Backstory ideas for my tech character

[Octogoat]

I'm currently in the process of breathing new life into a character that has become stagnant. She's a biomechanical android that controls robots and has limited time field manipulation. That is all I have so far. Any ideas are valued! Here is her inspiration art:

 

 

[Octogoat]

So far I've got that she doesn't know that she's a gynoid and that she thinks she's a cyborg who suffered a horrible accident and has amnesia.

[twozerofoxtrot]

Does she have "conventional" parents* or is that part of her amnesia? Based on that (literally her very origin point) you can branch out a framework of milestones for her history and flesh those points out on an ad hoc basis. I do this with a lot of my "rp by concept" characters. 

 

 

*by which I mean something like a Dr. Light from Megaman or Dr. Tenma from Astro Boy, in which her parents are aware she's synthetic even of she doesn't (initially). 

 

And if not, then you can work from the point of her self awareness and dev out how she came to realize she can control robots, time, etc. 

[Octogoat]

15 hours ago, twozerofoxtrot said:

Does she have "conventional" parents* or is that part of her amnesia? Based on that (literally her very origin point) you can branch out a framework of milestones for her history and flesh those points out on an ad hoc basis. I do this with a lot of my "rp by concept" characters. 

 

 

*by which I mean something like a Dr. Light from Megaman or Dr. Tenma from Astro Boy, in which her parents are aware she's synthetic even of she doesn't (initially). 

 

And if not, then you can work from the point of her self awareness and dev out how she came to realize she can control robots, time, etc. 

Dr. Thaddeus Arclight knows what she is but won't tell her.

[Octogoat]

Some notes I've added:

 

Does not have a psychic presence

 

Has a heavy mech suit called Alpha strike

 

Has a praetorian resistance pulse rifle her father gave her suggesting he might be praetorian

 

Her heart is literally gold as a tech component 

[VeiledOwl]

The key here, I think, is to figure out why she would be created in the first place. All of the materials that went into her creation (and give her powers) would be too expensive for it to be a whim for most scientists. Plus, there's the fact she doesn't know she's not human. That's shady. Add in the robot control and the lack of psychic presence? Those are purposeful. Combine in her father potentially being Praetorian, and giving her a Resistance rifle? That screams to me 'initially designed to be a secret weapon against Cole's regime'.

 

No psychic presence? Can't be detected by Seers. Controls robots? Able to override Clockwork units for combat, spying, or even just directing them away from Resistance operations. Limited time field manipulation? Sounds excellent for infiltration and sabotage operations. Can't be caught on camera if you freeze time and move past them while it's frozen. Not to mention assassinations.

 

She could even believe she's human to try to make her better empathize with the repressed humans of the regime. Amnesia to prevent her from noticing inconsistencies and make her easier to influence. If she herself isn't Praetorian, maybe the project fell through or Praetoria fell before she could be completed, and her father decided to finish her despite her original purpose no longer existing on Primal Earth.

 

Her not knowing doesn't necessarily have to be sinister, but knowing why he hasn't told her the truth could give some depth, I think. There are Clockwork in the Resistance who have been implanted with Seers' minds - could be a similar situation. Original body died, mind belongs to one of the scientist's dead loved ones.... Lots of options.

[TheOtherTed]

I had an idea for a tech character that I gave up on, as it was too big for me.  Literally.  The character was a heavily augmented cyborg from a parallel Earth in which Boudica's forces had overrun the Roman Empire.  The timeline that ensued featured much faster technological and scientific development than ours, but reached a point where it was possible not only to destroy the earth, but to shatter the timeline itself.  And that's what happened.  "Shards" of that timeline were scattered across the multiverse, and my character was to be one such shard who got embedded in the Praetorian timeline.

 

Thus, the idea was literally too big for me.  I destroyed a universe to create one character.  I even had an uncharacteristically long and soul-searching bio for the character that I lost when I switched computers.  Figured I'd throw the general idea out there anyway in case it jogs someone's neurons in a good way.

 

Edited to add the final part of the bio:  "It's strange, isn't it, when you have to lose everything you had, and forget everything you knew, to finally realize who and what you were meant to be."

 

Edited 15 hours ago by TheOtherTed
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