Player Information
Player name: Meygan
Contact: Plurk: Meyggy ; AIM: MeyganJelly
Are you over 18: yes
Characters in The Box Already: N/A

Character Information
Character Name: Rabbit
Canon: Steam Powered Giraffe
Canon Point: Wild Wild West Con 3 Show, March '14 - Though she will be coming in with her previous Box memories intact!
History: Official Rabbit Profile, Official backstory, Official Timeline, and SPG Wiki for Rabbit
Personality: "I always thought I was sorta the big brother of the band. Or was it more like great uncle? Or half aunt? Or step sister…. THIS INTERVIEW IS OVER."
--Rabbit, Steam Powered Giraffe: The Quest for The Eternal Harp of Golden Dreams
Compared to the stoic Spine, the sometimes shy Jon, and the just plain awkward Hatchworth, Rabbit is an unrestrained whirlwind of high energy and terrible jokes (she is a pun champion), somehow managing to appear absolutely everywhere at once to make sure her all too valuable opinion or irrelevant pop culture reference is always heard. She is constantly in motion--especially her voice box--hopping from here to there, dancing and shaking her hips, her energy supply seemingly unending. Despite her easily excitable and friendly nature, Rabbit is most often remembered for being crazy and boisterous and just plain weird.

Also those puns. Those goddamn puns.

Though many a human passerby may scoff away the belief that a man-made creation with an artificial brain could possibly be built to feel or have any real understanding of the complexities of human emotions, Rabbit and her siblings are the absolute proof that that line of thinking is very false indeed. Due to the mysterious blue matter energy that powers them, the Walter robots have been imbued with rich personalities, all of them possessing both free thought and the ability to feel. Though they may often deny just how human they are, the phrase 'more humane than most humans' absolutely applies. Rabbit herself is an automaton who experiences the entire spectrum of emotions very vibrantly, from sweet infatuation to debilitating depression to shaking with red-hot rage. Though she is generally quite upbeat for the most part--she can most often be found causing playful trouble or joking around with her brothers--Rabbit is prone to moodiness after fights with The Spine or a particularly bad malfunction, choosing to sulk for days and days until someone finally manages to knock the persistent sadness out of her and get her back to her all too happy self.

Under that infectious copper grin and booming laugh, however, Rabbit holds a large amount of hidden guilt and lingering sadness over the various events that have been unjustly thrust into her long life. The death of her creator and longtime best friend, Peter A. Walter the First, has always stuck painfully with her, even after all of these decades that he has been dead, a loneliness and tightening inside her chassis that the 'bot never has been able to fully shake. Then there is her unwilling participation within the wars and the nightmares that still haunt her from that traumatic time. Combine that with the heavy guilt she still feels over the death of her human brother at her own hand (indirectly, of course, but Rabbit will always blame herself) and it is easy to see why the 'bot is so prone to fits of sulking. For an 'artificial' life, Rabbit truly understands the pain that comes hand-in-hand with living, and it isn't something she will ever be able to forget or simply shove aside. All of this weighs on her conscience often, but she just chooses to keep living on with a smile and a corny joke on her lips for the sake of her family and her own sanity.

For an automaton, Rabbit tends to fall in love rather frequently, though unlike The Spine, the objects of her quick affections are just that: objects. Her torrid love affair with Jenny the Toaster lasted a good eight minutes after purchasing her at Sears before her joints froze up and she dropped her, shattering the toaster to pieces. It is a generally accepted rule throughout the Walter manor that Rabbit is not allowed to use any of the kitchen appliances, but nothing will stop her in her quest for true love! Keep your appliances locked up, folks. That being said, the 'bot does have experiences with real love (aka a sentient being that can actually love her back), but since the heartbreak of Honeybee, she seems to prefer to throw her affections upon things that can't break her clockwork heart again.

"And if my marks weren't good enough, he'd make me sit in the corner with a dunce hat. But the joke was on him, I would just pretend I was a tyrannosaurus rex. ..With a dunce cap."
--Rabbit, Steam Powered Giraffe: The Quest for The Eternal Harp of Golden Dreams
Though she may not often act like it, Rabbit is the oldest of the robots and titles herself as the 'big sister/brother of the band'. She takes her responsibilities as 'big sis' quite seriously, despite her usual teasing and carelessness, always stepping up to protect or stand up for her younger siblings should they end up in any kind trouble, whether it be their own fault or not. With The Jon and Hatchworth, Rabbit is both a playmate and a source of strength. She acts every bit as silly and full of energy as the two youngest 'bots, but is always there to lend a copper shoulder to cry on when life's usual unpleasantness pops up. With The Spine, Rabbit is always taunting and pestering and coaxing, doing all that she possibly can to pull her titanium brother's lightheartedness out from his usually reserved and distant nature.

No, Rabbit may not often act as mature as a being of her age should and she really shouldn't be trusted with any real responsibility, but when the occasion does present itself, she can step up to the plate and do what needs to be done.

Due to her undying loyalty and love for her creator, Rabbit has refused to have her metal structure and inner workings upgraded in any way since Colonel Walter's death up until very recently. The world around her had changed drastically in the last one hundred and eighteen years, but Rabbit stubbornly refused at all lengths to change with it. At that time, she seemed to live her life by the adage 'Things just aren't built the way they used to be', truly believing that it would be a slap in the face of what her father had created to allow another to tamper with his work. Because of this, for a very long time, the automaton still possessed many of her old Victorian pieces, which meant that she quite often found her circuitry shorting out or her joints locking up at random intervals. Rabbit was prone to malfunctions of all sorts, glitching and stuttering while her limbs jerked out at odd angles.* Rabbit dealt with this problem by ignoring it completely.

--Until recently. Rabbit has finally gotten those upgrades that she has so desperately been in need of these last few decades, but only so that she could have her male (or genderless) copper structure shaped into something more feminine and fitting of the gender she truly felt she was. Though, even after that big update, the 'bot has quickly fallen back into her old routines, so the glitching and malfunctioning continues.

Though built with the specific purpose to be a master musician and lyricist that would win the heart of her creator's lady love, Rabbit has taken to other forms of entertainment as well and has come to find some amount of expertise in most of these areas after over a century's worth of practice. Dance, comedy, mime - as long as there is a crowd to shower her in either glowing applause or uproarious laughter, she'll pick up any talent she can to garner more attention. One can only assume that, if she could move more fluidly like her younger brothers, she'd have picked up juggling or some other type of clowning antics, just to expand that already impressive repertoire, but thankfully, that is far outside of her area of movement. As a musician, she plays the melodica, accordion, keytar, and the kazookaphone, which is basically a regular kazoo just with an attachment that makes it ten times more annoying.

It should also be noted that Rabbit is clearly very intelligent, she just simply chooses to not act like it.

* Terrifying examples of Rabbit's on-stage malfunctions: Example 1 and Example 2!
Items on your character at canon point: Just her built-in weaponry (gatling gun, buzz saw, and flamethrower)!
Abilities: Being a man-made automaton, Rabbit has all of what could be considered the average robot abilities:
* Inhuman strength
* A metal structure that can take quite a beating
* Breathing and eating are both completely unnecessary
* Immunity to poisons, the effects of alcohol, and both biological and chemical weapons
* Lighted eyes that can see further into the dark than a human's
* Advanced hearing
* Can be ripped to pieces and put back together (by an experience mechanic only please!) with little consequence
* An extended lifespan that is not limited by an organic body

Along with those abilities, Rabbit also has a flamethrower nozzle stuck down into her throat for fire-breathing capabilities should the need ever arise. A leftover from previous warfare.

Rabbit also has detachable gatling gun and buzz saw accessories that fit on her arms, retired and hidden away since her last brush with war in the 70s where all Walter robots took up a Vow of Peace that has been upheld to this very day. It would take a quite great deal to get them to break this vow, so it isn't at all likely these weapons will ever see the light of day again, though they are there.

As stated above, Rabbit has a certain affinity for music and being a performer. It was what she was built to do and she is quite thankfully very skilled at it. She can mime, sing, dance, and play the accordion, melodica, and keytar.

Strengths and Weaknesses:
Strengths: Music, witty retorts, endless energy and enthusiasm, loyalty to family. Rabbit is more clever than book smart and her century plus of life experiences has taught her a great deal along the way. She's also a proficient combatant when needed, stubbornly brave and willing to protect those she cares about (or just any weak, squishy person). As an automaton, she accepts what she is completely, even if that means she is only property.

Weakness: Decades and decades of misuse have put a huge strain on her metal body, leaving the elder robot cracking and creaking and losing her limbs all too frequently. She's also terribly stubborn and a real brat, an automaton with feeling that just feels way too much. Because of the way she feels too strongly, Rabbit can be very hot-headed, quickly rising to anger and leaving all logic behind her. Though she fashions herself as a leader and has the shining charisma for it, any real leadership skills quickly dissolve if she becomes too emotional.

Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample: Huh-za-what? What-what-what is this?

[The mechanical voice to stutter over the city's network is riddled with clicks and whirrrrs as the unseen automaton inspects her own phone curiously. Steam puffs from the 'bot's crooked mouth straight into the receiver, giving her audience a quick round burst of noisy static in their ears before she continues.]

Th'Spine? Is this some kinda joke, big guy? [Her voice drops down for an impossibly low and robotic HA. HA. HA. before returning to normal.] I thought humor had been left outta yer programmin' co-completely. Pappy had to make room for that stick-in-da-mud personality o' yours, didn't he?

... [Silence.] Spine? Th'Spiiiiiine! Are ya ignorin' me now?! [Rabbit releases an irritated huff at the offense of being ignored.] The backbone on that guy...

[Another listening pause. Nope, The Spine sure would have leapt on her for that pun, so the titanium automaton must be somewhere else entirely.]

O-okaaaay, so if it ain't my brother on the other end of this t-t-t-telephone conversation, then just who's there?
Prose Log Sample: Test Drive