science crimes
NAME Viktor
AGE ~34
HAIR brown, unruly
EYES yellow/gold
HEIGHT 5’8” (he slouches)
BUILD slim, underweight
FACTION free cities
ARCANA death
INFLUENCE ★★★★★★★★
TITLE Doctor of Illumination
RESIDENCE Cadens, an apartment above his workshop
HORIZON [ x]
INBOX [ x]
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ART CREDIT [ x]
| IMPRESSIONS |
- VISUAL [x] [x] [+ fashion vibes]
- AURUAL [x], fantasy slavic accent
- DEMEANOR soft-spoken and emotionally guarded but good natured and friendly underneath, with a dry sense of humor. quietly ambitious. obsessive workaholic. confident, curious, intellectual, reckless, idealistic. little tolerance for politicking.
- PHYSICAL INFO
terminally ill with a degenerative condition that is vaguely defined but basically presents as fantasy consumption. generally speaking, he looks unwell (gaunt, pale, eyebags for days, noticeably underweight) and coughs a lot, if your character is the type to notice such things. Update 2/23: Viktor is no longer terminally ill thanks to an experimental magi-surgical procedure carried out by a crack team of people who are definitely not doctors. as a result, he has a cool scar indicative of a lung transplant. he's not the picture of health, but at least he's not coughing up blood anymore. this is all independent of his physical disability; he uses a crutch and supportive brace to compensate for his right leg, and less visibly wears a back brace and has spinal implants. Update 5/24: Viktor's right arm up to the shoulder is now made of living metal, a physical holdover from the emergent reality.
- MENTAL INFO preoccupied with legacy. highly empathetic—the purpose of scientific advancement is to mitigate human suffering. breaking rules is fine and good actually. progress can't wait.
- HISTORY undercity kid becomes dean's assistant at the fancy academy but aspires to greater things. helps harness magical forces through technological means. wants to improve lives but politics/class divisions/general unrest make things extremely fraught for basically everyone. invents a magic AI and uses it for science crimes in various escalating attempts to not die.
- ABILITIES genius-level smart. mathematician, physicist, prodigious and resourceful tinkerer, inventor, magitech engineer.
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| IC PERMISSIONS |
- PHYSICAL AFFECTION sure! he doesn't seem adverse to casual/friendly/affectionate touching but is pretty indifferent when it comes to active flirting
- PHYSICAL VIOLENCE i mean you CAN but you'd probably be a bad person
- MIND READING/TELEPATHY yes. he has no ability to detect mental intrusions. if you need more information about what you might find in there, just let me know.
- ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIPS he has some baggage but as of 6/24 is trying something new. anything else is unrequited town
- OFF-LIMITS although Viktor himself seems somewhat accustomed to casual ableism and will generally shrug off less egregious offenses, more aggressive scenarios, including but not limited to the deliberate use of slurs, and the taking, damaging/destroying, or withholding of his mobility aids, etc, is pretty much a CR insta-kill. I'm not opposed to playing this out, but let's get on the same page first and actively communicate for the duration of the interaction.
- CONTENT WARNINGS terminal illness and related existential contemplation (even if in the past tense), self-harm in pursuit of Science,
coughing up blood into a handkerchief at plot relevant moments
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| OOC PERMISSIONS/PLAYER INFO |
- BACKTAGGING yes, absolutely! I track all my threads, but please let me know if I've missed something. if our thread has been going on a while and has reached a reasonable conclusion/resolution, I'll usually let it go.
- FORMATTING I default to prose brackets but I have no preference. I will match you!
- FOURTH WALLING no thanks!
- AVAILABILITY I'm est and work weird hours, but I generally try to hit everything at least once or twice a day.
- TO NOTE canon point is episode 7, pre-hexcore augmentation. I'm aware of viktor's general trajectory per league of legends but I do not actually believe that game exists except when spicy foreshadowing is convenient for me. arcane is a soft retcon anyway. my city now
- CONTACT
![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico) whitticus, PM for discord
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techmaturgy) wrote2022-02-04 12:57 pm
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INVENTORY
POWER GAINS
✥ Minor blood magic. Viktor can slightly increase the effect of a spell or his own ability gains (for example: less concentration time, or greater potency) by using his blood as a conduit. As of 5/23, leveled up for greater potency and duration of enchantments.
✥ Energy transference. Via touch, Viktor can siphon the life energy from another person to enhance his own vitality, or vice-versa.
✥ Mage armor. Viktor can transmute parts of his body into a metal-like material to absorb blows. With practice, he will be able to increase the duration and coverage.
✥ As of 5/24, Viktor's right arm up to the shoulder is made of living metal, a physical holdover from the emergent reality. An extension of his mage armor power, he can temporarily increase the coverage. More area and longer duration will come with additional practice.
CANON UPDATE 1/25
Major Changes: After gratuitous Fucking Around, Viktor has finally Found Out, an attempt to save himself culminating in the accidental death of his assistant. Now faced with the true dangers of his technology, Viktor asks for its destruction and accepts his impending death, only to be forcibly merged with the Hexcore instead. This effectively turns him into a magictech cyborg/supercomputer, bestowed with greater awareness that manifests in a general detachment from humanity. Outside of his psychic plane, he is emotionally subdued and logical, though still in possession of his core values—he still believes, despite his own transgressions and guilt, that the purpose of scientific advancement (and Hextech in particular) is to mitigate human suffering. He attempts to heal a difficult case at great risk to himself, refuses to complete his own ascension if it means sacrificing another person, and extends his staunch pacifism to the rest of his commune, checking weapons at the gate, showing that his core convictions are still intact.
Viktor considers it his duty to use his current circumstances and new abilities to make good on his promise to help the Undercity, even if it is essentially making the best of a situation he’d rather not be in. Finally given the power to enact change, it is his moral imperative to do so, and perhaps he is glad to be able to directly help people and use his work to make a difference, unburdened by the politics and red tape that prevented this in his former life. This is his atonement, and if there is a higher power at work within him, perhaps shielding him from the implications of his powers or otherwise skewing his perspective, well. It’s not necessarily something to be concerned about—not when there is work to be done.
Given the imagined future experienced in Abraxas, Viktor will likely come out of his canon update more assured that the ascension of the Summoned is destined, and much less resistant to the idea. I’m interested in playing around with both this and both his new, ascended perspective—perhaps he thinks himself closer to finding a way out into the universe than he has ever been.
New Powers/Abilities: Thanks to his merger with the Hexcore, Viktor is given some degree of control over the “arcane” (the in-universe definition for ambient environmental magic) and manifests a lot of nebulous new powers. The show kind of under-explains them, so I have distilled things down to their most basic form and plan to make the requisite permissions posts for any use of these abilities (with the understanding that they will not work on NPCs). Since the Hexcore is, technically, not physically present/part of Viktor’s body, please feel free to nerf/adjust/nix as needed (read: I promise he will not build a hivemind cult). If it's possible to tie the nature of his abilities to the Singularity, instead, I think that makes the most sense, but I am happy to defer to the mod team on how to best implement this!
Additional: Viktor will obviously not be carrying over the major physical change of, you know, becoming a Hextech cyborg, but if it is possible for him to maybe have some Hexcore-patterned scarring as a reminder I think that could be. fun. Also maybe an eye color change. Also for fun.