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Character
Name: Epsilon
Series: Red vs Blue
Timeline: End of season 10
Canon Resource Links: Here
Personality:
Epsilon is one of the main characters (as of season 7) in Red vs Blue, a comedy about space marines. He happens be a fragment of the Alpha A.I., also known as Church. Though they share personalities, Epsilon does stand apart from the original with traits of his own which manifest in a variety of ways.
Originally when Epsilon appears as a character in Recreation, he is shown to not really have a personality of his own at first. Instead, he takes on the forms of one of the other AI fragments, Delta, to communicate with Caboose to relay information about where they can attain a form for him. When he is implanted in the artifact in the desert, he assumes the personality of the original Church, though none of the memories remained. His ‘memories’ were instead stories incorrectly told by Caboose until he regains all of his memories later on when traveling with Carolina. As each ‘memory’ is revealed, more quirks appear in his personality.
Epsilon is an angry person, which can manifest in verbal or failed physical ways. When things irritate him, such as when he’s trying to monologue inside the containment unit he’s trapped in, he snaps at Tucker, since he was the source. When still without a proper body, the team finds out that when angered, Epsilon was able to use a laser beam, so Grif, Sarge, and Simmons try their best to make him mad as the Meta and Washington chase after them. Caboose is the one who bears the most brunt of Epsilon’s temper, since most of the things that come out of Caboose’s mouth are nonsensical to the degree where Epsilon can’t help but snap. Being called ‘best friend’ by Caboose tends to be a common trigger. There is also no member of either the Blue, Red, or the Freelancers that hasn’t been completely cussed out at one point or another by Epsilon as well.
An ego follows as another thing that makes Epsilon stand out even more from the original Alpha AI. When he first arrives in the desert with Caboose, he relishes in the fact that he is being worshiped by the aliens there, even making up a song about how great he is as they do. He also finds it great that he has a laser beam in his unit when they make it go off the first time on accident, bragging about it though he really has no control of it. These two things feed directly into his thinking that he’s all that and a bag of chips compared to other people. Epsilon’s monologue at the beginning of the arc where he is first trapped in the memory unit shows how high his sense of self-importance is.
Since being an AI, he has a pretty high intelligence and analytical skills. Unfortunately, coupled with his aforementioned temper, it doesn’t always come through. There seems to be at times a complete lack of common sense as well as sometimes the obvious solutions escape him, as when they are forced to fight an army of Tex AI controlled bots. Washington is the one who reminds him of what Epsilon can do to cut this battle short, something that had escaped the AI fragment at the time. He can see things other people can’t in situations, such as when the fake world he’s trapped in inside the containment unit is failing instead of it being destroyed by an earthquake as Sarge had claimed. With his being a different fragment from the other AI’s, Epsilon is capable of high levels of introspection. He is more than aware of what he actually is, and what the Alpha was lacking, such as when he realizes that the only reason the Alpha was the way it was is because of Tex.
Remorse is something only Epsilon has been really shown to have compared to the other fragments. He genuinely feels bad when he yells at his friends when he wanted to impose his will on them to find the director and eliminate him. Epsilon realized that as soon as even Caboose left him that he had done something very wrong. He does his best to apologize to them and letting them know just how much of a jerk he was, showing how much more human he can be. Despite asking for forgiveness, he is not the type to easily forget those who have wronged him. Carolina is the one in the end encouraging him to do just that so he could move on and become a better person. Epsilon does feel sadness at the end of season 10 when he decides to leave his friends behind in their new home instead of joining them. This decision was seen as hard for him, the last thing he leaves with his friends was a sniper rifle (which may or may not have ever been found or even thought of.)
There is a hint of what one could call happiness in his programming. Those moments are short lived as something always interrupts it, such as whenever Caboose talks. He shows briefly that he is happy when he meets up with Tex again, which she destroys by trying to kill him as she seems to do when she’s around him.
Epsilon is a mess of personalities. Yes, there is loyalty to his friends and the need to help mixed in there, but deep down inside he might just be a pissed off old man trapped in the body of something that will never die or age unless he’s erased from the world.
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Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Porygon – F.I.L.S.S. (Phylis)
Password: Peppermint Bark
Samples
First Person Sample:
[This will be a very basic audio message, accidentally sent to the network.]
Day 3 of being lost in the tall grass on Route 29. There are no locals for miles, only cats with gigantic, soul sucking eyes that follow you as you walk past them. F.I.L.S.S. assures me they aren’t a threat as long as I keep the armor on. It’s not like she’s the one trying to fight those things off. Can she even fight? The Dex told me that she could, but the damn thing won’t get out of the gear no matter what I say to her.
[There’s a snickering noise which is followed by a pleasant voice.]
Would you like to keep recording this journal entry?
[There’s a clearing of the throat before Epsilon continues.]
I swear if one more of those damn things attacks me, I’m using my gun…. Wait… [There comes sounds of fumbling and other metallic noises.] There’s no bullets! What the hell! Who takes a god damn gun to a mission without bullets!
[Wait for it-]
GOD DAMMIT, I DIDN’T NEED BULLETS AS AN AI… You know what? Fuck this! [Something heavy lands on the ground with a thud, and all that is heard is the sound of boots crunching on grass as the gear shuts off with a click.]
Third Person Sample:
This world was hell. At least to this "die-hard" soldier. From the get-go Epsilon knew he was not cut out for this. After many tests to see just how real this body was, he was covered in bruises, and there was dings on his armor. The sweating under all that metal made him feel uncomfortable and wet, the saltiness getting into the small scratches he had, making him feel itchy all over. Anger had given way to exhaustion, which had given way to a numbness as he made himself keep walking through the tall grass on the way to the next town.
This is not something he had been warned about human bodies. Nope. The biological urges, just how tired someone could get, that no matter what position you were in some kind of discomfort was bound to happen, none of it. Being a real human was miserable. There had been a perk to all of this though…
The greatest discovery he made when he found out that he was indeed human was food. Food was great! Food was amazing! Food was way better than anything he had ever come across. The bento box took no time at all to be devoured by Epsilon, each bit giving him pleasure he had no idea could exist. He had been curious, offering the thing in his gear some food, but it politely declined in a voice that reminded him all too much of F.I.L.S.S…. of course there was immediate regret when all the food was gone. Where was he going to get more? Despite what the thing he had eventually dubbed F.I.L.S.S. said, Epsilon did not trust those berries that she had kept urging him to eat.
"I hope this is a dream. What I wouldn’t give to go back to being just some computer program…" He laid down on the ground, feeling that hollow ache in his muscle, and let out a sigh that could possibly be heard for miles. "Wait, can AI even dream? Would it be like that Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep type shit? Why the hell would they dream of sheep in the first place… Why am I here? What god did I piss off to be thrown into this world where cats want to kill me, birds can tear my head off, and I’ve got something constantly making snide remarks and laughing at me?......... you know what, F.I.L.S.S.? This is almost awful enough to make me wish Caboose was here. At least I’d have someone to yell at. Or Carolina. Hell, I’d take Tucker and those damn reds over the Shining cats. Anything but this…"
A soft beeping noise came from the gear at his hip, but it fell on deaf ears. Epsilon had passed out. With a sad beeping, the gear switches off, letting the noise of nature around them take over.
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Personality:
Epsilon is one of the main characters (as of season 7) in Red vs Blue, a comedy about space marines. He is for all intents and purposes a fragment of a bigger AI. With the memories he holds, he is a unique individual that doesn’t rely on the programming that he was written with.
Originally when Epsilon appears as a character in Recreation, his personality seems to be non-existent due to being locked inside of a containment unit that he had been installed into. Once he's out, it's does an immediate 180 to how he actually is.
Right from the get go you see a big aspect of Epsilon’s personality: anger. As an artifact, restrained to a body that he had no real control of, he was pissed off when he couldn’t make it what he wanted to do. Even the laser was an accidental discovery when Tucker and the others make fun of him for being a floating eyeball who couldn’t even make himself go forward. Due to being awful at trying to be physically violent, he is very prone to miss his targets. Be it a sniper rifle or his laser, Epsilon has yet to actually hit a target, something Tex makes fun of him for inside another containment unit. Caboose is the main target for a majority of Epsilon’s outburst with his stupid remarks or calling Epsilon his best friend. Every character in the show as at one point or another been accosted verbally due to how easily Epsilon can snap.
Epsilon has a huge ego and a high sense of self-importance. Being ‘reborn’ inside of the AI and worshiped by an alien race is one such time when he enjoyed having his ego stroked, making up a song praising himself and calling himself a god. The laser beam is a huge boost for him, not only because it makes him seem more awesome in his own mind, but he managed to be somewhat intimidating in his smaller form. Monologue is a form of his ego as he speaks in an almost diary style out loud, which no one seems to listen to and interruptions happen, like when Tucker keeps calling his name inside the containment unit version of Blood Gulch. Compliments, though rare and usually delivered by Caboose, can make him seem like he has a big head and leads into bragging about what he had just been complimented for.
There have been times that show that Epsilon just does not care about what's going on around him. If the situation is calm or he feels it doesn't concern him, it's hard to tell if he's just being lazy or if he's about to lose it. Laziness includes him talking to himself, not wanting to go find out what's going on when the Reds get something new until he's pushed (like anytime they Reds seem to be in "deep discussion" about what the next plan of action is), or just... standing there. To the contrary comes the times where he's high energy, which can be nervous, angry, or excited. If a door doesn't open fast enough, or when F.I.L.S.S. releases them from having their armor shut down but it's too slow for his taste, he tries to rush these things by yelling things like "COME ON! COME ON! COME ON!" or being fidgety. Patience will never be his middle name. The other extreme to the laziness is sheer obsession. He becomes obsessed with finding out what his memories mean as he gets snippets of Tex in them, and they can lead him into danger, such as when they go back to Valhalla and are attacked by Washington and the Meta.
He can have small bursts of melancholy, the subject of Texas coming up being a common trigger for these moments. Epsilon shows regret and remorse in very human ways despite being an AI. The biggest example is when he tries to force the rag tag group of Reds and Blues to into coming with him to eliminate the director. They refused, and one by one left, even Caboose. Seeing the person who had the most faith in him leave due to this leaves Epsilon feeling empty, yet filled with regret, and he knows he has done an awful thing. Remorse is shown strongest when he realizes that the only reason Tex keeps failing is because of him existing, which spirals into depression as he thinks about how he needs to finally let her go so they could both move on. Leaving his friends behind in their new home at the end of season 10 lets Carolina see a side of Epsilon the others don’t: that he will genuinely miss the people he thinks of as his friends. He leaves his sniper rifle behind as a symbol that he is moving on from them no matter how much it pains him.
Epsilon, since he is programmed to be, is highly intelligent and has great analytical skills. It doesn’t show too often during his run in the series due to his temper. The moment he mentions the words “So here’s the plan”, Caboose, Tucker, and the others shoot his rational ideas down, which causes Epsilon to basically say “fuck it” and let them make a disastrous plan of their own. There are times that even though he knows what he’s talking about, common sense goes out the window. He has to be reminded during a battle against Tex that he could easily just slip into her mind and shut the combatant units down. It hadn’t occurred to him before then even as he was giving the others directions on how to avoid being hit by the robots attacking them. He also holds a high level of introspection, being fully aware of what he is, why he was created, and what he is capable of, something that sets him apart and makes him seem far more human than the program he is. The memory part of him, being the one who has all of them that he can eventually recall, is a great help in either finding people, like the director and Texas, or knowing about the places that they arrive in as long as the memory existed in the first place.
Trust is something that can be sketchy for Epsilon. He is suspicious by nature, being one of the people who doubts Carolina when he meets her. She earns his trust along the way, but not before he helps Tucker spy on her to find out if she really was the enemy or an ally. He knows that despite all the shit talk that everyone has his back just as much as he has theirs. This is proven that even after accidentally pushing them away when both his team and the Reds showing up in the directors hiding place to fight the army of Tex bots. Loyalty is a big thing for Epsilon, even if it doesn’t seem like it since he’s constantly snapping at both teams and the Freelancers throughout the episodes. He actually in his own way praises Caboose for the loyalty that man shows since he was the only one who would interact with Epsilon in his original containment unit.
He does have what one would call happiness. However short these moments are, he does appreciate them in his own way, even if it’s caused by Tex who then immediately tries to kill/maim/cripple him. Sometimes without even greeting him first. He is happy when he is accepted into the team so easily after being put into the artifact when originally taken out in the desert even if he was confused at first as to who everyone was.
Even if it doesn’t seem like he can be anything but angry, Epsilon has a rather rounded out personality. Deep down inside he is still a rather angry person due to his fate, but he wouldn’t be the type of guy who would sit on a porch all day, shaking his gun at kids who step onto his lawn. Epsilon is a character in his own right that manages to balance out the team by being who he is.
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