app for paradisa
NAME: Pattra
JOURNAL: bhujerba
EMAIL: hidesight at gmail
AIM: calling cavalry
WIKI NAME: none yet...
CHARACTERS: n/a
CHARACTER NAME: Aigis
FANDOM: Persona 3
CANON: Mid-January, before the arrival of Nyx.
WHAT THEY LOST: ORGIA MODE -- Orgia Mode is a battle tactic programmed into Aigis' hard drive. Basically, it's a berserk mode--she gains speed and attack power at the cost of the loss of all sense and reasoning parameters. In tough battles, she is likely to call upon this tactic in order to ensure the safety of those she cares for. To her, the loss of Orgia Mode represents the weakened capability to do what she has chosen to do: protect her friends.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER: Simply put, Aigis is a machine.
She is the last remaining Anti-Shadow Emergency Control Weapon, as produced by the Kirijo Group. She was created among many other "maidens" as robots that could summon their own Personas in order to protect the Kirijo scientists and to destroy any rogue shadows.
Since the summoning of a Persona is entirely based on human flaws, characteristics, and personality, the mind that was inserted into her body was programmed to operate and act like the shape of the body. And thus, a somewhat awkward, yet sharp, well-meaning and fiercely protective persona was born out of the lab.
However, very quickly after her production, something befell the world.
An accident in the lab caused for the premature coming of "Death." The monster destroyed all of Aigis' sisters, and a clean victory was impossible. Aigis was flat-out outclassed and outmatched in almost every manner, but managed to find a way to seal Death away--into the body of a young boy who happened to be standing nearby, on the same road. Her material body torn, pulverized, and useless, the last thing she sees are the blank eyes of an innocent young boy who she has just doomed to certain Death.
She reawakens ten years later with a fresh body and a backup of her personality files. She roams about without the memories of this incident, but because of her human mind, the feelings still linger. She feels... guilt. Like there was something that she had done, for which she must atone. For which she cannot be forgiven. The very moment she sets her eyes on Arisato Minato, she knows--she knows that this is the one human, above all else, that she must protect. At the time, she doesn't know why, but her purely human subconscious does: because, after all, this protection it is the least she can do after sealing him to a fate that no lone human should have to bear.
As her time with Minato and the rest of SEES progresses, more light is shed upon her personality. Despite being a machine, Aigis is a girl who is eager to sense and experience life. She is independent and forthright, she makes attempts at humor and tries to please others. She is a machine that feels happiness, satisfaction, pain, sadness, and despair--but, yet, cannot quite find the parameters to define these feelings. This confusion bothers her, for true human emotion is not something that you can program, no matter how fine the science. Since she does not know how to name the reasons and motivating factors behind these feelings, at one point she simply lets them go. She lets her emotions go because, frankly, such sensations are not meant for a machine to experience.
As wrong as that sounds and as wrong as that is, such an action is something to be expected of a being like Aigis. After all, this final aspect of her cannot be questioned: she is selfless. She is guilt-ridden, and she is selfless. She would do anything--absolutely anything for the people that she cares about. Her own, self-defined purpose in life is to prevent the suffering of her friends and to protect them from the pain that they do not deserve. Life with humans taught her about grace, generosity, love, and friendship--and these experiences, she has decided, are chiefly human. Such little miracles cannot be found among any other life in this universe--and that is why, above all else, she loves humankind.
Especially the one human boy who accepted her despite what she did and what she had to do that fateful night ten years past.
So yes, Aigis is, physically, just a machine. She is made of titanium alloy instead of flesh and silicon oil flows through her like blood. But she is a machine whose purpose is to live her life in a way that she so chooses. In reality? She's just like any other girl who cares about the people she loves.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: ( taken from right before she confronts ryoji on the bridge )This is the purpose for which I was created.
To know and to realize are two completely different things.
She was always different. This is something she always knew but never realized ( until today ).
A machine is created for a purpose. The worth of such a machine is determined by the execution, efficiency, and overall satisfaction with the fulfillment of this purpose.
To her, the way the air felt was different. The sound her feet made as they hit the ground felt different. Her hands felt different. The way she touched things, the way she looked at things. The mechanical sounds of operation versus the sounds of the smooth breathing of her companions. They had feelings, friendship, life, and fluidity. She had a purpose and a confusion as to what it was. She had directives, and no reasons for knowing why ( until today ).
The root of this uneasiness. The end to their suffering.
They were humans going about their, albeit unusual, day-to-day lives. She was a look-alike who could barely understand emotion. She was a look-alike with some indescribable uneasiness--something she could not categorize, something for which there was no "if, then" sequence programmed into her hard drive.
They can die. But I cannot.
This, above all else, was the most important fact that she had learned. They, together, had already lost loved ones, family, and friends. They had made countless sacrifices. Human lives are singular, perfect in the way they are flawed, and operate smoothly without the need for strings and loops. They are one of a kind.
But at the same time, they are delicate. They are fragile. And once lost, there is no repair.
It is for this reason that I will risk this body for the sake of their safety.
But a machine can be rebuilt. And even if the body is pounded to dust, there is always a back-up. There is always a fix.
Something in the back of her mind knows that she will not come out of this in one piece. But she has to try, so that the people that she has fought so long and hard to protect do not have to suffer more than she has already caused them to. After all, there is no value to the life of a machine, because machines don't have lives. Machines have operational expectancies.
They are blood, air, and life. She is silicon oil, motherboards, and wiring.
I do not have a life to lose. And since I can not die, they will not have to grieve for me.
Her will cannot be broken. And as she sets her eyes on the dark-haired boy with his long, yellow scarf, standing alone on the Moonlight Bridge, her mechanical hands fold neatly together in a fist without strain.
"I have been searching for you," she states. "What are you doing here?"
And when he asks who she is, she responds without hesitation: "I am--" ( --the machine that has at last found its purpose-- ) "--Aigis. The last remaining Anti-Shadow Emergency Control Weapon."
FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: [ voice ]
[ the sound of something being hit, followed by a ( somewhat irritated ) robotic female voice: ] What is the meaning of this?
[ she opens the door and looks around. seeing no other signs of life, she resorts to the good old call and response: ] Is there anyone out there? Where are my friends?
[ her calls are followed by the sound of a distinct, mechanical whirring. it sounds as if something is being armed. then, quietly: ] Should the perpetrator of this kidnapping be about, be warned. I will not take this lightly.
INTENT: oh god ah i'm not totally sure but i'm super excited to play with the pre-existing persona cast, as well as probably stirring shit up with any outright bad guys in the IC paradisa neighborhood.
JOURNAL: bhujerba
EMAIL: hidesight at gmail
AIM: calling cavalry
WIKI NAME: none yet...
CHARACTERS: n/a
CHARACTER NAME: Aigis
FANDOM: Persona 3
CANON: Mid-January, before the arrival of Nyx.
WHAT THEY LOST: ORGIA MODE -- Orgia Mode is a battle tactic programmed into Aigis' hard drive. Basically, it's a berserk mode--she gains speed and attack power at the cost of the loss of all sense and reasoning parameters. In tough battles, she is likely to call upon this tactic in order to ensure the safety of those she cares for. To her, the loss of Orgia Mode represents the weakened capability to do what she has chosen to do: protect her friends.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER: Simply put, Aigis is a machine.
She is the last remaining Anti-Shadow Emergency Control Weapon, as produced by the Kirijo Group. She was created among many other "maidens" as robots that could summon their own Personas in order to protect the Kirijo scientists and to destroy any rogue shadows.
Since the summoning of a Persona is entirely based on human flaws, characteristics, and personality, the mind that was inserted into her body was programmed to operate and act like the shape of the body. And thus, a somewhat awkward, yet sharp, well-meaning and fiercely protective persona was born out of the lab.
However, very quickly after her production, something befell the world.
An accident in the lab caused for the premature coming of "Death." The monster destroyed all of Aigis' sisters, and a clean victory was impossible. Aigis was flat-out outclassed and outmatched in almost every manner, but managed to find a way to seal Death away--into the body of a young boy who happened to be standing nearby, on the same road. Her material body torn, pulverized, and useless, the last thing she sees are the blank eyes of an innocent young boy who she has just doomed to certain Death.
She reawakens ten years later with a fresh body and a backup of her personality files. She roams about without the memories of this incident, but because of her human mind, the feelings still linger. She feels... guilt. Like there was something that she had done, for which she must atone. For which she cannot be forgiven. The very moment she sets her eyes on Arisato Minato, she knows--she knows that this is the one human, above all else, that she must protect. At the time, she doesn't know why, but her purely human subconscious does: because, after all, this protection it is the least she can do after sealing him to a fate that no lone human should have to bear.
As her time with Minato and the rest of SEES progresses, more light is shed upon her personality. Despite being a machine, Aigis is a girl who is eager to sense and experience life. She is independent and forthright, she makes attempts at humor and tries to please others. She is a machine that feels happiness, satisfaction, pain, sadness, and despair--but, yet, cannot quite find the parameters to define these feelings. This confusion bothers her, for true human emotion is not something that you can program, no matter how fine the science. Since she does not know how to name the reasons and motivating factors behind these feelings, at one point she simply lets them go. She lets her emotions go because, frankly, such sensations are not meant for a machine to experience.
As wrong as that sounds and as wrong as that is, such an action is something to be expected of a being like Aigis. After all, this final aspect of her cannot be questioned: she is selfless. She is guilt-ridden, and she is selfless. She would do anything--absolutely anything for the people that she cares about. Her own, self-defined purpose in life is to prevent the suffering of her friends and to protect them from the pain that they do not deserve. Life with humans taught her about grace, generosity, love, and friendship--and these experiences, she has decided, are chiefly human. Such little miracles cannot be found among any other life in this universe--and that is why, above all else, she loves humankind.
Especially the one human boy who accepted her despite what she did and what she had to do that fateful night ten years past.
So yes, Aigis is, physically, just a machine. She is made of titanium alloy instead of flesh and silicon oil flows through her like blood. But she is a machine whose purpose is to live her life in a way that she so chooses. In reality? She's just like any other girl who cares about the people she loves.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: ( taken from right before she confronts ryoji on the bridge )This is the purpose for which I was created.
To know and to realize are two completely different things.
She was always different. This is something she always knew but never realized ( until today ).
A machine is created for a purpose. The worth of such a machine is determined by the execution, efficiency, and overall satisfaction with the fulfillment of this purpose.
To her, the way the air felt was different. The sound her feet made as they hit the ground felt different. Her hands felt different. The way she touched things, the way she looked at things. The mechanical sounds of operation versus the sounds of the smooth breathing of her companions. They had feelings, friendship, life, and fluidity. She had a purpose and a confusion as to what it was. She had directives, and no reasons for knowing why ( until today ).
The root of this uneasiness. The end to their suffering.
They were humans going about their, albeit unusual, day-to-day lives. She was a look-alike who could barely understand emotion. She was a look-alike with some indescribable uneasiness--something she could not categorize, something for which there was no "if, then" sequence programmed into her hard drive.
They can die. But I cannot.
This, above all else, was the most important fact that she had learned. They, together, had already lost loved ones, family, and friends. They had made countless sacrifices. Human lives are singular, perfect in the way they are flawed, and operate smoothly without the need for strings and loops. They are one of a kind.
But at the same time, they are delicate. They are fragile. And once lost, there is no repair.
It is for this reason that I will risk this body for the sake of their safety.
But a machine can be rebuilt. And even if the body is pounded to dust, there is always a back-up. There is always a fix.
Something in the back of her mind knows that she will not come out of this in one piece. But she has to try, so that the people that she has fought so long and hard to protect do not have to suffer more than she has already caused them to. After all, there is no value to the life of a machine, because machines don't have lives. Machines have operational expectancies.
They are blood, air, and life. She is silicon oil, motherboards, and wiring.
I do not have a life to lose. And since I can not die, they will not have to grieve for me.
Her will cannot be broken. And as she sets her eyes on the dark-haired boy with his long, yellow scarf, standing alone on the Moonlight Bridge, her mechanical hands fold neatly together in a fist without strain.
"I have been searching for you," she states. "What are you doing here?"
And when he asks who she is, she responds without hesitation: "I am--" ( --the machine that has at last found its purpose-- ) "--Aigis. The last remaining Anti-Shadow Emergency Control Weapon."
FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: [ voice ]
[ the sound of something being hit, followed by a ( somewhat irritated ) robotic female voice: ] What is the meaning of this?
[ she opens the door and looks around. seeing no other signs of life, she resorts to the good old call and response: ] Is there anyone out there? Where are my friends?
[ her calls are followed by the sound of a distinct, mechanical whirring. it sounds as if something is being armed. then, quietly: ] Should the perpetrator of this kidnapping be about, be warned. I will not take this lightly.
INTENT: oh god ah i'm not totally sure but i'm super excited to play with the pre-existing persona cast, as well as probably stirring shit up with any outright bad guys in the IC paradisa neighborhood.