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the_infiltrator⏵ player information
name and pronouns: vil, she/her
age: 18+
contact: justghosts at discord and plurk
⏵ character information
name: Cameron Philips
canon: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
age: 20. Kind of. She's a cyborg.
canon point: After John has fixed her in Season 2
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.
abilities: 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.
She is stronger than any human, capable of lifting hundreds of pounds and bending or warping metal without struggle.
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.
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.
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.
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).
samples: One
Two
name and pronouns: vil, she/her
age: 18+
contact: justghosts at discord and plurk
⏵ character information
name: Cameron Philips
canon: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
age: 20. Kind of. She's a cyborg.
canon point: After John has fixed her in Season 2
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.
abilities: 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.
She is stronger than any human, capable of lifting hundreds of pounds and bending or warping metal without struggle.
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.
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.
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.
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).
samples: One
Two
