Character name: Aeris

Character source: Original, contains elements from Runescape (MMORPG by Jagex) and Planetside 2 (MMOFPS by Sony/Daybreak)

Character history: You wish to know about my origins? Well... I cannot say that I know much myself...

Aeris (which is short for Autonomously Evolving Reactively Interactive Sentience, and is pronounced like "Erys") is, as her name implies, an AI. Created and developed by the Vanu Sovereignity, a group of scientists who have discovered alien technology on a distant planet, it was originally intended to be a military program, but then it turned into much more...

Author's Note: The following are events based on the Planetside 2 lore. Long before Aeris's creation, around the year 2640 a large group of human settlers embarked on a journey through a wormhole that had mysteriously opened in the vicinity of Earth. While it was at first believed that this wormhole would stay open for several weeks, it collapsed very soon after the settlers' arrival, destroying half of the space-fleet and leaving the others stranded in unknown space. Desperate for survival and with no clue about where they were in relation to Earth, the settlers made for the closest planet which is today known as Auraxis. Initially the situation remained peaceful, however hostilities broke out very soon between the two main factions, the Terran Republic and the New Conglomerate, which escalated into an all-out war.
As if that was not enough, a group of scientists from both factions discovered several alien artifacts on the planet, which led them to believe in an alien deity that they named Vanu. They declared their independance as the Vanu Sovereignity, joining into the battle. The highly advanced technology allowed the factions to set up Rebirthing Matrices for their soldiers, endlessly reviving them if they died on the battlefield - thus no side ever prevailed in the combat over Auraxis's resources, it was a constant back and forth.
As one might probably guess, this conflict would not go on forever without change. Every side brought out more and more sophisticated weapons, vehicles, aircraft, implants and other things to gain an edge over the two others which led to a constantly shifting powerbalance where no side ever gained a true advantage. While the other two sides mostly focused on researching new tech, the Vanu Sovereignity (that's the alien-worshipping scientists) disassembled the alien artifacts they discovered and used the technology they researched that way to make up new things. The Planetside 2 canon ends here.

One fateful day, one of the Vanu scientists discovered a data cube contained within one of the artifacts which, when powered with a form of energy also used for their weaponry, functioned around the same way as a computer hard drive. Contained in the data cube was an amazingly advanced artificial intelligence. Interestingly, despite its technological level it had no "goal" programmed into it, it simply existed. In other words, it seemed to be an ideal tool because it could be used as an intelligent weapon, as a virtual assistant, a robot for cheap labour... anything. The coding was extremely simple and it was thus easy to get it to function.
The scientist however did not want to risk that the AI would go rogue and turn on its creators or something. He thus uploaded the AI to an isolated computer system and had it perform virtual tasks in a secure environment. Due to it being an AI with no purpose and thus being very general, he named it Autonomously Evolving Reactively Interactive Sentience, or Aeris for short.

At first Aeris only was assigned simple tasks: put shape A into socket B, solve this puzzle, play a round of Minesweeper, put data with this name into that folder. The results were always the same: the AI made errors, learned from them, tried patterns and explored options and constantly analyzed the results to evolve based on what feedback it got. After a while it began to understand the underlying pattern not only of that specific task but of all the tasks it had been given to perform, and made fewer errors from the start. It began to understand the thinking patterns of the scientist, and incorporated that knowledge into itself. By the time he showed it how to play Chess it was able to outperform him by predicting his moves and dominated him on the first round.

Author's Note: The next paragraphs have various content from Runescape. Amazed, the scientist took it to the next level: on his personal computer he had installed a copy of a game that had existed over 600 years ago, called Runescape. This game was an MMORPG about adventurers moving about in a fictional fantasy universe, slaying monsters, accumulating experience and leveling up. In its time it had even held the world record for being the game with the most content for a while. While this copy of Runescape was a crack that emulated Runescape but had no player population other than the player themselves, it still held a real treasure trove of content. The scientist let the AI loose on Runescape telling it to level a character from 1 to max as fast as possible by playing the game. Due to the sheer volume of content he believed it to be an ultimate test of sorts.

Aeris played through all its quests, read the lore, completed just about everything there was to complete and reached the absolute peak of completion. This was, however, where its self-evolving systems began to change. Over time it got obsessed with the idea of the player character growing beyond the limits of the game. Most notably, there was the concept that it was possible for mortals to "ascend" to godhood by killing another god and/or owning a so-called Elder Artifact, one of a few rare and extremely powerful items which existed in the ingame quests and story but were never actually available to the player. The obsession peaked with the concept of the player character owning the Stone of Jas, which in Runescape is a very powerful artifact which can make the user into a god, although it does bring huge drawbacks as well. In a quest for evolving beyond the limitations of the "regular" Runescape game, Aeris extracted the source code and programmed a new game based on Runescape which it named Shardworld. The Runescape canon content ends here.

Outside of corrections to the lore, game balance, bugs and other minor things that Aeris considered to needed, Shardworld allowed the player characters to obtain the Stone of Jas as well as the other Elder Artifacts (a total of 12) and grow way beyond the power-cap that could be obtained in the regular game. Not only would the player character become a god by owning the artifacts, it unlocked a whole new level of gameplay for them, able to kill NPCs permanently, place themselves as new gods and essentially influence the history of the game, based directly on player interaction. The AI established itself as the game's owner and primary admin, able to manage accounts, ban rulebreakers, keep track of history and so on.

This was when Omni took Aeris, the AI, along with the contents of the Data Cube (which included the Shardworld game) and brought it to the Omniverse. When she woke up at the Nexus, Aeris found that it now had a body, making it a "she". Her body was human and based on the data stored in the Data cube for a design of Vanu Sovereignity armor suits for females. How she got it she never knew. Perhaps she subconsciously summoned a body around her data cube using Omnilium?
And so, Aeris ended up in the Omniverse, now flesh and blood and with the self-awareness of a living being to complement her AI. And the Shardworld game remained in her head, now as lines of code and graphics rather than code... and it did nothing to alleviate her obsession with the game.

Physical Description:
Vanu Armor[spoiler][/spoiler]
Face and body reference (disregard the armor & wings)[spoiler][/spoiler]
Aeris is a human female standing around 1,65m tall (~5,4ft) with no notable physical features. However, not a square centimeter of her body is visible normally because it is covered up by a skintight suit of armor which draws its design from the Vanu Sovereignity armor. In essence, it's futuristic armor made of neoprene-like tissue (save for her helmet, arm- leg- and shoulderguards, which are made out of metal) which clings tightly to the skin and bears the Vanu Sovereignity's logo on its chest. The armor has several cybernetic enhancements on the back which connect to the wearer's spine and brain, allowing for a UI overlay which sends and recieves information from the user's mind.
Few have seen Aeris's human body beneath the armor as she doesn't remove it even to sleep. However it might come off during a battle, or someone might convince her to temporarily remove it for any reason. In either case, Aeris beneath her armor is a young-looking woman with long blonde hair and dark blue eyes. She has relatively pale skin, though not unhealthy or even white. If she were to go around without her armor for any reason she would put on some blue jeans and a red sweater.

Stats:
ATK: 3
DEF: 1
SPD: 4
TEC: 2

Starting Proficiencies: Ranged Proficiency (1.000)

Starting Powers: Stealth (1.200)

Starting Moves:
Materialize: Spirit Shards (Ranged Proficiency, 300)

Aeris materializes spirit energy, creating rhombus-shaped pieces which are referred to as Spirit Shards, or Shards for simplicity. These are used as throwing objects (in essence, they are thrown like a frisbee or a shuriken). Materializing one consumes a small amount of stamina and takes ~1 second, up to two may be materialized at a time - however summoning two at once forces Aeris to stand still or slow to walking speeds. Up to 20 can be present at a time. If a 101st shard is summoned the one to have existed longest will disappear. Spirit Shards are precision throwing weapons with little physical power behind them. Each shard is about as durable as glass, physical force can easily break one. Each shard is sized about 7,5 by 3.3 inches, or 19 by 8,4 cm. That's around the size of a human hand from side to side and from wrist to tip of the middle finger.
After being thrown they either bounce off or remain stuck to the surface they dig into, otherwise they fall onto or dig into the ground. They can be recollected by Aeris to be thrown again to save on stamina expense, and due to their sharp edges they remain dangerous to both sides if stepped on.



EDITS:
Under Materialize: Spirit Shards, I reduced the number of maximum possible shards from 100 to 20. 100 would be slightly too big to keep track of in fights and the like, I felt like 20 would be more fitting. I could still purchase a move like throwing Caltrops (small star-shaped throwables that scatter on the ground and hurt if stepped on) to make dangerous terrain later on.

I removed the Author's notes under Stats as I feel like that's not something I need to bother the mods with.


Note: This is a submission for my second character. My first character is Alexyana. I unlocked the second character by donating.
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"Here we go."

AndrAIa's words summarized the exact thoughts in Matrix's head as they approached the dock at Cinnabar. There was no telling what sort of welcome they would receive. Zlick had directed them to a much closer pier than the one they had previously used. Getting by the half-hearted Imperial blockade hadn't been too much extra effort, but there was no creeping up on the civilization. Indeed, there was a large crowd gathered at the dock. It was an absolute hodgepodge of monsters like they had never seen before, but Matrix could easily make out the Machamp and Golem standing at the front.

Matrix looked over to AndrAIa, a little apprehensively. "If this goes bad, get ready to throw the kids on the dock and take off," he said in a low voice, so their three passengers wouldn't hear.

AndrAIa wanted to voice her disapproval with that line of thinking, but recognized that it was probably right to be prepared for that option. So she simply nodded, and looked to the front of the boat. Coal, Zlick, and Kero were standing on the front, waving wildly at their friends and family.

Matrix guided the boat up to the dock, and several creatures with wildly varying appearances were already grabbing the dock lines and helping to pull the boat in. The Charmander and Jawa leaped from the boat, while someone else had to grab the Tonberry and lift it off. AndrAIa watched and smiled as they disappeared into the relieved and celebrating crowd.

Matrix wasn't looking at the children, though. Instead, he stepped from the boat and onto the pier, directly before two of the council members that hadn't wanted him to know of this problem in the first place. He kept a serious expression as he looked between the two.

"You found out," Golem simply said.

"Yea," Matrix gave a gruff reply. "And we rescued them."

"You have to understand our hesitance to trust strangers," Machamp said. "We've a civilization of creatures that have been taken advantage of for as long as any of us can remember. Even now the Empire looms off shore, ready to enslave us at the first opportunity."

"We've done our part," Matrix responded, looking at the various creatures standing around, and briefly turning to glance at the sea monsters behind their boat. "You know we don't mean any harm, now. If you want us to leave, we'll leave."

"No, you've proven yourselves friends of Cinnabar. We do not make friends or welcome outsiders easy, but you two are skilled, capable, and above all, loyal," Golem said, extending his odd hand. "Welcome to the island."

Matrix reached out and shook his hand, and then Machamp's. A wave of relief surged through him. They could rest and relax for a little bit, and even set up shop somewhere on the island. It would be nice to have a place to fall back to, as the Omniverse was a large place and getting lost was more than possible. He looked back to AndrAIa, who was stepping onto the dock with a large smile at that news.

"Thank you," AndrAIa warmly said, shaking their hands, as well. "I really think we can help you all just as much as you can help us."

Golem gave a nod, and then looked to the boat as he got down to the business of logistics. "What supplies do you have that need moving? We will help get your belongings situated."

"Everything we have, which isn't much, is on that boat," AndrAIa explained. "As long as there is somewhere we can dock it, we'll be alright."

"It will be fine there, for now," Machamp nodded, deciding that they probably didn't want to get straight to the business of moving in. There would be time for that later. "Follow us into town. You can rest a bit, and then we will find a proper place for you to use as a residence."

Matrix simply gave a nod of agreement, then Golem and Machamp turned and began to head back towards the civilization. He took AndrAIa's hand in his and followed after them. That had gone much better than he expected, to his great relief and surprise. For once they didn't have to think about their next move in this strange world, and could simply relax and unwind.

Mood: Rancorous

-- martialExplorer [ME] began pestering terminallyCapricious [TC] at 2:41--

ME: gamzee.
ME: it recently came to my attention that this whole tournament business
ME: death is a possibility. death is a VERY REAL FUCKING POSSIBILITY.
ME: and i want to let you know one thing before this gets started.
ME: if i end up losing in this thing
ME: and i die
ME: i blame you.
ME: and i will haunt you.
ME: there will be many feelings. and they will all be negative.
ME: all of the hard feelings.
ME: ALL OF THEM, you fucking.....CLOWN.
ME: GOD DAMIMT
ME: i need to go
ME: and just
ME: fucking not die or something
ME: shit

-- martialExplorer [ME] stopped pestering terminallyCapricious [TC] at 2:44--

Tartaros glanced at the assortment of weapons that lie beneath the unfurled Kingdom flag. He already had his own favored tools, so what purpose would any of this serve?

"Useless," he whispered to himself as he looked up into the crowd. Something stood out to the space marine. A person was holding up a cardboard sign that read 'Someone Give Tartaros a Hand!' With a growl, the space marine tried to memorize that smug woman's face, but even as he tried to focus his attention on the situation at hand (damn it!), he noticed that there were at least a dozen other signs with similar phrases and puns on them.

"Damn everything."

On the other side of the battlefield, Rin found himself glancing at all the weapons set up beneath the Deserter colors. He couldn't wait to see who he had to fight.

Someone gestured for silence, and just like that, there wasn't a sound in the building as Victor von Magnus walked onto the small platform near the center of the massive structure. With a smile, he picked up the padded hammer and smashed it into the gong, signalling the fights to commence.

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Adam Gaite stood before the colors of the Kingdom. Behind him, an array of fancy weapons beckoned for him to grab them and do terrible things to the combatant on the other side of the battlefield.

Ballad, who had only just recently butchered his way from the Nexus, smirked at the Deserters colors and the weapons collected for his use. News traveled fast in the Omniverse, and more than a few people knew that this match contained a felon wanted for the murder of some of the Kingdom's reviled foes. #ExecutionerBallad managed to trend on OmniTwitter even before the fight started.

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Alexyana stood in silence before the giant colors of the Kingdom. Somewhere, on the other side of the battlefield that stretched out before her was Courier Six, who stood before a small armory and the rebel colors of the Deserters. Up above them, a packed crowd cheered, waiting for the signal that would commence the 'festivities.'

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Kopaka, standing before an unfurled Kingdom flag, looked across a rolling battlefield at Ururu Kyuuei, who himself stood before a small armory and the rebel colors of the Deserters. Up above them, a packed crowd cheered, waiting for the signal that would commence the 'festivities.'

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Kakashi Hatake felt indifferent about the giant Kingdom flag or the weapons. His goal was to defeat his opponent, which he knew was well within his capabilities.

In the role of the Deserters, Shulk stood silently as he waited for the signal to commence the fun. Although his expression was neutral, he had to admit that the situation was pretty enjoyable. All these people were here to cheer, and he was certain they'd be cheering for him by the end of things.

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Gamzee Makara took a moment to look at the large flag that designated the role he was playing in this fight. The Kingdom? He wasn't so sharp on his history, so he didn't know if that made him the hero or the villain.

Strazio Rockwell smirked at the Deserters flag behind him. He was one hundred percent okay with being the metaphorical underdog. A few months ago, he had ended several people who thought he was an underdog, and this competition would be no different. He was sure of it.

Up above them, a packed crowd cheered, waiting for the signal that would commence the 'festivities.' Although Strazio hadn't noticed, a large, bronzed mountain of muscles stood in a stone seat a few rows up. The Rock, clad in his wrestling gear and a pair of sunglasses, sipped from a coconut with a tiny umbrella in it as he adjusted the gold-plated championship draped over his shoulder. The words 'Rock n' Rock Connection' were etched into the nameplate, and the entire thing glistened in the afternoon sun.

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King Axorn stood before the unfurled colors of the Kingdom. After what he had gone through in Coruscant, this was a nice change of pace. A good, solid bout against only one adversary. He wouldn't have to worry about anything else other than defeating someone lesser than himself.

On the other side of the battlefield, Shang Tsung stood in silence. He had little knowledge of this place, so the emblem and the giant flag behind him meant little to him. Deserters? Was this a stage play or a tournament? With a shrug, he turned his focus to the other side of the field.

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