Super fast pic of Fred for @charomiami‘s beach episode, I wanted to test out Clip Studio Paint’s vector pen, it does make things a lot faster when doing line art but think I need to practice with it a bit more ^^
Fred’s heart pounded in his ears and he had to wonder, why add such design flaws? Was it purely for the sake of accuracy? The cold sweat he was experiencing was part of that too, perfection or flaw?
His momentary musings steadied his pulse, his breathing settling in to a slower rhythm. He took a deeper breath before letting his thoughts return to the cause of his panic.
His mother, Grey’s mother, knew he was a synth.It had been such a simple gesture she had made but it had been enough.
Dinner with Grey’s parents had followed it’s usual routine. Grey’s father complaining, as he always did, about synths being incompetent in their duties, Fred nodding occasionally adding appropriate comments. But as Grey’s father had continued with his rant his mother had placed a hand on Fred’s, the softest of touches and lasting barely a second but it had been enough.
Grey had been an idiot to think he could have fooled his own mother, she was an expert in the field of robotics. Like any scientist perfection was her highest goal and she would have noticed every flaw, no matter how small in his design. Perhaps his blinks were too far apart or even how he chewed his food had given him away.
He noted his breathing had again become ragged pants of panic and a wave of nausea crashed through him. It brought with it a furious annoyance. Such pointless reactions! He’d have them all removed! Eradicated!
The synth stormed towards a terminal, his sudden movement startling the crows from their perch. He’d been using the birds this last few months to trail his creator, it was easier to prevent the Institute from detecting Grey if Fred knew what areas of their intel to disrupt. Right now Grey was in Nuka World.
One of the crows landed on the synth’s shoulder and he patted it absentmindedly. Perhaps he should try to send another crow to Grey, warn him about his suspicions. Although Grey had killed the last one, paranoid that the Institute would be looking for him.
The bird brushed against his cheek, a soothing sensation passed through him. Paranoid. Was that it? Was his panic just another aspect of Grey he had inherited? Had his mother’s touch been just that? A loving gesture towards her son? Perhaps she’d merely experienced a moment of realisation that her son was really home and safe. He tried to calm himself again, watching as his hands trembled over the keyboard of the terminal. Perfection or flaw?
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Forgot about this one, found in Google docs this morning and I’ve been poking at it while at work ^^ May edit some more when I get home.
Rules: Pick one character and give us five facts about them! The
facts can be anything really – from trivial to super duper important.
Then tag others for them to play too!
Nobody asked for this one but I’m doing Fred!
I gonna tag: you!
5 OC Facts about Fred
Fred is a synth copy of Grey, Grey created him so that he could
continue to get drunk without the Institute bothering him. Fred does
a really good job which is difficult when Grey either shows up at the
Institute or ends up on footage taken by the Institute’s crows.
Fred has all of Grey’s memories and a few of his personality quirks,
including his paranoia, he has panic attacks often, convinced that
people have worked out he’s a synth. He doesn’t always manage to hide them from people, luckily though folk from the Institute thinking he is Grey and that he’s still adjusting to being back home.
Grey didn’t program anything in Fred that could stop him from killing
Grey. They both know this. Fred sometimes thinks about killing Grey,
it would make his life a lot easier.
The synth is slowly developing his own personalty and has his own
dreams and ambitions. He wants to improve synth production but leans
very much towards adding super human enhancements. Both to synths and
humans.
Fred’s
name is Grey’s actual name, which is ‘Frederick
McCorduck’. The name comes
from ‘Pamela
McCorduck’
who wrote a number of books on artificial intelligence. Her husband’s
name was Joseph ‘Frederick’ Traub, who was a computer scientist.
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