Duplicity App
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Name: A.J. Age: 30s Contact: Timezone: CST Other Character(s): Sam Young ( endeavortotry) |
Name: KD6-3.7 Door: Door Pass Canon: Blade Runner 2049 Canon Point: Post-canon Age: Real age is ~6, which is when he was activated. However he was designed to be mentally and physically around 30 Appearance: Picture History: Blade Runner Wiki CR AU (Optional): K will regain his memories from his previous stint in game gradually Recap: In the slightly less than a year K spent in Duplicity last time, he had a lot of ups and downs that left him honestly very close to where he was when he came into the city originally. He made a few close friends that were helping him to learn that considering himself to be a person, to have feelings and wants and needs, was not the taboo evolution it would have been in the world he came from; it's been a slow process, but he was slowly warming to the idea of thinking that way due to their efforts. But emotions come in both negative and positive, and between the disappearance of his first contract partner and broken promises from someone he had become very close to, he had circled back around to considering maybe letting himself feel things isn't the greatest idea after all. This is kind of where he stalled out on his second stint through the city, which didn't last long enough to have any effect either way. The one point K has carried through the entire time is being resistant to the way of life and the program in Duplicity, vacillating between his inherent coding convincing him that he is a possession that exists for (among other things) the pleasure and service of others, and his objection to being treated that way anymore. Since he's already technically "dead," he feels he doesn't have a lot to fear from anything here, but his friends have objected to this and brought him back the other way. Again, in the end, it mostly evens out. He's still empathetic as he strives to not cause his friends pain over his actions (or inactions); still passive in that his primary form of rebellion is simply to do nothing and let the cards fall as they will; still has low self-worth as he typically behaves in ways that make it clear he doesn't believe it matters what happens to him; and selfless in that he still relies mostly on others and their view of him to explore an idea for himself. Personality: Positive Trait: Empathetic. Despite the fact that one of the more pronounced divisive points between replicants and humans is whether or not replicants can feel - and the things they do with those feelings once they begin to develop them - K exhibits an unusual level of curiosity and understanding for others considering the purpose he was created for was to track down and retire (kill) other replicants. He very earnestly assures the rogue replicant Sapper that he wiped his feet before entering his home (to kill him) and has a civil conversation with him about bits of Sapper's life, eventually telling him if there's an option besides killing him he would much prefer that - and then went on to ask him, politely, to please not keep fighting him once K got the upper hand. He bids his holographic girlfriend Joi not to fuss over him when he arrives home, and assures her that the 'dinner' she prepared for him is beautiful despite the fact it's literally a hologram. He spends who knows how much of his assuredly not very ample department salary on an emanator so Joi can "go anywhere she wants in the world" instead of being confined to the apartment. He tells her in all honesty that she's real to him when she's clearly upset about not being able to touch him. When he's the only one who knows who and where the miracle child, Ana, is at the end, instead of helping any of the people searching for her for their own ends K chooses to sacrifice himself to save her father, Deckard, and takes him to her instead. Negative Trait: Passive. By and large, by circumstance and by choice both, K is a tool and a specctator in his own life. He was commissioned and designed to be a blade runner, to hunt down and retire other replicants that humans can't, and he's successful in that he's the LAPD's top performer - but his temperament is not well suited to it. He can't seem to get back out of a fight without first getting a few new bumps and bruises at the least, and he has to lose everything he has in his life before he makes a decision about what to do about it. He would much rather suffer something small than risk causing a larger problem or take the initiative to make a definitive move. We meet K initially, instead of ambushing and dispatching the massive veteran combat medic replicant he's tracked down to retire, sitting waiting for him in his house to have a conversation with him, half-heartedly hoping he can talk him into going in to the precinct with him rather than killing him. He accepts orders to cover up evidence in the case the story revolves around, including destroying a (grown) child if he can find it without protest even though he's clearly not happy about it. Someone has graffiti'd "fuck off skinner" on his apartment door and he doesn't bat an eye or remove it. When Ana confirms that his implanted memory is real - which is illegal in this 'verse - even though he's a police officer and she's his self-identified best source for asking questions about it, he doesn't ask anything, he just leaves again. When he finds Deckard, he does not tell Deckard that by this time, K fully believes he's his son; he just asks questions around the case he's supposedly there to follow up on. When the opposing replicant enforcer Luv "kills" Joi in front of him, K responds by making a sad face and shutting down. When rebellion leader Freysa tells K that the conclusion he's come to - that he's the first replicant to be born instead of made, and thus a miracle - is wrong, he crumbles in on himself, makes a sad face, and says nothing. When he reunites Deckard with his daughter Ana - the real miracle child - he doesn't tell him anything about his own conclusions, just sends him inside with his last personal item while he sits down on the steps outside and dies from the wounds he's accumulated over the course of the previous few days and has just been calmly walking around with the whole time. He dies with literally no one knowing anything about him and nothing to his name. Negative Trait: Low self-worth. K is from a world where replicants are created in some cases to be "more human than humans" but are treated as less than second class citizens: they're property, and can be hunted down and retired if they stray too far out of line or pose a threat to humans. He has internalized this world view and combined it with his own express purpose of said hunting and killing but preference not to do so to the point he would rather just take damage or suffer consequences than protect himself. While on a case he is stabbed in the arm and when his lieutenant, Joshi, sees it she flatly informs him that she's not paying for it and he agrees that he'll just glue it once he gets home - and then does so. He cringes out of the way of other officers walking down hallways straight at him and walks past people screaming insults at him like they're not even there. His best plan for dealing with having a gun pointed at him by someone he'd prefer not to hurt is throwing himself backwards off a second story balcony, landing on his ass, and then letting himself be punched nine times in a row without fighting back at all. When Freysa tells him their cause is more important than his life and the best thing he can do is kill Deckard, he accepts the mission but decides to free Deckard instead even though he's alone against a corporate transport; afterwards, when he takes Deckard to meet his daughter, Deckard does ask if he's okay and asks who [Deckard] is to him - to which K, mortally wounded, does not answer and simply sends him inside instead so he can sit down and die alone in the snow on the stairs outside. Negative Trait: Selfless - not as in unselfish, but as in literally unaware of who he is in and of himself. While K is neither naive nor lacking in intelligence, the combination of the first two traits results in a man who is easily directed and influenced by those around him, whether intentionally or not. Even Joi, who genuinely cares about him, is capable of pointing, aiming, and overwhelming him simply by impressing on him how important something is to her - never mind how important it is or isn't to him. His commanding officer is able to get him to tell her about a memory he balks at by asking him if making it an order would make him feel better, though she never actually orders him. When he finds evidence that suggests that memory is real, Joi presses him that it means he's special and that he should consider himself a "real boy" - and convinces him to investigate the memory with the leading memory fabricator in the industry, Ana, even though it's not tied explicitly to his investigation. Once Ana confirms the memory is real, between the two of these influences, K ends up failing his baseline personality test which results in him being expelled from the LAPD and gives him 48 hours to avoid being arrested and retired. Most blatantly though is that Joi invites a prostitute to K's apartment without his knowledge, so that she can sync to the woman's body and share sex with K. She insists this is because she wants to be real to K, who reassures her that he does consider her real and very obviously does not want to sleep with the prostitute whom he actually turned down the day prior. Joi insists, though, and K goes ahead with it because it's important to her even though he's no more pleased about it the morning after. Powers and Abilities: K appears to be entirely human, unless one gets a scanner under his right eye to reveal his serial number; however, replicants are synthetically created and possess a number of extraordinary abilities. K personally exhibits not only extreme resilience in that he survives multiple gunshot wounds, impalements, and stabbing to his torso and sides - until he doesn't - but also runs full tilt through a marble and cement wall without even seeming to notice it. He pops solid metal cuffs off a prisoner without any trouble, and another same model replicant lifts a solid steel vault door out of her way when it sticks in its tracks, so it's safe to say he's got a fairly deep reservoir of strength and generally elevated physical abilities. He speed reads several microfiche panels, manually comparing DNA records while scrolling quickly through them. Additionally, from the previous film we know both that some replicants have visual scanning capabilities and that the only surefire way for a (then human) blade runner to spot a replicant is by the Voight-Kampff test - essentially gauging and measuring microexpressions and other emotion-based facial and body language cues against a human baseline for discrepancies. In the new film, there are now replicant blade runners being specially produced and augmented for the purpose, and given K's demonstrated ability to differentiate reliably between the replicants and humans he encounters, it makes sense to me that there is at least some kind of ability to perform the Voight-Kampff test built into the new models such as K, giving him a reliable way to identify and categorize the emotional responses in people with which he's interacting. In practice this would require him to establish a baseline of the individual, be able to clearly see their eyes and facial expressions, and be familiar with their species. It doesn't tell him what the subject is thinking, only how they feel about it, and he fills in the rest via context if he has it. Essentially since there are no other replicants at present, if allowed, this means once he's built a baseline with an individual, he's very, very good at identifying their emotional triggers and responses and reading them in an interaction. It would be nullified or at least severely crippled if K couldn't clearly see their eyes especially but also facial features, if he hasn't interacted with the individual before, and/or if he's never encountered whatever species the individual is before. Inventory: A set of keys to his LAPD cruiser, Luv's stiletto switchblade, and his empty pistol rib holster Samples: TDM samples |
