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Player Information
Name: Mey
Age: 33
Contact: meyggy
Current characters: N/A

Character Information
Name: Rabbit
Series: Steam Powered Giraffe
Appearance: An Image!
And a little blurb: Looming at a solid six feet and six inches (add in another foot if you want to include the ears), Rabbit is the only one of Colonel Walter's robots to have (almost) all of her original Victorian pieces, including all of the intricate clockwork internals that kept her running the last century. Unlike her other siblings, who have a more human design or shape, Rabbit looks the most like a foreign object, all sharp edges and unfinished pieces. There is no bottom to her jaw, leaving anyone to just peek right through to the inside of her mouth, and her fingers more resemble claws than anything else, curled and sharp, though still possessing surprising dexterity. She has visible vents on her face in the place of cheeks, for siphoning steam, and her neck is just an unfinished spinal column, no attempt at hiding what she is.
Age: 119
Canon Point: Vice Quadrant
Canon 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."

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, 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 sugary-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 decades after his death. He succumbed to his illness while Rabbit was on the other side of the world, and imagining the loneliness he must have felt in those moments is a guilt she will never be able to fully shake. Then there is her unwilling participation within four different 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 depression and moodiness. 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 ignore. All of this weighs on her conscience often, but at the end of the day, she chooses to continue living for those lost, always keeping their memory close to her core.

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 from Sears before Rabbit’s joints froze up and she dropped the appliance, 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! 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.

Rabbit: I know a guy who fights skeleton pirates on the back of killer whales!
The Jon: Oh! Is it me?
Rabbit: No, it's not you, Jon. You don't have your sea legs for such an endeavor; Gotta trade in those B LEGS!

Though she may not often act like it, Rabbit is the oldest of the robots and titles herself as the "big sister 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 when they need it. 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 step up and play the responsible adult when push comes to shove. 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 for her creator and the fact that her human brother died protecting this old body of hers, Rabbit has very adamantly refused to have her metal structure and inner workings upgraded in any way since Colonel Walter's death. The world around her has changed drastically in the last one hundred and nineteen years, but Rabbit stubbornly refuses to change with it. She lives 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 is prone to malfunctions of all sorts, glitching and stuttering while her limbs jerk out at odd angles. (Examples of such: One and Two!) Rabbit deals with this problem by ignoring it completely.

-- Until recently. Rabbit has finally gotten a few of those much needed upgrades that she has so desperately been in need of these last few decades, but only so that she could have her male copper structure shaped into something more feminine and fitting of the gender she truly was. Though, even after that change, the bot has quickly fallen back into her old routines, so the glitching and malfunctioning continues. Most of what was updated was all external, so most of her Victorian clockwork is still in absolute disrepair.

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 that type of precision is far outside of her area of movement. As a musician, she plays the melodica, the accordion, the 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 can show some real intelligence, she just simply chooses to not act like it.

Abilities: Being a man-made automaton, Rabbit has all of what could be considered expected robot abilities:
* Inhuman strength
* A metal structure that can take quite a beating
* No need to breathe or eat
* Immunity to poisons, the effects of alcohol, and both biological and chemical weapons
* Artificial eyes that can see further into the dark than normal
* 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.

The strange goggles she possesses are actually an advanced particle accelerator lens device that are activated when aligned properly with Rabbit's eyes. The telescopic section, when positioned in front of her green optic, will emit what can only be described as a 'death ray', which obviously means that if Rabbit were to ever actually wear those inherited goggles, destruction would ensue, which is precisely why they remain safely atop her hat. She really has zero reason to ever use them though and keeps them only for sentimental value (they belonged originally to her Pappy).

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 keytaur.

Rabbit and her brothers were recently upgraded with their very own WiFi network that works only between Walter Robotics automatons. If any of her siblings are nearby, they can communicate over the network and speak directly into one another's brains, and if they have access to the web, just send each other dumb memes telepathically.

Inventory: Her creator's goggles and her favorite accordion. Built into her are also her buzzsaw and her gatling gun, the second coming in without any ammo. Also one astronaut helmet with a shattered visor, decorated in sharpie with stars, planets, and a pod of space whales

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