Hope you don't mind if I join in. The character concept below just wouldn't get out of my head when I read your IC thread.
Name: TIRA-23 (Technological-Intelligent Research Assistant – often left without the caps and number)
Apparent age: 23
Pokemon Species: Porygon
Ability/Power: As a former Porygon, Tira is faster at operating computers and other gadgets than most people, and she very rarely has trouble handling any sort of technology, even something she's never actually touched before. In other words, advanced technological competency – or just 1337 hacking skills. (Maybe even technopathy, if that's allowed. It's the ability to control and interface with machines using one's own mind. Like telepathy for computers.)
Appearance: Tira isn't the tallest person around, but she's no pixie, either. Thin and wiry, she's scrawny in some aspects and hence lacks the curves that would make it obvious she's a woman. She sports shoulder-length, pink hair, some of which is pulled back by a hair pin at the back of her head. Her blue eyes are set into a long face that usually bears a stern expression or none at all. It's very difficult to tell how she feels most of the time.
Often, her pale skin is covered by a white, button-down blouse and a pair of black slacks and black shoes. Additionally, a navy tie hangs from her neck. It's not that she wishes to dress up. It's just that she models her dressing style after the only humans she had any contact with prior to her transformation, and those people just happened to be male scientists who often came to work like that.
She has no other distinguishing marks, save for a tattoo of a bar code on her hip.
Personality: At first glance, Tira appears to be cold and only strict. She takes almost everything seriously, and she hates it when no one else seems to. Additionally, she can be biting and a bit hot-tempered, one who wants everything in its place and everyone to do their job. For this reason, she considers herself to be a leader, but on the other hand, everyone else might consider her anal retentive. (Yes, she takes particular care in organizing everything.)
On the second glance, she's also a stubborn and hard-willed woman with a set of values she holds highly. She's extremely intelligent, but unfortunately, this also means she always thinks she's right. And even worse, when she thinks she's right, she's not often willing to back down and relent to someone else's opinion on what should be done. It's her way, or you can do it yourself. And she'd rather not have the latter option, considering she most likely thinks you'll screw it up. She's a hardcore perfectionist, and she expects everyone else around her to be the same.
If anyone bothers to give her a glance after that, she's got a lot of mental problems. Emotions aren't something Porygon naturally have, and as a human (a human woman, no less), she's prone to a lot of them. For this reason, she may seem conflicted and brood a lot because she doesn't quite understand how to respond to her own emotions. Additionally, she doesn't understand that others have emotions too, so she often seems unintentionally blunt. (Lying, after all, is just as foreign a concept as emotions to a piece of technology.) She's also prone to bouts of anger when something irritates her (more likely), just as she's prone to uncontrollable laughter or crying if someone pushes the right buttons. But more than likely, she'll try to maintain her composure. If not react to someone with anger at the littlest things, possible sadism, extreme frankness, and irritation towards everyone because she really doesn't know any better.
Additionally, she was programmed to interact and serve human beings, and as a human, she's still prone to hang around people for that reason. Unfortunately, her creator failed to develop her interaction skills, so she actually struggles with connecting with people. This struggle seems to be fuelled by her lack of understanding of other people's emotions (and her tendency to take everything seriously), so she's sooner a source of ice-cold honesty than the kind of loyal friend you'd want to go to in order to have a shoulder to cry on.
History: Despite her apparent age, Tira is actually fairly young. She was the twenty-third (hence her number designation) out of a series of thirty Porygon created by Silph and distributed to various Pokémon researchers throughout the major regions as, as her name implies, a research assistant. As the third Porygon sent to a certain researcher in Sinnoh, Tira's task was not only to gather and organize information on a project but also regulate the actions of her fellow TIRA-class Pokémon.
So, essentially, Tira's life (all three years of it) was fairly uneventful and filled with routines, starting with the tests and training she received at Silph. From an early age, she found it difficult to form any sort of attachment to the people who worked with her, not because of her programming so much as she was shuffled from scientist to scientist until they deemed her "complete" and sent her to Sinnoh.
After she arrived at her designated workplace, she worked nonstop, twenty-four hours a day to ensure that the needs of her master were fulfilled, that his data was organized, that his computers and lab equipment were working properly, and that the other two Porygon were doing their own duties. Tira never questioned her standing, her duties, anything. It wasn't a Porygon's place or programming to do so. The researcher himself, who she never really took too much of a personal interest in (because personal information was also not a Porygon's business), never treated her badly and even considered her his pet, but there was always a barrier between him and the three Porygon who worked with them. After all, they were artificial intelligences, only a few backsteps away from being as alive as a toaster.
When she became a human being, she began to think of her old life as a Porygon and whether or not she was happy then.
But all she can really think about is how much she misses those old routines.
Other:
- She occasionally has the tendency to hum "Daisy Bell" as a nervous tic, particularly when she's under a lot of pressure to perform. She claims it's the first thing the scientists taught her at Silph.
Edit: Ahhahaha. This is post 1337 for me. I totally did not plan that.
