WIP Mayfield App
Jun. 29th, 2012 12:15 pmName: Guessy
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Other Characters Played: None
Preferred Housing: "N/A".
Character Name: Luka Megurine
Character Series: Vocaloid
Character Age: 20
Background:
H-Haaah... Vocaloids being Vocaloids there isn't much I can say here. The 6th Vocaloid released by Crypton and the first bilingual voicebank (Japanase and Engrish), she was released January 30th, 2009, with her 'canon' personality described as "cool, somewhat mysterious". Yes, that is literally it.
In terms of fanon, various interpretations abound. Like most of the early 'loids the fandom has provided a number of character items, namely tuna and a small 'waddling head' octopus version of her called 'Takoluka' - more info here - similar to the horrors Rin has spawned. Probably the best way to sum it all up would be 'classy'; her voicebank provider is Yuu Asakawa, famous for voicing cool, collected 'big sister' characters in anime, which has carried over to the general interpretation of Luka.
Running themes that crop up often in her songs involve the obligatory yandere interpretations (Tailorshop on Enbizaka, Love Disease, RIP=RELEASE etc), being too shy to communicate her feelings (Toeto), being a classy trickster / the jazz genre (Alley Cat, Bitchy Blues, Blackjack, Russian Roulette), being older / experienced in relationships (TOO SHY SHY BOY, Just Be Friends) and various 'story' songs that typically involve her falling in love and then everything goes wrong, or more general 'sad' songs (Witch, Little Mermaid, re_Cycle, Bullet For Prisoner, Elsetetra The Silver Witch). There are probably others I'm simply not familiar with or haven't found lyric translations. In terms of fanon relationships, she's most often shipped with Miku (Magnet, Rondo of the Sun and Moon, Akahitoha, Ladies First, Six Steps), typically involving Luka acting as an 'onee-sama' figure, or with Gackupo (Go Google It, Can You Feel The Purple Truth,Duke of Venomania), which almost universally involves Luka being a tsundere thanks to Gackupo being sad a bit of an idiot.
As for this Luka's background, I'm playing her as a singing robot built by Crypton, who had a life as an idol alongside the other Vocaloids prior to showing up in Mayfield. Keeping it fairly fast and loose, mainly to avoid stepping on anyone else's toes.
Personality:
Luka, as I play her, is somewhere inbetween the 'calm, collected older sister' interpretation and the classy trickster, mixed in with a lot of 'is a robot' and the implications thereof. In truth, Luka is not actually as mature as she appears; she likes to goof off and is really a bit of a troll. This is not to say she doesn't care - she can be serious if the situation requires it; she's just used to a laid back lifestyle where the 'cool and collected' part is mostly a PR front for her job. She's probably even lazy, though good luck getting her to see it that way.
As a singing robot and representative of Crypton, she is effectively 'on the job' 24/7 and only drops the 'cool, collected' look around other Vocaloids as a matter of principle (she might lower it for people she has gotten familiar with, but it will still be there to a degree). If there are cameras around, it will be up completely whoever she's with; slacker she may be but she is still a professional. She is calm and polite in all situations, from handling questions, performing interviews or pulling pranks, though in the latter case she tends to turn it up a notch on purpose.
Thanks to the above, she is used to a life where is sent out to sing/dance/do PR events and so on and then left to her own devices (ie laze around with a tub of tuna or read). She's used to only being called up to do things if needed; it's not left her with a very helpful personality. She will help if asked, but I stress the 'if'. Otherwise she'll assume she's not needed or involved and continue on with her own thing. Which will probably involve awkward questions and a running commentary.
She doesn't tend to visibly emote much because she can't really be bothered, but she definitely still has feelings. Though lazy, Luka loves to interact with others and understand what makes them tick; a large part of her teasing can be seen as fishing for a response to see how they react. She's innately curious about human beings as she's made to emulate them as much as possible; in a way she's studying people as she merrily drives them up the wall... she's a little twisted like that. Knocking people out of their comfort zone to see what happens is sort of what she does, though she means no harm by it. It's like poking things with sticks, only applied to people.
Possibly owing to her personality quirks, possibly to the fact she is a robot, Luka isn't really capable of hating people as such. She can recognise and avoid dangerous people, yes, but it's very difficult to make her genuinely angry over / at something. She'd be more interesting in finding out why something is like that - easily a case of being too curious for her own good - and then try to fix it. It should be noted she will not be very good at fixing it; she learns in a very experimental fashion, very 'trial and error', and she doesn't really have much in the way of tact either. She's also prone to trying successful 'fixes' that have worked in the past first, regardless of whether or not they are wholly applicable. She learns, yes, just in an extremely logical and unintuitive fashion. But it is very hard to make her angry; she'll mostly get sad instead. She can get irritated if she doesn't get her way, but that's different.
She's very attached to her Vocaloid family despite everything; as she understands them the most, she's less prone to prodding all their buttons, with the exception of Gumi (because it's funny) and Gackupo (because he's sad). She also has a weakness to cute things and will often go to surprising lengths to bring people's cute sides out. Unfortunately, this tends to involve a lot of tried-and-tested teasing, but she genuinely means no harm, and usually makes up for it afterwards.
Finally, she has a very good memory for transactions, treating it as a form of equivalent exchange; if she feels she owes someone (typically because she's amused herself at their expense), she will act on it, and if she feels she is owed something in return, she will remember and expect it. Or annoy them to make up for it. Robots can hold grudges like you wouldn't believe.
Abilities:
I... should warn in advance I like my sci-fi so I've probably gone a little more in-depth here than I really need to...
Other than 'is a robot', not much. Built to sing more than anything else, Luka isn't so much stronger/faster/better than humans as she is subtly different. Her voice is slightly robotic, she can talk in two languages (this admittedly is unlikely to come up much), she has to recharge rather than eat/sleep and by virtue of having a computer for a math, is extremely good at maths and logic calculations. In terms of strength, she is simply human average, the only difference being she doesn't get tired. She can run out of power, true, but that's not quite the same thing. Robots being robots, she also doesn't heal. She can repair herself as best she can but if something's broke, it's broke.
With the eat/sleep/recharge thing: she can eat, she just doesn't have to (and, in fact, most of the time you will find her eating something involving tuna), though it will boost her internal energy reserves, if not by a lot. With recharging, there's little functional difference from sleeping except for the part where she has to be plugged into a wall. She can remain 'awake' during the process though this increases the recharge times as she's expending some of it to retain functionality. Ordinarily she pretty much shuts down entirely so her internal batteries can charge to full as soon as possible.
Her power storage is actually pretty good; on a regular setting she can last several weeks before she runs her batteries completely flat. Luka has a variety of power settings; her highest is the one used during PV shoots which mostly boosts her agility, reaction time and coordination exceptionally high so she can execute complicated dance moves without falling over and react should something go awry on set or respond to minute changes that would otherwise throw her off if she was just performing mechanically by rote. This, however, burns through energy like no tomorrow (about 6 hours usage on a full battery give or take), and Luka doesn't currently see its benefits; she just thinks of it as 'dance mode' and only activates it if asked to... well, dance.
Other than that, there's the regular setting that's used almost all of the time that allows a human-average level of activity, and several emergency or recovery modes should something go wrong. There's a number of recovery modes tailored to certain situations (low power, system crash, hardware failures and damage etc) but they all do basically the same thing: conserve as much power as possible and get in contact with Crypton's support unit as fast as it can. The Recovery AI isn't terribly smart; it's more like a program than an artificial intelligence, and it was never designed with a place like Mayfield in mind. It can direct and perform repairs to a degree, but that's the best that can be hoped from it, and getting it to turn off again afterwards will likely be harder than fixing whatever went wrong in the first place (a Crypton engineer is supposed to handle it; obviously there aren't any in a place like Mayfield); it involves plugging her into a PC, fiddling with boot settings and restarting her operating system. Long story short, Luka is supposed to have a technical support staff on hand for this sort of thing; obviously she doesn't now and will have to improvise.
Machine memory is another interesting consideration; by necessity, visual and audio input (what she sees and hears) is recorded internally so that she can process it, but this is only temporary; it's kept for a period of two hours before being removed. For the time that an event is stored in her 'video memory', she can analyse and even export it out to a computer screen, but after the two hours it's permanently lost.
She can, however, save snapshots and video segments to her hard drives, which are also where all her thoughts and opinions are stored. This is saved permanently, though as with all hard drives there are space limits. She can store her memories on external devices, but has to be connected to them to 'remember' any of their contents. As she had quite a lot of these things stored on external Crypton servers prior to her arrival in Mayfield, a lot of them are missing. Fortunately, she only stores unimportant things externally (like cute pictures of cats and so on), so all her relationships with the other Vocaloids are still there and she's not missing anything she vitally needs or was particularly important to her.
She also has a few other bells and whistles built in that brings her somewhere between a high-end soundsystem and a laptop in terms of functionality; several cunningly hidden USB ports, an internal wireless modem, a phone charger and an internal mp3 player with speakers built in behind the ears.
Sample Entry:
She has a few threads in the Vocaloid Dressing Room and a private musebox:
(VDR) Gakupos are sad
(VDR) She has a thing for a Mikus...
(VDR) Declaring a troll war
Personal Journal:
rickroadingContact Info: 'guessy' on Plurk.
Other Characters Played: None
Preferred Housing: "N/A".
Character Name: Luka Megurine
Character Series: Vocaloid
Character Age: 20
Background:
H-Haaah... Vocaloids being Vocaloids there isn't much I can say here. The 6th Vocaloid released by Crypton and the first bilingual voicebank (Japanase and Engrish), she was released January 30th, 2009, with her 'canon' personality described as "cool, somewhat mysterious". Yes, that is literally it.
In terms of fanon, various interpretations abound. Like most of the early 'loids the fandom has provided a number of character items, namely tuna and a small 'waddling head' octopus version of her called 'Takoluka' - more info here - similar to the horrors Rin has spawned. Probably the best way to sum it all up would be 'classy'; her voicebank provider is Yuu Asakawa, famous for voicing cool, collected 'big sister' characters in anime, which has carried over to the general interpretation of Luka.
Running themes that crop up often in her songs involve the obligatory yandere interpretations (Tailorshop on Enbizaka, Love Disease, RIP=RELEASE etc), being too shy to communicate her feelings (Toeto), being a classy trickster / the jazz genre (Alley Cat, Bitchy Blues, Blackjack, Russian Roulette), being older / experienced in relationships (TOO SHY SHY BOY, Just Be Friends) and various 'story' songs that typically involve her falling in love and then everything goes wrong, or more general 'sad' songs (Witch, Little Mermaid, re_Cycle, Bullet For Prisoner, Elsetetra The Silver Witch). There are probably others I'm simply not familiar with or haven't found lyric translations. In terms of fanon relationships, she's most often shipped with Miku (Magnet, Rondo of the Sun and Moon, Akahitoha, Ladies First, Six Steps), typically involving Luka acting as an 'onee-sama' figure, or with Gackupo (Go Google It, Can You Feel The Purple Truth,
As for this Luka's background, I'm playing her as a singing robot built by Crypton, who had a life as an idol alongside the other Vocaloids prior to showing up in Mayfield. Keeping it fairly fast and loose, mainly to avoid stepping on anyone else's toes.
Personality:
Luka, as I play her, is somewhere inbetween the 'calm, collected older sister' interpretation and the classy trickster, mixed in with a lot of 'is a robot' and the implications thereof. In truth, Luka is not actually as mature as she appears; she likes to goof off and is really a bit of a troll. This is not to say she doesn't care - she can be serious if the situation requires it; she's just used to a laid back lifestyle where the 'cool and collected' part is mostly a PR front for her job. She's probably even lazy, though good luck getting her to see it that way.
As a singing robot and representative of Crypton, she is effectively 'on the job' 24/7 and only drops the 'cool, collected' look around other Vocaloids as a matter of principle (she might lower it for people she has gotten familiar with, but it will still be there to a degree). If there are cameras around, it will be up completely whoever she's with; slacker she may be but she is still a professional. She is calm and polite in all situations, from handling questions, performing interviews or pulling pranks, though in the latter case she tends to turn it up a notch on purpose.
Thanks to the above, she is used to a life where is sent out to sing/dance/do PR events and so on and then left to her own devices (ie laze around with a tub of tuna or read). She's used to only being called up to do things if needed; it's not left her with a very helpful personality. She will help if asked, but I stress the 'if'. Otherwise she'll assume she's not needed or involved and continue on with her own thing. Which will probably involve awkward questions and a running commentary.
She doesn't tend to visibly emote much because she can't really be bothered, but she definitely still has feelings. Though lazy, Luka loves to interact with others and understand what makes them tick; a large part of her teasing can be seen as fishing for a response to see how they react. She's innately curious about human beings as she's made to emulate them as much as possible; in a way she's studying people as she merrily drives them up the wall... she's a little twisted like that. Knocking people out of their comfort zone to see what happens is sort of what she does, though she means no harm by it. It's like poking things with sticks, only applied to people.
Possibly owing to her personality quirks, possibly to the fact she is a robot, Luka isn't really capable of hating people as such. She can recognise and avoid dangerous people, yes, but it's very difficult to make her genuinely angry over / at something. She'd be more interesting in finding out why something is like that - easily a case of being too curious for her own good - and then try to fix it. It should be noted she will not be very good at fixing it; she learns in a very experimental fashion, very 'trial and error', and she doesn't really have much in the way of tact either. She's also prone to trying successful 'fixes' that have worked in the past first, regardless of whether or not they are wholly applicable. She learns, yes, just in an extremely logical and unintuitive fashion. But it is very hard to make her angry; she'll mostly get sad instead. She can get irritated if she doesn't get her way, but that's different.
She's very attached to her Vocaloid family despite everything; as she understands them the most, she's less prone to prodding all their buttons, with the exception of Gumi (because it's funny) and Gackupo (because he's sad). She also has a weakness to cute things and will often go to surprising lengths to bring people's cute sides out. Unfortunately, this tends to involve a lot of tried-and-tested teasing, but she genuinely means no harm, and usually makes up for it afterwards.
Finally, she has a very good memory for transactions, treating it as a form of equivalent exchange; if she feels she owes someone (typically because she's amused herself at their expense), she will act on it, and if she feels she is owed something in return, she will remember and expect it. Or annoy them to make up for it. Robots can hold grudges like you wouldn't believe.
Abilities:
I... should warn in advance I like my sci-fi so I've probably gone a little more in-depth here than I really need to...
Other than 'is a robot', not much. Built to sing more than anything else, Luka isn't so much stronger/faster/better than humans as she is subtly different. Her voice is slightly robotic, she can talk in two languages (this admittedly is unlikely to come up much), she has to recharge rather than eat/sleep and by virtue of having a computer for a math, is extremely good at maths and logic calculations. In terms of strength, she is simply human average, the only difference being she doesn't get tired. She can run out of power, true, but that's not quite the same thing. Robots being robots, she also doesn't heal. She can repair herself as best she can but if something's broke, it's broke.
With the eat/sleep/recharge thing: she can eat, she just doesn't have to (and, in fact, most of the time you will find her eating something involving tuna), though it will boost her internal energy reserves, if not by a lot. With recharging, there's little functional difference from sleeping except for the part where she has to be plugged into a wall. She can remain 'awake' during the process though this increases the recharge times as she's expending some of it to retain functionality. Ordinarily she pretty much shuts down entirely so her internal batteries can charge to full as soon as possible.
Her power storage is actually pretty good; on a regular setting she can last several weeks before she runs her batteries completely flat. Luka has a variety of power settings; her highest is the one used during PV shoots which mostly boosts her agility, reaction time and coordination exceptionally high so she can execute complicated dance moves without falling over and react should something go awry on set or respond to minute changes that would otherwise throw her off if she was just performing mechanically by rote. This, however, burns through energy like no tomorrow (about 6 hours usage on a full battery give or take), and Luka doesn't currently see its benefits; she just thinks of it as 'dance mode' and only activates it if asked to... well, dance.
Other than that, there's the regular setting that's used almost all of the time that allows a human-average level of activity, and several emergency or recovery modes should something go wrong. There's a number of recovery modes tailored to certain situations (low power, system crash, hardware failures and damage etc) but they all do basically the same thing: conserve as much power as possible and get in contact with Crypton's support unit as fast as it can. The Recovery AI isn't terribly smart; it's more like a program than an artificial intelligence, and it was never designed with a place like Mayfield in mind. It can direct and perform repairs to a degree, but that's the best that can be hoped from it, and getting it to turn off again afterwards will likely be harder than fixing whatever went wrong in the first place (a Crypton engineer is supposed to handle it; obviously there aren't any in a place like Mayfield); it involves plugging her into a PC, fiddling with boot settings and restarting her operating system. Long story short, Luka is supposed to have a technical support staff on hand for this sort of thing; obviously she doesn't now and will have to improvise.
Machine memory is another interesting consideration; by necessity, visual and audio input (what she sees and hears) is recorded internally so that she can process it, but this is only temporary; it's kept for a period of two hours before being removed. For the time that an event is stored in her 'video memory', she can analyse and even export it out to a computer screen, but after the two hours it's permanently lost.
She can, however, save snapshots and video segments to her hard drives, which are also where all her thoughts and opinions are stored. This is saved permanently, though as with all hard drives there are space limits. She can store her memories on external devices, but has to be connected to them to 'remember' any of their contents. As she had quite a lot of these things stored on external Crypton servers prior to her arrival in Mayfield, a lot of them are missing. Fortunately, she only stores unimportant things externally (like cute pictures of cats and so on), so all her relationships with the other Vocaloids are still there and she's not missing anything she vitally needs or was particularly important to her.
She also has a few other bells and whistles built in that brings her somewhere between a high-end soundsystem and a laptop in terms of functionality; several cunningly hidden USB ports, an internal wireless modem, a phone charger and an internal mp3 player with speakers built in behind the ears.
Sample Entry:
She has a few threads in the Vocaloid Dressing Room and a private musebox:
(VDR) Gakupos are sad
(VDR) She has a thing for a Mikus...
(VDR) Declaring a troll war
