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red_queen
Contact: AIM : divinascomedias
Other characters played at Passing: Yu Kanda @decaying
Character name: Cortana (Serial Number: CTN 0452-9 )
Character fandom: Halo
Version: V1
Canon point: Good question
Importing development from old game? n/a
Background: HERE
Changes from canon, if AU: N/A
Personality:
Abilities:
Writing sample:
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red_queenContact: AIM : divinascomedias
Other characters played at Passing: Yu Kanda @
decayingCharacter name: Cortana (Serial Number: CTN 0452-9 )
Character fandom: Halo
Version: V1
Canon point: Good question
Importing development from old game? n/a
Background: HERE
Changes from canon, if AU: N/A
Personality:
- Cortana was made from biological matter; a scientist's brain by the name of Catherine Elizabeth Halsey to be precise, through a process highly frowned upon known as cognitive impression modeling that incorporated memories, attitude, and morals. Although she's nothing but data, this artificial intelligence showed many characteristics most humans bare.
Like any program written, she's made for loyalty and service to the UNSC yet through the transition of time and due to the nature of her making, she's managed to produce a personality. Although she knows there is probably very few others who can know as much as she, Cortana knows her boundaries between her affairs with human beings. She knows order and she knows rank, she offers advice and her justifications but she knows when to stand down. Ironically, she is prone to bouts of annoyance or anger when her suggestions are left unconsidered. It's not so much that she considers herself better than the humans but she understands that she was made for a purpose and that purpose was to facilitate and think up of every possibility a normal human wouldn't manage to do on their own.
Alongside anger bouts, she can also play the sarcastic card. She's got a sense of humor though a bit dry and rough. Considering what she is, that's a surprise all on its own. Unfortunately Cortana's countenance has deteriorated. An A.I. like her has a short life span and nearing their end they get into a period of rampancy where they literally think themselves to death. Cortana is known for her loyalty, though after spending so much time with John, her loyalty is more to his cause and his needs. She witnessed him fight a war single-handedly and how he was questioned for it. She learned that they needed each other and that no one was going to help him so she made herself his and devoted all her abilities and strengths to making sure he got through this war safe and sound.
Unfortunately, due to her rampancy, she's become a little unstable. Her anger is now at times ten-fold and her outbursts are now generated to everyone and everything even John himself. She has still kept her conscious self but the battle between silencing those aggressive voices becomes harder every day that goes by. She's become prone to bouts of aggression and displayed forms of bitterness.
Cortana has become a hazard in a sense. Although her loyalty is chained with lock and key to Chief, her rampancy has even made her speak out against him. Her aggression is indiscriminate, her process's have slowed down due to her overload and she's definitely someone to be kept a close eye on. Regardless of that, her sanity still remains somewhat intact as long as Chief is around. One could say her dependance on him has become almost complete by now. Like I human being, she needs him for her own sanity.
Abilities:
- Cortana is a self-sustaining intelligence unit used for many different jobs. Cortana is able to run ships, infiltrate other systems and even those of their enemies. Her knowledge is an endless database, she can pretty much teach or demonstrate how to run or use a machine or vehicle of any sort preferentially one of military standard.
She's got amazing deduction parameters that enable her to be able to learn and deal with new information for example in regards to alien technology. She can decipher languages she's never heard before through her functions and she can run various simulations in her programing to allow her to report probabilities of success and failure for any given plot. She's able to compose strategies and formats to best handle any given problem or situation. She can do this all in a matter of seconds and even have time for back-up plans. It's very rare the time you can surprise Cortana with something she hasn't prepared for.
Writing sample:
- Living in John's helmet wasn't always a bad thing. He knew how to take care of a girl, how to make her feel special. If she could choose a place out of all the locations she was consciously aware of(and for an A.I. those were many) she was sure that there was no other safer place than that little slot in the back of his head. She felt close to him when they were together, it was the most optimal way to securely ensure she was aiding him in everything he could possibly need.
When she wasn't analyzing enemy comm-links or checking his vitals, she was watching. Being an A.I. definitely had it's cons but what she lost with her inability to touch, she gained with her ability to see. Everything John had ever lived she had shared and sometimes she wondered what was beyond her confinements.
Perhaps it was why her dream had manifested into a world of color and sky. Despite the danger they always seemed to be in, these new worlds they explored were majestic. Chief had gone through jungles, mountains, flat lands, and he never stopped to watch. But she had, she remembered the way the jungles were stiffed with heat, how she had to overwork his armor to keep him in adequate homeostasis or how wind would blow and make all those leaves dance and shimmer in the sunlight. Cortana heaved a sigh as the wind seemed to pick up, some invisible force pushing her off her center and she stumbled forward blue locks coming over her eyes as she brought a hand up to brush them away in shock.
"What are you doing, Cortana." She could feel. "Look at you. Over thinking again. Analyzing all those definitions and descriptions and this is what you accomplish?" But why not? After all they've been through, "After everything I've suffered-"
"Stop. Just stop thinking."
The wind wasn't stopping, truth be told, she wasn't sure she liked it. It was pushing her, she could feel it. Millions and millions of atoms were pressing against her nude form and she couldn't do anything but grip her head and keep the voices under control. She had to stop thinking but it was useless.
"I-I can't...." Her voice quivered.
Voice sample:
- Pain is nothing like I imagined. I know how to define the word pain and I know how to tell when someone is hurt. I can analyze and identify a wound, I can tell you how to cure a bleeding wound but I have never bled. I have never felt pain.
That's all changed now, hasn't it?
With all the databases in my disposal, nothing comes close to explaining just how painful 'pain' can be. We were so wrong. I was wrong. I'm never wrong but I was wrong about this. It's not my fault, how could I reason with something I've never experienced? You can't shoot me, you can't even touch me, how could they have told me pain was nothing?!
John, he... he has felt pain all his life and he was never given a reason why. We told him it was fine, that he could bear it, that he had to. Who were we to choose for him? I bled today and as I held my wound and felt the warmth from my own blood against my fingertips, I thought about the boy I chose and how every time he was beat down they ordered him to get up. Get up, as if it's so easy to fight a war. They don't know what pain is, but I'm trying to learn. I'm trying very hard, John. We're supposed to take care of each other right?
It's about time someone bled for you, even if it's just a little.
