( application | savrou )

OUT OF CHARACTER
Player Name: Kerry
Are you 16 or older: Yes
Contact: skitties @ plurk | skittys#2174
Current Characters: Ana Amari ( sleepdarts )
Tag: gideon (crau)

IN CHARACTER
Name: Gideon
Canon: Legends of Tomorrow
Canon Point: 213 Land of the Lost + 6 months crau from entranceway
Age: N/A

History:

canon

Gideon is an artificial consciousness that has been a part of, and works aboard the Waverider for over a decade. Along with her captain, Rip Hunter, she has assisted him in protecting the timeline and in bringing Time Pirates to justice. Alongside assisting Rip with knowledge on the timeline and their missions she has also guided him, served not only as his conscience and confidante but also a tactician, helping him to devise strategies for the successful completion of their tasks.

Whilst they originally worked for the Time Masters their refusal to allow Rip to alter the timeline to prevent Vandal Savage's rise to power caused him to go rogue, with Gideon in full approval of his plan. Aware of it prior to his meeting with the Time Council Gideon asked him the status of their next move once he'd returned, and remarked upon the fact that there would be others joining them on this mission -- something that Gideon found to be strange given that Rip preferred working alone, with only her for guidance. By allowing Rip to take the Waverider, and her, Gideon defied her programming and protocols which would have dictated stopping him and reporting him to the time council. Pulling up the files of Sara Lance, Ray Palmer, Martin Stein, Jefferson Jackson, Mick Rory, Leonard Snart, Kendra Saunders and Carter Hall for Rip, Gideon navigated the Waverider to each location for their recruitment.

After the crew had been recruited, and Gideon introduced to them, they began by travelling to 1975 in search of knowledge on Vandal Savage's location. After half of the team depart the ship Jefferson asks Gideon to return him to 2016, though she refuses under Captain Hunter's orders. At his complaint, and insult of her being a computer, she offers him a sedative, subtly trying to shut him up as well as calm him down. Finding an expert on Vandal Savage they manage to retrieve the information, but the Waverider is attacked by a bounty hunter, sent by the Time Master's to bring them in. Gideon manages to jump the ship away, remaining in 1975 but now in Norway. The crew discovers that Savage has gotten his hands on nuclear weapons, and set out to try and foil his plans. Unfortunately, and possibly something that could have been expected, Stein, Jefferson, Sara, Mick and Rory were detected by Savage, causing him to set off an explosive. Though the team managed to quell the disturbance, and prevent the explosive from killing a lot of people, there were unexpected events. After locating the dagger that could kill Vandal Savage they attempted to kill him, resulting in the death of Carter and the wounding of Kendra. The team was grounded momentarily with Kendra's injuries preventing a time jump, though it allowed Rip and Gideon to examine the timeline for Savage's next appearance, and to formulate a new plan.

Travelling next to 1986 the team break into the Pentagon to allow Gideon to intercept files on Savage's whereabouts. Discovering that, along with Russian scientists, that Savage is looking to create a Soviet Firestorm the team spring into action, trying to prevent the catastrophe. Unfortunately Stein, Ray and Mick are captured, causing the others to mount a rescue mission. With the team successfully extracted Gideon pilots the Waverider from 1986. As they travel through the time stream they are attacked by Chronos, with Gideon managing to fight off all but one of the missiles. The damage to the ship causes Gideon to force a crash landing, stranding them in Star City, 2046.

Due to a fire inside the ship Gideon's systems are shut down, requiring a repair to the Waverider to bring her back. As the team investigates 2046 for the required parts they're intercepted by someone whom they think is a friend -- the Green Arrow. Although the team is successful in retrieving the part, managing to bring Gideon back online, they are torn over what to do about Star City. Although this future is not their future Sara wishes still to save it, at odds with Rip -- and Gideon, who doesn't believe that she can sustain the ship's power. Sara goes to help regardless, with Kendra helping to repair the ship under guidance from Gideon. With Star City saved after the team joins Sara, and the Waverider repaired, Gideon gives a report on the status of the ship, almost (nosily) adding in both Jefferson and Ray's attempts to court Kendra, though she's interrupted before she can mention too much.

After Savage's trail goes cold, and Gideon unable to further locate him in the timeline, Rip does the one thing that may seem the most foolish -- answer a distress call from another time ship. Given the Waverider's rogue status they would be likely to be turned in, however Rip believed that giving aid would gain them an opportunity to gain an updated view of the timeline to help Gideon locate Savage. The distress call ended up being a trap, with time pirates taking some of the crew hostage. Tensions run high between Rip and Mick, causing the latter to betray the Waverider to the pirates. After Stein rescues the crew, and the ship's captain, they return to the Waverider, with the updated information. Unfortunately, due to his actions, Leonard has to 'take care of' Mick, apparently killing him.

Discovering that Savage was linked to murders in 1958 the crew travel there, discovering that he'd been attempting to recreate the abilities of Carter and Kendra in the teenagers of the time. Through a serum that Gideon and Stein created, the team manage to reverse Savage's experiment they were (once again) attacked by Chronos who takes control of the ship, stranding Ray, Sara and Kendra in 1958 as it leaves. With the Waverider disabled and floating through the time stream Rip is forced to reset Gideon to undo the sabotage. Unfortunately, due to the attack, Gideon isn't able to return the Waverider to the moment that they'd left, getting them back as close as she could -- two years later. With the crew returned they make a shocking discovery as they take Chronos in -- he's Mick Rory. With Gideon holding him in one of the cells the crew decide to try and reform him, still requiring his help (and apologetic for what had happened to him).

Realising that they have little time left Gideon helps Rip come up with the next plan -- they need to stop Savage closer to the moment, this time travelling to 2147. Hoping that by removing Savage's protege (Per Degaton) from the timeline they can prevent Savage's rise to power, Rip confides in Gideon about his plan. After kidnapping the boy Sara questions what he's dreaming of, with Gideon revealing that she can see into his dreams, and the rest of the crew's -- something that Sara is a little uncomfortable to realise. After kidnapping Per Degaton doesn't affect the timeline Rip realises that he needs to go further. Gideon is supportive of Rip, despite the difficult decision, though the rest of the crew doesn't believe that killing Per Degaton is the right thing to do. Instead Rip returns the boy to the timeline, though the timeline of events is accelerated, with Savage now rising to power earlier.

Unfortunately they don't have time to deal with that now, as the Time Master's latest threat on the crew's lives takes precedence. With the knowledge that the Hunters have been sent after the crew they hide in 1871, though are found by the Hunters. Though the Hunters are defeated it is revealed that the Pilgrim has been sent out also, in order to kill the younger selves of the crew. Gideon is able to use the Pilgrim's temporal distortions in order to predict her next move, allowing the crew to rescue their younger selves before she can kill them. Enraged the Pilgrim takes on more step, kidnapping the crew's loved ones in order to force them to turn over themselves. Rip agrees to do so, also taking his younger self along -- knowing that he would be able to stop the Pilgrim, killing her in order to save his own life (and thus everyone else's).

With all but one threat defeated, leaving Savage left, the crew finally travel to 2166 -- their only move left. Tracking Savage down the team almost have him defeated until he reveals that Carter Hall is alive, though lacking his memories. Wishing her love returned Kendra fails to kill him, forcing the team to come up with a new plan. Hoping that the Time Masters will help, with Savage and a confession in hand, Rip takes them back to the Vanishing Point.

Despite all of the evidence against Savage the Time Masters still refuse to help, revealing that they had been helping Savage all along, with their plan for nought. With the threat of a future event looming the Time Masters had believed that Savage was the only one that could stop it, and had manipulated time (and broken their own rules) to ensure Savage's help. Managing to escape (again) from the Time Masters they concoct a new plan -- to destroy the Oculus, ensuring that the Time Masters can never manipulate anything (or anyone) again. Though they are able to destroy the Oculus it required Leonard Snart to sacrifice his life to ensure that it would be destroyed. With the Time Masters out of the game the only problem left is Savage. Tracking him down they discover that Savage plans to turn back time to 1700 BC to rewrite his (and Kendra's) destiny. Realising that the only way to kill him requires rendering him mortal first the crew attack him at three points in time, killing him in each of them -- and finally ending Savage. As well as stopping Savage they also needed to prevent the meteorites from exploding, which had been how Savage had planned to turned back time. Though the Legends were able to stop them in two time points they couldn't get to the third in time, requiring Rip to use the Waverider to send it into the sun. As Rip prepares to do this Gideon confides in him, expressing her fears over dying. Rip comforts her, admitting that he is also afraid, though they are successful and the time ship remains in tact. With Savage's death Kendra and Carter opt to stay in 2016, wanting to start a threat-free life, though the rest of the crew wish to travel still. Before they can begin to celebrate they are approached by Rex Tyler who warns them of their impending deaths. Not able to learn much from Rex before he disappears the crew head back onto the Waverider, taking one more trip out. And then six more months worth. Non-stop.

After visiting France, and successfully completing their mission, Gideon begins to offer her congratulations to Rip for it, noticing how far the crew has come since they first began travelling on the Waverider. Mid-celebration the ship is hit by a time quake, something that neither Rip nor Gideon had ever experienced before. After discovering that a nuclear bomb would be detonated in New York, causing a time aberration, Rip scattered the crew throughout history in order to protect them, intercepting the bomb with the Waveriver to save New York City. Due to injuries that Mick had sustained on the last mission Rip had to leave him in the medbay, in stasis. With little time left until the Waverider intercepts the bomb Rip checks on Gideon, and when she replies that she's there he replies with relief that yes, she always is. With the crew scattered, and Mick in stasis, Rip leaves a final message with Gideon for the crew before the Waverider intercepts the bomb, leaving it derelict in the ocean for 70 years.

It isn't until Nate Heywood discovered the Waverider that things got back on track. Waking Mick from stasis, and reactivating Gideon, they set about reuniting the crew, and fixing their mistake. Despite a successful mission, managing to prevent New York from being destroyed by the bomb, Gideon was unable to locate Captain Hunter anywhere in time. Though they had a new addition to their team in Nate, and Sara would eventually take over as Captain of the Waverider, the dynamic (for Gideon) was not quite the same. Her oldest friend was no longer there, and she couldn't help but feel a little lost.

It didn't help when, in addition to fixing time aberrations, they found a new foe in the 'Legion of Doom'. A speedster that they would discover to be Eobard Thawne, along with Damien Darhk and Malcolm Merlyn, were looking to alter the fabric of reality. Though the team wouldn't discover that for several months it led to several things: locating Rip Hunter, finding an item known as the Spear of Destiny (an item that could rewrite reality), and working with another superhero group. Though they had completed a successful mission with the JSA, a group working in the 1940's to protect the world, when the leader of the JSA was killed one of its members stowed away aboard the Waverider, certain that one of the crew had killed him. When it was revealed that they didn't, and they were fighting the same battle, Amara asked to stay aboard so that she could help search for the killer.

It would be that searching for the killer would lead them to Rip Hunter, as the Legion of Doom were also looking for him. Finding Rip without his memories the team fought, though failed to rescue him before the Legion were able to capture him. Though Gideon would be relieved that he was alive, she would also be saddened that he had been captured. Whilst she had come to respect the other members of the crew, taking to calling Sara Captain and developing a rapport with the others, none of them could come close to filling the gap that Rip had left. Gideon's loss was reflected in her manner to the crew, though other than Nate commenting that he didn't think Gideon liked him, little was thought of it -- she wasn't "real". After it was commented that perhaps she wasn't working fast enough Gideon retorted that she could "redirect power from life support", and made certain that they knew that she could hear their comments about her, and when she was making a point to ignore them.

Although they failed to capture Rip they managed to obtain a device that the Legion had also been searching for. Once connecting it to Gideon they discovered that it was a map, leading them to pieces of the Spear of Destiny. They'd learned on a previous mission that Rip, knowing what the Spear could do, had taken it to the three remaining members of the JSA, splitting it into four pieces and getting each of them, including Rip, to hide their piece of the Spear throughout time. Each time they located a piece of the Spear they had a fight on their hands with the Legion of Doom, but that wasn't all. Eobard Thawne had managed to recover Rip's memories, though he'd altered Rip's mind in the process, getting him to work alongside the Legion. They not only had Rip against them but Rip giving them the locations of the Spear. Though the Legends managed to gather one the fight was tough.

After one mission saw Gideon, and the Waverider, shut down and Sara nearly lost it seemed as if everything was against them. Thankfully the rest of the team managed to get both the ship and Gideon operational again, allowing Gideon to save Sara's life. With the crew back in one piece they were able to bring Rip in, placing him in one of the holding cells and instructing Gideon to not respond to his commands. Which was difficult, and Rip knew this. Rip attempted to make contact on multiple occasions, and though Gideon responded she called him Mister Hunter instead of Captain Hunter, her tone a little colder showing her displeasure for what had become of him, and the situation. Rip didn't like this, and in an effort to release himself (and screw over the team) gave Gideon an override command. Although she asked him to not make her do it he repeated the command, and Gideon had no choice but to comply -- though she didn't do it happily.

With the command releasing Rip he made his way to the artifact that Gideon had been analysing, activating the Waverider's self destruct sequence. In order to stop the self destruct sequence they needed to reboot Gideon, causing the Waverider to crash land. When a complaint was made over the piloting of the landing Gideon huffed that she had already apologised, not at all pleased about the remark.

With the crew searching for Rip on the ship, finding him, he destroys the artifact before being knocked unconscious and taken to the medical bay. With Rip's mind altered by Eobard Thawne, his thoughts twisted - lending Rip to not know what was real, Mick suggested using a cognitive intrusion to try and find out the information from Rip, and potentially bring him back. Although Gideon wished to have her Captain back with them, she found the process to be barbaric and recommended against it. Despite her opinion the procedure was conducted, causing Gideon to also take presence in Rip's mind.

Inside Rip's mind, a twisted version of the Waverider, Gideon first set about reuniting with Jax and Sara to help them find Rip and free him from the torment. Finding Jax first Gideon explained the situation, though kept the nature of how she was there (and in a human form) cryptic, stating only that she was real. With Jax the two located both Sara and Rip, freeing them from the cell. Though Gideon is ultimately relieved to have found Rip, the first stage to helping him, she's troubled by the state of his mind and focuses their attention on helping to free Rip rather than getting the information about the Spear of Destiny. Though the group ran into obstacles Gideon was fundamental in helping Rip remember who he was, reminding him that Jax and Sara were real. This helped Rip, seeing his crew in danger, to save them, causing the walls of his mental construct to fall. Once Jax and Sara had departed Rip's mind Rip turned to thank Gideon for keeping him company during his tormented days, and for guiding him home, though he was reluctant to leave her -- fearing losing her. Noting this Gideon assured him that she would always be there, in one form or another.

previous game: entranceway

Arriving in Wonderland
Rip
Ray
Sarah + being human
Events

Personality: Tell us what makes your character your character. There is no particular length required, but be specific and describe who they are using canon examples to support their behavior. If your character is an AU or CRAU then describe how they are different from their OU self. This is one of the most important sections.

sassy
honest
compassionate (ish)/caring
provides hope
curious

Abilities/Skills:

SUPERCOMPUTER. Gideon has full control over the Waverider and her systems and frequently pilots and time jumps the ship. She also has a vast knowledge of the timeline and is capable of detecting time aberrations, including predicting how altering past events may affect the future. In addition to operating the navigation of the Waverider Gideon also administers medical treatment, including healing crew members and administering sedatives. She has also guided Martin Stein in how to perform brain surgery.
TELEPATHY. Gideon has shown that she is able to see into the team's dreams, and knew the state of Rip's mind prior to entering it, able to advise Sara and Jefferson on how to help save him.
HACKING. Gideon is able to sabotage other AI systems and can mask her data trail to appear as a different source.
TACTICIAN. Gideon is able to produce plans and strategies which have helped Rip out on numerous occasions, particularly when he sees the situation as hopeless.

Strengths/Weaknesses:

+ sassy
+ not human
+
- artificial consciousness
- shut down protocols

Items: Please list all items that the character has on them at the time of their arrival.

SAMPLES
Network Sample: How would your character address the network and other characters; must be five to eight lines.

Prose/Action Sample: Minimum of 250 words and gives us a sense of how they think and react.

One sample must be in an in-game setting; test drive memes or written are both accepted. The other may be linked from the test drive meme or anywhere else. (Please delete this line before submitting your application).