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Application for Re_aligned
Feb. 25th, 2013 11:19 pmPlayer Information
*Name/Alias: Zalein
*Your Journal: http://zalein.dreamwidth.org/, though it is unused.
*Age: 22
*Contact Information: Zalein on plurk
*Characters already in the game: N/A
Character Information
*Character Name: Caesar Salazar
*Character Canon: Generator Rex
*Age: Late twenties
*Race: Human
*Timeline/Pull Point: Shortly before the episode "Target: Consortium." After some excitement where his younger brother breaks into his laboratory and host-organization-of-questionable-morality, life of working for the bad-guys has more or less settled down. Caesar has spent very nearly all of his waking hours working on various projects in Providence (said questionable organization), up to and including assembling the remains of his old team of coworkers from the days before his world's apocalypse. With Meechum and Van Kleiss on board, and Rylander on the way, Caesar feels that the end is in sight: his goal of trying to counter the terrible Event that his and his parents' actions caused is almost within reach, and all they need is more time.
It is both fortunate and unfortunate for his peace of mind that he is taken from right before Target: Consortium, the episode where his brother makes another disruptive appearance and Caesar's team's project--a nanite reactor--finally comes online.
*History: http://generatorrex.wikia.com/wiki/Caesar_Salazar#History
*Personality:
"Are you crazy?!
"Depends on who you ask."
--Rex to Caesar, Mixed Signals, Episode 28.
Caesar Salazar is a potential villain whose mother raised him right. This statement is only partially joking: we see at several times throughout the series that Caesar has, if not the will, then certainly the capacity to do great harm to humanity. He worked on a revolutionary medical technology that was supposed to be capable of everything from solving world hunger to curing previously incurable diseases. This technology brought about his world's apocalypse. He personally wrote two separate artificial intelligences designed to regulate that technology in some shape or form. Both of them took whole-hearted attempts at destroying humanity before convenient heroes managed to stop them in time. Although he didn't invent them, Caesar modified and played a key role in the use of mind-numbing control collars that were to be placed on uncontrollably violent mutants from his world. It wasn't long before his employers started using them to control sentient, peaceful mutants against their will, up to and including attempts on Rex's own brother. If there is anyone that is familiar with how quickly situations can spiral out of control, it is Caesar Salazar.
When we first see him in the series, Caesar is spontaneous, enthusiastic, and warm towards his brother. Whatever time he takes to heal from the recent wounds of his parents' death and their work's catastrophic effects is spent in private. Having just skipped five years through a relativistic time-travelling accident, he spends his first few months after his return catching up on current publications in science, taking time every now and then for odd science-related projects tossed his way. His projects have a scattered, and occasionally playful feel to them at this time: there is one occasion when Rex walks in on him using a hyper electromagnet to mix a mango smoothie in his office, and the teenager is able to recruit Caesar's help in using science to build a haunted house for his friends.
At the end of Season Two's finale, Rex disappears for six months. The Caesar he returns to has dramatically changed in this time. Caesar still keeps a leash on his emotions, but when his brother returns there are cracks in his mask. The questionable morality of his work (the collars) has become a visible burden to him, and those months in isolation have forced him to adapt his life around a new anchor besides family: science. Science has become how he passes the seconds of the day. It's where he spends most of his waking time, where his creativity, thoughts, and effort lingers in every spare moment. Caesar had always had a problem with not wanting to detach himself from the all-enveloping fog of programming lines and chemical chain reactions, but after six months with no one to encourage him to do otherwise, he has shaped himself into a man whose work is all he had left. When Rex comes back, it throws his organized world into chaos. Caesar had managed to talk himself into a manageable corner before his brother had shown up: Providence was morally wrong on a number of accounts, but if Caesar could just find some way to change what his family and coworkers had ruined with The Event (the nanite apocalypse), then the ends would justify the means. Rex didn't see it this way, especially when Caesar turned an attempted mind-control ray on him in an attempt to subdue him. The brothers parted on bad terms, and this has defined their relationship ever since.
Caesar continues to work with Providence, getting closer and closer to seeing his remaining hopes become a reality. He has assembled the team he knows is most likely to achieve fixing what they started, he has the funding and support of one of the biggest organizations in the world, and more than any of this, he has the burning drive to see it through. At this particular time in canon Caesar is distant to everyone around him, but will occasionally warm up over an involved discussion about science.
*Powers/Abilities: Caesar has no superpowers, but his mind is sharp enough that I'll categorize it here as a 'power'.
*Inventory: Caesar will come with the clothes on his back, his wallet, some keys, and one semi-nice pen.
*Starting Polarity: Solus (Or Maxis)
If AU, how does your character differ from canon?: N/A
Writing Samples
*First Person Sample:
*The video feed activates some seconds before the audio does. Caesar is wearing work-goggles pushed up over his eyes, where the fresh results of hours of pressure have left rings around the sockets. His first words are lost in the delay, and the next ones in a mighty 'WHOMPH' from somewhere on his end.*
--now who took my hyper electromagnetic-flux modulator? I need it immediately. It's designed for human-sized specs, shaped like a heavily modified flashlight--
*WHUMPH! Caesar breaks off and and looks behind the camera. The sound comes again, and then once more, before terrible scrabbling can be heard against a smooth metal surface. After a few seconds longer the sound fades. He looks back at the camera.*
It also has 'Magnetics-Co.-Two-Four-Eight-Three' stamped in an upper right corner. It's grey.
*Another great WHOMP, and this time Caesar doesn't blink.*
I don't care who has it, just that you get here soon. Oh--and please come in through the lab's north side's window. The front door is a unavailable at this time.
*The video ends without another word.*
*Third Person Sample:
There’s something distracting about the silence pressing in around him, Caesar decides calmly. There’s no hum of distant ventilation from his office’s silence. There’s no sounds of traffic from a city-scape. There’s faint rustles and scrapes, all just at the border of his hearing, and while they haven’t produced anything harmful so far, the sheer call of the unknown repeatedly draws his gaze away from his hand-held readout. This is what it is to be outside of the office: distracting.
At least the cave has its own natural lighting, such as it is. Caesar holds his scanning device up at a shadow that scurries away before he can get a good look at it. Part of him is tempted to follow it, but then self preservation and common sense reassert themselves, and Caesar safely hangs back and waits for backup to arrive so that proper protocol can be observed and life and limb safekept.
… No, sorry, that was someone else. Caesar promptly follows the first large shadow he finds, striding quickly to reach the stalagmite the creature had disappeared behind. When he cautiously peers around it, unfortunately, the whatever-it-was is gone. There is, on the other hand, a very likely looking cave starting at about waist height, leading deeper into the caverns.
Caesar considers the opening for only a beat before tucking his scanner away and crawling through. His modified GPS hasn’t given any signals of being unable to penetrate the surrounding rock so far; wandering away from the rest of his team should be—well, if not absolutely safe, then at least within acceptable margins of tolerance.
Final Notes: Every cell in Caesar's body has nanites in it. Should I assume that they're somehow disappeared or rendered dormant when he appears? The latter would be preferable, personally, but either works.
*Name/Alias: Zalein
*Your Journal: http://zalein.dreamwidth.org/, though it is unused.
*Age: 22
*Contact Information: Zalein on plurk
*Characters already in the game: N/A
Character Information
*Character Name: Caesar Salazar
*Character Canon: Generator Rex
*Age: Late twenties
*Race: Human
*Timeline/Pull Point: Shortly before the episode "Target: Consortium." After some excitement where his younger brother breaks into his laboratory and host-organization-of-questionable-morality, life of working for the bad-guys has more or less settled down. Caesar has spent very nearly all of his waking hours working on various projects in Providence (said questionable organization), up to and including assembling the remains of his old team of coworkers from the days before his world's apocalypse. With Meechum and Van Kleiss on board, and Rylander on the way, Caesar feels that the end is in sight: his goal of trying to counter the terrible Event that his and his parents' actions caused is almost within reach, and all they need is more time.
It is both fortunate and unfortunate for his peace of mind that he is taken from right before Target: Consortium, the episode where his brother makes another disruptive appearance and Caesar's team's project--a nanite reactor--finally comes online.
*History: http://generatorrex.wikia.com/wiki/Caesar_Salazar#History
*Personality:
"Are you crazy?!
"Depends on who you ask."
--Rex to Caesar, Mixed Signals, Episode 28.
Caesar Salazar is a potential villain whose mother raised him right. This statement is only partially joking: we see at several times throughout the series that Caesar has, if not the will, then certainly the capacity to do great harm to humanity. He worked on a revolutionary medical technology that was supposed to be capable of everything from solving world hunger to curing previously incurable diseases. This technology brought about his world's apocalypse. He personally wrote two separate artificial intelligences designed to regulate that technology in some shape or form. Both of them took whole-hearted attempts at destroying humanity before convenient heroes managed to stop them in time. Although he didn't invent them, Caesar modified and played a key role in the use of mind-numbing control collars that were to be placed on uncontrollably violent mutants from his world. It wasn't long before his employers started using them to control sentient, peaceful mutants against their will, up to and including attempts on Rex's own brother. If there is anyone that is familiar with how quickly situations can spiral out of control, it is Caesar Salazar.
When we first see him in the series, Caesar is spontaneous, enthusiastic, and warm towards his brother. Whatever time he takes to heal from the recent wounds of his parents' death and their work's catastrophic effects is spent in private. Having just skipped five years through a relativistic time-travelling accident, he spends his first few months after his return catching up on current publications in science, taking time every now and then for odd science-related projects tossed his way. His projects have a scattered, and occasionally playful feel to them at this time: there is one occasion when Rex walks in on him using a hyper electromagnet to mix a mango smoothie in his office, and the teenager is able to recruit Caesar's help in using science to build a haunted house for his friends.
At the end of Season Two's finale, Rex disappears for six months. The Caesar he returns to has dramatically changed in this time. Caesar still keeps a leash on his emotions, but when his brother returns there are cracks in his mask. The questionable morality of his work (the collars) has become a visible burden to him, and those months in isolation have forced him to adapt his life around a new anchor besides family: science. Science has become how he passes the seconds of the day. It's where he spends most of his waking time, where his creativity, thoughts, and effort lingers in every spare moment. Caesar had always had a problem with not wanting to detach himself from the all-enveloping fog of programming lines and chemical chain reactions, but after six months with no one to encourage him to do otherwise, he has shaped himself into a man whose work is all he had left. When Rex comes back, it throws his organized world into chaos. Caesar had managed to talk himself into a manageable corner before his brother had shown up: Providence was morally wrong on a number of accounts, but if Caesar could just find some way to change what his family and coworkers had ruined with The Event (the nanite apocalypse), then the ends would justify the means. Rex didn't see it this way, especially when Caesar turned an attempted mind-control ray on him in an attempt to subdue him. The brothers parted on bad terms, and this has defined their relationship ever since.
Caesar continues to work with Providence, getting closer and closer to seeing his remaining hopes become a reality. He has assembled the team he knows is most likely to achieve fixing what they started, he has the funding and support of one of the biggest organizations in the world, and more than any of this, he has the burning drive to see it through. At this particular time in canon Caesar is distant to everyone around him, but will occasionally warm up over an involved discussion about science.
*Powers/Abilities: Caesar has no superpowers, but his mind is sharp enough that I'll categorize it here as a 'power'.
*Inventory: Caesar will come with the clothes on his back, his wallet, some keys, and one semi-nice pen.
*Starting Polarity: Solus (Or Maxis)
If AU, how does your character differ from canon?: N/A
Writing Samples
*First Person Sample:
*The video feed activates some seconds before the audio does. Caesar is wearing work-goggles pushed up over his eyes, where the fresh results of hours of pressure have left rings around the sockets. His first words are lost in the delay, and the next ones in a mighty 'WHOMPH' from somewhere on his end.*
--now who took my hyper electromagnetic-flux modulator? I need it immediately. It's designed for human-sized specs, shaped like a heavily modified flashlight--
*WHUMPH! Caesar breaks off and and looks behind the camera. The sound comes again, and then once more, before terrible scrabbling can be heard against a smooth metal surface. After a few seconds longer the sound fades. He looks back at the camera.*
It also has 'Magnetics-Co.-Two-Four-Eight-Three' stamped in an upper right corner. It's grey.
*Another great WHOMP, and this time Caesar doesn't blink.*
I don't care who has it, just that you get here soon. Oh--and please come in through the lab's north side's window. The front door is a unavailable at this time.
*The video ends without another word.*
*Third Person Sample:
There’s something distracting about the silence pressing in around him, Caesar decides calmly. There’s no hum of distant ventilation from his office’s silence. There’s no sounds of traffic from a city-scape. There’s faint rustles and scrapes, all just at the border of his hearing, and while they haven’t produced anything harmful so far, the sheer call of the unknown repeatedly draws his gaze away from his hand-held readout. This is what it is to be outside of the office: distracting.
At least the cave has its own natural lighting, such as it is. Caesar holds his scanning device up at a shadow that scurries away before he can get a good look at it. Part of him is tempted to follow it, but then self preservation and common sense reassert themselves, and Caesar safely hangs back and waits for backup to arrive so that proper protocol can be observed and life and limb safekept.
… No, sorry, that was someone else. Caesar promptly follows the first large shadow he finds, striding quickly to reach the stalagmite the creature had disappeared behind. When he cautiously peers around it, unfortunately, the whatever-it-was is gone. There is, on the other hand, a very likely looking cave starting at about waist height, leading deeper into the caverns.
Caesar considers the opening for only a beat before tucking his scanner away and crawling through. His modified GPS hasn’t given any signals of being unable to penetrate the surrounding rock so far; wandering away from the rest of his team should be—well, if not absolutely safe, then at least within acceptable margins of tolerance.
Final Notes: Every cell in Caesar's body has nanites in it. Should I assume that they're somehow disappeared or rendered dormant when he appears? The latter would be preferable, personally, but either works.
