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caprica-six | battlestar galactica | reserved
Name: Amber
Username:
Current/former characters: Commander Shepard
Sleeper
Character: Caprica-Six
Username:
Canon: Battlestar Galactica
Canon point: 3x01 "Occupation"/3x02 "Precipice"
Age: Ageless; appears late 20s/early 30s
Appearance: Caprica is approximately 5' 10" in her bare feet, though with as often as she wears high-heeled shoes, she usually stands over six feet tall. Her hair is very blonde, almost white, and her eyes a deep blue-gray. Typically, she dresses well — when spying on the Colonies, she tended to dress provocatively as part of her mission, but left to herself she usually dresses more casually, though still with a sort of quiet elegance.
Personality: In order to discuss Caprica, it is useful to briefly discuss the humanoid Cylons in general and their motives, goals, and mentality. Humanoid Cylons were created to be the next step in the evolution of the Cylons as a race, designed to essentially be more perfect humans. They took on the role of infiltrators only after the plan to destroy humanity was formulated; when that plan backfired, they were also pushed into the role of soldiers in the war against the remainder of the human race. Cylons in general view humanity as their "parents," and some viewed the genocide of humanity as the parents having to die so that the children could find their place in the universe, while others saw it as the righteous retribution of their God in response to the sins of the human race. They have a love/hate relationship with humans, being simultaneously disdainful of and fascinated by them; this fascination is strongest with the Six model, of which Caprica is one.
At one time, Caprica was the perfect Cylon spy. Trained in emotional manipulation and honey-tongued lies, she seduced the arrogant and self-centered Gaius Baltar in order to use his connections to the Ministry of Defense to induce critical weaknesses in Colonial defense infrastructure that would allow the Cylons to take them out easily when the time came. What she neither expected nor prepared for was to fall in love with Baltar, to the point that she spontaneously chose to sacrifice her life for his when the shockwave of a blast from Cylon warheads destroyed his house. Since then he has been the center of her world, and almost everything she does revolves around her feelings for him to some degree. There have been times at which she has attempted to deny her love for him, sometimes quite forcefully, but she has never been able to quite convince herself or others that her feelings are anything but real.
Caprica's emotions in general are quite strong and intense, and she feels things very deeply. Sometimes she can restrain herself from expressing them, but it's usually the case that sooner or later they manage to escape. At the canon point I'm taking her from, she is quite uncertain over whether she should feel the things she does — love for Gaius, regret and guilt over the destruction of the Colonies, desire to atone for her wrongdoing — as these feelings frequently conflict with her desire to do what is best for her people. She is not easily moved to hatred, but anger is not a difficult thing for her given the right stimulus, and she has experienced more sorrow and pain than she cares to speak of; on the other end of the spectrum, she loves quite easily, and can be intensely protective of those she becomes close to (especially children; she has a broad maternal streak and one of her greatest desires is to be a mother, despite the odds against her). Her physical senses are as important to her as her emotional ones, and she takes pleasure in fresh or intense sensory experiences — the taste of strongly-flavored food or drink, the feel of textured fabric against her skin. She can, in the right circumstances and with the right people, be quite sexual, and she sees no reason to be ashamed of sex or desire. In her view, life in all of its aspects, both good and bad, is a gift from God, and should be experienced to its fullest extent. Her sense of curiosity is more or less boundless, and even with as much time as she has spent around humans, there's still so much she feels she doesn't know. More than anything, she wants to understand what it truly means to be alive; perhaps this is part of the reason why humanity with all its flaws and failings attracts her so. In a sense she is a little in love with the human race in general, and she has the ability to see past others' imperfections to the person they are underneath.
Caprica is a deeply religious woman, as all Sixes and most of the Cylons are, and her faith in her God keeps her going when all else seems lost. She doesn't believe in coincidence or luck, instead firmly convinced that God has a plan and a destiny for everyone. This religious belief has been a problem at times — it was the belief that the Cylons were God's chosen people who were to bring righteous judgment on a sinful humanity that partially fueled the genocide for which she is in a large part responsible. Yet the God of holy war is also the God of love and forgiveness, and it was this notion that Caprica invoked when she decided that the destruction of humanity had been the wrong path to follow. To this day, her faith is still quite strong, and one of the few things that can upset her immensely is someone mocking her beliefs.
On the negative side, Caprica is still a little naive when it comes to interacting with humans, even though she has arguably spent more time around them than any of her sibling Cylons. The occupation of New Caprica, for example, came about as a result of Caprica's desire to bring peace between her people and the humans, but she was too idealistic and short-sighted to understand that occupations don't generally result in peace and harmony; and though she struggled with the actions of her brothers and sisters in taking harsher and harsher methods to suppress the human resistance and was plainly uncomfortable with and upset by the random incarcerations and mass executions, she also believed that such actions were to an extent necessary to discourage violence and terrorist attacks by the resistance. No matter how drawn she is to humans, she is also fully aware of all of humanity's sins and failures and imperfections, and from time to time she still finds herself disgusted or repelled by their actions, despite her attempts to suppress these sorts of feelings.
She is also a practiced liar, and when removed from the environment of her own world where she has no immediate reason to admit she isn't human (let alone admit to having been complicit in the genocide of billions), she will actively conceal who and what she really is. This isn't done out of malice so much as it is self-defense; she is already aware that very few people would understand — or even attempt to understand — why she did what she did, and since she isn't proud of or at ease with her past actions, she feels no reason to bring them up without due cause.
History: "I was instrumental in the destruction of humanity, but at the same time I learned, because... because I fell in love... with a human man, and he was mortal and fallible. ... Baltar could die. And I loved him."
Powers/skills: As a Cylon, Caprica had a number of superhuman abilities, most of which are detailed here. However, since she's going to end up human here, many of those abilities will be null and void since they relied on her Cylon silicate nervous system structure — so her ability to interface with other technologies, do programming in her head, stellar navigate without star charts, go without sleeping, etc. will be all gone. As will her projection (which will immensely upset her at first, but she'll learn to deal).
She will retain her superhuman physical abilities — enhanced strength, speed, and reflexes. While in canon she is theoretically strong enough to snap a steel pipe in half at her peak strength, she'll be more limited than that ingame. Also, she'll retain a naturally higher resistance to disease than a normal human.
City
Name: Marisa Alexander
Position: Software analyst
History: Born and raised in the middle ring, Marisa was exceptionally bright even as a girl, with a keen mind for mathematics and technology. As a young woman, she attended a fairly prestigious university, completing a degree in computer science, and eventually went to work for a well-known corporation that specialized in complex business software. Intelligent and charismatic, she had a great many friends — and being rather free with her affections, a great many romantic interests as well, though only one of them, a man she knew through her work and whom she eventually married, ever really captured her heart. She also had a considerable extended family; in addition to her parents and three siblings, she had a number of cousins and a small handful of aunts and uncles. Though she had no children and no time to raise any, she would have loved to be a mother.
Proof: A couple of pictures; one of her with her coworkers at a corporate dinner, and the other a professional photo of her on her wedding day.
Playing
First-person sample: Here.
Third-person sample: Here.
Did you read the rules? Yes!
Revision
Almost there!
Your application is good! We just have a few questions about your app before we can decide to accept or decline. Please expand on...
Personality
While we get an excellent view of what motivates Caprica and her internal conflicts, we would like to see more of an explanation toward her external behavior. How do these beliefs and motivations form the face that she gives to the world and those she interacts with?
Re: Revision
Caprica is, as is probably obvious, motivated primarily by two things — her religious beliefs and her emotional desires. Her religion is what motivated her to carry out her role in the attack on the Twelve Colonies — she believed it was God's will that humanity should perish — and also part of what motivated her to work with Boomer to convince the Cylons to seek peace with what remained of the human race. She believes strongly that there is only one God and that He has a plan for every living thing; such devout monotheism compels her to regard other systems of belief as misguided at best and heretical at worst, which can sometimes lead to conflict, but she has been attempting as of late to be more tolerant of the beliefs of others.
Her emotions lead her to do things, on occasion, that some people might consider unwise. Elaborating on her feelings for Gaius a little: she has been willing to die for him (she does so for the second time in a very near future canon point), and her love for him causes her to do things that she previously would never have considered doing. Case in point: she spontaneously chose to save his life during the Cylon attack on the Colonies, before she even completely realized she was in love with him. Her love for him was another motivator that led her to seek peace with the humans (in fact, it's unclear how much her reasoning of "God wants us to make peace with humanity" is fully rooted in her religion, given how much
her invisible boyfriendsomething with Gaius's face was manipulating her in that episode). Unfortunately, her feelings for Gaius tend to come into conflict with her intense loyalty to her own people. She wants the Cylons as a race to prosper and thrive — later in her canon, she forces herself to break off her relationship with Gaius because she feels that, as a Cylon, she shouldn't be in a relationship with a human. (It doesn't last very long, but still.)It's both her love for Gaius and her guilt over the destruction of the Colonies that leads her to want to be a better person, in general. She's much more likely now to save a human's life than kill them, and she's less inclined to automatically think the worst of humans, where before she may have felt more contemptuous. When not in the setting of her own world, without the internal conflict she experiences between the part of her that cares for her siblings and wants to be a good Cylon and the part of her that feels irrational affection for the human race as a whole and Gaius in particular, she'll be considerably warmer toward other people. (Which still doesn't mean she's not going to lie about herself, or that she won't do things that other people would consider morally wrong if she feels she needs to — but her intentions are good ones.)
I hope that's... more helpful, at least! Let me know if you need me to babble on about anything in particular and I will do so.
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