Maria Gurlukovich

Maria Gurlukovich is a minor supporting character and "aunt"/government supervisor of Asimov.

## Background

Maria is a government agent sent to the remote Colorado mountain town of North Park to oversee the testing of a new government surveillance unit. This unit was of course the Asimov android, and after he gained sentience Maria decided to keep this fact hidden from the government so she can continue the operation and watch over Asimov as his "aunt". She is a scientist who specialises in robotics, overseeing much of Asimov's repairs and making sure he has a new body prepared when the old one gets destroyed, which happens fairly often.

When she was younger, Maria ran away from home and had to live on the streets for several years. She slept around a lot in order to have places to sleep, which eventually lead to a hedonistic background of partying and sexual promiscuity. She discovered that she was barren, unable to have children of her own which lead to her attempting to create a fully artificial womb out of the few resources she had access to. This genius was recognized by the government, who hired her to create weapons for them. Maria suffered significant damage to her throat and lost an arm after an assassination attempt that her new line of work brought upon herself. She replaced both with cybernetic enhancements, now a skilled cybernetics and robotics engineer. Although she is dedicated to her government assignments, she has to balance her old promiscuous habits and her motherly instincts from resurfacing with the importance of her mission. Maria was recently put on the North Park surveillance project overseeing the "Asimov" model.

Maria has significantly bad eyesight, to the point where she is nearly blind without her glasses.

## Appearance

Maria is a woman of average height with brown short hair and brown/tanned skin. She wears a white lab coat over a red top, grey skirt and black leggings with red heed shoes. She also wears a black choker necklace and has red earrings. Her glasses are thick and circular, often obscuring her eyes in the reflective glass.

Maria is also a cyborg, her right arm is replaced with a robotic prosthetic and her "necklace" is actually an implanted voicebox, allowing her to speak and giving her voice a robotic intonation. It is unclear if she does or does not have other cybernetic enhancements.

## Personality

Maria acts professionally and cold most of the time, arguably colder than the machines she works with. She is very analytical and observant, and can come across as blunt in her observations. She does however have a strong motherly instinct, which causes her to act a lot more warm and friendly towards children, hoping to take a motherly role with them. Some parents may be concerned about letting their kids spend with Maria, finding her creepy not only for being a cold, abrupt scientist but also for her preference of the company of children. Maria genuinely does care for the children, even if she can sometimes spoil them or introduce them to technology they really should not be using. She does however not have infinite patience for all children, and some of the more misbehaving ones do catch her ire.

When Maria was younger she was a lot less cold, and spent a lot of this youth partying and having sexual relationships with lots of people in lots of different locations. She discovered that she was barren, unable to have kids so no amount of sexual intercourse risked pregnancy, although this had a negative affect when her motherly instincts kicked in and she had no naturally way of conceiving a child. While she isn't out having sex with multiple strangers every night any more, as she is focused on her mission and taking care of Asimov, she does still have that strong libido that makes her occasionally let it all out and return to her old promiscuous ways. When she does, her cold outward demeanour can peel away.

## Family

#### Original family

Maria's father was absent in her life, leaving Maria with her drug addict mother at a young age. Maria had a sister who committed suicide, prompting Maria in her grief to run away from home. Her mother and father's current statuses are unknown, and Maria hasn't had contact with either of them.

#### Asimov

Asimov was originally just a government surveillance robot disguised as a human child that Maria was assigned to, but after he gained sentience Maria's instinct drove her to start doting on him like an adopted child. She now calls herself his "aunt" and treats their dynamic like a family.

#### Alita and Galatea Capek

Originally two advanced sexual service android, the two of them were repurposed for their impressive design and convincingly human appearance by the government to act as the Asimov surveillance robot's decoy parents. Maria now considers them somewhat sisters, as she is Asimov's aunt after all. She doesn't have as strong of an emotional bond with them as they lack the sapience that Asimov has, and she sometimes uses their old programming to entertain herself when she's feeling lonely, so doesn't really take the sister thing all too seriously.

#### Asimov-2

Usually whenever an Asimov robot's body is destroyed, Maria will run a code that transfers his programming and sentience into a new body. However, a glitch early on caused his programming to be duplicated instead of transferred, causing the creation of Asimov 2 from the copy left in the destroyed body. It is unknown of Maria is aware that this glitch occurred or not.

## Relationships

#### Dr. Toades

Maria has a certain level of respect for Toades as a fellow scientist, but this respect is also met with a strong friendly rivalry that leads to arguments and boasts. They often compare the strengths of their different scientific fields, with Maria focusing on robotics and cybernetics, while Toades' area of expertise is genetic engineering. They have on occasion combined their scientific efforts for a common goal. Despite finding Toades' physical form to be repulsive and strange, she can't help but sometimes have a tinge of romantic tension with him that enflames that sexual desire from her youth.

#### Bobby Norman

Something about the salt of the earth man drives Maria wild, perhaps it's because he's a kind single man who needs a woman to take care of his son? Regardless, Maria will often hit on Bobby and do her best to impress him, much to the annoyance of Miss Chariot, who is currently dating him. The fact that Chariot always has hilarious reactions to Maria hitting on Bobby is just a bonus!

#### Slappy

Maria, for some unknown reason has a strong dislike of clowns. This makes Slappy one of if not her most least favorite residents in North Park. She never takes what he says seriously and is quick to dismiss him, seeing him as pathetic and annoying. Because of this, he also disapproves of his niece Drew having such a close relationship with Asimov.

#### Silvia and Rodney Lunaris

Maria has detected their unusual behaviour and technology and has figured out the two twins to actually be alien spies. Because of this she often likes messing them and trying to trick them into giving her more information, which Rodney is fairly prone do doing if not for his sister Silvia holding him back.

Dr. Cates

Maria views Dr. Cates as a source of entertainment, often purposefully riling her up much like she does Miss Chariot and Heather McGarden, though she does respect the shorter woman's intelligence and has even made out with her a few times. Maria considers them closer friends than she is with Toades, finding Cates not aesthetically unappealing unlike Toades.

## Powers and abilities

#### Intelligence

Maria has high intelligence she applies in her robotics and cybernetics.

#### Cybernetics

Maria has access to cybernetic enhancements, primarily her mechanical arm. This arm has superior strength and durability compared to a regular human arm and has built in utility mechanisms.

#### Robotics

Maria is skilled in robotics, and is able to build and repair robots for various purposes.