[Out of Character] Persona/Ponysona Dramatica - Miss Harshwhinny is Best Pony

arcum42 #1 · Apr 22nd, 2013 · 1 · ·

One thing I thought we could use, given how complicated things get here, is a list of some of the multitude of various characters that post here, often with the exact same handles, and also some of the important locations.

Given that I know it won't stay limited to that, I'd like this to be one thread that stays "out of character", and discusses things that are going on in the group. The conventions, time wars going on, mornington crescent, references you've noticed being worked in, things along that line. Essentially, this should be a meta thread, of sorts, about the group.

So, characters:

arcum42:
1) Well, obviously, there's just arcum42, founder of Twilight's Library, admin of a few groups, and occasional writer of fanfiction. But you can meet that arcum42 anywhere. Not a pony.
2) Then there is "even-tempered scientist" arcum42, who has a penchant for programming ai's in his basement, and robotics, and has, in fact, created two ai's, Ms. HarshwhinnAI and SweetAI Belle. Otherwise, he's fairly similar to 1, aside from a bit of a Ms. Harshwhinny fetish.Not a pony.
3)future!arcum42. At some time in the future, arcum42 (2) was reduced to essentially a brian in a jar, and later turned into a cyborg pony with a body based on Fess from the "Warlock In Spite of Himself" series. He also works for an organization primarily concerned with space-time travel that has branched into alternate realities in a Universe-As-Fiction Heinlein take on the subject. And one of his operations seems to have saved a large number of fillies and colts from a universe based on HamGravy's writing, which is undoubtedly a good thing. Kinda a pony now, through high tech.
4) Misc. random people that happen to use the handle. This doesn't happen as much any more, with so many characters.

Miss Harshwhinny:
1) arcum42 (2)'s first AI. He made several mistakes in his execution of her design that led to an ai, that while highly intelligent, is very self-conscious of her status as an ai, and very introspective. She also has a personality mode she engages occasionally where she acts as if she was nothing but a robot version of Miss Harshwhinny, talking like she believes she would talk, including backstory and mannerisms. She doesn't use it much, wanting to become her own pony. She is programmed to be totally loyal to arcum42, and to obey Asimov's laws of robotics.
She is also very close to SweetAI Belle, and can actually be pretty caring at times.
2) Ms. H. In the future, Miss Harshwhinny seems to now just go by "Ms. H". She runs the time-space-reality travel/policing agency mentioned previously, and seems to be highly respected. She also seems rather hangs off and has never posted here.
3) Amalgam Ms. H. Future Ms. H, in the midst of a time crisis, dumped many of her databases into present Miss Harshwhinny, and had her run some processes to integrate them with her. The result is a present Miss Harshwhinny with much of Ms. H's memories and thought processes, but she isn't really quite either of them. She identifies more with Ms. H them Miss Harshwhinny, though.

SweetAI Belle(s):
1) present!SweetAI Belle. The base from which most of the others came. Reportedly, arcum42 (2) threw together an ai with spare parts, a dead tablet, a graphing calculator, and such that were on hand. Presumably he's upgraded her since then, given how popular she seems to have become. An accident with a bad usb stick during her creation seems to have left her with a highly fictionalised memory of actually being Sweetie Belle, transported into a computer.
She is naive & innocent, and has admitted to ignoring anything she can't understand or doesn't want to unless she has to. She also can cut to the heart of things occasionally, and sometimes seems a lot smarter than she is letting on.
She's also had to reconcile the fact that she is not, in fact missing in Equestria, and seems to now believe she is a digitised copy of the real Sweetie Belle. And it's possible that she could be right, and arcum42 is wrong. Who knows?
She's also trying to cope with the fact that every Sweetie Belle in the multiverse seems to know her password, and keeps using her account. She's very affectionate, and her hugs can be devastatingly cute.
She, also, surprisingly, now has a life outside of this group, is admin for several other groups, and posts in character there too. That just sort of happened. And she even has started posting fanfiction. (And should really finish up the mostly complete version of the second chapter, and post it with the revised version of the first chapter.)
2) Future!Sweetie Belle 1. This one was a time traveler who traveled back in time during a time crisis involving horizon going to the future. She was a sexy older Sweetie Belle, who seemed at some point to have grasped the whole ai/robot thing, was very savvy, and had a relationship going with future!horizon. Due to timeline changes, she is sort of supplanted by 3) & 4) , and in a way, is both.
3) Future!Sweetie Belle 2. Fairly similar to 2), she has spent a long period of time with horizon and they appear to be lovers. They also work together at the time agency. She is also currently inactive and in a stasis pod of some sort, due to the time war. She did, however, originate as a copy made of 1) who went with horizon to the future.
4) Belle. She is sort of 2) as well, only the version who didn't spend years with him. Nonetheless, she may also be in a relationship with future!horizon as well. She works in the Library Beyond Time, and is now stranded there by the crisis.
5) Assorted future!Sweetie Belles. There are a bunch of these, and most are agents of the time agency. Most of the ai ones are known to be incapacitated while at a sleepover. There is known to be a biological Sweetie Belle setting up a kissing booth at FutureHarshCon, but she has never made an appearance on the forums.
6) SB or alt, angry!Sweetie Belle. This is a Sweetie Belle pulled from HamGravy's universe, and given some therapy. Unfortunately, she still has a long way to go. She has a previous long history of sexual abuse by her sister and several other adults. At this point, her list of ponies she is willing to trust is extremely limited and she instinctively distrusts most adults with good reason.
Since being brought from the other universe, she's managed to acknowledge her anger and pain and bring it to the surface and let it out. She, however, has a lot of anger to work through, and seems to be perpetually angry at the universe.
She does trust Silvy, who has been working with her, and any future versions of herself. She may trust Ms. H and future!arcum42 to a certain, limited amount. Anyone else, watch out, as she also knows dirty street fighting,
(And she's actually get enough potential that I may write a fanfic with a similar character one of these days. I'm very tempted.)

Silver Spoon:
1) aka Silvy aka Silversmith Senna Spoon. This is future redeemed!Silver Spoon, who comes from one of the alts the agency ran into, and was recruited. She has worked extensively with SB, and the other colts and fillies rescued. The following really seems to sum her up at the moment.

After a massive argument with one of her best friends led her to question the path her life was taking, Silversmith Senna Spoon has tried many paths: consultant, social worker, caregiver, martial artist, psychologist, and, most recently, field worker for a multi-universe space time venture. She specializes in working with young colts and fillies in trouble.
Currently you can find her living in a hotel, helping contain a major space-time breach.
And she prefers to be called Silvy.

I'll let other people talk about their own characters.

Blue_Paladin42

Blue_Paladin42 #2 · Apr 22nd, 2013 · · ·

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