high seas application

[Name]: inari
[Age]: 26
[Contacts]:
♦ DW: wakeupfever
♦ AIM: lemuertepeludo
♦ Plurk: hypershinken
[Timezone]: CST
[Other Characters]: n/a



[Name]: Rosalind Lutece
[Canon]: Bioshock Infinite
[Age]: late 30s to early 40s
[Gender]: female
[Canon Point]: post-game

[History]: link!

[Personality]: Rosalind is, first and foremost, a woman of science. Her childhood interest in physics carried on into her adult life, marked by many scientific discoveries that put her in the forefront of the field. Quite an accomplishment, considering her time period. Perhaps because of the challenges posed to women scientists at the time, she speaks of herself and her accomplishments with a sort of tempered arrogance--if not outright narcissism. She knows exactly how bright she is, regardless of how others might perceive her, and is in no way afraid to flaunt it.

She is as ambitious as she is brilliant, working tenaciously to prove her theories and findings; oftentimes disregarding popular opinion in favor of her own thoughts. She is, however, willing to work towards the goals of others, provided they can supply the necessary funding. She has an attitude of forward progress at all costs, often viewing negative side-effects of her experimentations as only another facet to study, rather than something to work against. One cannot accuse her of being neither the most uncompromising nor morally upstanding of individuals.

Though a bit contrary to her efforts and ambitions, she does seem to adhere to a sense of inevitability--that all things are predetermined and there is no sense trying to change circumstances once they’ve begun to play out. While she is willing to humor her brother’s trait of optimism in the face of adversity, she herself regards changes in fate with an attitude of flippancy. She may participate in attempts to make a change, but she sees little possibility to actually affect it.

For the most part, the everyday affairs of the general populace do not concern her. Her own work takes up the vast majority of her time, and she seldom seeks out the company of others unless it is necessary to her research or they did the seeking for her. When she does speak to or about someone, she can come across as either condescending or downright acerbic. The deciding factor in determining which tends to come down to whether she regards an individual with ambivalence or actual animosity. To her credit, the only person she does seem to truly despise is Jeremiah Fink. While she spends her time theorizing and creating, Fink spends his time stealing ideas for patents. For that, she views him as little more than a thief, albeit a thief with deep pockets.

Her speaking patterns tend to be both succinct and nebulous at the same time, stating what she deems pertinent and leaving out anything else. She can also be a bit of a smart-ass, peppering her dialogue with sarcastic witticisms. Usually this is in conjunction with her habit of speaking in circles with her brother, Robert. They often complete one another’s sentences and often speak to others in such a way as to appear the only ones entirely appraised of the topic of conversation.

Playing into her narcissism, perhaps, is her love for her brother. They aren’t truly siblings, but instead versions of each other from different universes. Rosalind views Robert as her only true equal. As such, he seems to be the only person whose opinion she has any value for. The two are incredibly similar, nearly identical, in demeanor, though Rosalind seems to be the less playful of the two.

[Abilities / Strengths & Weaknesses]:

For all intents and purposes, Rosalind is a rather average woman. However, she is incredibly smart and quite gifted with knowledge and skills centering around physics and quantum mechanics. While she is a researcher at heart, necessity is the mother of invention--in her case, necessity is funding. She knows her way around a laboratory, and also knows how to build the devices she needs to keep her studies going.

There’s also a sense of co-dependency in Rosalind that is absent in Robert. She does not fight inevitability or seem overly concerned with the concept of death, but she is terrified of the prospect of Robert leaving her. In fact, the entire premise of Infinite is based on the grounds that Robert essentially ransomed himself out to get Rosalind to go along with attempting to undo their arrangement with Booker. She honestly did not care until he threatened to leave if she didn’t agree to help.

[Limited Powers]:

While it isn’t a power per se, the Luteces do exist outside of the normal realm of time and space. Quite simply, they don’t exist in one universe, but rather all of them simultaneously. As such, they can seemingly exist and not exist at will. While it can appear as a sort of teleportation, it’s more like turning a television on or off. They’re always there, in some capacity, you just can’t always tell from looking. They do, however, have the uncanny ability to exist when and where you least expect them.

For the purposes of High Seas, Rosalind will mostly retain this ability, but with a few conditions. She will not be able to appear in places with which she isn’t already very familiar, nor will she be able to travel great distances from one location to another. Simply, she would be able to pop up behind some poor unsuspecting soul on her own ship, but wouldn’t be able to do the same on another vessel or an island she wasn’t already on. In essence, the area in which she can exist quantumly is severely limited--think a literal “Lutece Field” around herself and Robert.

[Other Important Facts]: Rosalind is both alive and dead, in that she was killed in her own universe, but continued to exist quantumly and continue interacting with the world at large. In game, this won’t really amount to much, as she will still be able to be injured or killed just like a normal person. It simply bears mentioning, as it is the reason behind some of the more odd subjects of her discussion and dialogue.

[Samples]:
♦ Thread: link!
♦ Post:

For as hard as we work to take to the sky, things always seem to come back to the sea, don’t they?

More importantly, it seems to me that either there is quite a bit to trans-dimensional travel than I had accounted for--doubtful--or I simply am not where I’m supposed to be. Though, of course, oftentimes where I should be and where I am are separate things entirely.

No matter. Certainly the universe will correct itself in some manner or another, all in due time. For now, this startling lack of electricity is first on the list of things to address. A list which is, unfortunately, growing by the minute.