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Lady47
Current Characters: Tailgate
Tag: 8
IN CHARACTER
Name: 8
Canon: 9
Canon Point: After the Movie
Age: Somewhere between 5-50 years who knows
History:
After the great World War (which had lasted ten years) many countries had gone bankrupt and their natural resources were greatly depleted. The Chancellor, the man in charge of the country, decided that Science and Technology were the ways of the future and would hopefully spur the economy. The Government began hiring Scientists and giving them funding for their projects. One of the projects given funding too was for The Scientist (a former toymaker) who created automatons, and believed that the potential for his creations were limitless.
Thrilled with the funding given to him, The Scientist worked day an night to create the B.R.A.I.N (Binary Reactive Artificially Intelligent Neurocircuit), which was a machine whose purpose was to create other machines in its image. The Scientist eventually finished the B.R.A.I.N after several setbacks and delays, and was on the verge of testing the machine when the Chancellor had it forcibly seized from him. The Scientist tried to stop them and warn the Chancellor of the dangers of the machine, since it hadn’t been tested yet, but his dire warnings went ignored.
The Chancellor used the B.R.A.I.N to create the Fabrication Machine. This machine was designed to do exactly what the B.R.A.I.N was originally created to do: Create other machines. However seeing as it was created purely from the Scientist’s intellect, it was horribly flawed and the Scientist knew this full well. Unfortunately, he was powerless to stop it. The nation rejoiced at the Fabrication Machine and rallied behind the Chancellor. To them, the machine was a symbol of hope and peace.
A factory was created to house the Fabrication Machine and the Chancellor had it create an army of lethal war machines in order to “keep the peace”. Before long, the Chancellor took had amassed an army and used his force, completely unprovoked, to attack the other struggling, impoverish nations. The Scientist publicly denounced the Chancellor and warned the entire nation of the dangers that were sure to come. After that, he went into hiding. To his shock and sadness, few people believed him and agreeably went along with the war. The only ones who believed the Scientist were the Rebels, who willingly took him in and hid him.
The war was vicious and bloody. The other nations banded together and fought against the Chancellor and his machines. In his greed and lust for power, the Chancellor demanded an increase in production, ordering the Fabrication Machine to worker harder than ever. The consequences for this would have an even more devastating impact on the world than the initial war itself.
There was only so much the Fabrication Machine was willing to take. After years of being tortured to relentlessly to create things, the Machine angrily lashed out. It began creating machines who were all programmed to attack and destroy any living being they encountered. The machines were all equipped with a deadly gas that completely destroyed living tissue. Millions were slaughtered and the Chancellor quickly lost power in the face of thousands of machines. He was quick to blame the Scientist and name him the enemy of the world, since it was the Scientist’s creation that caused so much destruction.
The Scientist was remorseful for his part in the war. He decided to start a new experiment, one that would allow humanity to continue even if all life on Earth was wiped out. He did not have much hope for humankind, the gas would destroy everything and all humans would eventually die. His creation was horribly flawed because it was created from nothing other than intelligence, and therefore did not possess the ability to tell right from wrong. He made changes to the talisman he used to create the B.R.A.I.N, and instead used it to transfer his soul to little dolls he lovingly created from some materials he found around his shop.
The process of creating them, One through to Nine, took a little over a week.
Eight was created specifically to be bigger and stronger than the others, so he could help guard them in this dark and dangerous world. In his journal, The Scientist had a thing or two to say about him:
“Those who protect us are sometimes the least appreciated. It should not be this way.
Even I, a grown man, am a bit intimidated by 8. He is gargantuan when compared to the others… a thick clump of power. All muscle, none too bright.
The others will need someone to guard them in this new world, and 8 is definitely a formidable protector. If I didn’t have someone watching over me, I wouldn’t have gotten this far.”
As soon as he was released, Eight attached himself to One, quickly establishing himself as the “brawn” with One as the ‘brain”. Before they found the sanctuary, Eight helped keep the others safe by using an abandoned war helmet as a moving shelter, being that he was the only one strong enough to move it on his own.
Many years after the last human in their town died, they all received an unexpected visit from another of their kind. The first thing Nine tried to do was challenge One, something Eight didn’t take too kindly to. One was their leader, and it was Eight’s job to uphold One’s “Law”. Later, it became obvious that Nine was trouble when a giant flying beast crashed through the window of their home. They fought it the best they could, but eventually they had to run or be burned or slashed to pieces.
With their home burning, the stitchpunks left for the Twins’ library. There One told Eight to go stand guard, which Eight did... though he decided that now would be a good time to fool around with his magnets (which is the equivalent of getting high on the job). This mistake cost him his life, as he was instantly captured by the Seamstress. After the encounter with the Seamstress, Nine pushed them all to leave the Library and go rescue Seven and Eight, both whom were about to be offered to the Fabrication Machine. Nine left Five in charge while he went inside to rescue both stitchpunks, he told him that he if wasn’t out soon, then Five was to destroy the entire factory (no pressure). Five came up with the idea of setting a barrel full of oil on fire and sending it into the oil pit inside the factory that held the Fabrication Machine.
Nine was unable to rescue Eight (whose last act of defiance was to growl at the metal monster a thousand times his size), but was able to rescue Seven, and both of them successfully escaped the factory as the barrel of oil rolled in. The resulting explosion destroyed the factory and all the machines the Fabrication Machine created. For a very brief moment, the remaining stitchpunks were able to enjoy a carefree moment complete with music and laughter. This moment was shattered when the Fabrication Machine dragged itself out of the ruins of the factory and went after them. Five and Six had their souls taken from them, and Nine ran off on his own, leaving One, Three, Four, and Seven to fight the monster themselves.
One found an old cannon and the Twins helped load it while One and Seven fired at it. Before they could do any real damage to the Fabrication Machine, Nine showed up and revealed to them all that they were all pieces of the Scientist’s soul, and that Two, Five, Six, and Eight were all still trapped inside the talisman. If they destroyed the talisman, they would destroy their friends forever. None of them had a chance to absorb this information right away because the massive machine was on them within moments. They fled, and Nine thought up a plan to separate the talisman from the Machine. It involved sacrificing himself.
Just as Nine was about to allow his own soul to be torn out of him, One stepped in and sacrificed his soul instead. Nine was able to tear the talisman out of the Machine and pull his friends out of it. The Machine was destroyed and the souls of their friends were saved. Nine, Seven, Three and Four were all that remained, and they gathered the bodies of their fallen friends to make pyre for them. Nine activated the talisman again and released the souls trapped inside. They said their goodbyes and the ghosts, Eight amongst them, disappeared into the clouds, which resulted in the first rainfall that any of them have ever seen.
Personality:
When the Scientist made Eight, his first impression of him was that Eight was a bully. Made much bigger and bulkier than the others, Eight’s size and strength intimidated the Scientist, but it made him glad, because Eight was big and strong enough to protect the others. Eight, for the most part, accomplished this, but not due to his own feelings on the matter. Being more of a thug and a lackey than someone capable of coming up with his own thoughts, Eight latched onto One and willingly did whatever the elder creation wanted, whether it was to protect others or bully them into submission.
All the other stitchpunks are creative, innovative, and clever. Eight is none of these things. He was made out of much heavier materials than the others, and his physical toughness surpasses everything else. However, this leaves him with a very feeble mind that can just barely knock two thoughts together. Much to One’s frustration, Eight gets confused by long words and gets bored by complicated subjects.
Being a bully doesn’t leave you with many friends, and as such Eight’s relationship with his fellow creations isn’t all that great, with an exception to One. Eight is shown scaring Five for the fun of it, pushing Nine around, and stomping all over Six’s artwork just because he could. Despite this, he was upset and uncertain when One told him to abandon Five, Six, Seven, and Nine during a mechanical monster attack. He did briefly abandon them because his loyalty to One comes before all, but in the end he was willing to come to their aid when they needed him, and it was because of his sheer strength that they all managed not to fall to their doom. Eight’s relationship with One stands out because Eight has shown that he understood why One was so upset when their home was burning to the ground, and went out of his way to comfort the older stitchpunk.
Abilities/Skills:
Guard: Eight is a (generally) good guard to the other creations. Being big and heavy compared to the other creations, who are about seven inches to his ten, Eight is capable of defending against whatever lurks in the wasteland. Despite being a bully, Eight’s instinct is to place himself between others and danger.
Size: Eight is 10.5 inches tall and probably weighs about the same as a small potato sack. While not entirely graceful, Eight can move around unnoticed if he needs to.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
Built well: Eight was the eighth creation, and his design is much more complex and sturdy than One or Two’s. His cloth and metal body isn’t about to fall apart anytime soon.
Heavy hitter (Despite his size): Eight has a kitchen knife that he uses as his main weapon, but uses half a pair of scissors as a throwing weapon when his enemy is out of his reach. Stitchpunks in general are capable of taking down an opponent many times their size, and it’s likely that Eight can too.
Weaknesses
Dumb as a bag of rocks: He is not the thinking sort.
Magnet addict: Using a magnet, Eight places it near his head and this causes a pleasant static feeling. His use of the magnet is probably one of the reasons he’s as dumb as a bag of rocks.
Items:
Sawblade shoulder armour
Large kitchen knife
Half a pair of scissors
Mask made out of a salt shaker lid
Small U shaped magnet
SAMPLES
Network Sample:
[Eight blinks sluggishly at the device on his wrist. While he can read, somewhat, it takes him a long time to figure out what’s being said, and even longer to figure out how it works. Does he even want to? Talking to humans isn’t high on his priority list. They’re all dead as far as he was concerned, and it never pays to talk to ghosts.]
Hello.
[His first actual word willingly spoken aboard the Moira. Yes, he’s said other things. Nothing that means anything though. Words in general are complicated; Eight prefers to let people like One do the talking.]
I am… Eight. Where are the others? Those like me?
Where is One?
[His voice is surprisingly deep for a doll, and his words are slow and careful. He doesn’t want to make a mistake, and he doesn’t want to be misunderstood.]
They must be here. If you humans are here, then they have to be too.
Prose/Action Sample:
Test Drive sample though no one replied to it.
Are you 16 or older: Yes
Contact:
Current Characters: Tailgate
Tag: 8
IN CHARACTER
Name: 8
Canon: 9
Canon Point: After the Movie
Age: Somewhere between 5-50 years who knows
History:
After the great World War (which had lasted ten years) many countries had gone bankrupt and their natural resources were greatly depleted. The Chancellor, the man in charge of the country, decided that Science and Technology were the ways of the future and would hopefully spur the economy. The Government began hiring Scientists and giving them funding for their projects. One of the projects given funding too was for The Scientist (a former toymaker) who created automatons, and believed that the potential for his creations were limitless.
Thrilled with the funding given to him, The Scientist worked day an night to create the B.R.A.I.N (Binary Reactive Artificially Intelligent Neurocircuit), which was a machine whose purpose was to create other machines in its image. The Scientist eventually finished the B.R.A.I.N after several setbacks and delays, and was on the verge of testing the machine when the Chancellor had it forcibly seized from him. The Scientist tried to stop them and warn the Chancellor of the dangers of the machine, since it hadn’t been tested yet, but his dire warnings went ignored.
The Chancellor used the B.R.A.I.N to create the Fabrication Machine. This machine was designed to do exactly what the B.R.A.I.N was originally created to do: Create other machines. However seeing as it was created purely from the Scientist’s intellect, it was horribly flawed and the Scientist knew this full well. Unfortunately, he was powerless to stop it. The nation rejoiced at the Fabrication Machine and rallied behind the Chancellor. To them, the machine was a symbol of hope and peace.
A factory was created to house the Fabrication Machine and the Chancellor had it create an army of lethal war machines in order to “keep the peace”. Before long, the Chancellor took had amassed an army and used his force, completely unprovoked, to attack the other struggling, impoverish nations. The Scientist publicly denounced the Chancellor and warned the entire nation of the dangers that were sure to come. After that, he went into hiding. To his shock and sadness, few people believed him and agreeably went along with the war. The only ones who believed the Scientist were the Rebels, who willingly took him in and hid him.
The war was vicious and bloody. The other nations banded together and fought against the Chancellor and his machines. In his greed and lust for power, the Chancellor demanded an increase in production, ordering the Fabrication Machine to worker harder than ever. The consequences for this would have an even more devastating impact on the world than the initial war itself.
There was only so much the Fabrication Machine was willing to take. After years of being tortured to relentlessly to create things, the Machine angrily lashed out. It began creating machines who were all programmed to attack and destroy any living being they encountered. The machines were all equipped with a deadly gas that completely destroyed living tissue. Millions were slaughtered and the Chancellor quickly lost power in the face of thousands of machines. He was quick to blame the Scientist and name him the enemy of the world, since it was the Scientist’s creation that caused so much destruction.
The Scientist was remorseful for his part in the war. He decided to start a new experiment, one that would allow humanity to continue even if all life on Earth was wiped out. He did not have much hope for humankind, the gas would destroy everything and all humans would eventually die. His creation was horribly flawed because it was created from nothing other than intelligence, and therefore did not possess the ability to tell right from wrong. He made changes to the talisman he used to create the B.R.A.I.N, and instead used it to transfer his soul to little dolls he lovingly created from some materials he found around his shop.
The process of creating them, One through to Nine, took a little over a week.
Eight was created specifically to be bigger and stronger than the others, so he could help guard them in this dark and dangerous world. In his journal, The Scientist had a thing or two to say about him:
“Those who protect us are sometimes the least appreciated. It should not be this way.
Even I, a grown man, am a bit intimidated by 8. He is gargantuan when compared to the others… a thick clump of power. All muscle, none too bright.
The others will need someone to guard them in this new world, and 8 is definitely a formidable protector. If I didn’t have someone watching over me, I wouldn’t have gotten this far.”
As soon as he was released, Eight attached himself to One, quickly establishing himself as the “brawn” with One as the ‘brain”. Before they found the sanctuary, Eight helped keep the others safe by using an abandoned war helmet as a moving shelter, being that he was the only one strong enough to move it on his own.
Many years after the last human in their town died, they all received an unexpected visit from another of their kind. The first thing Nine tried to do was challenge One, something Eight didn’t take too kindly to. One was their leader, and it was Eight’s job to uphold One’s “Law”. Later, it became obvious that Nine was trouble when a giant flying beast crashed through the window of their home. They fought it the best they could, but eventually they had to run or be burned or slashed to pieces.
With their home burning, the stitchpunks left for the Twins’ library. There One told Eight to go stand guard, which Eight did... though he decided that now would be a good time to fool around with his magnets (which is the equivalent of getting high on the job). This mistake cost him his life, as he was instantly captured by the Seamstress. After the encounter with the Seamstress, Nine pushed them all to leave the Library and go rescue Seven and Eight, both whom were about to be offered to the Fabrication Machine. Nine left Five in charge while he went inside to rescue both stitchpunks, he told him that he if wasn’t out soon, then Five was to destroy the entire factory (no pressure). Five came up with the idea of setting a barrel full of oil on fire and sending it into the oil pit inside the factory that held the Fabrication Machine.
Nine was unable to rescue Eight (whose last act of defiance was to growl at the metal monster a thousand times his size), but was able to rescue Seven, and both of them successfully escaped the factory as the barrel of oil rolled in. The resulting explosion destroyed the factory and all the machines the Fabrication Machine created. For a very brief moment, the remaining stitchpunks were able to enjoy a carefree moment complete with music and laughter. This moment was shattered when the Fabrication Machine dragged itself out of the ruins of the factory and went after them. Five and Six had their souls taken from them, and Nine ran off on his own, leaving One, Three, Four, and Seven to fight the monster themselves.
One found an old cannon and the Twins helped load it while One and Seven fired at it. Before they could do any real damage to the Fabrication Machine, Nine showed up and revealed to them all that they were all pieces of the Scientist’s soul, and that Two, Five, Six, and Eight were all still trapped inside the talisman. If they destroyed the talisman, they would destroy their friends forever. None of them had a chance to absorb this information right away because the massive machine was on them within moments. They fled, and Nine thought up a plan to separate the talisman from the Machine. It involved sacrificing himself.
Just as Nine was about to allow his own soul to be torn out of him, One stepped in and sacrificed his soul instead. Nine was able to tear the talisman out of the Machine and pull his friends out of it. The Machine was destroyed and the souls of their friends were saved. Nine, Seven, Three and Four were all that remained, and they gathered the bodies of their fallen friends to make pyre for them. Nine activated the talisman again and released the souls trapped inside. They said their goodbyes and the ghosts, Eight amongst them, disappeared into the clouds, which resulted in the first rainfall that any of them have ever seen.
Personality:
When the Scientist made Eight, his first impression of him was that Eight was a bully. Made much bigger and bulkier than the others, Eight’s size and strength intimidated the Scientist, but it made him glad, because Eight was big and strong enough to protect the others. Eight, for the most part, accomplished this, but not due to his own feelings on the matter. Being more of a thug and a lackey than someone capable of coming up with his own thoughts, Eight latched onto One and willingly did whatever the elder creation wanted, whether it was to protect others or bully them into submission.
All the other stitchpunks are creative, innovative, and clever. Eight is none of these things. He was made out of much heavier materials than the others, and his physical toughness surpasses everything else. However, this leaves him with a very feeble mind that can just barely knock two thoughts together. Much to One’s frustration, Eight gets confused by long words and gets bored by complicated subjects.
Being a bully doesn’t leave you with many friends, and as such Eight’s relationship with his fellow creations isn’t all that great, with an exception to One. Eight is shown scaring Five for the fun of it, pushing Nine around, and stomping all over Six’s artwork just because he could. Despite this, he was upset and uncertain when One told him to abandon Five, Six, Seven, and Nine during a mechanical monster attack. He did briefly abandon them because his loyalty to One comes before all, but in the end he was willing to come to their aid when they needed him, and it was because of his sheer strength that they all managed not to fall to their doom. Eight’s relationship with One stands out because Eight has shown that he understood why One was so upset when their home was burning to the ground, and went out of his way to comfort the older stitchpunk.
Abilities/Skills:
Guard: Eight is a (generally) good guard to the other creations. Being big and heavy compared to the other creations, who are about seven inches to his ten, Eight is capable of defending against whatever lurks in the wasteland. Despite being a bully, Eight’s instinct is to place himself between others and danger.
Size: Eight is 10.5 inches tall and probably weighs about the same as a small potato sack. While not entirely graceful, Eight can move around unnoticed if he needs to.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
Built well: Eight was the eighth creation, and his design is much more complex and sturdy than One or Two’s. His cloth and metal body isn’t about to fall apart anytime soon.
Heavy hitter (Despite his size): Eight has a kitchen knife that he uses as his main weapon, but uses half a pair of scissors as a throwing weapon when his enemy is out of his reach. Stitchpunks in general are capable of taking down an opponent many times their size, and it’s likely that Eight can too.
Weaknesses
Dumb as a bag of rocks: He is not the thinking sort.
Magnet addict: Using a magnet, Eight places it near his head and this causes a pleasant static feeling. His use of the magnet is probably one of the reasons he’s as dumb as a bag of rocks.
Items:
Sawblade shoulder armour
Large kitchen knife
Half a pair of scissors
Mask made out of a salt shaker lid
Small U shaped magnet
SAMPLES
Network Sample:
[Eight blinks sluggishly at the device on his wrist. While he can read, somewhat, it takes him a long time to figure out what’s being said, and even longer to figure out how it works. Does he even want to? Talking to humans isn’t high on his priority list. They’re all dead as far as he was concerned, and it never pays to talk to ghosts.]
Hello.
[His first actual word willingly spoken aboard the Moira. Yes, he’s said other things. Nothing that means anything though. Words in general are complicated; Eight prefers to let people like One do the talking.]
I am… Eight. Where are the others? Those like me?
Where is One?
[His voice is surprisingly deep for a doll, and his words are slow and careful. He doesn’t want to make a mistake, and he doesn’t want to be misunderstood.]
They must be here. If you humans are here, then they have to be too.
Prose/Action Sample:
Test Drive sample though no one replied to it.
