River Automaton (Virtue)
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| The Radiant River Automaton | |
| Player: @Dyne | |
| Quote: |
You're all wet, $target! |
| Alignment: |
Hero |
| Origin: |
Glitchery |
| Archetype: |
Defender |
| Level: |
29 |
| Super Group: | |
| Created: |
Before 2006-06-24 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: |
River Automaton |
| Known Aliases: |
Esmé |
| Species: |
Autonomous Nanofluid |
| Date of Birth: |
2005-01-21 |
| Eye Color: |
Blue |
| Hair Color: |
Red |
| Marital Status: |
Single |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: |
American? |
| Place of Birth: |
Nebula City, Thaumadyne's World |
| Base of Operations: |
Geminate Park |
| Occupation: |
Body of water |
| Allies: | |
| Foes: |
Kolizhav, skinny dippers |
| Powers Data | |
| Known Abilities: |
Being wet, making things wet, freezing things |
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Contents
Overview
River Automaton is a Cold Domination/Ice Blast hero from the Freedom server, played by @Dyne. He is an autonomous nanofluid that inhabits the small river running through Geminate Park in Nebula City, Paragon (the Thaumadyne's World analogue of Geminate Park in Galaxy City).
Biography
Bootstrap
In the days between the first Iktir invasion and Paragon having rebuilt sufficiently for Supergroup bases to be common (i.e. they weren't in the game yet), the northern bank of the Geminate Park river nearest Nebula City's eastern Warding Wall became known as The Spot. Due to a major network junction in the vicinity, it was the primary meeting place of the early Databound Recursion, a supergroup composed entirely of Glitchcrafters and Glitchery-touched heroes.
On January 21, 2005, all present were startled when they registered a connection to their communications net ... from the nearby frozen river, which proceeded to thaw, churn, and glow. A small male figure rose out of the water, took on color and definition, and then began to speak. The icy river had bootstrapped itself to sentient intelligence.
This was a side-effect of a situation where environmental nanobots in the water had been slowly mixing with and adapting to numerous designs of other nanobots leaking from the large number of inventors, gadgeteers, metal humans, cellular and maco automata, network daemons, artifical superbrains, electronic ghosts, and other Glitchcraft-infused beings that were constantly logging in around the Spot. The strong electromagnetic imprints of the digital cognizance patterns of the nearby artificial sapients and the data flowing through the nearby junction supplied the final ingredient -- because the water was frozen, the nanobots were unable to physically rearrange themselves to align with these energies, so the pattern was imposed upon their very molecules instead.
Friends and Foes
Given the slightest opportunity, River will rant on the topic of skinny dippers ("Rude! I'm not that kind of river!"), Kolizhav ("Yuck!"), or worst of all ... the dread Skinny Dipping Kolizhav.
Initially cross at the Datas for disturbing his slumber, he became much more friendly when he realized that Kolizhav didn't stand a chance with so many heroes constantly on guard. The skinny dippers weren't nearly as common either (though super-powered people often means super-powered libidos, so it was kind of a trade-off).
River eventually met and befriended Adam Acacia, a synthdaemon possessing dubious virtue and intelligence (but a cheerful disposition), who was born in ParagonNet's garbage sector of Country Music (ParagonNet has a lot of garbage sectors, Jack). They became fast friends when they helped form Kinetics Nullification, a methodical group of heroes with slowness inducing powers.
Paragon Chat and Issue 21
In the context of Paragon Chat (which I treat as multiple versions of Paragon City smooshed together), River comes from the same dimension as Thaumadyne, known as Thaumadyne's World. In their world, Issue 21: Convergence did not bring the destruction of Nebula City. Instead, that fate befell Atlantis Park.
Personality
As one might expect from a sentient feature of the landscape, River has a rather strange worldview, and has been known to make many surreal statements and non-sequiturs. He does possess memories predating his awakening, but they are vague and unreliable -- both because his intelligence routines hadn't reached the Nth iteration necessary for sapience, and because things like "people" and "cities" are much more ephemeral when the nanobots forming your being are diffused throughout an entire river.
Because he is a fan of the arcane entertainments of Jessie Whedon -- such as Lampyridae and Superuser -- River also answers to the name "Esmé". Many people have therefore insisted that, logically, Geminate Park must contain "The Esmé River". He privately finds this idea a bit dubious, but doesn't really care which name the city puts on their maps. He is River and also Esmé, and that's the end of that.
Physical Characteristics
River is a boy literally made of nanobot-infused water ... or he is a digital intelligence inhabiting some nanobots ... or he's a nanobot swarm dreaming he's a river dreaming he's a boy ... or something?
The rules are just as fluid as he is.
More details to come.
In-game Description
Notes
- — This section pertains to out-of-game information and is included for the benefit of the reader, or to include other OOC information.
