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Age: 29
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Character: Morgan Yu
Canon: Prey (2017)
Canon Point: Mid-game, after her dad sends Walther Dahl up to Talos and he invades the station.
Character age: 30
Canon Abilities/Powers:
Morgan's supernatural abilities are all derived from these things called neuromods. In a gameplay context they're kind of like the plasmids in the Bioshock series (if you're familiar with those)? Except conceptually they're even worse than plasmids, because instead of just injecting yourself with science juice using a regular hypo, you have to press this inhaler looking thing over your eye and let it stab needles into your eye socket so it can rewrite your brain.
These abilities are all pretty "video gamey" in terms of their canon wiki descriptions and what they actually do in terms of game mechanics, so I tried to adapt them a little bit to be more roleplay friendly while still keeping within the limits of what the powers actually are, in terms of their origins and limitations.
Mimic Matter - Morgan "shapeshifts" into an inanimate object. (I put shapeshifting in quotation marks because it's really not as simple as changing the shape of her own body, but like, for all intents and purposes it's basically just shapeshifting.) She can only do simple objects and the amount of time she can hold the shape is limited by her natural psi pool.
Phantom Shift - Morgan teleports a short distance and leaves a spooky shadowy looking decoy in her place. The decoy is really meant to fool creatures that operate more on instinct than logic, such as animals, or spooky gooey space aliens.
Lift field- Morgan can manipulate gravity and lift objects up to 7 meters in the air, but she can only maintain the hold for about 30 seconds before she gets a splitting headache.
Superthermal (pyrokinesis) - Creates a blast of super heated plasma that erupts at whatever point in space Morgan chooses to focus her psi at. She can't do this more than once in a day without severely exhausting herself.
What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:
Morgan's negative emotions are kind of complicated, and it's hard to pick what she's MOST negative about because she's really not a happy person. She's a depressed amnesiac mess. There's a lot of stuff that she hates, about her situation in the game, about Talos-1 and Transtar and the people she worked with and the things they did. Her family, her brother... But I'd say the thing she feels the worst about, deep down, is herself.
Ooooh, deep, right? But wait, it's actually not as straightforward as your standard self loathing! Morgan literally hates her past self, because in her current state doesn't remember being the person she used to be. She doesn't remember or identify as the Morgan Yu who was a billionaire super scientist, the woman who callously played with human lives in the name of progress. She doesn't remember being the woman who basically fed political prisoners to conscious-eating super-aliens just to develop high-end luxury brain modifications that her family's company could sell for massive profit. She literally sees herself as a different person now, but also can't divorce herself entirely from having been her at one point or another. She can't remember what any of her old motivations were, how she justified the lives she took in the name of science. She can only see the results of her previous actions, all the chaos and death that the escaped typhon have spread across the space station she wakes up on. She only has audio logs to go by otherwise, and secondhand interpretations based on what surviving NPCs tell her.
The old Morgan helped bring the typhon closer to humanity, and worked with her brother to ultimately put the entire planet in danger. The current Morgan despises her, and wants to undo everything she ever did.
How strongly do they feel about the negative subject matter, on the scale of one to ten?:
(cw: suicidal ideation I guess?)
Negatively enough to basically reject her past self and identify as a completely different person? And also negatively enough not give a shit if she gets blown up along with the space station because deep down she knows she can't really divorce herself from being that person, and she feels like it'd probably be better if she went down with the ship.
What is their greatest virtue?:
It's similarly hard to pin down Morgan's virtues because she's an extremely miserable person, but in terms of her actions within the game I'd say that her best virtue is her willingness to put others before herself. She's so desperate to make things right and make up for the past deeds of this woman she doesn't remember being, she'll willingly throw herself into great danger to try and protect the surviving members of the Talos crew. In a way, this is still kind of selfish; its' self-flagellation, viewing herself as being of less worth because she's terrible and nothing matters as long as she can stop the Typhon. This Morgan Yu has never heard of self-care and if she did, she would believe in it for literally everyone else in the world except for herself (and probably her immediate family.)
How aware are they of their virtue, on a scale from one to ten?:
I'd put her at about a 3? She's aware she puts herself in danger constantly to try and reach her goals but she doesn't view it as a virtue, she just views it as a necessity. A wrong that needs to be righted.
Items:
PPN-8 Personal Defense Sidearm (Silenced Pistol)
A bigass adjustable wrench
The GLOO Cannon
Samples:
https://illmetbymoo.dreamwidth.org/6335.html?thread=872127#cmt872127
https://pedalbike.dreamwidth.org/1918.html?thread=702334#cmt702334
Special notes
n/a
Age: 29
Contact info:
Character: Morgan Yu
Canon: Prey (2017)
Canon Point: Mid-game, after her dad sends Walther Dahl up to Talos and he invades the station.
Character age: 30
Canon Abilities/Powers:
Morgan's supernatural abilities are all derived from these things called neuromods. In a gameplay context they're kind of like the plasmids in the Bioshock series (if you're familiar with those)? Except conceptually they're even worse than plasmids, because instead of just injecting yourself with science juice using a regular hypo, you have to press this inhaler looking thing over your eye and let it stab needles into your eye socket so it can rewrite your brain.
These abilities are all pretty "video gamey" in terms of their canon wiki descriptions and what they actually do in terms of game mechanics, so I tried to adapt them a little bit to be more roleplay friendly while still keeping within the limits of what the powers actually are, in terms of their origins and limitations.
What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:
Morgan's negative emotions are kind of complicated, and it's hard to pick what she's MOST negative about because she's really not a happy person. She's a depressed amnesiac mess. There's a lot of stuff that she hates, about her situation in the game, about Talos-1 and Transtar and the people she worked with and the things they did. Her family, her brother... But I'd say the thing she feels the worst about, deep down, is herself.
Ooooh, deep, right? But wait, it's actually not as straightforward as your standard self loathing! Morgan literally hates her past self, because in her current state doesn't remember being the person she used to be. She doesn't remember or identify as the Morgan Yu who was a billionaire super scientist, the woman who callously played with human lives in the name of progress. She doesn't remember being the woman who basically fed political prisoners to conscious-eating super-aliens just to develop high-end luxury brain modifications that her family's company could sell for massive profit. She literally sees herself as a different person now, but also can't divorce herself entirely from having been her at one point or another. She can't remember what any of her old motivations were, how she justified the lives she took in the name of science. She can only see the results of her previous actions, all the chaos and death that the escaped typhon have spread across the space station she wakes up on. She only has audio logs to go by otherwise, and secondhand interpretations based on what surviving NPCs tell her.
The old Morgan helped bring the typhon closer to humanity, and worked with her brother to ultimately put the entire planet in danger. The current Morgan despises her, and wants to undo everything she ever did.
How strongly do they feel about the negative subject matter, on the scale of one to ten?:
(cw: suicidal ideation I guess?)
Negatively enough to basically reject her past self and identify as a completely different person? And also negatively enough not give a shit if she gets blown up along with the space station because deep down she knows she can't really divorce herself from being that person, and she feels like it'd probably be better if she went down with the ship.
What is their greatest virtue?:
It's similarly hard to pin down Morgan's virtues because she's an extremely miserable person, but in terms of her actions within the game I'd say that her best virtue is her willingness to put others before herself. She's so desperate to make things right and make up for the past deeds of this woman she doesn't remember being, she'll willingly throw herself into great danger to try and protect the surviving members of the Talos crew. In a way, this is still kind of selfish; its' self-flagellation, viewing herself as being of less worth because she's terrible and nothing matters as long as she can stop the Typhon. This Morgan Yu has never heard of self-care and if she did, she would believe in it for literally everyone else in the world except for herself (and probably her immediate family.)
How aware are they of their virtue, on a scale from one to ten?:
I'd put her at about a 3? She's aware she puts herself in danger constantly to try and reach her goals but she doesn't view it as a virtue, she just views it as a necessity. A wrong that needs to be righted.
Items:
Samples:
https://illmetbymoo.dreamwidth.org/6335.html?thread=872127#cmt872127
https://pedalbike.dreamwidth.org/1918.html?thread=702334#cmt702334
Special notes
n/a
