearly perfect imitation of real life, except that this reality can bend to a dreamer’s will. However, the dreamer is not always actually the owner of the mind trespassed. In a single subject dream, the individual is the architect of his own dream-when a team of thieves invade a single mind, the dreamer is actually one of these trespassers. She or he manipulates the subject’s subconscious as if it was a blank slate, forming scenes and mazes to their specific detail. The subject fills this world with people, projections of his own subconscious, who can act as defense if the subject begins to suspect that his mind is being manipulated. They grow increasingly violent and will outright kill in defense. Other members of the team (the sleepers) cannot alter the structure of the dream, capable of only affecting this fake reality in subtle ways-creating objects, changing small details, inserting people. Within this dream world, thieves steal ideas: secret plans and other valuable thoughts. They manipulate the subject (who, of course, has a role in his own dream) and use any ruse to squeeze information from a subject, just as any seasoned thief might do in reality. Their ultimate goal is to discover the location of a safe-the metaphorical representation that contains their deepest, guarded secrets. When one renders a reality-mimicking dreamscape within a subconscious, a safe will become the representation and holder for those guarded thoughts.
It’s a lucrative business for thieves, and an obviously an illegal one too, backed by high-powered corporations. Dream-sharing itself shouldn’t be dangerous-you can get hurt in a dream, but dying will just wake you up. Any sort of kick, that sensation of falling you get sometimes when you sleep, will also wake you up. Well, unless you’re involved in a job where an extra-strong sedative is used. In that case, death means getting stuck in limbo: the farthest depths of one’s mind, infinite raw-subconscious that everyone can alter, and an unreality that could become reality. For getting lost down there is easy, the “mind turn[ing] to scrambled egg” as it conceives this world as real. One could get lost down there forever until natural death.
Aridane’s story begins when Dom Cobb contacts his father-and-law and college professor about recruiting an architect to design the dream levels of a special assignment. It’s a job that would clear him of false charges of his wife’s murder, and allow him to return to the States and see his children again. But it’s unique and risky in that he’s not stealing ideas this time around, but rather planting a new idea within an individual’s mind. In order to prevent a complete energy monopoly by the conglomerate Fischer-Morrow, Cobb and his team were hired to help inspire an idea within the company president’s son and soon-to-be heir of his ailing father’s empire-the idea he should dissolve the entire empire. Cobb can no longer act as architect himself, for guilt due to his wife’s death causes his constructions to be unstable. Unstable, in the sense, that he never knows when a shade of his wife might appear and shoot his partner in the leg, or help the subject realize the manipulation of his dream. What about a train suddenly crashing through a busy Los Angeles intersection? No longer can he build, despite being the best extractor and architect in the world, and so he contacts his old teacher in hopes of recruiting flesh blood.
That fresh blood is Ariadne, a graduate student of an architectural program at a college in Paris. Touted by her professor as one of his best and brightest, one who’s even better than Cobb was, she’s introduced to him with a job offer.
( this is a snippet from my app. <3 the rest was cut to avoid complete spoilers. )
[character history/background]: Dream-sharing was invented by the military as a realistic simulation where soldiers could shoot, stab, and kill each other without consequence. Nowadays, it’s also a tool utilized by thieves to steal ideas from individuals’ minds-a process dubbed “Extraction.” The device at the base of this mental heist, the PASIV Device (Portable Automated Somnacin Intravenous Device), can connect a single subject upwards to a team of people to a single mind, where they’re projected as mental representations of their physical form.
Within this subconscious, thoughts are rendered in mimicry of reality and time slows. A Parisian street scene or snow-capped mountain terrain can be felt and perceived in nearly perfect imitation of real life, except that this reality can bend to a dreamer’s will. However, the dreamer is not always actually the owner of the mind trespassed. In a single subject dream, the individual is the architect of his own dream-when a team of thieves invade a single mind, the dreamer is actually one of these trespassers. She or he manipulates the subject’s subconscious as if it was a blank slate, forming scenes and mazes to their specific detail. The subject fills this world with people, projections of his own subconscious, who can act as defense if the subject begins to suspect that his mind is being manipulated. They grow increasingly violent and will outright kill in defense. Other members of the team (the sleepers) cannot alter the structure of the dream, capable of only affecting this fake reality in subtle ways-creating objects, changing small details, inserting people. Within this dream world, thieves steal ideas: secret plans and other valuable thoughts. They manipulate the subject (who, of course, has a role in his own dream) and use any ruse to squeeze information from a subject, just as any seasoned thief might do in reality. Their ultimate goal is to discover the location of a safe-the metaphorical representation that contains their deepest, guarded secrets. When one renders a reality-mimicking dreamscape within a subconscious, a safe will become the representation and holder for those guarded thoughts.
It’s a lucrative business for thieves, and an obviously an illegal one too, backed by high-powered corporations. Dream-sharing itself shouldn’t be dangerous-you can get hurt in a dream, but dying will just wake you up. Any sort of kick, that sensation of falling you get sometimes when you sleep, will also wake you up. Well, unless you’re involved in a job where an extra-strong sedative is used. In that case, death means getting stuck in limbo: the farthest depths of one’s mind, infinite raw-subconscious that everyone can alter, and an unreality that could become reality. For getting lost down there is easy, the “mind turn[ing] to scrambled egg” as it conceives this world as real. One could get lost down there forever until natural death.
Aridane’s story begins when Dom Cobb contacts his father-and-law and college professor about recruiting an architect to design the dream levels of a special assignment. It’s a job that would clear him of false charges of his wife’s murder, and allow him to return to the States and see his children again. But it’s unique and risky in that he’s not stealing ideas this time around, but rather planting a new idea within an individual’s mind. In order to prevent a complete energy monopoly by the conglomerate Fischer-Morrow, Cobb and his team were hired to help inspire an idea within the company president’s son and soon-to-be heir of his ailing father’s empire-the idea he should dissolve the entire empire. Cobb can no longer act as architect himself, for guilt due to his wife’s death causes his constructions to be unstable. Unstable, in the sense, that he never knows when a shade of his wife might appear and shoot his partner in the leg, or help the subject realize the manipulation of his dream. What about a train suddenly crashing through a busy Los Angeles intersection? No longer can he build, despite being the best extractor and architect in the world, and so he contacts his old teacher in hopes of recruiting flesh blood.
That fresh blood is Ariadne, a graduate student of an architectural program at a college in Paris. Touted by her professor as one of his best and brightest, one who’s even better than Cobb was, she’s introduced to him with a job offer.
( this is a snippet from my app. <3 the rest was cut to avoid complete spoilers. )