Quick Info

Occupation(s):

• Unknown

Family:

• Russell Southwell (creator, code)
• • Daniel Bennett (creator, body)
• Carmine (predecessor/basis)
• Terrence Lyndon (basis for body)
• Cochryn Alexander (raison d'être)

Likes:

• Unknown

Dislikes:

• Strangers (Paul Cuestro more than others . . . )
• The state of Ohio
• Stubbornness/disobedience
• Ignorance
• People

Strengths:

• Doesn't seem capable of feeling negative emotions
• Able to lift objects as heavy as a car, despite not seeming very muscular

Weaknesses:

• Difficulty fitting in sometimes
• Low emotional intelligence
• Doesn't seem capable of feeling positive emotions
• Seems to lack any sense of right or wrong
• Cannot function in high temperatures or humidity
• Somewhat overprotective
• A tad possessive

Skills:

• Good with computers
• Can play the piano
• Decent at hacking and cracking codes/ciphers
• Quick learner
• Ruthless in combat

Love interest(s):

• n/a

Affiliations:

• • The Underwater Railroad

Backstory

Originally  created by Russell Southwell around 2011 as an experiment in artificial  intelligence being used to  alleviate his own loneliness and to crack  ciphers under the name of Carmine,  Flynn didn't begin to gain his own  name or personality until after  Carmine's existence was threatened in  November of 2021 during The Case of The Crimson Suicide.  Unable to  perceive anything beyond what was told to him by an  embittered  Southwell, Flynn grew to resent the world, and was shelved  for a time  to be re-worked later.

When Southwell joined forces temporarily  with Prof. Daniel Bennett and The Underwater Railroad in 2022, an  agreement was made to cooperate, improve and complete  Flynn's code, and  to make him an android body to inhabit. It was decided  that Flynn's  body would be modeled off of Southwell's long-missing best  friend, CIA  Field Agent Terrence Lyndon, to little protest. But after seeing the  results of negative influence from The Underwater Railroad and learning  that The Underwater Railroad had played a hand not only in  The Case of  The Crimson Suicide, but in the capture, torture, and  disappearance of  Lyndon, Southwell abandoned the project in the hopes that it would be useless. The Underwater Railroad took it upon themselves to complete Flynn, deciding to make him into an unstoppable force with no morals to stop him from completing his goal.

Once completed,  he was given the mission of isolating and torturing Cochryn Alexander, in order to push him to join The Underwater Railroad.  After learning everything to know about Cochryn, as he had  lived his  entire life by that point, Flynn was sent back to October of 2043 to fulfill his  mission.

Appearance

His  hair is shoulder-length, café noir in color, and generally parted  in  the middle. His bangs tend to swing upward and outward at the sides  of  his head in some sort of fan-esque style. The back of his hair  nestles  toward his neck before curving into an outward curl, similarly  to his  bangs. His eyes are a vibrant, Grape-ish purple and tend to give  off a  faint glow in dark lighting (though he can make the glow more  vivid at  will). He has a soft-ish jawline, but a moderately wide chin.  His  eyebrows are a bit straighter than is typical. He's about 5'10" (1.8 m) and weighs somewhere over   1000 lbs. (453.6 kg). He is toned, but not necessarily muscular.

He usually wears a fedora and a long coat, though this is less due to personal preference and more due to conditioning.

Defining Features

• Access port that can be used by a few USB-based devices, behind his right ear, hidden behind hair.
• Tattoo of a fern stem on the nape of his neck.

Common Attires

Dark Coat

• Shadow gray fedora with gray hat band. In the band are two stems of small, pinnate, light yellow-green leaves.
• Shadow gray coat with gray buttons, ending in length above his knees.
• White dress shirt.
• Shamrock green necktie.
• Gray dress pants.
• Black dress shoes.

Personality

Flynn is somewhat frightening, as he takes his mission (to protect  Cochryn from threats) very seriously, but Cochryn can't help but think  that Flynn might be the biggest threat of all . . . He is over-protective,  and will eliminate anything he feels he should, with or without  Cochryn's permission, threat or not. He refuses to leave Cochryn's side,  but will allow no one else near him. Besides his possessive nature,  Flynn acts remarkably inhuman, and shows no emotion, except perhaps  jealously and contempt. If required to make a point, he will not  hesitate to hurt Cochryn, and though killing him is act he claims he  cannot do, each passing day warrants Cochryn to become more doubtful of  that statement.
He dislikes and distrusts a vast majority of the human  race, holding  them in a form of contempt, but he hides this more often  than not.

Trivia

• His appearance is based off of Terrence Lyndon, though he is an inch shorter.
• He  has a strange preference of states due to his prior state of   existential resentment. He likes Illinois, and dislikes Ohio. He can't   explain these preferences, but as a result, finds himself automatically   detesting people from Ohio. His favorite city in Illinois isn't  Chicago, but Aurora.
• Though his surname should be pronounced "dah-mohr", he pronounces it "dee-ah-mohr".   He has no preference over which pronunciation is used, though, and  will  respond to either. The reasoning for his pronunciation lies within  the  trend of English text-to-speech voices to read the "D'" as if it's   separate from "Amore", due to the apostrophe (?).
• The base samples for his voice were provided (for Carmine, reluctantly) by Terrence Lyndon, before his disappearance in 2014.
• Despite  being an android, he can seemingly learn to feel and express  a range  of emotions, not just mimic them. Emotions that he's been seen  to be  able to express at some point are: anger (/frustration),  affection,  contempt, fear, relief (/happiness), stress, and worry.
  • In later stages of this emotional awakening, he learns to laugh and even cry, although he has no tears to shed.
• He  operates on a quantum-computing-based system, but doesn't seem to be  very well optimized to it, perhaps due to his origin as a Java-based  Windows app. On top of this, he has other issues preventing him from  being the best android to come out of The Underwater Railroad:
  • He is prone to overheating if exposed to humid summer temperatures.
  • He  consciously avoids areas with strong magnetic forces as, at the  very  least, passing through these would cause him to shut down until  moved  away.
  • He is waterproof and can swim, but is so heavy that he would ultimately just wind up sinking anyway.
• Due to being made with a titanium frame, despite his slenderness he can lift the typical automobile with relative ease.
• His alignment is neutral evil.
• For  some reason, he seems to know some Egyptian Arabic; occasionally, he offends Aten Idris in the language. Whether he knows any other languages  is unknown, as he does not use any others publicly.