[OOC] App!
Character: WALL-E
Series: WALL-E
Age: 700, but is a robot who acts like a curious child
Canon: The future ain't what it used to be. After covering the entire planet with garbage, humanity flies off to the stars on interstellar cruise ships and leaves the clean-up to a squad of tiny trash-compacting robots, which promptly malfunction and fail. Except for one, our hero. For 700 years, WALL-E gathers up garbage and crushes it into cubes, and over that time he develops a personality and a fascination with the cast-off remains of human civilization. He collects whatever catches his eye, records music on his built-in tape recorder, watches romantic movies on an old iPod... And when a new robot named EVE shows up from space, looking for plant life as evidence that the Earth is recovering, WALL-E falls head-over-treads in love, and the adventure begins.
How to describe WALL-E? Well, for starters, he's in the running for the title of Most Adorable Robot Ever. Despite having only a couple of camera eyes for a face, his childlike innocence comes across easily. His vocabulary is small, and his voice synthesizer is old and hasn't seen much use over the years, so he has a hard time with complicated words. In fact, he never does get the hang of EVE's name, consistently calling her "EVA". But that's not to say he's stupid! The little robot is endlessly inquisitive and instinctively kind. Though he may sometimes make a mess due to his naïveté, he'll do everything he can to help clean it up and make things right again. And no matter how much damage he may take on the way, he'll never give up on what's important to him.
Note: As was mentioned above, WALL-E has a small vocabulary and speaks in one-to-two-word sentences, so this app was written to represent the way the apper intends to play him in camp proper: lots of action tags with just a touch of dialogue.
Sample Post:
Waaaaaaaaaaaah -- Oof!! [It begins with a fall. The briefest glimpse of a rusty, box-shaped robot can be seen before the figure plummets directly into a sinkhole.] Owowowowow... Eh? EVA? EEE-VAH? Hmm... [For a few seconds, nothing else is heard except tinny grunts of exertion. Then two camera eyes emerge from the sinkhole, surveying the situation. They fix on a stray dandelion -- and immediately recoil in surprise.] Whoa! [But then as the robot surveys all of his surroundings, his voice changes to one of awe.] Whoa...
[Once the robot has managed to clamber up out of the hole, he starts rolling forward. His treads leave a track in the swamp muck as he explores, stopping every few seconds to squint at a nearby plant as if he's never seen its like before. Running across an especially vibrant water lily, he reaches out and delicately brushes the petals with one rusted finger. Then something occurs to him, eyes perking up at the realization, and he calls out again:] Ah, EVA! EVA, plant! Plants! [He zooms through the swamp now at a much higher turn of speed, calling as he searches.] EEEE-VAAH! EEEEE -- Oof!
[Shaking his head to clear it, the robot looks up to see what he's collided with: a very imposing gorilla. The robot gulps, then nervously extends a hand to take the gorilla's hand and shake it.] W...WALL-E. [The gorilla just stares at him. He pulls his hand back and taps his fingers together self-consciously.] ... Name? [Again, no response. The robot droops a bit, then perks up again, waving his hands to try to get the gorilla's attention. He presses the play button on his tape recorder --]
IT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN YOU DON'T WANNA WAKE UP, EVERYTHING IS --
Wah! [The robot mashes the stop button in a hurry, before the racket can continue. In his confusion, he rolls backward -- and hears a squishing noise. He lifts up one tread to look down at the banana that's been smashed under it, then looks up at the suddenly infuriated face of the gorilla. Down, up, down, up... And just as the gorilla takes an angry swipe at him, he flees, yelping and swerving between trees in a panic. After a minute's flight, he seems to have left the gorilla behind, and he relaxes -- just in time to catch his tread on a tree root and fall face-first into the mud.
When the robot gets the mud cleared from his eyes, he notices what appears to be a human nearby, reaching out to him.] Ah! [He happily takes the figure's hand and shakes it -- but before he can introduce himself, its entire lower arm tears away like paper. The robot gasps and recoils in horror, eyes darting around as if he expects someone to jump out and yell at him. He hurriedly tries to put the arm back where it was, which works about as well as you might expect. But the sudden "Oh!" that follows must mean he has an idea! Carefully setting down the arm, the robot picks up the dusty cooler that's been hanging from a hook on his back. He opens it up, roots through its contents intently...
And presents the zombie with his prized possession: a roll of duct tape.] Ta-da!
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And he hits 95.2%, my best app yet \o/ (ps butts)
Series: WALL-E
Age: 700, but is a robot who acts like a curious child
Canon: The future ain't what it used to be. After covering the entire planet with garbage, humanity flies off to the stars on interstellar cruise ships and leaves the clean-up to a squad of tiny trash-compacting robots, which promptly malfunction and fail. Except for one, our hero. For 700 years, WALL-E gathers up garbage and crushes it into cubes, and over that time he develops a personality and a fascination with the cast-off remains of human civilization. He collects whatever catches his eye, records music on his built-in tape recorder, watches romantic movies on an old iPod... And when a new robot named EVE shows up from space, looking for plant life as evidence that the Earth is recovering, WALL-E falls head-over-treads in love, and the adventure begins.
How to describe WALL-E? Well, for starters, he's in the running for the title of Most Adorable Robot Ever. Despite having only a couple of camera eyes for a face, his childlike innocence comes across easily. His vocabulary is small, and his voice synthesizer is old and hasn't seen much use over the years, so he has a hard time with complicated words. In fact, he never does get the hang of EVE's name, consistently calling her "EVA". But that's not to say he's stupid! The little robot is endlessly inquisitive and instinctively kind. Though he may sometimes make a mess due to his naïveté, he'll do everything he can to help clean it up and make things right again. And no matter how much damage he may take on the way, he'll never give up on what's important to him.
Note: As was mentioned above, WALL-E has a small vocabulary and speaks in one-to-two-word sentences, so this app was written to represent the way the apper intends to play him in camp proper: lots of action tags with just a touch of dialogue.
Sample Post:
Waaaaaaaaaaaah -- Oof!! [It begins with a fall. The briefest glimpse of a rusty, box-shaped robot can be seen before the figure plummets directly into a sinkhole.] Owowowowow... Eh? EVA? EEE-VAH? Hmm... [For a few seconds, nothing else is heard except tinny grunts of exertion. Then two camera eyes emerge from the sinkhole, surveying the situation. They fix on a stray dandelion -- and immediately recoil in surprise.] Whoa! [But then as the robot surveys all of his surroundings, his voice changes to one of awe.] Whoa...
[Once the robot has managed to clamber up out of the hole, he starts rolling forward. His treads leave a track in the swamp muck as he explores, stopping every few seconds to squint at a nearby plant as if he's never seen its like before. Running across an especially vibrant water lily, he reaches out and delicately brushes the petals with one rusted finger. Then something occurs to him, eyes perking up at the realization, and he calls out again:] Ah, EVA! EVA, plant! Plants! [He zooms through the swamp now at a much higher turn of speed, calling as he searches.] EEEE-VAAH! EEEEE -- Oof!
[Shaking his head to clear it, the robot looks up to see what he's collided with: a very imposing gorilla. The robot gulps, then nervously extends a hand to take the gorilla's hand and shake it.] W...WALL-E. [The gorilla just stares at him. He pulls his hand back and taps his fingers together self-consciously.] ... Name? [Again, no response. The robot droops a bit, then perks up again, waving his hands to try to get the gorilla's attention. He presses the play button on his tape recorder --]
IT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN YOU DON'T WANNA WAKE UP, EVERYTHING IS --
Wah! [The robot mashes the stop button in a hurry, before the racket can continue. In his confusion, he rolls backward -- and hears a squishing noise. He lifts up one tread to look down at the banana that's been smashed under it, then looks up at the suddenly infuriated face of the gorilla. Down, up, down, up... And just as the gorilla takes an angry swipe at him, he flees, yelping and swerving between trees in a panic. After a minute's flight, he seems to have left the gorilla behind, and he relaxes -- just in time to catch his tread on a tree root and fall face-first into the mud.
When the robot gets the mud cleared from his eyes, he notices what appears to be a human nearby, reaching out to him.] Ah! [He happily takes the figure's hand and shakes it -- but before he can introduce himself, its entire lower arm tears away like paper. The robot gasps and recoils in horror, eyes darting around as if he expects someone to jump out and yell at him. He hurriedly tries to put the arm back where it was, which works about as well as you might expect. But the sudden "Oh!" that follows must mean he has an idea! Carefully setting down the arm, the robot picks up the dusty cooler that's been hanging from a hook on his back. He opens it up, roots through its contents intently...
And presents the zombie with his prized possession: a roll of duct tape.] Ta-da!
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And he hits 95.2%, my best app yet \o/ (ps butts)