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Your Name: Noe
OOC Journal:arwen_aileon
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: No, 20 years old
Email + IM: arwenaileon@gmail.com
Characters Played at Ataraxion: n/a
C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Leo Elster
Canon: Humans
Original or Alternate Universe: n/a
Canon Point: End of 1x07
Setting: Wiki article. Basically, it's a "everything is the same except humans have anthropomorphic robots called synths that do pretty much everything for them".
History:
Leo is the son of David Elster, one of the scientist who created Synths, and Beatrice, a young woman who fell victim to an unmentioned illness and had grave mental issues. Not satisfied with just simple robots, David wanted to create ones that could think and feel like humans did. So when his wife’s illness got worse and he couldn’t take care of Leo, he found the perfect chance to do so and created the first one, Mia, who ended up being like a mother to Leo. As he grew up, more followed who were more like a family to him than his father and mother were, since his father was always too focused on moving on to the next project and his mother… well, she was in no condition to care for her son. Life kept going just as usual, with young Leo and his now brothers and sisters always locked in the house, not allowed to leave. Until one day, when his mother escaped from her nurse’s watch. She grabbed Leo and set out in the car, but they ended up crashing and falling into a nearby lake. Mia tried to save him, to bring him back to the surface, but she was too late: he had been in the water for too long and, quite soon after getting to the hospital Leo Elster was declared brain dead. Yet his father wasn’t willing to let his son die and released him from the hospital. Unknown to everyone else, his son would soon be the next test subject to his theories and experiments. He spent weeks implanting synthetic technology inside his head, making sure to save whatever memories he could from his brain and passing them over to the new one, wiring him down for power to make sure it worked. Then, he brought his son back to life, now as half synth, half human, with a brain that could never forget anything at all.
But the calmness after Leo’s “revival” didn’t exactly last for long. A couple of years after the accident in the lake and Beatrice’s death, his father went as far as creating a Synth that looked like exactly like his deceased wife. It was no surprise that his son didn’t take it well at all and noticing that he had made a mistake, David casted the new Synth out, told Leo to take care of the others and then killed himself. The young Elster and the other Synths were left to survive as best as they could, running away from Hobbs, a scientist that knew what David had created, and being well aware that humans would have a hard time accepting what they were. It’s unclear for how long they managed to remain relatively safe until some Headcrackers (people who hack and corrupt synths for a living or a hobby) caught Mia, Fred and Niska, leaving Leo and Maxie to look for them. Fred was sold to a farm, while Niska to a brothel, yet they were quick to make contact despite their situations, but Mia had been modified and resold, so getting her back turned out to be a lot harder than initially thought: her code, what made her who she was, was turned into pure sensory data and made to loop in and out of her system constantly, replaced by a standard domestic profile. Thanks to the older daughter of the Hawkins, the family Mia was sold to, attempting to hack Mia, finding her root code and posting it online Leo and Max were able to find her. Mattie Hawkins agreed to meet them, but Elster’s action made him weary and she ran away from them, leaving them back in square one except for one tiny detail: Maxie had found an executable file inside Mia’s root code, one neither of them knew of. So their next move was looking for someone who might know what it was, someone who worked with David Elster. That person turned out to be George Millican, who identified the code as one of the secret messages that David usually left hidden inside his work, except this one was incomplete.
As soon as they had gotten the information they needed, Leo decided to try the executable file on himself despite it being incomplete and all he could say to his brother once he was out of it was that it felt like life. They began to suspect that this program was the key to bring consciousness to other synths, to create others like them, but the program needed all of the sentient synths that David Elster had created for it to work. Meanwhile, Fred got captured by Hobb’s men and failed to make contact with his family members. Niska, because of this, was told by Leo to stay in the brothel despite her dislike for it, all because Leo truly thought that being there would be safe. In the end, Niska ended up spanning, killing a man and running away from the brothel. The killing made the police start looking for her and she was forced to hide with George, whom Leo thought could be trustworthy enough to not hand in Niska.
Despite their first attempt failing and him giving up, they later managed to bring Mia back thanks to her resurfacing for enough time to leave Mattie with a clue on where her code was. But once they had finally managed to do so and both Fred and Niska had gotten away from their captors, the family was back in the Hawkins’ residence trying to fix Maxie who had been damaged when he and Leo were going to meet up with Fred, all thanks to Joe Hakwin calling the police on them. Just as they were about to make some progress with their little brother with the use of the code inside their heads that could give other Synths thoughts and feelings, the Hawkins’ found out that Niska had killed people while running away and casted them out of the house. As Leo was getting his things ready to leave, he found the Synth who looked like his deceased mother, now named Karen, standing in the kitchen promising that they could all leave together peacefully and without running away. It all turned out to be Hobb’s trap, with whom Karen had allied with, and all five of them were captured.
Personality:
Leo is not the easiest person to deal with: he acts like a cold, isolated person that would rather stay as far away from humans as possible, being sarcastic or sometimes coming out as someone that’s very weird or even desperate to get what he wants. He hasn’t had an easy life, with a famous father and a mother with a very serious mental illness that caused them to live in a secluded place. As if dying and being brought back to life hadn’t been traumatic enough, he had to get used to living with a synthetic brain, one that couldn’t forget anything at all and seemed to love replaying his death over and over again whenever he tried to sleep. It’s his synthetic brain and the memories he always carries with him what burdens him the most thanks to how clear he remembers everything, almost as if living it all over again. He doesn’t feel like he’s even remotely ready, neither emotionally nor mentally, to be able to remember everything with so much detail, as he firmly believes that humans are supposed to enhance the good memories and affect the bad ones to make them easier to deal with, which is shown mostly through his clear nightmares of his death. Because of these, despite his tough exterior, he’s actually quite emotional because his memories are triggered easily and he doesn’t deal very well with the past and how often he gets all his mistakes replayed again and again.
Thanks to being pretty much raised by the first sentient synth his father created, he thinks of Mia, Fred, Niska and Max as his family and his views on what humanity is are quite different than what most people usually think. Many believe that synths are a danger to humans, that they steal their humanity and their jobs. This hate leads to there being underground groups of people that get synths just to destroy them and organizations that rally against synths’ existence, so Leo has more than enough reason to feel like they have to hide. He truly feels like people wouldn’t understand what he and the others are and that the only thing they can do is run and hide, yet he never abandons the hope of finding a safe place, somewhere they can be free and safe without worrying about Hobb’s men hunting them down or those that would not think twice about destroying them. Thanks to this, Leo doesn’t have much faith in humanity, something that even Max tells to the Hawkins as an excuse for his brother’s not so pleasant behavior when offered help. His distrust towards humans probably has to do with his relationship with his parents, too: his father, according to Fred, was always working, finishing every project only to move along to the next one as soon as possible and didn’t show much care for either Leo or the synths he created; his mother was someone he never had much contact with thanks to her illness, and her involvement in his death along with his father’s creation of a synth who looks just like his dead mother but isn’t her at all, also leaves him feeling with a lot of conflicted feelings about his mother. While it is unknown what happened to him and the others while on the run, it’s clear that it did nothing but further his distrust for humans.
There is also the added fact that he doesn’t even know how to deal with humans either, which certainly doesn’t help much. While he’s relatively good at pretending, such as when he goes find information about Mia, it’s true that he doesn’t know much about dealing with people in the first place, more so when he’s desperate. Mattie tells him that he’s weird the second time that they speak, something to which Leo agrees a bit later. He immediately assumes that no one would be able to help when it comes to getting Mia back, because who would know as much as he does about synths? Admitting that someone can do something he wants, as he does with Mattie when she asks her to keep Maxie’s energy power from depleting, is not something he does lightly at all, especially when it comes to his family. Of course it’s also worth noting that he doesn’t do that until she “proves herself” in a way, by making a suggestion that proves to be the correct way to bring Mia back to her normal personality. Leo is the kind of person who puts a little too much weight on his shoulders. He tries to do everything by himself, as mentioned before, because he doesn’t trust others at all. Sometimes, he even has a hard time in letting his own family help him and neglects caring for himself: even when injured and about to run out of power and die he keeps talking about how important it is to rescue the others, to get the family back together. He tries to put on a hard exterior for them because he’s the one responsible for their safety, so he never lets his weaknesses show and, as a result, he always comes out as a bit of a cold and hard to deal with kind of person. Because of recent events he feels guilty because even though he tried his best to make a good life for the ones he loves, he has failed miserably. There is no hope for them to have a normal life, a safe one, and despite trying so hard to negate it and figure out a way to make a new home for them, he keeps failing. They get captured, Mia’s personality almost gets erased, and Max is close to losing his life. Everything is wrong and he feels like it is his fault, that he didn’t do as good as he should have.
Despite the tough exterior, Leo is pretty much just a child who was thrown into a world he hardly knew about with a big responsibility trusted upon him. He has no idea how to deal with it or how to interact with the world, all thanks to spending his life with close to no interaction with other humans and then only having bad ones when he did get to meet other humans. He tries to hide his emotions and the effect that the way his memory works has on him but yet he couldn’t help but let them take a better hold of him when faced against Karen once again. He hardly hesitated to grab the hand of the Synth that looked just like his mother when he should’ve followed his better judgement and push her away once again. All because he just wanted to believe that there was a chance that they could all live happily and free without worrying about what the world might do to them.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations: Leo’s brain is part synthetic, so it behaves almost like a computer. It records everything he experiences so his memories are perfect down to the last detail. He’s also very good at coding and programming, although he specializes on synths: he knows how to hack into them and modify them, as well as fixing them if they have software of hardware problems. There is a big downside to having a part synthetic brain and that is that he needs to keep it charged or else his entire brain will stop working. He has wires going from his brain to his side, ending on a cut that he needs to keep open in order to be able to charge. Because of this, he can be prone to getting the wound infected if he doesn’t take care of it properly by keeping it clean and bandaged.
Inventory:
1 bag
1 laptop with it’s charger
1 set of cables he uses to charge himself
1 picture of Mia
1 jacket
1 pair of trousers
1 shirt
2 t-shirts
1 pair of shoes
Species/Race: Human with a part synthetic brain.
Appearance: PB Colin Morgan
Age: 21
AU Clarification: n/a
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
[He hadn’t been so sure of what to expect when he first arrived to the base camp, but he certainly did hope there was something… more than what he was seeing. It ended up reminding him of the toughest days of him and his family running away, rather than a place where people had actually been living in for some time already. But it is buzzing with life and others doing their own thing, knowing exactly what they had to do and how to do it. It left Leo feeling even more lost… And really wishing Mia, Fred and Max were there, with him. Thinking about them brought a big ache on his chest because he knew this wasn’t where he was supposed to be. He had to find a way to get them all out of the mess he had gotten them into…
Either way, he’s aware that being frozen in place and letting his memories get the best of him isn’t the best course of action. After all, there were many things he had to worry about like figuring out how he was going to charge and keep himself alive. Leo let out a sigh and began to approach the place where the tents were. He starts to poke into the tents, to check if they are occupied or not.]
Maybe I’ll have to end up building one myself…
[He says that mostly to himself, since so far he has pretty much paid no attention to the people around him, so he doesn’t notice that there might be someone around wondering why this new person is checking out inside the tents.]
Comms Sample:
[It takes a while for Leo to write his first message, not because of not knowing how to use it but because he really had no reason to use it before. But his curiosity is starting to get the best out of him and if there was a way that he could get back home, to his family, he was willing to do anything.]
so far ive been told that the ship we woke up in used to be functional and then crashed. has it been salvaged yet? what kind of technology was there and is it possible to get it up and running again? i mean, if the mirrors managed to keep themselves working, itd make sense if other things were too.
there is a lot of advanced technology there, more advanced than anything ive ever seen before and i have a hard time believing it got completely destroyed. there has to be more there. who knows, there might even be a way to get the thing working again, to let us go home.
Your Name: Noe
OOC Journal:
arwen_aileonUnder 18? If yes, what is your age?: No, 20 years old
Email + IM: arwenaileon@gmail.com
Characters Played at Ataraxion: n/a
C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Leo Elster
Canon: Humans
Original or Alternate Universe: n/a
Canon Point: End of 1x07
Setting: Wiki article. Basically, it's a "everything is the same except humans have anthropomorphic robots called synths that do pretty much everything for them".
History:
Leo is the son of David Elster, one of the scientist who created Synths, and Beatrice, a young woman who fell victim to an unmentioned illness and had grave mental issues. Not satisfied with just simple robots, David wanted to create ones that could think and feel like humans did. So when his wife’s illness got worse and he couldn’t take care of Leo, he found the perfect chance to do so and created the first one, Mia, who ended up being like a mother to Leo. As he grew up, more followed who were more like a family to him than his father and mother were, since his father was always too focused on moving on to the next project and his mother… well, she was in no condition to care for her son. Life kept going just as usual, with young Leo and his now brothers and sisters always locked in the house, not allowed to leave. Until one day, when his mother escaped from her nurse’s watch. She grabbed Leo and set out in the car, but they ended up crashing and falling into a nearby lake. Mia tried to save him, to bring him back to the surface, but she was too late: he had been in the water for too long and, quite soon after getting to the hospital Leo Elster was declared brain dead. Yet his father wasn’t willing to let his son die and released him from the hospital. Unknown to everyone else, his son would soon be the next test subject to his theories and experiments. He spent weeks implanting synthetic technology inside his head, making sure to save whatever memories he could from his brain and passing them over to the new one, wiring him down for power to make sure it worked. Then, he brought his son back to life, now as half synth, half human, with a brain that could never forget anything at all.
But the calmness after Leo’s “revival” didn’t exactly last for long. A couple of years after the accident in the lake and Beatrice’s death, his father went as far as creating a Synth that looked like exactly like his deceased wife. It was no surprise that his son didn’t take it well at all and noticing that he had made a mistake, David casted the new Synth out, told Leo to take care of the others and then killed himself. The young Elster and the other Synths were left to survive as best as they could, running away from Hobbs, a scientist that knew what David had created, and being well aware that humans would have a hard time accepting what they were. It’s unclear for how long they managed to remain relatively safe until some Headcrackers (people who hack and corrupt synths for a living or a hobby) caught Mia, Fred and Niska, leaving Leo and Maxie to look for them. Fred was sold to a farm, while Niska to a brothel, yet they were quick to make contact despite their situations, but Mia had been modified and resold, so getting her back turned out to be a lot harder than initially thought: her code, what made her who she was, was turned into pure sensory data and made to loop in and out of her system constantly, replaced by a standard domestic profile. Thanks to the older daughter of the Hawkins, the family Mia was sold to, attempting to hack Mia, finding her root code and posting it online Leo and Max were able to find her. Mattie Hawkins agreed to meet them, but Elster’s action made him weary and she ran away from them, leaving them back in square one except for one tiny detail: Maxie had found an executable file inside Mia’s root code, one neither of them knew of. So their next move was looking for someone who might know what it was, someone who worked with David Elster. That person turned out to be George Millican, who identified the code as one of the secret messages that David usually left hidden inside his work, except this one was incomplete.
As soon as they had gotten the information they needed, Leo decided to try the executable file on himself despite it being incomplete and all he could say to his brother once he was out of it was that it felt like life. They began to suspect that this program was the key to bring consciousness to other synths, to create others like them, but the program needed all of the sentient synths that David Elster had created for it to work. Meanwhile, Fred got captured by Hobb’s men and failed to make contact with his family members. Niska, because of this, was told by Leo to stay in the brothel despite her dislike for it, all because Leo truly thought that being there would be safe. In the end, Niska ended up spanning, killing a man and running away from the brothel. The killing made the police start looking for her and she was forced to hide with George, whom Leo thought could be trustworthy enough to not hand in Niska.
Despite their first attempt failing and him giving up, they later managed to bring Mia back thanks to her resurfacing for enough time to leave Mattie with a clue on where her code was. But once they had finally managed to do so and both Fred and Niska had gotten away from their captors, the family was back in the Hawkins’ residence trying to fix Maxie who had been damaged when he and Leo were going to meet up with Fred, all thanks to Joe Hakwin calling the police on them. Just as they were about to make some progress with their little brother with the use of the code inside their heads that could give other Synths thoughts and feelings, the Hawkins’ found out that Niska had killed people while running away and casted them out of the house. As Leo was getting his things ready to leave, he found the Synth who looked like his deceased mother, now named Karen, standing in the kitchen promising that they could all leave together peacefully and without running away. It all turned out to be Hobb’s trap, with whom Karen had allied with, and all five of them were captured.
Personality:
Leo is not the easiest person to deal with: he acts like a cold, isolated person that would rather stay as far away from humans as possible, being sarcastic or sometimes coming out as someone that’s very weird or even desperate to get what he wants. He hasn’t had an easy life, with a famous father and a mother with a very serious mental illness that caused them to live in a secluded place. As if dying and being brought back to life hadn’t been traumatic enough, he had to get used to living with a synthetic brain, one that couldn’t forget anything at all and seemed to love replaying his death over and over again whenever he tried to sleep. It’s his synthetic brain and the memories he always carries with him what burdens him the most thanks to how clear he remembers everything, almost as if living it all over again. He doesn’t feel like he’s even remotely ready, neither emotionally nor mentally, to be able to remember everything with so much detail, as he firmly believes that humans are supposed to enhance the good memories and affect the bad ones to make them easier to deal with, which is shown mostly through his clear nightmares of his death. Because of these, despite his tough exterior, he’s actually quite emotional because his memories are triggered easily and he doesn’t deal very well with the past and how often he gets all his mistakes replayed again and again.
Thanks to being pretty much raised by the first sentient synth his father created, he thinks of Mia, Fred, Niska and Max as his family and his views on what humanity is are quite different than what most people usually think. Many believe that synths are a danger to humans, that they steal their humanity and their jobs. This hate leads to there being underground groups of people that get synths just to destroy them and organizations that rally against synths’ existence, so Leo has more than enough reason to feel like they have to hide. He truly feels like people wouldn’t understand what he and the others are and that the only thing they can do is run and hide, yet he never abandons the hope of finding a safe place, somewhere they can be free and safe without worrying about Hobb’s men hunting them down or those that would not think twice about destroying them. Thanks to this, Leo doesn’t have much faith in humanity, something that even Max tells to the Hawkins as an excuse for his brother’s not so pleasant behavior when offered help. His distrust towards humans probably has to do with his relationship with his parents, too: his father, according to Fred, was always working, finishing every project only to move along to the next one as soon as possible and didn’t show much care for either Leo or the synths he created; his mother was someone he never had much contact with thanks to her illness, and her involvement in his death along with his father’s creation of a synth who looks just like his dead mother but isn’t her at all, also leaves him feeling with a lot of conflicted feelings about his mother. While it is unknown what happened to him and the others while on the run, it’s clear that it did nothing but further his distrust for humans.
There is also the added fact that he doesn’t even know how to deal with humans either, which certainly doesn’t help much. While he’s relatively good at pretending, such as when he goes find information about Mia, it’s true that he doesn’t know much about dealing with people in the first place, more so when he’s desperate. Mattie tells him that he’s weird the second time that they speak, something to which Leo agrees a bit later. He immediately assumes that no one would be able to help when it comes to getting Mia back, because who would know as much as he does about synths? Admitting that someone can do something he wants, as he does with Mattie when she asks her to keep Maxie’s energy power from depleting, is not something he does lightly at all, especially when it comes to his family. Of course it’s also worth noting that he doesn’t do that until she “proves herself” in a way, by making a suggestion that proves to be the correct way to bring Mia back to her normal personality. Leo is the kind of person who puts a little too much weight on his shoulders. He tries to do everything by himself, as mentioned before, because he doesn’t trust others at all. Sometimes, he even has a hard time in letting his own family help him and neglects caring for himself: even when injured and about to run out of power and die he keeps talking about how important it is to rescue the others, to get the family back together. He tries to put on a hard exterior for them because he’s the one responsible for their safety, so he never lets his weaknesses show and, as a result, he always comes out as a bit of a cold and hard to deal with kind of person. Because of recent events he feels guilty because even though he tried his best to make a good life for the ones he loves, he has failed miserably. There is no hope for them to have a normal life, a safe one, and despite trying so hard to negate it and figure out a way to make a new home for them, he keeps failing. They get captured, Mia’s personality almost gets erased, and Max is close to losing his life. Everything is wrong and he feels like it is his fault, that he didn’t do as good as he should have.
Despite the tough exterior, Leo is pretty much just a child who was thrown into a world he hardly knew about with a big responsibility trusted upon him. He has no idea how to deal with it or how to interact with the world, all thanks to spending his life with close to no interaction with other humans and then only having bad ones when he did get to meet other humans. He tries to hide his emotions and the effect that the way his memory works has on him but yet he couldn’t help but let them take a better hold of him when faced against Karen once again. He hardly hesitated to grab the hand of the Synth that looked just like his mother when he should’ve followed his better judgement and push her away once again. All because he just wanted to believe that there was a chance that they could all live happily and free without worrying about what the world might do to them.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations: Leo’s brain is part synthetic, so it behaves almost like a computer. It records everything he experiences so his memories are perfect down to the last detail. He’s also very good at coding and programming, although he specializes on synths: he knows how to hack into them and modify them, as well as fixing them if they have software of hardware problems. There is a big downside to having a part synthetic brain and that is that he needs to keep it charged or else his entire brain will stop working. He has wires going from his brain to his side, ending on a cut that he needs to keep open in order to be able to charge. Because of this, he can be prone to getting the wound infected if he doesn’t take care of it properly by keeping it clean and bandaged.
Inventory:
1 bag
1 laptop with it’s charger
1 set of cables he uses to charge himself
1 picture of Mia
1 jacket
1 pair of trousers
1 shirt
2 t-shirts
1 pair of shoes
Species/Race: Human with a part synthetic brain.
Appearance: PB Colin Morgan
Age: 21
AU Clarification: n/a
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
[He hadn’t been so sure of what to expect when he first arrived to the base camp, but he certainly did hope there was something… more than what he was seeing. It ended up reminding him of the toughest days of him and his family running away, rather than a place where people had actually been living in for some time already. But it is buzzing with life and others doing their own thing, knowing exactly what they had to do and how to do it. It left Leo feeling even more lost… And really wishing Mia, Fred and Max were there, with him. Thinking about them brought a big ache on his chest because he knew this wasn’t where he was supposed to be. He had to find a way to get them all out of the mess he had gotten them into…
Either way, he’s aware that being frozen in place and letting his memories get the best of him isn’t the best course of action. After all, there were many things he had to worry about like figuring out how he was going to charge and keep himself alive. Leo let out a sigh and began to approach the place where the tents were. He starts to poke into the tents, to check if they are occupied or not.]
Maybe I’ll have to end up building one myself…
[He says that mostly to himself, since so far he has pretty much paid no attention to the people around him, so he doesn’t notice that there might be someone around wondering why this new person is checking out inside the tents.]
Comms Sample:
[It takes a while for Leo to write his first message, not because of not knowing how to use it but because he really had no reason to use it before. But his curiosity is starting to get the best out of him and if there was a way that he could get back home, to his family, he was willing to do anything.]
so far ive been told that the ship we woke up in used to be functional and then crashed. has it been salvaged yet? what kind of technology was there and is it possible to get it up and running again? i mean, if the mirrors managed to keep themselves working, itd make sense if other things were too.
there is a lot of advanced technology there, more advanced than anything ive ever seen before and i have a hard time believing it got completely destroyed. there has to be more there. who knows, there might even be a way to get the thing working again, to let us go home.
