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Clay Kaczmarek | Assassin's Creed | Not Reserved
Personality:
Clay is a smarmy ass, but he’s seen some shit, so it’s pretty understandable. His snark and all-around callous attitude is a defense mechanism, more or less. Beyond that, he’s prone to depression because a) his life sucked and b) he can’t even get any peace even though he’s fuckin’ dead, a fact which he pokes fun at when he gets the opportunity. He's prone to mood swings, one minute being a snarky jerkass, the next he's ready to kill something, and the next he's curled up in a corner crying, in about any combination possible, which is what makes him seem so unsettling most of the time. It's that obvious mental imbalance that makes him seem untrustworthy.
He's deeply devoted to the Assassin order, despite them sending him down the road of insanity and suicide and AI-dom. And even post-mortem, he was doing what he could to help Desmond with his duty as Chosen One. Even though he is incredibly bitter that he ended up dying, and would love to take it back so he didn't, Clay puts helping to keep the world from ending on a slightly higher level of importance than keeping his own life.
He’s also very paranoid, and prone to speaking in cyphers and code and weird riddles because then the government can’t track him. And by the government I mostly just mean Abstergo and the Templars, but it's honestly the same thing considering we're talking about a conspiracy theorist here. ...A conspiracy theorist who happens to be right, but a paranoid head case nonetheless.
It's also worth mentioning that Clay is very, very smart and very, very aware of this fact. His day job was a software engineer, which undoubtedly helped him hack into the Animus and upload his own brain onto the damn thing. He also knows an ungodly amount of languages and historical funfacts thanks to his several month long run at Abstergo. And astronomy. He knows his space. He doesn't hold his intellect too high over people's heads usually, and he holds street smarts and innate knowledge in higher regard than book learnin' despite being something of a walking encyclopedia himself. However, he's not above calling someone an idiot when they manage to be completely stupid in a practical sense (spoilers: that someone is usually Desmond).
Basically, he's a desperate, bitter, obsessive man who acts just creepy enough that it's kind of inevitable that his loyalties get called into question. Or at least that people wonder just where his head’s at.
Abilities/Powers:
- The main weird ability he has is Eagle Vision, which he got through the Bleeding Effect because of his time in the Animus. It is, essentially the ability to look at someone and determine whose side they’re on. Enemies will glow red, allies will glow blue, targets - whether assassination targets or just someone the user is supposed to find or follow - will glow gold, and information or hiding places or things of that nature will glow white. However, it's not perfect 100% of the time. If the user truly believes an enemy to actually be an ally, then they will still glow blue. In Clay's case, because of his paranoia, everyone other than people he already knows are on his side are more than likely going to be red anyway.
- Freerunning. Like all Assassins, Clay is hella adept at parkour and can essentially scale any building assuming it's not just straight up impossible to climb.
- Hand-to-hand combat. Between his more standard training and spending such a long time in the Animus, he can defend himself pretty well.
Items/Weapons: The clothes on his back and a ballpoint pen.
Clay Kaczmarek | Assassin's Creed | Not Reserved
Sample Entry Two:
Dear god his head was throbbing. Somewhere in the back of his mind, he wondered what the hell kind of computing error could actually give him a headache at this point, and why that technology existed, but that was a mystery he could solve later. Figuring out where he was seemed a bit more important. This wasn't exactly what he expecting the purgatory of the Recycle Bin to look like, at least not in the Animus; this place was too grimy, too run-down for the sleek lines and geometric shapes Clay had gotten used to over the past few months. Maybe it pulled up a simulation of a town for some reason, but that would take up too much memory, wouldn't it? It would have been easy to blame it on the Animus just not knowing what to do with a deleted human consciousness, so it pulled up a setting to compensate, to apologize, but the buildings were unfamiliar, the layout too different from anything else he'd seen before. Too non-descript to be anywhere extraordinary. Certainly not Rome or Constantinople or Moscow, or any place else he'd seen. No, the construction of the buildings was too new, though everything looked rather dilapidated now, the designs too bland to be of much help placing where this was supposed to be.
Yeah, he had nothing. No explanation, no way to guess where he was... Great, just great.
And why was he so tired all of a sudden? He hadn't been tired in... Well, since August. That was just bizarre. He shouldn't be able to get tired, right? He hadn't before, why would he now? ...Later. He'd worry about the implications of all this later. For now, he'd just... Lay down and take a quick nap. People always said that they'd sleep when they're dead anyway, right? He was just taking his official very well-deserved, you’re-all-quite-welcome-for-helping-to-save-the-world nap. If he really was just in some waiting room for soon-to-be-permanently-deleted programs, then no one would mind him dozing off in the middle of the sidewalk, because no one else would be around anyway. And if he wasn't... Maybe there would be someone else around to come and wake him up and tell him what the hell was going on.
-> REVISE
I would like to request an expanded personality section, please. While you have touched on most of his major personality points, there isn't much explanation of why he is that way or reacts in those ways. Also, Lucy Stillman and her betrayal is a large part of what shapes his personality, and I would like to see some explanation of that, please.
I apologize for the inconvenience. You have one week to reply to these revisions, thank you.
Re: -> REVISE
Initially, in AC2 and Brotherhood - and even the first couple chapters of the Lost Archive – what we “see” of Clay is someone who’s genuinely curious about what he’s learned in the Animus, but also that he’s rather rapidly losing his grip on reality. It’s expanded on a bit in TLA, where his personality even seems meek at first, and it’s basically stated flat out that he’s never exactly been the picture of mental health. (Granted, depression is a far cry from hallucinations and what basically amounts to DID, but. It probably didn’t help.) He was always kind of pushed into things he didn’t necessarily want to do, mostly by his father, but a little bit with Bill and the Assassin Order too, which is never a good starting point. It’s also worth noting that he quit taking the medication his (admittedly really dickish) psychiatrist prescribed him when he joined up with the Assassins, figuring that he was totally fine now.
Fast forward a bit to his time at Abstergo. First off he was there for a year and a half. Let’s compare that real quick to Desmond’s week there. Within a week Desmond was already experiencing some of the less detrimental parts of the Bleeding Effect, what with him spontaneously developing Eagle Vision and all, and he was let out every night to sleep. Clay was a little less lucky with that. He was stuck in the Animus for days at a time, and never really got a break, even after the nice people at Abstergo started giving him antipsychotics. Because really, you would think they’d stop once they caused psychosis, but. Abstergo decided to carry on. For science, I guess.
During one of his little episodes, Juno essentially told him that he needed to kill himself in order to help this guy that will keep the apocalypse from happening. In other words, what basically amounts to a figment of his imagination told him that he was more useful dead. He initially refused, still under the assumption that his “kidnapping” by the Templars was something he was in control of due to Lucy being on his side. …That rather quickly ended once Clay realized that, no, Lucy was actually a Templar for realsies now. This was basically the straw that broke the camel’s back. There was no point in trying to pretend he was sane, or trying to actually keep himself sane because, fuck it, he wasn’t leaving Abstergo alive anyway. What’s even the point. And while he’s at it, might as well listen to the glowing Roman goddess in his head and at least help someone else out and paint some pretty pictures.
And then he got to spend a couple months completely by himself as a computer program. Just to rub a little more salt into the wound.
The bitchiness that we see in Revelations is basically just Clay giving a big ol’ middle finger to the world because he’s sick and tired of the universe’s shit by this point. He’s 100% done, but he still has to deal with some ungrateful jackass who doesn’t realize how easy he got off, so he comes across as a real asshole. He’s channeling all his energy into helping Desmond the only way he knows how: Keeping him from dying, and giving him a serious kick in the ass now and then.
He says it himself, he feels like he wasted his life and basically just feels incredibly fucked over by fate or whatever you want to call it. So he’s bitter and angry, and it comes off as sarcastic and acidic at a level that he wasn’t quite at when he was alive. The meanness could even partially be a really latent burst of independence (or anger at his prior lack of independence even) and his way of trying to go against all the things he's been told to do by his father, Bill, and Juno by trying to prove he's grown a spine since dying.
When he’s in a better mood, it’s more of a joking sarcasm, but it’s still pretty angry under the surface, and acts like a defense mechanism. He can’t be alive or sane, so he cracks jokes about being insane and dead. Because if he can laugh about it, then he won’t have a complete mental breakdown about it. Yes, his life sucked, but he still has work to do, so he needs to try and keep it together as best he can. And his way of doing that happens to be with bad jokes and snarky comments.
And then of course Clay’s actually just. Mental due to the Bleeding Effect, which accounts for his occasional bursts of aggressiveness and probably is at least partially accountable for the mood swings. He’s better than he was in the Truth puzzles, but he’s still not quite all there in the head. His personality shifts just enough to be unsettling each time Desmond talks to him, and it really gives Clay the feeling of being pretty unstable.
-> ACCEPTED
Re: -> ACCEPTED