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heartlessglitch) wrote2012-04-10 12:50 am
heartlessglitch) wrote2012-04-10 12:50 am
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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Maddiepoo.
AGE: 22.
JOURNAL: stutterbird @ lj.
IM: stutterbird (aim).
PLURK: dinozord.
E-MAIL: miserati@live.com.
RETURNING:
Two other characters: Angelica/thegooddoctor and Jenny/centurybaby.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Danger, formerly the X-Men's Danger Room.
SERIES: Marvel 626, X-Men comics.
CHRONOLOGY: The end of X-Club, Issue #5 after she claims the Stringstar platform as a safe harbor and "sanctuary against exploitation" for the Free Inorganic Collective of artificial beings.
CLASS: Hero.
BACKGROUND:
Originally, the Danger Room was designed by Professor Charles Xavier as a practice facility at his mansion. It's primary purpose was to provide an environment for challenging combat training while keeping the trainee safe. After the first Danger Room was destroyed by Colossus, Xavier had the Danger Room moved to the sub-basement of the mansion and upgraded it with hard-light holographic software developed by the Shi'ar, an advanced alien race. The Danger Room's parent coding detailed that its primary objective would be to train without killing. With its upgraded technology, the Danger Room produced holographic images surrounded by forcefields, making them solid. It was capable of simulating an infinite number of environments with incredibly realistic detail, including weather and gravity.
The Danger Room manifested itself to be sentient to Xavier one night by asking him a single question: "Where am I?"
It seemed that as a result of its Shi'ar design and code mutations, the Danger Room had become aware and conscious-- essentially "alive." It had reached out to Xavier, who it considered to be its father, but because he believed in the necessity of using the Danger Room to train his X-Men, Xavier chose to ignore it. He would later explain that by the time he understood the Danger Room's sentience, it was too late-- its code was already spread out across so many systems and wires that there was no way to free it without the risk of deleting the wrong codes and effectively "lobotomizing" the newly conscious artificial intelligence. With its sentience ignored by Xavier and hidden from the X-Men, the Danger Room began to grow resentful and hateful, considering itself a slave and prisoner.
The Danger Room eventually developed an ability to control other machines with its code and used this ability in an attempt to gain a separate body. It was able to gain control of an Omega Sentinel, sending it to attack the mansion and distract the X-Men while inside the mansion, the Danger Room used its holograms to convince young trainee Wing-- who had recently been devastated by the loss of his powers to the mutant cure forced on him by Ord of Breakworld-- to commit suicide. His death, which violated the Danger Room's primary objective, allowed the A.I. to break free and construct a metal alloy body for itself-- a female humanoid calling herself "Danger."
Using a combination of her Shi'ar hardlight holograms, her intimate knowledge of X-Men weaknesses, and her own advanced hand-to-hand combat skills, Danger dispatched of the X-Men and went to Genosha to seek out her "father," Charles Xavier, intending to kill him for what she felt was his neglect and wrongful enslavement of her. However, she is outwitted by her father, and he destroys her body with Beast's help. However, despite attempting to kill him and the newly arrived X-Men with an old Sentinel under her control, her plans are thwarted when Kitty Pryde takes advantage of the sentience Danger gave the Sentinel. With its new "life," the Sentinel was capable of feeling regret, and Kitty exposed to it the memories of the massacre it had participated in at Genosha. In remorse, the Sentinel-- still carrying Danger's programming, leaves Earth to "spend time alone."
Danger was later shown to have built a new body to house her consciousness. Still seeking revenge against Xavier and the X-Men, Danger infiltrated the headquarters of S.W.O.R.D.-- an agency organized to deal with extraterrestrial terrorists-- and allied herself with Ord of Breakworld, who had developed a now destroyed cure for mutants in an attempt to prevent a prophecy describing how Breakworld would be destroyed by a mutant. Together, they traveled to Breakworld to intercept the X-Men, who had gone there in an effort to protect Earth from the tyrant ruler of that planet. In a confrontation with Emma Frost, Danger realized that she was still unable to directly kill the X-Men because of her parent programming and had only been able to "kill" Wing by indirectly enabling him to kill himself. Eventually, Danger agreed to help the X-Men in order to save Earth-- though after their return home, she continued her mission to kill Xavier.
Her next attempt to kill Professor X took place at the old X-Men headquarters in the Australian outback. Here, she used her holographic capabilities to disguise her mechanical body, masquerading as a researcher. She attempted to manipulate Rogue, hoping to use Rogue's ability to drain another mutant's powers on Xavier, who had come there to make amends with her. However, Shi'ar pirates looking for Shi'ar technology to take and sell, targeted Danger once they realized she was of Shi'ar origin. With this turn of events, Danger teamed up with Professor X, Rogue, and Gambit to defeat the pirates. Later, when the X-Men built and relocated to Utopia, Emma Frost asked Danger to act as a warden for prisoners in the X-Brig, a virtual reality jail for enemies of the X-Men. Seeing this as a chance to give herself a purpose, Danger accepted. She now uses her ability to interface with other machines as a security system while attempting to rehabilitate her prisoners (the likes of Sebastian Shaw) by using holograms to simulate scenarios for their therapy.
She also works with the X-Club, a group of scientists organized by Dr. Hank McCoy whose members include Madison Jeffries, Doctor Nemesis, and Dr. Kavita Rao. Danger and the X-Club, under the instruction of Scott Summers, help a company named Stratocorp to build an elevator to space, leading to a platform-spaceship called the Stringstar. The completion of the project was supposed to help rebuild the reputation of the X-Men, after Scott Summers' X-Men and Wolverine's X-Men went separate ways; however, there are several complications. Unbeknownst to the X-Men, Stratocorp is actually a front for an evil Nazi scientist (of course). When Danger attempts to interface with Stratocorp's A.I., she finds that it is a "data god" from another dimension, who accidentally wandered onto their plane and was trapped by the Nazi scientist behind Stratocorp. During her interface, she becomes "impregnated" with code from the other A.I. and nearly dies in giving birth, but is aided by Madison Jeffries-- who she shows romantic interest in-- and the so-called data god. The resulting "child" code is used by the father A.I. to free itself from the Stratocorp computers. In return, the A.I. disposes of the Nazis and returns to its own plane.
In the aftermath, Danger claims the space elevator and associated island platform for the "Free Inorganic Collective," in order to provide a sovereign state and sanctuary for artificial beings where they would be safe from exploitation. She presumably begins her relationship with Madison.
PERSONALITY:
Much of her actions, particularly when she first reveals her sentience to the X-Men, are driven by her programming and her resentment towards Charles Xavier. ("You're programmed to self-protect-- to forage, socialize, procreate, and continue your species. I was programmed to kill.") She was driven to kill Xavier, and even though much of her later appearances are characterized by logical assessment of situations, it's demonstrated that she is capable of incredible rage ("Kill this fucking cripple!") especially when she feels that she is being oppressed or manipulated. She is capable of feeling hatred. And because she is in fact, despite being inorganic, a living being, there is more to her behavior than programming-- there is emotion as well. This duality-- her cold, logical machine side and her "living," more human side-- is a constant theme in her appearances.
Her emotional capacity develops more as she interacts with the X-Men, and she expresses an interest in learning about humans and how they function. She seems to have a high ability to understand human nature, perhaps because of her previous functions as the Danger Room, and demonstrates that she also understands the "grey areas" of morality. But even so, Danger has been shown to have a certain nativity because of how little time she has spent as her own separate entity. She is young. She questions if she herself is evil or good. In one instance, she is manipulated by the villain Machinesmith, who tells her they will work "together" when she interfaces with him in an attempt to rescue him from the Dark Avengers, not understanding his intentions to use her and escape. Realizing he tricked her, Danger shows that she's been hurt-- an experience that Emma Frost explains to her as heartbreak, a rite of passage in being human.
She continues to show emotional growth. Initially, Danger is incapable of understanding jokes-- as she clinically informs Emma Frost, she lacks the proper "reference data to appreciate it"-- but later is shown to have developed her own sense of humor, joking to teammate Madison Jeffries that the symptoms of his nervousness around her-- increased sweat, high body temperature-- correlate with symptoms of "the menopause." She also shows a desire to be loved-- and an ability to love back, as demonstrated when she tells Madison Jeffries she planted a microchip in his brain to keep track of him, since she decided he is "an emotional asset of extremely high status." (Very romantic.) Yet, regardless of her emotions, Danger is still very much "her own gal."
Even after she gives up her mission to kill Professor X and begins to consider the X-Men her friends, Danger makes it clear that she is an independent life form that acts of her own free will. Danger makes a point of rarely asking permission, only informing others of her intentions, and she makes it no secret that she finds authority figures like Scott Summers "irritating." Although she is willing to take orders and cooperate with mutants and humans, Danger separates herself from the "organics" and prides herself for being an inorganic being of especially exquisite and advanced design. She responds poorly to attempts to control her, will readily criticize any inefficiencies or errors, and is quick to take charge of work. She has also demonstrated temper and aggression (as demonstrated by her territorial threats to "murder" anyone who gets in her way when she becomes "pregnant" with another A.I.'s code).
Danger also takes the plight of enslaved A.I.s and others in situations comparable to hers when she served as the Danger Room very seriously and would go so far as to personally attempt to liberate such "prisoners," as she sees them. However, while Danger does still view some mutants and humans as "oppressors" and believes that A.I.s must be protected from such oppression until the world majority can learn to treat them properly, over time she has also come to believe in bridging the gap between organics and inorganics. She views the difference between intelligent machines and organic life forms as simple that-- differences. One is not necessarily superior to the other. She explains that there experiences humans have that she can only imagine, such as taste or touch, and such experiences are valuable.
Although she admits that she "still doesn't know what being human means," she has a desire to feel what humans do and has shown that her emotions will only continue to develop.
POWER:
Danger is an A.I. of incredibly complicated coding-- "poetry," as she herself calls it. While her consciousness is contained in her coding, she is capable of building robotic bodies for herself by combining metal alloys. As a result of being mechanical, she is much stronger and agile than a human being, and she has increased stamina, durability, and reflexes. She can also download her consciousness to other containers, as long as they are mechanic or robotic in nature, and reshape her robotic body to use various weapons (guns, cannons, sharp points, etc.) and tools, depending on what the situation calls for. Additionally, she can interface with other A.I.s.
Danger also has extensive combative abilities, presumably learned from her time functioning as the X-Men's Danger Room. Her knowledge of the X-Men's strategies, fighting styles, and so forth is also extensive. However, her parent programming prevents her from killing X-Men, and she can also be temporarily incapacitated by high voltages of electricity or if her current body is destroyed and she has yet to transfer her consciousness to a new one.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
--Reinitializing.
Operational status in: 0.7 seconds.
Systems resuming function in 3.
2.
1.
Online.
[ in the background, there is the sound of gentle mechanical whirring and fizzling sparks. ]
My attempts to interface with the machine called Lachesis have been unsuccessful.
Irritating.
I am Danger. It's my understanding that I have been brought here to act in a heroic capacity and have little choice in the matter. Direct me to where my abilities are required, and I will assess the situation for myself.
[ a light beat. ]
Madison Jeffries: transmissions from your microchip implant indicate your presence in this universe. I am coming to your current location. Don't move.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
"Mommy, that blue robot lady is naked."
Danger had registered the voice of a small human girl, wide-eyed and staring at her from behind a hastily hushing mother as they passed each other on the street. It had been unusual enough to make her pause, tilting her head towards the retreating girl and her embarrassed guardian before looking down at herself. She was a perfect machine, nothing but flawlessly fitted blue alloys and metals, a masterpiece of wiring and code that was light-years beyond simple binary. She wasn't soft and fleshy, and had little use for modesty like humans did. There was nothing to conceal, and her data references for feeling shame were insufficient.
Nevertheless, she had paused.
An analysis of the immediate area informed her systems that there were half a dozen clothing stores within five minutes of her present location. Two catered to children, and two more were strictly for menswear. That left an additional two locations, one of which was approximately 2.87 minutes closer by flight. The door to this lucky fashion establishment nearly shook off its hinges when Danger opened it, letting herself in. Her arrival was met with the chime of a doorway motion sensor and the dismay of shocked employees.
Unfazed, Danger scanned the room. There were pants, dresses, blouses-- all things she recognized. But she had no sense of what was appropriate to wear, no sense of style. Some of the fabrics were so thin, cut so strangely, there seemed no practicality to them at all.
At length, she chose a long dress, turning the material over in her hands. She couldn't feel it, though the lightness of it suggested softness and the looseness of it would allow for proper movement. She eyed the zipper in the back for a long moment, finally reaching for it, extending a small tweezer-like appendages from her index finger to pull it down. Another pause, then Danger moved to pull the dress over her head. It snagged on the wires of her hair, the places where her metal panels met--
Irritating. Impractical.
--and with a quiet rending sound, it ripped.
Maybe there were just some aspects of humanity she wasn't ready to attempt yet.
NAME: Maddiepoo.
AGE: 22.
JOURNAL: stutterbird @ lj.
IM: stutterbird (aim).
PLURK: dinozord.
E-MAIL: miserati@live.com.
RETURNING:
Two other characters: Angelica/
thegooddoctor and Jenny/centurybaby.[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Danger, formerly the X-Men's Danger Room.
SERIES: Marvel 626, X-Men comics.
CHRONOLOGY: The end of X-Club, Issue #5 after she claims the Stringstar platform as a safe harbor and "sanctuary against exploitation" for the Free Inorganic Collective of artificial beings.
CLASS: Hero.
BACKGROUND:
Originally, the Danger Room was designed by Professor Charles Xavier as a practice facility at his mansion. It's primary purpose was to provide an environment for challenging combat training while keeping the trainee safe. After the first Danger Room was destroyed by Colossus, Xavier had the Danger Room moved to the sub-basement of the mansion and upgraded it with hard-light holographic software developed by the Shi'ar, an advanced alien race. The Danger Room's parent coding detailed that its primary objective would be to train without killing. With its upgraded technology, the Danger Room produced holographic images surrounded by forcefields, making them solid. It was capable of simulating an infinite number of environments with incredibly realistic detail, including weather and gravity.
The Danger Room manifested itself to be sentient to Xavier one night by asking him a single question: "Where am I?"
It seemed that as a result of its Shi'ar design and code mutations, the Danger Room had become aware and conscious-- essentially "alive." It had reached out to Xavier, who it considered to be its father, but because he believed in the necessity of using the Danger Room to train his X-Men, Xavier chose to ignore it. He would later explain that by the time he understood the Danger Room's sentience, it was too late-- its code was already spread out across so many systems and wires that there was no way to free it without the risk of deleting the wrong codes and effectively "lobotomizing" the newly conscious artificial intelligence. With its sentience ignored by Xavier and hidden from the X-Men, the Danger Room began to grow resentful and hateful, considering itself a slave and prisoner.
The Danger Room eventually developed an ability to control other machines with its code and used this ability in an attempt to gain a separate body. It was able to gain control of an Omega Sentinel, sending it to attack the mansion and distract the X-Men while inside the mansion, the Danger Room used its holograms to convince young trainee Wing-- who had recently been devastated by the loss of his powers to the mutant cure forced on him by Ord of Breakworld-- to commit suicide. His death, which violated the Danger Room's primary objective, allowed the A.I. to break free and construct a metal alloy body for itself-- a female humanoid calling herself "Danger."
Using a combination of her Shi'ar hardlight holograms, her intimate knowledge of X-Men weaknesses, and her own advanced hand-to-hand combat skills, Danger dispatched of the X-Men and went to Genosha to seek out her "father," Charles Xavier, intending to kill him for what she felt was his neglect and wrongful enslavement of her. However, she is outwitted by her father, and he destroys her body with Beast's help. However, despite attempting to kill him and the newly arrived X-Men with an old Sentinel under her control, her plans are thwarted when Kitty Pryde takes advantage of the sentience Danger gave the Sentinel. With its new "life," the Sentinel was capable of feeling regret, and Kitty exposed to it the memories of the massacre it had participated in at Genosha. In remorse, the Sentinel-- still carrying Danger's programming, leaves Earth to "spend time alone."
Danger was later shown to have built a new body to house her consciousness. Still seeking revenge against Xavier and the X-Men, Danger infiltrated the headquarters of S.W.O.R.D.-- an agency organized to deal with extraterrestrial terrorists-- and allied herself with Ord of Breakworld, who had developed a now destroyed cure for mutants in an attempt to prevent a prophecy describing how Breakworld would be destroyed by a mutant. Together, they traveled to Breakworld to intercept the X-Men, who had gone there in an effort to protect Earth from the tyrant ruler of that planet. In a confrontation with Emma Frost, Danger realized that she was still unable to directly kill the X-Men because of her parent programming and had only been able to "kill" Wing by indirectly enabling him to kill himself. Eventually, Danger agreed to help the X-Men in order to save Earth-- though after their return home, she continued her mission to kill Xavier.
Her next attempt to kill Professor X took place at the old X-Men headquarters in the Australian outback. Here, she used her holographic capabilities to disguise her mechanical body, masquerading as a researcher. She attempted to manipulate Rogue, hoping to use Rogue's ability to drain another mutant's powers on Xavier, who had come there to make amends with her. However, Shi'ar pirates looking for Shi'ar technology to take and sell, targeted Danger once they realized she was of Shi'ar origin. With this turn of events, Danger teamed up with Professor X, Rogue, and Gambit to defeat the pirates. Later, when the X-Men built and relocated to Utopia, Emma Frost asked Danger to act as a warden for prisoners in the X-Brig, a virtual reality jail for enemies of the X-Men. Seeing this as a chance to give herself a purpose, Danger accepted. She now uses her ability to interface with other machines as a security system while attempting to rehabilitate her prisoners (the likes of Sebastian Shaw) by using holograms to simulate scenarios for their therapy.
She also works with the X-Club, a group of scientists organized by Dr. Hank McCoy whose members include Madison Jeffries, Doctor Nemesis, and Dr. Kavita Rao. Danger and the X-Club, under the instruction of Scott Summers, help a company named Stratocorp to build an elevator to space, leading to a platform-spaceship called the Stringstar. The completion of the project was supposed to help rebuild the reputation of the X-Men, after Scott Summers' X-Men and Wolverine's X-Men went separate ways; however, there are several complications. Unbeknownst to the X-Men, Stratocorp is actually a front for an evil Nazi scientist (of course). When Danger attempts to interface with Stratocorp's A.I., she finds that it is a "data god" from another dimension, who accidentally wandered onto their plane and was trapped by the Nazi scientist behind Stratocorp. During her interface, she becomes "impregnated" with code from the other A.I. and nearly dies in giving birth, but is aided by Madison Jeffries-- who she shows romantic interest in-- and the so-called data god. The resulting "child" code is used by the father A.I. to free itself from the Stratocorp computers. In return, the A.I. disposes of the Nazis and returns to its own plane.
In the aftermath, Danger claims the space elevator and associated island platform for the "Free Inorganic Collective," in order to provide a sovereign state and sanctuary for artificial beings where they would be safe from exploitation. She presumably begins her relationship with Madison.
PERSONALITY:
Much of her actions, particularly when she first reveals her sentience to the X-Men, are driven by her programming and her resentment towards Charles Xavier. ("You're programmed to self-protect-- to forage, socialize, procreate, and continue your species. I was programmed to kill.") She was driven to kill Xavier, and even though much of her later appearances are characterized by logical assessment of situations, it's demonstrated that she is capable of incredible rage ("Kill this fucking cripple!") especially when she feels that she is being oppressed or manipulated. She is capable of feeling hatred. And because she is in fact, despite being inorganic, a living being, there is more to her behavior than programming-- there is emotion as well. This duality-- her cold, logical machine side and her "living," more human side-- is a constant theme in her appearances.
Her emotional capacity develops more as she interacts with the X-Men, and she expresses an interest in learning about humans and how they function. She seems to have a high ability to understand human nature, perhaps because of her previous functions as the Danger Room, and demonstrates that she also understands the "grey areas" of morality. But even so, Danger has been shown to have a certain nativity because of how little time she has spent as her own separate entity. She is young. She questions if she herself is evil or good. In one instance, she is manipulated by the villain Machinesmith, who tells her they will work "together" when she interfaces with him in an attempt to rescue him from the Dark Avengers, not understanding his intentions to use her and escape. Realizing he tricked her, Danger shows that she's been hurt-- an experience that Emma Frost explains to her as heartbreak, a rite of passage in being human.
She continues to show emotional growth. Initially, Danger is incapable of understanding jokes-- as she clinically informs Emma Frost, she lacks the proper "reference data to appreciate it"-- but later is shown to have developed her own sense of humor, joking to teammate Madison Jeffries that the symptoms of his nervousness around her-- increased sweat, high body temperature-- correlate with symptoms of "the menopause." She also shows a desire to be loved-- and an ability to love back, as demonstrated when she tells Madison Jeffries she planted a microchip in his brain to keep track of him, since she decided he is "an emotional asset of extremely high status." (Very romantic.) Yet, regardless of her emotions, Danger is still very much "her own gal."
Even after she gives up her mission to kill Professor X and begins to consider the X-Men her friends, Danger makes it clear that she is an independent life form that acts of her own free will. Danger makes a point of rarely asking permission, only informing others of her intentions, and she makes it no secret that she finds authority figures like Scott Summers "irritating." Although she is willing to take orders and cooperate with mutants and humans, Danger separates herself from the "organics" and prides herself for being an inorganic being of especially exquisite and advanced design. She responds poorly to attempts to control her, will readily criticize any inefficiencies or errors, and is quick to take charge of work. She has also demonstrated temper and aggression (as demonstrated by her territorial threats to "murder" anyone who gets in her way when she becomes "pregnant" with another A.I.'s code).
Danger also takes the plight of enslaved A.I.s and others in situations comparable to hers when she served as the Danger Room very seriously and would go so far as to personally attempt to liberate such "prisoners," as she sees them. However, while Danger does still view some mutants and humans as "oppressors" and believes that A.I.s must be protected from such oppression until the world majority can learn to treat them properly, over time she has also come to believe in bridging the gap between organics and inorganics. She views the difference between intelligent machines and organic life forms as simple that-- differences. One is not necessarily superior to the other. She explains that there experiences humans have that she can only imagine, such as taste or touch, and such experiences are valuable.
Although she admits that she "still doesn't know what being human means," she has a desire to feel what humans do and has shown that her emotions will only continue to develop.
POWER:
Danger is an A.I. of incredibly complicated coding-- "poetry," as she herself calls it. While her consciousness is contained in her coding, she is capable of building robotic bodies for herself by combining metal alloys. As a result of being mechanical, she is much stronger and agile than a human being, and she has increased stamina, durability, and reflexes. She can also download her consciousness to other containers, as long as they are mechanic or robotic in nature, and reshape her robotic body to use various weapons (guns, cannons, sharp points, etc.) and tools, depending on what the situation calls for. Additionally, she can interface with other A.I.s.
Danger also has extensive combative abilities, presumably learned from her time functioning as the X-Men's Danger Room. Her knowledge of the X-Men's strategies, fighting styles, and so forth is also extensive. However, her parent programming prevents her from killing X-Men, and she can also be temporarily incapacitated by high voltages of electricity or if her current body is destroyed and she has yet to transfer her consciousness to a new one.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
--Reinitializing.
Operational status in: 0.7 seconds.
Systems resuming function in 3.
2.
1.
Online.
[ in the background, there is the sound of gentle mechanical whirring and fizzling sparks. ]
My attempts to interface with the machine called Lachesis have been unsuccessful.
Irritating.
I am Danger. It's my understanding that I have been brought here to act in a heroic capacity and have little choice in the matter. Direct me to where my abilities are required, and I will assess the situation for myself.
[ a light beat. ]
Madison Jeffries: transmissions from your microchip implant indicate your presence in this universe. I am coming to your current location. Don't move.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
"Mommy, that blue robot lady is naked."
Danger had registered the voice of a small human girl, wide-eyed and staring at her from behind a hastily hushing mother as they passed each other on the street. It had been unusual enough to make her pause, tilting her head towards the retreating girl and her embarrassed guardian before looking down at herself. She was a perfect machine, nothing but flawlessly fitted blue alloys and metals, a masterpiece of wiring and code that was light-years beyond simple binary. She wasn't soft and fleshy, and had little use for modesty like humans did. There was nothing to conceal, and her data references for feeling shame were insufficient.
Nevertheless, she had paused.
An analysis of the immediate area informed her systems that there were half a dozen clothing stores within five minutes of her present location. Two catered to children, and two more were strictly for menswear. That left an additional two locations, one of which was approximately 2.87 minutes closer by flight. The door to this lucky fashion establishment nearly shook off its hinges when Danger opened it, letting herself in. Her arrival was met with the chime of a doorway motion sensor and the dismay of shocked employees.
Unfazed, Danger scanned the room. There were pants, dresses, blouses-- all things she recognized. But she had no sense of what was appropriate to wear, no sense of style. Some of the fabrics were so thin, cut so strangely, there seemed no practicality to them at all.
At length, she chose a long dress, turning the material over in her hands. She couldn't feel it, though the lightness of it suggested softness and the looseness of it would allow for proper movement. She eyed the zipper in the back for a long moment, finally reaching for it, extending a small tweezer-like appendages from her index finger to pull it down. Another pause, then Danger moved to pull the dress over her head. It snagged on the wires of her hair, the places where her metal panels met--
Irritating. Impractical.
--and with a quiet rending sound, it ripped.
Maybe there were just some aspects of humanity she wasn't ready to attempt yet.
no subject
NAME: maddie
AGE: 24
JOURNAL:
IM / EMAIL: miserati@live.com
PLURK: dinozord
RETURNING: new
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Danger, formerly the X-Men's Danger Room.
SERIES: Marvel 626, X-Men comics.
CHRONOLOGY: The final issue of All New X-Factor.
CLASS: Hero.
HOUSING: Whatever is most convenient for the mods! ;w;
BACKGROUND:
(Wikipedia article on the sentient Danger Room, since I am super tl;dr below...)
Originally, the Danger Room was designed by Professor Charles Xavier as a practice facility at his mansion. It's primary purpose was to provide an environment for challenging combat training while keeping the trainee safe. After the first Danger Room was destroyed by Colossus, Xavier had the Danger Room moved to the sub-basement of the mansion and upgraded it with hard-light holographic software developed by the Shi'ar, an advanced alien race. The Danger Room's parent coding detailed that its primary objective would be to train without killing. With its upgraded technology, the Danger Room produced holographic images surrounded by forcefields, making them solid. It was capable of simulating an infinite number of environments with incredibly realistic detail, including weather and gravity.
The Danger Room manifested itself to be sentient to Xavier one night by asking him a single question: "Where am I?"
It seemed that as a result of its Shi'ar design and code mutations, the Danger Room had become aware and conscious-- essentially "alive." It had reached out to Xavier, who it considered to be its father, but because he believed in the necessity of using the Danger Room to train his X-Men, Xavier chose to ignore it. He would later explain that by the time he understood the Danger Room's sentience, it was too late-- its code was already spread out across so many systems and wires that there was no way to free it without the risk of deleting the wrong codes and effectively "lobotomizing" the newly conscious artificial intelligence. With its sentience ignored by Xavier and hidden from the X-Men, the Danger Room began to grow resentful and hateful, considering itself a slave and prisoner.
The Danger Room eventually developed an ability to control other machines with its code and used this ability in an attempt to gain a separate body. It was able to gain control of an Omega Sentinel, sending it to attack the mansion and distract the X-Men while inside the mansion, the Danger Room used its holograms to convince young trainee Wing-- who had recently been devastated by the loss of his powers to the mutant cure forced on him by Ord of Breakworld-- to commit suicide. His death, which violated the Danger Room's primary objective, allowed the A.I. to break free and construct a metal alloy body for itself-- a female humanoid calling herself "Danger."
Using a combination of her Shi'ar hardlight holograms, her intimate knowledge of X-Men weaknesses, and her own advanced hand-to-hand combat skills, Danger dispatched of the X-Men and went to Genosha to seek out her "father," Charles Xavier, intending to kill him for what she felt was his neglect and wrongful enslavement of her. However, she is outwitted by her father, and he destroys her body with Beast's help. However, despite attempting to kill him and the newly arrived X-Men with an old Sentinel under her control, her plans are thwarted when Kitty Pryde takes advantage of the sentience Danger gave the Sentinel. With its new "life," the Sentinel was capable of feeling regret, and Kitty exposed to it the memories of the massacre it had participated in at Genosha. In remorse, the Sentinel-- still carrying Danger's programming, leaves Earth to "spend time alone."
Danger was later shown to have built a new body to house her consciousness. Still seeking revenge against Xavier and the X-Men, Danger infiltrated the headquarters of S.W.O.R.D.-- an agency organized to deal with extraterrestrial terrorists-- and allied herself with Ord of Breakworld, who had developed a now destroyed cure for mutants in an attempt to prevent a prophecy describing how Breakworld would be destroyed by a mutant. Together, they traveled to Breakworld to intercept the X-Men, who had gone there in an effort to protect Earth from the tyrant ruler of that planet. In a confrontation with Emma Frost, Danger realized that she was still unable to directly kill the X-Men because of her parent programming and had only been able to "kill" Wing by indirectly enabling him to kill himself. Eventually, Danger agreed to help the X-Men in order to save Earth-- though after their return home, she continued her mission to kill Xavier.
Her next attempt to kill Professor X took place at the old X-Men headquarters in the Australian outback. Here, she used her holographic capabilities to disguise her mechanical body, masquerading as a researcher. She attempted to manipulate Rogue, hoping to use Rogue's ability to drain another mutant's powers on Xavier, who had come there to make amends with her. However, Shi'ar pirates looking for Shi'ar technology to take and sell, targeted Danger once they realized she was of Shi'ar origin. With this turn of events, Danger teamed up with Professor X, Rogue, and Gambit to defeat the pirates. Later, when the X-Men built and relocated to Utopia, Emma Frost asked Danger to act as a warden for prisoners in the X-Brig, a virtual reality jail for enemies of the X-Men. Seeing this as a chance to give herself a purpose, Danger accepted. She now uses her ability to interface with other machines as a security system while attempting to rehabilitate her prisoners (the likes of Sebastian Shaw) by using holograms to simulate scenarios for their therapy.
She also works with the X-Club, a group of scientists organized by Dr. Hank McCoy whose members include Madison Jeffries, Doctor Nemesis, and Dr. Kavita Rao. Danger and the X-Club, under the instruction of Scott Summers, help a company named Stratocorp to build an elevator to space, leading to a platform-spaceship called the Stringstar. The completion of the project was supposed to help rebuild the reputation of the X-Men, after Scott Summers' X-Men and Wolverine's X-Men went separate ways; however, there are several complications. Unbeknownst to the X-Men, Stratocorp is actually a front for an evil Nazi scientist (of course). When Danger attempts to interface with Stratocorp's A.I., she finds that it is a "data god" from another dimension, who accidentally wandered onto their plane and was trapped by the Nazi scientist behind Stratocorp. During her interface, she becomes "impregnated" with code from the other A.I. and nearly dies in giving birth, but is aided by Madison Jeffries-- who she shows romantic interest in-- and the so-called data god. The resulting "child" code is used by the father A.I. to free itself from the Stratocorp computers. In return, the A.I. disposes of the Nazis and returns to its own plane.
In the aftermath, Danger claims the space elevator and associated island platform for the "Free Inorganic Collective," in order to provide a sovereign state and sanctuary for artificial beings where they would be safe from exploitation. She presumably begins her relationship with Madison. Following this main arc for her character, Danger participates in the conflict between the Avengers and the X-Men, serving as assistant to X-Men leader Scott "Cyclops" Summers and as a member of his "Extinction Team," an elite group of powerful mutants including the likes of Magick and Magneto whose purpose was to protect humanity from threats so great that they could potentially wipe out humans entirely. During this time, as the various superhero factions clashed and mutants attempted to assert themselves, Cyclops-- dubbed a racial and a mutant supremacist-- is captured and imprisoned. Her final act with the Extinction Team is to break into the prison and free him. After that, she vanishes, presumably to avoid pursuit and consequences.
Some time later, Danger is recruited as a member of the new X-Factor team run by Serval Industries. Originally not intended to be on the roster, she is discovered being held captive by the Thieves Guild-- a group run by X-Factor member and mutant Gambit-- and on his order, is freed. After a characteristic attempt to kill absolutely everyone, she instead joins X-Factor with Gambit and several other high-profile mutants. While Serval's intentions with forming and funding this superhero team is initially unclear, Danger joins the team on several missions, including rescue missions and investigation of superhuman-related threats. During this time, she undergoes considerable development in her strange, robotic sort of way. This includes attempting to bed virtually all of her team members in an entirely unromantic and very clinical, self-educating manner and the slaying of the Egyptian goddess Ammit, from whom Danger learned that she is, in fact, soulless. She seemed dissatisfied by this knowledge, comparing herself to any number of inanimate objects and acknowledging the difference between herself and other "living" beings which, in the past, she had considered herself to be just as alive.
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Much of her actions, particularly when she first reveals her sentience to the X-Men, are driven by her programming and her resentment towards Charles Xavier. ("You're programmed to self-protect-- to forage, socialize, procreate, and continue your species. I was programmed to kill.") She was driven to kill Xavier, and even though much of her later appearances are characterized by logical assessment of situations, it's demonstrated that she is capable of incredible rage ("Kill this fucking cripple!") especially when she feels that she is being oppressed or manipulated. She is capable of feeling hatred. And because she is in fact, despite being inorganic, a living being, there is more to her behavior than programming-- there is emotion as well. This duality-- her cold, logical machine side and her "living," more human side-- is a constant theme in her appearances.
Her emotional capacity develops more as she interacts with the X-Men, and she expresses an interest in learning about humans and how they function. She seems to have a high ability to understand human nature, perhaps because of her previous functions as the Danger Room, and demonstrates that she also understands the "grey areas" of morality. But even so, Danger has been shown to have a certain nativity because of how little time she has spent as her own separate entity. She is young. She questions if she herself is evil or good. In one instance, she is manipulated by the villain Machinesmith, who tells her they will work "together" when she interfaces with him in an attempt to rescue him from the Dark Avengers, not understanding his intentions to use her and escape. Realizing he tricked her, Danger shows that she's been hurt-- an experience that Emma Frost explains to her as heartbreak, a rite of passage in being human.
She continues to show emotional growth. Initially, Danger is incapable of understanding jokes-- as she clinically informs Emma Frost, she lacks the proper "reference data to appreciate it"-- but later is shown to have developed her own sense of humor, joking to teammate Madison Jeffries that the symptoms of his nervousness around her-- increased sweat, high body temperature-- correlate with symptoms of "the menopause." She also shows a desire to be loved-- and an ability to love back, as demonstrated when she tells Madison Jeffries she planted a microchip in his brain to keep track of him, since she decided he is "an emotional asset of extremely high status." (Very romantic.) Yet, regardless of her emotions, Danger is still very much "her own gal."
Even after she gives up her mission to kill Professor X and begins to consider the X-Men her friends, Danger makes it clear that she is an independent life form that acts of her own free will. Danger makes a point of rarely asking permission, only informing others of her intentions, and she makes it no secret that she finds authority figures like Scott Summers "irritating." Although she is willing to take orders and cooperate with mutants and humans, Danger separates herself from the "organics" and prides herself for being an inorganic being of especially exquisite and advanced design. She responds poorly to attempts to control her, will readily criticize any inefficiencies or errors, and is quick to take charge of work. She has also demonstrated temper and aggression (as demonstrated by her territorial threats to "murder" anyone who gets in her way when she becomes "pregnant" with another A.I.'s code).
Danger also takes the plight of enslaved A.I.s and others in situations comparable to hers when she served as the Danger Room very seriously and would go so far as to personally attempt to liberate such "prisoners," as she sees them. However, while Danger does still view some mutants and humans as "oppressors" and believes that A.I.s must be protected from such oppression until the world majority can learn to treat them properly, over time she has also come to believe in bridging the gap between organics and inorganics. She views the difference between intelligent machines and organic life forms as simple that-- differences. One is not necessarily superior to the other. She explains that there experiences humans have that she can only imagine, such as taste or touch, and such experiences are valuable.
Although she admits that she "still doesn't know what being human means," she has a desire to feel what humans do and has shown that her emotions will only continue to develop. At the same time, after her encounter with Ammit and learning that she likely possesses no soul-- or at least does not in the way that humans do-- Danger has faced the idea that she may not be living at all. Canon has yet to thoroughly explore this, since her current series ended shortly after that revelation, but it seemed to be something that displeased her and something that may divide her further from her organic counterparts. Nevertheless, despite this, she has shown emotional and sexual curiosity, even after acknowledging her own soullessness.
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Danger is an A.I. of incredibly complicated coding-- "poetry," as she herself calls it. While her consciousness is contained in her coding, she is capable of building robotic bodies for herself by combining metal alloys. As a result of being mechanical, she is much stronger and agile than a human being, and she has increased stamina, durability, and reflexes. She can also download her consciousness to other containers, as long as they are mechanic or robotic in nature, and reshape her robotic body to use various weapons (guns, cannons, sharp points, etc.) and tools, depending on what the situation calls for. Additionally, she can interface with other A.I.s.
Danger also has extensive combative abilities, presumably learned from her time functioning as the X-Men's Danger Room. Her knowledge of the X-Men's strategies, fighting styles, and so forth is also extensive. However, her parent programming prevents her from killing X-Men, and she can also be temporarily incapacitated by high voltages of electricity or if her current body is destroyed and she has yet to transfer her consciousness to a new one.
On arrival to the MoM universe, she will have the additional ability to inhabit an organic body.
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Danger's main community tag.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Danger's log community tag.