forum "And it became Human, in most ways that mattered." // OxO // OPEN

Started August 10, 2019 by @ElderGod-Icefire

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Alexi Shokov created the first real automatons. Robots. AIs. He was the pioneer of the industry, creating 25 different versions. He created the Abels, handymen who could do nearly anything. He created the Bravos, bodyguard models. Charlies and Deltas, and Kirins, military grade war machines. They all looked the same. Male models had either dark hair, or a bland blond color, and a fit looking body. Females have longer hair and a fit, feminine body. All have the same lifeless dark eyes. They have two basic rules: they cannot harm their owner, and they cannot harm Alexi.

Then Alexi announced he was going to stop with the model Yamaha, a musical model. There would be no "Z". Well, what if that wasn't true?

Zev. Model Z of Shokov's robots. The first to have true AI. The first to have, maybe, the beginnings of a soul. The ability to become human. But the public doesn't know of him. Has no idea he exists. He is the only one, and he has been drifting in space, alone, for years. Marooned in an accident, he has no idea if Alexi Shokov is alive or dead, or what state the world is in. You see, there was a war going on between the seven colonized planets. Four against three. The Shokov robots were being used on both sides. Alexi's ship was shot at, and while the human crew was able to get away, Zev was left behind in the destroyed hulk of a ship. He can't leave, and he wonders how long he will drift in space. Then one day, a human pilot crashes their ship into his, and they must work together to get away, while he tries to hide everything going on about him. Free thought and ideas such as he has, are very frowned upon.
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The war hasn't ended. It has gone on for years, as the robots are produced endlessly. There are humans fighting robots, robots fighting humans. Devastation and carnage everywhere. That is the world your character has grown up in.
The planets are: Earth, Corinth, Vair, Solail, Grinter, Horath, and Reyn. Earth is Earth. Corinth was the first one civilized/colonized, and is very similar to Earth. Vair is primarily a mining world. Solail is a science and engineering works. Grinter is agriculture. Horath is a lawless place, and the main center of the underworld and illegal activities. As such, it doesn't take a huge part in the war, but is counted among the four. Reyn is a "paradise", that only the rich can currently afford to live on.
The alliances:
The four:
Earth, Corinth, Reyn, and Horath
The three:
Vair, Solail, Grinter.

Rules:

• All of andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer)'s rules apply
• Be active!! Please!
• Descriptive! I forgive spelling and grammar mistakes easily, but I really need a descriptive partner. Also, replies should be at least three to four sentences.
• Be okay with possibly dark themes, please
• This will be a romantic, possibly angsty RP, with probable violence

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Name: Zev (no last name, but if asked for one, would say Shokov)
Nicknames: N/A
Gender: Male
Sexuality: unknown
Age: unknown. appears to be between 20 and 23
Looks: Zev is tall, with a fit body. He is white, his skin engineered to have a slight tan. He has caramel brown hair, that is a touch on the long side, and has been all his life. Unlike other robots, his eyes are a bright, brilliant blue, and seem almost to have a spark of life/real intelligence in them, instead of the soulless black of normal robots. He has one marking on the right side of his chest, over where his heart should be, that says "Shokov model Zev". Other than that, the only mark on his body is a small seam on his palm from when he was sealed up after a repair.
Personality: Zev doesn't quite have much of a personality yet, as he is still slowly discovering that he is more than a normal robot. He is gentle, and has all the programming of the other 25, plus some specific to him.
Backstory: Zev doesn't know when he was created. His first memories are from when his brain was first hauled up from where it was created, and Shokov saying "beautiful". Then he remembers nothing until the day he was first turned on. Parts of his backstory will be revealed as we go. How he came to be in space was related earlier.
Likes: unknown. He enjoys music. He also enjoys anything illogical, simply because it makes his brain feel strange.
Dislikes: cramped spaces. His programming being the opposite of what he wants.
Other:

( @gracehustle okay! Take your time!
@Sweet+Spicy_is_back , thank you! haha I based it on a book I read. I forget the title but it was by Claudia Grey and it was AMAZING xD)

(Here she is! :D I've wanted to use her in a rp for forever and I think this is the right fit for her. Sorry for the long description of her appearance and personality, she's my newest and most fleshed out character in quite a while)

Name: Thesa Veritias
Nicknames: thief (backstory will explain)
Gender: female
Sexuality: Pan
Age: 20
Looks: Thesa has ashy blonde/brown hair cut short (stereotypical lesbian haircut if that makes sense?) there's a shorter shaved stripe on her left side of her hair. Fierce hazel eyes set in a heart shaped face along with a nose that has clearly been broken a few times. Not a very curvy body shape, she's mostly muscle and bone with a small chest and hips that make her seem like a teenage boy with her average height. There are hundreds of tiny scars over her legs and arms from shards of metal and Thesa has a very very obvious farmers tan from cutoff shirts. There's a birthmark on her upper thigh in roughly the shape of a tiny wrench and she tries to hide out since it's quite dark against her tan but still pale skin.
Personality (sorry they're all so long): Sarcastic and clearly used to dealing with pushy people, she almost has a serious air about her and you wouldn't want to mess with her if you didn't know her. She's not the greatest at showing affection and has a tendendency to come off rude. Thesa really cares deeply for people she knows but it's a tough love that isn't very visible. Not afraid to punch a guy or steal his money if he tries anything with her without her permission.
Backstory: She grew up on Grinter and never knew her mother. She inherited her dads same tough love that he was known for. Her twin brother (Sanx) and little sister (Calis) along with herself all grew up on a small farm until the war affected them too much and her brother and dad went off to fight. Calis passed away from an illness and Thesa eventually ran away from the farm to survive. That's when she earned her title of thief, from stealing food to survive along with parts for her own ship. She got off the planet after several years and started up her own small smuggling business where she works for no one. Thesa has no clue if her brother or father are even alive and she listens for any news of them while she works.
Likes: she loves engineering but never got the chance to do anything with it, she also likes knowing what's going on and earning money
Dislikes: bitter or spicy foods, silence, having to choose a side.
Other: she doesn't care if people want to hitch a ride on her ship or want to ship things, as long as they can pay she's fine.

(alright! Im assuming we're starting right before she crashes into his ship)

Zev floated through the ship, pushing off the walls. He had memorized the layout by now; knee every inch of it by heart. The parts that weren't destroyed, anyway. During the thirty years he had been here, he had figured out how to seal up the damaged sections, so that if a human were ever aboard again, they wouldn't be killed. With the right sort of programming, the damaged portions could even come off, and the ship would still look fine. The main cabin, the cockpit, was still in one piece. It required a human bioprint, any human bioprint, to enter, and Zev knew quite well that he wasn't human.

He sighed softly. He had turned off the life support and gravity a long time ago; he didn't need it, and it made no sense to waste what was left of the battery power.

Everything was going good. Thesa smiled as she relaxed back in her chair and thought of what she would do with her new money as she went back towards her next delivery she was supposed to pick up. The flashing light of alarm didn't even make her worried until the shape of another ship was right outside the window. Her whole body and ship shook as her ship collided with another, crashing into the side and causing a gaping hole in both the other ship and her own. She cursed and scrambled out of the cockpit before they crashed, knowing she wouldn't be able to stop it and decided to not be sucked into space instead.

Zev's head shot up as the proximity alarm went off for the first time, the klaxon wail sounding through the whole ship. Seconds later, he felt the ship shudder and groan as it collided with another. He raced to the nearest computer terminal, and turned on the gravity and life support, in case the other ship contained humans. His feet thumped down on the floor as the gravity flicked on, the engines humming to life for the first time in years. He ran down to where the collision had happened.

Thesa slammed the lock on the door closed and braced herself, glancing through the tiny window at the hole now in the other ship and the very dented and broken part of hers. She cursed and smacked her hand against the wall. It could take weeks before she could fix her ship, and she didn't have the food to last weeks while she worked and got back towards an actual planet. She ran a hand through her hair and stormed down the short hallway of her ship until she got to her main living and storage area, glaring at her robot-dubbed stabby- as if it had caused them to crash.

(yuussss Stabby! i hope you were actually making a reference to the Tumblr thing, otherwise this is embarrassing XD)

Zev opened the hatch into the damaged area, the ship creaking and groaning in protest. He walked through the damaged area towards the other ship, looking at it curiously. It was a make and model that was not in his database. Understandably so, as he hadn't been able to access anything but the ships own records for thirty years. He had long ago read everything there was in it. He was quiet, looking at the other ship for a long monent.
(Also I'm assuming the two ships sre stuck together?)