Paris Unit FG-3763-2 Amspoker
Paris Unit FG-3763-2 Amspoker
Hailing from eastern Ohio and adopted by a veteran MAI mother and human father, Paris is, quite honestly, captivatingly domestic. Along with being a faux MAI, which means he was never born to experience combat, he is actually revered within the culmination of what true MAI had been fighting for their entire lives.
[Note: This is a secret double article (kinda) – on top of describing Paris as a person, I’m also taking advantage of the opportunity to lightly explain some of what its like for young LAI to grow up in modern Livastia in general]
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
While having lived a fairly casual life, even he isn’t free of the occasional dent, scratch, or fender bender. For one, he still harbors some minor dents on his hull and sideskirts, from when he was a baby still learning how to navigate the world in his own body – and no one is immune to the occasional misjudgement of, “Oh yeah, I’m definitely narrow enough to clear this gap– OH.” On top of the wear and tear of existence, he also is seemingly always covered in paint stains, even if he had his art apron and sleeves on. Oil paint, uh, finds a way.
Identifying Characteristics
Just at first glance, Paris is fairly easy to pick out from a crowd by way of his distinct two-tone paint job and baby blue optics – and perhaps even easier to identify if he’s at a formal event, since he loves to wear some of his more complex outfits to show off. One of his favorites to don at any event consists of a dark brown overcoat with embroidered peonies on the breast (upper glacis? You know, the top half, near the collar), a lichen green button-up, and a matching scarf. If he’s on the job, however, he’s probably wearing his art apron. Once upon a time it might have been a solid dark brown, but at this point, it’s become a real mess of colors with the years of use and paintbrush cleanings.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Claimed and commissioned from the joint build-program of CoreAegis and Ad Continuum Robotics, Paris is an Ad Continuum F-23C Bradley built to be put under the care of Cameron and Jordan Amspoker. Cameron, an M-00 Roosevelt MBT, is a decorated veteran that served in WWIII for the first three years of her life, then came to America to settle down. (Mind, despite being an American MBT, she had never even set tread in her home country until years after the war’s end.) Jordan Amspoker is human software engineer with a daughter from a previous marriage.
The two met four years prior to the eventual commissioning of their son when Jordan, having missed his bus to work, was caught in the rain without an umbrella. Cameron had happened to drive past on her way to an event, but, upon spotting him, instead offered to give him a lift. Her own words, she, “couldn’t stand seeing him at the uncovered bus stop – he was probably the closest [she’d] ever seen a human get to looking like a sad, wet puppy.” The two of them made conversation on the twenty minute commute, and when Cameron offered him her phone number, the rest was history!
Being born into a society that had already experienced decades of coexistence with complex artificial sapience - and MAI, at that - Paris was introduced to the world with about as much fanfare as any human child might receive. Well, save for the harrowing hospital visit that human parents have to go through. In stark contrast, the little faux-bot was shipped to his parent’s home by train with a few CoreAegis service workers, and was activated for the very first time in the comfort of his own home.
Throughout his childhood, despite having near all of his mother’s looks, his personality leaned more toward that of his father – somewhat reserved and introverted, incredibly bookish and with an eye for fine detail, but also quite meek. His older half-sister – five years his senior – was actually most often the one sticking up for him if any other children happened to give him trouble! Despite their glaring differences, Adeline and Paris were always fond of each other from day one – she was elated to have a baby brother, and Paris was always eager to have a playmate as energetic and curious as himself. Even over the following years, as Paris’s cognitive maturity inevitably sped past that of his sister’s, the two have maintained a tight-knit bond. …Even if Adeline was just a little jealous of Paris being allowed to get a job before she could.
Following his time in school and introduction to adulthood, Paris was quick to have his application accepted by a small local art museum in his area - the Berenika Institute of Art. There, he worked for a few years as mainly an exhibit educator, interfacing with guests to teach them about different installations throughout the museum. Having opened in the early 2010s, the BIoA was considered bold for its time on account of their early acceptance of physical art created by LAI. With the rapid advancement of technology in the recent decades including the introduction of MAI and complex machine learning models, many humans were apprehensive to consider art created by LAI as legitimate art – after all, there was a sudden boom in machine learning models that could generate pictures in minutes – how was an LAI creating art any different?
BIoA challenged this notion with the opening of their Robotic Ingenuity exhibit, which prominently featured traditional art created by LAI and MAI. It was all art made entirely by hand, what did it matter that the hands were made of metals, alloys, and synthetics? Even if it was long before his time, Paris was always admirable of the exhibits housed there by way of his own motivations and goals. For now, he was helping teach about the art of others like him, but one day, he hoped that his own art would be able to hung up alongside them.
Between the six years of his time out of college and his fifteenth birthday, he hopped between a few different art museums – in one of which, he was even an artist in residence, where he made multiple plein air paintings featuring scenes from local wildlife areas. While he was proud of these pieces, he always had a nagging feeling that his art could be better than it was; sure, he could copy what he could see well enough – practically print photos with a paintbrush - but he wasn’t all too satisfied with his methods. To him, without any particular personal artistic liberties, he really was just printing photos with extra steps – that was easy – he wanted to face real challenge.
While in residence, he began to send apprenticeship applications to multiple art conservators around the country, and even a few abroad, just for the sake of trying. While he never heard much back in the following few months, it was just a few weeks after he turned 15 that he received a physical letter – fancy – from a conservator in France that was particularly well known within the profession. Vergil Berthiaume, a Panavia Tornado ECR, was something of a minor celebrity as far as the field of art conversation was concerned, having been one of the first MAI to land a number of jobs with high profile museums and agencies around the world. If you could think of a nationally renowned museum or historical art collection, it was more than likely by this point that at least one of their pieces had been in Vergil’s studio before.
Now this was perplexing. Why him, of all people? – Paris began to wonder. …Turns out, Vergil was simply considering looking for an apprentice to have something new to do, and Paris’s request had found its way to his door at a coincidentally opportune time. Regardless of how the situation presented itself, he figured it would be downright stupid to brush aside the chance to work with a true master of the craft – and a master that shared his own clade as an LAI, at that. With a promise to be in contact with family often, he packed his things and headed off to France almost as soon as his accommodations were finalized.
As of today, he’s been working under Vergil for about two years, and assists him with the conservation of smaller and often more historically recent paintings. Along with his additional training in conservation, he’s received a wealth of advice on regards to his own work to which, he’s expressed has seen notable improvement.
Education and Employment
He attended a standard LAI-adjusted K-12 curriculum for the first six years of his life after his first birthday, after which he went into community college to pursue a career in art history and conservation, graduating from there at nine years old. For the first few of his independent adult life, he mainly worked as a museum educator and assistant exhibit designer for multiple institutions. Around the time of his fifteenth birthday, however, he was extended an invitation by a well known art conservator, Vergil Berthiaume, to join him in his studio as an apprentice. Never even considering to reject such an invitation, Paris has since moved to – ironically enough – France - to further hone his skills as a professional painting conservator.Social
Social Aptitude
Paris tends to consider himself quite the socialite, seldom shying away from large events, so long as it means he gets to discuss his interests with like-minded people. While formal events have become a little less, well, strictly formal over the decades since the 2000s, Paris still tends to hold himself to standards that in present day might seem a little classical. Not that he sticks out, however, there’s still quite a scene of people to prefer to dress in their absolute finest whenever the opportunity arises.
Mannerisms
For starters, he’s now quite confident in himself and his work – almost to a fault, at times. While he tends to keep his grievances to himself unless they’re something serious - if he’s upset about something, it’s usually quite obvious. Some have even gone so far as to say he’s a bit short tempered, but his temper is only about as booming as a rabbit’s – that is to say, not much at all.
Grievances aside, Paris tends to be quite bubbly on any given day, and intellectually adventurous; in a lecture he’s always the first to ask questions, and while he sticks quite firmly to his primary interest in art, he’s always up for trying new things! Well, unless they involve getting dirty. He’s a bit of a germophobe …paint doesn’t count as dirt, it’s fine.
Hobbies & Pets
Besides the obvious focus on his painting/conservator career, there’s a few other things that he takes a particular interest in. For one, he’s taken a liking to garment making – custom suits for MAI can be expensive, and he’s got their same body type! - with the additional pitfall of often being smaller than many standard fits. Many of the newest modern styles aren’t terribly aligned with his personal tastes, anyways, so he figures he’d much prefer just make exactly what he wants from the get-go, rather than scour for something online that might only be “close enough.”
Along with that, he also fancies himself something of a bookworm, even more so than the average LAI. His room at Vergil’s is practically halfway filled with packed bookshelves – and he prefers to read them at a human words-per-minute rate, expressing that he’d, ”rather experience them as the authors intended, not just skimming through with less time to contemplate them.” Going off of this, his favorite genre is 18th and 19th century history, with the occasional modern biographies and societal examinations. Very fancy, Paris.
Speech
Despite being raised American and having lived in France for a short but decent time, Paris has somehow managed to have acquired a sort of British accent. Oddly enough, this is actually more common than may be expected by many. In their early stages of vocal development, the kind of voice an LAI chooses is only most commonly dependent on who they hear most, and can be just as influenced by a voice they hear only briefly. Frankly, no one’s actually quite sure where he picked it up – his parents included – they were just as surprised as everyone else to hear the accent of his first words.
Species
Age
17
Family
Children
Pronouns
he/him
Eyes
baby blue
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