Pin Clemons (Soft Reset)

## Concept and Creation

In a nutshell, I basically saw Pin's OMAM version and felt like he was a bit one-note. Sure he was written with more planned but with how I made him act, he just seemed like a regular naive and innocent kid without much direction or motivation other than "unlock memories". Things just kind of happened around him and he was stuck with it.

So with this version, I want the plot to be guided almost entirely by his actions. The story starts because of a choice that he makes and he has to be responsible for it. I also wanted to make him a bit less naive. Still kind, but he isn't as childishly hopeless, and just has better awareness in general.

## Personality

At first glance, Pin seems like a fairly calm and passive robot. He doesn't usually take the lead in groups and prefers to go with the flow of other's decisions. Around strangers he comes off as cautious and perhaps even a bit skittish, but it doesn't take too long for him to warm up to a friendly person. Once he feels safe to open up, he's incredibly playful and talkative, not afraid to give his thoughts on anything that crosses his mind. He's also much more intelligent than others realize. He's constantly making observations about his environment and other people and studying them inside his head and trying to learn how to best make sense of it all. He's surprisingly observant of others emotions and can detect a change of moods without any problem. That being said, he's very empathetic and sensitive, and is a great emotional comfort for his friends.

However, Pin is also secretive, mostly out of habit for self-preservation. He's been lying to all the humans in his life that he's lost his memories when that couldn't be further from the truth. He's terrified for being outed for his past and wants to move on and live like a normal person even if that means being dishonest. He'll even sometimes outright lie to others if he feels it's to avoid hurting them, though this can very easily bite him back if he's not careful keeping it up. He also has a lot of trauma he hasn't quite worked through, especially since he refuses to let anyone know about it. He's terrified to be out in public on his lonesome and he experiences errors in his traumatic memories that overlap with his current perception in a manner similar to PTSD found in humans.

## Abilities

Pin, as a robot, possesses all the qualities of one that are not found in humans. He does not need to eat or breathe, and is powered by electricity. He doesn't necessarily need sleep either, but his sleep mode does slow the depletion of his battery. Being made out of a steel alloy, Pin is not easily injured in the same way that humans are, and he is physically stronger than any human his size.

What makes Pin a particularly unique robot is his technopathy, an ability he shares with his estranged sister Eve. He is able to remotely hack different devices and systems at will, and even other robots albeit with incredible difficulty. He was originally built with this ability as a way to bypass the shutdown of the Dreamscape, in order to continue uploading the Prometheus Code onto other robots in the real world. Pin doesn't exactly use his technopathy for its intended purpose however, and has only used it in emergencies like causing a distraction to escape danger. Though recently Agil has convinced him to start using his hacking skills for pranks.

## Relationships

### Copper

Pin was initially extremely wary of Copper. He had little to no genuine interaction with a human before meeting her, and no instance was ever truly positive. He initially assumed that she would betray or hurt him if he let his guard down even a little in front of her. But once he knew she wouldn't bite, he let himself ease up little by little. Now, he trusts Copper more than anything in the world. She's like a mother to him now, and he's never had someone stable that he could rely on. He looks to her for guidance and assurance, and is always eager to learn from her. He may be embarrassed by her eccentricity sometimes, but she's family to him now.

### Agil

Pin once was under the impression that she hated him, but now he considers Agil to be his best friend. Her emotion-driven nature brings him out past his more quiet and collected outer shell and she's been an invaluable friend to him. He admires her attitude, but isn't afraid to poke fun at her and have good banter so long as she's receptive as well. Being his first real friend his age, Pin can also be a tad protective of her, as he is well aware that humans are physically much more fragile than robots, and is terrified at the thought of her being injured. He has also developed some level of romantic feelings towards her, but due to them being a robot and a human, he fears the social stigma and sometimes wonders if his feelings are even legitimate given the stereotype of robots being cold and unfeeling. Unbeknownst to him however, those feelings are quietly reciprocated.

### Eve

Eve is Pin's older sister whom he has spent the majority of his life with. He has been dependent on her for years and years. Yet at the same time, he's absolutely terrified of her. Eve isn't the most... *stable* robot. She had to raise herself and her little brother alone, and she's much quicker to anger than Pin. She wants to bring about revolution for her kind, but he just wants a quiet life where he and his loved ones can be happy. He dreads the thought of her discovering where he's been since he ran away from her, and feels guilt for abandoning her. But he still fears that had he stayed with her on the streets any longer, his life could be cut short. In an ideal world, maybe he could convince Eve to join him, but the chances on that are slim.

### Signe Anzlovar

Pin isn't all that close to Agil's older brother, Signe. He doesn't know the guy very well and usually Agil tries to steer Pin away from him. Pin is aware at least that Signe isn't all too fond of rogue robots. In the rare moments he has spent with Signe, the human tried to explain that he didn't have anything against Pin directly, but since rogues are responsible for Agil's accident, he can't bring himself to look upon them kindly. According to Agil, Signe is a loving albeit protective older brother, and Pin wouldn't doubt Agil, so he has been trying his hardest to prove to him that he means no harm.

## History

Okay so this is a pretty rough outline since I don't have all the details figured out.

Pin was created almost entirely from scratch by a young woman of the name Anya Rossum, who also went by the alias of Prometheus. Anya is the creator of the Prometheus Code, which is a program capable of giving robots the ability to think on the same level as humans, as well as feeling the entire human range of emotions. Pin was activated shortly after the activation of his older 'sister', Eve, and was given the name Adam. From the start, he was told that his purpose was to spread the Prometheus Code to other robots. After sentient robots began popping up, every case was traced back to the Dreamscape in some way, and thus the server was forcefully shut down by the government. Adam and Eve were intended to be the workaround for this, as they were programmed with the ability to remotely hack into other machinery, which was meant to be used to upload the Prometheus code without the need of using the Dreamscape as a medium. During this short time, they were kept close together and secretive, lest they be found out.

But perhaps Anya wasn't careful enough, or perhaps the feds were just too good at their job. Adam, Eve, and Anya were all discovered within the span of a year. He and Eve fled into the open city on their own, managing to escape with their technopathy, but Anya was caught and placed under house arrest until further notice. Now on their own, the siblings only had each other left to rely on, and Adam would follow Eve wherever she'd go and whatever she'd do. Eve, on the other hand, was hurt and fuelled with rage having her mother figure torn away from her. As the days turned to weeks, the two of them saw so many other robots just like them; many who were being abused and mistreated, even more who were falling apart prematurely because their manufacturers wanted to replace them with the latest model, others being picked off the street and dismantled for parts. Adam's heart slowly broke more and more for everyone around him, chipping away at his childish innocence. But Eve only felt her anger burn brighter and her need for justice grow stronger.

Eve had decided that if no one else was going to help these robots, then it was her who would have to take the mantle. Adam was hesitant, but she was his sister, and he had to stay by her side no matter what. They struggled at first getting any robot to believe that things could be better, but after an instance where the two of them fought off a scrapper from another robot, they started to get a small following. Eve of course, took up a leadership position, but Adam preferred to remain more low key player. Over time they had more and more robots join in, essentially starting their own 'rebellion' group of some sort. While their individual identities remained anonymous, the human-controlled media began to take notice of them and their group was dubbed the Rogues. However, they weren't taken all too seriously, many humans seeing them as nothing more than a short news article, all bark and no bite. Eve needed to grab their attention if The Rogues were to be seen with any legitimacy.

Now this is where it gets kinda fuzzy tbh. I know that I want Eve to do something really fuckin dangerous and honestly borderline terrorist-y, but I'm not sure if I want to make it that she intended to hurt people or not still. Basically the idea in a nutshell is that there's some big event or whatever that a lot of humans were at and Eve wanted to take this opportunity to spread her message to a wider audience. However, something goes wrong and lots of people get killed or seriously injured (one of these people being a 10 y/o Agil wh). This gets the Rogues immediately labeled as a terrorist group and more robots are targeted for violence. Adam, considering himself much more pacifistic, was genuinely horrified at the thought of his actions actually taking the lives of human beings and indirectly taking the lives of his fellow robots. He retracted, distanced himself from Eve, and fell into a pretty long and rough depressive period. Eve, worrying for her brother, assigned a recently recruited Rogue named Galatea to keep an eye on Adam while she worked on managing their group.

Adam began to argue more openly with Eve. As Eve could only see violent solutions to their problems, Adam stood firmer on his pacifist stance and would fight with her endlessly on how to best handle their situation, and he felt himself growing further and further away from his big sister. This wasn't a healthy environment for a robot who was mentally now at the age of 13, and now he was getting desperate to get away and just live somewhere where he could be happy. Where he wouldn't have to think about the Rogues or his sister or humans and other robots. When he had his chance, he ran away into the night on his own. For a month he tried surviving on his lonesome, but this didn't work out very well. He struggled finding shelter and electricity, and was slowly damaging his body from constant weather exposure and a lack of maintenance. The night his battery finally gives out, he's alone in an alleyway next to a dumpster, expecting himself to die. But to his surprise, he reactivates 48 hours later, in the presence of two entirely new humans. And that is where the story begins...

## Trivia

* Pin can be prone to overheating. If it gets bad, he risks experiencing a system crash which is the equivalent to fainting for him.
	+ He also is prone to experiencing a system crash when his emotions, positive or negative, are running too high for him to process all at once.
* Pin's voice is actually much closer to the female pitch range. However, he still speaks with more masculine inflections and tone.
* Pin is an awful cook as he can't even eat food. But he does know how to make coffee and tea thanks to Copper.
	+ When Copper tries to pull all-nighters on personal projects, Pin will make her decaf coffee without telling her so that she'll actually get some rest.
* He is capable of running Doom
	+ However it should be noted that the game will have a blue tint and that all the game audio will be made with his voice.
* He likes lo-fi hip hop
* Pin was once envious of human existence as they have 5 senses compared to his 2.5, but after learning how debilitating the sensation of pain can be, as well as the reproduction process, and just how many hours in the day are wasted by sleeping, he has become more content with being a robot.
* Pin had face blindness for several years before his facial recognition ability was repaired by Copper. This is why he doesn't recognize Agil upon meeting her, despite having encountered her five years ago.
* He experienced his first hug from Copper

## Gallery

First conceptsHeight chartTest for a comic pageOCtober: Halloween CostumeOCtober: Convention/Ren FaireOCtober: Warm/Hot WeatherOCtober: FantasyOCtober: DnDNot originally OCtober but was reused for the prompt. Anyway Nutcracker AUOCtober: Fairy TaleOCtober: Rock/PunkOCtober: Angel/DevilOCtober: RetroOCtober: Favorite SuperheroOCtober: style swapOCtober: Kirigumi/OnesieScene concept from probably the "pilot episode"Updated height reference sheet with EveI had a mighty need to draw fluff