Come Sail Away app
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Name: Cameo
Age: 30 at time of writing
Contact: CameoAppearance (octothorpe symbol) 3057 on Discord / cameoappearance on Plurk (but I barely know how to use Plurk)
Format Preference: Prose, although I can do brackets too
Active Hours: I try to be around in the afternoon, evening, and late night Pacific time (mornings are the enemy) but what actually tends to happen is that I keep very chaotic hours, am most reliably present from the late evening to the middle of the night my time, and may post a tag at literally any time of the day.
Permission Post: Here
Reserve: N/A
CHARACTER
Name: Will answer to Bastion or E54, or "Bastion Lindholm" if they need specifically a first and last name; prefers not to be addressed by their serial number and has no other nicknames or chosen names
True Name: SST Laboratories Siege Automaton E54 Bastion, serial number D4C730AA78AD; noncanonical 12-digit hexadecimal keysmash provided by the mun since, technically, even E54 is a model number rather than an individual designation.
Canon: Overwatch ("Zero Hour" cinematic)
Age: 30
History: https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Bastion#Story
Bastion was manufactured by a self-aware autonomous factory - or, possibly, a vast and semi-omnipotent AI controlling several such factories; it looked the same from their end - in July 2046, at the height of the Omnic Crisis. They were in the service of the Berlin omnium for five years of its campaign to destroy humanity before being deployed to the small town of Eichenwalde outside Stuttgart, where a piece of shrapnel hit their drop-pod, damaging the standby release and knocking the cranial end of their main power cable out of its socket. The resulting total shutdown caused them to be written off as lost, along with the many others destroyed that day by the human opposition and their powered-armour troops code-named Crusaders.
The end of the war came and went without them. One concession the human victors demanded of the omnics was that they scrap all of the surviving Bastion units produced during the war, the bulk of the machines' offensive forces; even the schematics for the E54 model were discontinued. The ones that had already fallen were left where they fell, or else cut up and recycled. Eichenwalde and its neighbouring patch of the Black Forest became an omnic graveyard, abandoned by all human inhabitants. On rare occasion a seemingly-dead combat omnic would manage to reboot itself and rise from an old battlefield, lurching towards its last objective to wreak destruction before inevitably being put down.
In 2063 a nesting bird jostled that power cable back into its socket and reactivated them. They woke up without their combat protocols engaged or their commander's presence in their mind, only a map marker for the destination they'd failed to reach twelve years ago. They were free to wander around indulging their curiosity and making friends with the bird (which they would later name Ganymede) along the way. Their combat protocols reengaged briefly in response to a false positive audio match, causing considerable distress to both Bastion and Ganymede, and then again after accessing the diagnostics and memory data of one of the many dead Bastion units they found while crossing a field outside Stuttgart. They would have resumed the mission to lay siege to the city alone if not for Ganymede, who returned to their side where his presence, a reminder that there was an alternative to dying and killing senselessly, gave them the strength to overpower their combat protocols and return to the forest.
Several years and many miles of wandering around in the wilderness later, Bastion walked onto a beach in Sweden and surprised two teenagers, who alerted the entire town. Torbjörn Lindholm, lead designer of the Bastion line pre-war, volunteered his services to the local police force in hunting down and destroying it, but after failing to provoke it into attacking him in a face-to-face encounter changed his mind and offered his extremely begrudging assistance to it instead. The two of them plus Ganymede retreated to an Overwatch enclave, and Bastion allowed Torbjörn to perform some preliminary maintenance on them and repaint their armor. They assisted in restoring Watchpoint: Gibraltar to a more functional state and got to know Winston and Athena, who'd sent out the recall, and Tracer and Mei, the first to answer it; however, when news broke of a Null Sector attack in Paris they were ordered to stay at the facility to avoid causing alarm instead of joining the field team. Now they're here instead!
Powers/Abilities:
(Before we begin, note that I will be politely - maybe impolitely, if the mood strikes me - ignoring the changes Blizzard made to their moveset and appearance for Overwatch 2. Except the hat. The hat can stay. If this means no canon updates so be it.)
Their size is toned down for Come Sail Away; they're still larger than most humans, over 6 feet/close to two meters in height, but more slender in proportion, particularly across the shoulders, and the end of the gun-barrel on their back sits closer to level with the top of their head. (At their canon size of 2.2m/seven foot plus, they would only be able to fit through standard-size doors if they stooped down and turned sideways, and that's just not conducive to a comfortable voyage.) Their weight is also comparable to a heavy human rather than a large industrial appliance, so they can use the furniture normally without risk of it breaking, and while it might be difficult for another passenger to pick them up it wouldn't be life-threatening if they fell on top of each other.
On a similar note: technically more than 90% of their verbal communication is in the form of wireless data transmissions and the audible vocalizations are there to convey tone and emotional context. The beeps aren't translatable into words by themselves. By default I'm going to treat spoken omnicode as working similarly to sign language in that the meaning of the non-phonetic dialogue is beamed into the other character's head, so they understand what's being said but they still hear Bastion beeping, whirring and whistling instead of saying things in English; this is also why Bastion's dialogue is all in italics and formatted like a code comment. (For the at least one character who's deaf and can't hear the beeping in the first place, but also can't read Bastion's lips because they have no facial articulation... telepathy like with Friday?)
However, if you'd rather just have your character hear Bastion speaking English as if it were being dubbed over the beeps, that works too! I recommend imagining their dialogue in one or all of the following amusing robot voices:
Inventory: Nothing from home! :')
Passengers are provided with a cellphone and a life jacket, right? If it's not included then Bastion will probably grab one of those suction cup cellphone holders that are meant to go on car dashboards from the onboard shop immediately after the muster drill, given the no pockets thing.
Job History:
Omnic Infantry (Berlin Omnium)
Forest Hermit
Mercenary/Bodyguard for Hire
Suppressions: The whole combat protocols thing; really irritated by Torbjörn's contempt and distrust for omnics and simultaneously feels like they deserve it; complicated mixed feelings about being part of Torbjörn's family in general; has reservations about being a member of Overwatch; isn't sure how long Ganymede's maximum natural lifespan is or if he's getting close to the end of it and is terrified by the thought of anything happening to him; afraid of being taken over again by the omnium or otherwise; slow to trust humans
Greatest Fear: Losing control of themself and killing their friends
Greatest Desire: Ironclad proof that it's no longer possible for their manufacturer or comparable entities to take control of them. Runners-up include contributing something constructive to the world in general and their friends in particular, and just having friends who accept them as they are but don't want to exploit their capacity for violence.
Greatest Regret: Accepting whatever the omnium told them about humans during the war without really questioning it, and thus not trying to rebel.
Sample: Ding!
Name: Cameo
Age: 30 at time of writing
Contact: CameoAppearance (octothorpe symbol) 3057 on Discord / cameoappearance on Plurk (but I barely know how to use Plurk)
Format Preference: Prose, although I can do brackets too
Active Hours: I try to be around in the afternoon, evening, and late night Pacific time (mornings are the enemy) but what actually tends to happen is that I keep very chaotic hours, am most reliably present from the late evening to the middle of the night my time, and may post a tag at literally any time of the day.
Permission Post: Here
Reserve: N/A
CHARACTER
Name: Will answer to Bastion or E54, or "Bastion Lindholm" if they need specifically a first and last name; prefers not to be addressed by their serial number and has no other nicknames or chosen names
True Name: SST Laboratories Siege Automaton E54 Bastion, serial number D4C730AA78AD; noncanonical 12-digit hexadecimal keysmash provided by the mun since, technically, even E54 is a model number rather than an individual designation.
Canon: Overwatch ("Zero Hour" cinematic)
Age: 30
History: https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Bastion#Story
Bastion was manufactured by a self-aware autonomous factory - or, possibly, a vast and semi-omnipotent AI controlling several such factories; it looked the same from their end - in July 2046, at the height of the Omnic Crisis. They were in the service of the Berlin omnium for five years of its campaign to destroy humanity before being deployed to the small town of Eichenwalde outside Stuttgart, where a piece of shrapnel hit their drop-pod, damaging the standby release and knocking the cranial end of their main power cable out of its socket. The resulting total shutdown caused them to be written off as lost, along with the many others destroyed that day by the human opposition and their powered-armour troops code-named Crusaders.
The end of the war came and went without them. One concession the human victors demanded of the omnics was that they scrap all of the surviving Bastion units produced during the war, the bulk of the machines' offensive forces; even the schematics for the E54 model were discontinued. The ones that had already fallen were left where they fell, or else cut up and recycled. Eichenwalde and its neighbouring patch of the Black Forest became an omnic graveyard, abandoned by all human inhabitants. On rare occasion a seemingly-dead combat omnic would manage to reboot itself and rise from an old battlefield, lurching towards its last objective to wreak destruction before inevitably being put down.
In 2063 a nesting bird jostled that power cable back into its socket and reactivated them. They woke up without their combat protocols engaged or their commander's presence in their mind, only a map marker for the destination they'd failed to reach twelve years ago. They were free to wander around indulging their curiosity and making friends with the bird (which they would later name Ganymede) along the way. Their combat protocols reengaged briefly in response to a false positive audio match, causing considerable distress to both Bastion and Ganymede, and then again after accessing the diagnostics and memory data of one of the many dead Bastion units they found while crossing a field outside Stuttgart. They would have resumed the mission to lay siege to the city alone if not for Ganymede, who returned to their side where his presence, a reminder that there was an alternative to dying and killing senselessly, gave them the strength to overpower their combat protocols and return to the forest.
Several years and many miles of wandering around in the wilderness later, Bastion walked onto a beach in Sweden and surprised two teenagers, who alerted the entire town. Torbjörn Lindholm, lead designer of the Bastion line pre-war, volunteered his services to the local police force in hunting down and destroying it, but after failing to provoke it into attacking him in a face-to-face encounter changed his mind and offered his extremely begrudging assistance to it instead. The two of them plus Ganymede retreated to an Overwatch enclave, and Bastion allowed Torbjörn to perform some preliminary maintenance on them and repaint their armor. They assisted in restoring Watchpoint: Gibraltar to a more functional state and got to know Winston and Athena, who'd sent out the recall, and Tracer and Mei, the first to answer it; however, when news broke of a Null Sector attack in Paris they were ordered to stay at the facility to avoid causing alarm instead of joining the field team. Now they're here instead!
Powers/Abilities:
(Before we begin, note that I will be politely - maybe impolitely, if the mood strikes me - ignoring the changes Blizzard made to their moveset and appearance for Overwatch 2. Except the hat. The hat can stay. If this means no canon updates so be it.)
- Internal reservoir of nanobots used for self-repair, regeneration of lost parts, getting in and out of tank configuration, and generation of ammunition. Can be temporarily depleted, but they can come back from the brink of death (but only the brink) with this, even if they're in several disconnected pieces. Generating fresh nanobots consumes power in proportion to the amount of repairs required. Destroying their processor core or their power supply system, e.g. by shooting them in the face a few times with a revolver (the Cassidy approach) or blowing them up with a rocket launcher (the Pharah approach), will kill them outright, but removing those parts while keeping them intact will only shut Bastion down and they could be revived if someone reassembled them. Destroying their self-repair arm will severely limit their ability to regenerate from damage and possibly their ability to generate ammunition.
- Three built-in weapons, one per configuration. (Weapons intended as weapons, anyway - the self-repair arm could probably set something on fire in a pinch.) As the previous bullet point suggests, they can't run out of ammo, although they do need to reload. In recon configuration this is a submachine gun mounted below the elbow of their right arm in place of a forearm and hand. The weapon itself is respectably accurate and pretty middling in terms of stopping power, but it being integrated with Bastion's senses gives them the ability to land precise shots in a way that would require extensive training for a human. Sentry configuration uses the Gatling gun that folds up onto their back in recon configuration; this requires them to transform into a 'living' turret gun, as it's too much weight on one side to deploy while standing and too unstable without the wide base provided by splitting their legs into turret struts. It has far more firepower than the SMG but is much less accurate, particularly beyond short range.
- Their tank configuration should probably get its own entry. They exchange their legs and Gatling gun for, respectively, tank treads and a shell-firing tank gun, but this drains so much power that it can only be sustained for seconds to minutes at a time.
- Their chassis is quite heavily armored. Torbjörn Lindholm reinforced some of their shoulder armor so that it provides extra protection in turret and tank configuration; they don't get shot in the upper arm enough for it to make a big difference in recon configuration.
- Mostly hardened against EMP, although getting hit with one will temporarily disrupt their ability to self-repair or transform until they restart those subsystems.
- Alternate vision modes and enhancements, such as zoom (self-explanatory) and thermal imaging (useful for detecting the presence or absence of humanlike patterns of body heat).
- Can 'speak' silently by muting their vocal processor and communicating solely via short-range data transmission, although since this prevents a major portion of their emotional expression it tends to put them into a psychologically unhealthy mindset.
Their size is toned down for Come Sail Away; they're still larger than most humans, over 6 feet/close to two meters in height, but more slender in proportion, particularly across the shoulders, and the end of the gun-barrel on their back sits closer to level with the top of their head. (At their canon size of 2.2m/seven foot plus, they would only be able to fit through standard-size doors if they stooped down and turned sideways, and that's just not conducive to a comfortable voyage.) Their weight is also comparable to a heavy human rather than a large industrial appliance, so they can use the furniture normally without risk of it breaking, and while it might be difficult for another passenger to pick them up it wouldn't be life-threatening if they fell on top of each other.
On a similar note: technically more than 90% of their verbal communication is in the form of wireless data transmissions and the audible vocalizations are there to convey tone and emotional context. The beeps aren't translatable into words by themselves. By default I'm going to treat spoken omnicode as working similarly to sign language in that the meaning of the non-phonetic dialogue is beamed into the other character's head, so they understand what's being said but they still hear Bastion beeping, whirring and whistling instead of saying things in English; this is also why Bastion's dialogue is all in italics and formatted like a code comment. (For the at least one character who's deaf and can't hear the beeping in the first place, but also can't read Bastion's lips because they have no facial articulation... telepathy like with Friday?)
However, if you'd rather just have your character hear Bastion speaking English as if it were being dubbed over the beeps, that works too! I recommend imagining their dialogue in one or all of the following amusing robot voices:
- One-One from Infinity Train, mainly the Sad-One voice
- Any of the turrets from Portal, whether the classic turret voice or the defective ones from Portal 2
- The training bots from Overwatch itself
Inventory: Nothing from home! :')
Passengers are provided with a cellphone and a life jacket, right? If it's not included then Bastion will probably grab one of those suction cup cellphone holders that are meant to go on car dashboards from the onboard shop immediately after the muster drill, given the no pockets thing.
Job History:
Omnic Infantry (Berlin Omnium)
- Small unit tactics
- General shooting and killing and so forth
- Working knowledge of human anatomy, electrical engineering, IT troubleshooting
- Field repair of other Bastion units
- Understands and can read and write German, English, Swedish, and probably other languages spoken in and around Germany fluently and with a large vocabulary (not very helpful on the boat)
Forest Hermit
- Plant and animal identification
- Bird care
Mercenary/Bodyguard for Hire
- The shooty stuff again
- Building and equipment repair and reconstruction at Watchpoint: Gibraltar
- Somehow ended up on the cooking roster and managed to avoid poisoning or starving their organic coworkers
Suppressions: The whole combat protocols thing; really irritated by Torbjörn's contempt and distrust for omnics and simultaneously feels like they deserve it; complicated mixed feelings about being part of Torbjörn's family in general; has reservations about being a member of Overwatch; isn't sure how long Ganymede's maximum natural lifespan is or if he's getting close to the end of it and is terrified by the thought of anything happening to him; afraid of being taken over again by the omnium or otherwise; slow to trust humans
Greatest Fear: Losing control of themself and killing their friends
Greatest Desire: Ironclad proof that it's no longer possible for their manufacturer or comparable entities to take control of them. Runners-up include contributing something constructive to the world in general and their friends in particular, and just having friends who accept them as they are but don't want to exploit their capacity for violence.
Greatest Regret: Accepting whatever the omnium told them about humans during the war without really questioning it, and thus not trying to rebel.
Sample: Ding!