Application
Your name/handle: Dawn, writingdawn
Your e-mail address: dawn@ccaonline.com
Application Type: Feature Character
Character being applied for: Yori
Short History (visible is the same):
Yori comes from the Encom mainframe, where her own User, Lora Bradley, designed her to run efficient simulations. After the defeat of the MCP, Kevin Flynn loaded her into the Grid as one of a small, tightly-knit group of programs who have charge of digitization tasks. Yori checks the accuracy and stability of digitized data as it enters or leaves the Grid.
During the cycles when the digitization laser is offline, she acted as a pilot, bringing programs and data to and from the Tower. She likes small ships better than the larger cargo carriers, but has adequate subroutines for both. Her routes were strictly limited to short trips, since the User's appearances were never very predictable and came without much warning. Yori spent as much time as possible with Tron, around both of their duties.
When Clu attacked Flynn, it took a long time for the news to reach the digitization programs, because they were waiting all the way out in the Portal Tower as usual. After the Portal itself locked down with Flynn still inside the Grid, Yori set out to find Tron or Flynn. News of Tron's death found her first, in the form of panicking Isos.
She's helping the Isos as much as she can now, for Tron's sake, and searching for Flynn, in hopes that he knows how to trigger the Portal--she can get him there, if he can open it or get some other User to do so. But Users all, she's going to derez Clu. If he's lucky.
Additional notes:
Yori is not a publicly known figure, what with spending so much time out by the Portal. Clu would know her, but otherwise she can get by with minimal disguise. She doesn't want anyone to recognize her, and is therefore going by the name Trace. She has high-level piloting permissions, but only as long as Clu doesn't find out she's out appropriating vehicles, so she saves that option for emergencies.
As a specialist in simulations, Yori is very, very good at making both things and programs change their appearance. Specifically, she is setting up hideouts for Isos, and disguising them.
Face Claim (include at least one picture):
Yori has standard blue-lit energy lines, most of the time. She has only light armor, being built more for efficiency and speed than combat of any kind. There were a few upgrades just before the move to the Grid, but Flynn hasn't messed with the digitization programs since then. They're really Lora's code, and he won't risk breaking what works.
Character's Journal: yorisearching.livejournal.com
IC AIM Screenname: yorisearching
Writing Sample:
Making an entrance completely invisible from every angle, shaping adequate living space from the fragmented data of the Outlands, diverting trickles of energy from a dozen different gridlines for a steady supply--that's the easy part. Deciding who should get access, out of all the desperate programs fleeing Clu's crash-stupid reforms, is nearly impossible.
Especially when any Iso she refuses to trust has something higher than a fifty percent chance of being caught and derezzed within cycles.
Yori has run the logic through a hundred times, and the only solid conclusion she has is that no one should know about more than one of her well-hidden refuges. No one, including her.
It's all delay, Yori knows that too well, delay and retreat and hide. Not a good strategy for winning back a system. If Tron were here...
But he isn't, and he won't be.
If she keeps reminding herself of that, maybe eventually she'll believe it.
Her identity disk lies in front of her, open to her manipulation. She doesn't try for finesse. The half-cycle that she spent finding increasingly creative phrasing to curse Clu (may the Users delete him) appears in her memory several dozen times already, and if that glitch ever catches her for interrogation she hopes he enjoys hearing it. Over and over.
It's a messy overwrite, inelegant. She's no programmer. But all that matters is that there won't be any trace of the memory-logs underneath. The five Isos she led to her latest cave in the Outlands will be safe there for as long as they're willing to hide.
She could wish the conflict of data didn't hurt quite so much.
Yori squeezes her eyes closed, and replaces the disk in its port, allowing it full access and write-privilege. It reacts at once, pulling power from her system to correct the perceived inaccuracies.
Sparks in the darkness, and then nothing at all for long moments.
Your e-mail address: dawn@ccaonline.com
Application Type: Feature Character
Character being applied for: Yori
Short History (visible is the same):
Yori comes from the Encom mainframe, where her own User, Lora Bradley, designed her to run efficient simulations. After the defeat of the MCP, Kevin Flynn loaded her into the Grid as one of a small, tightly-knit group of programs who have charge of digitization tasks. Yori checks the accuracy and stability of digitized data as it enters or leaves the Grid.
During the cycles when the digitization laser is offline, she acted as a pilot, bringing programs and data to and from the Tower. She likes small ships better than the larger cargo carriers, but has adequate subroutines for both. Her routes were strictly limited to short trips, since the User's appearances were never very predictable and came without much warning. Yori spent as much time as possible with Tron, around both of their duties.
When Clu attacked Flynn, it took a long time for the news to reach the digitization programs, because they were waiting all the way out in the Portal Tower as usual. After the Portal itself locked down with Flynn still inside the Grid, Yori set out to find Tron or Flynn. News of Tron's death found her first, in the form of panicking Isos.
She's helping the Isos as much as she can now, for Tron's sake, and searching for Flynn, in hopes that he knows how to trigger the Portal--she can get him there, if he can open it or get some other User to do so. But Users all, she's going to derez Clu. If he's lucky.
Additional notes:
Yori is not a publicly known figure, what with spending so much time out by the Portal. Clu would know her, but otherwise she can get by with minimal disguise. She doesn't want anyone to recognize her, and is therefore going by the name Trace. She has high-level piloting permissions, but only as long as Clu doesn't find out she's out appropriating vehicles, so she saves that option for emergencies.
As a specialist in simulations, Yori is very, very good at making both things and programs change their appearance. Specifically, she is setting up hideouts for Isos, and disguising them.
Face Claim (include at least one picture):
Yori has standard blue-lit energy lines, most of the time. She has only light armor, being built more for efficiency and speed than combat of any kind. There were a few upgrades just before the move to the Grid, but Flynn hasn't messed with the digitization programs since then. They're really Lora's code, and he won't risk breaking what works.
Character's Journal: yorisearching.livejournal.com
IC AIM Screenname: yorisearching
Writing Sample:
Making an entrance completely invisible from every angle, shaping adequate living space from the fragmented data of the Outlands, diverting trickles of energy from a dozen different gridlines for a steady supply--that's the easy part. Deciding who should get access, out of all the desperate programs fleeing Clu's crash-stupid reforms, is nearly impossible.
Especially when any Iso she refuses to trust has something higher than a fifty percent chance of being caught and derezzed within cycles.
Yori has run the logic through a hundred times, and the only solid conclusion she has is that no one should know about more than one of her well-hidden refuges. No one, including her.
It's all delay, Yori knows that too well, delay and retreat and hide. Not a good strategy for winning back a system. If Tron were here...
But he isn't, and he won't be.
If she keeps reminding herself of that, maybe eventually she'll believe it.
Her identity disk lies in front of her, open to her manipulation. She doesn't try for finesse. The half-cycle that she spent finding increasingly creative phrasing to curse Clu (may the Users delete him) appears in her memory several dozen times already, and if that glitch ever catches her for interrogation she hopes he enjoys hearing it. Over and over.
It's a messy overwrite, inelegant. She's no programmer. But all that matters is that there won't be any trace of the memory-logs underneath. The five Isos she led to her latest cave in the Outlands will be safe there for as long as they're willing to hide.
She could wish the conflict of data didn't hurt quite so much.
Yori squeezes her eyes closed, and replaces the disk in its port, allowing it full access and write-privilege. It reacts at once, pulling power from her system to correct the perceived inaccuracies.
Sparks in the darkness, and then nothing at all for long moments.