Agent New York [1]lewdnessJuly 5 2010, 21:03:17 UTC
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Character Information ; Name: York Canon/AU/Original: AU; a spin on a “what if” York had survived being shot by Wyoming in OoM 5. Reference: http://rvb.wikia.com/wiki/York Canon Point: After being shot in OOM. Setting:
Halo/RVB is an extension of the question “what’s really out there?” Years in the future, humans and alien races do end up meeting and the result of this is the start of a war that nearly eliminates the human’s presence in the galaxy. Faced with destruction, different groups of people started different programs to try and combat the fact that without some way to fight back against the Covenant, they would all surely die. In RVB, Leonard Church is given the ability to have free reign over his own project, labeled Project Freelancer. The problem with giving someone free reign over their own project, is that sometimes corners are cut and some of the results aren’t exactly as planned. Only granted the use of a single AI, Church systematically tortured it until it fragmented itself to save itself, and then these fragments were placed in the heads of the Freelancers, one by one.
As a whole, the experiment was largely a failure. People went insane, were unable to function, all sorts of horrible things. One pairing that did not fail, however, was York and Delta. The two of them were extremely lucky, all things considered, and were able to function together extremely well, until an incident with Omega and Texas results in his eye being damaged in some way. Delta and York end up leaving Freelancer and its whole mess behind, until years later Texas finds them once more, this time without Omega, to ask for their help.
Canonly, York dies in the resulting firefight that he and Tex get into with Wyoming. In this AU, however, York survives- barely, and he and Delta escape to live back on their own again, while he recovers. Things don’t proceed as easily as they’d like, however, and at one point, a part of Delta’s code is corrupted and they’re forced to seek a replacement, which means breaking into the very place they’d spent so long trying to escape from- Freelancer Command. The code is acquired from Epsilon, who both had thought dead, and York and Delta are unwilling to leave him behind, resulting in them taking him as well, well aware of the risks that are going to result from that. Just before being kidnapped to Sacrosanct, they’re trying to piece Epsilon together into some kind of fixed state, with limited success.
Agent New York [2]lewdnessJuly 5 2010, 21:03:43 UTC
Personality:
From what little is seen of York in the episodes he's in, there are a few obvious conclusions to draw about him as a person.
The first, is that York is a lot like the other Freelancers, in a way, as far as the questionable morals idea goes. When York is first seen, he’s picking locks to a shop, presumably to steal from it. He doesn't seem concerned at all with the idea of stealing when Tex brings it up; to him, it's a way to pay the rent, which is fairly off-handed and said with no sense of guilt. There's also the fact that he's in Freelancer, which, for the entirety of the show, is shown to be a kind of sketchy sort of organization. Church, who'd had dealings with Freelancer previous to this, remarked at one point that they're a bunch of "cold motherfuckers," which is true, in a lot of ways. For York to be in Freelancer and to have been breaking into places for an undetermined amount of time after leaving Freelancer, it is easy to assume that he's perhaps not the kind of person who worries about others views of right and wrong and more follows his own kind of moral code.
York is also a horrible liar, something that's not changed from when he was younger, and in Freelancer, as well. When he first meets Tex again after a while, he kind of stumbles over just what excuse he's going to settle on, waffling around a bit while drawing out his gun; that isn't exactly the action of someone who is a pacifist, and it shows that York is presumably prepared to do Not So Nice things, in order to keep himself and Delta alive.
For someone, though, who is in essentially a secret, not so nice group, surrounded by people who are either perpetually angry, or focused more on revenge, York seems to be more or less the nice guy of them, simply by the way he treats his AI, and the way he treats Texas/Allison. Sure, you first see him breaking in somewhere, but when Tex first meets them after an undetermined amount of time, and is startled to learn that he still has his AI, York is the one to talk Tex down, and assure her that it isn't Delta that's a threat to anyone, here. He's not particularly eloquent, but he handles the situation with ease, telling her, "Oookay, take it easy," in a tone that's clearly not threatened, dealing with Delta and Tex at the same time with kind of dry amusement.
It's clear he has a sense of humor, from the way that both Delta and York chat back and forth- Delta making little subtle digs at him, nothing malicious, and York just dryly countering like he's very used to that. He also can't help but laugh when Delta reminds him that there's still no way he stands any chance against Texas, regardless of if she has Omega or not- sure, it might sting his pride a little (he comments that Omega-Texas were always the best, and no one could beat them) but he seems generally alright with the jibing back and forth.
When he and Tex go to break into whatever the holographic lock is hiding, York makes a little bit of a deal about the fact that in fact, it's not an encrypted lock which is presumably what Tex told him it was, but a holographic lock. The whole reason he brings up this, he says, is for her to realize how kickass he is, being able to do this. In a way, it's a little bit of showing off.
Agent New York [3]lewdnessJuly 5 2010, 21:04:06 UTC
Much like Tex, one of the first questions that York brings up when asked to help Tex get in somewhere to find Omega is “What’s in it for me.” And instead of any kind of monetary reimbursement, it’s very much the idea of payback that gets him interested. In the past, Omega-Texas had somehow (in a way that wasn’t ever really explained) injured his left eye, which left York at a disadvantage on that side. Delta watches it for him, of course, but there’s still possibly some lingering resentment over this fact. York notes that it’s “still blurry, hurts when I read,” when Tex asks how his eye is doing. The thing about it, is, however, that Tex asks him to help get her in to where she needs to be. She doesn't ask him to help back her up, to stake the place out, to basically go back to doing Freelancer-ish things, save for picking that one lone lock. It's York that slips into the rhythm of it once more, it seems, defaulting to her when it comes to all of this, slipping back into the kind of Freelancer mentality, where they function as a small group. He doesn't have to do any of this; he agrees to get her in, but he furthers this by helping her as he does.
York's relationship with Delta is one that requires some talking about, too. When you take into account the other Freelancers and their AI counterparts, you have people like Epsilon and Wash (who don't get along currently and who suffered from it), Omega and Texas (Tex, who focuses on trying to find a way to kill Omega after the things he's done/will do), Wyoming and Gamma (Gamma, who forcibly removed himself from Wyoming, etc) you have this kind of mess of essentially Bad Things that have resulted from Freelancer experiments. Then, you get introduced to York, who is away from Freelancer, has been living on his own with his AI for an undetermined amount of time, and when Texas sees him, he's not treating Delta with animosity or any sort of mistrust; if anything, he treats Delta like one would treat their best friend; asking for advice, jibing back and forth, playfully. It's a sharp sort of contrast to the rest of the Freelancer/AI pairings, where everything has turned out kind of Bad End, and instead with these two, they get along well, are able to function outside of the mess of Freelancer, working as essentially best friends, treating Delta like a real person instead of an AI fragment.
Abilities and Weaknesses:
York’s an excellent infiltration specialist. Arguably one of the best left over from Freelancer after everything else that went on, when York is paired with Delta, they’re able to get into a lot of things. There’s no canon basis for just what he can or cannot do, considering all that’s shown is Tex asking for his help getting into something that she herself cannot get into. With the timeline and the technology available, I’d venture a guess that York’s extremely capable with all of this sort of thing, regarding technology and locks, encryptions, hacking, etc.
As far as weaknesses go, physically, he’s next to blind in his left eye, which results canonly in York asking Delta for help in watching his left side, knowing he’s weaker on it due to that. He compensates for it, of course, and is used to it, but it still puts him at a disadvantage at times, especially if he’s lacking Delta at any point in time.
Agent New York [4]lewdnessJuly 5 2010, 21:04:37 UTC
Inventory:
MJOLNIR Mark VI armor + healing agent, a Magnum, an AI chip that holds Delta.
Appearance:
In canon, York’s armor is Mark VI MJOLNIR armor, in a tannish/yellowish color. It’s typical MJOLNIR armor- not as badass as Spartan armor, but still decent, all things considered.
His PB is Gerard Butler, however. He stands at about 6’2, and is decently in shape- not as much as back in the Freelancer days, because he hasn’t had as much reason to be that active, but he does keep himself taken care of. He’s a little scruffy from spending so much time in the armor, though that’s not to say he doesn’t take care of himself at least a little.
Age:
36
AU Justification ; If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across?
He’s not terribly different from how he is in the series. The logs that were done weren’t personality-changing, nor did they take place over terribly long periods of time. York still has a soft spot for AI, still would do anything to help Delta. The main difference is he’s much more careful now, intent on not getting himself and Delta into a situation like before, where they could both end up dying.
Agent New York [5/end]lewdnessJuly 5 2010, 21:05:10 UTC
Samples ; Log Sample:
York wouldn’t consider himself particularly graceful, all things considered. He might be stealthy at times, and he’s used to sneaking around and avoiding being caught, but graceful is kind of a hit or miss idea, only more evidenced by the fact that one minute he’s where he and Delta consider home for that month, and the next he’s hissing out a curse as he finds himself tumbling through a mess of metal and rock and other debris, metal screaming against metal until he finally rolls to a stop against something large and solid, grunting at the impact. Nope, not graceful.
Shaking his head just a little bit, York pushes himself up with a slow blink to try and steady the ache in his head, shifting his right hand a little when he realizes it’s resting on something sharp.
D, what the hell was that? York asks, working his way to his feet gradually, debris shifting and falling underneath him, making him take extra care to work his way up and figure out just what’s going on around them.
Delta’s just as unsure as he is, though, his voice a low hum in the back of York’s mind. Unknown. None of the surrounding area matches where we were before or any area that we’ve been to previously. I--
“Welcome to Sacrosanct. Please watch your step.”
Before the first part is even said, York’s hand is already reaching for his Magnum, fingers closing around the heavy gun, dropping back and pressing against whatever he’d rolled to a stop against earlier, jaw set, looking around to see if he can figure out just what had said that, or, better yet- what the hell was going on.
...Hey, D. Tell me I wasn’t the only one who-
Negative, York, I heard it as well, Delta assures, and some of York’s tension eases just a little bit, as he makes his way around, gun still at the ready, just in case. He’s not sure where they are, but they got here; there has to be a way back, and out.
Network Sample:
[York wiggles his wrist a little bit, feeling somewhat naked without his armor, but he had to get it off to get to the wearable around his wrist, having spent a handful of minutes trying to see just what that thing could do. Delta’d used it to project his hologram, but York settles for voice, for the moment, tone distracted at first.]
These things do all sorts of nifty tricks, don’t they.
[a faint pause; he almost introduces himself, but for the moment, he keeps that to himself; introductions can be worked out later, when he’s figured out more of what’s going on, exactly.]
Seconding the request for UNSC personnel who might be around here. Delta and I been here approximately an hour, and haven’t found any indication of a way back, for one, or a way out. If anyone has any information on this place- Sacrosanct, that’d be appreciated, too. [If anything, he’d be even more grateful for a properly secured channel, but hey, he’ll roll with what he’s got.]
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Your Nickname: Chii
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Character Information ;
Name: York
Canon/AU/Original: AU; a spin on a “what if” York had survived being shot by Wyoming in OoM 5.
Reference: http://rvb.wikia.com/wiki/York
Canon Point: After being shot in OOM.
Setting:
Halo/RVB is an extension of the question “what’s really out there?” Years in the future, humans and alien races do end up meeting and the result of this is the start of a war that nearly eliminates the human’s presence in the galaxy. Faced with destruction, different groups of people started different programs to try and combat the fact that without some way to fight back against the Covenant, they would all surely die. In RVB, Leonard Church is given the ability to have free reign over his own project, labeled Project Freelancer. The problem with giving someone free reign over their own project, is that sometimes corners are cut and some of the results aren’t exactly as planned. Only granted the use of a single AI, Church systematically tortured it until it fragmented itself to save itself, and then these fragments were placed in the heads of the Freelancers, one by one.
As a whole, the experiment was largely a failure. People went insane, were unable to function, all sorts of horrible things. One pairing that did not fail, however, was York and Delta. The two of them were extremely lucky, all things considered, and were able to function together extremely well, until an incident with Omega and Texas results in his eye being damaged in some way. Delta and York end up leaving Freelancer and its whole mess behind, until years later Texas finds them once more, this time without Omega, to ask for their help.
Canonly, York dies in the resulting firefight that he and Tex get into with Wyoming. In this AU, however, York survives- barely, and he and Delta escape to live back on their own again, while he recovers. Things don’t proceed as easily as they’d like, however, and at one point, a part of Delta’s code is corrupted and they’re forced to seek a replacement, which means breaking into the very place they’d spent so long trying to escape from- Freelancer Command. The code is acquired from Epsilon, who both had thought dead, and York and Delta are unwilling to leave him behind, resulting in them taking him as well, well aware of the risks that are going to result from that. Just before being kidnapped to Sacrosanct, they’re trying to piece Epsilon together into some kind of fixed state, with limited success.
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From what little is seen of York in the episodes he's in, there are a few obvious conclusions to draw about him as a person.
The first, is that York is a lot like the other Freelancers, in a way, as far as the questionable morals idea goes. When York is first seen, he’s picking locks to a shop, presumably to steal from it. He doesn't seem concerned at all with the idea of stealing when Tex brings it up; to him, it's a way to pay the rent, which is fairly off-handed and said with no sense of guilt. There's also the fact that he's in Freelancer, which, for the entirety of the show, is shown to be a kind of sketchy sort of organization. Church, who'd had dealings with Freelancer previous to this, remarked at one point that they're a bunch of "cold motherfuckers," which is true, in a lot of ways. For York to be in Freelancer and to have been breaking into places for an undetermined amount of time after leaving Freelancer, it is easy to assume that he's perhaps not the kind of person who worries about others views of right and wrong and more follows his own kind of moral code.
York is also a horrible liar, something that's not changed from when he was younger, and in Freelancer, as well. When he first meets Tex again after a while, he kind of stumbles over just what excuse he's going to settle on, waffling around a bit while drawing out his gun; that isn't exactly the action of someone who is a pacifist, and it shows that York is presumably prepared to do Not So Nice things, in order to keep himself and Delta alive.
For someone, though, who is in essentially a secret, not so nice group, surrounded by people who are either perpetually angry, or focused more on revenge, York seems to be more or less the nice guy of them, simply by the way he treats his AI, and the way he treats Texas/Allison. Sure, you first see him breaking in somewhere, but when Tex first meets them after an undetermined amount of time, and is startled to learn that he still has his AI, York is the one to talk Tex down, and assure her that it isn't Delta that's a threat to anyone, here. He's not particularly eloquent, but he handles the situation with ease, telling her, "Oookay, take it easy," in a tone that's clearly not threatened, dealing with Delta and Tex at the same time with kind of dry amusement.
It's clear he has a sense of humor, from the way that both Delta and York chat back and forth- Delta making little subtle digs at him, nothing malicious, and York just dryly countering like he's very used to that. He also can't help but laugh when Delta reminds him that there's still no way he stands any chance against Texas, regardless of if she has Omega or not- sure, it might sting his pride a little (he comments that Omega-Texas were always the best, and no one could beat them) but he seems generally alright with the jibing back and forth.
When he and Tex go to break into whatever the holographic lock is hiding, York makes a little bit of a deal about the fact that in fact, it's not an encrypted lock which is presumably what Tex told him it was, but a holographic lock. The whole reason he brings up this, he says, is for her to realize how kickass he is, being able to do this. In a way, it's a little bit of showing off.
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Much like Tex, one of the first questions that York brings up when asked to help Tex get in somewhere to find Omega is “What’s in it for me.” And instead of any kind of monetary reimbursement, it’s very much the idea of payback that gets him interested. In the past, Omega-Texas had somehow (in a way that wasn’t ever really explained) injured his left eye, which left York at a disadvantage on that side. Delta watches it for him, of course, but there’s still possibly some lingering resentment over this fact. York notes that it’s “still blurry, hurts when I read,” when Tex asks how his eye is doing. The thing about it, is, however, that Tex asks him to help get her in to where she needs to be. She doesn't ask him to help back her up, to stake the place out, to basically go back to doing Freelancer-ish things, save for picking that one lone lock. It's York that slips into the rhythm of it once more, it seems, defaulting to her when it comes to all of this, slipping back into the kind of Freelancer mentality, where they function as a small group. He doesn't have to do any of this; he agrees to get her in, but he furthers this by helping her as he does.
York's relationship with Delta is one that requires some talking about, too. When you take into account the other Freelancers and their AI counterparts, you have people like Epsilon and Wash (who don't get along currently and who suffered from it), Omega and Texas (Tex, who focuses on trying to find a way to kill Omega after the things he's done/will do), Wyoming and Gamma (Gamma, who forcibly removed himself from Wyoming, etc) you have this kind of mess of essentially Bad Things that have resulted from Freelancer experiments. Then, you get introduced to York, who is away from Freelancer, has been living on his own with his AI for an undetermined amount of time, and when Texas sees him, he's not treating Delta with animosity or any sort of mistrust; if anything, he treats Delta like one would treat their best friend; asking for advice, jibing back and forth, playfully. It's a sharp sort of contrast to the rest of the Freelancer/AI pairings, where everything has turned out kind of Bad End, and instead with these two, they get along well, are able to function outside of the mess of Freelancer, working as essentially best friends, treating Delta like a real person instead of an AI fragment.
Abilities and Weaknesses:
York’s an excellent infiltration specialist. Arguably one of the best left over from Freelancer after everything else that went on, when York is paired with Delta, they’re able to get into a lot of things. There’s no canon basis for just what he can or cannot do, considering all that’s shown is Tex asking for his help getting into something that she herself cannot get into. With the timeline and the technology available, I’d venture a guess that York’s extremely capable with all of this sort of thing, regarding technology and locks, encryptions, hacking, etc.
As far as weaknesses go, physically, he’s next to blind in his left eye, which results canonly in York asking Delta for help in watching his left side, knowing he’s weaker on it due to that. He compensates for it, of course, and is used to it, but it still puts him at a disadvantage at times, especially if he’s lacking Delta at any point in time.
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Inventory:
MJOLNIR Mark VI armor + healing agent, a Magnum, an AI chip that holds Delta.
Appearance:
In canon, York’s armor is Mark VI MJOLNIR armor, in a tannish/yellowish color. It’s typical MJOLNIR armor- not as badass as Spartan armor, but still decent, all things considered.
His PB is Gerard Butler, however. He stands at about 6’2, and is decently in shape- not as much as back in the Freelancer days, because he hasn’t had as much reason to be that active, but he does keep himself taken care of. He’s a little scruffy from spending so much time in the armor, though that’s not to say he doesn’t take care of himself at least a little.
Age:
36
AU Justification ;
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across?
He’s not terribly different from how he is in the series. The logs that were done weren’t personality-changing, nor did they take place over terribly long periods of time. York still has a soft spot for AI, still would do anything to help Delta. The main difference is he’s much more careful now, intent on not getting himself and Delta into a situation like before, where they could both end up dying.
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Log Sample:
York wouldn’t consider himself particularly graceful, all things considered. He might be stealthy at times, and he’s used to sneaking around and avoiding being caught, but graceful is kind of a hit or miss idea, only more evidenced by the fact that one minute he’s where he and Delta consider home for that month, and the next he’s hissing out a curse as he finds himself tumbling through a mess of metal and rock and other debris, metal screaming against metal until he finally rolls to a stop against something large and solid, grunting at the impact. Nope, not graceful.
Shaking his head just a little bit, York pushes himself up with a slow blink to try and steady the ache in his head, shifting his right hand a little when he realizes it’s resting on something sharp.
D, what the hell was that? York asks, working his way to his feet gradually, debris shifting and falling underneath him, making him take extra care to work his way up and figure out just what’s going on around them.
Delta’s just as unsure as he is, though, his voice a low hum in the back of York’s mind. Unknown. None of the surrounding area matches where we were before or any area that we’ve been to previously. I--
“Welcome to Sacrosanct. Please watch your step.”
Before the first part is even said, York’s hand is already reaching for his Magnum, fingers closing around the heavy gun, dropping back and pressing against whatever he’d rolled to a stop against earlier, jaw set, looking around to see if he can figure out just what had said that, or, better yet- what the hell was going on.
...Hey, D. Tell me I wasn’t the only one who-
Negative, York, I heard it as well, Delta assures, and some of York’s tension eases just a little bit, as he makes his way around, gun still at the ready, just in case. He’s not sure where they are, but they got here; there has to be a way back, and out.
Network Sample:
[York wiggles his wrist a little bit, feeling somewhat naked without his armor, but he had to get it off to get to the wearable around his wrist, having spent a handful of minutes trying to see just what that thing could do. Delta’d used it to project his hologram, but York settles for voice, for the moment, tone distracted at first.]
These things do all sorts of nifty tricks, don’t they.
[a faint pause; he almost introduces himself, but for the moment, he keeps that to himself; introductions can be worked out later, when he’s figured out more of what’s going on, exactly.]
Seconding the request for UNSC personnel who might be around here. Delta and I been here approximately an hour, and haven’t found any indication of a way back, for one, or a way out. If anyone has any information on this place- Sacrosanct, that’d be appreciated, too. [If anything, he’d be even more grateful for a properly secured channel, but hey, he’ll roll with what he’s got.]
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