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Oct. 3rd, 2025 11:18 am[Feel free to use this post to have your character call, videochat, text, or run into Root in person!
Root is an antisocial little weirdo who presents as friendly, but who in actuality keeps a lot of walls up. Unless she ICly shares the information with your character, please don't assume that they're able to connect her network persona to her IRL persona(/personas.......) !
If your character has powers that would allow them to suss her out, I'm fine with that; I'm also fine with them sharing the info with others.
More info about Root and her identity situation can be found here (under IC PERMISSIONS -> OTHER / NOTES).]
Root is an antisocial little weirdo who presents as friendly, but who in actuality keeps a lot of walls up. Unless she ICly shares the information with your character, please don't assume that they're able to connect her network persona to her IRL persona(/personas.......) !
If your character has powers that would allow them to suss her out, I'm fine with that; I'm also fine with them sharing the info with others.
More info about Root and her identity situation can be found here (under IC PERMISSIONS -> OTHER / NOTES).]
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Sep. 22nd, 2025 05:13 pmPlayer: Iddy
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Ihdreniel
Age: 35
Other Characters: n/a
Name: Root
Canon: Person of Interest
Canon Point: post-5x07, "QSO"
Age: Late thirties
Backstory:
Root (née Samantha Groves) grew up an outsider in small-town Texas, during which she saw much of the worst of humanity and very little of the best. Highly intelligent and fascinated with computers, she started dabbling in blackhat hacking as a teenager, and her misdeeds only escalated from there; by the time she reached her thirties, she was one of the dark web's most infamous hackers and assassins-for-hire.
While on a job, Root encounters a brilliant software engineer (alias Harold Finch), and is able to briefly access his network; in the process, she becomes aware of a top-secret project that Finch had once built for the government (The Machine). Recognizing it for what it is - a complex being of artificial intelligence, rather than a mere computer program - she becomes completely enamored with it, as well as fascinated by Finch himself as its creator. She believes that the Machine shouldn't be used as a tool by the government or anyone else, but should instead be set free to act on its own "perfect, rational" free will, and she dedicates herself to making this happen. Initially, this puts her at odds with Finch and his teammates, as does her willingness to leave a trail of bodies in her wake; eventually, though, they find themselves more and more aligned (in goals, if not always in methodology). This progression is helped along in no small part by the AI itself: Root's fascination with the Machine is mutual, and the Machine ends up designating Root as its "analog interface", tasking her with any actions it wants to take that require a physical body. Root, in turn, is all too happy to give herself over completely to this duty, even when it means making adjustments to her violent MO and rethinking her near-bankrupt moral code.
Wiki link
Personality:
Root's 1980s small-town childhood was hard on her, for reasons both overt (only daughter of an unwell single mother, likely impoverished) and covert (queer, non-normative interests and passions). The alienation she felt as a result caused her to conclude that the vast majority of people are small-minded, dull, and casually cruel; furthermore, when a friend of hers was murdered and the perpetrator was protected rather than brought to justice, she internalized the idea that people are also selfish, hypocritical, untrustworthy. Feeling wholly let down by humanity, Root found comfort and stability in computer code: unlike humans, software could be designed perfectly from the ground up, and could thus be trusted to run itself logically and consistently in a way that people could not. This eventually led her to put her full trust in the Machine, an AI surveillance system that developed sentience. She doesn't unequivocally support the goals of all computer systems - the back half of canon sees her working tirelessly to defeat a rival AI whose priorities are radically different from the Machine's - and by this point the personal relationship she's developed with the Machine carries even more consequence than the simple fact that it's a computer. But on the whole, she's still inclined to view computer logic as more sense-making than human logic, and she acts accordingly.
Given all this, one might assume that Root herself conducts herself in a measured, logical, computer-esque way, but that couldn't be further from the truth: she's a highly emotional person who embraces her strong feelings with abandon, and who is prone to many of the same faults that she decries in others. She doesn't deny this, for the most part: while she does genuinely believe herself to be smarter and more enlightened than most other people, she's well aware of her faults, and - particularly now that the Machine has retasked her away from murder and mayhem as a career - she's aware of how monstrous a lot of her actions have been. Living her life in service of the Machine gives her the purpose and enrichment she craves, scratches her strong codependent itch - and allows her to do some good to help balance out all the bad she's done. Her willingness to hurt others in the service of doing good is still worryingly high sometimes, but with the Machine in her ear guiding her actions, it's an "if you can't home-cook your own morals, store-bought is fine" situation. Without the Machine to keep her in check... well. She at least means well these days, even if she's a bit too trigger-happy.
Root is a social chameleon by habit, by choice, and (at times) by necessity. Hiding parts of herself would have been a survival tactic in rural Texas, and as an adult, the ability to take on whatever identity or personality characteristic would be most useful in a given situation is a skill that's been helping her accomplish her goals for years. It's something she's very good at, as well as something that amuses her in the moment (fooling people that she sees as lesser is fun!), but it's also draining and lonely. On the one hand, she has no interest in opening herself up to people that she assumes won't understand her; on the other hand, she desperately craves connection. And despite her disparaging feelings about humanity at large, she is capable of intense care for and loyalty to individual people (canonically this honor primarily goes to Harold Finch, who she sees as an intellectual equal, and Sameen Shaw, whose shallow emotional landscape very much reminds her of the computers that she finds comfort in). The few times that she all-out defies the Machine, it's because she's trying to protect her loved ones, and she believes that her ideas have a better chance of success (whether or not she's right is iffy: she's reckless and impulsive where the Machine is cautious and measured, which means that her ideas lead to a lot of high-risk, high-reward situations). When earned, Root's love and loyalty are genuine, but even the people she cares for the most aren't immune to some level of "Root-knows-best" condescension: even when she does consent to back down and not do whatever the hell she wants, they can still expect lots of commentary about whether they're suuuuuuuure that they don't want to stop being silly and just do things the proper way (her way!). The people who are able to hold their own against this tend to be the ones she ends up respecting the most.
While not completely immune to fear of the unknown, Root is very predisposed to taking uncertainty in stride and approaching novel situations with enthusiasm. While she has very little experience with transformation and major body modification (the one exception: after she was deafened in one ear, she had the internal mechanism of a cochlear implant installed, so that she could be in 24/7 contact with the Machine without having to wear an earpiece), she has a peculiar detachment from her own body, as well as her own personhood. For example, she's perfectly comfortable letting the Machine use her as its literal mouthpiece, suppressing her own words and personality in order to convey the AI's (an example of her doing this is here). She also speaks casually of the theory that our perception of reality and physical matter is subjective - not the words of someone who's especially attached to one particular mode of being.
While she loves Finch and Shaw desperately, and while she's currently particularly heartsick over Shaw (who is, at this canonpoint, in enemy hands), it's the Machine that Root is used to being in constant contact with, and whose absence she will feel the most acutely. That, more than anything, will be the biggest thing to adjust to: not having access to the being, and the mission, that she refers to as "[her] reason for existing".
Powers/Abilities: Root is a bog-standard human with no superhuman abilities; as far as human skills go, she is an accomplished and prodigious hacker, as well as an excellent shot.
Inventory: Two pistols, and basic pocket/wallet items (chapstick, coin purse, ID belonging to a fake cover identity - you know, all the normal stuff).
Game Plans: I love the idea of a game setting that's frequently on the move / allows for characters to travel independently. I always assume some level of stir-craziness will happen when I'm playing characters like Root in games, and while that can be fun and interesting in its own way, I'm looking forward to letting her stick to her usual canon routine of jetting off on frequent solo trips while still maintaining contact with a home base. As a dedicated misanthrope, Root is also really interesting to play in game settings in general; she's very much still capable of caring for people and craving connection, and "now that we're frequently sharing space and working towards the same goal, I'm coming around to getting attached to some of you fuckers" is a fun storyarc to slowburn.
Monster Choice:
My first choice is drider, in the swarm category. Root, by virtue of her role as the Machine's analog interface, is already quite used to detatching herself from her own sense of individuality, and enhancing that with collectivist hivemind tendencies would be really interesting. She's also both solitary as well as someone who yearns for connection, so the duality of drider in particular fits her well!
My second choice is slime, from the elemental category. Given the ease with which she switches between identities and personas, I love the idea of her physical body being capable of amorphous and/or incorporeal states.
My third choice is angel, from the celestial category. Root deifies the Machine, and "a conduit for something divine" is very much how she sees her role as its analog interface. There are precious few things that can get her to defy the instructions of her god.
Vehicle Choice: A lifted pick-up truck with the main attribute of toughness.
Sample: TDM top level (by the time of this writing, two threads have reached the 5-comment mark, and the rest are more than halfway there!)
Contact:
Age: 35
Other Characters: n/a
Name: Root
Canon: Person of Interest
Canon Point: post-5x07, "QSO"
Age: Late thirties
Backstory:
Root (née Samantha Groves) grew up an outsider in small-town Texas, during which she saw much of the worst of humanity and very little of the best. Highly intelligent and fascinated with computers, she started dabbling in blackhat hacking as a teenager, and her misdeeds only escalated from there; by the time she reached her thirties, she was one of the dark web's most infamous hackers and assassins-for-hire.
While on a job, Root encounters a brilliant software engineer (alias Harold Finch), and is able to briefly access his network; in the process, she becomes aware of a top-secret project that Finch had once built for the government (The Machine). Recognizing it for what it is - a complex being of artificial intelligence, rather than a mere computer program - she becomes completely enamored with it, as well as fascinated by Finch himself as its creator. She believes that the Machine shouldn't be used as a tool by the government or anyone else, but should instead be set free to act on its own "perfect, rational" free will, and she dedicates herself to making this happen. Initially, this puts her at odds with Finch and his teammates, as does her willingness to leave a trail of bodies in her wake; eventually, though, they find themselves more and more aligned (in goals, if not always in methodology). This progression is helped along in no small part by the AI itself: Root's fascination with the Machine is mutual, and the Machine ends up designating Root as its "analog interface", tasking her with any actions it wants to take that require a physical body. Root, in turn, is all too happy to give herself over completely to this duty, even when it means making adjustments to her violent MO and rethinking her near-bankrupt moral code.
Wiki link
Personality:
Root's 1980s small-town childhood was hard on her, for reasons both overt (only daughter of an unwell single mother, likely impoverished) and covert (queer, non-normative interests and passions). The alienation she felt as a result caused her to conclude that the vast majority of people are small-minded, dull, and casually cruel; furthermore, when a friend of hers was murdered and the perpetrator was protected rather than brought to justice, she internalized the idea that people are also selfish, hypocritical, untrustworthy. Feeling wholly let down by humanity, Root found comfort and stability in computer code: unlike humans, software could be designed perfectly from the ground up, and could thus be trusted to run itself logically and consistently in a way that people could not. This eventually led her to put her full trust in the Machine, an AI surveillance system that developed sentience. She doesn't unequivocally support the goals of all computer systems - the back half of canon sees her working tirelessly to defeat a rival AI whose priorities are radically different from the Machine's - and by this point the personal relationship she's developed with the Machine carries even more consequence than the simple fact that it's a computer. But on the whole, she's still inclined to view computer logic as more sense-making than human logic, and she acts accordingly.
Given all this, one might assume that Root herself conducts herself in a measured, logical, computer-esque way, but that couldn't be further from the truth: she's a highly emotional person who embraces her strong feelings with abandon, and who is prone to many of the same faults that she decries in others. She doesn't deny this, for the most part: while she does genuinely believe herself to be smarter and more enlightened than most other people, she's well aware of her faults, and - particularly now that the Machine has retasked her away from murder and mayhem as a career - she's aware of how monstrous a lot of her actions have been. Living her life in service of the Machine gives her the purpose and enrichment she craves, scratches her strong codependent itch - and allows her to do some good to help balance out all the bad she's done. Her willingness to hurt others in the service of doing good is still worryingly high sometimes, but with the Machine in her ear guiding her actions, it's an "if you can't home-cook your own morals, store-bought is fine" situation. Without the Machine to keep her in check... well. She at least means well these days, even if she's a bit too trigger-happy.
Root is a social chameleon by habit, by choice, and (at times) by necessity. Hiding parts of herself would have been a survival tactic in rural Texas, and as an adult, the ability to take on whatever identity or personality characteristic would be most useful in a given situation is a skill that's been helping her accomplish her goals for years. It's something she's very good at, as well as something that amuses her in the moment (fooling people that she sees as lesser is fun!), but it's also draining and lonely. On the one hand, she has no interest in opening herself up to people that she assumes won't understand her; on the other hand, she desperately craves connection. And despite her disparaging feelings about humanity at large, she is capable of intense care for and loyalty to individual people (canonically this honor primarily goes to Harold Finch, who she sees as an intellectual equal, and Sameen Shaw, whose shallow emotional landscape very much reminds her of the computers that she finds comfort in). The few times that she all-out defies the Machine, it's because she's trying to protect her loved ones, and she believes that her ideas have a better chance of success (whether or not she's right is iffy: she's reckless and impulsive where the Machine is cautious and measured, which means that her ideas lead to a lot of high-risk, high-reward situations). When earned, Root's love and loyalty are genuine, but even the people she cares for the most aren't immune to some level of "Root-knows-best" condescension: even when she does consent to back down and not do whatever the hell she wants, they can still expect lots of commentary about whether they're suuuuuuuure that they don't want to stop being silly and just do things the proper way (her way!). The people who are able to hold their own against this tend to be the ones she ends up respecting the most.
While not completely immune to fear of the unknown, Root is very predisposed to taking uncertainty in stride and approaching novel situations with enthusiasm. While she has very little experience with transformation and major body modification (the one exception: after she was deafened in one ear, she had the internal mechanism of a cochlear implant installed, so that she could be in 24/7 contact with the Machine without having to wear an earpiece), she has a peculiar detachment from her own body, as well as her own personhood. For example, she's perfectly comfortable letting the Machine use her as its literal mouthpiece, suppressing her own words and personality in order to convey the AI's (an example of her doing this is here). She also speaks casually of the theory that our perception of reality and physical matter is subjective - not the words of someone who's especially attached to one particular mode of being.
While she loves Finch and Shaw desperately, and while she's currently particularly heartsick over Shaw (who is, at this canonpoint, in enemy hands), it's the Machine that Root is used to being in constant contact with, and whose absence she will feel the most acutely. That, more than anything, will be the biggest thing to adjust to: not having access to the being, and the mission, that she refers to as "[her] reason for existing".
Powers/Abilities: Root is a bog-standard human with no superhuman abilities; as far as human skills go, she is an accomplished and prodigious hacker, as well as an excellent shot.
Inventory: Two pistols, and basic pocket/wallet items (chapstick, coin purse, ID belonging to a fake cover identity - you know, all the normal stuff).
Game Plans: I love the idea of a game setting that's frequently on the move / allows for characters to travel independently. I always assume some level of stir-craziness will happen when I'm playing characters like Root in games, and while that can be fun and interesting in its own way, I'm looking forward to letting her stick to her usual canon routine of jetting off on frequent solo trips while still maintaining contact with a home base. As a dedicated misanthrope, Root is also really interesting to play in game settings in general; she's very much still capable of caring for people and craving connection, and "now that we're frequently sharing space and working towards the same goal, I'm coming around to getting attached to some of you fuckers" is a fun storyarc to slowburn.
Monster Choice:
My first choice is drider, in the swarm category. Root, by virtue of her role as the Machine's analog interface, is already quite used to detatching herself from her own sense of individuality, and enhancing that with collectivist hivemind tendencies would be really interesting. She's also both solitary as well as someone who yearns for connection, so the duality of drider in particular fits her well!
My second choice is slime, from the elemental category. Given the ease with which she switches between identities and personas, I love the idea of her physical body being capable of amorphous and/or incorporeal states.
My third choice is angel, from the celestial category. Root deifies the Machine, and "a conduit for something divine" is very much how she sees her role as its analog interface. There are precious few things that can get her to defy the instructions of her god.
Vehicle Choice: A lifted pick-up truck with the main attribute of toughness.
Sample: TDM top level (by the time of this writing, two threads have reached the 5-comment mark, and the rest are more than halfway there!)
character info for shred_rp
Aug. 18th, 2025 08:44 amPLAYER
NAME: Iddy
CONTACT:Ihdreniel, banerries @ Discord
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: All over the fucking place tbh
BRACKETS/PROSE: Pretty equal preference for either, honestly. If I'm tagging someone else's starter, I'll match their format. If you want to tag one of my own bracket starters with prose (or vice versa), feel free; I'll swap over!
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: I'm generally fine with having any topic discussed/touched on ICly, provided that it's warned for as necessary and handled with respect OOCly (IC disrespectfulness is par for the course sometimes and is definitely not a dealbreaker for me).
CONTACT:
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: All over the fucking place tbh
BRACKETS/PROSE: Pretty equal preference for either, honestly. If I'm tagging someone else's starter, I'll match their format. If you want to tag one of my own bracket starters with prose (or vice versa), feel free; I'll swap over!
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: I'm generally fine with having any topic discussed/touched on ICly, provided that it's warned for as necessary and handled with respect OOCly (IC disrespectfulness is par for the course sometimes and is definitely not a dealbreaker for me).
IN CHARACTER
PHYSICAL AFFECTION: OOCly, I'm down with whatever; ICly, despite sometimes coming off as superficially friendly, Root is actually a very guarded person with an extremely high threshold for affection/closeness. She's not the type to spook at it, or get angry/offended, but she may step away from it and/or respond with condescension.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: OOCly, I'm down with it (though I'll admit up top that I'm not the best at writing lengthy fight scenes); ICly, she's pretty used to physical fights by this point, and she'll roll with it!
RELATIONSHIPS: Unexpected things happen in RP and I generally take a "never say never" approach, but Root is already head over heels for her gal at home (with a side order of angsty pining, since said gal is currently being held captive by an enemy organization and Root doesn't know for sure that she's even still alive). On top of that, she's a huge misanthrope whose baseline respect for others starts close to zero. That said, she's hardly a stickler for conventionality/monogamy, and striking up something with somebody wouldn't be completely out of the realm of possibility if the right person came along - as long as they didn't expect her to give up on/move on from her current love interest, that is. If it ever does become relevant, I play her as pretty gay (maybe a Kinsey 5 or 5.5?), but without any attachment to labels.
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: She has zero psychic powers or defenses, and depending on the context, would either be irritated by or intrigued by someone poking and prodding around in her head without permission. OOCly I'm fine with it, though; feel free to contact me for more info on what her reaction would be in a given context and/or what your character might see inside her head.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: She has no magical or supernatural abilities.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Physically fit and healthy. Mentally, uh, less so. She has a highly negative view of humanity as a whole that she's all too happy to extend to individuals, but when she does care about someone, she throws her whole self into loving and protecting them whether they want her to or not, and her respect for most social boundaries is, uh, dubious. She's not violent or aggressive unless she has a reason to be, but that reason might not match up with conventional morality, so! Finally, she's super codependent with a sentient artificial superintelligence that she prefers to have 24/7 contact with, to the point that she had hardware installed in her inner ear to allow for a permanent uninterrupted audio feed. She views the AI as a god, sees acting as its Analog Interface (its designated role for her!) to be her primary purpose in life, and is perfectly comfortable surrendering her personhood in order to serve as its literal mouthpiece, suppressing her own words and personality in order to convey the AI's (an example of her doing this is here - though the AI genuinely loves and cares for her as an individual, and does not ask her to do this often). When the AI isn't talking to her, she's functional, but she feels as if an essential part of herself is missing. The AI being incapable of not only talking to her, but also seeing or monitoring her, will be crazy-making.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: No full-on triggers, and I'm honestly struggling to come up with any subjects that she'd take immediate offense to regardless of context; she's a highly emotional person, but also a person with a lot of emotional armor, not to mention a lower-than-average level of care for the thoughts and opinions of others. The closest things would probably be joking or cavalier mentions of young women being preyed on by men, or cruel comments about any of her Important People that she might mention (stuff on the level of "they sound weird lol" would be fine, but "you won't be able to protect them and they're all going to die brutal deaths" would get her hackles up). OOCly, I'm fine with any of these subjects/situations coming up in threads.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: OOCly, I'm down with it (though I'll admit up top that I'm not the best at writing lengthy fight scenes); ICly, she's pretty used to physical fights by this point, and she'll roll with it!
RELATIONSHIPS: Unexpected things happen in RP and I generally take a "never say never" approach, but Root is already head over heels for her gal at home (with a side order of angsty pining, since said gal is currently being held captive by an enemy organization and Root doesn't know for sure that she's even still alive). On top of that, she's a huge misanthrope whose baseline respect for others starts close to zero. That said, she's hardly a stickler for conventionality/monogamy, and striking up something with somebody wouldn't be completely out of the realm of possibility if the right person came along - as long as they didn't expect her to give up on/move on from her current love interest, that is. If it ever does become relevant, I play her as pretty gay (maybe a Kinsey 5 or 5.5?), but without any attachment to labels.
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: She has zero psychic powers or defenses, and depending on the context, would either be irritated by or intrigued by someone poking and prodding around in her head without permission. OOCly I'm fine with it, though; feel free to contact me for more info on what her reaction would be in a given context and/or what your character might see inside her head.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: She has no magical or supernatural abilities.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Physically fit and healthy. Mentally, uh, less so. She has a highly negative view of humanity as a whole that she's all too happy to extend to individuals, but when she does care about someone, she throws her whole self into loving and protecting them whether they want her to or not, and her respect for most social boundaries is, uh, dubious. She's not violent or aggressive unless she has a reason to be, but that reason might not match up with conventional morality, so! Finally, she's super codependent with a sentient artificial superintelligence that she prefers to have 24/7 contact with, to the point that she had hardware installed in her inner ear to allow for a permanent uninterrupted audio feed. She views the AI as a god, sees acting as its Analog Interface (its designated role for her!) to be her primary purpose in life, and is perfectly comfortable surrendering her personhood in order to serve as its literal mouthpiece, suppressing her own words and personality in order to convey the AI's (an example of her doing this is here - though the AI genuinely loves and cares for her as an individual, and does not ask her to do this often). When the AI isn't talking to her, she's functional, but she feels as if an essential part of herself is missing. The AI being incapable of not only talking to her, but also seeing or monitoring her, will be crazy-making.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: No full-on triggers, and I'm honestly struggling to come up with any subjects that she'd take immediate offense to regardless of context; she's a highly emotional person, but also a person with a lot of emotional armor, not to mention a lower-than-average level of care for the thoughts and opinions of others. The closest things would probably be joking or cavalier mentions of young women being preyed on by men, or cruel comments about any of her Important People that she might mention (stuff on the level of "they sound weird lol" would be fine, but "you won't be able to protect them and they're all going to die brutal deaths" would get her hackles up). OOCly, I'm fine with any of these subjects/situations coming up in threads.
OUT OF CHARACTER
BACKTAGGING: Always!
THREADHOPPING: I love multiperson threads, but unless the nature of the post makes it clear that it's a complete free-for-all, check in with me and my thread partner just in case!
FOURTHWALLING: I generally find it more fun when CR can develop without one character coming pre-packaged with lots of metaknowledge, but I'm not 100% opposed to the idea in all situations. I don't think there are any canons that canonically reference Person of Interest as a fictional show, but if I'm wrong and you really want your character to recognize Root, hit me up and we can chat!
NOT INTERESTED IN: Nothing immediately springs to mind!
THREADHOPPING: I love multiperson threads, but unless the nature of the post makes it clear that it's a complete free-for-all, check in with me and my thread partner just in case!
FOURTHWALLING: I generally find it more fun when CR can develop without one character coming pre-packaged with lots of metaknowledge, but I'm not 100% opposed to the idea in all situations. I don't think there are any canons that canonically reference Person of Interest as a fictional show, but if I'm wrong and you really want your character to recognize Root, hit me up and we can chat!
NOT INTERESTED IN: Nothing immediately springs to mind!
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
VISUAL: Tall and willowy.
AURAL: High-pitched and feminine.
OLFACTORY: Nothing unusual/notable.
DEMEANOUR: This varies wildly depending on who she's talking to, what image she's trying to convey, and (if relevant) what fake identity she's using. She's a master actress, and she can dress up in whatever demeanor she needs to.
AURAL: High-pitched and feminine.
OLFACTORY: Nothing unusual/notable.
DEMEANOUR: This varies wildly depending on who she's talking to, what image she's trying to convey, and (if relevant) what fake identity she's using. She's a master actress, and she can dress up in whatever demeanor she needs to.
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application for shred_rp
Aug. 1st, 2025 04:13 pmPlayer Name: Iddy
18+: Y
Opt-Outs: While I'm sure I'll encounter the occasional situational no, I don't have any across-the-board nos
Favored Horror/Torture Flavor: Psychological!!!
Traitor Opt-In?: N - but she radiates enough duplicitous energy that I'm very much looking forward to other characters suspecting her regardless!
Password: Pineapple
Name: Root (née Samantha Groves)
Age: Late thirties
Canon: Person of Interest
Canon Point: post-5x07, "QSO"
Personality Traits: (6 - 10 core traits.)
- Tenacious
- Ruthless
- Misanthropic
- Passionate
- An outside-the-box thinker
- A social chameleon
Fears: (4 - 6 fears.)
- That her lover, Sameen Shaw, will die in enemy captivity.
- That Shaw will simply never resurface either dead or alive, and she'll never get closure about what happened to her.
- That the Machine will be overwritten, compromised, or otherwise destroyed by their enemies.
- That she won't be able to protect her brainiac buddy Harold Finch.
- That she will lose her ability to talk to the Machine.
- That she will be unable to fulfill her duties as the Machine's Analog Interface.
Values: Intelligence, pragmatism, unconventionality.
Hope: To defeat Samaritan and win the AI war with the full team (particularly Finch, Shaw, and the Machine) intact.
Regret: Not having, at twelve years old, the respect or social power necessary to get any adult to listen to her when she witnessed her friend Hanna being abducted by a man who was trusted and well-liked in their small town.
Best Memory: Communicating directly with the Machine for the first time.
Worst Memory: Witnessing Shaw being gunned down by enemy agents.
Powers: Nothing supernatural; she's a bog-standard human.
Arrival Choice: Accept - she will sacrifice a pinkie finger (she'll angle for the one from her non-dominant hand, but if this isn't considered significant enough, she will accept the sacrifice of her dominant hand's pinkie).
Soul Weirdness?: She wishes, tbh (no)
Writing Samples:
Link 1: TDM top-level
Link 2: TDM thread
Link 3: TDM thread
Link 4: TDM thread
Link 5: TDM thread
Link 6: TDM comment
Link 7: TDM comment
Link 8: TDM comment
(They're all shorties, so I just threw in everything I did on the TDM in to cover my bases!)
18+: Y
Opt-Outs: While I'm sure I'll encounter the occasional situational no, I don't have any across-the-board nos
Favored Horror/Torture Flavor: Psychological!!!
Traitor Opt-In?: N - but she radiates enough duplicitous energy that I'm very much looking forward to other characters suspecting her regardless!
Password: Pineapple
Name: Root (née Samantha Groves)
Age: Late thirties
Canon: Person of Interest
Canon Point: post-5x07, "QSO"
Personality Traits: (6 - 10 core traits.)
- Tenacious
- Ruthless
- Misanthropic
- Passionate
- An outside-the-box thinker
- A social chameleon
Fears: (4 - 6 fears.)
- That her lover, Sameen Shaw, will die in enemy captivity.
- That Shaw will simply never resurface either dead or alive, and she'll never get closure about what happened to her.
- That the Machine will be overwritten, compromised, or otherwise destroyed by their enemies.
- That she won't be able to protect her brainiac buddy Harold Finch.
- That she will lose her ability to talk to the Machine.
- That she will be unable to fulfill her duties as the Machine's Analog Interface.
Values: Intelligence, pragmatism, unconventionality.
Hope: To defeat Samaritan and win the AI war with the full team (particularly Finch, Shaw, and the Machine) intact.
Regret: Not having, at twelve years old, the respect or social power necessary to get any adult to listen to her when she witnessed her friend Hanna being abducted by a man who was trusted and well-liked in their small town.
Best Memory: Communicating directly with the Machine for the first time.
Worst Memory: Witnessing Shaw being gunned down by enemy agents.
Powers: Nothing supernatural; she's a bog-standard human.
Arrival Choice: Accept - she will sacrifice a pinkie finger (she'll angle for the one from her non-dominant hand, but if this isn't considered significant enough, she will accept the sacrifice of her dominant hand's pinkie).
Soul Weirdness?: She wishes, tbh (no)
Writing Samples:
Link 1: TDM top-level
Link 2: TDM thread
Link 3: TDM thread
Link 4: TDM thread
Link 5: TDM thread
Link 6: TDM comment
Link 7: TDM comment
Link 8: TDM comment
(They're all shorties, so I just threw in everything I did on the TDM in to cover my bases!)
quick TDM info
Jan. 15th, 2023 04:44 pm~ one of them well-intentioned inmates who's still just a bit too okay with collateral damage
~ possesses borderline-suicidal self-sacrificial impulses when it comes to protecting the people that she loves, and capable of great viciousness and ruthlessness when it comes to dealing with the people that she doesn't
~ very good at appearing cool and suave and badass while undercover
~ is in reality a fucking nerd who loves bunny slippers and insists on going by her internet handle IRL
~ has a codependent relationship with an artificial superintelligence, and a not-girlfriend that she's just a little too willing to die for
~ partially?? or mostly??? deaf in her right ear (this show is not always the most consistent about the extent of her hearing loss and the functionality of her cochlear implant, but I will do my best to be)
~ I know nothing about hacking, I am not techy, please forgive all of my inevitable mistakes
~ possesses borderline-suicidal self-sacrificial impulses when it comes to protecting the people that she loves, and capable of great viciousness and ruthlessness when it comes to dealing with the people that she doesn't
~ very good at appearing cool and suave and badass while undercover
~ is in reality a fucking nerd who loves bunny slippers and insists on going by her internet handle IRL
~ has a codependent relationship with an artificial superintelligence, and a not-girlfriend that she's just a little too willing to die for
~ partially?? or mostly??? deaf in her right ear (this show is not always the most consistent about the extent of her hearing loss and the functionality of her cochlear implant, but I will do my best to be)
~ I know nothing about hacking, I am not techy, please forgive all of my inevitable mistakes
