Name: Louise Age: ANCIENT Contact Info:derpriffic Other Characters: Tim "Sponge Fetishist" Wright
Character Information
Name: Angel Canon: Borderlands Age: WHO EVEN FUCKING KNOWS this series is so vague with timelines urgrhgh. Most estimates seem to place her at ~21 by the time she dies? Ish? Question marks???????? Gender: Female Canon Point: Post-death Background Link:Here's her Borbylambs wiki entry! Inventory: Nothing but the clothes on her back. Not very suitable for snowhell, so she'll be grateful for the freebie coat.
Personality:
It's probably best to start off by noting that both the player and the vault hunters spend the majority of the Borderlands games operating under the belief that Angel is an artificial intelligence. One with a personality and a sense of humour, sure, but that's hardly unusual in their universe. Angel is eloquent, calm and composed, and it doesn't take any suspension of disbelief for anyone to buy into her being an AI.
She isn't one, though. She's a human, but the fact that she can pass for synthetic speaks volumes about her demeanour and level of intelligence. Her speech tends to be quite formal (especially when compared to her canonmates), sometimes bordering on the cryptic, and she's almost exclusively polite and well-spoken. While she does occasionally slip up, she's quick to correct herself. "Damn" is quickly amended to "darn," for example, which makes her come across as endearingly naive.
(Except she's actually self-censoring because her dad doesn't like her using bad language, and he's listening in to most of her communications with the vault hunters. While keeping her hooked up to machines and pumped with eridium. But hey. More on him later.)
Another thing that helps her masquerade as an AI is Angel's unfailing desire to help people. She's quick to offer advice and guidance to the vault hunters at every opportunity, and she's pretty much the only character in the series to express concern and empathy for Claptrap units, which are universally acknowledged as the most irritating automatons in existence. As far as Angel is concerned, they're funny little robots and they should be helped and repaired and hey, vault hunter, here's a detailed explanation on how to do just that. She really loves helping, you guys. A lot.
And yet, that isn't always how things work out for her. Angel's father is Handsome Jack, the head honcho of the amoral mega-corporation known as Hyperion. The guy is a douche. Like, he's really super awful. The kind of guy who'd spend a day punting orphans off cliffs while laughing and taking selfies and generally being as dickish as possible. Also the kind of guy who would lock up his daughter and use her as a living battery for years on end. While pumping her full of a substance that makes her dependent on it to the point where she'll die if her supply is cut off. Annnnnnd while also plugging her into the Hyperion ECHOnet network and using her as his own personal Google-slash-surveillance system-slash-mole.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Angel is, despite her wishes, a traitor. Multiple times over. She guides the first set of vault hunters to a vault, as promised, but instead of treasure it only contains a writhing mass of tentacles and awfulness. She's also later involved in orchestrating an attack on their base at New Haven, causing them to scatter (and one, Lilith, even fakes her own death). She strings along the second set of vault hunters when they show up years later, too - all the "guidance" she offers them is according to Jack's plans and aimed at furthering his goals. As these plans come to a head and she's given access to the rebels' stronghold of Sanctuary? Angel follows her orders, disables its defenses and leaves it open to a missile strike from Jack. Is she happy about it? No. Does she do it anyway? Yes. It leaves her thoroughly miserable and serves as her turning point, really - she defects to the side of the rebels afterwards, desperately doing all she can to try and win back the vault hunters' friendship and trust.
From here on out, we see how determined and courageous Angel can be. Not only does she rebel against Handsome Jack - openly - but she formulates a plan to take him down. The plan is dangerous and complicated, especially with her own access to things being cut off by Jack, and it involves her own death. She asks the vault hunters to kill her so that she can't be used any more, explaining that it will "end a lifetime of servitude," and expresses no qualms or regret about her decision. Even as fighting breaks out in her control core she expresses nothing but encouragement and support towards the vault hunters despite the pain she's in. Her last words are used to call her dad an asshole - Angel may have spent most of her life living as a victim and a pawn, pretending to be someone she isn't, but she dies as herself. What a gal.
Flavor Abilities: Just her glowy tattoos. Her siren ability, Phaseshift, would only allow her to hack into Hyperion-brand technology anyway, so it'd be pretty useless even if she did get to keep it. No glowy light wings, either.
Suitability: HOOOOOOO BOY, GURL IS UNPREPARED FOR THIS SHIT. Angel has been shut up inside a bunker for years, only seeing the outside world via her integration with Hyperion's network and contact with the vault hunters. Everything in Norfinbury is going to be new to her - not just the snow and the monsters, but also more mundane things like... walking places. And having any kind of autonomy whatsoever. Being without her siren powers is also going to be extremely weird for her since they've essentially defined her life up to this point.
She's used to being imprisoned, though. That part she'll deal with just fine.
Angel | Borderlands | Reserved
Player Information
Name: Louise
Age: ANCIENT
Contact Info:
Other Characters: Tim "Sponge Fetishist" Wright
Character Information
Name: Angel
Canon: Borderlands
Age: WHO EVEN FUCKING KNOWS this series is so vague with timelines urgrhgh. Most estimates seem to place her at ~21 by the time she dies? Ish? Question marks????????
Gender: Female
Canon Point: Post-death
Background Link: Here's her Borbylambs wiki entry!
Inventory: Nothing but the clothes on her back. Not very suitable for snowhell, so she'll be grateful for the freebie coat.
Personality:
It's probably best to start off by noting that both the player and the vault hunters spend the majority of the Borderlands games operating under the belief that Angel is an artificial intelligence. One with a personality and a sense of humour, sure, but that's hardly unusual in their universe. Angel is eloquent, calm and composed, and it doesn't take any suspension of disbelief for anyone to buy into her being an AI.
She isn't one, though. She's a human, but the fact that she can pass for synthetic speaks volumes about her demeanour and level of intelligence. Her speech tends to be quite formal (especially when compared to her canonmates), sometimes bordering on the cryptic, and she's almost exclusively polite and well-spoken. While she does occasionally slip up, she's quick to correct herself. "Damn" is quickly amended to "darn," for example, which makes her come across as endearingly naive.
(Except she's actually self-censoring because her dad doesn't like her using bad language, and he's listening in to most of her communications with the vault hunters. While keeping her hooked up to machines and pumped with eridium. But hey. More on him later.)
Another thing that helps her masquerade as an AI is Angel's unfailing desire to help people. She's quick to offer advice and guidance to the vault hunters at every opportunity, and she's pretty much the only character in the series to express concern and empathy for Claptrap units, which are universally acknowledged as the most irritating automatons in existence. As far as Angel is concerned, they're funny little robots and they should be helped and repaired and hey, vault hunter, here's a detailed explanation on how to do just that. She really loves helping, you guys. A lot.
And yet, that isn't always how things work out for her. Angel's father is Handsome Jack, the head honcho of the amoral mega-corporation known as Hyperion. The guy is a douche. Like, he's really super awful. The kind of guy who'd spend a day punting orphans off cliffs while laughing and taking selfies and generally being as dickish as possible. Also the kind of guy who would lock up his daughter and use her as a living battery for years on end. While pumping her full of a substance that makes her dependent on it to the point where she'll die if her supply is cut off. Annnnnnd while also plugging her into the Hyperion ECHOnet network and using her as his own personal Google-slash-surveillance system-slash-mole.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Angel is, despite her wishes, a traitor. Multiple times over. She guides the first set of vault hunters to a vault, as promised, but instead of treasure it only contains a writhing mass of tentacles and awfulness. She's also later involved in orchestrating an attack on their base at New Haven, causing them to scatter (and one, Lilith, even fakes her own death). She strings along the second set of vault hunters when they show up years later, too - all the "guidance" she offers them is according to Jack's plans and aimed at furthering his goals. As these plans come to a head and she's given access to the rebels' stronghold of Sanctuary? Angel follows her orders, disables its defenses and leaves it open to a missile strike from Jack. Is she happy about it? No. Does she do it anyway? Yes. It leaves her thoroughly miserable and serves as her turning point, really - she defects to the side of the rebels afterwards, desperately doing all she can to try and win back the vault hunters' friendship and trust.
From here on out, we see how determined and courageous Angel can be. Not only does she rebel against Handsome Jack - openly - but she formulates a plan to take him down. The plan is dangerous and complicated, especially with her own access to things being cut off by Jack, and it involves her own death. She asks the vault hunters to kill her so that she can't be used any more, explaining that it will "end a lifetime of servitude," and expresses no qualms or regret about her decision. Even as fighting breaks out in her control core she expresses nothing but encouragement and support towards the vault hunters despite the pain she's in. Her last words are used to call her dad an asshole - Angel may have spent most of her life living as a victim and a pawn, pretending to be someone she isn't, but she dies as herself. What a gal.
Flavor Abilities: Just her glowy tattoos. Her siren ability, Phaseshift, would only allow her to hack into Hyperion-brand technology anyway, so it'd be pretty useless even if she did get to keep it. No glowy light wings, either.
Suitability: HOOOOOOO BOY, GURL IS UNPREPARED FOR THIS SHIT. Angel has been shut up inside a bunker for years, only seeing the outside world via her integration with Hyperion's network and contact with the vault hunters. Everything in Norfinbury is going to be new to her - not just the snow and the monsters, but also more mundane things like... walking places. And having any kind of autonomy whatsoever. Being without her siren powers is also going to be extremely weird for her since they've essentially defined her life up to this point.
She's used to being imprisoned, though. That part she'll deal with just fine.
RP Samples: 1 and 2!