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psychotronics) wrote2020-02-02 06:04 pm
psychotronics) wrote2020-02-02 06:04 pm
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Player Information
Name: Possum
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Over 18?: Yes
Character Information
Name: "Morgan Yu" (Typhon)
Canon: Prey (2017)
Canon Point:
Age: 30 years old
History:
The Prey wiki is garbage so I had to write this all out myself, and I'm very sorry.
(Setting Background)
Prey takes place in an alternate timeline that diverged from our own history around the late 50’s/early 60’s. Broad strokes: JFK was never assassinated; the Russians encountered hostile alien lifeforms called typhon in the earliest days of the space race. The USA and the USSR wound up working together to contain and study the creatures, leading to new unprecedented advances in technology and space exploration.
Fast forward to Morgan’s time, and the big thing on everyone’s minds are Neuromods, a new technology developed by TranStar, a high-tech mega-corporation founded by Morgan’s parents. Neuromods are set to “revolutionize human learning”, basically by making it so that the knowledge and skills of super smart and talented people can be instantly transferred into the head of any average-joe who has the means to purchase the product. It’s big shit. You can gain a doctorate in chemical biology in like, 5 seconds. The only apparent downside—and the thing that the public doesn’t know-- is that if you uninstall a neuromod, your brain basically does a “restore from backup” like a computer dumping some problematic software, reverting your brain matter to an unmodified state; in other words, you take a neuromod out? You forget everything that happened between when you installed it and when you removed it. But surely that’s not a problem because hahaha, who would ever want to remove a Neuromod, right!??
Personal History:
-2005; Morgan is born, the second child of Catherine Yu, a German tech entrepreneur, and William Yu, a distinguished Chinese-American neuroscientist.
-2025; Morgan’s older brother Alex is appointed CEO of TranStar and Director of Research aboard Talos-I, a new super advanced fancy-ass space station owned by the company.
-2032; Morgan is recruited as co-director of research and development aboard Talos-I. She joins all the scientists in the station’s “psychotronics” department in playing god with the captive typhon organisms, studying their ecology. They also engage in dubious human experimentation on “volunteer” test subjects (read: political prisoners and convicts whose alternatives to becoming human lab rats are execution or life in a USSR prison), using them to collect data on typhon behavior and reproduction.
-2034; The Yu siblings realize they can use the brains of the typhon to make neuromods that basically give humans super powers. Morgan volunteers to be the guinea pig for this since she is arguably the best candidate, and insists that the only way to truly test these new mods in a controlled environment is to remove some of her earliest (non-typhon) mods and revert her mind back to the way it was before she ever even joined Talos-I. She willingly volunteers for this, knowing that in addition to losing years of her life, her mind will also be subject to a relentless cycle of amnesia, as testing the typhon-mods will require the repeated installation and removal of the experimental modifications with each session. She and her brother have a system in place to “bring her up to speed” between each trial.
Not long into the experiment, Morgan begins to experience “personality drift”, a reported side effect of the frequent cycling of neuromods. Morgan’s behavior becomes increasingly and notably erratic as a result, something that does not go unnoticed by the rest of the crew on Talos I. She alternates between being spacey, aggressive and paranoid on a day to day basis. She also starts having reoccurring dreams about something sinister lurking in deep space, and becomes convinced that “something big” is coming for them all that could spell doom not only for Talos-I, but the entire Earth. Alex insists this is all fine, that her concerns over the experiment are just a side effect of the mod cycling, and this is what she signed up for. Morgan starts to view Alex as an untrustworthy figure, and between her trials she begins using recordings and notes to herself to craft a series of complicated contingency plans. The goals of these plans vary, but they all share one common secondary purpose: to fill in the blanks in her memory, in case Alex decides to do something dubious.
February 2nd, 2035: Alex does something dubious. He makes the decision to keep experimenting on his younger sibling despite her worsening and exhausted condition, and stops bringing her up to speed between sessions. This essentially traps Morgan in a simulation loop that makes her live, forget, and then relive the same day of her life over and over for the course of several weeks. Study continues on the typhon neuromods in this time.
-February 22nd, 2035: As all dangerous science fiction monsters tend to eventually do, the typhon break containment. They spread across the station and slaughter nearly the entire crew, leaving only a handful of survivors.
-February 23rd, 2035: The point where the game finally actually starts. Morgan breaks out of the simulation loop with the assistance of January, a modified operator (robot) who speaks and thinks with Morgan’s voice and personality. January guides Morgan to her office, where and there Morgan watches a video from her past self, explaining the current situation to her amnesiac future self. This kicks off a complicated series of events that involve January guiding the amnesiac Morgan through the overrun station in search of two arming keys that she can use to rig the station’s reactor to overload and blow everything up, and thus spare Earth from a typhon invasion.
- ????? 2035: Morgan fails her mission and perishes. The Typhon invade Earth and proceed to lay waste to much of human civilization.
- ????? 2035-2036-ish: Alex Yu and a rag-tag team of Transtar scientists enact Project Cobolt, a last ditch effort to save humanity by creating a special human-typhon hybrid using Morgan Yu's connectome. They put their creation through a bunch of rigorous simulations to test it's capacity for empathy and cooperative teamwork.
Personality:
Pragmatic/Ruthless
Reserved
Despite her typically friendly outward demeanor, Morgan is difficult to truly get to know. She is reserved in how much she shares about herself, both out of necessity (due to the nature of her work) and out of habit from growing up under very strict and controlling parents. She’s good at keeping secrets, and also at distancing herself from others when she feels it necessary. She kept her relationship with Mikhaila Ilyushin under wraps and hid it from her brother, but was also quick to end the relationship when she was set to start testing the typhon neuromods, self-justified reasoning being that it would be easier for both of them if they ended things with Morgan’s impending memory wipe looming. Morgan never told Mikhaila about the experiments due to their top-secret nature, so she let the other woman believe that things were over between them due to an entirely different reason, and simply did not bother correcting her.
Quiet
Cautious
Guilty/Haunted
Where Morgan used to be excited about the idea of scientific progress by any means, her experiences in the sim lab and unexpected connection with the typhon have left her far more wary of the possible consequences of her work. Alex views this as her having turned into a “pessimist”, and further evidence of her drifting personality. January—who is basically the embodiment of past Morgan—views it as finally doing the right thing to keep Earth safe.
Morgan as she is now is a very conflicted person. She is filled with a lot of self-loathing and confusion upon the discovery of the things she apparently did in her past, including the human experimentation and dangerous testing on the typhon. She doesn’t view herself as a trustworthy or kind individual, although she will quickly put herself in harm’s way to defend others now. This may be in part because of her perception that other lives are worth more than her own, or self-sacrificing may be her way of atoning for past misdeeds.
Suspicious
Where and how did your character enter the Hedge?
After the Apex attacks Talos-1, Morgan had to make a mad rush out of the Arboretum to try and stop the beast.
Additional Memories Lost:
The big one: She does not remember her true identity as revealed in the post-credits of the game, that she is not ACTUALLY Morgan Yu, but rather a human-typhon hybrid created by Alex Yu and implanted with the real Morgan Yu's connectome.
Skillsets:
-Neurology
-Research/Development
-Detail oriented observational skills
-Robotics
-Amoral emotionally detatched human experimentation
Inventory:
Sample:
Name: Possum
Contact:
Over 18?: Yes
Character Information
Name: "Morgan Yu" (Typhon)
Canon: Prey (2017)
Canon Point:
Age: 30 years old
History:
The Prey wiki is garbage so I had to write this all out myself, and I'm very sorry.
(Setting Background)
Prey takes place in an alternate timeline that diverged from our own history around the late 50’s/early 60’s. Broad strokes: JFK was never assassinated; the Russians encountered hostile alien lifeforms called typhon in the earliest days of the space race. The USA and the USSR wound up working together to contain and study the creatures, leading to new unprecedented advances in technology and space exploration.
Fast forward to Morgan’s time, and the big thing on everyone’s minds are Neuromods, a new technology developed by TranStar, a high-tech mega-corporation founded by Morgan’s parents. Neuromods are set to “revolutionize human learning”, basically by making it so that the knowledge and skills of super smart and talented people can be instantly transferred into the head of any average-joe who has the means to purchase the product. It’s big shit. You can gain a doctorate in chemical biology in like, 5 seconds. The only apparent downside—and the thing that the public doesn’t know-- is that if you uninstall a neuromod, your brain basically does a “restore from backup” like a computer dumping some problematic software, reverting your brain matter to an unmodified state; in other words, you take a neuromod out? You forget everything that happened between when you installed it and when you removed it. But surely that’s not a problem because hahaha, who would ever want to remove a Neuromod, right!??
Personal History:
-2005; Morgan is born, the second child of Catherine Yu, a German tech entrepreneur, and William Yu, a distinguished Chinese-American neuroscientist.
-2025; Morgan’s older brother Alex is appointed CEO of TranStar and Director of Research aboard Talos-I, a new super advanced fancy-ass space station owned by the company.
-2032; Morgan is recruited as co-director of research and development aboard Talos-I. She joins all the scientists in the station’s “psychotronics” department in playing god with the captive typhon organisms, studying their ecology. They also engage in dubious human experimentation on “volunteer” test subjects (read: political prisoners and convicts whose alternatives to becoming human lab rats are execution or life in a USSR prison), using them to collect data on typhon behavior and reproduction.
-2034; The Yu siblings realize they can use the brains of the typhon to make neuromods that basically give humans super powers. Morgan volunteers to be the guinea pig for this since she is arguably the best candidate, and insists that the only way to truly test these new mods in a controlled environment is to remove some of her earliest (non-typhon) mods and revert her mind back to the way it was before she ever even joined Talos-I. She willingly volunteers for this, knowing that in addition to losing years of her life, her mind will also be subject to a relentless cycle of amnesia, as testing the typhon-mods will require the repeated installation and removal of the experimental modifications with each session. She and her brother have a system in place to “bring her up to speed” between each trial.
Not long into the experiment, Morgan begins to experience “personality drift”, a reported side effect of the frequent cycling of neuromods. Morgan’s behavior becomes increasingly and notably erratic as a result, something that does not go unnoticed by the rest of the crew on Talos I. She alternates between being spacey, aggressive and paranoid on a day to day basis. She also starts having reoccurring dreams about something sinister lurking in deep space, and becomes convinced that “something big” is coming for them all that could spell doom not only for Talos-I, but the entire Earth. Alex insists this is all fine, that her concerns over the experiment are just a side effect of the mod cycling, and this is what she signed up for. Morgan starts to view Alex as an untrustworthy figure, and between her trials she begins using recordings and notes to herself to craft a series of complicated contingency plans. The goals of these plans vary, but they all share one common secondary purpose: to fill in the blanks in her memory, in case Alex decides to do something dubious.
February 2nd, 2035: Alex does something dubious. He makes the decision to keep experimenting on his younger sibling despite her worsening and exhausted condition, and stops bringing her up to speed between sessions. This essentially traps Morgan in a simulation loop that makes her live, forget, and then relive the same day of her life over and over for the course of several weeks. Study continues on the typhon neuromods in this time.
-February 22nd, 2035: As all dangerous science fiction monsters tend to eventually do, the typhon break containment. They spread across the station and slaughter nearly the entire crew, leaving only a handful of survivors.
-February 23rd, 2035: The point where the game finally actually starts. Morgan breaks out of the simulation loop with the assistance of January, a modified operator (robot) who speaks and thinks with Morgan’s voice and personality. January guides Morgan to her office, where and there Morgan watches a video from her past self, explaining the current situation to her amnesiac future self. This kicks off a complicated series of events that involve January guiding the amnesiac Morgan through the overrun station in search of two arming keys that she can use to rig the station’s reactor to overload and blow everything up, and thus spare Earth from a typhon invasion.
- ????? 2035: Morgan fails her mission and perishes. The Typhon invade Earth and proceed to lay waste to much of human civilization.
- ????? 2035-2036-ish: Alex Yu and a rag-tag team of Transtar scientists enact Project Cobolt, a last ditch effort to save humanity by creating a special human-typhon hybrid using Morgan Yu's connectome. They put their creation through a bunch of rigorous simulations to test it's capacity for empathy and cooperative teamwork.
Personality:
Pragmatic/Ruthless
Reserved
Despite her typically friendly outward demeanor, Morgan is difficult to truly get to know. She is reserved in how much she shares about herself, both out of necessity (due to the nature of her work) and out of habit from growing up under very strict and controlling parents. She’s good at keeping secrets, and also at distancing herself from others when she feels it necessary. She kept her relationship with Mikhaila Ilyushin under wraps and hid it from her brother, but was also quick to end the relationship when she was set to start testing the typhon neuromods, self-justified reasoning being that it would be easier for both of them if they ended things with Morgan’s impending memory wipe looming. Morgan never told Mikhaila about the experiments due to their top-secret nature, so she let the other woman believe that things were over between them due to an entirely different reason, and simply did not bother correcting her.
Quiet
Cautious
Guilty/Haunted
Where Morgan used to be excited about the idea of scientific progress by any means, her experiences in the sim lab and unexpected connection with the typhon have left her far more wary of the possible consequences of her work. Alex views this as her having turned into a “pessimist”, and further evidence of her drifting personality. January—who is basically the embodiment of past Morgan—views it as finally doing the right thing to keep Earth safe.
Morgan as she is now is a very conflicted person. She is filled with a lot of self-loathing and confusion upon the discovery of the things she apparently did in her past, including the human experimentation and dangerous testing on the typhon. She doesn’t view herself as a trustworthy or kind individual, although she will quickly put herself in harm’s way to defend others now. This may be in part because of her perception that other lives are worth more than her own, or self-sacrificing may be her way of atoning for past misdeeds.
Suspicious
Where and how did your character enter the Hedge?
After the Apex attacks Talos-1, Morgan had to make a mad rush out of the Arboretum to try and stop the beast.
Additional Memories Lost:
The big one: She does not remember her true identity as revealed in the post-credits of the game, that she is not ACTUALLY Morgan Yu, but rather a human-typhon hybrid created by Alex Yu and implanted with the real Morgan Yu's connectome.
Skillsets:
-Neurology
-Research/Development
-Detail oriented observational skills
-Robotics
-Amoral emotionally detatched human experimentation
Inventory:
Sample: