Post by madf0x on Jun 4, 2010 20:44:36 GMT -5
The Player
[/size]OOC Name:
Madf0x
Age:
18
Gender:
Male
Other Characters:
n/a
The Character
[/size]Name:
Viktor
Aliases:
Recursion
Age:
18
Species:
Jovian
Planet of Origin:
Earth
Gender:
male
Current Standing:
Hack for hire
Detailed Appearance:
Viktor always seems to fit in this modern world. A bit tall for his race he comes in at 5'6". He has green medium length hair with slightly lighter shade of green for his eyes. He almost always has a stoic expression on his face, as if he is disinterested in the world around him. He has a lithe body structure do to the fragility of his kind but he tries to hide it. He wears simple blue jeans and a black sweatshirt. Like many others he wears his card around his neck. His facial features are slightly angular and his skin is considerably pale. He always stands perfectly straight. He physically appears to be on edge like many of the drunk inhabitants of Touchdown city despite that he abstains from any sort of medicine or narcotics. He moves with an eerie quiet though, controlling every precise movement.
Strengths:
- Hacker Spirit: Viktor has the spirit of a hacker, one of creativity, pursuit of knowledge and challenges. His mindset around the origin of the term makes him very cunning and very intelligent.
- Skilled: Viktor is skilled in the things he loves, perhaps more so than most people.
- Recursion's Rep: Viktor's "alter ego" as Recursion has a bit of a reputation. The underground knows him by name and so does many of other computer enthusiasts. His reputation has expanded via his clients and several high-profile attacks he did for the mathematical beauty.
Weaknesses:
- Obscure in person: Despite the rep of Recursion, Viktor himself in unheard of. He is unnoticed and has a hard time getting the things he wants or needs in person. Essentially away from technology he is a nobody, and everyone can see it.
- Blind: Viktor is absolutely blind. If it wasnt for his nanites and the techno advanced world around him he would have no way of identifying anything at all. He never even bothered to learn braille.
- Frail: Like other jovians Viktor is physically frail. You wont catch him running or getting into a fist fight. At least, not willingly and definitely not on the winning side.
Skills and Abilities:
- Nano-control: Viktor has excellent communication with his nanites and other machines. While other jovians take their ability to convert thoughts to machine code for granted Viktor actually understands the logic, fundamentals, and practicality of the implementation, using them for maximum effectiveness and efficiency using thoughts to create optimized and clean code with that old hacker magic of using efficient shortcuts off the top of his head. Essentially he already thinks in code like a real non-jovian programmer would.
- Hacker: Viktor is a hacker of the old traditional sense. One that didnt focus on viral writing but on learning the intricacies of computers, beauty in math, efficient code, and technical ingenuity. His computer skills are exceptional even in spite of his jovian abilities. He even uses them in conjunction for hardware hacks and on the fly manipulation, altering machine logic on the core to do various things like trick out a phone as an SSH client, make that modern ferby say something new, or completely rewire that gun turrent's control, aiming, or targeting mechanism.
- Stealth/paranoia: Viktor has the quintessential Hacker's Paranoia. Suspect everything, triple check your double checks, log everything, and leave no trace. He is apt at going unnoticed both in person and in the digital world.
Personality:
At first glance Viktor falls into two categories. The one of the stereotypical socially awkward teenage hacker and that of a nobody. Unfortunately for those who only takes things at first glance they miss out on his details. Viktor is not socially awkward, in fact as part of being a hacker he has learned the sub-sect of Social Engineering but merely chooses to be a social recluse. He is disinterested in the physical world around him and his face shows it. He has a philosophical mindset about identity, emotions, and the nature of existence that leaves him to show little emotion, even when he may be feeling it intensely. He strongly values mathematical beauty and has even engineered several high-profile attacks merely to accomplish some sort of mathematical display for his own enjoyment. He is morally ambiguous and doesnt really care what side he is on most of the time. He doesnt fall into the stereotypical evil black-hat hacker that the media portrays his kind as but is instead a Grey-Hat. Sure he breaks the law sometimes but he is rarely out there to harm someone, not thatd he care if he did. He does employ security-related services to several clients as a means to support himself, even if it means switching a security's alarms triggering routine...He desperately seeks a personal higher meaning to his own existence, and is troubled by the constant feeling of being lost.
Prized Possessions:
RRNET(pronounced like Are-net): Recursion's RRNET Networked Entity T-connection. This is Viktor's personal computer network he has hooked up at home. It is highly defended and full of obscure customizations and programs he has made and serves as his digital base. He has even employed a special subnet for VPN connections using a variable router response mechanism to hook up compromised machines temporarily for short term or long term connections to use his home network securely on the fly, or expand its power through unwary machines.
RRWISTY(pronounced Wristy): Recursion's RRWISTY Wrist-mounted Interfaced System T-connection Y-has-no-meaning. Viktor's wrist adapted computer for on the go. It has streamlined on the mobile programs for various uses and is specialized around wifi-based intrusion and defense for maximum effectiveness in connecting to RRNET or breaking into a local computer he cannot physically access with his nanos.
RRAWR(just like rawr):Recusion's RRAWR Auto-targeting Weaponized Remote. The streets of Touchdown are unsafe and no intelligent being walks them without a weapon of some sort. For Viktor this is a gun with some hack-styled 'improvements'. It used to be a standard semi-auto handgun but Viktor had a few extra parts and a TV remote lying around. He attached the remote as a sight and with some extra memory and stylized mods made in nano-friendly and through in a ballistics program. In essence he modded the gun so that any blind jovian could use it with decent results. Now all he needs to do is get some actual skill in using it.
History:
Viktor is a jovian born in touchdown by his illegally immigrated parents who passed off for human(helped being unusually taller, a trait he inherited). As such he has physically known no other world. As a baby it was discovered his eyesight was damaged and his parents, being new, had no way of contacting a doctor that could have saved his eyesight in time without getting deported. His father, being a computer programmer by trade, acquired a job working at a company that made some gear for some casinos. This forced him to learn human-styled programming due to needing to document code and using traditional languages like C++. Figuring this skill was handy he taught it to Viktor as well, seeing how his son displayed similar technological inclinations as himself. However, as his father was concerned with practicality his mother was concerned with mathematical beauty and theoretic for which Viktor had an apt hunger for.
At the age of 7 Viktor broke into several casino mainframes to release a specified number of credits at specific intervals while changing the lighting scheme at similar intervals to output a cryptographic code that specified the details of the credit output and timing. In conjunction with a recursive algorithm him and his mom enjoyed and the ASCII chart ultimately spelled out "Happy Mother's Day By Recursion!" over and over again. He meant the By Recursion to specify how he was displaying happy mother's day but the guys who figured out the message assumed he meant it as an author's name, attributing the hack to the handle Recursion, a name that stuck with Viktor's online persona.
Eventually his parents fell into the trap that is touchdown and 'vanished' leaving Viktor all alone. He had a mental breakdown and when he recovered his personality emerged to what it is today, and assembled together his private network and reputation as Recursion, hungry to find out what secrets the network of Touchdown hold.
Roleplay Sample:
((heres one from an old forum I was on, controlling a character and several NPCs))
The recruits progressed sporadically. Some already knew it like Morticar though not as advanced. Others caught on quickly while others struggled with it. Cedric and Torbid were about on par in difficulty. They clearly were not accustomed to it but seemed to be progressing on a normal pace. Perhaps they had figured out some sort of way to cope with their lack of talent in the magical arts.
Cedric, after almost making a fireball all the way to his Dummy, jogged over to Morticar and started whispering to him. The formerly nervous kid responded back to him and then Cedric moved back into line. Basura eyed them as if he had broken a rule but let it passed to see how Cedric was to preform.
He clearly concentrated and then with another cast of the spell unleashed a decent sized ball that struck his target. He grinned to himself and started to whisper to Torbid. The shifty kid nodded and unleashed a similar Fire spell. Torbid then started to go down the line, clearly passing on whatever info Cedric garnered from Morticar.
Alas Cedric's errand boy came to Wayne once again and whispered to him, "Heres a trick to get the spell right. If you concentrate and find a sort of energy deep inside of you, imagine pulling it up and out of your hand as your unleashing the magic spell. You dont have to make sure that it is the inner power you 'found' but as long as you think you got it then it will work better. I.e if you think you got it, you got it." Torbid nodded to wayne before dashing back into his spot, the other recruits starting to preform better.