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PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER: Ten
ARE YOU AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD?: Yes
CONTACT: Journal PMs: dressedtothe
Plurk: jesii
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A, but also applying for the Warrior of Light (lightduties)

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: YoRHa No.9 Type S, aka 9S
CANON: NieR: Automata
CANON REFERENCE: A Wikia link
CANON POINT: Chapter 11-03, after 9S and 2B blow themselves up in order to get back to the Bunker.
CRAU HISTORY: N/A
AGE: 3, but he is an android with the appearance and attitude of a 19 year old human.
APPEARANCE: From the wiki
CONTRACT PAYMENT: Eradicate the machine lifeforms (Pascal and his villagers can stay, maybe) and blow up the moon, which would take out the lunar server on it. Without a war to fight and without a lie to maintain, maybe the 9S that replaces him can finally live peacefully with 2B.

QUESTIONNAIRE:

How important is loyalty to you? What does it take to earn your loyalty? What extents are you willing to go through to maintain loyalty, and respect the loyalty others might have invested in you?

In the beginning, nothing at all; he had been created to serve his organisation, YoRHa, on behalf of humanity. But now that he has learned some painful truths about YoRHa, and the falsehoods of his purpose, that loyalty has wavered greatly. With his trust and faith shaken, he still serves but reluctantly, instead placing his loyalty in the hands of his work partner, 2B. Even though he knows her true purpose, he would go to the ends of the Earth for her, he would fight the world for her. She's one of the few reasons he has left to keep going.

The Jigoku-cho factions gaining 9S' loyalty will be a struggle. With his trust so thoroughly broken by the realities of his home world and the contract always just out of reach, he won't exactly be champing at the bit to do additional work beyond what he sees as useful in progressing his goals or his priorities. His loyalty will more likely be given to specific people rather than organisations as a whole, and while treating him well and having goals align are nice, spending a lot of time with him is the best way to earn his trust.

And once someone has that, well, there's not a lot 9S wouldn't do for them. 9S largely divides his perception of the world to those he cares about and those he doesn't.

(However, humans will always have some level of loyalty from 9S; it's built into of his programming to serve and protect humans, so he will feel almost compelled to aid them whatever way he can. It isn't something he is aware of due to the extinction of humanity in his world, and his displeasure when he learns of this will be unparalleled. And yet... he won't quite be able to bring himself to turn away from his programming.)

What is your favorite diversion? Hobbies, indulgences, vices? Would you put off important things for that diversion, or would you be more strict about how you spend your time and/or money?

9S is built with an insatiable curiosity of just about everything. While that falls in line with his purpose as a Scanner (which is to gather intelligence to benefit the war effort against the machines and to recover old world data to aid the preparation of Earth for humanity), he truly does enjoy learning and exploring new experiences, so endlessly consuming new data is actually fun to him. He enjoys analysing and dissecting technology he doesn't know and spends his spare time endlessly analysing machine hacking patterns to the point he has to be told to take a break. Truly the closest thing you have to a nerd in android society.

While he's never quite abandoned a mission in favour of getting distracted by whatever has caught his attention this time -- he's often told off for chattering away while working -- he certainly isn't opposed to taking it easy on non-urgent activities. His performance is exemplary (look, he knows how to prioritise!) but his easily distracted nature means somehow he ends up indulging in a lot of completely unrelated activities, to the chagrin of his keepers. He's a top-end model! He can process things in parallel! It's fine as long as he gets results, right?

And at the end of the day he does enjoy a good dinner and bath, even though they are unnecessary to androids. Hey, it feels good, and that's more important than its effectiveness.

An oni of the Shuten Clan has gone completely berserk, and is going on a violent rampage through the city. You can't stop him, but you CAN lead him elsewhere, but you only have two choices: a road by a discotheque with a large crowd in front, or the nearby park that you do not know is unoccupied, and may have children present. What do you choose, and why?

9S always tries to look for a third option when presented with two unpleasant options, but when no other solution comes to him, he will choose the park. A discotheque with a large crowd is guaranteed to put people in danger, but a park that may or may not have children has a greater than zero chance of no one being in danger. Even if there are some people at the park, there will likely be fewer people than the discotheque, which means it would be easier for him to prevent harm or injury coming to them.

That the potential people in the park could be children is irrelevant to 9S; he was designed to protect humans as a whole. He doesn't see a reason to prioritise child life over adult life, though he does understand that children are cared for by adults. He just doesn't have the same emotionally driven response to children.

You've worked with your Faction awhile now and you feel like the reward of your contract is within reach. But at the last moment, you are told you have even more service to pay beforehand, an obscure clause in the contract being exploited to keep you under your boss's thumb even longer. Your Faction Leader hasn't spoken on this, and might be able to dispute it. Do you go to your leader? Do you argue the dispute yourself? Do you begrudgingly accept the additional work? Something else?

9S' immediate response is angry, petulant protest and he won't even bother trying to hide his displeasure. Complaining and arguing about how that wasn't what he agreed to will be his next step, even if he's shown the specific obscure clause. Likely he would claim that he wasn't given that fine print to read or that it's not the same as what he was originally shown -- because of course he's not wrong, he's a top of the line android, he wouldn't make a mistake like that!

But as long as the Faction superior delivering the news stands firm, it isn't that difficult to brow-beat him into submission and 9S will eventually back down. After all, what other options does he have? He's dead and has all the time in the world to see his contract to the end...

...and maybe a small, tiny part of him that he wants to deny existing doesn't want his contract to be fulfilled. After all, when his contract is fulfilled, what will happen to the him who is here? If his existence continues, what purpose will he have without the contract? What reason does he have left to continue to function? And 9S doesn't want to think about what his answer to those questions will be.

POWERS & ABILITIES:
9S being an android gives him several abilities just by his nature of being non-biological. This includes:

Slightly enhanced strength. Nerfed down to an average human.
Enhanced speed and agility. Nerfed to a trained human soldier in the setting.
Ability to control weapons via magnetic fields, allowing him to do things like throw his sword and have it return to him. This function will be disabled in Jigoku. His standard swordsmanship without the magnetic field is uh. Bad.
General increased resilience to damage. He's made of metal after all. He'll still break if you drop him from a big enough height, though.
Making digital records of his experiences, which can be stored and distributed via electronic devices.
Limited self-repair function (equivalent to human ability to heal minor injuries like small cuts and mild burns)

However, despite being an android, 9S is still susceptible to various human-like weaknesses due to being built in the image of humans, e.g. he can be strangled and stabbed to death, and losing limbs will cause him noticeable agony as he has pain receptors built into him. Noting that while he certainly has more endurance through grievous injury like limb loss, he cannot be healed through magical means and repairs would be difficult to obtain in Jigoku-cho.

As a Type S model, 9S has some additional abilities:

Portable holographic screen

Since some of his duties involve maintenance, he can project a small, hard light holographic screen to display data. I'd say he could keep this, since it's largely a convenient tool to show people things, but I wouldn't be cut up if it's not allowed in Jigoku-cho.

Hacking

Anything with digital circuits (computers, modern cars, robots with AIs, etc.), he is able to hack and lift information from, cause malfunctions, or in some cases, take them over. He is also able to hack himself (and other machine-type beings with AI) in order to perform internal maintenance, but it is the technological equivalent to forcing his vision to focus when he's dizzy from being knocked about rather than a true repair of mechanical failure. If his circuits have been physically damaged, no amount of hacking will be able to fix it.

For mechanical lifeforms such as robots and other androids, his hacking ability functions very similar to telepathy and mind-control. He is able to deep delve into their memories, erase memories, change their behaviour and possess them. When he hacks a mechanical lifeform, he also tends to unintentionally lift surface level thoughts and impulses from them. He can also disable specific functions, such as disabling motor functions to impair movement.

Notably, his physical body is largely defenseless while hacking, including when possessing another body.

In this setting, due to power nerfing and the magical component in technology, I would say that he wouldn't be able to hack any of it (without Rewards) but would be able to intuit basic tech use very quickly and understand more advanced functions through studying and experimentation.

If he's allowed to regain hacking abilities through rewards, I am happy to work with mods on what he can and cannot extract from technology within the setting, and when it comes to hacking that may affect player characters and potentially technology-based NPCs, I'll apply the usual RP telepathy-type rules (i.e. obtain OOC permissions, it is fallible, etc.). It's unfamiliar technology after all.

SUITABILITY: Although 9S is technically 3 years old he is also an android, meaning that he is functionally an adult from the moment he was booted up. He was created to be one of many android soldiers in a war (against machines), so he seen plenty of violence and doesn't hesitate to engage in it himself. Drugs and alcohol aren't uncommon in android society and he has likely taken some as well. NieR:Automata has a few scenes that can read with implied sexual undertones and the writer has confirmed that androids can have genitalia and can simulate pregnancies, so it seems fairly safe to assume that sex isn't something particularly unusual to android society. The wiki also indicates that the English voice actor was advised that if 9S were human, he would be 19 years old.

While he does come from a regimented society of androids with a very skewed perspective of human social norms, 9S is highly adaptable due to his role as a scout and information gatherer, so will have little trouble adjusting to the new normal in Jigoku-cho.

FACTION SUITABILITY:

The Shuten Clan
The clan 9S is least suited to by virtue of lacking physical strength and fighting prowess, and inability to look imposing even if his life depended on it. His one trait that may earn him some respect in the Shuten Clan is his strength of will, where he will give his all to fulfill anything that he puts his mind to. If he is given a mission, he will do his best to carry it out to the best of his ability. He could staff the gambling halls, but truthfully he has a loose moral compass when it comes to cheating. Once he understands that it's only a problem if he's caught, he'd warm up to it a lot more.

The Tanamo Clan
Philosophically, the Tanamo Clan aligns most closely with 9S' idealised life. He has never truly experienced freedom, so most of his cherished memories have been those moments of leisure snatched in between a highly regimented and work focused society. One of his daydreams is to simply be able to experience the pleasures of life.

His insatiable curiosity would help him be a quick study for working in the restaurants and his peppy personality and desire to please would make him suited to many roles for the Tanamo Clan.

The Sutoku Alliance
9S' skills revolve around intelligence gathering, albeit less from people and more through computer systems and scouting geographical locations. However, he greatly values intelligence and is practically driven to collect data (as it is what he is literally made for). He has a seemingly open and inquisitive demeanour, which can be disarming and endear others to speak to him more freely, but is more than capable of keeping quiet about secrets and ferreting out classified information.

Like with Tanamo, his curiosity and seemingly peppy personality would make him suitable for many jobs in the Sutoku Alliance. His skills with technology would draw him to electronics related jobs, but he could slot into backstage roles for theatres or other performance related establishments, too.

The Department of the Enma
The faction that is most like the society he came from. 9S knows all about working for an organisation that values order above all else. Androids like himself are made for a specific role in their military organisation and 9S revels in it. While he was often reprimanded for his casual conduct while on the field, he knows how to toe the company line and values delivering exemplary work suitable to his role. He will do as he is told when he is told to. While not necessarily built for administration, 9S is adaptable enough to do well if placed in a role that is not repetitive (as he would otherwise get bored.) The structured nature of the Department of the Enma would be, in some ways, familiar and reassuring.

However, when orders don't appear to add up and he will dig and dig and dig on the down low until he uncovers why. But whether he will do anything about it is another matter; he was well aware of how easily the system on his home world is willing to betray him, but still accepted it because saying nothing would allow him more time with the person he cared the most about. In that situation, he might chafe under a structure he perceives as unfair, but will still begrudgingly serve.

SAMPLES

[bakerstreet meme] Thread with Nyx: a discussion about hope in the face of despair.
[bakerstreet meme] Thread with Castiel: in which protectiveness over a human he's never met rears its head.