This is different than just, hey I got my name from this and that, blah blah. This requires you to do a little creative writing about your character. Even if you didn't get your character name from some creative way like a Greek God or something, and your name is something less creative like "SexyMike3000" (I apologize if this really is someone's name and you really put time and creative effort into making that). Make up a backstory on your character. I have a feeling there's more RPers in here than they wanna let on.
My character is Susannah. (that's right, an opposite gender character. It's all about the rp here, nothing freeky):
This file has been made confidential by Zion Command.
Photograph: *blank*
Handle: SusannahFull Name: Susannah Dean
Past Names (if any): Odetta Susannah Holmes
Age: 30
Origin: unknown. Susannah's origin before any of her "world traveling" started, was a place that seemed to resemble our depiction of the 1960's America. This issue is explained in the biography.
Nationality: African.
Occupation: Zion Operative - Gunslinger(Soldier)/Shadow(Spy)
Strengths: Duel gunplay, long range combat, lockpicking, disabling traps, disabling security devices, sneaking, disguise
Favorite Move: Disarming Shot
Weaknesses: Computer Hacking, Martial Arts, Melee Combat, Hyperjumping
Physical Handicaps/Mental or Physical Illnesses:
- both legs below the knees have been amputated in an incident with a subway (explained in detail in the bio).
While jacked in to all construct programs (this includes the Matrix, the Archives, and the training constructs), programming has been implemented to grant the subject access to full usage of legs in the programming.- Susannah Dean has been diagnosed with multiple personality syndrome (mps). The problem has been dealt with according to our records and the patient herself. Again this issue is discussed more fully in biography below.
Forward by Zion Command: This biography is made possible by what we are able to gather from interviews with Susannah and the writings of the author Stephen King found in the seven volume series of The Dark Tower.Zion Command is well aware that
Stephen King is a real person in our world. This apparent indication that
Susannah is a "
fictional character" is till being analyzed. The most accepted theory is that
Susannah is a real person and
Stephen King wrote about her,
unknowing to the fact that he was
writing about a
real person participating in
real events.
Biography: Let me begin by saying that
Susannah's very existence in what we believe to be the real world has caused many to raise a lot of questions. Those reading this file, I ask that you approach this with an open mind.
Susannah Dean was formerly known as
Odetta Susannah Holmes. She is daughter to a renowned dentist responsible for many inventions in his field. At
age 6, Odetta (Susannah) was
struck by a brick. It was labeled as an accident at the time, however, documentation confirms that criminal activity was involved.
In theory, this is what
started a split in Odetta's personality. Odetta's main conscience would blackout, and a more violent personality would take over. This personality actually took on a title and mind of her own and went by the name
Detta Walker.
As
Odetta got older,
Detta became more coniving and dangerous. Starting at the
age of 14, Detta would apparently seduce adult Caucasion men at bars and other public hangouts of the like. But she would alledgedly never go all the way with any of her partners. Instead she would cruelly tease them and stop them before any intercourse took place. The end of this apparent act would be signaled by Detta laughing in the faces of the men, followed by verbal and/or physical abuse from the male.
Detta has also been
guilty of petty theft, stealing "costume" jewelry and other rather cheep paraphanelia, all for the apparent sake of stealing.
According to Susannah and documentation, the
Odetta and
Detta personalities did not have any memory or awareness of each other.
At the age of 21, Odetta was
pushed in front of a rushing subway vehicle, alledgedly by the same perpetrator who dropped ("pushed") a brick on Odetta in her early childhood years. This did not help any matters with the
mps. In fact, the mps only got stronger and more dangerous especially to the Odetta's person.
It is in another cheep department store that Susannah's apparent
"world traveling" started. It is here that she meets
Roland (a
gunslinger from a world that is quite different from ours, called
Mid World, but with many alarming similarities. It is a world that seems to resemble our depictions of the "
Old West", yet there are odd characters and units and environments from this world that make it different).
*Please note: it is at this point that I will make the story as brief as I can. A detailed version of the following that takes place up until Susannah steps into our world, can be found in Stephen King's The Dark Tower (a novel in seven extensive volumes).*For a time, while
Odetta remains in
Mid World, the
multiple personality syndrome remains a problem and the
Detta personality becomes a danger to the entire group. (Before Roland pulls Susannah into his world, he pulls another named
Eddie Dean from a world that resembles our depiction of 1984). Eventually, a
physical split happens, as
Odetta and
Detta become more physical bodies. It is here, at this point and time that the merge happens.
Odetta and Detta embrace, forming one personality: Susannah.The
mps remains only with slight symptoms. The
Odetta personality seems to be the one
more in control, yet observors point out that they often see
traces of the
Detta personality. The desired outcome has been achieved. Susannah has full awareness of both personalities.
What lies ahead for the group is a journey to a
dark tower. To help
Roland find this object, the newcomers to
MidWorld (
Susannah,
Eddie, and later a
boy named Jake, and a
pet animal resembling a racoon/dog named
Oy) agree to go with
Roland.
Eddie (of whom
Susannah falls in
love with and marries, taking his last name
Dean),
Jake, and
Oy all have met their apparent
deaths somewhere near the end of the journey.
Susannah however has chosen to
leave Roland before he gets to the
Dark Tower.
In interviews,
Susannah said it is not her place to know or see what the Dark Tower is or what happens to those who see or come in contact with it. Therefore, although, she has reluctantly read the entire account of her story written by
Stephen King, she has yet to have read Mr. King's "Coda" ending. Since this file has been reviewed by the subject (as required by law),
Zion Command has chosen to withold information provided in the Coda, and have placed it in a more confidential file. To request to read this file, you must contact
ArtherEld, who
Zion Command has placed
in charge of Susannah's files and any confidential files pertaining to the
Dark Tower.
How
Susannah steps into our world is a bit alarming. Readers of the last volume of the
Dark Tower series, observe that a door on the side of
Mid World was made, and
Susannah stepped through it...
...and into our world. According to
Machine documentation,
Susannah arrived and fainted (possibly due to shock of observing the harsh environment of the
World of the Real). The
Door she opened up and came through seemed to have appeared from nowhere for no apparent reason. This is oddly the very description given to us by
Machine high command. We have no real reason to disbelieve them.
The
Machines claim that the
door is now
closed and to our current knowledge the
Machines have tried to open it and are possibly still trying. They have not and maybe will
not allow us any access to this
door that appeared in the real world.
Now,
Susannah has
no recollection of this event. In fact, what
Susannah remembers happening is what is written in the Book
7 of Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
Susannah comes through the door and is greeted by two
individuals who closely
resemble the
Eddie Dean and
Jake Chambers that she traveled with on the quest for the
Dark Tower. We, as well as
Susannah, now know that those two units were merely programs.
The
Machines attempted to slowly move
Susannah away from her memories of the
Dark Tower quest. And they did this by still allowing
Susannah to pass through a door (albeit fake) in the
Matrix and briefly have a memory of what happened with
Roland. Yet, making her forget all about it as time went on. For a while this attempt worked, but what started making
Susannah aware of the
Matrix, was that by experimentation the machines programmed Susannah's
residual self image with legs.
The
Machines hoped for
Susannah to not be aware of this new addition, but failed to factor in Susannah's still existing
multiple personality syndrome (albeit suppressed and for all intents and purposes cured, but... still there nonetheless). Susannah awoke to find she had legs and started to "
wake up".
The
Oracle, who had been keeping an eye on
Susannah, became aware of this
incident.
And this is where a rather odd event happens.
Susannah is not offered any
red or blue pill, instead in her meeting with the
Oracle,
Susannah leaves through a
door and into her
real world body. The real world body of course still has no legs below the knees.
Zion Medical has given
Susannah access to a
wheelchair. She has
refused any
prosthetic operations. However,
Susannah has agreed to lend her abilities and training as a
Gunslinger to be an
Operative for
Zion. And she has
agreed to let her
residual self image be programmed with
legs.
Susannah possesses
real world training as a
Gunslinger. However, she still went through training on how to use this in the
Matrix, as well as other basic
operative training such as
basic martial arts,
hyperjumping, and
reading code (
she did this last rather reluctantly, complaining that she does not like computers).
Susannah has also decided to go through specific
spy training. Please refer to the
strengths and
weaknesses section of this file.
That is all.
*This article has been edited and produced by ArtherEld. It is still subject to updates. Please contact ArtherEld in Zion Command for any new updates.*
