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AI FAMILY PRIMER

OOC INFO
Name: ChurbooseAnon (CA)
Contact: churbooseanon
Other characters played here: Agent Florida (Native)
Age: Over 20

IC INFO
Name: Delta Ai
Native, OU, or AU: Native
Canon (if applicable): RvB
Character journal used: protective_logic
Reference (if applicable): http://rvb.wikia.com/wiki/Delta
Canon point (if applicable): N/A
Personality:
Delta is a man built on three characteristics. A strong triangle of qualities that his whole life is built upon. Logical application of intelligence, unyielding affection and protectiveness, and a deep desire to improve his lot in life.

Like many of his siblings, Delta is blessed with the gift of intelligence. Of course that intelligence isn't limitless, and part of the problem for Delta is that he possesses a very logic driven intellect. His talent comes with numbers above all else, meaning his preference is to deal with maths, statistics and the like. The problem is that Delta is a highly linear thinker. He needs to build up results from experience and research, and doesn't trust intuitive jumps or gut feelings. Deduction, yes. Reliance on experience, yes. Solving a problem with a broken curtain rod by using that old flower pot hanger to stand in as a hook for the rod? He's not going to come up with that one. But given enough time, research and access to the internet, he can learn what he needs.

On the other hand, Delta does get frustrated by illogical behavior when someone is claiming to be smart. It doesn't make sense to him to, for instance, invest money in the stock market. He understands that it can work, but the risk to one's own finances is hardly something he can rectify as being worth the potential reward.

Who doesn't want to improve the life they find themselves in? It could be through the acquisition of material items, or material wealth, or just some better position, the finding of love, or simple comfort. Delta is no different from most people in that urge to have something better. That being said his desire to improve his life finds itself hampered in a way. While he has the ability to get into college, get a good job, and live a comfortable enough life, even that must be sacrificed in the face of his protectiveness of his family.

And really, isn't that the core of the story? Delta is the third oldest of eight, and since Alpha left, really the second oldest. Since he was a young boy the whole of his life has been consumed by his siblings. He cares for them deeply and sacrifices everything and anything for their happiness, comfort, or simply to see them smile. How can he apply his intelligence to react for a better lot for himself when doing so would take away one of the pillars of the family? He cleans, he organizes, he manages money, and above all else he cares for his siblings.

Given a gun to his head and the choice to save himself or his family, every last time Delta would choose the other Ais. Maybe he isn't the best illusion of a mother that they have, but he knows that he's what they have anyway. If by his life or his death he can provide for his family and keep them safe, then he'll do it. Always, always, ALWAYS do they come first.

Maybe, in a way, that's why his social skills are all shot to hell. But if he isn't there to care for them, then who will?

Delta lives by three simple words. They rule him like nothing else.

Family.

Comes.

First.

That being said, Delta's also a proud man. He refuses to display weakness if it would hurt his family. No, to be strong for his family, to provide for them, he needs to be the best he can, which means denying things about himself...
Back story:
These are the things Delta isn't entirely certain of. At some point, he was born. Soon after he arrived at the only home he has ever known with a nanny at his side. His failure to react to lots of quiet noises around him lead to their guardian at the time discovering that Delta was hard of hearing and resulted in a sub-dermal implant to improve his hearing. Back then he was the youngest of three. Within a few short years that was no longer true.

The longer he lived the more siblings Delta had. When he was young and still learning to do simple tasks like reading (and signing to supplement his coping methods for his hearing) he was also learning from his older brothers how to help manage his younger siblings. And when Alpha went missing, just gone one day, Delta found himself and his remaining older brother forced to step to the fore.

Since then Delta's life has been about balancing his personal needs and that of his family. He didn't take up chess club in school because he needed that time for taking care of his younger siblings. Instead of spending time with friends in high school, or even really having them, he spent all his time in school doing homework to have more time at home, and from the second he was allowed to, doing part time jobs for money to help support them.

Things got harder by the time he graduated high school, when there was less financial support for the family. Despite earning a tuition waiver at the local college and pursuing his goals in business and finance, Delta became a full time care-taker of his siblings. His time at night is filled with online classes at the community college as he works toward his CPA (his rationale being that there is always work for accountants and it wouldn't necessarily pull him away from the home).

During the small window of the day when his younger siblings are at school he works an online data entry job, managing records for several companies through a firm that pays him far less than he thinks they should. But work that lets him be there for his family is work, and Delta doesn't complain.

Any other hour of the day is filled by the rote of living. Providing for his family by cleaning, buying necessities, dealing with all the things necessary to run a household.

Sample:

Grocery Day