Aggie's 10Foward App - New stuff added all the way at the bottom.

[agathaheterodyne]

 

<b>Your name or online alias:</b> Chicklet

<b>Your email:</b>  Dwlogs@writeme.com

<b>Another preferred means of contact:</b> aim: Bardess Ookami

<b>Character's Full Name:</b>  Agatha Clay Heterodyne

<b>Character's Canon:</b> Girl Genius

<b>Character's Journal Name:</b> AgathaHeterodyne

<b>What would you like your character's tag to be?:</b>  Agatha

 

<b>Answer the following questions in no less than 300 words but no greater than 1000 words put together...</b>

 

Agatha’s Sparky abilities manifested early, causing her uncle Barry to create an amulet that would bind her spark; for girl sparks tended to vanish and young Sparks tended to…well… lets just say death came early and was messy to most. The amulet made it hard for her to think, and impossible for her to Heterodyne, and she grew up thinking she was a stupid failure. It didn’t help that her Uncle Barry left her with the Clays and only visited, then stopped visiting all together one day.

On her way to university, as a lab assistant and a student of no special note, Agatha was mugged by Miloch and his brother. The only thing they managed to get off her was her amulet, and as luck would have it THAT was the day that she came to the attention of Barron Wulfenbach… and his son Gil.

In her sleep, Agatha built a large clank, using part of a train,  to find the thieves and bring them back. Gil and the Baron found the clank, reversed its course and found her… and Miloch who had returned for revenge after her locket’s spark dampening power killed his brother.

Finding them together, the Baron thought that Miloch was the new spark and she was his lover, and kidnapped them both. He brought them onto his castle – a giant dirigible fleet – and set Miloch to work, and left Agatha with the students, a hostage against his good behavior. She made her first real friends there, Selpnir, Theo, Krosp, and Gil himself – Gil who realized that SHE was the Spark.

Many adventures occurred in a short span of time, with more and more Jaggers realizing that she smelled “verra verra nize”, a “Falling machine”

( http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030623#.VKEuWDdwYg ), Being threatened by Vonn Pinn, rescuing Othar (huuuuge mistake), and of course discovering that the slaver wasps created by the Other (as well as Vonn Pinn) LISTEN to her commands. She is smart enough to keep this to herself….

After defeating the Hive engine together, Gil proposes to Agatha in perhaps the least romantic way ever…

(There would be a link here, but the stupid site decided to die….)

Agatha takes it for a joke at first, and then is insulted. When the Clays show up to rescue her, she runs away from Gil and the Baron, winds up pushing Othar off an airship (“FOUL!”) and looses herself among circus folk who turn out to be Sparks in hiding. There she discovers her protective streak – Poor LARS! – Meets Maxim, Oggie, Dimo, and of course ZEETHA! Zeetha – no relation to Xena -  is a warrior princess (seriously, she’s not Xena), who decides to train Agatha (Okay so she’s a spunky blond who is stronger than she looks… so what? Okay, now I’m depressed….) into a warrior, since Agatha is the first person Zeetha has met since she left home that had ever HEARD of Skiffander, her lost home.

The circus hides her well from Gil, but leads her to a new complication in the form of another politically powerful male “heir to a throne” Tarvek, the next Storm King. While with Tarvek, she winds up discovering for an undeniable fact that Lucrizia Mongfish is both the “other” and her mother. Interesting how close those words are, and that Tarvek’s family has been playing both sides for years. Tarvek helps her, but also helps Lucrizia, putting himself first even when that gets copies of Lucrizia into bot Agatha and his sister (sort of).

Agatha comes to learn, and to show him, that there is something more than self interest there. While in Agatha’s body, Lucriza manages to wasp Klaus, turning him into her slave, but no one knows that until MUCH later.

Tarvek helps Agatha get to Mechanicsburg, a city that belongs to the Heterodyne family, but a false Heterodyne, sponsored by his family, got there first and the battle for the castle was joined. They have to fight each other, and… the sentient castle that has lost control of most of its defenses, and so is trying to both help and kill them in random turns.

…..after a cup of coffee….

Of course, that cup of coffee – and the three explosions she produced making it – told Gil EXACTLY where Agatha was.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070613#.VKE8oDdwYg

Gil left his father in the care of Bang (Bangladesh Dupree  - who I would LOVE to app is anyone ever takes Gil or Klaus!) and entered the castle to help.

Several years of comic came out of this, and this is where I will differ from the cannon, just because that battle is STILL ongoing, and if she was pulled from the middle of it, she would be focused on trying to return.

So, in the AU history, Zola was sent off who knows where, probably not dead, but “tomorrow’s problem”, no one knows Anveka is alive, no one knows Klaus is wasped. The battle was won, or so it seemed. Gil went back to Castle Wulfenbach to consolidate power in preparation for yet another marriage proposal…  Tarvek went back to try and fight down his family to consolidate his claim on the throne, still plotting to unite Stormhaven with the Heterodynes. The people of Mechanicsburg  are breaking out the small cages for her eventual children and taking bets on which one she will take – the leading favorite being “she’s a heterodyne, she’ll probably just keep them both”.

Agatha still had her mother in her head, but the amulet that once kept her spark at bay was now proof against Lucrizia, and she was ready for a well-earned break. She was continuing “Princess lessons” with Zeetha, which mostly amounted to large weapon handling, and continuing to upgrade and repair the town’s defenses and the castle. When Q will take her and Maxim… it would be just as Zeetha was hunting her for “training” so she’ll actually be pleased of the diversion.

She will have with her the outfit she is wearing – green with a skirt and a tool belt with tools and odds and ends, a NICE spanner, and a small clank that looks like a pocket watch with limbs.

 

I think Aggie would be tons of fun on the Enterprise. She means well, she’s a good girl at heart, and she really wants to help. She is what she is, though, and she is constantly seized upon by a desire to create, to build, to improve… and that usually leads to things blowing up in new and spectacular ways; a dangerous thing on a space ship to be sure! I think it’ll be a blast (pun intended) to see how the captain and Geordi handle someone who is bright enough to help, genuinely wants to help, is a good hard working person…. Who does more damage to the ship than a pack of greedy Ferengi.

 

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070219#.VKFDnDdwYg


Writing sample: http://ten-fwd-ooc.dreamwidth.org/52639.html?thread=2336671#cmt2336671
 

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New additions for the reapp:

Why I think she will work better this time:

I'm honestly not sure if "better" is the right term. She left the game because *I* messed up, not because she did. She ws active and outgoing, and got into messes with lots of other characters on the ship. She was my most active character in this game, and I look forward to her being so again. a few people have agreed to just pause our threads and if/when she comes back, we'll resume via back tagging. Also, if I canon update her to where I am considering... she'll be entering in a fun and dramatic fashion, bringing along two walking plot attractors, and I will have a new idea for a player plot to suggest!

I am working under the presumption that dingbot prime and everythng she built on the ship stayed there. (Oddly enough we have not seen dingbot prime in the comic since her original canon point. That kind of tickles me, because then it makes sense that he/it stayed behind.)


On to what has changed:


Adding to the history: She went back to her world, except as I had AUed the last bit to guess where the comic was going - and was so far beyond wrong that it isn't funny - she wound up back in the narrative as it actually is. The battle for Mechanicsburg didn't end with a brief time of peace. It ended with Tarvek poisoned, and either dying or dead, something terribly terribly wrong with Gil, mentally, and Agatha kidnapped by Martellus through a freaky door, followed by Violetta, Krosp, and a wasp eater (lizard with more legs than it rather should have). As she was being kidnapped, Klaus detonated a time bomb just outside the Red Cathedral, freezing time within Mechanicsburg. Unfortunately that messed up the exit through the freaky door, meaning that a trip that was meant to be instantaneous took much much longer.


Agatha awoke to find herself chained up in Maratellus' laboratory, and told that he messed with her body chemistry, making it so that she needs him to physically touch her every so often or else she will die. She attacked him with a butcher's knife and when he pointed out that since she needed him alive, that was useless.... she knocked him out with the blunt side, stole the key, unlocked her chains, and locked him up instead. She experimented on him and transferred that dependency to the weasel (as in she needs the weasel instead of him).  
She reunited with Krosp and Violetta and learned a hard truth. They've been gone for more than two and a half years. Instantaneous transport, mixed with a time bomb, ladies and germs.

She fought to get back to her town, just to find that the time bomb, the drop walls, some scary looking thorn vines and a set of status that proved that Gil is waaaay too obsessed with her still, kept all people out. She was led to the underground where those of her people who were not trapped in the time freeze were hiding - including her adoptive parents, brought back to life by Gil. He fixed them better thn they had been, including their ability to have children, and the fact that Adam can now speak.

The people of Mechanicsburg asked if she can save the town. The children asked. And so she said that she would because she had to. So she set off on a journey to Paris, to study at the academy there, hoping they would have information on the time bomb that held her people frozen, and how to defuse it. 

Along the way, she met a girl - another relitive of Tarvek, Maratellus, and Violetta - who was on the run from assassins. Aggie agreed to help protect her, which roped in the people who had come with Aggie on this quest. One such attempt left the train derailed, and they had to go to the main depot for the railway. A lot of political mumbo jumbo here about autonomy and how the railway is a safe haven that answers to no one, about how at least one of the brothers (Did I not mention that it is a religion and all the personnel are train -pun intended - ed monks of the order?) didn't want Agatha coming back to the depot. Luckily he is a horrible assassin.

The reason he did not want her coming back was because of the dangerous things kept in the vaults, the least of which was an evil train made by one of her predecessors. The train was self feeding, and could eat anything coal or metal. The problem is... it is a sentient Heterodyne built train. Aggie, like her father and uncle, is one of the very rare GOOD Heterodynes. The one who built the Beast? Very much not. It wanted to see the world, and all it's myriad wonders... and devour them. It has a sick and twisted vicious personality, and it took a number of strng sparks, an army of bears lead by a cat (don't ask), a Skifandarian Princess, a smoke knight, and a rather LARGE hauling clank to eventually take the thing down. Well... it took one more thing. One brave monk, brother Ulm, lost his life disconnecting the thing's core personality.

Needless to say, Agatha rebuilt the train.

She's Agatha. Did you think she wouldn't? 

In her version, of course, the core personality is shunted into a small clank, smaller even than her head, but larger than a dingbot, that acted as a secondary mind, so that the new primary mind - the late Brother Ulm, could learn how to BE a train. The plan was to disconnect the monster enrute to Paris. Which, in all fairness, she was able to do.

But first Gil arrived. Finally. And there was still something wrong with him, but because of the rules of sanctuary, he could not simply act like a cave man, knock her out and drag her off, as much as he clearly wanted to. But as the now defacto ruler of the empire, he could, and did, surround the depot with Wulfenbach airships and troops, waiting for her to escape. Meanwhile, he went in... received a very enthusiastic hug, and wound up working with her, a number of the monks, and Martellus (One day I will learn to spell his name correctly. Maybe.) to fix the train. However a power surge while they were working knocked out a lot of secondary systems... including her locket.

It is unclear if she remembers the conversation that Lucrizia (in her body) had with Klaus (in Gil's body) where mummy dearest tried to convince Klaus that they should take over their kids completely, and rule the empire together. One drugged cake later, everyone was passed out except the Monks who were in on the plan, and thus did not eat, and Violetta who is trained as a smoke knight against such things.

Agatha woke up on the reworked train, which got past Wulfenbach by going UNDERGROUND. Unfortunately the idiot Martellus was still with them. Agatha disconnected the demon train's personality clank, and her party along with the buffoon disembarked at Paris.

Ah Paris, where a young woman....discovers that there is an opera, a series of romance novels, some risque undergarments, and a hat fashion trend all centered around her. They were given free cake, so long as an artist could draw her while she ate - Paris is the city of art and learning after all - though her friends expressed concerns over how she was being depicted.

Which, of course, was when she was attacked and kidnapped. You know. Again. But the man who kidnapped her for the man who was trying to take over Paris (See if you can follow this one, kiddos, it gets confusing) was a double agent with about a dozen artificial bodies. He brought her as prisoner, then when he was ordered to take her to the velvet dungeon for later, just happened to accidentally take her past the machine bank that was central to the plot to overthrow Paris. She did surprise him by adroitly freeing herself from the ropes around her wrists, but he was not overly surprised when she recognized a part of her own castle mixed up in the system meant to take control of all the machines in Paris capable of thought. The system acknowledged her as the Heterodyne and in moments - and only for a few moments - she controlled all the Machines in Paris.

The Master of Paris was not pleased. After a lot of arguing, bickering, negotiations, and threats, she was told she has 36 hours in PAris, after which she MUST leave. And the first thing she has to do... is unhook Castle Heterodyne from Paris. She built a small square clank body for THAT as well, leaving her with TWO small, insane, destructive, psychotic killing machines... trapped in weaponless, defenseless clank shells.

The comic is up to date with her (presumably) about to go fully mad girl over the fact that she has just been told - after all that - that no one in Paris can help her after all.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150831#.VeVUHdNViko
She will be arriving mere moments after this.


To my mind, she has the demon engine in one hand (even itty bitty it makes threats "I WILL EAT ALL YOUR AGLETS!"), Castle Heterodyne in the other "It's so much easier without these messy organics" It means people.) and the weasel around her ankle. (Just because otherwise her arrival is a medical emergency, rather than a fun and dramatic entrance.) 

What I see happening for her entry post is her, just entering the Md Girl state, reappearing on the ship and suddenly remembering, and REALIZING everything... will go a bit... insane. I'm planning on asking Tasha - at the least - if she wants to thread with her to calm her down. Because when she realizes that there was tech here that she could have learned, that could have helped, that there was science she DID learn that could have helped, and that she remembered NONE of it when she got home... that on top of having been taken over by her mum AGAIN, and knowing what happened to Gil (even if she doesn't remember the conversation herself, Zeetha and Violetta both heard it and surely told her).... she is going to develop a fascination with and a mania for neuroscience. It gives me something to play with, a focus for her, rather than just building whatever people request and wishing she could dismantle the ship. She's going to work hard to research how to REMEMBER all this when she goes back next time, AND then she'll happily focus on studying every instance of time issues she can access and learn about, trying to find an answer.

Instead of leaving her frantic to get home, it will leave her with a quest. And with the castle and the beast around, it will keep her from getting TOO lost in that quest, keep her from shutting out EVERYTHING else. Well, them... and hopefully the friends she made on the ship....


Stuff to know about the weasel, the beast, and the castle.

Weasel -  A special kind of weasel, called a Wasp Eater, it have been specially bread to detect a specific kind of tech - a mind control tech developed by Agatha's mother called a Wasp. Until recently people who were under control of such things became what was known as reverents, basically obedient zombies. They're now called shamblers, because the new reverents... can act like perfectly normal people. But they will do the will of Lucrizia, and her minions. Wasp Eaters can detect either kind. DEspite the name, as near as we can tell, the don't actually EAT them, however. It's about the size of a long cat.

https://img1.etsystatic.com/021/1/6388765/il_fullxfull.498729705_tdmo.jpg


Castle - Cruel, viscous, blood thirsty... and completely obedient to Agatha... unless it thinks she won't notice it doing what it wants. Very much the "Better to beg forgiveness" type, though it would never beg. Given that, oddly enough, it does SOMETIMES ask permission. While I think the whole castle is appable in other games as a character (I plan to app it elsewhere at some point) this device is one small impotent aspect of it's personality.  I'd say this one bit is less sentient than Data, more sentient than the ship's computer.

Since no one would be stupid enough to listen to it, and it obeys Aggie, and ultimately has no power here (unless we want to do something to it for a plot, like hook it to the ship) I think it will be fun to have around because it gives a good counterpoint to Agatha. A lot of people (:: cough:: Magneto ::cough:: ) see Aggie as a villain type, and I like the idea of having her arguing in a public space with something that proves that's she's the hero, because there is a SCALE. Because this is what she is up against.

Demon train/the beast - Same reason, basically. It is, I would say, more single minded, less sentient, less intelligent than the castle. But it also wouldn't argue as much. It mostly just threatens, hops up and down, and gets belligerent. Also powerless, I think it would be hilarious to have it running around threatening people... especially when they see it can't do anything worse than step on their toes, and as it is hardly larger than the foot said toes are attached to... (though it is taller)

I just think it would be amusing.

Potential future plot idea could be a war between the two clanks. Lots to play with there, and we could discuss/ I could write a fleshed out proposal, if y'all want.

And because it amuses me.... The train thinks it has enormous cosmic power. What it really has is an itty bitty living space.

So yeah, that is the proposal for a canon updated Aggie. Personality wise she's mostly just gotten more determined. Though Billy's departure will wreck havoc on her, update or no. So there is always that for fun.

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[agathaheterodyne]

Updates/additions as requested:

Okay, what I thought I said, and now realize I did not explain properly, she remembers the AU guesses that I made as her history, or rather, when she winds up back on the enterprise again she will. Two conflicting memories of the same event. So as of when she comes back, she will remember both. If that is okay. Because she would have acted very differently when she was on the ship before, otherwise, and this way she has an IC continuity glitch to stress over, rather than an OC one where I have to keep chasing after recon contamination. So for that, if acceptable, both still apply.


Personality addendum:

Agatha is... perhaps now more than ever, a strong minded young woman. She didn't used to be. Spending most of her life with her ability to think and to feel muted kept her meek, quiet, and timid. Since her locket was stolen back when she was still a student under Doctor Beetle, her true personality has emerged. She is determined, and driven, yet she is also kind, sweet, and so often clueless as to what to do in a social situation.

Given that she is a Spark, it would be fair to say that she is unbalanced. It might even be generous. In the canon, the word is "mad". She is a mad girl. While this does not always show through, it is always there under the surface and while somethings will almost always set her off, sometimes surprising things can as well.

But even when she gets Sparky, even when the Madness has her... Agatha is still a good girl. Still a hero at heart, far more her father's child than her mother's. Her father and uncle were raised by their mother (who married into the family) outside of the castle, and away from their father. They became the first "Good" Heterodynes. Likewise, Agatha was raised away from the castle, by her uncle, and later by the constructs her uncle and father built when they were about her age. Like her father and uncle, she is one of the Good ones. She wants to protect her people, protect anyone who needs it, really. But she is also a mad girl, and like any good Spark, like any Strong Spark (and she is one of the strongest currently living Sparks), she gets carried away by science. Very very carried away.

So as well intentioned as she is, sometimes she forgets that things are dangerous, or that something would be bad. Sometimes she needs to be reminded.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141210#.VfTHOp1Viko
And sometimes a reminder isn't enough.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070117#.VfTMXZ1Viko
Sometimes it needs a calming pie to the face. (Or in game, Trance has knocked her out at least once so far. Bill distracted her. Tasha's tried tea.)

A lot of the Spark aspects of personality can be found above under powers, because the manic side of her personality, her obsessive focus, her loss of all sense, her occasional bouts of megalomania and over confidence all comes from the madness place, all comes from being a Spark.

When she's not in the thrall of that, however, she is kind, soft spoken, well intentioned, sweet, and ready to help. She's also creative and brave. She's a good friend, but she's more the "Tell me your troubles so I can fix them" sort, than the "Here, cry on your shoulder and I'll say the right thing to make you feel better."

Agatha, even after being on the ship for so long still has trouble comprehending how differently people think. How is it that NO ONE ELSE sees the need for a well crafted ell concealed death ray? She follows the ship's rules, she's never shot it, and will only every discharge her weapon in defense - of herself or someone else - but she feels better for having it. She doesn't understand how everyone else doesn't.

She's frustrated that they wont let her at the ship's internals, she wants to help, she wants to upgrade and fix, she wants to be of use building.

Now, with the update... she will be more manic, more frantic. She will have an obsession with trying to figure out the science of why she couldn't remember anything when she went back, and how to make sure she can, next time. So that her next focus can be studying every accessible recorded instance of time travel and temporal anomalies. So she'll be in sick bay a lot, and talking to the Doctor if the player(s) are amenable. She will, of course, still be trying to help out, and probably will be donating the clank she was making just before she left, to the medbay. (It's a medical clank, so while she was intending to donate it, she may want to use it herself first, so Tasha might MAKE her donate it for her own safety.)

She is going to be spending a lot of time Sparky and being a Mad Girl when she first gets back, between dealing with Paris, her town being time locked, and Billy being gone.....






Also. Since canon moved since the app and you said no to her having the two bots, Can I just pop her to where she is as the canon NOW stands? Just getting to a place where she's about to sleep, realizing that the notebook she's hiding under her corset might just have a lot of the answers she needs about time travel? (So she'd have an archaic and hard to decipher notebook of scientific excellence instead of the two bots.)





Edit: Link to the moment in the comic she is taken from this "time" http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150911#.VfTAs51Viko

I must be mad to make such a joke.