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12 January 2017 10:43 pmCR CHART - THISAVROU
Castmates
Alan-One |
| Alan-one wrote Tron. Just by existing, Rinzler is a failure of everything his maker wanted and produced. But despite this fact, Alan-one claimed Rinzler as his own, and refused to abandon him on multiple occasions. Rinzler has struggled to come to terms with having a user who's actually loyal, and remains unconvinced that he deserves his user's regard. He is, however, determined to keep Alan-one safe at any cost. If this includes more violence than the user would sanction... they'll cross that bridge when they trip over the bodies. (Again.) | |
CLU |
| Clu killed Tron. Clu perfected Rinzler. But after a thousand cycles being broken down to automation, Rinzler acquired the self-awareness to truly wreck their status quo... and Clu promised him a new one. As badly as he wants the freedoms he's been granted, Rinzler is disinclined to press Clu as to why he's loosening the leash. Still, the change in behavior is impossible to miss, as are Clu's difficulties in the user world. Rinzler isn't sure whether to be worried how his admin's coping or grateful that things haven't gotten worse. Flynn's arrival has sharply escalated both sentiments. | |
Yori |
| On spotting Rinzler in Inugami, Yori greeted him with a joyful shout of the wrong name. Since recovering his memories, she's made a lot more sense. Yori and Tron loved each other deeply, and after several years' friendship, she informed Rinzler she cared about him in that way as well. Rinzler fears falling into Tron's patterns, and secretly doubts Yori really prefers him as he is. But those stumbling blocks matter very little compared to the fact that he does love her—and more significantly, trusts Yori enough to try to take her assurances to heart. Re-romancing is underway. | |
Flynn |
| Flynn is the Grid's worst enemy. Its creator and betrayer, the one who promised greatness and then empowered a viral plague. While many of Rinzler's beliefs are shaped by Clu, the core of his loathing is very personal indeed: Flynn is the enemy he never had a chance to fight. He abandoned his believers to be slaughtered, and never cared enough about his enemies to face Clu—or Rinzler—in a fight. Clu has forbidden Flynn's deletion on Avagi (and, in truth, Rinzler might have trouble carrying it out). Still, Rinzler wants the user to pay. Or at the very least, feel. | |
Ram |
| An actuarial program bearing Encom's circuit patterns, Ram is one of Avagi's most recent imports. While Rinzler was initially curious and mildly appreciative of the other program's competence, relations worsened sharply when Ram caught on to Rinzler's former identity. Rinzler hates being regarded as broken, and hates worse the other program's blatant efforts to awaken Tron. He attacked on the spot, and Ram proved what Rinzler had already suspected: a resistance fighter's competence at evasion and escape. | |
Sam_Flynn |
| Rinzler left the Grid before Sam_Flynn arrived there. Still, he is familiar with this user—from a several-month stint of hostile cohabitation on the Moira. The enforcer's opinion of Sam is strictly negative; he considers Sam to be judgemental and condescending—and a Flynn, besides. Not that Rinzler's biased on that count... |
System
Nihlus_Kryik |
| Nihlus has safeguarded Rinzler's code for months. Intervened on his behalf on multiple occasions. He also betrayed, trapped, and maimed Rinzler while affected by indoctrination. These issues and a sizable helping of new ones were dragged up recently by their shadows, forcing them to the terrifying length of talking out their issues. When not engaged in messy guilt heaps, Nihlus and Rinzler get along well, sharing interests in security and ridiculously dramatic sparring. Rinzler thinks Nihlus should stop talking around administrating Avagi and just run it. | |
Jane_Shepard |
| When she knocked him offline with just one hit, Shepard earned Rinzler's respect. Over the year and a half since, she's earned herself a different kind of regard. Shepard claims some users do care, and has offered her own example: saving Rinzler from a virus, holding no grudge when he defeated (stabbed) her in the Games. She also introduced him to procedure: movie nights, and is ultimately responsible for his induction to the room-system. From what he can tell, she's its local admin, though Shepard has made no effort to declare the role. | |
Chara |
| On the Moira, Rinzler knew a Chara: a not-quite-ally who shared his loathing for the system's rules. This iteration might have that much in common, but has also fought alongside Rinzler both literally and otherwise: to safeguard Frisk and Asriel, to oppose the Savrii, and even to protect the autonomy they insisted Rinzler has. Since they were recovered from the Savrii's edits, Rinzler has begun sparring with Chara regularly: to train his fellow combat function and offer them an outlet... but also to check up that they're all right. | |
Frisk |
| Affectionate and conflict-averse, Frisk is a beta who Rinzler has claimed to protect. They're also terrible at being a user. Frisk self-declared their function—saving people—but makes no distinction as to who or how. Rinzler finds it entirely unsurprising that they're perpetually one error from a crash. Clu edited them as well as Asriel, but with Rinzler's recommendation and Alan's help, they elected to be restored back to normal. Rinzler's very glad they did, but the experience left him with unpleasant doubts regarding his own nature. | |
Asriel |
| With a beta program's wide-eyed appreciation for his flashy stunts, Asriel latched on to Rinzler quickly. Much to the enforcer's surprise, he stuck around even after learning more. Asriel is Rinzler's long-term trainee: first in piloting, and then in fighting with a disk. Asriel is also someone Rinzler promised to protect, which made it difficult when Clu threatened his autonomy. As with Frisk, Alan has since intervened. | |
Neriel_Lavellan |
| While (probably) not malicious, this user is dangerously incompetent, and has managed to harm Rinzler twice with magical accidents. Rinzler views Lavellan as a typical user and potential hazard, both for his terrible decisions and his prior editing by the Savrii. That said, their installation in the same room-system places him solidly as one of Rinzler's people to protect... and apparently he does recognize turnaround to be fair play. | |
Sideswipe |
| Most of Rinzler's interactions with this robot have come when Sideswipe is upset. Though not especially aggressive by demeanor or seemingly skilled in a fight, Sideswipe entered a combat trial on the planet Kaittos. Apparently he has something to prove? Rinzler doesn't especially understand the Cybertronian, but intends to gain more data as he can. |
Allies
Kazuhira_Miller |
| Miller was one of the first people Rinzler encountered on the Moira—and one of the first users he grew to value and respect. More, he's one of the few Rinzler has been willing to be used by. They've had some disagreements over how Rinzler should defend himself, and after encountering Rinzler's shadow, Miller seems much less willing to trust the program. Still an ally. | |
Agent_Washington |
| Wash was the first person Rinzler met when he arrived on the Moira. He showed Rinzler how to use the communicators, fought at his side against many and varied threats, and forged an actual friedship... before disappearing completely from the ship. While the user returned recently, this Wash lacks any memory of his last visit, and took Rinzler's assertions that he'd been here badly. They're slowly re-bonding over an appreciation for sharp objects. | |
Rey |
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A temporary member of the Moira's old transporter crew, Rinzler still considers Rey one of his people to watch out for. Apart from a strange dislike of killing, she's always come across as highly competent. |
Hostile
Sans |
| When Rinzler first met Sans aboard the Moira, he dismissed the skeleton as glitched. When Sans smashed him to voxels on the bulkhead as a warning, Rinzler appended very dangerous to that description. Rinzler loathes Sans' judgemental behavior, and badly wants a chance to properly fight him. Still, the higher priority is the safety of Rinzler's friend—especially Chara, whose prior iteration got in lethal fights with Sans back on the Moira. So far, Sans claims no interest in this one. | |
Big_Sister |
| A user "teenager" that attacked him repeatedly. The fights, Rinzler almost enjoyed, but Nihlus' interference cut off most of the Game's fun—especially with his insistence that Rinzler wasn't allowed to attack its class of user, no matter how much they harm him. A later telepathic contact revealed that the threat has an uncomfortable amount of history in common with his own. Fortunately for any awkward sympathy that might have developed, they devolved to bickering about it in short order. | |
Calla |
| A program from Earth 91c who shows a similar form of code mismatch to Rinzler, Calla self-describes as a "localized companionship function". Rinzler describes him as a glitchy siren—and a very stupid one, too. While aware that users are malicious, Calla will readily beg for their approval—and taunt any program doing differently. When this progressed to sitting down to die in order to make things easier on their enemies, Rinzler gave him up as a lost cause. |
Unclassified
Agent_Texas |
| Despite a rocky beginning, Texas (ID: Allison) defended Rinzler through his trial on the Moira, sympathizing with his position as an AI and claiming he still had rights and personhood like users. For Rinzler, this has made her recent shift of perspective much more jarring: permanently living in a user body and refusing to view her code as anything but a disconnected part. Rinzler can accept Tex's decision to be a user, but he'd like her to acknowledge it as such—and at the very least, stop talking as if being "only" programming is a limit to be scorned. | |
Adrien_Arbuckal |
| First encountered when Rinzler had been turned into a kitten, Adrien's encountered Rinzler since for virus cleanup and paranoia planning. Rinzler respects Adrien's skills highly, and appreciates that he can catch Rinzler's sense of humor. He's less sure of Adrien's virus hoarding habits—or his tendency to talk up his own respect for inorganic sentience without being able to define what the term means. | |
Wanda_Maximoff |
| Most of Rinzler's interactions with this user have involved a jail sentence of some kind. He got on her bad side first by injuring her friend, and then harming her brother. Wanda herself is a user Rinzler almost respects, but after a misconstrued argument with Peter, both siblings were convinced Rinzler made threats against her life. More recently, she broke up a fight between himself and his shadow. Rinzler's not yet sure of why. | |
Elizabeth_DeWitt |
| A former admin of the Moira and longtime source of frustration. This user spoke in favor of a virus, and took no action when Rinzler was hunted—but spoke later as if it had been a crime. She's a typically hypocritical user... but admitted she was wrong, and did help kill the threat eventually. Likes fights sometimes? Rinzler's not sure what her glitch is, but it might connect to the portal functions she possesses. Network reports indicate some kind of recent memory wipe. | |
Jane_Shepard_v2 |
| A second copy of Jane_Shepard occasionally seen around the network. She volunteered to help destroy a virus, but her mirror jumped in to question her motives, warning Rinzler that she posed a danger to nonhumans. Rinzler's not sure about this assessment, though she does seem confusingly hostile at the mention of "copies". And annoyingly critical of his syntax. | |
Soldier_76 |
| A competent scout and (presumed-competent) combatant, this user works with Miller, and got stabbed by Chara. Rinzler regards him as sensible enough to give the benefit of the doubt, though his issues when it comes to children remain puzzling. Slightly twitchy, but who isn't? |
Peripherals
Shiro |
| A fellow volunteer on Avagi's security detail and apparent leader of his own squad, Shiro is self-admittedly paranoid in the extreme. Rinzler would respect this more if he took proper steps to guard his data—and, in exchange for his cooperation running Quarantine, has offered to show Shiro how. | |
Cayde, Ghost |
| Possibly a user. Possibly a program. After minutes of conversation in which it couldn't even clarify that much, Rinzler became frustrated enough to attack his fellow vent-explorer. The Ghost definitely seems the more intelligent of the pair, but Cayde's claims regarding fighting for "humanity" hit nearly as many sore points with Rinzler as its babbling. Waste of time. | |
Vetra_Nyx |
| Another turian who appeared recently—and promptly got into a flame war with Nihlus. Rinzler headtilted curiously, and later traded local data for some shield schematics. Evasive, but decent so far? | |
Sombra |
| Another user/program [unknown]. This one, however, claims a clear function: security. Considering Rinzler found her planting surveillance in the vents, she's either lying... or he wants in. | |
Peridot_2F5L_5XG |
| Peridot is a skilled engineer who shared Rinzler's frustration with the Moira's terrible management. She also put guns on his transporter ships. Rinzler respects her fairly highly, and appreciates her nature as a function-based inorganic. | |
Ratchet |
| Another return from the Moira, Ratchet is mostly significant to Rinzler as Sans' friend. He visited Rinzler while the program was locked up in the hold to try to impress that his violence would have consequences. As the one about to be recoded for it, Rinzler found the experience incredibly demeaning. | |
Clara_Oswald |
| The last time he shared a system with this user, she tried to recruit Rinzler as her enforcer. He's not at all sure what to make of her, but she's definitely piqued his curiosity. | |
Spider_Man |
| Users babbling at Rinzler isn't particularly new, but this one does rate some originality for doing it mid-roof-patrol. Claims to be some kind of self-assigned security protocol. Rinzler questions the effectiveness of advertising item return through a stolen TAB... but did enjoy the network-trolling opportunities. | |
Liquid_Snake |
| Not a member of the transporter crew, but someone who petitioned Rinzler for training while he ran it. Has a dog. Dog excluded, Rinzler regards him fairly neutrally. | |
Ryuuzaki |
| A capable... analyst? Interrogator? Rinzler's not sure what this user's real function is. He showed up to a defense meeting and supported Rinzler's plans. Also responsible for Texas' choice to be a user, which Rinzler dislikes. | |
Mettaton |
| A monster-robot-something that seems to spend most of his time either talking about himself or dying for no reason. Rinzler dislikes Mettaton's ego, function, and... well, most things, but acknowledges his combat capabilities. | |
Varric |
| A user Rinzler traded supplies—and frustration—with. Apparently his only skill is telling lies about users to each other and hoping they find them entertaining. | |
Tetora_Nishizono |
| User who asked Rinzler about kanji. Also appears on the network fairly often. |
Updated 10 December 2017
