Chun, Catherine

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CATHERINE CHUN ▸ NAME: Catherine Chun ▸ SPECIALIZATION: Inventor ▸ SECONDARY SPECIALIZATION: N/A ▸ USERNAME: c.chun ▸ AGE: 37 by memory, <1 year old functionally as her current existence ▸ ORIGIN: Taipei, Taiwan, Earth ▸ SPECIES: Human consciousness in a synthetic android body ▸ DIET: Liquids, no solids ▸ HEALTH CONCERNS: Nothing except she can now remove her cortex chip from her body and plug into other things, so that's a fun, potentially hazardous development. ▸ SKILLSET(S): Programming, A.I., robotics, virtual realities, software engineering ▸ INFORMATION: Catherine is something of a stereotype on the surface, a too-smart scientist with too-few social skills and some dubious understanding of ethics. But she brings a humanness to this archetype that is atypical, both strongly caring about others and wishing she weren't so bad at expressing it. She's convinced she's doomed to never have friends, but she'd like one. Catherine is at home with computers, machines, and A.I., has no internal existential angst about the state of her existence at all, and will cheerfully talk disturbing body horror all day because they're just robots. Setting wise, she's from a post-apocalyptic, destroyed Earth-- an apocalypse that she lived through, meaning she experienced the loss personally-- with no future ahead of her, and her human self dead and gone. But she's an altruistic, energetic person, and a workaholic who likes to get shit done, no matter how morbid or utterly soul-crushing the situation may be. In the context of SOMA as a game, while Simon represents denial, Catherine represents hope-- the kind of wild, crazy hope that doesn't solve or fix anything, that can't change reality, but can do something, anything, that still means something in the bleakness of the deep ocean. ▸ ACHIEVEMENTS: TITLES: Technomancer BADGES: