Attempt at a Character?

[openSystem]

So yeah, here goes real quick, keeping default color for this because it's OOC.

Name: Ivan "Bash" Jones
Chumhandle: openSystem
Text Color: 1C2082
Typing Style: Pretty consistent with grammar, occasionally rambles in code: conversation.end();, return emotion.anger;, etc.
Age: 19
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Current Session: 1
Strife Specibi: Bookkind (ManualKind in it's first iterations)
Fetch Modus: Address Modus, stores items on cards with an address in hex(0x0(0), 0xA(10), 0xA2(162), etc.). To retrieve an item the address has to be accessed, similar to the hashmap modus. Note that an item will always be stored in the first available card, and addresses only change when an item is added or removed.

Appearance: Here have a terrible talksprite instead of a description.

(Apologies for agressive eyebrows)

Native Title: Mage
Native Aspect: Mind
Native Moon: Derse
Native Planet: Land of Hives and Terminals

Guardian: MOM (Mainframe Operating Mother). An AI housed in a bionic shell (Ivan's biological mom), tasked with maintaining a huge array of mainframes. Tends to lapse into weird code metaphors, but is mostly a normal human being.

Personality: So yeah, Bash is intelligent, but his knowledge tends to be more useless trivia than anything. Also the dude has trouble with base ten, he converts like all his numbers into hex, and starts counting at zero because you know, programming. His social interactions are sort of lacking in that he's nervous around real people (Blame computermom), but he actually is pretty good at keeping his friends calm. Makes everything more complicated than it is somehow, and tends to break things without meaning to. (Anecdote here, he once managed to shutdown the entire lab of the facility by playing tetris. Turns out door control panels don't take well to that) "Bash" is the codename the scientists gave him but it's the one he hears most, so he kinda forgets his name is Ivan sometimes.

Likes: Code, Puzzles, His Scarf, Plants
Dislikes: People, Heat, Educational Games

Whew. I think that's about it? Any suggestions on ways to flesh him out a bit more, since that's a bit barebones? The chat is awesome and I thank them kindly.

[lucidChthonia]

Heh. Those are aggressive eyebrows? (Pic is of another character from here, as it happens.)

Eyebrows aside, I'm gonna recommend popping into the IRC and talking at us.

"basically he's smart and that's like his entire good side???" has been done. Multiple times. There's some differentiation that should probably be done here. I have a Mind player, I wrote the guide chapter on them, Mind players are not intelligent smartasses. Mind in this AU is considering difficult choices and how your choices shape the reality you live in - and remember that in this AU, people are assigned the aspect/title pair that results in the most possible personal growth. (Mage seems okay, especially if he's spent his entire life pretending his mom is a normal mom and not a computer.)

Also, I see you have a current Waste of Mind listed. Waste is a restricted-use title that we generally only like on kids who have a very good reason to; it's not so much the aspect of "halp I destroy things and angst about it forever" as "I never want to be noticed again, whoops, hand slipped and now I'm always going to be known for my fuckup". As it so happens, we have a Waste of Mind already, and she's dead by her own hand (long story, get in the IRC and I/we'll tell it to you sometime), so we probably won't need anyone else in that particular plot position for a long, long time. (Plus my character would freak out about it.)

I find a helpful way to flesh out a character is to think in terms of how the title(s) they roll, and the title(s) of the people they know, fitted and continue to shape them. How many sessions has your character completed? With whom? What title(s) did their best friends have? How many of their titles' lessons stick? (It's called being "well-internalized".) How many of them does the player just... shed, after the end of the session, knowing they can take on that role again if need be but not taking the lessons seriously?

There. Now you've got a tl;dr. Get on the IRC so I can talk your ear off even further about Mind.

[openSystem]

Oh, whoops I was supposed to fix the whole waste thing, figures I messed that up. Also wow aggressive eyebrows + 5 there. I'll just hop in IRC and maybe I can actually work out something a little better. Thanks for the help!

[openSystem]

sync.in/CZliAphZmx

There that's easier than updating the post.
Also wow the IRC peeps are great.