Post by Ai on Aug 10, 2008 23:57:25 GMT
Name: Septimus Cicero McAllistair
Alias: Seven, Chip
Age: Nineteen
Birthday: January 3
Race: Meta-human, part Computer
Hometown: Seattle, Washington. USA
Grade: College
Activities: Runs Tech Club, fixes and maintains school computers, hacking into databases if the professors ask him to...
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Asexual
Appearance: Septimus stands at five feet, nine inches tall, has light skin and black hair. He keeps his hair cut fairly short and lets it become unruly from the wind. He is most often clean-shaven, but when he is distracted, he will let some stubble grow on his chin. His build is very slight and he has little muscle. His eyes are light grey-orange. His brows are thin, but come together in a figurative knot when he is concentrating hard. Most of his expressions are communicated with his eyes.
Septimus was raised in a lower class family, so he is used to his clothing being in less than ideal condition. Even now, he can be seen wearing hand-me-down pants and his coat is from Goodwill and repaired by him. During the winter, he wears a thick scarf he knitted himself and while he is not in the lab, he can almost always be seen wearing black fingerless gloves that he also knitted. His clothing tends to be in the darker shades, usually dark blue, green or black. When he wears a tie, it is often left untied; it strikes him as rather unimportant to keep his appearance sharp.
Image: None
Personality: Idiosyncratic. That's probably the best word to describe Septimus. He is very different than anyone else and he will use this word to describe himself - or anything else this term fits. He enjoys using big words and is a bit of a walking dictionary, so to speak. He knows a variety about a lot of subjects, will call his knowledge up instantly and does not necessarily know when to stop talking about his vastly random array of knowledge. If he tried to play on the gameshow Jeopardy, he would be very good at it.
Awkward. Septimus has the tendency to speak without thinking first and make comments that can easily be taken the wrong way by others. Due to his computational personality, human emotions are not always taken into consideration when he makes decisions. When Septimus is around, you can count on having that awkward silence when no one is sure when to speak or even what to think. There is a certain naivety to his character and he misjudges people on a very regular basis.
Talented. However, what this college aged student lacks in street smarts, he more than makes up for it with his ability to learn. He has a wide variety of interests and talents, whether it be playing violin (which is his mother taught him) or knitting or surfing the World Wide Web and trying to hack into the government computer databases. Septimus is not naturally a trouble maker, but he will resort to involuntarily making trouble - usually by hacking into a database to see if he can do it - if he is bored.
Idiot Savant. He possesses extreme abilities in some areas, both due to his genetic mutation and the fact that he has a computer chip installed into his brain, but knows little about how people react. He is a curious fellow and more than ever, he wants to know why people react the way they do. Due to the fact he's part computer, he cannot feel as deeply as regular people and he cannot express those emotions. Septimus constantly inquires about the human race and their oddities, especially since there is a small part of him that remembers what he used to be like before the computer.
Greatest Fear: He is afraid that he will completely forget how to feel and let the part of him that is computer take over.
Most Important Secret: That he has a computer chip in his brain that sometimes causes him to act in an uncharacteristic manner.
Character Background: Septimus Cicero McAllistair was born on January 3rd to William and Clarissa McAllistair as the seventh of eight children. His parents always had a difficult time deciding on names for their children, so they adopted the much simpler tradition of naming their children “first child”, “second child” and so on and so forth. Since Septimus was the seventh child, he got the first name of Septimus. His middle name, Cicero, was chosen later by his father because he shares a birthday with the famous Roman philosopher.
Septimus and his siblings grew up in a small town just north of Seattle, Washington in the USA. His mother taught piano and violin lessons at their home and his father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington. Ever since he was in elementary school, Septimus has played violin and his eidetic memory has aided him both in music and in school while growing up. He has possessed this ability since he was very young.
Septimus’s life was made interesting when he was in second grade. He went to the doctor’s for a regular check-up and the doctor informed Clarissa that her son needed to stay overnight in the hospital for some medical tests. The mother agreed and Septimus went to the hospital. One of the doctors at the hospital was an experimental scientist by the name of Dr. Franklin Shelley. Thinking it would be a glorious future when a human and computer would merge, he implanted a computer chip into Septimus’s brain, as well as other technological gadgets in his hands. This chip causes him to act in a similar manner to an android and to remove it would cause his death. It was after this happened that his extreme aptitude for computers and technology – as well as his technological powers – started to show.
During this time, he was also teased a bit by both his classmates who found him to be too quiet for their liking and by his older brother, Quintus. Although his relationships with most of his siblings were fairly decent – though a bit cold – the younger of the fraternal twins enjoyed making a sport out of picking on Septimus and the two of them frequently wound up in physical fights. Fortunately for the scrawnier and younger of the two, Quintus was not much heavier or more athletic than his brother was.
He was always a bit of a prodigy and an awkward child. When he was young, he would alternate between not speaking and then talking non-stop. He found he could memorize anything he looked at. The youth has always been able to control his technological powers, except for when the computers around him begin malfunctioning – such as during a lightning storm. Since Septimus's natural powers were fairly mild, his parents thought little of them until he was in high school and he was accused of cheating in tenth grade by his history teacher. After this happened, he was pulled out of school and he completed the remainder of his studies on his own time. Since then, he has finished high school and come to Kosaka Island to work on his university-level studies.
Powers:
Eiditic Memory: Septimus has the ability to see or hear anything and retain this information. He has possessed this ability since he was very young and before the accident.
Technopathy: He can manipulate technological equipment with his mind. This did not happen until after the accident.
Technoportation: As long as the piece of technology is functioning, he can teleport through any computer or television or cellular phone.
Skills: Knitting: His mother taught him and his siblings how to knit when they were young and he is constantly working on some project.
Violin: His mom was a violinist and music instructor and taught Septimus how to play beginning when he was in elementary school. Due to his eiditic memory, he has picked this skill up quickly.
General Computer Skills: Knows many computer languages and is decent with most forms of technology.
Hacking: Since he is excellent with computer skills, he can hack into quite a few databases. He is also good with codes and cyphers.
Keyword: mannen
Sample RP:
Alias: Seven, Chip
Age: Nineteen
Birthday: January 3
Race: Meta-human, part Computer
Hometown: Seattle, Washington. USA
Grade: College
Activities: Runs Tech Club, fixes and maintains school computers, hacking into databases if the professors ask him to...
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Asexual
Appearance: Septimus stands at five feet, nine inches tall, has light skin and black hair. He keeps his hair cut fairly short and lets it become unruly from the wind. He is most often clean-shaven, but when he is distracted, he will let some stubble grow on his chin. His build is very slight and he has little muscle. His eyes are light grey-orange. His brows are thin, but come together in a figurative knot when he is concentrating hard. Most of his expressions are communicated with his eyes.
Septimus was raised in a lower class family, so he is used to his clothing being in less than ideal condition. Even now, he can be seen wearing hand-me-down pants and his coat is from Goodwill and repaired by him. During the winter, he wears a thick scarf he knitted himself and while he is not in the lab, he can almost always be seen wearing black fingerless gloves that he also knitted. His clothing tends to be in the darker shades, usually dark blue, green or black. When he wears a tie, it is often left untied; it strikes him as rather unimportant to keep his appearance sharp.
Image: None
Personality: Idiosyncratic. That's probably the best word to describe Septimus. He is very different than anyone else and he will use this word to describe himself - or anything else this term fits. He enjoys using big words and is a bit of a walking dictionary, so to speak. He knows a variety about a lot of subjects, will call his knowledge up instantly and does not necessarily know when to stop talking about his vastly random array of knowledge. If he tried to play on the gameshow Jeopardy, he would be very good at it.
Awkward. Septimus has the tendency to speak without thinking first and make comments that can easily be taken the wrong way by others. Due to his computational personality, human emotions are not always taken into consideration when he makes decisions. When Septimus is around, you can count on having that awkward silence when no one is sure when to speak or even what to think. There is a certain naivety to his character and he misjudges people on a very regular basis.
Talented. However, what this college aged student lacks in street smarts, he more than makes up for it with his ability to learn. He has a wide variety of interests and talents, whether it be playing violin (which is his mother taught him) or knitting or surfing the World Wide Web and trying to hack into the government computer databases. Septimus is not naturally a trouble maker, but he will resort to involuntarily making trouble - usually by hacking into a database to see if he can do it - if he is bored.
Idiot Savant. He possesses extreme abilities in some areas, both due to his genetic mutation and the fact that he has a computer chip installed into his brain, but knows little about how people react. He is a curious fellow and more than ever, he wants to know why people react the way they do. Due to the fact he's part computer, he cannot feel as deeply as regular people and he cannot express those emotions. Septimus constantly inquires about the human race and their oddities, especially since there is a small part of him that remembers what he used to be like before the computer.
Greatest Fear: He is afraid that he will completely forget how to feel and let the part of him that is computer take over.
Most Important Secret: That he has a computer chip in his brain that sometimes causes him to act in an uncharacteristic manner.
Character Background: Septimus Cicero McAllistair was born on January 3rd to William and Clarissa McAllistair as the seventh of eight children. His parents always had a difficult time deciding on names for their children, so they adopted the much simpler tradition of naming their children “first child”, “second child” and so on and so forth. Since Septimus was the seventh child, he got the first name of Septimus. His middle name, Cicero, was chosen later by his father because he shares a birthday with the famous Roman philosopher.
Septimus and his siblings grew up in a small town just north of Seattle, Washington in the USA. His mother taught piano and violin lessons at their home and his father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington. Ever since he was in elementary school, Septimus has played violin and his eidetic memory has aided him both in music and in school while growing up. He has possessed this ability since he was very young.
Septimus’s life was made interesting when he was in second grade. He went to the doctor’s for a regular check-up and the doctor informed Clarissa that her son needed to stay overnight in the hospital for some medical tests. The mother agreed and Septimus went to the hospital. One of the doctors at the hospital was an experimental scientist by the name of Dr. Franklin Shelley. Thinking it would be a glorious future when a human and computer would merge, he implanted a computer chip into Septimus’s brain, as well as other technological gadgets in his hands. This chip causes him to act in a similar manner to an android and to remove it would cause his death. It was after this happened that his extreme aptitude for computers and technology – as well as his technological powers – started to show.
During this time, he was also teased a bit by both his classmates who found him to be too quiet for their liking and by his older brother, Quintus. Although his relationships with most of his siblings were fairly decent – though a bit cold – the younger of the fraternal twins enjoyed making a sport out of picking on Septimus and the two of them frequently wound up in physical fights. Fortunately for the scrawnier and younger of the two, Quintus was not much heavier or more athletic than his brother was.
He was always a bit of a prodigy and an awkward child. When he was young, he would alternate between not speaking and then talking non-stop. He found he could memorize anything he looked at. The youth has always been able to control his technological powers, except for when the computers around him begin malfunctioning – such as during a lightning storm. Since Septimus's natural powers were fairly mild, his parents thought little of them until he was in high school and he was accused of cheating in tenth grade by his history teacher. After this happened, he was pulled out of school and he completed the remainder of his studies on his own time. Since then, he has finished high school and come to Kosaka Island to work on his university-level studies.
Powers:
Eiditic Memory: Septimus has the ability to see or hear anything and retain this information. He has possessed this ability since he was very young and before the accident.
Technopathy: He can manipulate technological equipment with his mind. This did not happen until after the accident.
Technoportation: As long as the piece of technology is functioning, he can teleport through any computer or television or cellular phone.
Skills: Knitting: His mother taught him and his siblings how to knit when they were young and he is constantly working on some project.
Violin: His mom was a violinist and music instructor and taught Septimus how to play beginning when he was in elementary school. Due to his eiditic memory, he has picked this skill up quickly.
General Computer Skills: Knows many computer languages and is decent with most forms of technology.
Hacking: Since he is excellent with computer skills, he can hack into quite a few databases. He is also good with codes and cyphers.
Keyword: mannen
Sample RP:
((You guys know I can write, but this is Septimus when he’s younger.))
He logged off of his computer and told it to shut down. Normal people would have needed to push buttons on their computers to do such a thing or at least speak to the machine, as technology had advanced enough for the newest computers to take verbal commands, but all he needed to do was think at the machine and it would do his will. The adolescent’s grey eyes stared at the blank screen curiously, as if he wished he would have persevered at that last project he was working on; he needed to crack that code.
With a slight frown on his face, he ordered his computer back on. This particular code was much trickier than any of the ones he had worked with before and the fourteen-year-old’s lips thinned in sheer determination, the one human emotion he could still feel thoroughly and with the intensity of any normal person. Septimus was well aware that he could be over-analyzing the situation, but perhaps he was wrong.
The boy flexed his hands and pulled the knitted fingerless gloves back onto his wrists. These blue garments had been his latest project, along with perfecting the latest violin piece his mother had chosen for him to learn. His glasses reflected the rows and rows of letters, numbers and various colors that littered the screen of the computers. With one thought, all the numbers were put in bold font and the letters in italics.
Septimus stroked the side of his head. Brilliant. With another thought, the numbers had disappeared and the letters rearranged themselves to reveal the message, which read McAllistair: Meet me at the South End of the computer labs at the University tomorrow at precisely 17:45. I have something to give you. If you are not there at the designated time, you will not see me. He had solved the code; now all he had to do was find out the identity of the mysterious sender.
He logged off of his computer and told it to shut down. Normal people would have needed to push buttons on their computers to do such a thing or at least speak to the machine, as technology had advanced enough for the newest computers to take verbal commands, but all he needed to do was think at the machine and it would do his will. The adolescent’s grey eyes stared at the blank screen curiously, as if he wished he would have persevered at that last project he was working on; he needed to crack that code.
With a slight frown on his face, he ordered his computer back on. This particular code was much trickier than any of the ones he had worked with before and the fourteen-year-old’s lips thinned in sheer determination, the one human emotion he could still feel thoroughly and with the intensity of any normal person. Septimus was well aware that he could be over-analyzing the situation, but perhaps he was wrong.
The boy flexed his hands and pulled the knitted fingerless gloves back onto his wrists. These blue garments had been his latest project, along with perfecting the latest violin piece his mother had chosen for him to learn. His glasses reflected the rows and rows of letters, numbers and various colors that littered the screen of the computers. With one thought, all the numbers were put in bold font and the letters in italics.
Septimus stroked the side of his head. Brilliant. With another thought, the numbers had disappeared and the letters rearranged themselves to reveal the message, which read McAllistair: Meet me at the South End of the computer labs at the University tomorrow at precisely 17:45. I have something to give you. If you are not there at the designated time, you will not see me. He had solved the code; now all he had to do was find out the identity of the mysterious sender.
