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Name: Buttercup
Age: Over 18
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Current characters: None
Character Information
Name: Agent Connecticut ("CT")
Series: Red vs Blue
Appearance: Without helmet
With helmet
Age: Mid-20s, approx. 25 (headcanon)
Canon Point: Brought to Airlocked post-death (Season 10 Episode 10, "C.T.")
Transferring From: Airlocked
Canon History: CT at the Red vs Blue Wiki
Project Freelancer at the Red vs Blue Wiki
Canon Personality: CT is an observer. She spent her time in Freelancer on the edge of the group, observing others’ motives, trying to figure out what secrets everyone was keeping and the relationships between them all, sometimes making jaded comments or observations about she sees. She is good at what she does - hence being accepted into Freelancer at all - but is not among the best. When we first meet her, it is directly after a failed mission. As a result of this mission, CT is knocked off the Freelancer leaderboard, a large, brightly lit list showing the top eight rated Freelancers that dominates the character’s professional lives while onboard the ship.
She refuses to give herself any leeway or shift any of the blame from herself when she fails. She is stubborn, sometimes to the point of exasperating her fellow teammates, always asking questions, challenging others and refusing to be swayed by the opinions of her fellow teammates. Being listened to and taken seriously is incredibly important to her - when we are first introduced to her, she admonishes Wash for using the nickname "Connie," telling him derisively that it makes her sound "like a fucking kid."
Despite her suspicions of the Director, succeeding within the bounds he’d set up was incredibly important to her. She was terrified of what might happen if she failed, perhaps of what might happen to her or where she would go next. When Wash tried to comfort her after the failed mission, reminding her that everyone is in this together and telling her that it wasn’t her fault, she snapped at him, taking the blame on herself and refusing to make or accept excuses.
She is perceptive, recognizing that the rankings mean something, that the Director was behind the live firearms used against Agent Texas on the training floor - she knows how far he’s willing to go, that he expects his agents to do the same. She left largely because this scared her - she realized before anyone else that what the Director was doing was wrong, and that they would all pay for it, sooner or later. Despite this, she was not aghast as Wash was when Maine and Wyoming used live rounds rather than paint on Tex during training - she saw what was coming, whether she was prepared to join in or not.
My headcanon for CT is that she was one of the younger Freelancers. She was very much in over her head, struggling to keep up and getting far more than she bargained for in the process. She finds it hard to make friends, being naturally quiet, suspicious and distrustful and with something of a prickly personality - she is still figuring out who she is and where she belongs in a lot of ways. But I think she did genuinely like the others, or at least most of them. She simply didn’t know how to show it: for example, pushing Wash away when he tried to comfort her. She does not want pity, but she did attempt to warn Wash not to fall too low in the rankings, and she clearly felt guilty when he caught her making transmissions, lashing out at him in defense.
Despite her prickly nature, and the fact that we rarely see her in a noncombative mood, I play her as a more three-dimensional character. I believe that she does know how to have fun, and values friendship when it is offered, although she may have trouble really accepting it at first.
She did betray her team and the UNSC when she left Freelancer, and while she knows that, she believed up until the end that she was doing the right thing. When Tex and Carolina come after her to bring her back in - or at least to retrieve her armor - she pleads with them, trying to get them to see things from her point of view, to see that the Director’s actions were both wrong and dangerous, and that if he wasn’t stopped, they would all end up paying the price.
Personality Shifts: CT participated in Round 3 of Airlocked!, a murdergame with the premise of characters being kidnapped from across the multiverse and forced to kill or be killed as part of what turned out to be a reality TV show. The theme of Round 3 was that all of the characters had killed at some point in their lives, and were now imprisoned on an actual prison ship. Also present on the ship was someone from CT's own past - Project Freelancer's Counselor and the Director's right-hand man, Aiden Price.
CT's natural tendencies towards paranoia and self-blame hit her hard; she was convinced that Freelancer and the Director was behind the whole thing, that she was being either tested or punished for her failures in the field. With the Counselor's insistence that the Director was dead and the Project was gone, however, slowly she came to accept that Airlocked! was something else entirely, and that her old life in Freelancer was truly over.
Her first major personality shift was catalyzed both by this "second chance" away from Freelancer, and from the opportunity to learn what had happened after her death. In addition to CT, Leonard Church - Project Freelancer's Alpha AI - was also an Airlocked participant, in an earlier round. Both he and the Counselor were able to tell her that her fight to take down Freelancer was not in vain, even if she hadn't lived to see it. While she had hoped that her message to Texas would be received and taken to heart, she had no way, in canon, of ever knowing if she'd succeeded. Hearing that she had made a difference, even if it was at the cost of her own life, helped alleviate some of her self-doubt and the feeling that she could never measure up.
Unfortunately, being trapped in a prison ship, unable to stop her new acquaintances from dying week after week, didn't do much to reinforce this new feeling of empowerment and hope. When the Counselor asked her to take on a special mission and kill the round's overseer, Blaze Dudely, in order to stop the murders and save everyone else, she agrees. As in canon, she succeeds at the cost of her own life - she sabotages Dudely's life support equipment, but is captured and killed in front of the rest of the survivors.
But once again, for CT, life doesn't end at death. Along with the other victims, she goes to "Deadland," a VR environment that first takes the form of central Florida - Disneyland and all. She spends some months in a state of hopelessness and depression, once again helpless to do anything to stop anyone from dying, and separated from many of those she's come to know - including the only real friend she'd made in Airlocked, Varric Tethras.
But it's in Deadland that CT really comes into her own. It takes some time, but eventually, she manages to make friends the way she hadn't been able to while she was alive. She's able to contribute in tangible ways - protecting people from threats within Deadland; assisting with the efforts to communicate with those on the outside who are trying to save both the dead and the living they'd left behind, now forced into another "season" of Airlocked; and bonding with and helping provide hope to those in despair. She finds people to care for and realizes that they care for her in return, and she's even able to confess her feelings to Varric and begin a relationship with him. In the end, the survivors are able to end the simulation and bring back those who had "died" while bringing down the network that had produced Airlocked, and CT sees her new friends happy and planning their new lives before going to start a new life herself, at Varric's side in Thedas.
When she arrives in LifeAftr, she will be devastated to find herself without Varric, but will remember the lessons she learned in Airlocked - that nothing is hopeless, that happiness and redemption are possible, and that true change is possible only through collaboration with others. Rather than falling once more into depression or utter cynicism, she will fight to remain optimistic, learning everything she can about her new environment, trying to work with the others, and determined to somehow get home.
Abilities: While CT has a high level of fighting skill compared to most, she is explicitly not known for this in canon, struggling (and often failing) to hold her own against her fellow Freelancers. However, despite her own insecurities regarding her skill in battle, and how harshly she judges herself, she is still, objectively speaking, a very, very good soldier. It takes Tex and Carolina working together to take her down, and even then, she manages to escape before dying, along with the armor they had come to retrieve and the data she had stolen from the Project. To the galaxy at large, and even within Project Freelancer itself, she is considered one of the best of the best. (See this clip for a brief view of CT as she is seen by some of the lowest-ranking Freelancers.)
However, fighting isn't her only skill. As touched on above, she is perceptive and observant, the first and for a long time the only one to recognize the truth of what the Director was doing, and to not only investigate, but take the risky step of trying to stop him.
Each Freelancer has a unique armor “enhancement” that is meant to help them in battle - for example, York has a special healing unit, and Carolina can change her armor color. CT’s enhancement is the ability to project a hologram of her armor, in order to fool enemies into attacking the hologram instead of herself.
Inventory: Helmet: Brown UNSC standard-issue Explosive Ordnance Disposal Armor (EOD)-style helmet
Brown EOD-style Mark VI power armor: Full-body armor made for fighting and movement, with hologram projection enhancement. Both the armor and helmet are canonically spaceworthy, and should be watertight as well.
Dog tags: They are clearly CT's, bearing her Project Freelancer handle, serial number, and blood type. They also contain a hidden USB drive, where she stored the information she stole on Freelancer.
Wyvern Tooth: A fairly high-level dagger, though with no magical properties. A gift from Varric during her time in Thedas.
The Tale of the Champion: CT's copy of Varric's book detailing the life of Hawke, the Champion of Kirkwall (weirdly the book doesn't have its own Wiki page). It will be waterlogged and probably ruined and she'll be heartbroken.
Sample
Thread Sample: First Airlocked thread; LifeAftr test drive
Name: Buttercup
Age: Over 18
Contact:
Current characters: None
Character Information
Name: Agent Connecticut ("CT")
Series: Red vs Blue
Appearance: Without helmet
With helmet
Age: Mid-20s, approx. 25 (headcanon)
Canon Point: Brought to Airlocked post-death (Season 10 Episode 10, "C.T.")
Transferring From: Airlocked
Canon History: CT at the Red vs Blue Wiki
Project Freelancer at the Red vs Blue Wiki
Canon Personality: CT is an observer. She spent her time in Freelancer on the edge of the group, observing others’ motives, trying to figure out what secrets everyone was keeping and the relationships between them all, sometimes making jaded comments or observations about she sees. She is good at what she does - hence being accepted into Freelancer at all - but is not among the best. When we first meet her, it is directly after a failed mission. As a result of this mission, CT is knocked off the Freelancer leaderboard, a large, brightly lit list showing the top eight rated Freelancers that dominates the character’s professional lives while onboard the ship.
She refuses to give herself any leeway or shift any of the blame from herself when she fails. She is stubborn, sometimes to the point of exasperating her fellow teammates, always asking questions, challenging others and refusing to be swayed by the opinions of her fellow teammates. Being listened to and taken seriously is incredibly important to her - when we are first introduced to her, she admonishes Wash for using the nickname "Connie," telling him derisively that it makes her sound "like a fucking kid."
Despite her suspicions of the Director, succeeding within the bounds he’d set up was incredibly important to her. She was terrified of what might happen if she failed, perhaps of what might happen to her or where she would go next. When Wash tried to comfort her after the failed mission, reminding her that everyone is in this together and telling her that it wasn’t her fault, she snapped at him, taking the blame on herself and refusing to make or accept excuses.
She is perceptive, recognizing that the rankings mean something, that the Director was behind the live firearms used against Agent Texas on the training floor - she knows how far he’s willing to go, that he expects his agents to do the same. She left largely because this scared her - she realized before anyone else that what the Director was doing was wrong, and that they would all pay for it, sooner or later. Despite this, she was not aghast as Wash was when Maine and Wyoming used live rounds rather than paint on Tex during training - she saw what was coming, whether she was prepared to join in or not.
My headcanon for CT is that she was one of the younger Freelancers. She was very much in over her head, struggling to keep up and getting far more than she bargained for in the process. She finds it hard to make friends, being naturally quiet, suspicious and distrustful and with something of a prickly personality - she is still figuring out who she is and where she belongs in a lot of ways. But I think she did genuinely like the others, or at least most of them. She simply didn’t know how to show it: for example, pushing Wash away when he tried to comfort her. She does not want pity, but she did attempt to warn Wash not to fall too low in the rankings, and she clearly felt guilty when he caught her making transmissions, lashing out at him in defense.
Despite her prickly nature, and the fact that we rarely see her in a noncombative mood, I play her as a more three-dimensional character. I believe that she does know how to have fun, and values friendship when it is offered, although she may have trouble really accepting it at first.
She did betray her team and the UNSC when she left Freelancer, and while she knows that, she believed up until the end that she was doing the right thing. When Tex and Carolina come after her to bring her back in - or at least to retrieve her armor - she pleads with them, trying to get them to see things from her point of view, to see that the Director’s actions were both wrong and dangerous, and that if he wasn’t stopped, they would all end up paying the price.
Personality Shifts: CT participated in Round 3 of Airlocked!, a murdergame with the premise of characters being kidnapped from across the multiverse and forced to kill or be killed as part of what turned out to be a reality TV show. The theme of Round 3 was that all of the characters had killed at some point in their lives, and were now imprisoned on an actual prison ship. Also present on the ship was someone from CT's own past - Project Freelancer's Counselor and the Director's right-hand man, Aiden Price.
CT's natural tendencies towards paranoia and self-blame hit her hard; she was convinced that Freelancer and the Director was behind the whole thing, that she was being either tested or punished for her failures in the field. With the Counselor's insistence that the Director was dead and the Project was gone, however, slowly she came to accept that Airlocked! was something else entirely, and that her old life in Freelancer was truly over.
Her first major personality shift was catalyzed both by this "second chance" away from Freelancer, and from the opportunity to learn what had happened after her death. In addition to CT, Leonard Church - Project Freelancer's Alpha AI - was also an Airlocked participant, in an earlier round. Both he and the Counselor were able to tell her that her fight to take down Freelancer was not in vain, even if she hadn't lived to see it. While she had hoped that her message to Texas would be received and taken to heart, she had no way, in canon, of ever knowing if she'd succeeded. Hearing that she had made a difference, even if it was at the cost of her own life, helped alleviate some of her self-doubt and the feeling that she could never measure up.
Unfortunately, being trapped in a prison ship, unable to stop her new acquaintances from dying week after week, didn't do much to reinforce this new feeling of empowerment and hope. When the Counselor asked her to take on a special mission and kill the round's overseer, Blaze Dudely, in order to stop the murders and save everyone else, she agrees. As in canon, she succeeds at the cost of her own life - she sabotages Dudely's life support equipment, but is captured and killed in front of the rest of the survivors.
But once again, for CT, life doesn't end at death. Along with the other victims, she goes to "Deadland," a VR environment that first takes the form of central Florida - Disneyland and all. She spends some months in a state of hopelessness and depression, once again helpless to do anything to stop anyone from dying, and separated from many of those she's come to know - including the only real friend she'd made in Airlocked, Varric Tethras.
But it's in Deadland that CT really comes into her own. It takes some time, but eventually, she manages to make friends the way she hadn't been able to while she was alive. She's able to contribute in tangible ways - protecting people from threats within Deadland; assisting with the efforts to communicate with those on the outside who are trying to save both the dead and the living they'd left behind, now forced into another "season" of Airlocked; and bonding with and helping provide hope to those in despair. She finds people to care for and realizes that they care for her in return, and she's even able to confess her feelings to Varric and begin a relationship with him. In the end, the survivors are able to end the simulation and bring back those who had "died" while bringing down the network that had produced Airlocked, and CT sees her new friends happy and planning their new lives before going to start a new life herself, at Varric's side in Thedas.
When she arrives in LifeAftr, she will be devastated to find herself without Varric, but will remember the lessons she learned in Airlocked - that nothing is hopeless, that happiness and redemption are possible, and that true change is possible only through collaboration with others. Rather than falling once more into depression or utter cynicism, she will fight to remain optimistic, learning everything she can about her new environment, trying to work with the others, and determined to somehow get home.
Abilities: While CT has a high level of fighting skill compared to most, she is explicitly not known for this in canon, struggling (and often failing) to hold her own against her fellow Freelancers. However, despite her own insecurities regarding her skill in battle, and how harshly she judges herself, she is still, objectively speaking, a very, very good soldier. It takes Tex and Carolina working together to take her down, and even then, she manages to escape before dying, along with the armor they had come to retrieve and the data she had stolen from the Project. To the galaxy at large, and even within Project Freelancer itself, she is considered one of the best of the best. (See this clip for a brief view of CT as she is seen by some of the lowest-ranking Freelancers.)
However, fighting isn't her only skill. As touched on above, she is perceptive and observant, the first and for a long time the only one to recognize the truth of what the Director was doing, and to not only investigate, but take the risky step of trying to stop him.
Each Freelancer has a unique armor “enhancement” that is meant to help them in battle - for example, York has a special healing unit, and Carolina can change her armor color. CT’s enhancement is the ability to project a hologram of her armor, in order to fool enemies into attacking the hologram instead of herself.
Inventory: Helmet: Brown UNSC standard-issue Explosive Ordnance Disposal Armor (EOD)-style helmet
Brown EOD-style Mark VI power armor: Full-body armor made for fighting and movement, with hologram projection enhancement. Both the armor and helmet are canonically spaceworthy, and should be watertight as well.
Dog tags: They are clearly CT's, bearing her Project Freelancer handle, serial number, and blood type. They also contain a hidden USB drive, where she stored the information she stole on Freelancer.
Wyvern Tooth: A fairly high-level dagger, though with no magical properties. A gift from Varric during her time in Thedas.
The Tale of the Champion: CT's copy of Varric's book detailing the life of Hawke, the Champion of Kirkwall (weirdly the book doesn't have its own Wiki page). It will be waterlogged and probably ruined and she'll be heartbroken.
Sample
Thread Sample: First Airlocked thread; LifeAftr test drive
