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Player Name: Marti
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Tag: Agent Texas
IN CHARACTER
Name: Agent Texas | Allison | Beta
Canon: Red vs. Blue
Canon Point: After the downing of the space frigate Mother of Invention.
Age: Unknown, but probably less than 2. Mentally, however, she is equivalent to a human in her 20s.
History: Note, the story of Red vs. Blue began as a fanfiction machinima video series based on the Halo universe. As such the story follows Halo canon at many points, although there are a few things that don’t fit Halo canon that RvB glosses over.
At its core Red vs. Blue is the story of a military program known as Project Freelancer. The program was one of many that the United Nations Space Command, or UNSC, funded to attempt to win a long protracted war against a coalition of alien races. Things were looking desperate for humankind and so though Project Freelancer pushed the lines of what was legal and ethical, it was able to retain its funding.
The project was meant to test the use of specialized combat AI units to be paired with the operatives, which were called freelancers as the name of the program would suggest. However, the project was only able to obtain permission and funding to create one AI. The founder of the project, Dr. Leonard Church, chose to create the AI from a copy of his own mind. This AI was designated Alpha and was used at first to run the ship’s systems and create combat scenarios.
Something unexpected happened during Alpha’s creation, however. Director Church had once had a woman in his life, named Allison, who died in a military incursion when his and Allison’s daughter was young. Whether they were married or not is unknown, but she was dear enough to the Director that the memories he held of her in his mind actually split off as another piece of code. This AI was preserved and designated Beta. Beta did not remember who or what she was after her creation, but the Director’s memories of Allison cast her as an incredible fighter and soldier. He began sending her in as a shadow operative, and in her first mission followed up the work of the lead team by setting charges on the oil platform that had been used as the mission’s evac point.
The success of this mission led to the Director choosing to make Beta’s inclusion more official. Like the other freelancers, she was given a code name that corresponded to a US state—in her case, Texas—and a robot body. He chose to introduce her to her fellow agents by arranging a three-on-one match in the training room. While agents York, Wyoming, and Maine battled against her, other agents watched from the observation deck. Texas did indeed prove to be a skilled and formidable fighter, and won round after round in fighting, including such trials as pugil sticks, hand-to-hand, and simulation paint rounds.
It was during the ninth round of fighting that Wyoming and Maine took an option the Director had given them—using actual live ammunition. York was shocked at this when he realized what was going on and attempted to mediate a ceasefire, but with everyone else dodging and shooting, he was put into danger several times. Texas even scolded him to stop trying to help her and advised him, “Never abandon your team.” However, he didn’t listen and Texas had to go out of her way to protect him from his own teammates. At a crucial point, when Texas believed she had won the round and began to approach York, who was stunned on the floor, Maine threw a grenade in her direction. She dodged the throw, but this led to the grenade landing very near York. Unable to do anything else from the distance she stood, she fired the simulation paint rounds at him, coating the right side of his armor in it. The behavior of the paint was to create a hardened coating for a short period of time, so this was enough to protect parts of his armor from the blast when the grenade exploded. However, it shattered the left side of his helmet, causing an injury to his left eye.
A major factor in the way the Project was carried out was its inclusion of a leaderboard, which kept track of how the agents ranked in their particular abilities. Until now, Agent Carolina had been at the top, with York in second place, but the top few places changed in the aftermath—Texas in first, Carolina second, and York moving further down because of his failure to keep from being injured
Even with the team upset at the recent happenings, a new mission was assigned to retrieve a shipping container from a tall building. The team did their best to complete the objective, but when they arrived at the evac point on top of a tall building, Agent Texas had been sent in to once again destroy the target.
Agent Carolina, who was leading the team, approached her, upset that Texas had been sent in as a lone wolf on what was supposed to be a team effort, but she didn’t have much time to debate the point as the enemy forces approach. The transmitter Texas had been planting signaled to the Project’s ship to fire its weapons, and all the Freelancers in the LZ had to bail quickly. Texas was the only one of the freelancers who had been pre-prepared for this eventuality with a jetpack, and she kicked the container off the roof and jumped.
The agents continued to work, now aiming to complete the secondary objective of retrieving the briefcase that contained the lock codes for the shipping container. Carolina was now determined to best Texas and raced her to reach the goal, heedless of the danger she was in because of the vehicles that were rushing by on the highway. Texas beat Carolina there when Carolina was run over by a semi truck—her armor saved her from serious injury, but she was slowed too much to continue. Texas grabbed the briefcase and called for extraction, then turned and wished Carolina better luck next time.
Amongst all this, the Director had gotten an idea about how to obtain more AIs to further the research he wished to carry out with the agents. The memories of Allison had split off of Alpha—could he also split the AI in the manner of a human mind, splitting via traumatic experiences? He invented scenarios that would be equivalent to torture for the AI. During the last mission Agent Maine had been injured in such a way that he would never be able to speak again. The first two AIs, Delta and Sigma, were assigned to York and Maine to assist them with their new disabilities.
Not long after, Agent Connecticut defected. She had taken her high tech suit of armor with her and the agents were sent to retrieve her, or at least her armor, to secure the experimental technology from enemy hands. Once again Texas was sent in separately, rushing in headlong when the rest of the team was pinned down. Carolina hurriedly followed her, putting herself at risk in running into the heat of gunfire, but she made it to where Texas was waiting outside the room Connecticut was in. Carolina called York to cut the power so that she and Texas could enter the room without risking injury from the turrets that guarded the room.
Inside, Texas commanded Connecticut to surrender her armor, but Connecticut told Texas she knew what Texas was and that she wouldn’t take orders from a shadow. Confused and offended, Texas asked, “What did you call me?” But the confrontation boiled over and in the ensuing fight Texas drove an axe into Connecticut’s abdomen. Connecticut was able to escape onto the waiting ship but died moments later.
AI implantation continued, and Carolina chose time and again to defer receiving an AI. Her reasons were many but everyone knew the main reason was that she was trying to prove to herself she could be as good as Texas without assistance. But one day, Maine’s AI Sigma and Wyoming’s AI Gamma approached her in the locker room to inform her that Texas had been paired with her own AI, Omega. Carolina became angry, certain that her father the Director had been playing her. She went into the training room, where Texas was in the middle of telling the Counselor she was suffering from pent-up aggression, and insisted on receiving the next two AIs simultaneously.
She was implanted with the AIs not long after and insisted on an impromptu match against Texas. Texas fended Omega off when he tried to assist her in preparing for the fight, but otherwise didn’t try to hold back the full power of her fighting style. But as the match began the Director appeared on the observation deck, asking what was going on. No one was able to answer—before anyone spoke up, he rushed forward, distressed at seeing his pet AI squaring off against his daughter. He called out Allison’s name. The AIs reacted violently to this outburst. They began screaming in their hosts’ minds, and the agents who had been assigned AIs fell to the floor, gripping their heads in pain. Carolina received the worst brunt of this, since she had two AIs. Texas yelled for help from the training room floor, but no one did anything. The Director, instead of choosing to help Carolina, said what had happened was her own fault and left. Texas resisted Omega’s idea that she should snap Carolina’s neck, and instead out of pity for Carolina knocked her out.
Things were coming to a head now. Just before the match Texas had found a micro storage drive that she now took to a computer to see what files it contained. The information on the drive consisted of a video Connecticut had recorded before her defection, explaining that Texas was a copy of Allison and that the Alpha AI had been tortured. Even as she explored the information that Connecticut had also included on the drive, Agent Washington was being implanted with Epsilon, the most recent AI that had been created. Unknown to the Counselor or Director, Epsilon contained all of Alpha’s memories of the Director’s life and of Alpha’s torture. Washington collapsed, screaming, overwhelmed with the horrible things he was seeing.
Texas was spurred into action now. She convinced Agent York, who had had his suspicions, to defect with her, and once they were prepared they returned to rescue Carolina, Washington, and Alpha. Carolina, however, was now up and around, and had been convinced by her father that the two former agents needed to be captured. York, trying to create a distraction, caused the ship to fire upon itself, and it began to crash as Texas and Carolina had a final confrontation. Neither of them won the fight, as they were both ejected from the ship when it came to a halt on the planet below.
Carolina was no longer in the control room with Texas, and so Texas was able to open a session with the Alpha AI, entering his virtual environment. This was when Texas learned that almost every element of what made up Alpha’s core self, including his memories, had been split off. Alpha declined to go with her and instead of insisting she told him to rest and left.
The Director had been concealing another secret—Agent Maine had been convinced by his AI Sigma that all the AIs needed to be reunited. He had been blaming the actions of Maine on Texas, which was how he had convinced Carolina to try to capture Texas. But now after the crash, Maine was able to approach Carolina and rip the computer chips that contained her AIs from her implantation slots. He threw Carolina off the nearby cliff and Texas rushed forward, screaming, “No!” But she quickly recognized that Maine would desire to integrate her into his collection of AIs and she chose to turn and run away.
Personality: Texas is at her core a manifestation of Allison’s memory as Leonard Church saw her. This is why she’s referred to as a shadow—it’s inevitable that Leonard couldn’t properly interpret every element of Allison’s personality, nor the way she had gone about her job as a soldier.
At her core, Texas is independent and inscrutable—she doesn’t share her thoughts or emotions with others easily. She knows she’s overpowered compared to the other agents, but though she takes pride in her abilities, she doesn’t rub them in the other agents’ faces. On her end, the rivalry with Carolina is taken good-naturedly—when she wishes Carolina luck on the highway, her body language is cocky but her tone is not arrogant or mocking. She again wishes Carolina luck when Carolina insists on receiving two AIs. She’s kind to Carolina after the incident on the training room floor, as well—when Carolina falls to the floor, she offers her hand to help Carolina up, which Carolina bats away.
Texas’s major turning point is the moment when she sits down and absorbs Connecticut’s evidence. Until then, she had apparently not questioned why she was kept separate from everyone else, or why she was overpowered compared to them. In fact, the only time she expressed her emotions was upon questioning from the Counselor, when she mentioned her desire to go out and fight and complained about feeling overly aggressive. But when she witnesses the files Connecticut had left behind her body language changes. She finds Allison’s picture and thoughtfully caresses the image with her hand. After this she goes among the other agents, expressing concern for Carolina and carrying on a conversation with Agent North Dakota about the trouble some other agents seemed to be in because of the AI implantations.
She does have an indelible connection to Leonard and his AI descendants, Alpha and Epsilon in particular. She doesn’t shake this off—it’s notable that despite her disapproval of what Leonard did, she doesn’t take Connecticut’s evidence to the authorities, choosing instead to dismantle his work herself. She also doesn’t come after him after the ship crashes, choosing instead to save herself from the possibility that she may be captured.
Though the following events are after her canon point, they are relevant to describing aspects of her personality that weren’t seen this early on after she views Connecticut’s files. For example, her dry sense of humor is seen when she interacts with a group of simulation soldiers later on. Someone asks her which state she represented among the Freelancers, even though he knows everyone calls her Tex, and she replies with Nevada in a deadpan tone. When a new soldier arrives, Texas spends time conversing with her, gossiping about the other soldiers.
When Omega threatens the simulation soldiers, Texas works to protect them, but when she learns she might be able to help win the war between the humans and aliens if she teams up with him, she’s immediately willing to do so. This shows her sense of duty, despite any affection she might feel for people she considers her friends.
Abilities/Skills: Texas is an adept fighter at hand-to-hand and excellent marksman. Being an AI in a robot body, she can out-calculate her opponents’ moves and react before they can. She’s also very powerful, able to buckle a part of the hull of the ship when she punches it.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Tex is skilled at vehicle repair and weapons maintenance, stating at one point that she always liked cars. She’s also very athletic by human standards, able to leap and flip with ease. She doesn’t make a good negotiator since she tends to be a shoot first, ask questions later type of person. Though she’s sympathetic in some ways, she doesn’t cut people any slack for mistakes.
Items: At Tex’s canon point she has nothing on her, as all her weapons have been used up in the fight that preceded the crash. She is in a robot body that looks identical to the armor used by the other Freelancers.
SAMPLES
Network Sample:
[ Tex is, to say the least, unhappy to be here. Last she knew, she was trying to think of some way, any way, that she could make it down the cliff face without being spotted and captured by the Meta. It’s almost hopeless though, even for her, in her black armor in the snow. She was planning to run far away, make her way down the ice shelf, and double back.
So she didn’t mean to give up and she’s not at all pleased when she finds herself on the Moira.
When she gets her communicator she clicks it on and shoots off a text. ]
Someone better figure out how to get me back where I came from. I have shit to do that doesn’t include taking care of someone else’s crap.
Prose/Action Sample:
Nothing seems to have changed for Tex at all here on the Moira. She's still in a robot body, and therefore still different from her crewmates in a fundamentally inescapable way. She doesn't need to eat, or sleep, or exercise, so she has no reason to really spend time in the communal areas. She's restless a lot of the time, and when her duties are done she either patrols the halls or uses the heavy bags in the exercise facility. This proves frustrating, too, though—she has to be careful not to damage them after she ruins the first one not long after her arrival.
She does need to keep her body maintained, something that took place on the Mother of Invention without her intervention. That's one of the ways they were able to make her think she was human—they'd just shut her down at night and make sure her body was adequately lubricated and fueled and that the connections were all sound. There only seems to be one place where she can tend to these needs, and that's in the engine room. Thankfully, the engines themselves need daily maintenance as well. So she spends a lot of time here—it's her workplace, her mess hall, her quarters.
Right now she goes to the storage closet where she keeps her tools and which contains the power coupling she uses to recharge her body. During her last session hitting the punching bag she felt something go slightly out of alignment in her arm, so she takes her wrench and tightens things as needed, then grabs the oil and dabs some lightly in that spot. After that she takes her gun and cleans it, sets it down, and plugs in her power. She pauses, staring ahead of her, not really thinking about anything but weary somehow. After this she sets a timer to wake herself after recharging is complete and puts her systems in hibernate mode.
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Contact:
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Tag: Agent Texas
IN CHARACTER
Name: Agent Texas | Allison | Beta
Canon: Red vs. Blue
Canon Point: After the downing of the space frigate Mother of Invention.
Age: Unknown, but probably less than 2. Mentally, however, she is equivalent to a human in her 20s.
History: Note, the story of Red vs. Blue began as a fanfiction machinima video series based on the Halo universe. As such the story follows Halo canon at many points, although there are a few things that don’t fit Halo canon that RvB glosses over.
At its core Red vs. Blue is the story of a military program known as Project Freelancer. The program was one of many that the United Nations Space Command, or UNSC, funded to attempt to win a long protracted war against a coalition of alien races. Things were looking desperate for humankind and so though Project Freelancer pushed the lines of what was legal and ethical, it was able to retain its funding.
The project was meant to test the use of specialized combat AI units to be paired with the operatives, which were called freelancers as the name of the program would suggest. However, the project was only able to obtain permission and funding to create one AI. The founder of the project, Dr. Leonard Church, chose to create the AI from a copy of his own mind. This AI was designated Alpha and was used at first to run the ship’s systems and create combat scenarios.
Something unexpected happened during Alpha’s creation, however. Director Church had once had a woman in his life, named Allison, who died in a military incursion when his and Allison’s daughter was young. Whether they were married or not is unknown, but she was dear enough to the Director that the memories he held of her in his mind actually split off as another piece of code. This AI was preserved and designated Beta. Beta did not remember who or what she was after her creation, but the Director’s memories of Allison cast her as an incredible fighter and soldier. He began sending her in as a shadow operative, and in her first mission followed up the work of the lead team by setting charges on the oil platform that had been used as the mission’s evac point.
The success of this mission led to the Director choosing to make Beta’s inclusion more official. Like the other freelancers, she was given a code name that corresponded to a US state—in her case, Texas—and a robot body. He chose to introduce her to her fellow agents by arranging a three-on-one match in the training room. While agents York, Wyoming, and Maine battled against her, other agents watched from the observation deck. Texas did indeed prove to be a skilled and formidable fighter, and won round after round in fighting, including such trials as pugil sticks, hand-to-hand, and simulation paint rounds.
It was during the ninth round of fighting that Wyoming and Maine took an option the Director had given them—using actual live ammunition. York was shocked at this when he realized what was going on and attempted to mediate a ceasefire, but with everyone else dodging and shooting, he was put into danger several times. Texas even scolded him to stop trying to help her and advised him, “Never abandon your team.” However, he didn’t listen and Texas had to go out of her way to protect him from his own teammates. At a crucial point, when Texas believed she had won the round and began to approach York, who was stunned on the floor, Maine threw a grenade in her direction. She dodged the throw, but this led to the grenade landing very near York. Unable to do anything else from the distance she stood, she fired the simulation paint rounds at him, coating the right side of his armor in it. The behavior of the paint was to create a hardened coating for a short period of time, so this was enough to protect parts of his armor from the blast when the grenade exploded. However, it shattered the left side of his helmet, causing an injury to his left eye.
A major factor in the way the Project was carried out was its inclusion of a leaderboard, which kept track of how the agents ranked in their particular abilities. Until now, Agent Carolina had been at the top, with York in second place, but the top few places changed in the aftermath—Texas in first, Carolina second, and York moving further down because of his failure to keep from being injured
Even with the team upset at the recent happenings, a new mission was assigned to retrieve a shipping container from a tall building. The team did their best to complete the objective, but when they arrived at the evac point on top of a tall building, Agent Texas had been sent in to once again destroy the target.
Agent Carolina, who was leading the team, approached her, upset that Texas had been sent in as a lone wolf on what was supposed to be a team effort, but she didn’t have much time to debate the point as the enemy forces approach. The transmitter Texas had been planting signaled to the Project’s ship to fire its weapons, and all the Freelancers in the LZ had to bail quickly. Texas was the only one of the freelancers who had been pre-prepared for this eventuality with a jetpack, and she kicked the container off the roof and jumped.
The agents continued to work, now aiming to complete the secondary objective of retrieving the briefcase that contained the lock codes for the shipping container. Carolina was now determined to best Texas and raced her to reach the goal, heedless of the danger she was in because of the vehicles that were rushing by on the highway. Texas beat Carolina there when Carolina was run over by a semi truck—her armor saved her from serious injury, but she was slowed too much to continue. Texas grabbed the briefcase and called for extraction, then turned and wished Carolina better luck next time.
Amongst all this, the Director had gotten an idea about how to obtain more AIs to further the research he wished to carry out with the agents. The memories of Allison had split off of Alpha—could he also split the AI in the manner of a human mind, splitting via traumatic experiences? He invented scenarios that would be equivalent to torture for the AI. During the last mission Agent Maine had been injured in such a way that he would never be able to speak again. The first two AIs, Delta and Sigma, were assigned to York and Maine to assist them with their new disabilities.
Not long after, Agent Connecticut defected. She had taken her high tech suit of armor with her and the agents were sent to retrieve her, or at least her armor, to secure the experimental technology from enemy hands. Once again Texas was sent in separately, rushing in headlong when the rest of the team was pinned down. Carolina hurriedly followed her, putting herself at risk in running into the heat of gunfire, but she made it to where Texas was waiting outside the room Connecticut was in. Carolina called York to cut the power so that she and Texas could enter the room without risking injury from the turrets that guarded the room.
Inside, Texas commanded Connecticut to surrender her armor, but Connecticut told Texas she knew what Texas was and that she wouldn’t take orders from a shadow. Confused and offended, Texas asked, “What did you call me?” But the confrontation boiled over and in the ensuing fight Texas drove an axe into Connecticut’s abdomen. Connecticut was able to escape onto the waiting ship but died moments later.
AI implantation continued, and Carolina chose time and again to defer receiving an AI. Her reasons were many but everyone knew the main reason was that she was trying to prove to herself she could be as good as Texas without assistance. But one day, Maine’s AI Sigma and Wyoming’s AI Gamma approached her in the locker room to inform her that Texas had been paired with her own AI, Omega. Carolina became angry, certain that her father the Director had been playing her. She went into the training room, where Texas was in the middle of telling the Counselor she was suffering from pent-up aggression, and insisted on receiving the next two AIs simultaneously.
She was implanted with the AIs not long after and insisted on an impromptu match against Texas. Texas fended Omega off when he tried to assist her in preparing for the fight, but otherwise didn’t try to hold back the full power of her fighting style. But as the match began the Director appeared on the observation deck, asking what was going on. No one was able to answer—before anyone spoke up, he rushed forward, distressed at seeing his pet AI squaring off against his daughter. He called out Allison’s name. The AIs reacted violently to this outburst. They began screaming in their hosts’ minds, and the agents who had been assigned AIs fell to the floor, gripping their heads in pain. Carolina received the worst brunt of this, since she had two AIs. Texas yelled for help from the training room floor, but no one did anything. The Director, instead of choosing to help Carolina, said what had happened was her own fault and left. Texas resisted Omega’s idea that she should snap Carolina’s neck, and instead out of pity for Carolina knocked her out.
Things were coming to a head now. Just before the match Texas had found a micro storage drive that she now took to a computer to see what files it contained. The information on the drive consisted of a video Connecticut had recorded before her defection, explaining that Texas was a copy of Allison and that the Alpha AI had been tortured. Even as she explored the information that Connecticut had also included on the drive, Agent Washington was being implanted with Epsilon, the most recent AI that had been created. Unknown to the Counselor or Director, Epsilon contained all of Alpha’s memories of the Director’s life and of Alpha’s torture. Washington collapsed, screaming, overwhelmed with the horrible things he was seeing.
Texas was spurred into action now. She convinced Agent York, who had had his suspicions, to defect with her, and once they were prepared they returned to rescue Carolina, Washington, and Alpha. Carolina, however, was now up and around, and had been convinced by her father that the two former agents needed to be captured. York, trying to create a distraction, caused the ship to fire upon itself, and it began to crash as Texas and Carolina had a final confrontation. Neither of them won the fight, as they were both ejected from the ship when it came to a halt on the planet below.
Carolina was no longer in the control room with Texas, and so Texas was able to open a session with the Alpha AI, entering his virtual environment. This was when Texas learned that almost every element of what made up Alpha’s core self, including his memories, had been split off. Alpha declined to go with her and instead of insisting she told him to rest and left.
The Director had been concealing another secret—Agent Maine had been convinced by his AI Sigma that all the AIs needed to be reunited. He had been blaming the actions of Maine on Texas, which was how he had convinced Carolina to try to capture Texas. But now after the crash, Maine was able to approach Carolina and rip the computer chips that contained her AIs from her implantation slots. He threw Carolina off the nearby cliff and Texas rushed forward, screaming, “No!” But she quickly recognized that Maine would desire to integrate her into his collection of AIs and she chose to turn and run away.
Personality: Texas is at her core a manifestation of Allison’s memory as Leonard Church saw her. This is why she’s referred to as a shadow—it’s inevitable that Leonard couldn’t properly interpret every element of Allison’s personality, nor the way she had gone about her job as a soldier.
At her core, Texas is independent and inscrutable—she doesn’t share her thoughts or emotions with others easily. She knows she’s overpowered compared to the other agents, but though she takes pride in her abilities, she doesn’t rub them in the other agents’ faces. On her end, the rivalry with Carolina is taken good-naturedly—when she wishes Carolina luck on the highway, her body language is cocky but her tone is not arrogant or mocking. She again wishes Carolina luck when Carolina insists on receiving two AIs. She’s kind to Carolina after the incident on the training room floor, as well—when Carolina falls to the floor, she offers her hand to help Carolina up, which Carolina bats away.
Texas’s major turning point is the moment when she sits down and absorbs Connecticut’s evidence. Until then, she had apparently not questioned why she was kept separate from everyone else, or why she was overpowered compared to them. In fact, the only time she expressed her emotions was upon questioning from the Counselor, when she mentioned her desire to go out and fight and complained about feeling overly aggressive. But when she witnesses the files Connecticut had left behind her body language changes. She finds Allison’s picture and thoughtfully caresses the image with her hand. After this she goes among the other agents, expressing concern for Carolina and carrying on a conversation with Agent North Dakota about the trouble some other agents seemed to be in because of the AI implantations.
She does have an indelible connection to Leonard and his AI descendants, Alpha and Epsilon in particular. She doesn’t shake this off—it’s notable that despite her disapproval of what Leonard did, she doesn’t take Connecticut’s evidence to the authorities, choosing instead to dismantle his work herself. She also doesn’t come after him after the ship crashes, choosing instead to save herself from the possibility that she may be captured.
Though the following events are after her canon point, they are relevant to describing aspects of her personality that weren’t seen this early on after she views Connecticut’s files. For example, her dry sense of humor is seen when she interacts with a group of simulation soldiers later on. Someone asks her which state she represented among the Freelancers, even though he knows everyone calls her Tex, and she replies with Nevada in a deadpan tone. When a new soldier arrives, Texas spends time conversing with her, gossiping about the other soldiers.
When Omega threatens the simulation soldiers, Texas works to protect them, but when she learns she might be able to help win the war between the humans and aliens if she teams up with him, she’s immediately willing to do so. This shows her sense of duty, despite any affection she might feel for people she considers her friends.
Abilities/Skills: Texas is an adept fighter at hand-to-hand and excellent marksman. Being an AI in a robot body, she can out-calculate her opponents’ moves and react before they can. She’s also very powerful, able to buckle a part of the hull of the ship when she punches it.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Tex is skilled at vehicle repair and weapons maintenance, stating at one point that she always liked cars. She’s also very athletic by human standards, able to leap and flip with ease. She doesn’t make a good negotiator since she tends to be a shoot first, ask questions later type of person. Though she’s sympathetic in some ways, she doesn’t cut people any slack for mistakes.
Items: At Tex’s canon point she has nothing on her, as all her weapons have been used up in the fight that preceded the crash. She is in a robot body that looks identical to the armor used by the other Freelancers.
SAMPLES
Network Sample:
[ Tex is, to say the least, unhappy to be here. Last she knew, she was trying to think of some way, any way, that she could make it down the cliff face without being spotted and captured by the Meta. It’s almost hopeless though, even for her, in her black armor in the snow. She was planning to run far away, make her way down the ice shelf, and double back.
So she didn’t mean to give up and she’s not at all pleased when she finds herself on the Moira.
When she gets her communicator she clicks it on and shoots off a text. ]
Someone better figure out how to get me back where I came from. I have shit to do that doesn’t include taking care of someone else’s crap.
Prose/Action Sample:
Nothing seems to have changed for Tex at all here on the Moira. She's still in a robot body, and therefore still different from her crewmates in a fundamentally inescapable way. She doesn't need to eat, or sleep, or exercise, so she has no reason to really spend time in the communal areas. She's restless a lot of the time, and when her duties are done she either patrols the halls or uses the heavy bags in the exercise facility. This proves frustrating, too, though—she has to be careful not to damage them after she ruins the first one not long after her arrival.
She does need to keep her body maintained, something that took place on the Mother of Invention without her intervention. That's one of the ways they were able to make her think she was human—they'd just shut her down at night and make sure her body was adequately lubricated and fueled and that the connections were all sound. There only seems to be one place where she can tend to these needs, and that's in the engine room. Thankfully, the engines themselves need daily maintenance as well. So she spends a lot of time here—it's her workplace, her mess hall, her quarters.
Right now she goes to the storage closet where she keeps her tools and which contains the power coupling she uses to recharge her body. During her last session hitting the punching bag she felt something go slightly out of alignment in her arm, so she takes her wrench and tightens things as needed, then grabs the oil and dabs some lightly in that spot. After that she takes her gun and cleans it, sets it down, and plugs in her power. She pauses, staring ahead of her, not really thinking about anything but weary somehow. After this she sets a timer to wake herself after recharging is complete and puts her systems in hibernate mode.