Kalkin: Character Profiles

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Ping

Physical Appearance

  • Age: 19
  • Sex: Female
  • Special Features: Artificial eyes, moving neon green tattoo around thigh (maybe coloured skin), tattooed interface and computer implant in left wrist, scarred
  • Hair Style: To be figured out
  • Clothing Style: Rugged army, punky, tank girl style
  • Shoes: Some kind of artistic climbing shoes
  • Visible Gear: Spray paint belt which hold two spray cans, the chips and a selfmade knife and other stuff including the ornamental mask for spraying

Sociology

Born blind in the pre-division era around 2009. Because of blindness disability put to sleep and dumped on baby disposal site. Picked up by rebel group and medicated to wake up again, then nurtured back to life. Big Fish - the nanotech professor - being part of the rebel group, thought of her as a good way to test his new nanotech-developments for restoring vision. Subsequent injections of nanobots result in self-assembly of artificial eyes that connect to Ping's brain. Big Fish raises her in his home/laboratory/greenhouse, lying to her about the true identity of her past and saying her parents were heroes of the dividing battle. She steals something - frowned on by the society - and as a consequence is kicked out by Big Fish. Living on her own for quite some while she develops a strong personality and oversense of independence. Later they forgive each other and Big Fish supplies her with cool technology and in return she is taking care of his green house.

Psychology

  • rebellious
  • casual
  • caner
  • likes kitchy stuff
  • geeky
  • latchkey kid
  • doesn't know her true identity - subconsciously looking for identity
  • physically rough but mentally girly
  • chilled out
  • never rushed or hectic
  • very cool

Others

  • as a side effect of the sleeping injection that was given to her when she was a baby, she still has moments where she dazes out all of the sudden as if in another world.

Goal In Life

  • wants to hack megasystems of the corporate side, just for fun

Character Development

  • develops into a guiding spirit by becoming Kalki's mother-like entity
  • becomes somehow enlightened throughout the installments


Azrael

Physical Appearance

  • Age: 25
  • Sex: Male
  • Special Features: normal
  • Hair Style: short sporty
  • Clothing Style: technical sporty
  • Shoes: Azraels Shoes of the corporate side - Silvery Kevlar indestructable 'MoPic' advanced super shoes
  • Visible Gear: Tracker and shoes

Sociology

Originally from Bayeonia (corporate side) where he was an Olympic champion in 100m hurdles and raised conservatively and in the comfort of the system - it helped him and he helped it. When he turned 24 and set up for the next championships he was diagnosed with some disease that only a few people get. He refused the medication, because it would have caused a complete loss of long-term memory. So he was kicked out of the Olympic team and the upcoming championship. Because he was now percieved as a disabled person, he was put into a penalty job on a factory assembly line. Realising that this is not the life he wants to live, and that the system turned against him, he used his strength to flee over the wall to the other side. He had big problems adjusting to his new surroundings where he had to learn about gardening and building and other practical things. Still suffering from his disease he heard about Big Fish, and that he might have a cure with his nanobot technology. He goes to him for treatment, but never meets Ping. After his cure he decides to become Parkour runner and enter a big competition. He trains hard for that to maybe fulfil his dream of becoming the world's best runner - even though it's not in the corporate events.

Psychology

  • Uncreative
  • Lack of common sense
  • Has two left hands
  • Stubborn instinct for survival
  • Suspicious and sceptical
  • Adrenalin junky
  • No developed emotional attachment to anyone
  • Intelligent, philosophical
  • comes across as a cold-hearted sports obsessive
  • lost, but nonetheless a survivor

Others

  • Moves elegantly

Goal In Life

  • no apparent goal - he is lost
  • dream of being the best runner in the world is shattered (twice)

Character Development

  • evolves sense of affection and innocent form of love (for Ping)
  • learns about feelings


Big Fish (Professor)

Physical Appearance

  • Age: 72
  • Sex: Male
  • Features: Scruffy, unshaven, worn. Grey. Dark toned wrinkled skin.
  • Special Features: spiritual necklaces, talismans, rings etc. nano finger scanner
  • Hair Style: grey scruffy
  • Clothing Style: old worn leather jacket - practical, dark grey/brown/black
  • Shoes: old worn self-made leather things
  • Visible Gear: wearable electron microscope, nanobot collecting pen that collects nanobots and analyzes them and programs them.

Sociology

Won the Nobel prize, and was respected member of the (corporate) society. When his wife got into a wheelchair because of an accident she was considered an outcast as every disabled person started to get brandmarked at these times. She took drugs to overcome the feeling of being worthless, and disintegrated until an early death before the professor could finish developing a cure against the disintegration of the nervous system through nanobot-technology. Losing faith in the current social system he then joined the rebel movement which was the pre-cursor for the second great divide.

Psychology

  • harsh with himself
  • shows no emotional affection to anyone
  • dark sense of humour
  • introverter
  • very geeky
  • introverted
  • grumpy
  • fiery tempered

Others

Goal In Life

  • done with life
  • wants to develop his technology and help disabled people

Character Development

  • revives his rebel spirit and develops a reason to be alive
  • opens up emotionally to Ping and Azrael as a father figure


Kalki

Physical Appearance

Has no apparent physical appearance. Manifests itself through various technological means /Screens/can see through Ping's eyes and other camera systems. Can feel through motion sensors etc. Sex: androgynous

Sociology

The millions of connected computer systems and their automatic communications create the lifeform through a combination of events.

Psychology

  • sad because of lack of embodiment (only can operate electronic things)
  • it likes kitchy things
  • attached to Ping
  • humorous and playful
  • enjoys stupid things
  • precise and rational
  • positive character

Others

  • fundamental language is binary code.

Goal In Life

  • rid earth of its evil and leads mankind along a new path
  • be king of the enlightened afterworld

Character Development

starts off like a child - playful and curious - and it pinpoints Ping partially because it senses she is the enlightened Buddha incarnation type, and partly because it can see through her artificial eyes.

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