Individual
Character's full name: Panu Miika Harmaajärvi
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: [/i] Takala (Finnish surname, "(dweller in the) back")
in Ragnarok: Muninn (old Norse for "memory"/"mind"; Odin's raven)
on forums: TechnoBabble
on networks: Joutsen (Finnish for "swan")[/ul]
Gender: Male
Age: 11
Date of Birth: 4/04/2007 (Finnish
nameday: November 11th)
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Nationality: Choose database:- American [proof of native citizenship attached]
- Finnish [proof of native citizenship attached]
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Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage: Finnish
AppearanceHair color and style: Fine platinum blonde, an inch or so long, straight, soft as it looks
Skin Tone: Lightly tanned because Xavier's California campus is AWFUL
Eye Color: Very light blue
Height: 139.7 cm (4'7”)
Build: Skinny and a little plump around the pinchable edges because American adults have cultural custom of Bribe Children With Sweets
Visible mutation: Close observers will notice that his eyes don't always track where they should, and his timing can be a few milliseconds off when reacting to sound inputs, particularly speech in languages other than English and Finnish. He usually speaks soft, and does not always emphasize syllables or words in a way that a native speaker would.
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: NA
Other features: NA
Everyday clothing style: Likes to bury himself inside of adult-sized hoodies. Light gray or white are preferred. Under that is usually a plain T-shirt, jeans, and white tennis shoes. All his clothes are new and clean, and kept neat in their own fashion.
Uniform: NA
Sleepwear: Whatever he was wearing, plus a blanket cocoon.
Miscellaneous clothing: Always has a set of headphones on. Prefers giant black studio headphones (with white swan decals), but can tone it down to ear buds if he's attempting to be discrete. Always has some form of smart phone or camera in hand or dangling around his wrist or neck. His hoodie pocket tends to clatter with extra batteries and spare tech.
CharacterPersonality: 11-year-old Panu is 120% wiser and more world-weary than stupid 9-year-old-new-to-America Panu. Now he knows that adults are stupid no matter whether they are goodies or baddies and everyone lies. He is a prickly hedgehog who does not need or want hugs and if you try he will flail ineffectually.
He has very good concentration for his age, but does not always remain on task without supervision, and is prone to showing visible signs of frustration or protest when bored (like flopping face down over a keyboard and refusing to move, or changing the language settings of all neighboring phones to Chinese and pretending he doesn't know how to switch them back). He likes to make himself useful to his family because keeping everyone safe is what he is here for and he will not fail again [see memory file 20141126001613145, external storage 17. file flag: emotional content, do not watch with others present].
Hobbies/ Interests: Has started taking violin lessons, mostly to punish the teacher who suggested it and also anyone in hearing range. It is an electric violin, and he can play classical music in his own mind while cat-screeching at everyone else.
Job or part time job and description: [redacted]
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Adapteds are horrible things that should not exist. There is no purpose for them and they should die. Black outs are also terrible, and mutants who can cause them or any form of EMP pulse should be banned from life. Also microfiber couches. He hates that unholy demon skin with a burning passion.
Special talents: Native Finnish speaker, knows a conversational amount of Swedish as well. Has a decent grasp on English now thanks to being in the Worst Country for two years now.
MoralityGood/ bad/ neutral/ other: It is important to protect his family and protect himself. That is the order in which they appear on his list. Anyone who threatens family in the present or who may pose a threat to them in the future should be deleted like an irredeemably corrupted file.
MutationsMutation description: Technopath/Human AI. Panu has all the capabilities of a high end computer inbuilt into his brain, complete with his own organic wifi. He can link with all sufficiently advanced technology within 100 yds of his location, and freely access the data they contain for the purposes of mining or modifying. He can also tunnel through a device into a connected network outside his range, though this requires narrowing his focus.
Strengths: He intuitively understands the scripting of all software and file formats he encounters, and can write, rewrite, or re-purpose them towards his own ends. Programming comes as easy to him as thought. Basic passwords don't stop him for more than a few seconds, as they're the gate, and he's essentially climbing over the fence to access systems directly. Encrypted data takes him significantly longer, but he can generally break it given hours or days to work on a problem.
He treats his own mind like an organic computer, and reprograms it in ways he finds more efficient, including the installation of software and organizing his knowledge into files and databases. His memories are encoded into AV files readable by standard software, allowing for playback and external backup. A simple internet connection allows him access to a multitude of translation programs, rendering him functionally omnilingual (...with a bit of a time delay, and an acceptable margin of error in translation and pronunciation). His internal calendar app pings him at appropriate intervals for meals.
Like any good computer, he can multitask, dealing with multiple input/output streams at a time. While Panu is not super intelligent, the ability to read Wikipedia articles at the same speed as a computer or spin math formulas through Wolfram Alpha allows him to fake it, though discussion on a topic may bring to light that he is just parroting things to sound smart.
Weaknesses and Limitations: Panu has lost the ability to see through normal means. This is his own fault—he found that his peak efficiency occurred when he recorded all incoming audio and video, so he routed that process to main. But he wrote over something when he did it and now it is gone and he can not determine how the original organic was supposed to function--
[deep breaths are like factory resets but without the down time, therefore they should be used liberally]
Panu sees only through cameras located in his vicinity. If there are none, he's blind. It is possible that despite his enhanced awareness of the issue, he could make such a mistake again. He cannot backup the entirety of his mind; only the parts that can be converted into existing file formats, like the visual and audio components of his memories, and lists of things he knows.
While he's superficially aware of all tech in his range, he functionally tends to focus on 1-10 things at a time, with the rest on a passive status. For example, while he'll know if your cellphone is in his range, he won't be reading your text message history unless he focuses on doing so. And while there may be hundreds of cameras in his range on a crowded NYC street (between smart phones, digital cameras, street cameras, etc), he's only going to focus on those he's interested in. He might set up alerts for others (like, “if something deviates significantly from the norm in this screen then switch it to main”), but he's not likely to notice small blips if he's not specifically paying attention for them.
When tunneling through a device to reach elements on its broader network that are outside his range, he must narrow his focus to that single network, disconnecting from everything else within his range. Depending on the size and complexity of the network, it can take him minutes, hours, or months to find what he's looking for. Unless the network he's tunneling through includes nearby video sources, he's rendered blind to his immediate surroundings until he disconnects. In an Adapted's field, Panu would be stripped of sight, his connections, and access to his non-organic files. (No files are damaged by an Adapted field; it's the equivalent of a hard reset. He'll just take a minute or two to fully boot back up).
He is in the habit of hosting his worst memories in external computers, and deleting them from his own mind. This is probably not good for his development, which is why he doesn't tell adults he's doing it, because they might make him stop. Because these memories (as well as more mundane memory backups) exist in real, physical computers, there is a very real possibility that someone could find and view them. Or edit them. Some of his memories are preserved
only in uploaded form, and edits to them would cause irreversible damage to his memory.
While his mutation allows him to
know many things via near-instant online searches, he struggles to
understand many of the things he reads, particularly in their implications. A lot of stuff available on the internet does more harm than good to a kid's mind. Also, spinning English sites through a translator into Finnish and then spinning his responses back into English doesn't always help things, either.
Physical AbilitiesGeneral Physical Capabilities: Panu is strong enough to wiggle his way up on top of counters so he can open kitchen cabinets. He can sprint surprisingly fast, like a startled rabbit. Due to a if-you-want-gelato-you-must-jog-first habit instilled in him by Best Friend Noel, he can keep it up and not die of wheezing for a decent amount of time.
Fighting Style: If you are going to die it will be in a traffic accident when the lights change all wrong.
Fighting Style Pros/Cons: Your death requires sufficient planning so please be patient.
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RoleplayWhere did you learn about this site?: teh interwebs
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: Player of Jiri, Calley, et al
Sample RP:Panu knew the files were wrong. Edited, corrupted. A hackjob. He was not stupid. When he searched his memories for
father, mother, for
family, he only saw the faces of the Tuonela. Perämies had done this to him when they took him from his home. He had used Panu's own power and he had done it, so that Panu would not panic, would not try to leave.
He knew the files were wrong, but the data was
right. This man and woman existed in fragments of early images, scraps that Perämies had missed, but that did not make them father and mother. They were speaking, but he had muted the incoming audio. Music played instead; Jean Sibelius'
Lemminkäinen Suite. His eyes were in their direction but they did not know him at all, they thought he could
see them. Probably they had been told he was blind, but they still did not
understand. They did not notice the phone in his lap, its camera pressed into the folds of his clothing so all its eye saw was gray-black. They did not notice the camera in the corner of the room, tracking them.
The police woman probably noticed, but the police woman could go die. She made him blind and stupid whenever she came in the room. She was behind the glass wall, he could tell because he could not
see there. She was a blackout, a null, an Adapted.
His family was gone, murdered, and they were trying to give him back to these people. These
humans. He could see the woman was crying as she spoke to him, edging closer, her hand almost touching his but afraid to move that last inch. Good. He wasn't
hers anymore, she shouldn't just touch him whenever she felt like it. The man looked much older than in the fragments Panu had. His hair was brown in those files. In the black and white of the police camera, his hair was nearly turned to snow. The files said he was 44 but he looked very old. He said something to Panu.
Panu did not hear it, of course. But he nodded just a little, because he knew that was what they wanted. Everyone watching, that was what they wanted. The police woman too. They thought if he accepted these people, then it would fix something.
The woman threw herself at him, wrapped her arms around him. He was warned by the black-and-white camera so he did not flinch, but he did not hug her back. The man reached out for his hand, and set his own palm on top of it, just resting. Big and warm and weighty. It felt strong but it was not.
He would not stay with them. Maybe a month or two or more, until the police left him alone. Then he would be very far away before they could catch him. He knew how to get IDs, everyone in Tuonela had gone by many names. He knew the man Perämies went to to get the papers, and he knew how to use his power to pay for them.
They were not his family. They were just two humans who could not even protect their own child. They could only hold him and say things in his ears, things he did not want to listen to. A family this weak would allow him to be taken again, would die on him again. He would find a stronger one.
Tuonela Notes to Self:Takala - dweller in the back - Panu
Perämies - Co-Pilot - power hijacker
Johtaja - Leader/Manager - injury splitter
Parvi - Swarm - bug caller, mute from physical changes
Vuori - Mountain - laaaarge
