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Name: Rin
Pronouns: they/them
Age: 31
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Character Information
Name: Deon Wilson
Age: 26
Gender/Pronouns: Male, he/him
Species: Human. No, wait, manticore. No, wait, humanticore. No, wait. Uh. Other.
Transformed Species: n/a
Starfleet Division: Engineering
Canon/OC/Canon AU/Canon OC/CRAU: Canon (Chappie), CRAU (Ryslig)
Personality: Deon is, unquestionably, a robotics genius. Deon is also, just as unquestionably, an enormous dork.
He’s a bit prone to sesquipedalian loquaciousness; he attempts to explain his organic artificial intelligence program while under extreme duress, and even being threatened with mutilation and death isn’t enough to get him to shut up about his project or to stop tetchily correcting the gangsters about his robots. He talks more than he should, leading him to get menaced at multiple points during the film (which really ought to be renamed Deon Wilson and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week) - first by Vincent, who responds to his immediately-walked-back quip of “Engineer? I thought you were a soldier,” by slamming Deon into his desk and jamming his (unloaded) gun into Deon’s cheek, and later by Amerika, when Deon asks him to count his narcotics somewhere else instead of in front of Chappie and is threatened with a shanking for his pains. He gets a little tongue-tied when he’s angry and scared (“You’re a terrible - shitty person!”), though usually, his insults tend towards the highbrow (“He’s smarter than you’ll ever be, you Philistine!”) whether his targets will understand the sick burn or not.
Deon has a bit of a temper - when things don't go his way and he's frustrated, he has a tendency to kick walls and practically shove everything off of tables in his anger. (He doesn't actually flip a table, but I imagine that wouldn't be far off if things got really dire.) He's somewhat arrogant and often takes up a holier-than-thou attitude, viewing himself as far intellectually and morally superior to the criminals that have taken possession of Chappie and looking down on them as a result. There’s also a sense of entitlement to him (e.g. taking the busted Scout because he wants it) that is basically beaten out of him by the end of the film. He begs to be spared when he’s first threatened by the gangsters who kidnap him; towards the end of the movie, when he’s dying from a wound sustained in what amounts to a carjacking, he begs Chappie to not bother with saving him at his creation’s own expense.
Deon is incredibly driven and passionate about what he does. He spends entire nights (most nights, it’s implied) practically shotgunning Red Bull to work on his AI pet project, and struggles to contain his excitement when pitching the same project to his unenthused boss when he’s finally cracked it. He’s generally pretty twitchy and animated, usually chewing on the end of a ballpoint pen while he works, but that may be a result of the fact that his bloodstream is about 90% Red Bull. He’s also more than just a gifted programmer; it is implied that not only did he code the AI for the Scouts, he had a hand in actually designing the robots themselves, while recognized as the project lead. Deon is still young - in his early-to-mid twenties, and Vincent calls him “practically a baby” - so it can be inferred that he’s somewhat of a prodigy in the robotics field.
He’s friendly and agreeable, seeming to have a good relationship with his co-workers (excluding Vincent), who all come by to congratulate him when the South African police order one hundred additional Scouts for the force. However, he seems to be lacking in interpersonal skills or at least isn’t that interested in friendships outside of work, because he has two robot buddies that he talks to at home: Dexter, who cleans up after him, brings him Red Bull, and activates the electric kettle, and Rory, a stationary robot kept near his home computer setup that he converses with (and may use for rubber duck debugging). A social life would take time away from his AI project, after all!
He has a strict moral code, differentiating right and wrong in clear categories (at least, at the beginning of the movie, and there’s somewhat of a gradient as the story progresses). He tries to impart this moral code to Chappie, telling the robot that he shouldn’t commit crimes and that you can’t break a promise once you’ve made it. Deon holds to this himself; once he makes the deal with the gangsters to teach Chappie, that’s exactly what he does, at great risk to life and limb, without calling the police on them. He takes his role as teacher and de facto parent seriously, bringing the robot such things as a stuffed bear, a deeply relevant picture book, and an easel and paints. He also looks up information on early childhood development, trying to better understand how his AI is going to learn and function in the world...and is utterly blown away by how quickly Chappie has evolved upon seeing the robot again later.
However, he’s not immune from doing things that apparently violate his own moral code in the service of science or what he considers to be the greater good. He’s respectful of authority, but not too respectful. When he goes to pitch his proper AI to Michelle Bradley, the CEO of Tetravaal, she waves him off because a publicly-traded weapons manufacturer doesn’t need a robot that can write poetry. Of course, he opts to steal the Scout droid that he’d intended to test his program on anyway, as well as the all-important guardkey needed to install new software on the robot, because he thinks he knows better. He threatens Ninja with calling the police for mistreating Chappie - Ninja points out that Deon would be in far more trouble for stealing the police robot from his employer in the first place, which actually makes him back down. Towards the climax, he also gets into Tetravaal’s armory and steals weaponry to furnish Chappie and the gangsters with so they can defend themselves against the Moose - though he never uses the weapons himself. When Vincent notices the guardkey is missing and asks if he can borrow it from him, not letting on that he knows it had been installed in the missing Scout 22, Deon tells him, straight-faced, that it’s against the rules. So he’s a bit of a hypocrite, too, when it suits him. His words are thrown back in his face when he tells Chappie that he can’t learn what consciousness is because it’s ineffable; Chappie quite reasonably responds that Deon had told him not to let anyone tell him he couldn’t do something.
Additionally? Deon has literally no common sense. He’s stubborn as hell and seems to have little regard for his own safety, as he mouths off to Ninja and Amerika in their hideout, both of whom are armed when he’s sassing them, and keeps coming back to teach Chappie even after Ninja had shot at him and told him if he ever saw Deon back there he’d kill him. He ended up finding somewhat of an ally on that front in Yolandi, which emboldened him to keep trying to teach his creation despite the consequences.
There’s some impulsivity and rashness to him as well as the stubbornness; aside from stealing the busted droid and the guardkey, he runs out to his company van and brings a rubber chicken for Chappie to play with, and runs back to the hideout, which makes Amerika suspicious that he has a weapon and nearly gets him shot (just why he has a rubber chicken in his car in the first place is never explained, but it’s further proof that he’s an enormous dork). He later, seemingly very ill at ease, goes and buys a revolver after Ninja threatens him the second time, and brandishes it to get Ninja to back down and let him take Chappie to Tetravaal to fix Vincent’s disabling firmware push that crippled the Scouts. It is unclear whether he actually would have fired the gun or if it was even loaded; he may resort to violence in desperation, but he may just as well bluff and hope he has a good poker face.
Deon thinks he’s a good person, overall, even if he’s done some questionable things in the name of science. He’s proud of his Scouts, viewing them as necessary life-saving tools for the South African police, and views the AI that becomes Chappie as his magnum opus, something he’s willing to sacrifice his life for in the end, to ensure that Chappie survives.
Appearance: During his time in Ryslig, he's changed physically - aside from the monster changes making him into a manticore (kestrel wings, caracal ears, and a lion tail tipped with a scorpion stinger - and Scout antennae where his human ears used to be, courtesy of the Fourth God), he's grown from the stringbean nerd he was when he'd arrived. He let his hair grow out and allowed some facial hair to come in, and overall seems to be more comfortable with himself physically. Don't get me wrong, he's still the same old stringbean nerd, but he's, like, marginally hot now.
History: Chappie @ wikipedia. Now, for the CRAU: oof. He's a good boy, really, or he tries to be. Deon starved himself to practically the point of ferality so he wouldn't have to eat humans, and even when he did have to give in and hunt humans for food he did it as sparingly as possible. He loathed the Fog God's imposition of her values over the peninsula and the people she kidnapped, and how she twisted them to hurt the people of Ryslig. Because of this, and because he is a sucker for technology, he fell in rather quickly with the entity known as the Fourth God - aka Elias Liewen, a child of a mad scientist who was used as an experiment to draw out some of the Fog God's power. He viewed Elias as a transference of sorts for his emotions about Chappie, and became a "follower" of the child god, hoping to find a way home with Elias' power. In reality, Elias doesn't accrue "followers" as much as what he calls his "friends", and the "god" terminology is solely a matter of convenience. Deon eventually became radicalized by abuse from Fog-aligned monsters and threw himself wholeheartedly into the cause of helping Elias overthrow the Fog. Partly because he wanted to go home, and partly out of some very sour spite. Not only does he want to go home, he wants to rip the power from the Fog's hands (such as they are) and give it to the people she's been hurting all along. The Fog has been hurting people like Vincent did, and she needs to be stopped. He doesn't think that Elias should have that kind of power either. Everyone here was brought here against their will, and Elias posits that people should be able to choose to go home if they want. Deon wants to go further; he wants to stop anyone else from being brought here once the power's been ripped from the Fog. If they make a gate out of Ryslig, he wants it to be one-way only.
He fucking hates it there. Good news, buddy, you get to go to SPACE!!
Abilities: Deon is faster and stronger than a baseline human, and can jump very far as sort of a monstrous "pounce". He can turn into a caracal at will - this caracal has spectacle markings around its eyes. He can also use his kestrel wings to fly, and he has a venomous stinger on his tail. He is resistant to poisons and venoms. He is, however, weak to cold. As a follower of the Fourth God, he has the ability to "talk" to computers and electronics just by touching them.
Inventory:
- x1 Arcade keycard (sorry buddy it's not gonna work)
- x1 wallet
- x1 notebook full of scribbled designs for kitbashed Ryslig-TL technology
- x1 can of energy drink he is going to choke on the second he gets onto the station for Comedy Value
- x1 rubber chicken. He didn't bring it. Q just dropped it on his head when he arrived.
Special Notes: poor little meow meow is gonna go absolutely buckwild apeshit for a laserpointer one of these days
Name: Rin
Pronouns: they/them
Age: 31
Contact:
Character Information
Name: Deon Wilson
Age: 26
Gender/Pronouns: Male, he/him
Species: Human. No, wait, manticore. No, wait, humanticore. No, wait. Uh. Other.
Transformed Species: n/a
Starfleet Division: Engineering
Canon/OC/Canon AU/Canon OC/CRAU: Canon (Chappie), CRAU (Ryslig)
Personality: Deon is, unquestionably, a robotics genius. Deon is also, just as unquestionably, an enormous dork.
He’s a bit prone to sesquipedalian loquaciousness; he attempts to explain his organic artificial intelligence program while under extreme duress, and even being threatened with mutilation and death isn’t enough to get him to shut up about his project or to stop tetchily correcting the gangsters about his robots. He talks more than he should, leading him to get menaced at multiple points during the film (which really ought to be renamed Deon Wilson and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week) - first by Vincent, who responds to his immediately-walked-back quip of “Engineer? I thought you were a soldier,” by slamming Deon into his desk and jamming his (unloaded) gun into Deon’s cheek, and later by Amerika, when Deon asks him to count his narcotics somewhere else instead of in front of Chappie and is threatened with a shanking for his pains. He gets a little tongue-tied when he’s angry and scared (“You’re a terrible - shitty person!”), though usually, his insults tend towards the highbrow (“He’s smarter than you’ll ever be, you Philistine!”) whether his targets will understand the sick burn or not.
Deon has a bit of a temper - when things don't go his way and he's frustrated, he has a tendency to kick walls and practically shove everything off of tables in his anger. (He doesn't actually flip a table, but I imagine that wouldn't be far off if things got really dire.) He's somewhat arrogant and often takes up a holier-than-thou attitude, viewing himself as far intellectually and morally superior to the criminals that have taken possession of Chappie and looking down on them as a result. There’s also a sense of entitlement to him (e.g. taking the busted Scout because he wants it) that is basically beaten out of him by the end of the film. He begs to be spared when he’s first threatened by the gangsters who kidnap him; towards the end of the movie, when he’s dying from a wound sustained in what amounts to a carjacking, he begs Chappie to not bother with saving him at his creation’s own expense.
Deon is incredibly driven and passionate about what he does. He spends entire nights (most nights, it’s implied) practically shotgunning Red Bull to work on his AI pet project, and struggles to contain his excitement when pitching the same project to his unenthused boss when he’s finally cracked it. He’s generally pretty twitchy and animated, usually chewing on the end of a ballpoint pen while he works, but that may be a result of the fact that his bloodstream is about 90% Red Bull. He’s also more than just a gifted programmer; it is implied that not only did he code the AI for the Scouts, he had a hand in actually designing the robots themselves, while recognized as the project lead. Deon is still young - in his early-to-mid twenties, and Vincent calls him “practically a baby” - so it can be inferred that he’s somewhat of a prodigy in the robotics field.
He’s friendly and agreeable, seeming to have a good relationship with his co-workers (excluding Vincent), who all come by to congratulate him when the South African police order one hundred additional Scouts for the force. However, he seems to be lacking in interpersonal skills or at least isn’t that interested in friendships outside of work, because he has two robot buddies that he talks to at home: Dexter, who cleans up after him, brings him Red Bull, and activates the electric kettle, and Rory, a stationary robot kept near his home computer setup that he converses with (and may use for rubber duck debugging). A social life would take time away from his AI project, after all!
He has a strict moral code, differentiating right and wrong in clear categories (at least, at the beginning of the movie, and there’s somewhat of a gradient as the story progresses). He tries to impart this moral code to Chappie, telling the robot that he shouldn’t commit crimes and that you can’t break a promise once you’ve made it. Deon holds to this himself; once he makes the deal with the gangsters to teach Chappie, that’s exactly what he does, at great risk to life and limb, without calling the police on them. He takes his role as teacher and de facto parent seriously, bringing the robot such things as a stuffed bear, a deeply relevant picture book, and an easel and paints. He also looks up information on early childhood development, trying to better understand how his AI is going to learn and function in the world...and is utterly blown away by how quickly Chappie has evolved upon seeing the robot again later.
However, he’s not immune from doing things that apparently violate his own moral code in the service of science or what he considers to be the greater good. He’s respectful of authority, but not too respectful. When he goes to pitch his proper AI to Michelle Bradley, the CEO of Tetravaal, she waves him off because a publicly-traded weapons manufacturer doesn’t need a robot that can write poetry. Of course, he opts to steal the Scout droid that he’d intended to test his program on anyway, as well as the all-important guardkey needed to install new software on the robot, because he thinks he knows better. He threatens Ninja with calling the police for mistreating Chappie - Ninja points out that Deon would be in far more trouble for stealing the police robot from his employer in the first place, which actually makes him back down. Towards the climax, he also gets into Tetravaal’s armory and steals weaponry to furnish Chappie and the gangsters with so they can defend themselves against the Moose - though he never uses the weapons himself. When Vincent notices the guardkey is missing and asks if he can borrow it from him, not letting on that he knows it had been installed in the missing Scout 22, Deon tells him, straight-faced, that it’s against the rules. So he’s a bit of a hypocrite, too, when it suits him. His words are thrown back in his face when he tells Chappie that he can’t learn what consciousness is because it’s ineffable; Chappie quite reasonably responds that Deon had told him not to let anyone tell him he couldn’t do something.
Additionally? Deon has literally no common sense. He’s stubborn as hell and seems to have little regard for his own safety, as he mouths off to Ninja and Amerika in their hideout, both of whom are armed when he’s sassing them, and keeps coming back to teach Chappie even after Ninja had shot at him and told him if he ever saw Deon back there he’d kill him. He ended up finding somewhat of an ally on that front in Yolandi, which emboldened him to keep trying to teach his creation despite the consequences.
There’s some impulsivity and rashness to him as well as the stubbornness; aside from stealing the busted droid and the guardkey, he runs out to his company van and brings a rubber chicken for Chappie to play with, and runs back to the hideout, which makes Amerika suspicious that he has a weapon and nearly gets him shot (just why he has a rubber chicken in his car in the first place is never explained, but it’s further proof that he’s an enormous dork). He later, seemingly very ill at ease, goes and buys a revolver after Ninja threatens him the second time, and brandishes it to get Ninja to back down and let him take Chappie to Tetravaal to fix Vincent’s disabling firmware push that crippled the Scouts. It is unclear whether he actually would have fired the gun or if it was even loaded; he may resort to violence in desperation, but he may just as well bluff and hope he has a good poker face.
Deon thinks he’s a good person, overall, even if he’s done some questionable things in the name of science. He’s proud of his Scouts, viewing them as necessary life-saving tools for the South African police, and views the AI that becomes Chappie as his magnum opus, something he’s willing to sacrifice his life for in the end, to ensure that Chappie survives.
Appearance: During his time in Ryslig, he's changed physically - aside from the monster changes making him into a manticore (kestrel wings, caracal ears, and a lion tail tipped with a scorpion stinger - and Scout antennae where his human ears used to be, courtesy of the Fourth God), he's grown from the stringbean nerd he was when he'd arrived. He let his hair grow out and allowed some facial hair to come in, and overall seems to be more comfortable with himself physically. Don't get me wrong, he's still the same old stringbean nerd, but he's, like, marginally hot now.
History: Chappie @ wikipedia. Now, for the CRAU: oof. He's a good boy, really, or he tries to be. Deon starved himself to practically the point of ferality so he wouldn't have to eat humans, and even when he did have to give in and hunt humans for food he did it as sparingly as possible. He loathed the Fog God's imposition of her values over the peninsula and the people she kidnapped, and how she twisted them to hurt the people of Ryslig. Because of this, and because he is a sucker for technology, he fell in rather quickly with the entity known as the Fourth God - aka Elias Liewen, a child of a mad scientist who was used as an experiment to draw out some of the Fog God's power. He viewed Elias as a transference of sorts for his emotions about Chappie, and became a "follower" of the child god, hoping to find a way home with Elias' power. In reality, Elias doesn't accrue "followers" as much as what he calls his "friends", and the "god" terminology is solely a matter of convenience. Deon eventually became radicalized by abuse from Fog-aligned monsters and threw himself wholeheartedly into the cause of helping Elias overthrow the Fog. Partly because he wanted to go home, and partly out of some very sour spite. Not only does he want to go home, he wants to rip the power from the Fog's hands (such as they are) and give it to the people she's been hurting all along. The Fog has been hurting people like Vincent did, and she needs to be stopped. He doesn't think that Elias should have that kind of power either. Everyone here was brought here against their will, and Elias posits that people should be able to choose to go home if they want. Deon wants to go further; he wants to stop anyone else from being brought here once the power's been ripped from the Fog. If they make a gate out of Ryslig, he wants it to be one-way only.
He fucking hates it there. Good news, buddy, you get to go to SPACE!!
Abilities: Deon is faster and stronger than a baseline human, and can jump very far as sort of a monstrous "pounce". He can turn into a caracal at will - this caracal has spectacle markings around its eyes. He can also use his kestrel wings to fly, and he has a venomous stinger on his tail. He is resistant to poisons and venoms. He is, however, weak to cold. As a follower of the Fourth God, he has the ability to "talk" to computers and electronics just by touching them.
Inventory:
- x1 Arcade keycard (sorry buddy it's not gonna work)
- x1 wallet
- x1 notebook full of scribbled designs for kitbashed Ryslig-TL technology
- x1 can of energy drink he is going to choke on the second he gets onto the station for Comedy Value
- x1 rubber chicken. He didn't bring it. Q just dropped it on his head when he arrived.
Special Notes: poor little meow meow is gonna go absolutely buckwild apeshit for a laserpointer one of these days