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hardwearing) wrote2017-10-01 05:35 pm
hardwearing) wrote2017-10-01 05:35 pm
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PLAYER
Player name: Ana
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Characters currently in-game: Pellaz Cevarro, Drake Holloway
CHARACTER
Character Name: Agent Washington (real first name David, no known last name)
Character Age: 30~ (Carolina is 34 at this canon point, Wash is known to be younger)
Canon: Red vs Blue
Canon Point: s13 finale, the final battle with Charon
History: a comprehensive wikia
Personality: Back at the start of Project Freelancer, Agent Washington was the “rookie.” Despite being as experienced a soldier as all the others he had a youthful naivety and was both gullible and comically reactive, often leading others to tease and trick him. He was best known not for his fighting skill (which was considerable) but for being the guy who got grappling hooked in the crotch. When everyone is a super soldier, someone still has to be the joke. Wash never seemed to mind it, though, seeing the other Freelancer agents not just as his teammates but his friends. Generally cheerful and good natured back then, if a little awkward, Wash genuinely cared for his comrades. He’s always been extremely loyal to and protective of his fellow soldiers — the way he came to Freelancer is an excellent example of that, disobeying orders from and injuring his staff sergeant to get his platoon through an alien attack. Afterwards he was courtmartialed and kicked out of the UNSC, leaving the Project as his only option if he wanted to stay a soldier. The Counselor notes that he's had a history of violent disobedience from childhood when he attacked a fellow student who used to bully him, and Wash admits that he does hold grudges, but everyone he's ever hurt has been deserving of his ire. Little does anyone know just what he's actually capable of.
The changes began during Project Freelancer. The combat AI Epsilon was assigned to Wash — a fragment of a full AI, it was meant to help run his armor enhancements and make him a better soldier. What they didn’t know was that Epsilon was the memory fragment. And since they had been torturing the Alpha AI to make it fragment into pieces, Wash was about to have all that trauma shoved into his head at once. Epsilon committed suicide in Wash’s head, driving him insane. After being contained for a time in Freelancer facilities, Wash was reassigned as a Recovery Agent and sent to retrieve the armor and AIs of his dead teammates. (Everyone else had left Project Freelancer, violently. Wash was left behind in the med bay post Epsilon’s removal.)
Being sent back out into the world doesn’t mean Wash was stable, or ready. Though he says he’s perfectly sane, that he got better, it’s hard to imagine sharing a consciousness with a being that was created out of mental instability itself not having a long-lasting effect. The person that Wash is after Epsilon… well. He’s certainly different. He’s angry, cold, calculating, and more than a little cynical. He’s closed himself off a great deal, though when he encounters his old teammate South he’s still got echoes of loyalty to her — a mistake he’ll never forget. She shoots him in the back and with that shot goes the rest of his good will towards anything from his old life. He doesn’t hesitate to shoot her in the face the next time they meet, showing just how much he’s changed.
As a result of being betrayed by both the Project and the people he called his friends, Wash is deeply paranoid. It takes him years to trust again, and at that it’s only a shadow of his former self’s capacity. The Reds and Blues’ willingness to accept him and protect him after his betrayal (see history link for details: he chooses to work with the Meta — a being that was trying to kill them — to recover Epsilon and get out of prison following his attack on the Director of former Project Freelancer) goes a long way to help him heal, though, and we watch it happen as Wash bonds with them. He becomes Blue Team leader and takes Tucker under his wing, showing that he cares by pushing the other man to train harder, become better, so that he can survive the crazy shit they always inevitably wind up in the middle of. It’s like he doesn’t know how to interact with others at first besides giving orders but slowly… very slowly… he opens back up to considering people his friends. The concept is frightening for him. He’d be much more at ease taking on an enemy squadron single handedly than sharing his feelings, but he’s trying and that has to count for something.
Over the course of several seasons we get to see Wash learn how to be friends again. Learning patience and actually becoming a good teacher. Though he still tends to keep people at arm’s length when something is wrong, he actually talks to his teammates now besides just giving orders and is able to joke again (though it’s usually very bad, dry humor). His protectiveness over teammates starts to reappear and he becomes someone that can be relied on again. Trusted again. But as a hardened soldier he’s still used to resorting to violence to solve his problems, and he does not know how to function in social situations. His interactions are often stiff and awkward, and he cannot lie for shit. Which often puts him in the uncomfortable situation of everyone knowing something is wrong and Wash being unable to express himself.
Ending up on Chorus and helping end their war (which is also sort of his war, as Charon has Freelancer tech) has done a great deal to alter Wash’s mindset. After doing so much wrong it’s time for him to do some right, and as he tells Tucker, you have to learn from your mistakes rather than dwelling on them. I think this is about the time when he starts letting go of some of his baggage over things that have been done to him, as well. The damage that Project Freelancer did to him and the universe is seemingly never-ending… he can’t hold on to his anger forever. Grudges have only ever harmed him and everyone around him. Wash is determined to become someone better through his current actions and is instrumental in helping the armies of Chorus defeat Charon, but afterwards he and his friends decide together that this will be their last battle. The team won’t kill anymore unless they have to. Wash doesn’t know how to live a peaceful life, but he’s willing to give it a try. As long as he can be with his friends.
Inventory: standard battle rifle (BR85), magnum pistol, power armor with EMP and healing unit, kevlar undersuit, grav boots, six combat knives
Abilities: Wash is only human, but he is an extremely competent fighter. Most notably with firearms, hand to hand, and knife throwing. He’s cunning in battle and has some experience with infiltration and hacking. He’s also agent cockroach — he can take quite a beating and keep on kicking.
Flaws: Wash is a train wreck. At his current canon point he’s more stable than he’s been in a decade but he’s still quite a mess. He’s got severe PTSD, will still resort to violence in most situations (even if he’s no longer as shoot-first-questions-later), and has no idea how to relax. He's only just getting a handle on a lifetime of anger and still harbors guilt and resentment concerning his past. Over time he’s become better at relating to people and showing his emotions but that’s definitely a work in progress. He’s pretty awkward.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/16700.html?thread=6503740#cmt6503740, http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/16700.html?thread=6503996#cmt6503996, http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/18468.html?thread=7294756#cmt7294756, http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/18468.html?thread=7349284#cmt7349284, http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/18468.html?thread=7350820#cmt7350820, http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/18468.html?thread=7398436#cmt7398436, http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/18468.html?thread=7399716#cmt7399716
Player name: Ana
Contact:
Characters currently in-game: Pellaz Cevarro, Drake Holloway
CHARACTER
Character Name: Agent Washington (real first name David, no known last name)
Character Age: 30~ (Carolina is 34 at this canon point, Wash is known to be younger)
Canon: Red vs Blue
Canon Point: s13 finale, the final battle with Charon
History: a comprehensive wikia
Personality: Back at the start of Project Freelancer, Agent Washington was the “rookie.” Despite being as experienced a soldier as all the others he had a youthful naivety and was both gullible and comically reactive, often leading others to tease and trick him. He was best known not for his fighting skill (which was considerable) but for being the guy who got grappling hooked in the crotch. When everyone is a super soldier, someone still has to be the joke. Wash never seemed to mind it, though, seeing the other Freelancer agents not just as his teammates but his friends. Generally cheerful and good natured back then, if a little awkward, Wash genuinely cared for his comrades. He’s always been extremely loyal to and protective of his fellow soldiers — the way he came to Freelancer is an excellent example of that, disobeying orders from and injuring his staff sergeant to get his platoon through an alien attack. Afterwards he was courtmartialed and kicked out of the UNSC, leaving the Project as his only option if he wanted to stay a soldier. The Counselor notes that he's had a history of violent disobedience from childhood when he attacked a fellow student who used to bully him, and Wash admits that he does hold grudges, but everyone he's ever hurt has been deserving of his ire. Little does anyone know just what he's actually capable of.
The changes began during Project Freelancer. The combat AI Epsilon was assigned to Wash — a fragment of a full AI, it was meant to help run his armor enhancements and make him a better soldier. What they didn’t know was that Epsilon was the memory fragment. And since they had been torturing the Alpha AI to make it fragment into pieces, Wash was about to have all that trauma shoved into his head at once. Epsilon committed suicide in Wash’s head, driving him insane. After being contained for a time in Freelancer facilities, Wash was reassigned as a Recovery Agent and sent to retrieve the armor and AIs of his dead teammates. (Everyone else had left Project Freelancer, violently. Wash was left behind in the med bay post Epsilon’s removal.)
Being sent back out into the world doesn’t mean Wash was stable, or ready. Though he says he’s perfectly sane, that he got better, it’s hard to imagine sharing a consciousness with a being that was created out of mental instability itself not having a long-lasting effect. The person that Wash is after Epsilon… well. He’s certainly different. He’s angry, cold, calculating, and more than a little cynical. He’s closed himself off a great deal, though when he encounters his old teammate South he’s still got echoes of loyalty to her — a mistake he’ll never forget. She shoots him in the back and with that shot goes the rest of his good will towards anything from his old life. He doesn’t hesitate to shoot her in the face the next time they meet, showing just how much he’s changed.
As a result of being betrayed by both the Project and the people he called his friends, Wash is deeply paranoid. It takes him years to trust again, and at that it’s only a shadow of his former self’s capacity. The Reds and Blues’ willingness to accept him and protect him after his betrayal (see history link for details: he chooses to work with the Meta — a being that was trying to kill them — to recover Epsilon and get out of prison following his attack on the Director of former Project Freelancer) goes a long way to help him heal, though, and we watch it happen as Wash bonds with them. He becomes Blue Team leader and takes Tucker under his wing, showing that he cares by pushing the other man to train harder, become better, so that he can survive the crazy shit they always inevitably wind up in the middle of. It’s like he doesn’t know how to interact with others at first besides giving orders but slowly… very slowly… he opens back up to considering people his friends. The concept is frightening for him. He’d be much more at ease taking on an enemy squadron single handedly than sharing his feelings, but he’s trying and that has to count for something.
Over the course of several seasons we get to see Wash learn how to be friends again. Learning patience and actually becoming a good teacher. Though he still tends to keep people at arm’s length when something is wrong, he actually talks to his teammates now besides just giving orders and is able to joke again (though it’s usually very bad, dry humor). His protectiveness over teammates starts to reappear and he becomes someone that can be relied on again. Trusted again. But as a hardened soldier he’s still used to resorting to violence to solve his problems, and he does not know how to function in social situations. His interactions are often stiff and awkward, and he cannot lie for shit. Which often puts him in the uncomfortable situation of everyone knowing something is wrong and Wash being unable to express himself.
Ending up on Chorus and helping end their war (which is also sort of his war, as Charon has Freelancer tech) has done a great deal to alter Wash’s mindset. After doing so much wrong it’s time for him to do some right, and as he tells Tucker, you have to learn from your mistakes rather than dwelling on them. I think this is about the time when he starts letting go of some of his baggage over things that have been done to him, as well. The damage that Project Freelancer did to him and the universe is seemingly never-ending… he can’t hold on to his anger forever. Grudges have only ever harmed him and everyone around him. Wash is determined to become someone better through his current actions and is instrumental in helping the armies of Chorus defeat Charon, but afterwards he and his friends decide together that this will be their last battle. The team won’t kill anymore unless they have to. Wash doesn’t know how to live a peaceful life, but he’s willing to give it a try. As long as he can be with his friends.
Inventory: standard battle rifle (BR85), magnum pistol, power armor with EMP and healing unit, kevlar undersuit, grav boots, six combat knives
Abilities: Wash is only human, but he is an extremely competent fighter. Most notably with firearms, hand to hand, and knife throwing. He’s cunning in battle and has some experience with infiltration and hacking. He’s also agent cockroach — he can take quite a beating and keep on kicking.
Flaws: Wash is a train wreck. At his current canon point he’s more stable than he’s been in a decade but he’s still quite a mess. He’s got severe PTSD, will still resort to violence in most situations (even if he’s no longer as shoot-first-questions-later), and has no idea how to relax. He's only just getting a handle on a lifetime of anger and still harbors guilt and resentment concerning his past. Over time he’s become better at relating to people and showing his emotions but that’s definitely a work in progress. He’s pretty awkward.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/16700.html?thread=6503740#cmt6503740, http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/16700.html?thread=6503996#cmt6503996, http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/18468.html?thread=7294756#cmt7294756, http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/18468.html?thread=7349284#cmt7349284, http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/18468.html?thread=7350820#cmt7350820, http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/18468.html?thread=7398436#cmt7398436, http://dankmemes.dreamwidth.org/18468.html?thread=7399716#cmt7399716
additional points to discuss:
- and then whoops he didn't die there, and had to.... deal with being still alive when he was really only living out of spite, biding his time to get revenge. and how his guilt at killing the AI and frustration he's alive and anger at his imprisonment all informed his sliding into the villain role in seasons 7 and 8.
- how he slips into leader mode to regain control over situations in no small part for his own benefit. he's not an actual control freak, though, since when someone calls him out he immediately steps back and re-evaluates his approach. he's ultimately trying to be helpful.
- that wash doesn't actually blame epsilon for what happened to him, epsilon seems to hate him on sight and then later resents him for several valid reasons but he still manages to coexist on a team with the AI that drove him insane and is consistently hostile towards him now.
- resilience and adaptability, and how wash always bounces back... just sometimes a little different from how he was before.