-Status: Deceased (Currently a ghost)
-Age (death): 25
-Age (technical): At least 80 (Died 1941)
-Nationality: German (lives in a seemingly abandoned two-story house somewhere
deep in the forests of Baden Württemberg)
-Eye color: Green
-Hair color: Amber
-Backstory:
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In 1938, Freida was studying at the University of Stuttgart
working towards a Magister degree when a certain regime came
into power. Freida never liked them, and found their whole
ideology to be ridiculous. Them sponsoring her university was the
first straw, but when her parents said that they supported
it, she decided that she had to get away from
humanity for a while. Using some of her parent's fairly
substantial fortune, she bought a house deep in the woods
and a bunch of scientific equipment.
^
She spent a few months studying and thinking of something
to use her house for when she read a paper
that interested her - creating life! "Creating" was a bit
of a strong term, as it was more like upgrading.
The idea was simple - she would capture squirrels and
birds and supercharge their brain to the point that it
could think like a human. After that, you put it
in a humanoid exoskeleton. It seemed feasible enough, so she
got to work.
^
Eventually, despite it seeming almost impossible after a time, Freida
got obsessed over creating her squirrel robot. She never left
her house except to collect more animals to experiment on.
After a few months, she had already constructed a camera-microphone-speaker
system that detected visitors and played pre-recorded messages - often
to go away. It wasn't until 3 years later that
she realized she went crazy, when she got a telegraph
telling her that her parents had died in an airplane
bombing...
^
Freida was shaken that her parents had died without seeing
her for three years! In a fit of grief and
insanity, Freida threw herself out of the window of her
lab, breaking her neck instantly when she hit the ground.
Frieda died, but instead of going to an afterlife, became
a ghost. Perhaps hearing things or they were actual ethereal
voices, Frieda heard her parents telling her she had to
finish her project in order to move on.
^
She didn't have much other choice, so she went back
to her laboratory and possessed a replica of herself she
had made for the super-squirrel. Since then, she has been
working on creating the super-intelligence that drove her to insanity.
She's a bit less insane now and takes time to
get out of the lab now and then, but she
never leaves her house...
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-Body: Commands a 1:1 replica of herself, complete with puppet-like
eyes and growing hair. Old and upkept to the best
of Freida's ability, it's one good smack away from crumbling
to pieces. It's only good for allowing Frieda to interact
with the physical world and not much else. It's strong
enough to lift a human, but it isn't the most
structurally stable mechanism around. Nowadays, she doesn't go out because
she's afraid it'll break. While she doesn't have enough metal
to make a completely new body, sometime in the 2010's,
she realized she hadn't thought about her corpse in forever,
so she snatched it up. She never thought about it
much because she tried possessing it again after she died,
but wasn't able to. She's been trying to modify it
so that maybe whatever keeping her from possessing it won't
think it's her body anymore and is instead some kind
of bio-machine.
-Mental ability: Freida was one of the smartest minds in
Germany when she was still alive! Now that she's a
ghost, she can't forget any of the things she knew
when she was alive, but it does mean she's a
little stuck in the era she died in.
--
-Mental state: Not entirely sane, but not the mad scientist
she used to be. She's incredibly lonely, as she always
shoos away any visitors, and those only come around maybe
5 times every ten years. She's still obsessed with her
project, but over the years, she's begun wanting to give
up on it and just live in purgatory for the
rest of her life. Maybe if someone comes around, she'd
even let them in for once and forget about her
project.
-Languages: German, English, French, Russian, and a little Japanese.
-Behavior: Once upon a time, Freida was a friendly and
outgoing geek. Now, she's depressed and cynical, becoming a complete
recluse that wants nothing to do with anyone, as they'd
probably just screw everything up. Most accept her commands to
leave, but if anyone didn't and forced her to open
up, they and she would realize she could easily tolerate
a disturbance or two and is actually remarkably patient. She'd
have to be, to be working in her lab this
long...
-Home: Formerly lavish and homey, Freida's home is now decrepit,
dusty, and filled with cobwebs. It's surrounded by landmines that
are meant to just propel any visitors into the air,
scaring them away. Not only is every door in the
house locked, but all the locks are rusted except for
the front door's, which is only somewhat rusty. Upstairs, besides
the lab covered in old rodent blood, is an old
phonograph player constantly playing Wagner's Tannhäuser Overture on loop, often
incessantly skipping.
^
In case of an actual intruder (burglars or the like),
Freida has more...lethal traps inside the house.
-Progress:
Exoskeleton: Completed ages ago. It isn't pretty, but it has
functional hands, appendages, and a place for the brain.
Super-brain: Freida has gone through every brain-enhancement method in the
book, but making a super-brain still seems impossible. She is
hoping that she really did hear her parent's voices, because
that would mean it must be possible. If she didn't,
maybe she's stuck in hell...
Bio-corpse Freida: It's creating an even worse stench in the
lab, but since Frieda can't smell, she's never noticed. Her
former body kind of looks like a cyborg now, but
she still can't possess it yet.
