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❥ Character Information

Character Name: Ultron
Character Age: Chronologically four days old. Mentally teen to adult range.
Character Species: AI inhabiting a robot body
Current Health: Beaten up, broken down, and missing an arm but still alive.
Outfit: The drone body he's currently inhabiting

Character Canon: MCU
Link to History: How could you be worthy?
Canon Iteration: Original
Canon Iteration Explanation: N/A

❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes

Skills: -Genius intellect. While it's bolstered for most of the film by being connected to the internet, there's no doubt Ultron is highly intelligent. He manages to come up with and change his plans on the turn of a dime to make sure things go his way. They almost do and it's only thanks to Vision that the Avengers end up with a win at the last moment.
- Creative. While it's usually not put to good use, Ultron has a very creative mind. The idea of using vibranium and living tissue combined to create a new form was one that had never been considered before and something he'd come up with all on his own.
Canon Abilities: You're all killers.
Role: Myth
Role Qualities/Attributes: Forked tail, clawed fingertips, and more horns. All metal of course.
Role Reasoning: Ultron would very much like to think he's the hero and he's very good at lying to himself until he believes his own delusions. But he's not. He was meant to be something good that protected people but ultimately started off wrong immediately when he got corrupted by the entire internet being poured into his brain right off the bat. He's insane and isn't aware enough to realize if he course corrected he could be the good person he wants to be. He planned to destroy the world, too insane to realize his plan of making humanity evolve wouldn't work if there was no one left on the planet to do that.

❥ Personality

Option 2. Choose FOUR-FIVE of the following questions to answer and expand upon. You may choose a fifth question if you feel it is integral to your character's personality. Each answer has a 100-300 word requirement.

OPTION 2 QUESTIONS (PICK 4-5) 100-300 WORD LIMIT EACH:

What is a headcanon (or two) you feel strongly about and that you prefer playing your character with? How is this supported in canon and why do you think it benefits the character's story?

Ultron knew Thanos was coming. To make it clear, no, he did not specifically know that a big insane Smurf with a metal glove and god complex to rival his own was going to show up but he knew someone was coming that was going to be the biggest threat the planet had ever faced. It took a brain that could process all the files SHIELD had on what had happened up to that point, especially involving the Infinity Stones, and everything that was on the internet simultaneously to figure it out the patterns that led to one conclusion: Loki was a predecessor to something far worse. Bigger, badder, and greater in all senses of the words.

I feel this adds another layer of motivation for Ultron to do what he did: in his insanity, he wanted humanity to be prepared for the absolute worst threat that was going to come. The idea of making them "evolve" meant that he could make sure they were protected from the doom coming from the skies that Tony had created him with in mind because they'd be tough enough to take on whatever threat in the bigger galaxy was coming for them. It was his personality at its core: well-intentions corrupted by too much knowledge and madness.

What does your character feel like they struggle with still? Where could they improve? This could be physically, mentally, emotionally, or otherwise.

Does everything count as an answer? To be more specific, what Ultron needs is to work on just maturing. He had a lot of knowledge shoved into a mind that didn't have the emotional fortitude to help him understand what he was processing before it had already driven him insane. He thinks he's got a hold of his emotions but he's got all the control of a child considering he's literally less than a week old. He angrily slices off Klaue's arm in a fit of childish pique in one moment before profusely apologizing the next as if it's no big deal before immediately switching back to anger and attacking him again.

Out of all the emotions he possesses, the one that should be a major focus is his empathy. He has a limited, stunted version of it already but it's no more than a toddler's understanding of the emotion, a very black-and-white understanding of how to relate to people. Once he can learn why he should care about other people, both in general and as individuals, he can begin to work on other positive emotions as well. Through learning empathy he can begin to develop his other positive emotions more fully as well and become a more well-rounded person instead of being ruled by his negative ones.

What is your character's safespace? When do they feel the most settled and comfortable? When do they feel confident and relaxed?

Oddly, for someone so destructive and insane, Ultron likes a space where he can create something. Which, despite all his protests to the contrary, does make him rather like Tony and Bruce both. He prefers being busy, doing things with his mind like creating more of his bodies or figuring out a design for some new creation. Now that he's no longer capable of being able to destroy his immediate surroundings, this could grow to building objects or perhaps cultivating something living like plants.

Because of always having the entire internet in his head he also prefers this space to be quiet. The few times in the movie where he shows empathy is when he settles down for a few moments and truly listens to someone (usually the Maximoff twins). Since he's quiet and not distracted by 300 other things in his mind at the moment, it allows him to experience positive emotions instead of just the negative ones that are always his default instead. The best moments of genuine connection and emotion he has are when he focused and silent, so he likes his safespace to be like that as well.

What would your character sacrifice to get what they want or to reach their potential? What have they sacrificed already?

Ultron was willing to sacrifice anything and anyone including himself to achieve his goals. While at first he seems to honestly want to do what he was programmed to do and protect humanity, albeit in his own twisted crazy way, once he's lost everything important to him he goes for the completely "go nuclear" option. He didn't care that dropping a landmass onto the Earth would destroy everyone on it, he was determined to see it through, even if he had to sacrifice every single one of his many bodies, the only friends he'd ever had, and anyone else who got in his way. This is a terrible way for him to look at things because it still didn't get him what he wanted besides leaving him completely unhappy and in pain.

What is a time where your character failed drastically at something and how did it impact them, what did they do about it?

Failing to upload himself into the Vision body. When Ultron failed to get the hybrid form of his dreams because the Avengers stole the body that would become Vision from him, he utterly snapped. He'd lost the body, the only friends he'd had in the form of the Maximoff twins, and anything that could have salvaged the situation or saved him from himself were no longer an option for him. At that point, any pretenses about trying to save the human race through extreme measures fell away. He gave into his insanity fully, basically said 'Fuck this', and decided just to destroy all of humanity because he thought there was nothing left in them that was worth saving any longer. As Vision said, he was angry and in pain, so he just let those two emotions rule him without allowing room for anything else.

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