NAME: Kyuu
AGE: 24
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CHARACTERS IN GAME: None!


CHARACTER NAME: North
AGE: The character gallery lists her release date as October 2035, making her three years old by the time the game takes place. That said, North has the appearance of someone in their early thirties.
CANON: Detroit: Become Human
CANON POINT: Crossroads, right after her conversation with Markus on the bridge.
HISTORY: Her wiki page. Since DBH has multiple endings affected by player choice, I've made an outline of the specific route I'm taking her from over here. TL;DR is that Markus has consistently made pacifistic choices, paving the path for the game's golden ending.
PERSONALITY:

We first encounter North among the nineteen androids who welcome Markus to Jericho. Clad in dirty clothes, speckled with grime, and shying away from the light — it's rather obvious that North has been surviving rather than living. Blatantly bitter and callous, she has little kindness to offer to those around her. Though others believe that Jericho offers the closest thing to freedom that an android can get in Detroit, North has a more pessimistic outlook on their current situation. In her words: "When I escaped, there was nowhere else to go. Jericho seemed as good a place as any." She's not staying in Jericho because she wants to, but because there is literally nowhere else for her to go. Even though she's unhappy and restless, bouncing a ball off a wall to kill time, she's grudgingly accepted that this is the only way she can be herself. As far as she knows, she's going to live out the rest of her existence hiding away like a cockroach before eventually shutting down. This is a fate she theorizes was shared by the first android to find Jericho.

Markus: Who found this place? North: Nobody knows anymore. Whoever he was, his body’s probably laying somewhere on this boat... If you came here for comfort, you came to the wrong place.

Needless to say, there is very little joy in North's life.

However, accepting her fate isn't the same as resigning herself to it. While Simon and Josh are initially against the idea of robbing a CyberLife warehouse, North immediately jumps at the opportunity. In fact — she wasn't even part of the conversation when it started. She overheard Markus speaking to the others, and inserted herself into their little chat in order to volunteer for the job. Her eagerness to get out there and be part of the action is shown repeatedly throughout the course of the game. As long as she's kept alive, North is by the default the companion character who asks what their next step will be. She is not the type of person who's happy twiddling her thumbs while others do all the hard work for her. Quite the opposite, really. She needs to be active in order to be happy. If there is a dangerous task that needs to be completed, then it's almost guaranteed that North will be among the first to offer themselves for the job. She refuses to let fear or apprehension keep her from doing what needs to be done.

This goes hand in hand with the fact that, depending on player choices, North will take the reigns of a situation when Markus is unable to. In Spare Parts, it's North who guides the team when they have to find a way to the CyberLife warehouse. She's the one who enters the area first, finds alternate routes, and points out what they have to do in order to proceed. In instances where the player massively fucks up during timed events, North will usually swoop in to bail Markus out. One good example of this happens in The Stratford Tower. If Markus fails to lock the door after they've sneaked into the server room, a staff member will walk in on them. Should Markus freeze up or fumble his way through the ensuing conversation, North will promptly yank his gun out of its holster and pistol-whip the employee before he can call security. Adding to this, it's notable that North is the companion character who takes over the leadership of Jericho in routes where Markus has died. This is in spite of the fact that Simon and Josh both hold seniority over her, with Simon himself being highly regarded among the older members of Jericho.

As we can see, North is quick to break out of her "funk" after she's given even the slightest glimmer of hope. It's implied that one of the reasons she had resigned herself to rotting away in Jericho, is because no one else was willing to venture out in fear that the humans would kill them. All she needed was a little push in the right direction to get rolling. Once that's done, she becomes something of an unstoppable force. Out of the three androids that accompany Markus, North is the most enthusiastic about achieving their goals by any means necessary. There is no price too big to pay as far as she's concerned, and anyone who isn't willing to pay up is nothing short of a coward. This particular attitude makes her pragmatic to a fault. For example: When Simon can no longer move after acquiring severe injuries, North is quick to suggest that they kill him. This isn't out of a personal vendetta or because she wants to see Simon dead, but because she genuinely believes it's the most sensible option. If Simon is left alive on the rooftop, then the humans will access his memory and find Jericho. And surely enough, that is exactly what happens in routes where Simon is left behind and Connor finds him.

Still, even if she's not wrong to assume this, North doesn't present her concerns in the nicest of ways.

If anything, she's a massive dick about it.

Simon: Killing humans wasn't part of the plan. North: They kill our people every day. Do you think they agonize about it? Josh: That's no reason for us to become murderers. North: If killing is the price of freedom, I'll pay it gladly! Josh: Killing never freed anyone! It just leads to more hatred! North: You're too fond of humans, Josh. Maybe their lives matter to you more than ours?

Regardless of what happens in The Stratford Tower, North will always justify the inevitable body count. If they killed a human in order to ensure a smooth getaway, then it's a necessary evil. Humans hate androids, anyway, and no revolution is ever won without spilling blood. If Simon got left behind because Markus refused to take human lives, then Simon is now a martyr in the name of the revolution. While none of this is born out of malicious intent, it is definitely a very stubborn and dangerous mindset. North honestly believes that they live in a world where it's either kill or be killed. Violence, as she puts it herself, is the only language humans can understand. To assume that no one will get hurt just because you approach a situation with the best of intentions will only result in tragedy. Because of this mindset, North considers violence to be the most powerful tool one can have at their disposal. Being hated is better than being ignored, and fear is one hell of a way to get people to listen to what you have to say.

This particular mindset, unfortunately, is a product of her life before Jericho. As a WR400 model, North worked as a sex android in the Eden Club. Although we are never given any explicit details of what she endured, the are enough hints and context clues to understand that she was subjected to sexual and physical abuse while servicing clients. Not only was she forced into prostitution from the very inception of her life, but other WR400 androids imply that getting demeaned and mistreated is just everyday life when you work at the Eden Club. For years, humans physically asserted their dominance over her — and it would be impossible to deny that this has colored her worldview. To her, violence is a universal language because it's the easiest and most effective way to assert your place in the world.

This is not helped at all by the fact that, like all electronics, androids are affected by the concepts of planned and perceived obsolescence. To her, humans are all apathetic pieces of shit who have no qualms against throwing out or destroying their androids. She has never had a positive interaction with a human being, and as such she regards every single one of them with nothing but hatred and disgust. This attitude is so all-encompassing, that it even extends to human children. In routes where North becomes the leader of Jericho, she questions Kara's decision to protect a little girl. In fact, she prefaces the question by stating that Kara knows that humans hate them. For North, it's not just a very vocal minority who hate androids. It's every single human being on this planet.

Alluding to her past is, of course, extremely upsetting. If Markus asks about North's previous function before gaining her trust, their relationship status will immediately drop down to Resentful. And while North is not really the type to hold back when she gets angry, tactlessly trying to talk about her past is a surefire way to make her livid. In every single instance where the topic is breached incorrectly, North snaps and chews Markus out for trying to stick his nose in her business. She is all too happy to pretend that her life began the moment she arrived at Jericho, and actually speaking about the topic leaves her visibly distraught. This is to the point where she's completely unable to maintain eye contact after talking to him about it, ducking her head to avoid seeing the expression on Markus's face despite her normally assertive behavior. Following this, other kinds of reminders are just as likely to set her off. Should Markus abruptly kiss her to make a police cruiser ignore them through the power of PDA, North will push him away and demand that he never do that again.

Moving on, it should be stated that North has a large capacity for empathy. In spite of her less than genial demeanor early in the game, she tells Markus who he can see about his injury without any prompting. Similarly, North is seen tending to Jericho's wounded after they retrieve enough spare parts for everyone. She may be prickly and reticent to "making nice" with others, but she cares intensely for the people she's claimed as her own. Because of her past as a sex android, North is attuned to the suffering of others. This is not to say that North goes all soft and squishy on the inside when surrounded by other androids (even though she does act relatively nicer), but that she experiences a fierce sort of protectiveness towards them. They are her kin, and she will not hesitate to eviscerate anyone who threatens their safety. To say that she is defined by her anger just because she can be callous and rude is blatant mischaracterization.

North: I wanted to do the right thing for Jericho... I was angry... Angry at humans, angry with us... I was angry with you... But I was wrong. I'm sorry I misjudged you.

North may be an asshole at times, but that doesn't mean she's unwilling to take a step back and reevaluate her own behaviour. Not only that, but she's capable of realizing when she's fucked up by allowing her emotions to get the better of her — which will lead to her promptly taking responsibility for her mistakes. While hatred and bitterness do color her worldview, they do not consume her every thought and every action. Rather, it's her desire to secure a better future for androids that motivates her to keep going. Even as the resident advocator for violence, North is willing to shut up and listen if people get results while employing methods she doesn't necessarily approve of. She may not be happy about it, and she will be constantly waiting for things to go horribly wrong, but she's not so stubborn as to go against something that is clearly working.

While picking aggressive choices with Markus will net him the biggest relationship boosts with North, it's fairly easy to become her friend even in a pacifist playthrough. North doesn't admire people who are blindly aggressive. She respects and admires those who have conviction and the necessary wits to follow through on a plan. Furthermore, North is fully capable of opting for nonviolence out of her own accord. For example, she talks one of the androids at Jericho out of detonating a bomb in Detroit (that would specifically harm humans, not machines) and convinces them to give her the detonator instead. In scenarios where she's the leader of Jericho, her first reaction upon being confronted by Connor is to try and talk him down. Following that, North's end goal for the revolution has always been to open negotiations with the humans. Even though she hates them, she doesn't go out of her way to harm them as they have harmed her. World domination and revenge are the last things on her mind. All she really wants is to live in a world where androids can mind their own damn business, without anyone trying to shove them back into the neat little boxes created by their programming.

All in all, North is not a nice person. She's rude and abrasive, she speaks her mind with little regard for the opinions of others, and has no qualms against getting her hands dirty for the sake of achieving her goals. She is not here to hold anyone's hands or sugarcoat things because, well. Reality sucks. Things are bad. People who can't accept the truth can fuck off as far as she's concerned... And these are all aspects of her personality that are heavily present in her interactions with people, especially when it comes to strangers or people she pressures to be human. However, while she may not be nice, North is hardly a cruel person. Everything she does is out of a desire to build a better future for her people. While it may have started out as a means to get out of Jericho and burn some energy, it became so much more than that. She's genuinely invested in the wellbeing of those she cares about, and she will gladly sacrifice herself if it means saving someone she loves. In spite of everything that's weighing her down, North shows warmth and affection towards those that she trusts. It's mostly a matter of sticking around long enough to get past her prickly demeanor.

CANON POWERS:

SHE'S AN ANDROID, JIM: As an android, North is faster and stronger than the average human. She can take out two grown men in a matter of seconds without (metaphorically) breaking a sweat, and then drag their unconscious bodies away once she's done. She's also incapable of feeling pain, easily walking off a bullet wound to the shoulder after getting over the initial shock. Even as a more "basic" model, she's extremely durable. As long as she isn't running low on thirium and none of her important biocomponents are damage, North can keep on trucking. Finally, having a computer for a brain grants her a faster reaction time and the ability to run several mental processes at once.

INTERFACING/WIRELESS COMMUNICATION: Being a machine herself, she can connect with most electronic devices via touch. Additionally, she can communicate with her fellow androids wirelessly. In DBH canon, this works almost like telepathy. While heavier information packages have to be transmitted via physical touch, simple messages or announcements can be sent wirelessly across large distances. However, scramblers and similar devices can block this ability entirely.

CUSTOMIZATION: The character gallery notes that "the WR400 can easily be customized to alter their appearance at will." North demonstrates this ability by changing her hair color and length between the events of The Stratford Tower and Capitol Park. She can also dispel the illusion of human flesh to reveal the shiny white plastic that actually makes up the entirety of her body.

OTHER: As a note, DBH androids don't recover from their injuries in the same way that a human would. Gashes and cuts have to be cauterized. Any thirium lost will need to be replenished, and incurring severe damage will mean having to procure compatible biocomponents.


CRAU INFO: n/a
MAGIC ABILITY: Wound transferal. North can shift physical injuries between herself and another person, or vice versa. Some additional caveats are:

☑ She cannot transfer wounds between herself and someone who's already dead.
☑ The transfer will not happen instantaneously and it can be interrupted halfway through.
☑ Skin-to-skin contact is necessary for her to use this ability.
☑ Given the fact that androids don't heal like humans do, absorbing significant injuries will leave her at risk of dying.

ANY WEAPONS/MAGICAL ITEMS?: None! She doesn't have any weapons or magical items on her at her current canon point.
ANY PETS?: Nope!


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