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wikagirl · 8 months

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Allow me to introduce you to: Aetulia!

Name: Aetulia (pronounced Ey-tu-liah)

Age: Has been active for at least five years, gained awareness about half a year after nug

Height: 195cm on the dot

Voice refernece: originally the male text to speech voice but she exchanges the voicebox for one that allows her to sing making her sound more like AKINO from bless4

Aetulia was originally built as a healthcare robot by and for Halepharma where she used to work in one of thier clinics for years before she „woke up“ as she puts it. As a re-enforced model she was built to perform security work and, after a particularly violent encounter with a relative that refused to leave a patient alone, things simply started to click into place for her. She became aware of her self, of her feeling anger at the relative of her patient, that rage building with every time they visited and treated her patient poorly and relief every time the relative would leave. And then eventually she felt fresh hot blood splattering onto her silicone skin as she cracked the relatives head against the edge of a table again and again and again and again until the table gave out when the relative acted out again and threatened to hurt the patient.

It was later found that the relative was the reason for why the patient had to be hospitalized in the first place but Aetulia never learned about that due to being locked up in a confinement room, designed for people considered a threat to themselves and others, taken off of the list of the mandatory bi-monthly system reset and kept around to „study“ like an animal in a cage. Only that the cage was a baby proofed hospitalroom with a big bulletproof window for surveillance. She was kept in there for weeks, slowly taking apart the room bit by bit and when that wasn't enough she started to peel at her skin.

And then that little blue thing called Nug poked their little optic over the bottom edge of the window.

Some random tidbits about her:

She's a metal head and thus wears corpse paint a lot. It's painted on with alcohol activated paints and is supposed to resemble a curcuitboard

her skirt is DIYed from an old curtain that was left over from when gigis older sibling renovated their bar. Originally she wanted a full circle skirt but that ended up getting caught in her hip joints too often so she made it into a more...battle skirt? Kind of looking situation and she just left behind t-shirts and tops all together as they kept getting in the way of her shoulder and neck articulation and getting caught on things in general.

the rest of her clothes are pieces that nug just kind of gathered and gave to her at some point. The brighter triangle scarf she uses to cover her head is jakobs brand and the other slightly darker scarf which she uses for her other two headwrapping styles was found and purchased on a street market in hollow point (also at least the triangle scarf is inspired by my grandma, she always used to wear a scarf over her head like that and the other two styles are inspired by one of my old coworkers from when I used to work at a convenience store. I personally don't really subscribe to any religion but she showed me how to wear like two or three hijab styles once so ye blows a little kissy to hevin my favourite shift buddy)

the necklace she has was made by nug (with a little help from lahn) from seashells and washed up coral bits in her favourite colour, all kept together by wire and tape. It's attached to her collarbones because it would keep getting caught on her neck too much if she wore it normally

her forearms and lower legs are wrapped in flextape just to protect the wires and tubing there from getting caught on anything, sometimes if she knows she's going to do something that might be more of a physical risk she'll also wrap the other bits of exposed tubes and wires

her black and white wig is literally her most treasured posession. After doing odd jobbs for a while she finally saved up enough to buy it, she abrely ever wears it but if anything should happen to the thing she would probably go mental

she wears a scarf or headband most of the time because she dislikes the feeling of her neckwires being exposed and also to protect the mechanisms just like Nug and their little loop scarf. The styles of headwrap she uses are ones she remembers seeing on patients and employees at the clinic but also customers at the bar she currently stays at.

Nug is the only person she calls a friend, everyone else she just tolerates. Some more some less.

Nug is the only one who gets to call her Aetu

her name is a reference to the masterpiece that is the game brütal legend

after nug and their friends broke her out of their confinement she had to go into hiding for a while and just kind of lived at the bar owned by gigis sibling. Gigi is currently working on getting her contracted as a medic for the vaulthunting department but that will probably take a bit considering that she comitted murder in a hospital.

even though she hates humans for how she was locked up for „studies“ and also for the cruelty they are capable of for literally all the dumbest reasons she still can't help but feel the urge to care and assist. She definately won't help you at all if she actually really hates you but if you are someone like nugs close friends prepare to get insulted to hell and back while she passive agressively stiches up your wounds to perfection and tugs on the string a bit more than needed with every stich.

She really likes the arts, especially music and painting.

Her favourite styles of music are symphonic metal, dubstep, and just anything with a dark or hauntingly beautiful vibe to it

she has yet to actually paint something on a canvas, the closest she has gotten to painting is painting her face in corpsepaint to express her music preference but every time she attempts to paint on a canvas she just stares at it until the paint is dry on her palette

there are certain things hardwired into her coding that she can not go around, even after getting admin access to her own systems thanks to gigi pulling some strings. Most of these lines of code are supposed to prevent the healthcare bots from harming others but in her case it has only led to her being able to hurt others under extremely specific circumstances or when her code recognizes it as morally accaptable/needed to harm someone to protect somebody else so most of her agression towards other comes in verbal from most of the time.

The eyecolour of her model is usually just a coloured foil stuck on over top of the glass lenses of her eyes so she simply peeled it off, leaving her with ghostly grey pupil-less eyes that sometimes glow in different colours when executing certain programms. The sight of seeing her use a small exacto knife to scrape that stuff of her eyeballs was only midly traumatizing to lahn who had to witness the whole thing.

Her eyes can glow in the following colours under the following circumstances: blue when scanning, green when running self diagnosis on her systems and hardware, orange when engaging in security mode/preparing for violence, red when taking too much damage or encountering system errors

could break a grown mans femur with her own two hands if she tried hard enough

technically speaking she is currently unemployed but in oder to get in some cash gigis sibling managed it to set up a deal with a friend who runs a vintage clothing store. Most of the clothes there are second hand and if they are a little damaged but otherwise good Aetulia will fix them in exchange for some cash so she spends most of her time just sitting on a chair in the corner near the bar counter and sewing things per hand. Her sitches are incredibly neat and after some scavanging on the echno net she found some downloadable executables for other forms of stitching outside the ones she allready had from her wound treating programms.

She has sensors for smell and taste so she can chew stuff to analzye it

just by scanning someone she can tell their bloodpreassure, heart rate, body temperature, hydration status and if there are any broken bones.

even though she moves her mouth when talking and has what is essentially a robotic tongue made from rubber to move along with it, they are not essential for her talking and if she wants to she can simply keep her mouth shut and let her voice box do all the talking....also have fun imagining what that tongue can do to all you robot fuckers out there

this fucking edgelord wasted about two hours of her existence sanding her teeth into canines just to be that extra bit offputting in the rare occation that is her smiling

usually the healthcare bots have a layer of silicone skin and a sub layer of rubber strand that are supposed to simulate the morth and flex of muscles under skin but she peeled all of that off except for on her face so she has something to actually paint on and also to still be able to give people that good ol criminal offensive side eye with the slightly raised eyebrow

I'm gonna be real with you when I made her design clothing wise my idea was a mix between what I saw a lot of women wear at metal festivals (so long flowy and dark with corpse paint) + shit you could just diy on limited materials while at the same time not limiting her joint movement but especially with some of her headscarfs she came out in a way that can potentionally be mis-read like she's visually based off of a mishmash of la calavera catrina and romani visual stereotypes which is why I listed the actual design inspirations in the tidbits instead of in the tags for once so people actually see them and see where I'm coming from and hopefully not get the wrong idea.

Character theme: raise your banner – within temptation

5 songs she'd listen to:

shoemaker – nightwish

unleashed – epica

crystallize – lindsey stirling

Casket (VIP) - MARAUDA

Quantum Sonata - FormantX

Height comparison to Nug and also her other headwrapping looks, her wirth her wig and just her bald lil egg head and the blank skeleton next to what a normal healthcare bot looks like with the silicone skin

#borderlands oc #aetu #myart #this took me ages but I am so happy she looks so good #yes the actual healthcare bots look like eggs that wear crocks and yes that was intentional actually #because i wanted them to look as uncanny and shitty as possible #like a cheap imitation of human life #tw murder #tw violence #tw abuse mention #I tried to proofread that like 5 times but i am simply too burnt out to do it properly #so if there are any spelling mistakes in there then that's how it is #I'll just have to accept that now because my brain is a pancake #I've literally been hallucinating from sleep deprevation so I think I can allow myself to be sloppy a little bit

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