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PLAYER: gsai
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CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Jack-O
CANON: Guilty Gear
CANON REFERENCE: http://guilty-gear.wikia.com/wiki/Jack-O'_Valentine
AGE: Unknown (roughly early 20s)
GENDER: Female
CHARACTER TYPE: Meta-human and cyborg
APPEARANCE: https://i.imgur.com/oyBbb01.jpg

PERSONALITY:
Jack-O' describes herself in Sol's Episode scenario (and a few others) as "half-baked". What this means, as she explains, is that she is an incomplete existence. She sees herself as only partially complete, a fractured self missing an identifiable whole. This informs a lot of her self-reflection, seeing herself as an object or tool without much purpose (outside of her apparent destined purpose to reunite with Justice) rather than much of an individual. In Jam's Episode Scenario, she states: "You see, I have nothing. Nothing I would be sad to lose, nothing to worry about. Nothing I want. Nothing is all I have." She finds it unsettling, and seeks out understanding of how more 'complete' people are. Simply not denying that she exists ("Cogito ergo sum") is not truly living.

Parts of Aria's original individualism still manage to work their way into Jack-O's personality as well, largely in the form of curiosity. As said before, a journey of self-actualization sort of drove Jack-O' to run away and 'find herself' in some capacity, and think of herself as more than a 'nothing'. But beyond that, she is also just a vacuum for information, wanting to learn all she can about anything she can. Her thirst for knowledge and input is nearly insatiable, always having a question to follow another question, piecing together ideas and concepts in her mind, even if it sometimes frustrates her. That being said, she tends to lean towards humanities instead of science, finding the latter to just reinforce more of the conflict that makes up her core character. Through concepts about humanity, she learns more about herself and the real truths of the world around her.

Jack-O presents herself usually in one of two ways, and it makes her a bit difficult to approach at times. A "child" and an "adult". In Raven's Episode scenario, he even explicitly points out that a large part of Jack-O's compulsive individualism is tied up in the "child", who speaks in a youthful and bright tone. Her reasoning and cognitive assembling rhetoric, however, are mostly tied up in the "adult", whom he prefers to talk to (most people do). Despite this split, it should be noted that Jack-O does not have a "split" personality. The "child" and "adult" are aspects of the same personality. Her "half-baked" nature is what contributes to the dissonance more than anything else. She is completely aware of who she is and what's going on, no matter which voice is speaking. It is suggested that the "adult" is mostly Aria's presence.

Despite how random that all may make Jack-O' seem, she assures her friends there is method to her madness, and she has back-up plans for back-up plans. Jack-O' is incredibly intelligent, gifted with both Aria's natural knowledge of many things, plus her nature as a Valentine and being able to access information from the Backyard. Unfortunately, she doesn't always think through the implications of her actions (and in fact, rarely does so) and while sometimes she does the "right" thing with her planning, Raven in particular needs to remind her that sometimes "right" isn't everything.

As a half-formed existence, Jack-O' struggles with memory. There are deep, tremendous gaps in her recollection of events, and she finds herself easily forgetting things as well. This frustrates her and troubles her, mostly because she understands that "Aria", the part of her she only half-remembers, is deeply important to a lot of people, particularly Sol and That Man. She also doesn't really see herself (once again, going back to that fixation on having "nothing" and being frustrated by it) as someone worthy of leaving impressions on others, either. She's not the Aria people want her to be, not yet, and when she does, what will be left of the self she knows? It's a vexing thing, and just further fuels her well-hidden existential angst.

POWERS & ABILITIES:
The ability allows Jack-O to lock anything in place that she touches. This is because the kinetic vectors of the object have been changed by her, essentially freezing it in place. She can cause something to stick to a particular space or force it to be motionless with respect to another object, including herself or even the air itself (this won't work in a vacuum, of course). She can affect as many objects as she needs to and the immobilization can occur a small time after she touches it, allowing her to throw items and stop them mid-air. If she moves far enough away from a locked object (let's say ten, twenty yards or so), the effect will dispel.

Part and parcel with this power is the ability to add momentum to the locked objects. She can add kinetic energy to frozen objects by striking them, or any other kind of force. By putting this force into the locked object, she can build up kinetic energy before releasing it; all of the energy will release at once and propel the object with all of that force in whatever direction the force was directed at. However, to converse accuracy, she must carefully apply this force, or there's no telling where the object might fly off to.

This power gets especially interesting when it interacts with raw energy or plasma, and basically gives her the ability to move or intensify the energy so long as she's in contact. Thanks to her cybernetic body, she's able to do this without any real risk to herself, and there are several generators on her body that can produce this energy for her (manifesting as green flame due to the thallium compounds in their fuel) and she can use them as projectiles or shields of various types, coating her body in the material and holding it fast with her powers, allowing to turn herself into something of a projectile herself if used properly.

Jack-O's cybernetic nature extends to her mind as well, basically turning it into a computer with similar cell storage and recollection capacity to that of a super-computer. As a result Jack-O' has a near encyclopedic several topics and can input data and memory at a rate well beyond that of a normal human, far more on par with AI in that sense. She barely even needs to examine something for a moment before she can understand its purpose, profile, and all sorts of data about its functions and applications..

Unfortunately due to the nature of the experiments that created her, Jack-O's ability to *use* this cybernetic brain is incredibly inhibited, and her functionality is greatly depleted. Much of her memory can return as failure or even "crash" her system if insufficient fuel is present. The mask she wears allows her to stabalize these processes some, and removing it basically removes the input inhibitors and allows her to use the full extent of her processing power, but exposure like this for more than few moments will cause her condition to deteriorate further, and carbohydrate-based bio-fuels will be needed to maintain herself and keep her from shutting down entirely, risking further damage to her mind.

AU HISTORY:
Jack-O's real name is Aria Hale. She was a researcher working with Douman Zaibatsu, a Meta-human herself, basically working on a secret project that, at the time, seemed to ostensibly be about the fusion of Meta genetic material with non-Meta humans in order to treat disease and accelerate human survivability in the coming space age. If humans were to exist on Mars, and astral bodies beyond that, Meta-humans were seen as a way of assuring human survival in those particular circumstances, and perhaps even survive Earth's self-repair cycle it would undergo in the event a large portion of the human population had to remain behind. Aria's Meta powers weren't particularly relevant to this research, but he mind and heart were in the right place.

The experiments didn't quite pan out, and while they managed to make some progress, it wasn't to the satisfaction of the company, and Aria and her colleagues began to take more and more drastic measures. It eventually became clear to them that the goal the Douman Zaibatsu had in mind was less the fusion of Meta-human genetic material with humans, but more finding a means of weaponizing that material, genetic manipulation that could create living bio-weapons that could usher in humanity's next age through the iron will of Richard Magnus. Aria was deeply opposed to this truth, and attempted to leave the project, but it was revealed their supervisors had already started infecting her with a bio-degenerative toxin that would cause her Meta-human DNA to issue commands that shut down her immune system.

Basically, they forced her into a sickness that could only be cured by going through with the experiments.

Aria was willing to die, but her colleagues were not willing to let her die. After a long and painful argument between them, those opposing using Aria as a human guinea pig were "removed" from the project, and the procedure went through. Aria went through the fusion process. Her original Meta powers, originally frivolous, changed into something much more "useful", and her body was cybernetically augmented to assure that she'd be a "useful" tool to the Douman Zaibatsu.

Unfortunately, the process was imperfect (something Aria and the others already knew), and in the process of attempting to cyberneticize Aria's brain and push the process even further, she 'malfunctioned' and went berserk. The entire facility was destroyed in the process, and the Douman Zaibatsu quickly erased all evidence that the experiments had been happening at all, moving onto different methods aimed towards the same overall goal.

Aria herself no longer existed. Aria Hale was, essentially, dead. All official reports confirmed it.

Jack-O', however, wound up being found by Dr. Annan. She was simply abandoned in a containment cell, buried within The Underground among other failed 'experiments' of the Zaibatsu. He recognized in some horrified what had happened to this woman, what process created her, and immediately sent her to the NSO to help her recover.

The NSO has a puzzle to solve, now. A living mystery that is Jack-O, to find out how she came to exist, and how it may be possible to restore her to the person she once was. It's a long shot, but if they can do anything for her at all, it might honor the memory of the woman who 'died' to create her.

SAMPLES
https://neosapienooc.dreamwidth.org/935.html?thread=144807#cmt144807
https://neosapienooc.dreamwidth.org/935.html?thread=147367#cmt147367
https://neosapienooc.dreamwidth.org/935.html?thread=147623#cmt147623
https://neosapienooc.dreamwidth.org/935.html?thread=154279#cmt154279