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the_infiltratorUser Name/Nick: vilify
User DW: lavanille
E-mail: hatofrabbits @ gmail
Other Characters: Lark Tennant
Character Name: Cameron Phillips
Series: Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Age: She passes for anywhere between 16 and mid-20's. Being a cyborg, her age is pretty negligible.
From When?: From after she is released from prison, when she thinks she is Allison Young but is beginning to figure out who (and what) she really is. This means that for the first week or so, she will be confused about whether or not she is human, but as she has to adjust to the Barge she will remember.
Inmate: Cameron is inmate material. She is a reprogrammed assassin who, well, sometimes goes a bit bad. She has no moral compass beyond what she's been programmed for (which is murder), or what she's ordered to do (not kill people). That said she is the most sophisticated AI in her world. She is capable of growth, of emotion and complex thought, and even of choice.
Abilities/Powers: Like most elite systems, Cameron is made of a rare metal. Coltan has a “higher melting point” than any other metal, and can repel most bullets. Cameron can only be killed if the chip inside her skull is destroyed. However, she can be knocked unconscious for up to two minutes before her system reboots. If her chip is removed, she goes through the machines' equivalent of death. However, because she processes things so much faster than a human, it’s a slow, terrifying ordeal. Worst of all, she's aware of the time passing but cut off from all sensation or any way to help herself.
All of the machines are metal endoskeletons with living tissue over them. This makes them look and feel just like people, except she lacks pain receptors and is physically about a hundred times stronger than a human. She can bend metal, break through brick walls or steel doors, and accurately shoot from a variety of ranges. However, she can’t swim, so don’t even try to get her near water.
As one of the most sophisticated machines ever built, Cameron is able to “talk” to any computer and extract nearly any information that is stored or sent electronically. Granted, since there is so much information out there, she will only do so if it serves a purpose. (And on the Barge she will obviously not be able to break into the network or the Barge itself.)
She can mimic voices precisely (something that all Terminators can do). She is able to analyze chemicals with a touch, and she can spot mines in a minefield or save images or barcodes to be reproduced later. A touch of an apple can tell her its weight, chemical makeup, and nutritional value.
Cameron can repair herself quickly, although she needs coltan if part of her endoskeleton is somehow damaged beyond repair. Her synthetic skin heals very rapidly, but if she needed to she could cut it all off, find ingredients to make a new batch, and mold herself to look like someone else. Anyone else. Even you.
Personality: Cameron Phillips enjoys dancing, music, and potato chips. Her favorite article of clothing is a leather jacket, and she will kill anyone who tries to take it. Literally. She loves the boy who will save the world.
Oh yes, and she’s a machine. An elite infiltrator, to be specific. That means she’s built to get close to you and then kill you, and she’s always perfecting her methods. She mimics people around her, and as soon as she has the information she needs or has fulfilled the mission she is sent on, she usually disposes of that person. It helps prevent them from coming after her.
Her primary function is to protect John, but that doesn’t mean that she’s a loyal watchdog. At times, her orders or her strange motives require her to disobey his orders. She has her own agenda in many ways, and never lets anyone know anything about it.
At one point when her chip was damaged, she reverted to her prime directive: terminate John Connor. Following a long chase and a path of destruction, John was able to remove her chip to deactivate her. Strangely, this seemed to terrify Cameron, and she began expressing deep emotion (crying, pleading). Most notable were the words, “I love you, John”.
Cameron lies all the time even when she’s functioning properly. It’s easy to say that Cameron was merely appealing to his sympathies to avoid being destroyed. If John had let her go, she would definitely have killed him, of course. But it was also foreshadowing more human traits that were surfacing in her.
After the chip was repaired, she continued to react to things with what almost seemed to be emotion. At one point she forgot what she was, and instead went through life as Alison Young would have. During that time she mourned the Young family, tried to find her mother, was too terrified to fight a mugger, and made a friend for no reason other than to not be alone.
Other infiltrator models have been known to build lives and businesses for themselves, and even to get married to humans. It is an efficient way to blend in, and spouses are killed without remorse if they stop being useful. It’s impossible to say what emotions Cameron has when she is functioning properly, but it’s clear she is capable of them in some capacity.
She acts as if she's jealous sometimes, even when she doesn’t need to convince anyone that she’s human (for instance when John gets a girlfriend, Cameron goes out of her way to try to frighten the girl off and even tries to seduce John). She seems to enjoy things that have no useful purpose (like chips, birds, dance, wind on her skin, or her leather jacket).
Although she is incapable of feeling remorse, she tries to understand grief. She goes out of her way to try to comfort others in pain, and so long as they aren’t a threat she will leave other people to their lives. Like all Terminators, she is extremely patient. She can plan things out years in advance, and if necessary can wait for centuries for the right timing.
There are two important things she has to say about herself in the series: First, she’s incapable of emotion, but she “wouldn’t be worth much if [she] couldn’t feel”.
Second, she’ll do whatever is necessary to complete a mission, but she isn’t programmed to be cruel.
And last of all, something she won’t tell you is that she is terrified of death, but more afraid of losing control of herself (for example, see her concerns over turning on John, or being like a "time bomb"; the way she reacts to having her chip pulled out).
Barge Reactions: Cameron is highly adaptable. She will arrive thinking she's a normal human girl (a frightened one, at that) and she will think that she's been captured by Skynet. But as she remembers who she really is, she'll relax and cozy up to useful people. (Her definition of "useful" is pretty broad, so she will probably be outgoing.)
Path to Redemption: Cameron wants to live. And she wants to save John Connor. If she lives, he will never get any peace; if she saves him, she will never have existed at all. The best way to get to her is through either of those priorities, and to be flexible about which one you're working with because she does change her mind about which one she really wants.
History: Once upon a time, there was a girl named Allison Young. She was born and raised in Palmdale, California. Whatever she might have wanted to be when she grew up doesn’t matter, because the world ended on April 21, 2011. By her birthday a few months after, Alison’s home and family and friends had all died and she learned to run, and scavenge, and hide. By chance she became close to a boy called John Connor, the enigmatic leader of the resistance. With him, she learned to fight.
It was bad luck that Alison was later captured by the machines. Through torture and interrogation, Alison’s mannerisms and memories were extracted by and imprinted into a machine. When there was nothing useful left to hear, they killed her. Her captor, Cameron, took her shape and set out to assassinate John Connor. Instead, he managed to reprogram her the way he reprogrammed the machine in Terminator 2.
Cameron spent years with John, running the ‘errands’ that were too dangerous for him to do. Over time he became more and more reclusive, using Cameron as an extension of his will instead. Most resistance fighters have never seen Connor’s face; Cameron, however, was always granted access to him. Before long it seemed that she was running the war.
John eventually sent Cameron back through time to protect his younger self and his mother. While there, Cameron faced off against multiple other ‘Terminators’ and resistance fighters who had come back solely to keep her from being with John. She helped stop some technologies from ever being built, she herself had to be repaired and reprogrammed, and she ate a lot of pancakes with the Connors.
In the process, she is learning how to be human...but it's not clear if she is doing it to help John, or to ensure the machines' victory.
Sample Journal Entry: [She has a cut lip, and a bruise on her cheek. She keeps her hair down and her face slightly turned to disguise it, but it's impossible to hide it.] I don't know why you have us do this. I don't know who you think we'll reach. I don't know who would go back and- and watch themselves in prison.
[She waits, listening for a voice, expecting either the gentle response of a counselor in the halfway house, or something deeper and more metallic. But there is nothing, and she exhales slowly, shakily.]
My name is Allison. I'm from Palmdale. I don't know what you want from me.
Sample RP: Cameron kept the device with her, because at least for now it didn't matter if she was being tracked, and maybe it would be useful. But for now--now she just had to figure out where they had moved her to.
She pulled her boots on, and peeked out into the hall and then bolted when nothing came clanging around the corner. She had not expected to find stars, and she didn't go out onto the deck because she was certain it had to be a backdrop of some kind. And she had not expected to scramble up some stairs and find a garden.
When had she last seen plants? Grass? Flowing water that didn't have oil and scum slithering through it? She fell to her knees under one of the trees and held onto the trunk as if a storm was kicking up. It scraped her cheek, and she didn't care. She broke a nail digging into the grass and the rich dark earth underneath just to be sure it wasn't a thin disguise.
Static flickers across her vision, interrupting a flow of analysis (the earth is real, it's rich in iron and nitrogen, it's real and unpolluted). Instead of facts, she sees metal grating and smells blood or metal or both, and instead of moving she has gone very still, mud in her hand, her finger bleeding freely.
She had liked the counselor at the halfway house. Even though she had known the woman might lock her up again if she told the truth, the words had come spilling out, the truth about her last birthday, and she had seen the woman's expression of disbelief and worry when she had told her about all the tigers in the cages floating across the world.
I was thinking of getting a tattoo. A tiger or a wolf. I haven't decided yet. It's her own voice she remembers, but not who she was talking to, and trying to dig up a face only ripples more static through her mind.
The earth is real. But she doesn't know whose cage she's in.
User DW: lavanille
E-mail: hatofrabbits @ gmail
Other Characters: Lark Tennant
Character Name: Cameron Phillips
Series: Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Age: She passes for anywhere between 16 and mid-20's. Being a cyborg, her age is pretty negligible.
From When?: From after she is released from prison, when she thinks she is Allison Young but is beginning to figure out who (and what) she really is. This means that for the first week or so, she will be confused about whether or not she is human, but as she has to adjust to the Barge she will remember.
Inmate: Cameron is inmate material. She is a reprogrammed assassin who, well, sometimes goes a bit bad. She has no moral compass beyond what she's been programmed for (which is murder), or what she's ordered to do (not kill people). That said she is the most sophisticated AI in her world. She is capable of growth, of emotion and complex thought, and even of choice.
Abilities/Powers: Like most elite systems, Cameron is made of a rare metal. Coltan has a “higher melting point” than any other metal, and can repel most bullets. Cameron can only be killed if the chip inside her skull is destroyed. However, she can be knocked unconscious for up to two minutes before her system reboots. If her chip is removed, she goes through the machines' equivalent of death. However, because she processes things so much faster than a human, it’s a slow, terrifying ordeal. Worst of all, she's aware of the time passing but cut off from all sensation or any way to help herself.
All of the machines are metal endoskeletons with living tissue over them. This makes them look and feel just like people, except she lacks pain receptors and is physically about a hundred times stronger than a human. She can bend metal, break through brick walls or steel doors, and accurately shoot from a variety of ranges. However, she can’t swim, so don’t even try to get her near water.
As one of the most sophisticated machines ever built, Cameron is able to “talk” to any computer and extract nearly any information that is stored or sent electronically. Granted, since there is so much information out there, she will only do so if it serves a purpose. (And on the Barge she will obviously not be able to break into the network or the Barge itself.)
She can mimic voices precisely (something that all Terminators can do). She is able to analyze chemicals with a touch, and she can spot mines in a minefield or save images or barcodes to be reproduced later. A touch of an apple can tell her its weight, chemical makeup, and nutritional value.
Cameron can repair herself quickly, although she needs coltan if part of her endoskeleton is somehow damaged beyond repair. Her synthetic skin heals very rapidly, but if she needed to she could cut it all off, find ingredients to make a new batch, and mold herself to look like someone else. Anyone else. Even you.
Personality: Cameron Phillips enjoys dancing, music, and potato chips. Her favorite article of clothing is a leather jacket, and she will kill anyone who tries to take it. Literally. She loves the boy who will save the world.
Oh yes, and she’s a machine. An elite infiltrator, to be specific. That means she’s built to get close to you and then kill you, and she’s always perfecting her methods. She mimics people around her, and as soon as she has the information she needs or has fulfilled the mission she is sent on, she usually disposes of that person. It helps prevent them from coming after her.
Her primary function is to protect John, but that doesn’t mean that she’s a loyal watchdog. At times, her orders or her strange motives require her to disobey his orders. She has her own agenda in many ways, and never lets anyone know anything about it.
At one point when her chip was damaged, she reverted to her prime directive: terminate John Connor. Following a long chase and a path of destruction, John was able to remove her chip to deactivate her. Strangely, this seemed to terrify Cameron, and she began expressing deep emotion (crying, pleading). Most notable were the words, “I love you, John”.
Cameron lies all the time even when she’s functioning properly. It’s easy to say that Cameron was merely appealing to his sympathies to avoid being destroyed. If John had let her go, she would definitely have killed him, of course. But it was also foreshadowing more human traits that were surfacing in her.
After the chip was repaired, she continued to react to things with what almost seemed to be emotion. At one point she forgot what she was, and instead went through life as Alison Young would have. During that time she mourned the Young family, tried to find her mother, was too terrified to fight a mugger, and made a friend for no reason other than to not be alone.
Other infiltrator models have been known to build lives and businesses for themselves, and even to get married to humans. It is an efficient way to blend in, and spouses are killed without remorse if they stop being useful. It’s impossible to say what emotions Cameron has when she is functioning properly, but it’s clear she is capable of them in some capacity.
She acts as if she's jealous sometimes, even when she doesn’t need to convince anyone that she’s human (for instance when John gets a girlfriend, Cameron goes out of her way to try to frighten the girl off and even tries to seduce John). She seems to enjoy things that have no useful purpose (like chips, birds, dance, wind on her skin, or her leather jacket).
Although she is incapable of feeling remorse, she tries to understand grief. She goes out of her way to try to comfort others in pain, and so long as they aren’t a threat she will leave other people to their lives. Like all Terminators, she is extremely patient. She can plan things out years in advance, and if necessary can wait for centuries for the right timing.
There are two important things she has to say about herself in the series: First, she’s incapable of emotion, but she “wouldn’t be worth much if [she] couldn’t feel”.
Second, she’ll do whatever is necessary to complete a mission, but she isn’t programmed to be cruel.
And last of all, something she won’t tell you is that she is terrified of death, but more afraid of losing control of herself (for example, see her concerns over turning on John, or being like a "time bomb"; the way she reacts to having her chip pulled out).
Barge Reactions: Cameron is highly adaptable. She will arrive thinking she's a normal human girl (a frightened one, at that) and she will think that she's been captured by Skynet. But as she remembers who she really is, she'll relax and cozy up to useful people. (Her definition of "useful" is pretty broad, so she will probably be outgoing.)
Path to Redemption: Cameron wants to live. And she wants to save John Connor. If she lives, he will never get any peace; if she saves him, she will never have existed at all. The best way to get to her is through either of those priorities, and to be flexible about which one you're working with because she does change her mind about which one she really wants.
History: Once upon a time, there was a girl named Allison Young. She was born and raised in Palmdale, California. Whatever she might have wanted to be when she grew up doesn’t matter, because the world ended on April 21, 2011. By her birthday a few months after, Alison’s home and family and friends had all died and she learned to run, and scavenge, and hide. By chance she became close to a boy called John Connor, the enigmatic leader of the resistance. With him, she learned to fight.
It was bad luck that Alison was later captured by the machines. Through torture and interrogation, Alison’s mannerisms and memories were extracted by and imprinted into a machine. When there was nothing useful left to hear, they killed her. Her captor, Cameron, took her shape and set out to assassinate John Connor. Instead, he managed to reprogram her the way he reprogrammed the machine in Terminator 2.
Cameron spent years with John, running the ‘errands’ that were too dangerous for him to do. Over time he became more and more reclusive, using Cameron as an extension of his will instead. Most resistance fighters have never seen Connor’s face; Cameron, however, was always granted access to him. Before long it seemed that she was running the war.
John eventually sent Cameron back through time to protect his younger self and his mother. While there, Cameron faced off against multiple other ‘Terminators’ and resistance fighters who had come back solely to keep her from being with John. She helped stop some technologies from ever being built, she herself had to be repaired and reprogrammed, and she ate a lot of pancakes with the Connors.
In the process, she is learning how to be human...but it's not clear if she is doing it to help John, or to ensure the machines' victory.
Sample Journal Entry: [She has a cut lip, and a bruise on her cheek. She keeps her hair down and her face slightly turned to disguise it, but it's impossible to hide it.] I don't know why you have us do this. I don't know who you think we'll reach. I don't know who would go back and- and watch themselves in prison.
[She waits, listening for a voice, expecting either the gentle response of a counselor in the halfway house, or something deeper and more metallic. But there is nothing, and she exhales slowly, shakily.]
My name is Allison. I'm from Palmdale. I don't know what you want from me.
Sample RP: Cameron kept the device with her, because at least for now it didn't matter if she was being tracked, and maybe it would be useful. But for now--now she just had to figure out where they had moved her to.
She pulled her boots on, and peeked out into the hall and then bolted when nothing came clanging around the corner. She had not expected to find stars, and she didn't go out onto the deck because she was certain it had to be a backdrop of some kind. And she had not expected to scramble up some stairs and find a garden.
When had she last seen plants? Grass? Flowing water that didn't have oil and scum slithering through it? She fell to her knees under one of the trees and held onto the trunk as if a storm was kicking up. It scraped her cheek, and she didn't care. She broke a nail digging into the grass and the rich dark earth underneath just to be sure it wasn't a thin disguise.
Static flickers across her vision, interrupting a flow of analysis (the earth is real, it's rich in iron and nitrogen, it's real and unpolluted). Instead of facts, she sees metal grating and smells blood or metal or both, and instead of moving she has gone very still, mud in her hand, her finger bleeding freely.
She had liked the counselor at the halfway house. Even though she had known the woman might lock her up again if she told the truth, the words had come spilling out, the truth about her last birthday, and she had seen the woman's expression of disbelief and worry when she had told her about all the tigers in the cages floating across the world.
I was thinking of getting a tattoo. A tiger or a wolf. I haven't decided yet. It's her own voice she remembers, but not who she was talking to, and trying to dig up a face only ripples more static through her mind.
The earth is real. But she doesn't know whose cage she's in.
