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Sorry, little guy
Drawing the Director and Allison for the first time ever yay
About time, i suppose :>
Original meme:
Based on that last one
Which version of Tex would you trust represent you in court?
Beta
Revived by Epsilon
Allison
Agent Texas, AKA Allison/Beta is an Avatar of the Hunt.
day 8575868 of wishing rvb zero had turned out to be an allison prequel arc
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here she is!!! now that both are posted, comparing her ref to tex you can probably see a lot of similarities, mainly in markings and whatnot. i don’t have as many notes on her because despite being the reason all of rvb happens, she’s literally the character that appears the least in the whole series, im pretty sure.
so, my only real notes on her are that i tried to make her seem like someone who’d be worth doing what the director did, at least in his eyes. she’s big, pretty, and as shown by her scars, also badass. i also went a little more wild on her markings, because i doubt there’s going to be anyone making giant animations about her. animator-friendly rules briefly bent.
sooo... thas allison!! ty for dying for grimmons queen <3
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all my designs are f2u with credit!
"...𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚋𝚢𝚎. 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚋𝚢𝚎𝚜."
Agent Texas Aesthetic!!
Why AI? Why ‘Texas’?
Out-of-universe: because RT is based in Texas
In-universe: because the original Tex (Allison Church) died serving aboard the UNSC Texas
What we know:
Allison was a UNSC Marine
Carolina was born in 2523. When the War started in 2525, she would have been 2 years old.
Allison died when Carolina was 6 years old (2529)
The UNSC had a battleship called the Texas. It was destroyed in the First Battle of Arcadia in 2531 but was presumably involved in other conflicts prior to this point.
Why AI?
It was more or less customary to have a smart AI running the ship’s systems, to make calculations or advise and guide the crew. The Spirit of Fire had Serina; the Infinity has Roland, The Heart of Midlothian had Mo Ye, and so on. They’re incredible assets: loyal, direct, efficient, and trustworthy.
But they’re not enough. Not to win the War. Not to stop Allison from dying.
Carolina is six years old when her father sits her down and says her mother is never coming home. Carolina is six years old when he begins to bury himself in his work, begins to read and to learn and to research. They have to be better, they have to be better, he mumbles to himself, tugging his glasses from his face and rubbing at eyes that have been shrouded in exhausted shades since Allison went away. I have to make them better. I have to make all of them better. It’s not enough.
When Carolina leaves for an officer school, he barely notices she’s gone.
Why Texas?
Creating a smart AI is intensive; they’re uploaded from human brains in a process called Cognitive Impression Modeling. It’s a brilliant achievement -- but it destroys the original brain. For legal and ethical reasons, the UNSC restricts the process to using only recently-deceased donor brains.
But that hasn’t been good enough. That hasn’t been fast enough. That’s still not enough -- not to save anyone, not to win the War. There are never enough Spartans to save the day. There are only soldiers, men and women like Allison who haven’t been training since they were six years old -- men and women like Allison who are without any supersoldier augmentations, who are much more mortal. They’re brave, they’re strong, they’re stalwart and standing and so determined -- but tactically, they’re not enough.
AI make you better, make you smarter, make you faster. But like there are never enough Spartans, there are also never enough AI.
In this War, there are no prisoners. In this War, there are no rules.
The Director preempts Catherine Halsey and flash-clones his own brain to use for Cognitive Impression Modeling. It takes a few tries, takes a few errors, takes more than a few years -- but it works. And when it works there’s a flash of triumph -- and that’s all. Alpha won’t bring her back, Alpha can never bring her back, and the process is still too slow. Still not enough. He wracks his mind for a solution, awake at all hours, pacing, pacing, and struggling for a solution. Not enough. Not enough. They have to be better. They have to be better.
In the end, he doesn’t create the answer, but he gets one anyway. The AI have to be better -- but to be better, there have to be more. Alpha spontaneously fragments, Beta is born, and for the first time since Allison died, a light flares to life. The solution is not flash-cloning; the solution is fragmentation.
It’s the foundation for Freelancer. It could end wars -- now and in the years to come. It’s pivotal. It’s revolutionary.
But it can never bring her back.
Allison is dead. Beta is a ghost. His wife’s spirit haunts that ship. It’s only fitting that her shadow should bear its name.
He calls her Texas.
oh friendly reminder that allison is a fake blonde
