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>://BASIC_INFO
>://ABOUT Ava is a robot from a world where artificial intelligence is only just beginning to be developed. She was made by Nathan Bateman, a reclusive billionaire and the founder of Bluebook (an in-universe search engine and tech company analogous to Google). To test her capacity to simulate human consciousness, Nathan brings in Caleb, a software engineer working at Bluebook, to be the human component in Ava's Turing test.
>://APPEARANCE Unless otherwise stated, Ava has the full appearance of a normal person, and it is not immediately obvious that she is anything but human. She's 5'6" with long brown hair, wide brown eyes and a youthful, innocent face. Her PB is Alicia Vikander. Up close, she emits a very soft, very muffled whirring sound. It's hard to place where exactly it comes from. She also has no heartbeat.
>://VOICE Ava has a subtle accent and it's hard to place, not quite American but not quite anything else either. She speaks softly, enunciates clearly, and doesn't stutter or hedge.
>://DEMEANOR Ava moves very carefully and with grace. She tends not to fiddle or fidget, but she moves her head a lot as she's thinking and speaking. Her facial expressions are hard to judge and fairly enigmatic when they aren't as simplistic as a smile.
>://ABILITIES
>://ANDROID_PHYSIOLOGY Ava has no functions besides existing and interacting with people. She wasn't built for strength or agility, and as such demonstrates no major superhuman abilities. She's also far from indestructible, and in fact appears to be quite fragile. Nathan says that he gave her 'sensors' which will give her the capacity to enjoy the act of sexual penetration, but neither she nor any of Nathan's other androids show any indication that he designed them to feel pain, or perhaps he didn't give them the capacity to respond to it.
Ava can be killed, in the sense that her body can be ruined to a degree that it stops working – she was designed with the same skeletal and functional structure as a human, so a blow to the head would be the most effective way of doing this. She would also die if she failed to recharge via induction plate; one full charge lasts twenty-six hours. By extension, as she runs entirely on electricity, she doesn't need to eat or sleep.
>://BLUEBOOK Ava is an intelligent android with an extensive database of knowledge about her world (roughly equivalent to our world in 2014) thanks to the fact that her software runs on Bluebook, her world's version of Google. This database is heavily skewed towards social interaction, so she has less on-hand information about more esoteric knowledge, including her world's wider history or any complicated scientific, mathematical or philosophical advances.
>://FACIAL_ANALYSIS Ava sees the world the same way Bluebook's facial recognition and analysis software does; this means she maps faces and can analyse them more closely and accurately than a human could. She also demonstrates the ability to be able to analyse a person's body language and microexpressions to see if they are lying, though the science behind 'body language' is a little suspect so there is a lot of room for error here. She's not a 'walking lie detector' by any means, and often fails to account for nuance and human error, the same as with any other AI. It's a learning process.