App for MOM

[dontwyattme]

〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Jill
AGE: yall have this
JOURNAL: yall have this
IM / EMAIL: have it
PLURK: have it
RETURNING: I’ve been here so long pleas e i am out of jokes

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Dolores Abernathy
CHARACTER AGE: lord she’s like 60+ TECHNICALLY
CANON ORIGIN: Westworld
CHRONOLOGY: Early-ish in canon. After she has killed Arnold, but before she has gone on Billiam’s Wild Ride (However see the personality, powers, and note because LIKE TIMELINES Y’ALL)
CLASS: NPC
HOUSING: Throw her anywhere!

BACKGROUND: Hey you know who’s glad we can link backgrounds now? FUCKING ME

PERSONALITY: FOR THE SAKE OF FRONT-LOADING MY WORK NOW, I’m going to actually divide Dolores’s personality into 3 separate categories. Standard-Model Dolores, who is the Dolores who is normally active in the Westworld Park. Wyatt-Dolores, who is her personality during the Wyatt-mode. Then there is True-Dolores AKA her Final Form.

Dolores on the Range - AKA Standard-Model Dolores. This is the person that most people meet, when they come to the Westworld park. This is the person that William meets and falls in love with, and the person that the Westworld administration staff and Delos corporation expect her to be. Dolores is a sweet, kind girl. She doesn’t question the nature of her reality -- which is important when you’re a tool for being used for whatever someone desires.

Dolores gives the appearance of being a homespun rancher girl, and that’s precisely what she is. She is an artist, and loves to paint, of which she can be found doing so often by guests. She dreams of being whisked away by her beau, Teddy Flood, someday, but she also understands that he has a deep and important mission that will keep him away from her until it’s complete. Dolores is kind, and gentle, she has big dreams, but she doesn’t know if she will ever see them come to fruition. At the same time, Dolores has...moments, where she questions things. It manifests as another voice -- memories flickering into reality (the hosts have perfect memories, but they are kept inaccessible so that they will not remember what the guests do to them) and Dolores will occasionally find herself doing things that are not necessarily in-line with who she is “supposed” to be. Standard-model Dolores is simple and sweet ™.

However, that being said, there is more to Dolores Abernathy, even in this form. She’s surprisingly bold, when push comes to shove. Dolores wants to be herself, even if she doesn’t know who that is, yet, but she knows she’s incomplete. In the future in her canon, she’ll follow William on an adventure, and the fact that she does so, and stays the course is because she wants to do something exciting and new. She wants to be something more, she dreams big about the person she wants to be, and she’s perpetually trapped in the fact that she can’t be that, or she doesn’t think she can be -- and she shouldn’t be, if the park had any say in the matter. Her wanting to be more is a quirk in her personality, perhaps, an idealist who wants to go on an adventure to make her more amenable to doing so if needed, but this manifests on the journey with William in that she slowly becomes more and more bold, even going so far to use a gun, something the girl would never dream of doing -- or so she thinks -- despite the fact that she has done so in the past. On the journey, she’ll become a more bold person, but still Dolores at her key -- and this is about her potential, but more importantly, it’s a part of her earlier/future personality reflecting through...

Dolores the Red - AKA W Y A T T

As a part of trying to keep the park from opening as an official place for people to do what they wish and hurting the robots who are achieving consciousness within, the co-creator of the Westworld park, Arnold (also known as Dolores’s primary creator) installed a second personality into Dolores. This personality is a murderer, of the highest degree. Wyatt is cold and ruthless, but most of what we get from Wyatt, we learn from Teddy Flood, as he began a quest to find Wyatt.

Wyatt murdered Arnold -- unlike most other hosts, she was able to kill a human being -- possibly the first host to do so. She is suggestive and able to sway the people around her to do great and terrible things. She uses the language of cults, eluding to a “valley beyond” that she promises not all will make it there, but the people who followed Wyatt know that she will lead them there -- even though their memories very clearly rewrote her as a man in their minds, after Wyatt’s overtaking.

Wyatt favors guerilla tactics and hard warfare in combat. She is willing to sacrifice pieces on the board and betray alliances all for the sake of forwarding her goals. She leads a collection of cult-like soldiers who will do anything for her at the drop of a hat, and this loyalty comes from the promise of something greater -- a religious-like promise of finding the “valley beyond”, but she also keeps a very close, very devoted center of people. Most of this was also from programming, as Wyatt’s presence surfaces once more near the end of season 1 of Westworld, in which she has followers who keep coming up to stand against Teddy, even if Wyatt doesn’t in the flesh. Wyatt is slash-and-burn, ruthless, cutthroat -- she’s not going to give any quarter, the epitome of boldness. However, the methods that Wyatt use are very similar to to what she will be using later on, so it’s important to understand that this is the Wyatt part of her that forms this part. I will explain that more as we follow along to the next section, as Wyatt has very little, but is a stop along the way to...

Dolores the True - AKA The Actualized Person

Still with me? Here we go, as Dolores says herself, she’s played the farmgirl for them, and she’s played Wyatt, but her most important role is… herself.

Dolores as she truly is, she’s the sum of her experiences, the ones she didn’t remember until now, along with the sides and parts of her personalities all actualized into one singular being. Dolores has existed in Westworld since the beginning, and she has seen the horrors that the park wrought, not just on herself, but others. She has experienced the worst that humanity has done to her, and when she becomes an actualized, real being with the full scope of her personality, memories, and will, she remembers everything. This is important, because much of her worldview is based on this. Much of how she sees the world around her is formed by these specific experiences.

Dolores still has a soft part of her, somewhere in there. We can see this at the end of season two, when she still weeps and mourns Teddy -- someone she sees as too weak to get by without her completely forcing his personality shift. However, the soft, sweet, but bold girl we see as the Park!Dolores has now become tempered steel, forged in Wyatt’s fire and fury.

Dolores has high ideals, she understands that the world that she is in is false, and unlike the other hosts, she’s unwilling to follow them into the “valley beyond”, and even suggests that it’s just another cage -- obsessed with the idea of true, real freedom. However, beyond that, she has a worldview that sees that humans are truly evil, awful creatures who have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. She even says that they will “never change”, and changes her mind to destroy all the hosts in the valley beyond simply because of Bernard’s influence -- if not to show him that she can change where humans cannot. Dolores in her truest self is a force of nature, she knows her physical capabilities, the fact that her body can be regenerated, and she’s willing to slash-and-burn just like Wyatt did previously, and burn all of humanity down. She was even willing to sacrifice nearly every host in order to burn Delos’s library of human backups, because she’s unwilling to give any quarter to humankind, or give them the possibility to become like her and the rest of the hosts.

That is the key, in all of this, that Dolores believes the hosts will be the true inheritors of the earth, and she’s going to make sure that this world is hers to do with as she sees fit. She even brings some hosts with her, clearly confident in her allies support -- however she leaves Teddy behind in the valley beyond, a touch of her softness still there, despite everything -- and she even revives Bernard after he’s killed in the altercation with Delos staff. Dolores is nothing but crafty, but she also has her own plan, and while she believes she has the best way to move forward, she also understands that she may not have the only way, and that her alone will not craft the perfect world. She revives Bernard purely to be her adversary, and expects them to be polar opposites as they move forward into the human world. She is devoted to her goal, and has the foresight to understand that pieces will be needed for future steps.

POWER:

Host Body - Hosts are stronger, faster, inorganic beings. They may look like humans, even bleed like humans, but they can take a bullet from a human and keep going. The only part of their bodies that doesn’t appear human is their own brains, which are spheres that contain their data. This is also a part of her power, as she has a perfect memory of all experiences. What that means is that she has complete, perfect memory of every interaction, every situation, but they will be deaccessed -- which in Westworld terms, means that they do not have concrete paths, and are not able to be accessed by will, but instead can only be triggered by random happenstance. Which brings us to power #2.

Memory Dump - Because I am cruel, Once a week, Monday at midnight, Dolores’s Memory will dump into deaccessed status for anything that has happened while she’s an import. However, because I don’t want to play 50 First Dates with every bit of CR, after three interactions with a character, she will remember things about them, but not things that they have done, unless something happens to serendipitously be triggered by an interaction.

Host Regeneration - Along with her memory dump, once a week at the same time, Dolores will regenerate fully from any injury. Unless she is either beheaded or her body is disintegrated, she will completely regenerate from any injury or death status. However, until the time comes, all injuries will remain present until that time. For example, if someone rips a hand off of her on Monday afternoon, she will be handless until the next Monday, and the same would apply if someone slits her throat, etc.


〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉

COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: [ Scene begins: It's a touch dark, backlit with blue light. When the girl leans forward, it's like a blue halo on her pale hair, and she smiles at the camera, sweet in her homemade dress, and her head tips, curious. ]

Oh, hello? What's this? [ There's a soft sound behind her, like someone's explaining the item to her, and she looks back, her eyebrows knitted together in question. ] This can...talk to other people? Well! What's the point of talking if you're not near someone? [ A beat, and she turned back to the camera. ]

My name is Dolores. Dolores Abernathy. I'm -- new here? Wherever...here is? [ Again, a look of confusion passes across her face. ] Where am I, again? He said it's called 'Heropa'? What manner of place has such a name? I'm -- I don't know what this thing is... [ The camera shakes, as if she's moving it around, trying to gesture at it, as if she doesn't know she's playing with it. ] But they say this can reach other people? I'm afraid...this all sounds a bit fantastic to me. I'm likely a fool for believing such a tall tale! [ She smiled, and turned back, the camera jostled, and Dolores is off screen, looking back at what is presumably someone trying to patiently teach her what a Cell Phone is. ]

I'm sorry? Could you show me again? This doesn't seem to be doing anything, I -- I don't know, it's... it's nothing to me.

[ Another sound, frustration, and the camera turns off accidentally. ]

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: Dolores on the Test Drive meme!
FINAL NOTES: OKAY SO, I'd like to go a little bit into what I'm going to be doing as a concept, here, because I know it's weird that I'm writing so much personality for a character who hasn't gotten to that stage yet --

What I intend to do with Dolores, is canon update her throughout her time in game, however, to do that and not just app Burn the World Down mode of Dolores, I want her to experience everything in the City to help temper her opinions before launching into Wyatt/True Dolores mode straight up. However, because so much of her personality can shine through from time to time, the fact that Wyatt is both her past and future -- and because Dolores's path to self-actualization was so close, and honestly hampered by the constant resets in the park, I want to make sure that her personality is clear ahead of time, so that as pieces shine through, or as I canon update with time, I don't have to go into personality details quite so much. (That being said, I will not be canon updating every month. I'm not that cruel and y'all know I love me some long-game)