Lieutenant Commander Data
02 April 2012 @ 10:20 pm
part i.
Character name: Data
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Species: Soong-type android
Character powers:
  • Super-human strength, speed (both physical and mental), dexterity, and durability
  • Inability to feel physical pain (or pleasure)
  • Does not require rest of any kind
  • Not affected by poison, biological illness, environmental changes, mind-altering substances, drowning, or the vacuum of space
  • Can perfectly replicate any voice he has ever heard
  • Has hearing more sensitive than a dog’s, and can identify several hundred different distinct sound patterns simultaneously (such as different voices in a crowded room or different songs playing over one another); sense of touch is also canonically shown to be heightened (ie: ability to feel very small details in texture, identify materials, and find imperfections in said materials via touch); sight is likely heightened as well
  • Can perform self-diagnostics


part ii.
1.) Is it acceptable for your character to be mind-controlled or persuaded? How susceptible are they to mind control, hypnotism, or suggestion?
Data is immune to all types of magical/biology-based mind-control. He is, however, vulnerable to technology-based manipulations of the mind, such as being reprogrammed with alternate personalities/consciousnesses or having his homing signal activated. I'm unsure whether technology even exists in Baedal that would allow anyone to pull something like that off, or whether there are any PCs who would have the knowledge required to do so, but if you think your character would be able to do something like this and you want to work it into a plot, I'll ask that you definitely speak to me first.

2.) Is it acceptable for your character to have their mind read? Does this include traumatic memories? What is their mind like (disturbing, orderly, joyful, surprisingly empty, etc.)? If the character has psychic walls or preventative measures against psychic interference, please explain.
Data is also immune to all types of telepathy and empathy. He doesn't have psychic barriers, and he doesn't have any kind of an aura—he just doesn't register at all to telepaths and empaths. It should be noted that if Data ever installs his emotion chip, empaths will be able to pick up on his emotional state, but telepaths will still be unable to get a read from him.

3.) Are thoughts mentioned in narration acceptable for a telepath to pick up?
See #2.

4.) What about emotions, in the case of an empath? What sort of general emotional reading would such a character receive from yours?
See #2.

5.) Are there any aspects of your character's mind, emotions, or memories you would like to be picked up, mentioned, or used in character? Conversely, is there anything that should not be noticed, or at least never mentioned?
See #2.


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