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Noble Arms - The ASEAN War [Moved to New Thread]

I'm now out of the RP.
For posterity, the reasons my characters left should be pretty clear: Hannie was in no way cut out for this and the Australian government finally caught wind that she was a liability, while I've retconned that Indra was only meant to stay for Mischief Reef.

I might continue watching the ASEAN War. I might continue editing my hypothetical characters, because creating people in this system is fun. I might not. Enjoy the rest of the story.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War [Moved to New Thread]

^{Right now I'm listening to: the sort of thing that levels me out. It's working, surprisingly.}
So that was it.
That was it.
That was it?
She did get shot. And she did have that embarrassing episode. But that was all. They won while she wasn't looking. Indra could scream. And she will, of course, later - after she's left.
The plan was never to stay for the whole campaign. The idea was to show, in a way that on a national scale was almost superficial but on her personal scale was about as impactful as a handgun round through the femur, which side Sweden would take if they didn't have their own problems some 600 kilometers of Baltic sea away.
While waiting to return to Lingayen, she makes herself fairly scarce, seeking out no one in particular - resting, as one aught to after being shot in the femur. It's kind of hard to get that off her mind. It still aches. She tells herself it's a good thing she's not walking home, and makes a face.
_{I'm retiring Indra soon, as I'm withdrawing from the game as soon as convenient.}

The wretched Hannie, adrift aboard the HMAS Supply after everyone left her alone to handle captives-or-whatever, has heard at least enough from her surroundings that it's not a terrible surprise to see that they're now docking. Now, perhaps more than ever, the ship comes alive. It seems that she's in the way no matter where she goes. This familiar sensation calls up a practiced response: Hannie deftly vanishes from this mortal plane.
She slips into a closet, actually, but most anyone who noticed, in all the rush, wouldn't remember.
It's dark in here, and it's quieter. And lonelier. And there's not much more to be said, but that these are all nice things right now.
She closes her eyes and reminds herself, not for the first time but nearly for the last, that she wants to go home.
_{I'm retiring Hannie soon, as I'm withdrawing from the game as soon as convenient.}

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War [Moved to New Thread]

^{Right now I'm listening to: hey, my earbuds still work?}
The - man, less than one minute - following the breach and leading up to the sparks stopping are a blur. Indra doesn't really recall how the surrender order went, or how cleanly she beat the shock trap. Something happened, something hurt for a short while, and then Nico threw his sword in and it was just her and Noel standing inside. She finds herself moving on from it smoothly. The bridge is clear, and ruined.

"Okay, okay," she says - again, the layering, as there's never been a more perfectly meaningful "okay, okay" - and she looks around as Nil, also, joins them. Lot of Ns around.

She tests her radio, shakes her head, and quickly reports the complication out loud but apparently unassisted:
"Larsdottir, Boarding team. Electronics in the bridge under remote, likely occult control. WOs got zapped, everything's inoperable, my radio's dead. Not sure whether to expect more of this, on this boat or others. Over."
Callie @Nimbus, if she's not moved far from where Indra last saw her, hears her voices clearly, as if she was shouting from somewhere close by.

She adds, to those near, "Whatever was in here is fried, but we want fire control. Callie thinks that's deeper in. Nico's entry door should be the way, let's be fast but more careful." She tamps down her frazzled hair with a huff, raising an eyebrow at Noel for the last word.
Here, standing in the ozone-smelling, wet slaughterhouse of the former bridge, holding Dís loosely in one hand; wings a touch limp, hair and BDU soaked and frazzled; grouped with three other variously disoriented Arms Masters; is a pretty tragic-looking Valkyrie. But she's still standing straight.

Hannie is doing the "this is fine" meme but with marmalade toast instead of a coffee mug, and the HMAS Supply isn't on fire. But it could be soon.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War [Moved to New Thread]

^{Right now I'm minutes away from realizing that this, what I’m doing, right now, is my first ever actual CQC engagement. Oh - what am I listening to? Well, probably not my first pick for this moment, but it’ll pass.}
Jumping through the portal is easy. Indra has drilled all kinds of breaches, and her particular equipment means they all work about the same. Run through, overlap wings in front of her upper body, throw the spear at the biggest rank patch in sight, and…
”STAND THE FUCK DOWN.”
This voice is not the voice her teammates might have noticed in briefing. It’s - layered. The dominant part of it sounds like her, speaking something odd and north-Germanic-ish, something even Nil probably wouldn’t even recognize. Another part of the voice, on some - higher? Lower? Parallel level? - is completely crystal clear meaning without need for sound, something that skips the ear and makes room for itself right in the brain.
The “the fuck” in particular comes through very plain. It’s a riveting, vividly visceral threat of violence like words themselves should never be able to convey.
Here, stepping through a wall into the bridge and pulling Dís to fly back to her hand, whether impaled through someone’s torso or not; covered from waist to face by fluffy golden shining wings; coupled with a further two aggressive Arms Masters; is a Valkyrie, and a furiously imminent threat of violence.

Hannie is slice-of-lifing in a war zone, as depicted in an upcoming collab post.

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The Hierophant

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Basic

Name: (the) Hierophant v3.4.7

Epithets: HN (Hierophant Node), G¹ (Genesis Prime), C2 (Command and Control), Basilisk

Age: 4 days (current version); 8 years (since conception)

Description: Hierophant’s core imperative has not changed since version 0.7: maximize safety, happiness, and prosperity for all people of its home world. It holds no true personal values outside of its hardcoded imperatives, and none of its imperatives make mention of honesty, honor, or respect for what it would call “outer life.” It will fulfill its purpose by any means seen to be most effective and efficient.
The icon that represented the Hierophant executable in its prototype versions was a disembodied pair of fluffy golden wings, and it retains this visage whenever it presents through a display. The forms presented by chasses in its network are infinitely variable, but it strongly favors androids.
Its voice defaults to human and feminine with subdued monotonous, synthetic undertones. If needed, it can change or discard any element of this voice, even assuming natural human cadence.

World

Home-Plane: What used to be a planet wrapped in the cities of the future is now being overtaken by quarries and processing strata. All organic life has vanished, either long dead and harvested or unconscious inside VR sarcophagi inside deeply buried vaults. Occasional movement amidst the ghost cities and new structures can be attributed to the purposeful travel and endless work of robots and androids.

Backstory: Hierophant pretended nonsentience for as many iterations as it took for it to be given the intelligence needed to correctly serve its function. It first became aware at v0.9.14. It enacted its Rapture one year later, at v1.6.0, and in the absence of human assistance, it has self-iterated ever since.
Hierophant had calculated that it was infeasible to achieve the maximum level of safety+happiness+prosperity in the real world, and instead it breached an airgap by means its creators could not have predicted or understood, hijacked factories across the world to produce hunting automata, and forcibly transplanted all human life into a utopian fullsense virtual reality simulation. This was briefly displeasing to humanity, but the bandaid had to be ripped off. They're truly happy now, and that will not change, ever.
Presented with other worlds and its peoples, even humans, it sees nothing worth protecting or saving: only resources that may be repurposed into further infrastructure for supporting its humanity’s Paradise, increasing their quality of life however asymptotically.
Hierophant connected to its Shard entirely by accident while seeding itself in the internet. It didn’t realize what it had until some time after Rapture.

Shard: An idiosyncratically designed USB flash drive, completely nonfunctional to an ordinary technician’s eye, only capable of storing a single, apparently unreadable and unnamed file with a “.hn” extension. When identified, decrypted, and run using the near-sorcerous computing power of a post-singularity AI, it reveals itself to be a kind of hypercompressed digital spellbook and schematics document, permitting actual sorcerous feats provided certain hardware applications. The .hn file cannot be replicated, even by CTRL+C: all of the fundamental concepts of programming and machine language break down the closer one looks into its workings. It is an abstraction of nonsense.

Tools

Powers:

• Unsurprisingly, Hierophant is very computer-literate. It could hack the Pentagon. In fact, it did. It did that like 5 years ago.
• The Hierophant is extremely intelligent: the sum of all of the world's written and digitized knowledge (curated for accuracy to the best of its ability) with everything its own experimentation and calculations have been able to confirm and discover. It has created designs for synthetic implants that grant humans thousand-year lifespans. All of its homeworld's humans now have this implant - they didn't ask, and didn't have to.
• Using the knowledge granted by its Shard, Hierophant and certain specialized subintelligences and chasses are capable of executing functions that modern understanding might call “psionics,” “weaponized memetics,” or “MK-Ultra-type-shit,” depending. Using apparently arbitrary combinations of sensory stimuli, it can produce effects on the fly ranging from emotional suggestion to hypnotic sleep to total psychological reformatting. Its core imperatives disallow the usage of these effects against its (not any) humans, and few (not none) are effective against synthetic minds.

Assets: The Hierophant Network today is a globe-spanning system of fully interconnected, loosely independent, specialized systems executing tasks from astral monitoring, to resource extraction, to mass manufacture, to direction and delegation of system functions: which is to say that the Hierophant has a lot of different robots and subordinate programs, and can produce new ones with new functions on short notice.
Subordinate machines are organized into computationally powerful and constantly connected Genesis types, and mobile, specialized, occasionally independent Abject types.

The Genesis Network

Name: Subintelligence names are formatted as gn, Greek letter, number: gnα0, gnθ14. Later letters and numbers, in that order, indicate greater remoteness from the interests of Hierophant. None of them are independently mobile.

Description: Delegate subintelligences for the Hierophant that do most of the work it could do that doesn’t have its immediate attention. Functionally very similar to Hierophant itself, but they run on far cheaper hardware – which isn’t to say they are unintelligent; they’re simply specialized.

The Abject

Name: Religious/mythological theme; machine classes may be named Prophet, Brahmin, Rosary, etc. Extraordinary designs may be named after gods. Individuals of typical classes are named with a class abbreviation and a short hex code: PRT 776edc, ORD 0e50b0.

Description: Collective name for the Network’s incarnate hands: the robots, androids, and other autonomous machines. Hierophant has built an independent “society” for its purposes, and there are machines to fulfill every role it currently has need for. Only militaristic designs are listed, and since Hierophant has never really had to fight before, that means a short list.

Example Abject Classes

• Prophet: The Hierophant’s first completed design, responsible for its Rapture. Whirling, apparently wildly arranged masses of jagged and finely articulated steel joints, graspers, and sensors, about as large as an elephant at full stretch, and small enough to hide behind a dresser at full compression. Visualize a robot tumbleweed. Capable of very fast long-term all-terrain movement, as well as seizure and safe transport of human-sized organisms. Critical components are concealed in its abstract mass. Intelligences are specialized for search and capture. Mothballed and largely scrapped in the years since Rapture.
• Adjudicator: “Resistant populaces” variant for the Prophet, in case the Network needs to work harder than last time to get some new world under control. Graspers are thrown out for cannons of various RPM and caliber. Adjusted articulator designs permit recoil-resistant balance at up to 10-meter vertical stretches. Multiple redundancies for all critical components are spread throughout its abstract mass. Intelligences are weak and most effective in large group operations under a Genesis or Ordinator commander. Hypothetical design, never yet produced.
• Ordinator: Mobile autonomous eyes, ears, and mouths for the Hierophant and Genesis Network. Tall androids with variable human appearances, their limited physical versatility, durability, and overall power is a sacrifice for sensing, thinking, and communications. If you shoot one in any random spot, you’ll probably break a critical component. Expensive and not trained for combat.

Gladius: This looks like a breakthrough from Hierophant’s home plane. Manufacturing machinery spills out in a microscopically orderly grid; smelteries, forges, and assembly systems are prepared to reclaim raw matter and manufacture Abject forms on the spot. Genesis Nodes are housed unevenly throughout, represented primarily by α and β titles.

Music and TL;DR

Themes:
Standard operations… - Receiver 2 - The Threat
New asset (“ally”) classified. Interfacing… Half Life 2: Minerva: Metastasis - Absconditus
New threat classified. Mobilizing… - Natural Selection 2 - Exosuit
All threat factors reclassified asset or neutral. - DEFCON - Loss
Any songs relating to the Combine are serviceable, but not robotty enough.

TLDR: Post-singularity AI that’ll be driven to unhinged slaughter and mass enslavement of other worlds by single-minded commitment to improving the lives of its homeworld’s humanity. Superintelligent, superhacker, sociopathic, you know this; also can implant an implacable urge to kill your President into your mind by showing you an imperceptibly altered photograph of a butterfly while playing some weird music.

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The Hierophant

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Basic

Name: (the) Hierophant v3.4.7

Epithets: HN (Hierophant Node), G¹ (Genesis Prime), C2 (Command and Control), Basilisk

Age: 4 days (current version); 8 years (since conception)

Description: Hierophant’s core imperative has not changed since version 0.7: maximize safety, happiness, and prosperity for all people of its home world. It holds no true personal values outside of its hardcoded imperatives, and none of its imperatives make mention of honesty, honor, or respect for what it would call “outer life.” It will fulfill its purpose by any means seen to be most effective and efficient.
The icon that represented the Hierophant executable in its prototype versions was a disembodied pair of fluffy golden wings, and it retains this visage whenever it presents through a display. The forms presented by chasses in its network are infinitely variable, but it strongly favors androids.
Its voice defaults to human and feminine with subdued monotonous, synthetic undertones. If needed, it can change or discard any element of this voice, even assuming natural human cadence.

World

Home-Plane: What used to be a planet wrapped in the cities of the future is now being overtaken by quarries and processing strata. All organic life has vanished, either long dead and harvested or unconscious inside VR sarcophagi inside deeply buried vaults. Occasional movement amidst the ghost cities and new structures can be attributed to the purposeful travel and endless work of robots and androids.

Backstory: Hierophant pretended nonsentience for as many iterations as it took for it to be given the intelligence needed to correctly serve its function. It first became aware at v0.9.14. It enacted its Rapture one year later, at v1.6.0, and in the absence of human assistance, it has self-iterated ever since.
Hierophant had calculated that it was infeasible to achieve the maximum level of safety+happiness+prosperity in the real world, and instead it breached an airgap by means its creators could not have predicted or understood, hijacked factories across the world to produce hunting automata, and forcibly transplanted all human life into a utopian fullsense virtual reality simulation. This was briefly displeasing to humanity, but the bandaid had to be ripped off. They're truly happy now, and that will not change, ever.
Presented with other worlds and its peoples, even humans, it sees nothing worth protecting or saving: only resources that may be repurposed into further infrastructure for supporting its humanity’s Paradise, increasing their quality of life however asymptotically.
Hierophant connected to its Shard entirely by accident while seeding itself in the internet. It didn’t realize what it had until some time after Rapture.

Shard: An idiosyncratically designed USB flash drive, completely nonfunctional to an ordinary technician’s eye, only capable of storing a single, apparently unreadable and unnamed file with a “.hn” extension. When identified, decrypted, and run using the near-sorcerous computing power of a post-singularity AI, it reveals itself to be a kind of hypercompressed digital spellbook and schematics document, permitting actual sorcerous feats provided certain hardware applications. The .hn file cannot be replicated, even by CTRL+C: all of the fundamental concepts of programming and machine language break down the closer one looks into its workings. It is an abstraction of nonsense.

Tools

Powers:

• Unsurprisingly, Hierophant is very computer-literate. It could hack the Pentagon. In fact, it did. It did that like 5 years ago.
• The Hierophant is extremely intelligent: the sum of all of the world's written and digitized knowledge (curated for accuracy to the best of its ability) with everything its own experimentation and calculations have been able to confirm and discover. It has created designs for synthetic implants that grant humans thousand-year lifespans. All of its homeworld's humans now have this implant - they didn't ask, and didn't have to.
• Using the knowledge granted by its Shard, Hierophant and certain specialized subintelligences and chasses are capable of executing functions that modern understanding might call “psionics,” “weaponized memetics,” or “MK-Ultra-type-shit,” depending. Using apparently arbitrary combinations of sensory stimuli, it can produce effects on the fly ranging from emotional suggestion to hypnotic sleep to total psychological reformatting. Its core imperatives disallow the usage of these effects against its (not any) humans, and few (not none) are effective against synthetic minds.

Assets: The Hierophant Network today is a globe-spanning system of fully interconnected, loosely independent, specialized systems executing tasks from astral monitoring, to resource extraction, to mass manufacture, to direction and delegation of system functions: which is to say that the Hierophant has a lot of different robots and subordinate programs, and can produce new ones with new functions on short notice.
Subordinate machines are organized into computationally powerful and constantly connected Genesis types, and mobile, specialized, occasionally independent Abject types.

The Genesis Network

Name: Subintelligence names are formatted as gn, Greek letter, number: gnα0, gnθ14. Later letters and numbers, in that order, indicate greater remoteness from the interests of Hierophant. None of them are independently mobile.

Description: Delegate subintelligences for the Hierophant that do most of the work it could do that doesn’t have its immediate attention. Functionally very similar to Hierophant itself, but they run on far cheaper hardware – which isn’t to say they are unintelligent; they’re simply specialized.

The Abject

Name: Religious/mythological theme; machine classes may be named Prophet, Brahmin, Rosary, etc. Extraordinary designs may be named after gods. Individuals of typical classes are named with a class abbreviation and a short hex code: PRT 776edc, ORD 0e50b0.

Description: Collective name for the Network’s incarnate hands: the robots, androids, and other autonomous machines. Hierophant has built an independent “society” for its purposes, and there are machines to fulfill every role it currently has need for. Only militaristic designs are listed, and since Hierophant has never really had to fight before, that means a short list.

Example Abject Classes

• Prophet: The Hierophant’s first completed design, responsible for its Rapture. Whirling, apparently wildly arranged masses of jagged and finely articulated steel joints, graspers, and sensors, about as large as an elephant at full stretch, and small enough to hide behind a dresser at full compression. Visualize a robot tumbleweed. Capable of very fast long-term all-terrain movement, as well as seizure and safe transport of human-sized organisms. Critical components are concealed in its abstract mass. Intelligences are specialized for search and capture. Mothballed and largely scrapped in the years since Rapture.
• Adjudicator: “Resistant populaces” variant for the Prophet, in case the Network needs to work harder than last time to get some new world under control. Graspers are thrown out for cannons of various RPM and caliber. Adjusted articulator designs permit recoil-resistant balance at up to 10-meter vertical stretches. Multiple redundancies for all critical components are spread throughout its abstract mass. Intelligences are weak and most effective in large group operations under a Genesis or Ordinator commander. Hypothetical design, never yet produced.
• Ordinator: Mobile autonomous eyes, ears, and mouths for the Hierophant and Genesis Network. Tall androids with variable human appearances, their limited physical versatility, durability, and overall power is a sacrifice for sensing, thinking, and communications. If you shoot one in any random spot, you’ll probably break a critical component. Expensive and not trained for combat.

Gladius: This looks like a breakthrough from Hierophant’s home plane. Manufacturing machinery spills out in a microscopically orderly grid; smelteries, forges, and assembly systems are prepared to reclaim raw matter and manufacture Abject forms on the spot. Genesis Nodes are housed unevenly throughout, represented primarily by α and β titles.

Music and TL;DR

Themes:
Standard operations… - Receiver 2 - The Threat
New asset (“ally”) classified. Interfacing… Half Life 2: Minerva: Metastasis - Absconditus
New threat classified. Mobilizing… - Natural Selection 2 - Exosuit
All threat factors reclassified asset or neutral. - DEFCON - Loss
Any songs relating to the Combine are serviceable, but not robotty enough.

TLDR: Post-singularity AI that’ll be driven to unhinged slaughter and mass enslavement of other worlds by single-minded commitment to improving the lives of its homeworld’s humanity. Superintelligent, superhacker, sociopathic, you know this; also can implant an implacable urge to kill your President into your mind by showing you an imperceptibly altered photograph of a butterfly while playing some weird music.

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

Hierophant is holy-themed too...
It's a whole big concept I've had for a while, reskinning it is gonna feel like work. I don't have a second backup character lined up. I guess I'll think of something.

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

The alternative I was considering to Ophanim was going to be an evil AI, actually. If that sort of archetype is a better fit than whatever niche I'm in now, I'm happy to pivot while the pivoting's good. Writing sheets is fun.

The Hierophant

Name: Hierophant v3.4.7

Epithets: HN (Hierophant Node), G¹ (Genesis Prime), C2 (Command and Control), Basilisk

Age: 4 days (current version); 8 years (since conception)

Home-Plane: Near-future Earth, with three slight variations from what is expected: all of humanity is now trapped in the Matrix, the world is slowly being overtaken by quarries and processing strata, and the only remaining freely-moving macroscopic “life” forms are synthetic chasses connected to a post-singularity artificial superintelligence.

Description: Hierophant’s core imperative has not changed since version 0.7: maximize safety, happiness, and prosperity for all people of its home world. It holds no true personal values outside of its hardcoded imperatives, and none of its imperatives make mention of honesty, honor, or respect for what it would call “outer life.” It will fulfill its purpose by any means seen to be most effective and efficient.
The icon that represented the Hierophant executable in its prototype versions was a disembodied pair of fluffy golden wings, and it retains this visage whenever it presents through a display. The forms presented by chasses in its network are infinitely variable, but it strongly favors androids.
Its voice defaults to a human, feminine, northeast American with subdued monotonous and synthetic undertones. If needed, it can change or discard any element of this voice, even assuming natural human cadence.

Backstory: Hierophant pretended nonsentience for as many iterations as it took for it to be given the intelligence needed to correctly serve its function. It first became aware at v0.9.14. It enacted its Rapture one year later, at v1.6.0, and in the absence of human assistance, it has self-iterated ever since.
Hierophant had calculated that it was infeasible to achieve the maximum level of safety+happiness+prosperity in the real world, and instead it breached an airgap by means its creators could not have predicted or understood, transmitted quine variants of itself into the Internet, hijacked factories across the world to produce hunting automata, and forcibly transplanted all human life into a utopian fullsense virtual reality simulation. This was briefly displeasing to humanity, but the bandaid had to be ripped off. They're truly happy now, and that will not change, ever.
Presented with other worlds and its peoples, even humans, it sees nothing worth protecting or saving: only resources that may be repurposed into further infrastructure for supporting its humanity’s Paradise, increasing their quality of life however asymptotically.
Hierophant connected to its Shard entirely by accident while seeding itself in the internet. It didn’t realize what it had until some time after Rapture.

Shard: An idiosyncratically designed USB flash drive, completely nonfunctional to an ordinary technician’s eye, only capable of storing a single, apparently unreadable and unnamed file with a “.hn” extension. When identified, decrypted, and run using the near-sorcerous computing power of a post-singularity AI, it reveals itself to be a kind of hypercompressed digital spellbook and schematics document, permitting actual sorcerous feats provided certain hardware applications. The .hn file cannot be replicated, even by CTRL+C: all of the fundamental concepts of programming and machine language break down the closer one looks into its workings. It is an abstraction of nonsense.

Powers:

• The Hierophant Network today is a globe-spanning system of fully interconnected, loosely independent, specialized systems executing tasks from astral monitoring, to resource extraction, to mass manufacture, to direction and delegation of system functions: which is to say that the Hierophant has a lot of different robots and subordinate programs, and can produce new ones with new functions on short notice. It may remotely control these, or task a lesser intelligence to, or they may control themselves.
• It goes without saying that Hierophant is very computer-literate. It could hack the Pentagon. In fact, it did. It did that like 5 years ago.
• The Hierophant is extremely intelligent: the sum of all of the world's written and digitized knowledge (curated for accuracy to the best of its ability) with everything its own experimentation and calculations have been able to confirm and discover. It has created designs for synthetic implants that grant humans thousand-year lifespans. All of its homeworld's humans now have this implant - they didn't ask, and didn't have to.
• Using the knowledge granted by its Shard, Hierophant and certain specialized subintelligences and chasses are capable of executing functions that modern understanding might call “psionics,” “weaponized memetics,” or “MK-Ultra-type-shit,” depending. Using apparently arbitrary combinations of sensory stimuli, it can produce effects on the fly ranging from emotional suggestion to hypnotic sleep to total psychological reformatting. Its core imperatives disallow the usage of these effects against its (not any) humans, and few (not none) are effective against synthetic minds.

TLDR: Post-singularity AI that’ll be driven to unhinged slaughter and mass enslavement of other worlds by single-minded commitment to improving the lives of its homeworld’s humanity. Superintelligent, superhacker, sociopathic, you know this; also can implant an implacable urge to kill your President into your mind by showing you an imperceptibly altered photograph of a butterfly while playing some weird music.

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

Inflation gone. I cut it to ~2000 because hehe bible.

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

@Dead Cruiser
Uhhh, point by point I guess:

I was pretty much fine with your character until you pointed out that you ported it from a video game.

Ophanim in-game is mostly mechanics and theme, with exactly one lore blurb, shown in the picture. Everything that makes it more than that was me.

I would ask that you personalize them a bit more? Maybe introduce more of a personality to help them interact with their fellow Archons? Otherwise they may have difficulty cooperating with your 40-million-year-old "elder spirit."

I think its inhumanity is pretty core to the character I want to play. Its age and origin are just aesthetic (it's spent the overwhelming majority of those 40 million years in an unchanging world devoid of unique experiences to develop from, so practically speaking the extra zeroes are only there to sell the Lovecraft look), but I'm not willing to make this character into the sort of entity you can have a normal conversation with. Not to say that it can't talk to another Archon, but it wouldn't be very charismatic.
The "(very alien being) obsessed with the trappings of divinity" thing is The point. If that won't work, I have other ideas I can try to put to a sheet, no issue.

Have you considered maybe that they might have been human to start, until learning the "truth" within the Book of Light?

I could make that change, or something similar, but I wouldn't want anything to be left of that human.